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asciilifeform: how was ~my particular pile~ not a counterexample to 'when surrounded, your magic will be powerless' from earlier ?
asciilifeform: as in EVERY MOTHERFUCKING LINE was ansi-compliant cl.
asciilifeform: which i implemented using a unix fd callout.
asciilifeform: and can be used, with some effort, sans any of the attempts at 'improvement'
asciilifeform: actually it is an artifact of the fact that a schoolboy implementing a 'simple lisp' ends up bringing long-solved problems (e.g., 'the funarg problem', 'lisp is interpreted ergo slow', etc) back from the grave
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: correct. e.g., 'gimp'
asciilifeform: for n00bz: it is an actual standard. as in, it will be possible to run code written in 1985 in 2085, should something like a computer still exist, if it adhered to the standard.
asciilifeform: i've arrived at the point where i believe any system where any such thing is necessary, to be braindamaged beyond redemption
asciilifeform: phf: i can't fathom why any sane person would voluntarily use a proprietary compiler today
asciilifeform: the impedance mismatch between all the idiot crud qt expects (own lists, hashes, etc.) and anything sane, is atrocious
asciilifeform: so, sure, the claim implied by photo is that the can was filled from the bottom
asciilifeform: STREUGGLES to eat the damned mcflurries << Ohne Kampf kein Sieg (tm) (r)
asciilifeform: an idiot with sugar, meth, bulldozer, or computer, is a higher-powered idiot
asciilifeform: (if the names are nonsensical, complain to hitler, not me)
asciilifeform: '5pc of respondents even reported suffering from "menstrual cramps"' << this has gotta be a gag
asciilifeform: unlike a hydro plant, a dc is this thing that, at its practical minimum, costs what maybe 2 or 3 passenger buses do. serious corps run their own. most of my past employers had their critical infrastructure in some variant of own, non-leveraged in-house dc
asciilifeform: for some reason i am reminded of 'farmer's market' sc4mz0rz who load up on monsanto garbage at the big box shop and then resell 'organic tomatoez!!111' to chumpers
asciilifeform: 'only the ancients could build temples, all we know how to do is take shits in'em'
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-11-2015#1326507 << oh ferfuxxsake, when do we start converting sprint wheat to winter wheat with the power of revolutionary zeal, unlike stinking intellectualz who prattle on about impossibility ..?
ascii_field: what part of this is so complicated.
ascii_field: 'Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, says he is listening. On Tuesday, he delivered a speech to government technology workers in Washington about the importance of security in the technology business and how Microsoft has evolved to confront security threats.'
asciilifeform: but yes, it is possible to cause a flood. but can this be compared with the ease of setting up a ddos, and untraceably ?
asciilifeform: when i say 'afaik' i really mean it. open to being shown the counterexample. or at least proof-of-existence
asciilifeform: if my house got routinely 'ddosed' (e.g. the classic dump-gravel-in-his-road trick) again and again, may very well be reduced to living in a car.
asciilifeform: if indeed this is a problem that merely needs 'will' to solve, and no technical improvements, i might simply be lacking the necessary lsd to grasp it.
asciilifeform: hence the octopus. but without some physical discouragement, they will simply take the legs of the octopus one by one.
asciilifeform: even the knife, i think, has a place in this. i.e. a dc where an actual wot member lives, with a rifle, would be an improvement over the present-day state of the art
asciilifeform: the answer is gossipd. or, in the short term, an 'octopus' topology with server(s) behind ciphered lines connected to a constellation of private exit proxies, similar to (iirc) what was used in mpex.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-11-2015#1326110 << if 'mosquito bites, swimming, sneezing, saliva or sweat' has any measurable ability to move the virus, southeast usa would look like pripyat. with wash,.d.c. and baltimore resembling the reactor zone. and known sufferers would be imprisoned in designated leprosoria.
asciilifeform: i've thought about leasing a colo personally, simply out of frustration, but i live in pretty much the worst spot for it.
ascii_field: (is a specially crafter derplinux pre-impregnated with tor, faux pgp, etc)
ascii_field: 'The Times later posted a second article citing an anonymous “European counterterrorism official” who was quoted saying authorities’ “working assumption is that these guys were very security aware,” but clarified officials “offered no evidence.”'
