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logical_person··on ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
Combined with N<20 and a definition of trauma that means literally any experience, we might be able to get a preprint published claiming trauma cures cancer as well.
logical_person··on Luau's performance
running multiple game servers in docker is a multi-tenant environment, because docker is not a serious security boundary unless you're applying significant kernel hardening to your kconfig to the tune of grsecurity patches or similar
logical_person··on RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent
it's shocking how low-quality these issues are in a client that is otherwise 1000x more performant than the other options listed in the article
logical_person··on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
Prop 65 went great! Let's get a warning out for every game with peer to peer networking while we're at it.
logical_person··on LLM and Bug Finding: Insights from a $2M Winning Team in the White House's AIxCC
p2o is pathetically low in comparison to other markets. is your experience limited to legitimate bug bounty programs like that?
logical_person··on TPM GPIO fail: How bad OEM firmware ruins Intel TPM security
before the popularity of ARM SoCs that contain everything on-die there were much fewer choices for vertically integrated devices. it's a different segment.

if you look at apple's vertically integrated devices, they chose a cryptography coprocessor that was not on die originally. with a key accessible only by both pieces of silicon's trusted execution environments, rather than the operating system directly, encrypted comms are established in a similar fashion as the TPM2.0 proposal.

logical_person··on TPM GPIO fail: How bad OEM firmware ruins Intel TPM security
> encrypted sessions (and/or EK cert verification) without PIN are not much more then obfuscation

this is completely incorrect, encrypted sessions defeat TPM interposers when there is a factory burned-in processor side secret to use. lol at being just "obfuscation" because you can spend $5m to decap and fetch the key then put the processor back into working order for the attack.

that just requires a vertically integrated device instead of a consumer part-swappable PC.

logical_person··on Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise
do software cracks usually get posted to seclists? this is expected in the design of DRM...
logical_person··on A Trivial Llama 3 Jailbreak
> But what this simple experiment demonstrates is that Llama 3 basically can't stop itself from spouting inane and abhorrent text if induced to do so. It lacks the ability to self-reflect, to analyze what it has said as it is saying it. > That seems like a pretty big issue.

what? why? an LLM produces the next tokens based on the preceding tokens. nothing more. even a harvard student is confused about this?

logical_person··on Show HN: Open-source, browser-local data exploration using DuckDB-WASM and PRQL
200mb of data is not a large file, and chromium tabs have a memory limit of something ridiculously low so actual large 20-100gb datasets render this useless.
logical_person··on Sudo for Windows
you're too kind replying to this
logical_person··on Bypassing Bitlocker using a cheap logic analyzer on a Lenovo laptop
authenticated sessions are practically useless on anything but a fully integrated device, because there is no guarantee of the SRK's identity - MITM is still possible.
logical_person··on Bypassing Bitlocker using a cheap logic analyzer on a Lenovo laptop
that's still less secure, though. without a TPM you have no guarantee of the underlying state of firmware on the device. this enables a persistent backdoor.

TPM with no PIN is practically bitlocker with no password. A high entropy PIN happens to solve this entire attack.

logical_person··on Rarbg Is No More
sorry but this is nonsensical, one site pushed malware so they all do? typical "security" person
logical_person··on Ring0VBA – Getting Ring0 Using a Word Document
wrong, loading drivers requires admin.
logical_person··on The Trouble with 5G
except the diagram shows several mobile blocks right above 40ghz, so what do you mean?
logical_person··on 7-Zip up to 21.07 on Windows allows privilege escalation and command execution
Super problematic that the HN mod team removed these posts by the author. His replies to this thread can likely be used to help ascertain the legitimacy of his claims, despite any rule-breaking they contained - let it be visible to the public.
logical_person··on Darktile – GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers
Does anyone know how it performs on termbench? https://github.com/cmuratori/termbench
logical_person··on Software Developer Shortage Is Coming
Thanks for the reply! I'm glad you're able to click the link and read the same table, which does not clarify what majors are categorized in these groups. Another user posted a category 11 link, for example, where CIS includes "word processing" degrees, while excluding CE & EE (but still, the table does not claim that their statistics under that grouping are category 11).

Do you work with a lot of software developers with word processing degrees?

logical_person··on Software Developer Shortage Is Coming
The reference does not state what other majors are categorized under CIS, unless you've got a link?
logical_person··on Software Developer Shortage Is Coming
CIS is not computer science.
logical_person··on Software Developer Shortage Is Coming
This article is absurd, the statistics are entirely around "computer and information science" degrees - note this is NOT comp. sci. What software developers do any of us know with that major, lol? As if the # of software engineers in the job market is tied to that major at all (or any specific major, really)...
logical_person··on “Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf]
To say business tools and confidentiality are at odds with open source is comical at best. Some of us work on FOSS as a career. We still have to sign NDAs with customers, we still upstream patches to core components.

Throwing your toys out of the ring because business is business is why open source has a funding problem.

logical_person··on “Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf]
People that have never interacted with a freenode ircoper will believe everything they post.
logical_person··on “Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf]
the formation of Christel's corporation did effectively make her* the owner. any court would see a service she is involved in operating by his company's trademark, as belonging to that company. sad.
logical_person··on 30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server
wow if you remove features from software it becomes more secure? nice!
logical_person··on Linux under WSL2 can be leaking
vmswitch is configurable by the host. these VPN authors have no clue what they're doing, windows firewall rules should not in any case be applied to traffic coming from a VM. ridiculous.