• logging_strict@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Step 1: all software has to be open source

    Step 2: governments, required by law, to fund FOSS projects in their tech stacks. Helped by organizations which trace project funding and lobbying to promote FOSS security by providing funding; a huge incentive to not insert malware

    Step 3: coders are afforded dignity (UBI); given funds geared towards affording a maintenance team. Regardless of country of origin. Vital infrastructure is vital infrastructure. Talent is talent.

    I support this move to Step 1

    Where is the list of pauper gov’ts which force talent to get a job rather than be a talent and then maintain their projects with dignity!

    Those jobs are mostly nonsense. Geared towards wasting our time building:

    • yet another stupid web site

    • yet another stupid smartphone app

    • yet another stupid cloud base server instance

    • Citizen@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Yup and then they move the spyware/malware/etc into a layer below where nobody knows what is inside…

      How is your baseband modem in your smartphone doing, by the way?

      • logging_strict@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        5 days ago

        this is why FOSS community goes ahead and removes untrustworthy blobs and replaces them with open source alternatives.

        The open hardware is an issue, but there are efforts there as well.