Iron Bug

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I'm a professional C/C++ programmer, I use Linux and deal mainly with system programming, back-ends, networks, high-load data processing. I fond of music, play all kinds of basses, cello, learn to play tenor-sax and take lessons of academic vocals (wide ranged big voice). I've got reptile pets. I fluently speak Russian and English, learn Italian and know some other languages a little.

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2026-09-08 19:15:03 UTC

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this is a good question what to do with web nowadays. bashing bots takes more and more time and efforts and this becomes frustrating. and evildoers like totalitarian governments try to tear the Internet into pieces which makes it even more difficult with every day lived.
we need a new format of web where bots are impossible proncipally. like distributed peering networks based on trust access, something like old times FIDO. but over network.
Fediverse is a good decentralized solution but it's weak point is public posts in web. and it has no normal means of ACL for cross-server access. one cannot easily share posts across servers and platforms without public access. and this is aa serious security issue. there're some ideas of making tickets systems for such access but it needs realization of such a system on all platforms which is not too probable in the nearest future.
there're quite anonimous and secure networks like RetroShare, ZeroNet, etc. they're pure distributed but protected from possible bots only on trusted nodes level: if some user sllows bots in they will get acces to the whole network public content.
we need even more strong protection with possibility to ban bots everywhere, on every node and cease connection with nodes that allow bots. this is a technically more complicated task. but it's very actual nowadays.

2026-05-06 09:51:53 UTC

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as a mathematician and programmer I understand what are computer capabilities in applied math. this does not make computer a mathematician, like Perelman.
computations and deductions from existing formulae are not equal to the human thinking and understanding the problem. I mean hardware or database cannot "understand" anything. it can perform some selection from pre-existing data, nothing more. people understand things, their semantic and possible use cases, including non-standard approach, including previously unknown objects and situations. they can make a guess.
and this capacity to understand comes from basic life experience. math is also part of life experience, for some people. but as a mathematician and progammer I decline to admit a database can be called "conscious" in whatever sense. neither in pure animalistic approach (like a dog, mentioned in the article), nor in intellectual meaning, because hunan intellect is not just repeating the pre-defined patterns. it's much more.
really, like maybe 20 years ago I was curious about the neural networks. I read the theory and I got more questions than answers about what real thinking was. so I started to learn more about physiology, the biochemistry and neuropsychology to understand how human brain works. and the more I read the more I understood that the real human brain is very closely interconnected with body functions and its inner chemistry. I read about the problem of consciousness from the biological and medical points of view and I think they're closer to the definition of human intellect than pure synthetical and simplistic way of math modeling, like neural networks, etc.
moreover, people that try to research the intellect and consciousness, claim that LLM have nothing to do with their research. and that's true.
what they call "artificial intellect" on the Internet nowadays is just LLM and this is stochastic selection from the vast amount of vague unverified data, they say "we use mathematics" but I'm tired to tell people that the theory of probabilities does not pedict a result of a single experiment, it just deals with probabilities at large number of experiments. and even if probability is 99% the single result may be different. so I think this is a kind of manipulation with public opinion in this realm. people imagine they get a kind of "mathematically proven result" but really they have a random result and play probabilities game. and as a mathematician or engineer I would not use random results in any business or engineering decisions.

2026-05-04 21:59:00 UTC

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the mistake lies in calling that database with stochastic algorithms "a creature". for it is not. consciousness is observing, feeling and reacting to the environment. and so called "AI" is just a set of collected sayings and a select from that variety. it has nothing to do with consciousness.
to grasp the consciousness concept we should start from the base ground taxis concept in biological and evolutionary approach. consciousness is the direct evolution of taxis. and it's impossible without personal experience and environment that affects a creature.
and the key feature of real human intellect is synthesis. people can invent new concepts and review existing approaches. machines can not, they operate only with predefined data. and again this happens because they don't observe anything, don't feel and don't have an urge to adapt to changes of environment. database is a static picture, human intellect is a dynamic thing, it may have flaws but it potentially can evolve.

2026-04-26 17:33:49 UTC

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I personally look at EFL. it's witten in C, lightweight and very powerful libraries set. but I agree the open source should have many different variants, for competition and coopeation of different software and for free user choice. monatrous framework turn open source to somethin like Windoze and that's bad. that's the dream of corporations like RedHat to make everything invariable, screwed to single solution of their own. we should resist these tencencies to save the free software.

2026-04-26 15:42:35 UTC

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I told people GTK should be dumped. and it surely must be.
it's a pile of stinking crap, a mix of legacy noodle code with undercover depenences of everyting on everything and tons of bugs an quirks. absolutely terrible, unmaintainable heap of brown substance.
and they haven't ever heard of optimization. that monstrous bloatware overloaded with absolutely useless whistles and bells devours resources like hell. so it should be definitely expurged from use, for goodness.
really, I'm even happy they disappeared from the horizon. I build my system from sources and it's a pain in the butt to patch that bullshit every time to build it an make work somehow. now I won't need to do it and this is a good news. for ages I came to a point that I should remove all GTK dependences from my build. because it was relly terrible. now it seems they solved this quest for me and decided to make it easier.

2026-03-10 13:59:25 UTC

@[url=https://mstdn.social/users/stux]stux⚡️[/url]
you've got a scam bot on your server:
reward4292@mstdn.social
the links to its latest posts:
https://mstdn.social/@reward4292/116205097428051396
https://mstdn.social/@reward4292/116205059696168063
#[url=https://friendica.ironbug.org/search?tag=ban]ban[/url] #[url=https://friendica.ironbug.org/search?tag=FediBlock]FediBlock[/url] #[url=https://friendica.ironbug.org/search?tag=lang en]lang en[/url]

2026-03-01 15:57:24 UTC

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я даже не знала, что есть "день Калевалы". хотя я её когда-то прочитала.

