mircea_popescu: but imo odds are yet another replacement group will show up. the notion of coallition success is ridiculous, the arabs are just wearing them down, exact same way they did to the french in north africa a century ago.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503173 << looks like they had some sort of falling out or w/e, not too clear.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 06:46 mats: and they don't have planes
BingoBoingo: More on the new surveillance revolution "This app [poke-a-man Go] did in 24 hours what Michelle Obama couldnt do in eight years. It gets kids off the couch and moving."
asciilifeform: 'Welcome to the Blockchain! Your voice is worth something' << this has got to be a parody
BingoBoingo: Framedragger: When I find one that seems to have this it draws the not unimportant criticism that it requires the whole Plan 9 userspace
Framedragger: but at this point im more interested to try my hand at 'p2p/federated content system', a la mp's e2e encrypted generalized forum idea, whatever this resolves to in the particular.
Framedragger: i guess the only way to convince people would be to present a working PoC with working spam mitigation, hm.
jurov: and then you decide you want to store metadata for comments, that means moar files or some gnarly file format :)
jurov: and then you want to remove some spam and edit "current comments" file in place?
Framedragger: regarding LAMP stacks and blog software: static site generators are there for a reason. significantly smaller codebases and attack surfaces cf. wordpress. just sayin'.
Framedragger: lolwut, Apocalyptic was wrong by deciding to play in the wrong sandbox? Ok.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: here i thought i was the only person with insomnia in trilema
mats: and they don't have planes
mats: not sure if you've been following, but they've lost a lot of territory recently
mats: i look forward to reading about the ensuing power struggle after IS gets squashed
BingoBoingo: What a coinidence the next generation of smartphone surveillance would direct users to places mircea_popescu lived!
mircea_popescu: i actually lived there!
mircea_popescu: soviets fell because ran out of cars. i was there when they did. i will be there when these re-soviets will.
BingoBoingo: Who knows? But it would probably enjoy the brown guy who would not be having the time of his life.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-14#1503107 << this is rank nonsense on the level of "cred intr-unul dumnezeu, tatal atottiitorul". go, believe.
trinque: which others do you see?
trinque: BingoBoingo: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/bastille-day-crash-live-updates-8424850 << video here. the event's already social media porn for both isis and... what's the other side, cuckistan?
BingoBoingo: Pokemon Go to the Polls" - Clitler July 14th, 2016
BingoBoingo: So even though the weather has been objectively worse here this week than last, I have observed a sharp increase in the number of transmayos walking and biking outside while glued to their smartphones.
trinque: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/14/91-year-old-woman-fills-in-crossword-at-museum---only-to-discove/ << in other newsworthy
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 02:37 mod6: As far as the "V Mirror" thing, that I know alf hates, I move forward on the basis that one doesn't have to use it, even though it is there. This may not be ideal, but it's bridge between both "easy" and "manual"
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: beast was devoured by much larger, stronger beast, and not by some mythical 'victory of the beoble'
asciilifeform: lost - spain, their skins, etc. lost it all.
mircea_popescu: why should the republicans have lost ?
mircea_popescu: you don't think nsa lost, or usg lost, or any of the imperial heavenly legions ever lost.
mircea_popescu: who knows these things, and what's to lose.
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as "order" in physical reality.
asciilifeform: but i was speaking of the disorganization/aimlessness/anomie
asciilifeform: well from pov of apparat, the opposition is naturally 'dirty hooligan'
mircea_popescu: but, whatever the historical underlying, the point stands. your chocie is hooligan or aparatchick, pick.
deedbot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golaniad << Golaniad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkI42zPuH7w << Imnul golanilor | http://cuvintecelebre.ro/mai-bine-mort-decat-comunist/ << Mai bine mort, decât... Imnul Golanilor, citat de Cristian Pațurcă
mircea_popescu: this statement has nothing to do with reality and no power over it. all it does is, it identifies the speaker. identifies him as a roman.
