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What would be FOSS equivalent for hardware ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by bullshitter@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just like we have software developed by the community, for the community. Can we have the same ideology applied to hardware ?

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[–] hardypart@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Let's appreciate general purpose computers before the war against them will be successful.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation

[–] xhieron@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't believe I'd never read that before despite being a fan of Doctorow in general. Thank you. Exceptional work. Should be mandatory reading.

[–] med@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

There’s a great talk on the same topic he gave at the Long Now Foundation back in 2012, the Q and A adds a bit to the users vs owners chat

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you. So, last year, the Lower Merion School District, in a middle-class, affluent suburb of Philadelphia found itself in a great deal of trouble, because it was caught distributing PCs to its students, equipped with rootkits that allowed for remote covert surveillance through the computer's camera and network connection.

That was THIRTEEN YEARS ago?!

[–] waldek@lemmy.86thumbs.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Quite a good follow up talk posted not so long ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I admit I have only skimmed this yet, but that was 12 years ago. Back then, copyright was a major problem for a free and open society in which people could freely communicate.

The world has changed since then. Those opposed to such a society are now more likely to talk about disinformation, radicalization, child porn, hate speech rather than copyright. Those pretexts aren't really any better of course.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I think the most compelling reason will be performance.

In enterprise is already soldering ram directly onto the chip, it's only a matter of time until the same goes for consumer tech. Fusing the chip to the board has benefits too. When most people don't ever upgrade or repair their computer a 10% speed increase that makes upgrading impossible just makes good business sense.