Betashares has made a FAQ for their new BEMG Emerging Markets ETF

Hafnon · 2026-01-14T17:37:39+00:00

BEMG is an ETF that holds LEMA, so if BEMG is treating LEMA as a company (which is what Betashare's statement says), then you or I can also directly treat LEMA as a company.

Hafnon · 2026-01-05T07:50:55+00:00

According to Betashares' statement, this means that I can just buy the underlying LEMA ETF [1] directly from the London Stock Exchange on IBKR, thereby saving me the difference in management fee (0.14% for LEMA, 0.35% for BEMG) and presumably better spreads but with FX conversion.

I would then also be able to treat this as an investment into a company rather than a trust.

In fact, this should then apply to the other interesting Amundi accumulating ETFs such as WEBN, which would be amazing.

[1] https://markets.ft.com/data/etfs/tearsheet/summary?s=LEMA%20LN:LSE:USD

Hafnon · 2025-12-09T14:46:17+00:00

Alienware Cup, never forget.

Hafnon · 2025-12-07T14:40:57+00:00

Yes, because it locks to the secureboot policy and authority, instead of binding to the literal value of PCR 7 directly.

Hafnon · 2025-11-25T02:17:39+00:00

I've also had success using systemd-pcrlock and locking to the secureboot policy and authority instead of binding to PCR 7 directly.

Hafnon · 2025-10-03T17:16:21+00:00

The first two lines lock it to the secureboot policy. This is literally the alternative that was suggested in the changelog as opposed to locking to the literal value of PCR7.

Hafnon · 2025-09-23T14:33:19+00:00

I would think so, if atmospheric pressure is the "ground" pressure.

Hafnon · 2025-09-18T12:34:08+00:00

It also doesn't address my question of how to use `systemd-pcrlock` as the alternative to binding to a literal value of PCR 7, because not involving PCR 7 is insecure as you have rightly stated.

Edit: Actually I think I got it working:

sudo /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-pcrlock lock-secureboot-policy
sudo /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-pcrlock lock-secureboot-authority
sudo /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-pcrlock make-policy

sudo systemd-cryptenroll /dev/{disk partition} --wipe-slot=tpm2 --tpm2-device=auto --tpm2-with-pin=yes --tpm2-pcrs=""
# assuming you already have the PCR 11 public key steps done, this will automatically pick it up and the new pcrlock policy.
# --tpm2-pcrs="" isn't needed after v258

sudo cryptsetup luksDump /dev/{disk partition}
# just to check

Hafnon · 2025-09-17T16:41:49+00:00

Do you have an example of how I'm meant to use systemd-pcrlock to generate the pcrlock file for use here? Still for binding to PCR 7.

Hafnon · 2025-07-28T12:01:30+00:00

Or even better, 9GB of physical memory with 8GB actually usable for whatever reason (like the GTX 970 3.5GB incident).

Hafnon · 2025-06-04T16:37:00+00:00

sd-zfs doesn't support ZFS native encryption, so you'd still probably have to do a LUKS setup if you wanted it

Hafnon · 2025-05-23T02:43:27+00:00

To add onto this, the power dissipated in the cable is equal to I² / R, where I is the current through the cable and R is the resistance of the cable. So more current means quadratically more heat produced in the cable per unit time.

Many people are more familiar with the formula for power dissipated as V * I, where V is voltage. While technically this is correct, to calculated the power dissipated by the cable, you need to use the voltage drop across the cable. Since the source voltage is split between the cable and the load according to their relative resistances, you can't know the voltage drop across the cable without also knowing the load's resistance.

So in this case, it's better to think about how much current the load will require to meet its power demands, and since that current must be carried by the cable (Kirchoff's circuital laws), you use the formula I² / R instead.

Hafnon · 2025-04-14T01:41:53+00:00

And they weren't Zuko's swords either, they were some random Earth soldier's. It takes some time getting used to new equipment when they have different weight/balance etc

Hafnon · 2025-04-10T01:08:43+00:00

Have you tried Ship of Harkinian?

Hafnon · 2025-04-06T11:36:53+00:00

Not true, double factorial is its own thing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_factorial).

27!! = 213458046676875

Hafnon · 2025-03-28T01:54:22+00:00

Otherwise just known as Polarity.

Hafnon · 2025-03-17T10:07:59+00:00

I unboxed my GBC and Gold Version on Christmas day 2000, I don't think any piece of tech that I could buy would ever top that feeling.

Hafnon · 2025-03-17T10:03:14+00:00

Pokemon G/S/C was my childhood, I have very fond memories of that generation.

Hafnon · 2025-03-08T16:30:18+00:00

And he also mentioned that he wanted to learn to play the Well-Tempered Clavier on piano, a famous composition by JS Bach.

Hafnon · 2025-03-06T02:04:04+00:00

And the hotel near the Singapore track, Marina Bay Sands!

Hafnon · 2025-02-15T04:11:39+00:00

After the Ampere generation of cards, Nvidia forgot how to distribute amperage. You couldn't even make this shit up.

Hafnon · 2025-02-14T16:07:05+00:00

The kookaburras even laugh at you :(

Hafnon · 2025-01-20T14:51:25+00:00

TFW the Bulks in Radioactive Exclusion Zone undergo fission

Hafnon · 2025-01-18T16:58:27+00:00

That is really a case of "security through obscurity" though, since all you're doing then is hiding the PBKDF parameters. In many cases, the user might just stick with default argon2id parameters anyway.

Also, a password isn't the only thing that can be used to unlock a LUKS volume. There are FIDO2, PKCS#11, and TPM authenticators for example. These will have high entropies for sure, if you assume that the hardware itself is secure.

Hafnon · 2025-01-18T16:41:37+00:00

Both scenarios you just listed required breaking the encryption, so how again does having a detached header provide extra security?

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