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imagine a piece of software so poorly conceived that in the (incredibly likely) event there is any form of vulnerability with it, the user's best course of action if their machine is visibly compromised in any way is to immediately throw their hard drive into an industrial shredder

a piece of software where the only reason why HP didn't get sued is because corporate IT departments immediately reimage to get shit like it off
(and corporate IT immediately reimaging brings it further into question who on earth the intended functionality was meant for)

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Morning Song @MorningSong3/20/2024, 5:11 PM

And this is after the brain slug and horrible x86 memory tricks.

Dear gods, man, you can hype a thing.

invertigo hayfever @the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi3/20/2024, 5:12 PM

Considering the wild stuff we've seen already this is incredibly exciting to hear

cthuflu @cthuflu3/20/2024, 5:37 PM

i hope it involves uart

kity from the kity dimension @wingedcatgirl3/20/2024, 5:41 PM

👀👀👀👀

@race-condition3/20/2024, 5:55 PM

Now I want to see a quick start running in Intel Managment Engine. Or better yet pull the janky shit Broadcom does and run it in the IGP

@rotopenguin3/20/2024, 6:06 PM

Here is a tiny linux distro, running entirely on a 6th gen I7's embedded 80486 Management core. #LinuxIsJustGnuMinix

gravis again @cathoderaydude3/20/2024, 10:45 PM

extremely funny how close these posts come to the mark

🦊 knot 🦊@knot1263/21/2024, 2:10 AM

The first thing I think of is some sort of FPGA embedded into a chip (that's used for firmware). But I don't think that's insane enough for whatever solution you're hinting at.

@race-condition3/21/2024, 2:39 AM

The close comments make me think its the AMD managment core or misusing a less integrated BMC. A smart NIC might also be coaxed into that job but those are too new, too big, and too expensive for a laptop.

The comments about suicidal firmware engineers make me think some kind of alt ISA mode on a Transmeta core runming alongside the main x86 one (A new processor crime that I also want to exist)

Corolla @corolla943/20/2024, 6:26 PM

ohhh hell yeah

that idiot who has bad opinions on things @daemonspudguy3/21/2024, 1:30 AM

I'm still waiting to learn more about VideACE® InstantVidget™ Sponsored by Boingo® Wi-Fi.

@race-condition3/21/2024, 2:46 AM

I misread that as Boeing WiFi and it somehow got sketchier sounding

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