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Posted by todsacerdoti 1 day ago

I made my VM think it has a CPU fan(wbenny.github.io)
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emilfihlman 1 day ago|
I wonder if this could be used to throttle vms, like I'd like to set something like "this vm can only use at most x% of a cpu" measured over y time.
jmkni 1 day ago||
Hang on, does this mean the MacBook Air is less vulnerable to some malware?
jeffrallen 1 day ago||
There's lots of interesting things in dmidecode, including the asset tag of the machine. If anyone is interested, on both Lenovo and Super micro servers you can set the asset tag. Lenovos do it with Redfish, with Supermicros, you have to use their "sum" tool.

Using it, you can also modify the model name and serial number of your Super micro motherboard. Which cam be useful when your idiot system integrator can't be assed to set them correctly themselves.

brcmthrowaway 1 day ago||
What an arcane piece of tech. Why not use EFI?
thaumasiotes 1 day ago||
> Frankly, I did not miss this at first. I just hoped that what I was trying to do was not “overriding” the predefined structure.

> Because Xen (or rather hvmloader) does not define it.

> So, before defining it myself, I tried to find out if there was any other poor soul who tried to do the same thing before me. And to my disappointment, there was. Right in the xen-devel patch archive.

> Why it was my disappointment, you may ask? Because after reading the response to the patch, I felt the frustration of the author.

Specifically, the patch is annotated "SMBIOS tables like 7,8,9,26,27,28 are ne[c]essary to prevent sandbox detection by malware using WMI-queries."

And the rejection is in two points:

(1) Why is that valuable?

(2) What if there were other tables that also helped with that goal? Your patch doesn't include them.

AceJohnny2 18 hours ago|
> (2) What if there were other tables that also helped with that goal? Your patch doesn't include them.

If there's anything I've painfully learned in my career, is to not let perfect get in the way of good enough.

photon_garden 1 day ago||
> But that’s smol pp way of thinking. We can do better.

Can we remove casual body shaming from our language please?

keutoi 1 day ago||
This is a blog post, not a journal. I don't think he should be policing his language in his own work.
photon_garden 19 hours ago||
Sounds like we have a difference of opinion here.

The large majority of humans adapt our language to the context and the audience every time we open our mouths or put our hands on the keyboard. I’d like the author to do a little more of that.

crims0n 23 hours ago|||
Personal sites are like the last bastions of free speech on the internet, you really want to censor that because it may offend someone who is voluntarily reading it?
photon_garden 19 hours ago||
I’m not advocating for censorship, just expressing a desire for people to be intentional about their language.

Men are routinely shamed for their bodies, especially penis size, and I think it makes their lives worse. So I’d like people to stop doing it.

63 1 day ago|||
I found that jarring as well. I'm all for mixing in a jovial, even immature tone to keep technical blog posts interesting but at the very least I'd prefer to keep it non-vulgar.
dankwizard 1 day ago|||
Now that would be a big brain play
Dilettante_ 21 hours ago||
How dare you
Smithalicious 1 day ago|||
Our language? Whose language is that, person in the link aggregator comment section of someone else's blog post?
photon_garden 14 hours ago||
English, the language that I personally own and get to make all executive decisions for of course :)
bigstrat2003 1 day ago|||
I would sooner remove posts calling people out for harmless jokes as if they were a moral offense.
photon_garden 8 hours ago||
It may feel harmless to you, but research consistently shows a large proportion of men feel insecure about their penis size [1].

Let’s assume those studies are off by an order of magnitude and it’s only 1% of men who feel insecure about their penis. In the US, that’s still 1.7 million men.

If I had to choose between vulgar jokes and two million people having a better relationship with their bodies, I know where my priorities lie.

[1]: https://www.issm.info/sexual-health-qa/what-percentage-of-me...

nancyminusone 1 day ago|||
I wouldn't bet on it. A guy in my city has a "SML PP" custom license plate. I'm not sure on the reasoning either.
photon_garden 1 day ago||
I wouldn’t bet on it either unfortunately. But a girl can dream.
KetoManx64 1 day ago|||
No.
photon_garden 14 hours ago||
Alternatively, yes.
KetoManx64 11 hours ago||
No. You as a woman have no no say in how men talk to each other. You don't know what it's like to be a man.
whall6 1 day ago||
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photon_garden 1 day ago|||
Woman, actually.
jojobas 1 day ago|||
-Babe, a tiny penis isn't such a big deal

-I don't know Jenny, I kinda wish you didn't have one at all

KetoManx64 1 day ago|||
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naikrovek 1 day ago|||
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cyanydeez 1 day ago|||
This is the internet. If you haven't learned from the last 10 years, you should have noticed caring _less_ about random people on the internet is healthier than trying to change any and everything, regardless of how smol.

