asciilifeform: but ended up 'cult object' for complicated cultural reasonz
asciilifeform: and, importantly, ~with what~ this gem was produced.
asciilifeform: so now 'apple' is very small and consists of 1 unemployed ex-ceo d00d, or..
asciilifeform: this is not plug-compatible with fiat reich.
asciilifeform: now i have nfi how much of the 'super' industry is geared for jet fighter, and how much - for plastic pumpkins and ipnohe.
asciilifeform: is it possible that there are 'two chinas', one healthy, that makes gear for self - pencils, jet fighters, et al, and one diseased, that is in any possible light really part of the american chumpatronic system, that uses up valuable resourced & labour to make plastic orange pumpking for halloween decorations in usa, ipnohe, etc. ?
asciilifeform: i still do not fully grasp the intricate chumpatron that is chinese trade with usa
asciilifeform: while it is not afaik impossible for a 70 y.o. d00d to climb out of 'presidential' cockpit, where most of the knobs are not connected to anything, and into 'fuhrer' cockpit, where they are...
asciilifeform: thus far mr t's list is most reminiscent imho of jimmy carter's campaign plank, where he promised to 'show the aliens'
asciilifeform: (a week ago it was full to the brim with items like 'how america almost made the trump mistake' etc.)
asciilifeform: 'Trump masks sold out in Japan… but why?'
asciilifeform: where the chumps actually thought that you get something for the two or three extra zeroes on the price tag vs the konsoomer version
asciilifeform: dns imho is simply evil, and should not be put on life support, but properly shot.
asciilifeform: the_scourge: it is simply what the tradition of shooting a man in the head second time for good measure is called on other side of the atlantic.
asciilifeform: 'how america almost made the trump mistake' etc.
asciilifeform: i thought he lived in an old broken clay amphora!
asciilifeform: dunno that it is such a bad deal, escapee slave can jump ordinary barbed wire with leather coats, tarps, etc., but not so easily spikes.
asciilifeform: but the fact asciilifeform finds more interesting is that they have, apparently, a complete electronic manufacturing vertical there.
asciilifeform: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1r2T6Pq3-S1w0L4YcS1fbzvEnqHM&hl=en&ll=33.80916597520113%2C-116.8815388597464&z=12 << considerably larger, and, by all accounts, more lavish, than, e.g., camp david, or nsa hq, or, or.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: church of s is probably the most interesting item in usa, from tmsr perspective. think, they - apparently - run a complete northkr ~inside~ usa, with palaces, factories, gulags, fuck knows, possibly complete with rockets. and ~0 newspaper whine.
asciilifeform: the 'competitive' dnstrons -- do.
asciilifeform: it doesn't 'price competitively' because it doesn't (last i saw) sell customers to spammers, plaster self with pestilential ads, 'park' linkfarms on paying customer domains, etc
asciilifeform: in other noose, 'The afternoon rally came a day after fliers appeared in bathrooms across campus warning of pro-Trump "vigilante squads." The fliers contained a picture of men clad in camouflage holding rifles and said the squads would “arrest and torture those deviant university leaders spouting off all this diversity garbage.” University police were investigating the source of the fliers.'
asciilifeform: '“While demeaning, insulting, and ridiculing minorities, immigrants, and the physically/mentally disabled worked for Mr. Trump, I want to be clear that this behavior -- and these views -- have no place at Grubhub,” Maloney explained. Adding, if it were up to him, Trump would have been fired a long time ago. "Had he worked here, many of his comments would have resulted in his immediate termination.”'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: no particular timestamp, but in the shorter segments, with the walking
asciilifeform: it is spoken in such a way that implies that if 'policymakers' made 'policy' to this effect, electrons would cease to spin in their orbits
asciilifeform: it worked on asciilifeform and bunch of other chumps
asciilifeform: javascript does not exemplify anything -- other than the consequences of letting idiot 'esl' teenagers create infrastructure.
asciilifeform: going to mars -- is doable. but not by simply jumping vigorously.
asciilifeform: isn't this kinda how mircea_popescu proposes to solve the problem of isp compulsion by meat sovereigns ? 'pretend not problem'
asciilifeform: one component that would vastly simplify the job is gossip net.
