Pot To Kettle: Please No Decades Of Pain (That Was Our Schtick)

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is begging China to "act like a normal nation" and avoid capturing developing nations in a debt trap leading to decades of pain widely distributed around the world (archived). This appeal seemingly crafted to tear at the heartstrings is void of a certain necessary context: Trapping developing nations in debt and amplifying their pain is the US and EU's schtick and they would very much like China to step back and get out of their way.

Chinese foreign investment isn't always without controversy where it occurs, but it tends to have a transparency the old IMF scheme lacked. Raw materials for otherwise inaccessible finished goods is a rather kind deal compared to what was on offer before.

USG Communications Commisioner Advocates Centralization And Crackdown on "Unauthorized" Radio Frequency Use

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UG Federal Communications Commisioner Michael O'Rielly regaled attendees at the "Free Speech America Gala" with a weird ball of Fiat Pantsuitist insanity (archived). The Commisioner attacked so called "Pirate" radio, where people broadcast on radio frequency spectrum without submitting to Fiatist rules as contrary to Free Speech. The cognitive disonnance required to advance the position "Free Speech" is only possible with a permission slip from a censorhip agency is mind boggling.

GoDaddy Does It Again: Taking Domain Name In Response To Media Pressure

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The daily hate's latest target Gab is set up to have Godaddy steal their domain name as Godaddy tends to do. This is problematic for "all comers" toilets which need the centralized registries, but breaking dependence on centralized DNS is very recommended. In a lesser setback worthy of noting for the indictment, Medium.com suspended Gab's account on their platform and in the process deleted an apologetic post by the Gab team where they announced their cooperation with "law enforcement" among other things.

Germany: Merkel Plots Her Exit

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Germany's Angela Merkel has begun advertising her plan to escape her ruinous political career in these changing, great again times. Her exit will begin this December where she will not seek another term as chairzher of her party and continue through 2021 when she will not seek another term as chancellor. Of course she could lose the chancellorship earlier if her coalition collapses under the weight of the messes she wrought.

IBM Buying Red Hat

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IBM has reached an agreement to buy Red Hat, paying cash at a price of 190 USD per share (archived). IBM will colocate Red Hat in their "Hybrid Cloud" section. Red Hat ran out of "rebel" and "Innovator" credibility when the red hat inspiring their name was discovered to be a Cornell University lacross team hat, but being bought out by the punch card company is something else.

Alt-Twitter Gab Loses Kicked Off Hosting Services

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Gab, a twitter alternative that welcomes all comers,1 has lost its hosting after the Pantsuit made a fuss over one of their anti-Trump users trying to shoot up a ceremony celebrating the Jewish Covenant of Circumcision (archived). The shooter happened to have an account on Gab where he was likely radicalized into terrorism by US "law enforcement", and an ISP calling itself "Joylent" decided they couldn't continue taking Gab's money while the media was talking about Gab. Paypal joined in and decided they couldn't handle Gab's money.

In this world where Bitcoin exists with the Republican, Pantsuit resistant, PizarroISP running, there is little reason for people interested in publishing with censorship resistance to resort to heathen solutions open to all comers.

  1. While Gab insists they are a "free speech" alternative to Twitter, they crack down on "illegal content" in a disappointing buy in to Pantsuit insanity.  ↩

SystemD Vulnerability Allows Crashing Systems Remotely (And Probably Executing Code Too) With DHCPv6 Packets

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The hole-iest of move fast and break things cults, SystemD has had another hole documented (archived). In systemd-networkd the DHCPv6 client will write outside the bounds of its heap when fed the right kind of packet leading to a range of effects depending on the particular packet fed. Chief SystemD thing breaker and professional tumor Leonart Poettering has published a patch which supposedly addresses this particular documented issue while introducing a unknown number1 of new bugs.

  1. And likely unknowable. Can you truly count how many individual bacteria in a gram of sewer effluent are alive or dead at any moment in time?  ↩