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Hopefully these stupid companies that are refusing to allow their apps to run on GrapheneOS will have a change of heart when Motorola begins launching their new phones:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/motorolas-grapheneos...

A month ago, I ordered one from a local vendor who mostly sells parts for old electronic gaming hardware. They substituted a similar 40mm fan, but the one they gave me didn't include a heat sink, or attach to the old heat sink boat, had fewer blades, and spun in the opposite direction. It was only $15 so I didn't bother to return it. I saw some others online that looked promising, but with a very long (October) lead time. Still looking.

I've got one sitting next to me that I'm in the process of rejuvenating. The north bridge has a small fan with integrated heatsink/boat that I'm searching for. The CPU fan is still okay. It's a pre-PCIe system, and has a VGA output (no DVI or HDMI).

The main reason I'm keeping it around is that it's got 5-1/4" & 3-1/2" floppy drives, and T1000 and DDR4 tape drives.

NYT can always find a way to present DJT in a bad light in any article with any context. This is another fine example.

RAM itself is deprecated. All the new systems have about one fourth of the RAM they had two years ago.

Something about some insider B2B deals for data centers, blah blah blah.

I expect a flood of cheap RAM, SSDs, and GPUs to hit the scene within about two years, after the AI boom goes bust.

It's a win-win-win for Amazon if they destroy the source in the process of scanning it. They get the AI training data, and it's cheaper for them to destroy the book in the process. Destroying the book ensures that it will be more difficult for competitors to scan the same content, thereby increasing the value of the data they've scanned.

Lastly, there's a misguided belief among some that it's somehow less of a copyright violation if the source is destroyed, but it's a violation either way unless the entity doing the scanning has permission from the copyright holder to make the copy.

That's good info, but unfortunately none of it applies to me because I moved out of California eight years ago and the property is not my primary residence.

The US isn't so different. Federal capital gains taxes will eat a minimum of 10% of the appreciated portion of your home value, and more if you're in a higher tax bracket. Many states also tax proceeds on a home sale. I've got a property that I'll be selling soon in California and I expect to pay about $400k in total taxes.

Perhaps they weren't incompetent in their prior role, but some people have difficulty transitioning from a technical role into a managerial role, so they become incompetent at their new role.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

I like the way the payment processing systems give an option to leave a tip. It makes tipping really easy. I always tip generously for any service-oriented purchase (mostly restaurants).

The "valuation" is based on market capitalization, so the market "supports" it because of the mass hysteria of "perceived value." When a big IPO gets automatically added to a major stock index (such as NASDAQ or S&P 500), all the mutual funds which include holdings that mirror the indexes will automatically buy and hold shares. Lots of employee 401k money and pension fund investments are supporting the mutual funds, which are perceived as "safe."

To put it in fewer words; the stock market is rigged.

Zuck also spent half a billion dollars in all swing states to prevent Trump from winning in 2020.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/943242106/how-private-money-f...

I recently upgraded my home network to 10Gbps. As it was when it was only 1Gbps, everything that could be using a wired connection is using one. The WAPs (now R770s) are used to provide Internet for mobile devices, and a few other IoT devices that don't have a physical Ethernet port.

WAPs are independent of routers, but many low-end consumer routers provide integrated WiFi, which can usually be turned off if desired.

Most WAPs provide a means to set the TX power levels, and some newer ones will automatically negotiate with the client(s) to use the minimum required power to close the link (just as cellular phones do).

There's a difference between control rods (which are used to reduce fission by absorbing neutrons) and fuel rods (which contain enriched fissile material). In this case, the control rods that fell into the core would pose no risk at all to anybody, but would inhibit the ability of the reactor to reach full capacity.

Thanks for your explanations. I recognize that you're offering this as a product within the AWS ecosystem, but because it's an evolution of WireGuard, which has a GPLv2 license, you should probably provide some way for users to obtain your source code, unless you've acquired a separate license directly from Jason Donenfeld.

Okay, so you're saying that it's not a complete WireGuard implementation and not functional. Every WireGuard endpoint must have an IP address (or subnet) on the encrypted subnet. If an endpoint doesn't have one, WireGuard cannot route traffic to that endpoint.

