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- 5 months
I am not saying this is not an issue, but it feels like the article is at best misunderstanding what sovereign cloud brings even with an ME backdoor under it and how international relations work.
- datendefekt@feddit.orgEnglish5 months
Goodacre catalogues this and related scenarios in a 37-page risk assessment prepared for CISOs evaluating Intel vPro hardware connected to corporate networks. Its conclusion is blunt: connecting an untouched-ME device to corporate resources “exposes the organization to a class of compromise that defeats the host security stack in its entirety.”
I hear a lot of concern about backdoors in Chinese hardware but this is just dystopian.
- themurphy@lemmy.mlEnglish5 months
I’m convinced that all the “China is tracking you!!” is a giant deflection for how much the US is tracking.
They have always been the worst offender, and Snowden was only a warning for something that has been going on for many years.
- kablez@lemmy.worldEnglish5 months
The real tech revolution won’t be until we can make our own hardware ; enthusiast designed and made processors and semiconductors using consumer grade tools, similar to how you could make your own metal chains out of tools at the hardware store. Until then we’ll be beholden to the billionaire class to grant us access. What I’m saying is we need to make it cheaper and easier to make computers in the first place. No amount software is gonna save you if you don’t have independent hardware.
5 monthsModern CPU and GPUs are the pinnacle of human creation. Each step, from design to build is resting on the foundation of decades of learnings and millions of hours of highly trained and educated individuals. All of this knowledge and talent is guarded. I don’t think you fathom the scale of which you discuss. At best we can play around as aggregated hobbiest and make perhaps a 1980s tech CPU.
- kablez@lemmy.worldEnglish5 months
1980s tech CPU
So it can already run Wolfenstein and Linux…
The story of the modern PC is about hobbyist, in my opinion. It was a bunch of tech guys slapping things together, figuring it out as they went and cowboy stuff like writing specifications on the plane on the way to a conference. I understand what you’re saying about the limitations around design and production… but these things aren’t impossible just difficult.
Maybe a new discovery in physics or transistor manufacturing will be the key to this new era. Or a bunch of things like that adding up over time until one weirdo figures it out and changes the world.
- Solrac@lemmy.worldEnglish5 months
Europe, especially Germany, has been very vocal and very active, a making sure that their software is sovereign.
- coredev@programming.devEnglish5 months
Ah yes of course, only real Americans know how to write good software - like Windows and Teams. /s
- CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldEnglish5 months
That’s not what I’m saying. They forgot that cloud compute isn’t the only area where America holds EU by the balls. It’s also the software. You can set up 500 data centers all over Europe and companies still won’t migrate away from M365 or GWorkspace. Cloud compute is good, but there also needs to be an effort to reverse engineer American technology and start offering alternatives.
- kuerbiskernoel@feddit.orgEnglish5 months
Many companies are currently migrating away from MS/Google. LibreOffice, Collabora, LaTeX, …
- abbadon420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish5 months
Is latex really an alternative? Sure it is, but it’s not very user friendly, which makes that it can’t be a larg scale alternative.
- kuerbiskernoel@feddit.orgEnglish5 months
Example from a friend: He is working in construction planning, and they also have to locally check that everything is being constructed as planned. They have to create protocols for all these visits. These protocols are mostly text and pictures, need to always have the same layout and of course they need the company branding etc.
In word they always had to make sure that everything was fine. After they switched to Latex they can now simply write their text there (in an extra tex file that gets imported by the main.tex file, the extra tex file is basically empty). All they need are two commands: \section (and \subsection, \subsubsection) - those are pre-defined but sometimes need minor adjustments, and \begin{figure} (gets autocompleted and they just have to adjust width, path to file, caption, label).
Obviously for people who finished a technical school or studied at a technical university this switch was super easy. And now they never have to worry about formatting again, they just write their protocol, compile, done.
(and in Overleaf they can collaborate and compiling is a button on the GUI or gets triggered by ctrl s)
It is almost like non technical people who can not follow technical advice are making all the decisions.
nah it’s not that simple. it’s mostly about cost. chip manufacturing is hella expensive and developing new chip manufacturing techniques is even more expensive. it’s cheaper to do it all in one place in taiwan instead of every country opening its own chip manufacturers. it’s only now due to security considerations that this is changing, but it takes 10 years to build a chip manufacturing site somewhere.
- Sualtam@lemmus.orgEnglish5 months
Germany is leading in optical computing. Simply why should the EU now invest in a soon to be obsolete technology?
hah, calling silicon-based computing “soon to be obsolete” is surely something ;-)
it’s like calling solar energy a “soon to be obsolete” technology because surely we’ll invent fusion power / small modular reactors in a few years. how many SMRs have been deployed so far?
where can i buy these optical computers today?
