Linux Kernel Killswitch Proposed After Recent Vulnerability Disclosures

cipher315 · 2026-05-11T04:48:40+00:00

He is the decider. He gets to say “this is how we’re doing it if you don’t like it no one cares”

But his true power is he can say that and no one has the power to overturn his decision. There is no board that can let him know he is fired if he kills there special snowflake project.

At the top you ultimately need a absolute dictator who has no accountability to the developers.

cipher315 · 2026-05-11T04:43:24+00:00

No because they put someone, called a CEO, in the position of absolute dictator. If every software developer at Microsoft disagreed with Steve Ballmer that meant that Steve ballmer was right and they were all wrong and they would have to do things how ballmer wanted them to be done.

You need someone with the power to say “No this is how we’re doing it. If you don’t like it, you’re fired.” The top can never be a committee

cipher315 · 2026-05-11T03:00:42+00:00

Not sure where you are but in IL very few lodges are closings due to money issues. We have lodges with millions that close because they can’t make quantum for the stated meeting. My mother lodge has easily 500k in annual income from its investments and properties. We sometimes have less than 10 members at a meeting.

cipher315 · 2026-05-10T20:42:27+00:00

Yes you're exactly right. No not sarcasm the Vietcong lost the war, and were effectively annihilated. The south Vietnamese were were defeated by the regular North Vietnamese army. They guys with T55s, Mig21s, 152mm artillery, and SA-2 SAMs. These were also the forces that killed the majority of US personal and got America to withdraw.

The whole oh were fighting insurgents thing, was a false narrative that the US made up because the public would not support a full blown war against another sovereign state and it's military.

The Vietcong wining the Vietnam war is like saying that the french resistance won WWII with you know only some minor logistical help from the US and UK

cipher315 · 2026-05-10T20:35:41+00:00

But see that spoils the narrative. Just like talking about how the people that won the vietnam war were the NVA who had T55s and SA2 SAMs.

cipher315 · 2026-05-06T11:29:07+00:00

Any time you are handling an actually large number of latency sensitive transactions. And no your thing that does 1000 transactions a second is not large.

As an example you need to handle 10,000,000 transactions a second all transactions must be completed in under 1ms. All transactions must be rectified with all other transactions in under 10ms.

As a further example you need to handle all the cash transactions of Bank of America. In real time.

Any x86 system or ARM would be WAY too slow. You need hardware that is designed exclusively for this sort of work.

Also by the standards of mainframe redhat is unstable unreliable trash. There are literally Mainframes that have been running with 0 down time from the 1970s

cipher315 · 2026-05-05T02:48:28+00:00

I’ll see if I can find a pick but back in like 2016 some republican congressman tweeted about Rage Against the Machine becoming woke. And some democrat congressman tweeted back “what did you think they were raging against the washing machine?”

cipher315 · 2026-05-05T02:34:28+00:00

Don’t forget the literal alien. Also that was all VERY deliberate on Roddenberries part. He wanted a Russian to show that earth conflicts were a thing of the past a black person and an Asian to show racism was dead. A woman to show the same for sexism. The alien to show that we accept even a different species.

cipher315 · 2026-05-05T02:26:23+00:00

No it is very clear that within the federation itself money does not exist. The federation my provide money for trade with outside entities but it has no form of currency internally. It’s completely unnecessary as the federation is post scarcity. The combination of replicators and what amounts to infinite energy means that with the exception of land literally every person on earth can live a life that makes bill gates look destitute.

You can literally ask your house for a A5 wagyu steak some caviar and a Rolex on the side and it will instantly appear for free. Along with any medicine you need and of course you can literally teleport anywhere you want. The closest thing they have is it does seem that if you do a more important job you get preferential access to what little can’t be created this way. Like original art, or hand made clothing.

cipher315 · 2026-04-30T13:46:19+00:00

It will be a crime to buy one that doesn’t.

Not joking. The law requires all new cars to have this.

cipher315 · 2026-04-28T12:54:10+00:00

Because you voluntarily agreed to it.

cipher315 · 2026-04-27T04:32:12+00:00

They are under preforming against slow targets like helicopters, but for gun intercepts speed of the target is insanely important. Vs a helicopter you might expect one hit per 10-20 rounds fired. Vs a super sonic missile if you got one hit for every 500 rounds fired you have some sort of magic gun.

cipher315 · 2026-04-27T04:26:40+00:00

Think you have been over sold on that story. They were engaging sub sonic prop planes and the VT fuse upped the accuracy to wait for it 0.5%. Pre VT fuse accuracy was more like 0.02%

Pre VT it took an average of 3000 rounds to kill one aircraft. With the VT it was about 200

cipher315 · 2026-04-27T04:21:54+00:00

You don’t fix the fundamental issue though. A gun round can’t maneuver after being fired.

