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Yep. Unix and Linux are broken.

So instead, I should load up Urbit, locate on a planet, spin up a garglemitz on the spitzenspeil with the hoon japing over the nock.

If you add Xenu, Body Thetans, e-meters, I think you might be on to something!

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No seriously. There are wrong things with the monolothic kernel as well as microkernels. Theyre design tradeoffs. But none of the existing, well established methods throw away the language of computing of the last 60 years. Some tech stacks may add a new type, but they are able to describe why a new classification is needed, and how it fits iin the existing model.

What Urbit is doing, is polluting the namespace by turning existing nomenclature into some sort of technofreakish cult. Up is now down. Down is now blarbbliboop. And anyone questioning the "Master" is berated and denigrated by means of 'lack of intelligence'. You all should be defending your way and means.

Because in my eyes, you all are wrong until you can start integrating standard and normal nomenclature - because it's hiding something unsavory.

-- and finally he plays the same semantic shellgame with his words he plays with his political essays, to convince you that the horrible political views he has aren't so horrible.

I mean.. what's not to like about Nazism and eugenics?

(I wish I could attribute a sarcasm tag, but Go look up Mencius Moldbug and read for yourself.)

Please identify one concrete computing action that I cannot do with Linux/Windows/Mac that Urbit enables.

In other words, what is Urbit's "Killer Feature"? Cause I'm not seeing one.

And a runner up question: Is Urbit still heavily dependent on unreleased root node code? In other words, is this distributed computing just a load of hype covering over a overly complicated star topology?

Yes, we should make people suffer, cause "Moral Panic" reasons.

I really hope you have to go through the tremendously painful surgery, and get those "3 pills".

No, it's because the rest of us trying to monetize content would be drowned out by the advertisers and scammers and such.

Yeah, we'd make our fistful of dollar bills, and simultaneously owing 5 to 10x that.

At least for the most part, getting hit with malware just means bitcoin miners, DDoS, adverts, or the like. If we were in Xanadu-Universe, then malware would be real cash.

Indeed.

I work at a public institution. Our department is paid by many other institutions around the country (networks). Our code is scary and terrifying. It's 95% perl5. We run bare metal on nearly everything. We have only the barest notions of a testbed.

Put it this way: if we were required to release our code, nobody would use our services. Frankly, I'm surprised it runs at all.

(BTW, other horror stories.. $DB_password in line 200 or so. No primary keys in our DB - or foreign for that matter. We have no idea of a schema... And on and on and on.)

When I was much younger and more naive about how the US and capitalism works, I thought that it would be a splendid idea to be able to make money on my thoughts, experiments, and doings. And I thought that it too would be a great idea to be able to leverage others' works, pay them, and build on them.

And now, I do just that. Except there's no money changing hands. That's open source for you. Now, if Xanadu's ideas did come to fruition, then I would expect everything to have a paywall on it. And the worst/regular experience would be pages of pages of aggregate sentences, with each few words being a cent or 2. The pages themselves would be >$1 each to download. Instead of trying to trick browsers and people into spyware - it would be tricking people into automatic slow-reloading links that would cost a few cents... And would continuously reload treating unsuspecting users like a piggy bank.

Instead, the world we have is free by default. Only if something is deemed to cost a lot is there a paywall. Things under that threshold use advertising, which is slowly beginning to fail at the seams. That's because content is expensive, but copying isnt.

(BTW, my points on the main post are still yoyo-ing around 0 and 1. I wish people would respond rather than try to hide my commentary.)

Long and short of it, it's a form of bidirectional links (so if you update one side, the other side automatically updates). This prevents link-rot.

The second is putting a payment processor on EVERY query. You want Internet for the Richies- this is how you get it. Of course, there's hand-wavey garbage that says 'everyone would contribute and nobody would owe anyone anything'.

Seriously, IPFS is the best way forward here. Links never change its content (but can still die if noone has the content). And no payment processor is there unless you want to pay other people to pin (read: seed) content.

