Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "The Lunduke Journal" channel.

  1. I don't think it's the developers as much as those who wheedle their way to the levers or power. Though there's likely a few developers too.
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  2. Abandoning your core competencies... Always goes so well.
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  3. Apparently cake mixes have you add eggs not because they couldn't include dried eggs in the ingredients but because it makes the person making the mix feel like they did something.
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  4. These are the kind of people who will respond to that with "You know, you have a point".
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  5. The "Jimmy Wales yacht" meme has been around for a loooong time.
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  6. Apologies are just an admission of guilt to these people and just encourages them to go harder.
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  7. LDS. Not just for Mormons anymore.
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  8. Mozilla has become IT Crowd's "A lot of sexy people not doing much work and having affairs" with Moss and Roy coding Firefox in the basement.
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  9. Linus going to end up ousted within 12 months.
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  10. Don't you want to be unburdened by what has been?
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  11. Any delegation of power increases your attack surface and should not be done lightly.
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  12. On the other hand, I'm old enough to remember a time when if you wanted to see something again, you had to hope for reruns. Sometimes that would never happen. Often if you missed something, that was it. There are several shows I only managed to see the end of or significant parts of in modern times. Sometimes while scratching my wooden leg.
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  13. Hah. After Latinx was roundly rejected, they're just going to come back and try again.
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  14. Brinucs?
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  15. Sounds like an abusive relationship to me.
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  16. "Components in your computer systems"... And it's important to bear in mind that computer systems means everything more complex than a toaster (and some toasters) including cars and medical devices and manufacturing equipment.
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  17. The worst part of open source may be the community but paradoxically, the best part of open source is the community.
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  18. To be fair to ESR, it seemed that free speech was kind of a built-in thing for all the open source communities around. It has taken some concerted effort to turn things as bad as it has got and I don't know if codifying it would have helped because they would just have played along until they had sufficiently infiltrated the organizations to subvert them anyway.
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  19. Might be fun to join with the username 'Imnotlunduke' and variants.
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  20.  @nemea6698  Also, master has other context like master/apprentice, to master a skill and master bedroom. It's a mental illness.
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  21.  @mytech6779  Can confirm. People were complaining about "political correctness" in the 80s. It was more just an annoyance at that stage but it was putting down roots and is now a major problem. Make no mistake, this is going to take down many valued organizations as once established, it's near impossible to root out.
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  22. If you're a "centrist" and complain about the right being political but don't complain about the left being political, you ain't no centrist. (Vice versa too, of course).
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  23. Slackware not woke AFAIK.
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  24.  @futuza  And then it gets big and you have to have other contributors and then a social media coordinator, HR, steering committees, a few other things and if it's current day, suddenly there's a good chance subversive forces have entered your organization.
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  25. Time to take another look at TempleOS, I think.
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  26. Hating people for their immutable characteristics is bad. Unless they have the wrong immutable characteristics, apparently.
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  27. Google have not been treating what dejanews became very well either.
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  28. Having hard rules is a tough sale when it's all kind-of arbitrary anyway and when they junked up the system with a whole bunch of money-grubbing TLDs a few years ago in any case. But really, what it all points to is that the domain name system is awkwardly engineered and that domain names have too much prominence because URLs are too visible to users.
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  29. The problem is, in these days of social media, it's hard to be a quiet conservative. Especially with what these fanatics consider a conservative.
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  30. It depends. LibreOffice starts grammar checking my pronoun usage and that's a hard erase.
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  31. Blocking the port is only a band-aid what with all the IOT devices these days (unless you're handling them in a sophisticated manner)
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  32. The more complex a system becomes... Which is why I argue against increasing complexity unnecessarily. The *nix community used to seem to get this intrinsically but now it seems even the simplest app is a script which requires installing a whole new subsystem.
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  33.  @mug786  I think he's talking about Gnu Hurd. Personally, I think it's a shame BEOS never got more of a shake. But here we are.
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  34. I don't have any idea if Patrick Volkerding is woke or not and that's the way I like it.
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  35.  @user-dc9zo7ek5j  The USA is not even the worst place. Parts of Europe (UK and Germany to my knowledge) have gone off a cliff.
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  36. Ah, the "anyone not to the left of Stalin is right-wing" position in the wild.
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  37.  @Gyropathic  Soylent green is toe jam?
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  38. Just go full RMS and have a script email you webpages.
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  39. Yeah, "Open source" was kinda the default near the beginning. Then companies started to see value in keeping their source code proprietary and selling the binaries. RMS's actions were in reaction to this change. I believe he was unable to obtain the source code to his printer driver or something.
