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Comment Bitcoin is an example (Score 1) 110

by Truekaiser (#66191614) Attached to: Bitcoin Has Lost Nearly Half Its Value in 11 Months

Of how the pre central banking united states currency was. Or any asset backed currency for that matter.
One day a dollar was worth X, the next Y the following day it was worth H. Then those thinking because it was worth X then Y they were going to be rich when it hit Z, suddenly weren't.

This is why people at the time preferred to be paid daily, stashed it anywhere and everywhere. Then didn't even bother to retrieve it on the lows(and why any house or property dating to that time always has a handful of these stashes). This is the reason states and territories had 2008 level monetary crises routinely and the country as a whole every few years.

People think now that this volatility is a good thing. It isn't. it solidifies the social classes, keeping the haves having, and preventing the have not's from saving. Because as long as the value does not equal 0, the haves will still have more than the have not's. And the have not's will stay have not's because saving anything would be dumb, because there's a high chance that tomorrow your wage for the day yesterday could be worth less. So better spend it today when you can get more or you may starve.

Submission + - Sysadmin Creates "ModuleJail" to Automatically Blacklist Unused Kernel Modules

Submitted by internet-redstar
internet-redstar writes: After the recent wave of Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities like “Copy Fail” and “Dirty Frag”, Belgian Linux sysadmin and Tesla Hacker "Jasper Nuyens" got tired of the idea of manually blacklisting dozens or even hundreds of obscure kernel modules across large fleets of Linux systems in the near future. So he wrote ModuleJail, a GPLv3 shell script that scans a running Linux system and automatically blacklists currently unused kernel modules, reducing kernel attack surface without requiring a reboot. The idea is simple: many modern Linux privilege escalation bugs target obscure or rarely used kernel functionality that is still enabled by default on servers that do not actually need it. ModuleJail works across major distributions including Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora, AlmaLinux and Arch Linux, generating 1 modprobe blacklist rules file while preserving commonly used modules. Nuyens argues that the increasing speed of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery will likely turn kernel hardening and attack surface reduction into a much bigger operational priority for sysadmins over the next few weeks and months.

Comment Re:Once again, la Presidenta loses (Score 2) 133

by Truekaiser (#66106374) Attached to: Global Growth In Solar 'the Largest Ever Observed For Any Source'

Exports more than it imports because it doesn't classify Canada 'tarsand' that it imports as oil, but the refined products after it as oil. Oil production in the united states peaked in the 70's. Thats why we had the oil shock in the 70's, we ceased to be able to dictate the price.
Safe flow and extraction rates. for long term oil field health. As in to minimize sudden ground shifting as you remove what's keeping it up int he porous rock. Which if done incorrectly can permanently lock of parts of the oil field is why 'armchair' analyzers are always wrong about 'we have enough oil for ourselves'.

Comment Re:no dude (Score 1) 23

Nothing you said disproves that. It's not a hack, just turning the og console into an emulated version of itself, at that point you might as well emulate the entire thing on a modern pc. Because you're no longer using real hardware and any advantages that come with that but all the disadvantages of imperfect emulation.

A hack would be tapping into the internal video data lines/output/traces to input into an hdmi encoder chip for an hdmi port. But no we don't do that now, we just cram a raspberry pi, and emulate the entire video subsystem to get an hdmi output. Or in this specific case. a Hack would be overclocking the actual chip.

Comment Might as well use a software emulator. (Score 2) 23

I am hating the recent trend of sticking a raspberry pi into a retro console to 'emulate' part of it and calling it a hack.

If you're going to do that, might as well emulate it via software on a pc. you can leverage a full modern graphics stack, api's,a nd shaders to enhance the game.

Submission + - r/linux poster unearths Meta's lobbying net behind OS Age Verfication blitz (archive.org)

Submitted by He Who Has No Name
He Who Has No Name writes: In an incredibly in-depth researched post that was removed by Reddit mods almost as soon as it went up but is preserved at Archive.org, Reddit user Ok_Lingonberry3296 has dug deep into lobbying activity and records across multiple states and at the federal level to unearth what — or who — is behind the nationwide state-level and federal legislation blitz of nearly identical age verification laws targeting operating systems instead of companies — with no carveout for open source, no awareness of how these centralized control models break when applied to a FOSS operating system like Linux, and no apparent regard for the avalanche of second order effects the legislation could cause in contexts like embedded devices, VMs, and data centers.

The culprit that emerges isn't a huge surprise: a recently created lobbying org called the Digital Childhood Alliance, which appears to be functionally a front group for the lobbying efforts of... (drumroll) ...Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, formerly Facebook.

Ok_Lingonberry3296 writes: "...Rep. Kim Carver (R-Bossier City), the sponsor of Louisiana's HB-570, publicly confirmed that a Meta lobbyist brought the legislative language directly to her. The bill as drafted required only app stores (Apple, Google) to verify user ages. It did not require social media platforms to do anything.

...Senator Jay Morris, who expanded the bill to include app developers alongside app stores after Google's senior director of government affairs publicly questioned why "Mark Zuckerberg is so keen on passing these bills." When Morris introduced his amendment, Meta went silent. The conference committee compromise maintained dual responsibility but kept the primary burden on app stores, which is what Meta wanted from the start.

At that same Senate hearing, Morris directly questioned DCA Executive Director Casey Stefanski about who funds her organization. She reportedly deflected, said she "wasn't comfortable answering," then under continued pressure admitted tech companies provide funding but refused to name them."

The research gets into funding, connected groups (on both sides of the political aisle) involved with lobbying, messaging, funding, and other parts of the legislative push, and most of all, tracks the money.

For those that want to dig into the research itself, OK_Lingonberry3296 posted their entire folder of research and sources on github, here: github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

A quick synopsis of where the US laws currently stand:

CA | AB-1043 | Enacted, effective Jan 1, 2027
CO | SB26-051 | Passed Senate, in House committee
LA | HB-570 | Enacted, effective July 1, 2026
UT | SB-142 | Enacted, first in nation
TX | SB-2420 | Enjoined by federal judge
NY | S8102A | Pending
IL | HB-3304, HB-4140, SB-2037 | Pending
Federal | KOSA, ASAA | Pending

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