asciilifeform: 'Note that after the Russian jet crashed in the Sinai there weren't all that many Facebook avatars with the Russian flag pasted over them, and hardly any candlelight vigils or piles of wreaths and flowers in various Western capitals. I even detected a whiff of smug satisfaction that the Russians got their comeuppance for stepping out of line in Syria. Why the difference in reaction? Simple: you were told to grieve for the Fren
asciilifeform: simple.
asciilifeform: notice how gateways which potentially convert cc-usd to benjie-usd (e.g., 'paypal', 'square', the 1,001 spampaypals) tend to have ~very~ fascist controls)
asciilifeform thought that sucking ~in~ the car, literally, was a thing impoverished usians did
asciilifeform: which was that the cards simply happen not to be the vehicle for said emptying.
asciilifeform: perhaps i can put it in the garden as compost or something
ascii_field: that doesn't need chumps in the usual sense
ascii_field: i still don't grasp the proliferation of spampaypals
ascii_field: it's a spampaypal
ascii_field was under the impression that 'syrians' were already unloading in usa by the boatload
ascii_field: '11/13/2015 Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) png_set_PLTE and (2) png_get_PLTE functions in libpng before 1.0.64, 1.1.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.54, 1.3.x and 1.4.x before 1.4.17, 1.5.x before 1.5.24, and 1.6.x before 1.6.19 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a small bit-depth value in an IHDR (aka image header) chunk in a PNG image.'
asciilifeform: but never happened in implementation
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2015#1324570 << thinking more about this, it simply gotta be a forgery. nobody could actually be this stupid
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2015#1324698 << usg ! implementing the t3rr0ristz!!111 winning since '01 ! accept no substitute !11
asciilifeform: some are just titled gentry pure and simple.
asciilifeform: wanted to import blockchain time rather than nato time, but sure.
asciilifeform: but enemy will attempt to leverage any serious uncertainty in 1 or 2
asciilifeform: believe or not i was a perfectly normal boy (complete with the normal fistfights etc) before being forcibly removed to the land of monkeys
asciilifeform: it is no longer enough to have a uni degree (which i have, in ol'fashioned 'comp sci', fwiw) but also various trained monkey cert idiocies
asciilifeform: ^ this, but also that the lemon market is so dire that folks trying to actually accomplish something tend to be ~extremely~ conservative
asciilifeform: the competent folks who could leave - left; who could turn profiteer - did; etc
asciilifeform: sorta my attempted point.
asciilifeform: trinque: none of the folks calling give a tinker's damn re: 'sane computing' or b-a reich or whatnot. they just want good ol'fashioned reversing.
asciilifeform: (incl. of 'empire with internal conflict but coherent action')
asciilifeform: su had a ready warm place for all the competent folks to ~defect~ (DEFECT, not flee like rats and into pederasty, but fucking defect) to
asciilifeform: (or tcpdump+perl)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: all correct implementations will press the same tree ~given the same leaf~ !!
asciilifeform: 'Expertise in any combination of the following cryptographic primitives is desired: private information retrieval, fully homomorphic encryption, pairing- or lattice-based cryptography, multi-party computation, and distributed key management architectures.' -- from a nazi help-wanted ad
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-11-2015#1323187 << updated, '40 dead... grenades ... pump-action shotgun' etc
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-11-2015#1323070 << for those interested in eating in dumpsters: broken glass is sharp and doesn't taste very good
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't that it is entirely unworkable, but this takes you back to the 18th century, before impact detonator was a thing
asciilifeform: 'v' as we have it is sorta like those vietnamese swamp houses
ascii_field: it was surreal, like something out of those old 1950s pamphlets about cpusa
ascii_field: (in that any earnest attempt to ~really~ keep the tendrils out of a country result in something recognizably nk-esque)
ascii_field: 'It is very important to note that we have found absolutely no evidence of attorney-client calls that were recorded without the knowledge and consent of those parties. Our calling systems include multiple safeguards to prevent this from occurring.'
ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea_popescu https://theintercept.com/2015/11/11/securus-hack-prison-phone-company-exposes-thousands-of-calls-lawyers-and-clients << mega-l0lz. summary: client-attorney privilege canceled entirely in usa.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-11-2015#1322328 << counterexamples are plentiful but they all involve zero-people-born-after-1985-or-so sorta thing. e.g., there are no z80 'conferences.'
ascii_field: at my uni we had two separate incidents, complete with organized mooing, 'candlelight vigils', protest marches, etc. of 'nooses found' (noose is supposed to be a symbol of impending lynching, yes...) - one turned out to be a popped balloon's string on a tree, the other - was never seen by any witness save the instigator of the hysteria
ascii_field: 'Gosh, all of this warm fuzzy coverage of the NSA just brings a tear of thanks to my eye. While you're at it, could you do a puff piece on Stasi, and the KGB/camp system in the Soviet Union? I'm sure they did a spectacular job saving lives and keeping people safe, as well.' << from the not-yet-censored commentz
asciilifeform: 'China stops at nothing: incomplete digital Korans and fake pharaoh finds are invading the Egyptian market...'
asciilifeform: the other thing is that, at least from my perch, nowhere are there symptoms that the folks pushing rousseauism actually read the bloody book
asciilifeform: and i think i might have once described how maths is to work should a sane computer ever be constructed
asciilifeform: but mircea_popescu for some reason is not moving to afghan, has not sold his computer, bought moar horse ?
asciilifeform: sorta implies that there is this silent mass of downtrodden mill gurlz or somesuch who could have the coveted american dream (tm) Respectable Job, if only she could afford a new skirt...
asciilifeform: for completeness, and because mircea_popescu is asleep, i will mention the third,
asciilifeform: scanning books is very tedious work, but it is important to remember that:
asciilifeform: so, a 'soviet' comp built in 2015 would have to have a very specific purpose in life. e.g., xoring serial stream with a onetimepad stored on magnetic tape, or the like.
asciilifeform: 'Austrian Army Major: “I was at the border today: It's a war!” “21 October 2015: Today is the blackest day of my life. At 11:30 I had to witness with my own eyes how around 5,000 men, all of them young and very fit, breached the Austrian border at Spielfeld, completely unopposed and unchecked.”'
asciilifeform walked 'ebay' and similar and concluded that it is quite feasible to build whole computer, and in fact run a conveyor, out of nothing post-1990 and nothing west of bulgaria
ascii_field: hey i'm already a criminal in the sense contemplated in mircea_popescu's article re: same
ascii_field: 'It's not clear what will happen to the money as of now, but many speculate that Jose Mariena Cartolos will not be allowed to keep the money and it will be taken by the Colombian Government and probably spent on improving the life of poor farmers all over the country.' << l0l, oughta have found a bitcoin pit instead ?
ascii_field: i get the chumpatronic aspect, but find it hard to believe that anyone could be fooled
asciilifeform: even import of a soviet vacuum is mega-ordeal in ar ?
asciilifeform: stamped 'runs on alternating ~and~ direct current'
asciilifeform: when i say 'program is to be read', i do not mean in a metaphorical sense of 'most of it' or 'the important parts'
asciilifeform: and this is an example to follow ?!!!
asciilifeform: that's what i turned mpi into.
asciilifeform: standalone in the sense mpi was in gpg.
asciilifeform: it is already quite difficult, bordering on impossible, to run 'vanilla' kernel on anything like consumer hardware.
asciilifeform: so, as with the fall of the original byzantium, it will be an implosion of an already rotten husk
asciilifeform: example. some months ago, i tried one of those 'usb 3.0 to flatpanel' gizmos.
asciilifeform: this salvage op is not raising a fishing trawler that went down last business quarter. it is not raising 'kursk' submarine. it is not raising 'titanic', even. it is raising the empty treasure chest on a spanish galleon that sank in 1600s and colonized by little fish.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-11-2015#1319817 << the dump where i went to school is, or at least was at the time, thought to be ~the~ 'nsa uni'
asciilifeform: i meant, the camps. atm they only hold adult males tho
asciilifeform: (yet the umpteenth reason why gossipd is a weapon of the apocalypse)
asciilifeform: in the words of mr mold, 'death is quicker, cheaper, simpler, and more persuasive than persuasion'
asciilifeform: 'An interim injunction handed down by a judge in Canada has granted forensic experts under MPAA supervision access to hosting accounts and domains operated by Popcorn Time, including VPN.ht, its official VPN service. Nevertheless, VPN.ht remains defiant, insisting that its service exists outside Canada and has not been compromised.'
