FWIW, I have two user accounts for different purposes. I once had three, but I stopped doing that one. My main user account has read access to the specialized one, but that one doesn't have any access permissions to the main one. It can be a bit of a nuisance, but it feels (and should be) a lot safer.

Riot isn't identifying a Ryzen by staring at TCP packets. Vanguard runs on the PC, where it can collect hardware information or request TPM attestation and send the result to Riot. CPUID identifies a processor model, not an individual chip; a CPU-bound firmware TPM is a more plausible explanation for a ban following a used CPU.

TPM wouldn't work because you'd have to transplant it from one motherboard to another. The CPUID instruction gives a lot of information (including serial number) if you ask it the right way. It's how the CPU-Z application gets all that information - there's tons of information available via CPUID on a modern processor depending on what you load EAX/EBX can call it.

MS Windows 95b was ok for the time.

There's the average rise, and then there's the rise at any one location. The aren't the same. I've heard (one source) that the ocean level near Greenland is actually lower. This was attributed to the loss of ice leading to less gravitational attraction. And the straits of Magellan have fierce tides, because of differing ocean heights.

Are you sure it's Stanislaw Lem? The story you're describing feels very similar to the story of the film Colossus: The Forbin Project, which is based on the book Colossus, by DF Jones.

How will you get the ROM once everything is "digital"?

Hack the PS5.

There's a new jailbreak on PS5 that handles basically up to firmware 15.5. Use it to get access to the PS5 filesystem and grab your files from there.

I'm sure there will be other ways that probably involve simulating the PS5 and downloading the files directly.

The trouble with benchmarks is that they are often gamed. So while this is interesting, one should remain a bit reserved, awaiting assessments more reflecting the way people use it.

Probably the next code that it outputs will be:

A very slight rounding is useful, as it makes the distinction between one tab and another easier to spot. Currently on my Firefox it's done by highlighting the active tab and putting a small icon at the start of the tab...which also wastes space, but differentiates tabs. (OTOH, the tab labels are already slightly rounded, but the "not currently selected tabs" are so greyed out that the tab margins are invisible. Not ideal. And if they do the same thing with the rounded tabs, there will be absolutely no advantage.)

Actually, they were needed around 1980. But in the last few decades they seem to concentrate on making things worse.

Maybe that's actually a measure of how bad the inflation is.

Do you actually believe they aren't retaining the data? Why?

I think those calculations are wrong, because they seem to assume that the heat is uniformly distributed, and that clearly isn't correct.

It's still pretty appalling, but I don't believe those numbers. (Coming up with more believable numbers, though, is beyond me. I couldn't even believe a number based on a gradient, and that's impossible anyway because there aren't enough measurements at the bottom.)

With apples, IIUC, you need to worry about the coddling moth. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpnwhandbooks.org%2Finsec...
Where I used to live it was illegal to grow apples without spraying them with vile insecticides because of that.

While you're technically right about the banana not being a tree, it's commonly called a "banana tree". This is an English vs. technicalese distinction. Just like a walnut isn't a nut, but rather a drupe...in technicalese.