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The maintainability of networks based on a vendor that can't produce secure firmware is highly questionable, nevermind it being insecure by definition.
Edit: subpeona was not quashed, grand jury's term expired.
Most of the people I know stopped going to LFNW after the shitshow that was that year, they still attend SeaGL and other conventions.
The exploding can of WD-40 that MS handed out that year was the cherry on top of the hijacking of the main space, fake Azure credits, and poorly run afterparty that MS put on.
Frankly, MS should not have been allowed to hijack LFNW that year. This year MS was the only booth to not staff on Sunday, I'd hope LFNW doesn't waste table space next year.
Purism doesn't seem to want to invest in the software that makes their services work, hence the commentary by Matrix devs on which services are helping to push development forward (and thus deserve subscribers).
I know Microsoft tried to kill Linuxfest Northwest a few years back, sponsoring it and taking control of 1/3 of the floor space, both approved afterpartys, etc. This year they had a small booth that was staffed for one of the two days...
I've noticed they seem to offer ADSL (6mbps) after 6pm or so at addresses that already have fiber, presumably their prequal database for fiber goes offline for a few hours a day.
Due to the mandatory client base skew, the city is causing them to redline middle and high income areas of the city. Fiber is in Georgetown and Rainer Valley, but your SoL in Fremont's built up areas and in Sand Point.
Universal coverage should have been mandated, but its easy to end up like Kenmore (which required total Fios coverage from Verizon, now Frontier) and has seen Finn Hill go unserviced for years. Enforcement of the franchise contract is just as critical as initial negotiation.
Outside of a few select areas, most of Seattle only ever saw ADSL (or no DSL in parts of the north end) as we didn't allow large VDSL2 cabinets in the public ROW. I think this has caused Centurylink to build fiber in the city, as they've rarely overbuilt VDSL2 areas like Bellevue, Kent & Auburn.
The best you can hope for is they likely use Signal, good luck getting their contact details or verifying keys with them though!
Check out the Clearfog too (good I/O), and OrangePi makes some ok boards.
Intel wasn't able to get their chipset working well despite a treasure trove of Qualcomm code and documents, even with the ability to question Qualcomm engineers via Apple.
Meanwhile, Hygon (the AMD/China joint venture) has produced the Dhyana, virtually identical to AMD's EPYC chips of a year prior.
The limiting factor for Hygon fulfiling its goals (home grown, performant cores) faces many challenges, as AMD is moving to 7nm at TSMC, while the bleeding edge at Chinese fabs (and nearly all other fabs) is 14nm. Even Intel hasn't been able to jump above 14nm and make a sizeable number of chips.
Even if Hygon were to steal AMD's newer design, they have no native fabs to manufacture it, and they likely won't for another few years. Permanent industry laggard puts you in the same position as VIA, never making good profit or breaking ahead of competitors.
Mozilla spent years with dozens to hundreds of devs working on getting it to be snappier than every other low end phone, short of Google paying for this type of dev work on KaiOS, there will likely be nothing more than security patches and cosmetic changes to KaiOS.
Mozilla does know how to build a community around the projects they work on.