Hacker News: NovemberPapahttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=NovemberPapaHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 30 Oct 2026 04:16:00 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by NovemberPapa in "The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand"]]>I ordered 2 power supplies from China for work, and they power supplies were $60/each, and the tariffs were $45/ea. I am all for manufacturing in the US, but holy hell, give industry time to develop the skills and infrastructure

]]>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:01:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273708NovemberPapahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273708https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273708<![CDATA[New comment by NovemberPapa in "Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth"]]>How exploitable is this really? First, the machine has to do a PXE boot. In almost EVERY machine I have set up, it boots from fixed media first. Second, you have for force a machine reboot, and the machine has to be on a network you can reach.

Sure, there are lots of machines that PXE boot, but if it's on a public facing machine, why would you even configure it to PXE boot?

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