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esr

It's one thing to be defensive, but quite another to resort to performative self-importance. "Performative self-importance" is a tactic for people who have not already won every social-status game they care about. Someday you may find out what it's like to have nothing left to prove to anybody - I ...

esr

If anything, it's telling that you are assuming that I don't know who you are. I was unclear. I was using the conditional about people here in general. After our conversation on the Discord I was in fact assuming you in particular had recognized me. I probably can't stop you from thinking of me as ...

esr

This is all very nice, but ffs esr, when you are going to flaunt your boards? I'm afraid my collection isn't very interesting. My daily driver is a Unicomp New Model M. The full-sized version, I like big heavy keyboards. I recently acquired a 1988 Model M 1931201 in astonishingly good condition - I...

esr

Cool. So, either he's alive and you're calling him stupid and irresponsible (which would be rude and disrespectful) or he's dead and you're calling him stupid and irresponsible (which would be rude and disrespectful). It's called "having standards". EDIT: And yeah, the holier-than-thou "DOTH THEE N...

esr

To say he did "inexcusably careless, risky shit" is truly the height of assholery. Sorry, I'm not backing down on that. Your failure to understand why is not a problem with me, it's a problem with practices that produce bad outcomes and your own willingness to accept them. Call me an asshole if you...

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depletedvespene wrote: ↑
29 May 2021, 21:43

jmaynard wrote: ↑
29 May 2021, 21:30
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Objection, your honor. Assumes facts not in evidence: that she can actually make arguments with words, not just emoutions.
I'm gonna go to Hell for this, but I gotta ask: is an "emoution" a British emotion?

*snrk* No. Jay is from Texas.

esr

Flashing a goddamned single board microcontroller is absolutely basic and fundamental in embedded - I'd be ashamed to have to ask for help doing it. I'm not even a bit ashamed to ask for help. Maybe I would be if I were the monstrous egotist some people are imagining, but the truth is I've never do...

esr

But nobody called him on it. Your culture didn't have that norm. And that lack is a bug. Your attitude is a bug. This is a hobby, people do it for fun, not to get on each others case for stuff like this. That's...a very strange reaction. Hard for me to process. I sense that I'm running into another...

esr

If hacker culture is tinkering with stuff, finding and sharing workarounds and clever solutions to technical problems, and having fun while doing this, then I don't see how this place is not part of hacker culture. Serious answer: This crew has some of the aspirations of hacker culture. Some of the...

esr

Redmaus wrote: ↑
29 May 2021, 20:12
No software that people use daily is something that you wrote.

Again, I hope somebody else here knows enough to clue this guy in. I'll be over here, laughing my ass off.

It's pardonable ignorance, I suppose. I do tend to work on fairly deep infrastructure.

esr

This doesn't seem all that difficult if you slice your problem right and make it a distributed effort among several groups/individuals. Here is a quick outline: A few comments: I'm not the biggest fan of lua (1-origin arrays? ick!) but embedding it onto the converter is an ideal deployment case for...

esr

ifohancroft wrote: ↑
29 May 2021, 19:53
Eric, would you mind if I sent you a compiled binary I compiled from antonizoon's code for the Teensy 2, for testing and comparison if it works the same way Soarer's own binary does?

Go right ahead. You'll have to explain to me how to load it into my converter, though. I don't know those steps.

esr

If hacker culture is tinkering with stuff, finding and sharing workarounds and clever solutions to technical problems, and having fun while doing this, then I don't see how this place is not part of hacker culture. Serious answer: This crew has some of the aspirations of hacker culture. Some of the...

esr

headphone_jack wrote: ↑
29 May 2021, 19:09
Also, I think you have a serious misunderstanding of what the word hacker means.

Oh, that is impossibly funny.