asciilifeform: 'Update: The YTS.to domain was just signed over to the MPAA.'
asciilifeform: imperial ru army
asciilifeform: fact is, mr s (or, if you prefer, the character he is playing) has emphatically ~not~ 'set the bozo bit' on usg.
asciilifeform: late at night. The home of Thomas Drake, a senior executive at the NSA, was searched, his passport was cancelled and he lived under the threat of 35 years imprisonment for four years, prosecuted under the Espionage Act. He lost his job, his pension and spent everything he owned on his defense lawyer. Today he works at an Apple store in Maryland and has been able to establish that the only person, who was investigated and pros
asciilifeform: not aiming to drive ben_vulpes to the bottle, so i'll not elaborate examples. but i think it is clear.
asciilifeform: complicated.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i think he meant it as an example of slow box ?
asciilifeform: the principal difference between this and actual sys6 is that a) written in ansi, rather than k&r c b) ab initio, for x86 b) ab initio for multiple processors, which actually simplifies threading & locking
asciilifeform: and it can also 'compile' to... book
asciilifeform: 2) if you have 64-bit qemu because you're an old osdev junkie, qemu-system-x86_64 -smp 2 -m 512 -hda xv6.img -hdb fs.img instead of the makefile's runner.
asciilifeform: same place as the hongkong attempt 6 mo. ago, presumably.
ascii_field: 'Ministers have no plans to ban sex because it has an important role in the protection of legitimate economic activity such as creating bank users and lottery players. But there is concern over some aspects of so-called end-to-end fuck where only the thruster and recipient of thrust can feel it.'
ascii_field: the purpose of dope in this example is as a force multiplier.
ascii_field: !s room will be empty
ascii_field: hey wasn't it mircea_popescu writing prescriptions for ego amputation ?
ascii_field: but it would not surprise me if the system responsible is simple enough for some realistic dope.
ascii_field: complete with fatigue and training
ascii_field: nor have sampled it
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it will soon be my 8th year of 'fix computing'
ascii_field: just random example
ascii_field: but yes, the machines were expensive and the room temp iq folks were kept out.
ascii_field: don't have the thread handy, but at one point i explained how computing is tricky because its very existence as its current thing - that is, vlsi - is predicated on mass uptake
ascii_field: viceroy in fi under late ru empire
ascii_field: completed.
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: that sentence is incomplete
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: or take the example of my trb patches.
ascii_field: which the other implementations are using as a crib sheet
ascii_field: the most elementary component
ascii_field has a very distinct feeling, prompted by last night's thread, that he is failing a kind of economic iq test
ascii_field: PeterL: one of the things to understand is that your computer is the way it is because the 'computing industry' consists of 1,001 people mutually sucking one another's cocks and profiting off the braindamage to every fella actually trying to get useful work done.
ascii_field: it'd have to be a computer for 100 people.
ascii_field: and you can't somehow beat microshit and crapple by competing on an imaginary playing field
ascii_field: i am deliberately not even mentioning gpu, because it is possible to have a useful computer with no vga board (e.g., you can speak x11 over tcp)
ascii_field: i picked this example out of a tall hat with many others, to demonstrate the impedance mismatch between the lisp way of doing things and pc iron
ascii_field: i'ma do a worked example for PeterL
ascii_field: phf: THE SIMPLEST malloc() is 10x more complicated than, e.g, the gc engine in 'tinyscheme'
ascii_field: poor old j.c.maxwell gets no rest when this comes up, but i'ma have to use him as example again. he didn't even bother ~trying~ to build a radio...
ascii_field: the 17th floor of empire state bldg is not a fundament.
ascii_field: or room temp supercon.
asciilifeform cannot compete with coolies either in cost or in enthusiasm
asciilifeform: when you desperately need speed / compactness, you use 'cdr coding' which is a cheat whereby you set a bit in the former word which signifies 'next is not an address but actually the next word.'
