ascii_field: “When is OPM going to apologize to federal employees?”" << 'when the crayfish whistles on the mountain, and the fish in the sea begin to sing' (tm) (r) (ru)
ascii_field: considering that to me, the ~whole fucking point~ of fpga is to get a computer which ~i and only i~ define
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1166286 << Aaaalso - you don't need to distinguish features to prove homogeneous circuit. can use... optical comparator (ask a machinist. 1910s tech.)
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1166285 << it most assuredly is not. and on top of it, as soon as you're anywhere near done, they make a new and entirely incompatible one.
ascii_field: i will remind readers that reversing fpga is not impossible, and has been done. but takes ~20 years and chip is usually unobtainable after 5-10 (sooner if vendor learns that you're doing this)
asciilifeform: i distinctly recall when mircea_popescu wrote this important truth
asciilifeform: she does get to not be fed into a woodchipper feet first, for example
asciilifeform: cartoon example, ferphuxxsake
asciilifeform: the given example was anything but random.
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: while you're at it, compute the cost of a 10km^2 opaque bubble for me to live in there.
asciilifeform: this was on a u.s. university campus
asciilifeform: i suspect that the iPnohe only checks that a chump has been 'picked up', but not delivered
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: checked my mailbox this morning. no telegram from chinese emperor asking for it.
asciilifeform: how about the vacuum pump from earlier thread ?
asciilifeform: it's that simple.
asciilifeform: if 'don need no fucking employment' can live in antarctica. on atomic dirigible.
asciilifeform: how about employment that doesn't make one want to blow brains out?
asciilifeform: mats: at least they have public executions. i, for instance, am living in a tyrannical empire that doesn't even have fucking public executions to watch. picture that.
asciilifeform: (also three light-years ahead of, e.g., my own position in chinese employment market. so don't laugh)
asciilifeform: i, for one, only have a mechanical vacuum pump. it clatters, spits oil. would have looked at home in edison's house. i know that i will not be making so much as a triode valve with this pump.
asciilifeform: many ways to pump a vacuum.
asciilifeform: (i am assuming that you know what kind of pump - multiple pumps, in practice - is involved)
asciilifeform: midnightmagic: would be neat. where do i go to get a 10^-4-torr vacuum pump for less than the cost of new car ?
asciilifeform: i would like, for example, to fabricate simple circuits in copper (a la pcb) with electron beam
asciilifeform: how long it took, per mm of metal deposited ? what kind of vacuum, and with what did you pump it?
asciilifeform: midnightmagic: go and pump a high vacuum from a vessel you sintered on a 'metal printer'
asciilifeform: this is an important distinction.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's point about the 'excluded middle' ( http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=13-06-2015#1163457 << thread ) is valid, but it simply means that we are falling from skyscraper and trying to invent parachute on our way down.
asciilifeform: it gives the impression that you can actually turn any valid logical circuit into an imitation of something like slow 1980s silicon
asciilifeform: 'Libgcrypt now accepts contributions after having received a simple mail (right, e-mail, no transatlantic snail mail) with a Developers Certificate of Origin as known from other projects. Voilà, patches with new features and performance improvements started to come in.'
asciilifeform: there was no shortage of these when su was imploding
ascii_field: and the agent of a particular compromise is the sysadmin who installed winblows, and only distantly and secondarily anybody else.
ascii_field: in as far as i can tell, all of the 'compromises' of the past decade are cultivated reichstag fires, arranged to fatten the kompyooter insekoority 'industry'
ascii_field: so where the hell is the public dump.
ascii_field: beard can wait for the camps
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-06-2015#1164922 << by this token, it doesn't even matter if mr chump signs or not. they will 'sign' for him, if needed.
asciilifeform: (e.g., old residences, employers, blood relatives, marriages, etc)
asciilifeform: trinque: 'can in aggregate' like the chinese can jump and create earthquake, yes
asciilifeform: trinque: this particular virus only works on those who are immunocompromised to begin with
asciilifeform: from the pov of the chumps, the more sinister aspect, as always, is the non-cryptographic concept of identity used in nato reich, where folks can actually impersonate you if they know a handful of basic biographical facts
asciilifeform: and without own computer or just about anything but clothes on back
asciilifeform: 'Shortly thereafter, officers who had been working undercover to catch citizens attempting to self-serve, swarmed in to arrest the mostly nude man but not before Mapes took down 3 of the 6 officers by himself.'
