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gregorynyssa[asciilifeform]: However, I still use Windows on a daily basis.
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: !!ticker btc usd
asciilifeform: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-08-16#1029795 << if yer thinking of fg, wasn't exactly 'mass', each of the print runs at one pt fit on a tabletop (had to solder the pin headers manually, lol, factory hadn't done it as part was outta stock)
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2023-08-16 17:51:53 awt_akris[signpost]: reflects on asciilifeform actually mass producing a hardware item
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2023-08-16 16:48:03 signpost: recalls a good mp rant on the subj of folks popping in as though flipping through tv channels.
bitbot[asciilifeform]: (trilema) 2018-02-20 mircea_popescu: no but i mean the fucking lameness of it. dood's got a "well rounded internet experience", he's got a mortgage and a boring wife and a boring job and a hp he bought at the store, and he "logs in" for a coupla hours four times a week or w/e. every nine weeks and a half we pop up again in
asciilifeform: aha, that was it
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2023-08-17 01:57:16 gregorynyssa[deedbot|signpost]: However, I still use Windows on a daily basis.
billymg[asciilifeform]: !!ticker btc usd
signpost[asciilifeform]: the rip is here my dudes
signpost[asciilifeform]: it'd be mighty entertaining if the hybrid world war results in all three megastates getting dead.
billymg[asciilifeform]: if you look at the meme lines, you can see that the daily yesterday closed below support
billymg[asciilifeform]: leading to today's mega dump
billymg[asciilifeform]: signpost: yeah, isn't china now having trouble with their currency, prompting a fresh round of brrr over there?
signpost[asciilifeform]: yep, they're just as fucked as we are.
signpost[asciilifeform]: btc's price action's still moving right along with difficulty fwiw
signpost[asciilifeform]: would be nice to figure out a way to include energy prices in this somehow.
asciilifeform: ohlol 'cheap'coinz again eh
unpx[asciilifeform]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2023-03-17#1025202 <<< What makes me sad is that some people are looking...
dulapbot: Logged on 2023-03-17 14:53:19 signpost[asciilifeform]: ripple's an overcomplicated proposed replacement for swift, not bitcoin.
unpx[asciilifeform]: ...and the most reasonable way there is piggybacking new, malleable standards
asciilifeform: loox unbearably tedious
asciilifeform: ( wat the hell is 'decentralized' about 'decentralized identity'(tm)(r) ? )
unpx[asciilifeform]: Instead of the centralized user-password pair, you have your agent with some pub-priv key pair and use t
asciilifeform: actual decentralized identity == rsa pubkey, manually operated.
unpx[asciilifeform]: ...and use _the agent_ (not the key directly) to authenticate on "Web5" (which is built on top of "Web3")
asciilifeform: (well, private operations, manually operated.)
asciilifeform: whythefuck 'agent'
unpx[asciilifeform]: Cuz doesn't have to be a blockchain wallet, and it is not just a "here are the pub keys", it should be more like ssh-agent which choose which key to use with who and so on
unpx[asciilifeform]: But this is just what I could picture, in the best scenario
asciilifeform: endless variations on the theme of 'pubkey signatures without actual control', snore
asciilifeform: fuck 'web n.0'. with red hot poker.
asciilifeform: manually-triggered rsa ops or fulla shit.
unpx[asciilifeform]: 'gov/corp signed pubkey' could summarize what they are trying to achieve, since it all goes back to certs sinkhole at some point, which is amusing
asciilifeform: of course goes to escrowed sinkhole.
unpx[asciilifeform]: Except with extra layers of confusion cuz 'semantic web'
asciilifeform: or reich's tools wouldn't push it.
asciilifeform: the confusion 'is feature, not bug'(tm)
unpx[asciilifeform]: In the video they mention China already registered a DID method (if you know JWT, run away) that is pretty harmful
asciilifeform: what diff does it make if the masterkeys are china's or usg's
asciilifeform: a masterkeyed crock o'shit is a masterkeyed crock o'shit.
unpx[asciilifeform]: ``A DID method is defined by a DID method specification, which specifies the precise operations by which DIDs and DID documents are created, resolved, updated, and deactivated.''
