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by digiown 9mo ago
There is a massive over-buying of compute, much beyond what is actually needed for the current level of AI development and products, paid for by investor money. When the bubble pops the investor money will dry up, and the extra demand will
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by digiown 9mo ago
And also a third party should not be able to inspect my device and discriminate against my owned device. The device should attest its authenticity to me (or my organization that owns it) alone. Arguably, this is a social/political prob
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by digiown 9mo ago
I don't disagree. I just don't want the trusted entity to be other than me. Note that secure boot doesn't become worthless just because you can flash something different. The TPM should notice SB is turned off, and should ref
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by digiown 9mo ago
That makes no sense. If the bubble bursts, there will be a huge oversupply and the prices will fall. Unless all Micron, Samsung, Nvidia, AMD, etc all go bankrupt overnight, the prices won't go up when demand vanishes.
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by digiown 9mo ago
Meh, I'm ok with not having root on my phone. What I'm not ok with is not being able to flash whatever I want to run on it later without unlocking and wiping. For this reason I have an automated script to verify Graphene's si
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by digiown 9mo ago
The problem is more that you're forced to use Google's OS. Usually just less convenient, but often in a literal sense too with these government services increasingly requiring attestation.
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by digiown 9mo ago
I am somewhat hopeful that local AI will save us. It will be fairly easy to automate interacting with normie devices and services in the near future. It's not impossible to prevent it, but that will probably be annoying enough to the n
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by digiown 9mo ago
Maybe, but the user ought to be able to do with their device the equivalent of what a root account can do, even if not especially conveniently. Like seeing what data apps are saving to their devices or spoofing data to prevent apps from gai
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by digiown 9mo ago
An old micro pc from dell/hp/lenovo. They are often cheaper and more capable than Raspberry Pis. You can just put up a random Linux distro and it will work.
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by digiown 9mo ago
Hole punching is a thing. Ports are not normally completely blocked. They allow replies, which can be exploited to do make a connection. Obviously this requires an out of band signaling mechanism. Tailscale does this, so does WebRTC, iirc.
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by digiown 9mo ago
That'd be too bad. Sometimes, I feel like the general public doesn't deserve general purpose computing.
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by digiown 9mo ago
A basic setup to make use of secure boot is SB+TPM+LUKS. Unfortunately I don't know of any distro that offers this in a particularly robust way. Code signature verification is an interesting idea, but I'm not sure how it could be
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by digiown 9mo ago
> Secure Boot allows you to enroll your own keys UEFI secure boot on PCs, yes for the most part. A lot of mobile platforms just never supported this. It's not a myth.
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by digiown 9mo ago
I am quite conflicted here. On one hand I understand the need for it (offsite colo servers is the best example). Basic level of evil maid resistance is also a nice to have on personal machines. On the other hand we have all the things you l
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by digiown 9mo ago
Related but I wish Wikipedia would provide a filter against movies, music, pop culture related topics. They take up a huge amount of the namespace for things for whatever reason and often directs me to unintended pages.
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by digiown 9mo ago
Depends on the how you formulate the goal in the totalitarianism olympics. The goal of totalitarian regimes is not really to completely prevent the flow of information to motivated people. It simply needs to raise the motivation bar high en
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by digiown 9mo ago
No I was wrong. You can't downvote posts. Flags are used instead, apparently.
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by digiown 9mo ago
The few people looking at /new on HN are ridiculously overpowered. A few upvotes from them in the few hours will get you to the front page, and just 1-2 downvotes will make your post never see the light of day.
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by digiown 9mo ago
That's nice to hear. I'm a big fan of lisp and I want to switch to nix or guix at some point in the future.
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by digiown 9mo ago
Assuming you're talking about iOS: and their OS won't let them install your app to manage files or flash microcontrollers anyway. It's not your problem when they choose an actively hostile platform.
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by digiown 9mo ago
The apps/use cases for which such standardized and opinions tools can exist for, economically, mostly already exist IMO. Vibe coded tools fill an enormous space of semi-unique problems that only affect a small amount of people. For exa
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by digiown 9mo ago
> which means full reads and scrubs touch more bits and inevitably brush against those error rates Does this make sense at all? ZFS scrubs only reads the data you have, not the whole drive, and repairs data if possible. The more data you
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by digiown 9mo ago
I say the following as a firefox+ubo user: There are many useful things that can only be implemented for Chromium: things like the filesystem API mentioned in this post, the USB devices API used to implement various microcontroller flashing
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by digiown 9mo ago
It's not clear you're actually buying any privacy. The cameras they have in stores will be used for tracking customers soon anyway, and not having a tracking identifier associated with your transactions make you stick out like a s
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by digiown 9mo ago
I really don't think you can gain much realistic freedom going without the blob. The powers that be will never let you have a freely modifiable radio transceiver. The blob is better viewed as a part of the hardware in this case. What&#
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by digiown 9mo ago
Being anonymous is actually pretty expensive. The loyalty program is a price discrimination mechanism: going through the trouble of clicking through coupons, discovering deals, signals that you have a higher price sensitivity. The default o
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by digiown 9mo ago
Ah, I forgot about the warning. Are the blown fuses you're talking about related to to your unlocking though? Or did they just remove the debug functions. I guess it reduces the attack surface somewhat. I do agree it's far from id
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by digiown 9mo ago
Guix being a GNU project the purism also doesn't help. Just look at this: https://github.com/nonguix/nonguix I don't even disagree that nonfree software is bad, but blaming the users who often have no choice
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by digiown 9mo ago
The closest thing you can get is probably the Pixel, ironically. You can provision your own keys, enroll it into AVB, and re-lock the bootloader. From the phone hardware's perspective there is no difference between your key and Google&
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by digiown 9mo ago
Standard?? The standard is for the upgrade to be refused or not boot until you flash a newer one, not to brick the phone permanently. It's not an "ideally" thing for the manufacturer to not intentionally brick your device you

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