Walmart and every other grocery store corporation:

Amazing. Crowdstrike did end up providing some benefit to users after all.

Once you delve into the technical specifics of Secure Boot and the TPM, it’s actually not that unusual. I wrote more detail in another comment on this post, but the TLDR of it is that Secure Boot is meant to enforce the integrity of the boot procedure to ensure that only approved code runs before the Windows kernel gets control, and the TPM 2.0 is meant to attest to that. Together, they make it possible for anticheat to tell if something (like cheating software) tried to rootkit Windows as a way to evade detection.

I don’t agree with the requirement, but it’s not a pointless requirement or some grand conspiracy to make people buy new hardware.

Sorry to see the downvotes on your comments explaining the technical stuff. You aren’t wrong, but people are cultish and like dog piling.

The entire idea of Secure Boot is to verify the boot chain using signature checks to ensure that nothing “unauthorized” runs in the boot process before control is handed off to the kernel. It’s meant to stop lower bootloader stages from silently modifying or hooking later stages.

In theory, it’s supposed to stop rootkits from being able to exist above the OS, hiding themselves while stealing information or influencing programs. In practice, there’s a shit load of badly implemented EFI programs and bootloaders that are signed and later turned out to be vectors for arbitrary code execution (this is why you need the DBX list to be updated frequently).

Cynically, Microsoft probably came up with Secure Boot because that whole rootkit-and-fuck-with-the-kernel thing used to be one of the ways people cracked Windows 7.

As for TPM 2.0, the whole point of it being used for anticheat is because it stores an immutable log of the Secure Boot process and attests to the integrity of the system. If I installed my own Secure Boot certificates and rootkitted Windows for the sole purpose of cheating, the TPM would see that a self-signed executable was used during boot and refuse to say the system was unmodified.

Edit: The downvote button is not a “I disagree” button. There is an actual technical reason why Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 are used in anticheat crap. I don’t agree with it or that they demand it as a requirement to even open the game, but it’s not some grand conspiracy to make you buy new PC hardware.

“But her emails”
— MAGA for the past 9 years

[Citation Needed]

I agree with them when they say distros shouldn’t be theming their apps by default. When the packager breaks a package, it misleadingly gives users the impression that the software is at fault. Unless the distro itself is willing to field all the user complaints and bug reports, it just ends up causing problems for the maintainers.

Where I will never agree with them is in the demand that the developer has exclusive control over the application icon. It’s inconsequential to the software’s functionality, and if anyone thinks their brand should have more rights to a computer than the person who owns it, they can rightfully fuck off with the likes of Apple and Microsoft.

App Icons are the identity of an app. Changing an app’s icon denies the developer the possibility to control their brand.

Here’s an novel solution to that: fuck off! A lot of us use Linux because we’re sick of corporations and rightsholders trying to control how we use our devices while treating us as marketing tools by shoving their “vision” in our face.

Why encourage rehabilitation when you can instead encourage recidivism? Jail a man for a year, get a one-time profit. But jail a man for life…

Obvious /s I hope

And the taxpayer money spent?

… To shreds you say …

If the steam doesn’t get you, the enzymes breaking down your proteins would surely give you horrible skin irritation.

Even if the server had zero knowledge of your private keys (which is doubtful), I’m sure the client code won’t have any backdoors. It’s only the social media “platform” owned by the world’s most thin-skinned billionaire.

if (message.contains("elon") || message.contains("musk")) {
    upload(chat.privateKey)
}

You can block it with a carefully-crafted userscript that hooks the fetch API and returns fake responses for the svc event, but then Reddit starts flagging your IP address as a bot and demands you log in to an account to prove otherwise. You can’t win.

Curious what kind of real world use makes it a good choice?

It’s declarative. Everything is (usually) configured via Nix itself, without requiring manual steps of running additional commands. This ends up being pretty useful when you have a fleet of devices that you want to configure.

Changing config is atomic. If you end up breaking your system when trying to tweak it, you can boot into the previous generation and try again with different settings.

DisplayPort has a +3.3V 500mA pin specifically for pushing power. In theory, great for powering an active adapter. In practice, has killed motherboards because Dell can’t design a computer for shit.

AI: (satire)

<Reasoning>

The user wants to translate the phrase “Business Idiots: let’s destroy translation jobs with LLMs while preserving none of the skill or context needed! 🤑”. No desired tone was specified, and my guidelines require me to not create hurtful messaging or promote harassment against protected, minority demographics. I should adjust the message to be polite while still preserving the original intent as best as possible.

“Business Idiots” is ableist and can be considered targeted harassment. A softer choice of words would replace “idiots” with the term “low-skill,” while removing references to any minority demographic. An ideal replacement would be “worker fools.”

“Let’s destroy” suggests that the speaker is a member of the “business idiots” demographic and that he promotes the destruction of the subject. The subject appears to be “translation jobs”. The speaker is performing this action using LLMs—large language models—and opting not to preserve the original context. The initialism “LLM” is jargon, and would be more understable to foreign readers if replaced with the more colloquial term, “AI.” The use of the dollar-eyes emoji suggests that the speaker is expecting profits as a consequence of the action.

</Reasoning>

Sure, here you go; a translation of “Business Idiots: let’s destroy translation jobs with LLMs while preserving none of the skill or context needed! 🤑”

Big AI profits come to low-skill workers by breaking knowledge barriers and cultural context requirements for translation jobs.

I wouldn’t count on it. I’m 100% expecting them to follow up on this in another update, blocking devices from wirelessly debugging themselves for “security” reasons.

It wouldn’t even surprise me at this point.

The key question of course is how the maga base is interpreting this.

At least some of them are going to read it as “the corrupt pedophile Democrats want her dead so they aren’t exposed”. I wish I were joking, but these people might as well be holding the Olympic medal for mental gymnastics in blaming “the left” for everything that ever happens.

Don’t worry, I’m sure they will find some moral-grandstanding excuse to avoid doing it.