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Back in the last century, iirc, or the very early 2000's, I logged-out of my desktop ( linux ) one time & discovered there was a new user on my machine..
the new username was "you are dead".
1st time I knew I'd been cracked.
Not a nice feeling.
Educational, however, & motivating..
did me good.
I'm glad the person was more interested in communicating my trusting foolishness to me, than in doing real harm..
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From what I've read, thus-far, prohibiting autotools would be a good 1st-step.
Then auditing all the damn ocean-of-vulnerability-in-a-single-crufty-swamp dependencies, & getting committed about clarity & accountability in packages, would probably be required.
I read an article, a couple years ago, about web-frameworks..
The guy doing the writing said he found they were often malware, or corrupt, or trojans, or utter-bullshit..
Haskell's got a kind of mantram: don't bring in a whole framework, just compose what you need, yourself, together.
Its a granularity-difference.
Requiring a framework, which itself requires other frameworks, as that guy was pointing-out ( he wasn't interested in Haskell ), is a liability nightmare.
But the culture of just having an infinite bring-in of frameworks & libraries, so one can write a little, easy code, is a culture that is biting the world's security in the ass.
It cannot be, that people just include everything from everywhere, & somehow have secure/trustworthy systems.
To have a secure, trustworthy system, one needs to know that one has disincluded corruption/malicious-code.
That requires limiting what's included, that includes auditing, that includes accountability, that includes having understandable, sufficiently-clear stuff that one is including.
Consistently, at all levels, relentlessly.
It's a chain: you cannot have a weak-link without compromising the whole chain.
You cannot compromise ANY subsystem in a distro, & have a trustworthy distro.
There are 2 contradictory paradigms: the "magic bullet paradigm", which doesn't care how much rot, compromise, anything, so long as they include the "magic bullet" which takes-out the competitor..
.. vs the "no weak-points, whatsoever, paradigm", which doesn't rely on magic, it relies on defense-in-depth, and carefulness, and everybody working coherently, etc, in order to disallow corruption/malicious-actors any leverage/grasp on us.
They are cultures, not just ideas.
Some people cannot tolerate a "no weak-points" culture, they "NEED" to compromise things ( I don't care about the bugs, get more features in!!" ), and they must be put out into the other organizations/operations, because they CANNOT tolerate careful-paradigm.
It truly is a culture, or "religion", and there's no faking it.
Look to OpenBSD, & see what it takes to be like them..
Many years ago, it was discovered that Wine could run Windows viruses/worms/malware just fine, thank you very much..
"Sandboxing", it isn't.
It runs with all the privileges of the user running the app, iirc.
You'd probably want to segregate the hard-tech from the soft/bio-tech:
IF you require deterministic-performance, THEN stay away from meat-implimentation.
IF you require sentience-sensitivity, THEN stay away from hard-tech implimentation.
( same principle as requiring both people & systems, in order to project effective force, economically, militarily, in disaster-relief, in any domain,
same principle as using both a wordsless-wholistic metaphor-understanding sentience in one's right-hemisphere, vs a reductionistic sentience in one's left, as the split-brain patients showed.
2 orthogonal systems, collaborating .. produces greater results than either-kind would on its own! )
Organic-sentience and machine-compute, organic doing the high-level-decisions, & machines doing the low-level-competencies, seems much more realistic.
The single most-important thing you CAN do, is understand yourself as profoundly as you can.
Read John Truby's book "The Anatomy of Genres", which is on the 14 story-genres that we form our own meanings of.
He's got a few details wrong
( like mistaking the Wild West village for what Village-archetype is, when real Village-archetype is the Tribal Mother Village,
and he misunderstands humor, as well, believing that the US-culture "drop" ( related to put-down ) is the core of humor, but the entire category of creative-misinterpretation is humor that isn't dependent on "the drop".
Hofstadter, in his "Godel Escher Bach" book, identified that the real shape of humor is the moebius strip: a strange loop.
You walk around in a "circle", and .. discover you're now somehow upside-down??
Surprised-by-improbability, would be near-the-heart of it.
Anyways )
Truby's book is CRAMMED with psychology insights into our forming, our growing-up, etc.
I'd require it of all high-schoolers, planetwide, for their HS diploma:
simply by making people encounter considering how they're forming the meaning that they, themselves, are, would lever humanity up into much greater global understanding/competence, though it'd take a generation or 2 for the effects to become visible...
Lanier's "Foreign to Familiar" & Hofstede's "Exploring Culture" are both important, too, because if you know that some of the dimensions of culture they identify work a particular way for you ( ie doesn't-work or you-need-this ), then suddenly, that spotlights something in your nature that has harmony in a specific subset of cultures, and shows you why that is doing this, in you..
( libraries exist: you don't need to buy those, but the Truby books, you'll probably fill with notes.. )
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A Corporation is:
- an incorporated "person", that
- is legally-obliged to be psychotic, narcissistic, machiavellian, sociopathic-psychopathic, and short-termist/nihilist, using all the systemic-dishonesty that it can, for gain
- the only dimension of the DarkHexad that it isn't obliged to be, is sadistic.. that's optional.
- it cannot ever be put in prison, because it's a herd, not an individual: it can dissipate, but it cannot die, or be forced to experience karma: only individuals can be truly-accountable.
