asciilifeform: what if you have NO USE for chimps.
asciilifeform: recall the chimp cage in the zoo ?
asciilifeform: and you can feel entirely confident jumping with the parachute.
asciilifeform: complete with music
asciilifeform: 'They suggest that when people fly in economy class, their position in the social hierarchy becomes glaringly obvious. This fact is especially so if they have to walk through the first class section of the plane to get to their assigned space in a cramped hell.'
asciilifeform: $up fromphuctor
asciilifeform: suddenly the simplicity aspect would be lost.
asciilifeform: well recall , my vtron was incomplete in the aspect where it assumed that any leaf was pressable per se
asciilifeform: and to the extent v can be coaxed into behaving outside of this envelope, it is incomplete
asciilifeform: if it isn't, then it isn't complete.
asciilifeform: what was lulzier was that apparently 'top seeekrit' apparatchiks are not permitted to attend such shows, at least without special dispensation from company chekist
asciilifeform: 'Standards bureaucracies like the Linux Foundation (which consumed the Free Standards Group in its' ever-growing accretion disk years ago) happily document and add to this sort of complexity without ever trying to understand why it was there in the first place. 'Ken and Dennis leaked their OS into the equivalent of home because an RK05 disk pack on the PDP-11 was too small" goes whoosh over their heads.'
asciilifeform: 'The /bin vs /usr/bin split (and all the others) is an artifact of this, a 1970's implementation detail that got carried forward for decades by bureaucrats who never question _why_ they're doing things. It stopped making any sense before Linux was ever invented, for multiple reasons...'
asciilifeform: and aren't any kind of good company.
asciilifeform: likewise a large fraction of samples on vt don't even ~run there~
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a very large share of the samples on vt are 'not detected'
asciilifeform: May 06 12:50:33 <mircea_popescu>and in other "internet security" lulz, https://www.virustotal.com/es-ar/url/900d5651bf561ce804766d1a8f3483080a0e3879f16bfb7f820fdffef82fb807/analysis/1462553268 << what is notable about this sample ?
asciilifeform: i can't simply shit forth gold.
asciilifeform: with that in mind, i am good at a reasonable breadth of things, but again 99% of the employment in them, in as far as i can access, is usg.
asciilifeform: (there is an unknown percentage, to be fair, of 'nonemployment' work also, i.e. 0day market, overlapping with the 99, but i have - as previously discussed - no 'in' to it.)
asciilifeform: consider, 99+% of the employment in my field is raw usg.
asciilifeform: even simpler than there, they make exactly one $item and that's it.
asciilifeform: trick is that it works best if you have the duplicated thing done in ~improved~ way rather than ad-hoc
asciilifeform: the big deal is that a db that gets ~added to~ is not so simple as 'tree of 40 levels'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: confusing post, implies that the surplus is of euro - i.e. actual - cheese
asciilifeform: same thing employer's opinions have to do with a stinking bum's behaviour ?
asciilifeform: 'It was a mistake to agree to publish my post before I saw his– I assumed his post would simply be a signed message anybody could easily verify.'
asciilifeform: 'According to Farak, the "high" from the drug lasted approximately 8 to 10 hours. In addition, the drug gave her the desired effects that she had discovered in her research: "I felt amazing. It gave me energy. I felt more alert. I did not wish it but it gave me the pep I was looking for." Farak maintained that her work was not affected at the Lab but that the methamphetamine made her "more alert and
asciilifeform: 'The report said that the woman began taking the lab's so-called "standard" drugs, the ones purchased from drug companies as a control in testing. "Farak began to consume the Amherst Lab's standards on a fairly regular basis beginning in late 2004 or early 2005," according to the report. "The first standard she admitted to using was the methamphetamine standard, which was the largest or most volumin
asciilifeform: dump the cert plox ?
asciilifeform: hello fromphuctor
asciilifeform: $up fromphuctor
asciilifeform: '"Unlike disclosing passcodes, you are not compelled to speak or say what's 'in your mind' to law enforcement," Gidari said. "'Put your finger here' is not testimonial or self-incriminating."'