Would someone like to explain things to this guy? I mean, I could do it, but it will be more amusing (and probably more effective) if somebody else wields the cluebat.

esr

I've been very stern in making it clear that we can't make assumptions regarding Soarer's state (and mindset), so I'll have to make a point here: we don't know if he "did" or "did not" follow all good practices — regarding sofware development, the code running in Soarer's converter is pretty much a...

esr

This thing about identities has moved back and forth several times already. When I got onto the Internet in 1992, the usage of "handles" to hide one's "true name" was seen as a quaint fad. Then "nicknames" became in vogue again, then "real names" came back. Then "online identities" as opposed to "p...

esr

Soarer did me right by developing a keyboard converter that I use every day. All 'hacker culture' has done for me in the last week is make this stupid thread. Yeah? How about in the last year, or the last couple of decades? You're using a browser. I'm guessing you have a smartphone. Might have a ga...

esr

The best we're likely to be able to do is proceed from something like Arakula's decompilation. Which does have one huge advantage: we can produce a replica of working binary from it. Who confirmed this? I kept gettig errors in the code when trying to compile it and even after fixing them I didn't g...

esr

also, really finding it hard to confabulate the following: 200 dollar damages most and orihalcon is in danger of being RUINED (as if i care, dickhead is ripping people off hard) It's simple. If we don't piss the judge off by scurrying around like we have something to hide, the worse thing he's like...

esr

I'm sure all our banter has chummed the waters, but if you aren't selling anything and don't have a physical identity tied to your online presence then how do they send a cease and desist? Do they make a DT account and private message it? The goal is to create conditions under which Arakula's decom...

esr

So uh... where would the uncompiled source come from? Soarer never posted it and the files are likely irrecoverable. Even if the code is opened up development is reliant on reverse engineered crap. Which we already have, and no one really seems to eager to work on it. I don't think we're likely to ...

esr

That are really hard to read charitably. Esr may have a valid legal strategy, but he is really bad at communicating. Based on these posts I (and likely many other people) were under the impression that he wanted to make Soarer's information public and that this God forsaken thread is some form of e...

esr

esr wrote: ↑
29 May 2021, 12:25

nobatron wrote: ↑
29 May 2021, 08:46
His name is Robert Paulson
The assertion isn't good enough. On what basis do you assert this?

Also: Street address?

esr

I am one of them. And to correct the opening post: it is *not* Harry. ;) By the way, add that to the previous dodgy claim that he's from West Calder. He's not, never has been, and never said he was. Don't jump to indirect inferences from his old posts. He was as chatty as the worst of us (hi!) Remo...

esr

Honestly esr I hope you have to explain every single bit of your stupid plan. This is classic fucking 'I'm so smurt' shit, you bang on about wanting to get soarer declared dead, then suddenly it's 'well ACKSHULLY I never wanted to do that! I've only been posting about doing it for 10 pages! you're ...

esr

nobatron wrote: ↑
29 May 2021, 08:46
His name is Robert Paulson

The assertion isn't good enough. On what basis do you assert this?

esr

Rayndalf wrote: ↑
29 May 2021, 08:30
Soarer shared his code under a username that was never concretely tied to a real name or address, so basically anyone could claim to be Soarer for legal purposes, right? If no one knows his identity then how could anyone file a troll lawsuit?

Some people on DT do know his real identity.

esr

zrrion wrote: ↑
29 May 2021, 05:16
if it can be destroyed by the truth it deserves to be destroyed by the truth, just leave it well enough alone

This isn't about "the truth" in that sense. It's about not handing free causes of action to legal trolls.

esr

Redmaus wrote: ↑
29 May 2021, 04:20
The only way a lawyer or judge will be involved is if soarer or his family start getting harassed by strangers on the internet.

You are completely - and dangerously - wrong about this.

And every public explanation of why you are wrong that you pry out of me increases and broadens the risk.

esr

A record of a good faith effort does not have to be on a public forum. Notice I said "private record". There is no legal reason you have to include his real name or address in any of your posts. Keep a private record of it in the form of dated emails to your lawyer (you can afford a lawyer but not ...

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