asciilifeform: 'Why haven't you embraced Bitcoin to get away from the restrictions of the banks / credit card companies? - We used to accept bitcoins through Coinbase. They dropped us a year ago because we are a kinky site. No joke.'☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Let's say we move our servers to the newly formed country of Fetopia. The US, UK, Australia, Germany, etc. can still make it difficult for people within their countries' borders to access FetLife. I don't think we would do the community a favor by making FetLife harder to access.'
asciilifeform: 'Historically we've sided more with individual members needs, but what we've learned from recent events is that we need to start putting more weight on the safety of the community, FetLife, and the team behind FetLife - including my personal safety.' << most cowards have at least the virtue of stfu-ing
asciilifeform: wtf is the point of making umpteenth centralized arsebook.☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: wasn't the whole point of the thing 'like arsebook but UNCENSORED!11!!!!!!232323' ??
asciilifeform: 'Yes, it was mainly for FetLife's and my protection, and we had to act swiftly. One could easily argue that we didn't move swift enough and that I shouldn't even make this post because something in it might incriminate FetLife or me.' << lel☟︎
asciilifeform: in other lulz, http://archive.is/j41JR >> 'A group of at least seven protesters, apparently with Greenpeace, are scaling a crane in downtown Washington DC in protest at US President Donald Trump. ... the protesters unfurled a 35ft by 75ft banner reading “Resist,” 270ft above the ground. '
asciilifeform: the lulzy bit is that soft-warehouse (makers of subj, and one-time mega-monopoly, they made the only good lisp for msdos pc) was bought by ti and put in a hole, and cement poured.
asciilifeform: microshit's 'nt' case emboldened derps everywhere
asciilifeform: changed by adding other words to `Derive', nor by your belief that the word `derive' is an accurate description, using the correct terminology, of the purpose of the software. In pursuit of your academic research project, please rename your software to avoid using `Derive' or any other word that might cause a reasonable likelihood of confusion with `Derive''
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/DrIFT/original/History.html >> 'You asked whether naming your software `Haskell Derive' would be satisfactory, and you explained your reasoning for wishing to adopt that name. We believe that we understand your reasoning, but the critical point is that including `Derive' as part of your software's name in *any* manner is not permissible. That fact is not
asciilifeform: 'A failure in the data communications system of the US-made weapon system has been blamed. Lockheed Martin, based in Maryland, builds and maintains the missiles.'
asciilifeform: in other lulz, 'US urged Britain to keep Trident blunder secret. Obama administration ‘feared missile failure put American nuclear deterrent at risk’.'☟︎
asciilifeform: the hardware is so monumentally idiot that even ~emulator~ behaviour is nonstandardized, even between versions of same emulator.
asciilifeform: this is ~universal with crackpot x86 os btw.
asciilifeform: i have 3 versions of qemu here, all of'em end up with 'read error 9'.
asciilifeform: unrelatedly: in re the metal lisp thread: http://picolisp.com/wiki/?PilOS << i could not get this to boot. but it is ~exactly what i had in mind (i'd much prefer that it be with a scheme, rather than a crackpot dynamically-scoped 1970s lisp, but the idea is illustrative)
asciilifeform: iirc we had a thread here about ritual concessions to thieves, folx placing car keys where thief will find'em, etc
asciilifeform: so it is indeed 'designated burglar entrance'
asciilifeform: cheaper to replace a glass than to drywall a new wall.
asciilifeform: i always suspected that the glass doors are a kind of 'fuse'
asciilifeform: why these are built, i cannot say. i suppose americans believe that theft is part of the great circle of life, and burglars are also people, and Need to Eat, etc.
asciilifeform: for bonus penetrability, typical american dwelling also has ~massive~ glass door (often, double-width) in the rear.
asciilifeform: i don't build jets. but i do live deep behind enemy lines, and will have -- if lucky -- about 5 seconds of time to pull the pin when the door breaks down.
asciilifeform: which can indeed be a difference of 3 vs 1 sec.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well no, problem not solved, the pieces on the ground can easily have residue of key, if the zapper is mechanically damaged before it can finish zapping.
asciilifeform: hey i don't build fusion reactors either.
asciilifeform: where the thing is breaking apart in the air, and potentially on quick collision course with ground
asciilifeform: you want a zap that cannot be cancelled, even by mechanically separating the 'zapper' from the payload with explosive.
asciilifeform: or heat with chemical heater (as used in american army rations).
asciilifeform: ideal eraser is probably a 'belt and suspenders' approach, where the wire is pulled through neodymium magnet (with hand crank backup) but meanwhile a pancake magnet is lowered onto the spool (for rapid, though imperfect, erase, in case there is not time to wind the entire tape) and at the same time current is run through the steel wire, if a current source is available.
asciilifeform: (e.g., not setting your house on fire , in even of false alarm. and not requiring massive asbestos chest. etc)
asciilifeform: thermite already exists. but there are distinct advantages to non-pyrotechnic key zapping.
asciilifeform: (finishing touch on the otp subthread : the mega-virtue of steel wire vs magnetic tape, is that you can heat it to its curie point for rapid-zapping, without creating smoking, melted mess. so good emergency erase -- just put current through the spool.)
asciilifeform: when monkey can only throw shit -- he throws shit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey, it's what they picked for 'how to deal with pgp'
asciilifeform: demagnetize when it emerges from read head with that selfsame halbach magnet.
asciilifeform: even the humble steel wire recorder, ancestor of magnetophone, could easily come back as a practical thing.
asciilifeform: (there is no conceivable reason to put otp on expensive, non-disposable random-access disks, other than not having anything better)
asciilifeform: btw magnetic tape really shines in otp-land. it costs a penny a GB, and you can trivially write two tapes identically with same head (plugged into rng naturally), AND -- bonus -- can destroy it immediately when it comes out of read head.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'quantum communication' is golden toilet nonsense, for the cost of building the link, you can perma-sync a thousand years of OTP.
asciilifeform: i'll point out, largely for n00bz, that we do not in fact know whether breaking rsa is hard.
asciilifeform: and are quite content to fund random stabs in the dark, or even outright charlatans
asciilifeform: idiot rulers throwing $maxint at it, in hopes that somethig -- ANYTHING -- works
asciilifeform: but politically the situation has an obscenely close resemblance to alchemy
asciilifeform: as for 'how to even know whether it works', that one's easy. qc is strictly a wunderwaffen for breaking rsa. if it breaks rsa -- it worx. otherwise, not.
asciilifeform: it is as related as 12th century retort was related to turning lead to gold.
asciilifeform: nobody invents alchemy when there 'are no tools.' alchemies happen when you got the tools, but not the knowing-wtf-you-are-doing
