Feeling full of foolish rhyme
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26 Sep 2024
“Austin glared at me (…), ‘Would you mind saying that again.’ I did so. ‘It seems to me’, said Austin, speaking slowly, ‘that what you have just said is complete nonsense.’ I then realised that this was to be no polite shadow-fencing, but war to the death – my death, that is.”
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23 Sep 2024
lol
23 Sep 2024
* Unauthenticated RCE vs all GNU/Linux systems (plus others) disclosed 3 weeks ago.
* Full disclosure happening in less than 2 weeks (as agreed with devs).
* Still no CVE assigned (there should be at least 3, possibly 4, ideally 6).
* Still no working fix.
* Canonical, RedHat and others have confirmed the severity, a 9.9, check screenshot.
* Devs are still arguing about whether or not some of the issues have a security impact.
I've spent the last 3 weeks of my sabbatical working full time on this research, reporting, coordination and so on with the sole purpose of helping and pretty much only got patronized because the devs just can't accept that their code is crap - responsible disclosure: no more.
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22 Sep 2024
This analogy works for conditional benefits (unemployment insurance, food stamps etc.) but not for UBI.
The question is what happens if sailors get, say, 20% of their salary whether or not they step on a boat?
(I'm not even commenting on UBI, I'm just a pedant)
5 Jun 2024
Thinking Unconditional Basic Income will make people lazy is like thinking lifeboats make sailors careless. Nobody wants to be in the lifeboat forever, but it sure is comforting to know it's already there for you without conditions when you need it to keep you afloat.
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22 Sep 2024
UBI that pays a non-laughable amount on top of all other programs is obviously not happening. Do the math.
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22 Sep 2024
UBI pilot programs or proposals motivated by a future where robots or AI do most of the work are equally silly.
If that future ever arrives every country will introduce something like UBI on Day 1. Current UBI research or activism have zero impact on that outcome.
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22 Sep 2024
There are two kinds of people: those who model government on the relationship between parents and children and those who model it on the relationship between multiple sets of parents.
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22 Sep 2024
People get lost in concepts and abstractions.
"Government" stops being the means through which large groups of people organize and administer their collective affairs and becomes a supernatural entity
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