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for readers missing the significance of the number 4 in the proof of concept: to demonstrate this vulnerability the researchers created a microcode update which replaces the "hardware" random number generator behind the RDRAND instruction with an implementation of xkcd#221 😭

 

a photograph of a computer screen showing an excerpt of an email. The CC field is visible but mostly redacted, the visible part shows that the two CC'd recipients both include a suffix "CDC/OD/OPH" plus additional not-visible letters after their names. A note above the email says "You forwarded this on 1/31/2025 11:12 A". The visible part of the email body is a bulleted list of the terms Gender, Transgender, Pregnant person, Pregnant people, LGBT, Transsexual, Non-binary, Nonbinary, Assigned male at birth, Assigned female at birth, Biologically male, and Biologically female. At the bottom it says "Connected to: Microsoft exchange"

Reuters: CDC orders pullback of new scientific papers involving its researchers, source says:

The withdrawal order, first reported by the Inside Medicine Substack, goes beyond an initial directive on Jan. 21 that federal health agencies pause their own public communications to allow for a review of those materials by Trump appointees.

Inside Medicine published a list of specific words targeted for removal in the communications review, including gender, transgender, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) and nonbinary. The federal official said that such a list went out from CDC to its divisions.

The Friday withdrawal order involves all manuscripts written or co-written by CDC scientists. If CDC scientists are co-authors on a paper that originated outside of the agency, they are asked to take their names off the paper, the official said.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

It’s on F-Droid if you load their repo.

It is not allowed in F-Droid's official repos because it is not open source; anyone can run their own F-Droid repo and distribute proprietary software from it.

Also it’s open source but I understand some people don’t like their license.

It is not open source; that is a term with an internationally recognized definition. Even FUTO themselves now acknowledge it is not.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

there is a thread about the moderation of this thread here.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for editing, but I deleted your comment anyway because it was still just recommending something that is not open source.

fyi there is a thread here discussing the moderation of this thread.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

The good news is that (sometime last year, long after you posted this) futo finally agreed to stop calling their license "open source"; unfortunately there are still some vocal fans of theirs arguing in various forums that it is.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 days ago

Futo is not open source, as they (now, finally) even admit themselves: https://www.futo.org/about/futo-statement-on-opensource/

See also https://opensource.org/osd and https://opensource.org/authority and compare it to Futo's licenses; there are (at least) three reasons it doesn't qualify, can you spot them all? (rhetorical question; don't @ me)

I am locking this thread to avoid needing to remove misinformation and advocacy from Futo fans who think they should be allowed to redefine a term which there has been consensus about the definition of since before they were born.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

even if it’s from its own repository, it is still on F-droid

There is nothing to stop anyone from running their own f-droid repo and distributing non-free software through it, which is what futo is doing.

seems open source enough

This is the definition. Compare it with Futo's license; it fails to meet both the Open Source Definition and Free Software Definition in several ways. After insisting they could redefine the term for a while (despite the definition's wide acceptance) and inspiring some of their very vocal fans to promulgate their dishonest argument on their behalf, Futo themselves finally came around and agreed to stop calling their software open source.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

you just can’t understand what open-source means

FYI, nearly everyone (including Futo themselves), except for some Futo fans like yourself who haven't gotten the memo, agrees that this is the definition of "open source" (and Futo's license obviously does not qualify).

Other comments in this thread suggesting that Futo keyboard is open source have been deleted as offtopic.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

usaid.gov is serving a redirect to www.usaid.gov which currently does not resolve.

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