Do you ever get sad because the cyberpunk dystopia we're living in is so much stupider than the one we were promised?

back online, let's get back to work.

Vox populi, vox dei? Based on the results of an earlier survey, I bring you... the confessions of an infosec has-been:

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/confessions-of-an-infosec-has-been

Very instructive series of posts about #golang memory management intricacies and #debugging 🤯

// ht @HalvarFlake

https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron/issues/1146

This strip came out in 1995. What would Calvin’s dad have to say about technology in 2022? 😬🫠 #CalvinandHobbes

La corruption règne en Europe
Les oligarchies mondiales se sont constituées en mafia qui pillent la planète
https://www.lecho.be/economie-politique/belgique/general/des-sacs-d-argent-liquide-trouves-au-domicile-de-la-vice-presidente-du-parlement-europeen/10433834.html

@robert_cremieux lovely!

@benjaminamar4

Entre 2009 et 2020 le patrimoine des milliardaires a augmenté de 168% au Royaume Uni, de 170% aux Etats-Unis, de 175% en Allemagne.

Et de 439% en France.

C'est con que l'abondance soit derrière eux désormais.

April 21, 2022: OpenBSD 7.1 Released https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220421132230 #openbsd

anybody interfaced with a TPM and used it actually to derive/use with (for example) hard drive encryption key storage (SRK?) or other funny things?

@adams curious to see the results, please update :)

About UEFI vulnerabilities:
"An In-Depth Look at the 23 High-Impact Vulnerabilities"
https://www.binarly.io/posts/An_In_Depth_Look_at_the_23_High_Impact_Vulnerabilities/index.html

@hoppet waayyyyy more, but then like any field where moneys flows, you would then be assaulted by money-driven-jerks leveraging all sort of politics/SE to get more, place his friends, to do less, promote themselves, while pretending to save the school system...

@stsp i was about to say, why not just run linux in the end!

@stsp I also understand there is a lack of manpower, but hopefully new souls will slowly join and help you guys (when they feel ready for contributing in a meaningful & fun way).

@stsp it’s truly strange to just scaffold-in & swallow all the linux « stuff » without even thinking or a little bit of skepticism related to the implementation quality, correctness or understanding, but maybe i think too radically, sad news to me, but well who am i, still learning.. i still remember how impressed i was of « acpi »rewrite in obsd…anyway my 2 cents comment..

"Paramétrés pour générer le profit plutôt que pour prévenir la fonte des glaces, les fonds algorithmiques accélèrent la crise climatique."

Cela résume si joliment l'automatisation de notre auto-destruction pour mettre à jour des montants dans des bases de données... :sadness:

via: https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2021/10/PITRON/63595

Encryption rules. 💪

One million Berliners voted for socializing real estate via expropriation.

The mayor had 400k votes in the last election.

How long until applying this decision?

https://www.euronews.com/2021/09/27/berliners-back-seizing-housing-from-so-called-mega-landlords