asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2017/the-new-capitalism/#comment-121289

asciilifeform: http://www.trobar.org/troubadours/montan/montan2.php << found by way of the not-so-great www sources.

asciilifeform sick in bed all day, caught up on l0gz, about to return to same.

asciilifeform: ty mircea_popescu !

asciilifeform: pretty good bed-reading.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-09#1612526 << i saw this and immediately expected it to be about the spiral 'torpedo' search strategy, but nope ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( pretty spiffy hot-cold search algo used in torpedo and some types of ir-guided rocket. possibly generalizable to n-dimensions )

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-09#1612539 << i am unaware of 'keybase' in any ~other~ context but 'ploy for scamming privkeys out of idiots' ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-08#1612513 << somehow this unfailingly happens to every d00d who works with tmsr. reminisce nostalgically of the old days when kgb did not have to take down an entire building to plant one phone bug. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-08#1612423 << this is very spiffy phf . didja ever use 'microc' under msdos? similar. ☝︎

asciilifeform: (though for n00bz i will point out, c compilers as a class did not get much play in the z80 days, because everybody programmed in asm (well, in codes, most folx asmed on paper , by hand)

asciilifeform: )

asciilifeform: ^ ups the ante for fleanode-diddling tho.

asciilifeform: cosmicray!

asciilifeform: in other olds,

asciilifeform: 'Another unsuccessful rocket torpedo inventor was Patrick Cunningham, an Irish immigrant who earned his living as a shoe maker and repairer in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Samples were tested for several years at NTS but the short range and wholly unpredictable trajectory destined this weapon for the scrap heap. However, in one last fling of exuberance, Cunningham fired his torpedo down the main street of his home town; it roared along

asciilifeform: her’s shop where it burned down the ice room.'

asciilifeform: ...roared along at very high speed before coming to rest in the butcher’s shop where it burned down the ice room.'

asciilifeform: in other lulzies, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/27

asciilifeform: 'We found a few extended regex expressions in GNU libc that will crash or abort the execution of regcomp or regexec. For instance: \a?{1,32767} will immediately exhaust the stack calling calc_eclosure_iter in the compilation. A small variation of this regex is: \a?{0,32767} will consume a very large amount of memory: it seems to eat 16GB in less than a minute. It is also possible to exhaust the stack memory trying to parse...'

asciilifeform: drepper is a 'ustard' ?

asciilifeform: incidentally -- there is more to this crapolade than meets the naked eye. regexp is a fundamentally braindamaged concept -- not only in the way described by naggum (how do you infer false positives?) but also in the haskellian idiocy where 'reasonable' and 'thermonuclear self-annihilation' programs look nearly identical, and distinguishing them is np-hard

asciilifeform: ( see also, http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3182471178876789@naggum.net.html )

asciilifeform: the expulsion of 'In all likelihood, there was no change at all to the labor-intensiveness, but the labor was more "fun" for a certain class of people. Now, industrious retards can be a horrible thing. Over a number of years, close to a decade, Perl accreted bits and pieces from programming languages and became usable in lieu of a programming language by people who lacked the mental wherewithall to do programming. Tinkerers, repair ☟︎

asciilifeform: ers, handymen, the auto mechanics of the IT industry, all flocked to Perl because they could tinker so well with it with no required knowledge or skills.' ( http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3241270848355795@naggum.no.html ) would go a long way. ☟︎

asciilifeform: regex belongs in the tool chest next to 'duct tape'. ☟︎

asciilifeform: certainly not as part of any permanent public structure.

asciilifeform: any moar than 'superglue'.

asciilifeform: it is properly a 'harem object'.

asciilifeform: rather like that tape that one uses to keep car muffler from falling down on the way to the welder's shop.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just when you thought this can't get any lulzier: '...resource exhaustion issues which can be triggered only with crafted patterns (either during compilation or execution) are not treated as security bugs.' ( https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Security%20Exceptions )

asciilifeform: ..that's a woman??!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun see anything 'uci' about it -- looks like a script that serves up a shell? 1990s parlour trick

asciilifeform: ( and, unsurprisingly, lives and dies by linux's attempt at userland process separation )