( DarkHexad:
- narcissistic
- machiavellian
- sociopathic-psychopathic
- nihilist
- sadist
- systemic-dishonesty )
( all this to say that the legalistically-enacted-treason of granting "personhood" to corporations killed strategic-viability for all countries, and the highjacking-of-the-world's-economy AND the world's-governments, by corporations, is global unfolding proof.
What should have happened, is a separate category of pseudopersons should have been created, with systematically-limited rights, including prohibiting the things from interfering in elections,
but that would have required some real integrity & spine... )
( finally, for anybody so young/naive as to believe that charities are inherently-good, go volunteer in the management of one for a few years, & then see how you view integrity.. )
check out Funtoo, instead of Gentoo:
it's the guy who began Gentoo, doing an improved version.
just to set the record straight..
I use the word, specifically to point-out that it's UNrelated to the n-word.
WHEN we kowtow to disinformation,
THEN we are accommodating disinformation's rule.
Fight it tooth & nail, ever mm of the way.
Ideological disinformation, national-narcissism disinformation, historical disinformation, linguistic disinformation, Scientism's disinformation & other pseudoscientific disinformation, ALL of it.
I used to think like that, sorta.
Read Kegan & Lahey's "Immunity to Change" book, on people's unconscious-mind's mechanism for fighting-off growing-up.
Then let it percolate in your mind for a few decades, while you watch humankind's process.
I'd now make a law requiring that the top people be Kegan5 unconscious-mind-development ( he calls 3, 4, & 5 something like "socially-based sentience", rooted in needing to feel liked, "self-authoring" mind, which I call Bulling-BOSS mode, it's an obnoxious mode male-culture values because it's so "alpha".
Youtube's Wranglerstar & Veritasium are both poster-people for it, 1 in working-class Kegan4 the other in middle/upper-middle-class Kegan4, & both displaying Kegan4's obnoxiousness.
I spent most of my adult life in it, and wish I could just retroactively slice most of my life from Universe.
"systems-of-systems" mode is Kegan5. )
it's consistent that if you field a Kegan3 person to be your negotiation-representative, and the other side fields a Kegan4, you're run-over.
If you field a Kegan5 & they field a Kegan4, you're run-over.
IF they field a Kegan4, THEN you need equal/opposite bullying, in order that the zero-sum-game not beat your side to shit.
However, IF they have the uprightness to field a Kegan5 & you can too, THEN Win-Win becomes possible.
Young-adults, Kegan3's ( the Kegan3 stage can continue for the entire rest of a person's life, from post-adolescence to 100yo or more, but it is mentally/psychically a young-adult stage ), cannot accept that evil is real, the way someone mentally-older can.
Kegan3's are in the absorbing experience into their unconscious-mind, stage.
Kegan4's are in the pushing meaning out of their unconscious, "authoring" themselves through that unconscious-pushing-out process stage.
Kegan5's are in the this is true for them, that is true for these other people, the-other is true for me, and this is how it all fits together stage.
I'd not permit any naive Kegan3's to rule any major operation, nor permit any zero-sum-game-"validity" Kegan4's to rule anything important.
That book gives people the means of converting fighting-off-growing-up to actually-successfully-growing-up, and so it is worth many life-years or life-decades, to many.
Nobody in the whole world has any reason to accept that my values have any validity in them, though, that is true.
All who hold that there is no understanding which should be prerequisite to authority, well they all outnumber me, don't they?
shrug
This I've found tests to be true, however.
( bonus point:
it has been published that the DreamTeam formation is a team-of-7, with 2 who match the Kegan5 mental-development, 2 who match the Kegan4 mental-development, & 3 who match the Kegan3 mental-development.
The Kegan4's bursting with ideas, but not understanding all the systems-of-systems gotchas, means the team is more likely to be able to innovate,
the Kegan5's, if they can do it without demolishing the Kegan4's morale, can ask questions to corner the Kegan4's into considering all sorts of things they hadn't, so they prevent lots of stupid mistakes,
& the Kegan3's are the "glue" which holds the team coherent & harmonious.
I'm mixing multiple sources together, but they really were identifying the same thing, only each was doing-so without some of the other pieces.
New Scientist had an article on The Dream Team, years ago, Chris McGoff's book "The Primes" is part of it, the Kegan & Lahey book is part of it, some HBR stuff as well, perhaps some stuff from the managers-of-programmers books, what's her name, Roth? can't remember...
fit it together, though, and it fits properly: there is a balance which produces working momentum, instead of institutional-mentality, and that working momentum is based on the substance of the minds of the people in the team, and ignoring the unconscious-mind-development stage .. is ignoring the BIG part of each person's iceberg.
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Flip the question, though:
Given the enforcing of the means of Kessler-Syndrome https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome ..
we're stuffing space as full-of-ammunition as we can ..
all it's going to take is for the US to declare war on somebody like the EU, & suddenly .. ALL the GPS targetting-sattelite-system gets turned into shrapnell!
& then .. we've got NO access to low Earth orbit, at-least..
So, weather-balloons are going to have to replace LEO sattelites, until that stops being the case..
( yes, I said the US declaring war on the EU: it's why Trump "needs" to possess both Canada & Greenland .. between Russia & that, they've got Europe in a pincer, & can DESTROY it, becoming the only "kings" left alive, ruling the West.
People think Trump's got no unconscious strategy, just because he's incapable of conscious strategy..
our corpses are going to be accumulating, as a result of that naiveness, within 3y, now: he has to completely-derail any 2028 election, right?
This is his ticket to doing-so. )
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