mircea_popescu: there is that.
asciilifeform: has ~usable atmosphere. which beats the shit out of the usual 'colonization' fantasies.
mircea_popescu: who wants, can have the poles.
asciilifeform: hey it's a better deal than 'live on the poles' or 'under ocean' or 'on moon'
mircea_popescu: just dun wanna live there.
mircea_popescu: write the novel, i'll read
mircea_popescu: by now it's cheaper to lure vagrants in and suck their blood./
asciilifeform: and noshit.jpg, you distill the water, with selfsame reactor.
mircea_popescu: yes, because afterwards the ash settled on naive settler's water sources.
mircea_popescu: few years ago a quarter of all flights had to be grounded because some volcano spit out ash in the upper atmosphere.
asciilifeform: (then -- asteroid, for good measure)
asciilifeform: and then anvil.
asciilifeform: water from anywhere but the ~top~ of the peak. but you would have to somehow generate mains current, etc.)
asciilifeform: ( though i do have a few nitpicks re: mircea_popescu's 'Do you have any idea what it costs to drill for water in that sort of clearly basaltic substrate ? Look it up. And then, IF, and that's a huge if, you're lucky enough to find water, you'll be stuck pumping it five thousand feet. Which means each cubic meter of water will cost you, even should you have the perfect engine, a megajoule and a half' -- there'd be no reason to get the
mircea_popescu: jurov look into it, there's nothing sane. somehoiw the whole fucking continent manages to be 35 degrees
asciilifeform: jurov: himalayas have the other problem -- the one described in mircea_popescu's article about the chile scam
jurov: large swathes of india are foothills of himalayas, one can surely find some place with acceptable climate
asciilifeform: aha, as described by uncle al and others.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know california has had rolling blackouts since the 80s.
asciilifeform: planned devaluations are one of the inevitable death agonies of a collapsing monkeystan, quite like, e.g., rolling mains blackouts.
phf: since then, cash shortages, protests, the usual stuff. the obvious solution "make it illegal", what a bunch of babus
phf: i think they got replaced with "new series" of 500 and 2000. also there's certainly no confusion. the whole transition was a clusterfuck. they introduced new series like two months ago
asciilifeform: tomorrow however to deposit the now officially “banned” notes.'
asciilifeform: 'As the deadline for handing in India’s decommissioned 500 and 1,000 rupee notes arrives, the government has signed a law jailing those who continue holding them. ... The Indian Cabinet has cleared a so-called ordinance, transferring liability to consumers and away from banks and authorities after a final cut-off point of March 31. Consumers could thereafter land themselves in jail for four years. Regular consumers only have until
asciilifeform: 'With just one programming technique, the SPITBOL compiler violated several principles of good programming...'
asciilifeform: in other lulz, gnat's standard library apparently includes a compact implementation of... SPITBOL.
mircea_popescu: by winter of 2017 - or even the summer if another katrina hits - the regime will need to make moves and the populace will be well hungry and angry enough.
mircea_popescu: kinda wherefore impeachment. only way to castrate the construct.
BingoBoingo: Hussein as a political construct *needed* enshrined on court, preferably in Scalia's seat. Twas why there was no big push to vacancy fill.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> (such as the supreme court if the dems get the presidency again) << Well that's why he was cool with Hillary in 2016 but not 2008 or 2012, next job 4lyfe
asciilifeform: 'This is physical Bitcoin as it was meant to be: just hand it to someone and they've got it. Pass it on multiple times! As simple as a handshake. No miner fees, no confirmation delays.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the various derps (i've lost count) all use the same seek00000ritychip
mircea_popescu: will this be the token of barbie prostitution ?
asciilifeform: 'Secure authentication and product validation device datasheet summary. The complete document is available under NDA. For more information, please contact your local Atmel sales office.' << lel
asciilifeform: gotta luvvv these folx
a111: Logged on 2016-09-15 18:39 asciilifeform: 'Yes. It's like a piggy-bank. You must destroy it to spend the funds. At first that seems expensive and wasteful, but it's a key part of our security model: you can trust a sealed Opendime, and it's obvious when it's been opened.' etc. is a lie.
