By becoming even poorer.

I, for one, hope for new and better REEVs

Anon lost everything in the mameluk uprising

That is quite a coincidence

Correct. It’san older term for boots impregnable to water.

The way the system autodeletes the exploit trigger makes it sound like it was less a bug and more a backdoor.

I mean, the cartoonish evil was making the backdoor in the first place. This is just inept.

From what I’ve heard, the POC worked.

Don’t worry, soon the folks in charge will come to the inevitable conclusion that the government systems are all compromised, so clearly the only solution is to privatise them and have thevNSA run by Palantir.

It’s fun to see the stock market itself reach the ultimate phase of enshitification

I’d guess part of the plan is that it wouldn’t.

Those are not contrary, but complementary things.

Alternatively, if it suddenly starts working, we know they aren’t writing it.

Hell, even with the chip tunes alone, it’s amazing what people managed to squeeze out of two sines, a saw, and a square channel. Bloody Tears comes to mind. Or Willy’s theme from Megaman 2.

It’s to make it easier to port them to cloud, for when win12 makes your PC a thin client.

Unironically, yes

If I were a more paranoid kind, I’d wonder if it has anything to do with Valve getting behind Linux.

win11 is a shitshow coming from win10

Calling it: win12 will have a thin client cloud hosted SaaS edition, for those who can’t afford new ai-priced hardware.