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  40. I dunno. I think I'm on board with this getting rid of use of the word 'master'. My only question is what should my slaves call me now?
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  41. Mozilla has been sus for a while. Ousting someone for their unrelated political position? Big red flag there.
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  42. This is not an open source problem. It is happening with organizations, both profit and non-profit everywhere
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  43.  @squidware  Not sure what they're using it for but udp is handy for a fair bit of lightweight stuff that doesn't require a reliable connection like 'I'm alive' notifications.
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  44. Is Lyx still going? It's a word processing type interface that exports to LaTeX that kinda gives you the rough appearance of what you're going to get (WYSIWYM). Edit: Yes it is.
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  45. I'm big on IP reform but they definitely stepped hard into things that are hard to defend.
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  46. I knew things were on the downturn when they started moving functionality out of the open part of the OS and into the proprietary Play Services.
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  47. Part of the problem is all these boards and foundations getting so much money which makes them a target for subversion (this also happens for regular companies too). I'm not sure what the solution is other than a shift in the zeitgeist which may well be happening.
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  48. I suspect there's a good chance blocking people from the repositories violates some clause of whatever license they're using. Edit: It's MIT so apparently not.
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  49. It's astounding how provincial the wokies are sometimes.
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  50. Having to lay off staff is probably a blessing in disguise at this point. As long as they lay off the right staff.
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  51.  @billtheunjust  Not a great sign but I'd prefer something a bit more concrete.
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  52. Gatekeep your projects. Once these people get in, they'll invite their friends, outnumber and remove you (if you don't kneel) and drive what you loved into the ground.
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  53. It doesn't affect you until it does.
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  54. That's why I'm sticking with Slackware. I tried other non-systemd distros but I'm just too comfortable with Slackware.
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  55. It's a 9.9 if you're running CUPS but I'm not sure that rates a 9.9 overall. I'd think that would be for kernel-level, always vulnerable stuff. Maybe a one-dimensional numeric rating is not an ideal methodology. I was getting ready to just close down all incoming connections just before this was announced (isn't it like 4 days early?), CUPS off by default on Slackware FWIW.
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  56. The people adopting Linux in the 90s weren't doing it so much for what was happening in the 90s but for what we could see coming (though you didn't have to be particularly prescient considering what was happening)..
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  57. Not gatekeeping your organizations from wokies is like putting your windows machine on the internet without a firewall.
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  58. In the late 90s, I was running slackware with fvwm95 and it was fast and snappy, especially compared to the lackluster Windows 3.1. In many ways, we've gone backwards. Though I don't miss having to edit modelines.
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  59. The eff have good whitepapers on voting best practices on their website from a time when it wasn't a partisan issue.
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  60. "User friendly"? Isn't that triggering to people without friends?
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  61.  @rustandmagic  Slackware for nearly 30 years here.
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  62.  @EvanBlax  I think Lunduke went off a bit half-cocked. The storage also shows as just being regular NVME in the LTT video. I do think this is a bit of an odd direction for them though.
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  63. Google caching seems to have been gone for a long time?
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  64. 10 PRINT "Linux v5.0.1" 20 GOTO 10
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  65. Either way, I think it would be incautious to consider it not compromised.
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  66.  @JohnChrysostom101  Yes. People should bear in mind that this arose from Lunduke himself talking about LW.
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  67.  @mckendrick7672  Ah, right you are. I haven't paid attention in many years to be honest.
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  68. Tragic. You used to be cool, Mozilla.
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  69. It's not just the open source community. Thunderf00t was complaining about the atheist community and I've even heard of the knitting community becoming infested. It's a mind virus.
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  70. They've probably learned from Android. While you'll be able to use Windows without TPM, you'll be unable to log into your bank's website or use many other services so it becomes a defacto requirement anyway. (This is speculation but informed speculation). The actual ultimate aim is to make Microsoft a required conduit for all software installs (with a 30% cut of the price). Valve sees this, hence Proton and SteamOS.
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  71. When a company steps outside of its core competence, it's not a good sign. It all seems quite odd.
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  72. Right. I'm resigning!
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  73. Fun fact: Bryan Lunduke has won the same number of Democratic primaries as Kamala Harris.
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  74. I assume that "Blue" in project titles now means "You're gonna have a bad time".
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  75.  @Zamsky39  Anyone exposing private services to the public internet should be standing in the parking lot waiting for their box of personal belongings.
