@scathach I will patch in root, in prod drives, I'll do it live, on critical customer servers, I'll do it because crowdstrike is a service layer program and not a rooting kit, I'll open holes in the sharepoint environment to process your excel project management grid, I'll close tickets you filed with screenshots a second after you complain about it, and I'll get paid to do it faster than your weak user shit has to google hex values
@scathach dragon book is a terrible introduction to all of compiler theory, hardware software interfaces as there is none mentioned, and language design, it's an abomination, a file browser playing systems programming
@nyx i think i've absorbed so much gulf coast industrial accident water at this point that when they cremate me, my kidneys will form glowing lava lamp blobs prior to my total vaporization into a noxious cloud with the equivalent chemical composition to an ancient deep sea vent. they'll scrape off all the carbonized tar to be processed into both the experimental hand soap ingredients and novel drag reducing agents for the pipeline industry which will be used in a Dawn commercial where they wash said hydrocarbon products off a baby duck with the hand soap, and release it back into Galveston bay with a plastic duck decoy mother drone for Naval intelligence research, completing the circle of life for ocean hydrocarbons
@nyx@swampwitch robert anton wilson the greenpilled anarchist ontologist/former electrical corrosion engineer/ER response nurse aid did a nice twist on the nemo archetype in Illuminatus
@nyx also a lot of them come from Russian or third world Windows security developers, for example ELBRUS the architecture built with REFAL supercomputing in mind also has a x86/Windows legacy support subsystem if I'm not mistaken
the guy that clocked me as a schizo grew up getting software from Siberian cracked CD vendors in flea markets that sold dev kits with instruction files and IDE packages like turbo pascal or turbo assembler
@0utside0utsider@nyx the most interesting take on this sort of thing i've encountered is "chinese magical materialism" which draws on confucian and daoist ritual, alchemy, then ties it to modern material production in industrial China
@nyx@lanodan@lispi314 think its funny that some markets in the middle east they had an improvised cell phone call based trade system where they would just utter some coded orders in whatever local dialect of arabic and via a trust system shipments would get made
@nyx@lanodan the lainchanners and some 4channers worked on meshnets at some point but those have no capital to sustain a lifecycle beyond the devs losing interest or time to maintain it
@nyx@lanodan at the same bookstore i found the Texe Marrs 666 Beast Machine book there was a IBM book from the late 90s on peer to peer computing and almost no reliable technology has changed much since other than weird crypto layers