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    Nicholas Steel
    Posted by tomman
    Yet another logo-and-website speculative execution vulnerability that nobody but warfare actors would exploit: Retbleed
    https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RETBLEED

    Mitigating Retbleed in the Linux kernel required a substantial effort, involving changes to 68 files, 1783 new lines and 387 removed lines. Our performance evaluation shows that mitigating Retbleed has unfortunately turned out to be expensive: we have measured between 14% and 39% overhead with the AMD and Intel patches respectively.


    I have a word for you security researchers: FUCK OFF.

    Seriously, we know, our computers are broken... but nobody is buying ME that supoosedly invulnerable rig, so stay the hell away from making my machines much slower than they already are, all because of theoretic lab attacks that nobody does in real life (no, my machines are not targets for USA/China/Russia despite how much I hate them, thanks).

    I'm starting to seriously hate security researchers with a passion. Go hack a Playstation or something actually useful!

    So far most of these security protections can be disabled in Windows 11 and older via a registry key, or you can use software like InSepctre to make it easier.
    tomman Yet another logo-and-website speculative execution vulnerability that nobody but warfare actors would exploit: Retbleed
    https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RETBLEED

    Mitigating Retbleed in the Linux kernel required a substantial effort, involving changes to 68 files, 1783 new lines and 387 removed lines. Our performance evaluation shows that mitigating Retbleed has unfortunately turned out to be expensive: we have measured between 14% and 39% overhead with the AMD and Intel patches respectively.


    I have a word for you security researchers: FUCK OFF.

    Seriously, we know, our computers are broken... but nobody is buying ME that supoosedly invulnerable rig, so stay the hell away from making my machines much slower than they already are, all because of theoretic lab attacks that nobody does in real life (no, my machines are not targets for USA/China/Russia despite how much I hate them, thanks).

    I'm starting to seriously hate security researchers with a passion. Go hack a Playstation or something actually useful!
    CaptainJistuce All your 'bus are belong to us!
    tomman
    Posted by CaptainJistuce
    Posted by desudesu
    The first thing that popped into my head when I read A380 was one of the Dingoo handhelds, funny enough, which was inferior to the original A320 (and in itself not even produced by the original people afaik), so that's something else heh.

    >only available in China because of neverending hardware shortages
    I'm not sure that translates to 'shipping shortages'. Intel are just talking shit. :P
    I read A380 and thought of jets from Airbus. I am pretty sure this is because of tomman.

    Well, all Intel needs to do to ensure the success of their new GPUs is to bundle each with a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator, of course!

    Now you can fly an A380 on your A380 YO DAWG~
    CaptainJistuce
    Posted by desudesu
    The first thing that popped into my head when I read A380 was one of the Dingoo handhelds, funny enough, which was inferior to the original A320 (and in itself not even produced by the original people afaik), so that's something else heh.

    >only available in China because of neverending hardware shortages
    I'm not sure that translates to 'shipping shortages'. Intel are just talking shit. :P
    I read A380 and thought of jets from Airbus. I am pretty sure this is because of tomman.
    creaothceann https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32028511
    https://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/vv8i7w/hour_40k_problem_for_sandisk_ssds/
    desudesu The first thing that popped into my head when I read A380 was one of the Dingoo handhelds, funny enough, which was inferior to the original A320 (and in itself not even produced by the original people afaik), so that's something else heh.

    >only available in China because of neverending hardware shortages
    I'm not sure that translates to 'shipping shortages'. Intel are just talking shit. :P
    tomman Intel continues half-assing the launch of their highly awaited discrete GPUs:
    https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-arc-a380-available-china/
    https://www.servethehome.com/intel-arc-a380-gpu-is-out-in-china/

    Enter... the Arc A380?! Apparently the A3 is the low-end series, so I don't know if $150 is a reasonable price for this thing (although the TDP is quite high for such a low end part). Also, only available in China for whatever reason, because of neverending hardware shortages.

