protests represent the threat of violence. the threat went away and the rulers stopped listening.

that’s not exactly true. volunteers have archived most of the old government websites and public data.

i mean, it’s not overthrowing the nazis, but frustrating historical revisionism is a start.

it’s complicated. afaik asml has agreements with the us govt, and cross licensing with american companies. also, asml only makes lithography tools, there’s a LOT more to making semiconductors than just exposing patterns. and a few of the biggest vendors like kla and amat are american. kla in particular is essentially a monopoly in the metrology space.

afaik, risc and cisc are pretty much the same anymore. x86, risc v and arm all have bloated instructions sets, and they all decode to risc microcode under the hood anyways.

lol those are dram chips in the stock photo.

(more risc v investment away from the us is a good thing though!)

as always dns is the weak link in internet infrastructure. if they can takedown piracy domains they can take down anything.

legally no, but it’s not like the governor of colorado is sending ukraine weapons - they’re just words and as such do not violate the constitution. ianal, etc etc

I mean it’s easier and vastly more compatible than it was even a couple years ago thanks to the proton devs.

my backup is staring longingly at LTO drives and wishing they would magically be affordable.

Doesn’t understand or doesn’t care. The ones using it like this are government bureaucracies and monopolistic mega corporations we can’t avoid. Nobody who matters has any real “choice” in the matter.

Gonna need a little higher density barcode lol