asciilifeform: 'spam isp' is an actual thing, they live, die. my (nonexpert) impression is that the business model is only barely +ev. sorta resembles (btc) mine.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://archive.is/hBFcT >> 'President-Elect Donald Trump’s advisers are considering JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon for Treasury secretary, CNBC reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. Dimon isn’t interested, one of the people told CNBC.'
asciilifeform: nobody said that all appetites were compatible with reality.
asciilifeform: and had to march in the gurl to prove she had not been impaled..
asciilifeform: who filmed the 'impalement' scene
asciilifeform: this was not the implication in the original piece tho.
asciilifeform: that is, if the aim is 'educational', rather than simple pest control.
asciilifeform: ifornia is "blue" because electoral votes are an all-or-nothing thing. In reality, Donald Trump got about 3 million of the 9 million votes cast for president in California. Those votes for Trump don't matter, though. '
asciilifeform: hence the babylon example. picture chix with 0 hollywood exposure.
asciilifeform: it is also substantial noise component.
asciilifeform: how did greeks implement wail-suppression system ?
asciilifeform: 2nd gen - sinks into the swamp.
asciilifeform: and yes usa is where europe et al dumps folx to get deculturated and 'eaten by wolves' and converted to 'modern demoocracy' participants.
asciilifeform: i was stumped, but pet explained 'pussy'
asciilifeform: (from some first-hand familiarity) it is not clear to me that they were in any sense eaten, they are still here. marching round with picket signs , e.g., 'PROTECT MY [picture of cat] FROM TRUMP'
asciilifeform: it was a quite overt surrender of territory, the idiot rulers of the time saw it as 'temporary' strategic retreat
asciilifeform: 'Donald Trump, go away! Sexist, racist, anti-gay!'
asciilifeform: 'Vigils and protests swell across U.S. in wake of Trump victory'
asciilifeform: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-white-house-win-promises-to-reshape-us-political-landscape/2016/11/09/62baa5e4-a66a-11e6-ba59-a7d93165c6d4_story.html << for fuxxxsake they took same pics
asciilifeform: films are in (yes) crapple format, it plays on mplayer and probably whatever else.
asciilifeform: derps started at white house and then had 'march' to trumpularium (old wash d.c. post office, yes the one with the bell tower, that herr tritler converted to mega-hotel last yr)
asciilifeform: now next to the dc trumpularium
asciilifeform: i'm not wholly convinced that anybody cancelled it. if industrial era of complicated machinery runs through, it'll be back to blood, soil, castles.
asciilifeform: there is ocean of this nonsense, above is sample preserved here in amber for entomological purposes.
asciilifeform: as a boy i was quite impressed with the stories about peter I and his beheadings, his men had to work in shifts to decap all of the derps, and he personally helped, even chopped during parties
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/nx2F3 << not only lultron, but complete with... blue PA
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/KJpLN >> 'Will Trump’s Rule of Law Be Our Rule of Law? The fate of the entire legal apparatus of government is in the balance.' << ooohnoez!111111
asciilifeform: if i knew how to fly airplanes, i would easily be in empty field in some kansas even now.
asciilifeform: i was actually considering the flying death-capsule for my own arse. because my physical presence in the swamp is called for maybe once or twice in a month, and with many days of warning.
asciilifeform: go trumplincton.
asciilifeform: aah i laboured under the impression that pete_dushenski is one of those odd folk who enjoys operating weird vehicle.
asciilifeform: 'Donald Trump's campaign moved to contest the election results of battleground Nevada, claiming the registrar of Democratic-heavy Clark County kept an early voting location open two extra hours to help boost Democratic turnout. The complaint alleges a polling location in a heavily Latino part of the county stayed open past its 8 p.m. closing time, allowing people to line up and vote until 10 p.m. The Republican poll watcher said the
asciilifeform: mempool really belongs chopped cleanly out of trb.
asciilifeform: mine is simply fed shit all day, by virtually all connecters, to slow it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://elections16.usatoday.com/outlook/presidential << plenty of 'reporting'. complete with the hardcoded clitler.
