@xaetacore Almost all pizza is distributed on the clearnet, as those who distribute pizza tend to be so retarded they cannot use tor or i2p.
Invading any possibility of privacy has nothing to do with stopping pizza - governments seems to only encourage it and is behind a lot of dodgy things.
@allison@phnt windows now preloads bootup - shutting down just dumps a bunch of dirty state onto the drive - so boot is slightly faster - meaning that the "reboot" option is the only way to actually reboot.
@SuperDicq@domi@Lili@mei@lnl With Intel Wi-Fi cards, even if you somehow wrote free replacement peripheral software, the card will refuse to run it, as there's a malicious circuit that does a signature check and intel refuses to provide the private key.
In the case that intel released the signing key for all the cards (they won't) and free replacements were written, finally the cards wouldn't be running proprietary software, but the hardware would still be just as proprietary as the Atheros cards (the intel cards have a bootloader and signalling stuff in ROM, the Atheros cards have signalling stuff in ROM).
@phnt There is no license statement including the copyright holders and the copyright year(s) and therefore there is no license and therefore it is proprietary software (dumping a license into the root doesn't mean anything).
@SuperDicq@domi@Lili@mei ROM that is not socketed and therefore cannot be swapped out is hardware, not firmware.
If you nobody can change it, it's not software.
All Wi-Fi cards with a microprocessor have microprocessor instructions in ROM - although those that have the ability to load software often have a malicious circuit in the ROM to stop you from replacing the software.
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