nicolas_17

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by nicolas_17 2mo ago
If they shut down their gaming operation and instead decide to stuff money into bonds, where would that $5B even come from? As said elsewhere in the thread: > You’re saying that they should take the money people pay to buy Xboxes and put
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by nicolas_17 4mo ago
I agree we'd all be better off if SpaceX figured out how to send Musk to Mars ASAP.
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by nicolas_17 4mo ago
None, unless someone is renewing their certificates only 2 hours before they expire, which is a dumb thing to do.
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by nicolas_17 4mo ago
That's why they take incidents like this seriously and stop issuance until it's fixed. They could get kicked out of trusted roots otherwise.
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by nicolas_17 7mo ago
What do you even mean by LLM help??
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by nicolas_17 7mo ago
And imagine the numbers if downgrading was possible...
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by nicolas_17 7mo ago
It's just like gambling addiction.
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by nicolas_17 9mo ago
Why are you even encrypting? What's the threat model it's protecting against? Clearly it's not "prevent me from reading your data" since you have access to the keys anyway.
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by nicolas_17 9mo ago
KDE Connect sends data directly between your devices, while QuickClip sends data through QuickClip servers using useless encryption.
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by nicolas_17 9mo ago
They made significant changes to the bootloader with the explicit goal of allowing boot of third-party operating systems.
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by nicolas_17 10mo ago
Or you can just sign your Linux kernel from macOS recovery mode, which is what the Asahi Linux installer does already. No need for weird hacks. You also don't have "kernel access" in macOS. After boot, the memory region corre
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by nicolas_17 10mo ago
If you're new to the topic, this is a good place to start https://support.apple.com/en-lamr/guide/security/welcome/web
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by nicolas_17 10mo ago
That's exactly how LLMs are so effective: the text looks impressive to people who don't possess enough knowledge to make an accurate judgement. Meanwhile actual researchers with Apple experience found clear errors on a quick skim.
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by nicolas_17 10mo ago
This article is definitely the latter, not just "fixing grammar".
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by nicolas_17 10mo ago
The bootloader doesn't even have a USB stack capable of reading external storage.
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by nicolas_17 10mo ago
And then the author posts it himself to Hacker News. Nah, that's not opsec.
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by nicolas_17 10mo ago
They just fixed the KBAG thing. This quickly went from Brandolini's Law to Cunningham's Law. Learn how Apple's boot process works by explaining it wrong and waiting for people to correct you!
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by nicolas_17 10mo ago
There's many factual errors in this AI slop. For example, it says quite unambiguously that the bootloader is encrypted directly with the GID key (loading the LLB ciphertext into the AES engine), but that's not how it works, the GI
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by nicolas_17 10mo ago
Or maybe fully AI-generated. There's many factual errors in the article too.
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by nicolas_17 1y ago
DigitalOcean lost some of my files in their object storage too: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/tmnyhddpkyvf Using a commercial provider is not a guarantee.
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by nicolas_17 1y ago
> Not sure why very nice people on the internet are apologizing for laws that prohibit ripping off other people's work. These laws are very important. Remind me, who at Meta and other AI companies went to jail for ripping off millio
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by nicolas_17 1y ago
Yes exactly, Wayback Machine can use the warc files despite them being blocked for direct download.
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by nicolas_17 2y ago
Doesn't the Google Photos app do that?
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by nicolas_17 2y ago
There's no such thing as "update the original video" on YouTube. Unless you're like, Linus Tech Tips size and contact your YouTube "account manager"; and there's probably limits to what you can use that po
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by nicolas_17 2y ago
Are you sure you got a serverLock and not a clientLock?
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by nicolas_17 2y ago
Good luck finding a website where people are not happy about this shooting in the comments.
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by nicolas_17 2y ago
Was it there before the hack?
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by nicolas_17 2y ago
What?? It had much better anti-stalking features at launch than its competitors like Tile.
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by nicolas_17 2y ago
You also have to pull the emergency backup out of the safe when signing up for a new thing. It's highly inconvenient.
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by nicolas_17 2y ago
A friend said "getting out of vegas would mean losing half the point of going to bh/defcon (which is getting your company to pay for you to go to vegas)"

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