asciilifeform: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/Colonel_Blimp_cartoon.png << as seen here.
asciilifeform: machine will index for usg db, not for implantation, lol
asciilifeform: one day some schmuck will build (for usg bid) a coke machine which dispenses the goop in exchange for a photo and dna sample
asciilifeform: i wondered, often, if most 'coke' drinkers simply amortized the lost coins, mentally
asciilifeform: must be so impeccable that it does not visibly diminish from a single dissatisfied dragon - any more than planet earth visibly loses gravitational pull from a rocket launched to outer space
asciilifeform: on account of the impeccable reputation of the wizard who built it ?
asciilifeform: the question of 'how do i know this candy dispenser contains candy and won't simply eat my key' is to be resolved using popescutronium (substance which powers atomic dirigible)
asciilifeform: empirically
asciilifeform: whereas u.s. corporate monkeys ~will~ sell their login for a chocolate bar (empirically proven)
asciilifeform: not proposing anything complex, really. something on the order of a bear trap
asciilifeform: arguable that they didn't buy it, but only magic-amplifier
asciilifeform: it is trickier than first appears, because 'i want the s00p3r-s33kr1t floor plan for $fpga' is turing-complete (that is, whether the trade was an honest one is not resolvable by machine)
asciilifeform: to be clear, this was not going in my proper computer
asciilifeform: http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/_niece/3991032/81266/81266_original.jpg << empress maria theresa whipping her childrenz.
asciilifeform: better example of 'middle'. my local uni has a 1980s-style ic fab. just sitting there.
asciilifeform: hence why i use this item as example
asciilifeform: bad example
asciilifeform: and the kidz camp
asciilifeform: the adult camp, where various (presently, usg-ized to the point of utter inefficacy) folks play with electron microscope, etc
asciilifeform: sorta reminds me of how i, as a boy, saw a brass band, and asked my father why they don't simply connect a compressor to the tuba and avoid the strain. and answered 'from this, just one step to dispensing with the tubist entirely'. and hence just the same here, from this just one small step to asking 'why even do this university thing'
asciilifeform: convo with pet: 'her: why have you not opened mircea_popescu's champagne? me: it is for victory. her: and if you are defeated: me: enemy can drink it then'
asciilifeform: templeos isn't a unix
asciilifeform: but doing just about any of this would blow up the complexity of the thing 50x.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: key pump is back on, using somewhat faster proggy
asciilifeform: http://nosuchlabs.com/stats << empty hopper, will refill tomorrow. anyone who wants to get phuctored in short order, plz now.
asciilifeform: what keyboard mircea_popescu has, 'unicomp' ? i know of no other that has springs but can still be described as 'disposable'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=622 << yours ?
asciilifeform: or the hilariously complicated network of shill corps through which ussr purchased dec pdp and vax
asciilifeform: what i also don't get is, didn't any of these folks, in three generations of service to brit and then sov. empire, learn vernam ?
ascii_field: http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest << the classic one
ascii_field: ('corebios' aka linuxbios ships with a simple dos-compat. layer that will boot winblows if you must)
ascii_field: (most frustrating thing is that the amd chip on this board ~has vga~ built in. but no amp on the pcb and no connector.)
ascii_field: (i tried the mpcie slots with various vga cards. no go.)
ascii_field: buildroot works great when everyone has physically same computer.
ascii_field: mod6: the whole 'pc compatible platform' thing kinda fell apart
ascii_field: and compensated
ascii_field: what this means, in practice, is that a reasonable ( i won't say 'sane' because these do not exist presently ) computer system is not a machine, but a ~place~ - like a church organ
ascii_field: most likely don't even own a thesaurus, but simply read neal stephenson's novel 'diamond age.'
ascii_field: it was from a lack of precisely this simple tool.
ascii_field: motherfuckers i just want a piece of silicon that samples 16 lines at 1G/s and clocks out the bits to pci-e lanes.
ascii_field: may as well be a winblows item like the 1,001 it competes with
ascii_field: why the fuck would i pay for a machine with a 128kB buffer and 1G/s sample rate ?
