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How much hardware and even software that is supposedly used for encryption is actually backdoored?

We know that Microsoft's bitlocker had at least one backdoor. Lenovo's fingerprint USB also has backdoors.

It seems like only open source solutions actually provide encryption, like LUKS and Veracrypt. Then again, who guarantees that the executables are actually build from the source? Or that the keys aren't somehow sent over to agencies by the operating system?

TLDR, we cannot realistically trust anything in this dictatorship of mass surveillance.

This is actually an immense problem now that AI threatens to take over knowledge and thinking. But, it feels like a good time to teach a child morals

Yet another reason to be reluctant to even discuss linkedin job offers

Now, that is a noteworthy weekend reading. Thank you!

Not sure why my parents chose to put a floppy disk driver on a desktop computer bought in 2006 (perhaps some seller was very convincing?), but I thought it was cool, so I used it sometimes. It was also cheaper than USB-sticks -and less likely to lose

Mostly everyone over 40, and even some younger ones, still have some old floppy disks with files that may or may not be of value.

Somewhere in my mother's house, there still is (hopefully) a floppy disk from 2006-2007 with my teenage self's diary. I wish it is preserved

Here is a very sad and frightening fact: the owner class can actually restructure "the economy" (whatever that is) to revolve entirely around AI consuming AI, and machines using machines.

Most people assume that "the economy" can only ever be based on human consumption, and therefore humans have to have an income in order for "the economy" to exist. This assumption is erroneous; billions of monetary transactions are done every day by companies with no product, no service, and no employees. These are economically valid, even though barely any humans consume or produce anything. The owning class just manages to convert those virtual transactions to "actual" money, and buy products and services because we already produce more than we consume.

It is more than frightening, but "the economy" (whatever that is nowadays) can run without many humans in the loop. AI consuming AI, phantom companies doing transactions with other phantom companies, machines working for machines.

Could it be just that gene therapies should be publicly funded?

Taxpayer money has paid for a substantial percentage of research around the world, and it doesn't seem necessary that we rely on profit-driven private companies for the actual therapies when they could be done at publicly funded hospitals too.

I know for sure that we are not going to lose our jobs to it, because it still takes a lot of knowledge to check, fix, and deploy code ,and especially complex one.

It also is so that it often takes a lot more time to accurately describe the problem and the solution you want to in natural language, than it takes to just write the algorithm yourself.

What is very likely to happen is that there will be fewer positions since a lot of hirings only happened because there was a software hype, resulting to more programmers than really needed.

It is also very likely that the wages will be decreased, since any 20yo with basic coding knowledge will offer himself to work as an vibe "coder".

Corporations prefer having dysfunctional products than paying high wages, so you can guess what will happen.

Very good and insightful article, but suffers from a weakness: it implies that the problem can be solved by everyone just buying from the ones whose workers are doing the job well.

This is not the case. The evidence that the "free market" does not "regulate itself" (at least not in favor of the many) since the 2008 recession is beyond refutation: we need pro-worker governments stepping in.