BIOS Engines

I read this cool article on trying to get the Purism laptop booting with coreboot instead of the proprietary bios. Quite a lot of people having been trying to open up the Intel hardware ecosystem in the past few years, all those closed bits make it very hard to say that hardware is secure.

It would be nice if we could leave the Intel world and use ARM or MIPS processors, but I think the graphics situation holds us back.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon

PO-14

I was given a Teenage Engineering PO-14 for Christmas and took it with me to congress for entertainment on the way. The pocket operator has a load of functions hidden behind very few buttons, I had a lot of fun playing with it on the flight. I am still to really figure out everything this board can do.

Watching some OP-1 videos (their much bigger synth) TE manage to pack a ton of functionality into hardly any keys.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes

Fairy Dust

It is Sunday, so that makes seven days of writing .

Reading: Babylon's Ashes

Walking

Thought we had hit all of the peaks on Bennachie , but looking at stuff later it seems there are about 7 'summits' to hit. That's annoying, living in Aberdeen I have done the Mither Tap walk loads of times. Today was my first time taking the trek over to Oxencraig.

That was most of today, I poked some wireless driver stuff, but it is all initial steps.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes

Spooky Friday

It is Friday the 13th, wooooo spooky!!!!

Rudy_Giuliani was nominated Cyber Tzar or something yesterday, the hacker community suddenly became very interested in this credentials. This morning twitter was filled with the results of int gathering exercises.

The domain now points to localhost, someone clearly got a late night phone call. It is strange that only now is noise being made about this, Ruddy isn't exactly a popular figure in America. He made a lot of mistakes in high profile positions. The big scary guys in the Int agencies will have pursued all these leads a long time ago.

Of course, that is assuming the site wasn't a honeypot.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes

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