This post contains a canary message that's cryptographically signed by the official BusKill PGP release key

The BusKill project just published their Warrant Canary #010

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Status: All good
Release: 2025-06-16
Period: 2025-06-01 to 2026-05-31
Expiry: 2026-06-30

Statements
==========

The BusKill Team who have digitally signed this file [1]
state the following:

1. The date of issue of this canary is July 16, 2025.

2. The current BusKill Signing Key (2020.07) is

   E0AF FF57 DC00 FBE0 5635  8761 4AE2 1E19 36CE 786A

3. We positively confirm, to the best of our knowledge, that the 
   integrity of our systems are sound: all our infrastructure is in our 
   control, we have not been compromised or suffered a data breach, we 
   have not disclosed any private keys, we have not introduced any 
   backdoors, and we have not been forced to modify our system to allow 
   access or information leakage to a third party in any way.

4. We plan to publish the next of these canary statements before the
   Expiry date listed above. Special note should be taken if no new
   canary is published by that time or if the list of statements changes
   without plausible explanation.

Special announcements
=====================

1. We are changing from twice-yearly to once-yearly canaries

Disclaimers and notes
=====================

This canary scheme is not infallible. Although signing the 
declaration makes it very difficult for a third party to produce 
arbitrary declarations, it does not prevent them from using force or 
other means, like blackmail or compromising the signers' laptops, to 
coerce us to produce false declarations.

The news feeds quoted below (Proof of freshness) serves to 
demonstrate that this canary could not have been created prior to the 
date stated. It shows that a series of canaries was not created in 
advance.

This declaration is merely a best effort and is provided without any 
guarantee or warranty. It is not legally binding in any way to 
anybody. None of the signers should be ever held legally responsible 
for any of the statements made here.

Proof of freshness
==================

16 Jun 25 19:17:39 UTC

Source: DER SPIEGEL - International (https://www.spiegel.de/international/index.rss)
"Teacher Li": Catching Up with the Most Effective Chinese Regime Opponent
Firing at the Desperate: Palestinians Killed as They Gather to Receive Relief Supplies

Source: NYT > World News (https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml)
Live Updates: Israel Strikes Iranian State TV as It Expands Targets in Tehran
With No Clear Off-Ramp, Israel’s War With Iran May Last Weeks, Not Days

Source: BBC News - World (https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml)
No further damage seen at Iran nuclear sites, global watchdog says
'Nowhere feels safe': Iranians on life under Israeli attacks

Source: Bitcoin Blockchain (https://blockchain.info/q/latesthash)
00000000000000000000f2c3a15949aac2f6d7bc153330a4fca496f68c8c4b21

Footnotes
=========

[1] https://docs.buskill.in/buskill-app/en/stable/security/pgpkeys.html

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What is a Warrant Canary?

The BusKill team publishes cryptographically signed warrant canaries on an annual basis.

Although security is one of our top priorities, we might not be able to inform you of of a breach if served with a State-issued, secret subpoena (gag order).

The purpose of publishing these canary statements is to indicate to our users the integrity of our systems.

For more information about BusKill canaries, see:

• https://buskill.in/canary

To view all past canaries, see:

• https://www.buskill.in/category/Canary/

What is BusKill?

BusKill is a laptop kill-cord. It's a USB cable with a magnetic breakaway that you attach to your body and connect to your computer.

Watch the BusKill Explainer Video for more info youtube.com/v/qPwyoD_cQR4

If the connection between you to your computer is severed, then your device will lock, shutdown, or shred its encryption keys -- thus keeping your encrypted data safe from thieves that steal your device.

This post contains a canary message that's cryptographically signed by the official BusKill PGP release key

The BusKill project just published their Warrant Canary #009

For more information about BusKill canaries, see:

• https://buskill.in/canary

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Status: All good
Release: 2025-01-14
Period: 2025-01-01 to 2025-06-01
Expiry: 2025-06-30

Statements
==========

The BusKill Team who have digitally signed this file [1]
state the following:

1. The date of issue of this canary is January 14, 2025.

2. The current BusKill Signing Key (2020.07) is

   E0AF FF57 DC00 FBE0 5635  8761 4AE2 1E19 36CE 786A

3. We positively confirm, to the best of our knowledge, that the 
   integrity of our systems are sound: all our infrastructure is in our 
   control, we have not been compromised or suffered a data breach, we 
   have not disclosed any private keys, we have not introduced any 
   backdoors, and we have not been forced to modify our system to allow 
   access or information leakage to a third party in any way.

