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mats: i'm fairly convinced this project has gone as far as it can go without professional input
mircea_popescu: has as much to do with computers as with aladin.
BingoBoingo: firetrucks don't have toilets, but they have shovels for digging your own toilets as needed
mircea_popescu: as powerless as congress proved itself to be trying to reign in a profilgate obama,
pete_dushenski: well, the ones who didn't are now buying the cars to reimagine themselves as the ones who did!
mircea_popescu: then import as many african kids to live within the now empty nests
mircea_popescu: but as long as it's 1cm you'll seat yourself at a convenient distance.
ascii_field: the difference is, as al schwartz phrased it, 'does your assembly line require phds? if yes, your firm is doomed'
mircea_popescu: i suppose this may be the issue, i classify culturally, ie, by the beast's mental excrement. ascii_field you prolly classify by some sort of "what the job is". as if jobs actually are about something.
ascii_field: not 'solved' as such
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 20:07:39; ben_vulpes: my goal is primarily to cram as much text on the screen as possible before losing structure or wordshape
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-04-2015#1091117 << this is a bad idea and it will make you as blind as an old jew. ☝︎
ascii_field: 'high-tech' fuzzers actually spot differences in branch outcomes at every conditional jump as consequence of nth bit in input having changed
mircea_popescu: but i say the pigs make ham. as that one butcher observed, "i only follow the lines already there" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: at the level we're discussing here, there's really no difference between working as " gawker vp of pr" or working as "candi19874 on myfreewebcams". srsly.
ascii_field: not same as spam farms
mircea_popescu: one is working the pick-n-placers. the other's working the masturbatrons. the third's you know, "using her head", as in, this fuzzer, that fuzzer...
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there's exactly three things a woman can do with herself that doesn't work as the housemaid of a dude.
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 19:00:57; ascii_field: mats: ... similar gig as you, i imagine: working for 'the man' in compartmentalized ops, churning out weaponized exploits and such. << believe or not, i was never in this business. not even from ethical considerations, but starting with the fact that it is a -terrifyingly- dreary kind of work, carried out largely with brute force 'fuzzing' by gigantic stables of fungible slaves.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: power grids as we know them are an inherently totalitarian institution
mircea_popescu: you're thinking of govt as this fixed item. it is the least fixed item of all.
ascii_field: outages are not even as annoying as brownouts and, especially - spikes
ben_vulpes: my goal is primarily to cram as much text on the screen as possible before losing structure or wordshape ☟︎
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: it's a bit more complex than that. fontsize is nearly irrelevant, as i parse visually first by the structure of the code and then by wordshape. mispellings are rare, due to backround jobs that compile/evaluate text buffers on save and linters that have rules about symbol definition.
chetty: well as I heard the power went out in 'useful' places, the white house,the state department ... :D
ascii_field: mats: ... similar gig as you, i imagine: working for 'the man' in compartmentalized ops, churning out weaponized exploits and such. << believe or not, i was never in this business. not even from ethical considerations, but starting with the fact that it is a -terrifyingly- dreary kind of work, carried out largely with brute force 'fuzzing' by gigantic stables of fungible slaves. ☟︎
mats: http://log.b-a.link/?date=07-04-2015#1090422 << similar gig as you, i imagine: working for 'the man' in compartmentalized ops, churning out weaponized exploits and such.
nubbins`: It was all on live TV yesterday morning. Pierre Trudeau's grieving ex-wife had come to view the Centennial Flame shortly after a ceremony marking the departure of his coffin to a funeral train bound for Montreal. Margaret Trudeau was trying to compose herself and nodded quietly as people offered their condolences.
assbot: Mike Duffy silent as he arrives for Senate expenses trial - Politics - CBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1a1wuCK )
nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mike-duffy-silent-as-he-arrives-for-senate-expenses-trial-1.3022689
mircea_popescu: mats what exactly do the americans expect local traitors to do other than steal as much as possible ?
nubbins`: as if this is a problem
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ static linking of what ? as far as bitcoind specifically goes, iirc nubbins` reported he managed one.
mircea_popescu: "Quora hereby agrees not to serve or display any third party commercial advertisements or solicitations on the profile page of any user who uses the Quora Services on the Agency's behalf as identified by associating a .gov or .mil email address with the Quora account"
asciilifeform: i'll let herr woodcollector decide if this counts as 'by hand'.
asciilifeform: so long as they - do..
