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remael | 8 years ago | on: Meltdown and Spectre Linux Kernel Status

Lenovo mentions [1] a "target availability" of a bios update for my x230 with ivybridge for 2nd of February. Intel didn't update the microcode for those chips yet.

[1] https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/de/de/products/storage/...

remael | 8 years ago | on: A plane flying over Germany drawing a Christmas tree

They could be employing some verification by using multilateration (time (difference) of arrival) between their receivers, which would make it a lot more resistant to spoofing.

EDIT: https://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works#mlat

remael | 8 years ago | on: Solar Roof

To be pedantic, he wrote "Vague, but exciting". See http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html for more info.

remael | 9 years ago | on: Roundcube Webmail 1.2.0 released with PGP support

You don't have to upload the key. It also supports the mailvelope browser extension.

remael | 10 years ago | on: VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report

Exactly. Those are two different, though related, issues. 1. Cheating on the NEDC tests. 2. Emission limits are not coupled to real driving scenarios. Edit: This is important to distinguish. 1 is illegal, 2 is the law but maybe changed.

remael | 10 years ago | on: Don't copy paste from a website to a terminal

If there's a newline in the pasted contend it's already too late.

remael | 10 years ago | on: Indian Government adopts an open source policy

The article says India is following in the steps of Germany and UK. I'm not aware of a policy in Germany that pushes government organistaions into using open source software. There are city administrations, like Munich, which switched over to Linux on their own account. Though that is nowhere near a national policy. What is the author referring to?

remael | 11 years ago | on: Reverse engineering a Qualcomm baseband processor [pdf]

Openmoko Neo Freerunner (GTA02), Nokia N900 (afaik) though not recent phones. Then there is GTA04 by Goldelico.

There is also a project called Neo900 which aims to do small upgrades to N900 and fence in baseband even more. You will be in control of application CPU and able to monitor baseband activities.

remael | 11 years ago | on: Reverse engineering a Qualcomm baseband processor [pdf]

For one there is the Openmoko Neo Freerunner (GTA02) which has a US version. It also has a seperated baseband only connected by some serial and audio lines.

remael | 11 years ago | on: Neo900 – Crafting the private phone [pdf]

There is still a lively community around the n900, as certain folks love its features. Though it has some drawbacks like only 256MiB RAM, no BT 4.0, no LTE, propper USB OTG, no gyro, no compass.

The point of the neo900 project is to perserve the features of the n900 and gently deminish the drawbacks. It is not about having a octacore and 16GiB of RAM which people using the n900 don't even care about.

For me the most important features of the n[eo]900 are: modem properly seperated from CPU/RAM (not the case for basically any smartphone of today), hardware keyboard, propper linux environment