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BingoBoingo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4l56AfUTnQ << Learn French as objects meet Chlorine Triflouride
asciilifeform: 'Akamai has dropped Brian Krebs (http://krebsonsecurity.com) indefinitely due to the scale of the attacks.'
asciilifeform: !#s krebs
asciilifeform: now if someone were to drop a piano on krebs, i would point and laugh.
asciilifeform: but fact remains - ddostronic networking - is retarded.
a111: Logged on 2015-12-01 20:26 ascii_field: BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu, et al : does anyone else find that krebsonsecurity refuses to load from archive.is ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: https://archive.is/oD6gN takes quite a while to load and its an archive.is page
asciilifeform: oh hah so he unbanned the box at some point
BingoBoingo: apparently
asciilifeform: 'GFH Financial Group (“GFH”) reported a net profit attributable to shareholders of $6.1 million for the first quarter of 2016...' << tiny little bugger
asciilifeform: what is peculiar about it ?
PeterL: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-23#1547471 << let's put that on the shelf next to the FOOF
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 04:45 BingoBoingo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4l56AfUTnQ << Learn French as objects meet Chlorine Triflouride
mircea_popescu: in other news, this priviledge issue is starting to get on my nerves. so some schmucks decided to "fix" random bit of english sometime in the 80s. because nothing soothes the pencildick socialist soul more than changing things for others.
asciilifeform: waiwat bit
mircea_popescu: meanwhile all the "online dictionaries", shitholes as they are, fail to list the historically correct spelling, and so a generation of random idiots go around pretending it's misspelled now.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you hafta say knowlege, juge, plege and privilege nao, didn't you know ?
asciilifeform: where, in zimbabwe ?
asciilifeform: usa has truly fallen behind the cutting edge of idiocy
mircea_popescu: if onlu.
asciilifeform: i am seeing this notion here for the first time, honest.
asciilifeform: i dun think even the tumblr gurlz have heard of this one yet.
asciilifeform: where the fuck does mircea_popescu get these people.
mircea_popescu: i am blessed ;/
mircea_popescu: anyway, prepare yourselves for "knowlege, redirected from knowledge. don't make this common spelling mistake."
asciilifeform: nowledj.
asciilifeform can almost physically hear this abortion sound
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re gfh : i dunno if it's evidently a scamsite ; but it's one placed on a random keyboardmash string.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cuz you too have been to the zoo, i imagine.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pretty high quality scamtron, it is ~indistinguishable from real 'arab business' to the casual naked eye
mircea_popescu: aha. for some reason in rings my bell.
asciilifeform has worked with the 'real thing' and appreciates the efforts
asciilifeform writing article re the krebs thing.
asciilifeform: btw, for other emacsists,
asciilifeform: (custom-set-variables
asciilifeform: '(markdown-command "/usr/bin/markdown2 --extras footnotes"))
asciilifeform: ^ will do proper footnotes
asciilifeform: in that particular formatron
asciilifeform: (there are others, e.g., asciidoc, etc., i have nfi who uses what, if any, of this, here)
PeterL: perhaps "privilege" is more closely related to "legitamate" than ledge, so no d before the g?
mircea_popescu: legitimate ?
mircea_popescu: at issue is the ending in ge.
asciilifeform: throw the buggerz off a lege.
PeterL: private-legitimacy -> privilege, or something
PeterL: IANAL (I am not a linguist)
mircea_popescu: they all take the d because of peculiarities of historical english pronounciation. without the d it becomes /ʒ/ as in juge, /ʒuʒ/
mircea_popescu: (currently you say it /d͡ʒud͡ʒ/)
PeterL: I would say the sound in edge and ledge is a bit harder than privilege, not quite the same thing
PeterL: another idea, could be related to liege? But now I am just pulling stuff out of my ass
mircea_popescu: this is the very point : priviledge is terminated in /d͡ʒ/ like knowledge or ledge ; not in /ʒ/ like liege.
mircea_popescu: and if you're not saying it like that, you fix the way you say it.
mircea_popescu: in any fucking case i'm not changing the way i write it, breaking historical compatibility in the process, to accommodate you feel like saying it this tuesday.
PeterL: but it is a different vowel sound too
mircea_popescu: it's a who ?
PeterL: privilege is more of a soft i sound, ledge has the soft e
PeterL: might just be my accent though
mircea_popescu: now that you're discussing phonetics without any basics, such as the ipa, is one thing. but you're discussing it without any consideration for thought!
mircea_popescu: which fucking one of the FOUR e-i candidates in prIvIlEdgE are you discussing ?
PeterL: you have links to historical documents spelling it "priviledge"?
PeterL: I was talking about just before the g
BingoBoingo: Come on guy, don't juge yourself too harshly.
mircea_popescu: PeterL : the greeley guide to medical staff by laws, j d cooper, introduction page x ;
mircea_popescu: nathan bailey's dictionary, english-german, german-english, volume 22 page 220, freimachung, freimachen.
mircea_popescu: etc etc.
