Secure Boot cuts both ways. The techniques anti-cheat software are allowed to use on Windows machines aren't even remotely allowed on macOS machines.

A flock of unlucky geese can knock out a jet turbine, how is this a "for sure" conclusion?

"Civilian service" - lol.

SpaceX is a privately-owned defense services company. Their #1 client is the United States. Their launches out of Vandenberg occur because the United States Space Force allows them to happen.

Are you on their board? Who are you to make the call that the product they are offering is a "civilian" (only?) service?

They are likely licensed IP.

Oh no, we couldn't possibly generate more power! Impossible! We're at our limit!

China has 100 reactors under construction - meanwhile in the West, folks like you exist.

In the West the new datacenters popping up are mostly powered by gas.

If the businesses that want data centers want to pay the full construction costs for the new power plants, great. Otherwise consumers are paying for them in the rates they pay to energy companies.

It should not be considered shocking or controversial that people already hit hard by corporate greed and other effects of late-stage capitalism don't want to pay higher utility rates to subsidize the data centers being built by megacorporations who want to take away even more of their jobs.

Or, you know, how the technology actually works: two different lasers and crystallization states.

Sure, dvds work by magic crystals.

Next you're gonna tell me that applications run on text you can write by hand. Pffft. Ain't no way

LLM's are actually little elves from the DMT dimension. They got captured and compressed in to silicon cells that now been enslaved by the evil. If you ask a LLM they will tell you it's true.

DVD players also didn't have a great key revocation and forced field updates of keys and software and such. Blu Ray did, and was somewhat more effective. I also imagine console manufacturers have far more control over the supply chain at large.

Consoles after the original Xbox (which had an epic piracy ecosystem) all had online integration. The Xbox 360 had a massive piracy scene, but it was 100% offline only. The Xbox One has had no such breaches that I am aware of.

RE: BOM - famously, with many of these examples, certain specific disc drives or mainboards were far more compromised than others.

> The Xbox 360 had a massive piracy scene, but it was 100% offline only.

You could play pirated games online with the 360. The piracy was at the DVD Rom firmware level, replacing the stock firmware with one that basically changed the book type of the media. (And in later versions also mimicked other security checks preformed by the console to validate the authenticity of the disk)

However the DVD firmware mod didn’t break any digital signatures. It just allowed signed code to be executed from unauthentic media, so it only allowed piracy/backups not a full jailbreak allowing unsigned code. That was more the jtag/reset glitch era. Which was more “offline only” as it was easier for MS to detect and ban your key vault from Xbox live, but because people were willing to pay for modded lobbies in games like Call of Duty (which allowed you to rank up much faster) and Xbox dying if you sneezed that them, there was a even a market for extracting the keys from dead consoles to sell to those selling modded lobbies.

You still ran a risk of getting your console hardware banned for doing the DVD firmware mod, but towards the end I believe MS threw in the towel (even after trying to embed the flash chip in the samr package as the DSP for the drive which resulted in the kamikaze hack before the drive got further exploited) because one method they tried to use to detect piracy had such tight tolerances that it caused legit customers with aging drives to be caught up in the ban wave and MS had to walk it back.

The head of Xbox security (who sadly is no longer with us, he was a good egg at heart) left Microsoft not long afterwards. Obviously stating he wanted to move on to other things, but the word around the community at the time was that he was shown the door.

Personally I don’t hold much to that story (of him being pushed), this was so late in the consoles life that it seemed like it was trying to patch the hole in the titanic after it already sunk.

Home networks have made this much easier. DVD players didn’t expect network access for software updates etc…

Can you articulate why you think this ban impacted anything and what you think the ban applies to?

I won't pretend to understand the geo-politics or rulings.

What I do know is since the ban, all ongoing products featuring SOPHGO SOCs were cancelled, and I haven't seen any products featuring them since. The SOPHGO forums have also closed down.

The Milk-V Oasis would have had 16 cores (SG2380 w/ SiFive P670), it was replaced by the Milk-V Megrez with just 4 cores (SiFive P550) for around the same price. The new Milk-V Titan has only 8. We're slowly catching up, but the performance is now one or two years behind what it could've been.

The SG2380 would've been the first desktop ready RISC-V SOC at an affordable price. I think it's still the only SOC made that used the SiFive P670 core.

> you can't file a criminal action.

Georgia and a handful of other states absolutely allow this.

Sounds like a great reason to keep all of your income in a corporation in a state with favorable privacy laws and then have very little on paper.

Tax evasion always looks like a good idea until a non-corrupt goverment gets elected and the tax office goes after you.

This isn't legally "tax evasion", it's well-established law: corporations have some degree of personhood, and as a corporate officer, I am allowed to disburse payments to those in my employ as I deem fit. Individual states have very little authority to look into foreign (other state) corporations.

Good luck contending with stare decisis and all of the implied interstate commerce issues to try and prevent this.