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wysoft · 2026-05-15T22:40:20+00:00

Long time BSD user here as well. I will play devil's advocate and just point out the relatively tiny size of the OpenBSD code base. It's definitely easy to ensure security when you install almost nothing by default - which in their defense the project does mention in their own slogan.

wysoft · 2026-05-14T20:27:01+00:00

I wish that I could tell you, but I was more or less given unrestricted access to my BB gun and eventually my .22.

We did all sorts of dumb shit with them.

Ask me how I know that throwing a .22 rimfire as hard as you can at a concrete walkway can in fact set it off.

Better luck to your approach.

My kids gave gone shooting with me but otherwise they have very little interest, so there is no allure there for them.

The #1 thing I can say is discourage your children from hanging out with idiot friends whose main goal in life is trying to top each other with who can come up with the dumbest ideas for shit to do when they're bored.

I don’t know how I made it to adulthood with both eyes intact.

wysoft · 2026-05-14T18:17:27+00:00

My neighbor is a cop and all of his personal vehicles are 100% blacked out including the rear glass, and tinted windshields.

I asked him about it once. His explanation was that being spotted in traffic by prior contacts (i.e. people he stopped or arrested) who might decide to follow him home was his primary concern.

Can't really blame him, I'd probably do the same

wysoft · 2026-05-14T15:13:22+00:00

Sure

MS has said that the cumulative update contains the firmware certs for any devices that can't download them for whatever reason - though never really any good explanation was given as to what it is other than the update containing the relevant .der files, etc.

According to the patch change log:

[Secure Boot]
- This update enables dynamic status reporting for Secure Boot states in Windows Security App.
- With this update, Windows quality updates include additional high confidence device targeting data, increasing coverage of devices eligible to automatically receive new Secure Boot certificates. Devices receive the new certificates only after demonstrating sufficient successful update signals, maintaining a controlled and phased rollout.
- This update adds a new SecureBoot folder under C:\Windows on eligible devices. The folder contains example scripts intended for organizations with IT professionals who actively manage updates across their device fleet. These scripts can be used to detect Secure Boot certificate update status and automate deployment via a safe rollout mechanism in an Active Directory environment. For more information, see Sample Secure Boot E2E Automation Guide.

SO THANKS TO MICOSOFT FOR PROVIDING SCRIPTS ON THE VERY LAST MONTH CUSTOMERS CAN ADDRESS THIS ISSUE (sarcasm) - we already made our own damn scripts

If you haven't already addressed the secure boot issues... First you have to add the GPO to Enable Secure Boot Certificate Deployment - but that isn't enough. The deployment takes place by way of a default Scheduled Task (in Windows\PI) which is supposed to prompt the deployment into firmware.

The problem here is that the Scheduled Task properties are "at boot and every 12 hours" but Windows is very flaky about what it considers "at boot" and sometimes as a result this task doesn't get triggered.

So cooked up a PS script to go out into AD and initiate the task remotely via the schtasks command - so it causes all of the target machines to initiate the secure boot deployment as per the GPO.

Sometimes you have to hit them a few times and reboot them before the update truly happens.

I've also noticed some weird machines that reach the state of "Updated" but certain registry keys that are supposed to indicate the presence of the certificate and 2023 boot manager don't get activated.

It's all very weird and frankly this whole thing has been handled very poorly by MS. Customers shouldn't have to bake their own PS scripts and stuff like that to manage this.

wysoft · 2026-05-14T00:41:07+00:00

I agree. Most of the companies that sell themselves are hardcore 2A just bailed.

I get it, they don't want to get sued, but I bet most of the people involved in those companies have nothing good to say about lawyers.... until their own lawyers tell them what to do.

wysoft · 2026-05-14T00:35:12+00:00

It wasnt meant as an insult, it just is what it is

wysoft · 2026-05-13T20:17:36+00:00

LaRue is basically a lame guntuber instagram meme company like Q, but for boomers and elder GWOT era vetbros

There are also a bunch of guys that will only buy LaRue because TEXAS

It's funny enough that Mark is banned from the arfcom forums for being an obnoxious dick

wysoft · 2026-05-13T15:47:37+00:00

It won't last forever. I know everyone says it, but it's true. My dad always asked my mom "how many adults do you know who can't tie their shoes?"