asciilifeform: '...authorities obtained a search warrant compelling the girlfriend of an alleged Armenian gang member to press her finger against an iPhone that had been seized...'
asciilifeform: in related lulz, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/04/nist_readies_postquantum_crypto_competition
asciilifeform: the sheer... cheapness. of the attempt, is breathtaking.
asciilifeform: (being pumped in now, concurrently with the remnant of the old sks set)
asciilifeform: lel somehow i suspect that he is quite employed.
asciilifeform: i thought bock was posing as a comp sci prof
asciilifeform: alice () example com (and honestly it may be that these one comes from me,
asciilifeform: (bock claimed to have used sks dump, but his set diverges considerably)
asciilifeform: model has proven remarkably durable despite the constant wearying turmoil of exit-scams and hacks and as I write this in mid-July 2015, there seems to be little chance that things will change substantially soon. (If Tor hidden services are cracked, the DNMs will simply move to I2P or Freenet; if Bitcoin starts getting too easily tracked, transactions will be settled in Monero or another cryptocoin with better anonymity properties, et
asciilifeform: our factors are composites
asciilifeform: (your example)
asciilifeform: eh henninger's proggy from that site (straight implementation of bernstein) works.
asciilifeform: because what, he is a pashtun, never seen computer ?
asciilifeform: well, what, he did not run the keys through pgpdump? did not see the dates ?
asciilifeform: but yes the large numbers are composites, this is obvious in 5 seconds to a kindergartener
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: better to chug it in on my end - impervious to www overload
asciilifeform: and pump.
asciilifeform: i'ma saw apart a recent sks dump this weekend.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is still 3 or 4 days worth of old sks archive, being pumped in.
asciilifeform: ''ImageMagick allows to process files with external libraries. This feature is called 'delegate'. It is implemented as a system() with command string ('command') from the config file delegates.xml with actual value for different params (input/output filenames etc). Due to insufficient %M param filtering it is possible to conduct shell command injection. One of the default delegate's command is used
asciilifeform: incidentally little birdie told me recently that nsa 'TAO' pisses on american nondiscrimination laws and never employs foreign-born folk
asciilifeform: long, long ago, when i was quite unemployed, i wrote to Βασιλεύς Βασιλέων, Βασιλεύων Βασιλευόντων and offered my services
asciilifeform: the thing sorta implies organization definitionally.
asciilifeform: that other folk can simply... do it
ascii_butugychag: (on archive attempt)
ascii_butugychag: fromphuctor__: know that gnupg never used openssl.
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: my point was that in nazi land i get ranked as simply a very lazy nazi who spends time on ???? rather than properly drilling with the other ss men
ascii_deadfiber: but even without it, still not impossible
ascii_deadfiber: if the only implementation of something were in js, it hasn't actually been implemented yet.
ascii_deadfiber: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-03#1461684 << understand what happens when you gcd against the 8ball - these are fat composites
ascii_deadfiber: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-03#1461700 << tempted to link this on front of phuctor
asciilifeform: $up fromphuctor__
asciilifeform: $up fromphuctor__
asciilifeform: but still impressive.
asciilifeform: $up fromphuctor__
asciilifeform: plox do not attempt to use for anything other than indexing on phuctor.
asciilifeform foiled in yet another escape attempt from butugychag.
asciilifeform: cyco: and before getting alarmed, download the key and compare to yours
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fact is, i'm approaching ~unemployable
asciilifeform: $up fromphuctor__
asciilifeform: but we get simple rubbish.
asciilifeform: $up fromphuctor_
asciilifeform: $up fromphuctor__
asciilifeform: $up fromphuctor_
asciilifeform: $up fromphuctor
asciilifeform: GyrosGeier: some of the keys (marked 'mirrored' under 'notes') were part of an organized flimflam campaign by an unknown (likely nsa) party exploiting the fact that old versions of pgp used the bottom 32 bits of a modulus as the fingerprint.
