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vbabka

Vlastimil Babka

Yay, @MASTERBOOTRECORD will play in Prague for the first time, made my day! https://obscure.cz/cs/tickets/detail/id/600
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hyeyoo

Hyeonggon Yoo

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@vbabka @MASTERBOOTRECORD

How have you managed to boot without master boot record?
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vbabka

Vlastimil Babka

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@hyeyoo @MASTERBOOTRECORD at some point many years ago my 386 computer was booting with this in the master boot record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneHalf
It didn't end well...
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vbabka

Vlastimil Babka

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@hyeyoo @MASTERBOOTRECORD these days it's UEFI obviously, on a Gigabyte motherboard so that's going great too https://eclypsium.com/blog/supply-chain-risk-from-gigabyte-app-center-backdoor/
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hyeyoo

Hyeonggon Yoo

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@vbabka @MASTERBOOTRECORD

wow, that's quite a blast from the past!

did it end up infecting other computers as well, or mess up your computer?
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hyeyoo

Hyeonggon Yoo

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@vbabka @MASTERBOOTRECORD

what, already infected even before I buy it?
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vbabka

Vlastimil Babka

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@hyeyoo @MASTERBOOTRECORD got it by some pirated games on floppies from friends, dunno if infected someone else. I recall some dumb antivirus removed it without properly decrypting, so had to reformat the HDD in the end. Parents were freaking out that I'm breaking the very expensive computer by a virus, haha. Fun times.
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