<p>The original Dear Abby was a badass, esp for her time, she was a champion for queer acceptance in her column and was very big on telling parents to listen and accept their children instead of punishing and fighting with them. But also this response is a banger. Top 10 advice columnist responses of all time.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hails.org/@hailey" class="u-url mention">@<span>hailey</span></a></span> heh, I gave up on trying to reverse engineer VxDs in the end. so very alien versus modern kernel drivers.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> i have this long running side quest to understand VxDs and maybe even write one to do something cool. this is helpful ^^</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> inversion: rogue headmate externalizes onto foreign neurals</p>

<p>headmates whose names are ECDH secret keys, in case you need to establish a shared secret headmate over an insecure communication channel</p><p>(i spent way too long trying to figure out if headmates form an algebraic group. i can&#39;t figure out what the inversion operation would be)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hails.org/@hailey" class="u-url mention">@<span>hailey</span></a></span> that was, uh, fun to write</p><p>LE is cursed</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> i was idly googling about on some special interest topics and look what came up! hello!</p>

<p>headmates whose names are just random UUIDs</p><p>(they&#39;re pairwise dating, modulo alpha equivalence)</p>

<p>headmates whose names are just their de Brujin indices</p>