As far as them being applied, yes. The loaded microcode is volatile.
They can kind of persist across cold reboots, but it relies on them being applied again at some point. The motherboard vendor can apply microcode updates during platform initialization before POSTing. Or they can be applied from EFI (modern equivalent of BIOS) before handing control to the kernel. Or they can be applied very early in the boot process by the kernel.
> FAA prevents SpaceX from launching more rockets
> Musk guts the FAA
> FAA no longer stopping rockets
> Musk decries nobody will stop other people’s rockets
Don’t give Musk a reason to tell his orange bitch to sign an order making lobby for the government to regulate and control internet traffic.
Using devices inside the country to DoS Twitter will give them an excuse to cry domestic cyber terrorism, and using devices from outside the country will give them an opportunity to justify creating an American equivalent of China’s Great Firewall. The time it would keep Twitter down for is comparatively insignificant to the potential consequences of losing online freedom and anonymity.
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I’ll get it back another way.
Aye, matey.
It’s still the Chromium browser. Same problems, but now at the mercy of two corporations that are looking to turn a profit.
Epic Games is also a private company… and they’re the posterchild for “fuck the consumer, we want a monopoly.”
It might have something to do with Epic being partly owned by Tencent and Disney, but it more likely comes down to the philosophies of their CEOs. Gabe came from a corporate shithole and runs with the diametrically-opposed view that good service = loyal customers = profit. Sweeney, not so much.
Or, apparently, introspectiveness…
Liberals are just sheep. They believe whatever the media tells them. They think they don’t need to believe anything other than the media tells them. One of the things the media tells them is they are superior to others, and it gets into their heads.
Kettle meet pot?
You need to use a different device and IP address. IP addresses are a dead giveaway for someone trying to create a second account, and even with a different address, browsers are easy to reliably fingerprint.
The reason for using an entirely different device* is to prevent advertising crap baked into your software from sending Twitter or other platforms any unique advertising ID associated with one of your old, banned IP addresses.
*With careful setup, a virtual machine with a dedicated VLAN and internet connection would work.
Mastodon doesn’t by design
There is a trending section, and it does boost popular tags based on user interaction. It doesn’t shovel crap into personal feeds like traditional social media, but it’s not entirely lacking discovery features either.
Sure, but I was being literal. A non-negligible number of those comments are likely being automated.
Interesting posts being served up:
“This isn’t a fight between republican and democrat. It’s between communism and freedom.”
A map showing Republicans as an overwhelming majority.
Photo about Democrats being more likely to call white people terrorists, while Republicans are more likely to call every other race terrorists.
They’re not in the majority, but not subtle enough to avoid worming their way into peoples opinions.
We should really avoid antromorphizing non-humans. Call them bots, like most of them probably are.
That sounds right for the company whose CEO was appointed moderator of r/jailbait. This was before you had to accept an invitation to be moderator, but fuck Spez regardless.
I don’t think people are upset at you calling out Nintendo for their rampant lawsuits, but instead at your dismissive reply when someone provided a list of games to answer your question.
An important thing to consider: Mastodon doesn’t have an “algorithm” for presenting posts in your subscription feed.
That doesn’t mean it “does not have an algorithm” entirely, though. There’s a couple of non-trivial ones being used to recommend friends and calculate the trending posts and tags that show up on the front page, and they do actually consider likes/shares as part of scoring.
It’s almost like companies don’t want to pay extra money on every device for a feature the vast majority of consumers would never use… good thing DisplayPort is free, or we’d get neither.
No idea, but I can tell you where they will be after President Elmo is done with them: defanged, and run by a one-man skeleton crew whose only job is to sweep the floor every Friday night.
I guess, yeah. I will say, though: it feels morally wrong to acknowledge their existence as anything other than a anti-consumer cashgrab, and thus give them legitimacy as a competitor to Steam, GOG, and Itch.
You’ll never believe it, but I just invented a new type of AI a few seconds after reading your comment.
I call it OSIRGT: One-Shot Immediate Regurgitation Generative Transformer.
It starts out as an empty model of variable-count weights ranging from 0 to 255 between a linear sequence of parameters. Whenever you feed it training data, it uses the incoming stream of bytes to adjust the weight at position
ntolog2(2^k) * n^0wherekis the incoming byte. After a weight is updated,nis increased by 1 and the process repeats until all training data is consumed. To use the model, provide a finite stream of zeroes and it transforms the 0 into another number based on the weight between the current parameter and the next one.You may be asking yourself, “isn’t that just an obtuse way to create a perfect copy of something?”
And to that, my good human, I say: shut up and use this open-source model training program with a built-in BitTorrent client.