asciilifeform: punkman: anyone using such a thing deserves what he gets
asciilifeform: (not because there had to be a mechanical defense against it. no mechanical pill against 'buy all the coins and throw into the sea.' but attempting this gambit, given a properly-designed coin, should cost above $maxint.)
asciilifeform: if you can do the 'centralize' trick, it was always defective.
asciilifeform: recall the 'software does not wear out' article.
asciilifeform: first comment in above link has it: 'How'd you centralize your decentralized system? It sounds like something that shouldn't be possible unless it's actually centralized to begin with.'
asciilifeform: nor the pseudo-industry it was part of
asciilifeform: it was never anything else to begin with
asciilifeform: briefly back to the earlier thread: no one should be surprised if a thing like 'joyent' turns into a vehicle for some imbecile's masturbatory 'justice' fantasies
asciilifeform: a spammer is ridiculous not because he wishes to make money while sleeping, but because he is willing to work an 18 hour day to do it.
asciilifeform: or one minute to think whether what they say makes any sense, that Henry Ford, the American entrepreneur whose worldview wouldn't probably stand much scrutiny from the modern perspective, gained his place in the canon of progressive feelgood policies for paying his workers the back then unheard-of high daily salary of $5, which made them wealthy enough to buy Ford automobiles, which in turn made the Ford company profitable.' (
asciilifeform: 'We laugh at that fable about the village of simpletons who, when their bed blankets became too short for their growing kids, extended these blankets by cutting off a piece from one end and sewing it to the other. Or the more modern tale of a drunkard who could afford to drink every day because he always took his empty bottles back for a deposit. And yet many otherwise intelligent people believe, apparently not stopping even f
asciilifeform: it is the logical conclusion of their thought process.
asciilifeform: these folks will eventually build arse-mouth systems and try to eat their own shit.☟︎
asciilifeform: i.e., that if we somehow do 'cloud' correctly, no one actually has to think about cpu and disk, these can live in some 'meta' heavens
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had something written re: imbeciles thinking of 'meta' elevation as a kind of philosopher's stone
asciilifeform: where were they in 1970 and who was the poorer for it ?
asciilifeform: reading for the first time about 'joyent', i couldn't help but wonder - what are these 'technologies' actually for? if they were erased from the good earth overnight, would i notice ?
asciilifeform: because mimicry is cheaper in all cases than the real thing.
asciilifeform: once the machines were no longer put to work solving actual problems, and just about the whole planet switched to 'solving' nonproblems,
asciilifeform: read, for perhaps the first time, why:
asciilifeform: thing is, the degradation of computer industry was inevitable.
asciilifeform can't shake the feeling, reading this crud, that it was all an elaborate joke, and the punchline is to be read out soon
asciilifeform: honouring the 'lifetime warranty' for all the chumps put together - would this even add up to the cost of one lawyer-week ?
asciilifeform: no surprise that the scam was a scam; surprising is the fact that it wound down precisely when it did
asciilifeform: not because they were broke, but because... they could ?
asciilifeform: 'In January, 2012, Joyent secured a new round of funding totalling $85 million from Weather Investment II, Accelero Capital, and Telefónica Digital. In October 2014, Joyent raised an additional $15 million in Series D funding from existing investors.' << and immediately after, 'fuck you' to the 'crowdfunders.'
asciilifeform: 'On August 16, 2012, individuals who had provided start-up and development funding to Joyent (and its predecessor, TextDrive) in exchange for lifetime shared hosting accounts with Joyent were informed, via email, that their lifetime hosting accounts would be deleted on October 31, 2012' << lol! (pediwikia)
asciilifeform: what did it have to do with these abortions
asciilifeform finds it interesting that he has never before heard of joyent corp., nor knowingly used anything in their lineup
asciilifeform: '...empathy is a core engineering value—and that an engineer that has so little empathy as to not understand why the use of gendered pronouns is a concern almost certainly makes poor technical decisions as well.' << aryan physics is best physics!
asciilifeform: intelligent, conscious tumours, ever in search of ways to embed deeper into healthy tissue (what little remains)
asciilifeform: nobody looks at WHAT THEY WERE << nobody but a hatecriminal aha.
asciilifeform: 'When victims attempt to connect to the WiFi network, they get a pop-up alert telling them their Adobe Flash player needs an update and offering them a file, digitally signed to make it look authentic, to download. If the victims accept they download, they get a Trojan delivered instead.' << run more winblows, 'high-profile executives,..., government agencies and NGOs and U.S. executives.'
asciilifeform: 'There’s no logical reason to use a kernel-level keylogger says Raiu since it’s so easy to write key loggers that hook the Windows API using about four lines of code. “But these guys prefer to do a kernel-level keylogger, which is about 300 kilobytes in size—the driver for the key logger—which is pretty crazy and very unusual.' << imbeciles
asciilifeform: '“You have to be very skilled in kernel-level development and this is already quite a rare skillset,” says Vitaly Kamluk, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab.' << idiots
asciilifeform: 'The key logger the attackers used also has Korean characters inside and appears to have ties to a coder in South Korea.' << lol, let's believe every byte of ascii text in the turd, aha
asciilifeform: hotels, evil access point, winblows trojans << snore
asciilifeform: (in modern parlance - a 'local root')
asciilifeform: 'The hole let unprivileged user-mode program to switch into kernel mode. But more spectacularly, the hole was tightly coupled into unique architectural design of VMS, and in its sly and teasing way...'
