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sp3ctr4l

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as alive as you need me to be

  • [Mimi] Sweater. [216]

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  • See this right here is your maybe stealth 'Mimi is a bit off' indicator.

    She's wearing a full sized sweater, but also carries around another full size sweater, in her purse, not for a camping trip, but for a presumably routine commute via metro.

    How... does that make sense?

    ... I feel like Agent K shooting only the cut out of the school girl with PhD level books in hand, lol.

  • Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

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  • I think that Victor may not have English as his primary/first language, I am trying to use a simple comparison that is more likely to convey the general, fundamental concepts.

  • Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

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  • No.

    Secure Boot is basically a 'lock', on the UEFI.

    UEFI - Shim is basically a 'lockpick'.

    UEFI is the first step in your computer booting, turning on.

    So, if Secure Boot is supposed to be a 'lock', that limits who can access the UEFI ... but it turns out that there are many, old, UEFI - Shims, that defeat that 'lock'... then Secure Boot is not a good 'lock'.

    I don't mean to be rude but it seems like there might be a bit of language confusion going on here... In English, a 'shim' is a kind of crude/simple tool that can be used to break or bypass some actual physical locks.

    So 'UEFI-Shim' basically means 'a thing that breaks into your UEFI'.

  • Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

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  • Secure boot is supposed to be a lock.

    Turns out there are 10 year old tricks that bypass that lock.

    A lock that cannot deny access to people without proper key... is a bad lock.

  • Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

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  • Yes, I'm trying to be hyperbolically facetious, to illustrate that.

  • It's just C with two plus signs, how hard could it be?

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  • I don't have much to say in detail, other than 'thank you for the very well worded and thought out response!'

    I will have have to chew on this for a while, I think, to fully grasp all of it, hah!

  • ‘Misuse’ of crowd control weapons on ICE protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds

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  • You are missing the point.

    Sure, yeah, I agree: If looking the other way, covering things up, that certain individuals did is also criminal, then it follows that those people who covered things up should be jailed too.

    ... but this is so systemically pervasive that the system of law, and imprisonment, would have to convict and imprison a substantial portion... of itself.

    It is not going to do that. The actual people this would involve, they realize that holding other, worse actors accountable, potentially means holding themselves accountable as well.

    So, they don't, and a norm of corruption, or maybe a partial and tiered legal system ... is maintained.

    You would, at best, need a massive, top down flushing out of the entire system, to do something like that... and even then, the guilty or potentially guilty members of the system will pull out every stop to stymie this.

    Which of course presumes this is possible or likely to occur... not sure if you keep up with things, but the Republicans and Trump have explicitly stated multiple times they are going to rig and steal every election they can.

    Or... you realize the system cannot fix itself in the way you seem to think that it can.

    So something outside of it must 'fix' it, or at least pressure it.

  • ‘Misuse’ of crowd control weapons on ICE protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds

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  • Imprison them, eh?

    And... who is going to... take them to jail?

    Convict them, through their qualified immunity?

    And run that jail they are sent to?

    ... you want the system to imprison itself?

    Not gonna work.

    You need to think outside of the system, to solve a problem the system exists to create.

  • Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

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  • Even worse!

    Admitting that I was not always doing the most sensible thing, at all times! That I was actually doing really stupid things, for a long time!

    I ... I can't make mistakes... no ... reality is wrong!

  • Grok Build quietly shut down data uploads via cloud update after being exposed to developer repository but unannounced no response

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  • In other news, SpaceX stock is currently at...

    $136.78, as of time of this comment, after hours trading.

    Yep.

    Yeah. 'Flash Crashed' about $1 Trillion of market cap out of existence today.

    ...I'm sure that'll buff right on out, no problem.

  • It's just C with two plus signs, how hard could it be?

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  • Genuine question:

    Would you have a reccomendation for a comparable alternative?

    Like, I have experience with a good deal of scripting languages, sql variants... am currently trying to do Morton coding/interleaving for octrees in Godot.

    I have the framework working in GDScript... theoretically, if its not performant enough, i could either attempt to transition it to C++ / GDExtension... or, potentially, I could do a 'Rustdot' type thing, apparently its possible to... do that.

    So, while I am only really aware of Rust as a potential alternative to C++, in my specific context... would you have a broader opinion of lower level languages? I just actually don't know much about them.

  • NSFW

    Pay the toll

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  • I'd say fuzzball there has some pretty lips, but.... nah, not really.

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  • I mean, I'd say 'don't tempt me with a good time', but... you, me, chips, already here.

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  • Why thank you!

    Though uh, I'm a firm believer in the idea that what really matters is the, vector of the pecker, if you catch my meaning.

    Be happy to lend a useful beak toward picking your nits, anytime, chickie chickie!

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  • Who watches harrasses the watchmen idiot tourists?

    Seagulls do the job that would be essentially socially awkward for humans to do... we owe them a debt.

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  • Wait I think I have another stupid joke:

    I sent you beak pic, pls respond

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  • ... right.

    I forgot who i was sqwuaking to, rofl.

  • Who have you gotten an autograph of?

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  • Warren Spector.

    EDIT:

    Also, not an autograph, but got a picture with Ashly Burch at that same PAX, waaaay back when she was just 'Hey Ash Watcha Playin?' Ash.

    ... wow I didn't even realize she was/is Miss Pauling in TF2 as well, shit.

    Also yes her brother was there too, in the pic, ... mhm yep, mhm.

    Also also: Got a pic but not autograph with JoCo as well! Literally not even at a venue, randomly encountered him walking around downtown, presumably from his hotel to the Convention Center? ... I swear, I'm being so sincere right now.

  • How did browsers make money before they sold user's data?

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  • Which then resulted in an utterly massive Anti-Trust lawsuit against MSFT, back when the government at least pretended to give a shit.

    Yes, its more complicated than that, but also, no, not really.

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  • Ok, attempt 2:

    sees you scavenging

    Well my my, you really are all that, and a bag of chips!