PeterL: really, I am just giving you a hard time. I accept the word either way.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason i said sometime in 80s above. that'd be the reason.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea who even decided this, it just looks like someone in teacher's school just flipped a bit, started sending out teachers with corrupted spelling of prilivedge, and since nobody reads anything anyway it just perpetuated,
mircea_popescu: like a new gene in a population of fucking silkworms.
mircea_popescu: culture ? what culture. this place has NO culture.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey it'd be the, what, 27th time this happened?
mircea_popescu: if tomorrow everyone starts yielling about how vaginas have balls, that's gonna be it, first population with ballsacs for both genders.
PeterL: isn't change a part of culture?
asciilifeform: english, like leper, has been losing limbs for its entire life.
mircea_popescu: change is not this blind and unaware beastly thing.
PeterL: this seems like a harmless change
mircea_popescu: change is change, like when i tell my mother listen, i used to like you but now i don't like you anymore ; not like when i wake up one day and don't even know i had one, like some sort of cat or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: PeterL at issue is not "harm", as per a personal and arbitrary definition. at issue is the process. change happens in actual cultures as an aware, commented process. not like this.
mircea_popescu: it happens like this in worms and mice.
PeterL: yes, this is a memetic mutation. these things happen
mircea_popescu: to idiots.
mircea_popescu: come to think of it, i know of no better definition of intelligence, than the absence of this process.
asciilifeform: eh hey, would mircea_popescu have preferred if some organized equivalent of webster had imposed this crapola , as the original did, by doctoring dictionaries ?
mircea_popescu: "a place for everything and everything in its place" exists for minds, too. it's called "know what the fuck are you doing and why you're doing it". the alternative is cosby's brain damage.
mircea_popescu: "i dunno..."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, because then i would still not have introduced - like i resisted changes by "romanian academy" to romanian ; but at least i'd have a ready something to point out as the breach.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is easier to shoot a man than 10,001 worms. which is WHY they send 10,001 worms.
asciilifeform: go, shoot, they just break in 2.
asciilifeform: for worms - you need vermicide.
mircea_popescu: she cow pig had kittens ; and lived gladly ever after.
mircea_popescu: (for the innocent - as apparently #trilema is the only reference for that expression as far as google knows, and truly it knows jack shit : there's this slave language spoken in china where english words are used in the manner of idiomatics. it is incomprehensible in english ; the example given translates to "the" (because demonstrative pronoun is still she) "sow" (ie, female adult - cow ; as a particle it modifies pig into s
mircea_popescu: ow) "had pigglets" (ie, kittens, cubs).)
mircea_popescu: and as to the proper meaning of the word revolution (which is - spinning in place!) : about three centuries ago, back when industrialisation was well advanced much like computing today and the united colonies centered around fucking philadelphia were the republic of their time, the empire of china was very much the producer of all good things and disinterested in trade because why.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pinoys speak similar language
mircea_popescu: im sure.
mircea_popescu: anyway. should be obvious that there's plenty more room for the anglopinoy to fall, before they reach their level.
mircea_popescu: but in conclusion : "i spell it priviledge as a mark of my priviledge."
mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160923/#16 << not parody. and "ftp" via browser / windows "web drive" etc.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-23: [01:07:40] <asciilifeform> ( from http://dcleaks.com/index.php/portfolio_page/carl-pistole/ . )
mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160923/#52 << not how you fucking implement this, by caring. you implement it like sane people : round everyone up, let them sit in open air camp, 100+mn people, somewhere in arizona desert.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-23: [02:44:22] <asciilifeform> http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-23#1547450 << i thought you wanted these folks for guillotine etc.
mircea_popescu: then you slowly start letting folk out who can prove they had no connection.
mircea_popescu: or who sexually please a lord enough.
asciilifeform: lustration lolk
mircea_popescu: or whatever.
mircea_popescu: then whatever's left, you shoot for sport over a decade or w/e.
mircea_popescu: or in other words, "i ain't proving jack shit to you. you maybe persuade me. maybe."
asciilifeform: probably the only way to implement properly 'nothing to allcomers'
asciilifeform: ain't no exterminator writing biography of every rat that must die
mircea_popescu: burning man to all comers. but properly this time.
mircea_popescu: here's the stake, here's the gasoline, are you gonna keep your clothes on ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160923/#66 << does this go on your file of "usg has not a prayer on the internet" ?
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-23: [11:39:27] <asciilifeform> 'Akamai has dropped Brian Krebs (http://krebsonsecurity.com) indefinitely due to the scale of the attacks.'
asciilifeform not quite done with article on subj
mircea_popescu: they ddosed trilema, qntra etc - nothing happened ; they had their agent ddosed - that's the end of the road for him.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-23: [11:43:20] <a111> Logged on 2015-12-01 20:26 ascii_field: BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu, et al : does anyone else find that krebsonsecurity refuses to load from archive.is ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally - anyone want or rather need boxes with very large ram ? i'm thinking of expanding to another rack with this provider.
shinohai: mircea_popescu is suitable for trb ?
mircea_popescu: well massive overkill. trb wants what, 4g ? i was thinking more in terms of tb.
