Except terraces are sensible and actually make use of the space rather than having gaps for no reason other than to be able to say they’re “detached”

I prefer kmem roulette:

# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/kmem bs=1 count=1 seek=$RANDOM

No, that’s a cat. Easy mistake to make.

If you think Intel being a private company has prevented hardware backdoors being added to their chips, I have some bad news for you.

Actually, this particular fuck up goes much further back, it’s attributed to Numa Pompilius (although this is back in the times of legend, so who knows in reality). Before then the year began in march and had 10 months, ending in December and matching the position in the year for November, October and September (and Quintilis and Sextilis as July and August were before they got renamed).

Even then, the newly added Ianuarius and Februarius were originally put at the end of the year. I don’t think we really know who decided to shift new year or when it happened.