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New comment by jolan in "Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked"

jolan — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:12:46 +0000

Cloudflare offers domain registration/renewal with no markup if you're looking for an option. I moved to them after AWS increased fees.

New comment by jolan in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

jolan — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:46:47 +0000

Tony Chen from Microsoft gave a talk called "Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story" and he explains that they want any sort of physical attack to cost at least the price of 10 games ($600 at the time).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo&t=715s

New comment by jolan in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

jolan — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:38:38 +0000

This attack is on the early models that didn't have those protections enabled. The researcher surmised that later models do indeed have anti-glitching mechanisms enabled.

New comment by jolan in "Amazon EC2 M9g Instances"

jolan — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:39:06 +0000

FYI, it's been almost two years since us-east-1-chi-2 launched and it's still missing on the site. Any reason for this? Kind of feels like local zones are a 2nd class citizen even at AWS itself.

Thank you for maintaining this, I do use it every few months at $DAYJOB and it's quite useful for my capacity/deployment planning.

New comment by jolan in "Andrej Karpathy's YC AI SUS talk on the future of the industry"

jolan — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:33:36 +0000

I think he meant the audio output itself sounds like an infomercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfr4BP4V1R8

New comment by jolan in "The Toyota Prius transformed the auto industry"

jolan — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:19:02 +0000

This is a great series by a Toyota mechanic:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeFzfl0Q8rQUOHwFNOMTu...

He goes into the practicalities of owning/maintaining/repairing as well as the engineering.

New comment by jolan in "Hardware Security Exploit Research – Xbox 360"

jolan — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 01:26:55 +0000

Yes that revision is patched to specifically counter RGH. Microsoft disabled the ability to get the precise timing needed from the CPU and also added more filtering/robustness so the system will reset properly instead of getting into the inconsistent state of the old revisions.

New comment by jolan in "Hardware Security Exploit Research – Xbox 360"

jolan — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:22:12 +0000

The Winchester revision is still considered unhackable afaik. It's crazy how many Xbox 360 revisions there were compared to other consoles.

New comment by jolan in "OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt"

jolan — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 03:24:38 +0000

If you want a more polished product, GL.iNet's Flint 2 is almost identical, has more ports, and runs stock OpenWrt just fine:

https://openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/gl-mt6000

New comment by jolan in "Private Cloud Compute Security Guide"

jolan — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:03:58 +0000

https://x.com/_saagarjha/status/1804130898482466923

https://x.com/frogandtoadbook/status/1734575421792920018

New comment by jolan in "“Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale"

jolan — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 22:20:27 +0000

Would be great if EOL models could be officially transitioned to ChromeOS Flex in some way.

New comment by jolan in "Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices"

jolan — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:46:01 +0000

Yes, WiFi 6 has a lot of major improvements to reduce latency.

Intel has a good write up here:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/gaming/resources/wif...

New comment by jolan in "L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Eliminated’"

jolan — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 01:14:45 +0000

52% of Swedish households are 1 person households[1] so they were sort of self-isolating by default. As you can see from the other replies, that wasn't enough to keep transmission at bay.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/D...

New comment by jolan in "AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective by design?"

jolan — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 12:59:22 +0000

I picked the ASRock X570 Taichi since I needed 3 PCIe slots and it was on sale for ~$260. Very happy with it and yeah I'm not overclocking or using any of the quasi-overclock settings either.

New comment by jolan in "AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective by design?"

jolan — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:04:01 +0000

I see similar behavior with a 105W 3950X when running prime95. I haven't experienced instability otherwise over the 2 months I've had this build running.

Google's stressapptest runs fine for long durations, building a kernel with make -j32 succeeds (and can boot it), every parallelized archiver like 7z,pbzip2,pigz,xz is ok, and even gaming on a Windows VM using 8c/16t + GPU passthrough works well.

This is my first Ryzen system so I chalked it up to a possible carry over of DDR4 issues from earlier generations. I didn't investigate further since the 3950x had just been released and I couldn't find any other reports of prime95-only instability until now. And just to reiterate, it is perfectly stable otherwise.

Heavy AVX2 workload breaking things fits better so will have to try to collect more data.

New comment by jolan in "Edward Snowden: Permanent Record"

jolan — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:45:20 +0000

You can verify whether you received a genuine key at:

https://www.yubico.com/genuine/

New comment by jolan in "VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing"

jolan — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:51:35 +0000

If you want to send as little data as possible to Microsoft there are other settings to consider:

        "telemetry.enableCrashReporter": false,
        "code-runner.enableAppInsights": false,
        "update.channel": "none",
        "extensions.autoUpdate": false,
        "extensions.ignoreRecommendations": true,
        "workbench.settings.enableNaturalLanguageSearch": false

New comment by jolan in "Intel Has a Big Problem"

jolan — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 20:59:32 +0000

Is there an embargo? Is it a silly play on the James Bond reference that Spectre represented? Either way pretty funny since you can't know for sure after this fiasco.

Botched micro code updates, Intel engineers arguing with each other on the linux kernel mailing list, etc. Intel's best and brightest have had 6+ months to work on proper mitigations in secret and this is the result.

https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151559244214217&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151559367514704&w=2

New comment by jolan in "Intel Has a Big Problem"

jolan — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 19:47:13 +0000

It's not even close to being over -- https://skyfallattack.com/

New comment by jolan in "Linux 4.7 Released"

jolan — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 03:52:23 +0000

The RX480 w/AMDGPU-PRO works pretty well in most cases for desktop/gaming/OpenCL use.

AMD's Linux team is in the middle of a big push to modernize the driver and software stack. It seems they consider it a mostly working preliminary version.

You can choose-your-own-adventure with the totally open amdgpu+mesa stack or use the proprietary AMDGPU-PRO. You can follow development of the open source parts on this mailing list:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/

I do agree with others that NVIDIA is a better choice if you want something that just works and you don't care about proprietary vs. open source.