The govemerment, 1984-like agencies and some others in Middle East will truly hate Guix and reproducible computing being portable to Powerpc and even legacy machines. There more heterogeneous your setup, the better.
Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
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Re: Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
#72My favorite part of this was: That kind of notation, called SCCS/RCS, is the equivalent of finding a rotary phone in a modern office. Nobody uses it in 2005 Windows kernel code unless their programming background goes back decades, to government and military computing environments — The astrophysics lab I worked at in 2006 was still using svn and had a bunch of Fortran with references to systems from the 70s and 80s.…
Ha, I worked for a company that until ~2012 still used RCS-backed SCM, absolute hack job on a shared file share that wrapped RCS with a "project file" to allow a tree of specific revisions for a "project". "MKS" it was called. And by the sound of it the "old" '90s version, not the java EE rewrite. That meant the files has the entire "$Revision: 1.3 $" nonsense and "file changelog" at the top too - though many newer f…
RCS->CVS and from that you can convert it to GIT or SVN.
Re: Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does that mean that three-letter agencies were/are able to recruit from the fields for each type of malware? For example, fast16 might actually be written by someone who used to write scientific calculation software, while Stunex was written by someone who used to work for Siemens?
Try to remember how hypothetical everything tended to be before Snowden. And 'twas a meager pittance that was revealed. They have toys that'd blow minds and people yee'd swear weren't people. It's all fun and games to poke fun, but holy shit those guys are NTBF'dW. Every academic institution, every school, all under the radar of recruitment and more. It's difficult to believe, but the network is real. There are certa…
Fun to imagine that and painful to think of what we could have if such efforts and budgets were put toward education, healthcare, social welfare, public infrastructure + reliability, etc.
But then I am getting too utopian
Re: Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
#74this reminds a lot about the Three-Body Problem series. There it's aliens sabotaging science. In reality it was always the NSA.
Re: Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just curious, are you purposely mocking the LLM writing style?
That’s how everybody in academia, tech, and published authors in general used to write. Where do you think the LLM is getting it from? ^_^
the full on em dash requires a different character than - or --
it was generated that way, or else this person happens to know the correct combination of buttons to make that happen.
in 2026, at least 20-40% of social media traffic is bots (and probably higher with better LLMs), so it is usually safer to just assume.
Re: Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
#76sabotaging science must be the most morally corrupt thing you can do as a civilisation
As a scientist and a father I can say that the most morally corrupt thing is doing bad things to children, not scientists.
at some point this science exists to do that, e.g. directly (via things like zyklon b gas), or indirectly (such as how social media screws up kids, and is doing so, wholesale, across civilization)
Re: Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
#77sabotaging science must be the most morally corrupt thing you can do as a civilisation
How about killing scientists and engineers? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassinations_of_Iranian_nucl...
Not just Iranians, something odd it's happening with the JPL people.
Shitty and brainwashed people in Middle East comes in both ways.
Can't wait to the Chinese secularizing all the Abrahamic bullshit by brute force -not by war, but my mere productivity and good reasoning- throwning all the Abrahamic legacy to the dust bin. So, y'all think you are the center of the world, Mediterranean fools? The Chinese got everything you brag from Math in the same way (basic algebra, proto-integration). And, if any case... the Egyptians were before any Abrahamic nonsense. Heck, the Exodus was just a primitive form Nationalist brainwashing, a la North Korea. So, the days for the Mediterranian Jingoism -and oil, of course are numbered the day the Chinese set a working fusion reactor.
Re: Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
#78this reminds a lot about the Three-Body Problem series. There it's aliens sabotaging science. In reality it was always the NSA.
The NSA can't touch China before turning the whole commerce with the US into shards.
They are improving like crazy on clear energies and the Oil Jihad can't do nil.
Re: Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
#79Interesting that this was discovered after embarking on a journey to understand how widespread the use of Lua is, in the exploits realm .. I also wonder why they opted to make this an injectable worm and not just a side-loaded 'feature' of the OS?
What would the difference be? They would have the same effect.
Re: Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about killing scientists and engineers? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassinations_of_Iranian_nucl...
Not just Iranians, something odd it's happening with the JPL people. Shitty and brainwashed people in Middle East comes in both ways. Can't wait to the Chinese secularizing all the Abrahamic bullshit by brute force -not by war, but my mere productivity and good reasoning- throwning all the Abrahamic legacy to the dust bin. So, y'all think you are the center of the world, Mediterranean fools? The Chinese got everythin…
These middle eastern "civilizations" which torture and mutilate their own children... it's hard to see such barbarity winning out in the very long run against intelligence and human rights.