asciilifeform: $up fromphuctor_
asciilifeform: $up fromphuctor
asciilifeform: fromphuctor: it is nontrivial to convert ssh key to pgp key format.
asciilifeform: fromphuctor: for them.
asciilifeform: $up fromphuctor_
asciilifeform: $up fromphuctor__
asciilifeform: $up fromphuctor_
asciilifeform: fromphuctor: http://trilema.com/2016/the-recent-phuctor-finds-explained << elaborated here
asciilifeform: witness the silence from the 'kompyoooter insekoooority' komyooniti.
asciilifeform: to search for the idiocy where a diddled or simpleminded pgptron wants to generate an n-bit key, and so it craps out a n/2-bit prime and then gets next prime after it and multiplies.
asciilifeform: (these show up as large composites, naturally, in the gcdification pairwise with the 8ball)
asciilifeform: 185.56.82.82 - - [01/May/2016:21:01:09 +0000] "\x16\x03\x01\x00\xFF\x01\x00\x00\xFB\x03\x03W&Rp9\xCC\xC9>\xBC] <<<<< the other one, for completeness.
asciilifeform: well, not simply coat
asciilifeform: mod6: the baked-in presumption of webtardism is almost insulting
asciilifeform: (they need hv source, which in turn requires oscillator, which introduces nonrandom signal component; ~and~ tube wears with time)
asciilifeform: adlai: all it is, is primes 2 ... N (for some large N) turned into a phuctor-compatible gpg key
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-30#1459699 << i dun have an mpex acct. so qntra shares are not mechanically convertible to coin.
asciilifeform: lation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5), the media are protected computers that have been damaged without authorization and are located in five or more districts.'
asciilifeform: (new ones are still being pumped in from the old sks parse. about 200k left iirc)
asciilifeform: it was fundamentally the right idea but implemented with inconceivable degree of braindamage - and - at least in the last few yrs - by the Professionally Sad
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this then reduces to 'tamper-proof box'
asciilifeform: enemy can simply record the bits passively from a captured node, unless the thing is a ~physical~ fort
asciilifeform: now, none of said schemes work, but they are all built with braindamaged assumption
asciilifeform: complaints?!
asciilifeform: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)" ('Tokyo, JP') << holyfuq
asciilifeform: 'As an example, Hypponen said he had recently spoken to a European aircraft maker that said it cleans the cockpits of its planes every week of malware designed for Android phones. The malware spread to the planes only because factory employees were charging their phones with the USB port in the cockpit.'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the lulziest bit is that it looks like he made it simply from what was on the desk
asciilifeform: and perhaps somebody did, and this is where the examples linked earlier came from.
asciilifeform: spoken like true olympian
asciilifeform: http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/04/25/shapeshift-hack-simply-incredible << in other lulz
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-27#1458429 << rad-hardness via software is surely an absurdity, if contemplated in the sense of 'lead shield', but it really doesn't hurt to handle various 'can't-happens' a la ada.
asciilifeform: i simply dun grasp rich folk who take 'downers'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incompatible with 'star topology' !!!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it had empty loop and grunted the floppy drv (yes) to create impression of activity
asciilifeform: 'Type inference is known to be a bit slow when inferring nested data structures. I think they’re hoping to speed it up before the release of Swift 3, but for now you can make the compilation faster by adding a type annotation...'
asciilifeform: afaik he was one of those disgustingly compliant folk already
asciilifeform: actual chumpers?
asciilifeform: it's deadly simple, analogous to, say, cl-who in commonlisp
asciilifeform: this was ~meant~ to be temporary...
asciilifeform: (somebody - mircea_popescu ? - suggested dumping ssh in there etc)
asciilifeform: i try to keep thingz simple. but yeah, after i'm satisfied that the rest works
asciilifeform: (if there is ~any~ dc component, you also get, electrolytically, hcl at the interface, nasty)
asciilifeform: the other thing is, i have found that dice appeal to folks because 'not electronic', but these same people then go and generate, e.g., the key, with a computer...
