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Wednesday, May. 30th 2018

Dassault has died!

Whatever the correct orthography of this name, who cares.

You dirty punks! Show some respect for this family of motherfuckers providing the world with the finest french death technology! Come on! France, you know! Freedom! Human rights! Woo! woo!

Motherfuckers. One less of those bastards on this little planet. No one will cry. Fuck you, your colleagues, your clients, your madness. Fuck this world!

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Tuesday, May. 8th 2018

The food industry strikes again

LU, die.

Mondelez, die.

And that'll be enough with this shit.

Those two pictures spent too much time on my harddrive, time to throw them away to the trash bin, sorry, the internet.

I think we should destroy capitalism at some point in our crappy human history, no?

I hope the aliens have a good laugh watching how we waste so much lives and energy into this stupid way of organizing food (and all the rest) production.

Fuck.

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Saturday, May. 5th 2018

Riot!

(You like me drawing a rioter throwing a flower? Done with free software! Woo! woo! Revolution!) (Fuck you.)

Some nice funky riot took place the other day in Paris.

I hope no one was hurt.

I hope those who were caught won't pay a too high price.

Of course that was useless. But who cares? That was certainly fun. And that's enough.

Our lives are formatted. We have to behave this or that way. We have to respect abstractions coming from nowhere. Actually not from nowhere. States, capitalism, god, these are human inventions. Some humans benefit from them.

When you're not one of those who benefit from those ideas, what do you have? Not much.

When you are aware that those ideas are human inventions and you don't benefit from them you end up willing things to change. You want to get rid of those ideas. And you face a very strong opposition from those who enjoy the current state of things.

There are many ways to fight the current madness. You can build things and share with others out of any rules imposed by those ideas. You can build societies, or cultures, or sub-cultures, based on other values.

And you can riot, for some pure fun of physical activity that will piss off the power for a little while.

All is good.

Be ready for some reaction though.

Anyway.

After the riot in Paris I listened to some politicians and journalists. It was a very strange feeling. I saw some human beings so, I don't know, weird, disconnected from life, lost in ideology, I don't know. Some kind of feeling of loneliness actually. Sure it's not very friendly to break some windows and burn a few cars. But it's not a big deal. It's just a way to show that you don't agree with a crazy system. That's what it really is. Why can't they just report that. And then if they want they go like "we condemn those actions, this is not a correct way to express your disagreement". Instead of that they kind of took the rioters out of humanity.

You can't do that. This is humanity. Today. We don't agree with your abstract ideas and we try all we can to break them. We are humans. Just like you. We are not out of the game. You cannot talk about us as if you are of some kind and we are of some other.

I don't like you. I don't like politicians, journalists, capitalists, monks, judges, cops, and so many other social roles that some people incarnate with the passion of their madness. But you are humans. This shit is human.

And we can change it.

By a way or another. Maybe riots. Maybe other ways.

All is good to fight the mess.

Ah, yeah, fuck you.

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Saturday, Mar. 24th 2018

Internet is a trash bin

I should have known better...

In 2005 I opened an account there, like I was on for some social interactions with classical guitarists.

A few weeks ago I wanted to share my wonderful second composition with my fellow guitarists. The account was deleted.

My heart suddenly decided to beat faster and harder.

I opened a new account, asked to get the previous one back. Hell man, 2005. Thirteen years. An eternity...

Fuck you loser.

That's what some sons of bitches there replied. With other words. But the meaning was clear. Those people are called "moderators".

I argued a bit. They threatened to kick me. I argued a bit more. They put me in a "we-will-review-all-your-posts-before-they-go-live" group. No warning. No nothing. Just shut the fuck up loser.

My composition was also put to trash, because "it has no title".

Go fuck yourself, gang of nazis.

I got mad, insulted one fatso shit cunt moderator.

Now I'm banned from their shitsite.

All this is ridiculous, right?

Right.

The lesson is the following one. Consider internet as a trash bin. Do not rely on an external entity to protect your interests, your data, whatever. Have local safe copies of everything that matters to you. Use other people's services with the clear idea in your head that those assholes may well decide to kick you out, to close their shit, to change their policy at any time. Be ready to move somewhere else.