asciilifeform: f July 5. Defense counsel received the discovery in a SCIF on June 13, 2016. This includes, however, a disc of emails that cannot currently be reviewed, as a secure computer has not yet been provided, as well as the files of the case agents, which are also classified and were not previously available to counsel..'
asciilifeform: e.g., 'This case is complex because it involves classified discovery that requires a top secret clearance to review. In order to make use of the classified discovery at trial, counsel will have to engage in CIPA litigation. This requires that defense counsel be able to review the discovery, determine a trial strategy and decide what discovery and evidence will be necessaryfor trial, in advance of the currentlyscheduled hearing date o
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: rubbish infrastructure because they dun actually ~count~ them ballots, and annoyed when too many chumps show up to fill the useless bin
asciilifeform: they simply did not see any reason to install >1
asciilifeform: a bit more complicated, where i went to school we had ~both~ types, on one campus
asciilifeform still does not fully grasp why the 'real americans' won't build concentration camps and put the folks who did this to them, inside.
asciilifeform: simply so as to squeeze out a small +ev with which to make anything next.
asciilifeform: was ~last gasp of 'you buy a comp, and it comes with the correct os for it, made by same people' thing.
asciilifeform: more nuanced : it is not the 'fps' that matters, but how long it takes to swap framebuffers. the usb dongle gave ~7 fps in practice, but 0 tearing because it had simple doublebuffer, where it took a while to draw the hidden buffer, but flipping took a msec or so.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i've built winblows kernel drivers, for example, without a winblows box or any microshit software (yes, incl. the rsa signature)
asciilifeform: rat, imho, is better company than roach. (incidentally, i was walking in a 'posh' neighbourhood in washington, and saw -- what no one will believe, THOUSANDS of rats, not even around a rubbish pile, but in hedges, right in the earth, SWARMING)
asciilifeform: the way i pictured bitcoin is that it is attempt at experimentally testing the hypothesis that some men are -- men, others -- roaches who were dropped into wrong bin by mistake
asciilifeform: ( the other prong of the front is the attempt to make trb difficult to use reliably by preventing effective quarantine of derp nodes and their tx)
asciilifeform: (summary: usg's most recent attempt to pound in the cock 'halfway', 'segwit', consists of prb churning out txen that result in 'anyone can spend' from trb pov, but miners are to 'agree never to process counter-softforkian tx', a la 'timelock' etc)
asciilifeform: competent engineer is pure cost, for sv derp, and 0 win
asciilifeform: same reason they don't hire competent, e.g., jet pilot, for sv startup
asciilifeform: well, an old trabant-engine powered empire, cannot win against spherical frictionless gossipd, no.
asciilifeform: (on account of being different types of animal, rather than simply happening upon bags of different types of dollar)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is not clear to me that this is the most parsimonious model -- chumpatronicity is not as such a property of individual dollars, any more than ZIL-buying ability was a property of particular rubles in 1980. it is more that the actual coin of the realm - is something else
asciilifeform: so it is not as if this particular batch of monopoly money were somehow ~more~ chumpatronic than the usual.
asciilifeform: here's one local example from the nowhere company town where asciilifeform lives. at one time uni of md was on cost-cutting spree (as usual, quite selectively, but see below) and merged ~all~ of the sciences into 1 mega-department - chemistry, microbiology, physics, etc. all under 1 roof;
asciilifeform: (originally word implied berserker/kamikaze mission, but in modern times often refers to anyone who is expected to fight to the death or at least set off 'shaheed belt' as last hurrah)
asciilifeform: 'Every person in Bitcoin failed. We are looking at 100% failure rate. I could go on and on about my involvement but the fact of the matter is, I'm rich and everyone else is poor. Rant aside, every one of my projects has magically disappeared - I'm talking about full stacks in every market. Why? Every project I did, Peercover, Providence, Simple Exchange, Simple Stocks, Omega Interpreter, Webmata - massively sued legal entities out as
asciilifeform: and what, he wins, sends nyt, wsj, etc. 'cathedral' to börgemoor work camp ? can dream.
asciilifeform: incidentally, wright airplane steered by bending wings, this is another item that could be reintroduced in small flying machines that keep popping up in threads here, 'because we now have computer', but afaik has not been.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how to properly separate layers, for instance. how to boil without 'bumping'. various things that sound braindamagedly simple but many folks fuck up somehow.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: trainers don't simply hand 'patient' a book..
