drbawb

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by drbawb 3mo ago
The Apple Platform Security[1] white paper describes the secure boot process for Apple silicon. The Mac boot process is significantly more configurable than the iOS boot process, and it allows operating in reduced security modes. (Including
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by drbawb 2y ago
>They think the process is “senior make ticket, anyone implement ticket, unga bunga”. The fact that you just summarized about an hour worth of argumentation from my last annual planning meeting with that one sentence has just destroyed m
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by drbawb 2y ago
Somewhat agree and disagree. I bucket people's style into two camps, stressing over the former is largely unproductive, but stressing over the latter is crucial to writing high-quality, maintainable software. Someone's style can b
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by drbawb 2y ago
> In my case: I am near physically incapable of doing things that I "need" to do, with the more I "need" to do something, the harder by brain and body will rebel against doing it. This is interesting to me. I find my
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by drbawb 2y ago
I remember e-mailing a guy for some iPad app and having a similar moment. The important context is the app had its own custom keyboard. I used the app personally, and recommended it to a customer to solve a problem they were having. It turn
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by drbawb 2y ago
I wouldn't be so sure about that. If you had said this before my most recent hire I would have agreed - but my junior writes stuff that looks like this or worse. I'm always reviewing stuff with weird capitalization, punctuation, s
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by drbawb 2y ago
I'm curious what makes you think the MBA is a more "full experience?" The MBA is permanently affixed to its keyboard: so it can't easily be used for consumption (in bed, on the couch, etc.) The MBA also has no touch scre
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by drbawb 2y ago
I was able to get up to 35-37 Gbps between my host-guest with a virtio NIC with the outdated iperf3.exe, which I did indeed acquire from the site mentioned in the article. That seems like plenty of perf, to me, considering the fattest link
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by drbawb 2y ago
Wonder if there's been a quite hardware-rev and they can't/don't want to update the firmware on the old units. I ran into that once on Spectrum - I bought the "same" modem to replace one, and suddenly my IPv6 c
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by drbawb 3y ago
>I disagree. You can mess with odometer as much as you like. Trying to sell it off with a different amount of miles than have actually been put on it is called fraud. For a long time this was just a fact of buying any car that lived long
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by drbawb 3y ago
>Pretty much every single company I've worked for with AD has broken this rule. It's a lot better now. Ever since companies started moving from on-prem Exchange to O365 in droves I've noticed that most orgs I work with (pa
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by drbawb 3y ago
Not sure I share this opinion, I game on a combination of Linux w/ a Windows 11 VM every day. I'm only really aware of two titles that are actively user-hostile with anti-cheat: Rainbow Six Siege and Valorant. Thankfully I'm
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by drbawb 3y ago
>After too many years of Windows, I finally bit the bullet and installed Linux on my desktop. Use Linux at home since 2020, and have recently switched to a Mac for work. Windows is gone from my life, relegated to doing maintenance-work f
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by drbawb 3y ago
I agree with your definition, and I also believe it's an important distinction and a _better definition_ than the article author's. However I'm not sure I agree with your self-assessment of htmx being a library. HTML is not t
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by drbawb 3y ago
>If anyone has an idea for how to monetize yet another database client library, I'm all ears. I just need to eat, pay rent, and buy dog kibble FWIW jOOQ's model worked great from a consumer/end-user point of view. I got to
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by drbawb 3y ago
I read this blog post[1] a while back about the Windows memory subsystem performing pathologically bad due to an application (Google Chrome) asking the OS to employ memory throttling, and then blowing past its own self-imposed limits. I had
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by drbawb 3y ago
My city does this, as well as preventing right clicks, as a "copy protection mechanism", complete with an `alert()` shaming you every time you have the audacity to try and cut and paste some text.
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by drbawb 3y ago
Holy crap. Seeing Kai's Super GOO sure takes me back. I used to vandalize the family scrapbook w/ that program. One of the edits (in which I made my little sister appear _very bald_) still stands as a sibling in-joke to this day.
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by drbawb 3y ago
>How can you draw a thing without visualizing it? Speaking personally: my hand just moves. A top hat is roughly an elliptical base with a smaller cylinder affixed to it on-center, maybe a colored band or a bow wrapped around the bottom.
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by drbawb 3y ago
Someone beat you to that punch a long time ago. Here is a whole calendar replete with holidays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordian_calendar for your viewing pleasure.
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by drbawb 3y ago
I did a vanilla playthrough w/ no console commands to get my fair share of achievements.[1] That base is from beta, and doesn't really function correctly anymore.[2] At this point I feel pretty done with the base game, though I su
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by drbawb 3y ago
I did three installs of Pro this year. Two of them required hacks to force local account creation because the motherboard (Asus) ships with a _literal rootkit_ that injects a wireless driver that Windows itself does not ship with. So you ei
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by drbawb 3y ago
Yes, I have a desktop calculator primarily because I like using RPN, and there are very few software RPN calculators _that aren't just HP emulators._ In a pinch I will use PCalc in RPN mode on iPadOS, and Droid48 on Android, but those
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by drbawb 3y ago
I built a new PC for a friend, and getting the AM5 platform stable was ridiculously challenging, so there were several reinstallations of Windows involved. He didn't use a password manager, so there were a lot of logging in, password r
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by drbawb 3y ago
You emulate the abandonware, old OS and all. She kicked the habit recently, but my sister preferred Word 5.1 for Mac for a long time. That was a 68k program, which she dutifully used _on a PC_ while Apple was busy shipping iOS on ARM and Ma
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by drbawb 3y ago
Plugging those things into the public Internet is a recipe for disaster, and not at all worth it if you just want to use the remote console. They are a lot more than just "KVM over IP", they own the machine totally and completely.
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by drbawb 3y ago
I doubt Apple will be our savior here. Apple is in a great position to implement this spec: their secure enclave and the systems they've developed around it are practically the state of the art. Also Apple is in bed w/ traditional
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by drbawb 3y ago
There is one thing I'm not quite clear on here: >The attestation is a low entropy description of the device the web page is running on. >The attester will then sign a token containing the attestation and content binding (re
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by drbawb 3y ago
I am super interested in learning more about the storage subsystem! I figured they'd be using ZFS, given the people involved, but it appears they've also gone ahead and built a clustered FS (crucible) on top of it? I figured somet
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by drbawb 3y ago
I'm reminded of Bryan Cantrill's talk "Debugging Under Fire"[1], which includes a retrospective of sorts about an entire datacenter rebooting.[2] That is a pretty large-scale disaster, but even that is a rung below a con

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