asciilifeform: hooligans sum to 0, whether jacqueries in 1100 or window-busting 'antifa' reds now.
trinque: so then.
asciilifeform: anthill can birth them faster than you can stomp.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no no. not "why would you expect them to be smart". "why would you expect smart people to do the dumb thing"
mircea_popescu: they, contrary to the "anti patriarchy" verbiage, are very deeply male. will attach responsibility (correctly) to the closest link, entire. rather than womanly go around looking for "implications"
mircea_popescu: why would you expect they'd do anything but burning police cars ?
asciilifeform: the sad part is that they're one-armed gladiators. e.g., burning police cars, rather than shooting politicians or latifundistas etc
mircea_popescu: socialism. it ruined the currency, now there's no way to avoid societal disorder. so yes, gladiators.
asciilifeform: 'The ‘filthy anti-system’ extremists in the neighbourhood are defending their coop culture, free schools and kindergartens, their anti property speculation, shared living experiments, anti patriarchy, music, art, bar and cafe collectives, refugee welcome initiatives, anti war and climate saving politics and degrowth movements……. etc'
mircea_popescu: euro fishwrapping paper buys you soda ; candy wrappers buy you cunt. seems the other side's better backed actually.,
asciilifeform: the money printin' folk can print a truckload, hire moar gladiator.
mircea_popescu: any other way.
mircea_popescu: their lot is abstract nonsense, let them pass judgement on the pressing matter of how many angles fit on a pinhead and such.
mircea_popescu: they do have a point, euros can stand as no basis for resource allocation ; and the euro legal system has absolutely no business intervening in this sort of dispute.
mircea_popescu: i can't even say i don't sympathise with the hipsters.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 20:21 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-14#1502997 << how much of this is genuine amish weird and how much of this is cheap sensationalism pulled out of the ass by soviet state in its fight to flatten any curl of independence in its perceived domains is probably never getting established.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: suddenly it makes sense. we have these here.
mircea_popescu: that's the protest.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 19:24 asciilifeform: jurov: i am failing to discern what the protest was against
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-14#1502999 << "this place should not be used by group X but by group Y according to the who-has-more-euros() function results" "fuck you, you just print the euros, they don't reflect any substantive relation".
mircea_popescu: now stfu before i feel the need to also silence your dumb ass.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic you can plead ignorance all you want. lalala check me out, i'm going to pretend like this doesn't exist and here's tardstalk, seriously. then if you get whacked for it play the victim ? get fucked already, this isn't how it's played.
Apocalyptic: I haven't been there in ages, most posts are pure non-sense to increase post counts for signature campaigns
mircea_popescu: well... because they did.
shinohai: Can't find anything there.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 19:22 asciilifeform: 'In a related case, authorities nearly 100 miles away in Lancaster County arrested the parents of the 18-year-old, with police saying the couple had “gifted” their daughter to Kaplan for helping them out of financial difficulties. She was 14 when her first child was conceived, the criminal complaint said.'
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-14#1502997 << how much of this is genuine amish weird and how much of this is cheap sensationalism pulled out of the ass by soviet state in its fight to flatten any curl of independence in its perceived domains is probably never getting established.
Apocalyptic: but hey it was been educational, at least I know I won't ever be going there to get work done
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 17:53 Apocalyptic: asciilifeform: well ok I may have underestimated the time
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-14#1502931 << if in the future you manage to not overestimate tardstalk.org i'll be ever so grateful to you.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 17:52 asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: 'Updated the price to 100 USD. It's really not a complicated task, everything is outlined in the paper. An average C++ programmer knowing operator overloading should be able to do it in 2-3 hours.' << ahahahahaha
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-14#1502928 << the expression is "this is easy if you know what you're doing". rather typical for web "frelancing" crud.
asciilifeform: in other nyooz from earlier rag, u.s. fbi gives up on finding the famous cooper: http://ktla.com/2016/07/12/d-b-cooper-45-years-after-infamous-skyjacking-fbi-closes-case-on-200000-unsolved-mystery
asciilifeform: jurov: i am failing to discern what the protest was against
jurov: https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/berliners-defy-massive-siege-by-police-defending-rigaer-94-and-autonomous-revolution-from-market-gentrification/ meanwhile in berlin
asciilifeform: 'In a related case, authorities nearly 100 miles away in Lancaster County arrested the parents of the 18-year-old, with police saying the couple had “gifted” their daughter to Kaplan for helping them out of financial difficulties. She was 14 when her first child was conceived, the criminal complaint said.'