This should be obvious to anyone. I forgot it. I suffered. Because it was not a bug. I lost my account because a motherfucker deleted it. Without warning. And then this motherfucker and her gang of motherfuckers laughed at me and treated me like shit when I complained. I opened my heart to those sons of bitches. And they vomited into it. That was brutal. I overreact, yes, but fuck you too actually. It was un-fucking-expected. Why on earth would someone create a service to help people share their passion and treat the participants as shit? My (wrong) hypothesis was that those people are friendly by default and go nuclear if you severely misbehave. I. Was. Wrong.

Here is another lesson I learned. This website is almost unique. It is in a dominant position. So its creators and moderators do whatever they want. Because there is no alternative. That's very dangerous. Create centralized structures and you get nazis in, taking it over. That's mandatory.

The creator of this website spent some hours of his little life (fuck you man by the way) copying some classical guitar music, made some PDF out of it, organized it a bit by difficulty, and put the shit on his site. Then he put some restrictive rules on the files. Like you can download it but to use them as, say, a teacher, you need to be registered on his website and you need to post messages there.

The website has also some shit rules for everyone. You have to connect at least once a year. You have to post one message per month.

In 2005 we didn't have those rules. We had to post 20 messages to download his PDFs but that was it.

It's bad though, don't get me wrong. If you give away some of your time and work, give it fucking straight away. Don't impose anything on the users. Just. Give. The. Shit. Away.

But, you know, dominant position, blabla. He does what he wants.

The funny thing is that his PDFs contain public domain music.

I am glad not to be a neuron lost in the sick brain of this asshole.

If I were not lazy, if I knew the repertoire better, if I was a good guitarist, I would redo his work. But with no such nazi rules. Just. Share.

Actually, there are some websites where you can download a lot of free music for classical guitar. It's just not well organized. Maybe we should do something on wikimedia too. Like a wikibook, or several wikibooks.

I don't know.

I don't really care, actually. This is not my party. I am into computers, not guitars. This is just something I do part-time, I don't have enough knowledge for this.

Anyway, if by any chance some good guitarists out there wants to do such a project, I can help. We have lilypond to write the music. We have the wikipedia and internet archive places to release the shit. It's just a matter of editorial content. The technical part I can do. The musical no.

So be it.

Fuck this website. Next time I'll know better and won't invest emotionally as I did, so if that disappears I won't care much.

Hey free.fr, I love you you know!

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Saturday, Mar. 3rd 2018

This is how the food industry talks

Follow up of previous note.

I asked them about their production's process.

Specifically, how to decode the ID we find on the products.

I wanted to check whether broken biscuits are all from the same factory or not.

They replied with money.

I guess their idea is that both they and I are happy. (English grammar one o one.)

What kind of communication is that?

I feel used. This big company certainly has many people working to deal with unhappy consumers. They "theorized" how to reply. They decided on what amount of money would be okay for everyone to be happy in this or that situation, as if money was all what matters.

Did I ask for money? No. I asked for some information I didn't get in return.

I think I'll try to bake my own biscuits. I don't want to have nothing to do with people so lost in procedures and unable to interact with other human beings in a way that has not been planned.

What a sad picture of humanity they gave to me.

Anyway, to conclude, let me put some data.

Here is the letter I received back. I removed some stuff to remain slightly anonymous.

It's in french and I won't translate! Use some OCR and whatever translation tools available to you.

Here is the "coupon de réduction" they sent. Three euros. Which is actually more than 155 times what I lost.

You want a high resolution version?

There you go: face A and face B.

The thing is more or less thirteen centimeters large, something like that.

I think it's possible to print it and use it here and there. Maybe the previous sentence is illegal though.

There is no meaning in the universe. But we are human beings and can talk and understand each other. It's sad to regulate so much our interactions, based on abstract ideas that come out of nowhere.

Let me conclude with how to remove metadata from JPEG files, for no one should throw more data than necessary out to the wild. Cameras like to put too much information along with pixels.

    exiftool -all= file.jpg

Debian puts this in the package libimage-exiftool-perl.

I was too lazy to download JPEG documentation and write a small utility myself.

And actually it may not be enough. Maybe the camera does add some watermarking directly in the image that can be decoded by "those who know".

