JCattheATM
But, sure, keep it up. Keep insisting most accounts with throwaway in the name are not by and far actually throwaway accounts, because that's just so gosh darn reasonable. Heh.
Heh. I've never seen someone so stubbornly dig their heels in to avoid being wrong to such an extent, well not for a year ot two at least.
> More ad hominem. It seems to be all you have. :)
I don't think you understand what an ad hominem actually is.
The ad hominem was in accusing me of someone trying to dig themselves out a hole, when really, that's just you for having said something silly, acting arrogant on top of that and blaming the community, while continuing to deny a well established convention because you can't accept being wrong. It's the only reason you're still replying.
I'm not, I think you're ego is preventing you from admitting you said something silly, however.
> Your entire argument is predicated on this completely fabricated statistic.
It's not fabricated in the least.
> I’m the authority on my own emotional state
Sure, that doesn't mean what you claim is honest however. Plenty of people would claim to be joking when they were anything but, for all sorts of reasons.
> as a native English speaker I can assure you that our dialogue thus far comports perfectly with someone who was speaking tongue in cheek
Native English speaker here also, and I can assure you that your dialogue thus far also comports perfectly with someone who was not speaking tongue in cheek, but asserted they were so they could hopefully put an end to a conversation that was started by calling them out for something silly.
> but who also doesn’t mind watching people try to dig themselves out of holes they created for no discernible benefit
Funny, that's what I'm watching here. It's a hobby of mine to recognize people who can't admit when they are wrong and need to have the last word, taking it to an extreme level. There isn't much more to be gained from this conversation since you refuse to be reasonable and acknowledge longstanding convention regarding the naming of throwaway accounts, but I am curious how much longer you will drag it out.
That's just not so, friend.
Again, when 99.9% of usernames with the form throwaway+random number string are throwaway accounts, it's reasonable to assume any account fitting the pattern is such an account, because odds are astronomically high that it is. This has to do with something called convention, and I'd suggest reading more on that topic and how it can affect inferences.
Whereas, there is no indicator about how any account may tie to the experience of the person posting behind the account. It's as useless a metric as account name itself for trying to gauge that, and honestly, that should be obvious.
> is that my account age remark was tongue in cheek while you joined the fray to defend drawing conclusions from a username.
You put the emoticon to indicate a perhaps tongue in cheek response, bur the rest of the text and conversation didn't really support that, nor do the continuing replies.
I merely corrected you when you tried to say it wasn't reasonable for people to assume an account named such as yours is a throwaway, because it very, very much is.
Come on.
I would say Ada SPARK solves this problem.
It's clearly much more than that.
Sometimes you don't have a choice in running software that doesn't use the 'protections' an obscure OS offers. If someone wants to run Oracle, pledge and unveil is irrelivant, as where other security solutions can still protect Oracle without requiring opt-in, and to a far greater extent.
> https://man.openbsd.org/chflags.1 lists such a flag
It's too blunt, it's an all or nothing approach. You have no way to say process A can append only, but privileged process b should have no write access at all.
> That's trivial by setting group/world permissions on any unix-like.
Only in the bluntest of terms. There is no way to allow, say, a webserverto have read access to a file while not allowing a cat processes, spawned as a subprocess of that webserver process, to not have access.
> So, https://why-openbsd.rocks/fact/noexec/ ?
No, not even close. I mean allowing user a to run /bin/ls to execute while not having access to execute /bin/rm, and at the same time allowing user b to execute both, and user c to run /bin/rm but not /bin/ls
> Etc etc etc.
No, not really, since you didn't make any point that were not based on misunderstandings.
Kind of weird for you to defend a product if you've never even been to their website.
I'd say OpenSSH is a great tool, arc4random was great and pledge is interesting although doesn't do much for code that wasn't compiled with it (and they are still really lacking in ways to lock down apps for a 'security focused' OS), the rest is just their implementation of stuff that already existed not something they innovated.
Most of their reputation comes from a time when linux distros and windows had every service enabled and exposed by default, it just developed it's own momentum the way many myths do.
More so their marketing.
The 'heh' indicates a misplaced smugness.Our elections actually result in a change in leadership. There is a lot of yammering, but no evidence the US is about to become an actual dictatorship.
> So easy to point and jeer and say "they're bad, but over here the circumstances are different!"...
Because they are drastically different. You're just trying to downplay that because it breaks your entire argument.
Eh, you'd be wrong. It's a different issue in the US, half the population believe and vote for nonsense, the other half are strongly against it.
> What proof do you have, or do you "just know it"?
Friends with Russians, and try to read useful sources like Meduza. It's absolutely very much the case that most of that population are brainwashed and believe the state propaganda.
> Meanwhile in Russia, protesting will get you arrested and probably be sent to the frontline (as a man) or prison (as a woman).
Yes, so an armed uprising is necessary if voting is not an option. But if there is no will, there will be no effort.
> Meanwhile in America, there's a political party using the Nazi playbook to subvert democracy and succeeding.
America will still have elections, and we won't have to deal with our Putin-wannabe again after their term is up.