damhsa's comments

On: Things Microsoft has ever made

[damhsa]

if microsoft ever makes something that doesnt suck it will be a vacuum/hoover

On: Microsoft's 50th Birthday Was Interrupted by Employees Protesting Against Israel

[damhsa]

the author condones public protest for the public sector; why not private protest for the private sector? had trump been master of ceremonies i suspect the author would support some protest.

as a unix hacker whose peace is often ruined by micros**t warez, i really dont care about bill nor gates. as a worker who can have my livelihood taken away at the whim of any myriad capitalists, i admire the will of american workers to risk their own livelihood to defend the lives of the many palestinians who will not live to the "precocious age of 19," which incidentally is older than the girl epstein procured for bill gates.

On: Hackers strike Australia's largest pension funds in coordinated attacks

[damhsa]

the amount lost is insignificant compared to that lost to wage theft, inflation, rent, interest -- forms of capital expansion

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_the_Communist_Pa...

On: Australian superannuation funds hit by cyber attacks, with members' money stolen

[damhsa]

the amount lost is insignificant compared to that lost to wage theft, inflation, rent, interest -- forms of capital expansion

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_the_Communist_Pa...

On: Australian PM promises Port of Darwin to be returned to Australian hands

[damhsa]

sadly this does not demonstate national sovereignty when it is done in obedience to america

On: Show HN: ChatHPT – Connect with Human Pre-Trained Talkers

[damhsa]

after enabling JS in uBlockOrigin on Firefox, i had to press ctrl+f5 to flush the cache to get it to load after i got a CSP error in the JS console

On: Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants' Social Media

[damhsa]

is this why you can "download your data" from social media app sites? to make it easier for a fed to grep for wrongthink after they make you give them your login and phone password?

[kyriakos → damhsa]

This is probably a joke but the reason is to comply with GDPR which requires companies to allow "easy" extraction of data they hold on you.

[damhsa → kyriakos]

extraction by whom? i dont buy that. i have "downloaded my data" before and it never includes any kind of analytic marketing inferences they have made about me, only what i have done on the site, and they know i dont live in the EU. i assume pretend GDPR compliance is just a handy excuse thought up by marketing, killing two birds with one stone. im sure i heard at least one absurd marketing claim that it was to "let you take control of your data."

[techjamie → damhsa]

> it never includes any kind of analytic marketing inferences they have made about me

I'm not an expert by any definition, but I would bet the reason to that is the market inferences are a result of the data they provide you, and isn't an independent datapoint, but rather an extrapolation of what they've collected.

Therefore, it could be argued that the marketing information isn't classified as something to provide.

Don't know how correct I might be, I'm just playing devil's advocate out of intellectual interest.

[slightwinder → damhsa]

> extraction by whom?

The user.

> i have "downloaded my data" before and it never includes any kind of analytic marketing inferences

Because they are not obligated to give them to you. They are probably not even in the same systems.

> and they know i dont live in the EU.

So what? They have the ability, should they revoke it based in the IP? Why? It's a selling point, without any additional price or harm for the company.

[kyriakos → damhsa]

I don't know why its offered outside EU but GDPR has this requirement: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-15-gdpr/ (paragraph 3)

[damhsa → kyriakos]

the data downloads i have done (that could be done by anyone with my unlocked phone and logins, such as US border forces) clearly do not even try to adhere to most of the clauses there (e.g. recipients of the data). tech companies dont try to apply GDPR outside of EU, but they are generally happy to give information to the police in all countries except china. i wonder if the chinese can download their data?

[kyriakos → damhsa]

Possible same process gives additional data for EU users

On: Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam

[damhsa]

i didnt understand it until i stumbled on the bsd supp docs that openbsd couldnt be ****** to include. i dont have the sources, but v7 vol2 is close enough:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/plan9-bell-labs/7thEdMan/bswv7.html

vol2 contains fuller book like manuals and tutorials for complicated things like ed, C, filesystem, UNIX, etc. and should be your first introduction to UNIX/BSD, while the man(1) program (vol1) serves as a complementary quick reference for experienced users and for short programs that dont need much explanation. sadly V7 wont tell you about the internet because that was started by the "net" releases of 4.3-4.4BSD (see kirk mckusicks history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEEr6dT-4uQ )

for vi, get the PostScript.ps files for the OTHER manual from keith bostics sources (openbsd src only has troff source and no troff):

https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/the-berkel...

    echo pkg_add ghostscript | su root
    tar xfz nvi-1.79.tar.gz
    cd nvi-1.79/docs/USD.doc
    (cd vi.ref; ps2pdf vi.ref.ps)
    (cd vi.tut; ps2pdf vi.tut.ps)

the interactive vi tutorial is also great:

    cp /usr/src/usr.bin/vi/docs/tutorial/* ./
    vi vi.beginner
    vi vi.advanced

assuming you installed the relevant src tar:

    ftp -C https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/"`uname -r`"/SHA256.sig &&
    ftp -C https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/"`uname -r`"/src.tar.gz &&
    signify -Cp /etc/signify/openbsd-"`uname -r|tr -d .`"-base.pub -x SHA256.sig src.tar.gz &&
    su root -c 'tar xfzCp src.tar.gz'

wouldnt it be nice if installation did this and syspatch patched it and sysupgrade merged it?

openbsd is also not very good at pointing you to the right manual. making them grepable was a small improvement for me.

    mkdir man && cd man &&
    for n in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
    do for m in /usr/share/man/man$n{/,/"`machine`"/}*
    do test -f "$m" && man $n "`basename $m .$n`" | col -b > "`basename $m`"
    done
    done
    grep relink * | grep kernel

maybe use it to train an LLM, idk.

the 15 min long boot is due to relinking done by /etc/rc

you can try pressing ^T to see whats going on at boot and ^C to skip anything

or just delete it from /etc/rc

    login root
    cp /etc/rc /etc/rc.old
    ed /etc/rc
    g/reorder/p
    /^reorder_libs[^()]*$/s/^/#
    /^wait_reorder_libs[^()]*$/s/^/#
    /reorder_kernel/s/^/#
    wq

you are now on the beginning of the long, tedious, futile and soul crushing journey of dealing with documentation and source code on openbsd.

[damhsa → damhsa]

typo

    su root -c 'tar xfzCp src.tar.gz'

should be

    su root -c 'tar xfzCp src.tar.gz /usr/src'

On: Show HN: Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file

[damhsa]

for some reason firefox wasnt saving my changes when i saving as html-only, but saving as complete web page it did.

On: “A Course of Pure Mathematics” – G. H. Hardy (1921) [pdf]

[damhsa]

the tex file is huge because its got rasterized images in it, still nice to have though