Apocalyptic: scrapped the headers/copyrights from the files, and ad "using namespace Apocalyptic;", r, rewriting half of the prototype functions with my nick
Apocalyptic: for the lulz, the Angell guy that signed up sent me, I kid you not, a copy/pasted code of a public github repo which consisted of a SAT-solver that doesn't even build
jurov: it certainly has been done. and surely they converted the algorithm by hand, instead of crude C++ hacking.
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform: actually reading the satcoin link you provided I don't think it's a worthy endeavour to explore anymore
asciilifeform: then possibly
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform: the figure is for sha256(sha256())
trinque: so the chat page will involve perhaps 1 select, 1 insert
trinque: ben_vulpes: you'll be happy to know the thing both writes messages to a table and reads messages to send from an outbound table
Apocalyptic: jurov: afaik that part is explained in the paper too
Apocalyptic: from the satcoin pape: "The implementation of the above program generates a large CNF formula with about 250'000 variables and 850'000 clauses." I wonder how much lower these numbers would be for a single iteration of sha256
jurov: but that is easy. producing a code to correctly convert that to cnf is the problem
Apocalyptic: if you have a prog to build the cnf for md5, you can build it for any similarly based hash function
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform: the approach is hash-agnostic
asciilifeform: or is that the one you want cnf for
Apocalyptic: see the paragraph I'm referring to, and they even posted benchmark results as graph for collision resistance and preimage problems
Apocalyptic: jurov: they managed to do it eventually
jurov: which is exactly the task what you want to be doen for $100, I understand?
jurov: to cite: "We tried several standard approaches for computing the cnf equivalent of the formula H, but all of them failed even for relatively small message lengths"
Apocalyptic: jurov: the one I linked in that post ? yes
asciilifeform: it is the obvious application, along with pw cracking
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: the idea's been kicking around for a long time.
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: i assume you read the original 'satcoin' paper ?
Apocalyptic: I just want the problem as a CNF file
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: depending on whether you want to implement a useful sat-solver, it could easily take years.
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform: well ok I may have underestimated the time
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: 'Updated the price to 100 USD. It's really not a complicated task, everything is outlined in the paper. An average C++ programmer knowing operator overloading should be able to do it in 2-3 hours.' << ahahahahaha
ben_vulpes not particularly disposed to write an irc bot either
ben_vulpes: trinque: lowers the energy barrier for me to do the thing mircea_popescu and asciilifeform were talking about
trinque: old anyway, I'll let ya know when, and it'll be in the form of a signed vpatch
ben_vulpes has a fuzzy memory, is on the road though and not disposed to dig it up
trinque: lemme work on cleaving the commands from the botstuff and then I can give ya the sauce if you want it
asciilifeform: even came with isa (yes) card for dos (yes) box to drive the old steppers (dead)
asciilifeform: ancient thing, needs new steppers, but otherwise clean.
asciilifeform: at any rate, the web message box is a useful thing, and in fact the only way for heathens to talk into gossipd transmitter in the future.
mircea_popescu: note that irrespective of the merits of the personalized waves theory, this forbidance is nevertheless productive.
mircea_popescu: you may not make predictions on the basis of not understood behaviour!
mircea_popescu: yes but it is verboten to engineer on the basis of nonsense.
trilema-webchat: my client #17 says : "i am the real dao attacker"
mircea_popescu: the rest is a static page.