asciilifeform: PeterL: it compared poorly with ordinary luger.
asciilifeform: where the jets were simply angularly-drilled openings.
asciilifeform: i once encountered an entire monograph on the drilling, rifling, and tempering of barrels made specifically from old truck axles.
asciilifeform: and afaik nobody has seriously considered attempting to write it.
asciilifeform: where one might conceivably employ another riotously -ev but simple crackpottery, laser separator
asciilifeform: (you could do it simply with what is in your room where you sit right now)
asciilifeform: and q is not even whether complicated, but whether feasible from commonplace materials.
asciilifeform: the way it even came out publicly was a case where idiot chick with 3rd trimester jumped on.
asciilifeform: chair jumps up 8 or so metres.
asciilifeform: incidentally you can make this out of CURRENT trb simply by putting it on a box without a nic
asciilifeform: after slicing apart mempool-node from blockchain-node, building 'dioded node' becomes trivial exercise.
asciilifeform: incidentally, a more general observation re 'serial diodes', is that, quite like 'archive.is' and similar, they are a valuable detector of folks attempting to monkey with history.
asciilifeform: and as phf points out, it leaves you open to attack where the craftmachine is pwned and gives you a wallet-emptier to happily carry to the bunker and sign..
asciilifeform: tangentially relatedly, did prb ever get around to ordering mempool tx by fee ?
asciilifeform: also include the possible cut between mempool and 'blockpool'
asciilifeform: and pretty much everyone who has attempted to fire a tx using trb prior to mod6's 'S' patch, now has a supply of such 'evil' coin with which to test this hypothesis, if he wants.
asciilifeform: that goes without saying. but does it really need to also be a miniature node ? or can wallet simply do the one essential thing, sign payloads with privkeys
asciilifeform: (possibly because they haven't own brains, are simply an anal wart on usa now.)
asciilifeform: i suppose 1 interesting example of exquisitely mircea_popescutronic arrangement might be yakuza
asciilifeform: note, implication wasn't 'we will be forced to fellate preet'
asciilifeform: from the pov of the imperial papershuffle.
asciilifeform: i am not expert on satmar, but i did once research the mormons, who also carried on imperium in imperio vs usg for a good long time.
asciilifeform: and in re last thread also, i know of 0 examples of anybody pulling this kind of thing off using strictly volunteers having no blood relation.
asciilifeform: (according to him, they have a very effective, 'chechen', orcish style of organization, complete with omerta and folks sittin' in prison for one another, etc)
asciilifeform: whether it 'ought to give in', so the koreans can have levi jeans and wriggleys chewing gum, or continue to work 100 hr weeks semi-starved so that they can carry on the parallel civilization experiment and not turn into 59th shit state of usa, keeping company with puerto rico, is a ~value~ call
asciilifeform: trinque: ever see olympic gymnasts ?
asciilifeform: north kr is simply a large-scale version of the thing wonderful civilized americans like to do to prisoners, chain'em up to a post until shits himself.
asciilifeform: but to appreciate it, you'd have to actually think re subj and not simply swallow south kr (usg) nonsense
asciilifeform: whaddayado when you get wholly incompatible value systems ?
asciilifeform: hence the impression i walked out with.
asciilifeform: particular groups of people, at particular times - quite temporarily - rise above the shitboard.
asciilifeform: don't ask gandhi about brit empire, or jurov - about su
asciilifeform: phf: bbbbbbbbut imported JEANS!!1111
asciilifeform: to answer the q in the earlier thread, su was a superior culture (vs the anglos, of any time after isambard brunel died) simply because their cult was culturally superior in effect. su pharaoh orders n1 rocket for his pyramidal glorification. anglo pharaoh orders 1,000,000,001 fupas to be fattened.
asciilifeform: the 15th c. china of zheng he, had yet other cult object, the mega-fleet (with wooden sailing ships quite comparable in size to today's maersk monsters! )
asciilifeform: british empire has yet other cult objects: massive (and riotously -ev) railroads in india, say.
