@hipsterelectron do u think linus knows that most kernel mantainers are being paid to get backdoors in there or is he just blissfully unaware
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@fiore linus signed off on the (VERY OBVIOUS) backdoor in ML-DSA module signature verification back in march. while david howells (the red hat guy who did it) was obfuscating the changes made to his linux-fs branch from the general public by swamping the crypto/ changes in massive LLM-addled bullshit in the ceph filesystem, linus reviewed the change individually, and accepted it into his tree, while retaining the backdating that howells applied to foil git log traversal by date.
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every single thing linus accepts into his tree goes through the review board system at kernel dot org e.g. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b6ee92d7f7f0498d1f776d0b125a2f6bcedf0891 there were stamps of approval from the entire linux crypto team collectively on the whole series of backdoors in crypto/ that went in during the 7.0 rc cycle (no individuals signed off on the changes except david howells, it was just a stamp of approval applied collectively which implicated the entire system in an instant)
@fiore so yes, i believe linus is in fact the top dog fuckboy extraordinaire and literally more dangerous than bill gates because he's incredibly effective at PR. the linux foundation is not laundering money to him from google and microsoft for no reason--he has clearly been an asset of the US security state for many years. i don't know or really care whether he started out that way--but i will note that the amoeba OS by andrew s tannenbaum is one of the two actually interesting operating systems ever made, and it was made during the 90s, when he was famously telling linus how monolithic kernels are an incoherent design methodology, after he expatriated from the US to the netherlands (somewhat the reverse of linus)
@hipsterelectron so basically when he dies itll just be the same but worse
like a free for all backdoor party
@fiore linus is the backdoor. he is the mastermind. ever since the US declared war on iran in february it has been the blacklight backdoor party 24/7
@fiore i was going to specify my v2 bidirectional parallel async coroutine parsing algorithm in cpython, after i got pip down to 0.35 seconds to complete a massive resolve of tensorflow and its dependencies, and i was finally blocking on URL and json parsing performance just to deserialize the highly structured caching protocols (plural) i had developed to codify the global mutable state of pypi, when i found my new code to parse the METADATA text format used for dependency resolution was erroring over a wheel file from google, which pip and uv and poetry and everything else silently accepted
@fiore it took me 3 years to realize that when i presented at packagingcon 2023 about using HTTP range requests to read the zip file internal metadata table and extract dependencies instead of downloading the whole thing (tensorflow is almost 2GB), that pypi's sudden breakage of negative range requests and subsequent stonewalling of my further work https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/12208 as they replaced every single pip maintainer i had worked with was not just "them's the breaks" of open source diplomacy
- why has github never provided
Content-Lengthfor their tarball downloads? - why use
Transfer-Encoding: chunkedto send over a file with a checksum? - why is
git archivea distinct command you have to run fromgit clone --depth 1? - why does git demand you
--unshallowbefore you can push your own unrelated additions anywhere else? - why isn't git the same thing as a torrent file?
- why do you have to resolve the same merge conflicts twice, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce, whenever you revert your own commit and insolently retain the actual history of changes?
@fiore the overwhelming amount of nazi gold poured into the tech industry and their academic collaborators since the 1960s (after IBM finished laundering ther profits from providing adolf hitler the database system for the nazi census, using data entrusted to the government by its citizens) makes it difficult to accept that the filesystem fuckboys who cream themselves over claude shannon's "information theory" are really catastrophically incapable of doing anything other than backdoors.
backdoors are the only thing that require zero skill to perform--all you need is someone else's trust
@fiore what links together discrete states in finite fields with polynomial derivatives in relativistic spacetime?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%E2%80%93Arnold%E2%80%93Moser_theorem
you could say either "periodicity" or "the infinitesimal baller known as andrei kolmogorov". either answer is correct
@fiore this book fucked with my head so badly as a kid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_God_Play_Dice%3F i was completely unaware until like a month or two ago that the iterated discrete mapping x -> x^2 (mod n) used as the first example of chaotic dynamics and bifurcation diagrams wasn't just a prelude to perusing the tumbling orbit of hyperion and experiencing the thrilling finale describing ~xXx~the vague attractor of kolmogorov~xXx~
@fiore the first time i read it i thought it was describing problems that were just too hard for anyone else to solve and i assumed people just got bored of them and i had resolved to one day figure out the literal three-body problem, which along with differences between pairs of prime numbers has taken up so many hours of my time rearranging symbols on paper. i thought i was simply not educated in the ways to attack them with mathematics. along with intense dyslexia it was a major reason i decided numbers and figures were artificial difficulty
@fiore less than a month ago on august 9th https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/117067803163018004 i still believed P = NP was the problem and the goal was to solve it [this post was expressing major internal cognitive dissonance]
now i am confident the sum total of backdoors reduce to a logarithmic factor at best in asymptotic time (which is like if geological time had an equally hot sibling in the cosmic microwave background and they both wanted to hang out with you so you compromised and developed an orthogonal basis composed of exponential memory and computation bounds of equivalent magnitude. and that was called spacetime. and linus torvalds is meaningless amongst the star fields)
@fiore ian stewart is so cute in the chaos theory book he's like "i have made special arrangements with the publisher in order to transfer these little diagrams from the computer to the page." he's like you literally do not understand this shit is coming to you hotter off the page in your hands than anything else has ever been hot off of any page in history. he gets so serious he talks like he's leaving one of those deus ex voice recordings you find in an empty laboratory abandoned after some mysterious cataclysmic event
@fiore this is kinda why godel escher bach was very underwhelming to me. i liked the first half when he talks about periodicity but as i just now looked up his incredibly basic bitch interpretation of cyclic generating sets in finite field arithmetic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loop) i realized i took the complete opposite interpretation i was intended to from bach's endlessly rising canon. i thought "oh shit infinity is real you can make infinity out of nothing in your head"
@fiore but apparently it's like oh cycles are good??? like groundhog day isn't supposed to be a literal divine punishment like prometheus and sisyphus except at least they get to experience the passage of time around them??????