    Nice to see that the Chinese market now has two mostly failed products bearing the A380 name specifically being targeted at them: the superjumbo Airbus that was designed for high density markets like China (and on where a grand total of FIVE planes were sold... and two of them were permanently retired recently), and a Intel GPU that most likely will fly under the radar because Intel is not being serious with this (is it too soon for the i740 flashbacks?).

    The A7 series are supposedly to be the high-tier flagships, to be released someday. Can't wait for the A747 Jumbographics!
    CaptainJistuce Also the PACMAN attack.

    http://pacmanattack.com/

    The most surprising part is that the URL wasn't taken.
    tomman Yet another name-and-logo CPU vulnerability, because security researchers sole goal in life is to make our computers even slower (if software bloat hasn't achieved that yet):

    https://www.hertzbleed.com/
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31743110

    *yawn*

    Thankfully my threat model is "mitigations=off and GTFO - I paid good money for all those megahurtz!".
    Time to add security researches to my shitlist?
    Oh, silly Intel - asking researchers to extend their NDAs won't fix your BROKEN CPUs! To the shitlist with you too!
    tomman APPLE!!!

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31644019
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31644008
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31643917

    Wasn't iOS supposed to kill the Mac? Or is now the other way around?
    Also, you haven't updated your Apple gear yet - go go go!
    tomman AMD just launched a Celeron recycled a long forgotten codename from the competition:
    https://www.anandtech.com/show/17400/amd-announces-mendocino-apu-6nm-mainstream-mobile-zen-2-laptop-chip-coming-in-q4

    From the specs, it seems to be basically a die shrink of Steam Deck's custom APU, but now available for cheap laptops.

    ...and it had to reuse an Intel codename that for some evokes good memories (Mendocinos were fine overclockers), and for others, very sour ones (Celerons were often paired to garbage mainstream junk from Compaq and others). Ah well, at least Mendocino, California can now boast about being represented on TWO decent-ish x86 CPUs.
    desudesu Well, thank fuck for that.

    On that note, I want someone to actually fucking buy Discord just to make everyone quit it.

    Either the pr0n will be banned on an acquisition or they will actually bother scanning DMs properly: both will drive people away to the point that about 80% of the userbase who initially joined/heard of it in 2015-early 2018 (before nerd culture and being terminally online somehow became cool, basically) will flee for other, almost certainly proprietary platforms.

    Discord, Twitter, Tumblr, 4chan and Reddit are one and the same these days, there's virtually no individuality between any of them, and it's sad. The day modern day people stop being sheep and succumbing to proprietary platforms (who aren't unironic "socialists"/"fascists" of any variety) the better.
    tomman Apparently noVideo is giving up with its planned purchase of Acorn RISC Machines, and it's all thanks to the competition, the US, the EU... but mainly China, which swore to NEVER EVER APPROVE THE MERGER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, EVER!
    https://archive.fo/NEg6u

    I mean, why nVidia does even need to buy ARM in first place if they want to control the full stack? Do they don't have an architectural license? The very same that Apple has had since the very beginning, which led them all the way from the Newton up to the Holy Grail of all ARM SoCs, the M1 series.

    Also, can't believe ARM is worth less than Activision-Blizzard, whose main business line these days relies on content for -you guessed it!- ARM-powered devices! In any case, since nVidia is going "screw y'all, I'm going home", wonder what SoftBank will do with it: remember, they still have a $150B hole to fill in their accounting! At this stage, I guess their only option would be an IPO.

    UPDATE (2022/02/08): IPO it is:
    https://www.reuters.com/business/softbanks-66-bln-sale-arm-nvidia-collapses-ft-2022-02-08/
    https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/08/arm_cancels_sale_to_nvidia/
    Good luck next century, noVideo. We don't need more monopolies in tech, or anywhere else, thank you very much~
    funkyass Sata express was hey, SSD's are getting super fast, lets add a PCIe connect to our sata drives! And everyone else, why bother, hook the SSD's directly to the Bus man!