asciilifeform: which could handily compile itself in a few mSec on boot.
asciilifeform: because then it's a complete and almost usable os.
asciilifeform: i wonder if anybody's ported fabrice bellard's tinycc compiler to this.
asciilifeform: https://github.com/ahorn/xv6/blob/master/kill.c << example of why lions book was a thing
asciilifeform: all-process table. Similarly, there’s no malloc() in the kernel, but rather just a page allocator. The pipe implementation copies one byte at a time. Amazingly, even the bootloader is a pleasure to read. Another nice thing about Xv6 is that it comes with a short textbook that explains OS concepts in terms of their implementations in Xv6.'
asciilifeform: 'Xv6 is a rewrite of v6 UNIX in modern C that runs on multicore x86 chips. It compiles in a couple of seconds and is trivial to boot up in QEMU. It took me a while to see the genius of Xv6, which is that it is simpler than I would have thought a working multicore OS with shell and filesystem could be. For example, it lacks wait queues and ready queues — in Xv6, both wakeup and scheduling are accomplished by looping over the
asciilifeform: in other 'news', malloc is very very complicated.
asciilifeform: mempool is a great example
asciilifeform: we threw it out, because it is really a harmful thing, but later ended up with an impression that it will have to be - in a separate process, yes - put back, if pogo is to be deployed to civilian households
asciilifeform: this kind of thing can only be implemented as a global thing.
asciilifeform: and at the end of the day, 'v' is a unix proggy and isn't even a compiled thing, and utterly depends on 1,000,001 things that no one has examined since 1991.
asciilifeform: 'v' doesn't deal in secrets, ergo the actual location is unimportant.
asciilifeform: mod6: see if perl doesn't have a built-in notion of temp dirs
asciilifeform: today 'steam' appears to be doing the temporary 'having' of that thing
asciilifeform: when i wrote that piece, there was a very temporary phenomenon where the small-time independent programmer appeared to be a thing again
asciilifeform: someone worked astonishingly hard to make this thing a nearly-incomprehensible morass.
asciilifeform: as a kind of reimplementation of malloc that... uses malloc internally for the segments !
asciilifeform: and (and i could go on and on) the thing is implemented in a profoundly braindamaged way
asciilifeform collected five versions of gpg, not in one is the thing actually implemented
asciilifeform: in all fairness, the prison lenin sat in was a joke compared to present-day
asciilifeform: elsewhere i noted the example of hobby chemistry - where also it seemed that 'how could it possibly matter what derpy kids dare or don't dare to do, and whether they can get ingredients' but it turned out to.
asciilifeform spent more or less his entire free time in the past 2 wks reverse-engineering and auditing gpg, incl. compiled binaries. this has a certain effect on the soul.
asciilifeform: !down imposter
asciilifeform: !up imposter
asciilifeform: and i don't own an impregnable castle where i can leave a machine going.
asciilifeform: the very examples of the 'disposable males overdue for the meatgrinder' as portrayed in mircea_popescu's articles.
asciilifeform sadly contemplates unplugging the thing entirely
asciilifeform: '“What we have to question ourselves is, as a society, do we really want to criminalise 13, 14 and 15 year-olds? Or do we want to understand their behaviour, engage with their incredible skillsets, mentor them and try to point them in the right direction?” she said.' << aha, a course of neuroleptics followed by lifetime indenture at junior www dev work in usg sharashka, is the implication.
asciilifeform: 'A humanistic, cognitive psychology approach to hacking would be to consider an emotion such as revenge… But my favourite explanation for the academic literature is a Freudian psychoanalytic approach to hacking, which actually conceptualises hacking in Freudian terms as a cyber-sexual urge to penetrate. And there are castration complex overtones in terms of being cut off from the network as well…'
asciilifeform: i mean, we can infer that kakobrekla's barrel contained a computer and also whatever was required to keep his brain alive and in reasonably well-oiled condition
asciilifeform: ...building a sane computer.
asciilifeform: speaking of this, secmem.c is getting cut and replaced with a stub. because this crud does not belong in mpi, needs to be a quite separate library.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1315773 << have you (or anyone else) considered writing a simple tcp proxy for this ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1315736 << the way to do it is gpg --homedir /tmp/dirthatyoumadefortheoccasion
asciilifeform: likewise, any keys imported outside of 'v' will be applied by 'v'
asciilifeform: (imported keys will stay imported)
asciilifeform: ^ this means that attempts to run with smaller subsets of a wot that was ~ever once~ used on the box - will fail !