You're going to burn out very quickly if this is the level of attention and engagement you desire in the world of the internet.

naikrovek 1 day ago||
I know what it is. It is a virtual civilization populated by people, the worst species ever known to exist. And it is in this virtual civilization where people reveal their true colors, because there is no punishment for doing so. So here, you see the real identity of humanity. The real people who are underneath the facades of the people you interact with in real life.

And it's clear that the people, as they really are, are all despicable and horrible inside.

thanks for the pep talk, coach, but you're not my coach and i didn't ask for any coaching. i know what i'm dealing with. i've probably been on the internet longer than you've been alive, so i've watched the internet go from a fairly healthy place to just pile after pile of shit everywhere people interact with each other online. i've watched more and more people show up solely so they can be themselves, and more and more places appear solely for people to be unreastrainable asses to each other.

whall6 1 day ago||
That’s interesting because I feel the exact opposite. I know plenty of people that would say something like “smol pp” in real life, but then come to HN and comment like neutered 50 year old wannabe philosophers.

There is no humor allowed on this platform; real life is much more colorful and fun.

naikrovek 1 day ago||
> real life is much more colorful and fun

if you think making fun of people is colorful and fun you are again making my point for me better than i ever could. please continue.

whall6 1 day ago|||
Hasn’t failed yet!
naikrovek 1 day ago||
you are proving my point better than i ever could, so please continue.
snickerdoodle12 1 day ago||
What's up with the body shaming in this article?

> But that’s smol pp way of thinking

tomhow 23 hours ago||
Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ksenzee 1 day ago|||
Every once in a while I manage to forget I’m a woman in a space that’s not friendly to women, and then I come across something like this.
Smithalicious 1 day ago||
I don't think "smol pp" is meant to be unfriendly to women, but it's telling that men are expected to self-police such utterly innocuous jokes when women are present even though you couldn't find a phrase less applicable to women if you tried.
ksenzee 1 day ago||
Oh I'm sure it's not meant to be unfriendly to women. It's meant to be unfriendly to men, who are the only people reading the article, in the author's mind. You do see the problem, yes?
Dilettante_ 21 hours ago|||
If I make a joke about hammering a nail with a screwdriver in an article, I'd not feel like I'm implicitly excluding people who do not own a screwdriver.
thaumasiotes 1 day ago|||
...no? I'm pretty sure men don't have a problem putting down other men in front of women.
ksenzee 16 hours ago|||
If you’re writing a piece like this, you’re naturally going to pick an insult that will land with your audience, right? If you read an article where the author says “that’s training bra thinking,” obviously the author is envisioning women reading the article. If you read an article where the author says “that’s smol pp way of thinking,” obviously the author is envisioning men reading the article. That was all I was saying: I was just reading along and suddenly I was reminded that I’m in an industry where men write articles for men, and any women who happen to show up really aren’t expected to be there.
thaumasiotes 15 hours ago||
> If you read an article where the author says “that’s training bra thinking,” obviously the author is envisioning women reading the article. If you read an article where the author says “that’s smol pp way of thinking,” obviously the author is envisioning men reading the article.

Again... no?

If you read an article where the author says "that's training bra thinking", the author is female.

If you read one where the author says "that's smol pp thinking", the author is male.

ksenzee 13 hours ago||
All right then. What a fascinating way of looking at the world.
ngruhn 1 day ago|||
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redundantly 1 day ago||
Because they think it's funny. Personally, I just found it off-putting and stopped reading.
Footprint0521 1 day ago||
Ain’t no way, that was my favorite part
benatkin 1 day ago||
Has me picturing the author ambling down the road in a truck with a penguin bumper sticker alongside another adornment attached to the trailer hitch...
ge96 17 hours ago||
> smol pp way of thinking

apt install laugh

TacticalCoder 1 day ago||
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