zombies attack again

You'd better resign yourself to the fact that you can't kill them. They just keep coming again; you can only beat them back for a little while.

Now they want to expand the misleadingly titled Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The existing act is itself a fraud and an abuse of power. It was created back in the early days of the internet and no longer is relevant (perhaps never applied) to the real world. It is the act that was used to bully Aaron Schwartz to death.

Work has proceeded in rewriting this bad law so that it is less likely to be abused, but members of the House Judiciary Committee have come up with a cynical move to make CFAA even worse.

Each time the monsters who would eat the internet are beaten back, they return. They are stupid but they won't tire. They will just keep coming. We need a way to stop them for good, otherwise one day they will succeed in damaging the net irreparably while we are not looking and there will be no way to undo it.

Perhaps this was partly what Danny Hillis was worried about when he proposed The internet could crash. We need a Plan B at a TED talk.

Qt5... bleagh!

I was having a long, recursively difficult problem compiling a program that had innumerable dependencies. Eventually I reached a point where one of the dependencies wouldn't compile without Qt5. So, groaning, I found the download page and began the download. But when I saw the size, I was disgusted and said aloud, "You've gotta be kidding me!" It is 388 MB in size! For a GUI toolkit; just an interface system!

To put this in perspective, the entire Puppy Linux operating system with windowing interface, file manager, gtk GUI toolkit, various packages like word processor, spreadsheet, web browser, and hundreds of other utilities weighs in at just over a quarter that size.

Who in their right mind creates a GUI toolkit that bloated? I mean, Microsoft might, but this is happening in the Linux world. Not good.

I betcha it runs like a snail too.