Not sure Intel will survive the next 5-10 years. But they definitely won’t without leadership that pushes for new, aspirational products vs. crouching into a defensive posture.

They desperately need moonshot leaders and stories.

Management is on 1034.

Another thing to watch out for is fake third-party utilities that will claim they will fix this problem. Unless directly provided from an official Distro itself and is verified, be careful what you download and install.

This is a golden opportunity for malicious actors to get bad code into systems.

If it’s never seen Windows you may be fine.

The problem is mostly for systems that dual-boot or had Windows at one point, but got Linux installed on top. A lot of people use old Lenovo, HP, or Dell computers and repurpose them for Linux. Those are the ones that may get bit.

The Windows update loads a chain of trust that tells the bootloader the device is OK and your version of Windows is real and your full-disk-encryption is fine. Linux folks don’t have (or need) all that. They can create their own chain of trust if they want, but they don’t have read/write access to the Microsoft one.

If they did, we would be reading a completely different article starting with why the world was on fire.

If you start with a reasonably recent Windows machine, there’s a TPM with secure boot (and MS keys) enabled. If setting up dualboot Windows/Linux, you’re going through BIOS/UEFI, so expiring keys will affect you. Booting into Windows and doing an update should fix the problem.

If you disabled secureboot/FDE, then installed Linux and left it at that, you should be OK.

But under Linux, those who reenable fulldisk encryption or secure boot via the TPM may be impacted by this, and since they’ve removed Windows, they may be screwed: https://allthings.how/how-to-enable-tpm-encryption-and-secure-boot-on-ubuntu-24-04/

If a product makes money on engagement metrics (ads, eyeballs, time), they’ll do everything they can do to maximize for that.

The slot machine analogy is apt. There’s research out there on how much time to optimize the dopamine hit and how long to go before you dispense the hit.

The trick is, as a consumer, to set limits and step away. Considering we’re here, best of luck to us all.

The one guy hand-soldering and fumes with no PPE or vent 😱

Eugenicists everywhere.

Take CERT classes. I dare you NOT to run out afterward and buy multiple fire extinguishers.

Data centers and enterprise. They’re getting smoked there by AMD and custom training/inference chips.

Best CAPTCHA ever!

Not buying it, unless there’s smoke involved at the end.

Turso: https://docs.turso.tech/libsql#encryption-at-rest

Also, DuckDB devs said it was planned: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/discussions/4512

9/28. WTF’ing through 90% of the questions.

Pickleball.

The whole point of SO was to let experts answer specific questions and build a trusted knowledge-base. Having AI answer questions removes the need for humans to even try answering anything.

These are all great ideas for enterprise (especially training on their internal knowledgebase). Not sure it’s worth their while to have a consumer-facing side any more.

There was a core flaw in the whole CPM model. This means the web has to find a different way to fund itself.

Sadly, it will cause a lot of pain, and it’s not clear what will be next.