asciilifeform: vintage lulz ( http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-15#1542468 ) continued! >> http://blog.opendime.com/post/155026798632/announcing-opendime-v2-now-genuine-verified << 'we’ve added a special security chip, the sole purpose of which is to defeat any attempt at building counterfeit or cloned Opendime'
asciilifeform: in re yesterday's lel, http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-cybersecurity-link-used-by-obama.html
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2016/the-problems-of-the-female-notion-of-sacrifice/ << Trilema - The problems of [the female notion of] sacrifice
mircea_popescu: will durst raided a thesaurus, nobody complained. apparently back in 2006 this was ok.
mircea_popescu: anyway, whether they manage to eat this particular potato or not, the fact remains : obama as a political construct is more valuable impeached than not impeached. that's pretty much the whole story, not like there's an actual human behind the construct.
asciilifeform: aaah if we're talking about fyootoor laws, then 'don't impeach! impale!'
mircea_popescu: congress shall make no law limiting the laws congress can make later on.
mircea_popescu: "first black president" was "a great victory for the progressives", then "only nigger ever lost in the white house was impeached!" will be "a great victory for the patriots", this is how politics works - everyone gets the maximal great victories possible.
mircea_popescu: trump has a healthy majority and plenty of people hate the dems. even themselves, these days.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-29 13:10 mircea_popescu: there's some talk of impeaching him next year just so he doesn't get to run for any office ever again
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the female mind, having betrayed the faith she owes the male, is taking refuge in teary-eyed imaginations of "sacrifices" ; in a defensive paleocortex process veheheheery well known by the survivors of the communist countries. "oh, those were the times, I HAD TO SACRIFICE" says every despicable old quisling whore. mno bitch, you didn't have to sacrifice anything, you're just a blob of fat. blobs of fat don't "sacrif
mircea_popescu: ice", they just get bought and sold.
mircea_popescu: "JUST THE <fill in> SHE <fill in> THAT ONE TIME WHEN EVERYONE <fill in>" is 100% of the moral/ethical mental process of every usian under 30. that's the whole thing. just the thought they have one time when everyone's looking down at them. thassit.
mircea_popescu: dude has it, clearly. ben_vulpes will produce one gem per article, he's got a geological process going on in his skull and the result is these geodes of an article whereby among the silt there's gems.
mircea_popescu: "Arrival is an excruciating ode to the holy mother's spring sacrifice. Instead of dazzling with feats of shoostment, punching, swordplay, or skillful maneuvering of ICEmobiles, Arrival wallops one incessantly with the great sacrifice of parenthood and just how far woman will go for her babies, especially if that baby is everyone and the sacrifice just the guy she hooked up with that one time when everyone got real stressed ou
mircea_popescu: obviously cinema has a strong escapism vein, but historically the escapism is directed towards poverty and individual restrictions. you need a septicemic soviet union for it to be "a source of hope for the aparatchicks"
mircea_popescu: trinque btw, the cinematic productions of teh empire in the past 3-5 years are showing very specific distress. ~everything is really a redo of "black mirror", it's shockingly this very specifig thing : politico-ideological refuge.
mircea_popescu: there's some talk of impeaching him next year just so he doesn't get to run for any office ever again
trinque: "towards purpose" being disembowled, it tries to put the guts back in with paradoxical time travel stories
trinque: ^ I'm gonna spoil the shit out of this one. It ends with the chick learning the magic words SHE KNEW ALL ALONG because aliens fly their heptafold asses across the cosmos to make her the god-snowflake she is in her true self. This SO THAT humans can help teh alienz in 3000 years.
asciilifeform: it ain't x86 either
asciilifeform: Optimum compression would reduce the size
asciilifeform: and the blob isn't any format i know of.
asciilifeform: in other 'news', steve dutch has a very peculiarly broken www server.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: believe or not, i solved the linking idiocy.
