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Piko Starsider 
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As some of you may know, I am autistic. That brought me all sort of problems during my life because of misunderstandings (both mine and other people's). If I'm not forgetting anything, I haven't had that kind of problems in fedi so far. However I'm increasingly worried that I'm going to step on a mine by misunderstanding something or being misunderstood by someone.
I used to feel comfortable here because it seemed there's more autistic people on fedi than in other social networks. It's probably the case since were just a bunch of nerds. But I'm also noticing more and more events that could perfectly be explained by a failure of understanding a person. I'm not saying that it is what is happening, it's just that is likely.
Let me explain a typical nightmare scenario for an autistic person, which tend to happen a lot in our youth: Someone like a parent o a teacher is very mad at you. Maybe for saying or doing something. But usually you have NO IDEA what it is. Or if you happen to figure out what it is, you don't know WHY they got so mad. Any attempt of explaining makes things worse, because it looks like you did it on purpose! Imagine this happening many times while you grow up. In the end you probably end up learning to feel guilty without reason.
Society is FULL of unwritten rules that are so obvious to most people and yet it trips most autistic people. We are not stupid or too lazy to learn the rules. We hear the rules but they're in an alien language to us. Society needs to understand that we need some patience, we need someone pointing the obvious. Because it frequently happens that it's only obvious to you and not to us.
Also I'd like to mention that a very common myth about autistic people is that we don't feel empathy or emotions. Nothing could be further from the truth. We're very empathetic (apparently more than non autistic people on average). The trouble is, that our empathy is tuned to a very different wavelength than most people. So understanding others is something we have to LEARN and in most cases someone has to help TEACHING us. Otherwise we grow to the stereotype of autistic asshole that uses their autism as an excuse.
How does it relate to the meta? I see once again accusations against some people of being racist. I'm not claiming any of those accusations are legitimate or illegitimate, that's not the point, and I implore you to not put words in my mouth. I'm just mentioning that to explain one of the fears I have. I fear that many of us autistic people will never be taught when someone is unknowingly being racist before we commit the same mistake, and we're denied an explanation becase "we should have known", because "it's obvious", because "you have to be blind to not see it, obviously you're doing it on purpose and acting ignorant, you're not fooling anyone!".
Please, PLEASE, remember that people like us exist and don't automatically assume malice. Sometimes it's just that we didn't know, even if it sounds ridiculous to you. Point the obvious. Give us the opportunity to learn. If you care about #ableism don't forget about us. #autism @actuallyautistic
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ENG. Tretron đČ
tretron@bark.lgbtToday i went to the opening of a new gym by my personal trainer who started his gym during covid, focused on personal attantion and rehabilitation for unhealthy food and livestyles through personallised all around plans. I have signed up by them around 5 months after they opened and still enjoy going there.
during his opening speech he got real emotional and the crowd was supportive of this. This is perhaps one of the best things that happened. So many times I have seen a man crying (fromjoy/or pain) played off as a joy. but this was just a human crying from achieving his dream through his will and enterpeuneurship and it was just accepted. I wish this was the norm and rather happy that it happened like this.
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Here it is: the Finnish Parliament has sided against #ChatControl !
I am overjoyed that in their statement, they have outlined exactly what this proposal would entail: mass surveillance in Europe.
From their statement (translation by me):
"..the suggested model would, in fact, lead to the mass surveillance of communication and would weaken the integrity of communication in the EU."
https://www.eduskunta.fi/FI/vaski/Lausunto/Sivut/SuVL_10+2024.aspx
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mei@donotsta.renothing could have prepared me for the sight of this complexity.
what the fuck do you mean "lexical nesting level"
is this a lisp machine or what.
instructions dreamed up by the utterly deranged.
this is what CISC processors are demanding your respect for
honestly I preferred IBM S390's instructions implementing DEFLATE.
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Terence Eden
Edent@mastodon.socialProgrammers: 80 character width code displays are just a naturally good line length.
Historians: ErrrrâŠ
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/11/book-review-ibm-and-the-holocaust/
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rose rubedo
bassarisky@yiff.lifeShow content
hellooooo down there~
(also: gonna start tagging stuff, in part so i can add some of the tags to my profile because Why Not)
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Ars headline: "Found in the wild: The worldâs first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux"
Article then proceeds to describe a toy GRUB wrapper bootkit that has nothing to do with UEFI firmware (other than running on UEFI systems like any other UEFI bootloader), does not persist in UEFI firmware whatsoever (it just is installed in the ESP partition on disk), and can be killed by not just a drive swap, but any OS reinstall, and even simply a GRUB update/reinstall.
And which looks like a toy demo from every angle, that any experienced security researcher could have cooked up in a couple afternoons. Hardcoded kernel patch offsets for a single specific Ubuntu kernel build and all. No novel techniques in use. This could have even been a homework exercise as far as I'm concerned.
In fact, it has an obvious mistake, touched on by the original article: LD_PRELOAD is set to a string trailing with " /init", no doubt a copy+paste of the command line used to achieve the same execution during testing. The correct string would have omitted the " /init", and the mistake would have caused an error message like this to be printed for every executable launched until LD_PRELOAD is overridden:
ERROR: ld.so: object '/init' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (invalid ELF header): ignored.
Furthermore, this bootkit is incomplete, since it relies on chaining into components installed via another mechanism (e.g. /opt/injector.so in the initramfs). A true bootkit only relies on its own first stage to drop all subsequent stages. That's the whole point of setting up a boot chain compromise like this. Otherwise you can defeat it by removing any of the stages, even if the bootkit stage is intact. As it stands, this bootkit isn't really a bootkit, it's just a module signing side-step that allows a traditional rootkit to be loaded on a system with Secure Boot enabled (and, since the Secure Boot is still working as intended, that results in a prompt on the first reboot asking the user to install the "bootkit"'s certificate into the UEFI trusted certificate store, since it is obviously not trusted by default). So it can't even be installed without clear warning to the user that something is wrong.
Come on, @dangoodin. I expect better than this from Ars, and I expect a correction, because this is just inexcusable misinformation. The original article clearly mentions how to kill this "unkillable" bootkit, which tells me you didn't even read the original article all the way.
A simple remedy tip to get rid of the bootkit is to move the legitimate /EFI/ubuntu/grubx64-real.efi file back to its original location, which is /EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi.
Update: article & headline have been updated.
Update 2: It was a student project after all. Lol.
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