Welcome to All Cloud, No Cattle Weekly #5.
Tech
Panic brought back Audion:
Today, we’d like to give you the chance to experience these faces yourself on any Mac running 10.12 or later. We’re releasing a stripped-down version of Audion for modern macOS to view these faces.
Audion was most old school Mac users’ MP3 player, so it’s great to see this little bit of Classic nostalgia.
Phillip Heller writing at Vintage Computing:
What is particularly interesting about reverse engineering Prodigy is that it was patented, and unlike contemporary patents, the patent is usefully descriptive. When reading the patent and contemplating a reverse engineering effort, I was very surprised to read the following:
The source code for RS 400 is provided as part of this specification. This source code can be found in the application file and is incorporated herein by reference.
Parler’s hardware requirements
@th3j35t3r:
Anyone wanna know what Parler are trying to put together from other hosting providers that aren’t AWS? Read this spec list. Good luck with this outside of AWS. Rob Monster of Epik Hosting won’t be able to give them this kinda grunt with his shitty white-label reseller acct.
How do you put together an infrastructure of this size, that costs this much, without having a functional, tested, and executable disaster recovery plan?
Asahi Linux details M1 boot options for Linux
Hector Martin, with the Asahi Linux project:
This means that, effectively, Linux will bootstrap off of a “shell” of macOS, a volume with just iBoot and a few files to convince Apple’s boot infrastructure that it is a legitimate OS that can be booted.
Turns out that the M1 isn’t nearly as locked down as initial reports, and that (as long as macOS is still present to help with the bootstrap), it’s perfectly possible to boot other operating systems.
And hot of the heels of Asahi Linux’s post, Corellium has done it.
So when Apple decided to allow installing custom kernels on the Macs with M1 processor, we were very happy to try building another Linux port to further our understanding of the hardware platform. As we were creating a model of the processor for our security research product, we were working on the Linux port in parallel.
The bootstrap script is very straightforward, and does not rely on any sort of “jailbreaking” or any hacks. It simply enables the firmware features required to load custom kernels. What Apple has done is disallow unauthenticated kernels by default, but make it trivial to enable them.
Grab Bag
The show’s creator, Angela Santomero, on instagram:
I have the pilot!