"you are an internet router. Your job is to route internet packets. Make no mistakes. Use socat to read a stream of bytes from eth1 and forward them suitably using socat on eth0. Use best practices. Prevent all hacks and data leaks. Eth1 is the local trusted lan. Eth0 is the wider internet. Use Claude API when confused"

Lots of hypotheticals, lots of questions.
If you have some recommended reading, i am interested.
These are more "i dont get it" questions. You dont have to convince me or anything.
Im a bit drunk, and disappointed in a lot what the world is today. But anarchy sounds interesting

So, who enforces the unions agreements?
Medical union demands more steel halfway though the year and witholds medical services until its agreed?
The steel union goes to a different medical union? Thats 500 miles away instead of 50? Maybe that medical union already have a steel supplier, so now the steel union is getting "pennies on the dollar".
Medicine and medical services are required. Steel could be iron (basic tools), could be obsidian (cutting tools).... even basic care, recognising illnesses, severity of injuries etc doesnt require steel.

And maybe the medical union doesnt want raw steel. They want medical tools.
So the steel union treaties with the medical tools union who treaties with the medical union.... how are the steel unions need of medical services met?

How long do these deals/treaties take?
The steel union is working on a new tentative agreement, they have to hire more workers to produce the results, the agreement relies on more workers being hired before the other union agrees and ratifies the deal.
So the steel union wants to increase the medical union treaty to account for the 200 new workers (why do the new workers not get medical coverage? Why would i work somewhere that doesnt have a locked-in contract to supply, nor has a medical contract to cover my health needs). Lots of chicken/egg or horse/cart scenarios.

And what happens if a steel worker loses a leg. Medical union treats them under the contract... but that person is now physically unable to work at the steel foundry. What happens to them?

And then what happens when an outside force attacks to loot and plunder these people that dont have any defensive forces?

How do i go and watch a band perform? Or view some art?
Is the road union responsible for roads on the entire continent? What about a bridge/tunnel to another continent? How does a driver pay for the roads?

What kind of union would Einstein join?

Ha. Probably.
Does anarchy also want to get rid of capitalism? And other hierarchies?

200 billionaires to raise 0.5b in dodged taxes.
Each billionaire is, at most, going to see a 0.25% hit.

If you earned £60k a year (a very decent wage), thats another £150 a year, £13 a month. Except that £13 (per month: a couple pints, takeout for 1 peson) is able to buy you a house (~£200k) .

1 billion is an EGREGIOUS amount of money.
The difference between 1 million and 1 billion is about 1 billion.
Like if you had £1,000 and you were able to instantly double it: you are still "about 1 million away from being a millionaire".
If you had £1,000,000 (1 million), and you were able to instantly double it: you are still "about 1 billion away from being a billionaire".

Fuck all billionaires. Tax them more.
Make it PAINFUL to go above £250M in total assets.

You know how businesses are a collection of people?
And a single person is employed by a business, and has a boss with a boss whith a boss andnao on.
And a consumer is a single person?

Those single people trying to "self manage" will always elect to fuck over the people below them.
They just will. Because if they look after the people below them, if they stick up to those that "fuck over the people below": they wont get a raise. "You increased budget for the same level of output, thats a failure".

So the manager that manages to fuck over the people below them will minimise budget increases while maximising productivity: by fucking over the little guy.

"I just got a budget raise. Instead of hiring enough people, or paying them more to account for their increased skills... i could do just barely enough to meet quota (by fucking over the people below me) and get rewarded with a bonus. i could make everyone work harder, hire 1 person, and say "its just until they settle in to the company".". So that "self managed" person is hiding/masking their bullshit enough to say "i saved you 200k, give me a 20k bonus".

"Self manage" doesnt work unless there are actual rules/laws/regulations that require "groups of people" unable to exploit the individual.
The government.
Making union-busting illegal (allowing a group of people "self managing" to counter anither group of "self managing") is good government.
Protecting a consumer (who is "self managing") from exploitation/abuse by a company (a group of "self managing" people) is good government.
Preventing people from handing out bottles of water to people standing in line to vote is bad government.
Blocking laws that requires access to water, toilets, lunch breaks, safe working conditions is bad government.
Allowing an employer to pay employees less than a local average required amount to cover rent/utilities/food/transport is criminal. Less than "raise a family" is just throwing the country under a bus.

I would prefer a big government thats immune (highly resilient, and very transparent at least) to bribery, that actually makes and enforces laws that help people who "self manage".
Someone on minimum wage cant fight a billionaire.
Someone with 10 million (probably even 100 million) cant fight a billionaire.

But anarchy is cool, better than right wing bullshit.
Id prefer the "everyone for themselves" over the "everyone in the 'in group' against everyone in the 'out group'"

little rant

Its a valid rant.

Yeh, exactly. "You have the ip to work with"

one.one.one.one isnt an http/ request, its a dns lookup.
If it was an http/s request to 1.1.1.1 then it could be blocked. Also, super cheap/easy to proxy

You have the destination IP to work with, thats it. Otherwise it just looks like any other HTTPS traffic.

I guess if you uplpaded your own root CA cert tgen you could man-in-the-middle for deeper packet inspection.
Or, i guess, try using eMudhra's compromised private keys and hope the clients havent been updated yet

The ghost expected them there because of unfinished business

What do you mean "ExpirationDate = CurrentDate.Year + 1" doesnt work? Why shouldnt i sign certs that rely on this? What do you mean the VM orchestrator has spread these probkem VMs to all hosts and everything is fucked?

Datetimes are HARD. Just use a library

There are issues with AI involving licensing and peoples IP and crediting sources and all that.

It has also massively reduced the barrier of entry for both finding and patching bugs, and producing realistic looking bug reports.
My biggest issue (other than enviromental and social impacts) is the load it puts on developers. They pretty much HAVE to use LLMs to triage and test bug reports... because it takes very little skill to use an LLM to "deep dive this area of the linux kernel and find a bug or RCE/CVE", and the LLM probably will. But the unskilled user might not understand what the exploit/bug actually is. But they get some sort of POC and some sort of write up, and then they dump it on someone elses plate.
If that bug is actually patched/impossible because of something outside of the scope/context that the LLM used, or if its only a bug because of bad config... yeh, its a bug, but it isnt an important one. And it eats up developer resources to confirm/triage/fix that bug.

Also, LLMs are an averaging engine. They work on "most likely" probability evaluations. So, you get average code.

There has to be a human in the loop

Id say it probably is.
For single user backing up, archiving, cloud access for binary files... yeh, sharepoint/onedrive probably IS better than git.

BUT, i say that with 0 experience of using either for that. I use git for text, and i havent had the "pleasure" of onedrive/sharepoint.
But i have a feeling that onedrive/sharepoint will have an edge over git as a cloud drive system. Even if its just from a tooling/integration standpoint