What do you want to bet that the Dutch HQ'd ASML has lock-out/wipe tech on their EUV lithography systems? Of course anyone taking over the equipment would have physical access for reverse engineering that part, but ASML's software stack is built from millions of lines of code, so not so easy to reimplement.

ARM servers have supported UEFI booting for years now, and that support is filtering down to other ARM SoCs.

Except that AMD have already shifted to TSMC from GloFo for most of their fabbing needs (CPU, APU, & GPU). The 14/12 nm IO die made by GloFo in current Ryzen/Threadripper/EPYC products is shifting to TSMC N7 for next-gen products. Some of AMD's entry-level APUs are set to remain on GloFo due to contract obligations, although AMD is no longer obligated to source from GloFo going forward due to recent contract renegotiation.

ARM has their 'Server Base Boot Requirement' for server systems to boot from UEFI but, as you point out, their client situation is crazy fragmented.

Early adoption of UEFI by the RISC-V community (on RISC-V GitHub page & initial support landing in Linux kernel 5.10) will be very interesting to watch, particularly later this month when SiFive demos the first 'RISC-V PC'.

2020-[early]2021 is a particularly poor time to build a "future-resistant" PC. Intel has yet to ship complete systems with PCIe 4.0 support, and both Intel and AMD are expected to deliver DDR5 & USB 4.0 (Thunderbolt 3 compatible, if external I/O is a concern) platforms in late 2021 & early 2022 respectively. AMD is on its last full processor generation for its socket AM4 (perhaps we'll see a Zen 3+ in 2021, which would mean 3 full generations and 2 half-generations on the same socket), and Intel rarely supports a socket for more than 2 generations.

If going with Intel, late 2021 is the best "future-resistant" move, with early 2021 bringing only Rocket Lake-S processors (11th gen, finally moving away from the then almost 6-year-old Skylake architecture, but still on 14nm), with PCIe 4.0 but still no DDR5. Late 2021 will bring Alder Lake-S processors (12th gen & finally on 10nm SF) on a platform that will include PCIe 5.0, DDR5 & USB 4.0.

If going with AMD, early 2022 is the best "future-resistant" move, with Zen 4 processors on the [likely to be long-lived] AM5 platform bringing DDR5, USB 4.0 and likely PCIe 5.0.

AMD's re-architected Zen 3 cores are expected to boost floating point operations by 50% over Zen 2. They've produced engineering samples already, and all indicators point to a 4Q2020 release, likely with Ryzen Threadripper 4000 & EPYC Milan leading the pack; a quick web search will find the relevant articles.

Well, it only took them more than 12 years to begin to take this seriously. Hrmph. "Pre-Installed Linux" suggestion from 2007 that garnered >150,000 upvotes before being buried then deleted. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20...

Slashdot video needs a cloud-to-butt plugin. But seriously, Ubuntu is now the dominant OS in the space (surprise!) largely because Canonical has been focused here since 2009, and they've made some very astute decisions backing the right technologies, e.g. shifting quickly from Eucalyptus to Open Stack.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-cinnamon-1-8-on-ubuntu-13-04.html

Host your own if you don't like the fee. How is this model any different from wordpress.org/.com? Relying on "free" services where the provider has no contractual obligations is the very basis of the problem with Google shitcanning Reader without giving users the *choice* to move to a paid model or, heaven forbid, open sourcing the code. Oh right, Google's core platform code is proprietary, my bad for thinking that they could eat their own dogfood and at least provide the *option* for users to re-deploy Google products (or their open-sourced anaogues) on Google's own AppEngine platform.

From Samuel Clay's twitter posts today - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FNewsBlur. Remember, NewsBlur is 100% open-source (web, iOS apps, Android). Follow @samuelclay on GitHub: http://github.com/samuelclay. Today's not such a hot day in terms of speed, but the next three months will be full throttle. I was preparing to launch the re-design in TWO weeks, not today. I'm spinning up more servers to handle the onslaught.

A "bug", really? Or was it a "feature" that went slightly wrong? The mere existence of code [in Skype's codebase] that sends messages without the user's input is troublesome (although hardly surprising, considering the source).

Indeed there are no easy solutions, but there's plenty of mathematical work going on to better handle uncertainty. For example, OpenCog's Probabilistic Logic Networks. From http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Probabilistic_Logic_Networks "PLN is a novel conceptual, mathematical and computational approach to uncertain inference. In order to carry out effective reasoning in real-world circumstances, AI software must robustly handle uncertainty."

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2CJJ6FrfuGU

ssh -D 8080 -Nf ubuntu@50.12.345.67 (replace with valid IP from your Ubuntu Cloud Guest) Oh, and don't forget to add an SSH tunnel and configure your web browser to use a SOCKS proxy to localhost.