But then I guess "those who know" have also access to other sources of information and if they want to find out about you then they can. And if you fall into one of the categories of people facing such threats the best is to share nothing at all and enjoy your underground life as long as you can.

Enough noise for today!

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Sunday, Feb. 4th 2018

The food industry knows how to design puzzles

The winner of the day: LU.

And for the record, let's throw the ID of the thing.

To contact them (for the lulz), I had to disable anti-ads addons of this bloated firefox. For whatever reason "contact" was blocked.

This world will end. The sun will burn all this crap.

And that's a good thing.

When eating my next breakfast, 1/12th lighter than usual, I'll let some of my neurons frenetically fire, trying to grasp some meaning in the mess. And failing. As usual.

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Sunday, Jan. 21st 2018

Let's destroy classic music!

Let's enter the room, get completely naked, and piss everywhere.

Let's learn the rules, the tonic, the dominant, the modulation, burn all this in ours brains, and vomit music the power will hate.

Let's destroy their domination. Let's take violins and pianos and create some exquisitely adorable music that will smash their adoration of hierarchies.

And let's don't care of what they think.

It's more than time for punks to aggressively join the party.

We don't need conservatoires.

We don't need heavy ugly concert halls.

We don't need conductors.

We don't need silence when we perform.

We don't need contests to select players.

Classic music has been taken over by power structures.

It has to come to an end.

Let's enter the game.

And be totally unnoticed and invisible, as we've always been, as we always will be.

And let's don't give a fuck.

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Saturday, Jan. 6th 2018

Intel...ligence?

Ha ha.

Take a seat and have a good laugh.

See, I don't know, this, maybe, for details. They link (as of today) to the meltdown PDF file, which, if you are literate enough, gives all the details on the crappy bug(s) those intelligent people at this private company produced.

The public reactions of everyone I saw so far are quite entertaining. Thank you all for the lulz!

I have several personal comments on this thing.

Do not trust private companies.

I am 100% convinced that my "colleagues" at Intel knew from scratch about the problem. The people who implemented this idea of speculative execution, however they did, saw that there was a leakage of information in case a problem occurs and the instructions following the faulty one have to be sort of "canceled", so to speak.

My guess is they bet at this point. They bet it would not be such a big problem. This is internal to the CPU, there is no way someone can do something with this.

I guess the pressure from competition (another bad thing in human societies, and this one will be hard to fight) led them to release their chips as is.

Or maybe they informed their managers who decided it was okay.

Who cares?

Free software authors will do shit.

That has already started.

Something like the linux kernel will be modified to limit the attack surface of the bug. They will make their software even more complex than it is today.

There are zillions of security (and non-security) bugs in these millions lines of code. It is getting worse everyday.

We have a bunch of guys who wanted some fame and took the Intel chips of the time (it all started on the i386) and on top of it made an operating system. They used the privilege separation offered by the chip to have a "safe" kernel mode and a "do whatever the hell you want, you can't crash the whole system" user mode.

And that's very enjoyable as a hacker.

Thank you for that.

And even with the crappy recent bugs, it's still the case.

What changed is the security assumptions.

Before this bug, it was something like "data in kernel cannot be read or modified by unauthorized user land program".

This is not true anymore. It can be read by anyone.

So the kernel people won't say: "linux does not guaranty security on this and that CPU". They will deeply modify how they manage memory to overcome the crap from Intel.

And they will be proud of it.

Any sane human being on this planet will now ask herself: "what? but why?"

Intel chips suck. What do you care? That's not your problem.

A top executive of Intel went away with his money a few weeks before the crap became public.

That's how everyone should deal with it.

Just despise Intel.

Simple.

No?

No, because the whole "computer industry" is enslaved to Intel. You can't buy a cheap and fast computer without Intel (AMD is probably affected too).

So as for the f00f bug (dig the web) of a few years ago, some people will be proud of fixing the shit of Intel.

Now let's go back to 1990.

Imagine that in 1990 such a huge problem was found in the Intel chips of the time.

No sane person would have started a pet OS based on this malfunctioning CPU, not even some random student from a random part of Europe.

But today things are different.

Hackers writing the linux kernel play the competition. They want to be the best. They strongly think they are.

