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The FBI seriously knocked on my door today
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2022 Nov 14, 6:49pm 6,338 views 44 comments
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Eric Holder
2022 Nov 16, 11:47am
Eric Holder
2022 Nov 16, 11:47am
Patrick says
No, it's about FBI.
Eric Holder says
Attention-seeking wh......
"Eric Holder" is this about richwicks?
No, it's about FBI.
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Patrick
2022 Nov 16, 12:42pm
Patrick
2022 Nov 16, 12:42pm
krc says
@krc I know Rich Wicks. I've met him many times now.
I'm sure he is who he says he is, a local programmer like me.
For anyone reading this thread: I personally do not know this person richwicks.
@krc I know Rich Wicks. I've met him many times now.
I'm sure he is who he says he is, a local programmer like me.
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richwicks
2022 Nov 16, 1:27pm
richwicks
2022 Nov 16, 1:27pm
Patrick says
For god sakes, I have no idea what it was about, but it's interesting.
I think we're reaching an impasse with the government. We can't vote the bastards out of starting new wars, bringing in illegal immigrants, forcing us to pay for it, causing inflation, engaging in open corruption, engaging in selective prosecution, promoting propaganda, lying to the public, indoctrinating kids, and forcing companies to engage in censorship.
They are losing, but they aren't going to go out quietly.
I should do some coding. @Onvacation said that Rust is a crap language, but it's growing on me. I'm pretty sick of working with C and C++ anyhow. I've been thinking about and working on something like IPFS, and I've (finally) figured out P2P communications. This opens up an entire area of sharing work.
People have forgotten (or never knew) what the OLD Internet was like. It was a TRUE wild west. Anybody could say anything, nobody was taken too seriously, documents were constantly leaked, and we could talk to anybody on the planet. Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc interrupted that. People simply don't have a concept of the power they have available to them. Just a little toy computer is 100% adequate for 99.9% of the population. We have to decentralize.
krc says
For anyone reading this thread: I personally do not know this person richwicks.
krc I know Rich Wicks. I've met him many times now.
I'm sure he is who he says he is, a local programmer like me.
For god sakes, I have no idea what it was about, but it's interesting.
I think we're reaching an impasse with the government. We can't vote the bastards out of starting new wars, bringing in illegal immigrants, forcing us to pay for it, causing inflation, engaging in open corruption, engaging in selective prosecution, promoting propaganda, lying to the public, indoctrinating kids, and forcing companies to engage in censorship.
They are losing, but they aren't going to go out quietly.
I should do some coding. @Onvacation said that Rust is a crap language, but it's growing on me. I'm pretty sick of working with C and C++ anyhow. I've been thinking about and working on something like IPFS, and I've (finally) figured out P2P communications. This opens up an entire area of sharing work.
People have forgotten (or never knew) what the OLD Internet was like. It was a TRUE wild west. Anybody could say anything, nobody was taken too seriously, documents were constantly leaked, and we could talk to anybody on the planet. Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc interrupted that. People simply don't have a concept of the power they have available to them. Just a little toy computer is 100% adequate for 99.9% of the population. We have to decentralize.
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Patrick
2022 Nov 16, 1:50pm
Patrick
2022 Nov 16, 1:50pm
I know Rust fans, and I'm sure they're right that it's a good language. But I myself am married to Javascript because I've invested so much time into it (both browser side and node.js) and because it is very high-performance.
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richwicks
2022 Nov 16, 1:50pm
richwicks
2022 Nov 16, 1:50pm
Onvacation says
I'd have to look it up, but you gave me the impression it's a tinker toy language versus a real one.
It's got some of its own problems (every language does!) but some strengths as well. It's less cumbersome to write in. It's aiming to be a replacement to lower level languages and it has better memory management than C/C++ (which are awful).
I'm still learning it. I'm curious about the ABI to C and C++. It compiles TERRIBLY slowly, but it has the concept of a makefile/cmake/etc built into it - that's Cargo. It tries to be extremely portable.
I think we're fast approaching the point that it really won't matter what OS you're working on, your code will run on top of it.
richwicks says
Onvacation said that Rust is a crap language,
Never said that. Never used Rust.
I'd have to look it up, but you gave me the impression it's a tinker toy language versus a real one.
