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mircea_popescu: if hypervisors fixed bad osen microsoft'd have been long fixed.
mircea_popescu: but pretending like magic works isn't a solution to it.
mircea_popescu: then again if THAT didn't work it wouldn't surprise me.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the execration has occured to me a number of times.
mircea_popescu: well how the fuck was i to know a year later ima be all the way up in thompsoncpp
mircea_popescu: conceivably this will come down to "use so and so, version no later than X, and you will have to either not use sound or use one of these sound cards"
mircea_popescu: ( ) Extreme profitability of spam << i take it this was 2000ish ?
mircea_popescu: kinda why you'd expect governments to do better than they are, really.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform those forums... sorta tardstalk before the bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: i suppose it's targeted at folks who think the usg is a good idea and windows an operating system.
mircea_popescu: i suppose you're right - this service existing is sufficient prooof what it's serving isn't crypto.
mircea_popescu: no but i mean for srs. this could actually be done correctly
mircea_popescu: any random string being hashable, any random string could be used as a pubkey, in principle. may take some work to mine a usable privkey to go with it, but...
mircea_popescu: how does it even work, you hash the "public key" and then multiply it with something ? sorta halfass rsa ?
mircea_popescu: btw, anyone ever got rms' new autoreply ? the one where he goes "i'm on a 48 hour delay like mpex" ?
mircea_popescu: dude holy hell, no configured file ever existed before ?
mircea_popescu: the idea of loading binary modules and breaking static builds is not exactly = to nss.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just pick one of the preexisting sluts and then prevent washing, sure.
mircea_popescu: and that, incidentally, is the objection ot poettering : it's not a matter of "doing". the man simply has no conception of right and wrong.
mircea_popescu: "so why are you all pushing pki ? it's fucktarded beyond reason" "no look, it has a whiff of salami right in this spot!"
mircea_popescu: "why do we have dns ? it sucks! " "yes but that's how nsa could figure out how to diddle via libnss"
mircea_popescu: you KNOW this shit even got to be used in the first place because usg said so.
mircea_popescu: "unfortunately, the way we made this foss software is that it behaves exactly like windows"
mircea_popescu: "i have tried and so nobody should criticize the steaming pile of dumb dung "
mircea_popescu: pure anomie, this shit. idiots "doocracying" with no conception of right and wrong whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: if whoever the fuck is responsible for this crapever shows up in wot he's getting my -.
mircea_popescu: is it to load whatever early ityeration of nsa diddle in systems ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you even have a clue why the fuck libnss is made that way ?
mircea_popescu: that you don't randomly stick binary in my ass is not a "many things"
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, in vast majority of cases, libnss SHOULD JUST CONTAIN ALL!