IMHO, this is not code. I read this as "Extra Spicy Sockets!" sounds like something edible, and in turn, reminds him of Hot Pockets, which in turn, makes him crave pizza.
Every email has to be read in the context of the rest.
Two things. I don't understand the email, and never in my life have I carried on about pizza and how much I loved or craved it. When you want to eat food, you talk about it right before you decide what you are going to eat. You don't email back and forth about your professed love of pizza and your plans for future pizza eating. I find it odd that others find it normal. It is not life as I am familiar with. For instance, I don't want to talk about how much I love peanut butter cups right now, because there is never a reason for me to do so in an email, except how I just used it. You people are really odd that think this is normal.
i think it's important to note that OP's source isn't an email- it's a 225 page pdf. when i tried searching for more info about it i found what looks like the whole thing here, even the "strange craving for pizza" line:
http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all
when i found the file myself, i came to the conclusion that it was in vault 7 because of this:
We live in a connected world, and modern software has to navigate this world. So the building blocks for tomorrow's very largest solutions are connected and massively parallel. It's not enough for code to be "strong and silent" any more. Code has to talk to code. Code has to be chatty, sociable, well-connected. Code has to run like the human brain, trillions of individual neurons firing off messages to each other, a massively parallel network with no central control, no single point of failure, yet able to solve immensely difficult problems. And it's no accident that the future of code looks like the human brain, because the endpoints of every network are, at some level, human brains.
If you've done any work with threads, protocols, or networks, you'll realize this is pretty much impossible. It's a dream. Even connecting a few programs across a few sockets is plain nasty when you start to handle real life situations. Trillions? The cost would be unimaginable. Connecting computers is so difficult that software and services to do this is a multi-billion dollar business.
So we live in a world where the wiring is years ahead of our ability to use it. We had a software crisis in the 1980s, when leading software engineers like Fred Brooks believed there was no "Silver Bullet" to "promise even one order of magnitude of improvement in productivity, reliability, or simplicity".
Brooks missed free and open source software, which solved that crisis, enabling us to share knowledge efficiently. Today we face another software crisis, but it's one we don't talk about much. Only the largest, richest firms can afford to create connected applications. There is a cloud, but it's proprietary. Our data and our knowledge is disappearing from our personal computers into clouds that we cannot access and with which we cannot compete. Who owns our social networks? It is like the mainframe-PC revolution in reverse.
Pieter Hintjens, CEO of iMatix
According to Wikipedia:
While in his position as iMatix CEO, Hintjens founded the ZeroMQ software project together with Martin Sustrik. ZeroMQ is a high-performance asynchronous messaging library aimed at use in scalable distributed or concurrent applications.
In November 2013, Hintjens announced EdgeNet, a project building upon ZeroMQ for mesh networks. EdgeNet aims to build a secure, anonymous peer-to-peer alternative to the internet. Hintjens also authored several ZeroMQ projects, such as CZMQ, zproto, and Malamute.
Hintjens would go on to say this about EdgeNet:
We built the Internet to be a space for freedom and opportunity. Instead it has become the greatest surveillance system ever. My name is Pieter Hintjens, CEO of iMatix, and I want you to help me fix that.
Without privacy and anonymity, we lose our freedom of speech. And without that, we become slaves to a narrative where the powerful run amok, without oversight or regulation. I truly believe we’re facing the extinction of our digital freedoms, and then our real world freedoms. By joining in this project and contributing, you help turn back the tide.
I think Pieter Hintjens became a threat to the surveillance state. maybe the cia killed him? official cause of death was terminal cancer/voluntary euthanasia.
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HugoWeaving ago
Sometimes PIZZA really IS just PIZZA
IMHO, this is not code. I read this as "Extra Spicy Sockets!" sounds like something edible, and in turn, reminds him of Hot Pockets, which in turn, makes him crave pizza.
Every email has to be read in the context of the rest.
DeathToMasons ago
Two things. I don't understand the email, and never in my life have I carried on about pizza and how much I loved or craved it. When you want to eat food, you talk about it right before you decide what you are going to eat. You don't email back and forth about your professed love of pizza and your plans for future pizza eating. I find it odd that others find it normal. It is not life as I am familiar with. For instance, I don't want to talk about how much I love peanut butter cups right now, because there is never a reason for me to do so in an email, except how I just used it. You people are really odd that think this is normal.
fuckreddit__ ago
i think it's important to note that OP's source isn't an email- it's a 225 page pdf. when i tried searching for more info about it i found what looks like the whole thing here, even the "strange craving for pizza" line: http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all
DeathToMasons ago
Interesting context.
fuckreddit__ ago
when i found the file myself, i came to the conclusion that it was in vault 7 because of this:
According to Wikipedia:
Hintjens would go on to say this about EdgeNet:
I think Pieter Hintjens became a threat to the surveillance state. maybe the cia killed him? official cause of death was terminal cancer/voluntary euthanasia.