asciilifeform: asymptotic limit.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: much of the complexity comes from the paucity of airport
asciilifeform: the 'ercoupe' thing in the background is interesting. i live not so far from where the old 'erco' factory was, where the things were made. it was, iirc, a plane with simplified controls and extremely stable dynamics, for lamers to fly. sold like hotcakes, until the bottom fell out of the market in '47
asciilifeform: it was interesting, thing was really no more complicated than a motorbike
asciilifeform: mats et al: there are two s.nsa's. there is the mpex asset, which you were prolly asking about, and there is my actual work, which is to 0 extent actually enabled by the ~450 btc in the piggy, and will continue even if mircea_popescu one day drums me out of the chan
asciilifeform: copyrast back-catalogues have ~same relation to the actuality as 'winamp' playlists had to '90s w4r3z.
asciilifeform: actually simpler than you think. most of the microfilm in american libs was supplied from just a few reproduction houses, and they in turn, from the orig publisher
asciilifeform: hey, comprehended enough to find the fella and gas?
asciilifeform: back when i used to get the physical items via new york importer
asciilifeform: complete with bursted bubbles and forcible anal education.
asciilifeform: phun phakt, there are still cast iron traffic light controller / miscellaneous telephonic junk boxes mounted on streets in d.c., empty, sometimes full of bird nest and rubbish
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-23#1456277 << feed is up (just empty atm.) BUT see also http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-22#1456045 .
asciilifeform: to learn which houses are empty
asciilifeform: (it IS possible to operate with a key having nonprime e, but NOT if it isn't comprime with modulus!111)
asciilifeform: well there will be round 2, with an sks dump that isn't circa 2014.
asciilifeform: it is impractically large, i thought about regenning it weekly and putting up torrent perhaps
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i prolly oughta implement paged views.
asciilifeform: rubbish computers take their toll.
asciilifeform: there is nothing advantageous about the non-programmable computer being the only available.
asciilifeform: because 'to computer' in this sense ~means~ to pluck machine from junkyard etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because on that planet i would not have learned to computer and would not be speaking.
asciilifeform: i like to call people who by their very presence make various constructive activities impossible, 'neutron absorbers'
asciilifeform: thing is, as amply described on trilema, even mircea_popescu 'lives among idiots'
asciilifeform: but i did not complain.
asciilifeform: i never asked for computer we can have 10 billion of.
asciilifeform: i see programmable comp as a cornerstone of thinking man, same as clean sheets of paper and pen
asciilifeform: trinque: very basic open - can you 'turingcomplete' on it.
asciilifeform: well it is poppycock, thermodynamics has as much to do with the closing of computer as SR has to do with 'cultural relativity'
asciilifeform: or what, a eulora can exist on planet with 5 computers ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you might not need '$1 computer redditard could buy', but if your only shot at computer was to bake own vlsi in the kitchen, you'd prolly use vernam pad and be done with it.
asciilifeform: 'general-purpose' simply means NOT THAT.
asciilifeform: which is usgtronic, nintendoized computing
asciilifeform: roughly, means 'machine where you can implement new crypto', for mircea_popescu's purposes.
asciilifeform: and yes, some of it also runs under 'linux' - see the excellent example of the samsung chromebook, which i bought some years ago and tried to civilize
asciilifeform: From GW-DuomenuCentras.retn.net (87.245.242.226): icmp_seq=1 Destination Net Unreachable
asciilifeform: because your thoughts are never entirely your own. Philosophers, writers, artists, even scientists, not only need encouragement and an audience, they need constant stimulation from other people. It is almost impossible to think without talking. If Defoe had really lived on a desert island, he could not have written Robinson Crusoe, nor would he have wanted to. Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up. Had the Ge
asciilifeform: very hoarding; but up in the attics the secret enemies of the regime can record their thoughts in perfect freedom -- that is the idea, more or less. And many people are under the impression that this is going on now in Germany and other dictatorial countries.
