Trammell Hudson @th@v.st
XKCD 927 strikes again: these two power supplies use *slightly* different connectors for the 8-pin plugs, so I have to rewire the entire PC to replace the PSU.
Configure your own cute electrict tug boat! https://vesselconfigurator.damen.com/configure/RSD-E%20Tug%202513
Luckily the bootloader works, because I can’t reflash it once the fpga is running (even in reset) for some reason.
Ah ha! I had forgotten to replace the do-not-populate diode drop for the 2.5v supply with a zero ohm resistor from the 3v3 rail (since this design does not use the NVCM OTP)
If it is too cold to go to the real coast in Scheveningen, the Mesdag Panorama in Den Haag offers the finest 360 virtual reality beach experience of 1881.
“You know a place is really shitty when human lives are cheaper than automation. Automation requires maintenance. People, you just replace.”
Really enjoyed Carrie Vaughn’s “Not the most romantic thing”, a little space operetta about a special op on an asteroid. https://www.tor.com/2023/10/11/not-the-most-romantic-thing-carrie-vaughn/
@quarkslab (but I was never asked if I would fix the problem for them... and even now I'm not sure exactly how Intel worked around the Bootguard fuse misconfiguration, so the mitigation section of my writeup is speculative)
@quarkslab for instance Sleep Attack (CVE-2020-8705) initially had a 90 day disclosure timeline, but in the end took almost a year to coordinate with between Intel, the BIOS vendors and the OEMs since it required new Management Engine firmware to be deployed. https://trmm.net/Sleep_attack/
The disclosure timeline for @quarkslab's PixieFail is hilarious and mirrors my experience of trying to manage disclosure of firmware vulnerabilities with IBV/ODM/OEMs. https://blog.quarkslab.com/pixiefail-nine-vulnerabilities-in-tianocores-edk-ii-ipv6-network-stack.html
