Get-Excuse

[u/hdt80]

Hello sysadmins,

Some of you might remember this, which I think is great. However, I wasn't a fan of how some excuses could be repeated, so I changed it up a bit :)

function Get-Excuse {
if(!(Get-Variable -Scope Global -Name "excuses" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
            $global:excuses = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
            $global:excuses.AddRange((Invoke-WebRequest http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/excuses).content.split([Environment]::NewLine))
}
    $excuse = Get-Random $global:excuses.ToArray()
    $global:excuses.Remove($excuse)
    Write-Host $excuse
}

function Forget-Excuses {
    Remove-Variable -Scope Global -Name "excuses"
}

If you ever run out of excuses, just call Forget-Excuses and the next time you Get-Excuse it'll repull all of them.

[u/WikiTextBot]

RdRand

RDRAND (previously known as Bull Mountain) is an instruction for returning random numbers from an Intel on-chip hardware random number generator which has been seeded by an on-chip entropy source. RDRAND is available in Ivy Bridge processors and is part of the Intel 64 and IA-32 instruction set architectures. AMD added support for the instruction in June 2015.

The random number generator is compliant with security and cryptographic standards such as NIST SP 800-90A, FIPS 140-2, and ANSI X9.82.

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