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by pregnenolone 8mo ago
I’ve reached a point where I stop reading whenever I see a post that mentions “one-shot.” It's becoming increasingly obvious that many platforms are riddled with bots or incompetent individuals trying to convince others that AI are som
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by pregnenolone 8mo ago
RAM encryption doesn’t prevent DMA attacks and perofming a DMA attack is quite trivial as long as the machine is running. Secure enclaves do prevent those and they're a good solution. If implemented correctly, they have no downsides. I
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by pregnenolone 8mo ago
It really was Oracle’s fault – they neglected deployment for too long. Deploying Java applications was simply too painful, and neither JLink nor JPackage existed.
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by pregnenolone 8mo ago
> Customers simply don't care. I don't recall a single complain about RAM or disk usage of my Electron-based app to be reported in the past 10 years. Nothing is worse than reading something like this. A good software developer
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by pregnenolone 9mo ago
I've always liked Scala as a language, but it's challenging to write high-performing and memory-efficient code on the JVM in general. Whenever you raise this issue, you'll encounter a horde of JVM fanboys who insist that it’s
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by pregnenolone 9mo ago
My main machines have been running Linux for years now, but there are still some things that are really bothering me. For one, I think dealing with virtual machines are still somewhat painful on Linux. VM managers continue to be clunky (I b
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by pregnenolone 9mo ago
It’s not that simple because most people will instinctively click ‘no’ without fully understanding the risks. They'll assume that as long as they don't forget their password, it’ll be fine – which is the case on Macs because, unli
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by pregnenolone 9mo ago
How is this possible? I remember reading something about 3D para-virtualization not being supported on NVIDIA consumer GPUs.
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by pregnenolone 9mo ago
> If you don’t think Intel put back doors into that then I fear for the future. If that’s what you’re worried about, you shouldn’t be using computers at all. I can pretty much guarantee that Linux will adopt SoC based hardware accelerati
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by pregnenolone 9mo ago
I’m not trying to defend Microsoft, but I think people are being a bit dramatic. It's a fairly reasonable default setting for average users who simply want their data protected from theft. On the other hand, users should be able to opt
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by pregnenolone 9mo ago
> This is by far one of the best advertisements for LUKS/VeraCrypt I've ever seen. LUKS isn't all rainbows and butterflies either [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708174 ]. This vulnerability has bee
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Scala 3.8 Released(scala-lang.org)
6 points by pregnenolone 9mo ago|0 comments
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by pregnenolone 9mo ago
They’re useful for attestation, boot measurement, and maybe passkeys, but I wouldn't trust them to securely handle FDE keys for several reasons. Not only do you have to trust the TPM manufacturer – and there are many – but they also ha
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by pregnenolone 9mo ago
As someone with limited networking knowledge, I’m not really getting smarter here. Some say it adds security; others disagree. Let me ask this: does IPv6 benefit me in any way if I have multiple devices at home behind a router and I'm
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by pregnenolone 9mo ago
> Bitlocker encryption key in plaintext Actually, this is not the case. BitLocker wraps the key, meaning even if the TPM were compromised, one would still have to brute-force the PIN for the actual key. It’s cryptsetup on Linux that stor
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by pregnenolone 10mo ago
Passkeys were designed to be bound to a device. Also I don't like using browser extensions as password managers or connecting them to a browser via an extension. It's been proven not to be safe many times.
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by pregnenolone 10mo ago
Unfortunately, TPM based Passkeys still are not a thing on Linux.
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by pregnenolone 10mo ago
You've largely ignored everything I’ve said. Instead, you proposed workarounds – which is precisely what most people want to avoid. Who distributes applications as fat jars? What is this? 2004? You’re supposed to distribute your applic
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by pregnenolone 10mo ago
I'm sorry, but this is a big load of crap and that includes some of the comments in here. Java enthusiasts are the absolute world champions of sugarcoating the shortcomings of Java and the JVM in general. This is what writing a CLI app
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Hardware-accelerated BitLocker(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
1 points by pregnenolone 10mo ago|0 comments
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VMK Extractor for BitLocker with TPM and Pin(post-cyberlabs.github.io)
1 points by pregnenolone 11mo ago|0 comments
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Windows is getting hardware-accelerated BitLocker in 2026(windowscentral.com)
2 points by pregnenolone 11mo ago|0 comments
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by pregnenolone 11mo ago
I agree with the author’s sentiment about FIPS 140. I find NIST to be incredibly slow. I understand there must be some stability, but they are too slow. For example, I think it's horrible that they are still recommending PBKDF2 in 2025
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Microsoft Store remembers App history for local users(ghacks.net)
3 points by pregnenolone 11mo ago|2 comments
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by pregnenolone 11mo ago
An old but not widely known fact – particularly problematic in machines with hardcoded OEM keys like most laptops, as the app history will still be visible to new owners purchasing the machine even after reinstalling Windows.
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Windows "SUCKS": How I'd Fix it by a retired Microsoft Windows engineer [video](youtube.com)
7 points by pregnenolone 11mo ago|2 comments
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Evaluating Argon2 adoption and effectiveness in real-world software(arxiv.org)
32 points by pregnenolone 1y ago|32 comments
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by pregnenolone 1y ago
I wish either RAR or 7-Zip would finally implement a memory-hard KDF for encrypted archives.
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Hardware-encrypted disks in Linux (2022) [pdf](is.muni.cz)
3 points by pregnenolone 2y ago|0 comments
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Scala 3.6 Released(scala-lang.org)
3 points by pregnenolone 2y ago|0 comments

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