The back of the laptop will not come off :( :( :( no matter what I do :(

There is a diagram on the Lenovo site. They didn't seem to think this was important to include int he video, the video was just like "use caution". It's also baffling. There are "latches" that have to be "pried up". How do you "pry" a "latch". What does that mean. Does it mean apply force. Latch 3D simply will not unlatch and I can see new little-but-distinct creases forming in the aluminum back of the unit

@mcc Been there! Good know it's not just my English skills preventing me from getting these things open without breaking them!

@Sempf

@neurovagrant @futurebird While completely agree Defender's periodic scans can badly impact systems, esp. with HDD's, just like any other AV. My impression is that vendors put the bar for acceptable disk I/O pretty high assuming SSD's and no other disk-intensive jobs on consumer PC's.

As gas transfer via UA closed I'm heating the house with Ghidra.

New Project Zero issue:

Windows Kernel False File Immutability attack on registry hives via the Cloud Filter API

https://project-zero.issues.chromium.org/issues/42451734

CVE-2024-49114

Diving into ADB protocol internals:

part 01: https://www.synacktiv.com/publications/diving-into-adb-protocol-internals-12

part 02: https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/diving-into-adb-protocol-internals-22

#adb #mobile #protocol #informationsecurity #cybersecurity #reverseengineering

Project: python/cpython https://github.com/python/cpython
File: Lib/ntpath.py:343 https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2bd5a7ab0f4a1f65ab8043001bd6e8416c5079bd/Lib/ntpath.py#L343

def expanduser(path):

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Progress security advisory: WhatsUp Gold Security Bulletin December 2024
@cR0w Progress allegedly published this advisory 12 December 2024, but the page wasn't available from Google search results (thank Gemini AI ✨ for being useless) and Progress doesn't maintain a dedicated security advisories section on their website. Anyway, this page hasn't been updated with new information since 12 December so it's also useless. Here are the three vulnerabilities:

• CVE-2024-12105 (6.5 medium) authenticated information disclosure via specially crafted HTTP request
• CVE-2024-12106 (9.4 critical) unauthenticated attacker can configure LDAP settings
• CVE-2024-12108 (9.6 critical) an attacker can gain access to the WhatsUp Gold server via the public API

No mention of exploitation. Patched in WhatsUp Gold version 24.0.2

#infosec #progress #whatsupgold #cve #vulnerability #cybersecurity

“This button vaporises the finger of anybody who presses it!”

“Why do you always focus on the negative? You critics should talk about the benefits of the Vaporiser2000™. Every press mints $100K USD. That’s an amazing societal benefit.”

“It mints it in the offices of those who make the button! The presser doesn’t get any. They’re using bribes and pressure to force the finger vaporisation onto others!”

“There you go again, focusing on the negative. This is why nobody takes critics seriously”

[RSS] Reko #decompiler version 0.11.6 released

https://github.com/uxmal/reko/releases/tag/version-0.11.6

[RSS] Linux KASLR Entropy

https://u1f383.github.io/linux/2025/01/02/linux-kaslr-entropy.html

I think everyone who has an opinion, positive or negative, about LLMs, should read how @simon summed up what’s happened in the space this year. He’s the most credible, most independent, most honest, and most technically fluent person watching the space. https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/

@buherator Fedi version, as requested - https://mastodon.social/@cfgbot

Cost of false positives | Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110781
#OnlineHarms #OnlineSafetyAct #classifiers #ofcom

Uhhh, I have a strange request. If you own a bread knife with a flat-sided handle in your kitchen, and calipers or something else that will measure to the nearest millimetre or so, and want something to do for 30 seconds, could you tell me how thick the handle is?

Yes, I'd like to collect some random samples of bread knife handle widths. Doesn't matter what brand, what it looks like, how long the blade is or where in the world you are.

I will explain later. Boosts appreciated.

#AskFedi