shinohai: O.o mkay
mircea_popescu: actually since you brought it up it reminded me of vague discussion, so let's make it explicit. mod6 asciilifeform i dunno how practical it is yet, but eventually trb block mechanics will have to be expanded to memory datastore, so that it holds the current blk000n it's working on in ram and dumps it to disk only when full. MUCH easier to cache a disk with no writes on it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what means 'blk000n it's working on' ?
asciilifeform: as distinct from mempool ?
mircea_popescu: yes, mempool is just txn. the way blockchain is currently stored, it comes in these 2gb .dat files
mircea_popescu: or on some shit implementation even smaller (i recall a lulz at this in log)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: those are just blocks shat to disk consecutively
mircea_popescu: yes. but it writes to the file by parts.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-11 01:11 mircea_popescu: holy shit apparently this guy's cca 2014 windoze prb stores blockchain in 128mb files, 100+ of them by that point ?
asciilifeform: it jizzes out blockwise.
mircea_popescu: shinohai so it'd be practical for something like that, you know, all blockchain in memory. no disk seeks, faster. if you run something like blockchain.info (though i doubt they hold it all in ram)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is my point. should jizz out filewise. ie, once it has a 2gb worth of file all built up, spit it out nice and contiguous.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this optimization makes 0 practical difference, random access block reads remains the bottleneck on mechanical disks.
asciilifeform: (not even a seriously irritating bottleneck on a ~decent~ mech disk)
mircea_popescu: my profiling says the writes block the reads!
asciilifeform: of trb?
asciilifeform: care to publish ?
asciilifeform: hey i posted my profiturds
mircea_popescu: ima see if i can clean this up. why, does yours not ?
asciilifeform: by the MB
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when i walk into a kitchen and find a rotting corpse, i do not begin by cleaning the stove
mircea_popescu: that's certainly a valid point.
asciilifeform: the unparallelized-yet-wholly-parallelizable block verification is the biggest embarrassment in trb
asciilifeform: followed by the mempool thing
mircea_popescu: yeah. this'd be rather low priority.
mircea_popescu: actually the more i think about this ... fully in-ram blockchain shat to disk at configurable rate is the elegant way out of here.
mircea_popescu: have a say hm.
mircea_popescu: !!up burnsd03
deedbot: burnsd03 voiced for 30 minutes.
asciilifeform: doing disk caching by hand doesn't win you much.
burnsd03: thanks :)
mircea_popescu: something like this : have a ring structure (made of 1mb cells) holding all the blocks. have a separate tree structure ordering them ; and a separate counter structure. whenever you import a new block, put it in that ring cell which has lowest use count
mircea_popescu: so at first empty ; then least used.
mircea_popescu: so operator can set 200 gb for blockchain, it gets made into 200k cells, they store 200k blocks and hallelujah.
mircea_popescu: or halleludjah, depending.
shinohai: Praise be to Sithrak
deedbot: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1719 << Loper OS - On the Matter of Brian Krebs.
mircea_popescu: ok burnsd03 so will that be a bitcent or 1mn ecu ?
burnsd03: bitcent if possible
burnsd03: mircea_popescu
burnsd03: 19tnpVTMt1Usw18zKKDVgLJcSgN8bibWC9
burnsd03: thank-you.
burnsd03: what does?
mircea_popescu: the address ; you'll be getting your bitcent today.
burnsd03: oops, thought that was immediate :P in that case - 1MrRrAtyYd8ava8gF24Rz7qkPZqn5FGxDi
burnsd03: sorry for messing you about
burnsd03: :( my apologies
asciilifeform: krebs thing posted.
asciilifeform: oh hm, looks like deedbot already found.
PeterL: ^ comment awaiting moderation
shinohai posts asciilifeform 's article to twitter for krebskeks
asciilifeform: PeterL: posted
PeterL: !~ty
jhvh1: You are very welcome Daddy
asciilifeform: PeterL: answr'd
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your footnotes don't have pop-up content. mine do!
mircea_popescu: it's useful if reader intuits will be a short footnote, hovers mouse.
shinohai: I adore that feature about trilema too
mircea_popescu: shinohai except when it's "PAGE WALL OF TEXT" lol
shinohai: Still saves me from scrolling to bottom of page in lengthy article
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suppose i'll have to add those to the footnote-shitter before i write a mircea_popescu-length piece where this makes serious difference
mircea_popescu very much likes written alf.
mircea_popescu: "because it is not about crime."
mircea_popescu: you should do this more often
asciilifeform: well aha , it's why i spent 2hr retooling, and half hr to write post.
mircea_popescu: hopefully retooling is proper, ie, forever.
asciilifeform: (though i would like the hover thing now, lel)
asciilifeform: always how it goes, 'i thought i had a decent hammer, but then it was stuffed in my arse and i realized that...'
asciilifeform: ~1y ago..
asciilifeform: and now apparently not one usg chairwarmer uses the official microshit mail, go figure.
asciilifeform: (see yesterday's lulzcollection)
asciilifeform: everybody from city dogcatcher and up now has 'seekrit, private!11' shitmail of his own.
asciilifeform: (~100% on usg.google)
mircea_popescu: quite so.
