For someone who’s into privacy I wouldn’t recommend ubiquity at all. A few years ago there was a scandal about them doing telemetry, first in secret without even a setting to turn it off, and when people to to know about it they have made a default-on setting for it. They know you’ll most probably use their gear for the outmost routers too, and you won’t discover it.

Ok. I also care for it blocking data mining and annoying popups, and out working as a google safebrowsing alternative, but that’s harder to argue for.

I’m a Librewolf fan too, but the majority of the hard work is done by Mozilla developers. Their work is very important too, but what they are doing is preconfiguring prefs, adding patches, and writing the patches sometimes. Much easier to be done as a team of volunteers.

Because they have dedicated time. A contributor has his free time, and will contribute with work they are interested in, while still having to work at a job to be able to afford living.

Then feel free to suffer from and be manipulated by targeted advertisement.

But it’s not a nuke. The addon still lives and thrives, on browsers not controlled by google, and Firefox is not like a complicated browser that the average user couldn’t drive.
I think the nuke would be if
a) google would find a way to effectively break all sites where uBO is detected, and uBO couldn’t defend against it, or not in time while there’s mass breakage
b) uBO and such would be legally outlawed in a large country or more

To me the way it’s better is that it’s more free in a sense. For one it does not even attempt to limit what software you use for browsing it, but also if you very dislike certain people/content, like-minded people can host their server without losing access to most of the other content, while being able to block the unwelcome instances and users.

Downvote brigading is not a technical problem though, but a people problem, isn’t it? So the solution against that would be stricter moderation, maybe banning a few more instances (but that’s not really a good solution unless it’s very extreme), and making people downvote less.
Hmm, thinking about it, maybe a daily per-user “downvote budget” would be an interesting experiment? To see if it would be effective. Or with an other interval, but still not too long, and maybe partly connected to account active days (not account age).

Then you should duck it!

Unfortunately it’s very similar to 2 swear words so it would both be easily misunderstandable and on mobile autocorrect would easily pick the wrong variant.

The latter do not buy second hand equipment

You are assuming activists are well funded in some way, and that they are not repressed.

This obviously has a benefit for consumer usage too, same as encryption. You’re basically saying consumers don’t need any kind of antivirus either, because it’s not that critical.
This vuln should have been fixed for consumer hardware too, because it basically permanently taints all hardware that is vulnerable to it. And what makes it so hard to release patches for consumer hardware, when patches were already made for the same generations of enterprise hardware? Basically the majority of the work has been done already

As I said in an other reply, RISC-V is not the solution for the reason that they are perfect today. It is because it is not limited to being used by a few megacorporations that do whatever they want, but it allows competition where companies do what they need to become and remain a good choice.

Because it does not set in stone that there can be only 2 companies producing compatible chips, which can be however bad until both of them does the same shit practices.

So the short answer is by not stifling competition.

But they are already pretending for whatever reason that these are suitable for enterprises, by always includingthe aformentioned remote control components!

Yeah, except you can check what it does, how it works, and make changes to it.

Kernel level and admin level is not the same thing. For example on windows, you can’t really write your own kernel driver, and on Linux even root can’t do everything if capabilities have been revoked.

Chip makes should not only treat customer CPUs as possibly-business hardware when adding shit like (Intel) ME, Pluton and (AMD) PSP, but also when patching serious vulnerabilities and providing support!

Risc-V is the real response to this problem

This sounds weird. I was in the impression that operating systems load updated cpu microcode at every boot, because it does not survive a power cycle, and because the one embedded in the BIOS/UEFI firmware is very often outdated. But then how exactly can a virus persist itself for practically forever?

I have stable ~950 MBit/s to the NAS with Cat5e. That’s ~115 MB/s. If that 40 is to a machine on the LAN, either there is some bottle neck at one of the ends, or there’s some problem with the cable to the RJ-45 jacks.

I feel you. I’m not living in the middle of nowhere, but I often feel lonely, and at the same time that I couldn’t spend enough time with a partner. That I have my hobbies, things I want to do, basically all of them at a desk. I don’t want to give these things up, and I don’t see how anyone would be fine with this, why anyone would want to live with me. And it just sounds so weird to only have a “sex partner”, that does not sound right, to me at least, but also why would anyone go into that with me?

I don’t think that’s feasible for anyone. Pretty soon your and every other user would be flooded with unwanted content, which will take time off all users individually to filter out. What this will result in is filterlists being made by community members, which the clients will use, some by default so that the system remains usable even for new users.

I don’t see how that would make a meaningful difference.
I mean sure, technically now it’s you who’s filtering, but is it really you if 1. the filterlists are maintained by a 3rd party and 2. you don’t have the capacity to audit all changes to the filterlists?