ohhh, that's why i used to relish compiling my own kernels
https://thehackernews.com/2024/12/new-linux-rootkit-pumakit-uses-advanced.html
loadable modules have always been an attack surface. i'm not surprised they still are.
what bugs me though, is that compiling a kernel used to be a ten minute job back in the 2.2 days... granted, i haven't done it since, but i'm pretty sure it's not now, even though back then 64MB RAM was masses, spinning rust was state of the art and GCC was v3ish, and now GCC is v13ish, SSDs are ubiquitous and 4GB is small
Playing Atari games with an Atari Joystick in VR is amazing. I even got a hand cramp playing it! Just like old times.
This is an entirely too new TV for playing 2600 games, though.
I'm happy to announce the *Libreboot T480*:
https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t480/
This is a ThinkPad T480, *with Libreboot pre-installed*, with replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware. Your choice of Debian Linux, other distro or BSD.
Libreboot offers greater security and faster boot speeds than Lenovo firmware. T480 is 8th gen (Kabylake Refresh); it replaces Libreboot T440, which was 4th gen (Haswell).
I'm Libreboot's founder / lead dev. Sales fund Libreboot.
I sell Libreboot, and Libreboot accessories.
i opened xkcd recently and the π mph ≈ e knots thing is fucking me up
Beau Sheil demonstrates the Interlisp-D environment and tools running on a Xerox Dolphin workstation. He uses the Masterscope program analyzer and the DEdit structure editor to gain insight into and modify the code of a program, a tree editor for linguistics applications.
This videotaped demo was originally produced for the 1981 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) held in Vancouver, Canada.
Folks, I am stunned.
An almost 200-page official draft of a 10-year National Digitization Strategy (yeah, the title leaves a bit to be desired), published recently by the Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs, does not mention "hackers" or "hacking" once.
Not once! 
It goes deep into cyber threats, cybersecurity, etc. It mentions "hacktivists" one single time, but in a way that doesn't even make me cringe.
But finds no need to besmirch the hacker community. 
This is the third recorded-from-radio MiniDisc in a row I've pulled from this stack, except this one isn't just a random talk show in mono. Someone was listening for their favorite songs to come on and just recording those, which is bringing back memories of when I did the same thing as a kid, but with a cassette tape. #nostalgia
Wow, I know plenty of YouTube videos appropriate for explaining the concepts I'm discussing in my Idiomatic Computer hypothetical...
Ben Eater. Technology Connections. Retro Game Mechanics Explained. Captain Disillusion.
Just attempted to use "Google Lens" to parse a QR code. It did a web search for similar images and presented me with a list of images containing QR codes. Horrible future
Humor intended, speculative what-if, **RHETORICAL** question, IF x is so good then why isn't there Y?
With all the stupid memory leaks and sophisticated supply-chain attacks happening, I'm surprised that we're not hearing anything -- not a peep! -- from those who worked on OSes intended by design to be significantly more secure than Unix. I'm talking about the KeyKOS and MULTICS folks. Where are they?
DISCLAIMER: Yes, I know, they (both KeyKOS and multicians alike) spent the better part of a decade or more prior documenting everything on some of the most fascinating websites you can read today. This post was just a chuckle-piece from me, mainly for my own entertainment.
It turns out the original tutorial I wrote about ActivityPub is still in the spec repo! https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/blob/gh-pages/activitypub-tutorial.txt
It eventually made it into the "overview" part of the spec, with nicer illustrations by @mray https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overview
However, I'm still fond of my original ascii art. Compare!
One of the #Accessibility specialists at work shared this gem of an article with me, which I hadn't seen before:
It is not uncommon that I raise an accessibility or usability issue with a client’s design or implementation and am met with either “But #Google does this,” or “But #Apple does this.” Mostly it is the default response to any issue I raise, but it is far worse when it is a reaction to a genuine technical failure or problem real users have identified.
That response does not address the problem I may have raised. It avoids. It offloads responsibility. It declines to even try.
This is followed by a litany of #WCAG and other accessibility violations by the two behemoths.
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/03/i-dont-care-what-google-or-apple-or-whomever-did.html
Let me tell you how upset I am about this.
Not at all. Adobe's series of shark jumps from software that you actually owned (OK, licensed, but once you had the box and the disk, that was it) to today's rip-off cloud-BS that holds your data ransom to whatever price hike they want, well, yeah, shower of bastards.
How a local housing campaign won pro-tenant reforms by recruiting homeowners https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/12/greensboro-keep-gate-city-housed-built-a-diverse-coalition-and-won-pro-tenant-reforms/
Crawford and Dungee had closely followed tenant victories around the country, seeing grassroots tenant groups win significant changes to the landlord-tenant balance of power in political geographies similar to their own.
@mhd @profoundlynerdy there's some 80s TI MMUs out there, and the C128 had an MMU as well
I've gotten many talk rejections, I expect and am able to handle them. But I've never been so hurt as to be told that a talk by @tsyesika and myself, the co-editors of ActivityPub, when we explicitly clarified would be about decentralized social media including activitypub present and future, that it would be rejected for not being about activitypub enough
That is so deeply, incredibly hurtful
What did I spend all these years of my life for, what was the point of all this? I can't stop crying
there is no such thing as a secret windows registry key that will allow you to install windows 11 with an unsupported tpm or cpu, just give up hope and switch that old machine to linux, no other way exists, don't even bother looking for it, it's better for you anyway
Peergos v0.22.0 has been released¹ 
It includes a local sync client, in addition to the webdav bridge and webui.
I'll write a blog post about Peergos, it is an amazing software in my opinion, but I wanted to wait for it to bake a bit more. I think I'll move my data from Seafile to Peergos soon, as I really enjoy the software features:
- end to end encryption
- zero knowledge of what is stored from the server perspective (structure is obfsucated)
- ability to share files/directories with other
- local cache / local proxy
- runs almost everywhere
