Notices by niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be), page 6

"Disable XSAVES only on machines which haven't loaded the microcode revision containing the erratum fix. This will come in handy when running archaic OSes as guests. OSes whose brilliant programmers thought that CPUID is overrated and one should not query it but use features directly, ala shoot first, ask questions later... but only if you're alive after the shooting."LMAO :blobcatlul: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240321120548.22687-2-bp@alien8.de/

Q: What do you call when insider information about Intel's next-gen CPU is posted online?

A: Arrow Leak.

Guess what? Fresh Arrow Leak right there just several hours after I posted the joke.

meow meow meow meow meow

Q: How can you do an unbiased review of CPU performance?

A: Never apply a voltage to it.

"Linear Technology"
look inside
"Comparators, frequency multipliers, logarithmic amplifiers"

Lies. Lies everywhere.

@feld@friedcheese.us @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @ignaloidas@not.acu.lt I purchased my single-mode fiber SPF+ modules for $1-$2 each, I got 20 of them. They came from decommissioned Huawei telecom equipment. The magic of Shenzhen electronics flea market.

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me #animeirl

@a1ba@suya.place Fediverse in a nutshell. #animeirl

Fediverse in a nutshell. #animeirl

@rq@borg.social @MiaWinter@tech.lgbt Don't you love it when a $1000 meter becomes useless because a leaked battery destroyed its 10-cent battery clips... :woozy_baa:

Don't you love it when a $20 SFP+ module is made useless by a $1 Ethernet cable stuck into the port and can't be removed anymore after its tab became deformed under heat. :woozy_baa:

@lamp@kitty.haus Debian (and almost everyone else) only distributes source code, binary is compiled locally via DKMS, so Debian is not officially committing a GPL violation by mixing CDDL code into it. Canonical on the other hand has the boldest lawyers who argue it's not a license violation, so only Ubuntu dare to distribute binary.

"Speculative decoding is an optimization technique for inference that makes educated guesses about future tokens while generating the current token"TIL Language models can use speculative execution.

"[GitHub] have a history of being a target for gigantic DDOS attacks. It's popular for huge DDOS attackers to attack GitHub as a proof of concept, or at least it was for quite some time."LMAO :blobcatlul:

@puniko :nikoni1:

LMAO. GPT-4o knows how to generate imaginary but convincing electronics part numbers based on the naming patterns of real parts, like Murata ceramic capacitors and Vishay resistor arrays. :blobcatlul:

@ignaloidas@not.acu.lt @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me Even the crappiest mechanical splice will work in a home network when you can afford to burn 10 dB of SNR away.

New home network installed.

mount everest, sync everest, umount everest, fsck everest