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mircea_popescu: i had to do a dbl take see if he actually put html cruft in his poc.
mircea_popescu: of course, in the converse view, a sysadmin that actually fucks with your binary on a valuable box...
mircea_popescu: "In this article I am going to show you how to create an executable that runs arbitrary code if it's examined by `ldd`. I have also written a social engineering scenario on how you can get your sysadmin to unknowingly hand you his privileges."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fluffypony kinda funny how the "decentralised exchange" is the webwallet of 2015.
mircea_popescu: yeah totally. i have incompatible internet. incompatible TO STUPID
mircea_popescu: We were unable to connect to the Hackpad synchronization server. This may be due to an incompatibility with your web browser or internet connection."
mircea_popescu: "We're having trouble talking to the Hackpad synchronization server. You may be connecting through an incompatible firewall or proxy server.
mircea_popescu: the people who take decisions aren't on skype. the people who are on skype don't take decisions.
mircea_popescu: here's a clue : no decision of any import was ever taken on skype.
mircea_popescu: which hackpad thing reminds me : re the earlier hacker news piece - i find it hysterical the agitprop is seriously pushing the "and they got on skype" angle.
mircea_popescu: well luckily ver invested the money he doesn't have into a new way to butter the coin!
mircea_popescu: ie, they really abandoned any attempt to communicate at all, and satisfy themselves with browbeat. supposedly this works on the stupidest of the working class.
mircea_popescu: but the pretense that his thinly veiled propaganda is "real journalism" is indicative of the state of the usg propaganda machine, be it daily beast or wapo.
mircea_popescu: if this were how the world worked everyone'd be john oliver.
mircea_popescu: the ordinary streetwalker couldn't explain how a car engine works, either. that doesn't make car engines unimportant.
mircea_popescu: you can by and large identify disinfo by this very idiotic "person on street" bent.
mircea_popescu: in any case : that particular leak, and the much less publicised but much ampler leaks since, are not important because "people on the street"
mircea_popescu: no idea why anyone'd entertain mildred gillars posing as a "comedian", but hey.
mircea_popescu: yeah well... it seems reasonably obvious that the usg's very uppity policy is insanity on the mid term. they need us a lot more than we could ever need them. obviously a bit of humility today will save a lot of abject humiliation in 2025, but in any case
mircea_popescu: "all of which will be running on chinese made ic anyway"
mircea_popescu: 300ish ships somehow sounds unimpressive. like a minor chinese port.
mircea_popescu: mats anything above and beyond the "they succeeded making their own nuke, further sanctions superfluous" ?
mircea_popescu: much easier than to try and you know, buy all pogos, as alf was discussing.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation once we settle in uclibc, uclibc gets killed.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> -somebody- saw it fit to break static linking on gnu platform in the traditional microshit way - suddenly, silently, and 'for your own good' (TM) << and the fact that silently worked tells mike_c why qntra market cap would reasonably exceed the sum of the market cap of all computing publications available.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> in other words, it only applies to code that the user himself has compiled << in other words, it is by its very definition dekulakization. run the fucking code usg & dept of friend computer say you run, terrorist!
mircea_popescu: anyway asciilifeform no you're not the first to notice. you're the first to notice who is actually connected and thus powerful.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm not entirely sure this is to go on the head of Andreas Jaeger.
mircea_popescu: ("dear listeners, i tell you i have no one anywhere. not phone service, not gas distributor, not x y or z. i do not..."
mircea_popescu: literally, "n-ai pe cineva... ?" ie , "don't you have someone..."
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the expression in romanian was " a face rost" , which meant to procure. which meant, talk to someone who knows someone.
mircea_popescu: seriously, very thin ice sheets to shade you from the sun.
mircea_popescu: the notion that "democracy", ie, an implementation of democracy without a martial population and strict limits on the franchise is even practicable...
mircea_popescu: then representatives of the democracy are shot on xmas day and you can get a beating just by saying you think communism may be a thing.
mircea_popescu: but from the inside of a "democracy", i can tell you this : people employing a wot are so much more successful than people who do not
mircea_popescu: decimation that's not even the biggest deal. arguably the biggest deal one outside could ever figure out.
mircea_popescu: make it just like the bond franchise, but with handicapped people and science.
mircea_popescu: have a senegalese man play Igor Totallyhonestlyrusynskyi
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this might make a great basis for a remake of that fabulous "le grand blanc" (which srsly was james bond only well done)
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski old joke, americans ask russians how do they keep discovering their secret agents. "you could try not sending black people..."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and why la serenissima is not a democracy, and why no democracy can be anything but "a popular democracy", as in the popular democratic republic of <insert etnonym>
mircea_popescu: back to that "you have no rights" fisher quote for a second : it splendidly illustrates the difference between democracy and republic,
mircea_popescu: i think this is even mentioned in meanwhile declassified soviet stuff. they actually sorted the blacks by "switzerland or germany"
mircea_popescu: but somehow the geeks felt switzerland was more "technical"
mircea_popescu: decimation in fairness, they had all switched to those alcohol based swipes in the 90s.
mircea_popescu: so, yes. carrie bradshaw of philosophy writing for the toptenz of nyt has heard of cornel but not of chomsky.
mircea_popescu: note that they DO list that imbecile west. who has contributed as much to human knowledge as obama has : being black.
mircea_popescu: and this is how the carrie bradshaw selected hearing works. she'd have heard of the new york times, but not of... hm