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Infoseepage

@Infoseepage@mastodon.social

Interests:
-Castles and British history
-Vintage computing
-Gadgets
-Photography
-Horror films
-Snorkeling

I'm a Covid cautious person doing my best to avoid plague carriers. Splitting my plague era between Maui and the PNW.

I've been a one man tech support guru for ages. I mostly do managed solutions / sysadmin type stuff for small businesses and remote tech support for end users, chiefly in the greater Seattle area. I like being exposed to a wide range of technical challenges.

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hdm, to random

This is the article to send to your IT team when they refuse to enforce boot-time PINs for BitLocker:

Bypassing Bitlocker using a cheap logic analyzer on a Lenovo laptop: https://www.errno.fr/BypassingBitlocker.html by Guillaume Quéré

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@hdm

Looks like this applies to discrete TPM chips only, though, not ones built into chipsets.

Reminds me of some of the hijinx I did back in the day to work around various types of boot time bios/hard drive pw systems.

foone, to random
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it's sadly not supported in the current version, but I was reading the docs to a network-connected power-strip and they explain how you used to program it

fun fact: this is a BASIC program. each textbox is one numbered line

Infoseepage,
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@foone Which one do you have? I have an older version of this one called MSNSwitch (Not sure how MSN made it into the name).

It is a network connected power switch with it's own web server built in. It has two ports you can manually toggle via the webpage or you can have it auto-bounce them if you lose internet connectivity.

https://www.msnswitch.com/

GossiTheDog, to random
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The UK government are planning to follow China and require security vulnerabilities be reported centrally and then remain unpatched to allow Five Eyes access. https://www.justsecurity.org/87615/changes-to-uk-surveillance-regime-may-violate-international-law/

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@GossiTheDog Absolutely nuts. What is next? Having to send them a copy of all your housekeys so they don't have to batter your door down?

scalzi, to random
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Folks, a whole lot of people I like have gotten the most recent strain of COVID, so please be careful out there, catch up on your immunizations, and consider wearing a mask if you're going to be some place with a lot of folks in a close and closed space.

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@scalzi Same here, one of the few times in the pandemic where multiple people in my close circle have gotten hit all at once and it is hitting them hard enough for them to get tested and go through the hoops to get Paxlovid.

The protection offered by prior vaccination/boosting is seriously waned for most people and not well matched to current strains. Don't rely on it to protect you. Take measures.

erictopol, to random
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The US Project NextGen ($5B) vs Covid, to develop better, more durable, variant-proof vaccines, nasal vaccines, and effective monoclonal antibodies, is finally showing signs of life

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@erictopol Great, how about in the meantime we get strain matched boosters every 4-6 months? Been almost a year since I've had the first bivalent and the virus has moved on significantly since then.

Expedited strain matched boosters NOW with none of the clinical trial/governmental review panel nonsense which is resulting in a delivery process to slow to keep up with evolutionary change.

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@erictopol Treat this like the flu vaccine, only updated more often. Yearly is not an appropriate interval for meaningful clinical protection. We know the waning is significant at this point INCLUDING against severe outcomes.

Best clinical protection comes from having large amount of type updated antibodies in your system, not waiting for secondary responses to kick in.

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@erictopol We need 4-6 month boosters until such time as next gen vaccines with more lasting protection can be developed, assuming that is even a possibility.

textfiles, to random
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Bringing VHS machines to the office like a normal contemporary human person

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@textfiles I love how the French formally coin words and just won't adopt loanwords, so instead of VCR you have magnétoscope.

mcnees, to random
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Just finished an unplanned re-read of Peter Watts’s marvelous “Blindsight.” Third or fourth time. Accidentally read the first page on my way to another book, and that was that.

One of my favorites. HTML, epub, and pdf all available here: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

Infoseepage,
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@mcnees Great read and the whole conceptualization of high orders of intelligence without consciousness is pretty chilling and relevant given the current hoopla.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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I just want to go to Dave and Busters and get drunk but we're still living in an eternal pandemic.

Infoseepage,
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@BlackAzizAnansi Haven't sat in a restaurant since March 16, 2020.

I used to have a greasy spoon hangout where I worked and knew everyone and everyone knew me. Ate 4-5 meals a day. I still get curbside takeout, but only if the entirety of everything is curbside. Don't go in to pick up.

Just not worth the exposure, but I feel the loss of it.

juliancday, to twitter
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I'd like to be snarky about this, but it's sad to watch #Twitter's slow death. That stupid, beautiful site has been vital to me in my development as a poet. And as someone who can probably be described as Very Online, I used to find the site good in a bunch of other ways as well. But at some point, you have to go. He's deleting old tweets to save a bit of money on storage space. And meanwhile, all the tweets on the Arab Spring, the Mumbai attacks, etc, are gone. They're just...gone.

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@juliancday It really feels like a book burning at this point, a desecration and destruction of common, shared history.

Twitter is all but useless in its current form, but now they've even killed its usefulness as an archive that someone might take on.

Just pure fuckery.

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@juliancday

If Twitter were still public, it is the sort of decision that would almost be impossible to defend to a board.

