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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.
mircea_popescu: as the citizenry loses intellectual capacity and political standing, all its complaints look more and more like the results of drunken revelry and sexual stubbornness
mircea_popescu: a police court is the choice way to deal with drunks and domestic disputes.
mircea_popescu: decimation soviet justice moved more and more towards administrative adjudication too
mircea_popescu: ascii_field easy to fathom tho. one of those rotten cases where the exemption is louder than the thing it covers.
mircea_popescu: "Back when the NSA was routinely weakening commercial cryptography, their favorite technique was reducing the entropy of the random number generator."
mircea_popescu: Instead of mixing in random data for the initial seed, the only "random" value that was used was the current process ID. On the Linux platform, the default maximum process ID is 32,768, resulting in a very small number of seed values being used for all PRNG operations.
mircea_popescu: On May 13th, 2008 Seems that the bug was introduced in September 2006.
mircea_popescu: Debians OpenSSH could only make 32k distinct keys << o.O
mircea_popescu: U.S. ambassador to England, Joseph Kennedy, also told the studios to stop making pro-British and anti-German films, as British defeat was imminent and there was no point in America holding out alone: 'With England licked, the party's over.'
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski ancient trilema commenter chick used to link to foib.org
mircea_popescu: Naphex da' pizda goala nu cacaturi. trilema e anti softcore
mircea_popescu: Naphex daca-mi trimiti ceva poze ok & exclusive iti fac articol pe trilema.
mircea_popescu: myeah. a b-a os, in the shape of an usable open source something without idiocy/usgity baked in and with decent defaults so that people can install it without dedicating their life to it is ever more required.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: debian used to work. then it got packaged into ubuntu, and the remainder was shot in the head with systemd crapolade.
mircea_popescu: mod6 was working on getting one together but im sure he can use help
mircea_popescu: yeah, nothing past 10.04 was ever approved for usage anyway.