@dysfun@social.treehouse.systems@chjara@akko.wtf Broadwell is known-buggy, microcode update is mandatory, otherwise it's known to crash randomly on Windows too, perhaps less frequently. Amusingly, the Skylake follow-up has an even more embarrassing lockup bug - reproducible just by running Prime95 for a few days. Makes you wonder how does that even pass Intel's QA if random PC gamers can spot it. https://danluu.com/cpu-bugs/
@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me@chjara@akko.wtf that conspiracy theorist must have played too much C&C: Red Alert 2. "Warning: Lightning Storm Created." (Yeah, the game's plot didn't just come from nowhere, weather control conspiracy theories aren't that new).
@chjara@akko.wtf Also, US attempted to disrupt agriculture via cloud seeding during the Vietnam war. Later, UN passed a convention that bans weather modification because of that. As a UN member, it got written into the US laws.
That was the actual history. Then there are also conspiracy theorists who cite the US laws as evidence that governments can literally control the weather to create tornadoes and hurricanes, using tech originally invented by Nikola Tesla. :blobcatfacepalm:
@ezio@akko.wtf Many people would agree that it's the software's fault, but that "software" is called Windows... Apple has basically banned this behavior on macOS - an executable must include all the correct library paths embedded within itself, just putting a library inside the search path won't work, you'll get a library not found error, and LD_PRELOAD-like behavior is also banned. It's a pain for development, you need to massage your build system otherwise you get wrong paths and OS refuses run it, but they kinda have a point... (what, just replacing the default library with your own, who could've imagined that? /s)
@allison@hidamari.apartments@ezio@akko.wtf China in a nutshell: Who needs source code for that? When the international network bandwidth's so low that nobody downloads software from official websites, you can easily create a malware paradise with all sorts of repackaged software (even operation system images) bundled with adware and malware from various download sites.
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