#TIL CVE-2020-8705. Intel Boot Guard prevents any unsigned boot firmware code from executing on the CPU on boot, making it impossible to modify and reflash your UEFI/BIOS. But if you enter ACPI S3 "sleep" mode, then reflash the EEPROM, finally wakeup the computer, Boot Guard is bypassed.
I wonder if you can use a microcontroller and a multiplexer to automate this exploit. Sounds like a great way to run a modded BIOS...
Back on my never-ending hiring parade, we're looking for junior and mid-career data scientists!
This will be curation, management, and creating new uses for petabytes of biological and environmental research data -- in other words, actual data science, with emphasis on science! Explore a world where data science doesn't involve targeted advertising!
I have to say, this is one of the cleverest trolling I ever saw: https://github.com/zhuowei/nft_ptr#why
Now, I don't want to sound biased or anything, but the board message also feels empty: https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-of-richard-stallman
A few things give me the wrong impression of it all, specially the second paragraph.
For example "We decided to bring RMS back because we missed his wisdom". One thing is realize that you lack some sort of wisdom, another is "miss". It feels the response is purely emotional and not rational.
Another point: "His historical, legal and technical acumen on free software is unrivaled." As a tech leader/senior dev, my mission is to spread knowledge. If you have a senior/lead that keeps knowledge to themselves (or, worse, doesn't instill curiosity on searching for an answer), then, IMHO, they failed as senior/lead.
Honestly, I stopped reading at that point, 'cause, again, it feels like it was purely emotional decision and not based on technical things.
Also: "We recognize the need to attract a new generation of activists for software freedom and to grow the movement."
And then, instead of bringing new people, to bring new ideas, you bring old people back (no matter how large their knowledge of free software is). The FSF, and the free software movement as a whole needs new brains to think new things, otherwise it won't get the same position it was in the late 2000s.
@dimpase I fully agree on that: native English speakers have absolutely no legitimacy to complain about our usage of names and language. I’ve been threatened far too many times in my carreer because my English skills were not considered enough.
Note that in this particular issue, it also harms some non-native English speakers too, which makes the question of changing the name worth mentionning… but doesn’t provide any legitimacy to any native English speaker’s complain.
Obsolete German Units of Measurement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_German_units_of_measurement
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some really cool #nixos and #wayland exploration - https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2021/03/07/qubes-lite-with-kvm-and-wayland/
needless to say, French speakers counter-attack English with offensive CS word "bit" which must naturally be banned, as well.
there is an ongoing fight about renaming Coq to something more agreeable to a native English speaker's ear. Does anything prevent then to pronounce it see-ow-qu ?
Smells of language supremacy to me.
I could also say that Huet must change his surname to something not spelled so offensively for Russian readers...
I also noticed that Lean is a bad name due to potential fat-shaming, and Dutch COC org must be renamed, if English language nazis had their way...
Looking for a USB-C hub
When searching for USB-C hubs all you get are docking stations that has a million USB-A ports, ethernet, HDMI etc.
But when it comes to real USB-C hubs, it's really difficult yo find one. I did find this one, which is a 4-port hub: https://www.sitecom.com/en/usb-c-hub-4-port/cn-385/p/1879
Has anyone found any others? Any recommendations for a good one?
Help us retain an American lawyer for me. #StandWithTillie
Collective Code Construction Contract - ZeroMQ: https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec/42/
Stanford scientists reverse-engineered the Moderna COVID vaccine from discarded remnants, and have posted the mRNA sequence publicly on GitHub https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9gya/stanford-scientists-reverse-engineer-moderna-vaccine-post-code-on-github
In case it gets taken down: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ns6vbmjqqru0jbz/Assemblies-of-putative-SARS-CoV2-spike-encoding-mRNA-sequences-for-vaccines-BNT-162b2-and-mRNA-1273-main.zip?dl=0
SU-AU-NL-DE-NL-SG-UK...
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