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Currently hacking away at https://github.com/lockboot Using UEFI SecureBoot + vTPM for cloud root-of-trust, a stack to prove what's released on github/gitlab is what's actually run…

Great, by "remain ahead" this implicitly means "put everybody else behind". These are the same people that are pushing for "think of the children" internet and VPN KYC. Let me tran…

Amazon Nitro Enclave does pretty much this, the guest has one method of communication, via vsock, and it's up to you to build the pipes on either side. It's a huge PITA in practice…

Yes, you can do this on real metal, EFI is EFI and as such you can make it do essentially whatever you want. For example recently I had to make a stage0[1] HTTP EFI bootloader, it …

One of the best flights I've ever taken was Spirit and had 8 passengers on it, 5 of which were transferring staff/pilots. The second worst flight I've ever had the pleasure of endu…

I'm very much from the same era, "stfu and fork it", "PoC or GTFO". And as I got older, I realized "I am not the customer, there is no money in responding to me, I am a net negativ…

Some people get so precious about code bases and want everything to be 100 line digestable units that working with them is becomes near impossible when they dig their heels in. It'…

Cosmopolitan goes one further: [binaries] that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS on AMD64 and ARM64 https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/

The subscription craze is getting worse where often the features I need are locked behind a recurring fee costing hundreds to thousands of dollars over its useful lifetime, or are …

Finally somebody built this, the problem is that the people who don't know won't think of using this tool. A friend recently came across a project with no RLS and described it as "…

Try walking into an small diaspora place during slow hours, paying cash and not being fussy about what you eat, do that 3 days in a row and say "yesterday I was still hungry" (or s…

The key for me really was eating once a day, I got stuck in a bad routine with the shops and alcohol too. Whereas now I almost exclusively eat set menus, thalis, nasi kandar etc. a…

Tackle one addiction at a time a wise sage once said to me.

Sure, any kind of non-veg protein adds up quickly, especially if you're doing 3 meals a day. Most local Indian places will do you a solid 1500 calorie meal for £10 if you know what…

Not GLP-1, but moved onto an OMAD diet which is essentially a 23hr daily fast with nothing but neat espresso, cigarettes and water in between - although occasionally I have a small…

I've had no end of problems with accountants regardless of their certifications, they operate in a domain with an incoherent body of contradictory and highly subjective rules yet m…

Don't tell anybody, but you sit on it

Oh dear, it seems we've... somehow been psychically linked... I developed a browser-based CP/M emulator & IDE: https://lockboot.github.io/desktop/ I was going to post that instead,…

All the 'Small' language models and the 'TinyML' scene in general tend to bottom out at a million parameters, hence I though 'micro' is more apt at ~150k params.

How small can a language model be while still doing something useful? I wanted to find out, and had some spare time over the holidays. Z80-μLM is a character-level language model w…

Yup, Amazon supports the 6.11? kernel on aarch64. Most toolchains if you target linux aarch64 static they, they will produce executables that will run on Amazon Linux aarch64 and A…

Graviton with Nitro 4 has been quite pleasant to use, with the rust aarch64 musl static target and rust-lld I can build monolith ELFs that work not just on my android via `adb push…

I'd argue that the problem is that QR codes shouldn't be an 'app' problem, and yes there's a chicken-egg problem with PoS terminals verifying incoming bank payments but that's a se…

Well, I've tried manually verifying the curve parameters and I don't trust this. * The generator isn't selected deterministically * The BLAKE3(seed) in the OpenFrogget code doesn't…

And even with the constant `b=BLAKE("ECCFrog512CK2 forever")` there is an open question, while not as problematic as it is with the NIST & SEC curves, it's covered in "How to manip…