Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt
Alice: Bob, I need your help.
Bob: hmm?
Alice: I'm making mead and I bottled it too early while it's still fermenting. Now I need someone to drink it before the pressure builds up and breaks the bottle.
Bob: I shall fling myself upon this grenade to protect you.
It's funny to me that the bluecheck is going to transition from implying that the wearer is a disconnected clueless buffoon to implying the same thing but with a different political valence, without ever stopping at normal, but wanted the extra features.
I have an incident I want to recast as an Alice and Bob sketch, but I'm not sure who should be Alice and who should be Bob.
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I've only recommended one VPN service, ever (and no, I don't have any financial relationship to them): Mullvad. They have always seemed to be one of the few entities that practices the mantra, "You don't have to protect what you don't collect."
This is quite a press release:
"Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant. Customer data not compromised
20 April 2023 NEWS
On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant.
They intended to seize computers with customer data.
In line with our policies such customer data did not exist. We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law. After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything and without any customer information.
If they had taken something that would not have given them access to any customer information.
Mullvad has been operating our VPN service for over 14 years. This is the first time our offices have been visited with a search warrant."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/a-deep-dive-into-the-residential-proxy-service-911/
Is there an achievement badge for Interacting with someone on Twitter, then they follow you on fedi?
Because I just got that achievement.
There's a lot to unpack in this Extended IQ classification chart.
https://www.deviantart.com/vanga-vangog/art/The-Extended-IQ-Classification-Classified-910590133
Let's start with: who do you think made it?
My natural posting register is something like Snarky Joking.
Can you tell when I'm being sincere?
I have a lot of disagreements with how things are binned and scored here. But it's interesting.
Predictions:
Biologically male (very high confidence)
Cisgender (medium-high confidence)
Enlightenment: Low-ish
Child Consciousness: Low-ish 10-20th percentile
No Self: Upper 65-70th percentile
Phoenix: 45-50th percentile
Incoherent Screaming: pretty high
Chaos Monkey: 55-60th percentile
Anxious Mother Energy: upper 60-65th percentile
Hot Mess: Upper 75-80th percentile
Conservatish: very high
Individualism: Top 85-90th percentile
Antiwoke: Top 90-95th percentile
Eat the rich: 35-40th percentile
Transhumanism: high
Futuristic optimism: top 80-85th percentile
Lifehungry: upper 75-80th percentile
STEMlord: 55-60th percentile
Sex Engine: slightly above average
Sexual degen: upper 75-80th percentile
Sexual fluidity: 50-55th percentile
Sexually liberated: 55-60th percentile
Asshole: above average
Superiority: 35-40th percentile
Genetic Shitlord: Top 90-95th percentile
Die Hard: Top 80-85th percentile
I did Aella's big survey.
Results: Tech bro (unsurprising)
Goodness: Slightly below average
Wellbeing: 40-45th percentile
Belonging: 45-50th percentile
Supernatural: Slightly above average
Paranormality: 45-50th percentile
Religiosity: Upper 70-75th percentile
OP: I can't believe people are spoiling the ending.
Reply: I know. It sucks that <spoils ending>.
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Found the YouTube video tutorial on why AMD has more "flaky" memory initialization than Intel: On both Intel and AMD, the main processor is bootstrapped via a smaller processor - just like historical mainframes and supercomputers. But unlike Intel ME, AMD's PSP is an even bigger blackbox. In the early boot process including memory training, AGESA firmware is executed by PSP / SMU with exclusive ownership of the hardware. BIOS has absolutely no control, since the x86 CPU is not even started yet! If anything crashes at this point, no custom recovery is possible. Meanwhile, Intel's ME is more "lightweight" blackbox, BIOS takes over at a much earlier time and controls memory training. Rumors say AMD did out-of-band initialization because the in-band method was patented by Intel. AMD also claims better "security", since not even BIOS engineers can touch the CPU during early boot.
If Intel ME already got enough hate because of its blackbox nature, now consider the case of AMD PSP... :woozy_baa:
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Fun fact: the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer can't use a real-time operating system.
This is because it's Io bound.
I thank you.
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That's not a bad thing!
If you liked _your name_ or _Weathering With You_, then _Suzume_ is a good bet to give you more of that mix.
