cursed computer shit
I am reminded of the cursed problem with my previous GPU + motherboard combo where, whenever dynamic power management was enabled on either the GPU *or* the CPU, the GPU would seem to mis-address some memory region or other.
Depending on which driver was used(!) this would result in either a) garbage being displayed on the screen, or b) it writing into the memory of random other processes, breaking them in absurd ways in the process, in the same way that broken RAM would, except it doesn't show up in a memory test!
You can probably imagine how much fun it was to track down and isolate this issue
re: shooting, fascism
Remarkably absent in media coverage is any sort of "how could this happen, what led up to this, what do we need to learn from this as a society"
If u didnt want ur robots tipped, ya shouldn't have sold footage to the cops 🤷♀️ idk what else to tell ya
ACAB includes tipping over delivery robots on sight (thx @science_is_hard for the link)
https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/111143881248571908
A popular German baking blog turned off RSS (EDIT: It works again!)
The RSS feed (https://www.ploetzblog.de/feed) works again!
In a reply below, I also "converted" the email newsletter to an RSS feed.
Original message:
Oh no, https://www.ploetzblog.de/ turned off #RSS after he redesigned the website. I mean, the redesigned website is nice and well arranged, but I can't follow it any more.
Has anyone written a RSS bridge for the new blog, or should we petition Lutz Geißler to re-enable RSS? The site seems to be based on #TYPO3.
(No, I definitely don't want to sign up with *any* ✉️ newsletter. Hm, I remember that there was a service that converts newsletters into RSS feeds)
Didn't realize that that particular error survived from the IRC times all the way into the Discord era :p
re: shooting, fascism
Dutch media now seem to be confirming that this identification was correct.
Transphobia, Unity game engine
(please boost to send this supposed "secret" across the fediverse) long, code. <=rpi3 codec licensing algorithm. replace the trigraphs (change ??= to # ) if your compiler doesn't like them.
// #RaspberryPi codec licensing serial algo (<=RPi3)
// shoutouts to fabien perigaud/synacktiv. your beerump 2017 presentation slides started me on this journey.
// (sure you redacted the fun stuff, I just rediscovered it myself)
// also shoutouts to everyone involved in BCM2708 reversing!
// greetings to elites, fuckings to lamers (second category includes broadcom and rpi foundation)
??=include <stdint.h>
??=include <stdio.h>
typedef uint8_t u8;
typedef uint16_t u16;
typedef uint32_t u32;
u8 vce_data[] = {
0x54, 0x6f, 0x76, 0x6b, 0x94, 0xce, 0x1a, 0x57, 0x56, 0x51, 0x0c, 0xb2, 0x72, 0xc9, 0xc3, 0x12,
0x13, 0xbc, 0xe8, 0xd2, 0x5b, 0xa3, 0x2d, 0x2a, 0x5a, 0x62, 0x4d, 0xeb, 0x16, 0x40, 0x05, 0x87,
0xe0, 0x98, 0x39, 0xf7, 0xac, 0xc6, 0xab, 0x7c, 0xe9, 0xfb, 0x07, 0xaa, 0x29, 0xcd, 0x1d, 0x9b,
0xf6, 0x0e, 0x01, 0xbb, 0x5c, 0xfc, 0x15, 0xae, 0xd9, 0xfa, 0x9c, 0xef, 0xf1, 0x75, 0x8e, 0x70,
0x46, 0x8b, 0xb0, 0x89, 0x50, 0xaf, 0x6e, 0x67, 0x18, 0xda, 0xee, 0xd4, 0x32, 0xbe, 0x4e, 0x58,
0x5d, 0x1f, 0x4b, 0x73, 0x88, 0xc0, 0x79, 0x02, 0xde, 0x47, 0xa0, 0x43, 0x9a, 0xdb, 0xc8, 0x35,
0x95, 0x3c, 0xcc, 0x8d, 0x64, 0x2f, 0x14, 0x68, 0x00, 0x71, 0x03, 0xb9, 0xed, 0x0b, 0xf3, 0x24,