asciilifeform: reality, able to keep up an attitude of the completest indifference, no matter what happens. A storm that would sink all the battleships in the world would hardly reach you as an echo. Even the whale's own movements would probably be imperceptible to you. He might be wallowing among the surface waves or shooting down into the blackness of the middle seas (a mile deep, according to Herman Melville), but you would never notice the dif
asciilifeform: 'For the fact is that being inside a whale is a very comfortable, cosy, homelike thought. The historical Jonah, if he can be so called, was glad enough to escape, but in imagination, in day-dream, countless people have envied him. It is, of course, quite obvious why. The whale's belly is simply a womb big enough for an adult. There you are, in the dark, cushioned space that exactly fits you, with yards of blubber between yourself and
asciilifeform: instead folks try to escape employmentschwitz
asciilifeform: granted, to mircea_popescu on mt olympus none of this is relevant
asciilifeform: it is not actually hard to massively improve on cadr, much of its gnarl was that it had to be made of 74xxx and of weird amd ALUs available at the time
asciilifeform: (modern vendors succumb to the temptation to put a great many special-purpose parts in fpga, e.g., multipliers, even whole cpu cores, etc. i am specifically not talking about their rubbish.)
asciilifeform: picture 1,024 'cubes of computronium'
asciilifeform: where 'computer' is simply this mass, of how many of these things you screwed together and attached dc power supply to.
asciilifeform: costs of chip fab as we know it, and of orbital launch, are even comparable.
asciilifeform: it is even worth considering that one could, in principle, compute on something ~other than a semiconductor~
asciilifeform: (modified b&w photo process, or at least something not more complicated than doing colour photo at home)
asciilifeform: but ok for, e.g., calculating dynamics of the tamper in hbomb.
asciilifeform: (though schmidt did sell me an ~empty shell~ of a tape drive, in case i can ever locate the drive raw !)
asciilifeform: this is a computerized version of the traditional american 'survivalist' lunacy
asciilifeform: 2) toolchain is not a closed x86 turd, and in fact can run on an arch implemented on SELFSAME CHIP itself.
asciilifeform: it is especially concerning because the 'end times' situation, where usable computer hardware is expensive and you cannot rely on other folks having same one as you, etc. is actually how we ended up with the unix braindamage to begin with.
asciilifeform: it is a collective-failure-of-everybody-but-one-guy - sorta like mpex.
asciilifeform: then you try it and find that if you need custom compiler flags (or, satan forbid, a non-x86 gcc) you're SHIT out of luck
asciilifeform: just as i would never know about mpex if mircea_popescu had not awakened me from my cave.
asciilifeform: i'm willing to believe that there are other pgptronic businesses, 'other mpexes', but strictly on the same basis as 'life on other planets', i have no knowledge of it
asciilifeform: didn't we do this way back when, when i wrote the mpex review
asciilifeform: midnightmagic: the idiot complications of usgtronic otr protocols are irrelevant.
asciilifeform: or any other lotto champ.
