Notices by mx alex tax1a - 2020 (5) (atax1a@infosec.exchange)

(n-gate voice) The US government (business model: Amazon for extrajudicial rendition) continues its war against its own users.

yall realize that cory doctorow is an entertainer whose job is to sell sci-fi books, not an anticapitalist tech visionary, right? like part of how we got here is people treating sci-fi concepts as tech visions, doctorow is part of the problem, not the solution

the existence of sam altman implies the existence of sam controlman

tfw spam altman is posting like a channer on main

@grumpybozo @jwz and don't get us started on how dnssec is untroubleshootable garbage whose main failure mode is to turn your entire domain into an unresolvable sinkhole

@jwz @grumpybozo just one more public key in a TXT record, that'll fix email, just gotta add one more TXT record bro

everyone fretting about which web browser to switch to, nobody considering "build protocols that don't require fucking web browsers", maybe we should change that

@dalias @steve @jrose yeah don't mind us we've just been basting our brain with a bunch of pre-754 IBM manuals

@dalias @steve @jrose so you could trap on the first exception and set it to quiet and run through the rest of the calculation without trapping

ffmpog is this anything

@clarity we had a roommate who always did the latter kind of thing and it got really tiresome to be fodder for her inferiority complex

@chrisamaphone bringing this back from one of our old accounts:

trans 101: classical gender mechanics
trans 111: analytical gender mechanics
trans 201: intro to relativistic gender mechanics
trans 222: intro to quantum gender mechanics
trans 301: advanced quantum gender mechanics
trans 401: gender interactions in the societal fieldℊ²

she rlwinm on my immediate til i branch unconditionally [incredibly loud instruction-TLB miss]

@cr1901 raymond chen calls it the swiss-army knife of ppc

once more and yet again, if the main thrust of your "apology" is a nonspecific "i'm better now and but i don't want anything from you other than for you to know i'm sorry" you have not meaningfully apologized, and we have nothing to go on for rebuilding any kind of meaningful communication

how have you changed? what did you realize you did wrong? why was it wrong?

and whY IS IT MY FUCKING JOB TO GUIDE YOU TO THIS?

it would be nice if, say, there were some visible consideration of how your actions affected us

as it turns out, we have exactly 0 use for white guilt

they call it printf even though it prints all of the other letters too

@gewt lmk what you find out, because, we have some LTO-8