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Andrew Zonenberg @Andrew Zonenberg 1786615911

@nprofile1q... G100UL seems close. Not perfect, but close.

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Very interesting article "the rise and fall of tetraethyllead"

https://pubs.acs.org/orgnd7/article/22/25/5154/3532638/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Tetraethyllead-2

I hope I live long enough to read a similar article on the rise and fall of LLMs. It would probably be a really interesting read.

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Andrew Zonenberg @Andrew Zonenberg 1786564167

@nprofile1q... back in my day we called js cryptominers malware

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Andrew Zonenberg @Andrew Zonenberg 1786563989

@nprofile1q... as a guess, if it's part of a CPU as a firmware TPM it probably is legitimately locked down and defeats the point of "something I as the outer OS have full access to but that the VM thinks is locked down"

Andrew Zonenberg · 15h

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzsmqwsekvkxtykld4hty6wf37608m60vt2lxrt0kktgrqsk5m6ysyqr9vg ok that seems saner. I should check how xcp-ng does it, it nominally supports vTPMs bu...

Andrew Zonenberg @Andrew Zonenberg 1786563143

@nprofile1q... (being able to create a windows VM to sandbox MS products without having a TPM at *all* would be nice, but apparently we can't have nice things)

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Andrew Zonenberg @Andrew Zonenberg 1786563106

@nprofile1q... ok that seems saner. I should check how xcp-ng does it, it nominally supports vTPMs but I haven't tried using one on it yet.

I just know that vTPMs on vmware are a huge pain in the butt

Andrew Zonenberg · 15h

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzsmqwsekvkxtykld4hty6wf37608m60vt2lxrt0kktgrqsk5m6ysyqr9vg (being able to create a windows VM to sandbox MS products without having a TPM at *all* would be nice, but apparently we can't have nice things)

Andrew Zonenberg · 15h

vmware vTPMs seem to encrypt all of the config and make it very annoying to mess with things

Andrew Zonenberg @Andrew Zonenberg 1786563066

The entire point of a virtual machine is lying to the guest OS, why can't i lie to it about having a TPM?

Andrew Zonenberg · 15h

Are there any virtualization platforms that will create a fake vTPM that isn't actually locked down? Like, the VM thinks it has a TPM but I can still see and modify bitlocker keys and UEFI variables ...

Andrew Zonenberg @Andrew Zonenberg 1786562970

vmware vTPMs seem to encrypt all of the config and make it very annoying to mess with things

Andrew Zonenberg · 15h

The entire point of a virtual machine is lying to the guest OS, why can't i lie to it about having a TPM?

Andrew Zonenberg

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Are there any virtualization platforms that will create a fake vTPM that isn't actually locked down?

Like, the VM thinks it has a TPM but I can still see and modify bitlocker keys and UEFI variables etc arbitrarily from the host system

Andrew Zonenberg · 15h

vmware vTPMs seem to encrypt all of the config and make it very annoying to mess with things

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Andrew Zonenberg @Andrew Zonenberg 1786555411

@nprofile1q... Nice! Living the dream.

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Andrew Zonenberg @Andrew Zonenberg 1786555290

@nprofile1q... exactly, this is very much trying to undo that sort of damage.

I'd love to do it myself one day lol

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Andrew Zonenberg @Andrew Zonenberg 1786555265

@nprofile1q... it makes maintenance and installation a pain in the butt, plus I would want some pollinator habitat anyway.