It's got some of its own problems (every language does!) but some strengths as well. It's less cumbersome to write in. It's aiming to be a replacement to lower level languages and it has better memory management than C/C++ (which are awful).
I'm still learning it. I'm curious about the ABI to C and C++. It compiles TERRIBLY slowly, but it has the concept of a makefile/cmake/etc built into it - that's Cargo. It tries to be extremely portable.
I think we're fast approaching the point that it really won't matter what OS you're working on, your code will run on top of it.
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mell
2022 Nov 16, 2:11pm
Rust's syntax is fucking last millennium crap while its concepts are interesting. It will likely be a niche language with that syntax which is in dire need of simplification
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GreaterNYCDude
2022 Nov 16, 8:40pm
richwicks says
I miss the good old days. The internet is broken. Now that you have figured out P2P, how can we rebuild a decentralized network of people sharing information, the way it used to be?
[Unfortunately I don't code. I know Visual Basic, but that's about it.]
People have forgotten (or never knew) what the OLD Internet was like. It was a TRUE wild west. Anybody could say anything, nobody was taken too seriously
I miss the good old days. The internet is broken. Now that you have figured out P2P, how can we rebuild a decentralized network of people sharing information, the way it used to be?
[Unfortunately I don't code. I know Visual Basic, but that's about it.]
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FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden
2022 Nov 16, 8:42pm
GreaterNYCDude says
i remember, tgat internet was better
richwicks says
People have forgotten (or never knew) what the OLD Internet was like. It was a TRUE wild west. Anybody could say anything, nobody was taken too seriously
I miss the good old days. The internet is broken. Now that you have figured out P2P, how can we rebuild a decentralized network of people sharing information, the way it used to be?
[Unfortunately I don't code. I know Visual Basic, but that's about it.]
i remember, tgat internet was better
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Blue
2022 Nov 16, 9:22pm
It’s almost better version of c++ without pointers fun, better memory management. Unless it’s a legacy project, rust should be a good choice for systems side.
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Tenpoundbass
2022 Nov 17, 7:03am
Tenpoundbass
2022 Nov 17, 7:03am
People that worry about memory management and pointers, like we're all still using 8 bit processors, and 256 KB memory.
99% of us programmers or the projects we're working on, will chug along just fine what ever language you're using.
It's all got to be better than any technology that you have to be tethered to the cloud, and your apps all run as a service, lose your internet then you're dead in the water.
It's just one of those things, where they make every minutia of programming details all about efficiency, speed and dependability. They worry about things, that most projects will never have to worry about. But then they throw so much on the cloud and just accept every pit fall, set back and downtime, as just one of those things, when dealing with the cloud.
99% of us programmers or the projects we're working on, will chug along just fine what ever language you're using.
It's all got to be better than any technology that you have to be tethered to the cloud, and your apps all run as a service, lose your internet then you're dead in the water.
It's just one of those things, where they make every minutia of programming details all about efficiency, speed and dependability. They worry about things, that most projects will never have to worry about. But then they throw so much on the cloud and just accept every pit fall, set back and downtime, as just one of those things, when dealing with the cloud.
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richwicks
2022 Nov 17, 8:16am
richwicks
2022 Nov 17, 8:16am
Tenpoundbass says
I started out on 8 bit processors and that's not the problem.
Memory leaks are a long term problem for a service. I don't write crap to run "on the cloud", when I have to work on that, I'm working on developing "the cloud". The "cloud" is a glorified disk drive with a remote connection.
The push to "the cloud" is to get software as a service again, they are trying to force people back to using essentially mainframes, because this not only locks you into a solution which you have to pay for regularly, but it allows oversight on everything you're doing. My PHONE is a more powerful computer than the VAX/VMS Alpha system my University used - which 2,000 students could be using at the same time for work, email, messaging, homework, and even video games.
Your little toy piece of crap computer is MORE than enough for 99.999% of people, as long as you don't have memory leaks all over the place. We have protected memory now, optimizers have killed one of my skills (I used to do optimization with assembly - now a computer can do a better job than I ever could), the real work now is reducing the tedium. Ever write "Hello World" in Assembly? Still, COBOL is worse to work with.