Particularly with all the LLM stuff, Twitter's large cache of user-specific data is one of its greatest saleable assets.

Infoseepage,
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@juliancday @Stolfidobranch Back in the early days of Musk's meddling with Twitter, I tried to parse the possible rationales for what he was doing and you end up with a bunch of separate clusters of motivations/causes. I stopped trying to assign unitary "he's doing this because of X" causes a while ago, as it was just driving me nuts. I got off the bus and deleted my account.

georgetakei, to random

Oh…Say it isn't so!

https://www.comicsands.com/woody-harrelson-backlash-rfk-hat-2663846286.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

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@georgetakei The same Woody Harrelson who used his SNL monologue to rant about Covid as some sort of pharmaceutical company conspiracy to force people to take vaccines and medication in perpetuity? Because that is the Woody Harrelson I've seen of late and it is totally obvious why he'd be onboard with a nutjob like RFK Jr.

mcnees, to random
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I bought Western Digital’s SanDisk 2TB Extreme Portable SSD earlier this year – not the Pro model they’ve acknowledged has problems – and it randomly disconnects all the time. If it’s mounted more than ~15 minutes the warnings start popping up.

No data loss yet, but sounds like it’s coming sooner than expected. Does all the stuff mentioned in the article. Not feeling great about this!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/sandisk-extreme-ssds-are-worthless-multiple-lawsuits-against-wd-say/

Infoseepage,
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@mcnees A lot of WD enclosures have problems in my experience.

My most common problem I've experienced with my client base is they'll buy a WD USB hard drive and then do something to mangle the connector on the interface board. I've seen everything from frying it to just broken solder pads. No strain relief.

GWillow, to random

What are you reading right now?

Infoseepage,
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@GWillow A toot.

DataDrivenMD, to random
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I'll never forget how, in July-ish 2020 a (different) NYT reporter publicly admonished me on Twitter for suggesting that her article was misinforming the public by arguing that COVID reinfections were improbable. I pushed back w/ evidence showing COVID reinfections were already taking place but that the CDC wasn't tracking on the data. She doubled-down. A few months later, I was proven right. She won some kind of journalism prize for her COVID stuff. Anywho, better late than never, NYT ⤵️

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@DataDrivenMD This is the thing that keeps coming up to when talking with friends and relatives when they grill me about why I continue to take precautions when basically everyone else in my life is doing nothing.

Their attitude is basically "You're going to get it eventually, so why bother?"

To me, the consequences of even a single infection are bad enough, but the known consequences of repeat infection are pretty bad and there are a lot of unknowns about long term prognosis.

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@DataDrivenMD So, to me, I come from a place of declaring "The best number of times to get infected is zero. Failing that, the best number is as few as possible and spaced as widely apart as possible."

Minimizing frequency of infections, to me, is paramount. This sort of "everyone gets infected nearly annually" drive that society seems to be on seems extremely foolish to me.

"With THIS virus? Are you kidding? You want THIS virus every year?"

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@DataDrivenMD Delaying initial infection provides hope that there will be better treatments available and that I won't be living through some Long Covid nightmare with severe fatigue, brain fog, heart and lung damage, etc. and ad naseum. The list just goes on and on.

Meanwhile I see people in my life with 3 or more infection collecting medical maladies like they were in their 60's or 70's and not people of formerly robust health in their 40's and early 50's.

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@markusl @TheSeege @DataDrivenMD

Not saying they're totally worthless. I've NEVER seen one to look at it. I know there were a lot of advanced photography studies earlier in the pandemic that showed that plexiglass screen usually had the effect of disrupting flow and accumulating particles such that aerosolized breath hovered near the plexi far more than if there was no plexi at all, so you're sitting in a bit of a fog bank of stuff you really don't want to be breathing.

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@TheSeege @markusl @DataDrivenMD Yes, pretty much everything "droplet" is really near field aerosols. That doesn't mean that advice about keeping distance from people isn't good advice. It is that you have the twin problems of close contact and environmental buildup of aerosols due to poor ventilation and filtration.

Pretty much all the focus from health authorities was on "near" advice and not on improving the built environment through ventilation and filtration standards.

Infoseepage, to random
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Turtles of the day. Straight from my camera to your screen. Not much time to farf about today.

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foone, to random
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the best thing about ghidra is that no matter which version you're using, setting equates sometimes just doesn't work, but if you google it, you only find several bug reports which basically say "equates don't work" and then it's "closed, fixed in X.Y.Z" and that's a version you're upgraded way past

Infoseepage,
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@foone And ram. Only 16 or 64K on the motherboard from the factory. You want 640K? That is more add-on cards too.

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@foone Now THAT is a combo card!

My first in the house computer was a 386, but I remember the days of not having enough slots/resources and having to fiddle with way too many jumpers/dip switches to get it to all play nice.

skykiss, (edited ) to maui
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    @skykiss They are really doing everything to not emphasize those 850 people and pretend they're just hiding under a rock and not burned so completely to ash that their corpses aren't recognizable as such.

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