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>>gjsman+(OP)
What is to prevent school WiFi from one day requiring a Pluton assertion that your Windows PC hasn’t been tampered with before you can join the network?

Remote attestation is the true enemy of your freedom. The power of the authoritarian corporatocracy to force you to use only the (entire) systems they control. It's worth reading https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html again just to see how prescient Stallman was.

>>userbi+17
Damn, now I'm nostalgic for the older days of hacker news where RMS was quoted every other post. The community is forgetting it's roots.

>>SQueee+0b
As someone who was here from day two, this is not how old HN was. It was many things to many people, and it’s very difficult to break out of the illusion that rose-tintedness tends to give us. (Guilty of it myself.)

HN has been consistently contrarian. That’s about all that you can say without quickly becoming mistaken.

>>sillys+Xb
I've been around for a while too, and I've learned a lot from this forum. I can't tell if now I'm learning less here because I've leveled up or if there's just less tech talk.

As far as hn being contrarian, the only thing I see hn being consistently contrarian on is crypto. Any other examples?