Posts by rootwyrm@weird.autos
(DIR) Post #B43GGqqoPWOQtOYrXU by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@davidgerard @Unixbigot @catsalad to put this number in actual perspective:The annual rainfall in Florida is about 56 inches. USGS' calculator only lets you use 50.So less than the annual rainfall in Florida is 46,596,264,000,000 gallons. Google is admitting to using 2,920,000,000 gallons per year before waste and losses.That's over 6% of all annual rainfall. In FLORIDA.That is more than enough to put aquifers into terminal decline.(edit: yush math is wrong, I mathed pre-coffee.)
(DIR) Post #B4Z4pDTToywoVqzAOG by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@wwahammy these are definitely not unknown people. I guarantee you every single fucking one of them is a Meta or Google employee.
(DIR) Post #B4Z4pUMf1aastcvSca by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@wwahammy there's no fucking way that these commits are not directly linked to Meta and their ilk. Absolutely none at all. These are the only companies besides IBM with the staff, and the only ones with the vested interest, as well as a LONG history of hiding, minimizing, or straight up lying about their involvement in things.If the IPs aren't from Meta's ASN, they're employees using their home connection again, something the company has ordered them to do for breaking the law for example.
(DIR) Post #B5PbzMKBAkUfYzzmca by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@zzt IBM, Canonical, Torvalds, and Systemd Dipfuck are falling all over themselves to implement total surveillance at the kernel level. I expect by next week, grub will refuse to boot past an 'Enter your birthdate' prompt.
(DIR) Post #B5XHTrBwQiKcD8WUHA by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@GossiTheDog hilariously, it's even dumber than that. Yes, really.Every indication is that their UptimeRobot page was suspended *for not paying*.
(DIR) Post #B5ZYEsW5JCjzVsJADA by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@wec <squints more> ... is that a 2105-750 with ESCON? O.o
(DIR) Post #B5ZYEsr03RTGYk5roO by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@wec it's more the -750 than the ESCON over FICON. ESCON's not uncommon by itself, and that one wouldn't have HVD. What's throwing me is that it's a BE HSL-RIO, not CPI, which means it should be a -750, but it's got E10 disk packs. There's NO way it's an F10/E10 either - TOTALLY wrong controller.But like I said - I don't see the HMC. No HMC, no way it's coming up. I REALLY want to get my hands in this one, it's DEEPLY weird.
(DIR) Post #B5ZYEt5tA5NfIv3l1E by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@wec ... also because it wasn't shut down properly and has about a dozen batteries that will turn extremely spicy if you power it up. So, uh, yeah. Don't do that. (This goes QUADRUPLE for any DS4k's. Do NOT apply power to any of them. They have lithium ion grenades that are NOT accessible.)
(DIR) Post #B5o8pPKZ6IHOGx4ooC by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@astraleureka @cR0w I would expect iputils to work because it's suid AND kernel linked with lazy symbol resolution. Pam should also be a problem. But both are very non-default.
(DIR) Post #B5o8pPYOGtL2xpXrMG by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@astraleureka @cR0w okiedokie, I wrote up a whole thing on IFIN. But the "nice" version is 6 hours of me screaming at people about basic fucking bounds checking and not having stupid fucking feature flags.The short version is that the stupid fucks who can't do memory management keep fucking doing stupid shit with the page cache, tacked on a new special type of page for the crypto API, and fucked *THAT* up. So as long as the crypto API doesn't get called, you're cool.
(DIR) Post #B5o8pPmZQAgHfoBBSa by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@astraleureka @cR0w BASICALLY, once again, these dense motherfuckers figured checking was totally optional in C memory management tasks. <scream 1>But because they don't want to do memory management correctly, they shoved in these special scatterlists with STUPID flags for crypto API! <scream 2>So that now userland could create it's own special memory pages in these special SGLs. SGLs which made a whole bunch of VERY bad and VERY stupid assumptions! <scream 3>
(DIR) Post #B5o8pQ0OaljwMgeE0e by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@astraleureka @cR0w when the CORRECT fucking way to do it would be to ISOLATE THE FUCK OUT OF THE PAGES and MAKE GODDAMN SURE THE SOURCE AND DESTINATION WENT TOGETHER and NOT LET USERLAND SPLICE SHIT INTO ANY RANDOM PAGE and MAKE DAMN SURE THINGS LINED UP. <screams 4-65534>
(DIR) Post #B5o8pQhzyecOXv32yO by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@equinox @astraleureka @cR0w except this is a deliberate, intentional, long-term smearing of things in the fundamental memory management design. There is only 'page buffers' which could be disk! Could be sensitive! Could be mkstmp()! Could be fucking ANYTHING.This is not just utterly stupid, it is brain damaged, dangerous, and insecure. Today it's making bad assumptions and failing basic sanity checks. Tomorrow it could be walking another user's disk reads with SLGs. (Probably will be.)
(DIR) Post #B5o8pRSRBzlUrwm8MC by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@equinox @astraleureka @cR0w one of the things I have hammered home time and time and time again for years and years is that C will murder people who do not plan or think beyond the function, and doubly so in memory.Defects like this are not accidents. They are a lack of planning and forethought come home to roost. As soon as I saw one *part* of the patch I knew the problem. It's that bad. And it's not because desperately trying to do zerocopy the lazy way. It was just not fucking *thinking*.
(DIR) Post #B5xKUatNrpR3vBqOUi by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@cstross @mwl @lilithsaintcrow Scrivener user for many years now here.For technical writing, it has ups and downs. Notes are absolutely goddamn invaluable, as is side-by-side and even 3-way view. It's real strong there, something Word et. al have never, EVER gotten.Formatting, well. It has formatting. Kind of.It's not the worst, but, you will definitely not enjoy doing the alignment at *all*.
(DIR) Post #B5xKUbHUQCiZ7x7e4G by rootwyrm@weird.autos
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@cstross @mwl @lilithsaintcrow I bestow upon you... the SCREENSHOT OF EXPLANATION(R).edit: No I will not be taking questions as to why literally everything is labeled "Chapter", "Scene" at 56,000 words into it. Also don't ask about the question mark.