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quantum mechanics is a closed source firmware blob running on nearly all popular realities. You don't really know what's going on under the hood.

dwarves are closed source blobs of beardware undermining nearly all popular land surfaces. You don't really know what's going on under the grass. But you stride across it anyway, until one day the grass suddenly gives way and you fall into an abyss. On that day, your friends will file a CVE.

>>1034165 (OP)

If you haven't read and understood the source code for all of the open source software you use, and either compiled it from source yourself with a compiler verified with the Wheeler method, or verified that the binaries you're using correspond to the source that you've read and understood, how do you know what's going on under the hood?

>Many eyes make bugs shallow! If it's open source, surely someone competent has read the source and made sure everything's okay!?

Like the idiotic patch Debian made to openssl that broke its crypto for years?

>>1034178

The point is that users are allowed to study the code whenever they wish. This implies that there are people who have the will to look what's there. This implies that if people don't care to look, then they won't look. This idea is opposed to proprietary software that says that users are forbidden to study the software; only the owner of the software is allowed to look at the source code of the proprietary software.

>how do u know

You don't. Why do you think autists are so anal about "blobs"?

>>1034165 (OP)

>how do u know whats going on under the hood

by using linux-libre instead

>>1034184

You really think you need the source code of software to study it?

>>1034209

Yes, access to the source code is absolutely required in order to study it. Without access to the source code, it is outright impractical to study and modify any computer program.

>>1034214

Are you still pieced up?

>>1034218

Do you have the tism worse than I?

Ask yourself, WWTD? Answer: Just avoid the CIAniggers by using TempleOS.

>>1034211

>Without access to the source code, it is outright impractical to study and modify any computer program

Difficult? yes. Impractical? sometimes. Impossible? Certainly not. Find out who Fravia+ was... learn about the quest for ORC+... learn reverse engineering secrets.

>>1034335

Reverse engineering isn't entirely legal.

>>1034465

Please remove yourself from this site.