xaera

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Update: It was actually 2003, I was in Theodore at the time. It’s recovered mostly from that bushfire as well as the 2019/2020, when I was visiting while it was happening.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Canberra_bushfires

  …wikipedia.org/…/2019–20_Australian_bushfire_seas…

  www.icrc.act.gov.au/…/CRES_Submission_2.pdf

  Search term from the immediately above link is, ‘why was Canberra’s water so good before the bushfire?’

  I have been living in Melbourne since 2017. Canberra’s water still just pips it (Silvan Reservoir area), thanks to the Corin and Bendora dams. Googong water is still terrible (it has a slightly bitter taste, probably because of chlorination treatment) when water from it is required, but they haven’t had to use that for a while. It’s night and day to me, at least when Googong water is involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. You can tell if it’s straight out of Googong Dam also.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems very similar to Zenbleed in terms of using certain register optimisation and speculative execution to get crippling security exploits. Thus far I haven’t read too much into the detail of the attack but This article on Zenbleed, written by the attack’s author, describes how the attack in detail and how he came to find it using fuzzing techniques - in this case two sets of instructions that should have had the same result, but they didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is a good write-up of Zenbleed for the Ryzen 2 and up vulnerability. It uses similar register optimisation and speculative execution to get the same effect.