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu http://contravex.com/fix_trackbacks.php << my understanding is that this should yield errors if it doesn't work, but it's blank as a freshly painted wall.
decimation: but as we already established, the kernel is in the usb key
asciilifeform: they believe that it can be 'undone' as SAR was
asciilifeform: incidentally, usg doctrine is that 'fresh' nuke powers don't really 'count' - much as usa did not count in 1947 because, elementarily, not enough of the specific industrial base to secure a steady supply of nukes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the racket in question here is where usg plays hand-muppets and runs faux 'we're l337, we sell to 1r4n' at the same time as 'proletariat united against ir nukes' on the other muppet hand
asciilifeform: though i can't fathom they'd have the gall to try censoring uboot as 'warez'
asciilifeform: 'As evidence, consider that in version 5.5.4 of the AirMax firmware, the kernel was modified such that the MTD partitions would be read only, however this change cannot be found in the corresponding kernel patches or source.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is it because most folks need fallback employment if a job falls through? sure - but if a craftsman is needed badly, he will go on tour to antarctica. so long as the costs are covered.
mircea_popescu: such as you know, apostiles, or whatever. allah on a stick.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have a kind of image of just this animal in my head. but not earthling elephant, but the creature from '5th elephant' who i think of as 'desk elephant', or, alternatively, 'lisp elephant'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://xkcd.com/1508 << as if made for you
pete_dushenski: as we know, wp sucks a donkey's cock, but it still seems odd that none are getting through these days
mircea_popescu: as absurd as that may sound.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... as if a reverse engineer needs any further "branding" or advertising past the ability to do hisd work << it is entirely possible to be under- or even un-employed, or mal-employed (substitute appropriate term..?) in any profession, and yes, even that one
mircea_popescu: i suppose as the dea goes bankrupt the ex-dea agents move on to helping local police "fight terrorism" at the rate of 20k for every .5k paid out
mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road. ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-04-2015#1090166 << as if a reverse engineer needs any further "branding" or advertising past the ability to do hisd work. ☝︎
lobbes: Anyway, I got some reading to catch up on. As you were, logs
assbot: Logged on 02-04-2015 21:17:32; mircea_popescu: might as well make your strategy "to get really really fat"
ascii_field: 'THE COURT: As I said I am perfectly happy to bankrupt them. I am perfectly happy to take their real estate and to sell it, if that is what they choose. '
mircea_popescu: generally, illness in humans is manifested as a contraction of the "presence bubble". you may sit in your bed thinking of things as far away as a continent, but the man in pain sees nothing past his nose. and the man in love, past HER nose.
mircea_popescu: aaanyways. it's a safe enough model for as long as inflation holds, because it's based on nominal figures. known as the hyperinflation debenture frenzy.
mircea_popescu: as long as you shaved off the 95%, you've shaved.
mircea_popescu: less than glibc. weighs about the same as uc
ascii_field: when i did a tour of duty as a perversely purposeless employee of university, the cellar below my office, one flight of steps down, was a dns root serv. peculiarly well-guarded and fortified for something so low-traffic (root dns servs get used hardly ever)
mircea_popescu: at least from what i've pieced together from what people have been reciting to me as bedstories since my involvement in bitcoin
ascii_field: dns is pure gold as a pwnhole vector, incidentally
mircea_popescu: so acthung panzers as the expression goes :
punkman: so, don't ldd as root n' stuff, in case you didn't know
fluffypony: instead of building it out as an open-source effort
mircea_popescu: no idea why anyone'd entertain mildred gillars posing as a "comedian", but hey.
mircea_popescu: much easier than to try and you know, buy all pogos, as alf was discussing.