ascii_field: also in 1990s gigantic microcontrollers did not exist, and the complexity (db of possible chips, etc) had to live in software
ascii_field: but the butane example pertains to hypothetical boy with access only to 'typical u.s. household' garbage
ascii_field: jurov: photo doesn't even include the water pumps and chiller
ascii_field: jurov: sorta like the famous gedankenexperiment where chinese radio orders all citizens to get on stools and jump at the same time
ascii_field listened, out of entomological interest, to a recording of interview with hearn. yes, him. among the expected idiocies, hearn confessed to an interest in 'remote attestation' and 'trusted computing' as 'promising' alternatives to normally functioning bitcoin...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've no idea why they did it beyond the obvious fact that the type of public employed there traditionally dresses in rags
asciilifeform gotta do something about schmucks hitting 'retest key' and 'unphuctoring' (temporarily)
asciilifeform: 'don't buy a car which costs less than your computer' (tm)
ascii_field: i fail to see any reason why it isn't instead a series of registers clocked asynchronously by the inputs, causing a single time-stamp reg to be shifted out the arse end upon any transition
ascii_field: i.e. sampling at fixed frequency
ascii_field pronounces curse on the lying pieces of shit who built the chinese instrument he is presently attempting to use
asciilifeform: any geometric distortion - straight to dump
asciilifeform: i mean, off by 0.1mm - straight to dump
asciilifeform: (component values help the folks doing the assembly, and has logo of maker, etc.)
asciilifeform: (these are still shoveling. they just brought out a very ornate lamp, covered in grime)
asciilifeform: as an msdos aficionado myself, i find the comparison to 'adult' os to be a rather odd one
asciilifeform: does uclibs even contain setjmp() routines ?
asciilifeform: not like i didn't post example code here.
asciilifeform: has anyone contemplated collecting the set of sks keys which crash the parser ?
asciilifeform: which means that it is a complete description of bitcoin.
asciilifeform: i'm kinda surprised that gavin and his merry gnomish friends have not attempted to reinstate 'dust'
asciilifeform: not certain if we have a sufficiently large sample of these to make solid empirical conjecture
ascii_field: trinque: see mircea_popescu's example about 'drinking the sea'
ascii_field: if mircea_popescu wanted to, he could vanish from the map and spend the rest of his existence in the company of ice cream, gurlz, and theorems
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: this is compiled into my definition of 'freed'
ascii_field: ^ i find this example utterly opaque
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159523 << being rich, in my cosmography, simply means that your time is your own to do with as you please. everything else (starting wars, producing great inventions, etc.) is a cherry on the cake.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159517 << again it is very easy to simulate the limp if -no one if checking- and it is enough to say 'yeah i limp' see the bureaucracy thread.
ascii_field: i just love the weird twist of the tongue - symptom of some mental fissure, surely
ascii_field: even if kolmogorov complexity of both is equal.
ascii_field: my favourite example is 'digits of pi', which max out (1) while being rock bottom on (2)
ascii_field: my point is that everyone here is either using brainwallet in some form already (backup of your key in a postbox in japan, symmetrically encrypted with pw in your brain, and postbox # also in your brain) OR is one stint in pow camp away from 'civil death' (total loss of key)
ascii_field can even imagine 'disposable' computer for operating brainwallets. thermite brick after each transaction signature.
ascii_field: so, in this example, at least two languages
ascii_field ^ not my key, for what it's worth. but example.
ascii_field: nah just snap example
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: go, take. if you're gainfully employed in usa, you are almost certainly either one of the destroyers or supplying necessities to those who are.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159076 << you know full well what kind of 'foreigners' sweden is importing, and why.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1158992 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159018 << mircea_popescu travelled for years through usa but did not, apparently, discover the caste system we have here. said system explains why you will never see an engineer contemplate 'working with a pimp' or considering whether prison may be a good vacation.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159011 << this has to win some sort of prize for 'martial in atomic dirigible.' EVERYBODY i ever met in usa works for salary. i suppose it follows that neither i nor anyone i know in meatspace is 'even half-competent.'