A strange loop is a hierarchy of levels,
i'm sorry i can't believe he tried to sell "when you're sad because you finished a really good book that's actually the secret of intelligence, you're supposed to circlejerk yourself to death after reading this book i just wrote"
A strange loop is a cyclic structure that goes through several levels in a hierarchical system.
now i know at least one person who will be unbelievably pissed about my inodes for directory hardlinks and nothing could possibly motivate me more
A tangled hierarchy is a hierarchical system in which a strange loop appears.
they're trying so hard to make it sound like it's not the most boring thing imaginable
@fiore literally he begins the second half of the text and starts saying the most incredibly fucking bland bullshit about "intelligence" and i literally could not make it through three fucking pages of that shit
@fiore i remember thinking the first 15 pages of infinite jest was genuinely some of the most compelling shit i had ever read and kept meaning to get back to it
@fiore oh fuck OH FUCK
The novel gets its name from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1, in which Prince Hamlet holds the skull of the court jester, Yorick, and says, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!"[20]
I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT LINE IS ONE OF SHAKESPEARE'S BEST EVER AND I JUST READ IT NOW FOR THE FIRST FUCKING TIME
@fiore WHAT IF I NAMED MY TERRIBLE LITTLE DIFFIE-HELLMAN BIGNUM EXPONENTIATION SOFTWARE "HORATIO" HOLY SHIT
@fiore OH....AND WHAT IF "THE MANDELA EFFECT" IS JUST A DEBATE BRO CODED "LOGICAL FALLACY" THAT SERVES THE PURPOSE OF VICTIM BLAMING THE TARGETS OF A CONCERTED PROPAGANDA EFFORT?
@fiore see that's the other thing like [i promise this is not off-topic]
i am literally terrible at shape rotation (i had to take a test to get into the NSA middle school summer camp) and i'm also terrible at arithmetic (and not just because of dyslexia). my brain is in fact very tiny and i have frequently been advised to "cut it out" with my overt and unmistakeable tendency towards premature abstraction during code review
@fiore (it's so crazy that the obsessive tendency towards abstraction is also what alexander grothendieck was known for. the guy who provided a non-prime number accidentally-on-purpose. because primality is a structure of hierarchical control)
@fiore but in fact i actually do not enjoy being sidetracked at all. and i do in fact try very hard to cut my losses and refocus when programming.
and this is also why i'm unbeatable at prototyping because prototyping is when you have an excuse to just not solve any nontrivial problem because you have a deadline to make
@fiore but the fascist IQ test for the NSA summer camp had a third component, where they made you remember arrangements of colored blobs (they specifically used piss yellow and shit brown which are both actually very fun colors if you like colors) and then demand the test taker reproduce the same sequence of racist blob arrangements either 15 or 30 minutes later, while doing the shape rotation part i completely fucked up in between the memorization and recall components
@fiore but anyway the little blobs looked like pokemon to me so of course i got 100% on that section. absol and houndoom were particularly helpful analogies. note that both of them were designed by human artists to have silhouettes evoking evil/demonic imagery
@fiore so anyway the whole concept of "false memories" (confabulation is another funny term) is just incredibly fucking addicting to the prime number sycophants. up there with the adolf hitler daily speedball for them
that's why they F U CK I N G L O VE "reflections on trusting trust" because they think trust is a non-renewable resource like a cryptographic keypair rather than something you build up in concert with someone else (like diffie-hellman secret sharing!)
@fiore and the idea of false memories is so attractive to these types because if they can convince themself that memory is socially constructed for everyone then they can live more easily with the massive unrelenting cognitive dissonance that comes with literally fascist belief systems!
@fiore i think stallman was much closer to linus than either of them would like to believe and in fact i would be curious how much linus himself served to buttress the free software movement as a controlled opposition to the capitalism+fascism exercised by US intelligence agencies. particularly after learning from @astraleureka recently about the technological significance of tivo being a linux box that was also an incredibly popular product (and also the thing that directly spawned the GPLv3 after it failed to uphold copyleft provisions, causing stallman to repeat the phrase "tivoization" ad nauseum), i hadn't realized how much that in itself was not just a side note in the history of free software but in fact was also a huge impetus that led to linux becoming massive and overpowering every other unix-alike