mircea_popescu: the chat line is a submit form, goes to chat bot.
mircea_popescu: if anyone wants the project, can be (probably SHOULD be) implemented as pure html, just a form.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 13:04 mircea_popescu: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/trilema << for the record, kiwiirc seems much better solution than freenode's webchat. we should prolly switch to using this as web-side connection.
mircea_popescu: ask anyone from the art school freshman class.
mircea_popescu: and in other artist's studio news, http://67.media.tumblr.com/ff0632038cc637b901f130fc624d758f/tumblr_n7ai7iixeM1r2sy0fo1_500.gif
shinohai: freenode make you use the dreaded sasl connection for tor
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: there's no captcha for the kiwiirc webchat thing only if your ip request is quite unique etc. if you e.g. go from tor (*ducks*) then you get presented with the lovely cloudflare captcha where you have to solve shit for multiple times until you pass. but at least no default captcha i guess
deedbot: [» Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] The security implications of Pokemon Go. - http://www.contravex.com/2016/07/14/the-security-implications-of-pokemon-go/
mircea_popescu: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/trilema << for the record, kiwiirc seems much better solution than freenode's webchat. we should prolly switch to using this as web-side connection.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 02:37 mod6: As far as the "V Mirror" thing, that I know alf hates, I move forward on the basis that one doesn't have to use it, even though it is there. This may not be ideal, but it's bridge between both "easy" and "manual"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 02:37 mod6: As far as the "V Mirror" thing, that I know alf hates, I move forward on the basis that one doesn't have to use it, even though it is there. This may not be ideal, but it's bridge between both "easy" and "manual"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 02:11 mod6: trinque: is there a max length for deeds? (just curious about the above ^, some of these might be mightly large)
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-14#1502702 << only as imposed by resource constraints. If the deps don't make it through the process I'll be at the keyboard tomorrow and will help make it happen.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 01:58 mircea_popescu: mod6 did you check/sign the copies ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 01:58 mircea_popescu: mod6 did you check/sign the copies ?
mod6: Anyway, this is great! I aught to write this up and put this into the ticket notes.
mod6: asciilifeform: i believe that perhaps your stator script did something of the like.
mircea_popescu: the fence is quasi complete
mod6: To me, this seems to satisfy the requirements we've been kicking around for a while.
mod6: Then it'll continue with Mr. P.'s perscription above.
mod6: Yeah, the makefiles will do this. It'll check the "shit" folder and what not, and look. If there continue, if not, halt. UNLESS, the -go-get-the-shit flag is passed in the invocation.
asciilifeform: not from the net.
asciilifeform: and ideally, from ~your other disk~
mod6: So i feel like it's one or the other. People need a way to press one button and build -- not everyone is clued.
asciilifeform: and in many cases, in particular the one now contemplated, is wholly unnecessary: fetching the trb deps is a once-per-machine thing
mod6: I tend to agree with you -- but i believe that the entire thing reduces to a "downloader script" outside of V if I remove the mirrors part.
mod6: Yes, you believe that one should read and verify these vpatches on their own, place them in by what they say, and who wrote them. Instead of getting a big ball of wax automatically.
asciilifeform: my position is that the customary degree of automagic: 'auto-fetch latest widget from central repo!11' - is not something that ought to be kept.
asciilifeform: there is a reason i dun like it
mod6: As far as the "V Mirror" thing, that I know alf hates, I move forward on the basis that one doesn't have to use it, even though it is there. This may not be ideal, but it's bridge between both "easy" and "manual"
asciilifeform: possibly even deedbotted - though i have not been able to turn up the link
mircea_popescu: that's why i want them stored in deedbot and sealed up.
mod6: mechanically checked and verified, but something i wrestle with none the less.
asciilifeform: it was the 'sign tarballs of liquishit' thing that led me to http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1545
mod6: its the difference between "easy" and "manual".
mod6: i can see this both ways too. i still wrestle with the whole "V Mirror" thing too.