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1158998 << mircea_popescu is posting through a temporal modem from 1870s ? because 'spoils system' in usg civil service is long, long gone. nobody at nsa, usually not even the director (they don't stick around long anyway) worries about which party is in the white house.
asciilifeform: complete with quotas
asciilifeform: so long as the thing you like to do can be done in front of a computer in a converted broom closet - you're in heaven.
asciilifeform: plus the mega-benefits of guaranteed employment for life, fat pensions, health 'insurances', etc.
asciilifeform: mats: lawyer employed as civil servant.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the only thing usg likes more than chump running winblows is a chump who thinks he isn't, but is.
asciilifeform: incidentally, the au thing is more interesting than seems on the surface, because came directly out of 'wassenar agreement', a usg imposition on its entire colonial domain
asciilifeform: overtemp from dead short in drive.
asciilifeform: to roughly compare, this wouldn't be an airplane, just a pogo stick that lets you jump a few metres.
asciilifeform: 'The program performs unsafe 32-bit arithmetic, leading to an invalid size check prior to a memcpy() operation, leading to a heap overflow.' << can we plz haz shitgnomes playing 'underhanded c contest' prior to employment? these old idiocies are getting - well - old.
asciilifeform: mats: iirc that is one of the lulzfarms that attempts to fuck with bitcoin net for usg
ascii_field: 'Why is Perl so F***ing special that it gets its own utility for un-f***ing it every time I need to update my system? Why does gentoo use perl at all for anything? In my sight its a disgusting useless barnacle of a write only language and this dependency stuff just makes me not want to touch it, ever, if I did suffer from temporary dementia and considered using it in one of my projects. We don't need a python-cleaner or
ascii_field: and yes, those are imperial 2.54mm headers soldered to metric 2mm dip
asciilifeform: nubbins`: the next necessary step is the complete excision of dns from bitcoind
asciilifeform used to do something quite like this with laser printer. it being, drill hole in cartridge, funnel, toner tanks from old xerox in office park dumpsters
asciilifeform: 'Good luck with that buckeroo. Looking forward to your complete rewrite of the Broadcom NetXtreme II 10/100/Gigabit firmware, by the way. There are about 25 versions of this product, and they have 4-6 MIPS 64-bit cpus running different firmwares on them. Total size, around 260K. It's like a bunch of independent operating systems running on propriety hardware!' << this is endemic and getting worse by the minute
asciilifeform: afaik there was never a compiler for it (you could trivially port sdcc etc. but... why)
asciilifeform: phun phakt: you can still buy a toy computer with it: http://www.retrotechnology.com/memship/memship.html
asciilifeform: iirc the sov. single-chip pdp11 (famous in 'bk-0010' microcomputer) appeared before there was such a thing in the west
asciilifeform: some were not even clones in the traditional sense, but legit reimplementations
asciilifeform: it is interesting to contemplate how many of the traditional nato stereotypes of soviet industry were not only false, but apply to nato wholly and not at all to sov
asciilifeform: for many years i have searched for a period example of 'voting circuit'
asciilifeform: you can even get pin-compatible with the classical dip-40 package.
asciilifeform: (more complicated problem, but most can be transformed into something like a pre-1992 model)
ascii_field: jurov: i suggest hex dump of all of the small-factored moduli
asciilifeform: http://oldcomputers.net/rca-cosmac-vip.html << see also.
ascii_modem: and dump results in turd?
ascii_modem: which can, 1, 100, million, times, be asked to take a dump
ascii_modem: nohup igprof -d -mp -z -o igprof.mp.gz ./bitcoind -profileheap >& igtest.mp.log &
ascii_modem: this causes running process to shit out a dump
ascii_modem: 2) you run 'bitcoind profileheapdump filename.txt'
ascii_modem: how precisely did you trigger the dump
ascii_modem: gotta ask it with rpc cmd to take each dumpshot
asciilifeform: (zilog is still making z80, nominally pin-compatible with the 1976 variant, yes.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://templelodging.com/spot/05kansai/koyasan014.html
asciilifeform: 'Because release 0.10.0 and later makes use of headers-first synchronization and parallel block download (see further), the block files and databases are not backwards-compatible with pre-0.10 versions of Bitcoin Core or other software. Blocks will be stored on disk out of order (in the order they are received, really), which makes it incompatible with some tools or other programs... The block index database will now hold head
asciilifeform: and i have never seen anyone attempt to answer it.
asciilifeform: meanwhile looking at other manufacturing houses aiming to compete with mf.
asciilifeform: e.g., -imagine- i pull the trigger and am out of several 10e3 usd. i now have half a dozen complete units. none of them function. what have i learned? that i am retarded? or that there is a solder void beneath a different decoupling capacitor on each board, summing up to a dud in each case but indistinguishable with my instruments
asciilifeform: the defect rate is of concern because of the impossibility of -immediately and conclusively- establishing WHICH when i get the crate.
