asciilifeform: danielpbarron: in essence, like most supposedly 'gpl compliant' commercial products, the compliance is a total and unabashed crock of shit.
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: linux kernel and minimal userland are massive compared to netbsd
asciilifeform: i'm taking a forced break, simply have no time presently
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope. this is a cross-compile and uses 'TOOLDIR' var.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the llvm thing, prior to career as apple crud, had a previous life as a darling plaything of u.s. 'comp sci' academitardia
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i've built perfectly usable netbsd boxes previously. but this one -has- to be a cross-compile. and live in ramdisk.
asciilifeform: question for all: has anyone, ever, built netbsd ramdisk on cross-compile build system, or knows of anyone who has done so, or knows so much as a shred of evidence that this has ever worked?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: simple experiment shows that penalizing nodes sending out-of-order blocks - does very little. as pointed out. what we want is to 'embrace & extend' the block sync process in the sense of preferring friendly nodes for sync.
asciilifeform: if actually happens, even - it's chump bait. 0.8.6 nodes that will be 'seamlessly upgrades' to gavincoin (how? easy - will lose most history, faux verification from that point on, etc.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ah that. ^ they'll be paying (chump change, apparently) for satanic nodes.
asciilifeform: in general i agree re: 'wrestling with the pig', but i'm at a loss re: how we aren't simply wearing bull's eyes for no particular reason
asciilifeform: '...so nodes running an older protocol version will be skipped.' << phoundation's answer to us, yes. anyone contemplating kelvin versioning again ? why should enemy have this much of an easy time with rejecting our nodes?
asciilifeform: re: pogo: i have a cross-compile setup of netbsd for pogo (run on any reasonable unix) working
asciilifeform: decimation: very naked pattern of 'derp suddenly comes, with much apparent enthusiasm and piss-poor reading comprehension, interspersing hour of faux conv. with 'so why do you have any truck with bitcoin, it'll be obsolete and replaced with Modern Alternatives soon enough, and so many more interesting things around like Dark Enlightenment...'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, BingoBoingo, cazalla, other writery folks: anybody up for writing a basic likbez for the 'unified theory' of amplification attack as it applies not only to boring ddos but to gavincoin and in general to any system where some bozo can inflict cost C on you by spending c where c < C
asciilifeform: the truly interesting leaks would be the 'great mysteries' cited in http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1323 - but the boojum lies in the total impossibility of authenticating any such leak.
asciilifeform: when native, and then imported ibm pc compatibles appeard
asciilifeform: because on no account did anyone there remotely contemplate paying for software
asciilifeform: x sucks and no competition
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the proggy is a misery to use; works very half-heartedly anywhere other than winblows; costs $maxint; and, more direly, is not especially actively maintained. but there is nothing remotely like an alternative, not even a 'distant second', nor is anyone (afaik) remotely contemplating the idea of making one.
asciilifeform: but it's a problem, and anyone even casually involved in the field (of named example) is aware of it
ascii_modem: re: stooge squad: simple hypothesis is that the toolkit being used on us was made for others. but - for whom?
asciilifeform wishes to point out that a 'sane pgp' will not be pgp-compatible. because much of the insanity lies in the standard itself.
asciilifeform: trying to explain that it is quit impossible to have a package management system above the language level that is not dumbed down by support for braindamaged languages.
asciilifeform: parents... c compiler << obligatory: 'shall be delivered'
asciilifeform: just as there are, afaik, no confirmed reports of 'glue sniffing' prior to the media chumpamatics re: same in usa
asciilifeform: if one's principal equity is the house << depends which flavour of chumpitude one prefers
asciilifeform: but the fact that heat pump can only extract so much at a given external temp
asciilifeform: natural gas is considerably cheaper, in this part of the world, than equiv. via heatpump.
asciilifeform had heat pump in old flat, about 1/3 the size of new house (gas furnace there), actually cost more to run the heat pump
asciilifeform: whether a heat pump is good economics or lunacy depends on the region
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu clearly does not live in swampland
asciilifeform: i distinctly recall that machine tools are uncommonly difficult to obtain in ar, for example
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: study the example in 'portatronic'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the ruling elite of his time/place showed every symptom of having 'lost the mandate of heaven', to use the chinese term of art tailor made for this
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: perhaps the historical picture in my head is incomplete, but i just can't grasp the portrait of orwell as cockless worm.