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  76. It's less about the archiving, more about the distribution.
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  77.  @RCSky7711  And the planet.
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  78.  @klin1klinom  Partnering with your competition is walking into the lion's den. As those who've partnered with Microsoft have frequently found out.
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  79. Is this stuff all just money laundering to the DNC?
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  80. Debian = Deb + Ian. Sounds a bit too heteronormative to me. Maybe time to rename it to Dougian?
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  81. Yes. As Lunduke says, it's vastly improved though I do have to pop back to Google every now and then (and more often for images and every time for maps). They do offer Google results mixing but I'm deliberately making an effort to not turn that on.
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  82. While I appreciate the retro, ssh might be a worthy addition.
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  83. I think my Nuc is more upgradable. Edit: I just saw the LTT video and the dude is on there saying they wanted upgradeable RAM but AMD said it couldn't work but they want to have it in future. Still a bit disappointing though.
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  84. Into trashing the UI and performance by what I can tell.
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  85. They also get to enter four teams into the Olympics and their stamps don't have the country name on them.
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  86. Valve have promised to remove the DRM on everything if they go down but color me skeptical (it's even possible they've already walked that back and I didn't hear).
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  87. Given the location of Silicon Valley, it was predictable.
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  88. They also have moxie.
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  89. I'm not saying we should punish speech but we should punish speech. Sheesh
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  90. Forcing people to link two separate accounts is no bueno.
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  91. I guess banning mention of your name is a step up from calling for your murder.
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  92. "Debunked" these days just means there's going to be incontrovertible proof within a decade.
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  93. It's being weaponized to destroy everything. Open source is particularly vulnerable because it's typically more accepting. So far, I've heard of atheism (thunderf00t), knitting (Karly Borysenko), movies, videogames, comics, Science Fiction literature and probably a few others I've forgotten.
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  94.  @xpusostomos  I mean, it's USB-C but in bays instead of having stuff hanging off your PC. I think that's fair. So much stuff in laptops is USB anyway these days.
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  95.  @xpusostomos  Well, like you say, there are laptops with those things already. I kinda don't completely disagree with you though.
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  96.  @justincase9471  Microsoft have always leaned into the crud somewhat. Their focus has always been on the $ rather than the customer experience and it definitely shows. And in some ways, it was a mistake to merge the home-customer win9x experience with the professional NT line because it tainted it badly. Linux started out lean & mean with issues but unfortunately, having cycles to spare and new community members graduating from a Windows world has added a lot of bloat even as many of those issues have been dealt with.
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  97. This should have been the case under existing law anyway. Companies have been allowed to get away with stretching things for too long.
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  98. Shame. I used to refer people to the EFF site for their papers on electronic voting. I guess they got subverted like so many others. Come to think of it, I haven't heard much from them recently. Maybe they got paid to shut up?
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  99. It was always only a matter of time...
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  100. Companies, especially those who have (or at least start out with) motivations that are not, let's say, establishment friendly, really need to take great care to guard against being subverted. I think a lot of this stuff is not organic.
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  101. google's AI invented a completely new logic gate for me complete with nonsense truth table when I asked it about not-xor. I believe it's actually actively dangerous and it's probably going to cause someone's death eventually (if it hasn't already).
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  102. "Ally" is one of those red flag words. If you see it crop up, you know the person using it is only interested in controlling you.
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  103. I've gotta get off Thunderbird. It's been a long while though. Is Eudora still a thing?
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  104. No problemX ... Uh, NX ProblemX?
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  105.  @jer1776  Brave is decent but as it's based off Chrome, I am concerned about its long-term viability. We could use a top-to-bottom browser that can remain committed to the values of openness and freedom that were once common currency in the tech world.
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  106. I should get mine in there. I share it with a couple of mid-level prominent people so that should be fun. Do we have a John Smith out there?
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  107. alt.folklore.urban used to be good for tracking and debunking (or confirming) urban legends. Snopes got his start putting their faq on the web.
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  108.  @AntiCookieMonster  What if they were putting your project's name and logo all over what they were doing? Though I will point out that there's nothing wrong with militias per se but for the sake of this argument, let's assume this one is avowed neo-nazis or something.
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  109.  @JohnCrawford1979  Yes, this is definitely manufactured outrage. This kind of opposition to his thoughts would more traditionally have come from the right but this is definitely leftist activity.
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  110. An academic sabbatical is typically not a vacation just FWIW.
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  111. I think it's any organization above a certain size.
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  112. Blue cities.
