Notices by r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖 (cypnk@mastodon.social), page 19

#Lifehack

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"Dandelion" street #art by Michael Pederson

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There’s some social and existential metaphor here. Can’t quite find a way to express it

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TIL:

“If tea spread to your country by sea, you call it ‘tea’. If by land, you call it chai.

(*This is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation ‘te’, whereas Mandarin uses chá.)”

Via:
https://twitter.com/padraigbelton/status/951948982309261312

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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

OH! There's a laser printer being developed that actually works by burning the paper instead of using up ink or toner. Could work very well for black and white printing (if it ever gets to market)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt-rCjsaO38

/cc @kelbot

When hacking the planet, remember to start with your own gadgets

The planet will still be here after you're done

Well, dang

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This seems like a fine time to remind people that Ben Eater made an entire video series on building an 8-bit programmable computer from simple TTL chips (including detailed explanations of logic gates)

Best of all, it's #Meltdown and #Spectre proof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyznrdDSSGM&list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2565dvjafglHU

Years ago, I was a member of a forum called DSLWebserver
(officially, DSL/Cable Web Server). It was a site dedicated to helping folks run their own web server from their home broadband connection

The forum became defunct, sadly, but I still remember the fun we had chatting about really obscure bugs and playing "is my site up?"

We should play that game more often. Even if it's a single HTML page, there's something very satisfying about hosting your own homepage

There’s apparently a reliability bathtub curve for Mastodon instances. If it survived the first couple of months, it will survive the rest of the year. If it survived a year, it may only fall off if it’s a single-user instance or if there’s only a handful of users

The fediverse tends to self-select in that way

Oh good

#WesternDigital #MyCloud drives come with a back door and remote login vuln

https://www.techspot.com/news/72612-western-digital-cloud-drives-have-built-backdoor.html

“allowing for unrestricted root access”

“No fix has been issued to date”

“...hard coded backdoor with credentials that cannot be changed...”

Because why the hell not 🙄

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This is your weekend reminder to make a zine. If you've got an idea, paper, and access to a printer, you're 99% of the way there

We're leaving fewer and fewer hard copies of our lives in the real world and it's important to supplement our thoughts online with something you can hold in your hands

Entropy is coming for us all. Remember to uplift your fellow beings of condensed energy

@clacke Oh, and I remember Linus yelling at some developer (not for the first time), "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!" 😂

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

OTOH, OpenBSD breaks software all the time in the name of security. For other OS vendors, this approach really isn't possible, or at least practical. So I don't blame them entirely for not being able to make these changes

Just FYI, the #OpenBSD project knew about the potential harm of #Spectre and #Meltdown 11 years ago

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631&w=2

This is before exploits routinely started getting catchy names and even before MySpace was a thing. Let alone Twitter and Facebook was around to share news of the impending CPU apocalypse

Too bad so few people listened

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