asciilifeform: would folks 'have the expectation that room-temp supercon will work for them' ?
asciilifeform: let's imagine that holy grail, room-temperature superconductor, were discovered tonight
asciilifeform: Cheap Smartphone Dongle Diagnoses HIV And Syphilis In 15 Minutes << sham. not in that the tech doesn't work (it does) but in that it is the ordinary single-shot immunoreactive test, but for some (chumpatronic) reason someone bolted it on to a pNohe.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: kickstarter article: ks is straight from the encyclopaedia of chumpatronic circuits, chapter 'make use of chumps directly in the machines control system.' as in 'multi-level' crapolade of every variety.
asciilifeform: (practice for weapons cache emplacement and retrieval.)
asciilifeform: http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/rcQaef4yYJyn/info/moia-masterskaia << ben_vulpes, BingoBoingo, others << my attempt at subtitling a certain memorable photo brag (not mine!). to enable the subs, click CC on bottom left hand corner (not the usual bottom right on youtube.)
asciilifeform: the simplest possible chumpamatic.
asciilifeform: https://casper.berkeley.edu/astrobaki/index.php/Impedance_of_Free_Space << for folks who must have prettyprinted equations
asciilifeform: http://www.setileague.org/askdr/imped.htm << solution for electromagnetic
asciilifeform: naggum saw comp.lang.lisp as something more like a machine shop than a public square
asciilifeform: give a physical explanation, in one sentence, of why a trumpet/tube/microwave horn needs the 'bell'.
asciilifeform: what was the 'simple man with simple programs' doing in comp.lang.lisp ?
asciilifeform: computer, as we have it, does not even know how to 'say that again plz'
asciilifeform: mod6: simple algorithm: comment out the #includes
asciilifeform: so, for example, we can see what they are.
asciilifeform: let's rip out openssl in the simplest way
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was an attempt at something like tor.
asciilifeform: (you can pump in a fresh kernel with tftp)
asciilifeform: there's a complete shell in there
asciilifeform: using same crosscompiler as for everything else
asciilifeform: one ends up with a mindbogglingly-heavy ubuntu-style thing, complete with 'systemd'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when the thing warms up, it dumps uboot ver. to the serial console
asciilifeform: followed by a similarly sized empty one
asciilifeform: ^ compression of spacetime via 'memoization'. this is more or less how one would implement toy universes.
asciilifeform: interesting idiots are sometimes (temporarily) tolerated. tedious idiots - never.
asciilifeform: if you have healthy hands, decent input devices, it is possible to do such surprising things as speaking in complete words.
asciilifeform: 'year zero' simply refers to a reset, where you forget that a given field even has a history (except as an encyclopaedia of what not to do.)
asciilifeform: when i explain to folks why i dislike programming on available systems, i sometimes use example that it is rather like being a fellow who likes gardening, but there was a thermonuclear war not long ago, and you gotta sift the soil with sapper's spade in one hand, geiger in the other, and there won't be much sunlight to be had either.
asciilifeform: 5k in modern american money is pocket change in comparison.
asciilifeform: the_scourge: the 'open' in 'opengenera' is an archaic 1980s usg-ism. it simply refers to the fact that a product features industry-standard protocols like tcp/ip and does not require you to buy the entire universe you live in from one particular vendor.
asciilifeform: a bauble pushed by unrepentantly lying chumpatronicists.
asciilifeform: writing a (demented but functional) c compiler and (very old-fashioned, to the point of braindamage) lisp interp. used to be standard homework assignments
asciilifeform: the tell-tale symptom of a programming language that does far too much behind the scenes is when its users seldom, if ever, study the implementation
asciilifeform: don't take my word for this, look at how they are implemented
asciilifeform: wasn't impressed.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 2) client companies of the state wish to be important. the market tells them to stuff it 3) government steps in... <<< see also the famous example of syntex corp. in mexico (carl djerassi!) - first mass-production of synthetic progestins, then nationalized, then gone - 'bad luck!'
