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   Pwnallthethings (pwnallthethings@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 08:49:29 JST Pwnallthethings

   If you ever think that normal bugs are a PITA to debug, hypervisor bugs really just take the biscuit

   Operating Systems do not like it when the hardware they are running on occasionally forget to behave like real hardware

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     Pwnallthethings (pwnallthethings@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 08:49:28 JST Pwnallthethings

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     Today's rant brought to you by "what happens if the CPU decides to service interrupts anyway even though interrupts are notionally disabled"

     Jake Hildreth (acorn) :blacker_heart_outline: repeated this.
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     Pwnallthethings (pwnallthethings@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 08:49:28 JST Pwnallthethings

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     OSes also Do Not Like when monotonically-increasing timers accidentally go backwards in time, giving the OS an existential crisis about the linear nature of time