Any indication when v2.9.0 will be released? I'd love to play with this, but the install instructions (at least for linux) don't seem to work. Is it working in Windowsland or on macOS?
sure, but when I worked there, the only abbreviation I remember seeing was LLNL for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. But the T:L producers could easily have just used LLL as their own abbreviation.
lol. I remember seeing LLLSDL go by when I originally saw the movie. The funny but is I had just written the internet draft for LLSD, so I was wondering g if someone on the writing staff had been following our work at Linden Lab. More likely it was a coincidence and all the L's meant "Laser."
As a long time emacs user, I appreciated the inclusion of EMACS as an error code. When I moved from TECO to gnu emacs in to 80s, elisp was an advance. Now I have a perpetual todo item... "rewrite emacs in fennel or janet or even minimalisp."
I upvoted this post because a) I love hearing people's memories of their first programming interactions and b) Susam's website is delightfully straight-forward: no ads, appeals to download AI apps and the videos are in support of the text. I love it!
and Pagemill and Sitemill. At Bell Canada we had a very early web dev team in '94-'95. At one point pagemill came out and we could hire mostly non technical designers to build web pages. At the time it seemed like magic. We didn't need to have someone who grokked vi standing next to a designer all the time. But the HTML pagemill spat out was horrid. It always added a space to the end of link text and never closed list item elements. I eventually wrote a command line tool that fixed pagemill's output because some of our other tools really didn't like the flavour of HTML-inspired slop it emitted. *
And then I moved to the bay area and noticed there was a road called Page Mill Rd. in Palo Alto and sort of laughed for a bit. Surprised Adobe didn't release a tool called Sandhill.
[*] to be fair, most WYSIWYG page builder tools of the era spat out some sort of crappy subset of HTML, so not trying to say pagemill was the only offender.
This kind of misses the point. Or rather... it's necessary but not sufficient. If the goal is to get code you can trust, then you have to trust each package. Origin Integrity will help you with this if you have a list of trusted devs. But what do you do if a trusted dev imports code from an untrusted source?
And there were some amazing RAD and prototyping tools in the 90s (mostly for DOS, but also for Windoze desktop apps.) You're right, we sort of gave up on the idea when everyone wanted to be seen as a "real" software engineer who knew how to sling Java on the back end.
IPCMSes make it somewhat easy to MitM SMS. If your system poops a cookie in the wrong place it doesn't matter if the secret is in someone's head or if it's in a hardware dongle, like you say... the hacker is "in".
My recommendation for bad guys is to not attack the part of the system where it is strong. Just sniff around a bit until you find the weak part and attack that.
Also remember most devs couldn't use a static analysis tool to save their lives (which is why mythos is relevant.) I suspect that a 15 year old copy of Fortify or CoVerity could find bugs mythos missed.
And if that doesn't work, just start scanning github repos for entropy. That's where the credentials that were accidentally published live.
Also... Money is Theft and The Economy is a Lie. Education inoculates you against new facts. Our meritocratic democracy ensures government by the mediocre.
As Paul Virillo once quipped, "the invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck." And we appear to have shot the ensign who was looking out for icebergs.
"They Live" was a documentary. "Idiocracy" is far too optimistic to be accurate. Reflexive modernity has made Ballard's "High Rise" into a love story.
All revolutionary fervour aside, I'm a fan of Kurz. My bread is buttered more on the David Harvey side, but Kurz is no fool. I'm not sure the headline "Capitalism has to become more humane" is the best distillation of his message.
Oh man. Don't google "sackler family" or "purdue pharma".
[EDIT: Added after that one person upvoted this comment.]
Slavery was big in the south because there wasn't enough low-skill labor to feel threatened. The north didn't care for it as much because a higher percentage of labor was what we would call semi-skilled or skilled today. That labor was FREAKED OUT about the idea of slaves taking over their jobs and they were able to organize before being eaten by the capitalist leviathan.
I'm pretty sure there were more abolitionists in the north than the south, I don't think your average northerner cared about the plight of southern slaves other than the institution being a threat to their livelihood if it moved north.
If you were making the assertion moral concerns or ethical behaviour eventually influenced american capitalism, I disagree. The capitalist monster acts "moral" or "ethical" because at the current time, to do otherwise is invite political dissolution. I fear the shadowy cabal of capitalist masters will move to reinstate chattel slavery. We did not respond with outrage when red-lining disenfranchised large portions of the populous or when usury was slipped back in with high credit card APRs and payday lending. We are asleep.
For people coming to this later. A day later, I bounced my router and got a new public facing IP. All my problems went away. Willing to bet GH thought I was a horrible H4XX0R based on my previous IP.