asciilifeform: trinque: consider: a 'saturn' and the maersk cargo fleet cost similarly. but they are unlike: 'saturn' is a cult/religious object (in the sense where nobody seriously attempts to calculate its roi) , rather more like the great pyramids.
asciilifeform: impressed ?
asciilifeform: you cannot have handmade ic and compete with anything whatsoever.
asciilifeform: trinque: humour me -- why does bugati exist while bugati-comp - not ..?
asciilifeform: stead of employing one guy for a few days, the budget will get chopped up to a half dozen people, it will take months instead of days, and I won’t get what I want anyway. Sure, they can build things now that they couldn’t have before, but there is something missing in the food chain: the guy who can screw around in the machine shop and build something that works from a pencil sketch. There are guys who want to do that, who are ca
asciilifeform: bbbbut 'bitcoin compatible!1111'
asciilifeform: eventually thing implodes, 'genius' ceo moves to next sinking ship..
asciilifeform: 'As of 2016, the independently-funded company is staffed by a team of seven, all of whom joined with a security background, with the majority of that experience coming from the US Dept. of Defense.' << i'ma die of lulz nao
asciilifeform: pile up layers, with poor impedance match, and you get 'a clim'
asciilifeform: (at no point do i give a fuck what is in mempool, unless i put it there)
asciilifeform: mempool is a can of worms that deserves own thread
asciilifeform: and if you cannot do 'which block' because impatient and gotta have txid IMMEDIATELY, then 'top block at time of baking' at least
asciilifeform: and my (few, and brief, admittedly) excursions into the code, did not end with walking away impressed with the workmanship or engineering quality of the edifice.
asciilifeform: what i ~do~ have a strongly developed allergy to is attempts to redefine minimal expectations using 'new realities'
asciilifeform: the implicit claim was that i am somehow 'unreasonably' expecting realtime interaction with comp.
asciilifeform: because i USED realtime comp.
asciilifeform: but i also do not know if he has any experience with fast comp.
asciilifeform: who the hell knows, until at least one pwned chump digs up the backorifice and posts.
asciilifeform: aha some don't walk. there was a photo leaked of a radar base, where they had one of the few completed elbrus. in the corner desk there was what looked like winblows. nfi, could be hangout, perhaps the 'indigenous base' happened, strictly in ru meta-nsa.
asciilifeform: because, today just as in 1980, it is very difficult to 'compete with 3111111117 w4r3z
asciilifeform: poor sods will have to go on spamforum and spend another hundy to buy new chumpnet.
asciilifeform: ' @GCHQ @Belgacom TheShadowBrokers is making special effort not to using foul language, bigotry, or making any funny. Be seeing if NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX is making stories about now? Maybe political hacks is being more important? '
asciilifeform: it is one thing if the proggy's job is to compute molecular dynamics of protein in solvent.
asciilifeform: but in many ways the move to multiuser os on home comp was a bait-and-switch scam
asciilifeform: trinque: i asked that you compare to a very factual 'yesterday', rather than imagined futures
asciilifeform: the example earlier, 'word perfect on msdos 5', has ~0 perceptible delays. and this was on the junkiest hardware ~ever sold as a comp.
asciilifeform: i'm comparing it to motherfucking 'word perfect' on msdos 5.
asciilifeform: '... just over a week before the presidential election, top Democrats are demanding that he level the playing field and disclose what the FBI knows about Republican nominee Donald Trump’s possible ties to the Russian government.'
asciilifeform: 'Throughout the 15 months he’s been running for president, Donald Trump’s campaign has paid private security contractors at least $432,201' << this seems cheap
asciilifeform: when i learned that mircea_popescu watches his pr0n on an ibm t40, i could not picture it as with anything but mplayer
asciilifeform: mplayer still worx.
asciilifeform: 'As someone that been on HN for 9 years, pushing back on these kinds of comments is my business. This is my opinion on the value of you coming to Hacker News to complain about the author's writing style, and secondarily aimed at other commenters here. Your style of just summarily shitting on how the author wrote this piece adds no value to the discussion. Clearly lots of other people like it, this has been the #1 piece on HN for hour
asciilifeform: on recent mac, i found that emacs is simply not usable at all unless in fullscreen mode, the contents become cga-like soup
asciilifeform: if you import gtkism or whatnot - impossible to freeze meaningfully.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: imho a correct gossipd simply emulates irc server on the user end.
