also didn't realize these things' fans are fully off most of the time, afaik the airs are always spinning at low rpm? kind of neat
silly 2015 mbp 13" situation today, no force touch (touchpad worked otherwise) and it only turned on intermittently with the touchpad connected... turns out this random capacitor on the bottom of the touchpad daughterboard was visibly burnt, and immediately crumbled into powder when i squished it with pliers. now it boots reliably and force touch is back?? not complaining, lol
I have spent a week writing a massive article about Windows 2. It has sexy screenshots and is full of incredible trivia. Why not spend the New Year's Eve reading it? ;)
Just finished my talk at #OBTS v7.0, spoke on Apple’s Rapid Security Response system.
Thank you to @patrickwardle & @andyrozen for hosting this amazing conference!
Slides and demo code below:
https://khronokernel.com/macos/2024/12/06/OBTS-v7-2024.html
Long thread/3
Expert agencies are often all that stands between us and extreme misadventure, even death. The modern world is full of modern questions, the kinds of questions that require a high degree of expert knowledge to answer, but also the kinds of questions whose answers you'd better get right.
You're not stupid, nor are you foolish. You could go and learn everything you need to know to evaluate the firmware on your antilock brakes and decide whether to trust them.
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read this please it's cool https://www.peow.studio/shop/stages-of-rot
took me a couple times to really understand what happened but im not complaining because it means i got to look at it a couple times
oh, to be made of an abstract elastic material that can stretch, bend, and pass through itself, but which cannot be ripped or punctured without destroying me, and which cannot be creased, or bent sharply
apparently Scavengers Reign is on american netflix now so any american-netflix-havers who haven't watched it yet should go remedy that immediately; it's incredibly cool and beautiful