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Phone scammers guiding users to install apps.

This kind of flawed thinking again. Like the natives didn't fight and lose wars against the manifest destiny types.

I don't think anybody claimed no Native Americans tried to fight back against their genocide?

It's painting border enforcement as somehow immoral. There is no sin in trying to be better at it than those before.

genociding people to take their land within their borders is generally frowned upon today

If only they were better at border control, maybe they wouldn't all get killed off.

Surely that's "on" FreeBSD not "by" FreeBSD?

It’s funded by the FreeBSD foundation, so “by” fits.

But it's got a separate entity providing paid support?

svelte is very new, it’s supported by the foundation not by. also the foundation is not freebsd they are two separate entities. freebsd is the developers, the foundation is a bunch of canadians supporting said developers.

> It’s funded by the FreeBSD foundation, so “by” fits.

No, it is not.

FreeBSD are listed as ONE of the three core sponsors.

The other two are commercial organisations.

The GitHub repo is not hosted by FreeBSD either, it is by one of the other sponsors, "AlchemillaHQ".

There is nothing "by" about this.

"for", sure, but "by", nope.


Should be "built on"

Micron is killing its Crucial consumer brand, not supplies to consumer brands who use its chips. Hynix never had a consumer brand for RAM I don't think?

That's just an example. It does have defaults: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.net.... (search for "If this method is not invoked")

> This means that even though Red Hat, at this stage in it's development, has a majority of contribution, the project itself can never be taken over by a single entity.

If it's one company with the majority of contributions then they can just stop contributing (or put their efforts into a proprietary fork) and all that you're left with is the code and the name. Which is maybe better than "just the code", but not by much.


There are over 600 different people contributing to OpenStack in a given six-month release cycle. Approximately 60% of total code by commit count is from Red Hat employees. I'm one of the 600 that don't work at Red Hat, and there are a lot of us.

You should get a sense of the scale of a project before summarily declaring that it has a single point of failure.


You just said majority without any numbers in the original post. I think you'll agree that the calculus would be quite different for 60% vs 85% of effort being from a single company.

If the goal is to stay away from US or European influence then the Russians would be a better bet.

Yes but that has the same downsides as China.

And that's pretty much the thread. You're either subject to a large power's jurisdiction or subject to a jurisdiction whose sovereignty is at the pleasure of large powers... Pick a threat model, plan appropriately, and keep things in perspective.

Most likely to be a router, configured to fail over.


Also any app-specific bindings would I guess require some hooking (input interception / injection) at the software level.


Now there's an interesting challenge. A ROM that does a VM breakout and runs a command on the host.


It's been done, the ZSNES and Project64 emulators have both had exploits which allowed a malicious ROM to run arbitrary code on the host. ZSNES is written mostly in assembly so that was kinda asking for trouble though.


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