asciilifeform: if it is on account of some imperfection in the design, however minute - different matter
asciilifeform: i must point out, for what is probably the seventh or eighth time, that i have no safe means of selling any bitcoin whatsoever while i live in usa. (selling for paper money, theoretically possible and suicidally dangerous, does precisely nothing to offset ANY of my living OR engineering expenses.) THEREFORE entire operation is financed from my fiat salary. this imposes certain constraints, and a 'measure seven-thousand seven-h
asciilifeform wanders off to contemplate this
asciilifeform: likewise, each unknown is stamped with a date of last gcd-ing, as well as sha512 of the mass product at the time this was done.
asciilifeform: (if composite per rabin-miller)
asciilifeform just woke up to the fact that he was a fool when originally wrote phuctor. a phuctored modulus must fragment into factors, each of which is in turn subject to all future attempts at phuctoring
asciilifeform: it doesn't matter. just pointing out that the thing follows literally none of the prescribed assumptions
asciilifeform: hence why i attempted it
asciilifeform: so no sample of undiddled modulus for this key is known.
asciilifeform: the reason i cannot say for certain, is that i have very little idea of what a typical rss -reader- does with the timestamp
asciilifeform: imagine if computer worked like this.
asciilifeform: (there may exist an instrumented allocator which will actually complain about being unable to find an appropriately-sized free block, but i am unaware of it)
asciilifeform: the only conclusive test for fragging is manually sweating over a memory dump 'with magnifying glass'
asciilifeform: but elementarily, all of them are expected to appear prior to the end of the churn of the sks dump circa last month
asciilifeform: i will note that -not all- phuctored moduli to date are in 'magic98', nor have all of the 98 been (thus far) phuctored or even attempted
asciilifeform: the key unwritten truth here is that virtually all employed folks in usa are 'on welfare'
asciilifeform: one could even argue that gox is not dead, but rather passed the torch to coinbase/bitstamp
asciilifeform: better scam would result in what? more pumpkins ?
asciilifeform: as it is, half the planet toils so that u.s. schmucks can get tankers full of little orange plastic pumpkins every october to hang on their porch
asciilifeform: whereas today you can actually make a chump who insists on knowing precisely how he is being chumped be left with an np-complete problem!
asciilifeform: this is, for example, why 'coinbase' will happily sell u.s. folks btc
asciilifeform: decimation: it is interesting to consider the implications of mass 'awakening' to btc as an anti-divorcetheft instrument
asciilifeform: decimation: chumpers are to think, presumably, that if 'big bad fbi' 'hates crypto' therefore 'buy redphone!'
asciilifeform: the implications of requiring a tx to refer -only- to tx in blocks in order to be rebroadcastable can be described exhaustively
asciilifeform: an 'orphan tx' is simply one which references a tx which is not yet seen
asciilifeform: http://thebitcoin.foundation/test/perf/v0_5_3_1-RELEASE-Plus-OrphanageThermonuke-And-TXOrphanageAmputation/20150604/Memory.png << reasonably flat. but the 'whole machine' stats thing is a terrible kludge imho
asciilifeform: if it was bitcoind, i want the crash dump
asciilifeform shudders that this set of graph axes exists: http://thebitcoin.foundation/test/perf/v0_5_3_1-RELEASE-Plus-OrphanageThermonuke-And-TXOrphanageAmputation/20150604/Page_Faults.png
ascii_field: and there are no 'small' but intolerable driver imperfections
ascii_field: (among things missing from 'gimp' is, at least last i saw, support for pressure-sensitive input gizmos like 'wacom')
ascii_field: 0.5.3 didn't have dumpprivkey
ascii_field: address imports ?
asciilifeform for the first time in his life, encountered a defective... jumper.
asciilifeform: anything short of this, is just switching the selection of imperial rapist
asciilifeform: when the ukrs came, changed the street signs, and forced their chimp dialect to be taught in schools, my folks packed up for usa.
asciilifeform: y'know, for all the things said about american prison, at least no one is compelled to be involved in the growing of food there.
asciilifeform: and send you a complimentary plane ticket back to gulag
asciilifeform: Landgull: other thing is, if you rely on electronic banks in any way whatsoever, they'll simply zero your accounts
asciilifeform: Landgull: culture of bending over and quietly taking arse rape is an improvement ?