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://68.media.tumblr.com/f0b60cb4ffb53329fa0fd58134ddb50a/tumblr_ocwd2eNJZJ1vxxwdto1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: the fuckgoats part seems easier. so where's this address of yours and are what deal are we looking at here ? machines for fuckgoats ?
gabriel_laddel_p: Indeed. And why not bundle w/eurola? You've wanted an 'emacs' interface for a while. CLIM is the logical conclusion of the emacs modality married to
a111: Logged on 2016-12-28 05:08 mircea_popescu: oh speaking of which, gabriel_laddel_p why not packaging fuckgoats with the masamunes ?
a111: Logged on 2016-12-28 05:14 mircea_popescu: the original proposition was "hooker-ready laptop". i can see the "value add".
gabriel_laddel_p: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-28#1591735 < the original proposition was, and is ARSTTEP. Hos being able to use it is just a result of having an xterm and browser around
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's the crapola from ye olde glibc
mircea_popescu: the fucking reason it's static is so that it DOESNT require that.
mircea_popescu: "Using 'getservbyport_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking" << what THE FUCK does this even mean.
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhGtad_BUlc << this is the good one. "rapprochement march". imagine you being on the other side and trying to prevent for instance a pincer closing but failing, and then the fucking idiots play this as they're linking up.
mircea_popescu: in vaguely related news i spent an hour going through all romanian military marches. the schmucks have nfi what they're doing. there is exactly one that's acceptable, everything else is crap.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-28#1592398 << by this measure any fat man who ever farted did cooking, just not good cooking ? or i'm sorry, singing ? playing the tuba ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-28#1592392 << it's particularly funny how this recycling works, where the same invention is supposed to have been separately invented and we're supposed to credit each "individual" derp with a full copy.
phf: "a whistle blower leaked a video of the event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHSyySIECGE&t=2m3s"
asciilifeform: ^ for the record. glibc retardation -- spreads.
asciilifeform: socket.c:(.text.__gnat_getservbyport+0xc): warning: Using 'getservbyport_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
asciilifeform: socket.c:(.text.__gnat_getservbyname+0xc): warning: Using 'getservbyname_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
asciilifeform: socket.c:(.text.__gnat_gethostbyname+0xf): warning: Using 'gethostbyname_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
asciilifeform: socket.c:(.text.__gnat_gethostbyaddr+0x1a): warning: Using 'gethostbyaddr_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-28#1592256 <<< dude seriously, with the fucking ridiculous merit washing. plox to compare and contrast that shit with http://trilema.com/2014/interacting-with-fiat-institutions-a-guide/
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 1) there is exactly one implementation 2) by... mozilla 3) there is exactly 1 backend 4) which is... llvm 5) the users.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-28#1592376 << how do you make the shitlang determination ?
asciilifeform: to briefly revisit upstack, yes, the tor derps are gonna move to permissioned nodes ('wanna run tor relay ? get 'anonymous' privkey signed by this-here-chixxxxx0r-with-niiice-legs, first!')
ben_vulpes: also mimisbrunnr irc component isn't wired up to do the talmudic recitals, so...
Framedragger: sure, no argument there.
asciilifeform: and every other sybiltronic system run by wotless idiots.
asciilifeform: exercise for the reader, how.
asciilifeform: the nerve. 'doing crypto'.
asciilifeform: it was a snore. but srsly, these people.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: this is 'doing crypto' like a hobo throwing up in the hallway of university physics dept. where he was let in from the cold, barfing and liquishitting before making it to the toilet, is 'doing physics'
a111: Logged on 2016-09-08 17:21 asciilifeform: in other noose, remember the 'riseup' derpatron? the one with the, what, dozen phuctur pops ? well, https://archive.is/PEVaX
asciilifeform: and lol, they have an ' isabela at riseup.net ' ?!!!
asciilifeform: do we need more of this, or is the verdict clear.
asciilifeform: now, back to Framedragger's gurl, 'This work is potentially applicable to other OTF and internet freedom projects, including Tor (if we ever allow linking against Rust code) and Signal. After a meeting with Trevor Perrin, we've also added to our todo list (probably after this project is done, so with alternate funding) to incorporate into curve25519-dalek some additional functionality required for the Signal protocol.'
ben_vulpes: standby 2, there's more coming on that post
a111: Logged on 2016-09-29 14:55 asciilifeform: (in actuality, in 'identity-based' crypto, folks actually encipher to a pubkey that is produced by F(Pc, X) where Pc is the chump's email addr and X is a public key of the great inca; chump (email addr holder) can decipher with his Pk_c private key, and so can the inca.
