to be fair, it fits my exact needs. and without common javacript bloat.

so kudos to its authors

Ian Jackson (the author of this article) also wrote debbugs.

i'd say that wine has much less dev effort and the specs they re up against aren't as public as the web ones, so huge kudos to the wine team.

i'm starting to wonder what if those rust rewrites might be covert attempt to introduce back doors in plain sight?

for such security devices, there is OTP.

I prefer to have my auth device bricked than compromised.

for anything else, i want to be able to reprogram.

so for vendors, a simple choice :

* be OTP, but no "patching"

* be R/W, but also by its owner

Fair enough. Sort of. You can get the same assurances OTP gives you using secure boot + open source + reproducible builds.

Regardless the rest us who don't want to go through the extra work OTP creates still of use want to put our credit cards, fido2 keys, government licences, concert tickets and whatever else in one general purpose computing device so we don't have to carry lots of little auth devices. To do pull that off securely this device must have firmware I can not change.

The OP wants to make it illegal to sell a device with firmware I can not change.

In asking for that, they've demonstrated they don't have a clue how secure and opening computing works. If they somehow got it implemented it would be a security disaster for them and everybody else.

> more choice and greater value for me

That will exactly follow Netflix's price hikes.

As in "value for money", they silenced the latter part :D

indeed. and the fact that it can be resold at will makes it much worse as you just created an gambling ecosystem

lsw :)

Video tech is driven by pr0n and OS tech is driven by games.

it is usually the result of https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/04/brains-prefer-adding...

that's an excellent approach to ancient binaries!