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  • Basically it works by every component validating the next one before loading it.

    • UEFI validates the bootloader
    • Bootloader validates the OS

    They do this by checking a cryptographic signature. Specifically, UEFI checks that the bootloader is signed by a certificate that is in turn signed by a certificate authority (CA). You can upload custom CA keys in the UEFI interface.

    Per default, every UEFI ships with the Microsoft CA. That does not mean you can only run secureboot with Windows and you absolutely should enable secureboot on every machine you own. Microsoft does sign other signing keys allowing them to be also used with secureboot. For example, every major Linux distro has keys signed by the Microsoft CA and so secureboot works out of the box with those.

    Even if you have an OS that does not have a signing key signed by the Microsoft CA, you can upload your own secureboot keys to get around that.

    It should be pretty clear at this point that all of this is pointless if you do not set a UEFI password.






  • I’m not sure if you’ve ever had a public project, but for most people, be it YouTube, twitch, github, whatever, its not so easy. Negative comments grate on you, and, over time, can really take a toll.

    William Osman interviewed a bunch or creators about this: https://youtu.be/DVCpKfedfok

    Its not as easy as to call people out. Some people go great lengths out of spite, doxx you, send you death threats… Is it really worth it? Not that a “fuck off” will work anyway.

    You say people will join you but they really don’t. The reality is there are a ton of crucial open source projects being run by one person on the edge of burnout. See curl, xy, etc.

    Money absolutely would help and I wish the EU would put additional funding into this.


  • I would put truenas on the NAS, also put a VM on truenas with 16-24G of RAM.

    Create a kubernetes or docker swarm cluster with server 1 and the nas vm and just have everything as containers. This way you just have one resource pool, and the containers will be started wherever there are enough resources available. The containers will mount NFS shares from truenas which truenas will create automatically as ZFS datasets. ZFS supports snapshots.










  • So for those unaware. If followed through this would be the biggest economic crisis worldwide, since the great depression. No hyperbole.

    US treasury bonds are the way the US government borrows money. They are most of the debt. They are also the “safe asset”. Because it was assumed that the US, being the sole superpower and the biggest economy, would always pay back its debts. Because of this whenever organizations needed to park money super safely, they would use US government bonds.

    Around 30 trillion worldwide, that is 1/3 of the world’s GDP, is held in US bonds.

    You know who the biggest borrowers of US debt are? Pension funds. And you know the biggest one of all of them? Social Security. US social security holds around 3 trillion of US debt. Debt that would suddenly be worth nothing anymore.

    In total, around 27 trillion of treasury bonds are held in the US by pension funds, local governments, etc. These would be gone.

    Other countries would suddenly lose 3 trillion, biggest of which are Japan, China and the UK. Belgium Luxembourg and Switzerland hold a huge share compared to their economy, and could collapse completely.

    But hey, at least the national debt is gone, right?

    Well… No one would borrow the US money anymore. Who would trust them anymore? Likely, this would be the end of the USD as the worlds reserve currency. With that, I doubt military spending could be upheld. The US would collapse as a superpower.