Root Access

Bob

12:00 AM

oh no

it's spreading

Michael Frank

12:34 AM

@Bob Is it a rash?

Journeyman Geek

1:08 AM

hmm

theverge.com/2017/11/20/16678906/…

I wonder if this will make hackintoshing harder

FML

@JourneymanGeek Presumably secure booting can/has to be turned off for Bootcamping Windows anyway, so perhaps it's optional?

Bob

1:28 AM

lol.

@allquixotic Firefox has a privacy.resistFingerpriting config

@allquixotic See also wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting, and it's available for addons to override developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/privacy/…

Looking at the bug list it basically spoofs a bunch of things when enabled.

And disables some things

(and breaks some sites)

There's also an interesting firstPartyIsolate that should prevent third-party cookie tracking, though that might also break single sign on. But it should be better than turning off third-party cookies entirely.

Journeyman Geek

@FML well, right now OS X checks for a 'simple' fan chip

and its possible to stick the boot code somewhere strange - the raspi does boot using its video card to initialise things

Bob

welp. theregister.co.uk/2017/11/20/intel_flags_firmware_flaws

Journeyman Geek

@FML the bigger issue might be 'breaking' Mac on ESX on apple, and needing some flavour of passthrough for other approved Mac VMs on Mac

I suppose falling back to a non secure mode might work

FML

1:55 AM

@Bob Lol, hasn't Intel's embedded management engine known to be quite broken for quite some time?

Oh wait, this is worse.

Journeyman Geek

2:12 AM

boingboing.net/2017/11/20/predatory-journals.html

Michael Frank

2:49 AM

Ha...

One of the marketing team has a contractor working on site, but they're having trouble integrating with any of our systems... cause ya know, external PC and what not.

They want me to 'convert' their laptop to a company build.

I don't think they know what they want...

Journeyman Geek

3:21 AM

Does anyone?

bwDraco

3:33 AM

@allquixotic, found this random tidbit:

Feb 6 '16 at 23:08, by allquixotic

I might buy myself an XPoint something or other for Christmas 2018 -- that's about the earliest I can realistically fathom

Time to upgrade?

bwDraco

Christmas in Killarney - The Irish Rovers 🎶

14 years ago... zepperfan.tripod.com/Christmas_In_Killarney_lyrics.txt

Journeyman Geek

tripod.com...

that's oldschool

bwDraco

:p

Journeyman Geek

kinda like lycos (is that still a thing?) or geocities (RIP)

bwDraco

Still remember rehearsing it day in, day out.

I'm honestly surprised that the website is still live after all these years.

Not only that, the content of that lyrics page has stood unchanged for over a decade.

I expected it to return 404 FWIW...

(sung in concert at a school event when I was a little child)

Good old days...

allquixotic

4:07 AM

@bwDraco I still have a year!

bwDraco

Well... which model do you plan to get?

I suppose you can afford the 480 GB one...

Well, anything in mind that would benefit from the super-low latency or (to put it bluntly) absurdly high endurance?

(good luck writing 4.8 TB a day, every day, for five years :P)

Nov 12 at 23:53, by bwDraco

How in Oblivion would a non-datacenter user be able to write almost 5 TB a day, every day for five years?

Bob

that's pretty easy

bwDraco

Well, since you have more... enterprise-type workloads, maybe you'd have a use for this?

Bob

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX

bwDraco

Well, not abusing the drive, but some useful consumer/enthusiast application.

I was thinking 4K video editing, but that's pushing it and is on the fringes of what would constitute a "consumer" application for storage.

bwDraco

4:28 AM

10 DWPD... rofl

This is a consumer storage device, for crying out loud!

Bob

5:14 AM

> "The transpolarizer, an electrostatic analog of the more widely known transfiuxor..."

10

A: How to achieve analog zero-drift sample and hold for hours?

Well, there seem to be solutions, although it's a bit of a blast from the past... A Survey of Analog Memory Devices (from 1962) "The transpolarizer, an electrostatic analog of the more widely known transfiuxor..." For a more modern solution, a micro with ADC and DAC seems the way to go. Also...

bwDraco

lol

> The quality of the connection to the remote computer is excellent and UDP is enabled.

lol

Bob

5:26 AM

O_O

@JourneymanGeek github.com/nokia/intel-nuc-router

But USB ethernet sounds like a bad idea

for latency if nothing else

Journeyman Geek

ya

might play with that if I get around to picking up my router boxen.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek the O_O was more cause... nokia?!

Journeyman Geek

actually!

Nokia's more into back end hardware these days

a lot of the same stuff might be shovable into say a cellphone tower

allquixotic

my lifeline to the Internet

Bob

5:41 AM

@JourneymanGeek I almost forgot about MikroTik

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic your ONT is fancy

Bob

2x UniFi AP + 1x hEX?

Journeyman Geek

Actually no, what is that?

@Bob if nothing else, the hEX looks interesting for the price ;p

Bob

I wonder if @FML has used them

Apparently EdgeRouter-X has the better hardware

Also need to find a controller for the APs ... hey, there's that RPi lying around :D

Journeyman Geek

@allquixotic and pricy

@Bob does the controller software run on RPis?

Bob

5:47 AM

@JourneymanGeek AFAICT there's a server variant that should run on any linux

(there's also a Windows client version?)

Journeyman Geek

@Bob they'd need to be a fork tho

(different arches?)

Bob

5:59 AM

@JourneymanGeek Apparently there's an ARM build but as of 5.6 the "cloud access" part doesn't work on ARMv6 anymore

unfortunately I think my rpi is a v6

Journeyman Geek

@Bob ~~rpi!~~ NUC

Bob

also it seems to need java

@JourneymanGeek I don't have one and it's way overkill/priced just for the controller

the controller that doesn't actually control, btw... it just configures them afaict

Journeyman Geek

lol

ya

or throw it on one of your many tablets?

@Bob I think we used a webui thing with java which also helped monitor stuff

Bob

@JourneymanGeek those aren't always-on, and don't have an ethernet port

Journeyman Geek

but if you only needed them for intitial config...

(also, I do actually have a use for a always on linux box sooo)

Bob

6:45 AM

@JourneymanGeek Looking a bit more, I'll probably stick with the ER-X. Apparently the hEX is better at hardware offloading but has a weaker CPU - but I'm planning on enabling QoS so hardware offload will have to be disabled :\

The only problem is the ER-X is apparently a proper 5-port router. As in, bridging ports to act as a switch is ... inefficient. Soooooo. Probably add another switch.

A cheap TP-Link switch will probably do. They're like $20 for an 8-port unmanaged, or $60 for an 8-port managed. Depends what I'll need to do VLANs properly.

Let's see. One port for WAN, one port for main LAN, one-two ports for guest VLANs (tagged/shaped)

O_O

@JourneymanGeek hackaday.com/2010/05/26/…

Journeyman Geek

0_0

user226528

7:06 AM

Hey, guys. Something strange has happened: WSUS seems to be fetching updates for Windows 10 version 1709 on ARM64 platform.

Journeyman Geek

7:28 AM

@Bob ah

That Nokia thing is pretty interesting

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