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Progenitor of the Weird Knife Wednesday feature column. Is “column” the right word?

I make knives now, too. Why not buy one at flightlessforge.com?

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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • You can extract the chip’s serial number in software trivially. In Windows, from a commandline:

    wmic cpu get pricessorid

    I’m positive you can do the same with some Linux command, and failing that certainly with basically every vaguely modern benchmarking tool. Same deal with hard drives and probably also video cards. My BIOS/UEFI even enumerates all my connected hard drive serial numbers on screen if I interrupt its graphical boot screen.

    Given that the anti-cheat schemes these competitive games are literal rootkits, I don’t think gathering the user’s hardware serial numbers in order to attempt identify them is much of a stretch.





  • Luckily there is no algorithm here, at least in the commonly expected sense with modern social media. You can sort and filter posts by various schemes, but it’s clearly deterministic and the post rate around here is slow enough that you can get it to consistently return the exact same result set in the exact same order multiple times.

    Your instance is not tracking what you view, hover, and click on in order to profile you to serve you more of anything else.






  • That’s not the issue. If it were confined to just the adult ones, anyway, it’d be little harm and no foul. The problem is these twerps also don’t vaccinate their kids, who have no say in the decision making process, and die of easily preventable diseases. The antivax crowd themselves also become disease carrying vectors putting those who can’t be vaccinated at risk, i.e. immunocompromised people.

    If said morons contained themselves in their own cabins in the woods without coming into contact with the public it likewise would not be a problem, but inevitably you find them coughing all over everybody else at Walmart instead.