mircea_popescu: "oh, it's the downloader".
asciilifeform: this 'here are the turds' thing are not something that ought to become habit.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 02:09 mod6: a person wants to build, presumably with the makefiles, but could be a build script... they pass the builder a flag that says "get these deps for me automatically", at which time, it'll go and fetch the deed(s) and verify them, decode them, and place them in the correct place and continue building.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-14#1502694 << i'd make the downloader, if there must be one, a separate script.
asciilifeform: in the sense of enumeration.
asciilifeform: my point was that we actually have a handle on ~all~ the deps
asciilifeform: before the great cleansing
mircea_popescu: or was it the xwidgets w/e that thing is called ?
mircea_popescu: at some point, there actually was, iirc
asciilifeform: the deps are strictly: 1) gcc 2) some libc (musl works ok) 3) boost 4) openssl 5) bdb.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 02:06 mircea_popescu: (i'm not saying you're making a mess, i'm just saying - we're stuck with all this grandfathered in bullshit, such as boost, openssh, who the fuck knows what else even. qt ffs.)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-14#1502685 << what has mircea_popescu been smoking?? there is no qt in trb
mod6: I started there for sure. Once I actually did this, it works, no problem with that. Was just trying to think, "what will the tree look like in 10 years, 20 years?"
mircea_popescu: if item x, whatever it may be, can only be used to do Y then it belongs in Y's tree
mod6: The one staring me in the face is this: If we place them in trb's tree, we'll be adding vpatch after vpatch to the source base to update the makefiles as they require to be updated. Having them in their own tree could elimiate cruft in trb.
mircea_popescu: it seems to me they should be in trb tree. which tradeoffs do you see ?
mod6: this really leaves one last question that has to be thought through before we move on; Do we place the makefiles into trb's tree, or do we place them in their own tree? I've thought about this quite a bit. And there are tradeoffs to both.
mod6: and the makefiles are complete.
mod6: which isn't a bad thing; i'd rather do it slow & careful, than fast and reckless.
mircea_popescu: but hoenstly seems to be actually coming together
mod6: it really has been like herding cats to get all of the build infrastructure into place.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> at least this'd allow some basis for proper management of this mess, rather than current adhocness << the nice part about the makefiles and your preposed solution is that we would finally have a solution in place for all of this.
mircea_popescu: and in other ethedao news, today toelik butt-erin releases DA CONE! https://media.giphy.com/media/hYXKE2SGWmYIU/giphy.gif
mod6: mircea_popescu: thanks for your input here, its high time that we get away from the adhoc nature of this build process.
mod6: trinque: is there a max length for deeds? (just curious about the above ^, some of these might be mightly large)
mod6: Yeah, it certainly has to be there.
mircea_popescu: only if signed by people you trust the sigs of
mod6: a person wants to build, presumably with the makefiles, but could be a build script... they pass the builder a flag that says "get these deps for me automatically", at which time, it'll go and fetch the deed(s) and verify them, decode them, and place them in the correct place and continue building.
mod6: i think you have the same idea as i've been pondering...
mod6: mircea_popescu: yeah, for sure. i reading though the above here...
mircea_popescu: (i'm not saying you're making a mess, i'm just saying - we're stuck with all this grandfathered in bullshit, such as boost, openssh, who the fuck knows what else even. qt ffs.)
mircea_popescu: at least this'd allow some basis for proper management of this mess, rather than current adhocness
mircea_popescu: makefiles also works yes. i'm thinking more in the mid term than for the next version necessarily.
mod6: one caveat here, I want this to be the last release of the build script -- so I don't wanna do any heavy lifting here. Would rather put such effort into the makefiles instead.
mircea_popescu: and it knows that if the flag is on, it goes to where deed so and so is and checks it, debases it, unzips it etc.
mircea_popescu: what i'm thinking is : the binary/payload in question, base64'd, deedbotted, and the build script modified to take an optional parameter to "allow deedbot import from known signatures" and then it can have a $ifdef for "buildoot"="deedbot.soandso"
mod6: So, a clearsigned manifest that holds the URL and the SHA512 that I attest is correct then, deedbotted?