asciilifeform: it simply doesn't happen on any box of mine.
asciilifeform: d to reason with cattle. No more. Completing the CLX implementation, as described above should take no more than a few months.' << this is iirc the first time i am seeing 'mean girlz' in a shithub page.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-31#1560409 >> 'He's more-or-less lent jackdaniel his signature, and is too much of a pushover to, say, speak up or block access rights to the repository when jackdaniel takes actions he disagrees with. Someone familiar with the fork suggested that it might be premature. Had I nipped this problem in the bud a week ago, I could have had translated the CLIM specifiction to CLIM by now. Instead, I attempte
asciilifeform: in other 'news', i was walking on a street and saw a house that appeared to be made of steel. overgrown with jungle, apparently for decades, according to city hall. looked up what the thing was, turns out they were stamped out like cars: https://archive.is/isbKL
asciilifeform: lulzily, they import all of (yes) prb...
asciilifeform: the baked-in unspoken presumption that no one will have sufficiently panopticonic view of the ledger to compute the obfuscated numbers
asciilifeform: 'This is an unusual and insanely fast capacitor. Ok, a gross overkill, full foil discharge type. The capacitor is rated at 3000V and 0.15uF. It was originally intended to go to a... Give you three guesses and you'll probably hit the nail on the head in the first guess. Anyway it is super small, light weight, 100% reliable, and indefinitely repeatable in the 2500V range. Would be great for large flashlamp triggering or large KDP q-sw
asciilifeform: complete with optics, lel.
asciilifeform: compare with the Official version, https://ageofshitlords.com/social-justice-warriors-vandalize-cat-cafe/
asciilifeform: and like complete idiot i was crawling around inside laser cabinet with a motherfucking obgyn mirror, looking for crud in the beam path..
asciilifeform: 'Now that it's looking like a Trump win is unlikely, you could argue that his supporters are following those conversations to their logical conclusion. You could also argue that Trump is feeding this narrative with his frequent proclamations that the election is “rigged." If you are among the 84 percent or so of Trump supporters who believe that is a legitimate issue, then it's an easy step from there to assume the riggers will hav
asciilifeform: mr hedgehog is either complete idiot or he collected and put in his pocket the firing pins before smiling.
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/WNi9A << meanwhile, in the prb cellars, the umpteenth 'soft' phork
asciilifeform: http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a23470/two-men-jump-start-a-car-with-ak-47s/ << from mats's link
asciilifeform: ' a prominent diversity group refusing to work with any company associated with Thiel'
asciilifeform: seems like domain simply expired.
asciilifeform: (all of the examples i personally know of, are perfectly reflashable-via-baseband, just same as crapple etc.)
asciilifeform: 'The Anu & Naveen Jain Women’s Safety XPRIZE is a $1 million global competition that challenges teams to leverage technology to empower communities with a transformative solution that ensures women’s safety. Armed with innovative safety nets, communities everywhere can rapidly respond to threats against any of its members, ensuring that help is always available when needed. The winning team’s solution will autonomously and inco
asciilifeform: in re the 'crackpot alts' thread, apparently attempts at 'communist coins' are still a thing, e.g., https://archive.is/RSOF4 -- 'When new Bitcoins are created, only some Bitcoin users (the miners) are given new Bitcoins, while everyone else get nothing. We believe this is the first injustice.'
asciilifeform: adlai: mircea_popescu translated eons ago, and apparently forgot, http://trilema.com/2014/the-logical-impossibility-and-the-moral-untenability-of-forgiveness/
asciilifeform: but now the wonderful 'dependency hell' has been IMPORTED there.
asciilifeform: i suspect that the folks for whom 'the defense is ironclad' they simply nailgun.
asciilifeform: lel, brilliant, it's a marvel that anybody ever gets imprisoned, if it were so easy..
