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shitteron Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "

  echo "Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Elon Musk's brain implant startup Neuralink, "forcefully removed from office" after refusing termination order" | sed -E "s/Phyllis Fong, who was investigating (.*) startup Neuralink,(.*) from office(.*) refusing/\1\2\3/"

shitteron Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock

This is mitigated if your initramfs + kernel are measured into the TPM, right?

Edit: never mind, I think it's still vulnerable.

shitteron The Origins of Wokeness

As a minority in the US, I experienced little to no overt racism from 2014 to the present, following years of derogatory comments and unsolicited "jokes" about my ethnicity from people who weren't fundamentally racist but still thought it was OK to say those things. I attribute this change directly to the rise of wokeness (read: awareness) around 2015 and thus have a soft spot in my heart for it, even if some of its excesses over the years have made me roll my eyes.

shitteron Operational PGP

Answering that on HN is the final operational security failure listed in the article.

shitteron The Riddle of Luigi Mangione

Yes, it's no more "un-agentic" than the fact that trauma can be transferred psychologically during one's upbringing. Is there any evidence that this kind of trauma is trivial to overcome compared to the kind that's "hardwired into your DNA"?

shitteron Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates

> In men, graying first occurs in the temples and sideburns. It spreads to the vertex and rest of the scalp involving the occiput the last.

My graying started when I was 15 and first appeared as a single silver strand at the center of my hairline. At 28, I now have a cluster of them in that center spot, as well as diffusely all over my head, including the occiput. I think my temples and sideburns were actually relatively spared.

Also of interest to me: once in a blue moon, I shed a hair that appears to be reverting from gray back to pigmented -- it's gray close to the tip and black closer to the root. I wonder what factors might cause this reversal.

shitteron Writing secure Go code

What is that exception?

shitteron ChatGPT Search

It used good sources but appeared not to extract the information correctly.

Repeating the same query in the same chat session gave me an accurate answer.

shitteron ChatGPT Search

I asked it the current weather in my area and the temperature was off by 23 degrees F.

shitteron Myspace celebrates its 21st birthday. Do we still need it?

There's https://spacehey.com/ for that.

shitteron mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours

And they tell me my health anxiety is "irrational".

shitteron Research into why some people have a better sense of direction

I think this is it for me. Since I was a kid, I’ve always gotten lost in thought when walking around and don’t readily absorb my surroundings as a result. Even when I actively try to do so, it’s still hard to navigate because my brain isn’t well-trained to think that way.

shitteron E2EE on the web: is the web that bad?

That's more to do with the E2EE implementation than how it was deployed... Cryptocat did a lot of things wrong other than using crypto in the browser.

shitteron E2EE on the web: is the web that bad?

Indeed, Manifest V3 disallows remotely hosted scripts entirely: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate...

shitteron E2EE on the web: is the web that bad?

It seems like using a browser extension instead of a website gets you most of the way there:

- Extensions are signed with a developer key

- You can be pretty sure any code changes pushed out to one user are pushed out to everyone

- You benefit from the Chrome Web Store review process (or whatever equivalent Apple and Mozilla do)

- Extensions are permissioned and sandboxed

shitteron A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert Sapolsky

> First of all, if you have no free will, then it doesn't matter how you live, or want to live, or try to live, because you aren't in control. Right off the bat we can stop reading. But more than that, this suggests that you can decide how you live, despite not having free will. So what's the point of free will? Practically speaking there must be no point, so there's no point to this book.

I don't get your argument. Of course you can decide how you live, despite there being no free will. It's just the confluence of genetic + environmental factors and life experiences that went into shaping you which determines your decision (and whether or not you ever get to make a decision in the first place).

The point Sapolsky is making is not that we can't make choices. It's that each of us makes choices within constraints we never set ourselves, and those constraints determine our choices. And this is important to realize because society is currently structured in a way that assumes we are mostly free agents who bear the ultimate responsibility (whether that results in punishment or reward) for our actions, when that's actually mostly not the case.

shitteron faulTPM: Exposing AMD fTPMs' Deepest Secrets

That cannot be a serious proposal. These attacks can and do happen, and it's in our interest to design systems that make them as hard as possible.

I'll take "nightmarish complexity" that puts these attacks outside of the scope of a technically savvy teenager over having to carry my machine with me everywhere I go, any day of the week.

shitteron faulTPM: Exposing AMD fTPMs' Deepest Secrets

I don't think it's a worse choice. Either way, you're screwed with physical access. At least with TPM, the attack requires more sophistication.

shitteron faulTPM: Exposing AMD fTPMs' Deepest Secrets

Tampering with the bootloader is game over. And what, are you keeping this other bootloader medium on your person and in your sight at all times? It's never ever unattended?

shitteron faulTPM: Exposing AMD fTPMs' Deepest Secrets

Windows, Linux, OpenBSD - it doesn't matter. Without a TPM you're vulnerable to trivial attacks (Evil Maid), far easier than the one in this article.

shitteron Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem?

Yes, but I don't see why everyone is acting like Tinder is the only choice. There are other apps that seem to work differently and better.

I used Tinder for close to a year and had an experience close to what you're describing. I only managed to go on two dates that both went nowhere. At the suggestion of someone on one of the dating subreddits, I switched to Hinge, saw the difference in the amount of attention I was getting, and never looked back. Eventually, I met my girlfriend on there.

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Personally, no.