Comments on: The thumbs up and other dents in the substrate of perception http://trilema.com/2020/the-thumbs-up-and-other-dents-in-the-substrate-of-perception/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 13 May 2026 23:33:30 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2020/the-thumbs-up-and-other-dents-in-the-substrate-of-perception/#comment-154019 Mircea Popescu Mon, 31 Aug 2020 13:56:43 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=96265#comment-154019 <blockquote>a pile of dangling dependencies, incidental & accidental complexity and assorted this‐dumbest‐generation‐of‐morons byproducts and feculence the likes of which one's never seen</blockquote> In today's installment of "computer"‐related annoyances, gpg can decrypt a SINGLE encrypted element in a file ; but if there's something naturally occuring like say <blockquote>Mircea Popescu says: June 28, 2020 at 10:10 p.m. ‐‐‐‐‐BEGIN PGP MESSAGE‐‐‐‐‐ Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) hQIMA3U2qif5BrDFARAAs+MtFmoV5dTPyziNcQejS4XLSLzGX95Lkn8jP9KPsu/G [...] M1ZH3RxO2YW4w+QReK78RI3bPydoOF7vIRUq5g55SRLmcoSB98A9ULUGDMBks3k= =fP9R ‐‐‐‐‐END PGP MESSAGE‐‐‐‐‐ Reply Diana Coman says: June 29, 2020 at 7:39 p.m. ‐‐‐‐‐BEGIN PGP MESSAGE‐‐‐‐‐ hQIMA3U2qif5BrDFARAAsYa/LZzT4Xv7FmgVDgBEBhfWd92jkWK/yrRNTZy7uBZ9 [...] AgIlaUrT4LJ1 =I9HG ‐‐‐‐‐END PGP MESSAGE‐‐‐‐‐ Reply Diana Coman says: July 8, 2020 at 8:35 a.m. ‐‐‐‐‐BEGIN PGP MESSAGE‐‐‐‐‐ hQIMA3U2qif5BrDFAQ//VcFapRWjtZjCuoQEaWI1ZQ301qktNqNJ0mgNKX/OAzHt [...] ‐‐‐‐‐END PGP MESSAGE‐‐‐‐‐</blockquote> then gpg <b>can't</b> fucking replace the encrypted chunks with the respective decrypted material minding its own fucking business otherwise. Because the fucking reason for having IMMENSELY HEAVY arbitrary headers like "‐‐‐‐‐BEGIN PGP MESSAGE‐‐‐‐‐" and "‐‐‐‐‐END PGP MESSAGE‐‐‐‐‐" is so as to not be able to process mixed content, duh. Nor can it, for that matter, handle a simple enumeration of encrypted messages with no interspersed content : <blockquote>File `battle' exists. Overwrite? (y/N) y gpg: the IDEA cipher plugin is not present gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq/why‐not‐idea.html for more information gpg: IDEA cipher unavailable, optimistically attempting to use CAST5 instead gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=1e) gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protected gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=6e) gpg: mdc_packet with invalid encoding gpg: decryption failed: invalid packet gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=27)</blockquote> Nor will it, as you might by now expect & intuit, permit in any manner <em>appending</em> output to pre‐existing files ; everything must always be overwritten because you didn't kill <a href="http://trilema.com/2019/so‐i‐was‐thinking/#comment‐131245">these kids</a> when their mother brought them to you, to your eternal and undying shame. Sure, the plan was <a href="http://trilema.com/2019/i‐suppose‐we‐could‐call‐this‐a‐state‐of‐the‐sadness‐or‐other‐things/?b=Try%20and%20recall&e=happens#select">at some point</a> to have all this crap fixed, eventually. The plan meanwhile became to simply have the fuckwads <a href="http://trilema.com/2014/the‐social‐lives‐of‐other‐people/?b=fix&e=explain#select">fixed</a> instead. Because fuck all'y'all, seriously now. No backsies, daddy despises you an' forevermore absolutely will.

a pile of dangling dependencies, incidental & accidental complexity and assorted this‐dumbest‐generation‐of‐morons byproducts and feculence the likes of which one's never seen

In today's installment of "computer"‐related annoyances, gpg can decrypt a SINGLE encrypted element in a file ; but if there's something naturally occuring like say

Mircea Popescu says:
June 28, 2020 at 10:10 p.m.
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Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)

hQIMA3U2qif5BrDFARAAs+MtFmoV5dTPyziNcQejS4XLSLzGX95Lkn8jP9KPsu/G
[...]
M1ZH3RxO2YW4w+QReK78RI3bPydoOF7vIRUq5g55SRLmcoSB98A9ULUGDMBks3k=
=fP9R
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Reply
Diana Coman says:
June 29, 2020 at 7:39 p.m.
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hQIMA3U2qif5BrDFARAAsYa/LZzT4Xv7FmgVDgBEBhfWd92jkWK/yrRNTZy7uBZ9
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AgIlaUrT4LJ1
=I9HG
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Diana Coman says:
July 8, 2020 at 8:35 a.m.
‐‐‐‐‐BEGIN PGP MESSAGE‐‐‐‐‐

hQIMA3U2qif5BrDFAQ//VcFapRWjtZjCuoQEaWI1ZQ301qktNqNJ0mgNKX/OAzHt
[...]
‐‐‐‐‐END PGP MESSAGE‐‐‐‐‐

then gpg can't fucking replace the encrypted chunks with the respective decrypted material minding its own fucking business otherwise. Because the fucking reason for having IMMENSELY HEAVY arbitrary headers like "‐‐‐‐‐BEGIN PGP MESSAGE‐‐‐‐‐" and "‐‐‐‐‐END PGP MESSAGE‐‐‐‐‐" is so as to not be able to process mixed content, duh.

Nor can it, for that matter, handle a simple enumeration of encrypted messages with no interspersed content :

File `battle' exists. Overwrite? (y/N) y
gpg: the IDEA cipher plugin is not present
gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq/why‐not‐idea.html for more information
gpg: IDEA cipher unavailable, optimistically attempting to use CAST5 instead
gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=1e)
gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protected
gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=6e)
gpg: mdc_packet with invalid encoding
gpg: decryption failed: invalid packet
gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=27)

Nor will it, as you might by now expect & intuit, permit in any manner appending output to pre‐existing files ; everything must always be overwritten because you didn't kill these kids when their mother brought them to you, to your eternal and undying shame.

Sure, the plan was at some point to have all this crap fixed, eventually. The plan meanwhile became to simply have the fuckwads fixed instead.

Because fuck all'y'all, seriously now. No backsies, daddy despises you an' forevermore absolutely will.

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