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by philodeon 1y ago
This is an interesting tale, because Drunkenbatman ducked out of public view after he gave a speech at the C4 conference which we would now call “woke”. He called everyone in the room racists because there weren’t many bl*ck Apple customer
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by philodeon 1y ago
But as of the M4 Macs, Apple is preventing the Asahi team from learning how the drivers work with a “bug” in the bootloader: https://social.treehouse.systems/@sven/114278224116678776
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by philodeon 1y ago
The audience was real for the Statue of Liberty. The “magic” was developing ball bearings smooth enough to allow the audience’s seating to be turned without them noticing, in order to give them the same view as the television audience.
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by philodeon 1y ago
Yes, the myth of Linux kernel security is just that, a myth.
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by philodeon 1y ago
Dude, the Laundry is trying to relax on the weekend. Don’t make them call the Plumbers out.
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by philodeon 2y ago
Isn’t that what the vows were for?
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by philodeon 2y ago
Just as movie stars get paid a lot to compensate for dealing with the unpleasant life-ruining consequences of fame, CEOs get paid a lot to compensate for the monotony.
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by philodeon 2y ago
Given that the researchers published working exploits that you can modify for your own use, it’s PR.
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by philodeon 2y ago
Yes, the Asahi Linux reverse engineers said in their commit message for the Linux apple-nvme driver: “Add a driver for the NVMe storage controller integrated on Apple SoCs. This NVMe controller isn't PCI based and deviates from the NV
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by philodeon 2y ago
The NVME controller on Apple Silicon is not PCI-based, so there are no pcie lanes going to the storage chips at all.
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by philodeon 2y ago
“Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.” —-John Maynard Keynes
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by philodeon 2y ago
Diversity is about enjoying the benefits of a team filled with different perspectives. Discussing how those perspectives might vary is very, very prohibited.
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by philodeon 2y ago
The actual logical problem I was pointing out was in tptacek’s implied argument that “if a field is 80+% one gender, the only possible explanation is that the dominant gender is gatekeeping the minority gender”.
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by philodeon 2y ago
“Veterinary medicine has been predominantly female in the US since 2009. That trend is continuing, with 87.3% of current veterinary school applicants identifying as female, as well as 88% of veterinary technicians.” (Source: aaha.org) Given
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by philodeon 2y ago
I think that McCartney’s performance of Wonderful Christmastime is absolutely dreadful. The song itself is not bad. This can be demonstrated by listening to Tuxedo cover it (it’s on YouTube)
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by philodeon 2y ago
To sum up the HN wisdom on Apple Silicon Macs: Before the M4 models: omg, Apple only gives you 8GB RAM in the base model? Garbage! After the M4 models: the previous laptops were so good, why would you upgrade?
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by philodeon 2y ago
The stereotype sounds way more homophobic to me than racist…
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by philodeon 2y ago
Book recommendation for you: “IBM And The Holocaust” by Edwin Black. If IBM (then known as Hollerith) could do that much damage with German census data on punchcards…
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by philodeon 2y ago
Two-word phrases are rarely preferable to a single word. So let’s just use “hybristophilia” instead.
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by philodeon 2y ago
> It is literally the worst plan, because it leaves every PQC-protected system in the world exposed to _everybody in the world_. No, it leaves every SIKE-protected system in the world exposed to _everybody who reads obscure algebraic geo
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by philodeon 2y ago
You obviously know that the Python script wasn’t submitted to NIST along with the draft standard. Is Dual-EC-DRBG fine because we never saw the FVEY Python exploit that breaks it? I think my theory here is that NSA coordinated an action whe
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by philodeon 2y ago
A wonderful question that exposes me to legal action if I answer. A better question: why do you think so many of your cryptographic feline friendz were so excited about isogenies for the past decade? Where do you think they all obtained t
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by philodeon 2y ago
NIST didn’t design Dual-EC, NSA did. But NIST did the really hard work, which involved slapping their organization’s name on it, and not asking any inconvenient questions. Thankfully we found a better way that ensures cryptographic securit
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by philodeon 2y ago
And now you believe it’s impossible for any of the NIST PQC submissions to have been backdoored or weakened. I feel safer already. :D
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by philodeon 2y ago
> and doing what they did with Dual-EC, where it was impossible (apparently) for people to reason about what NSA was up to. Schneier was clearly able to reason about what NSA was up to, and told everyone in 2007 not to use Dual-EC, 6 yea
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by philodeon 2y ago
If you’d like to see a pervasive cult of personality in South Korea, check out the Unification Church.
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by philodeon 2y ago
Port knocking is a ludicrous security measure compared to the combination of: * configuring sshd to only listen over a Wireguard tunnel under your control ( or letting something like Tailscale set up the tunnel for you) * switching to ssh c
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by philodeon 2y ago
Calling this a “detailed review” of two laptops when the author continually asserts that they don’t use their laptops as a laptop is pretty audacious.
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by philodeon 2y ago
To me, this article seems designed to train junior employees to be more exploitable by the tech sector’s psychopathic managerial class.
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by philodeon 2y ago
It’s an interesting choice to announce a brand-new standard for privacy guarantees regarding AI/ML queries… …then announce a partnership with ChatGPT.

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