a111: Logged on 2015-04-02 14:58 asciilifeform: 'Boneh, in joint work with Matt Franklin, constructed a novel pairing-based method for identity-based encryption (IBE), whereby a user's public identity, such as an email address, can function as the user's public key. Since then, Boneh's contributions, together with those of others, have shown the power and versatility of pairings, which are now used as a mainstream tool in cryptography. The transfer of pairings from theory t
asciilifeform: (koning et al, 'The ABC of ABC')
asciilifeform: crosoft’s U-Prove [Brands, 2000,Brands, 2010] and IBM’s Idemix [Camenisch and Lysyanskaya, 2001,Security Team, IBM Research, 2012]. Currently, the European ABC4Trust project...'
asciilifeform: r, credit card number as well as more mundane data, like hair colour and favourite dish, are called attributes in this model. Some of these attributes are not identifying (e.g. age or hair colour) whereas others are (e.g. name or social security number). An attribute-based credential is a cryptographic container for attributes represented as integers. The two most important technologies that realise attribute based credentials are Mi
asciilifeform: 'In most computer-related scientific work a digital identity is considered to be a set of characteristics describing certain properties about an individual. This set is dynamic, and depends on the context in which the individual is known. The attribute-based credential technology implements this model; see for instance [Camenisch et al., 2011,Alpár and Jacobs, 2013]. Personal characteristics, such as age, name, social security numbe
Framedragger: and ecc, i wonder where your wrath was towards bitcoin, in that regard. (i am aware that you were never a bitcoin enthusiast tho, so there's that)
asciilifeform: it saddens me to befoul the l0gz with this, but it needs to be here.
Framedragger: she wrote current version of, and afaik (maybe old info) still maintains tor bridge infrastructure. at the very least includes saltmining with 'cryptographers' and implementing their ideas (not whole cryptosystems), unless saltmine implies academia
asciilifeform: ed on algebraic MACs. [3] The construction of this scheme required a library for working with points on an elliptic curve, [4] which Henry de Valence and I have implemented in Rust, using a curve25519 in Edwards form. Henry has made more detailed announcement of our curve25519-dalek library on the curves mailing list, [5] and our documentation is also available online. [6]'
asciilifeform: 'Began implementing the crypto needed for the social distributor, as well as writing documentation describing it. [0] [1] In light of the history of attacks on pairing-friendly curves combined with the recent pseudo-MOV attack which solves discrete logarithms in the embedding field of the pairing (where the embedding field is of small degree), [2] I decided to avoid pairings altogether and use an attribute-based credential scheme bas
asciilifeform comes upon first mention of the handle, https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2016-December/001113.html , and reads:
mircea_popescu: eir "only reason anyone could think us irrelevant would be them being uneducated!"
mircea_popescu: "Complicating matters, the Trump transition team has not yet had extensive briefings with the White House on cybersecurity issues, including the potential use of the cyber sanctions order. The slow pace has caused consternation among officials, who fear that the administrations accomplishments in cybersecurity could languish if the next administration fails to understand their value." << lulz. aren't they sweet with th
mircea_popescu: the life and times.
asciilifeform: then vanished.
asciilifeform: then came here.
asciilifeform: (that -- plus now the l0gz here.)
asciilifeform: he found my www, which was -- and remains -- the only place on entire planet where there is public data re the probe.
asciilifeform: the sageprobe d00d
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: ah, that *is* a nice way of putting it. but then, it's a much weaker assertion than "define cryptoperson as someone who's heard of phuctor" :)
mircea_popescu: "the statement isn't made these are the best - the statement is made these are good. let any other good in their own mind prove this in their own ways."
mircea_popescu: Framedragger actually i dunno if you read the first lordship list thing, but this is there.
Framedragger: but it is a bit funny how all of these "is element part of this precious set" functions defined in tmsr yield elements only from tmsr. you'd say that's not a problem, but you know.
mircea_popescu: moreover, defense of the "busy elsewhere" line does utterly require them ~to have done something~. which... "oh, i existed" isn't a doing.
Framedragger: that's not an altogether bad attitude now, is it. but yes she's paying for using python 3
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is this anyway.
asciilifeform: 'Code page conversion renders binary files unusable during encryption #169' 'Oh god. I don't know what to do here. Unencoded or differently-encoded data needs to undergo this conversion. However, there's no way to detect valid unicode… it's essentially arbitrary binary. I'm at a loss for what to do here, and open to suggestions.'