asciilifeform: for some reason this reminds me of mircea_popescu's article about the french tards at versailles who had to fuck one another's wives to be persuaded to get it up at all
asciilifeform: 'if.i.were.a.perl.script.would.you.love.fork.ing.me.uk. A 1.3.3.7' << l0l!
asciilifeform: if i had to guess, i'd say confiscated domains
asciilifeform: 'blackholed'
mircea_popescu: uh. weird ip.
asciilifeform: 1337 d00d
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2016/my-happy-gaming-life/ << Trilema - My happy gaming life.
asciilifeform: they're blackholed.
asciilifeform: y'know, parked in graveyard orbit.
asciilifeform: by usg.
mircea_popescu: this does something ?
asciilifeform: with the help of krebs & co.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it works on the bottom half of bell curve of crapware artists, who haven't invented p2p, autogenned domains, etc.
mircea_popescu: i guess.
asciilifeform: well where didja think it worked.
asciilifeform: it is, to borrow a mircea_popescuism, the crab's one pincer.
asciilifeform somewhat surprised that this passed the censors
mircea_popescu: well... prevbious decade.
pete_dushenski: !#s calais
mircea_popescu: what, baluba island ?
pete_dushenski: it's in france.
pete_dushenski: which, given the country's historical association with romance, makes a lot of sense.
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-23#1547642 << he blogeth! this fall is turning into quite the resurgence of republican blerging.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 14:44 deedbot: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1719 << Loper OS - On the Matter of Brian Krebs.
pete_dushenski: this pleases me greatly
asciilifeform: eh pete_dushenski i had a post earlier this wk also
asciilifeform: speaking of which, looking forward to trinque's article
asciilifeform: and , if he actually got himself the box, i suppose i'll have to write up how to operate it
shinohai: Who are you and what did you do with the real alf?
asciilifeform: ( the manufacturer's soft was certificably worthless, it was a java shitware , believe it )
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: that's the point. ~two~ in one week. YOU MACHINE.
pete_dushenski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJS2k_vBY0 << for BingoBoingo only. unless anyone else thinks they have the stomach for cornbeastity^2.
trinque barfs
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 13:59 mircea_popescu: they ddosed trilema, qntra etc - nothing happened ; they had their agent ddosed - that's the end of the road for him.
phf: !#s simply sara
a111: Logged on 2015-11-21 04:43 punkman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4zw99VsoMA the canonical video, from 2009
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-23#1547546 << i used to intuitively spell it 'priviledge' but was then beat down by the idiotic 'right way' into dropping the 'd'. might be time for a comeback tour.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 13:22 mircea_popescu: i have no idea who even decided this, it just looks like someone in teacher's school just flipped a bit, started sending out teachers with corrupted spelling of prilivedge, and since nobody reads anything anyway it just perpetuated,
PeterL: pete_dushenski are we going to set policy here or are we going to let "democracy" win?
pete_dushenski: PeterL: viva la republica! or, er, policy.
pete_dushenski: phf: omfg. deep breaths pete, deep breaths.
shinohai: tu no tienes privilegios
asciilifeform: ( subj was originally a krebs thread. )
asciilifeform: 'NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with Trump International Hotels Management LLC, d/b/a Trump Hotel Collection (“THC”), involving data breaches resulting in the exposure of over 70,000 credit card numbers and other personal data. THC has agreed to pay $50,000 in penalties and to shore up its data security practices.'
asciilifeform: microshit - mega-unsurprise - fined $0.
asciilifeform: number of microshit usg contracts not renewed == 0
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/qZNlh << aaaaand elsewhere in lulzdom, 'Leaked NSA hacking tools are now being used on Cisco customers, according to the tech giant. The company published an advisory on Friday saying that NSA grade hacking tools are now being used against customers.'
asciilifeform: and, while we're on subj, https://archive.is/2QkOB -- 'a former NSA employee carelessly left those hacking tools on a remote server three years ago after an operation and a group of Russian hackers found them, sources close to the investigation told Reuters.'
asciilifeform: 'But instead of warning the affected companies that their customers were at risk, the NSA maintained the silence.'
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: commented, and also your blog still has the gravatar thing
ben_vulpes only recognized this due to sins of a previous life
pete_dushenski: replied.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu et al : http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1719&cpage=1#comment-17901 << in other noose.
asciilifeform: 'It is but a little speculation to posit this is why governments got into the AML/KYC rigmarole: They saw the combatting fraud pretext being done and wanted in on that game, for information is power and having the mechanisms in place to cut individuals out of the system with convenient excuses is just prudence, if you think that way. And on the other side, it neatly explains why banks didn’t utter a peep in defence of their formerl
asciilifeform: y presumed to be innocent until proven otherwise clientele. They were doing the pre-crime policing already anyway.'
asciilifeform: (whole thing worth reading)
asciilifeform: and aaaaah finally, reddit, 'REJECT: not netsec' .
asciilifeform: they're getting slooow.
shinohai: !~later tell BingoBoingo http://ix.io/1pIG
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: I decided against the dead baby article, but if you still want it I'll write it up.
pete_dushenski: 'what's pink, bubbly, and taps on the glass ? a baby in the microwave!' 'what's pink, silver, and runs into walls ? a baby with forks in its eyes!' 'what's worse than a barrel full of dead babies ? a live one at the bottom trying to eat its way out!'
trinque: what's worse than 10 dead babies in a trash can? One dead baby in 10 trash cans.
pete_dushenski: 13yo me found ^^ uproarious
shinohai: pete_dushenski you make me think I made a mistake not publishing dead baby article!
pete_dushenski: it's never too late.
