mircea_popescu: and why is "being taped at a weird angle to a doorknob on a door that for some reason rests by itself in a hallway at an angle" dangerous to posters ?

mircea_popescu: why is "being propped against a fence" supposed to destroy posters ?

mircea_popescu: The Late Sir John Ogilvy: in praise of Sir John Ogilvy, 9th Baronet, MP for Dundee. "He was a public benefactor in many ways, Especially in erecting an asylum for imbecile children to spend their days."

mircea_popescu: Which causes many people to feel a little downcast.

mircea_popescu: next it'll be shove a head of brocoli up your ass for the environment

mircea_popescu: first, drop a bucket of water on your head for cancer

mircea_popescu: cazalla you're describing a collection of clueless yet eager beavers.

mircea_popescu: maybe as a temporary measure for small sums, but otherwise, there's no good reason and too much risk.

mircea_popescu: cazalla nobody of any relevance uses weballets as a matter of course.

mircea_popescu: in a culture composed mostly of monolinguistic, ignorant twerps, such as the us (or, for that matter, china), it's not even so very hard to do.

mircea_popescu: they do this sort of thing a lot, keep rewriting the fundamental myths without citation.

mircea_popescu: that pretense is not good, of course, but nor does that matter : they don';t care if their pretense is good, they just want to hold on something. they similarly don't care if their lottery ticket is good, just as long as it's a lottery ticket.

mircea_popescu: for being easier, it's also a lot less interesting, which is why the entire system relies on the walled garden concept : none of these write properly, ie, for the world. they all write for an arbitrarily restricted audience, which makes their task all that easier : athena can turn a single crow black from where it was white. a bunch of sweet singers of michigan can turn a multitude of birds a multitud of colors, and al

mircea_popescu: this is obviously a lot easier to do, it doesn't take nearly as much work to find an exploitable weakness in the "world" predicated by some schmoe working for some us publisher as it takes to find an interesting hole in nature.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know as a result of the fanfic discussion with kuzetsa it occurs to me : fifty or so years ago, the amateur "thinking man", ie, someone who could read and write and took delight in both, would mostly write (ie, try his amateur hand) science fiction. that is a sort of fanfic to the canon of nature.

mircea_popescu: i had nfi digital ocean was a small startup.

mircea_popescu: <thrice> he sounds a lot like this hacker, '4chan,' I read about on the news yesterday << lmao.

mircea_popescu: you're not even doing a good jbo of it, this is like the weakest sauce trolling ever

mircea_popescu: a glibc forc

mircea_popescu: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html << lengthy story (from the guy that earlier claimed they're not a cabal, of course) explaining how the future of linux is being windows.

mircea_popescu: now that's a good fucking point, jesus it took a while to get to one.

mircea_popescu: Myth: systemd's use of D-Bus instead of sockets makes it intransparent. This claim is already contradictory in itself: D-Bus uses sockets as transport, too. Hence whenever D-Bus is used to send something around, a socket is used for that too. D-Bus is mostly a standardized serialization of messages to send over these sockets. If anything this makes it more transparent, since this serialization is well documented, under

mircea_popescu: For example, systems running systemd now generally store their hostname in /etc/hostname, something that used to be specific to Debian and now is used across distributions. << holy hell that took half a century.

mircea_popescu: lol "No, it can't read mail...yet". a sense o' humor never hurt anyone.

mircea_popescu: i'll take a bet you're not the only guy here that ever used the things, for any value of things tho.

mircea_popescu: pankkake that's a good thing, granted.

mircea_popescu: nah, it's not gonna be over for a while yet. it has... well not so much traction, but plenty o' support.

mircea_popescu: and taking a charitable view of "written"

mircea_popescu: but srsly, it's easier to understand "For most people" ? like easier than what, like easier than it was for that stupid broad whatever her name was to understand that claiming "fake" on a bunch of pics showing her dressed with her tongue sticking out ain't gonna work ?

mircea_popescu: and declarative by nature. That all said, if you are experienced in shell, then yes, adopting systemd will take a bit of learning."

mircea_popescu: "systemd certainly comes with a learning curve. Everything does. However, we like to believe that it is actually simpler to understand systemd than a Shell-based boot for most people. Surprised we say that? Well, as it turns out, Shell is not a pretty language to learn, it's syntax is arcane and complex. systemd unit files are substantially easier to understand, they do not expose a programming language, but are simple

mircea_popescu: it's what it gets to boot. a second.

mircea_popescu: Yes, systemd is fast (A pretty complete userspace boot-up in ~900ms, anyone?) << yeah ? since I dunno, 1995 ? i've always took the system apart if it needed more than a second.

mircea_popescu: "we designed systemd with security in mind" << by now this is pretty much usable as-is, might as well be a protein binding site for pathogens.

mircea_popescu: it's clearly being pushed, and that will make people with a working head suspicious these days.

mircea_popescu: pankkake and in spite of the technical angle, what stinks to high heavens to me is the political angle. so gnome decides to not be dependent on systemd in 2012, then in 2013 they make it a de-facto dependency. because... heh. because why ?

mircea_popescu: if the computer is the shirt, and initd is a tie and systemd is a bowtie, me saying that it's not as easy to hang someone by his bowtie is not answered by your proposition that ties can get stained too. sure, they can, but we were discussing hanging not disembowelment.

mircea_popescu: btw, anyone seen these wonderful girl pants with a proper zipper ? going from the front all around to two inches over her tailbone ?

mircea_popescu: pankkake you know i don't got a call on the topic. so they're complicated, yes. no argument there.