asciilifeform: decimation: ultra-straightforward on non-retarded hardware
asciilifeform: decimation: i'd consider doing this, but doubt there is any serious demand☟︎
asciilifeform: it no longer matters if the idiot bios your motherboard vendor supplied understands what a flash stick, etc. is.
asciilifeform: and boot directly to it. you then will have guaranteed function for all of your disks, other peripherals, etc. which worked under that linux kernel
asciilifeform: can even stuff your favourite kernel in the resulting cavity.
asciilifeform: so, for instance, if you -never- run winblows, you can nix -all- of classical x86 bios-compatibility turd
asciilifeform: '99 might even be home to the original ssh meda-deathbug
asciilifeform: and that it would make for a -more- enticing target
asciilifeform: i sorta imagined that lamers might move the port instead of setting up keyed auth or whatnot
asciilifeform reads logs regularly and does not enjoy seeing them filled with megs of derp
asciilifeform: funnily enough, i haven't seen a single ssh bruteforcebot on my regular boxes since moving ssh to nonstandard ports. did not expect this to have any effect, but it did. vanished. evidently the 'ancient art' of port scan has been forgotten? go figure.
asciilifeform: i.e. that there is ample supply of morons with guessable pw
asciilifeform: the interesting thing re: ssh bruteforcers is the implication
asciilifeform: some of these are, properly speaking, 'worms' in the sense of needing no living operator at all
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: those are largely automatic - in the sense that every box that successfully breaks open gets to participate in the next round
asciilifeform: wai wat, there are times when -no one- is ddosing trilema ?
asciilifeform: davout: kinda problematic if we can't initialize a blank drive from the pogo itself << yes, this will -have- to be fixed. but either a) later or b) someone not me
asciilifeform: as cazalla no doubt knows well, leporidae actually do this
asciilifeform: 'Which means that specific parts will have to be highlighted later on, to be re-digested like those kernels of corn that you sometimes have to pick out of the toilet and eat all over again' << win
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '...these people are already living a degree of magnitude above their means, hallucinating 100's of k's real estate values...' << why such certainty that it is hallucinated? is it possible that american escapees genuinely bid up the cost ?
asciilifeform: (i could almost bet they eat better than i!)
asciilifeform: and how many drummers, plaquard-wavers, etc
asciilifeform: 'This is actually true, I passed by some twerp here trying to give out flyers of some local thing identifying as a communist party and my principal impulse was to ask him how is he not ashamed of himself.' << i lost count of how many 'radical left party hq' doors i walked past in b-a