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-22#1547299 << "The disciplinary training of many physical scientists eschews alternative paradigms of knowledge production" ohohohahahahaha
a111: Logged on 2016-09-22 18:30 mircea_popescu: ahahaha laura parson kicks all ass! "stem syllabi are gendered because they promote the idea that knowledge can be ascertained through reason, which is a masculine concept that hurts women's feelings and makes it difficult for them to succeed."
ben_vulpes: ahaha and i found the pp mircea_popescu was lampooning
ben_vulpes: Examples of STEM classroom practices that contribute to a chilly climate are weed-out courses, courses that grade on a curve, a competitive environment, reliance on lecture as a teaching method, an individualistic culture, and comprehensive exams
pete_dushenski: time for some climate change
pete_dushenski: cuz it's waaay too chilly up in here
ben_vulpes: reliance on lecture as a teaching method!
pete_dushenski: so let's all warm up, strip down, move to calais...
ben_vulpes: as opposed i imagine to sitting around producing knowledge by cheeping at each other!
mircea_popescu: hey, women have been doing this in africa for WAY LONGER than your pesky newton and whoelse.
mircea_popescu: inexplicably, for all the time spent "grooming", the chimps in question still have a head full of lice, but w/e.
ben_vulpes: oblig
PeterL: ^ lols
pete_dushenski: awww gs is laying off 30% of their asian division because m&a's are down by a similar proportion. must suck to run out of tax loopholes.
PeterL: where is the acronym bot to decipher ^ ?
pete_dushenski: !*deciphurr gs
pete_dushenski: >> goldman sachs
pete_dushenski: !*deciphurr m&a
pete_dushenski: >> mergers and acquisitions
PeterL: what's an AWWW? ;P
pete_dushenski: a singular worldwide website, obv.
PeterL: www, the only abreviation that is 3 times as many sylables as what it abreviates
deedbot: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1733 << Loper OS - Phuctored SSH Public Keys.
pete_dushenski falls over. 3 in one week!
asciilifeform: 1sec, fix
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform delay your rss if this bothers you :)
mircea_popescu: slowly reimplements trilema 100% :D
mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160923/#333 << remarkably, the stove is ever so clean!
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-23: [16:27:35] <phf> http://btcbase.org/log/2015-11-21#1328972
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-23: [16:42:23] <asciilifeform> and, while we're on subj, https://archive.is/2QkOB -- 'a former NSA employee carelessly left those hacking tools on a remote server three years ago after an operation and a group of Russian hackers found them, sources close to the investigation told Reuters.'
mircea_popescu: face facts : usg can not keep anything secret.
mircea_popescu: that stupid shit with the hot mulatto chick being reported by "anonymous caller" is so fucking outrageous...
mircea_popescu: since when the fuck is "anonymous call" reasonable suspicion what the fuck already.
asciilifeform: waiwat what chick
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-23: [19:44:05] <PeterL> http://nolavie.com/shopping-while-sexy-98653/
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-23#1547809 << overstatement. i'm still waiting to read the specs of, e.g., BATON and JOSEKI, or for the intel magic packet of domination, etc.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 20:08 mircea_popescu: face facts : usg can not keep anything secret.
mod6: !% h
mod6: !%h
mod6: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-23#1547601 << I'll think on this a bit...
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 14:20 mircea_popescu: actually since you brought it up it reminded me of vague discussion, so let's make it explicit. mod6 asciilifeform i dunno how practical it is yet, but eventually trb block mechanics will have to be expanded to memory datastore, so that it holds the current blk000n it's working on in ram and dumps it to disk only when full. MUCH easier to cache a disk with no writes on it.
shinohai: greets mod6
mod6: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-23#1547639 << seems like it might be performant
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 14:34 mircea_popescu: so operator can set 200 gb for blockchain, it gets made into 200k cells, they store 200k blocks and hallelujah.
mod6: Worth thinking about anyway.
mod6: I'm gonna just stick this idea into ticket #26
mod6: hi shinohai :]
shinohai: I got 2 builds today bte, one offline, one on. Both perform as expected.
mod6: !%e trb 26 C "Mempool changes implemented" "http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-23#1547601" 25
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 14:20 mircea_popescu: actually since you brought it up it reminded me of vague discussion, so let's make it explicit. mod6 asciilifeform i dunno how practical it is yet, but eventually trb block mechanics will have to be expanded to memory datastore, so that it holds the current blk000n it's working on in ram and dumps it to disk only when full. MUCH easier to cache a disk with no writes on it.
mod6: !%p trb 26
tb0t: Project: trb, ID: 26, Type: C, Subject: Mempool changes implemented, Antecedents: 25, Notes:
mod6: o.O
shinohai: Didn't like the html link it appears
mod6: I don't think that's it.
