asciilifeform: 'As the biggest online newspaper in Slovakia we need to effectively handle everyday peaks in traffic on our online discussions regarding "women segment".' << wat
asciilifeform: to briefly continue this morning's thread - don't rely on freenode's 'cloaks', if you have a consumer garbage-grade router on your premises, throw it out, replace with actual router.
asciilifeform: punkman: what suggested that it was hacked ?
asciilifeform: about 2 in 3 of extant consumer-grade routers have published remote anal orifices.
asciilifeform: specifically, there is a vandal lurking in #b-a who 'metasploits' uncloaked folks
asciilifeform: 'the time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things: of shoes, and ships, and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings; and why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings...'
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: where it can be overwritten by pwner with a version that saves key
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: this plus the fact of the decryptor routine itself normally stored on disk
asciilifeform: anyone who creates a gizmo which depends on shitstemd - has asked to share the fate.
asciilifeform: 'i would not, could not,' in the zoo, i would not, could not, with a gnu, i would not, could not, in a cage, i would not, could not, with a mage...
asciilifeform: i don't want to smell poettering in my house.
asciilifeform: did i just wake up in parallel universe, where fonts aren't vectorized and do not scale, and we're still using 24-bit LBA for disk access ?
asciilifeform: and what, precisely, is the issue with 3TB disk ?
asciilifeform keeps a machine around with precisely that screen part #. and no shitgnomery required.
asciilifeform: co-miserators - straight to biodiesel.
asciilifeform: this is easily the most putrid crock of shit i've seen in ages, masquerading as 'linux article'
asciilifeform: punkman: the 'solution' from the linked article (throw away the res, 4 pixels for 1) is even more obscene than the supposed 'problem'
asciilifeform: punkman: this is a ludicrous non-problem. where is even one proggy worth using without configurable font.
asciilifeform: whereas lamer can surrender and go on with his life
asciilifeform: paradoxically, it is actually more annoying to me than to most lamers, because i end up doing some actual work, to grab the machine by the neck until shits itself into submission
asciilifeform: 'Hindus enjoy 36 crores of gods - that's 360 million, or more. None of them offered a Sanscrit pre-publication proof of Classical Electrodynamics by Jackson or volunteered Novocain.' -- al schwartz
asciilifeform: (can replace with whatever names one prefers, so long as remembering that 'orc' regards 'human' as effete nithling, and 'human' regards 'orc' as a filthy shaved ape.)