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/slutmoth.jpg <<< apparently it purges dots other than last o.O it turns out whenever i try that i get pissed off, curse, then upload via sftp.
mircea_popescu: it is this that distinguishes human from tv-consumer, be the tv delivered over analog cable or digital cable as "www".
mircea_popescu: and that's the entire point of the forum as it works and the other things as they develop - to make recourse in assumption not merely possible, but a matter of course.
mircea_popescu: anyway, phf 's notion of "recourse" is a lot more important than directly obvious in context ; it's a direct restatement of the "opposable" concept used in discussing deedbot payment design, and altogetgher the trestlework of sanity in operations.
Framedragger: i'm pruning trustleaves slowly, but yeah need another degree of rigour hm
mircea_popescu: sadly there's no universal pill for that.
trinque just doesn't wanna see Framedragger befall the result of misplaced trust
Framedragger: i did learn that if i don't flush out the funny parts i'll just grow up to be someone with no interior at all. :)
mircea_popescu: and dun worry about it, there's no damage, but there are some chuckles here and there.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger the objection is methodological not factual.
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2016/12/bitcoin-network-difficulty-continues-climb-rising-2-43-percent-for-yet-another-all-time-high/ << Qntra - Bitcoin Network Difficulty Continues Climb Rising ~2.43 Percent For Yet Another All Time High
Framedragger: (fwiw i wouldn't defend tptacek as much, at all, but i can see how these framedraggerisms can be related under same umbrella)
mircea_popescu: phf the clearing of head is a slow and painful, mostly private process. now he has a definite reference point to come back to later at least.
phf: Framedragger: it's always the same with you, "this online personality construct is great" "they do useful research" etc. until they publish "i don't believe in pgp" or really act in any way that you didn't expect. and then you don't have any recourse, because they are online personality constructs. how well do you know this "online researcher" if you ~having spent significant amount of effort to collect and upload ssh keys~ didn't even
Framedragger: they may have even paid me!!11
trinque: Framedragger must've used tor at some point, wants very much to believe no one saw him in there.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: have you ever wrestled with mp-wp stripping '.' characters from uploaded filenames when there's more than one?
trinque: where's danielpbarron, Framedragger needs help identifying plants by their fruit
mircea_popescu: so you went to a room where a bunch of other kids were and you met this girl who said "hi, i'm isis[agoralovecruft]" ?
mircea_popescu: unlike framedragger, however, it's not one dork your age, but a bunch of them.
mircea_popescu: no. what i am saying is that the isis handle is not "a" or "girl".
mircea_popescu: Framedragger this "one" "girl" on ask.fm has asked many thousands of people whether they heard of bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: except for the part where it's "an" or "bear".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's some chick (?) with actual handle 'isis'
Framedragger: this isis girl in tor reads crypto papers and implements them and runs their bridges infrastructure which uses its own nifty things (hashrings for distributing bridge nodes etc), i'm quite certain she hasn't heard
Framedragger: completing the logical circle :)
Framedragger: well if you define 'vaguely involved with crypto' as per tmsr-usual "has WoT presence" then yeah
mircea_popescu: the pretense that someone in any way even vaguely involved with crypto is not at this point aware of phuctor is on the level of terrestrial life somehow "not being aware the sun exists".
a111: Logged on 2016-12-28 21:14 asciilifeform: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7949-wheel_of_fortune << in other lelz, guess of what 0 mention
Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-28#1592214 << entirely possible folx weren't aware of phuctor, it's not exactly advertised much. (then again, cue mp's "they don't have a right/privilege not to be aware"..)
mircea_popescu: what are they going to do this time, anal sex with marine mammals ? TO PUNISH RUSSIA!!!! ?
mircea_popescu: lol wait, the us is going to "punish" russia ? like last time when they "us&allies embargo on russia sunk the us&allies economy" ?
asciilifeform: 'The Obama administration rolled the executive order out to great fanfare as a way to punish and deter foreign hackers who harm U.S. economic or national security.'