asciilifeform: ^ by no means his complete works
asciilifeform used to suspect for a while, long ago, that herr dalrymple was tlp
asciilifeform: at least, unlike the 'vicarious' engineering gurlz, she did not attempt to go and... apply
asciilifeform: t. dalrymple (retired british shrink, wrote a number of hilarious books on psychology of criminals - and civ. decay overally) had a thing on this
asciilifeform: 'January 2009 Completed The Insurance Premium Reduction Program at A and J Driving School.' on a cv !?!?
asciilifeform: (whether the treadmill actually powers the computer - that ancient dream - i do not know)
asciilifeform: actual computer should be a -place-, not merely machine
asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/komp.jpg << try on laptop.
asciilifeform: there is not, nor can be, a replacement for The computer.
asciilifeform: 'kindle' is not a computer! it's this entirely specialized machine, like kitchen mixer.
asciilifeform: then i walk three meters to the actual computer, lol
asciilifeform: as for the chumpatronics, i have no idea who uses.
asciilifeform: (which one is not forced to use, unlike the one in certain very early 'e-readers', but tempts sufficiently many ESL (to use mircea_popescu's term) folks to bring in a pretty penny for the vendor)
asciilifeform sometimes wonders whether that product category would exist - and what it would cost if it did - if there were not a built-in chumpatronic collector
asciilifeform: empty on account of outlandish tolls
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: surprisingly, the calculators use very well-understood, ancient components
asciilifeform: 'The Secret Service uses covert radio-frequency jammers inside a Chevrolet Suburban that travels with the presidents motorcade. These devices disable remotely triggered improvised bombs. But because they have to disable explosives set off by a potentially large number of frequencies, the jammers saturate a wide spectrum, occasionally interfering with cellphones nearby.' << this deserves an aside
asciilifeform: when some hobo successfully impersonates obama, or buffett - then.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: usg does not care (or even encourages, see earlier 'house-buying' postdoc story) about a plebe impersonating another plebe.
asciilifeform: just like the failure-to-mention-mpex discussed in mircea_popescu's article
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: otr/'forward secrecy' is simply the practice of generating an ephemeral key for a particular conversation, which is to be discarded later
asciilifeform: kanzure: zero assembly steps << hard to improve on mhd
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: inchworm drive is not necessarily implemented with piezos (though usually), nor is a piezo actuator necessarily built on inchworm principle.
asciilifeform: i'm assuming it refers to anything akin to printing, stamping, etching
asciilifeform: i don't think it gets any simpler than that
ascii_field: '(S//REL NATO) We assess that any unclassified NATO network that is directly connected to the Internet should be considered potentially compromised, creating uncertainty regarding the confidentiality, integrity and continued availability of all data on that network.' << mega-lol
ascii_field: that they defect? or simply denied to the enemy ?
ascii_field: have it dump'em
ascii_field: and from your dump, it clearly is
asciilifeform: why, then, suggest it for a computer program?
asciilifeform: except that this is an astonishingly abstruse model for what the lamp/socket do.
asciilifeform: when you plug a lamp into a mains socket, is that also a 'streaming query' ?
asciilifeform: 'the new state-of-the-art destroyer, her ambitious captain and seemingly fumbling crew were placed under arrest and sent to Bermuda for trial. it was the first time in the history of the United States Navy that an entire ship and her company had been arrested. The William D. Porter was surrounded by Marines when it docked in Bermuda and was held there for several days as the closed-session inquiry attempted to find out what ha
asciilifeform: but afaik no one posted a meaningful dumped block
asciilifeform: (stump on mac?!?)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i somehow got the impression that you were considering gentoo-on-applehw
asciilifeform: ^ example
asciilifeform: hence - compressed.
