rockSlayer

As a union activist, I agree. But management doesn’t see it that way.

The devs are workers. Rockstar Management was spying on workers that were trying to unionize. A worker betrayed their fellow workers to be a stooge for management.

I’m aware of coreboot. I was not aware that the project managed to increase support to include configurations for all chips that predate IME and PSP. Last I recall when I looked at coreboot, there were chips that they didn’t think could ever be supported, even without nannyware. I wasn’t pushing a bullshit problem, I was raising legitimate concerns for problems that I didn’t know had solutions. If you don’t want people to raise honest, good faith concerns to you then you better be extremely vigilant that you don’t step in shit.

You act like you’re the only one that understands information security. I took a security class for my computer science degree too. Productive conversation cannot be had when you strut around arrogantly dismissing everyone that disagrees with you.

The fix was made. And it was done without writing microcode.

Meltdown was a microcode patch. Spectre was a kernel patch, so in firmware. Only AMD bothered to fix chips that fit within your timeframe. The fix has not been made for the chips you want to use.

Patching is not the only way to control for a vuln

You aren’t going to stop branch prediction with clever tricks. These are hardware level flaws. Patching is the only way to completely mitigate these flaws.

And I was pointing out that you are wrong

No, you weren’t. You were being pedantic. AMD will have Spectre. Intel will have Spectre and Meltdown. 2 vulnerabilities.

You are advocating …

No, I wasn’t. Stop putting words in my mouth. Unless you know how to write microcode, I have serious doubts that you are capable of successfully patching the vulnerabilities on those chips.

Do whatever you want. I don’t care.

I don’t see AMD on that list. Do you?

Lashing out at me was unnecessary. I was pointing out that there are 2 catastrophic vulnerabilities that are going to be present in every chip that meets your criteria.

I’m not defending the IME or the PSP. The most generous thing I can say about them is that they are unnecessary. I’m pointing out that the chips that you want to use have been unsupported for so long that they have catastrophic vulnerabilities that have never even been attempted to be patched. There are more catastrophic vulnerabilities than just Spectre and Meltdown.

By spychip are you referring to IME and PSP? Chips that old are going to have security holes larger than a CEO’s ego. Those chips will be vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown. Iirc from the fallout of those CVEs, only AMD bothered to patch chips that went back to 2011

Well what else would happen???

• Covered in hot = turned to stone
• Covered in cold = turned to ice
• Covered in water = turned to coral
• Covered in stone = turned to water

God damn it Ceasar, you had 1 job

Yea, and he fucked it up. Making September the 9th month? October the 10th? November the 11th? December for the 12th?

I’d stop right there and seriously question everything else they said

This episode better be at least on par with the musical episode, or I will be sad

Child soldiers just hit different

History civilis

I haven’t heard of aspic, interesting.

In its simplest form, aspic is essentially a gelatinous version of conventional soup.

gag no longer interesting

Jello was mostly a 50s trend, due to the new commercialization of refrigeration and the ending of wartime rations

Nonsense, this is ‘Merica god dammit! Free burgers and hotdogs!!

I long for the US Swan Lake moment

1. History referenced must be 20+ years old

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