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ascii_butugychag: your lightcone is all of the possible parts you have access to, and know of, at all, that you might build
a set with
ascii_butugychag: your 'set' is specifically what you have in
a particular v shot, usually this includes your conscious choices for that run
ascii_butugychag: i will half-seriously suggest that we refer to the ~set of patches, seals, keys~ that
a particular vtron is aware of at his particular point in spacetime, as... his lightcone
☟︎ mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 im not even sure we can depend on
a notion of "time" for v purposes. << oh yeah 'the last time' is probably
a bad choice of words, "the last alteration" or some such.
mircea_popescu: mod6 im not even sure we can depend on
a notion of "time" for v purposes.
ascii_butugychag: i don't object to the price, this is quite cheap for
a proper computer
ascii_butugychag: BingoBoingo: also gotta love how
a single-source, 'monoculture' box built by ibm, as far from wot as can possibly be imagined, is now somehow an appealing thing for 'phree' enthusiasts
mod6: and just to verify, we *do* want to be looking at the post-patch hash value correct? the 'b' as opposed to the '
a'.
BingoBoingo: In other news FSF certified the Talos Power8 workstation board. Looks like Stallman has
a new computer.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: The proper approach to sportsball hindbrains is considering them as
a sort of Nevada test site, but for optimizing performance of doorkickers. The trend of these hindbrains whooping the police suggests that the "Black Lives Matter" business is internalizing with the ordinance and the Trinity bomb is going feral.
BingoBoingo: Other more boring stories about this species of hindbrain beating police in confrontations this year are piling up, but this is starting to look like
a trend.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag> idiot stotting bulls are
a dime
a dozen. << they're
a dime
a dozen exactly like how microscope is
a dime
a dozen in post-usg us.
mats: give the fella
a chance to tell his buddies, have you beaten by plainclothesman in holding cell?
BingoBoingo: ascii_butugychag: I far more interesting news some dude in India was smote by
a meteor
PeterL: actually, it was
a leopard
ascii_butugychag: in other equally-interesting news, somebody somewhere prolly got mauled by
a rabid dog today.
ascii_butugychag: ianal, but afaik most usa subjurisdictions multiply penalty manyfold for damaging
a whole policeman
BingoBoingo: ascii_butugychag: But one of them cracked
a law enforcement skull
nubbins`: been playing with synthesizers
a lot lately
mircea_popescu: it would be fucking great. there's absolutely no reason for canada to pretend it's
a sort of europe anymore than there's reason for argentina to.
nubbins`: it'll be interesting watching canada regress to
a hunter-gatherher society over these next few decades
nubbins`: ascii_butugychag i was surprised to learn (
a) that this exists only in alberta and (b) that it was once so common that they came up with
a catchy name for it
nubbins`: well say in the meantime you razed the house and added
a viper-and-mercury pit
nubbins`: and now the gov is QQing because
a bunch of people are doing it
nubbins`: mircea_popescu alberta has
a peculiarity of law where one can walk away from one's mortgage, mail the keys to the bank, & not have any further liability
BingoBoingo: pretty sure December I set
a personal record for words. Then January set
a personal record for headlines.
BingoBoingo: #b-
a goes through its mostly epicurean stage. nubbins` drinks less, mircea_popescu eats less, BingoBoingo realizes he only binge drinks has to stop entirely
mircea_popescu: harem is
a fucking unbalanced construction. i should have
a small army around it so they could eat my pies and i could look on and be happy in my old age.
mircea_popescu: im stuck with
a bunch of women that all cook well and like to do it. and so i've recently discovered that eating less actually makes me feel better!
ascii_butugychag: (it was
a compendium of writings of
a sci.crypt usenet crackpot)
mircea_popescu: and if we know for
a fact you're alone, the advice is entirely correct.
ascii_butugychag: in the same way as 'don't cut open
a man's abdomen if you want him to live' is ~generally~ correct
mircea_popescu: writing own crypto [especially if done by the typically ustardian aloneman,
a la shaun bridges etc] is bound to crash in the local maxima problem discussed
a minute ago.