asciilifeform: incidentally, the biggest downer of 'djvu' wavelet compressor is that it... actually introduces typos like this (!)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a little more complicated than this. just like quite a few folks who have never drawn a proper 'federal' paycheque are really members of usg, quite a few folks (tens of millions) in usa are in fact 'policemen' though they do not know it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do not convey a feeling of falsity << ahahaha. i'm nearing the end of what must be my 5th rereading of mr o's complete output.
asciilifeform: imagine having to put up with the company of the whole muppet pyramid.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: impudence... he can't round up... and shoot the lot << remember michael hastings ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: b) they're all reasonably loaded (for a clerk) a) they're generally old enough, not necessarily for impotence, but to mostly lack interest.
asciilifeform has not met especially many specimens of u.s. military brass, but the ones he saw alive gave the impression of being something quite like professional actors.
asciilifeform: or rather, if you implement one of the error codings discussed earlier, you can shoot out a small signed gibblet at a time, yes
asciilifeform: now compute the maximum payload.
asciilifeform: adlai: when i laboured under the delusion that i could write a useful trading automaton, i found it simple enough to 'trade' with imaginary btc, gold, etc.
asciilifeform: choosing where to go for dinner with a coprophagiac; compromise - eat only a little shit.
asciilifeform: there are quite a few, i think, who are grossly underequipped - intellectually - to actually operate a computer
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/mips-creator-ci20-released-interesting-though-not-very-useful << for your collection. i own the pre-release version of this thing. it works. but full of oddities. there is a (supposedly) complete data sheet for the chip.
asciilifeform: there also appear to be at least half a dozen compatible products, of similar cost.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now try expanded mindfuck. think of what this picture will look like once apple implodes.
asciilifeform: anybody bother to look into the competitors of 'pogo' (seagate nas, etc.) ?
asciilifeform: note that you can build for pc if you replace the cross compiler with standard gcc
asciilifeform: consider, any spammer in need of a ddosnet can simply walk into #b-a
asciilifeform: re: ddos: i'm still at a loss at how snmp/ntp amplification ddosnets can carry on existing without a 'tragedy of the commons' situation - recall, anyone here could in principle invoke the chumpnet at any time
asciilifeform: but is contract (implicit, 'shrinkwrap', otherwise) where one promises to break a law, a valid contract ?
asciilifeform sits and contemplates mircea_popescu's software license, and increasingly likes it
asciilifeform: was it the stooge, proclaiming 'Then you shouldn't be pushing for btcd in the post. Btcd is harmful to consensus. Your proposal to have miners run multiple consensus implementations doesn't require btcd to exist and its existence doesn't benefit it.' ?
asciilifeform learned from a previous chumpapade that the ones molded to occupy the space taken by ordinary bulb, are laughably dim
asciilifeform total chump, came back from buying super-pleasure-led light bulbs only to discover that they won't fit in a single fixture he has
asciilifeform: orlov himself is in no hurry to trade his computer for a spear.
asciilifeform: why, i wonder, did he pick the indians as an example of 'the true path' and not, say, a stray dog ?
asciilifeform: ^ this article exemplifies everything i personally most dislike about herr orlov.
asciilifeform: it made palatial micromanagement of an empire at least thinkable.
asciilifeform: tradition, but the job of administering the Empire had ceased to appeal. Few able men went east of Suez if there was any way of avoiding it.'
asciilifeform: dministration. And what was true of the official world was true also of the commercial. The great monopoly companies swallowed up hosts of petty traders. Instead of going out to trade adventurously in the Indies one went to an office stool in Bombay or Singapore. And life in Bombay or Singapore was actually duller and safer than life in London. Imperialist sentiment remained strong in the middle class, chiefly owing to family
asciilifeform: Mandalay. The one-time empire builders were reduced to the status of clerks, buried deeper and deeper under mounds of paper and red tape. In the early twenties one could see, all over the Empire, the older officials, who had known more spacious days, writhing impotently under the changes that were happening. From that time onwards it has been next door to impossible to induce young men of spirit to take any part in imperial a
asciilifeform: ess room for individual initiative. Men like Clive, Nelson, Nicholson, Gordon would find no place for themselves in the modern British Empire. By 1920 nearly every inch of the colonial empire was in the grip of Whitehall. Well-meaning, over-civilized men, in dark suits and black felt hats, with neatly rolled umbrellas crooked over the left forearm, were imposing their constipated view of life on Malaya and Nigeria, Mombasa and
asciilifeform: 'Thirty years ago the Blimp class was already losing its vitality. The middle-class families celebrated by Kipling, the prolific lowbrow families whose sons officered the army and navy and swarmed over all the waste places of the earth from the Yukon to the Irrawaddy, were dwindling before 1914. The thing that had killed them was the telegraph. In a narrowing world, more and more governed from Whitehall, there was every year l
asciilifeform digs in log, fails to find, mircea_popescu's line about state-imposed star topologies
asciilifeform: trinque: better to just give unto bezzledom what is bezzle << consider the implications of the well-known u.s. court case Wickard v. Filburn.