asciilifeform: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7949-wheel_of_fortune << in other lelz, guess of what 0 mention
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dun follow the logix.
pete_dushenski: speaking of tagging, looksee what i spotted at the base of a lamp pole recently : http://www.contravex.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TRB-everywhere.jpg
pete_dushenski: after 7.9 years of failure to 'yes we can', he's squeezing the last 0.1 to tag the whitehouse walls with 'obummer wuz heer'
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: recall this is the same 'red line' feller that can't tie his own shoelaces before insinuating that he's anything more than nyc corner meat-on- stick.
asciilifeform: ecision or I approve the removal.' << not spoken quite like a d00d who plans to get off the throne at the appointed hour, now is it.
asciilifeform: 'First, section 507 of the bill would authorize certain cabinet officials to "drop from the rolls" military officers without my approval. The Constitution does not allow Congress to authorize other members of the executive branch to remove presidentially appointed officers, so I will direct my cabinet members to construe the statute as permitting them to remove the commission of a military officer only if the officer accepts their d
asciilifeform: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/23/statement-president-signing-national-defense-authorization-act-fiscal << in other lulz, obummer refers to 'my administration will....'
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: $box is intended to replace one of my current heathenware boxen -- airgapped machines for winblowz CADs and similar
asciilifeform: the reason is unique in each case
asciilifeform: falls down randomly from the sky, but what else you gonna fly on
asciilifeform: nor is there any sign on www as to why it existed, when, where.
asciilifeform: in other lulz:
mircea_popescu: tbh i'm not a great fan on the twitch frenzy "rts" style. i expect fighting to be a lot closer to the tbs roots of, eg, mm7.
jurov: as there's no fighting yet, it's fully playable at 12
mircea_popescu: i have mine capped because otherwise it's 150-200 which... meh.
mircea_popescu: possibly because the client gfx library isn't properly ironed out, tbh.
jurov: there's (possibly water-related) bug capping fps at ~12 even at some decent setups (such as mine radeon 7790)
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's people playing with quadro fx boards, so should be fine.
pete_dushenski: hella expensive insurance mind you, but insurance nonetheless
mircea_popescu: who knows, maybe in a few years the gfx level goes way up and it'll turn it into a good investment.
pete_dushenski: let this therefore be remembered as the time alf pissed away 0.3btc (30mn ecu) on his eulorabox build. but hey, nothing like a little deficit to urge on the bot-crafting imagination! watch alf knock down all four hackathon prizes now.
mircea_popescu: no, it's the recommended.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: linked item is the minimal board for eulora ?
asciilifeform: they're inexpensive.
mircea_popescu: these are cca 2006 cards.
mircea_popescu: the minigame recommended build is geforce gt 600s / radeon hd 6000s or above.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger all bureaucracies prefer evoting for the simple reason that "representative democracy" doesn't work anyway, and evoting is way th fuck cheaper.
Framedragger: README says "the code that can be found here is the code that is used for election" so that's sorted......
Framedragger: heh, speaking of 'provably fair' and location in question (tallinn), they've been doing e-voting (for all major elections etc) for a few years now. iirc code audits showed weak spots, multiple sek0rity expert teams, advisory bodies etc recommended to shut it down because it was unsafe, but proud estonia knows better.. :p
Framedragger: pretty cool images, some of these. weirdly artistically stimulating
asciilifeform: the geoloc leaves something to be desired: http://www.insecam.org/en/view/354705/#camstream << unless it really is beach weather in nyc
phf: all these snowy landscapes remind me that i miss snow. i might need to go somewhere cold for a week or two..
asciilifeform: http://www.insecam.org/en/view/168264/#camstream << the strangest i/o relay i've ever seen. lamp is hooked, by all indications, to the 'network contact' box. as is the toggle.
trinque: also at least one of them appears to be paid for her work
asciilifeform: asciilifeform for example can't stand the prepared kind.
asciilifeform: would be interesting to auto-crawl these, apply image transform where you search for flesh tones
asciilifeform: when i ran evil tor exit, collected a bunch of these
asciilifeform: the man's a living mushroom, i dun think this has a constructive answer
mircea_popescu: "what's he to do" only counts for lords of the republic - not of usg peons.