Languages are TOOLS, you learn a few and the next few, is relatively easy to pick up. At first, you start confusing syntax in the languages, but over time, you stop doing this. There was a time that I thought C was the end all be all of languages. By then I reluctantly learned Perl and realized what, in some instances, would take me DAYS to do in C, took 20 minutes in Perl. C++ has way too much crap in it, but I wouldn't want to go back to C at this point. Strings ALONE make that an infinitely better language.
Different tools for different things, but they are just tools.
People that worry about memory management and pointers, like we're all still using 8 bit processors, and 256 KB memory.
I started out on 8 bit processors and that's not the problem.
Memory leaks are a long term problem for a service. I don't write crap to run "on the cloud", when I have to work on that, I'm working on developing "the cloud". The "cloud" is a glorified disk drive with a remote connection.
The push to "the cloud" is to get software as a service again, they are trying to force people back to using essentially mainframes, because this not only locks you into a solution which you have to pay for regularly, but it allows oversight on everything you're doing. My PHONE is a more powerful computer than the VAX/VMS Alpha system my University used - which 2,000 students could be using at the same time for work, email, messaging, homework, and even video games.
Your little toy piece of crap computer is MORE than enough for 99.999% of people, as long as you don't have memory leaks all over the place. We have protected memory now, optimizers have killed one of my skills (I used to do optimization with assembly - now a computer can do a better job than I ever could), the real work now is reducing the tedium. Ever write "Hello World" in Assembly? Still, COBOL is worse to work with.
Languages are TOOLS, you learn a few and the next few, is relatively easy to pick up. At first, you start confusing syntax in the languages, but over time, you stop doing this. There was a time that I thought C was the end all be all of languages. By then I reluctantly learned Perl and realized what, in some instances, would take me DAYS to do in C, took 20 minutes in Perl. C++ has way too much crap in it, but I wouldn't want to go back to C at this point. Strings ALONE make that an infinitely better language.
Different tools for different things, but they are just tools.
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richwicks
2022 Nov 17, 8:20am
richwicks
2022 Nov 17, 8:20am
GreaterNYCDude says
I figure everybody can have a server. Remember USENet? There's MULTIPLE versions of USENet now, but a raspberry pi can EASILY run USENet of 1995. I'm afraid video would have to be restricted.
Email, SMTP, is SUPER easy to duplicate. It's just adding a file to your machine under /var/mail/$USER - and that interfaces with a ton of programs that already exist. All you need to do is append a file to it. A lot of stuff should go away, FTP for example and Telnet. HTTP(s) is just a file sharing protocol. Under Unix "everything is a file" up to and including voice and video chat.
Bit torrent solved the problem of sharing data widely.
I'm confident it can be done.
I miss the good old days. The internet is broken. Now that you have figured out P2P, how can we rebuild a decentralized network of people sharing information, the way it used to be?
I figure everybody can have a server. Remember USENet? There's MULTIPLE versions of USENet now, but a raspberry pi can EASILY run USENet of 1995. I'm afraid video would have to be restricted.
Email, SMTP, is SUPER easy to duplicate. It's just adding a file to your machine under /var/mail/$USER - and that interfaces with a ton of programs that already exist. All you need to do is append a file to it. A lot of stuff should go away, FTP for example and Telnet. HTTP(s) is just a file sharing protocol. Under Unix "everything is a file" up to and including voice and video chat.
Bit torrent solved the problem of sharing data widely.
I'm confident it can be done.
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Tenpoundbass
2022 Nov 17, 8:48am
Tenpoundbass
2022 Nov 17, 8:48am
richwicks says
That's where memory management is a huge concern, the semaphores and locks when the process is checking the queues, is very prone to memory leaks.
I once had to write a custom SMTP service that would canonicalize the header, and encrypt it with the Domain Key, for Whitelist email service.
That memory leak was the bane of that project. The problem was connecting to the DNS and other Network related Interop for related legacy DLLs.
After I rewrote those and created .net assemblies, the memory leak went away.
Email, SMTP, is SUPER easy to duplicate. It's just adding a file to your machine under /var/mail/$USER - and that interfaces with a ton of programs that already exist. All you need to do is append a file to it. A lot of stuff should go away, FTP for example and Telnet. HTTP(s) is just a file sharing protocol. Under Unix "everything is a file" up to and including voice and video chat.
That's where memory management is a huge concern, the semaphores and locks when the process is checking the queues, is very prone to memory leaks.