    Seagate, many years later: wait, lets also do that with old HDDs and get rid of a bunch of cables and middlemen inside the racks.
    CaptainJistuce My point was more "there are two standards that do the exact same thing in incompatible ways because market segregation".

    wertigon
    Posted by tomman

    The shitty parts:
    - NOTCHED displays. On a frickin' LAPTOP. What the fuck, Apple. No, seriously, WHAT THE FUCK!? Who asked for this!? Bezels are there for a reason!!! Now wait for notched computer displays fucking everywhere, for no good reason other than APPLE DID IT!!!
    - Still thin because it gotta be theeeeeeeeen.


    I like 'em big, I like 'em chunky...

    Posted by tomman
    Seagate Creates an NVME Hard Disk Drive

    WHY.


    Not *quite* as stupid as you'd think. The world is moving towards more and more PCIe-only connectors. It would not surprise me if a motherboard five years from now would come with 10 m.2 slots and three add-in cards, one for something like six fan headers, one for legacy SATA and one for Wifi, or something. Only other connectors are power, a couple of fans (CPU + Case fans) and front I/O - but most of those could also go on the m.2 connectors, except for the Rst/Pwr/PwrLED/HDDLED connector. This would *vastly* simplify motherboard development, with the only question being how many PCIe lanes do ya really need, punk? (According to Epyc it's 128)

    But, I do agree - why not simply an m.2 -> SATA power + data cable instead of mucking around with an incompatible drive interface, or why not simply an HDD as a 1x PCIe extension card?

    Posted by CaptainJistuce
    I do remember SATA Express!
    Lost to M2 and U2. Because we gotta make sure home users and businesses have different standards.


    More like, Hurr durr laptops bettar than desktops man, gotta get those sweet cheap and fast m.2 drives onto desktop to save MONIEZ! Also, NEED THAT SPEED!
    CaptainJistuce I do remember SATA Express!
    Lost to M2 and U2. Because we gotta make sure home users and businesses have different standards.
    tomman Seagate Creates an NVME Hard Disk Drive

    So, Suckgate finally brought the worst parts of storage (spinny rust, high latency, subpar random I/O performance, shingles, butter platters, self-destroying drives) to a interface designed mainly for GOTTA GO FAST solid storage devices.

    WHY.

    But then, they aren't the first that tried to shoehorn a native PCIe interface into a good ol' HDD: remember SATA Express? No? Can't blame you, as that interface went nowhere, but at least Western Digital toyed with the idea of native PCIe HDDs a few years ago...

    In any case: friends don't let friends buy Suckgate, backup yo' shit, blah blah blah...
    tomman APPLE!!!

    So Apple came with their latest designer-thin laptops, whose features are to be cloned by the rest of non-Apple OEMs, making computers even more terrible.

    The good parts:
    - Improved M1 CPUs (M1 Pro, M1 Max)
    - Up to 64GB RAM.
    - GPU that supposedly rivals gaming-grade mobile nVidias in performance - quite the bold claim for a company whose only involvement in gaming is on cellphones!
    - The return of HDMI ports and SD card slots. ("slots? ports?! Who need those!? I've never used a slot/port, therefore nobody needs those!")
    - The touchbar is gone, bringing back sanity to Apple keyboards.

    The shitty parts:
    - NOTCHED displays. On a frickin' LAPTOP. What the fuck, Apple. No, seriously, WHAT THE FUCK!? Who asked for this!? Bezels are there for a reason!!! Now wait for notched computer displays fucking everywhere, for no good reason other than APPLE DID IT!!!
    - Still thin because it gotta be theeeeeeeeen.

    In the meanwhile, the sperm banks of California are reporting lifetime records today on sperm donations - in fact they're overwhelmed due to the insane amounts coming from Apple fanboys around Silicon Valley.
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