/prog/ - Donald "Airgapped" Knuth

Name: Anonymous 2018-12-02 12:10

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop—it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

- Donald Knuth

What's so important on his Linux machine that he has to airgap?

Name: Anonymous 2018-12-02 12:20

>>1
Book drafts and boring Latex files.

Name: Anonymous 2018-12-02 13:14

"air gaps" with memory cards or flash drives aren't real air gaps

he probably has an ancient version of ubuntu with tons of known vulnerabilities by now, and if he gets malware on his memory card, it can do things on his laptop

Name: Anonymous 2018-12-02 13:24

Probably it's just that the LaTeX installation takes so much space that there is no room for network drivers.

Name: Anonymous 2018-12-02 13:24

JACKSON 5 GET

Name: Anonymous 2018-12-02 15:39

>>1

family jewels

That is an euphemism for balls.

Name: Anonymous 2018-12-02 15:42

>>6
Guess Knuth likes cock-and-balls torture provided by some device with that opensource Linux OS controlling it.

Name: Anonymous 2018-12-02 16:12

>>1,2
E-mail him.
I know I Faraday cage my private keys.

Name: Anonymous 2018-12-02 18:07

>>8
He does not have an email. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

Name: Anonymous 2018-12-02 22:19

What programming language is this?

Name: Anonymous 2018-12-03 6:52

>>9
then mail him, lol

Name: Anonymous 2018-12-03 7:33

>>10
TeX

Name: Anonymous 2018-12-05 3:37

The real WTF is that Knuth is only 80 years old

Name: Anonymous 2018-12-05 9:07

Knuth's work is pretty impressive for someone who has never touched a computer. Truly a proof that computer science is magic.

Donald "Airgapped" Knuth

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