Me fucking about with an LTE hotspot ended up helping enable an EFF project that's then turned into a Wired story about mass surveillance around the DNC, so never stop fucking about with things: https://www.wired.com/story/2024-dnc-cell-site-simulator-phone-surveillance/

@david_chisnall @cesarb @tthbaltazar This differs between ARM and x86 - I don't think any x86 fTPMs run on the AP, they're either on the ME (Intel) or PSP (AMD) so fairly decently segregated. ARM implementations are generally in Trustzone so there's a very different set of issues.

Nice hacker culture you've got there

Standing offer: got a fix for a Linux kernel issue and don't want to engage with LKML? Convince me that it probably makes sense and I'll deal with the bullshit for you

"Today, most of the major streaming media platforms utilize the TPM to decrypt media streams, forcefully placing the decryption out of the user's control." (from https://www.defectivebydesign.org/dayagainstdrm) I… just… what? This isn't even slightly true. There's plenty of good reasons to object to Microsoft imposing hardware requirements on Windows 11 that aren't strictly required, but *nobody* is doing media decryption on a TPM because TPMs are nowhere near fast enough to do that

@mjg59 Irish stew in the name of the law!

@[email protected] ahhhh, malicious compliance. you love to see it ​​

@mjg59 Welcome to The Big Chill (And Not The Cool Kind)

(look at the FSF's involvement in releasing a new version of the GFDL to allow Wikipedia to transition to CC for precedent)

Incredible scenes as an FSF voting member (the people who choose the board) ignores an explicit request from someone to stop replying to them, tells them to block him instead, and then claims that if they reply to *him* then they're the real abuser https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4188829#notice-8198659

Hello I wrote a thing about how Android made a good privacy improvement and in the process apparently made key attestation far less useful for certain use cases https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70630.html

@rvcx How does the compiler know that passing zero for the len is a waste of time?How does the compiler know that passing NULL for a pointer is a problem?Historical: In early C on 3B2 processors, NULL was defined as zero. At address zero, there was a zero.A NULL ptr pointed to a null string.I am not saying this was good, just how it was.Which is why I wrote a bunch of safe versions in order to port K&R C to ANSI C (to port to other machines) because NULL was really NULL and not zero. The code would function on 3B2 but crash on different machines.#Coding