Game Over Man, GAME OVER!

There is an entire WORLD that lives in your computer below the operating system (eg, OpenWRT). For example, in your Raspberry Pi 5, there is a chip called the VideoCore GPU and it contains a big blob of code known only to Raspberry Pi Foundation and, perhaps, Five Eyes. The Chinese processors are like that too! Even if you have the source and build system to recreate the exact binary blob and can reload it with Jedec or whatever, there is another world below the firmware...called microcode. Some of the microcode comes from the FAB preloaded! Even if you can get the source code for the microcode and somehow read it out and verify it is the same, you guessed it...there is another world below that [1 link ] [2 link ] [cue ▶ this video ]

Thats from "Aliens", right? Not the movies in the title. As a sibling comment says, RIP Bill Paxton. Really enjoyed the similar army grunt stick from him in "Edge of Tomorrow". ▶ this video

Sweden may also be a bit of an outlier in that it has a fairly young collective sense of identity, essentially rebuilding from scratch in the mid-late 19th century well into the 20th century, recovering from the century of poverty, squalor, and collective shame that followed the failed imperial ambitions of Charles XII; like really, it's a past most people would rather not dwell on. Dunno what's a good analogy. It's like Japan, except the a-bombs fell during the Edo period and the entire country was like ▶ this video for 150 years.