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Hah! Where are the Linux neckbeards now? Another day, another Linux vulnerability it seems like. Honestly, how much longer are we going to build on this house

by swanson 14y ago

Hah! Where are the Linux neckbeards now? Another day, another Linux vulnerability it seems like. Honestly, how much longer are we going to build on this house of shaky cards? Did they really think that letting a race condition happen on PTRACE_SETREGS was a good idea? Just for "elegance sake"? Come on. Everyone could tell that none of ptrace/jctl callers actually want to wakeup a TASK_WAKEKILL task, but they can't specify the necessary mask. My startup still runs Cobol on Cogs in DOS (and we serve over 9000 requests per second on a single DigitalOcean $5 box!).

StefanKarpinski 14y ago
not sure if trolling or actually runs DOS
- nilved 14y ago
  Pretty obviously joking.
  - derleth 14y ago
    > Pretty obviously joking. The problem with trying to sound so stupid you can't possibly be serious is that there are people who are seriously that stupid.
    - eclipxe 14y ago
      Poe's Law [1] [1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoesLaw http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoesLaw
      - jpdoctor 14y ago
        Great list on that site, but I'm surprised they missed one of the granddaddies of such reports: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_tree_hoax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_tree_hoax
    - raverbashing 14y ago
      Yeah, for me what gave away is the 9000 requests on Digital Ocean, because obviously you can do 10x that just kidding, of course it was the last line
    - randomdata 14y ago
      There was a, presumably serious, post made here about Rails that was almost word-for-word, save the differing technical terms. The post here was obviously making fun of that other post, but I guess that would be lost without the prior context.
- sp332 14y ago
  COBOL ON COGS is a joke, plus I'm pretty sure a true user would get the spelling and capitalization right :) http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
  - kintamanimatt 14y ago
    "(c) <DATE OVERFLOW>" Oh dear!
- frozenport 14y ago
  keeps his machine cool by using only 1 of 32 cores on his AMD bulldozer dual socket server board.
- hysterix 14y ago
  Not trolling, he's just a complete moron who got butthurt when people called his precious ruby as being a pile of insecure shit.
pyre 14y ago
| Hah! Where are the Linux neckbeards now? ubi sunt[1]? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubi_sunt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubi_sunt
ubernostrum 14y ago
I'll believe it when Netcraft confirms it.
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homosaur 14y ago
<blink>As long as your site still works in Netscape Navigator 2.0, I don't give a crap what you use on the backend.</blink>
riffraff 14y ago
please have all my upvotes
anonymous 14y ago
Good post, but I'm afraid high sarcasm is lost on this crowd.
hysterix 14y ago
I love how ruby fanboy/fanaticism is not downvoted. Just look at your about page. "ruby by day, rails by night" No, no bias to be seen here, move along! You are a complete moron. This isn't even comparable with those ruby vulns, they were remote, this isn't. It is pretty obvious ruby isn't a fully mature platform to develop on, there has been dozens of posts illustrating that. Linux is a stable operating system that is fully mature and capable of running enterprise level software. The fact I need to point this out to you says you are either a troll, or living in denial, either of which are hilarious. The level of fanaticism towards ruby on this site is unbelievable. Ruby is an immature platform, I'm sorry if this fact makes your stomach turn circles and keeps you up at night. As illustrated here, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5230358 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5230358 "But even with access, this is awfully hard to exploit. You need a precisely timed kill, followed by a precisely timed preemption. That's really (really) hard on a multi-cpu machine" This exploit isn't even in the same league as the remote vulns for ruby. There was a working exploit within a day! The fact you'd even make comparison of the two shows how ignorant you really are. Posts like this make me laugh because I'm sure you will be jumping on the next band wagon whenever the next popular thing comes riding through town, and will probably be vehemently defending that when it has vulnerabilities.
- apawloski 14y ago
  I'm 100% sure he was being facetious.
  - SkyMarshal 14y ago
    >Cobol on Cogs in DOS /whoosh, right over someone's head.

by swanson 14y ago

StefanKarpinski 14y ago

not sure if trolling or actually runs DOS

nilved 14y ago
Pretty obviously joking.
- derleth 14y ago
  > Pretty obviously joking. The problem with trying to sound so stupid you can't possibly be serious is that there are people who are seriously that stupid.
  - eclipxe 14y ago
    Poe's Law [1] [1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoesLaw http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoesLaw
    - jpdoctor 14y ago
      Great list on that site, but I'm surprised they missed one of the granddaddies of such reports: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_tree_hoax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_tree_hoax
  - raverbashing 14y ago
    Yeah, for me what gave away is the 9000 requests on Digital Ocean, because obviously you can do 10x that just kidding, of course it was the last line
  - randomdata 14y ago
    There was a, presumably serious, post made here about Rails that was almost word-for-word, save the differing technical terms. The post here was obviously making fun of that other post, but I guess that would be lost without the prior context.
sp332 14y ago
COBOL ON COGS is a joke, plus I'm pretty sure a true user would get the spelling and capitalization right :) http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
- kintamanimatt 14y ago
  "(c) <DATE OVERFLOW>" Oh dear!
frozenport 14y ago
keeps his machine cool by using only 1 of 32 cores on his AMD bulldozer dual socket server board.
hysterix 14y ago
Not trolling, he's just a complete moron who got butthurt when people called his precious ruby as being a pile of insecure shit.

pyre 14y ago

| Hah! Where are the Linux neckbeards now? ubi sunt[1]? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubi_sunt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubi_sunt

ubernostrum 14y ago

I'll believe it when Netcraft confirms it.

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homosaur 14y ago

<blink>As long as your site still works in Netscape Navigator 2.0, I don't give a crap what you use on the backend.</blink>

riffraff 14y ago

please have all my upvotes

anonymous 14y ago

Good post, but I'm afraid high sarcasm is lost on this crowd.

hysterix 14y ago

I love how ruby fanboy/fanaticism is not downvoted. Just look at your about page. "ruby by day, rails by night" No, no bias to be seen here, move along! You are a complete moron. This isn't even comparable with those ruby vulns, they were remote, this isn't. It is pretty obvious ruby isn't a fully mature platform to develop on, there has been dozens of posts illustrating that. Linux is a stable operating system that is fully mature and capable of running enterprise level software. The fact I need to point this out to you says you are either a troll, or living in denial, either of which are hilarious. The level of fanaticism towards ruby on this site is unbelievable. Ruby is an immature platform, I'm sorry if this fact makes your stomach turn circles and keeps you up at night. As illustrated here, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5230358 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5230358 "But even with access, this is awfully hard to exploit. You need a precisely timed kill, followed by a precisely timed preemption. That's really (really) hard on a multi-cpu machine" This exploit isn't even in the same league as the remote vulns for ruby. There was a working exploit within a day! The fact you'd even make comparison of the two shows how ignorant you really are. Posts like this make me laugh because I'm sure you will be jumping on the next band wagon whenever the next popular thing comes riding through town, and will probably be vehemently defending that when it has vulnerabilities.

apawloski 14y ago
I'm 100% sure he was being facetious.
- SkyMarshal 14y ago
  >Cobol on Cogs in DOS /whoosh, right over someone's head.