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They should have mentioned that in the first line of the github readme, not burried deep down in the text.

Buried? Deep down? The fourth paragraph, clearly labeled "Affected Systems", a minute or two into the read.

Opening with the title "hardware backdoors in x86 CPUs" is quite misleading, though.

We have shorter attention spans now.

Multiple things can be true at the same time. While we do have shorter attention spans, some (lots of?) developers absolutely suck at writing articles

I fancy myself as a decent writer, but I suck at writing documentation. People describe reading my notes frustrating and incomprehensible. I find it much better to use AI to untangle my, admittedly, convoluted reasoning

And some intentionally write clickbait headlines even though the have the skills to do better.

They knew what they were doing by not including "VIA C3 CPUs" before the fourth paragraph. Come on. It should have been in the title.

Imagine getting a letter "High Risk of Cancer" and getting all the way to the 4th paragraph to see it's just relevant to a race of blue aliens...

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