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mircea_popescu: of course, in the converse view,
a sysadmin that actually fucks with your binary on
a valuable box...
mircea_popescu: "In this article I am going to show you how to create an executable that runs arbitrary code if it's examined by `ldd`. I have also written
a social engineering scenario on how you can get your sysadmin to unknowingly hand you his privileges."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: here's
a clue : no decision of any import was ever taken on skype.
fluffypony: after that they seemed to veer off and create
a "buttercoin team" and "productise" it
fluffypony: (afair it was for
a decentralised exchange)
mircea_popescu: well luckily ver invested the money he doesn't have into
a new way to butter the coin!
cazalla: <mircea_popescu> there wa sa buttercoin ?! <<< been around
a while actually but done the pivot thing
a few times or something
BingoBoingo: It's alright. I was only just working on
a sandwich of ham... because no jew to be seen behind this IRC nick.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Applied
a patch, cazalla's one this though.
mircea_popescu: the ordinary streetwalker couldn't explain how
a car engine works, either. that doesn't make car engines unimportant.
mircea_popescu: no idea why anyone'd entertain mildred gillars posing as
a "comedian", but hey.
mircea_popescu: yeah well... it seems reasonably obvious that the usg's very uppity policy is insanity on the mid term. they need us
a lot more than we could ever need them. obviously
a bit of humility today will save
a lot of abject humiliation in 2025, but in any case
mircea_popescu: 300ish ships somehow sounds unimpressive. like
a minor chinese port.
assbot: The failure modes of "democracy", from people who actually know what they're talking about. on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/19X3dsV )
decimation: asciilifeform: part of the problem is that glibc has
a 'colorful' history
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the expression in romanian was "
a face rost" , which meant to procure. which meant, talk to someone who knows someone.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: people employing
a wot are so much more successful than people who do not << completely. see italians, somalis, jooz, whoever. the rest are but chumps.
mircea_popescu: the notion that "democracy", ie, an implementation of democracy without
a martial population and strict limits on the franchise is even practicable...
decimation: certainly anything that destroys 'process' is
a good thing
mircea_popescu: then representatives of the democracy are shot on xmas day and you can get
a beating just by saying you think communism may be
a thing.
mircea_popescu: but from the inside of
a "democracy", i can tell you this : people employing
a wot are so much more successful than people who do not
decimation: ^there's
a 'democratic' effort to get
a black guy to play james bond
mircea_popescu: have
a senegalese man play Igor Totallyhonestlyrusynskyi
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this might make
a great basis for
a remake of that fabulous "le grand blanc" (which srsly was james bond only well done)
mircea_popescu: and why la serenissima is not
a democracy, and why no democracy can be anything but "
a popular democracy", as in the popular democratic republic of <insert etnonym>
mircea_popescu: back to that "you have no rights" fisher quote for
a second : it splendidly illustrates the difference between democracy and republic,
decimation: my understanding is that it's not very simple to get
a work visa in switzerland
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: eh, not really
a proponent of said theory.
pete_dushenski: or more precisely, who he knows there with
a spare couch
mircea_popescu: that's the idea, generally. like going to
a rave, orwhatever. sleep on the floor of
a squatted building.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: heh, well this particular whore recently claimed to have never heard of #b-
a, which must be like carrie bradshaw never having heard of the new york times
decimation: meanwhile actualy california has 'reinvented' itself into
a central american shithole, wants to pretend like it matters
mircea_popescu: no fixed place of residence, some nights in
a hotel, or
a car, or someone's livingroom, or the park.
mircea_popescu: the "easy" situation has created this particular inferno for the underclass, that they are literally
a mob now.
mircea_popescu: note pete_dushenski the guy starts by inquiring whether the tramp is "in
a room tonight"
decimation: it would be handy to have
a 'diceware' version for rsa keys
assbot: Y’know that post-industrial service economy thing ? Ya, it’s just another shitty command economy. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/19WNKsN )
mircea_popescu: the important part being that the pansy-ass ten year olds masquerading as adults have reclassified as "trauma"
a large swath of life experiences that are exactly necessary for the woman.
mircea_popescu: re this entire "powdered alcohol" bs : why the fuck would i drink
a galon of cyclodextrine slog for
a quart of alcohol ?
mircea_popescu: “The likelihood of widespread Palcohol abuse — particularly among underage consumers — carries
a real possibility of tragic consequences,” Mr. Franchot said in
a statement, “which is why I’m so pleased by the industry’s unified response to protect the public from such
a dangerous product.”
assbot: Logged on 05-04-2015 18:06:07; Apocalyptic: ^ only for that fact alone it's
a good experience
mircea_popescu: marginally amusing read, stuff like
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/announcing-starfighter/ (grep for "Sounds like BS, right. I know. I’m
a generic web programmer (yay Ruby, meh JavaScript, boo low-level anything). The last time I played
a CTF, written by my cofounders, they had me breaking into locks controlled by micro controllers which ran embedded assembly code.")
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is in fact
a very solid protocol, and it flows in an unbroken line from software pre 0.5.x and from block 1.
mircea_popescu: it's entirely untrue, and
a poor attempt at trying to salvage some clout for the power rangers.
BingoBoingo: mats: "The packages, at 4 inches by 6 inches, are not easily concealed, he said. And because of the single-use packaging, he said, it would be easier to spike
a punchbowl with
a large bottle of rum." << I was telling people you wouldn't lose volume by powdering the stuff
nubbins`: mildly annoying that i've got
a binary but can't reproduce the process
danielpbarron: if you're used to debian, OpenBSD isn't such
a jarring experience
assbot: Logged on 05-04-2015 05:52:05; mircea_popescu: because it is unacceptable for
a world to exist where i may have to spend more than an hour getting
a new os running.
nubbins`: if you want to be able to build bitcoind with your buildroot toolchain, you'll have to add
a few options to the config
gribble: Error: "bc,diff" is not
a valid command.
Apocalyptic: ^ only for that fact alone it's
a good experience
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 05-04-2015 05:54:27; trinque: someone could solve this; gentoo has this neckbeard orthodoxy which imo is the only thing preventing it from having
a proper installer
trinque: ascii_modem |
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-04-2015#1089297 << lol installer?!! as in copying other folks' bins over? ick << nah, just bash script that plonks you into
a partition editor, then
a list of architectures, then has you pick
a stage, etc; script the scriptable parts of the manual, and leave everything that should be.. manual :D
☝︎ mircea_popescu: pls to make
a proper patch in full glory so people can benefit from fruits of your genius.
nubbins`: but i don't think it's
a *terrible* idea for our install script to only compile the parts of boost that we need
nubbins`: please note the Boost section -- i'm using
a custom subset of the full boost libs
decimation: apparently uclibc has
a dns client that opens /etc/resolv.conf itself, built into the code
mats: well ofc provably preventing the exploit is preferable. PaX like
a custom Gentoo build, relying on the attacker not knowing it's there, and/or failing to react accordingly
decimation: although the question of what it does with gethostbyaddr() is
a good one
decimation: Although if I recall
a version of rpmbuild was available on gentoo
assbot: Logged on 05-04-2015 05:43:38; mircea_popescu: ie, my way out of swallowing random binary strange is to get
a solid block of binary strange ? from... red hat ?
nubbins`: hmmmmmmm, cross-toolchain just spit out
a static binary.