• @[email protected]English
    10•2 months ago

    Step 1: all software has to be open source

    Step 2: governments, required by law, to fund FOSS projects in their tech stacks. Helped by organizations which trace project funding and lobbying to promote FOSS security by providing funding; a huge incentive to not insert malware

    Step 3: coders are afforded dignity (UBI); given funds geared towards affording a maintenance team. Regardless of country of origin. Vital infrastructure is vital infrastructure. Talent is talent.

    I support this move to Step 1

    Where is the list of pauper gov’ts which force talent to get a job rather than be a talent and then maintain their projects with dignity!

    Those jobs are mostly nonsense. Geared towards wasting our time building:

    • yet another stupid web site

    • yet another stupid smartphone app

    • yet another stupid cloud base server instance

    • CitizenEnglish
      2•2 months ago

      Yup and then they move the spyware/malware/etc into a layer below where nobody knows what is inside…

      How is your baseband modem in your smartphone doing, by the way?

      • @ozymandias117English
        3•2 months ago

        Separated over the PCIe bus with an IOMMU between it and system memory, as well as hardware switches to disable it if I’m not reachable

        I haven’t found a way to remove it entirely. It’s the only option I’ve found so far, but if you know of a better designed option, I’m certainly interested