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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm not even asleep. just, by now, barely reading adlai, the stubborn anal childhood is not nearly as interesting as the subject imagines.
mircea_popescu: hm i could have sworn it was used before, "ideal bitcoin" ie the tmsr offering in the summer of forks. bitcoin v2.0, whatever
mircea_popescu: if we make the trb-i correct it should work like vtrons, multiple language implementations
mircea_popescu: but for eg trb work, +++ style is quite at home. it is c after all
mircea_popescu: i could see a convention where genesis specifies diff style.
mircea_popescu: and how am i going to apply patches ? there's no such thing as signature-equivalence.
mircea_popescu: i didn't bring up the fucking apocalypse to fix some tabs.
mircea_popescu: i do not wish to live in a world where people can make patches consisting of 512kb lines of a
☟︎ mircea_popescu: your diff must be so painful you ALSO negrate the author.
mircea_popescu: it is, yes. the moment it needs a fucking 85 state machine to interpret its meaning it is.
mircea_popescu: because "here's your binary blob" is not an acceptable answer.
mircea_popescu: not when it comes to clearsign, not when it comes to vpatches, never. text dude.
mircea_popescu: look, the in-band problem i can sympatize with, but the "let's thus turn text into blobs" i do not.
mircea_popescu: "valid ascii" != not-blob. base64 is also valid ascii. blob.
mircea_popescu: i don't want fucking "codepoints" in my life. take your /x855 and shove it, bejaysus.
mircea_popescu: ah the thing where you tried to put A BINARY BLOB through a PLAINTEXT!!!111 format and ended up having to base64 it ?
mircea_popescu: "we don't use in band but we have not well formed diffs which you can't tell"
mircea_popescu: if i go from "\\4hurrdurr" to "\\4urr" you'll say what, \\4\4 ?
mircea_popescu: i'll give it a look ; but sounds to me a lot like "rather than learn vim i'll try and make emacs adnotate"
mircea_popescu: perhaps the correct solution is for code to conform to the paradigm.
mircea_popescu: i do not wish to need to know how many octets is the blank lead of a new line
mircea_popescu: you put them in the new file. they show up in the patch
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes slowly moving towards literate code. here's a thought... why not put the comments straight into the patch ?
mircea_popescu: i'm not fucking learning an aminoacid matrix to be able to use diff i tell you that,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i mean in the "wtf did the differ do" human evaluation
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have nfi how php xors or if it even understands anything. implemented as ifs.
mircea_popescu: holy shit at some point will have to sit down and read something!
mircea_popescu: the complains. "oh, you gave pseudocode ? can you make it go step by step ? oh it has, can we see code ? oh is code, can it be different code ?"
mircea_popescu: "Because the R bit is 0, we flip it and decrease our position by 1 (but not below 0)"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform position increases by one each step, at the end of it.
mircea_popescu: calling it "state machine" is kind-of improper as i suppose the result also holds state. a cleaner separation may be advisable, but w/e.
mircea_popescu: basically it's made so it increases memory and cpu usage.
mircea_popescu: yes but since S is 1 bit long no transform takes place (1/2 is 0)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform does that make any sense / is it useful ?
mircea_popescu: pretty sure my implementation has a fence error somewhere because evident parity issues, but anyway. prototype.
mircea_popescu: this is just a mash-up together of elements to show how the concept works. better assemblage is probably possible.
mircea_popescu: i'm half tempted to just write it in php, and have it write out words instead of drawings.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah but fuck me, what am i going to do, php against imagemagick ? c++ and qt ? fuck.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the general idea above being : you take all the sane parts of working hash functions, and ditch the insanities. so - no magic numbers, inside boxes, as boxes count, etc. use modulo-arithmetic and iterators, and one long cipher box.
mircea_popescu: "give program, input and desired slide speed" "here's how it went . tick tick tock"
mircea_popescu: yeah how fucking hard can this be, just take the ast and paint me some squares holy hell.
mircea_popescu: anyone know of a code-to-gif compiler ? i have nfi how one's supposed to do cryptography without it.
mircea_popescu: i wish i had a way to program things in a visual manner, so i could obtain a GIF! animated! of what the algorithm is supposed to do.
mircea_popescu: im not sure the above notation is all that clear, but if any questions i'll gladly answer
mircea_popescu: last bit can in principle affect the whole damned ring.