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> A weeks ago, my friends and I were talking about the inner workings of Zen 5. We were talking about how the CPUID instruction works, and how AMD MSRs are technically editable if you ask the processor nicely. As do we all.
I don't know about your friends, but as we're on HN, I'm sure others here have friends like mine, who absolutely have conversations about how the low level shit that facilitates our world works.
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By 'talk' I suspect he means discord and by friends he means display names. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I catch myself saying 'talk' when I'm talking about something a friend told me over chat.
How does that distinction matter here?
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How does that distinction matter here?
It’s a different situation if you are researching something and chatting about that vs talking about something while in a bar for example
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By 'talk' I suspect he means discord and by friends he means display names. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I catch myself saying 'talk' when I'm talking about something a friend told me over chat.
How does that distinction matter here?
"New CPU in Passmark" news has become so regular, I've long since assumed that they are not leaks at all, but intentional product hype.
EXIF metadata is editable, too. Similar that it could be useful intelligence, but it is very easy to deceive others with it.
So it goes: unintentional data leak. Data leak pipeline becomes common knowledge. Then manipulation. "New CPU in Passmark" news has become so regular, I've long since assumed that they are not leaks at all, but intentional product hype. EXIF metadata is editable, too. Similar that it could be useful intelligence, but it is very easy to deceive others with it.
No
Passmark is clearly going to have to do a security pass on its CPU information now to make this at least a little bit harder!
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It’s a different situation if you are researching something and chatting about that vs talking about something while in a bar for example
They are two different situations but why is the distinction meaningful here? I rarely even remember the venue of most conversations, just that it happened.
My guess is they are functionally saying “this probably happened on discord if anybody is wondering how this is even possible and not made up for effect” but I might be interpreting too much
inb4 "Why don't people trust news anymore?" this why