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2020-02-13 asciilifeform: the purpose of e.g. ssl is to drive n00bz away from actual crypto.
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2020-06-24 asciilifeform: anyffin, anyffin to keep folx from even thinking about actual (i.e. where the keyz live on yer hdd and nowhere else) crypto..
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2020-12-31 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: imho it is a not unimportant detail, that the agitprop comes from folx whose actual aim is to drive functional, publicly-available crypto into extinction (and in fact largely achieved this)
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2021-01-21 asciilifeform: as for encryption -- 99+% of what's 'out there' in the sense of 'readable by plebe armed w/ google' was written specifically to ensure that actual crypto aint there when you in fact do need it.
asciilifeform: whythefuck even pay any attention to liquishit where 'your' pubkey 'not counts' unless some third party signed it? or 'stops counting' when again some third party 'revokes' ? or where some piece of shit can sign 'on your behalf' because 'court order' or whatever.
asciilifeform: just piss on it.
asciilifeform: ( not even speaking of the idiocy where 'your' key actually lives on some remote machine in its entirety )
asciilifeform: none of it has anyffing to do with actual cryptography. y'know, the kind where you're in full control of your, actually private, privkey, and manually approve all computations involving it, erry single time.
asciilifeform: and where pubkey is what you actually chose, consciously, to give yer counterparty.
asciilifeform: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-08-17#1029827 << will say for nth time, it's approx as interesting as 'attacks on ssl! newz at 11!'. the implication 100% of the time is that the fact that reich can do whatever it wants with the pki and effectively 'act on your behalf'(tm) whenever it wants, 'isn't an attack'
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2023-08-17 19:53:25 unpx[jonsykkel|signpost|deedbot]: ... ( vid of the slides Crypto&Privacy Village DEFCON31 Day 1 "Attacking Decentralized Identity" )
asciilifeform: actual crypto is when you can take cyanide and then 'all the king's horses and all the king's men' can go suck their thumbs.
unpx[asciilifeform]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2023-08-17#1030361 <<< Heh, is this what to do when ppl are shooting at their feet?
dulapbot: Logged on 2023-08-17 20:09:38 asciilifeform: just piss on it.
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2021-07-04 asciilifeform: what ilkka kokkarinen called 'martian problem'. (iirc from pokerism, term of art.)
dulapbot: (trilema) 2014-11-25 asciilifeform: 'I’d like to see one expression coined by the poker writer Matt Matros become common parlance, since it applies far more widely than only to poker. An “alien problem” means some problem that might be fun, interesting and educational to analyze, and it would be really important to know the solution if you ever found yourself in that situation, but the point is that you shouldn't even be having that problem in the first pl
dulapbot: (trilema) 2014-11-25 asciilifeform: ace, because it can only have resulted from you having made choices that are obviously wrong and easily avoidable. At the poker table, the description of an alien problem might begin “So I called a raise and re-raise preflop from the small blind with my jack-three offsuit...” Say no more. Don’t call a raise and re-raise from the small blind when you have nothing but a measly jack-three offsuit, and you won’t have to th
dulapbot: (trilema) 2014-11-25 asciilifeform: ink about how to get out of problems like that. Outside the poker table, consider any problem that starts with the words “So, I have been having a steamy secret affair with the wife of this violent mob boss, and now she...”'
asciilifeform: ugh, that ended up mangled. but can read in orig log.
asciilifeform: was 'alien problem'.
asciilifeform: i.e. asciilifeform never heard of 'hashicorp'. had to look it up. and unsurprisingly found that the folx who care what it is and what it does, have certainly made 'wrong choices in life' that were imho avoidable, and for many not even too late to fix
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