it's complicated. afaik asml has agreements with the us govt, and cross licensing with american companies. also, asml only makes lithography tools, there's a LOT more to making semiconductors than just exposing patterns. and a few of the biggest vendors like kla and amat are american. kla in particular is essentially a monopoly in the metrology space.
afaik, risc and cisc are pretty much the same anymore. x86, risc v and arm all have bloated instructions sets, and they all decode to risc microcode under the hood anyways.
lol those are dram chips in the stock photo.
(more risc v investment away from the us is a good thing though!)
gonna need some hard drives lol. wikipedia is only about 100GB. annas archive is like 1PB, and even just the index is 1TB. the various government archives that were collected are at least 500TB (and probably closer to several PB).
other good things to mirror are probably open source code repos (they get taken down all the time - especially emulators, p2p, and now encryption), libretexts, linux repositories, 3d printed gun files, documentation, project gutenberg, the internet archive, openstreetmaps, the reddit archive, and any other content you find personally valuable - including websites and youtube videos.
the sum of this data is in the dozens to hundreds of petabytes, which is obviously infeasible so i personally try to curate what i find personally valuable and of highest societal value and risk, and to partially mirror what i can for the rest.
ignoring court orders... well, that's it folks. unless a whole lotta spineless assholes grow a spine and 14th him, and those "just following orders" the us constitution, and therefore the us government, is over.
glossing over the sickening reality of this cruelty (because i frankly am too upset to form any sentence that isn't 23 consecutive expletives), there is now zero incentive to comply with the feds if complying means death and torture. better to go down swinging than die after being raped in between psychologicql torture in solitary.
hopefully someone will eventually make an elon-removal retrofit
71% to go!
The valuation of the stock market is fake anyways. (ESPECIALLY bubble stocks like tsla) This sadly doesn't affect his lifestyle or the power he yields in any way.
i mean. wouldnt rebadging it and putting a "fuck elon" bumper sticker be more of a message than selling it to another sucker?
(also ripping out the spyware laden computer system that reports all activity INCLUDING CAMERAS back to hitlerHQ and can remotely disable your car)
signal is a good option for messaging. it is technically american, but i feel like FOSS projects should generally get a pass.
also, as an american who is very not okay with what our (russia's) government (puppet) is doing, wouldn't supporting non-american businesses mean paying the tariffs and supporting the oligarchs? i'm not really sure what us yanks can do besides just trying not to spend ANY money.
Frankly, both are good options. Valve has done so much for linux gaming, and CDPR has done a lot for game preservation and DRM-free gaming. I've bought plenty of games from both.
bank run here we come!
as always dns is the weak link in internet infrastructure. if they can takedown piracy domains they can take down anything.
legally no, but it's not like the governor of colorado is sending ukraine weapons - they're just words and as such do not violate the constitution. ianal, etc etc
I explicitly choose yellow when it tries to get me to pick one because why the fuck should my emoji convey race when it doesn't need to?
PewDiePie has switched to Linux
I mean it's easier and vastly more compatible than it was even a couple years ago thanks to the proton devs.
my backup is staring longingly at LTO drives and wishing they would magically be affordable.
the problem is getting the word out. there's so, soooo much garbage on the internet and people rely on (usually corporate) search engines and social media to find content. and both are so chock full of ai/seo slop it's still hard to find real information. see "adding reddit to search queries".
secondary problem, particularly in authoritarian regimes like the us, is that domains are not anonymous (though workarounds do exist - intermediary domain purchases, free subdomains, ipns hashes, direct ip addressing, crypto dns), and can be taken down by any corporate lawyer with a cease and desist or a fraudulent dmca notice (or at the most extreme by direct government seizure).
hosting itself is not usually anonymous either, since ip addresses are traceable without using some combination of vpn, anonymous vps, onion routing, and ddns. none of which is trivial to set up. and the more secure the system, the more obtuse it is to access, SHARPLY limiting the target audience.
also, running a pi is fine, but consumer hardware, software configured by inexperienced sysadmins, consumer-grade internet connections (many providers prohibit running servers), semi-reliable power grids, etc can all cause security, usability, and reliability issues that could limit adoption.
and of course, finally, there's the reliability and cost of journalism. anyone can say anything but how do we know it's credible? and real journalism is hard work, of the variety most people don't have the time or resources to do without remuneration.
these problems are NOT insurmountable, however, and there are people and groups doing exactly this. you probably just haven't heard about them.
tl;dr: journalism and webhosting are both difficult and risky. some are doing it anyways.
Statistically, so are most north american humans.