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ascii_field: many years ago. he burned out of 'y combinator' and walked around, looking for a chump, in 'starbucks' restaurants, even
ascii_field: theodor dalrymple (british) had a piece describing a scene he witnessed as a medic in liberia, where enraged orcs sawed the legs off, and carefully too massive shits into, a rare and very costly concert piano
ascii_field: !s from:fromphuctor
asciilifeform: such as 'People are going to use Windows or Apple operating systems when it comes to mainstream computing. And even if they didn't and we all went linux, there would still be targeting and hacks of this sort.'
asciilifeform: bumping is ancient history.
asciilifeform: aah l0l apparently this is a 'bumping' demo.
asciilifeform: other than as a demo of 'turing completeness' for schoolchildren, i can think of no actual use for this
asciilifeform: 'Waiting for empty slot... At most 1756 user(s) ahead of you'
asciilifeform: to see something like a quasi-readable and quasi-modern compiler, see f. bellard's 'tinycc' ( http://bellard.org/tcc/tcc-doc.html )
asciilifeform: also arguably 'compiler' is two entirely separate disciplines,
asciilifeform: best place to learn is still... by reading an actual compiler from 1980s or prior
asciilifeform: writing compiler ?
asciilifeform: andrew w. appel, 'modern compiler implementation in X' where X is one of 3 or 4 different langs (different editions)
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: if you're a complete n00b you might want to try one of andrew appel's schoolbooks
asciilifeform: 'PSS is harder to implement because it uses randomness -- randomness is hard on many embedded systems like smart cards. The most proclaimed advantage of PSS is that it has a "security proof" with, apparently, a rather tight reduction (see this page for some references). Security proofs are not an easy subject; the proof for OAEP (the encryption padding which is like the "sister protocol" to PSS) was found out to be wrong by Sh
ascii_field: thestringpuller: presumably canada will throw an exception, it is impossible
ascii_field: jurov: and also this is imho an important result, and you really oughta post it to ml
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: thinking about it, that turd simply has to be a troll job
ascii_field: presently i'm not convinced that any computer uses really... wants to live, all that much. wake me up when uranium centrifuge no longer runs winblowz, i might reconsider this theory
ascii_field: --'hi, i'm selling computer that works.' --'does it run msoffice?' --'...' --[click]
ascii_field: 'Argentina's president has blocked the extradition of a Denver fugitive who claims he was framed for murder because video he took of ground zero proves U.S. complicity in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.' << lulzy
ascii_field: '...if you look at the recently discovered back door installs that happened during the Olympics under the guise of helping secure the system that this also provides pretty open access to corporations in the US for the same type of subterfuge. Free security scanning all for the low price of a well placed back door.'
ascii_field: 'Providing strong funding for FHE and iO provides risk-free political cover. It supports a storyline that cloud storage and computing is safe. It helps entrench favored values within the cryptographic community: speculative, theory-centric directions. And it helps keep harmless academics who could, if they got feisty, start to innovate in more sensitive directions.'
ascii_field: even microshit gives away their compiler today
ascii_field: and decided to simply devour the tool vendor
ascii_field: who, likely, were simply tired of paying royalties on the runtime (yes!)
ascii_field: real-world attacks. No more emergency upgrades. Limited audience for any minor attack improvements and for replacement crypto. This is an existential threat against future crypto research.' If this is boring crypto, I think we should go make some.'
ascii_field: 'Dan Bernstein speaks of interesting crypto and boring crypto. Interesting crypto is crypto that supports plenty of academic papers. Boring crypto is crypto that simply works, solidly resists attacks, [and] never needs any upgrades." Dan asks, in his typically flippant way, 'What will happen if the crypto users convince some crypto researchers to actually create boring crypto? No more
ascii_field: 'In a 2012 newsletter column, NSA's SIGINT Philosopher, Jacob Weber, tells us his vision. After failing an NSA lie-detector test, he says: 'I found myself wishing that my life would be constantly and completely monitored. It might seem odd that a self-professed libertarian would wish an Orwellian dystopia on himself, but here was my rationale: If people knew a few things about me, I might seem
ascii_field: 'Of course it hasn't escaped the notice of intelligence agencies that the vast majority of the academic cryptographic community is unthreateningly engaged. In a declassified trip-report about Eurocrypt 1992, the NSA author opines, for example: 'There were no proposals of cryptosystems, no novel cryptanalysis of old designs, even very little on hardware design. I really don't see how things could have
ascii_field: students at my university, I have observed that a wish for right livelihood almost never figures into the employment decisions of undergraduate computer science students. And this isn't unique to computer scientists: of the five most highly ranked websites I found on a Google search of deciding among job offers, not one suggests considering the institutional goals of the employer or the social worth of what they
ascii_field: 'Never during the cold war, nor in any of the subsequent US wars, did US companies have difficulty recruiting or retaining the hundreds of thousands of scientists and engineers engaged in building weapons systems. Universities like my own were happy to add their support; the University of California would, for decades, run the USA's nuclear weapons design laboratories. In nearly 20 years advising
ascii_field: 'All antiquities, moved statues and unprocessed gold bullions are to be confiscated in the event that they are being passed through the border areas towards Turkey. And the confiscated goods are to be referred to the Diwan al-Rikaz office in the wilaya.... In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful ... The bearer of this document is permitted to procure equipment to search for gold and register it in the Diwan
asciilifeform: (they had not yet, then, hit upon the strategy of simply moving things around on the die to make this kind of effort meaningless)
ascii_field: as soon as i type out a symbol, it ought to be in the completion list
ascii_field: at this point i fully believe that editor and compiler must be THE SAME PROGRAM
ascii_field: (if i can't define a symbol and have it IMMEDIATELY typecompletable, it's shit)
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: i was looking at 'company-mode'. where does it actually get the tags ?
