Hello! Because I clearly hate myself I have written about some of the tradeoffs involved in allowing non-free blobs of code to be updated at runtime and published it on the internet: codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/to-…
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in reply to Matthew Garrett • • •I feel like writing anything about computers and putting it on the internet is an act of hating ones self
(Unless you turn the comments off, first)
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in reply to Matthew Garrett • • •I was thinking about this kind of stuff today when I saw there was an "intel-microcode" update for my computer. My computer is pretty old now, and it seems to work fine. So I wonder what the update is about. And it crosses my mind that the political situation in the USA might mean companies are pressured into doing things they wouldn't have done in the past...
That said, I'll probably install the update. I think it unlikely to be malicious. But this forced-trust really isn't a great way for things to work.