asciilifeform: without these 'stones', there is no one who is talking.
asciilifeform: granted i can easily see how danielpbarron might have come upon his position, given as he practices a religion based on stuffing words into the mouth of long-dead fella
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: please paint a picture for us, of the danger
asciilifeform: when i sign phf's patch, i have 'posrated' the patch.
asciilifeform: a signed rating is a correct use of the robot. in fact vtronics consists entirely of this type of thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's original 'gossiptronic' argument -- and i suppose he can elaborate when he wakes up -- was that a signature is a kind of autonomous and indestructible truth-telling robot, that can be of use to the enemy if one is not careful about when you create it and out of what
asciilifeform: and if you are dumb enough not to notice that you are in the cave, and relied on unsigned ratings, he can now also show you wholly-fictitious ones.
asciilifeform: yes, enemy can lock you in a cave and show you old ratings until you die of old age
asciilifeform: trinque: ratings are one of the very few things for which the case for signature is screamingly clear
asciilifeform: the wot is made of what? not of ratings ?
asciilifeform: when mircea_popescu wrote the piece where 'sex -- with people, business -- with keys' - what does danielpbarron suppose he meant ?☟︎
asciilifeform: and the more unsigned payload one relies upon, the more so you live in the bottle.
asciilifeform: trinque: that is the weak point, precisely
asciilifeform: danielpbarron's argument, if i understand it, is that folx are doomed to have to ask, e.g., mircea_popescu directly, for mircea_popescu's ratings, because otherwise enemy can win against, e.g., danielpbarron, by locking him inside a bottle where mircea_popescu's ancient and long-revoked rating of magicaltux still stands because signed ??
asciilifeform: because the only reasonably rigid 'nail' to nail it down with is blockhash
asciilifeform: i dun see the 'win' from encouraging people to byzantiate and twofaced lie and give different answer to X and to Y regarding how they rate Z.☟︎
asciilifeform: where 'we will do same retarded Empire thing but CHEAPER, EFFICIENT' because 'private'
asciilifeform: they are in the gorbachev 'kooperativ' phase☟︎
asciilifeform: 'spacex' is every bit as usg as nasa, but is part of the 2000s 'lean usg', if you will, concept; sorta like thiel's palantir is 'lean nsa'
asciilifeform: on dirigible - yet moar. and on mars - more still.
asciilifeform: aha, in the 'black schools' there is neverending fight, like in a prison, and even bouncers to pry apart especially eager folk. and everyone with 'room temperature iq' however you measure it, also☟︎
asciilifeform: i thought that all children played like this...☟︎
asciilifeform: it beats the shit out of 'gimp' et al in some respects
asciilifeform occasionally STILL runs emulated 'deluxepaint'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: california may have sucked , but apparently evil martians put shockley and fairchild there as a joke upon us earthlings , to see 'what if idiot farmer wins lottery'
asciilifeform: i still wonder how come nobody, afaik, ever even once sold rng where the debiaser and analogue halves came apart.
asciilifeform pictures a dildonic analogue end for FUCKGOATS
asciilifeform: to take example, if mircea_popescu generates keys using cuntmusculature noise, using dildonic myographs, this is bulletproof UNTIL enemy finds out and sends specially-trained pulsator gurls to long-game infiltrate harem etc.
asciilifeform: the difficulty comes when you wish to make one that remains cryptologically acceptable when it becomes a mass-produced and published product.
asciilifeform: though i may have explained this before, long ago in the l0gz, it is NOT difficult to make a quite acceptable trng
asciilifeform: thing interferes with itself quite painfully
asciilifeform: a quite separate problem, and anyone who ACTUALLY owns the rtlsdr unit knows of it, is the usb
asciilifeform: nor is it quite known wtf is inside the chip
asciilifeform: that nobody has read, or ever will read,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: problem is that the thing hangs on a megatonne of open Sores shitware that is >trb-sized
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: problem is not that you cannot turn a radio-in-faraday-cage into a baroque version of FUCKGOATS
asciilifeform: world's cheapest 40MHz-2GHz receiver (with terrible snr, but what can you do)
asciilifeform: it was ultra-popular at one time, and remains useful 'poor man's sigint' tool