I once had to write a custom SMTP service that would canonicalize the header, and encrypt it with the Domain Key, for Whitelist email service.
That memory leak was the bane of that project. The problem was connecting to the DNS and other Network related Interop for related legacy DLLs.
After I rewrote those and created .net assemblies, the memory leak went away.
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richwicks
2022 Nov 17, 9:07am
richwicks
2022 Nov 17, 9:07am
Tenpoundbass says
How would there be a memory leak? I see .net - sounds like a Microsoft OS problem.
The locks on /var/mail/$USER are, I believed, defined in an RFC. Doesn't matter, I'll duplicate them anyhow. The advantage of using SMTP, is - 1 - VERY SIMPLE, second, you have a variety of programs to use it.
I don't intend to make this mail system compatible with standard mail though either. I believe that email at this point, as it's setup originally, is dead. With the system I'm trying to make - spam is impossible and spoofing is also impossible. I think that the reason there is "public email" is so that anything you write can be traced, it complete gets rid of privacy. It's also dumbfounding that after PGP was created back in the 1990's that encrypted email isn't the DEFAULT for communication.
I wear a tin foil hat (metaphorically) but at some level, as an engineer, I have to ask "why don't they do THIS obvious thing unless...". Every technology is a abused. I just have to accept that.
That memory leak was the bane of that project. The problem was connecting to the DNS and other Network related Interop for related legacy DLLs.
After I rewrote those and created .net assemblies, the memory leak went away.
How would there be a memory leak? I see .net - sounds like a Microsoft OS problem.
The locks on /var/mail/$USER are, I believed, defined in an RFC. Doesn't matter, I'll duplicate them anyhow. The advantage of using SMTP, is - 1 - VERY SIMPLE, second, you have a variety of programs to use it.
I don't intend to make this mail system compatible with standard mail though either. I believe that email at this point, as it's setup originally, is dead. With the system I'm trying to make - spam is impossible and spoofing is also impossible. I think that the reason there is "public email" is so that anything you write can be traced, it complete gets rid of privacy. It's also dumbfounding that after PGP was created back in the 1990's that encrypted email isn't the DEFAULT for communication.
I wear a tin foil hat (metaphorically) but at some level, as an engineer, I have to ask "why don't they do THIS obvious thing unless...". Every technology is a abused. I just have to accept that.
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Tenpoundbass
2022 Nov 17, 1:23pm
Tenpoundbass
2022 Nov 17, 1:23pm
richwicks says
The problem was the process also did a DNS look up, to get the Domain.dnky entry, then use WMI to set one of the network cards on the server to the ip that represents that domain(Like Red Hot Cellular Deals.com or Cheap Insurance .com) so Yahoo and GMail wouldn't reject the email as spam from a server that does not match the domain the email is from. There was a lot going on each time the lock was invoked yeah a .net OS issue. Otherwise everything worked fine, the email had to match the domain during handshake and the header had to match the domain key or it would get rejected. If any of those processes timed out, the memory leak would rear it's head.
How would there be a memory leak? I see .net - sounds like a Microsoft OS problem.
The problem was the process also did a DNS look up, to get the Domain.dnky entry, then use WMI to set one of the network cards on the server to the ip that represents that domain(Like Red Hot Cellular Deals.com or Cheap Insurance .com) so Yahoo and GMail wouldn't reject the email as spam from a server that does not match the domain the email is from. There was a lot going on each time the lock was invoked yeah a .net OS issue. Otherwise everything worked fine, the email had to match the domain during handshake and the header had to match the domain key or it would get rejected. If any of those processes timed out, the memory leak would rear it's head.
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Al_Sharpton_for_President
2022 Nov 17, 1:27pm
Al_Sharpton_for_President
2022 Nov 17, 1:27pm
richwicks says
OK, I got's to know. Did any of the door knockers leave a card, and if so, do share.
And how did the conversation go exactly?
Or, did you look out the peep hole and do the "Dave's not here man." bit?
The FBI seriously knocked on my door today
OK, I got's to know. Did any of the door knockers leave a card, and if so, do share.
And how did the conversation go exactly?
Or, did you look out the peep hole and do the "Dave's not here man." bit?
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Patrick
2022 Nov 17, 1:27pm
Patrick
2022 Nov 17, 1:27pm
Guy at my last job has a poster with:
"There is no cloud. It's just someone else's computer."
