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1. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2018 20:30:30 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

   I will be with the calculator meme as soon as I get the spray adhesive off the wires of my meme abacus

   1. gdkar (gdkar@mastodon.mit.edu)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2018 20:36:12 EST gdkar

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      @djsundog speculative abacus. 🤔

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      acoustic side channels... in your abacus. 🤔-intensifies

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      power fault side channels... in your abacus. most-🤔

      1. Vertigo (vertigo@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2018 21:23:51 EST Vertigo

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         @gdkar @djsundog I need to apply a patch to my abacus, thanks to a Meltdown vulnerability. It seems if you speculatively execute math close enough to an exposed flame, information leakage can occur, often in the form of melted plastic and/or metal rods.