osy

TPM provides zero practical security

TPM (Trusted Platform Module) is as useful for preventing real attackers as the TSA is at preventing real terrorists. The architecture is fundamentally flawed and most existing implementations are completely broken. I thought this argument was settled decades ago[1] when "trusted computing" was introduced mostly as a way to provide DRM and ownership capabilities to organizations. It has largely failed to impact the consumer market when it was introduced back in the early 2000s. However, recently there seems to be a movement by certain parties to reintroduce this failed product back to the market. Microsoft argues that in order to use Windows 11, you need TPM 2.0 compatible hardware because[2]:

The Trusted Platform Module(TPM) requirement ena

riobard

# My ISP-provided fiber optical modem broadcasts a line of a poem every ten seconds. Here's the tcpdump of the complete poem.
# The optical modem is made by Shanghai Nokia-Bell Co.,Ltd and its model number is G-140W-UD. It's provided by my ISP, China Unicom in Shenzhen.

$ tcpdump -i vlan10 ether proto 0x8300
15:59:00.720301 00:00:00:00:00:12 (oui Ethernet) > Broadcast, ethertype Unknown (0x8300), length 72: 
	0x0000:  0000 0000 e4ea 8386 d93c 5468 6520 6461  .........<The.da
	0x0010:  7920 4920 6c6f 7374 206d 7920 7665 7279  y.I.lost.my.very
	0x0020:  2066 6972 7374 2074 6f6f 7468 2c00 0000  .first.tooth,...
	0x0030:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000                 ..........
15:59:10.740778 00:00:00:00:00:12 (oui Ethernet) > Broadcast, ethertype Unknown (0x8300), length 72: 

erikig

ChriRas

Problem

I have a notebook connected to a port replicator. I want to use the build-in speakers and microfone and not the external ones. If I boot my notebook in my port replicator Ubuntu changes the devices to external.

Solution

1. Find your internal speaker

pactl list short sinks

sleepyfox

'Users hate change'

This week NN Group released a video by Jakob Nielsen in which he attempts to help designers deal with the problem of customers being resistant to their new site/product redesign. The argument goes thusly:

1. Humans naturally resist change
2. Your change is for the better
3. Customers should just get used to it and stop complaining

There's slightly more to it than that, he caveats his argument with requiring you to have of course followed their best practices on product design, and allows for a period of customers being able to elect to continue to use the old site, although he says this is obviously only a temporary solution as you don't want to support both.

pantasio

I got it to work :)

NOTE: This requires unlocked bootloader.

Connect the device to Mac or PC in recovery mode. (I had to map the process in my mind as the screen was broken).
Now open terminal/CMD in computer and go to platform-tools/. type and enter ./adb devices to check if the device is connected in recovery mode.
Now type ./adb shell mount data and ./adb shell mount system to mount the respective directories.
Get the persist.sys.usb.config file in your system using ./adb pull /data/property/persist.sys.usb.config /Your directory
Now open that file in a texteditor and edit it to mtp,adb and save.
Now push the file back in the device; ./adb push /your-directory/persist.sys.usb.config /data/property

magnetikonline

List all Git repository objects by size

• Summary
• Example

Summary

Bash script to:

• Iterate all commits made within a Git repository.

jwreagor

Outages & Downtime

• https://medium.com/making-instapaper/instapaper-outage-cause-recovery-3c32a7e9cc5f#.8wd4ufmw5
• https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2014/01/outage-post-mortem/
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/p2QKJ0OSLc8
• https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-database-outage-of-january-31/
• https://blog.cloudflare.com/todays-outage-post-mortem-82515/
• https://github.com/blog/1759-dns-outage-post-mortem
• https://blog.travis-ci.com/2017-02-07-jan-31-macos-outage-postmortem
• http://stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/outage-postmortem-july-20-2016

mcastelino

The netfilter hooks in the kernel and where they hook in the packet flow

The figure below calls out

• The netfilter hooks
• The order of table traversal

djoreilly

DB

ovs-vsctl list open_vswitch
ovs-vsctl list interface
ovs-vsctl list interface vxlan-ac000344
ovs-vsctl --columns=options list interface vxlan-ac000344
ovs-vsctl --columns=ofport,name list Interface
ovs-vsctl --columns=ofport,name --format=table list Interface
ovs-vsctl -f csv --no-heading --columns=_uuid list controller
ovs-vsctl -f csv --no-heading -d bare --columns=other_config list port