Well yes, assuming that:

1. you trust the hardware manufacturer
2. you can install your own keys (i.e. not locked by vendor)
3. you secure your bios with a secure password
4. you disable usb / network boot

With this you can make your laptop very tamper resistant. It will be basically impossible to tamper with the bootloader while the laptop is off. (e.g install keylogger to get disk-encryption password).

What they can do, is wipe the bios, which will remove your custom keys and will not boot your computer with secure boot enabled.

Something like a supply-side attack is still possible however. (e.g. tricking you into installing a malicious bootloader while the PC is booted)

Always use security in multiple layers, and to think about what you are securing yourself from.

And don’t just fork it on GitHub, if the original repo gets deleted, any forks might too.

Also do a git clone locally, or set up a mirror on another host.

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Boy am I glad I don’t do C++ anymore. That string handling with the overloaded bitshift operator was wild.

What the heck is endl???

If you’re not already, just erase your darlings.

Then you can preview what files are lost on reboot (see blogpost).

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(It’s a surprise that will help us later)

I actually wanted to link this song by Perturbator, but this was a happy little accident (^^,)

It absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

That definitely sounds like a good idea and not ominous at all…

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I see you point; but not even 200 years ago the people couldn’t imagine most people working in other “industries” than agriculture.

Historically, most people worked in agriculture. (I’m not sure of the percentage, but it was >80% IIRC, but we can take a low estimate at 50%).

Nowadays less than 5% of the world population works in agriculture, due to increases in automation (machinery that can plow and harvest), and better understanding of the process (more efficient use of land).

While some of that turned out to be bad for the environment (who knew biodiversity is good, actually?), it did free up most of the population to do other things.

I hope it’s not “AI” that will automate the future (because of the huge energy costs to the environment), but automation more generally could help us free more time for passionate pursuits.

Jobs like software engineer didn’t even exist a century ago, and who knows what kind of new jobs will be created in the next 100?

That’s already been going to the wrong people for decades now.

The least drastic solution would be something like UBI, where a lot of people would be miserable, but at least will be able to put food on the table. (In case you’ve seen The Expanse series, I imagine that something like the part where Bobbie asks for directions on Earth).

A more drastic solution would be to not tie the worth of people to the amount of work they do or the amount of wealth they have.

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Also, this recent classic: I will fucking piledrive you if you mention AI again was really illuminating.

The linux kernel contains more profanity than this meme…

Ah yes, that’s the difference. Thanks!

But then they’re drinking irradiated water, no?

Unless it’s really easy to remove the radiation safely, this doesn’t seem like the right solution.

Sadly not :(