It varies. Right now Crazy by Patsy Cline (technically Willie Nelson, but Patsy made it famous) is what springs immediately to mind. Although I’d prefer an instrumental version because the lyrics don’t quite fit.

On another day, I might pick the Gnarls Barkley song by the same name.

Like many others here, you’re getting my upvote because you’ve expressed a valid opinion, even if I happen to quite like the drink in question.

You get this comment because a bunch of people either don’t get the distinction, or are put off by the profanity. Not really sure which.

Disappointed that “Pork Radio” didn’t make the cut. He must have considered it.

“Suckle” would be my preferred horrific reading.

For reasons I won’t go into, and probably not the first ones you’d think of, “squeal” holds a different negative connotation for me.

Some of us say hard g GIF, but prefer “ess-cue-ell” for SQL.

The former is an acronym and the latter is an initialism, and for me, that’s what makes the distinction. Anything else is secondary.

Was confused for a second, because I don’t generally think of peanuts as having a shell, but then realised that you must mean the outer pod / husk that they’re sometimes sold in. We call the whole things “monkey nuts” here.

… but despite the fact we have a name for the whole thing, we only eat the peanuts inside.

Someone who was 18-25 in 1976 is 68-75 now. I’m not sure how many of them are here in the Fediverse, but I guess if I’m here, who was born around that time, maybe there’s a couple of them lurking.

There have been dreams that have been made of perfectly sensible things, but have been so ludicrous in combination that I have woken up laughing.

… but usually I enjoy looking at signs with writing on them because they never stay the same when I look away and look back.

If you think he’s old, I heard the broken image icon as a Q*Bert noise.

Are you a believer in the idea “They who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear”? Hint: You shouldn’t be.

And do you know for certain that your sandboxes and VMs don’t simply pass through the CPUID instruction? And if they don’t, do they rotate their fake CPUIDs? And how often does that happen?

indigenous folks get their land back

Uh… That’d be the whole continent. Are you going to tell the other continents about a sudden influx of hundreds of millions of repatriations or shall I?

What I’ve read just now is what I’d deliberately not gone looking for up to this point in case I found this out.

Linux and Windows happen to require that the executables that access that information be run with root privileges, but it looks like that’s merely an affectation.

It seems that any old piece of software, without root or other privileges, can independently run the CPUID instruction that obtains a processor’s serial number.

I do not like this one bit.

Either I knew and forgot, or misunderstood it as CPU family identification whenever I’ve come across it. Denial is also a possibility. We’ll see if I remember this in a month or two.

The guy with the wide eyes, centre frame, in the background, looks like he’s having or is about to have an epiphany.

I would be very interested to know how they are able to identify a specific CPU. The article speculates but does not answer this question.

The fact that this is even possible is a security nightmare.

OK, I’ve done a bit more digging and pieced it together. Acknowledgement to @dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world for prompting me to try (again) to find a command that might do it among other things.

IMO, this sort of information shouldn’t be in processors in the first place, but apparently it is there and needs admin/root access to, well, access it.

… and the game in question requires kernel-level anti-cheat, so of course, it has the necessary access.

The command for Linux is sudo dmidecode -t processor, which dumps a lot of info including an ID field, which is supposedly the CPU’s specific identifier. It can be grepped for or otherwise filtered out.

My own Ryzen gives 8 hexadecimal pairs, so it’s a 64-bit value.

I would not know that that was unique to my specific individual processor if I had not been told, but I’ll assume that at least part of it is not unique between Ryzens of the same calibre. (I won’t be posting any of it for comparison, for obvious reasons.)

So the upshot is, if you don’t want to be identified right down to your CPU, don’t run programs as root if there’s any chance of them phoning home.

I once took down a production server with a script that was an unintentional resource thief. The “oh sh-t” was watching the script grind to a halt… and then the phone started ringing.

Borderline on the non-destructive there because the server recovered fine after a reboot and nothing was lost except uptime. Sometimes a server would choke anyway, and the company assumed it was that, but that time it was my fault.

I had to answer more than the one call regarding that, feeling sick to my stomach, so I didn’t escape unpunished.

It is worth noting that the same metric is the exact reason that web browser version numbers are so ridiculous.

What’s that saying? Something about the moment a metric is used to measure performance, it ceases to be a good metric.

That’s what’s happening here. In one of the stupidest ways possible.

A constant, unwinnable arms race against unauthorised bots is now inevitable.

I assume they’ve considered this and expect they now have everlasting proof to take to investors and stockholders that they’re “doing something” to increase revenue and/or provide exclusive data for LLM training.

Oh hey, I own an old Star Trek annual that has this story in it. Basically the planet has spores in the atmosphere that turn people into giant carnivorous plants. A couple of redshirts are irrevocably altered and can’t be saved, but plot armour saves the main players as usual.

They may have used the idea for real in the TNG episode where Geordi begins to turn into an alien species after several people he was working with have already done the same.

The same annual has a story in it about a race of humanoids who turn their lives over to machines. They become clueless, waited on hand and foot while it runs amok turning their planet into an empty concrete wasteland full of buildings no-one will ever live in.

Basically predicted the warning signs of AI 60 years ago.

These are just words. Set a date for a referendum or say nothing. Promisocracy is a disease.