Very true, and they could turn it off, get root for themselves, or lock you out any time they feel like it.
"There is no cloud. It's just someone else's computer."
Very true, and they could turn it off, get root for themselves, or lock you out any time they feel like it.
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richwicks
2022 Nov 17, 2:50pm
richwicks
2022 Nov 17, 2:50pm
Al_Sharpton_for_President says
They caught me returning home from drinking, I wasn't in the mood to talk or honestly the shape - they identified themselves as the FIB, I told them I don't talk to the FBI. She asked "why", and I mumbled "corrupt". That was the extent of our verbal exchange.
I then opened my door, closed and locked it, heard them knock one more time, then wrote the message here - so this happened around 6:30pm, Monday. I went to bed shortly after. I just got back from a vacation and am still jet lagged and frankly, trying to keep it that way.
I would be absolutely lying if I didn't admit it freaked me out a bit, but I'm getting over it. I doubt it has anything to do with this site, they may have been looking for information on some other people probably. I have no faith in them even if they were investigating somebody that deserved it.
I also cannot express my contempt for the intelligence agencies at this point. These assholes allowed Epstein to run a child RAPE ring for YEARS. If they aren't a bunch of fucking pedophiles, they are enablers of them.
30 years ago, I suspected that they were corrupt, but I was young then. I'm 51 now. They're certainly corrupt. The reason for the Internet, in my opinion, STILL, is to force government reform. It's just a lot more fucking difficult to educate the public than I ever imagined. If I knew how difficult it would be, I would have never even considered being involved with speaking my mind openly, for 30 years.
When Robert Mueller OR Hillary Clinton OR James Comey OR Nancy Pelosi OR Hunter Biden, OR Dennis Hastert the FUCKING PEDOPHILE, or hundreds of others go to prison, I'll respect them. I regard my government as being a criminal syndicate, and I'm not exaggerating, I don't think there is a rule of law, it's just a bunch of mafias vying for control, we've been lied into every fucking war we've been in for at least 20 years, I'm fed up, and I'm 51. Fuck it.
richwicks says
The FBI seriously knocked on my door today
OK, I got's to know. Did any of the door knockers leave a card, and if so, do share.
And how did the conversation go exactly?
They caught me returning home from drinking, I wasn't in the mood to talk or honestly the shape - they identified themselves as the FIB, I told them I don't talk to the FBI. She asked "why", and I mumbled "corrupt". That was the extent of our verbal exchange.
I then opened my door, closed and locked it, heard them knock one more time, then wrote the message here - so this happened around 6:30pm, Monday. I went to bed shortly after. I just got back from a vacation and am still jet lagged and frankly, trying to keep it that way.
I would be absolutely lying if I didn't admit it freaked me out a bit, but I'm getting over it. I doubt it has anything to do with this site, they may have been looking for information on some other people probably. I have no faith in them even if they were investigating somebody that deserved it.
I also cannot express my contempt for the intelligence agencies at this point. These assholes allowed Epstein to run a child RAPE ring for YEARS. If they aren't a bunch of fucking pedophiles, they are enablers of them.
30 years ago, I suspected that they were corrupt, but I was young then. I'm 51 now. They're certainly corrupt. The reason for the Internet, in my opinion, STILL, is to force government reform. It's just a lot more fucking difficult to educate the public than I ever imagined. If I knew how difficult it would be, I would have never even considered being involved with speaking my mind openly, for 30 years.
When Robert Mueller OR Hillary Clinton OR James Comey OR Nancy Pelosi OR Hunter Biden, OR Dennis Hastert the FUCKING PEDOPHILE, or hundreds of others go to prison, I'll respect them. I regard my government as being a criminal syndicate, and I'm not exaggerating, I don't think there is a rule of law, it's just a bunch of mafias vying for control, we've been lied into every fucking war we've been in for at least 20 years, I'm fed up, and I'm 51. Fuck it.
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I'm a pretty open political dissident, not sure if this site flagged me, as I am pretty open. I talk with an Egyptian that was jailed for 2 years as who is now in Turkey.
Just posting this, for the pussies, to see what it means to be a dissident. I am one. I have 8 pussies who (put me on ignore) can't stand to see what I write, perhaps I'm wrong, but they can't stand to point out how how I'm wrong.