For some reason wifi vendors typically ship devices without any radio firmware at all, but leave it up to the driver to load it. Rendering the device 100% useless without loading some external proprietary blob. Hard…
The problem is that many wifi adapters require loading a binary blob at initialization time. "Burnt-in" firmware is practically the same as hardware, which you already trust since you bought it. Not so much for the…
Are there AC adapters that don't require proprietary firmware to run?
Yes, because the CIA would never lie to us, right? They would never poison a Russian ex-spy to make Putin look bad? I don't think this attack was orchestrated by a US entity. Or Russian for that matter. But when an…
Like Nix?
As an "old-school" sysadmin I have the opposite view: it's difficult to find jobs that don't require AWS these days. I know perfectly well how to provision and scale a large infrastructure and can give you 99,999%…
To do a car analogy (this is Slashdot, right?): With Ubuntu, every time you want to fix something with your car, you roll it into the garage, pop open the hood and get to work. It's intensive labour, results will vary,…
I started using notmuch[1] a couple of years ago and cannot imagine living without it. It can do free text search on almost a million emails (and probably much more) in a fraction of a second. I subscribe to a lot of…
Actually, pass has great support for teams. Dropping one or more GPG keys in ".gpg-id" will encrypt the passwords for the various identities. This works globally or per sub-folder. I use dedicated subkeys for work and…
You started this thread to warn about the risks of running untrusted JavaScript before the appropriate mitigations are in place, yet you expect people to open a PDF from misc0110.net with no additional context?
For some reason wifi vendors typically ship devices without any radio firmware at all, but leave it up to the driver to load it. Rendering the device 100% useless without loading some external proprietary blob. Hard…
The problem is that many wifi adapters require loading a binary blob at initialization time. "Burnt-in" firmware is practically the same as hardware, which you already trust since you bought it. Not so much for the…
Are there AC adapters that don't require proprietary firmware to run?
Yes, because the CIA would never lie to us, right? They would never poison a Russian ex-spy to make Putin look bad? I don't think this attack was orchestrated by a US entity. Or Russian for that matter. But when an…
Like Nix?
As an "old-school" sysadmin I have the opposite view: it's difficult to find jobs that don't require AWS these days. I know perfectly well how to provision and scale a large infrastructure and can give you 99,999%…
To do a car analogy (this is Slashdot, right?): With Ubuntu, every time you want to fix something with your car, you roll it into the garage, pop open the hood and get to work. It's intensive labour, results will vary,…
I started using notmuch[1] a couple of years ago and cannot imagine living without it. It can do free text search on almost a million emails (and probably much more) in a fraction of a second. I subscribe to a lot of…
Actually, pass has great support for teams. Dropping one or more GPG keys in ".gpg-id" will encrypt the passwords for the various identities. This works globally or per sub-folder. I use dedicated subkeys for work and…
You started this thread to warn about the risks of running untrusted JavaScript before the appropriate mitigations are in place, yet you expect people to open a PDF from misc0110.net with no additional context?