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Upon powerup, the CPU begins to execute code.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

9 October at 10:09 | Open on digipres.club
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@foone@digipres.club Concept: CPU that does not execute code

9 October at 10:10 | Open on plasmatrap.com
soft cuddly phoenix, disaster queer :v_bi::v_poly:

@foone@digipres.club concept: CPU incapable of running arbitrary code, with a fixed logic path for running Doom

9 October at 10:15 | Open on not.an.evilcyberhacker.net
Jan Beta

@foone Sneaky DNA reference! Well played.

9 October at 10:16 | Open on chaos.social
Daniele Pantaleo 🦥:verified:

@janbeta @foone I thought it was a from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?

en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hi

"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

9 October at 10:21 | Open on techhub.social
Rua

@ozone89 @janbeta I'm guessing DNA stands for Douglas Noel Adams.

9 October at 10:27 | Open on chitter.xyz
David JONES
Daniele Pantaleo 🦥:verified:

@janbeta @foone in my defense, not even the copy of the book I have addresses him by his second name (maybe in the "about the author" page...).

Heck, not even wiki does in the title, only in the first line of the content!

9 October at 10:35 | Open on techhub.social
Jan Beta

@ozone89 @foone Douglas Adams stated somewhere that he was kind of proud of the fact that he was born in 1952 in Cambridge with the initials DNA. Around the same time the molecular structure of the other DNA was discovered at the same place. ;)

9 October at 11:03 | Open on chaos.social
Michal Nemecek

@foone a better, but still not great approach is to reset the CPU before it starts executing code

9 October at 10:25 | Open on bitbang.social
RouseWorld

@foone Perhaps our fall from grace was the move away from hand toggled boot loaders?

9 October at 10:27 | Open on digipres.club
Óscar Morales Vivó

@foone it is a well known fact that software was a mistake.

9 October at 10:39 | Open on sfba.social
Kroc Camen

@foone That's not even the half of it, there are multiple CPUs involved in just powering and bootstrapping the main CPU before we even get into Intel ME etc. In a post-apocalyptic situation, the main reason we'll all be using 6502s/Z80s won't be radiation, it'll be because we physically can't bootstrap anything more recent.

9 October at 10:40 | Open on oldbytes.space
Matt Lewis

@foone @kianryan
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the CPU is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

9 October at 10:50 | Open on mastodon.online
Matt Lewis

@foone @kianryan Or maybe better:

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the code is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

9 October at 10:53 | Open on mastodon.online
Douglas Spencer

@semiprime @foone @kianryan On some of my computers, upon powerup the GPU begins to execute code, and is responsible for bringing the CPU online.

This has made people not only angry, but very very confused. I'm quite convinced this is the thing that has already happened.

9 October at 10:58 | Open on masto.nd2.uk
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