So, basically, they plan to install a dictatorship in which separation of powers, states’ rights, and meaningful judicial review do not exist.

Sounds about right.

And their response to LGBT+ issues, and their response to Trump’s crimes, and…

Yeah, no. Republicans have had more than enough opportunities to redeem themselves. There is no remaining doubt to give them the benefit of.

“Maybe use it for the boot-time ‘gather entropy from different sources,’ but clearly it should not be used at runtime.”

Good idea. Ask it during boot/insmod for some hardware-random bits to seed Linux’s usual software-only CSPRNG, then just use that.

And even that might not be a great idea. I wouldn’t be surprised if the fTPM RNG is subtly not-entirely-random, at some alphabet agency’s behest. I remember there being a controversy over rdrand for this reason…

If global warming doesn’t completely wipe us out, we’ll finish ourselves off with nukes.

I’d rather have the climate crisis over the nuclear one

Why? Either way, everybody dies.

or either of the world wars

Instead of dying from mustard gas, we’re all going to die from heat and starvation. Yay.

or live under a feudal system where I’m owned by the local lord in his castle.

Today, you get to choose which lord owns you, and change lords on occasion, but other than that it’s pretty much the same thing.

Global warming is upon us. If something doesn’t drastically change, now, our entire species is going to die.

Nazis. Reddit has so many Nazis.