mircea_popescu: hence why it'd be a deed rather than a v diff.
mod6: I'm a bit hesitant to "sign" a file outright that I don't have carnal knowledge of -- say openssl - at least without a disclaimer that says "I am only confirming the SHA512 of this artifact is ABCDEF1234... This does not mean that I have read that code and it ``fits in head''."
mod6: they are not signed at this time. the build script in its current form, will pull the dep from deedbot.org and check the SHA512 against what is hardcoded into the script. if it matches, we continue, if not we die.
mircea_popescu: mod6 did you check/sign the copies ?
mod6: or maybe that was lastnight. either way.
mod6: As far as the Makefiles are concerned, we're having good success there (other than the remote sites for the deps), and will probably be making the same deedbot.org updates to that as well.
mod6: If anyone wants to test this along with us, let me know. Will provide you a link. Want to ensure that it works well before we deedbot the new build script.
mod6: So I've updated the forthcoming V99994 to pull these from deedbot.org as opposed to their respective places out in the tubes.
mod6: trinque was nice enough to host all four of the deps that we require on deedbot.org; openssl, bdb, boost, and buildroot.
mod6: so last week buildroot's site was down (for about a day) and currently the dang sourceforge site doesn't seem to be allowing curl to grab the boost lib.
BingoBoingo: I find it disturbing how many "people" out in the wild have no idea that natural gas piping is a subset of plumbing
a111: Logged on 2016-07-14 00:24 mircea_popescu: if they had half a brain they'd give up the pretense and go learn how to do plumbing or something useful more alligned with their intellectual capabilities.
BingoBoingo: So, surveying the neighborhood after the latest round of wind thinned the tree canopy was in the right place and time to see powerline arc and catch fire
mircea_popescu: teh lady doth protest too much, when the fuck did the "modern democracies" bloc turn into such a fucking lapdog ?
mircea_popescu: june 15th : "nato runs massive baltic exercise, with little russian meddling" ; july 6th : "putin's military buildup in the baltic stokes invasion fears".
mircea_popescu: if not for hope, how would the jam-tomorrow socialism exist.
asciilifeform: and, quite possibly, they envision it turning into $100m when 'made mandatory for legit exchanges' etc
asciilifeform: 'i have a fine portrait of the pharaoh machined from pure shitanium' 'have $1m'
mircea_popescu: clearly, they do not have even that half a brain.
mircea_popescu: if they had half a brain they'd give up the pretense and go learn how to do plumbing or something useful more alligned with their intellectual capabilities.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's relatively few addresses actually in use, you can crack their hash in a minute or two.
mircea_popescu: and in other "venture capital backed entrepreneurial ideas re bitcoin aka blockchain technologees + their respective lamestream media coverage" news, http://67.media.tumblr.com/fdc9fa6c79e206b6caa9c8f1715cb2e8/tumblr_njzceuR9H71tonrdjo10_r1_500.gif
asciilifeform: presumably there is a pile of payola available to favoured sons, in this particular flavour.
asciilifeform: 'Recently, the IWF provided Elliptic a database of bitcoin addresses that they identified with child porn. With this information, Elliptic can identify those illegal activities on the blockchain (bitcoin’s public ledger of transactions). James Smith, CEO of Elliptic said this regarding their involvement: “This is the first time anybody has started identifying these crimes in bitcoin and flagging them up in a system like ours. Thi
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/07/13/new-partnership-aims-to-put-an-end-to-child-porn-related-bitcoin-use
mircea_popescu: phf many of them not really much work beyond "cylindrical kite". light wood structure + wax paper.
phf: asciilifeform: which reminds me, is that at linker level or assembler? because i wanted to try generating intermediate S files, and if that's where turds are, perhaps stripping them programmatically
gribble: The operation succeeded.