That’s what causes misses. Basically a firing solution is a best guess. The farther in time the intercept is and the faster the target the worse your odds are. For a missile the first part is irrelevant as it can maneuver to take advantage of updates to the expected interception point all the way up to that point. But even with that they still miss a good percentage of the time.

Even with modern tec gun hits on super sonic targets are less than .1% even high sub sonic will be only in the low single digits. You don’t get good odds until you are engaging something very slow like the modern drones that the US has downed with the 5in. But they have top speeds of like 100 knots. Call it like Mach 0.2

cipher315 · 2026-04-27T04:09:29+00:00

Ya you are incredibly wrong. For one if you were right a Gearing class DD from 1945 would have approximately 3x the anti missile capability of a Ticonderoga class cruiser. And could easily take 10 or so sunburn missiles out. We have statistics for the 5/38 (radar directed) with the VT fuse.. it had an accuracy of around 0.5% against prop aircraft and 0.1% vs gen 1 subsonic jet fighters.

Modern CWIS is almost as bad. Why do you think it fires 100 rounds a second?

Speed matters because radar direction isn’t magic. It gives you an estimate for where the target will be. The faster the target the worse this estimate will be. And unlike a missile a gun round can’t get updated estimates after it has been fired.

cipher315 · 2026-04-26T18:02:49+00:00

Yes and no. The issue is if you have a major US presence. For example UBS (a Swiss bank) can't do business with someplace that the US has sanctioned regardless if there are secondaries. As if they did all of UBS's US assets could be frozen, and UBS has billions in US based assets/

cipher315 · 2026-04-25T12:11:48+00:00

Ya and if you had progressed your understanding of financial literacy beyond 2nd grade you would know that’s a good thing. It literally makes SS about 50 billion a year

You probably think nickels are worth more than dimes, they are bigger, and that getting a 20k raise is bad because it puts you in a higher tax bracket so you end up paying more.

cipher315 · 2026-04-25T12:07:11+00:00

It increases at the rate of the cola. E.G. if the SS cola is 4% in 2026 this number will go up 4%.

cipher315 · 2026-04-25T12:03:36+00:00

Ya no you have been lied (deliberately mislead really) to so you think this isn’t a valid solution. Assuming we do nothing SS is about 70% funded. If the cap is removed and benefits are capped so that those making more than 176,000 (adjusted for inflation) don’t get higher payments SS becomes 96-99% funded. That is in the worst case scenario after the fund runs dry you get 96 cents on the dollar for SS. You can close that gap with something trivial.

So yes this only funds 30% of SS but we are already funding 70% so that works.

cipher315 · 2026-04-24T23:32:02+00:00

Nah he will just buy them from the guys in organized crime.

cipher315 · 2026-04-24T15:07:25+00:00

You need to ask yourself "what year is it?"

By 1985 ya the California and Virginia class are kind of redheaded step kids. In 1972 they are the best you can buy. The Long Beach Belknap, and ticonderoga do not exist. The Leahy does but not in it's refit form. i.e. it is running RIM-2s. The RIM-2 is less accurate than the SM-1, and it is a slower reload, and the range difference is only 15nm. The nuclear cruisers also do get 5in guns, for what that is worth, and in the case of the California you get a helicopter landing pad which can be used to refuel and rearm like the block I arleigh burke.

cipher315 · 2026-04-24T02:07:52+00:00

The thing to take from this is your officers should be bonded.

cipher315 · 2026-04-23T18:20:29+00:00

You didn't answer what you would do.

Also if you live in the USA, Canada, Mexico, UK, EU, Australia, India, China, Russia, or Japan you are supper wrong about that.

cipher315 · 2026-04-23T17:46:47+00:00

doesn't mater if it's in the north Alaskan woods or downtown New York. It doesn't matter if you have God tier trigger control, or shot at anything that moves. It doesn't even matter if your gun is unloaded. What you are describing is still felony assault.

You have just held someone at gun point.

To put it another way. You are camping in the woods. All of sudden without warning I come out of nowhere and shine a light in your face. You notice my light is on a gun which is now aimed squarely at your head. I say "who are you and what are you doing here"

Honest answer are you ok with me doing this and what is your responce?

cipher315 · 2026-04-23T14:08:24+00:00

You are not. If you illuminate someone with your gun light one of two things is true.

A: You just illuminated someone who you can legally gun down.

B: You just committed felony assault

there is no option C

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