drpeeper @drpeeper@mstdn.io

doing my dissertation on what it is that makes trans women & battlemechs so fundamentally inseperable

now you might be thinking, gardening isn't very cybre. But that's where you're wrong chummer. Reducing your reliance on the man is as cybre as it gets. Hack The Garden.

RT @AeroDork@twitter.com: Ever wonder what happens when you yank the pull cord on an aircraft emergency slide?

Wonder no more.

To others who follow me and who think my hatred of UEFI is unjustified, . . .

To reiterate, I personally refuse to run UEFI on my Kestrel computers, and I refuse to trust ANY computer with UEFI baked into firmware, now and forever more.

Any computer equipped with UEFI is to be considered no more than a mere appliance, a convenient means to an end at best. This includes all Linux and BSD machines as well. They are not to be trusted otherwise.

@slipstream

JP Barlow was the kind of cat who convinced me that I didn't need to be stuck in any pigeonholes that were not of my own devising.

He told me through his words and works that I could be a weirdo without concern for those who didn't understand me.

He gave that gift to me and to multitudes and for that he will always be a major voice ringing in my soul.

Roll on merrily, old man, and thanks for the trip.

@akkartik To a large extent, this is what motivates the Kestrel -- if I can't hack on my PC with off-the-shelf resources (either in a book somewhere or online), especially without fear of bricking my hardware, then I have no choice but to roll my own.

Today's PCs are appliances. Thanks Intel, thanks Microsoft.

Psst. Hey kid.

ActivityPub is a W3C Recommendation! Yes! At last! Finally!

Let your social networks be free! https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6785 https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

I saw the worst code of my generation deployed in madness, sharding inoperable

What the fuck? My ISP globally blocked access to anticapitalist.party...

It's only a murder of crows if there's probable caws.

More good news from Intel

https://press.f-secure.com/2018/01/12/intel-amt-security-issue-lets-attackers-bypass-login-credentials-in-corporate-laptops/

“In practice, it can give an attacker complete control over an individual’s work laptop, despite even the most extensive security measures.”

“The essence of the security issue is that setting a BIOS password, which normally prevents an unauthorized user from booting up the device or making low-level changes to it, does not prevent unauthorized access to the AMT BIOS extension.“

Convenience is starting to look like a bad idea

https://elekk.xyz/media/Uo0QYhvW3JFmUHk1w7g

Most of the acoustic cryptanalysis attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_cryptanalysis I've seen involve having a microphone nearby someone's computer. Some of them are severe, and even can read encryption keys off the CPU: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2082200/listen-up-rsa-keys-snatched-by-recording-cpu-sounds-with-a-phone.html

But lots of programs can get access to the microphone relatively easily. It should be easy as a process using a computer's own microphone to do these attacks too, right?

I trained a neural network on the list of thesis titles from MIT. Need a research topic? http://aiweirdness.com/post/169581821297/thesis-titles-generated-by-neural-network

One word: Fluidics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidics#Triodes

We don't need transistors, triodes, or even relays. Just water, the stuff of life.

@LogicalDash @vertigo @amphetamine @djsundog

Speaking of memory protection, I rather like the base-and-bounds model of protected regions - a whole lot simpler than an MMU!

As we know, Amiga worked pretty well without any relocation or protection, and the core of it was built on Tripos. As simple as possible, and no simpler...

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/Cintpos.html

@vertigo @drpeeper @djsundog

i aint no goddamn son of a bitch

@vertigo @drpeeper @EdS just become the de facto standards you want to see in the world ;)