Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

https://eclypsium.com/2022/12/05/supply-chain-vulnerabilities-put-server-ecosystem-at-risk/

My research team at Eclypsium found a series of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in AMI MegaRAC BMC code. BMCs provide lights out management capabilities on a huge percentage of server motherboards & have highly privileged access to the system regardless of the OS. As this is a “top of the food chain” supplier we expect a significant number of OEMs to be releasing updates in the coming days..

Until then make sure your BMCs are off the internet, management networks are locked down, use remote syslog and remain vigilant.

This one makes me laugh every year… because it is so very true.

Well hello, worst idea I have come across in a long time https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42096801/corvette-brand-2025/

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@pluralistic
This is a fantastic interview.

"This is why merger scrutiny is such a big deal, because these companies are not built by super geniuses who use their access to the capital markets to build these impregnable businesses which no one else can assail. They are regular, venal mediocrities who use their access to the capital markets to buy everyone who might threaten them. If there’s merger scrutiny, that just stops happening."

'Venal mediocrities' is going into my autocomplete file.

'Financial independence' is perhaps this society's most dangerous myth.

We are told we're a failure or a parasite if we don't achieve it, when in fact it doesn't even exist.

Even if you're a billionaire, someone else still grew your food, someone else still built your house. You're still dependent.

Money just allows you to be dependent on people you don't know instead of people you do. Which is miserable.

Yet most give up most of the days of their life to striving for this unhappy illusion.

Manufacturers of all kinds bootstrap the DMCA into a new doctrine that Jay Freeman calls "felony contempt of business model." Removing DRM is illegal, so any business model that hides behind DRM is illegal to thwart. (via @pluralistic) https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/03/painful-burning-dribble/

*And* they did so with concepts and code that were intended to be shared openly and freely.

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“The internet is a space where a vanishingly small number of firms control nearly all of our speech forums […] The companies that operate those services bought their way to dominance, using predatory pricing to destroy any new company that tried to compete with them and buying any company that managed to survive that treatment.”

- @pluralistic

https://doctorow.medium.com/yes-its-censorship-2026c9edc0fd

surely we can do better

fun fact: if we had a large following on a social media site whose infrastructure was degrading, we could put undue pressures on its internal systems by doing things like requesting an archive as often as possible, going private/unprivate frequently, etc.

1989's Macintosh SE/30L is remembered as one of Apple's biggest flops. MacWorld criticised its rotated L display as "...bringing all of the issues and none of the benefits of a true L display", while MacWeek called it "Some kind of deranged P display nobody asked for".