Nice! A while back I had started something similar for Azure but it never really got traction (or nearly as polished as this!). It's a rough proof of concept but maybe it'll be useful to Azure users:

https://github.com/brendank310/aztui

Seems like everyone is interested in Rust, but yours was written in Go.

Why does the implementation language of a TUI matter?

Past work in the area by the folks at Immunant (https://immunant.com/) that appears to be on-going https://github.com/immunant/c2rust. I think the project was also DARPA funded for a time.

I got a panicked call from my parents when Facebook deleted my brother's profile, probably 5 or 6 years after he passed away. After looking into just trying to get the profile restored, I came to the same conclusion as the title essentially. The "memories" feature frequently shuffled posts and pictures of him and had become a comfort for them. They bring it up every now and then, maybe some day I'll find a way to sort it out.

I've been off work for two weeks to recover from surgery, and have been playing with a couple projects throughout the day between rest and physical therapy:

- A home-rolled router/firewall: Using yocto to create a distribution for a router/firewall for my home network. It started as an exercise in wanting to have more control over the security of my home network, as well as see how nice of a UI/UX I can tease out of an LLM. It's also part of a (seemingly never ending) consolidation of homelab services.

- A SNES Reverse Engineering setup: A nephew of mine is starting to get into video games and is starting with a SNES but his system broke. I'm working on helping repair the console, but am also trying to set up an effective "LLM + Ghidra + SNES emulator + image generation AI + asperite plugin" to allow him to swap sprites and text in games to add some creativity and learning to the experience.

- A personal assistant system: Experimenting with agents to create a personal assistant for our house, and seeing to what extent the agents can be helpful and how much hardware is required to run something like that in-house.

- aztui: A TUI for exploring and interacting with Azure resources. I'd like to add some caching/pre-fetching logic to make the interaction with the interface snappier (one of the main motivators to create it).

I've been using GPT pretty heavily throughout, and it has been a lot of fun both using it, and spending some dedicated time looking at the models themselves along with the frameworks that support running and integrating them.

Yeah it's a building block for understanding number theory well, which is important in cryptography.

One cool thing about math though is that continuous/analysis concepts and discrete concepts interact with each other. There's a fair bit of calculus in e.g. AoCP. At some point number theory as well. Kind of depends on how deep you want to go. You can learn a lot about cryptography without really needing a very strong mathematical base.

Relatively common nowadays. It used to be delineated as a feature in Intel chips as part of their vPro line, but I think it’s baked in. Generally an IOMMU is needed for performant PCI passthrough to VMs, and Windows uses it for DeviceGuard which tries to prevent DMA attacks.

Mainstream consumer x86 processors have had IOMMU capability for over a decade, but for the first few years it was commonly disabled on certain parts for product segmentation (eg. i5-3570K had overclocking but no IOMMU, i5-3570 had IOMMU but limited overclocking). That practice died off approximately when Thunderbolt started to catch on, because not having an IOMMU when using Thunderbolt would have been very bad.

Seems to me that Zen 4 has no issues at all, but bridges/switches require additional interfaces to further fan-out access controls.

It's probably no longer maintained, but a former colleague of mine did some work on this for C++: https://github.com/ainfosec/shoulder. Obviously if the docs are lying it doesn't help much, but there was another effort he had https://github.com/ainfosec/scapula that tried to automate detecting behavior differences between the docs and the hardware implementation.

I get the reaction, but what about the trust factor of a box you own and have running on the other side of the world? TPM isn’t an evil concept, it’s fairly useful for some scenarios. Coercion to use TPMs, that sounds evil.

It's been probably 2 years since I've messed with it, but I was still using the tarball download for Xen in OpenEmbedded builds.

As someone noted above the Commercial Solutions for Classified program has been in existence for a long while (probably over a decade). This package is newer but not wildly newer. Installs of the various 'packages' do exist.

Huh interesting. I can't imagine where people would willingly use it.

The white house scif is pretty laissez faire as far as SCIFs go and I imagine there's a whole pile of stuff from Maryland monitoring everything in another room nearby. I can see it being used for ipads for principals as it might be easier to police than stacks of paper.