Posts by fg_swe

UK.gov's nuclear strategy is 'slow, inefficient, and costly'

ChatGPT

Russia operates 36 nuclear reactors, with an aggregate capacity of about 26,802 MWe

Mainland China has 58 operational nuclear reactors, with a total installed capacity around 60.9 GW

Nuclear Concorde

Britain should be teaming up with Macron and France to rebuild the nuclear construction industry. He seems to do the right things.

Germany still needs to drink more Maoist p1ss until she comes to reason, so do not count on us yet.

After that, a Nuclear Airbus could be envisioned.

Industrial-Educational Policy Needed

To build nuclear reactors you need well-educated welders, CNC machinists, engineers, nuclear medicuses, large steel foundries, well-educated electricians, capable civil servants who perform the funding and so on.

A lot of that has been allowed to atrophy in western Europe, due to Maoist-GREEN propaganda. Meanwhile COMINTERN nations have the greatest industrial muscle by now. Great for COMINTERN. COMINTERN now operates one of the largest nuclear and coal power station fleets and they build them in large numbers. Russia leads in Fast Neutron Reactors.

In Germany we had - objectively speaking - some of the most advanced, most economic and most reliable nuclear reactors. Called Konvoi. Shut down by the Maoists and the weaklings who did not fight them.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_Neckarwestheim

What we need are folks like Franz Josef Strauß and Charles DeGaulle to turn the ship around.

Kick out the Uniparty and elect Patriots !

IBM Cloud hit by Severity One incident with the same symptoms as other recent SNAFUs

Re: Obligatory

The Outlook Is Cloudy !

Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your 'garbage' RISC-V patches are 'making the world worse'

Linux Kernel Relevance

The Linux kernel is now part of top secret-carrying military radios in Germany.

Thousands of other applications from Checkpoint firewalls to search engines to DSL measurment devices, industrial control etc.

Of course I expect Mr Thorvalds to have the balls to defend the kernel from substandard contributions.

The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says

Small Churches

There exist small, independent churches who have not yet been corrupted by $$$.

Marxist Nonsense

Even poor folks can now publish their thoughts with minimal budget.

If you have an insight into anything, write it down and publish it. Maybe you can help everybody a tiny bit ?

Maybe YOU have a little Kepler, a tiny Leibniz in yourself ?

The Marxists always claim the victim-claptrap, when in reality there is a strong reason why some folks achieve more than others. Let's call it Gaussian Distribution of IQ.

No

If you cannot find the nuggets between the cr4p, maybe YOU are the problem ?

Giants To Stand Upon

We all stand on giants shoulders such as Gauss, Newton, Pasteur and probably 1000 more men of this caliber.

Nobody in their right mind would suggest the deletion of their knowledge.

So if you have a good insight in anything useful to humanity, why exactly should you delete it ?

I Am Confused

Propaganda recently told me that Eternal Life is just around the corner. The Medicuses have a magic drug for that, so they claim.

Now I am told that I should delete my public utterings, the closest thing to eternal life we currently have.

Can someone resolve the confusion ?

DEF CON hackers plug security holes in US water systems amid tsunami of threats

Well

If you set up an ssh-forwarded X11 console, it is already quite secure. Just never think about exposing X11, RDP, CIFS etc themselves.

Here are my thoughts on the subject: https://di-fg.de/MinimalesChiffrierSystem.html

DHS ?

It is almost as DHS could run them against their databases. As they need to do for each and every police and firebrigade man.

Should be possible between sweets and doughnuts.

Maybe

...you should become a politician and effect the necessary political change ?

Your CV is not fit for the 21st century – time to get it up to scratch

FALSE

How old was that man inventing Go ?

Actual competence matters and you get it from lots of mistakes/experience/crises.

False

I would rather hire a sharp 67 year old engineer than a 24 yeat old green graduate.

It's about capabilities, not birthday.

Also see the guy who invented Go.

Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them?

Re: just satellites.

As you can see, we already work on a solution. It is definitely doable and the scare is unfounded.

Minimal Encryption System

Essentially the same problem as for satellites exists in firewalls, industrial control, power stations, water plants, wastewater treatment, distributed sensors and so on.

Here is the canonical solution:

https://di-fg.de/MinimalesChiffrierSystem.html

https://1-di--fg-de.translate.goog/MinimalesChiffrierSystem.html?_x_tr_enc=1&_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Cipher Code Review

More specifically, ESA should ask BSI and/or CESG to perform the review for them. These 2000 locs are essentially the front door of the satellite and it better be 100% secure.

For NASA it would be NSA’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, I assume.