asciilifeform: Landgull: presently i work on automation of reverse-engineering on x86. prior to that, as a reverse engineer. prior to that, high-performance computing for biotech, as sole programmer in entire outfit
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-06-2015#1152425 << aha, the 'xorg' thing. shitgnomatics pure & simple
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the basic concept that must be understood is that c/cpp are entirely impossible to 'reason' about mechanically
asciilifeform: alphonse23_: the idea is to find evidence of sabotaged implementations of rsa key generator.
asciilifeform: alphonse23_: http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/thematic_tutorials/numtheory_rsa.html << worked examples
asciilifeform: alphonse23_: rsa is not especially complicated. you can understand the basic idea after an hour's study
ascii_field: jurov: diff is of output of pgpdump -i
ascii_field: 'But instead of routinely feeding U.S. intelligence agencies such data, the companies would be required to turn it over only in response to a government request approved by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.' << l0l, the same 'court' which consists of a remotely-operated rubber stamp for director of intel.
ascii_field: microshit attempted this with every single thing it ever touched
ascii_field: punkman: for reasons i cannot fathom, usg does not even exempt its own snoops from this.
asciilifeform: it very seldom gets simpler than what i had them make
ascii_has_newz: http://nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/1F31C79912C1899F639860FCC37F4789264841127A6F8AED81C73A222D9080A2 << google employee, magic-keyed
ascii_field: mod6: i was simply pointing out that it is not, afaik, part of the official therealbitcoin tree as of yet.
asciilifeform: imho one of the most perplexing things about 'anti-bitcoin' agitators is how they all - to a man - miss the most cogent argument against bitcoin: it being, how it is implemented
asciilifeform: not impossible, but 'first rule out the usual suspects, then - miracles'
asciilifeform: <ben_vulpes> trinque and i were wondering about their CLIM implementations, and if documentation etc was better on the closed-source side of the world << i never had lispworks and can't comment about it, but franz 'allegro' does come with clim. iirc it only works in the non-smp version though, and depends on gtk
asciilifeform: 'the fraud could have been uncovered sooner, potentially forestalling a great deal of the disruption it inflicted on various careers and on social science as a whole.' << mega-l0l! as if any of the 'careers' built upon this or similar crocks of shit - other than the exemplary scapegoat's - will skip so much as one beat
asciilifeform: 'see, the crown cares! the rare irregularities are dealt with! watch this impalement and move along now'
asciilifeform: jurov: i suppose i will have to implement 'download key' button after all...
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu paused pump, resumed werker. we have around 1/4 of the total rsa keys available submitted (or processed) at this point.
asciilifeform presently contemplating the fact that sks appears to contain virtually no gurlz
asciilifeform: i thought of adding a download link on individual key pages, but then folks will be tempted to use phuctor as a key server
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: old mpex is an easy one - not all of the moduli changed
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu the next screamingly obvious step is to catalogue 'liar keys' - the most interesting species of which consists of keys where the claimed fingerprint stored with a modulus differs from the recomputed (by us) fingerprint. as per http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-12.2
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://sourceforge.net/blog/gimp-win-project-wasnt-hijacked-just-abandoned
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what "the thing is worth" is a complex issue << let's put it this way. my crops are worth more to me burned than given to kolhoz.
asciilifeform: see also the example of farmers who burned their crops and livestock rather than submit to 'collectivization'
asciilifeform: for example, anyone try a uclibc build yet ?
asciilifeform: trinque: as a rough guide, expect it to cost around what your computer cost.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the crapification of 'netbook' stands out in clear, cartoon colours when compared with something like the 1997-1999 toshiba 'libretto'
asciilifeform: afaik every attempt by intel to sell something other than x86 has tanked
asciilifeform: RUchimp: log.bitcoin-assets.com
asciilifeform: RUchimp: consider reading the log on www
asciilifeform: !up RUchimp
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the ntsc trinitrons are not comparable
ascii_field: decimation: http://qntra.net/2015/05/former-us-house-speaker-indicted-on-attempting-to-evade-financial-surveillance
asciilifeform: (compass arrows)
asciilifeform: good for data-compact number crunching problems
asciilifeform: but in rom, you need a ram stack/heap and can't simply shit where you eat
asciilifeform: incidentally, long after connecting analogue tape decks to computer was a forgotten misery in the west, ru folks were connecting vcr and getting respectable (10-20G) backup