God Emperor of Mastodon (new account)

@michal@sapka.pl

This is my new, future account. While most interaction still happen on the bsd.cafe one, I aim to migrate fully here.

I am posting mostly culture, emacs, bsd and anti-ai based ramblings. I don't curse and I try not bait people into pointless anger rages.

I am a nerd (or dork? I don't know), a software engineer and I started to hate what technology has bacame.

This is a self-hosted, single-user instance running on snac2.
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Sylvain Soliman ☕️ boosted

[?]God Emperor of Mastodon (new account) » 🌐
@michal@sapka.pl

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/microsoft-secure-boot-has-been-broken-for-most-of-its-existence/

" Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now "

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[?]Andreas (82MHz) » 🌐
@82mhz@mastodon.bsd.cafe

@michal No one noticed... but I don't think anyone is surprised about it, either 🙄

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    [?]God Emperor of Mastodon (new account) » 🌐
    @michal@sapka.pl

    Can't say that I am. But there were folks who raised their brows when they heard that I always disable it.

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    [?]Andreas (82MHz) » 🌐
    @82mhz@mastodon.bsd.cafe

    @michal Turns out they had it disabled too, they just didn't know it ;)

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      [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
      @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

      @michal my rule is: it it comes from Microsoft, disable it and you’ll be more secure

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        [?]✰ 𝔽𝕣𝕖𝕕 ✰ » 🌐
        @fd0@mastodon.nl

        @stefano @michal

        or remove if possible

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          mirabilos🐈‍⬛ boosted

          [?]✰ 𝔽𝕣𝕖𝕕 ✰ » 🌐
          @fd0@mastodon.nl

          @stefano @michal

          complexity is the enemy of correctness.
          as is vendor lock in

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            [?]Parade du Grotesque 💀 » 🌐
            @ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org

            @stefano @michal

            My motto has always been: if you have Microsoft anywhere in your infrastructure, you will be hacked. It's just a question of when, not a question of if.

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              [?]mirabilos🐈‍⬛ » 🔓
              @mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org

              @ParadeGrotesque @michal @stefano so Restricted Boot only locked out the average users wanting to run BSD or tiny community distros, not the baddies?

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              Who would have thought? 😹

              told you so

                [?]Linuxine » 🌐
                @linuxine@social.linuxine.net

                @michal IMO UEFI / Secure boot was never about security, but about preventing user to do whatever they want with the hardware they bought 😅

                  [?]tanavit » 🌐
                  @tanavit@toot.aquilenet.fr

                  @michal

                  Microsoft has no liability in protecting Linux installations.

                  PS : I use only Linux since three decades.

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