Notices by Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)

(Spoiler: It's not good)

https://alex.github.io/nyt-2024-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.html is a good representation of what would be needed for a Harris victory now.

RMS isn't some sort of nefarious evil actor, but nor is he merely socially awkward. His excuse for covering up Eben's behaviour was that it was politically advantageous to do so. Sure, other humans might suffer as a result, but free software would benefit, so.

Loving the "RMS isn't as bad as Trump, so why are you complaining" vibes the internet is giving me today

After Eben Moglen threatened to ruin someone's career at an FSF event, RMS (a) threatened to overrule any staff who attempted to enforce the event code of conduct against him and (b) overruled any attempt to disclose Eben's behaviour to his employer, a university where Eben has teaching responsibilities for undergraduates

Who could possibly have forseen etc (this is the CUPS vuln guy) https://x.com/evilsocket/status/1016090200404037637

I simply assume that anyone doing vuln disclosure who has a Twitter blue check is not someone I want to pay much attention to

How do I debug hotel wifi where my laptop gets about 10 seconds of packets and then about 40 seconds of nothing but my phone works fine (ath11k)

Where can I find canned Pimm's in London right now? Confirmed sightings only, I've already visited 3 Tescos and a Waitrose with no luck

@pid_eins but the default Windows behaviour for measured boot is tied to secure boot because using anything other than PCR 7 is extremely fragile

Why clone a yubikey when you can simply steal it and leave an identical looking one that just doesn't work and the user is just going to be confused for a bunch of time without realising that someone else has their 2FA token now

Went to get money to pay our cleaner and absent mindedly retrieved my card and put it in my wallet and walked off without actually collecting the money and somehow despite being at 16th and Mission it was still there when I sprinted back 45 seconds later?

Genuine "Humans aren't actually terrible" vibes combined with "I absolutely would not have blamed anyone for walking off with that money" vibes

My enthusiasm for Fediverse remains massively constrained for one very simple reason: when I click on someone's post I don't see all the replies unless I click a different button, and if I click that one it becomes much more difficult for me to reply to any of the replies, and I am *not* going to reply to anything without checking that I'm not repeating something someone has already said so I simply don't reply

Rust advocates should demonstrate the viability of the language by replacing an entire kernel. One that meets accepted architectural goals. One that is at the core of the free software movement.

Rewrite Hurd in Rust, you cowards.

What the fuck is SBAT, why did it break your dual-boot setup, it's not strictly my fault but if you need a scapegoat whatever: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70348.html

Microsoft breaking a bunch of dual-boot systems by revoking insecure versions of grub during a standard Windows update is, uh, not great and was not supposed to happen, but it's worth mentioning that systems broken by this were running known insecure bootloaders and anyone running a distro that's actually on top of security updates was unaffected

@Conan_Kudo It's not a good excuse! But nor is shipping insecure code!

@dalias @Conan_Kudo Weird that it happily loads a kernel that doesn't implement any DRM

@dalias @Conan_Kudo A right you have - either disable secure boot in the firmware or via mok and boot anything