This will be a long article with lots of information compiled from various sources as well as my experience tinkering with the StarFive VisionFive 2. This SBC is a RISC-V (in)development board, and if you’re looking for a one-click solution to play Cyberpunk 2077 and brag to your Discord friends, this ain’t it, homey.

Very important note: this article is work in progress!

Overview

RISC-V architecture

RISC-V is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. Unlike most other ISA designs, RISC-V is provided under royalty-free open-source licenses. A number of companies are offering or have announced RISC-V hardware, open source operating systems with RISC-V support are available, and the instruction set is supported in several popular software toolchains.

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What is inside, you might ask? Well, luckily for all those “journalists” who will report about it, there is a readme file. Easy-mode!

Micro-Star International Co., Ltd (MSI) is a Taiwanese multinational information technology corporation headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan. It designs, develops and provides computer hardware, related products and services, including laptops, desktops, motherboards, graphics cards, all-in-one PCs, servers, industrial computers, PC peripherals, car infotainment products, etc.

During the attack on the systems of the company MSI, the attackers (Money Message ransomware group) managed to extract more than 1TB of internal data of the company, containing among other things, the source code of the firmware and related tools. They demanded $4 million for non-disclosure and all the data was publicly published when MSI didn’t pay the ransom.

Among the published data were Intel’s private keys transmitted to OEM manufacturers, which were used to certify the released firmware with a digital signature and to ensure secure boot using Intel BootGuard technology. The presence of firmware authentication keys makes it possible to generate correct digital signatures for fictitious or modified firmware. The Boot Protection keys allow you to bypass the mechanism of launching only verified components at the initial boot stage, which can be used, for example, to compromise the verified boot mechanism of UEFI Secure Boot.

Depressed about the past. Pessimistic about the future. Too old to feel like anything can really get better. Hopeless.

This is such a common experience now. I think if we look around at this moment and are objective about it, we see clearly that this is the single most confusing time to be a young person, maybe ever.

Teenagers receive a terrible education and are left to waste all of their free time on porn and video games. Then very often their parents kick them out at 18 or they’re sent off to college where it’s really just more of the same and the college sees them more as an income scheme than as a customer let alone a student. Did you know colleges now consider 6 years to a bachelor’s degree a “success”? And then you become an adult and you’re handed this tray of utterly meaningless make-work jobs or else you can join the military and fight a pointless war in an Arab country.

All the while the culture is hostile to religion, to art, to poetry, to basically everything and you’re encouraged to waste your time on social media. Nobody really cares what you do, not even your parents and you’re not encouraged to investigate things like reading, let alone writing poetry or songs.

The year is 2023 and when you want to discover new personal websites on your favorite search engine, you just get bombarded with an endless stream of junk: “How to build a personal website using nothing but coal, fire and the power of sheer will”, “I made a personal website and you can’t imagine what happened next”, “Made a blog with 10 cents and it changed my life, I am Elon Musk” or “How to build your personal brand so you can get hired by Amazon and start pissing RIGHT NOW in your VERY OWN bottle”.

If those are the alternatives, how do you reach out to those unique, fringy, weird and interesting websites? Well, I think I might have something to help you in your research.

TLDR: Arc browser is not a bad browser, it’s just something that will spread your data everywhere (read Google) and is highly tuned for the modern web (bleah). You need to have an account to “activate” the browser but once logged in you can block all the Google/Arc connections and it will work without them. I will definitely use it as an secondary browser for Mozilla Firefox. Later edit: I stopped using both Arc and Firefox.

Arc is one of those apps that has grown on me over the last few weeks, it’s a refreshing take on a web browser. Frankly, until I ran into Arc, I didn’t think a browser can be this much fun and filled with delightful touches, yet so intuitive. That doesn’t mean it’s a good (or bad) browser, it’s just a Chromium reskin with some cool features. Also, it’s macOS only, for now.

I hate to admit that I severely dislike (not to say hate, but yes, I hate it) their tagline “Are you ready to let go of the old internet?” No, I’m not, and we should embrace the old internet instead of the shithole we have right now.

NetworkManager is a program for providing detection and configuration for systems to automatically connect to networks. NetworkManager’s functionality can be useful for both wireless and wired networks, for wireless networks, NetworkManager prefers known wireless networks and has the ability to switch to the most reliable network.

If you want to reduce someone’s capabilities to track you, you should avoid broadcasting a persistent and likely unique software identifier; an empty (blank) hostname is also an option, but a static hostname of “localhost” is less likely to cause problems. Both will result in no hostname being broadcasted to the DHCP server. You can use hostnamectl to change the system hostname and related settings.

While I usually have many ideas and most of them are quite stupid, here is an idea that’s not stupid (or at least I’d like to think that), inspired by Tie’s “I want a Computer that I Own”:

How about going back to the roots and ditching your top-of-the-line computer and use one from more than 10 years ago, for one month?

I can see you people already cluching pearls and crying for your Discord, XCode, Electron apps that use 4GB of RAM, Chrome with 100 tabs open, Docker, Adobe Photoshop, Android Studio and the likes. But hear me out, what if using an older (and obviously slower) computer will make you focus better? No more distractions (no, you can’t run Overwatch on a 15 years old laptop), you won’t be happy if you spend 3+ minutes to load Youtube or Twitch in your browser and if you think you can watch 4k I’ll just LOL at you, so you will either do actual stuff or just give up and run back to Steve Jobs’ (or Bill Gates) ample bosom.

Maybe write more. Maybe write more code. Or Allah forbid, maybe even write better code. You will definitely have to adapt and adapting is one of the best features of us humanoids even though most of the time we’re failing at it.

So, I’m going to put my money where my mouth is and do that, replace my 2020 Apple MacBook Pro laptop with a 2008 Nokia Booklet 3G for one month and try not to die while doing it.

The Year is 2030. The USA did not fight the Vietnam War, and instead invested money into high speed railways, teletext, and 10-storey modernist carpark-trainstation-airport-mall megaplexes. There’s one in every town.

Everybody is an urbanite, all farming is done by agricultural robots with their solar panels glistening under the haze of high-power irrigators.

You can vacation in the countryside, but residing there is illegal. However, penalties being as light as they are (a public spanking during the now-revived festival of Lupercalia), it has become an adolescent rite of passage to play-act as Thoreau.

Again, the Breached forum will not be coming back. If it’s back for any reason, you need to assume that is an attempt to target our users and is not safe. I will not suddenly come back online and tell everyone I was just kidding and we will bringing back the forum, so please use your best logic here. Baphomet

TLDR: Stay away from the Breached infrastructure.

In case you didn’t already know, one of the Breached forums administrators, Pompompurin, got arrested on cybercrime charges in the land of the free. The other admin, Baphomet, posted several updates on his website regarding the future of the Breached forums.