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: it is almost possible to catalogue the cockroaches typically infesting n00b heads - for instance, having
a set of 'too big to contemplate' steps, such as junking 'nacl' et al and writing own libs
mircea_popescu: on the contrary ;
a) make farts visible in the night ; b) maybe you acquire flight.
nubbins`: what
a lel. i wonder what /else/ they nabbed him with.
nubbins`:
a better man'd be worm food decades ago
mircea_popescu:
a bettrer man would have despaired when realising that he has no soul to rely on.
mircea_popescu:
a fifteen year old in what alf calls "orc" lands has at leastr
a coupla of friends.
ascii_butugychag: and in defense of mircea_popescu , the arithmetical boojum involved was
a subtle one, sorta like montyhall
mircea_popescu: nubbins` think about it for
a second : that man had no friends.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag see, bering the commander of
a glorious, victorious army unit does not protect one from dying in
a drunken bar brawl.
ascii_butugychag: but with the difference that one might, given
a miracle, find more ammo
mircea_popescu: the recent debias-otp-plaintext thing being
a splendid if amusing example in this exact line.
nubbins`: made
a buncha books. been brewing
a lotta beer
mircea_popescu: one day im going to meet these people in heaven, or else organise
a special safari to hell, and give them
a piece of my mind.
nubbins`: i need
a 3.5mm TRRS to 3x RCA cable
danielpbarron: i don't always archive links, but i had
a feeling someone would be asking about that noe
mircea_popescu: in parts the reddit-powered "infosec" "community" sounds
a lot more like some sort of clinically relevant entomophobia in imminent danger of taking the leap into delusional parasitosis.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some sillyness about how some derp prankcalled an unnamed silicon manufacturer, pretended to be
a secret agency so secret not even the name is known, asked for
a spec on an unspecified cpu packaging other than "it must be just like irl ones" and received
a 100k firm bid on the phone as long as he provides "his ip"
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2016 03:00:17; mircea_popescu: phf internet produces necessarily
a mixed bag. still, the guy correctly identified
a workable airgap scheme on his own, should count for something.
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2016 02:23:29; phf: for extra lulz paper includes proof of otp perfect secrecy taken from
a coursera cryptography course
BingoBoingo pretty sure it's
a shoop. Kim's kinda
a ham.
BingoBoingo: What. Preet got
a picture. I figured I needed to get
a picture for Kim when he tested the new bomb.
mircea_popescu: phf internet produces necessarily
a mixed bag. still, the guy correctly identified
a workable airgap scheme on his own, should count for something.
☟︎ phf: it is also filled with the kind of things that will give asciilifeform
a severe twitch: guy takes hardware rng, runs it on raspberry pi gpio, whiteness the result, and then xors in /dev/urandom. you know, for the kids!
phf: for extra lulz paper includes proof of otp perfect secrecy taken from
a coursera cryptography course
☟︎ phf: ;;later tell maqp on
a cursory inspection i couldn't figure out how the protocol decides between otp and cev, how those are identified on the wire, etc. is that up to the user?
maqp: The site uses nsa.gov as
a source. If you can disprove their claims, it should make quite
a scandal
mircea_popescu: tell you what, the best korea register has
a story about how that fatass what's his name runs the best fab in the world.
mircea_popescu: you understand the difference between
a gps beacon and some sort of tiny subvertor that'd fit inside an optodiode somehow ?
mircea_popescu: anyway : it'd be better, of course, if users made their own. but users don't make their own, for many reasons, chief among which that they're lazy. do you specifically not want to market
a product ?
mircea_popescu: we can't possibly have
a mature discussion about the silly in that dpaste.
maqp: Too bad we can't have
a mature discussion about this
maqp: Basically, LEDs and phototransistors might be secure against interdiction attacks, but the problem is finding
a properly functioning pair
maqp: It's
a complicated problem. Let me quote an expert on this
maqp: phf: Well, when you look at history of TLS, you'll notice that modes of operation are not obvious. My approach for TFC is first of it's kind (at least in FOSS world). My approach on
a-b is to see whether CIA-triad is fulfilled. If my peer can be tricked into sending messages to infiltrator / network attack that changes
a single public key etc. all security is lost
phf: maqp: there's
a number of existing cryptographic primitives that, depending on the fashions, are combined with each other in various obvious ways. we understand your approach, because it's obvious, and there similar existing attempts. you find our approach ~confusing~, maybe there's
a hidden point that you're missing.
a thread model that you're not quiet grokking.
mircea_popescu: yes, that's kinda the point of b-
a. it t-bones with standard * discourse so badly, as you put it.
maqp: If you're passionate about the project, I hope you dive into it, write
a paper on this and prove us wrong.
maqp: There is no way your system can defeat targeted SIGINT monitoring attack, where government drives within
a few hundred meters and collects signals emitted by your keyboard cable.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> heh anyways i just cracked xotika, picked
a random feed and whaddaya know the last frame of the bloomberg video that autoplayed itself is superimposed on this poor girl's face << Known bug on Chromium using OS X and Nvidia