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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Speculative execution seems to be the source of a lot of security flaws in many different CPUs. CPU manufacturers seem to be so focused on winning the performance race that security aware architecture design takes the backseat.

    Also, it’s more and more clear that it’s a bad idea that websites can just execute arbitrary code. The JS APIs are way too powerful and complex nowadays. Maybe websites and apps should’ve stayed separate concepts instead of merging into “web apps”.

    I also wonder if it’d be possible to design a CPU so vulnerabilities like these are fixable instead of just “mitigable”. Similar to how you can reprogram an FPGA. I have no clue how chip design works though, but please feel free to reply if you know more about this.








  • Portal 2 is really cheap when on sale these days, so it’s probably not worth the hassle.

    If you really want to though, you can get a somewhat recent cracked build of Portal 2 (one with split screen support, which was added years ago iirc), and then use Remote Play Together (ironically a Steam feature, just search the internet on how it works with non Steam games).

    Or you can both have it cracked, and then play via ZeroTier or Hamachi (or whatever folks use these days) and use the in-game console to connect to your buddy (or vice-versa), search for “Portal 2 coop lan” or whatever.