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by lotharcable 1y ago
Not a security expert here... But Discretionary Access Controls is a standard part of OS design for a very long time. It is certainly possible to go back to DOS-days and run all your programs without controls as terminate and stay resident
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by lotharcable 1y ago
XWayland can be run in 'rootless' and 'rootful' modes. Rootless is what it is typically ran as and allows you to integrate X11 apps into your Wayland desktop environment. Rootful would allow you to run X11 desktop with X
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by lotharcable 1y ago
DRM is literally the 3D acceleration driver framework for Linux. It has been around for decades and is same set of drivers that are used for any sort of accelerated graphics in X. If you want to get rid of DRM you have to start over and rew
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Nvidia under Linux has had a long and hard history. For most purposes, including gaming, it is best to avoid Nvidia hardware. Using Intel for laptops and AMD for dedicated GPUs is kinda the best general approach if you are planning on usin
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by lotharcable 1y ago
XLibre is a fork of Xorg X11's codebase started by a developer who got kicked out of the Xorg project because he was making lots of changes that broke everything and had a hard time getting along with the other devs. Another dev blindl
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by lotharcable 1y ago
It is ok to be ignorant, but it is odd to take the time to actively point it out. Because he wasn't talking about any of those people.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Meta works by identifying users, modelling their behavior, and then combining that data with third party sources (typically your financial activities) and then selling access to that data to third parties. Mostly for advertising. When you u
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Wayland devs and Xorg X11 devs are by and large the same group of people. So nothing you said really makes a lot of sense. There are lots of display technologies out there for Linux besides X11 and Wayland. There was Mir from Canoncial, whi
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by lotharcable 1y ago
That is a odd statement since the people that designed Wayland are, by and large, the same people that maintained Xorg. In fact the Wayland devs are the primary group of people maintaining what is left of X11. The reality is that a lot of X
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Used 10GbE ethernet components are cheap on ebay. I built a 10GbE 'switch' by buying 2 4 port SPI+ PCIE cards off of Ebay and then joining them together with a conventional Linux Br0 bridge on a old Intel gaming machine. Had no pr
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by lotharcable 1y ago
I don't know a whole lot about it, but GSI is "Generic System Image". If a phone has proper "Treble" support and the bootloader is unlocked then it is theoretically possible to install a GSI image on it. Treble is a
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Japan in a variety of ways is approaching crisis mode for it's currency and economy. https://www.reuters.com/business/japans-super-long-bond-yiel... Japanese monetary policy has been limping along for quite some t
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by lotharcable 1y ago
My point was that if the attackers cared enough to put (not much) effort into keeping control of these routers then neither of those approaches is likely to be sufficient. This sort of thing is why there is such a emphasis on TPM and truste
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Banana Pi BPI-R3 with OpenWRT is how learned to deal with crappy consumer "wifi router" devices without breaking the bank. Very effective.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
The attackers are using features built into the firmware. They don't have to install any of their own software.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
> Disabling the 'backdoor' seems to just involve disabling SSH. Maybe. My guess these are essentially Linux systems, so if attackers know that their exploits are widely known then they will likely try to figure out ways to inst
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by lotharcable 1y ago
What a bunch of a-holes. You know shit is messed up when even engineers can't use words that mean anything anymore.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
So how many of those utilities call "being able to remotely shut off your AC" a "virtual power plant"?
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Calling it 'well worn' is probably a vast overstatement.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Calling it a "virtual power plant" is probably one the most weirdest spin/intentionally misleading euphemism I've seen in a long time. A better term would be "managed brownouts" or "rolling brownouts to ch
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Right now most Democratic systems are a contest to find the most perfect high functioning psychopath. It filters for people who possess the ability to lie very convincingly, tell people what they want to hear, disregard their own failings,
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by lotharcable 1y ago
I am pretty sure that USA Gov. wouldn't see things that way. Between breaking the law versus keeping ICC happy I think that Microsoft would default on obeying the law. Hosting a email service isn't rocket science. If ICC can'
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by lotharcable 1y ago
There is a 0.0% chance I am going to buy a car that requires a network connection. All of this is complete nonsense and a huge waste of resources. Especially for electric cars. These things are so simple that it is not funny. The level of s
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Yeah... We know now that environmental factors change how DNA is expressed as well through epigenetics. I don't know how any of it works. Something to do with the shape the DNA when it is wound up and how it changes the output when RNA
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by lotharcable 1y ago
If you are going to do weird shoot-self-foot things with writing custom EBF scripts to do ill advised network traffic manipulations things then it is probably a good idea to pay attention to RFCs. I mean I have a small book of notes I buil
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by lotharcable 1y ago
> Does this "ZombieVerter" have a high chance of being blamed for an incident involving death/injury or very expensive property damage? No.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Yes. The NIF is a weapons research lab, not a power research lab. The purpose of it is to show that the USA is still capable of producing advanced hydrogen bombs. More advanced then anybody else. The '2.05 megajoules' is only a es
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by lotharcable 1y ago
In terms importance the Nicene Creed is pretty fundamental to Christianity. The creed itself is not on the same level as the Gospel, but the ideas espoused in the creed are a reflection of what defines Christianity as Christianity. Namely
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by lotharcable 1y ago
In the USA since the end of WW2 the % of GDP collected by USA Federal government has been around 17-18%. Since then we have had a top income tax rate range from 28% to 90%, but the actual amount of taxes collected is really not impacted by
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Board firmwares are full of copy-paste and code lifted from other devices that is never intended to get used and is supposed to be disabled by default. I wouldn't be surprised if this was 100% by accident.

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