u/DontFreeMe

The amount of entitlement, ignorance and outright bigotry on this thread is so revolting that I DNS-blocked the website yesterday, to avoid disabling my account (like several users did). In the last 6 months, the tone of this website definitely shifted from the intended "garden party" to the "debate club" that it set out to avoid.

In organizational psychology, they say that "your culture is shaped by the worst behavior you tolerate". This saying applies to community moderation too, and this incident is proof for that. Every time angrysock displayed anti-social behavior and got away with it, kind people either left the website or progressively disengaged from it. At the same time, other people took note and (consciously or not) started mirroring some of that unkind behavior. Like the political overton window, every incident moved the community norms towards unkindness, up the the point where lobste.rs is now hard to differentiate from HN.

In 2025, I disengaged heavily from the comment section, and only read it with a custom CSS that greyed out angrysock's comments. This custom CSS did grow over time, as more and more users took up the "debate club" attitude without consequences. I repeatedly flagged comments as unkind and never got any feedback, then stopped bothering altogether.

Intentionally or not, this thread reignited the concern-trolling campaign that bullied cadey out of the website, and will define the culture of the website going forward. Some of the people contributing to it here were already on my ignore list, but I am genuinely surprised by the amount of people showing their asses here. One should give the benefit of the doubt at first, but there's a half-dozen people here who definitely crossed the line into bad-faith argumentation and/or demonstrated deeply bigoted values, people I would never let close to my loved ones. The moderation team now needs to decide whether to tacitly approve of this behavior or show that it is not acceptable. I am hereby calling for a temporary suspension of the accounts who engaged in islamophobia, queerphobia, concern-trolling and sealioning in this thread, to allow space to reset our community norms before we welcome them back. If nothing is done, the website will continue hemorrhaging kind people who are done attending garden parties that end in fist fights. I will now re-block the website for at least 24 hours, so I won't reply.

In case you haven't been paying attention. Last week, two new Linux LPE vulnerabilities were discovered and leaked. One only works on machines without AppArmor, the other works on all machines. And this is AFTER the "Copy Fail" vulnerability that came before.

The root cause of these vulnerabilities all seem to be the same: corrupt a cached suid file in memory and execute it. But I think the cause is deeper. All of these vulnerabilities exploit some kind of kernel system for in-place cryptography.

In place cryptography may save a couple of memory transfers, but it comes at a cost of much greater complexity, since now the kernel has to make sure that all user-passed pointers are valid and should be allowed to be written to. And the Linux kernel has failed to handle such complexity in at least three separate cases.

OpenBSD had it right. If you want a secure operating system, you have to sacrifice some micro-optimizations and features for the sake of much reduced complexity. And reduced complexity is the only way to have a truly secure operating system.