asciilifeform: the only defense, afaik, that could be attempted, was 'they planted it'
asciilifeform: ec [computer security]. Thanks. You made me a much better infosec [information security] practitioner. In exchange, well, I gave you my time, and you failed to allow me to help you... You are missing most of the basics in security practice, while thinking you are the best. It’s the bread and butter stuff that will trip you up. Trust me on this one. Seen it.... Dudes/Dudettes, I can’t make this any plainer... Listen up . . . ‘Th
asciilifeform: 'In a review of the digital information seized from the Defendant, the government found a letter, apparently created in 2007, which was addressed to government employees with whom he worked, and signed “Hal.” In the letter, the Defendant refers to his co-workers as “clowns” and criticizes the government’s digital security measures: Well, for one thing, I’ve seen pretty much all your tech secrets wrt [sic] regard to compus
asciilifeform: they gotta impose the star topology.
asciilifeform: (we had mongoose ache crystallographied 1 floor down from my chair, at one point, can't recall precisely why, it had already been done elsewhere. possibly it was in-complex)
asciilifeform: (in the end you get sarin-resistant mice. this is not even a physical impossibility, iirc mongoose needed an elephant's dose to fall down)
asciilifeform: 'The Web of Trust is not, as the name would seem to imply, an oilfield in which trust plays the role of oil, and you deploy some apparatuses and other devices to extract the trust therewith.'
asciilifeform: and, eh, 'v', or trb, or various other items contemplated here, fall much closer to the jet than to the tv set.
asciilifeform: any imperial coin, really.
asciilifeform: only if dumped
asciilifeform: that'll simply reset the problem.
asciilifeform: accomplishes ~same result as author of coin personally handing out the monetary base, but messier and more expensively.
asciilifeform: aaand yet the alts where author simply pocketed the monetarybase and distributed by hand from own pocket - were laughed off.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the (very old) gedankenexperiment concerned 'what if solving hashes is substantially cheaper than we chumps believe it to be, and promulgator of the coin knows the pill'
asciilifeform: to put it in more familiar frame, there is no way to prove that the majority of the bitcoin hash rate is not in fact happening on a pocket comp.
asciilifeform: ('martian bank' being simply a naive abstraction of 'idealizes swiss bank', where money supply is constant, and i can send from account a1 can send to a2 if and only if i have the privkey for a1, and double-spend - impossible, etc.)
asciilifeform: (this might be in the l0gz, but asciilifeform's own private, abortive, and ~entirely pointless attempt to 'invent bitcoin' in 2005-6 involved 'homomorphotron' (did not at the time know the term, or of anyone else's work on subj) that simulates 'martian bank' as ordinary computer program but somehow executed 'crypto-blinded' by multitude of independent machines, with the aggregate behaving correctly so long as collusion is below lampo
asciilifeform: prolly the usual overcompensation for spamolade.
asciilifeform: other, unrelated observation, is that delegating computation with a homomorphotron is only +ev if you spend fewer cycles to encipher 'the question' and decipher 'the answer' than it would have taken you to carry out the entire computation in your own comp
asciilifeform: let's temporarily leave this part for later, and posit that mircea_popescu can both add and multiply homomorphically, via whatever means. i'd like to hear how he carries out the branching.
asciilifeform: this gedankenexperiment strikes me as quite similar to the one where you 'defeat' 2nd law of thermo. by dumping heat into a black hole, and similar.
asciilifeform: in re thread from coupla days ago, i was somewhat surprised to discover that a recent homomorphatron scam, 'cryptoleq', is now promoted in a buncha places, incl. pediwikia, ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer#Cryptoleq and probably elsewhere ) .
asciilifeform: but with the physical props of the chumpatron.
asciilifeform: 'TLDR: all of computing is a hoax. You can't compare a hoax to nothing. You can only compare it to all the other hoaxes.'
asciilifeform: i wonder, did they actually import american hardware, or contracted to have own, 'industria argentina' dieboldtrons birthed ?
asciilifeform: i had several boxes with this lamp, imho it is monumentally useless.
asciilifeform: y'know, folx like walter schellenberg, who joined ss simply because of the spiffy uniform and 'good career perspective'
asciilifeform: works, as far as i can tell, for the self-importance monkey riding on his back.
asciilifeform: (consider, why did they not simply clim-for-winblowz ??)
asciilifeform: trinque: i thought texas was a 'empty kalash into breaking door' state..?
