Irenes (many)Mar 19

when Intel introduced a cpuid instruction, around 1998 or so

there was a debate on the Linux kernel mailing list as to whether Linux should provide a way to call that instruction

you know, because of its potential uses for surveillance and how that was sharply at odds with the idea of computers being owned by their users

Show threadIrenes (many)Mar 19
the resolution, at least for a while, was that Linux would implement an interface for programs to invoke the instruction, but would also add an interface that allows the user to instruct the kernel to lie and return a user-specified identifier instead
Show threadPhilippa CowderoyMar 19
@ireneista is there a commonly accepted "spartacus" id?
Show threadShadSterling
@flippac @ireneista you mean like this suggestion? https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/116255862979155448
Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: (@[email protected])

Systemd merged age verification to comply with California state law. If you want to enter a birth date, I recommend "Friday, 13 December 1901 20:45:52". I like this for a few reasons: 1. This is the earliest date possible for a 32 bit datetime integer in C. 2. It's malicious compliance. 3. It's obviously faked. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954 #linux

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