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mod6 in your 'v', gpg doesn't seem to be confined to a temporary state dir !!!?
asciilifeform: as i understand, cn is only involved in the sense that it is impervious to the usg orc-pushing current
asciilifeform: zfx: i must agree with mircea_popescu. thus far we have only the foggiest notion of what it is you'd like to accomplish
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu posits usa city blacks as examples of 'functional' ?!!
ascii_field: competition is places where 'brain drain' MOVES TO
ascii_field: china is not competition.
ascii_field: the orcs are welcome because they spread chaos and destroy the competition of usg
ascii_field: drowned != publicly impaled on camera
ascii_field: ~who~ wrote mpi, i wonder
ascii_field when reading code where each important algo quotes a knuth aop chapter and verse, the soul fucking sings
ascii_field meanwhile cut another ~100kB of crud off mpi
asciilifeform: concurrently. The defendant is ordered to pay a special assessment in the amount of $300, which shall be due immediately. The defendant shall pay Restitution in the amount of $340,000. The court did not impose a fine.'
asciilifeform: 'I have heard from several people connected to European security circles that the illegal weapons market is completely sold out, with many dealers holding on to their weapons for their own personal use. This is a rumour, but since we have been forced to depend on hearsay for any real information right now, I tend to believe it.'
asciilifeform: but in no case anything pc-compat.
asciilifeform: (when immunocompromised.)
asciilifeform: but otherwise - yes. the latent carriers will develop symptoms as the virus moves from the nerve to the skin.
asciilifeform: ditto compaq.
asciilifeform: ... as a thin veil for usg's 'strategic supercomputing' pig trough
asciilifeform: 'Defense attorneys, for example, had previously said they might seek to point the finger at another suspect — Nancy Dunning’s late husband, former Alexandria sheriff James Dunning, who had a tumultuous relationship with his wife. Perhaps laying the groundwork in the case, Severance’s parents and sister disputed Wednesday that Severance was the man caught on surveillance video possibly following Nancy Dunning at a Target
asciilifeform once owned a massive 'tempest'-shielded pa-risc monstrosity
asciilifeform: (paging emperor norton!)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-11-2015#1314362 << something in the mpi pile of shit breaks the regex
ascii_field: have to go find a real computer, yes
ascii_field: and http://www.loper-os.org/pub/mpi/mpi-genesis.tar DOWNLOADS MOTHERFUCKING PARTIALLY
ascii_field: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/mpi/mpi-genesis.tar.gz.sig doesn't load in any version of 'chrome' or 'chromium' also.
ascii_field: does anyone else find that http://www.loper-os.org/pub/mpi/mpi.tar.gz.sig will NOT download in any ver of firefox ?
ascii_field: http://business.asiaone.com/news/woman-badly-injured-exploding-computer-chair << not this one, but apparently ~another~ similar breakage
ascii_field: he assumes that (what he passes off as - i cannot compare it with any objective reality that i can access) usa 'pop culture' is a thing
ascii_field: and even 'Versions 0.2.5 – 0.3.x saved the decryption key (with other data) in their own service file, key.dat. The area containing the key was zeroed out in the file only after completing encryption, making it possible to save the key by interrupting the encryptor’s operation (e.g., by turning off the computer). After this, the key could be extracted from key.dat and used to decrypt all files.'
ascii_field: (or, at least, palpably ~less~ retarded than earlier example)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: https://securelist.com/analysis/publications/72087/the-shade-encryptor-a-double-threat << example of ransomware written by folks who aren't retarded
ascii_field: since when was this even considered acceptable by anybody with two braincells - for version n of a compiler to refuse to build something which n-epsilon did happily build ??!
