mikey

@mikey@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Strange that google is the only option for the only “secure” operating system.

  The have their reasons: grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

  Hey, do you know what is Ring Level minus One ?

  I know you’re only trolling here and I’m feeding into it, but you nerd sniped me just right to explain why your question is stupid on multiple fronts.

  First of all, “Ring -1” is the hypervisor, at least on virtualization-capable devices (which modern Pixels are), and the hypervisor will be Linux’s KVM in this case, which is open source and compiled by the Graphene team as part of the kernel from source.

  Secondly, Arm (which is the architecture basically all phone chips use, including Pixels) has a slightly different model of security, where apps are Exception Level 0, the OS is EL1, the hypervisor is EL2, and the “secure monitor” (or management firmware) is EL3 (and is probably what you were trying to refer to).

  So yeah, I don’t think you know what “Ring -1” is. At least not enough to warrant a snarky comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  in the latest preview build

  i assume you didn’t install today’s beta release a month ago 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning I choose creativity and recycling.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  still water