If you really think about it, the Halting Problem is the defining quality of Turing machines.
THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
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We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans!
This is the tech account of @newt@stereophonic.space, formerly located at @pureevil@functional.cafe. If you reached this place, it's your own fault.
Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
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We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
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We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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Feb 25, 2026
GNU find + mkdir is Turing complete
This needs to be stopped.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
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We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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Feb 16, 2026
Is there a more lightweight SSL/TLS alternative these days? I'm sure some autist has been working on one in his basement for the past 10 years and it's ready to be used. Any links?
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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Feb 12, 2026
Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Words uttered by the most deranged men
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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Feb 09, 2026
18 years later, Wayland now has a protocol to set windows positions. Autism has finally been defeated. Common sense prevails.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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Feb 02, 2026
Leading server and networking OS kernel documentation at its finest, boys.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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Jan 27, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo
This talk is now 7 years old. FreeBSD still has nothing resembling decent system management software. Compatibility with systemd or its design issues aside, having a unified set of APIs for your system runtime is something UNIX systems desperately need but don't have and have never had. Same goes for dbus and a system-wide IPC in general. Dbus is total bollocks, but at least it exists.
I'm still bitter that QNX was closed down by Blackberry and wasn't destined to become the better UNIX than any prior implementation. Remember X11 networking features? QNX allows to transparently move a program window to another computer on the same network (sans authentication, etc) without the program even noticing a thing. Linux have never come even close to that.
I guess, the talk should be renamed into "The Tragedy of UNIX", since Linux only became a remotely passable after it stopped pretending to be a UNIX descendent.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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Jan 23, 2026
Has anyone here used tangled?
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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Jan 22, 2026
The third-party piece of hardware ($150k per unit) that I'm currently working on has officially three different firmwares:
- gimped and retarded one with custom APIs that nothing else supports
- slightly less gimped and retarded one with more or less standard APIs
- proprietary and paid firmware
Firmwares 1 and 2 do not support the full set of features. Firmware 3 does, but it costs additional $50k per unit. Why? Fuck you, that's why.
It's turned out cheaper to hire me to turn firmware 2 into firmware 3, given our planned volumes (hundreds of units). I'm still puzzled about this whole business model and whether anyone at all considered that it might just be flawed.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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Jan 14, 2026
If there was ever any hope in you that the original C and UNIX authors were the wise ones, the recovery of UNIX v4 code must have shattered it.
https://sigma-star.at/blog/2025/12/unix-v4-buffer-overflow/
They are an even worse bunch of fuckups that the todays C monkeys who can't write reliable C code for shit. The entire ecosystem was designed with "just throw it at the wall and use what sticks" mentality in mind. These people aren't heroes, they are a disgrace of computer programming industry, and the fact that so many worship them makes the situation even worse.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD
@icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans! This is the tech account of @ newt , formerly located at @ pureevil . If you reached this place, it's your own fault. Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.
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Dec 29, 2025
I love how certain rather crucial parts of Linux kernel are broken for literally no reason whatsoever. If you ever build your kernel with something else than a variation of defconfig, chances are, you have run into these issues.
For example, kexec() straight doesn't work on arm64 without CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG enabled, even if your board doesn't support hotpluggable CPUs whatsoever. Why? Nobody can really tell.
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