A federated internet archive, I'm wondering whether I should build it myself. With so many journalists being banned for reporting the gaza genocide we need more ways to combat censorship.

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[–] morto@piefed.social 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, it's not much of linux's fault, but mostly due to shitty hardware restrictions and proprietary drivers

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

due to shitty hardware restrictions

regulatory restrictions?

[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah, from what I understand, hardware manufacturers need to ensure that no one uses the mobile chip to send on reserved frequencies. And the way they typically do that, is with a proprietary, undocumented driver for the mobile chip. So, you basically need to reverse engineer that for each mobile chip, to be able to make calls and such...

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Yes because of isps