asciilifeform: the above is not a statement of 'history is a boot stomping on a human face forever', but a testable hypothesis about actual near-future observables.
asciilifeform: so, the chump can travel wherever he wants, to zimbabwe if he likes, but if we were to rock the boat - a bureaucrat flips the switch, and -bam- - he's a pauper.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: ianal, but it is not the mere act of not paying, but what they consider to be an attempt to weasel out of having the tax assessed or collected, that constitutes the offence in the usa penal code
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: big fat news, usa is simply moving to the taxation system customary in most of the orcish world - levy exorbitantly high tax, and hope it makes up for spotty collection
asciilifeform: it's a usg newspeak term that encompasses not only paupers, who have no business in a bank regardless, but also folks resisting bezzle who consciously stay out of bank
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's how you end up with 'the spec is the implementation' crapolade
asciilifeform: the_scourge: better example - 1918, lenin's boys experimented with cancelling money.
asciilifeform: (to the latter, there are some possible exceptions, see the ancient inca empire)
asciilifeform: the_scourge: that king cannot simply order arbitrary objects monetized, or forgo the use of money entirely
asciilifeform: the_scourge: we have mats and adlai here, also former (or possibly reverse) army men in various corners of usa vassal empire
asciilifeform: (possible criminal complaint if you don't pay, and referred to collections apparatus as a civil debt)
asciilifeform: the_scourge: this means bitcoin in much the same way that computing means semiconductor.
asciilifeform: you end up with, at best, a statistical sample
asciilifeform: the_scourge: from packet dumps taken by myself and at least 2 other folks here, appears that mr. ddos uses mainly 'amplification' method (ssdp, ntp)
asciilifeform: email that actually sends what you want and nothing else would be a worthy project << would have to be present at every hop of the message. a direly implausible project, sadly
asciilifeform: trinque: chisel is not simply a very thin and unpleasant hammer.
asciilifeform: it's like collecting random sample of water from sewer
asciilifeform: i.e. random sampling of planet
asciilifeform: zap whatever compartments and cliques may have formed naturally (or unnaturally...) in the graph.
asciilifeform: 'if the chinese were to jump from stools 1 metre heigh upon hearing the signal over the radio...'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didja ever have a ru physics textbook with the jumping chinese example ?
asciilifeform: 'We, the true "only official foundation of Bitcoin" declare ourselves the new leaders. Our main goal will be hookers and blow for everyone! Our main concern will be beer and Bitcoin of course. We will represent the bitcoin community from now on in the correct way to the outside world and all important people need to bow to us and bribe us to get a foot in the door. It will also be lucrative for the people in power to infiltrat
asciilifeform: punkman: hence ought to contain an example of miner.
asciilifeform: this is, recall, a -reference- implementation
asciilifeform: and this is quite impossible with binaries
asciilifeform uses bitcoin as a scientific toy, curio, but if he had been firing it in anger for years as mircea_popescu had, would have finished own implementation eons ago
asciilifeform: the proggy itself has never been large in comparison
asciilifeform: ~1.2 compressed
asciilifeform: i don't know any serious computer user who does not have a multitude of spinning disks at all times.