asciilifeform: http://www.rowan.edu/colleges/csm/departments/computerscience/research/reports/tr2010-2.pdf << possible explanation for rsa keys with gigantic exponent
asciilifeform: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/04/dram-bitflipping-exploits-that-hijack-computers-just-got-easier << run moar ddr3
asciilifeform: but the american one went limp
asciilifeform: 'Allegedly ChainAnchor was looking into paying miners an additional premium if they mine on top of compliant blocks rather than on top of non-compliant blocks; a possible strategy for miners might be to use compliance as a tie-breaker when determining what side of a fork to mine on. It’s also easy to imagine tools like DoS attacks being used, as well as legal, regulatory, and even social pressure. Finally of course, once a majority
asciilifeform: 'n the ChainAnchor semi-permissioned overlay a successful miner receives a further additional payment (beyond the new coins and transaction-fees in Bitcoin) for completing a block consisting only of permissioned-transactions. For a validated permissioned-block, IdP-PI and IdP-PV must verify that the successful Miner’s public-key is found in the Verified Identities Database. That is, they both must ensure that the Miner has executed
asciilifeform: 'Based on the information I have available to me, it appears that the MIT ChainAnchor Project is in part an attempt to get Bitcoin users to register their real world identities and associate their transactions with those identities. Initially this would be on an opt-in basis, however it appears that ChainAnchor has a longer-term plan to bribe and coerce miners into only mining transactions from registered users, eventually prohibitin
asciilifeform: as distinct as the roman republic vs empire
asciilifeform: 'We have shown that GPG’s implementation of the ElGamal
asciilifeform: and i will point out that epochs as implemented in sane places don't partake of the 'time zone' crapolade.
asciilifeform: NOT comparable.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell phf pleeeze can haz compatibility with old date format ??
asciilifeform: 'GnuPG 1.2.3... If you have used ElGamal keys for signing your private key can be compromised, and a malicious keyserver could remotely execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running gpgkeys_hkp.'
asciilifeform: 'Our server admin, in the midst of an investigation into a $130,000 theft, deletes his two keys, and only these two keys, without telling anyone, and then admits on our call that he did it because “they weren’t important.”'
asciilifeform: 'We hired such a person, and patted ourselves on the back for our proactive decision. On paper, he looked great; the reference we called confirmed his prior role and responsibility. He’d even been into Bitcoin since 2011/2012 and had built miners in his room. Awesome. We’ll call this new employee Bob… indeed his real name starts with a B. Over the next months, Bob built and managed ShapeShift’s infrastructure. He did okay, no
asciilifeform: standardized templates for frequent chores, e.g., queues, stacks
asciilifeform: company-wide ?
asciilifeform: my 'gyro-boat' has a found foundation in my utter loathing of the company of the typical meatsack
asciilifeform: 'Ledger Labs drafted an Employee Security Policy and an Infrastructure Security Policy that identify security procedures and protocols for the use of ShapeShift assets. Employees are required to read and sign the policies and submit identification to ShapeShift’s Human Resources department. This control helps ShapeShift achieve compliance with CCSS Level 2.'
asciilifeform: Simpson which had its log deleted. The last few lines of the log were overwritten with NULL (0x00) bytes, preventing digital-forensic recovery.'
asciilifeform: 'Analysis of Lenny’s Ubuntu operating system’s configuration revealed that – similar to Simpson – there was no logging or auditing configured beyond the default configuration that ships with Ubuntu. Analysis of the /var/log/auth.log file showed tampering via overwriting unlike
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-18#1453427 << it is mircea_popescu'd ideological sauce that these are equivalent or even comparable, i get it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my heuristic is that i consider problems involving simple physical systems, thousands of years in test, as SOLVABLE. and those involving people/social skill, etc. NOT.
asciilifeform: nah it means same thing as manhole cover stamped 'sewer'
asciilifeform: (aside from sc4mz0r1ng attempts)
asciilifeform: how did pete_dushenski get the impression that i sleep.
asciilifeform: preet proclaims that various derps impersonated officers of some ameriderp co. and led away 100 mil usd.
asciilifeform: 'Yet among the 38 previously undisclosed companies receiving In-Q-Tel funding' << false, they were all disclosed in the tax document i dissected HERE
asciilifeform: http://qntra.net/2016/04/docker-on-list-of-companies-taking-quiet-cia-funding << INCIDENTALLY no acknowledgement of my investigative thread in #b-a re ALL of the interesting in-q-tel firms
asciilifeform: e.g., 101010101010 will simply end up 000000
asciilifeform: PeterL: more complicated than this. play with the von neumann algo, it is not magical
asciilifeform: my understanding is that this role, to the extent it was filled by anything, was previously filled by mpb.
asciilifeform: ah you were thinking of complexity collapse.