ascii_field: because a node of whom you are not a friend ought not to be distinguishable in any way whatsoever from an empty wall socket.
ascii_field: '1. Books ghost written for a Fox news Op-ed figure, 2. Jingoistic tomes on the defeat of the evil Nazi empire by “the greatest generation” of Americans, revealing as yet unfathomed Nazi evils and under-appreciated American heroics. [WWII is no longer, apparently recognized as having had a Russian or Japanese component, and the Third Reich is represented as an engine of global extermination that was
ascii_field: it is quite simple to ignore the apparent originating ip because we always know where a valid packet came from - based on which pubkey on your end is able to validate the sig.
ascii_field: and imho it is absolutely impermissible to have any plaintext invariant fields
ascii_field: well i won't be working with $othercompany for much longer...
ascii_field: so now i have a bit moar sympathy for the pebble folk
ascii_field: aha this was described in agonizing detail in the original mempool thread
ascii_field: which happens to be what i'm implementing right at this very moment
ascii_field: enemy has no way of learning anything from the attempted decrypt
ascii_field: when folks start to attempt decryption of whatever piece of shit, just for the asking - then yes, acca
ascii_field: when tard stampede, aha
ascii_field: is it just me or is the very possibility of acca dependent on retardation in implementation ??
ascii_field: i'd even go as far as to suggest the use of lamport signatures
ascii_field: this may be edging into rms&amp;gcc territory, but the inscrutability of the turd did its part in keeping the original net from forking to death - by ensuring that all of the forks were retarded 'swap the genesis' rather than any serious improvement of the compatibility-breaking kind
ascii_field: and, as mircea_popescu mentioned earlier, there is also the problem of fragging, which none of this even begins to deal with, nor is anything like a clean/simple solution to it known to me
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-11-2015#1332830 << the proper test of this is to jettison ~whole~ mempool in a running node and demonstrate that not only not crashes, but consistent operation from that point forward
ascii_field: jurov: gotta compile in the hooks
ascii_field: phf: the goal of 'zapmempool' was to prove that mempool accounts for all of the bloat other than what is accounted for by the 300bytes/block eternal index (another idiocy which will prevent pogoization unless a massive mechanism is rewritten beyond recognition)
asciilifeform: wake me up when afghani goat computer is built.
asciilifeform: (try to forget, for this example, the moral colour of word 'steal' - think of the sense in which we 'steal' milk from the cow, or samurai steals his XXXX koku of rice / yr. from the peasant)
asciilifeform: see, back to what mircea_popescu referred to as my 'temple of nonsense', intellectualism is this thing where some folk devote their whole lives to -ev folly like writing poetry or proving theorems
asciilifeform: trinque: somehow the point of the george boole example escaped you. the idea was that he had the freedom to do something other than immediately +ev practicalities.
asciilifeform: possibly 'cultured' is best illustrated with positive example - like that ss colonel who happily presided over firing squads but would not permit rare plant collection in captured ru institute to be burned
asciilifeform: in that the latter ~did~ do the whole employment thing
asciilifeform: now let's suppose that mircea_popescu is ultimately right about 'ride horses, throw out computer' and folks like me are not at all needed in the future. but let's try to imagine, e.g., a surgeon, trying to keep himself fed and clothed using b-a wot...
asciilifeform: miner defection might take longer than anticipated if mining begins to have a 'noblesse oblige' component, vs. straight +ev commercial motivation
asciilifeform: i still don't see how an altcoin could ever be an appealing thing other than to idiots and looters, assuming a still-functioning (if asymptotically-rewardless) classic btc
asciilifeform: where is the logical flaw in 'classic btc is schelling point for carve-of-all-value' --> asymptote ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and what of the asymptote ?
