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tiberious726··on Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router
Anything with an sfp slot and a decent "optic" should blow tp-link's link stability out of the water. In about the same price range, have you tried mikrotik?
tiberious726··on IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)
In unconfigured emacs, you can literally just go Buffer>Save in the toolbar. If you didn't know to look in the buffer menu, then you didn't read even a little bit of the tutorial that appears when you open it
tiberious726··on I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
The extra unused memory might even act as shielding to cosmic rays, but the extra electrical load on the memory controller might more than balance that out for unbuffered sticks
tiberious726··on GrapheneOS and forensic extraction of data (2024)
Seedvault is the /worst/. I ranted about it here a few months ago, and the lead dev says he's aware they really need something better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42541520
tiberious726··on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
Exactly this. Hell, for OP's use case of accessing things like twitter, a good old fashioned https proxy would be entirely fine, and likely not even illegal.
tiberious726··on Sam Altman now says AGI, or human-level AI, is 'not a super useful term'
Didn't the terms of that deal define AGI as "an AI that generates at least 1 billion in annual revenue"?
tiberious726··on Managing EFI boot loaders for Linux: Controlling secure boot (2015)
If you use the -m flag with enroll-keys, won't that also load the MS keys, which the Nvidia firmware should be signed by, allowing verification to pass?
tiberious726··on Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
Eh, that's basically what we have now with boards where you can delete the MS keys and enroll your own. Just with different defaults and no support nightmare
tiberious726··on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
Firefox is not fine. If you think it is, please tell me how to disable BASIC http auth in it. (This is a serious problem, as it will send passwords unencrypted over a non SSL connection, and my users have been trained to type their sso password into every box they see (I know.... Not my doing)).
tiberious726··on Has the decline of knowledge work begun?
Step 1) world war 3

Step 2) some drunk invents FTL

Step 3) the Vulcans show up

tiberious726··on Offline PKI using 3 Yubikeys and an ARM single board computer
If the client actually supports the optional name constraint extension. Is it acceptabley widespread nowadays?
tiberious726··on The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome
Eh, I tried using Firefox again for a few months when manifest v3 was announced, nothing worked quite right, then I ran into this: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...
tiberious726··on IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
So Red Hat Openshift.
tiberious726··on IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
Everyone I know who works with IBM i (used to be system i, as/400 before that) absolutely adores it. Gods do they every nickel and dime you tho.
tiberious726··on GrapheneOS: Private and secure mobile OS with Android app compatibility
> The real thing that made me switch was multiple OS updates per week

You're complaining about timely security updates?

tiberious726··on Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock
TPM+PIN is pretty great, is a shame it's nearly never used.
tiberious726··on Why I Chose Common Lisp
You just need to use a lisp implementation that has a tree-shaker if you really care about binary size for since reason
tiberious726··on Why I Chose Common Lisp
I always preferred this one: https://youtu.be/5-OjTPj7K54?si=TYuCLJ9_2WvRHcHM
tiberious726··on Why I Chose Common Lisp
> That has been done in the past

Could you share some examples of how the old systems did this?

tiberious726··on /bin/sh: the biggest Unix security loophole (1984) [pdf]
My favorite is pressing '!' while inside a sudoed or setuid less.
tiberious726··on EmacsConf 2024 Notes
No: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Va...

In practice, everyone writing new projects uses it, but when you choose to interact with existing code...

tiberious726··on I wrote a Game Boy Advance game in Zig
> if I ever win the lottery and don't need a job I'm going to spend some time learning Plan 9.

I'd recommend adding OpenGenera and IBM's systems I and Z to that list: a whole bunch of us build careers out of unnecessary unix make-work too

tiberious726··on Hello World on z/OS (2018)
C-u N C-y where N is the number of pastes.

Yeah, some DE clipboards implement kill-yank sensitive. They're great!

tiberious726··on Hello World on z/OS (2018)
With 128 bit pointers encoding security and providence information. And a unified memory space, no files, just addresses with RAM as a cache for persistent disks. Might as well be from 2080.
tiberious726··on Hello World on z/OS (2018)
Welcome to IBM. Each new acronym is an extra fee, annually.
tiberious726··on Hello World on z/OS (2018)
Z/OS systems are rackmount nowadays too, they just take up the full 42U.

At least back in the POWER8 days those z/Linux systems were the fastest you could buy, and IBM was super happy to let you overclock them: their reps told me that was just more CPU sales for them.

tiberious726··on Hello World on z/OS (2018)
Better?

Kill-yank semantics give you a full kill-ring, that's what your yanking from. CUA gives you a single copy-slot.

tiberious726··on The paper passport's days are numbered
First off, thanks for all your work on graphene! I run cyber security for a company in the defense space, with data-sovereignty requirements, and you guys are the only serious project around. You should think about selling support contacts, I know a lot of BlackBerry refugees still looking for something serious. I bet you could sell support and a barebones MDM as subscription /very/ successfully.

(As an aside, I've been very happy to see you are still involved with the project!)

> GrapheneOS has a built-in encrypted backup system

Do you mean seed vault? It's really not satisfactory. For one, I should be able to encrypt my backups with any key of my choosing, on a hardware token if I so choose, not be forced into its silly codeword system or nothing at all. AES, gpg, and X.509 compatible support would get you all of the way there.

Even just letting backups be exported unencrypted, so I can easily and automatically use a trusted device to encrypt it the way all my other data is would make it so much more usable.

Frankly, the current implementation just reads as one of those ridiculous things trying to force the uneducated/uninterested to be secure, with no escape hatch for people who actually know what they are doing, nor for enterprises who need secure mobile devices, but also know an end-user will /never/ successfully take a backup on their own.

tiberious726··on EmacsConf 2024 Notes
Common lisp -> elisp is an incredibly frustration transition. Get ready to really think in terms of dynamic scoping.

I did it the other way, and going back to elisp is /hard/.

tiberious726··on Learning Tibetan changed the way I think (2023)
The strong version is disproven in the original paper: they mention concepts that cannot be expressed in English and then proceed to explain them. In English.
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