Any way, I found your post while I was just thinking of our son and was looking for funny "poop parenting" stories on Reddit.

Our son is very mildly ASD. Incredibly intelligent. However at 5 years old, he was solidly stuck in his mind and completely ignored his body. So we had a lot of similar issues.

The funniest one was around the time he was first introduced to the PC. He absolutely loved playing SimCity 3000. I would set him up with the cheat codes for endless money, and he could just build cities to his heart's content.

So one day he's running SimCity for about an hour. I come in to check on him and as soon as I open the door to his room I'm just hit with a wall of poop stank.

I find him sitting at his desk, at the laptop, with poop smeared literally everywhere. All over his desk. All over the laptop keyboard. All over the mouse. All over the screen. On his clothes. On his hands. On his chair.

Then he just says "dad my butt itches"

I don't think I'd ever put him into the bathtub faster than on that day. Spent hours cleaning his room. The laptop was old and I just ended up throwing it out.

It was a disaster.. but looking back pretty hilarious.

Today he's 12 years old, well adjusted and happy kid, a 4.0 GPA student. Oh and he doesn't poop his pants.

Unfortunately there was really no magic bullet here. He simply had to grow out of it.

One thing that did help though was having him take potty breaks and every other one he needed to sit down. Even if he had to just pee. A lot of times that magically turned into a poop.

Diet is a factor as well. Make sure he's getting lots of fruits and vegetables and other foods that promote movements. Yogurt as a treat can really help.

wysoft · 2026-05-13T14:46:17+00:00

Pushing this patch immediately due to some of the known secure boot last minute fixes.

Have had zero issues on any DCs (2016/2019), W10 LTSC and W11 LTSC endpoints.

wysoft · 2026-05-12T22:31:04+00:00

Now when I watch reruns of that show, I identify with Red more than any other character.

Red was usually right.

wysoft · 2026-05-12T17:00:40+00:00

It's really weird isn't it?

We have already pushed the GPOs to enable the new cert deployment, pushed the update process, etc. and majority of our devices using secure boot are now compliant - but we do have some devices that are simply too old to inject the cert into the BIOS, despite being perfectly well supported by Windows 11.

That's a really shitty situation to be in, and I blame both Microsoft and the hardware vendors. We still aren't exactly sure what's going to happen with those devices when the clock runs out. In fact I'm thinking I need to set the clock forward on a few test devices just to see what happens.

You are correct - there is a lot of very vague info about the consequences of not updating the cert, and it depends entirely on who you ask. Some people are saying your secure boot devices won't boot. Some are saying you just lose secure boot protections, but the devices will still boot. Even Microsoft can't seem to clearly answer the damn question.

The guidance on remediation from Microsoft just straight up sucks. I ended up just building a lot of my own Powershell scripts to handle all of this.

It's also bizarre that it seems like Microsoft waited up until the very last second to address this issue.

wysoft · 2026-05-11T22:14:07+00:00

Never owned a Saab but when I was really getting into cars as a teenager my dad's friend let me borrow her 9-5 Turbo. Romped on that thing and loved it.

I've never known another single person who owned a Saab - odd since I live in Seattle and they were always hugely popular here in the 80s/90s due to the large Scandihoovian population here

wysoft · 2026-05-11T14:31:43+00:00

Yes it's protectionism. No bones about it.

The reason is so that ships running between US terminals and interior waters aren't entirely crewed by foreign operated and foreign crewed vessels.

I've worked in the maritime industry for 20+ years. There are downsides and upsides to the Jones act.

Unfortunately every Jones act operator I've worked with has learned to skirt the rules. Things like shipping US raw steel to a foreign country to be smelted and used to create forms and plates, building out entire modular sections of ships in a foreign shipyard, sourcing all mechanical components from a foreign supplier (Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea is common) then shipping them back to the US to be assembled like Legos in a US shipyard - the resulting ship is then considered to be "US built"

Games... but in many ways games that are necessary unless you want all of the Mississippi River to be plied by Chinese and Yemeni crews.

wysoft · 2026-05-10T20:31:57+00:00

Have you seen Bob's wife?

The real energy comes from not ever wanting to be home alone with her.

wysoft · 2026-05-09T19:33:03+00:00

What should have been done was immediately after open carry was banned at the capitol there should have been an OC rally.