asciilifeform: <decimation> I didn't see it. So " --enable-static-nss" is useful for glibc << as i understand, this results in random breakage (a binary which only runs with any degree of certainty on your machine)
decimation: because as much as I bitch about it, 'rule by derpy bureaucrat' is 100x better than 'rule by crazy mob'
decimation: well, munger comes to the same conclusion as moldbug, that is usg is highly resistant to voting - because to be otherwise would be terrifying
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: (the cia used germany as a cover for its people)
asciilifeform: decimation: easy as a fart if you're a usg intelligence asset.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: it was a nato possession since day 1 of nato (and possibly earlier depending on whether you're a dulles et al '3rd as prequel to 4th' reich proponent)
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: could be romania back when ceausescu was trying to play prague spring supporter just as well.
asciilifeform: 'With that he interrupted me and said, `Mr. Fisher, you as an individual have no inalienable rights. You live in a democracy subject to the will of the majority, and the will of the majority, through an act of Congress can deprive you of any right.''
mircea_popescu: much like the same idiots have reclassified natural phenomena like wildfire as "bad", notwithstanding that coniferous trees will only open the seedpods if they get scorched.
mircea_popescu: the important part being that the pansy-ass ten year olds masquerading as adults have reclassified as "trauma" a large swath of life experiences that are exactly necessary for the woman.
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-04-2015#1089295 << OpenBSD is very easy to install, so long as you have hardware on which it is easy to install ☝︎
ben_vulpes: nubbins`: i have an enp0s3 as well, don't really know what to do to turn it into/use it as eth0 tho
trinque: ascii_modem | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-04-2015#1089297 << lol installer?!! as in copying other folks' bins over? ick << nah, just bash script that plonks you into a partition editor, then a list of architectures, then has you pick a stage, etc; script the scriptable parts of the manual, and leave everything that should be.. manual :D ☝︎
nubbins`: or if they'd rather do it manually as needed
decimation: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-04-2015#1089276 < I apologize for failing to convey my meaning well. I meant that redhat 'provides' this as a source package, and therefore one could examine exactly how they did it - not to swallow the binary without inspection. Source is here > http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/glibc-2.12-1.149.el6_6.5.src.rpm ☝︎
ascii_modem: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-04-2015#1089297 << lol installer?!! as in copying other folks' bins over? ick ☝︎
ascii_modem: i find it odd that mircea_popescu does not handle linux in same way as lathe or - hell - dental work
ascii_modem: mircea_popescu: gentoo is not so much a 'usable linux' as a -machine for building a usable linux-. sorta like 'buildroot'. would you also say that, e.g., a lathe - is 'unusable' ?
mats: pointer, userland can control the data (and sometimes, control) flow of the kernel by virtue of providing the attack data in its own userland address range as it's fully visible in the kernel's virtual address space as well"
ben_vulpes: i have a gentoo that comes up as expected - but sans eth0, and damned if i can figure out why.
assbot: Logged on 05-04-2015 04:12:42; ascii_modem: as someone who only ever knew about it from #b-a links - i thought it was a kinda nature preserve just for folks like woodman
ascii_modem: fitted non-ecc ram in a car? enjoy being used as living crash dummy in next test
ascii_modem: as much as we let.
decimation: Barr's ultimate conclusions were that: Toyota’s electronic throttle control system (ETCS) source code is of unreasonable quality. Toyota’s source code is defective and contains bugs, including bugs that can cause unintended acceleration (UA). Code-quality metrics predict presence of additional bugs. Toyota’s fail safes are defective and inadequate (referring to them as a “house of cards” safety architecture).
ascii_modem: as someone who only ever knew about it from #b-a links - i thought it was a kinda nature preserve just for folks like woodman ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i dunno who sane still plays chess. might as well "play" hanoi towers, it's closer to compulsion than anything.
trinque: the best part of that vid is watching the students dance around as if hit
mircea_popescu: this is about as stupid and sterile as it sounds.
mircea_popescu: Adlai there's no such thing as "the reality of a society"
trinque: so maybe hierarchial leadership is the most humane arrangement, as well as the most sensible