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(I’ll bite and try to steelman) How does a typical user verify that they are running the intended secure software?

You can definitely do this without sorting. QuickSelect is average case n, and is, roughly, quick sort where you throw away one of the sides each time and recurse on the other. Thi…

I used to translate classic interview questions into not-spoiled-on-the-internet ones by doing this kind of batch to incremental conversion. The count-the-islands one was fun but h…

Who does a sort for this D:

Title: Android 17 is here

[2025]

Split locks are weird. It’s never been obvious to me why you’d want to do them unless you are on a small core count system. When split lock detection rolled out for linux, it massa…

Popular blogger from roughly a decade ago. His rants were frequently cited early in my career. I think he’s fallen off in popularity substantially since.

This is more of a typing game than anything else. It rejected “blackcapped chickadee” (wanted black-capped chickadee). Frankly that felt a bit tedious on a phone. Had to scrub thro…

My suspicion is that the bot was a fairly standard chess bot, but the difficulties were set based on computation time. As airplane computers got better, it turned into a beast. As …

For my personal usage of ai-studio, I had to use autohotkey to record and replay my mouse deleting my old chats. I thought about cooking up a browser extension, but never got aroun…

How much are my eyeballs worth over the lifetime of a TV? In the race to the bottom, ads will outcompete others by pushing price lower. But how much lower?

Legitimately, they are often too hard. Balancing the problems is quite challenging. On top of that, the solutions often make the problems seem much intimidating than they are (not …

Fair enough! Just happens to be the one of two I need to read

Source for the ASP firmware is at https://github.com/amd/AMD-ASPFW . It has a number of gaps, but it is mostly there. It doesn't build, it doesn't have source for some of the servi…

In practice, it’s essentially infeasible to make a non-detectable virtualization stack. Timing is really really hard to match (as is everything else). You can edit the binary that’…

That’s not intended to be possible for any reasonable TPM with a trustworthy ekcert.

Allegedly some of the anticheats are configuring the IOMMU through Windows APIs (vanguard, faceit, and a smattering of chinese anticheats). It’s hard to find good public informatio…

Cheating will slowly look more and more like trying to hack your own machine. Secure Boot+TPM combined with decent firmware will make cheating a lot harder. If the firmware ensures…

“ Default disclosure for this issue is 11 August. Opening this issue just five days early for visibility this particular week. :)” Hello Defcon!

With the default key hierarchies, the benefit is more limited. It raises the bar. Implementing known vulnerabilities takes work. And not ever configuration is vulnerable to every i…

Tried cheating with Gemini 2.5 pro, and I became even more suspicious to the AIs than the stuff I cooked up by hand. Most of my actual success relied on mentioning a desire to trai…