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So there is still one single damning piece of information stored in the servers after all - the IP address to fetch the PXE boot image from. But hey, if Mullvad finds a way to strip even that out of the servers, that'd be great

I'm aware of PXE, but in order to do so you need either of:

• the boot image supplying server being in the same intranet as the rest of the other servers, or
• some sort of method to point the diskless server to the correct external IP address to listen to

Since the first mode is probably too unsafe, that leaves us with the second mode. Either the operator memorizes a specific IP address and types it into the BIOS each time the server is rebooted, or the IP address (and possibly the checksum of the image) are stored in a single-use pendrive that the operator carries. I wonder which of these two methods is used in this case.

Something tells me that they have a stack of single-use drives so that each time a server needs to reboot for some reason, they write a boot loader in one from their central headquarters, walk back to the server room, use the device to boot the server, and finally hammer the everliving bejeezus out of the thumb drive juuuuust in case. Hopefully they don't have to reboot that often!

Do I have the website for you! https://gwern.net/turing-complete

A potential workaround: quote-repost your blog post via Akkoma or Firefish, mention the community you want to post the blog post on, and add the title on the beginning

The origin point of the universe, if we lean into the secular sense

Short of getting their own servers of course. This update seems to be a step forward in that direction

From what I read in the article, there is still one part of the boot sequence that does require some sort of storage: the part where the bootloader fetches the network boot image and verifies it against the checksum signature. But I think that can be performed by booting from a pendrive and then removing it. The problem will come if law enforcement gets a hold of said pendrive...

Great to know, but unfortunately CUDA is still too entrenched in comparison to OpenCL - hopefully there's some way to convert from one to the other.

Or buy a motherboard with dual slots and install one of each, hopefully you're made of money

So, has somebody managed to mod the missing Spider-Man missions into the PC version of the game?

It better be, because I'm tired of having so many games running like molasses on the baseline Switch - it's literally just an overclocked, slightly improved Ouya in the inside, and it shows