But who is more intelligent in there? Random hackers fixing some crap by some stupid hardware engineers and managers?

Or a guy who had a hell of salary as top executive and went away with lots of money before the crash?

More than ever we need free hardware.

Free hardware is harder than free software.

You need to generate a CPU. This is hard.

You need to manipulate matter.

We have FPGA today. It's hard to program. There is not much free software in this area.

This is a first step.

Of course you can go back in time and buy some logic gates and assemble everything. But the generated computer will be slow.

But that's the way to go.

To hell with Intel and others.

Design your own CPU (see here). Burn it to an FPGA (or whatever you want, FPGA is just a first step, we need better than that, but to be honest, I don't know what, hardware is not my world). Port an operating system, a compiler, a few libraries on it and you're down. You have a reasonable CPU, that you can trust much more than what you use today. (Actually you don't even need to do all this, a lot of work has already been done and today you can burn an existing "soft CPU" into an FPGA and run a full system on top.)

But then, the world will be much less spectacular than today, where a single bug destroys nearly everything on its path.

So we'll need to entertain the old fashioned way. Talk and interact with other human beings.

No more Intel for some good lulz. No more Volkswagen. No more Donald Trump. No more Recep Tayyip Erdoğan!

Oh. My.

What kind of noise will I be able to produce then?

Bah. All this thinking is totally fictitious. Truth is: the lulz will go on.

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Friday, Dec. 8th 2017

Social networks are bad for your brain

Here is why.

Let's start with some illustrations.

twitter

facebook

These are obvious targets.

github (a place where people can host their free software)

Some people in the "free" culture are also trapped in this madness.

framasphere (a "free" alternative to facebook, pretending to respect the privacy of users, as if it was the most important thing)

And no, github is not a member of the "free" culture. It's a private company, intending to get money from their activity, not help people around the world to share their stuff.

The wrong is obvious but just to be clear let's elaborate a little more.

The counters, yes, the counters. How many people "follow" me. How many people "like" me. How many people comment on what I say. How many people duplicate my software.

A big ego-bad-trip is going on. And your brain wants more, always more. It's a drug. Your brain is not protected against drugs. Actually your brain loves drugs.

That's why you should stay away from any website where counters are the most visible information offered to you, the user. Unless you are ready to pay the price, which is to live the life of a drug-addict. Is it what you want? I doubt it.

Those things are new, that's why it's easy to be fooled. Someone selling you heroin in the street won't last long. It's illegal (maybe not everywhere on this planet, to be checked). But selling you, what? egoin? is still legal, and may be legal forever.

Sure, the effect seems less dangerous than heroin. It's just some time wasted and a bit of depressive feelings when something goes wrong because of those social networks.

But still.

Some people killed themselves after some bad time on a social network. (References needed here.)

So, be warned.

Stay away from social networks.

How to share then? How to use the internet?

Dig in your "real" life. Look for what activities lead to pleasure and what activities lead to bad feelings. And try to have the same on the internet. It's just a place, like in "real" life. The contact is different, but it's the same also. So what is good in "real" life is also good on the internet.

Well, to be honest, I don't know. I would say that if you want social interactions on the internet, go for mailing lists. But even there you find some ego-wars, so I don't know. Maybe we can't avoid those things.

Maybe. But it's almost certain that promoting those ego-counters are not a step in the right direction.

A few decades ago, there were BBS (dig the web). People using it were saying it was a place without judgment, as opposed to "real" life. You can be young or old, you can be of a different culture, your face or skin color may look different, you may be male or female, no one cares. That's what the internet can do. It can remove all those differences so we can share using what we have in common.

Well, maybe. Or maybe not. You need something to connect to the internet. You need electricity. You need to speak english. This is already a lot.

Anyway, stay away from social networks, it's the best you can do for your mental health.

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Friday, Nov. 24th 2017

Let's make some noise

Because why not?

Let me entertain your rationality by exercising mine through the use of shared words.

Or whatever.

It just has to be loud and make some noise in this anechoic chamber of mine. Not really mine actually, rather provided by people making money selling internet access to others.

Why not keep silent and wait for the massacre to end?

Because it won't.

So let's make noise!

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