asciilifeform: not just for what it is, but for how it's implemented. (metric shit-ton of xml garbage, book-length standards doc)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: doug h is sui generis. can't really place him in a genre. he wrote a number of tomes for folks who like mathematics (in particular, logic and theory of computation), languages, translation. he is also a fairly good translator of ru->eng, even rhyme-preserving pushkin. blew my mind.
asciilifeform: punkman: nothing whatsoever. the recipe is complete, total, perfect.
asciilifeform: no, in some schools of thought, one is supposed to emplace them in orbits
asciilifeform did not invent this particular flavour of crackpottery, but has seen a good sampling thereof
asciilifeform: except for the obvious implication that - why is the reader reading?
asciilifeform: although his colleague, 'heartiste', once referred to yours truly as 'the moldbug of computer science'
asciilifeform: 'In the interest of the reference implementation being a robust solution that requires minimal trust of its peers the header's only approach favored by the Vessenes' foundation's forks' developers.' <<< wat?
asciilifeform: comparable to satellite launch today, possibly
asciilifeform: and to answer the objections of possibly lurking idiots in advance - no, it is not because bitcoin is mathematically complicated
asciilifeform: and i will say that none of the items i have worked with (and they were samples of malware, in some cases elaborately obfuscated) remotely approached the ugliness and gnarliness of bitcoind.
asciilifeform: 'Software may be "open sourced" by various companies who depend on that software to do their business (Puppet, Chef and Go are all excellent examples of the pattern: monolithic software projects of such scale that they either approach or actually are their own languages for which the source is freely available, but the source for which nobody is really supposed to read), but in nearly all of those cases the code may as well be
asciilifeform: a substantially more compact but logically-equivalent mechanism is possible, i dare say
asciilifeform: actual computers not banned yet
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the simplest way is to run it inside the loop
asciilifeform: phillipsjk: talk to kakobrekla, he will give you a place to drop the dumps, if you believe that you have discovered something peculiar therein
asciilifeform: it's an amplification, by definition (attacker sends N bytes, victims receive k*N for some positive k)
asciilifeform: phillipsjk: the amplification attack you found in your packet captures (we discussed it here about a month ago) is a pure ddos vector
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu, mod6, danielpbarron: if any of you wanted armv5 binaries to play with, ask jurov, they're in his dust bin, where turdatron dumped them despite valid sigatures.
asciilifeform: jurov: if you are using a demented dwarf with abacus instead of a computer, please fire him and replace with an actual machine.
asciilifeform: jurov: so far i've managed perhaps 2 messages in, out of five times this many attempts.
asciilifeform: ultimately any interface between analogue and digital 'worlds' is a sampling system
asciilifeform: mats: no attempt is made to isolate pc 5v power from rng;
asciilifeform: i mean, i get it, it's become scarcely distinguishable from other pumpcoinz
asciilifeform: the original point of my objection to the qntra piece was that, afaik, 'litecoin' was different from every other altcoin in the sense that it was not simply an existing source tree with a dozen constants changed.
asciilifeform: by all rights he should have attempted the asic
asciilifeform: (see 'lifecoin' for example of algorithm that actually requires increasing physical space as difficulty grows)
asciilifeform: this would have the side effect of encouraging the construction of machines which are not entirely useless for other extravagant computing projects
asciilifeform: it is interesting to contemplate why no one (afaik) suggested a third workfunction
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: equating 'litecoin' with other sc4mc01nz is a mistake. it was a genuine, if misguided, attempt at something genuinely else
asciilifeform: danielpbarron, anyone else having trouble with cross-compilation - 'buildroot' will build, among other necessary things, the toolchain.
asciilifeform: anyone who wants to try bastard, can make a temporary copy of tree merged up to 5.3.1 and apply the skull'n'crossbone patch.
asciilifeform: actively pumping.
asciilifeform: go can be statically compiled can it not << it has a runtime.
asciilifeform: expects exactly empty start
asciilifeform: as in, run with just the tarballs and the required empty dir.
asciilifeform: that's a sure symptom that it was unable to install to specified local dir
asciilifeform: what cross-compiler ?
asciilifeform: compare with: http://dpaste.com/1T8RSCJ << classical
asciilifeform: 'So, I have a question - why do we need such an OPEN technologies, that can be BLOCKED tomorrow? Today - it's me, but who knows what will happen tomorrow, and which countries or companies will decide to block their, so called open, tools that you use.'
asciilifeform: don't need to install anything but the compiler & associated binutils.
asciilifeform: build on actual computer.
