smarmy dickhead wearing modern garb: oh no, I just updated my greeble prong to fix the autoconfabulator and it broke my dinner dispenser three thousand!!!
me wrapped in tanned hides with my head covered and holding my dinner over a fire with a skewer: this is good
RE: https://fedi.cpf.sh/notes/askel5harn8p4qdr
without my world wide web friends I would never find out about how hilariously broken all software became over the last year because I #neverupdate https://mastodon.social/@c@cpf.sh/117473947287728654
the funniest thing in TNG is that they blurt their authorization codes out in front of everybody else and everyone else just goes "hah, good thing it's impossible for me to memorize that"
I was going to make a joke but since jokes are communist disinformation they are going to be banned on mastodon 5
brought to you by the super serious brain geniuses who are employed instead of me
going "guess I'll mess around with love2d since everything else is broken now" and the love2d wiki is down because of the PHP thing which happened on the same day as the four incident
mane come on errything busted now
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very funny fact: buttload is a real unit of measurement. it is equal to two hogsheads
you guys remember when Ghislaine Maxwell was outed as being like a top moderator on a metric shit ton of subreddits? that was pretty funny
reddit isn't a real website and it can't hurt you.
It's funny watching this happen given that for pretty much my entire adult life I have recognized that the threat model which "solves" inherently compromised software by trusting private third parties to constantly change it in a way that is unauditable for someone with a normal life is an evil trick and not remotely the right way to think about computing, programming, or anything else.
If you tried this in any other industry even 20 years ago people would instinctively smell the deception and be outraged, asking what the hell was defective about what they bought in the first place.
For much of my career I worked on things that had to operate indefinitely with no mistakes, and failing at that for physical reasons, with deep containment for all possible failure modes. It is possible to design systems, even systems that do sophisticated general tasks, which will never need to be amended short of physical repairs in order to remain secure and correct.
That's where #neverupdate comes from. Because I know what's possible, and I know the reason we don't think that way for consumer computing is because it would run contrary to planned obsolescence and the ability to exercise authority and ownership over what was purchased remotely by adversarial corporate entities.
The reason we do things this way is so you never own anything, and the incident that just played out shows exactly how the blackmail works. I personally still did not update. I just dropped the bad certs. But a lot of people who were holding out over the extruded slop being shoveled into the kernel probably caved and updated.
That's how the racket works.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117474111925965693
this is true if you drop "might as well"
RE: https://mas.to/@zzt/117474769370074668
people were hating on me for #neverupdate because they didn't understand the joke
oh my God, private key that was literally just "4" 😭
concise state of the union
ey yo that's low key inapprope
we now have an even more advanced version of this meme
