FreedomWarrior

5 ms·

1.
by FreedomWarrior 8y ago
For some reason wifi vendors typically ship devices without any radio firmware at all, but leave it up to the driver to load it. Rendering the device 100% useless without loading some external proprietary blob. Hard drives don't have t
2.
by FreedomWarrior 8y ago
The problem is that many wifi adapters require loading a binary blob at initialization time. "Burnt-in" firmware is practically the same as hardware, which you already trust since you bought it. Not so much for the firmware blobs
3.
by FreedomWarrior 8y ago
Are there AC adapters that don't require proprietary firmware to run?
4.
by FreedomWarrior 8y ago
Yes, because the CIA would never lie to us, right? They would never poison a Russian ex-spy to make Putin look bad? I don't think this attack was orchestrated by a US entity. Or Russian for that matter. But when an entity that's h
5.
by FreedomWarrior 8y ago
> If it wasn't done by the US government this is terrorism Why would the situation be different if it turns out it was US government?
6.
by FreedomWarrior 9y ago
Like Nix?
7.
by FreedomWarrior 9y ago
> A party which aggressively blocks and filters anything critical of the government, the installation of key-loggers, face recognition cams, firewalls, and a huge system of monitoring social media I'm sure you're aware of this,
8.
by FreedomWarrior 9y ago
As an "old-school" sysadmin I have the opposite view: it's difficult to find jobs that don't require AWS these days. I know perfectly well how to provision and scale a large infrastructure and can give you 99,999% availa
9.
by FreedomWarrior 9y ago
To do a car analogy (this is Slashdot, right?): With Ubuntu, every time you want to fix something with your car, you roll it into the garage, pop open the hood and get to work. It's intensive labour, results will vary, and undoing a ch
10.
by FreedomWarrior 9y ago
GuixSD is just as disconnected from the Linux Standard Base as NixOS.
11.
by FreedomWarrior 9y ago
I started using notmuch[1] a couple of years ago and cannot imagine living without it. It can do free text search on almost a million emails (and probably much more) in a fraction of a second. I subscribe to a lot of mailing lists and add v
12.
by FreedomWarrior 9y ago
Actually, pass has great support for teams. Dropping one or more GPG keys in ".gpg-id" will encrypt the passwords for the various identities. This works globally or per sub-folder. I use dedicated subkeys for work and mobile so th
13.
by FreedomWarrior 9y ago
IIUC it's not possible to opt out at this time (short of reverting the patches). Linus expressed some concern about it: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/3/797
14.
by FreedomWarrior 9y ago
You started this thread to warn about the risks of running untrusted JavaScript before the appropriate mitigations are in place, yet you expect people to open a PDF from misc0110.net with no additional context?