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mjg59

@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security at https://aurora.tech, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu. Blog: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org. He/him.

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Getting to ride in a self-driving Waymo with the Phoenix Wright soundtrack is certainly an experience

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Twitter rolled out half-assed encrypted DMs and people are angry that Bluesky didn't?

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I'm still curious whether the Free Software Definition's choice to require the ability to use free software for any purpose is entirely deliberate - is there any writing on why free software must permit being used to restrict people's ability to exercise the four freedoms?

(I agree with the argument that it would be extremely difficult to write a license that enshrined this without restricting legitimate use cases, but if someone were able to do so, /should/ it be free software?)

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@abe no, only if you actually do use it to take the freedom away

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Recruiters! If the first paragraph on your site talks about your defence contracting work, it is not going to be a good fit

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Let's fucking go https://www.railgoods.com/legacy-train-blueprint.html

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This is art (from https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/COPA-v-Wright-Judgment.pdf)

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My @emf talk will be at 4:40PM on the Friday, and I'll be talking about how the XZ backdor was implemented, deployed, and discovered: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/409-the-xz-backdoor-what-why-and-how

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@michaelguntsche there should be

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Beowulf cluster of iPad Pros.

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@Migueldeicaza a six-pack of iPad Pros would have more compute than 90s us could ever imagine

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@jwz @Migueldeicaza maybe that's what actually happened

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Why does my IdP have two entirely different flows for MFA auth depending on how you're hitting it

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User freedom is obviously the most important aspect of free software but the economic cost of staring at wire dumps to figure out a transaction flow instead of just being able to read the implementation should not be understated

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Heading home from the cabin and the contrast between the industrial wasteland between the rail line and the water and the beauty of everything behind it never ceases to amaze me

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Yeah Twitter is fine

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When you're definitely doing normal things

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In universe, did Indiana Jones's students know that the reason he kept flaking out of classes was because he was fighting nazis? Obviously the state department covered up the whole "Ark of the Covenant" thing, but did all his deeds go unrecognised?

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The reason I ask is to determine whether student response to Indiana Jones is proto-"Hot Professor" stereotype or whether the students had a greater source of attraction than him just being Harrison Ford

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STOP DOING HARDLINKS

INODES WERE NOT MEANT TO EXIST IN MULTIPLE DIRECTORIES

YEARS OF FILES yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for being in more than one directory

Wanted to reference files from more than one directory anyway? We had a tool for that: it was called "SYMLINKS"

"Yes please give me FIFTEEN paths that this file resolves to" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

"Hello I would like different permissions on this file based on path" They have played us for absolute fools

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Impulse bought an LTE base station and I guess this is how @jonty feels about once every couple of days

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Given a webauthn.create response, what is the absolute easiest way for me to verify that it has a valid signature (in an ideal world something like https://debugger.simplewebauthn.dev/ but validates the signature rather than just verifying the format is good)

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@Natanael_L yes, but ended up having to write one myself

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Hmm got a response from CPUC saying that they're not responsible for enforcement of AT&T's Carrier of Last Resort obligations, and referring me back to AT&T. How is this actually meant to work? (Yes, I know all they're nominally obliged to provide is a basic copper landline service, that's all I'm looking for here)

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To my utter lack of surprise, there's apparently several miles of missing copper due to the entire "the forest was on fire" thing

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Incredibly random question, but anyone have any experience with LTE-U hardware?

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