Other What currently makes your life awesome?

Is there meant to be more heavy snow? We've had a bit here at the office today but not a ton.

 

This could equally go in the 'ruining' thread, but it's tickled me so it's here. Y'know how I interview people, right? And I have to transcribe those interviews, which takes between two and four times as long as actually interviewing them?

Well, I found a machine translation service that offers 50 free hours, figured I'd give it a go.

What it's done is create, basically, rap lyrics. I quote:

I'll hunt down the line. Then I'll buy. You know you fly way through the smog where you've been. So I just look at all of the baby who just fought our way through the snow to go.

You rifle don't want to grow up here since you say he's an on the whole and I hop on some now so yeah closing in is really when you know what it's like you just can't remember life without them.

Don't flaunt gay and not in our house and I was right I think. So yes. Yes I am example seven yeah whatever it is it's a part so it's OK so it's not permanent ****.

Adjustable switch around to try to call their muscles and help us at all. Lash filleted I'm we have now the generating the D. gram crowd right.

And the other bill and I think I was going to get a large step as forms start I want to get killed is not so much the key.

I would awake kind of sort of lost on an American Sucker implications that has cost about what your thoughts just get when the crisis like a lot what's required is just isn't over yet it's just sitting on the president's side so yes and so it's a it's a it's more cost effectively previously to small compact wimpiness nation and it's actually quite a lot of change. All the players don't play.

This is simultaneously brilliant and absolutely useless. Amaze!

 

I may get my day off yet then.

 

Little know fact but i live in a summerhouse (essentially a shed). It's very nice, electric, internet, electric oil radiators, microwave, toaster, fridge, freezer etc. It was -5C inside. I was foooooooking freezing.

 

Meanwhile in Southern England?

 

The snow in birmimgham is odd. It's more like sand than snow, it won't stick to anything! One side of the road will be snow free and the other where it's sheltered from the wind there's snow dunes up to 3ft high.

Had an awesome day for the wife's birthday. Presents were a huge success. Ghetto golf, beers and a 4-0 thrashing on SF2 (I never could do sticks ) followed by the most amazing meal at Anderson's bar and grill in the St Paul square. All interspersed with Arctic expeditions. Absolute hilarity dicking around in the snow. Can not overstate how much I love this woman.

 

Having finally rebooted, I now have full protection against currently-known Spectre exploits:

Code:

blacklaw@trioptimum:~/git/spectre-meltdown-checker$ sudo ./spectre-meltdown-checker.sh
[sudo] password for blacklaw:
Spectre and Meltdown mitigation detection tool v0.35

Checking for vulnerabilities on current system
Kernel is Linux 4.13.0-36-generic #40~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 16 23:25:58 UTC 2018 x86_64
CPU is AMD A10-5800K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics

Hardware check
* Hardware support (CPU microcode) for mitigation techniques
  * Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS)
    * SPEC_CTRL MSR is available:  NO
    * CPU indicates IBRS capability:  NO
  * Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB)
    * PRED_CMD MSR is available:  NO
    * CPU indicates IBPB capability:  NO
  * Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP)
    * SPEC_CTRL MSR is available:  NO
    * CPU indicates STIBP capability:  NO
  * Enhanced IBRS (IBRS_ALL)
    * CPU indicates ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR availability:  NO
    * ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR advertises IBRS_ALL capability:  NO
  * CPU explicitly indicates not being vulnerable to Meltdown (RDCL_NO):  NO
  * CPU microcode is known to cause stability problems:  NO
* CPU vulnerability to the three speculative execution attacks variants
  * Vulnerable to Variant 1:  YES
  * Vulnerable to Variant 2:  YES
  * Vulnerable to Variant 3:  NO

CVE-2017-5753 [bounds check bypass] aka 'Spectre Variant 1'
* Mitigated according to the /sys interface:  YES  (kernel confirms that the mitigation is active)
* Kernel has array_index_mask_nospec:  NO
* Kernel has the Red Hat/Ubuntu patch:  YES
> STATUS:  NOT VULNERABLE  (Mitigation: OSB (observable speculation barrier, Intel v6))

CVE-2017-5715 [branch target injection] aka 'Spectre Variant 2'
* Mitigated according to the /sys interface:  YES  (kernel confirms that the mitigation is active)
* Mitigation 1
  * Kernel is compiled with IBRS/IBPB support:  YES
  * Currently enabled features
    * IBRS enabled for Kernel space:  NO
    * IBRS enabled for User space:  NO
    * IBPB enabled:  NO
* Mitigation 2
  * Kernel compiled with retpoline option:  YES
  * Kernel compiled with a retpoline-aware compiler:  YES  (kernel reports full retpoline compilation)
> STATUS:  NOT VULNERABLE  (Mitigation: Full AMD retpoline)

CVE-2017-5754 [rogue data cache load] aka 'Meltdown' aka 'Variant 3'
* Mitigated according to the /sys interface:  YES  (kernel confirms that your CPU is unaffected)
* Kernel supports Page Table Isolation (PTI):  YES
* PTI enabled and active:  NO
* Running as a Xen PV DomU:  NO
> STATUS:  NOT VULNERABLE  (your CPU vendor reported your CPU model as not vulnerable)

A false sense of security is worse than no security at all, see --disclaimer

It'd still be nice if AMD could release a microcode update, but this'll do for now.