Yeah… that’s kind of what I’m saying though… if I go full out revolutionary, I’m probably not gonna trust anybody to have my back… and not belabor the point, but if this country goes to totalitarian, I’m going revolutionary.

I mean… honestly I have been intending to make those plans so years… so that’s on me 😝 Like literally pops is a German immigrant, I could have citizenship there, but it took a friend 8 years.

But part of me always comes back to the USA being my home, not something to be abandoned when shit gets rough. I don’t really consider myself politically motivated or minded, I didn’t vote for most of my life… nor does it really matter with the electoral college in my particular zip code. And somehow nothing local that really matters to me or has any bearing on my quality of life ever seem to make it on the ballot.

Maybe going to a protest is pointless, maybe it’s not. Maybe the point is not what changes on the ground but how we are perceived by the world at large.

Lastly… it seems less risky than anarchy or “direct action.”

Granted I am already a terrorist for thinking, seditious thoughts while duceing it out yesterday morning… but I’ll try the protest first 😅

Buuuuudy… if I thought I could get the shot in. And before you bother getting off that high horse, no I don’t own a gun.

Uhhhh… no, but protesting is definitely more fun with friends. I keep hitting all 3 of mine up and nobody wants to go.

Honestly whose comment were you trying to reply to? At issue here was the question of why not to call it a “no kings protest” and… fuck it. See you at the next one even remotely close to San Jose.

I mean… it probably makes it easier to get the required permits 😔

ROFL… I think there’s a quotable from Fight Club about his dad going around setting up “franchises…”

Honestly hoping to meet Patrick Vol… nope —not even going to take a swing at trying to spell his last name. But I seriously owe that guy a beer and pancakes.

On a semi related note, I think it took me a solid week of effort to get audio going (on Linux) just so I could be more confused about how to properly pronounce it. I want to say the file name was linux.au and it’s Linus saying something like “This is Linus Torvalds introducing UNIX as Linux.” Back in the day we had to spell UNIX with an asterisk because AT&T owned the trademark and aggressively enforced it.

All of this went down while I was working at a shitty little outfit called Los Gatos Computer Corporation. We built IBM PC clones in half the warehouse, the other half was full of old SGI computers. The scam there was that the business owners told SGI they were recycling the old hardware, but what they actually did was cobble together working systems from the broken bits. Basically one brilliant guy sat in a 10x10 room chain smoking and patching the busted SGI stuff back together. He hand soldered upwards of a hundred hair fine bodge wires, motherboards taped together… it was mental, but somehow they made enough cash to keep the whole crazy operation alive for a year or two.

Spot on, thanks for finding that. I wonder if there was ever a proof of concept or something like that. I installed my first copy of Slackware some time in the early 90… Maybe late 80s… it’s getting a bit fuzzy, I want to say that the kernel was pre 0.9.

One of the scariest things I had ever done, but I learned so much more about computers than I would have otherwise. Point being there was definitely some years between Ken’s article… still very much the era of viruses for the same of proving you could create something novel and powerful. We kept collections of them like weirdos that keep poisonous snakes 🐍

Anyway, it’s past grandpas bed time. Thanks again for finding the article, I’ll definitely have to do a bit more research… It was a super fun time in my life and I enjoyed remembering.

Also… not that any risk mitigation strategy is going to save you 100% of the time. But a translation app sounds like something you could run in a VM to effectively isolate. Hell, if it’s lightweight enough and you have $100 you could run it on a light weight SBC like a Pi and physically air gap it.

Uhhhhhhhh…

Bruh. It’s not safe to assume any software from anywhere is safe… that’s kinda the essence of Zero Day exploits.

Even if you wrote it there have been Linux exploits that hid a root kit, and patched the gcc compiler and linker to create a level of persistence that is just other worldly. IIRC what that fucker was called, but it won’t be hard to find. You can probably still count Linux root kits on one hand.

Hell, I’ll look it up after I’m done with my morning duce… that shit was epic. And like, also, theoretically, you could be Mr. Robot, so… you know… it’s just a good idea not to trust yourself anyway.

ErsatzTV 🫡

LOL… seriously I was like low key annoyed at JellyFin for… ya’ know, not being Plex for a minute, and then I actually looked at the ShitHub repo… it’s 8 dudes. Egg on muh face 🤯