False

Your opponent might be a nation state, who already HAS 16m diameter satcom dishes. There is no way around proper ciphering of satellite control commands. As I wrote above, 2000 lines of code is sufficient for confidentialiy, integrity, authenticity, non-repetition* and non-replay.

The organization operating the satellites must spend serious money, manpower and time to review these critical 2000 locs.

Hire the best computer scientist-mathematician you can get hold of. Ask CESG or BSI for help. They either employ said CS man or they know whom to call.

*two identical plaintexts do not produce identical ciphertexts

Re: I Call BS

I claim that SSL libraries of 400 000 lines of code are very hard to properly review. See Heartbleed and lots of similar exploits.

I also claim this complexity is in many cases not required.

In the case of satellites, the symmetric 32 octet key would be keyed on the ground, using e.g. RS232.

Of course my little MST would have to be reviewed, too. Which is rather easy with 2000 loc.

Most Importantly

Berlin and Moscow had/have a capable intelligence service. They walk their No 1 into a bunker while the carpetbombing is ongoing.

You bet they have PLENTY of nuke proof bunkers in Moscow, complete with high speed elevators and elaborate door technology.

Plus they have helos and their version of Looking Glass, always ready to take off with 5 mins notice.

Well

In all fairness, even zero trust approaches need dependable firewalls to protect Hamburgers like OCI listeners and similar.

But apparently Linux netfilter is way more secure than commercial Hamburger firewalls they sell for big money.

Hamburger VPNs apparently are exploitable without valid credentials. MSFT cannot protect their RDP port. Total Hamburger incompetence, apparently.

Indeed

The Hamburger IT Security industry cannot even build a proper firewall. They feast on insecure stuff and have zero interest in proper technology.

Cisco, Palo Alto, etc - avoid like the plague.

Maybe Checkpoint can be trusted, as long as you are aligned with Israel, of course.

Rohde+Schwarz, Hensoldt also know what they do. Most of the time...

I Call BS

Building a proper crypto library for such purposes can be done in less than 2000 lines of C++. This means it can be properly reviewed by seasoned experts in 6 weeks or less.

Confidentiality, authenticity, no replay possible. 2000 loc. Been there done that.

https://github.com/DiplIngFrankGerlach/MST

Just dont use the cr4p they offer as " industry standard". E.g. the SSL nightmares.

Also the military *does* consider these things and do NOT use the FOSS trojan horse of the day.

Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK

Re: Thumbs Up !

Not a digital computer and no program store ?

We had similar machine here from SCHICKARDT.

Re: Thumbs Up !

Zuse used binary encoding, invented float numbers, main memory and freely programmable program store.

He stood on the shoulders of Leibniz.

The implementations were first mechanical, then relais based and evebtually transistor based.

What matters are the concepts, not so much the physical realization.

Not Really

In western Europe there is a lack of venture capital financing of IT startups. The idea would be that the IT Airbus Corporation would be doing this function, along with manufacturing, marketing, customer support, sales etc.

There is a lack of expertise, as compared to the California Venture Captialists. This has been exploited by shady entrepreneurs in the past. They took the capital and never turned it into a profitable business("Neuer Markt").

Too many people in Europe live under the naive conceptions of perfect free market, perfect socialism, infallible genius developers and the like. The reality is often messy, hybrid, driven by commercial propaganda, messy financing and so on.

But neither was the european a/c industry nice clean and fully rational. No human endeavour is. It took realists like Franz Josef Strauß to make Airbus happen. He was definitely not a saint, but a great patriot overall.

FJS: Nazi propaganda officer turned PM of bavaria, turned defence minister, turned Airbus champion, greased by Lockheed, turning Bavaria from farmer's land into high tech tribe...

Re: Seen this movie a million times

How evil, to think there could be competitors to MSFT; AMZN and GOOG. It is almost as Free Enterpise and Competition were a real thing !

Re: Police Nationale de France

https://elsefix.com/fr/tech/ann/la-policia-nacional-francesa-cambia-37-000-escritorios-a-linux.html

Thumbs Up !

We aso invented the digital computer in Germany, a fact drowned out by victor's propaganda.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

Imagine what could have been, if we had politically capable generals in the 1920 and 1930s !

Yeah Sure

Why use Ubuntu+SuSE out of Britain+Germany, if you can shackle yourself to Google Spyware ? These control freaks need more victims !

Imprecise Analysis

The highly successful AIRBUS project and the other projects I listed worked like a breeze WITHOUT the EU.

AIRBUS still produces wings in Britain and screws them to the aircraft in Toulouse, Hamburg, America and China. Top class, world-leading airplanes. Boeing is clearly inferior.

