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<robot_>anyone on

<robot_>hello

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<etno>o/

<robot_>ahhhh

<robot_>speak english?

<etno>Welcome to the AI generative chat system ! (kidding :) )

<etno>Well, that was short... :-/

<damo22>you cant seriously evaluate the irc protocol in 3 minutes

<etno>Filtering out people which can't wait for 3 minutes is a powerful feature

<damo22>i helped a friend install coreboot on a pair of laptops. Good deed done for the week

<etno>ACTION learns about coreboot

<damo22>etno: this is the installation method in most cases https://i2.paste.pics/PX73C.png

<etno>damo22: impressive! what could go wrong? 😅

<damo22>you always back up the chip first

<damo22>worst case you plug something in the wrong way and fry the mainboard

<etno>yeah, that was my first concern; but actually, having a backup also makes a lot of sense

<damo22>yea you can always flash the original back to the chip

<etno>damo22: not the same era, but I am kind-of replacing the firmware of something as well :) http://af.fr.eu.org/etno/posts/2023/10/30/hot-rom-wrapped.html

<damo22>nice

<damo22>no thinkpads have been harmed so far in my hands, and ive flashed a few now

<damo22>what you have done is far advanced from anything ive done with electronics

<damo22>i just know how to fiddle with firmware and read a basic schematic

<etno>Well, I did burn a few chips, so you did better :D

<damo22>hehe, but thinkpads are designed to be flashed in place

<damo22>youre wiring up something completely custom from scratch

<damo22>something else i find amazing apart from people making hardware, is the MAME project, they have emulated almost every arcade machine that exists in software...

<etno>agreed (and computer systems as well). A bit sad that the C++ hyper-meta-templating makes it hard to read, though.

<damo22>imagine if MAME and QEMU combined

<damo22>:P

<gnu_srs1>Hello, my kern.log file showed the following after starting a qemu Hurd image: qemu with kvm support Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz

<gnu_srs1>023-11-23T15:27:19.554217+01:00 G3620 kernel: [66843.359340] L1TF CPU bug present and SMT on, data leak possible. See CVE-2018-3646 and https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.html for details.

<gnu_srs1>And the disk activity was extremely high until I shut it down. In September one of my Hurd images was destroyed and fdisk -l now reads:

<gnu_srs1>Device Start End Sectors Size Type

<gnu_srs1>hurd-2013.img1 2048 1026047 1024000 500M EFI System

<gnu_srs1>hurd-2013.img2 1026048 134215679 133189632 63.5G Microsoft basic data

<gnu_srs1>Can these be related? I won't restart Mahler until this is resolved. The web page advise on how to counter this kind of vulnerabilities.

<gnu_srs1>Comments please!!

<gnu_srs1>Unfortunately the September logs are lost by now :(

<youpi>gnu_srs1: the L1TF bug only allows access to data, not modify it

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