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  113. <aol>me too</aol>
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  114. Wait until you hear about how MS came by the name "Internet Explorer".
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  115.  @itsrickyschannel.  Many will but there are many here who were not even born then. I meet people all the time who have no idea how wicked Microsoft has been, they only know of Bill Gates (questionable) 'philanthropy'
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  116. Everyone loves a scold.
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  117. That whole case effectively evaporated when the Bush administration came in. The European stuff had slightly more of an effect but not much.
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  118.  @CrucialFlowResearch  You guys seem to agree but you're coming across as dickish.
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  119. It's not an accident. It's subversion. See "the long walk through the institutions". People haven't been gatekeeping hard enough.
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  120. Don't the Chinese already have Red Flag Linux or something?
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  121. It doesn't matter what they run if they're in the landfill where they belong.
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  122.  @glynnec2008  Obama has now been renamed ObamX for inclusivity. Big Mike is still Big Mike.
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  123.  @williamdrum9899  And more besides.
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  124.  @steve55619  If it's just an empty for loop, it is doing nothing and can be optimized away. I've heard of good c compilers doing this.
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  125. Linus, blink three times if you're being held captive...
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  126.  @DannyBowen25  I'm not talking about terms, I'm talking about how the code was treated.
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  127. I had a major change of circumstance in 1997 and I would swear that the term was in common use during my previous circumstance (of course, this is purely anecdotal). Google still has a vestigial version of dejanews around (though it is becoming much less useful and searchable over time) so it might be worth a look there.
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  128.  @exotericidymnic3530  Being Russian born certainly is. And moving countries is hard even when not being obstructed, (Well, unless you want to wander in across the southern border of the US, of course).
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  129. This is not even r-tarded. I think we need an entirely new word.
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  130.  @user-dc9zo7ek5j  That doesn't work for long before it demands to check in again.
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  131. Remember when they broke AT&T up? Yeah...
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  132. Nice idea. Well, not the systemd part. Not as part of KDE though. Some of us don't use KDE.
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  133. Welcome to MDS.
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  134.  @treelineresearch3387  I think calling it a Linux vulnerability was a bit disingenuous too (though granted it did mention it affected other systems too).
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  135.  @edwardcullen1739  Deal. CVSS is flawed.
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  136.  @edwardcullen1739  The deal with calling it a 9.9 (out of 10. I assume it doesn't go to 11) is that that doesn't allow much escalation for anything that would be much more dangerous. Additionally, I note that you're already talking about desktops and laptops which is fine if you're discussing security issues for desktops and laptops. But Linux is much bigger and there are many devices for which a CUPS vulnerability is not even relevant like Android devices, my old Tivo and my document scanner. So again, yes, CVSS is flawed (or at least, something is).
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  137.  @projectsspecial9224  Certainly, if a distro install printing by default, it should be bound to localhost and not be available to all-and-sundry by default. When I think of all the times I ragged on Microsoft for prioritizing convenience over security...
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  138. Sorry, all my donation money's already gone to Jimmy Wale's yacht this year.
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  139. Maybe a small country with a shitty extension will rename itself.
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  140. These people are the same ones who would say they wondered how anyone could go along with what was happening in the late 30s. It's the banality of evil.
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  141.  @nominou6  Don't forget the corporation gets to manage the city because the government is so goddamn awful.
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  142. And of course, for these kind of people, far-right means anyone that questions the narrative. Even lefties that just aren't totally insane would be advised to avoid this potentially career-destroying trap.
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  143. @ I remember when PGP was printed as a book to get around export restrictions. Also when the DECSS key was printed as a t-shirt
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  144.  @user-eg6nq7qt8c  “‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.’”
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  145.  @christinaapplesauce2459  It could mean a fork licensed such that changes could not be reintegrated to the original.
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  146.  @christinaapplesauce2459  Copyleft is a little different. So things may be a little different if people aren't actively cooperating but simply copying what someone else has written is what I'm pondering. It would need lawyers to look at it, of course.
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  147. Among many other woke problems, it seems companies feel entitled to use the woke virtue signaling as cover for bad behaviors like invading privacy and selling or stealing (AI) personal data or indulging their foot fetish with minors.
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  148. I wonder how much of this is their push to have their AIs be woke. They are complex internal systems and messing with them will likely have unexpected consequences.
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  149. It's tricky because if you are too accepting, you open yourself to subversion which is why so many organizations are woke in the first place where they used to be exactly as you'd wish. So clearly there does need to be a degree of gatekeeping, particularly around the core of the organization. Just ask the Trojans.
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