Mastodawn

Did you ever idly wonder why there aren't already a zillion vendors of compatible hardware modules for Framework laptops? Did just nobody bother?

TIL the reason is that Framework made sure their design patents didn't let anyone else make modules https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230015249A1/en?q=(Framework)&inventor=Nirav+Patel&oq=inventor:(Nirav+Patel)+Framework

talk loudly about freedom with just an extremely prominent point of absolute central control? I Can't Believe It's Not Fashtech(tm)

US20230015249A1 - Modular computer system - Google Patents

One variation of a modular computer system includes: a chassis; an expansion slot; and an expansion card. The chassis includes a main board. The expansion slot: is arranged on a lateral side of the chassis; and defines a receptacle inset a bottom side of the chassis. The expansion slot includes: a latching member arranged within the receptacle; and a female connected to the main board. The expansion card includes: an enclosure configured to couple within the receptacle; a latch receiver configured to transiently couple the latching member to maintain the first enclosure within the first receptacle; and a male connector extending from the enclosure, and configured to interface the female connector of the expansion slot. The expansion card further includes an external port arranged at the enclosure and configured to interface with an external device.

James M. Woodward May 10

GrapheneOS May 10

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.

James M. Woodward May 8

Peter Gleick May 8

The final results are in and the winner of the Iran War is...
The oil companies.

James M. Woodward May 5

Fi 🏳️‍⚧️May 5

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116518022621367937

some years ago, I reported a booter service run by lizardsquad to cloudflare.

cloudflare passed on my information -to- lizardsquad, who proceeded to send me death threats.

so, y'know. cloudflare's got more'n a decade of precedent of vigorously defending bad actors on their platform.

James M. Woodward Apr 23

Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓Apr 23

LOL ... paywalled but the headline is pretty much the story

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/

James M. Woodward Apr 5

waffles Apr 4

James M. Woodward Mar 29

Had a super fun event this weekend, I have a sunroom that has a wet bar in it and the previous owner installed a sink. Their method for getting water to it was to run a half inch poly tube along the baseboard and through a wall and tap off the water line that feeds the washing machine.

Went to leave the house and my laundry room had standing water in it. I tend to keep a couple of pallets of carbonated waters so I thought perhaps one of them had popped. But there was a lot of water.

So I dried it all up, left the house and came back later. The floor was sopping. Getting around, somehow the poly tubing sprung a leak as it crossed through the wall. I don't have mice, there has been no work there. I have no idea how this line broke. But it did. Annoyingly, the water sensor I have under the water heater was the one dry spot.

Also, thankfully, the laundry room is also where I keep my rack servers. However they are elevated so they survived the first and hopefully only water event.

James M. Woodward Mar 17

@Trollllllllllllllllllll

https://pixeldust.se/monkey-island-project

Pixeldust AB - The Secret of Monkey Island Project

Joachim Ljunggren/Pixeldust is a Designer, Title Sequence and Motion Graphics Producer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Over the past 15 years Joachim has designed, directed and produced title sequences and motion graphics for a variety of clients including TV4, SVT, TV3, Kanal5, TV6, TV7, MTV, Meter Television, Mastiff, Eyeworks, Edithouse Film Works, STARK Corporate Communication and many others. Joachim works in Cinema 4D, After Effects and Photoshop.

James M. Woodward Mar 9

Also; In the same scene in #Hackers, The digital clock is going REALLLY fast compared to Dade's typing speed. Also, it's at a super strange angle in the scene.

Based on the flickering and positioning; I'm guessing this was a time-lapse composite meant to demonstrate that he's there all night. It's also going at a fixed rate of ~60x (1 second is 1 minute).

James M. Woodward Mar 9

Interesting detail in #Hackers that I never noticed before. While hacking OTV, Dade wears prescription glasses. I don't think his character wears them at any other time?