0x60, 0xb1, 0x17, 0x63, 0xdf, 0x48, 0x41, 0xa4, 0x28, 0x5e, 0x2b, 0xd8, 0xb4, 0x90, 0xba, 0x83,
0xe4, 0x08, 0xd0, 0xe2, 0xb8, 0x6a, 0x10, 0x74, 0x9f, 0x7b, 0x19, 0x38, 0x8f, 0x91, 0xd6, 0xa8,
0x27, 0x06, 0x30, 0x33, 0x61, 0x34, 0x25, 0x21, 0x53, 0xc7, 0x66, 0x23, 0xff, 0xc5, 0x80, 0x85,
0xf4, 0xd7, 0x97, 0x99, 0x55, 0xf2, 0x8c, 0x04, 0x6c, 0x4f, 0xa1, 0x36, 0x20, 0x0a, 0xe1, 0x44,
0x59, 0xcf, 0x7d, 0xb6, 0xf9, 0x0f, 0x6d, 0x11, 0x78, 0x93, 0xe5, 0x3f, 0xf0, 0x9e, 0x84, 0xd3,
0x7e, 0xbd, 0xd1, 0xf5, 0xa5, 0x81, 0x22, 0x37, 0xf8, 0x52, 0xe3, 0x5f, 0xa9, 0xca, 0xfd, 0x42,
0x7f, 0x09, 0xa2, 0x9d, 0x8a, 0xb7, 0x4a, 0xe6, 0xa6, 0x77, 0x3d, 0x1c, 0x2e, 0xcb, 0x1b, 0x69,
0xb3, 0x1e, 0xc1, 0x7a, 0x82, 0xdd, 0x2c, 0xdc, 0x49, 0xea, 0x3a, 0xe7, 0x31, 0x4c, 0xad, 0xbf,
0x0d, 0xc2, 0xc4, 0x96, 0x65, 0x26, 0xfe, 0x92, 0x86, 0x3b, 0x3e, 0xec, 0xd5, 0xb5, 0xa7, 0x45
};
??=define INLINE static inline __attribute__ ((optimize (3))) __attribute__((always_inline))
INLINE u32 GET(u32 var, u8 bits) {
return vce_data[(var >> bits) & 0xff] << bits;
}
// should probably use bitwise OR, but this is what the vce code does
INLINE u32 GET32(u32 var) {
return GET(var,24) ^ GET(var,16) ^ GET(var,8) ^ GET(var,0);
}
// vce has no rotate instructions, so it does it the long way as in C
INLINE u32 ROR(u32 var, u32 right) {
return (var >> right) ^ (var << (32 - right));
}
u32 codec_license_hash(u32 board_serial /* r1 */,u32 codec /* r2 */) {
??=define CODEC_XOR_BOARD_ROR(bits) codec ^= ROR(board_serial,bits)
??=define BOARD_XOR_CODEC_ROR(bits) board_serial ^= ROR(codec,bits)
for (u32 i = 0; i < 17; i++) {
CODEC_XOR_BOARD_ROR(1);
BOARD_XOR_CODEC_ROR(6);
CODEC_XOR_BOARD_ROR(13);
BOARD_XOR_CODEC_ROR(17);
CODEC_XOR_BOARD_ROR(21);
BOARD_XOR_CODEC_ROR(29);
board_serial = GET32(board_serial);
codec = GET32(codec);
}
??=undef CODEC_XOR_SHIFTS_BOARD
??=undef BOARD_XOR_SHIFTS_CODEC
return codec;
}
// This board serial taken from hxxps://web.archive.org/web/20221208160705/forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=38901
// The person who owns the SoC with this serial burned in fuses did a nice thing and provided their own WVC1 + MPG2 keys, we can use that to verify this implementation is correct:
// decode_MPG2=0x6fd66307
// decode_WVC1=0x01a512b0
??=define BOARD_SERIAL 0x9d3e8cb1
void main() {
printf("??= VC1 key\ndecode_WVC1=0x%08x\n\n", codec_license_hash(BOARD_SERIAL, 0xf00bad34 ^ 0x57564331 /* 'WVC1' */));
printf("??= MPEG-2 key\ndecode_MPG2=0x%08x\n\n", codec_license_hash(BOARD_SERIAL, 0xf00bad34 ^ 0x4D504732 /* 'MPG2 */));
printf("??= Super-secret key ;)\n??=\n"
"??= start.elf, before booting ARM, reads bootsig key from efuses, then compares against 1/2 of 5 hardcoded keys.\n"
"??= If not equal, then this key is checked, if not correct then infinite loop + LED flash\n"
"??= (same as if 3rdsig -- ARM kernel binary HMAC signature -- verification fails)\n"
"??= As to *why* this is done, I have no idea. Bootsig key is also 128-bit HMAC key and this reduces the available\n"
"??= possible entropy for unique bootsig key (necessary for boot-time security I would think!) down to either\n"
"??= 51, 52, or 77 bits depending on what key was burned into your Pi's efuses...\n"
"decode_0001=0x%08x\n\n", codec_license_hash(BOARD_SERIAL, 0xf00bad34 ^ 0x30303031 /* '0001' */));
}
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