Open Source Software Community - it's about ethics in Code of Conducts

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Hamsteroid said:
I'm pretty sure there are international laws against that.
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I remember being at a friends house years ago when his sister asked his brother if she could use his computer to instant message a friend of hers. (This was before widespread cellphones)

He said sure. The computer was running Linux, but no desktop environment. Terminal only.
 
Rancid Xylitol said:
every new job is a thrilling adventure of "will they find out I have schizoaffective disorder and then slowly make me feel like an unwanted houseguest?"
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Don't ask me how I know this but if you take your meds and make even an iota of an attempt to be normal and charismatic people won't know anything.
A schizophrenia diagnosis isn't the social killer people make it out to be if you have any degree of introspection.
 
YachieKicchou said:
Don't ask me how I know this but if you take your meds and make even an iota of an attempt to be normal and charismatic people won't know anything.
A schizophrenia diagnosis isn't the social killer people make it out to be if you have any degree of introspection.
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That doesn't sound like it will leave many opportunities to make sanctimonious blog posts or claim to be eternally victimized (for no reason). How am I supposed to get content out of that?!
 
Rancid Xylitol said:
Don't forget Dvorak or Workman (or even more obscure) keyboard layout!
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The keyboard? A 40% ortholinear with blank keycaps, naturally.
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Heliantheae said:
it's no surprise that his website renders like shit on my machine:
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I think it's not your machine alone, I've tried with three different browsers with three different engines and all of them render the bold text that way, I think he just doesn't know how to properly make text that looks like that but is readable.
 
teriyakiburns said:
I can, but maybe I'm an arsehole. I knowingly haven't let anyone else touch my computer for over 20 years, after I let the kids of a family friend play on it to distract them and came back to find they'd completely fucked it up. Genius kids, but a valuable lesson: nobody touches my stuff. Not even my wife.

(insert dongle joke here)
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I have a guest account, highly limited, that I let people use. Not without my presence, though.
 
DavidS877 said:
Fancy computers had address switches too.
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see real men have 8 switches and a button and the switches act as a XOR pattern and if you want to go backwards 1 word you have to set the switches to 00000000 and then press the button several milion times until the address wraps back around to where you want it
if you're a fag you will need a display telling you which address you're on
address switches are just bloat
if you want to be even more minimalist you can address individual bits and get it down to 1 switch and 1 button
 
Creative Username said:
usb keylogger dongle? firewire dma device? it's a whole class of crazy shit
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It's call an "evil maid attack" because the eponymous maid can come into your room when you're not there and plug in a tiny usb device, malicious cable, etc. Just like the maid could try to alter your firmware or if you believe wikipedia replace the entire device.

This lunacy where everyone agrees that if the attackers get physical access it's completely over but then turn around and say we need to implement all this shit with all these downsides to prevent people that have physical access from preforming highly technical attacks is retarded. Frankly I think it's pushed intentionally despite the number of compromises coming from "evil maid" attacks of any kind being minuscule compared to your every day fishing email.

Creative Username said:
with a non-retarded implementation of secure boot, you can burn your own public key into a nigh-impossible-to-reset write-once non-volatile memory area, and run your own bootloader that you signed yourself
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But that is never what it's going to be. It will just be to lock down your devices and make you niggercattle. Maybe you've seen the news lately
Or maybe you already know
Creative Username said:
it also gets a bad rap for being used by gay corporations to lock down computers to do 1 thing that isn't what the user wants. this is indefensible and any secure boot implementation that comes with somebody else's keys and no way to add your own is extremely gay and the person responsible needs to be subjected to medieval torture/execution methods
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but for some reason still think this is a good idea. If you build the infrastructure to do something then it will be used. You build the surveillance state then the government will use it. You build the ability to lock down everyone's devices then it will get used.

Creative Username said:
this means if you lose track of your computer for a while, and a moderately-sophisticated attacker replaces your bootloader with his special build of grub that inserts backdoors, it won't work because all of your hardware will say "fuck no this isn't @SCV's grub wtf i'm not booting up now"

there are many attacks that somebody could do if they had access to your computer. the general situation is quite dire if somebody can touch your computer, which means ideally you should never ever let this happen. unfortunately nobody is perfect so there are tools available to potentially cuck attackers that are dedicated enough to get around a lack of security but not dedicated enough to get around moderate security
secure boot is but one technique in a wide arsenal that lets you lock down a computer to do 1 thing
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I understand full well how it works. You're being patronizing by explaining. And facile sentiments like "it's another tool in the tool box" that imply there is no downside are not convincing.

To put a finer point on it: "with a non-retarded implementation of" electronic voting machines with "a nigh-impossible-to-reset write-once non-volatile memory area" you could have secure elections, but they "gets a bad rap for being used by gay" governments to cast a vote "that isn't what the user wants". However, electronic voting machines are "but one technique in a wide arsenal" of running a free and fair election.
 
Creative Username said:
see real men have 8 switches and a button and the switches act as a XOR pattern and if you want to go backwards 1 word you have to set the switches to 00000000 and then press the button several milion times until the address wraps back around to where you want it
if you're a fag you will need a display telling you which address you're on
address switches are just bloat
if you want to be even more minimalist you can address individual bits and get it down to 1 switch and 1 button
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And then if you wire the switch to a keyboard or something and make it flip it very very fast depending on what key you pressed... Wait, we just invented the serial port!
 
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