asciilifeform: but i did wonder what felipelalli was trying to accomplish by deedbotting a transaction with a fella having no mathematical identity.
asciilifeform: 'I developed a version of Interim (then called "Bomberjacket OS") that boots on a standard Intel x86 PC as well as a version that runs on the ARM-based Raspberry Pi low-cost computer. '
asciilifeform: 'Fast and simple Microcontrollers like Teensy 3.1 (based on Freescale ARM Cortex-M4 MPU) can be used as a "poor man's GPU" to generate VGA text or graphics output. '
asciilifeform: understand, DESCRIPTIONS of the problem of complexity cancer ~abound~.
asciilifeform: if it means that, given a $B another fella can attempt to replicate, this does not mean much.
asciilifeform: sbp: my conclusion re fexprs was that 'we can't compile this' is in ~all cases an 'epicyclic' restatement of 'our hardware is rubbish'
asciilifeform: '...would require people to comply with any authorized court order for data—and if that data is “unintelligible,” the legislation would demand that it be rendered “intelligible.”'
asciilifeform: just as i, employed as another type of whore, have to do things i otherwise would not even want to know ~exist~
asciilifeform: gossipd article was pretty much complete
asciilifeform: such a thing can only exist as a ritual of empire, consider where we got GMT.
asciilifeform: what there ~isn't~ and won't be is a unified planetary clock independent of the inca empire of the day...
asciilifeform: i am somewhat floored that mircea_popescu appears to think whoring to be exempt from ordinary market mechanisms!
asciilifeform: the microshitifucation of linux will not be truly complete until users have to grunt with 'remote desktop' idiocy
asciilifeform: (as discussed in an old mircea_popescu thread, there ~is~ room for improvement.)
asciilifeform: who can fully apprehend that 30 MOTHERFUCKING YEARS was not enough to make ANY notable improvement on xwindows?!!!!111
asciilifeform: but somehow the company's reputation as 'evil vendor of closed $maxint machinery' did not thereby perish.
asciilifeform: note, these were lispms, and they implemented x protocol.
asciilifeform: 'If you want to compare MGR to the X Window System, you might consider the MGR server as something like a combination of an X server + window manager + xterm, but with xterm's Tektronix 4014 graphics terminal emulation and its DEC VT100 emulation in the same window.' << looks to me like it is of archaeological interest solely
asciilifeform: the interesting bit is that the empty, decaying, plundered properties are ~part of the program~
asciilifeform: the empty for years ones - often, not
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: we have houses here that stood empty for years.
asciilifeform: ^ house stood empty for a few months, and copper thieves stole the heat exchanger coil
asciilifeform: 'Then they came to Namecheap where I have a couple of VPS servers, this account also had 2factor SMS authentication required for login. However the hacker opened up a live chat with Namecheap and requested a password reset for the SolusVM VPS panel, at which point, in a massive breach of their security protocols, they sent a plain text email to the comprised address containing both the VPS panel use
asciilifeform: all i want is for the jit compiler's back-end to be sanely written and not married to x86, and for there to not be weird endian dependencies baked in.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: suppose you want to cross-compile ?
asciilifeform: and a number of other key components of the kernel, such as memory allocator, are also in c
asciilifeform: ^ ben_vulpes, mod6, et al ^ possibly interesting example of various things
asciilifeform: 'In a radio interview last week, Nigel Newton of Bloomsbury Publishing spoke about how the publisher had employed strong security measures to prevent possible leaks, including guard dogs and a constant security presence at the printing press. Seemingly, the company also had the support of GCHQ, the UK's primary signals intelligence and surveillance agency.'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: iirc you suggested it simply as a barb
asciilifeform: there is this strange presumption, apparently shared even by jurov, that somebody looking for work is necessarily unemployed or underemployed and 'will do anything'
asciilifeform: 11:02 <+jurov> but then, why even have a job at all and not freelance? << because there is ~0 demand for what i do among folks who employ freelancers ?