Notices by Cesar (cesarb@mastodon.social)

@gamingonlinux Look at the bright side, at least you're waitlisted. I'm on "This item is not available for purchase in your region", so I'll probably get it (if I ever get it) much later than you.

@gamingonlinux I'm still waiting for the Steam Deck... "This item is not available for purchase in your region"

@aral @EUCommission The safest TLD is nearly always going to be the ccTLD from your own country of residence. For instance, as a Brazilian I can use a .net.br or .com.br domain (.org.br is restricted to registered non-profits), pay with Boleto Bancário (a traditional local payment method) or PIX (the very popular new local instant payment method), and only be subject to Brazilian laws and courts (which I already am subject to, since I live here).

@cadusilva O problema é que quanto menor a frequência maior o comprimento de onda, e portanto maior a antena. Rádio FM (na faixa dos megahertz) tem comprimento de onda da ordem de metros (fonte: Wikipedia), enquanto a rede das operadoras (e o wifi/bluetooth) na faixa dos gigahertz tem comprimento de onda da ordem de centímetros, portanto a antena para eles pode ser muito menor.

@tthbaltazar @mjg59 One common use of a TPM is to have a full-disk-encrypted partition which is automatically decrypted as long as the full both path (firmware, bootloader, kernel, initrd, kernel command line, etc) is unchanged. Try to access it any other way (single user mode, booting from a USB stick, etc) and it won't automatically decrypt (you'd have to use alternate means, like a recovery passphrase).

@tthbaltazar @mjg59 It's not trivial to sniff if you use a fTPM or similar, since then it's buried deep inside the CPU itself. But yes, physical access can still be a risk, since the attacker could for instance sniff the memory bus; but that's a more complex attack than "plug a USB stick and boot from it" or even "sniff the low speed LPC bus".

(Some computers have "intrusion switches" to sense when the case is opened, but I don't think they set any flag the TPM can use as a sign to stop.)

@dalias @BleepingComputer IIRC, that limit is older than exfat; AFAIK the whole point of the limit was forcing people to use NTFS on internal hard disks, which was more space efficient (less internal fragmentation due to smaller cluster size) and safer (since it has journalling).

@Gargron The question would be "which one?", since most planes have something like three hydraulic systems, and all important control surfaces can be moved by more than one of them. The answer is probably hidden in that "now being towed", because it likely means that they lost the one which controls the on-ground steering; someone who knows the details of that plane model can tell by that which hydraulic system broke.