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mircea_popescu: i once knew a guy who deigned to pick up the phone half the time when desperate hot women were calling to beg him to let them come over for a spell.
mircea_popescu: but on tyhe other hand, make the bricks out of solid gold and see.
mircea_popescu: apparently, it's because they have very limited ability to screw with stuff.
mircea_popescu: you confuse two unrelated things. thieves do not steal the brickwork but leave it behind for similar reasons.
mircea_popescu: beware of women affraid to travel and fuck strangers. they make horrible wives.
mircea_popescu: the us would be infinitely better if instead of "raising awareness" the impotent twerps would be busy accepting rape into their lives.
mircea_popescu: if one's forced to pick prolly best pick a mix, but yeah
mircea_popescu: what's the idea, someone'll indemnify you, come hell or high water, because they deeply care ?
mircea_popescu: Landgull the future hears you and says "your cheap psycho-skullduggery holds no power here".
mircea_popescu: "we joined bitcoin because we didn't like the banks so please take our bitcoin and put it in a bank"
mircea_popescu: the masquerade where "people" ie, social media astroturf is misrepresented as being in favour of this atrocity...
mircea_popescu: it will self-defeat once the last policeman is buried in the coffin of the last politician.
mircea_popescu: Landgull the 20mb block is a transparent attempt by the usg to take control back.
mircea_popescu: meaning that the average server your average internaut can't afford would barely keep up with the chain.
mircea_popescu: if one scales shit linarily, a 20mb block would be verified by this machine in 560 seconds, or just a shade under 10 minutes
mircea_popescu: back when it was comissioned coupla years ago it blazed through them at the rate of 7-10 seconds per.
mircea_popescu: in sadder news, a reasonably recent 8 core server is doing block verification at the rate of 28 seconds per.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if every time i went to buy a quart of milk the teller asked me what time it is...
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel if you're going to be doing code preservation you prolly want to hash and deed like i did on the eulora binaries for nvidia drivers.
mircea_popescu: so they just throw things at it. "Can't hurt, right ?" "test more things"
mircea_popescu: retarded people who do not belong in front of a computer try their darndest to "make it secure" but have no fucking idea what that is
mircea_popescu: it's just this entire frantic activity as a cover-up for impotence.
mircea_popescu: key expiring has nothing to do with verifying material they produced tho
mircea_popescu: because god fucking forbid you download pgp signed matter and verify it locally
mircea_popescu: it's just... why the fuck would the color of your blouse decide whether it rains that day
mircea_popescu: "If your system's date and time are too far off (typically by months or years,) then it may prevent Portage from properly downloading source tarballs. "
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that "once" may well be bridge too far for many practical applications.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, it is readily observable and quite visible.
mircea_popescu: thing is... i might be the only suit that can tell the difference between bad and good code, on account of being the only suit that is also literate. as in, literature-literate.
mircea_popescu: at bug that occurred when the file is on a floppy disk and the user yanks out the disk in the middle. That LoadLibrary call is ugly but it makes the code work on old versions of Windows 95."
mircea_popescu: "Back to that two page function. Yes, I know, it's just a simple function to display a window, but it has grown little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well, I'll tell you why: those are bug fixes. One of them fixes that bug that Nancy had when she tried to install the thing on a computer that didn't have Internet Explorer. Another one fixes that bug that occurs in low memory conditions. Another one fixes th
mircea_popescu: like netscape was. like apache was. "but mp... it works!"
mircea_popescu: the idea that new code is better than old IS NOT patently absurd when the old code was writen by unaware idiots.
mircea_popescu: "The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they've been fixed. There's nothing wrong with it. It doesn't acquire bugs just by sitting around on your hard drive. Au contraire, baby! Is software supposed to be like an old Dodge Dart, that rusts just sitting in the garage? Is software like a teddy bear that's kind of gross if
mircea_popescu: "Before Borland's new spreadsheet for Windows shipped, Philippe Kahn, the colorful founder of Borland, was quoted a lot in the press bragging about how Quattro Pro would be much better than Microsoft Excel, because it was written from scratch. All new source code! As if source code rusted."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform today i had to look into mod security. which somehow didn't run, tho it was included in apache. which needed to be recompiled. which failed. do you happen to have any idea what apache's like incidentally ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform reason actually related to the " one of the reasons why such environments are unpopular"
mircea_popescu: as if reality were contusive or something. which, i suppose it actually is for their ilk
mircea_popescu: Limit functions to no more than 60 lines of text. << 60 because why. my screen fits 24.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform generally, it is a safe assumption that any diddlomatics coming out of nsa are highly engineered to bypass automatic detection
mircea_popescu: i had thought they had just given up on their own version of telnet-ssl.
mircea_popescu: openssh is probably the most important contribution to software insecurity in history of computing.