(To see this post, please pay $0.02)

Edit: Seriously? multiple -1's in a row? I'd love to hear rebuttals if I'm wrong, or a further discussion. If you've read the Xanadu documents, then you'd know that the basis of this is a "Secure Environment and Secure Identification" of computers. AKA: DRM.

Since its biometric, ill assume that it too like your fingerprint, is coersable.

Still the only safe way is a PIN.

That's one thing the org I work for does right.

We do have monthly tests, scans, and network BGP issues. And our governmental side has a different set of scans, which also include system security scans.

Whomever the oncall is, ends up doing them during the week. It's usually pretty quick, but can turn into a slog.

Oh, and all our machines are updated appropriately, not just the border machines. There are some services we're not able to adequately update, like FreeRadius - but for each of those we review the criticality and determine if we need the resources to make it work (aka: remote priv exploit)

I've been wronged as well when poor. You can't be made whole through the legal system if you don't have money.

I didn't thank you for your response. I looked further in, and was mistaken - I thought that it allowed a bit more as in TCP and UDP. I was wrong.

So yes, it looks like some sort of further in-depth hackery would be required, or planting some sort of SBC in the building on the network. It's quite a bit more infeasible than I had initially thought.

Are you sure you want more laws? I don't.

We already have laws on the books for vandalization and sabotage. We also have that horrific law that criminalizes EULAs and "Authorized Access". Why aren't they being used against these companies that make easy to remote-pwn gear? Its readily evident that it's not the end-user's actions that cause these forms of vandalization and digital assault.

Id much prefer enforcing laws, rather than make new ones we hardware creators have to parse and understand.

(Like, how does this affect open source hardware? Some of my side projects are put online. I know a few implementations in the wild already.)

Well, then perhaps it's time to start talk of selling vulnerabilities on the Dark Web to compensate for our time?

It may be brutish, bad, evil, or whatever. Id report willingly for open source or software Ive bought for bug reports or vuln reports. But if I find a serious security issue, I expect to be compensated. And if an org makes it impossible to even contact them, I'll go to their, <ahem> competitors. They do pay.

Perhaps organizations need to be reminded of this.

Well, indeed. But Im thinking that it could be done with a webapp and Websockets.

In other words, get sent to a domain that initiates the knock sequence. Other machine in waiting responds, and NAT traversal takes over, to any machines inside NAT.

The only real question is how much code is actually required to start this.

Then I would encourage you to try this tool (0) and then respond with your updated opinions.

Abstract:

     pwnat, pronounced "poe-nat", is a tool that allows any
     number of clients behind NATs to communicate with a
     server behind a separate NAT with *no* port forwarding
     *no* DMZ setup, and *no* 3rd party involvement. The server
     does not need to know anything about the clients trying
     to connect.

(0) https://samy.pl/pwnat/

Whereas law enforcement also sees that, say I use a blank shotgun shell to make a retort to scare someone. And then that causes them to die of a heart attack due to a weak heart. I am to blame for manslaughter. That's because it doesn't matter the health status of a person - if I caused it, im to blame.

Unless you're law enforcement. They're... uh, special.

Edit: downtopic, user:revelation said it best. It's called the Eggshell Skull Rule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull

In a way, I am through my work. However it is primarily from doing tickets of people complaining about $feature or $bug or $access_rights. It certainly feels soul-sucking doing it. And most certainly does not feel like positive contributions. But I know that what I work on, many millions of people count on in the end. And my hands are a small part of that.

In the grand stream of things, I've done more actionable and powerful work outside of my job I attend 5 days a week. If I had more time, I could push more innovation in many areas. The money would be nice as well. It's a hard choice, balancing money and time.

I yearn for the days when we finally have UBI or something guaranteeing us the rights to live without being coerced into selling our bodies and minds. Because right now, I feel there's little between me selling my body and mind and that of a prostitute selling theirs. I just don't do sex as work, so it's somehow "better".

And having rights to live for everyone would allow me to work much more in automation tech without the ethical qualms that I am putting many more people out of work - and thusly depriving them of living. Automation tech can work for a limited amount of people (now), or it can work for everyone.