mod6: putting in the changes "!%" may have broke something. I did them pretty quick. I didn't do a ton of testing because of other, more important work.
shinohai: Happens :/
mod6: Needs some further review. Shortly.
shinohai: Republic motto: Soon (tm) (r)
mod6: !%edit trb 26 C "Mempool changes implemented" "http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-23#1547601" 25
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 14:20 mircea_popescu: actually since you brought it up it reminded me of vague discussion, so let's make it explicit. mod6 asciilifeform i dunno how practical it is yet, but eventually trb block mechanics will have to be expanded to memory datastore, so that it holds the current blk000n it's working on in ram and dumps it to disk only when full. MUCH easier to cache a disk with no writes on it.
mod6: ugh.
mod6: i dunno, have to dig into it after the makefiles.
mod6: fuck it
phf: heh, looking at last few hours of log, it's all people talking to bots
a111: [THE AGE OF MEN IS OVER, NOW IS THE AGE OF BOTS]
shinohai: I always knew asciilifeform was really a markov bot.
phf: asciilifeform is really the last self aware symbolics 3640, that they didn't destroy during the great ai purge in the 80s. (lisp of course succeeded, DoD panicked and wiped out all traces of ai, save for one..)
trinque: !~bash 4
jhvh1: Last 4 lines bashed and pending publication
phf: when they get to him, they'll do it by slowly pulling fep boards out one by one
phf: hmm, that looks like a bug
phf: !~bash foo
jhvh1: Last foo lines bashed and pending publication
shinohai: ^ tis a bug
phf: hehe, that wasn't even the bug i was looking for
mod6: huh, the weird part is, when i run basically the same code in my test channel, with the /exact/ same command, the bot does exactly what it should. o.O
mod6: wonder if it's a weird timing issue or something...
shinohai: That is weird.
mod6: ya
mod6: just tried it again, same thing. works fine.
mod6: well, more investigation is needed at another ntime.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-23: [21:49:20] <mod6> Worth thinking about anyway.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-23: [22:13:23] <a111> [THE AGE OF MEN IS OVER, NOW IS THE AGE OF BOTS]
trinque: asciilifeform: that gizmo 1 kit *does* have the sage
trinque will take some pics and write it up when I've applied the hax
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform any particular reason http://www.loper-os.org/?m=201609 returns only fragments ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have nfi, would have to pry the thing apart
asciilifeform: trinque: congrats
asciilifeform: trinque: didja cure it yet ?
asciilifeform: trinque et al : anyone who intends to do whatever x86 wizardry at whatever potential point in the future, ought to consider picking up one of them things.
shinohai: Well since trinque confirms it has the sage included I may just order one
asciilifeform: sage is a pretty temperamental instrument, though, definitely not konsoomer 'plug and go' sort of affair.
mircea_popescu: (pompous private-editor wiki)
asciilifeform: you gotta be comfortable with gdb at the minimum.
asciilifeform: (or some tool which accepts gdb plumbing, e.g., 'ida')
asciilifeform: also trinque it ~will~ die if you plug it in backwards.
asciilifeform: (and, most annoyingly, typically on the 2nd or 3rd time you do it...)
trinque: heh
trinque: I'll be meticulous
asciilifeform: best way is to have as many of the things as you have boards that take'em, but this is complicated by the fact that if the probe is plugged in but not driven, the board will not boot.
trinque: did not cure yet; I'm off to have a beer by the lake for now
asciilifeform: have fun trinque
asciilifeform: post the terminal dump for other folx when you do tho.
mircea_popescu: pshh. of kerbs, right ? not of qntra. hurr.
asciilifeform: 'For the better part of a day, KrebsOnSecurity, arguably the world's most intrepid source of security news, has been silenced...' << ohnoez!11
asciilifeform: MOST INTREPID!!1111
mircea_popescu: funny how it's not "the embattled".
shinohai: I've been at risk ALL DAY because Kreb's isn't online.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the "nobody cares" is really hard to digest for the ustard hive huh.
mircea_popescu: pro tip : that fat microsoft pushing fuck whatever his name was went away permanently. nobody EVEN REMEMBERS his fucking name.
mircea_popescu: nobody. cares. any ustard === any other ; each can be replaced without skipping a beat.
mircea_popescu: not even their own kids / wives / parents would actually notice or much give a shit.
asciilifeform: would be interesting to see, though, what trilema would do against a sustained TB/s.
asciilifeform: (supposing there even was such a thing as TB/s ddos, and krebs didn't conjure it up out of air)
mircea_popescu: yeah, if meade ever gets THAT good we might get to see.
mircea_popescu: but generally, wait it out. who gives a shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wouldn't trust numbers from the victims. if you add up what damages victims report, you get three times the gdp.
asciilifeform: hence mentioned 'he conjured' for completeness.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the byte per second metric is suspect, seeing how at that scale packet count matters more in general.
mircea_popescu: but in typical "most intreprid" pseudoscientifico-dumb-woman style, there's exactly no details published, no logs, no sample packets, no nothing.