4. We plan to publish the next of these canary statements before the
   Expiry date listed above. Special note should be taken if no new
   canary is published by that time or if the list of statements changes
   without plausible explanation.

Special announcements
=====================

None.

Disclaimers and notes
=====================

This canary scheme is not infallible. Although signing the 
declaration makes it very difficult for a third party to produce 
arbitrary declarations, it does not prevent them from using force or 
other means, like blackmail or compromising the signers' laptops, to 
coerce us to produce false declarations.

The news feeds quoted below (Proof of freshness) serves to 
demonstrate that this canary could not have been created prior to the 
date stated. It shows that a series of canaries was not created in 
advance.

This declaration is merely a best effort and is provided without any 
guarantee or warranty. It is not legally binding in any way to 
anybody. None of the signers should be ever held legally responsible 
for any of the statements made here.

Proof of freshness
==================

14 Jan 25 01:01:33 UTC

Source: DER SPIEGEL - International (https://www.spiegel.de/international/index.rss)
A Miracle? Pope Francis Helps Transsexual Prostitutes in Rome
Boost for the Right Wing: Why Did a German Newspaper Help Elon Musk Interfere in German Politics?

Source: NYT > World News (https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml)
What an Upended Mideast Means for Trump and U.S. Gulf Allies
Russia and Ukraine Battle Inside Kursk, With Waves of Tanks, Drones and North Koreans

Source: BBC News - World (https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml)
Gaza ceasefire deal being finalised, Palestinian official tells BBC
Watch: Moment man is saved from burning LA home

Source: Bitcoin Blockchain (https://blockchain.info/q/latesthash)
0000000000000000000042db9e17f012dcd01f3425aa403e29c28c0dc1d16470

Footnotes
=========

[1] https://docs.buskill.in/buskill-app/en/stable/security/pgpkeys.html

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To view all past canaries, see:

• https://www.buskill.in/category/Canary/

What is BusKill?

BusKill is a laptop kill-cord. It's a USB cable with a magnetic breakaway that you attach to your body and connect to your computer.

Watch the BusKill Explainer Video for more info youtube.com/v/qPwyoD_cQR4

If the connection between you to your computer is severed, then your device will lock, shutdown, or shred its encryption keys -- thus keeping your encrypted data safe from thieves that steal your device.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/10932702

the nvidia 12VHPWR shitstorm continues!

I work as a software engineer and I have a RX 6750XT for gaming, but recently I've been receving requests for AI applications that I'm quite unable to run locally because I don't own an Nvidia GPU.

My motherboard is an ASUS B650M-A WIFI II, it does have 2 PCI x16 slots, and since I'm quite happy with the performance I get from my 6750XT, I was thinking in buying an Nvitia RTX 4060 or 3060 even, a cheaper RTX GPU just for AI training locally.

What do you guys think? Would I lose any performance in gaming? I would like to avoing switching GPUs and I've got a 850w PSU that prob can handle both at the same time just fine.
Also selling my AMD and using the extra money to buy a 4070 or something is our of question, I live in Brazil and anything over a 60 model gets really expensive here.

My setup currenly is:
Ryzen 5 7600 (water cooled)
RX 6750 XT (oc)
32GB RAM
850W PSU (80+ gold)
1 SSD 2TB gen4 NVME
1 SSD 1TB gen3 NVME
1 SSD 1TB sata
1 SSD 500gb sata

As I wrote before, Thunderbolt now is essentially a certification program for certain USB4 devices and for PCs, there's no difference currently in practice.

With USB4 version 2.0, the program will be called Thunderbolt 5 but the way I read it, Intel is planning to restrict the certification further on lighter workstations. Read this page

Laptop charging: Thunderbolt™ 4 technology for thin and light notebooks that require up to 100W to charge. Thunderbolt™ 5 technology for laptops that require up to 140W to charge. 140W‒240W is available on some devices.

Seems like a small change, doesn't it? Wrong. This is a very big change which tests the clout of Intel against the will of Lenovo/Dell/HP. Let me explain. For near two decades now, all business laptops charge over 20V. From 2014 to 2019, the USB C specification only allowed up to 100W by using 20V 5A. This didn't faze much the big three and they have their proprietary 20V 6.5A (or so) docks. Lenovo even created such a charger last year when PD 3.1 was already out for some time with the appearance of the ThinkPad Z16 and the Z16 Gen 2 this fall still shipped with that (meanwhile the consumer Legion line switched over with the C135 being proprietary last year and the C140 being PD 3.1 this year). At higher wattages they are using proprietary power plugs and combo cables which allows their customers to dock with plugging a single cable and charge at basically any wattage up to like 230W. This means the incentive for PD 3.1 is not really that big.