Perhaps I'm just an idealist.

Not only that, but with "GPA" provides a running historical average that serves as a sign that:

"No matter how good the student is now, they sucked at one time and they can never escape this eventuality".

Imagine a game that's tough, full of oft-used rules, failure potentialities everywhere, limited lives, and punishes failure/learning cycle. That's School.

And you succinctly put why I despise "School".

I love learning new areas and new techniques. And when Im teaching myself, I can fail and I go back a step or 2. Not the end of the world.

If I do similar in a class, then I set myself further back with a slowly growing chance of doing badly (D or F). And in College, then its another 1-4 credit hours to pay for the privilege. They not only fail me, but demand more money.

Edit: misspelling that looked bad (dong=>doing)

The other parody this reminds me of is this one. It is NSFW.

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/09/17/airpod-accessory...

The longer I go in computing, the more I see that Stallman was, and is right.

Last month, I joined the FSF. I find that great parts of my livelihood are thanks in part to his efforts in computing, law, and rights.

> Suggesting such a socialist solution back then would elicit discussion. Nothing of the sort can be discussed today. One whisper of the word 'socialism' is followed by 'communism' and all discussion is aggressively ended.

Indeed. That's because the specter of "Communism", aka Dictatorship was the eventual downfall of Marx's idea of Capitalism->Violent Overthrow->Dictatorship->Stateless and Classless Communism. The problem has always been, that when people get power, they don't want to relinquish it. Therefore, all Marxian applications of Communism end in this failure mode.

There are other ways to apply Communism. I type this on a Communal Operating System. Linux. There are no gulags of forced developers making all the code I use to type this. It's all voluntary, and free for all to use and partake. The only rule is to respect the community- in that if you use code, it has to be under the same license.

I could see a Benefit Corp do something similar - taking the ideas of ownership and lock them in a public trust. That way, people know what they're "buying into", but it's also not the prior forced dictator knowing what's 'right'. The Story of Manna by Marshall Brain puts this idea eloquently in his short short.

Perhaps it's time to quit using the word "Communism" because, frankly, Marx guessed wrong and tens of millions died in furtherance of that specific ideal. But the underlying ideas that we are stronger together is something that many of us understand. But it all has to do with preserving the individuals' and the groups rights. And, that's a hard balance to keep.

I believe they were trying to make a point that it doesn't take a whole government, or a class of people to be wronged to change things in court.

It takes a single person whom was wronged. That's it.

Eco-friendly! Tiny houses! Solar-powered!

Yeah, and you don't even own the 4 walls, nor the land. And companies like uber and others seek to extract the leftover and skirt employment regulations. And your stuff keeps failing as you try to fix it. And automation is an ever-present downward force that makes your degree into a $10/hr grind.

But, you know, progress?

Did you fill out the 100 page exemption to do the 40 page form? Did you also remember to complete the form completion class and ethics sub-committee on completion?

(Yeah, pretty sure is the the deepest pit of hell)

"But we cannot be blamed for a different eventuality, like saving lives. It didn't happen, and its our job to make sure that it doesn't, unless policy is adhered to the letter."

I couldn't trust it. Not that I know that product specifically, but given previous working with Intel products outside of their X86 line, it will likely be EoL'ed in a year or so.

Ive been bitten by a few of their "Maker things". Faulty firmware, no support, no documentation, faulty I2C.. All sorts of things. And unless I have a timeframe how long they plan to support it and sell it, I just can't justify using it in any product I have or plan to build.

I never said it was a good thing.

Even though the badness of the situation, I'm saying it would have been terribly worse with mass leaks of the DB this came from. It's not like we in the tech community have seen leaks like that...

Regardless, I see this as a bad screw-up with with no ill intent behind it. It was literally a "too large window" on an envelope...

This sounds like an implicit discussion about semi-secret courts for the pure reason of defending a potentially innocent defendant.

What happens if X is tried for $crime and is found not guilty? Court of public opinion may still see them as guilty, and keep away rental properties, jobs, and social network away from them. And now since communication is in ms across the world, perhaps we ought to come back to this.