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crb002on Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history

Somebody at Dice.com probably still has satoshi's IP logs.

crb002on Django 4.0 will include a built-in Redis cache back end

Django also needs to pin a default Postgres container image, and default NGINX image. The default stack should be extensively end-to end tested and optimized, including an optional patched kernel, cgroup2 settings, and untrusted nsjail worker process for handling media files.

crb002on Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

It was in response to my motion for injunction in Apple's racketeering case for bribing the City of Waukee $100m to abate $177m. I pointed out they were spying on Judges' iOS devices and iCloud accounts - Judges don't like to be spied on.

crb002on Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel

Injunction on Apple filed today in my racketeering action CVCV043016 District Court for Dallas County Iowa on behalf of major shareholder Iowa Public Employee Retiree System. The last thing shareholders need is erosion of equity via a massive NLRA lawsuit.

crb002on Jim Whitehurst to step down as IBM President

He sold zero IBM System Z mainframes to AWS.

He let thousands of IBM point of sale systems to be replaced with crap that can't buffer keystrokes - instead of modernizing the SDKs for those who know Linux and not AIX.

He bought RedHat, but not Digital Ocean so they had a cloud consumers trust.

He didn't win a serious contract with Facebook for kernel tuning. He didn't win a serious contract with AWS for AWS Linux 3.

He let COBOL and APL continue to die instead of funding modern tooling.

crb002on U.S. senators propose 25% tax credit for semiconductor manufacturing

This is in line with State tax credits on large data centers. At least a credit wouldn't favor Intel over AMD. Companies like Tesla, Deere, Ford would abuse the credit shifting as much cost as they can on their unit that manufactures and tests boards.

crb002on Oregon has legalized human composting

?? Why not just do sky burial.

crb002on Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering

I'm worried about screen reader compatibility. FAANG should push to support Lynx text browsing for blind users - and our bandwidth.

crb002on Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering

JS minification is old hat, and welcome to shrink binaries.

Google for security reasons should probably release the source. Most security types welcome web-assembly over JS since there will be more Rust etc.

crb002on The Ultimate Guide to Inflation

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=DPg0 <-- I added the population velocity.

crb002on The Ultimate Guide to Inflation

M2/Heavy Truck Sales. Note the huge growth inside a recession of money chasing an industrial sink.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=DPfB

crb002on The Ultimate Guide to Inflation

M2/Population https://twitter.com/SMT_Solvers/status/1391506520488153091/p...

That is an unprecedented hockey stick.

crb002on Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster

Imagine Apple partnering with telcos to do this off M2 racks then Google doing the same with Chrome split into a client and Linux container - $10/month for "Chrome Pro".

crb002on Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

It was brazen enough to pop an iTunes GUI a few years back.

crb002on Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

https://www.iowajustice.com/ is amazing at UFED defense.

crb002on Effort to disrupt exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities

Wow. This is crazy unconstitutional. DOJ could seek civil injunction perhaps, but using criminal authority to break into servers without probable cause of any criminal action is crazy bad.

Another good reason to stop using proprietary binaries and instead compile your own source - even if you use code under proprietary copyright. Imagine if France also decided to "help" and bricked your server on accident.

crb002on Nvidia Unveils Grace: A High-Performance Arm CPU for Use in Big AI Systems

+1 ECC RAM

crb002on I Hate Git Submodules

Also hate them. Far better to have a dependency pulling shell script - no overhead of git yak shaving - just maintaining the URIs.

crb002on Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust

Twitch streams help. A lot of tool skills don't get transferred because they are un-observed.

crb002on New 5G protocol vulnerabilities allow location tracking

Wasn't that implicit? When you connect to a network down to a tower every few blocks you are broadcasting location.

crb002on What solitary confinement taught me about surviving isolation (2020)

Solitary was better than getting the shit beat out of me when my ex-wife's law partner dropped by the Polk County Iowa jail on 10 March 2020 - dropped my name to a drug dealer - and was viciously attacked hours later.

Read lots of great Sci-Fi, both Niven and Game of Thrones. Lots of category theory - for "security" reasons they banned software engineering books.

Iowa is corrupt AF. https://chadbrewbaker.substack.com/p/good-trouble-in-little-...

crb002on Docker for Mac M1 RC

WSL is probably easier to write for XNU than it was for Windows. Yeah, silly that Apple hasn't yet.

crb002on Why COBOL Isn't the Problem

Version control is COBOL's problem. Testing mainframe COBOL not in a modern version control is YOLO PITA.

crb002on GitHub Has a Permission Problem

Pull requests that kick off arbitrary Github Actions code is crazy unsafe. By default they need a human in the loop to approve CI jobs for public repos.

crb002on GitHub, fuck your name change

The worst I have seen is the media's failure to cover that Google - and probably Microsoft too - blacklisted historic black universities for over a decade. This a juke, a pump fake - not something substantial.

crb002on Docker Raises $23M

To be relevant they need to fork Google Test and add cgroup eBPF expectation tests. Run integration tests with thousands of mini-instances that no-op the network stack.

Also start making pull requests for a Kubernetes killing feature in the Linux kernel - distributed cgroups and ulimits.

crb002on Why are most climate models in Fortran?

The tooling is stable so when you link to FORTRAN binaries the ABI tends not to bitrot. IMHO FORTRAN might get a borrow checker before C/C++ to be on parity with Rust for memory safety.

crb002on The mainframe is alive and thriving

LZ memory compression in hardware https://images.anandtech.com/doci/15987/202008171915131.jpg

Now that is crazy cool.

crb002on The mainframe is alive and thriving

CAP theorem. CA_ is mainframe. Crazy that Azure or AWS haven't put Z15 "frames" in a region. Large network latency kills a lot of otherwise easy integrations.