asciilifeform: whole thing is a trivial example of 'can operate entirely as a small patch on a bitcoind'
asciilifeform: 'To this day I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night. It reached down and cupped me in Its hands, lifting me up from my hole. As I sank to the ground clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked. You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinker's Anonymous poster.'
asciilifeform: and the-ONLY-MOTHERFUCKING-PORTABLE-COMPS-THAT-WORK
ascii_field: (deliberately not released with the mpi, because imho they are separate concerns)
ascii_field: it by itself was a pretty fast 16bit comp with multiple cpu !
asciilifeform is a 2-pass compiler apparently
asciilifeform: every time you stick in the knife, somebody says 'NOOOOOO! this is NECESSARY complexity...!'
asciilifeform: jurov: a good chunk of that complexity is on account of O(N) operations on strings made necessary by variads
asciilifeform: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffutils.git/tree/src/util.c << a good chunk of the complexity IS THERE BECAUSE characters are EVER variadic
asciilifeform: it is a severe impedance mismatch with the unix philosophy.
asciilifeform: because it is inevitably a clusterfuck of complexity
asciilifeform: it is what civilized people use when they program a computer.
asciilifeform: where do i meet all of these mythical people who own a computer, use gpg, but do not know enough english to operate it without this garbage ?
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu didja know that it is impossible to produce a v-genesis for gnupg-1.4.10 ? it contains unprintable turds, yes ! e.g., the idiot 'localizators', po/*.gmo
asciilifeform wonders how far along usa collapse needs to be for this assumption to fade away
asciilifeform: (typical u.s. state uni employs largely 'lecturers', who occupy approx. same place in the org chart as an air conditioner mechanic)
asciilifeform could not help but take off his hat to, e.g., the fella who put off +ev employment until he was 40 and subsisted on chickenshit wage just so that he could teach asciilifeform and other scum algorithms, number theory, etc
asciilifeform: went to school, professoring is just a (poorly-paying) job, and the folks who did it showed no symptoms of conceiving of it as anything else
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: microshit demanded that drivers act as stoolies and search for signs that box is instrumented/tampered
ascii_field: 'Microsoft recommends that drivers be continually suspicious. Is that video decompressor taking longer than you think it should? Did the voltage just drop unexpectedly on the PCI bus? Vista has a concept it calls "tilt bits", as in the "tilt" mechanism on a pinball machine. When a driver sees something suspicious, it bumps the "tilt bits"; if too many suspicious activities happen close to each other, Vista degrades the
ascii_field: https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-pdb << lulzy. microshit publishes spec of their debug dump format (similar to unix 'dwarf') and,
asciilifeform: 'novena' is almost a textbook case of slimeball delusionist attempts to nudge the definition of 'open'
asciilifeform: (hilariously, it was translated to ru on the die - WITH A DICTIONARY - to the point of being nearly incomprehensible)
asciilifeform: emphatically not. copying a (1980s) die is a photographer's work.
asciilifeform: 'The problem is that as long as he completed the worksheet, you wouldn't know there was a problem with doing math until it was way too late. If the kid is clever in other ways-- say, fast at finger counting-- he could easily convey the impression that he understands how to add 2 digit numbers, and what that means, and so everyone thinks he's progressing just fine; only to reach a later point when his clever shortcut is too pr
asciilifeform: after - i find it quite impossible.
asciilifeform: pet: 'like many systematicists, campbell overstates the universality of his patterns'
asciilifeform: at any rate, in practice the thing never shows up unless there's a gang of chimps making a public mess.
asciilifeform: but he decided, for some chumpatronic reason, to pretend that it is a 'leaking fiber'
ascii_field: so idea is, mircea_popescu pays to have the koh-i-noor dug up, the fact of this matter is chronicled in the logz, and anyone who's anyone is to simply believe ?
ascii_field: in the same way as he has the intel dept, mircea_popescucoin squad (whoever maintains that 0.6-compat. thing), etc.
ascii_field: but merely compressed - with an unknown dictionary (the latter, in mask rom)
ascii_field: and yes, this is a kindergarten summary, and yes, if somebody pays for it, i can go and teach 'theory of computation' where we do 'symbol', 'language', 'formal automaton', etc. as rigorously as we want
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