VinesNFluff

Had shit to do. Had to stop short. Now that I'm back, a few additions:

• Excessive Wealth and Political Activity are to be mutually exclusive -- If your net worth surpasses XXX (number to be determined) times the wealth of the average citizen of the nation, you are barred from all political participation, be it holding office or voting. You can reacquire your political rights by willfully surrendering assets (be it to the government or to a charity) until that condition is no longer met. -- If you are found using indirect methods to influence politics anyway your assets are to be seized and you tried as a criminal against national security. Vice-versa for politicians, if you become too wealthy while holding office, you forfeit your office or your wealth, you may not have both.

• Human bodies are sovereign territory, not to be controlled by anyone but the individual themselves. Such sovereignty begins at birth and lasts until death. No family member, community backlash, or state intervention shall be allowed to intervene in that. Even if the individual is harming themselves, that is their right as their body belongs to them.

• Free communication and free culture being recognised as rights, any law regulating trademarks or commercial copying rights should respect a person's fundamental right to sharing in human culture and human knowledge.

• All laws, regulations and precedents must be reviewed every twenty years. In case they are no longer relevant and ought to be gone or need updating to match a changing world.

The entire body of the state, be it executive, legislative, or judiciary should have a youth quota.

Like say at least 60% of members must be 40 or under.

People over 50 are fundamentally incapable of comprehending the modern world and because they won't have to live in the world they are building -- They are more than willing to sacrifice us all to guarantee their own.

Full disenfranchisement of the old would be reckless, but a quota? Yea.

Having sniffed around the Linux community for years, I feel like whatever flaws SystemD has as a computer program are of tertiary importance when faced with the thing that really matters:

• The developer of SystemD was mildly rude to some community members that one time. That means he is two hitlers and a stalin wearing a trenchcoat and everything he makes must be utter garbage.

See your argument might hold water if "stuff people talk about" were something applicable only to Windows/Linux fights. (Windows can lick my fuzzy horse ass, btw---)

But like. People love to meme on how SystemD makes your computer hang up for a long while when shutting down? Never saw it happen. People meme on PulseAudio breaking? Never happened to me. Shit like that.

It never did so in updates for me, but assuming it did, UEFI stuff is fixable, just mess with the settings for five seconds :P

We need a public non-profit _________________________________ company

To be honest on my end I see this as a PR Disaster first and foremost?

Like, I generally prefer to assume incompetence over malice where it is possible, and in the incompetence hypothesis -- This is just some extremely bad room-reading skills considering who RPi caters to (Open Source people) and our personality (fundamental distrust of any authority, hatred for anything perceived as 'control', further intensified by the constant surveillance in modern proprietary software, etc.) -- I don't think having this man in the team or not is going to change what RPi is like in any way... Not because I assume he's a good dude, but because presuming imperial governments have any interest in backdooring and surveilling projects like the Pi, then that backdoor either already exists and has existed since the first model ever OR it was added much earlier, quietly, without them blabbering about hiring an ex-spy. That's just how it be with those things.

~~I generally assume anything I don't personally understand is going to have something insidious, to be honest. Like I told the other person, the only way to make sure your hardware isn't compromised is to have its schematics and the know-how to understand everything that goes on inside it.~~

Genuinely no clue.

As I understand it if you want to have full trust on something, you'll just have to channel your inner Richard Stallman and never use any tool you don't fully understand. That means that to ensure your chips don't have some insidious state surveillance backdoor you'd be mandated to not just have boards that have an open-source design... But to learn advanced electronic engineering so you could personally study those designs and ensure beyond doubt that they are secure.

That said maintaining a healthy distrust of any megacorp is a lot easier, if less guaranteed.

Very likely, although officially the guy isn't working on the boards at all but in building stuff like official cases and shit -- That's just the official story, and given their overall cageyness to speak of the controversy plus the fact that they can always rely on bootlickers to defend them -- Yeah. I wouldn't be trusting an RPi with anything sensitive at this point.

TLDR: Hired a guy whose previous work was 'using tech to do mass surveillance for the British* state, bragged about it, when there was drama over it, they laughed it off as 'this drama could only possibly be astroturfed and no one reasonable would ever be against this'.

Edit: Fixed mistake