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i normally buy rarities there that it is physically impossible to obtain in any other way short of a journey around the globe in person
asciilifeform: also will note that the portable i actually use for work, cost no less than the maximal mac, relies on blobs, and a good number of peripherals simply do not work, blob or no blob
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no, though it has permanently soldered ram. it is simply that crapple refuses to support the gpu
asciilifeform: 'Yahoo! confirmed reports that it is preventing some Yahoo Mail users from seeing their e-mails until they turn off their ad-blocking software. Users started complaining late last week on social media and ad-blocking forums that a message prompting them to disable ad-blocking software appeared when they tried to view their e-mail. On Monday, a company spokeswoman said the notices were a limited experiment. “At Yahoo, we are
asciilifeform: ^ some comp sec course at some derpy american uni
asciilifeform: 'How to Run Turing Machines on Encrypted Data.' Shafi Goldwasser &amp; bunch other schmucks. << apparently impossibility proofs don't apply to some people !!
ascii_field: organic compounds of Hg - another matter entirely
asciilifeform: punkman: the one downer is that none of the high-brightness (equiv. to 100+ W edison bulb) led lamps fit in a traditional glass dome designed for classic lamp
asciilifeform: or LED lamp, which doesn't explode, but just expensively dies
asciilifeform: anyway whoever wants to know whether there is hg in his lamp, can buy... a toy prism
asciilifeform: look for hg in the traditional fluorescent lamp, incl. the 'craplamp' mircea_popescu was probably thinking of earlier
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what would hg be doing in a halogen lamp ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: halogen lamps routinely pop, for same reason as the fact that you can cut a glass bottle with a rope, some petrol, and a match
asciilifeform: if anybody here has a current vt subscription, i'd like the samples, thx
asciilifeform: phf: it only makes sense to do gossipd in cl if you reimplement the crypto
asciilifeform: most folks solve this 'problem' (if you will) simply by 'i dun wanna talk about the war'
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-11-2015#1330273 << holy shit, straight rip of ken thompson ?!
asciilifeform: if they were to attempt abandoning microshit - would be just as dependent on crapple.
asciilifeform: this is the hv cable for the lamps
asciilifeform: in civilized iron this is not a wear component !
asciilifeform: 'Once everything was done and the chamber was vented I removed the carbon coating with oxygen plasma (the cleanroom's standard photoresist removal process), packaged up my sample, went home, and soldered it back to the board for testing. After powering it up... nothing! The device was as dead as a doornail, I couldn't even get a JTAG IDCODE from it. ... ... ruled out beam-induced damage as I had not been hitting any of the I/O
asciilifeform: there are 'people' programming computers who wouldn't have been allowed within cannon shot of a tractor in kolhoz, yes
asciilifeform: trying to make a programming language for ~the wrong side of the camel hump~ is like trying to build a car for folks missing both arms and legs
asciilifeform: idiot abstraction balloons up complexity like nothing else
asciilifeform: 'To those who would retain their right to personal property: your only true allies are the pirates. Not “lending libraries”, not “reasonably priced” and “humane” iTunes-like services. The pirates are the only people presently defending the no-compromise, My-Computer-is-Mine point of view.' -- yours truly
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-11-2015#1329616 >> snore, this is what happens if you live too long - old, 'respectable', impotent
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-11-2015#1329599 >> 'the map is not the territory but the territory didn't fit in my glove compartment'
asciilifeform cringes when folks who otherwise show no symptoms of a mathematical past speak of 'metrics' etc
asciilifeform: y while the attacker is studying the actual problem of forging signatures. Maybe we're studying the problem of attacking one key while the attacker is studying the actual problem of attacking a large batch of keys. This oversimplification is surprisingly common...'
asciilifeform: 'Maybe we're studying the problem of setting public factorization records using academic computer clusters, while the attacker is studying the problem of factoring 1024-bit keys as quickly as possible using billion-dollar clusters. Or maybe, in an effort to advertise attractively simple problems, we've oversimplified the problem of attacking the actual cryptosystem. Maybe we're studying the problem of recovering a signature ke
ascii_field: ion about research it has performed,” the statement reads. “The university abides by the rule of law, complies with lawfully issued subpoenas and receives no funding for its compliance.”'
ascii_field: 'In a terse statement Wednesday, Carnegie Mellon wrote that its Software Engineering Institute hadn’t received any direct payment for its Tor research from the FBI or any other government funder. But it instead implied that the research may have been accessed by law enforcement through the use of a subpoena. “In the course of its work, the university from time to time is served with subpoenas requesting informat
asciilifeform: al schwartz's 'victimhood olympics'
asciilifeform: imprinted with the anal seal of his scaly majesty's own tail !
asciilifeform: or the one where 'iou' is legal for usg->chump bond repay, but not for chump->usg tax receipt
asciilifeform: and the 'distinguish type of camera / detect photoshitting / by jpeg compression artifacts' is a trendy idiocy atm
asciilifeform: jpeg is a lossy compress thing
asciilifeform: (the latter being a bitwise dump of raw ccd output)
asciilifeform: the castle of it-is-possible-to-have-a-sanely-designed-computer, for instance
asciilifeform: trinque: depends what means 'in the same manner.' if you, say, want to be ~employable in it like a 20yo chick was in 1985~ - then no
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&amp;r c b) ab initio, for x86 b) ab initio for multiple processors, which actually simplifies threading &amp; 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.
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