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mircea_popescu: i don't expect technologee changed these much since the 90s
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's still a very good clock by the looks of it.
mircea_popescu: like humans, actually. either die as a youthful ape, or else get cancer, or else... age 150
mircea_popescu: yeah. like hdds : either dead in six months or good forever.
mircea_popescu: you'd be surprised. those damned things... i've had one for a decade.
mircea_popescu: yeah it's good for a decade, since we have ~2 hours to spare
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mircea_popescu: yes there ios a known workaround. has been known since 1985. FUCK UNICODE.
mircea_popescu: you may be the only one here seriously following gentoo.
mircea_popescu: that way, you won't need "security patches" in the first place.
mircea_popescu: "we will stop deliberately adding holes to these versions aftyer this date, and you are please asked to upgrade because we won't be sending patches a quarter afterwards, either"
mircea_popescu: "As per our previous announcements and our Release Strategy (
https://www.openssl.org/about/releasestrat.html), support for OpenSSL versions 1.0.0 and 0.9.8 will cease on 31st December 2015. No security updates for these releases will be provided after that date. Users of these releases are advised to upgrade."
mircea_popescu: and yet, "we do not feel compelled to denounce the person who added this hole in our codebase, and call for a boycott from everyone on it against their sorry ass. because, fundamentally... it's us."
mircea_popescu: "During certificate verification, OpenSSL (starting from version 1.0.1n and 1.0.2b) will attempt to find an alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf certificate to act as a CA and "issue"
mircea_popescu: well... keynesian logic. if consumption drives production then clearly the economy's never been ion a better shape
mircea_popescu: who the fuck even comes up with this shit. "there's future left"
mircea_popescu: one of the lulziest electroal slogans here (in the line of "podremos vivir mejor", of course) was... "hay mas futuro"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. like the us did it back when it mattered.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck do these schmucks need as much as a cigarette butt ?
mircea_popescu: borrows in europe, distributes loot to people in capital
mircea_popescu: decimation: what usg agency would perform this work domestically? asciilifeform:at&t. << top kek
mircea_popescu: but the idea throughout, at least in my head, was to have something to give new bloods
mircea_popescu: well, an item has the advantage that it can be used as it can be used, rather than as can be intended.
mircea_popescu: we will never have enough of these to simply throw away either
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as i said, this wasn't to my mind related to the p2p relay thing
mircea_popescu: "so you'd like to learn more about bitcoin ? here's a pogo and here's a webpage, make it work"
mircea_popescu: the idea was to make use of net jacks in people's houses
mircea_popescu: no, the thing they spent a trillion to build missiles and subs
mircea_popescu: again, the possibility is here more important than the actuality.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if bitcoin nodes agree to any different time, it's rejected.
mircea_popescu: decimation if this facetious "precision" were the point, it wouldn't be t here and t+1 hour a km away.
mircea_popescu: decimation there is no "sun does" immediately. sun doesn't. what there is, is, "here's what i say the sun does".
mircea_popescu: it already allows me to publicly mock all sorts of traditional power structures, reject nist, what have you.
mircea_popescu: mod6 iirc asciilifeform saw the same wedge spot for a bit.