asciilifeform: being the only ~serious industrial country in europe unwrecked by ww2, and full of german sympathizers, it 'musted die'
asciilifeform: from mircea_popescu's link, http://www.uncomputing.org/?p=1716 << lulzy example, more or less at random, of peculiarly literate lizard shill
asciilifeform: trinque: it gets complicated surprisingly quickly. consider 'blitting' between buffers.
asciilifeform: trinque: because 'framebuffer' and 'circle' are more complicated than pictured here.
asciilifeform: aha, as the name implied.
asciilifeform: 'voluntary-compulsory'
asciilifeform: a simple cron job ought to do the trick, actually
asciilifeform: !~google hochdruckpumpe
asciilifeform: relatedly, i just picked up a b00k on coriolis force, and it has... basic programs in every chapter, as example. such nostalgic.
asciilifeform: compared to rocket.
asciilifeform: '"The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary - but also at many polling places - SAD," Trump wrote on Twitter ... In another tweet later on Sunday, Trump blamed "animals representing Hillary Clinton" and Democrats in North Carolina for an overnight attack on a local Republican Party headquarters in that state. Local authorities said the building in Hillsborough, North Carolina
asciilifeform: ( https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ruXBSKQHQtYJ:https://www.unglobalcompact.org/system/attachments/cop_2016/322211/original/ToddandClare.com_United_Nations_GC_Member_Report_COP_1042016.pdf%3F1475591336+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us )
asciilifeform: i can picture BingoBoingo's palace of dreams, arc lamps plugged into belching 2cycle petrol
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i've discarded 3 '20 Year Life!!!111' led lamps thus far
asciilifeform: and what about when i want to dump a few GB of ram.
asciilifeform: modding 'flashrom' so that it would use a pci bus hanging from a sage instead of the local one would be fairly simple. unfortunately i do not have time presently, being deep into something quite else.
asciilifeform: see the coreboot docs, there is a skeleton example.
asciilifeform: lulzily, i had nfi, never once attempted to plug the thing into mac
asciilifeform: just grab an iron pipe , lamp, light switch, before pawing the boards in dry winter air.
asciilifeform: 'jewish impudence'
asciilifeform: let's take example:
asciilifeform: imho there is even merit in a scheme like lamport's, where the key has to be replaced ~every time it is used.~ seems like nuttery, until you consider that it cannot be ruled out that rsa (and every other numbertheoretical method) signatures slowly leak the privkey.
asciilifeform: 'hello, is this hitler? i saw there is a hole in one of your camp fences, untermenschen are escaping, send help quickly'
asciilifeform: meanwhile, from the dept. of sad sacks of shit, https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/wizardry/mimblewimble.txt >> 'Q. If you delete the inputs, double spending can happen. A. In fact, this means: maybe someone claims that some unspent output was spent in the old days. But this is impossible, otherwise the sum of the combined transactioncould not be zero.'
asciilifeform: 'diff < (./lamport_decode.sh sha256sum pubkey.txt < encoded.txt)' should be 'diff <(./lamport_decode.sh sha256sum pubkey.txt < encoded.txt)' .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one of your earlier links contained yet another 'happy surprise' - there are TWO INCOMPATIBLE keccaks floating around, by decree of His Putrid Majesty, one of'em is simply the normal keccak but it appends a constant turd to the input (nfi why)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there was a reason i did not use sha3 in the lamport tutorial.
asciilifeform: with mega-gold, e.g., 'Complete discovery would likely require defense counsel to obtain appropriate security clearances (which they do not possess), and appropriate facilities to be prepared and made available to the defense for review and storage of any classified materials. In anticipation of that possibility, the process of obtaining security clearances was initiated shortly after the complaint in this case was issued, to avoid d
asciilifeform: PeterL: that probably isn't it, because there are still stinking hobos in the computer labs.
asciilifeform: earlier he sent me complete symbol tables for the sage rom.
asciilifeform: kmalkki: also interestingly, the turdlets are supposedly arm-compatible, and - to naked eye, seeing strings - plainly unciphered, but they do not appear to disassemble cleanly as either big- or little-endian arm.
asciilifeform: perhaps it was simply to trace leaks.