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: didja miss the part about -cross- compiling
asciilifeform goes to buy a Pretty Good Computer
asciilifeform: assuming there was any actual comparison
asciilifeform: even if for some peculiar reason it were not possible to reduce consumption, the thing ought to know when about to be killed - and shoot itself in the head with some decorum, rather than wait
asciilifeform: who the hell writes a program as hungry as this, that is entirely unaware of its own resource consumption and lacks any feedback mechanism ?
asciilifeform: Attempts to undermine the legitimate currency of this country are simply a unique form of domestic terrorism. While these forms of anti-government activities do not involve violence, they are every bit as insidious and represent a clear and present danger to the economic stability of this country. We are determined to meet these threats through infiltration, disruption, and dismantling of organizations which seek to challen
asciilifeform: pretty sure complete copy would leave a man not only dead but street pizza
asciilifeform: but that it is not entirely impossible to find a pill against whatever kind of resistance
asciilifeform: not trying to argue that usg will somehow transmogrify into inca empire when it 'needs to'
asciilifeform: complete with collectivized agriculture.
asciilifeform: it is worth reading about ancient slave empires
asciilifeform: 'Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered. He spends part of his time in a fantasy world in which things happen as they should in which, for example, the Spanish Armada was a success or the Russian Revolution was crushed in 1918 and he will transfer fragments of this world to the history books whenever possible. Much of the propagandist writing of our time amounts to plain forgery. Materi
asciilifeform: 'On the cruelty of really teaching computing science' (dijkstra)
asciilifeform: would be more economical to simply chop the connection
asciilifeform: if connects to a peer who insists on pumping it full of bastards, cyclically, of course it wedges.
asciilifeform: nd Free Software are proofs that computers are alienating in the old Marxist sense and the Open Source and Free Software projects are reactions to this sense of alienation, in order to make the person stand out from the computerized nothingness.'
asciilifeform: i bet you can think of some examples of this, from your own practice
asciilifeform: (for non-usa folks: the 'college racket' does not consist merely of tuition and housing that go up ~10%/yr., but also miscellaneous vampirisms like textbooks that stay almost exactly the same but for the exercise set orderings, at 100-400 usd a pop, moving target every semester)
asciilifeform: them's chumpers.
asciilifeform: i can't believe that people want to fuck around with sidechains and altcoins when there's interesting work to be done in improving how the satoshi codebase <<< not only sloth, but avarice, is involved. nobody gets rich from honestly fixing satoshi's bugs
asciilifeform: block downloading is almost certainly fated to be 'embraced and extended' by a sane implementation
asciilifeform: they are simply blocks received hopelessly out of order
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the wretch was ordered to use only systems fully compatible with traditional usg spyware used on such occasions
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: implicit.
asciilifeform: what of ancient despotisms, with the public impaler, etc. - did not want to be at the stellar configuration center ?
asciilifeform: strong empirical data
asciilifeform: some fool with a short temper, fond of 'death threating' - will be condemned for that
asciilifeform: for non-u.s. folks: gigantic fines like these are imposed in case the condemned owned any real estate
asciilifeform: chumpatronics aside, they also have the more pedestrian objective of creating GBs of turdsactions that bob about in mempool indefinitely, blowing up memory footprint in non-mitigable ways
asciilifeform: 'multisig' is yet another chumpatronic engineering structural element, just as nlocktime is (see link)
asciilifeform: i'd still rather eat actual food and have to import gizmos, than vice-versa
asciilifeform: according to that pile of shit on cryptome, the 'bugs' were mainly omissions of component values in an analogue circuit.
asciilifeform: he did not know the bugs were deliberate... promptly fixed.
asciilifeform: the latter decided it was fit for disinfo use, and sent ru chump to iran to sell it