'you go to prison not for stealing, but for stealing too little'

this might helpfully distinguish theft as an emergent market corrective that spontaneously reallocates hoarded and clogged wealth, and theft as primitive accumulating, cartel extorting, market disciplining dispossession

ie the poor steal to satisfy their deprived needs, which is criminalized and punished, while the rich steal to accrue capital and exact tolls on restricted access, which is permitted and protected

So, for a little project I needed to compress a bit of data, and @cancel and I made up a spec that should be possible to implemented on small systems without too much headaches.

I wrote a bit of documentation for it, and I was wondering if anyone wanted to put the docs to the test and see if they could write a toy implementation in a language of their choice. It'd help me see if there's things missing in the docs.

http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/ulz_format

So, think of it as a little puzzle.

"Ohai, this is Windows. You may have noticed that I killed all the long-running jobs that you left going overnight and restarted your computer so that I could inject some AI-flavored bullshit you never asked for into your (*) operating system. You're welcome!!!”

(*) “It's not actually yours, of course. The OS now works for our Marketing Department rather than you. kthxbai.”

#Windows #enshittification