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trinque: ah
that makes it very clear.
mircea_popescu: as if
that's what happened, i was sitting on an exercise ball one day and spontaneously decided hey, let me make a political party and pick bones!
mircea_popescu: that's what
the jwz dood quite
typically
told me :
that he "doesn't care about whatever political bone i have
toi pick"
mircea_popescu: and
they do wish
to
tell
themselves
that
they can ever work on "something else"
mircea_popescu: that reason is
that intelligent people do not wish
to spend
their
time working on idiocy
trinque: this seems
to be why openbsd just has chroot, bsd has fancy jails or whatever, and now linux has Containerz (TM)
mats: i dunno about
that second part, but in general i agree with you
trinque: cept
those here and a handful of clever meatspace guys
assbot: Logged on 02-04-2015 13:34:48; lobbes: I posted obamaz magic decree
to my facebook. Quite expectedly, no one cares.
trinque: seems also
that within
that complexity you could hide nefarious
things
trinque: in my case it seems like a vast, complex surface
to deal with
trinque: hardened here just means having
things like stack protection
turned on
trinque: wondering what's different about
the debian
trinque: no, saying I don't know why
that would be relevant
trinque: dunno why
that would magically poof in a header defining
that
type
trinque: asciilifeform: do you use a hardened
toolchain?
trinque: have not made any attempt
to fix it yet; have
to attend
to something else first
trinque: the standards for "novel" seem
trivial
trinque: this prior art
thing if it actually worked would burn like a grease fire
through 99.9% of software patents
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it occurs
to me
that if you spend some
time now designing and patenting gasenwagens
trinque: prior art from
the dawn of computing
type patents
trinque: I've seen insane, *insane* cases in
the hospitality software space
trinque: til
there's an even lower
tier of "valid" patents
trinque: sure
that and dragging every entity smaller
than a billion plus in revenue into court
to die by starvation
trinque: the
twist was "synchronizing
the data between multiple
terminals
mircea_popescu: stuff
that was ridiculous
to patent in 1850, such as "how
to make bread" definitely meets
the bar
today.
trinque: there's a patent on having a database of products and modifiers which dates
to 2000s sometime
mircea_popescu: and as peole stupidify, more and more
tyhings will be.
nubbins`: iirc
there's an hg wells story about
the guy who invented
the stone axe.
mats: he also went on
to write
the Control Flow Guard code.
mats: fun fact: i played starcraft with
the guy
that patented ASLR.
nubbins`: asciilifeform
then a couple
thou years from now you've got people
taking guesses as
to
the
True Name of mrc ppsc
nubbins`: quick: what's
the word for
the people who live in
the houses around you
trinque: he's referring
to your dirty communist spelling of "color"
mircea_popescu: you know asciilifeform, i don't hate
them. i love
them.
hanbot: mircea_popescu hello sir! no cuy at all i
tell you!
nubbins`: oh man,
that was
the year i burned my hand! you can see
the scar
nubbins`: i don't
think i have debug symbols built in. easy way
to check?
trinque: yeah, I
tend
to encounter it via greek food
nubbins` has admittedly made "lamburger helper" more
than once :(
hanbot: <mircea_popescu> i dunno anyone offering either of
these o.O << my butcher sells llamaburgers
nubbins`: was
told it's
too much work for
the amount of meat
nubbins`: so i can't really say if it's actually as
tender as it seemed
nubbins`: while i'll advance
that it was "good", peruvian standard is
to beat any steak with a maul before grilling
nubbins`: tried alpaca meat, never
tried llama
nubbins`: if i wanted
to be refined, i'd decompose under pressure into hydrocarbons!
nubbins`: unless you replace
the
two L's with a J