Same with Jäger 90-Typhoon. Excellent a/c without a need for the EU nor the € currency, which is in fact a huge socialist utopia experiment.

AIRBUS should be the blueprint for cooperation in other sectors.

Open Source MAKES Big Money

See AAPL and almost every other tech behemoth. They love to use open source to build their proprietary products and then sell them for TOP DOLLAR.

Apple products are based on xBSD, open source compilers and a boatload of other Open Source systems such as CUPS.

They take free, well-developed systems, slap a nice, proprietary GUI on it and then make $$$ $$$.

Only Europeans have been too thick to do the same thing.

Gendarmerie Ubuntu

GendBuntu

French AI

https://chat.mistral.ai/

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral_AI

Use it or lose it !

Police Nationale de France

One definitely needs a bit of patriotic spirit to do what the Police Nationale did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

It is hard work to achieve actual sovereignty. The agency needs a few skilled senior administrators, who will command the income of a colonel.

BUT - it will free the government agency from being locked-in to the crazy whims of the Monopolist. Like a GUI operating system without windows and similar madnesses.

As a first step, UKGOV and other like-minded governments should reach out to Police Nationale in order to

A) Learn from them

B) team up on pressing needs such as improving critical FOSS software

C) Develop open source cameraderie

AIRBUS

CONCORDE

TORNDAO

Jäger 90-Typhoon

MILAN

- all great success stories of european cooperation.

https://di-fg.de/IT_Airbus.html

Of course the Monopolist's salesfolk sirens will not like it. Have the wax for your ears at the ready !

Both

A) lean government as opposed to socialist Bloat

B) competitive IT procurement instead of Monopolist Worship

It's mainly up to the voters to eject the losers.

Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft

IT AIrbus

The obvious answer to feeding a foreign monopolist.

https://di-fg.de/IT_Airbus.html

When hyperscalers can’t safeguard one nation’s data from another, dark clouds are ahead

UK ICL/Siemens/Fuji

There are some pockets of resistance inside UK_GOV and BUND_DE, which run on Fujitsu systems. SPARC, BS2000, VME Algol mainframes etc.

Dreamers would say that this can be easily expanded. If only the Euro crowd had some Cojones.

Example WhatsApp TO DeltaChat

DeltaChat uses the proven GNUpg cipher system, unlike the shady stuff inside WhatsApp. Also, it runs on ANY email server, no central servers needed.

DeltaChat cannot do phone or video calls, though. Apart from that, it works like a breeze.

Developed in Freiburg, Baden, Germany.

https://delta.chat/de/

Example Google TO Qwant

Go to the settings page of your web browser and enable Qwant (out of Paris) instead of Google.

In my experience, Qwant is in 99,9% of cases as good as Google.

But Qwant does not suffer from the same world domination complex as the Googlers do. And it provides jobs in France, maybe one day for one of ourselves.

This is what YOU can do.

IT Airbus

There exist viable alternatives to Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook etc:

https://di-fg.de/IT_Airbus.html

Hetzner, Fujitsu, Qwant, Linux, DeltaChat, SSH, MaxDB, CompCert, seL4, xBSD, FramaSoft, Tuxedo, RPI...

We all can start using them instead of just b1tch1ng about Trump.

Microsoft promises to eventually make WinUI 'truly open source'

No Worries

xBSD, OpenSolaris, MacOS are waiting to replace Linux, if needed.

Microsoft researchers: To fend off AI, consider a job as a pile driver

Retrain As A Healer

Each crisis is an opportunity. If they actually manage to turn medicine in an even more dollarized cesspool, there will be a huge demand for Life Counselors:

"don't drink liters of coke a day",

"walk the woods instead of driving all the time"

"cook your own meals instead of microwave dreckfood"

"meet real people in the local church instead of solitizing in front of the tablet"

"work your own garden instead of consuming holyweird nonsense"

"you are actually an man and castration wont make you a wimin"

"eat more cabbage salad and less oily burgers"

etc. You will be the most respected man in your area.

The tiny tech tribe who could change the world tomorrow but won't

Muhahahaha

AI screwing up everything ? Surely Hollyweird have a movie for that scenario.

Bingo

The hardware makers add their own little ins4ne keyboard layouts to lock you into their brands.

Small, Independent Church

Not as corrupt as the big ones: E.g. xfce.

Microsoft SharePoint victim count hits 400+ orgs in ongoing attacks

Worse

They do not handle the missile, they do the warheads.

AI industry's size obsession is killing ROI, engineer argues

Re: Really -5% interest compounding

You might want to check € and $ (and many others) in gold. There you have -10% p.a.

Compare that to DM in the 80s, it was 0%.