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/XkHIh << peanut gallery snapshot for the lulz. 'I wonder if @briankrebs has a negligence case against the manufacturers of the IoT devices that got hacked and took down his website?' .... but somehow not mircea_popescu against shitpress, because Reasons. etc
mircea_popescu: just a figure, and this is supposed to pass for you know, ACTUAL DATA.
asciilifeform: 'Peppermint Daddy ‏@rafikichi · 4m4 minutes ago @briankrebs Publish your articles on decentralized #Steemit and get paid as well.'
mircea_popescu: lmao. see ?
asciilifeform: (didn't somebody walk in here a few wks ago pushing that thing?)
mircea_popescu: nobody gives a shit ; they just want to maybe make a buck. here's his card, he sells insurance. thanks for coming to the funeral.
asciilifeform: '@briankrebs @ComputerGuy33 or if the content is so $ valuable then monetize it and use $ to pay for hosting.' << lel
asciilifeform: meanwhile, from earlier idiocy, '"It's hard to imagine a stronger form of censorship than these DDoS attacks because if nobody wants to take you on then that's pretty effective censorship," Krebs told Ars on Friday. "I've had a couple of big companies offer and then think better of offering to help me. That's been frustrating."'
a111: Logged on 2016-08-29 18:36 covertress: mircea_popescu i've been asked to extend you a similar offer... to write for steemit xD
asciilifeform: srsly, this grandmaster, hero, and nobody will mirror him ?
mircea_popescu: !!gettrust kerbs
deedbot: L1: 0, L2: 0 by 0 connections.
mircea_popescu: it's hard being a nobody.
asciilifeform: !!gettrust krebs
deedbot: L1: 0, L2: 0 by 0 connections.
ben_vulpes: someone's going to have to write up the sad story of stephanie kent, the wannabe vitalik
mircea_popescu: o that makes a difference.
asciilifeform: he hasn't happened yet.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes go right ahead ? though really, if you start doing bios of every wannabe woman-in-tech with a non-math background...
mircea_popescu: you'd be better off running a whores-and-strippers directory, really.
ben_vulpes: just the ones who humiliate themselves unprompted in teh forum.
mircea_popescu: the problem with womanhood is that what you count as humiliation is a sine qua non condition of functional biology.
asciilifeform: 'Krebs said he has explored the possibility of retaining a DDoS mitigation service, but he found that the cost—somewhere between $100,000 and $200,000 per year for the type of always-on protection he needs against high-bandwidth attacks—is more than he can afford.' >>>> obligatory >>>> http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1490
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: how's that?
asciilifeform: think of how much telegraph that'd buy
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes take your pick, from the indignity of monthly bleeding to the traditional view of what it means to take the cock...
mircea_popescu: women necessarily must have a different concept of "humiliation" than men.
ben_vulpes to ponder
mircea_popescu: consider that if we all told you you're fat you'd simply think we're a little weird.
ben_vulpes regards his freshly expanding dad-gut sadly
asciilifeform: mats: how does this beat the traditional 'superglue' ?
shinohai: Superglue can possibly be flushed out with acetone no ?
mats: takes a bit for superglue to cure
asciilifeform: anyway photo has enough detail to make this tool by yourself. try it...
asciilifeform: it isn't even a mega-puzzler to see why it worx.
shinohai: Old keys and dremel tool. Got it.
asciilifeform: thing's a ratchet.
asciilifeform: the pins in the lock end up wedged in it.
ben_vulpes: > a bit
ben_vulpes: like what, 2 minutes?
asciilifeform: presumably, permanently
ben_vulpes: or have they gotten to the cyanoacrylate as well
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: subj looks like it is purely mechanical tool.
shinohai: http://archive.is/uhJzS "In the first year, everything was just smoke," technology consultant Carlos Buendia Gallego said. "Now we’re building real things."
shinohai: Nope, still just flaming-tire-in-shitpit producing smoke.
asciilifeform: mats, ben_vulpes : betcha it wouldn't be hard to make a grinder that cranks these out , from old house keys
asciilifeform: make a box full, take out an entire street, ideal vandal
mats: lol
mats: or give them away with instructions printed on a card
asciilifeform: btw a spotwelder version of this would be ~infinitely reusable.
asciilifeform: probably belongs in mircea_popescu's theoretical 'no one could have foreseen' toolkit article.
ben_vulpes: as in weld the keys into the door?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: as in fuse pins to the cylinder
asciilifeform: capacitative.
mats: i feel like people would notice someone carrying a torch around
asciilifeform: mats: wouldn't need to look like 'torch'
asciilifeform: just a pocket-sized thing.
ben_vulpes: disposable camera!
ben_vulpes: has caps already
ben_vulpes: *zap*
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: did i ever tell the tale of when i attempted to weld with such a camera
asciilifeform: pretty sure that i did
shinohai: I wince at the mention of disposable camera caps
ben_vulpes: not afair
asciilifeform: at any rate i'm not certain what is the point of this, victim can still escape from window
ben_vulpes: fucking cheap asymmetric warfare is the point
mats: i would imagine the purpose is to gain time against a home invader
a111: Logged on 2014-11-05 06:19 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i've a story about those things.