mircea_popescu: can't say rms / gnu is hindering them any.
asciilifeform: what the shitgnomes are really trying for is to smoke folks out of using gcc entirely
asciilifeform: not quite so simple, e.g., c++11 ~dunwork under 4.x, and you're stuck with 'boost' and other abortions to make up for the missing functionality.
mircea_popescu: your ability to use computers may come to depend on obeying the above.
mircea_popescu: they're forcing the latest in static linking deliberate breakage (+ no doubt other goodies) into the "ecosystem"
mircea_popescu: and the gcc 4.x issue is not without ramifications. consider : http://logs.minigame.bz/latest.log.html#t18:28:17
asciilifeform: pick it up - there is no meat in it, only a billion ant
asciilifeform: the scene from '100 years of solitude', where ants eat the baby but carefully leave the skin in roughly the correct shape, comes to mind
asciilifeform: in other probably-not-news, http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/ug540/?raw=true << MOST gentoo mirrors have been converted into 'glue traps' where you either get 'file not found' for a CATALOGUED package (best case), or it HANGS FOR FIVE WHOLE MINUTES on 'PASV ...'
a111: Logged on 2014-06-22 17:22 asciilifeform: that many of the titles bear a striking resemblance to each other. "Adaptive Mesh Analysis" reads one and "An Adaptive Algorithm for Mesh Analysis" reads another. Dividing the total remaining by the average number of repetitions halves the list again. Mozart disappears before your very eyes.'
mircea_popescu: if your criteria becomes "i won't do that because too hard ; and i won't do this because too easy" then yes you've just about described present day academia.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-23 14:07 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587182 << speaking of this, here's a question for the eager : a diophantine equation is a multivariate polynomial, something like ax+by^2 = 0. the question is : given an arbitrary finite set of known-good equations, can you use recursion to decide whether an arbitrary equation in the same variables is good (has integer solution) or no good ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the difference being you know, that "come up with block cipher with ~any~ theoretical basis" is more in the vein of http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-23#1589135 whereas eulora bot things are more in the vein of "fix yourself a martini"
asciilifeform: btw asciilifeform is building a massive 3d gpu + fast cpu + max ram etc. machine, and, among other uses, it will build+run eulora
mircea_popescu: stuff currently in the eulora hackathon could have been done ~two years ago.
asciilifeform: (e.g., block cipher with ~any~ theoretical basis)
mircea_popescu: eh, what was appointed for them to disappoint ?
mircea_popescu: this is judicious - there's 0 inclination on our part to feed them so they do what they want to do.
mircea_popescu: the alternative explanation being that people are seriously disabled in the sense of coming up with motivation on their own.
asciilifeform: the academics, any and all of them, afaik, the bought and the unbought, the imbeciles and the brilliant, americans or chinese, so far show 0 inclination to distinguish us from the ants.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, when i wrote to bernstein, there was 0 answer.
asciilifeform: 'when choosing astrologer, hire the cheapest'
asciilifeform: there are surely people other than mircea_popescu and asciilifeform who -- have interest in subj + have the theoretical pre-reqs + seriously ready to get their hands dirty + not thralls of usg
BingoBoingo: Lettuce not forget "Equation Group" allegedly uses RC6 to communicate with their turds
asciilifeform: (keccak or another hash can be abused as a stream cipher, but it is precisely 'retarded homebrew', i will leave the reason ~why~ as an exercise)
asciilifeform: serpent is, i must note, 'best horse in the glue factory.'
mircea_popescu: evidently, there's serpent :)
asciilifeform: now i cannot speak for others, but i spent past few yrs exploring the known space between usgola (aes et al) and http://trilema.com/2013/the-danger-of-homebrew-crypto
mircea_popescu: the vice-versa is a lot more concerning, for him.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah i'm sure i don't exist because schneier didn't invite me to the latest round of rubber chicken.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to create the up-node : "stop doing stupid shit" is the universal pill to de-usg the world. stop doing stupid shit with crypto, as contemplarted here, there's no nsa nor any possibility of nsa. stop "plea bargain"ing, there's no us justice system. stop using us banks, there's no us finance. stop chasing the web-revolutionary-app-nonsense, there's no "us technical lead". stop trying to marry women there's no "5th wave