AFAIK, UEFI isn't technically a requirement. However, TPM 2.0 is, and that requires UEFI.
TPM 2.0 does not require UEFI. I have a system here with TPM 2.0 and only legacy boot support. And you can just buy a TPM 2.0 module and connect it with any board, that has a SPI connector.
China ist autoritär und die Demokratie der US auch am bröckeln, noch nicht so schlimm wie bei Russlamd und China, aber unter Trump wohl auf den Weg dahin. Und auch schon davor war sie schon sehr vom Geld vereinnahmt. Auch bei uns haben wir jetzt die nächsten Jahre jemand am Ruder der scheinbar nicht so viel von gelebter Demokratie hält.
Würde eher sagen das außenpolitische Themen in der US bei der Bevölkerung ziemlich egal sind, wenn die nicht ihren Alltag beeinflussen.
Denen muss eigenredet werden das sie auch betroffen sein könnten, bevor die sich interessieren. Deswegen war Vance auch so allergisch als Selensky meinte das sie auch in der US angst haben sollten, und sie der Ozean nicht beschützt. Danach hatte das Gespräch dann plötzlich einen anderen Klang.
Will man nicht, das ist der Sinn der Brandmauer; man möchte nicht mit den Stimmen der AfD Gesetze durchbringen. Also bleiben nur die Linken für eine 2/3
Mehrheit.
Nun das war auch ein Thema vor der Wahl, wo die die Linke noch nicht im Bundestag war.
Jetzt sind sie drin, und wenn die hier ihre Meinung ändern würden könnte man wohl eine 2/3 Mehrheit in diesen wichtigen Außenpolitischen Themen haben. Das steht auf der Kippe.
Mit Stimmen aus der AfD möchte man nichts abschließen, darum geht es bei der Brandmauer.
2019 hat Gysi gemeint das es so toll wäre wenn Deutschland neutral zwischen Russland und der US (und dem Westen) sitzen würde.
Also ich finde ja es sollte hier nicht die Position von Deutschland und einer linken Partei sein neutral zu autoritären Regimen zu sein. Dazu sollten wir schon eine klarere Stellung pro Demokratie haben.
Zusammen mit ihrer vergleichsweiser sanften Art im Ukraine Konflikt Russland gegenüber, mache ich mir schon auch Gedanken.
TBH, it is very difficult to me differentiating between the different flavors of authoritarians.
Maybe someone can make an easy to understand comparison matrix? You know, "Kills people because they have a different opinion.", "Suppresses minorities.", etc.
That is pretty common when you hear conservatives talk. You often agree about the issues, but then you suddenly hear crazy conspiracy theories about why everything is the fault of immigrants, jews, trans people or whatever.
When conservatives talk about the rich and powerful being bad, its often about some "globalists", "George Soros", "World Economic Forum", "Liberals", ... than just the system being bad.
That is the reason why the leftist critique should always focus on the system, not specific people or groups.
There are different degrees of vendor lock in. If you use email (or Matrix) with a domain, you have no control over, you are soft-locked it. You can buy a domain, self-host or pay for a managed service and inform everyone that you are now reachable over some other address, but nobody else has to change.
If you use Signal (or Discord or whatever) and want to switch to a different domain. You cannot. If you switch to a different protocol, everyone in your contacts has to switch as well, or you lose that contact. The network effect forces you into the service of one provider. The only way out of there would be if the service get so bad, that a critical mass leaves, but you will have to deal with that bad service all the way.
As long as financial interest are there, non-federated services will sooner or later start to enshittyfy. So if you choose a communication medium, choose something that leaves your options open. If you don't like Matrix, try XMPP, it has come a long way as well.
Well, you can still insert client side decryption into the app.
But it isn't really about the messages, it is about the control of the servers and the accounts. You cannot easily move away from their servers, because you will lose your contacts. This gives the people controlling the servers power over you. A sort of vendor lockin.
The company (Signal Messenger LLC) is fully owned by Signal Foundation, a 501(c)3 non profit organization.
OpenAI is also non-profit. Not really an argument.
Probably around 80-90% of Matrix users are on the matrix.org homeserver, so it's absolutely not as decentralized and resilient as you think it is.
Well, the goal is that moving to your own server, will not mean that you will loose access to all your contacts. Which makes moving instances much simpler. If Matrix gets a hostile take-over, your don't really need to reach a critical mass for an alternative server.
But you should also be aware that Signal does not federate, so the company can be bought. They have control over all accounts and the servers, without easy way to migrate away again. So it might just be another trap.
Try to use federated services (like matrix), they are more robust against hostile take overs.
I would argue that it is about incentives. A market economy is about maximizing profit, so that (the class of) shareholders get more money out of it, than they put into it. Incentivising making money means you incentives a race to the bottom, producing lots of expensive and addicting crap that easily breaks for as little cost as possible. And you incentivise massive consumption of it.
A socialist economy should instead incentivise improving the world for all the people that live in it. Produce stuff that is robust, adaptable, sustainable and so on. Incentivise the mindfulness of the social and ecological impact of each product. And if someone needs something special, incentivise local makerspaces etc. that allows people to produce custom stuff in low quantities.
China is not communist, they are market-captialistic, one-party highly authoritarian state. "socialism" and "cmmunism" is just used to make them sound better and more legitimate than they are.
TPM 2.0 does not require UEFI. I have a system here with TPM 2.0 and only legacy boot support. And you can just buy a TPM 2.0 module and connect it with any board, that has a SPI connector.