Fuck HDMI. The committee makes doing custom hardware near impossible unless you're a mega corp

https://github.com/nivekuil/rip This is what you're looking for

The lower layers all already at least moderately well encrypted, what they're doing here is trying to pull the unencrypted device ID necessary to establish a connection. It's not really what you're sending (though traffic frequency analysis may be included) and more about just figuring out where a particular phone is so they can physically track the user.

There might be a few layers to this one. Drones are becoming a central part of strategic production and the US doesn't really have many competitive companies manufacturing small ones at volume.

They need to force the domestic market to build up local expertise and manufacturing capacity in the event that small drones are the direction warfare ends up going more broadly.

The us defense apparatus is still on the fence about this given that their volume of use in Ukraine could be more of an aberration due to the respective industrial bases and static nature of the war. That said the numbers are insane enough that they warrant some action just in case.

The unspoken part is that unless Gabe has a very strong plan involving some sort of employee co-op, when he retires or dies the company will likely get sold by the estate to private capital which is 100x worse than being a public company.

Why the popularity in Yemen? Weird laws or something?

Aren't they fundamentally anti privacy? You have to be logged in so they can correlate literally everything you search for or click on with a credit card number and real name...

Much of the operating system software on the switch is derived from older FOSS systems that existed before the GPL became widespread.

It very much should be open source, we just didn't always have the tools to force assholes to keep the stuff we gave them open