CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@grahamperrin @mubix If you maximize the viewer, it'll show a download icon in the upper right, and the LinkedIn CDN will give you the full PDF.

@jalefkowit Yeah, they've had a FIDO2 fingerprint reader or two for a while now - stubby thing, kinda a leave-in model!

@lattera That'd be nice, but I'm quite sure that if these keys supported that, they'd be pretty loud and proud about it

New security keys from Kensington:

Kensington Expands VeriMark Portfolio with New NFC+ USB-C and USB-A FI

Kensington Expands VeriMark Portfolio with New NFC+ USB-C and USB-A FIDO2 Level 2 Security Keys

Kensington (www.kensington.com)

FIDO CTAP 2.1, IP68.

USB-A model K64738WW:
https://www.kensington.com/p/products/data-protection/fingerprint-security-keys/verimark-nfc-usb-a-security-key/

USB-C model K64739WW:
https://www.kensington.com/p/products/data-protection/fingerprint-security-keys/verimark-nfc-usb-c-security-key/

No mention of passkey capacity.

(h/t: Nerds.xyz)

@mcc I yield the floor

Hey, ZFS! Please replace my code, too!

That "ZFS helped me remove code" story going around is ironic in that it's describing replacing a custom-built script that does checksumming of files. One of the benefits of that script was detecting data corruption, and ZFS does replace that, because it provides block-level checksumming.

But there are other benefits to having a regularly updated file-level checksum database ... that ZFS doesn't provide. Doing it in ZFS would be dramatically more efficient than my custom script, which is why I requested it back in 2022:

"lazy" file-level checksums, based on awareness of changed blocks · Issue #13809 · openzfs/zfs

Describe the feature you would like to see added to OpenZFS ZFS is uniquely positioned to efficiently provide "lazy" (just in time / cached) file-level checksumming. This might have some of the following properties and behaviors: The adm...

GitHub (github.com)

@gnomon Yeah, demoscene competition

I had never encountered the word "compo" before this year.

@krypt3ia Indeed. As the translation layer between tech and gen pop, the journalists are supposed to pick up on this. But there's a lot of headwind. But hey, at least gen pop is getting the word that deleting the app doesn't delete the messages!

I don't understand why the recovery of deleted Signal messages is news.

If an attacker has full access to the endpoiint, Signal has never claimed to protect messages -- and IIRC, has expressly stated that they do not.

Edit: But hey, at least it is getting the word out that deleting the app doesn't delete the messages!

Costco's Basilisk - is that a thing

That Ubuntu "let's make GRUB more secure by forcing a ton of use cases onto an unsecure path" is some specious BS.

Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security

Ubuntu developers at Canonical are looking to strip the signed GRUB bootloader features to the bare minimum for the Ubuntu 26.10 release later this year

(www.phoronix.com)

@bazurk Ooh, how old? Pics!

@gnate

Yep, exactly. But they break the flow of understanding the text, historical usage be darned!

@mhoye @vaurora +5 for ddrescue, AKA gddrescue. Saved my bacon more than once - and a brilliant, elegant piece of software design. (Avoid Spinrite - it was useful on MFM/RLL drives, but is largely snakeoil on modern drives.)

@dramypsyd And making sure they have a little space around them, despite the pressure to exclude it (from editors and convention)!

Whoa - @Waffle_Real has open-sourced MDXfind!

https://github.com/Cynosureprime/mdxfind

#MDXfind

One of the web-purist users I support still has a User-Agent that contains SeaMonkey. All the feels.