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1. meso (meso@the.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 18:55:58 JST meso

   • Dushman
   @Suiseiseki @dushman >If I was intel, I would intentionally make the hardware microcode unstable and then release a encrypted, ultra-obfuscated, undocumented instruction set proprietary microcode update with a fix for the stability "issue" and all of the backdoors.
   
   I agree, this is probably what's happening. Intel has so many security vulnerabilities, so often. they are probably planned and microcode is used to make an official "fix" while the NSA can use both the backdoors in the microcode and the "vulnerability" backdoors
   • meso (meso@the.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 18:55:56 JST meso

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     • Dushman
     @Suiseiseki @dushman I went through a securitard phase, I guess dushman is going through it with chromium and microcode. in the end you realize it doesn't matter that much especially considering a lot of those "security" schizos seem to materialize out of thin air and talk about how you should use corporate and proprietary software and start using psyopesque reasoning on why free software is akschually le full of malware.
   • meso (meso@the.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 18:55:57 JST meso

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     • Dushman
     @Suiseiseki @dushman AMD is a little more benevolent and less compromised by glowies, or at least was. probably because smaller marketshare therefore less of an incentive to backdoor it and all
   • Dushman (dushman@den.raccoon.quest)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 18:56:18 JST Dushman

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     @meso@the.asbestos.cafe @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
     I'm just being realistic here. Ideally I would also want all software and hardware to be free.