There was a story that made the rounds a few months ago about how some automotive licensing scheme was broken when someone googled the public key used to sign the code and found it in a link to a StackOverflow post for an example of how to do code signing, complete with the corresponding private key also included in the post.
I think more likely than not that was an instance of some Indian programmer implementing the licensing, but In my own career when I've been asked to implement software licensing (which I'm always a bit uncomfortable doing) I either pushed for very basic things like flags in config files or when that failed didn't go out of my way to make the licenses very difficult to crack.
There's an opportunity here for technical people who want to dissent against this modern state of things to wage a war on two fronts. One is obvious: the gray/black hats who crack the systems. The other one for those implementing these things in the corporate world is to simply do a (plausibly deniably) bad job designing and implementing them, to make the gray/black hats jobs easier.
You know how you're always complaining about how your boss doesn't understand what you do or give you enough time to do it? Well with the right mindset and goals those things are blessings in disguise.
With AI, the ability of the elite to surveil the proles is utterly unprecedented in all of human history.
They will soon know almost everything there is to know about almost everyone - they are already close to that point, and we can see them working to plug the gaps in their knowledge by eliminating physical currency, requiring smart phones for everything, interlinking accounts, verifying everything into single, trackable identities, putting backdoors into computer hardware, etc.
I see total global slavery in the future - an elite core of a few thousand with total omniscient rule over billions. We will functionally have gods walking the earth, and if we have any sense, we will die in our millions or billions to kill them, because that is without doubt what they will ultimately intend for us, once they have no further need for our work.
It is all very worrying, but I can't dwell on it too much because other than refuse to partake of the digital ayahuasca and live in reality to the extent I can, what can I do? I think the future we're heading towards is that of Zero HP Lovecraft and not...
You know, I can't think of any "futuristic utopias." I probably could when I was younger and still on the digital rez but they all look utterly dystopian to me now.
No crystal spires and togas for us. I fear this will be our race's eventual destination. I'm sure the technocrats can't wait.
You know, I can't think of any "futuristic utopias." I probably could when I was younger and still on the digital rez but they all look utterly dystopian to me now.
Well, Utopia is a fantasy concept parodying our ever-present childlike desire for a paradise on earth despite mankind's inability to create such a thing. Adults recognize that it's inherently impossible. Seeing the downsides now means you are cognitively an adult. Congratulations.
The flip side of this is that people old enough to remember how things were done before the internet have a competitive advantage against those who don't.
If the government primarily surveils people over the internet, that makes it all the more difficult to surveil someone who talks to people in-person. Or does direct dial encrypted voice with 56k modems.
Personally I like my odds against a bunch of DMV Americans who can't do anything unless they have direct access to someone's twitter DMs.
"Lie now in ruin vile engine of sorcery! Lest your masters use thee to enslave another!"
My love affair with technology was over. And its true what they say, the more torrid the romance at the start, the more likely it is to end in violence.
I deeply feel this, and have for a long time. I was watching another NRX channel over the christmas break, J. Burden, when he polled his audience whether they are a techno-optimist or a techno-pessimist. I'm still trying to figure out that answer.
An essay by Dave Greene (The Distributist on youtube and twitter) on the relationship between man and technology, on the exchange of ownership and independence from technology for rent and enslavement, and perhaps the beginning of a way through the mess of modernity back to independence.
If you're new to the Distributist, he's an astute man and is part of the dissident right/NRx spheres online. Where Auron Macintyre is the evangelist spreading the news to the masses he could probably be likened to the forerunner prepraring the way. The Distributist has been around for years but I learned of him via Auron.
There was a story that made the rounds a few months ago about how some automotive licensing scheme was broken when someone googled the public key used to sign the code and found it in a link to a StackOverflow post for an example of how to do code signing, complete with the corresponding private key also included in the post.
I think more likely than not that was an instance of some Indian programmer implementing the licensing, but In my own career when I've been asked to implement software licensing (which I'm always a bit uncomfortable doing) I either pushed for very basic things like flags in config files or when that failed didn't go out of my way to make the licenses very difficult to crack.
There's an opportunity here for technical people who want to dissent against this modern state of things to wage a war on two fronts. One is obvious: the gray/black hats who crack the systems. The other one for those implementing these things in the corporate world is to simply do a (plausibly deniably) bad job designing and implementing them, to make the gray/black hats jobs easier.
You know how you're always complaining about how your boss doesn't understand what you do or give you enough time to do it? Well with the right mindset and goals those things are blessings in disguise.
With AI, the ability of the elite to surveil the proles is utterly unprecedented in all of human history.
They will soon know almost everything there is to know about almost everyone - they are already close to that point, and we can see them working to plug the gaps in their knowledge by eliminating physical currency, requiring smart phones for everything, interlinking accounts, verifying everything into single, trackable identities, putting backdoors into computer hardware, etc.
I see total global slavery in the future - an elite core of a few thousand with total omniscient rule over billions. We will functionally have gods walking the earth, and if we have any sense, we will die in our millions or billions to kill them, because that is without doubt what they will ultimately intend for us, once they have no further need for our work.
It is all very worrying, but I can't dwell on it too much because other than refuse to partake of the digital ayahuasca and live in reality to the extent I can, what can I do? I think the future we're heading towards is that of Zero HP Lovecraft and not...
You know, I can't think of any "futuristic utopias." I probably could when I was younger and still on the digital rez but they all look utterly dystopian to me now.
No crystal spires and togas for us. I fear this will be our race's eventual destination. I'm sure the technocrats can't wait.
Well, Utopia is a fantasy concept parodying our ever-present childlike desire for a paradise on earth despite mankind's inability to create such a thing. Adults recognize that it's inherently impossible. Seeing the downsides now means you are cognitively an adult. Congratulations.
Many adults with the mentality of children running around, then!
The flip side of this is that people old enough to remember how things were done before the internet have a competitive advantage against those who don't.
If the government primarily surveils people over the internet, that makes it all the more difficult to surveil someone who talks to people in-person. Or does direct dial encrypted voice with 56k modems.
Personally I like my odds against a bunch of DMV Americans who can't do anything unless they have direct access to someone's twitter DMs.
I deeply feel this, and have for a long time. I was watching another NRX channel over the christmas break, J. Burden, when he polled his audience whether they are a techno-optimist or a techno-pessimist. I'm still trying to figure out that answer.
Technology and the internet should have been great for society. Now it's only good for corrut governments.
A Butlerian Jihad will become necessary.
Orange Catholic Bible when?
An essay by Dave Greene (The Distributist on youtube and twitter) on the relationship between man and technology, on the exchange of ownership and independence from technology for rent and enslavement, and perhaps the beginning of a way through the mess of modernity back to independence.
If you're new to the Distributist, he's an astute man and is part of the dissident right/NRx spheres online. Where Auron Macintyre is the evangelist spreading the news to the masses he could probably be likened to the forerunner prepraring the way. The Distributist has been around for years but I learned of him via Auron.
Essay narrated by the Distributist here.
Nordic track software fucking sucks
Oh and it's $400 a year to get that Peloton type gayness
Once disconnected from the Internet and factory restored, mine is not a bad machine, but it does have to rebooted too often
I don't ski all summer, and it helps me keep those muscles good