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by sverige 9y ago
Apparently the 20180108 version is faulty, so they rolled it back to 20171117. I have Manjaro on one of my laptops where the auto update mechanism keeps failing to complete the rollback because the installed version is newer. Good thing the
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by sverige 9y ago
> You could say that about any exploit: if you get past security using it, security didn't exist, but you're still potentially doing something worth criminalizing. Criminalizing the act of exploiting someone's shitty secur
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by sverige 9y ago
Blockchain is interesting technology, but it is not the basis for easy money, since there's no product or service that is in high demand. All of them are ponzis. Bitcoin just lost half of its value. Seriously, this is delusional.
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by sverige 9y ago
Yes, I am confident that there are as many good actors in cryptocurrencies as there are in any other multi-level marketing scheme.
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by sverige 9y ago
Yeah, the wifi was what prompted me to go the site. I needed an updated driver. This is a Windows laptop, so the site was designed for it. I have never tried to run OpenBSD on an HP laptop, but I've heard they suck for that use.
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by sverige 9y ago
Interestingly enough, on HP's website with the security bulletin on Meltdown and Spectre, they have brief description of the vulnerabilities and a list of their many models. [1] A few days ago, this had a schedule of microcode updates,
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by sverige 9y ago
The phrase I have heard is controlled descent into terrain. Sounds much calmer.
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by sverige 9y ago
Yep, this is why Intel reported $60 billion in 2017 revenue at a gross margin of 63 percent. [1] Many profitable hardware companies seem to be case studies for what I think of as corporate atherosclerosis. [1] As mentioned in the article a
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by sverige 9y ago
I'm American and to me, Aussie sounds Aussie, not at all British. I reckon I'd be insulted too.
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by sverige 9y ago
Intel's greatest PR success in this mess has been to conflate Meltdown with Spectre. Only Intel is affected by Meltdown because of their design, and it is a more easily exploited bug.
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by sverige 9y ago
The radio is built into most chips, even on feature phones. They are generally blocked, or have been until recently, mainly because of politics--using an FM receiver means you might use less bandwidth, which means less revenue for carriers
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by sverige 9y ago
I think you are reading this bit of PR far too optimistically. For example, where in this statement does it say that Intel is actually going to change the way they design their chips to make them more secure? It doesn't. It only says
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by sverige 9y ago
It's not a popular opinion here, but FF57 is bad enough that I have given up on it for the first time in maybe 7 or 8 years. I am now using either Waterfox or Qutebrowser for everything.
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Building a More Secure World with the RISC-V ISA(riscv.org)
133 points by sverige 9y ago|75 comments
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by sverige 9y ago
Intel's deceptive behavior got me worked up enough to order a SiFive SoC board today just to support their efforts, and to see if I can make something worthwhile on a RISC-V chip. It's only $59, too. I'm kind of excited to t
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RISC-V Foundation Trumpets Open-Source ISAs in Wake of Meltdown, Spectre(tomshardware.com)
7 points by sverige 9y ago|1 comments
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by sverige 9y ago
And neither Solomon nor the Byrds said anything about "A time to make use of duplexer3, and a time to be without duplexer3."
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by sverige 9y ago
> I mean I get it: large corporations (1) don't necessarily have my interests at heart; (2) are not able to perfectly execute (on extremely large and complicated) products and systems. > um. This is as radical as taking a stand t
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by sverige 9y ago
So the decision was, go ahead and release it even though we know it's vulnerable because we'll make more money that way than we would if we took the time to fix it and make it secure? If so, I hope the market punishes that decisio
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by sverige 9y ago
It's not just OpenBSD. For example, here's an interesting comment from Matt Dillon's commit to DragonflyBSD to mitigate Meltdown [1]: > I should note that we kernel programmers have spent decades trying to reduce system c
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by sverige 9y ago
Which widely available and affordable CPUs aren't affected by Spectre?
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by sverige 9y ago
OpenBSD has struggled at times to pay their power bills. They don't have the resources to branch off into building new hardware from first principles.
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by sverige 9y ago
The problem with embargoes is that they tend to run so long that users are put at risk unnecessarily. Most of the reasons for extending embargoes way beyond the time needed to prepare and test patches are just bullshit. For example, from t
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by sverige 9y ago
Most of the comments have to do with the police interaction. My question is, what can be done to discourage swatting? My reflex reaction is to give everyone involved long prison sentences, and some aggressive prosecution of other incidents
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Apple faces lawsuits after saying it slows down aging iPhones(news.trust.org)
3 points by sverige 9y ago|0 comments
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by sverige 9y ago
I'm not sure how you got from "Amish" to "burka-banning." The Amish do not actively work to add outsiders to their group, and hardly seem outlandish in their interactions with the larger society.
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Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due to a BiOS Corrupting Problem(phoronix.com)
1 points by sverige 9y ago|0 comments
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by sverige 9y ago
Friends since the 80s, have kept in touch all that time, live >1000 miles away. Real friends are those people with whom you can be yourself, who understand what you don't say as well as they understand what you do say.
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Facebook Wants Your Face and You'll Probably Let Them Have It(gizmodo.com)
2 points by sverige 9y ago|2 comments
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by sverige 9y ago
I would argue that the recent wave of "guilty until proven innocent" and "guilty when accused, and more guilty if accused by more people" is even worse for public policy. Due process does indeed exist for a good reason,

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