Now, in 2019 the USB IF raised the wattage but since the connector didn't change, the amperage needed to stay put and so they raised the voltage. This is the big change. If I am reading correctly and Intel will deny certification unless the manufacturer uses PD 3.1 then the big three needs to augment their laptops and docks to support 28V. But also depending on how strict Intel goes, TB5 certification might require downright abandoning their proprietary means because the USB C specification doesn't allow proprietary charging protocols over the C connector (yes, all your phone chargers which support Qualcomm QC over C are not specs compliant).

Will they care? Macbooks with plain (not Pro/Max) CPUs also shipped as USB4 because they do not conform to TB4 requirements of dual displays and it doesn't seem like this made a dent in sales because we are now three generations in and Apple didn't change the capabilities of their lowest tier CPU. On the PC side, AMD models only ship with USB4 too and who cares?

Does Intel have the clout in 2024 to force laptop manufacturers to the new standard or will they shrug and say they don't need a Thunderbolt 5 sticker on those laptops then? Stay tuned, this will be interesting.

x86 came out 1978,

21 years after, x64 came out 1999

we are three years overdue for a shift, and I don't mean to arm. Is there just no point to it? 128 bit computing is a thing and has been in the talks since 1976 according to Wikipedia. Why hasn't it been widely adopted by now?

Heya, this article is a must-read for everyone who is into GPU's:

https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Geforce-RTX-4090-Grafikkarte-279170/Tests/Die-beste-Grafikkarte-2024-Teil-1-4K-Ultra-HD-1433940/

Content as far as I see it:

- 20 new rasterizing games
- 10 advanced ray tracing games
- 4 resolutions tested (Full HD, WQHD, UWQHD, Ultra HD)
- Demanding custom GPU sequences for every game (videos included)
- Latest drivers and game versions
- "Leistungsindex" = Performance Charts for every GPU and res.
- Energy efficiency and price/perf analysis

That's both quality and quantity. The text is in German, but every benchmark is written in English (and quite detailed, I'd say). Use Google (Chrome) translate for the full package. :)

So my personal laptop is a Lenovo (gaming), and my work laptop is an Asus.

Here is the weird thing: despite the fact that my personal gaming laptop has better specs in every way, I feel like my work laptop is more "stable". You know, those "windows moments" like silly bugs or lags here and there, they are more present in my personal laptop.

Why do you think that might be? The first possible reason I thought of was that maybe some brands make better drivers for their components?

So I've struggled to find a sub that I can ask this question, since dedicated technology news subs just only let you post links to news and not actual discussion of news sites. I used to read a combination of Engadget, Gizmodo, and The Verge for general tech news. This is over a span of a decade or more. Gizmodo was always a cesspool, but I guess I wasn't very mature and could overlook how juvenile it was. It eventually got sued into oblivion along with Gawker's whole network. I had abandoned it years prior. The Verge has always been a vomit of unorganized news stories with a heavy hipster, progressive vibe. I dabbled in it for a bit but got tired of it. The one I've mostly leaned on was Engadget. It wasn't always the most in-depth, but it didn't have to be. It had my most coveted format, which was chronological blog style where you can scroll from top to bottom and see all the posts until you reach the last point you stopped at. It was great for completion and FOMO. I just wanted the news, a general smattering of everything, not exntensive deep dives, and most definitely not politcally charged opinion pieces masquerading as news. But of course, like much of the internet, it's leaned heavily to the left, and has turned every product reveal or social media revelation into an angry social justice diatribe. I'm getting so tired of it. The latest fiasco is a hit piece on Elon Musk and the newly released Cybertruck. It's been around for years, and they've covered it objectively enough for years, but somehow all that professionalism has been thrown out the window in favor of railing against how this new truck will somehow kill people on purpose, because they can't get past their personal hatred of Musk. I want facts, not your deranged opinion. Cost, release date, charging standards, stuff like that. They have also recently vomited maybe 200 "listicles" during Black Friday in a sorry attempt at ad spamming. I really need a replacement tech news site. Something blog style that covers a wide breadth.