Nick W.

I am an active Ubuntu user and administrator. I am now at the hacker lite level.

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2026-05-12 16:31:20 GMT

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I am Gen X. I think you're younger and your immaturity is showing a little right here. I'm done now.

2026-05-12 14:00:30 GMT

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Do you know the history of Huawei? They were one of the first companies that triggered warnings over a decade ago about people embedded inside the Chinese government and also associated with Huawei installing software-based backdoors and ports on Huawei routers. The effort by the US federal government to stop this has further branched out to blocking the import of chips manufactured in China for American-designed IoT devices and routers.
At the present time in cybersecurity with a haphazard US government plugging as many leaks in the form of global and domestic crises and overburdening itself with respect to the Iran War and the situation in the Middle East — two disparate but related elements within the US government can be mutually exclusive — unfortunately. My view about this is they need to form a plan and stick to the plan through using political mechanisms.
The FCC doesn't want back doors around. They are citing existing Import/Export controls [1] and they want to protect (or would /prefer/ to protect, rather) America's intellectual property from being exfiltrated through the software back doors. The White House is for the most part now detached from public reality, sadly. Although the article says that the trump admin is supporting this effort and it does really matter in the end what Donald Trump understands about technology. The President holds the veto pen in Congress.
[1] - "U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) maintains the "Entity List" of blacklisted firms under export control restrictions. This list has grown nine-fold over the last decade to nearly 1,200 entities, as hundreds of companies from China's #Huawei to Russia's Gazprom were added. Executive Order 13783 added Huawei and 68 Huawei affiliates across 26 destinations to the Entity List in May 2019"

2026-04-15 14:37:01 GMT

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I have a conspiratorial-leaning theory that Elon never actually completely left Trump’s orbit in early 2025 and that Trump might have started the carnage in Iran to partly appease his benefactor and ideological sympathizer, Elon Musk. Musk owns Tesla which makes E.V.’s. As an international company Tesla might come to appreciate the higher fuel prices globally. The war could potentially mean more E.V. sales for Tesla in the long term or more people will buy them sooner which is a cynical and twisted type of medium-term projection created by someone who controls a substantial amount of the E.V. industry the stinking political turd known as Donald J. Trump whose personal allegiance is pretty flexible.
I am a part time writer and tech worker. I don’t know what you do, however I think that a lot of us are generally unaware of the global hypocrisy and madness running its course in the US. In a way, many of the technology workers are actually innocent during this time of deep political and legal paralysis. I put all of the blame on the 77.3 million Republican losers and fcking idiots in America who voted for that orange mofo.

2026-03-09 19:50:02 GMT

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Interesting. Do you have a link?