You said the handshake is establishing a tunnel, and that it is delivering raw traffic, but how is that possible in a L3 environment that uses IP addresses to determine route(s) to an endpoint? When you refer to "encapsulated traffic", you probably mean traffic from the unregistered endpoint to a known WireGuard server, This would give the known WireGuard server the public IP of the unregistered endpoint, but unless the WireGuard server has an IP address for the unregistered endpoint's encrypted L3 subnet, no traffic will ever flow in the other direction.

A few years ago, I had an idea for a secure way for two WireGuard endpoints to find each others' public IP address, which I have not yet implemented, but even in that environment both endpoints would need the keys and private IP/subnet addresses of their peers in order to communicate.

Some background on my WireGuard experience:

I've set up a lot of WireGuard systems and have even done some WireGuard demonstrations for government research purposes (over five years ago, before I retired).

Right now I'm maintaining (for myself, my family, some former consulting clients, and two of our security systems) a dual-stack multi-point WireGuard network with three cloud servers, and about 30 endpoints scattered across four physical locations and five mobile devices. I even set up some kludgy scripts so that two of the locations using dynamic IP can communicate directly point-to-point with each other, and fall back to one of the cloud-based WireGuard routers to re-sync if/when one of their public IP addresses changes. Direct point-to-point communication cuts latency in half and reduces my cloud data fees.

This is confusing to me, and I'm not a novice to WireGuard.

WireGuard is a layer-3 protocol. Given that WireGuard does not natively support DHCP or dynamic internal IP allocation within its encrypted tunnels, and it instead relies on static tunnel IP configurations (Address and AllowedIPs for each pre-registered client), how would a new unregistered client be assigned an IP address within the encrypted subnet?

More details here: https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/08/14/farage-increases-vot...

It's interesting to me how the AP version downplays the increased support that Farage won in this election.

Could it be that the cause/effect relationship here is incorrect? Perhaps only people with the cognitive skills for complex mental maps and spatial reasoning can be effective at driving a cab, so driving a cab may not "protect" you from Alzheimer's at all, but people who have the skills to keep a job as a cab driver have a brain that is less susceptible to Alzheimer's.

Also covered here: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Triton-DirectX-11-QEMU-Driver

The US agency that we entrust with evaluating and recommending our encryption standards is the same one (albeit a different branch) that focuses on breaking encryption. There is an obvious conflict of interest with this arrangement.

Many examples of deliberate weakening are documented, especially with the "export approved" stuff that we sell to our allies.

This problem goes beyond just encryption, and also involves deliberate data leaking (with plausible deniability).

So yes, you don't need to imagine it at all -- the NSA works to create and maintain access to "everything everywhere."

Apparently this exploit requires playing a crafted media clip. I wonder if the exploit would be effective against Pixel 10s running GrapheneOS...

I have still never taken an Uber. I have always used taxis and I like them more because of the regulations. The difference is cost is minimal now because the taxis had to adjust their rates to remain in business.

You've touched on the whole problem with the "cancel culture" of today.

Scientific and political beliefs often do not stand the test of time, but is it fair to blame the people of past eras for their misjudgements using the values of today?

How do we know for sure when we're right about something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8V8rtdXnLA

Chapter 7 has the juicy details that nobody wants to discuss.

Aschenbrenner is 25 years old. How many market upsets has he seen in his adult life?

My assumption on the reason that it requires 2M or more is all the memory mapped I/O devices in the first 1M of PC memory. They just wanted to avoid the whole page and set the origin at 2MB.

CP/M‑386 is currently in the very early development stages.

    Full 32‑bit protected mode implementation with Ring‑3 TPA.
    Bootable via 3.5" 1.44MB floppy disk MBR or GRUB Multiboot kernel.
    Supports VGA text (0xB8000) and/or COM1 serial (9600/N/8/1, 0x3F8) consoles.
    No floppy/hard disk/CD/USB/network/sound/other drivers (yet).

So it boots from a floppy, but has no floppy disk support?

This post assumed that the author of the "runs" commit was not acting maliciously. Has that been established? It's not mentioned in this article.