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Wed Mar 16 19:52:03 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> hey, anatomizing teratoma is exactly how noobs learn cytopathology etc.
Wed Mar 16 19:50:34 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> so what is this, excel-polymorphism ?
Wed Mar 16 19:50:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ah right because stuff like hashes no longer mean anything\
Wed Mar 16 19:50:03 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: it gives excuse to munge every single executable on the box
Wed Mar 16 19:49:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> so what it this supposed to achieve for the putative enemy, make proper allocation impossible or what ?
Wed Mar 16 19:49:05 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i see.
Wed Mar 16 19:48:47 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: it is sorta like a cache for dynamic linking
Wed Mar 16 19:48:29 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> what
Wed Mar 16 19:47:23 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but what does it do ?
Wed Mar 16 19:47:16 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: it is a highly bizarre idiot hack nominally to 'save cycles' but really 'because ftmeade asked'
Wed Mar 16 19:47:02 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> uh
Wed Mar 16 19:46:55 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "pre fuck" i can imagine what'd be. pre linking... no.
Wed Mar 16 19:46:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> my meagre understanding of computing doesn't allow me to discern the intended meaning.
Wed Mar 16 19:46:15 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: there is no legit thing called prelinking
Wed Mar 16 19:45:44 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ah right.
Wed Mar 16 19:44:55 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> what ?
Wed Mar 16 19:44:54 UTC 2016 <*> mircea_popescu discovers that he can't rightly say what fedora even is. is it what, a distro ? some sort of centos ?
Wed Mar 16 19:44:30 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> what is pre-linking ?
Wed Mar 16 19:32:42 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> uh.
Wed Mar 16 19:30:01 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> ;;later tell mircea_popescu https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1183 << i had nfi this existed. a whole own poetteringism, hilarious, touches ~all binaries on affected pseudolinuxen, ruins aslr and number of other things, random (!) crashes, ardent defenders (ahaha), etc.