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Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

blogs.windows.com
177 points·by jovial_cavalier·2 miesiące temu·530 comments

UEFI shell vulnerabilities allow attackers to bypass Secure Boot

eclypsium.com
56 points·by jovial_cavalier·9 miesięcy temu·24 comments

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jovial_cavalier
·28 dni temu·discuss
idk if you're comparing like-for-like here. I think on EC2, other customers can balloon up to fill your idle time because they're running on the same physical hardware. What this is talking about is renting hardware that is exclusively earmarked for your usage, so your compute is not fungible with other customers. It's more correctly priced against buying your own hardware and maintaining it yourself.
jovial_cavalier
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
You don't even need to argue that you're better than the AI. The point is that the client could have uploaded it to ChatGPT too. Perhaps they even did, and they didn't like the answer they got. They are sending it to a human because they want a human to do the work. If you were to send back ChatGPT output, that would be fraud.
jovial_cavalier
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
The kloc fallacy never actually disappeared. Project and engineering managers got wise to the fact that it was only loosely correlated with shipping features, and stopped emphasizing it. Most everyone else has carried on silently believing it without really thinking about it. And of course engineers themselves have always believed it. How many times have you heard some guy talk about how he wrote 10kloc over the weekend as a brag?
jovial_cavalier
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
The problem is literacy. Even if you can read and write, that does not mean you can reduce a complicated idea into text. It also doesn't mean you can decode ambiguously worded and poorly structured writing. A meeting is often needed; not because the relevant people can't be bothered to write their thoughts down, but because they literally are not capable of doing it.

I've seen many grotesque misunderstandings go through 30 iterations of confusion across teams because nobody is good at communicating clearly. Then one 20 minute in person meeting clears it up.
jovial_cavalier
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I really want a linux virtual filesystem that does this.
jovial_cavalier
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Yes, lots of little web services and such run as unprivileged users, not root. I personally run a bunch of stuff as very restricted users in containers, with the threat model being that e.g. an RCE exploit in one of them will only affect the service, not the broader system.
jovial_cavalier
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
probably because the shell on TempleOS is actually a HolyC REPL, and HolyC is JIT compiled.
jovial_cavalier
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Frankly, very few people should be taking either of these drugs. Sometimes I forget how often people pop these things, it's really crazy. Consider just having a headache and dealing with it.
jovial_cavalier
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
a cop works for "the state," but he's definitely not a "state-level actor."
jovial_cavalier
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
Until they talk about being able to remove Edge, they aren't serious.
jovial_cavalier
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
If Microsoft leadership thinks that they took a wrong turn in the last few years, they are in for a rude awakening (I hope). They took a wrong turn in the late 90s. Probably earlier than that. They have managed to stave off all user feedback for 30 years through litigious bullying and strict vendor lock-in. This isn't about the taskbar, man. This isn't even about Copilot.

The pushback which you are only now starting to perceive is being caused by an entire generation of Microsoft intentionally and actively positioning itself in conflict with its customers.

I understand that once you have a million customers, you can't really treat them right anymore. But Microsoft has not given a single shit about customer feedback, even in aggregate for decades now.

As I read this, all I can think is "too little, too late." I have watched in my workplace Windows go from being a product that we are happy to purchase to yet another piece of technology that we would simply replace were we not yoked to it.

I guess even now they probably still don't care. Microsoft will continue printing money until the sun burns out.
jovial_cavalier
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
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jovial_cavalier
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-max
jovial_cavalier
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
why does everyone freak out about this terminal whenever it's posted?
jovial_cavalier
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
So the chefs are preparing food that has the same macros as ultraprocessed meals (I assume like tv dinners or something?) Why do they keep referring to the freshly-prepared food as "ultraprocessed"?

    “Is this processed or unprocessed?” I asked.

    Kozlosky smiled. “Ultra-processed,” she said. “Lots of participants can’t tell the difference.”
If the term has any meaning, you could tell very easily. Go look at a freshly fried tortilla chip, and compare it to a tostito. You know which one is which instinctively.

I thought I understood the study but now I'm not sure. I thought the idea was to take the exact same thing you'd get in a tv dinner and make it fresh, so no freeze drying, no preservatives, etc. Then if that food on its own causes the same pattern of health issues, we know it's simply a diet problem. It sounds like they replicated that effect. So they got evidence that ultraprocessing doesn't actually matter all that much?
jovial_cavalier
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
I'd argue that those are actually very performance critical because if it takes 5 seconds to unlock your phone, you're going to get a new phone.

The point is taken, though, that seemingly the performance is fine as it is for these applications. My point was only that you don't need to be running state of the art LLMs to be using vector math with more than 4 dimensions.
jovial_cavalier
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
A ton of vector math applications these days are high dimensional vector spaces. A good example of that for arm would I guess be something like fingerprint or face id.

Also, it doesn't just speed up vector math. Compilers these days with knowledge of these extensions can auto-vectorize your code, so it has the potential to speed up every for-loop you write.
jovial_cavalier
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
The BBC has also been posting classic Doctor Who episodes for free.

https://www.youtube.com/@ClassicDoctorWho
jovial_cavalier
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
The entire quoted section in the middle adds nothing. It just keeps repeating the same things over and over, and it doesn't answer the question of how we know the offset at all. Makes me think his "friend" is an LLM.
jovial_cavalier
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/commits/main/?after=e49f...