YubiKey still selling old stock with vulnerable firmware
I hadn’t noticed the announcement of the vulnerability, looks like it’s nothing I care about for my “thread model”. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235635/yubikey-unfixable… >“The attacker would need physical possession of the YubiKey, Security Key, or YubiHSM, knowledge of the accounts they want to target, and specialized equipment to perform the necessary attack,” the company said in its security […]
I Don’t Have Spotify
Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service Copy a link from your favorite streaming service, paste it into the app, and voilà! The app instantly provides links to the song or track on all other supported platforms. If the original link is from Spotify, you’ll even get a quick audio preview to make […]
Is the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm biased against younger patients?
By Arvind Narayanan, Angelina Wang, Sayash Kapoor, and Solon Barocas Predictive algorithms are used in many life-or-death situations. In the paper Against Predictive Optimization, we argued that the use of predictive logic for making decisions about people has recurring, inherent flaws, and should be rejected in many cases. A wrenching case study comes from the […]
Debian Junior Desktop live image
Index of /images/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid These are files containing live images for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. They are specifically for the amd64 architecture. There are multiple different files here, corresponding to the different desktop environments: How do I use these files? The files here are complete ISO images, ready to use. Once you have downloaded the […]
Visualizing World War II
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that maps and history are two of my favorite things. I love history because I love learning about the vast panoply of the human experience, the millions of twisting threads of time that created the world we live in today. And I […]
Homage to Alexander Grothendieck
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The online sports gambling experiment
Related: Book Review: On the Edge: The Gamblers I have previously been heavily involved in sports betting. That world was very good to me. The times were good, as were the profits. It was a skill game, and a form of positive-sum entertainment, and I was happy to participate and help ensure the sophisticated customer […]
Security Is a Useless Controls Problem
We’re all a bunch of chimps in a cage In this blog, I cover: A somewhat popular StackOverflow answer to introduce a metaphor about useless security posts How to tell if a control is probably useless Why useless bad for the industry, advising where to go from here, and tease a future series of blogs […]
Testing the Z80 Chip with a 1970s Beauty
The Fairchild Sentry 610 was optimized for engineers This article was originally published at MTSI. To read more of our case studies visit our website for Micro Technology Services, Inc. by FRED BECKHUSEN If you used a Z80 chip back in the 1980s, it almost certainly passed through a single room and its Fairchild Sentry […]
Every Arthouse Buff You Know Is Pirating Films
Earlier this year, Daniel, a filmmaker from England, wanted to watch Béla Tarr’s take on Macbeth, a TV movie by the Hungarian auteur that had aired in 1982 on the Magyar Televízió network. On arthouse subreddits like /ObscureMedia and /Criterion, the film had become the subject of intrigue. It’s composed of just two takes, the […]