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Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate
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Article written by Xeni Jardin, one of the original boingboing authors and long-time Wu supporter/shill, yet Brianna's "campaign" didn't even get so much as a namedrop. Potential snub?
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Wu tries to talk tech again, once again she humiliates herself.
The peanut gallery tries to get at what the hell she's talking about. She can't possibly explain her super technical reasoning to mansplainers.
Especially not if the mansplainers are infinitely more qualified than Wu to hold an opinion.
Briefly, Wu is full of crap because she doesn't really understand what the SMTP protocol is used for. SMTP is the protocol for relaying mail between endpoints. There are problems with the base SMTP protocol in as far as spoofing mail is concerned, but these have largely been fixed by protocol extensions for sender policy and inter-relay mail signing. None of these fixes involve "two factor authentication", which seems to be the only noise Wu knows to make when discussing security.
The peanut gallery tries to get at what the hell she's talking about. She can't possibly explain her super technical reasoning to mansplainers.
Especially not if the mansplainers are infinitely more qualified than Wu to hold an opinion.
Briefly, Wu is full of crap because she doesn't really understand what the SMTP protocol is used for. SMTP is the protocol for relaying mail between endpoints. There are problems with the base SMTP protocol in as far as spoofing mail is concerned, but these have largely been fixed by protocol extensions for sender policy and inter-relay mail signing. None of these fixes involve "two factor authentication", which seems to be the only noise Wu knows to make when discussing security.
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Anytime, literally ANYTIME someone disagrees with John, even in the most respectful and cowed manner, it's snarky "mansplaining", "I don't have to argue with male randos", etc.
John, you do know that you'll have to interact with men WHEN you win your election, right?
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Wu snarls and goes back to frantically tweeting an update about Mansplainers.
(Repeat for entire term of office)
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I just love John's assumption that no one before him considered revisiting SMTP for security in the 30+ years it's been around. Nope, they've still been shooting plaintext around over open relays on ARPANET this whole time 
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Can she do one, just one, open event in her district before spending shit tons for personal vacations? How is no one in her circle calling her out on this.
"I gave you 200 dollars and you're going to california with it? For a tech conference, to look at toys?"
"I gave you 200 dollars and you're going to california with it? For a tech conference, to look at toys?"
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Hey, she said it the tweet herself. She thinks she's above "normal" people.I just love John's assumption that no one before him considered revisiting SMTP for security in the 30+ years it's been around. Nope, they've still been shooting plaintext around over open relays on ARPANET this whole time
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Wu is incompetent, cartoonishly so, in anything technical. Anything of his "technical" work - I'll use this article as a convenient example - will demonstrate several fundamental misconceptions of the subject.
Wu said:
First, assembly language is the term he's looking for. The most recent instance I can think of where a programmer actually typed in machine language as part of a legitimate project is when Steve Wozniak wrote Apple BASIC, and because he could not afford to buy the compiler to convert assembly language into machine code.
Today assembly language is really only used for small programs in resource-strapped environments. As recently as the 90s you had it in video games, but this was primarily because the programmers knew assembly and did not know how to properly use C or the other higher-level languages. This was used in early builds of the original Diablo, though it was removed and replaced before publication because assembly makes later modifications to the code a nightmare to implement. The most recent commercial program in assembly I can think of is the original RollerCoaster Tycoon in x86 assembly in 1999, which had a 1-person development team. Even then, it's my opinion that the original having only two expansions in spite of its commercial success and the lack of any real modifications to the gameplay beyond the addition of extra rides - which was not lost on critics - is evidence that the decision to use assembly also made the game difficult to maintain and modify by its developer later on.
