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  • TrackinDaKrakenDarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
    Jul 7, 2026, 2:28 PM

    I’m not driving anything made after 2010 for the rest of my life, if I can manage it.

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  • queerlilhayseedqueerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
    Jul 7, 2026, 3:43 PM

    We need to break the integration between hardware and software. If a machine can run software, then the software must be owner-auditable and owner-replaceable. If it’s not, then whoever owns the software will own the hardware forever.

    We also need safe, reliable, standard software for machines, and we need laws that enforce that machines be compatible with standard software before they can be sold.

    It’s a tall order, but I think the only other option is to continue down the path of hardware with corporate-dictated expiration dates and built-in surveillance.

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  • HobbitFoot HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
    Jul 7, 2026, 7:54 PM

    That’s not going to happen unless someone important dies because of it.

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  • mjr@infosec.pub
    Jul 7, 2026, 8:04 PM

    WIth the terrible safety record of cars, that may be more likely than you think.

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  • content_educator_94@thelemmy.club
    Jul 8, 2026, 2:05 AM

    Yeah that makes sense

    Make this shit the way it works please

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  • queerlilhayseedqueerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
    Jul 8, 2026, 2:35 AM

    Working on it. Part of the process is talking about it, refining ideas and building a coalition. It’s going to take the combined efforts of software nerds, hardware nerds, econ nerds, and policy / regulatory nerds to get something like this to succeed, and it’s going to take a sustained effort over years.

    It also requires the destruction or at least a severe diminishment of the current global technofascist oligopolarchy so it doesn’t get co-opted as a tool for the ruling class, so… yeah, it’ll take a while. But I think it’s worth doing.

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  • grue@lemmy.world
    Jul 7, 2026, 5:46 PM

    Neither am I, but remember that that’s only a workaround, not a solution. The only actual solution to this shit is political.

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  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘01189998819991197253@infosec.pub
    Jul 8, 2026, 1:26 AM

    That’s not really the only solution. It’s just the least violent solution.

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  • grue@lemmy.world
    Jul 8, 2026, 2:13 AM

    Even if something is violent, that doesn’t make it stop being political.

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