2026-02-17 19:47:08 UTC

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yes, I noticed the tag after I read the text. I thought it was fiction too. but it's not. and this makes it even more amazing.

2026-02-17 02:10:01 UTC

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you've got a talent.
the Colonization is the most vivid English nonfiction I have read around in a long while. a blind person painting the brightest pictures of the world, described in words.
this reminded me Samuel Beckett in some sense. and this is amazing.

2026-02-04 13:02:47 UTC

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hopefully? rsyslog is a robust and carefully optimized log system. it exists for ages and is still alive and working fine.

2026-01-27 20:33:49 UTC

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what is "fireside fedi"?

2026-01-26 18:20:13 UTC

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> the federal government has an app/website that has become the single entry point for a growing number of government services
over here they also have government "services" but I don't use it, although it's theoretically available via web, without any gadgets. I just don't want to cooperate with fascists in any way. they murder people and I hate them. so I live without any "services" from the fascist state. I don't communicate with them in any way.
>as banks discontinued their web-based services and now they're in a spree of shutting down branches, forcing customers to use apps to get any service whatsoever
that sounds bad. over here banks offer full-featured web interfaces. mainly because sanctions made it impossible to have their apps on different proprietary gadgets. unexpected positive effect from sanctions. but without any app I can pay with a card via any ATM so even if they close web there's no need to have a smartphone.

2026-01-26 10:58:51 UTC

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stationary phones and simple cellphones are still there. no need for any "rectangle demons". I don't have smartphone. and nobody can blame me I do this deliberately, this is my choice.
and you know what? there's no any laws that demand a person to have a phone. and banks and others can perform all their operations without phone, as a fact. they just pretend they can't. but I proved this many times, they have methods to work with clients without phone at all. and I did this many times, because I simply don't take phone with me, I don't need it, really.

2026-01-26 10:17:54 UTC

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it takes literally nothing to reject using malware. just don't use it. using takes expenses, paying for hardware, for proporietary software, for everything. not using is absolutely free.
it does not matter what "everybody expects" unless it's illegal. and it's absolutely legal to have no tracking devices, this is a fact,
so I'm sure people are the source of their own problems in 99% cases.

2026-01-26 00:05:32 UTC

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the question I always was curious about is why some developers participate in developing of something doubtful and clearly malicious. this is absolutely base. but some people are ready to do really filthy things for money. malicious code does not appear from the thin air, it's written by somebody. and it is not the technologies' or greedy corps' that want to steal user data, but those developers' fault.

2026-01-25 23:49:17 UTC

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no technology can harm a user without his will and cooperation. the most problems users get are the consequences of their own incautious decisions.
I mean computer technologies, of course. because people invented numerous ways to kill each other, but this is another story.

2026-01-23 01:05:37 UTC

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what about forks? a fork can be used with one hand!
screwdrivers, knitting needles, corkscrews... you name it.

2025-12-04 11:40:44 UTC

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you are welcome to try to reverse-engineer the firmware. or maybe tou're lazy too?

2025-12-01 17:31:42 UTC

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да много где. посмотри вокруг себя и скажи, какие вещи и средства ты используешь в своей жизни. и поймёшь, где живут хорошие капиталисты.

2025-12-01 17:07:05 UTC

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и чем же кто-то тебя пугает? меня вот пугают фашисты и война. а против компьютеров и интернета, которым мы обязаны капиталистам, я ничего не имею.

2025-12-01 16:59:28 UTC

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тебя просто в детстве совки пугали "злыми капиталистами". а тем временем в развитых странах ( к которым наша страна не относится даже близко) образование было и есть гораздо лучше нашего.

2024-11-19 03:25:52 UTC

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but this does not have sense.

2024-11-18 23:28:52 UTC

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this is nonsense. because domain defines the server address. that's it. it's not some stupid user's fit, but a global network rule.
if someone dislikes the domain, he goes and buys his own domain he likes and there run whatever he likes.

2024-11-11 22:33:04 UTC

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maybe you're right. but the most victims of financial pyramids were simply damped. not many have extorted any profit from those.

2024-11-11 22:27:09 UTC

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>"bollockschain"
yeah, that's the proper spelling of that word.
whn I read the algorithm I said : WTF?! and since, I can't understand how people might invent something really stupid likt that and how can they believe that the garbage randomized output from so called "AI" (it has nothing to do with intellect) is something valuable.
I think people went mad. or stupid. or both. but this is damn weird. bullshit spreads at light speed.

2024-10-28 15:01:52 UTC

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so called AI is "garbage in the middle". so garbage on garbage gives squared garbage on output.

2024-10-24 15:17:35 UTC

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какие "конторы"? многие люди там пишут не от "контор", а по собственной инициативе. им ни копейки за это не платят. и какая разница, где человек работает, если за код в кернеле он тоже не получает ни копейки? это чисто добровольное дело.
это чистой воды расизм: канселинг за национальность. и это абсолютно гадко.
ABBYY тоже поступили по-свински. но ABBYY - проприерасты, они ни разу не опенсорц и не базируются на коммитах энтузиастов. даже если они говнюки, то и хер с ними. но вот кернел - это вовсе не коммерческая шарашка. и всё это очень странно и возмутительно.

2024-09-03 14:57:33 UTC

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what do you mean under "extended attributes"? they depend on OS, FS, etc. how do you expect "preserving" attributes when copying data between OSes, different PCs, different file systems?