This brings us to the third fundamental misconception, evidenced by Wu not realizing that you only really want to use assembly in small, niche applications where nothing else will work because it is very hard to get right and, more importantly, very hard to keep right as development progresses. Modern projects get very complex very fast, and you need a way to handle that complexity. That's part of the reason why AGILE, SCRUM, and any of the other acronyms Wu throws around exist, to help manage the complexity and deal with the inevitable challenges that arise from it. It's part of the reason why writing maintainable code is what employers hire for, not writing marginally faster code using arcane hacks that nobody else can read after you change projects or leave the company.
The fact that Wu, after publishing Rev 60, still knows nothing about the complexity monster should be a clear demonstration of how much of a rule he played in its development.
Today assembly language is really only used for small programs in resource-strapped environments. As recently as the 90s you had it in video games, but this was primarily because the programmers knew assembly and did not know how to properly use C or the other higher-level languages. This was used in early builds of the original Diablo, though it was removed and replaced before publication because assembly makes later modifications to the code a nightmare to implement. The most recent commercial program in assembly I can think of is the original RollerCoaster Tycoon in x86 assembly in 1999, which had a 1-person development team. Even then, it's my opinion that the original having only two expansions in spite of its commercial success and the lack of any real modifications to the gameplay beyond the addition of extra rides - which was not lost on critics - is evidence that the decision to use assembly also made the game difficult to maintain and modify by its developer later on.
This brings us to the third fundamental misconception, evidenced by Wu not realizing that you only really want to use assembly in small, niche applications where nothing else will work because it is very hard to get right and, more importantly, very hard to keep right as development progresses. Modern projects get very complex very fast, and you need a way to handle that complexity. That's part of the reason why AGILE, SCRUM, and any of the other acronyms Wu throws around exist, to help manage the complexity and deal with the inevitable challenges that arise from it. It's part of the reason why writing maintainable code is what employers hire for, not writing marginally faster code using arcane hacks that nobody else can read after you change projects or leave the company.
The fact that Wu, after publishing Rev 60, still knows nothing about the complexity monster should be a clear demonstration of how much of a rule he played in its development.
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I am at a total loss what John could possibly have done during his time on the Hill. I think Trent Lott just took one look at that useless fuck and shoved him in a barrel for a year or whatever until they could unload him.
I don't know what the fuck they're thinking where putting up this vapid babbling mentally ill looking idiot contributes anything to the campaign.
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What campaign?
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The one where John is running to be King of the Supreme Court where he'll be able to filiblubber Drumpf.
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He's effectively bankrolling the campaign and making up any shortfalls - half the receipts seemed to be "reimbursements to Frank Wu" and he wound up signing for the forms they sent in. If he also wants a public-facing part of the campagin, Bri and anyone else tethered to this albatross aren't about to contradict him.
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Has John ever even set foot in District 8 or is he afraid the working class people there would just kick his tranny ass on sight?
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Didn't he go to a "dive bar" (one that happened to look like a perfectly well-kept place)?
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If you can't slip on vomit and fall in piss, it isn't a dive bar.
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Just want to correct this - Frank isn't actually putting in or taking out any significant amount of money. What seems to be happening is that John uses Frank's credit card to buy campaign stuff (however defined), and then the campaign pays Frank back out of the raised funds. The campaign has never racked up more debt than it had assets, or let Frank's balance due rise above the statutory limit. For what it's worth, Flynt For Congress is legitimately operating off of the funds it raises.
That's not to say Frank is spending nothing, of course - in reality he's spending down all of his social capital, which is harder to acquire than mere lucre.
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His social capital evaporated into worthlessness the moment he married John.
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Don't forget, John only had an unpaid summer internship with Trent Lott. His stint in DC was another thing entirely, he spent at least a year in DC living in an apartment his parents bought him, and there's no real evidence he was actually employed in politics or any job for that matter. By the strategically vague way Wu has always referred to her job there as "fundraising", it tends to suggest actually she was either unemployed or had some temp jobs.
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I hope Wu makes it to debate time; plenty of chances for major sperging. It'd be pretty funny if she made it into congress too. Not good for her constituents, but if they voted her in they'd have majorly earned the fallout.