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Also before Pfizer and Moderna results, we just got a scary mutation on the spike protein in Minks farms in Denmark. This could easily make any vaccine based on the spike protein worthless, which may explain why suddenly western companies starts selling their vaccines...

And a personal comment : you should forget the idea that the Law will protect you from bad government/institutions decisions.

GNU Taler is electronic money, not a currency. Neutral, every one can make its own currency. Transaction is secure (trust in the e-money) because of GNUnet; it even addressed the Sybil attacks concerns.

Trust on the currency comes from real life trust. A bank for the Euro. A human for a novel human-made currency.

Then, Exchanges that trust 2 different currencies can buy/sell those currencies.

"lego brick" ? No, it's actually the most important pillars of the digital future (GNS, reclaim:id, Taler, Secushare... all based on gnunet)

From what I got, the future should look like : -You choose the RISC-V design first. -From that design, you choose the fab that will produce the design. Each fab has its own price and trustfulness.

Price.

I know Thalos has some FSF-certified boards based on POWER9 CPU and want to offer a laptop soon, but I would not expect anything under 3000$.

If the problem is the lack of trustful manufacturers, then RISC-V simplify the work of any fab that want to become this trustful manufacturer.

When we talk about security on Intel CPU, it's tragic. When we talk about security about RISC-V, it's a complex problem. That's a massive improvement. But yes, the work is far from over.

I'm not a fan at all of cryptocurrencies, but there are some interesting cryptographic ideas behind Polkadot (with Jeff Burdges) and Golem Project (with Joanna Rutkowska) to use those networks security to bring trust back to the laptop/phone level.

There are three major revisions of Mali GPUs: Utgard (-4), Midgard (-T) and Bifrost (-G*).

There were 2 reverse engineering efforts. Lima (Utgard) and Panfrost project (Midgard and Bitfrost). Both were included in Mesa 19.1.

And the "long term" is not about "every pinebook will have a reverse-engineered GPU in the future", but : "if you buy these GPU, you know every compilers you write that makes special uses of the specific GPU capabilities will never need you to install the new proprietary CUDA driver to continue your optimization, no blob in this part..."

Also : You can run Linux-libre, thus riding the FSF train (GuixSD) and stop caring about not-free hardware.

Thanks to Alyssa Rosenzweig and the Panfrost team for reverse-engineering the Mali GPU.

We can start moving out of the Intel/AMD backdoors and start to equip ourselves and our communities with trustworthy computers : ARM-based for now, RISC-V-based for later.

Godot 4.0, with Vulkan support, will replace Unity really quickly.

Your article [1] is more or less a review from what was known before Covid-19. It feels like a "worst case to expect".

OP's article is really about Covid-19, having been tested on some specific surfaces.