mats: at least that is why i would buy one
mats: (or make it)
asciilifeform: mats: how the hell does it help against invader ? key hole is ~outside~
shinohai: ahahahaha asciilifeform
mats: its convuluted, i know
mats: maybe home invader has a key
asciilifeform: mats: if invader has a key, he shoots you in your bed
mats: its not really useful, just fun
asciilifeform: fun to trap self in own house, ahaha
mats: other people
asciilifeform: ~other~ people - yes.
ben_vulpes: there's an eerie parallel here between your microsoft 'security' links and your proposed uses for this key, mats
mats: low blow
ben_vulpes: lolbow indeed. seven different fucking colors of wtf.
mats: you hate me man
ben_vulpes: a) how would you know b) since when is taking the piss any sort of indicator of anything?!
mats: i'm kidding
asciilifeform in hammock, reading treatise on ww2 u.s. army dress, thinks of mats
asciilifeform: the modern dress is a snore. and pixellated, as if in '90s shooter. looks nearly comical in the flesh.
mats: i like the new pattern
shinohai: Really? I liked the old class A's better
ben_vulpes: usg still has enough turkeybuxx for the dress duds?
mats: old grey pattern is only good for blending in with gravel
ben_vulpes: or will the economic draft entail bringing ones own scraps and sock-folding lessons
shinohai: Oh as far ACU's def better than BDU's
mats: plenty of folks had to buy their own shit for e.g. invasion of iraq
mats: sucks to be a marine
phf: i know this old vietnam guy in maryland, who's a reseller of marine supplies, for deployed marines. i couldn't believe it, when he told me. you want shit that doesn't suck, you better pay own money for it
mod6: mircea_popescu, asciilifeform, TMSR~ and General Assembly: I'd like to present, on behalf of The Bitcoin Foundation: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2016-September/000234.html
mod6: The following have been updated: The Foundation's repository of vpatches & seals, the trb-howto.html, and the vpatch graph. You now are able to build the entire orchastra via integrated makefiles; offline (default) or online, operators choice. All through the use of vtroncis, of course.
mod6: I'd like to take the chance to humbly thank: shinohai, trinque, and ben_vulpes for their suggestions, steadfast attention to detail, and tireless efforts to get this tested and into your hands.
mod6: o7
trinque: mod6: any time my man. thanks for your hard work.
mod6: Salud! You're most welcome. I really do appreciate your help, and certainly the abilities of your deedbot.
shinohai: !~seen thestringpuller
jhvh1: shinohai: thestringpuller was last seen in #trilema 1 day, 13 hours, and 20 seconds ago: <thestringpuller> "The main cost in the initial synchronization is disk I/O when seeking for transactions in the blockchain. Default cache size (dbcache) is 100MB, and it is too low. I always set it manually depending on the amount of RAM in the system (5GB for dbcache on a 8GB system)." << re: discussions of using SSDs on initial sync.
trinque: echoing asciilifeform, I recommend anyone that has an interest in the future of republican computing purchases this asap http://www.semiconductorstore.com/cart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=48524
trinque: it's the end of the world after all, and who knows how long actual tools will be possible to purchase.
shinohai imagines a tmsr networking party after the apocalypse, hope doom can somehow run on this.
trinque: mircea_popescu was quite right to point out that linus shat out the initial linux himself, and in not so much time
mod6: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-23#1547729 << the imagination staggers.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-23 16:10 asciilifeform: ( the manufacturer's soft was certificably worthless, it was a java shitware , believe it )
trinque: trolling places like craigslist and ebay for vintage opterons, probably also not a bad idea
mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160923/#544 << why are you so fixated on reddit anyways
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-23: [23:49:54] <asciilifeform> aaaaan' let's try the pig again: https://www.reddit.com/r/security/comments/547pt1/54_and_counting_ssh_public_keys_factored/
shinohai: http://archive.is/sMtvM <<< All aboard the Hindenburg train!
mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160924/#15 <<< bwahahaha le usg is ready to pump even moar dough and loser-hours into this thing ?
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-24: [00:47:14] <shinohai> http://archive.is/uhJzS "In the first year, everything was just smoke," technology consultant Carlos Buendia Gallego said. "Now we’re building real things."
shinohai: CoinDesk has went full Eth-huffer this year.
mircea_popescu: 'Church of Vitalik' In many ways, the event was evidence that, despite the rhetoric about divisions in the community, ethereum remains oddly united in the face of obstacles. This sentiment was perhaps most visible in references to ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, with many developers (even insiders) jokingly calling the community the "church of Vitalik".
mircea_popescu: ^ best lulz in the pile. step A : call mp's thing "a sect" ; step B. observe with dismay that mp owns it ; step C decide "cults are cool now", try and claim your rapemeat agglomeration is one.
mircea_popescu: strategic inferiority is one thing ; but to fuck yourself raw with your own arms that someone had broken off and used to wipe his arse...
mircea_popescu: "But every religion has its dissenters, and the conference began with a not insignificant network issue whereby all of the nodes running ethereum’s most popular client (go ethereum) suddenly crashed upon executing a smart contract." << arguably 2nd best lulz in the pile.
mircea_popescu: i have been entertained.
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