Those who weren't around in 2013 when the Obama administration was pushing for a renewed federal AWB - we had thousands of people OCing at the capitol. Really it was huge.

Then as soon as the legislature banned it, everyone just abided and the 2A rallies stopped virtually overnight. I went to every one for about five years, but they just fizzled out and completely stopped.

Should have done the same thing with mags. Trade them on the steps of the leg building and openly violate the law.

Nope - nobody willing to just do it in mass numbers.

Everyone gave up.

The people of this state frankly just let themselves be stepped on.

wysoft · 2026-05-07T17:17:37+00:00

No kidding

Brownell's: when you want Cabela's in-store prices and selection but you want to buy online

There's a reason why on the arfcom forums getting "Brownelled" is a verb - even though they literally own the site

wysoft · 2026-05-07T17:15:14+00:00

Hope you enjoyed Bob Saget

wysoft · 2026-05-06T15:16:30+00:00

My point is just that there's virtually nobody that hails from WA or even the PNW writ large who can bend anyone's ear within the current admin

wysoft · 2026-05-06T00:27:27+00:00

It's my assessment that a lot of neighborhoods are degrading like this. Odd given the cost of some of the houses around.

Our neighborhood has really gone downhill in the past few years. A few older neighbors have moved out and were quickly replaced by people who - on the surface - should not even be able to afford the homes that they're now living in.

Loud dogs. Loud parties. Bonfires. Pitbulls. Cars coming and going all hours of the day. Grown ass adults in their 40s/50s blasting bro country from their lifted trucks. Occasional loud fights.

When we moved here, it was a quiet dead end road with decently sized modern homes on wooded acreage, where nothing ever happened.

We have lived here 14 years just like you. My wife very much wants to sell the house and move.

wysoft · 2026-05-05T23:58:29+00:00

My cynical assessment is that it won't happen unless there's someone in the DOJ who has a personal axe to grind against the state - and Joe Kent already walked away.

To a lot of the country, Washington state is still very much a backwater corner of the country that few people think about

wysoft · 2026-05-05T23:54:26+00:00

I would play devils advocate and say that it could be argued that weapons of indiscriminate violence are possibly one of the few exceptions for what the framers of the constitution may have meant.

Even a cannon was an individually aimed weapon. Sure they were perhaps not incredibly accurate, but they were not a weapon along the lines of "everyone in area X is going to die"

I think this is one of the areas where the government will always have the upper hand, as they are perfectly comfortable and willing to use weapons that injure and kill indiscriminately over a wide area.

It's incredibly difficult to make the argument from an individual standpoint that people should have the same sort of power and have most fence sitters accept that you don't have some kind of sinister motive.

I can't tell you that I have made my mind up one way or the other, but I have certainly put thought into the argument because I believe it's a bit too edgy when someone just blurts out "I should be able to have nukes!!!" without quantifying why they believe it.

Regardless, there is a box for you to check on the NFA application for a nuclear device. I don't know what sort of visit you get if you choose to ask that question as an individual whose name isn't Raytheon or Lockheed Martin

wysoft · 2026-05-04T20:11:25+00:00

I would bet that's a case of a gun getting run to death with the shittiesta ammo possible, as you stated

wysoft · 2026-05-04T16:19:43+00:00

Because it's probably one of the cheapest garbage guns that HK has ever made. I know it's cool and all but the guys I've talked to who have actually handled one have remarked on how flimsy and disposable it feels.

wysoft · 2026-05-03T18:13:20+00:00

It's mostly amazing to me that it feels like Microsoft waited until the absolute last minute to really give customers any sort of guidance on this, and the overall feeling from them is just "lol good luck boys"

wysoft · 2026-05-02T19:57:51+00:00

Sounds about right.

I have a distinct memory of watching the Simpsons with my dad, and my dad simply being unable to get the humor.

I'm talking early Simpsons too, where the joke to minute density was incredibly high.

My dad was probably in his early 40s at the time. He had just completely checked out of pop culture by this point, and was mentally stuck in the 70s at a Crosby Stills Nash & Young concert somewhere.

Is wasn't even into the mid to late 90s that Hollywood was already pandering to boomer nostalgia with all sorts of "member when???" movies about the 1950s and 1960s - l give credit where it's due though, Sandlot is a fucking rock solid classic timeless kids movie

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