mircea_popescu: "By the end of April, the couple was completely broke, unemployed, and effectively exiled from a community they had given up everything to join. Jerad reached out to some of the other local voices in the movement, but found that most such activists were big on words, minimal on action, and did little more than post anti-government pictures and rants on the Internet."

mircea_popescu: mod6 so then what's a seal ?

mircea_popescu: so atm, as a working theory : the correct working of the nosuchdns script would be a) look in sigils directory and build list of sigils ; b) look in repository (where ?) for what's signed by the sigils ; c) create a sort -u list of the aformenentioned and dump it in hosts as > ratrher thjan >> ?

mircea_popescu: so that people can correctly develop on top of a shared core

mircea_popescu: Ironically, the Sovereign movement is made up of highly paranoid people who tend to believe that every violent act in recent history is a “false flag” operation set in motion by the evil government, so the odds of such an event triggering a Revolution are quite slim."

mircea_popescu: "A few take it one step further by initiating violence in hopes of acting as a catalyst for this war. Timothy McVeigh’s goals, for example, weren’t just to murder 168 people, bring down a symbolic building, and punish the government for its role in the standoffs at Waco and Ruby Ridge. He wanted to make his mark in history by providing the Patriot movement with the spark that would light the fires of revolution.

mircea_popescu: "Million Mask March: Many younger sovereigns are fascinated with ideas of a youth revolution, anarchy, and hacktivism (a portmanteau of hack and activism,) even though the majority of them are not particularly computer savvy. They often call themselves Anonymous and wear the mask and costume of the central character in the movie V for Vendetta."

mircea_popescu: (incidentally - if anyone here remembers the ancient discussion re naming services, which is how qntra ended up with that name at least in part - this system would be a necessarily optimal solution to that problem. it'd guarantee you need the minimum possible stroke count to get your desired destination.

mircea_popescu: but he has a point, mod6 and ascii_butugychag : we should prolly document v.

mircea_popescu: jurov concept from v, it keeps a sigil directory.

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the thing is, the meta-game is incredibly rich and very rewarding. usually the problem with making a game, as an enthusiast, is that fucking hell you know it so it's at best half as fun.

mircea_popescu: jurov im thinking more like a rotor script to build a local hosts out of, maybe, deedbotted things ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: anyway, the first accounts are from early june, so "nigh on a year" ain'\t really fair. half year.

mircea_popescu: eulora record is actually a guy with 13919282 connecterd time.

mircea_popescu: not so far. ironically... if you go by a timeplay metric, december saw 64722 player-hours, which is seriously more than what MOST games see.

mircea_popescu: of course, no major player quit yet. that's usually a principal source of excess goods

mircea_popescu: considering it's been played for nigh on a year and people don't even know wtf those rules even are...

mircea_popescu: one of the most encouraging things about eulora's economy that i see myself is - i keep a running total of player cash and of player assets. and the latter has been a monotonously increasing function ever since forever. the appetite for materials seems outright insatiable.

mircea_popescu: aha. there's a buncha people that can prolly halp if you get a specific error.

mircea_popescu: and spit out a usable binary within half an hour.

mircea_popescu: in any case, http://www.deathandtaxes.com/?p=58 << shot a cop!

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-01-2016#1366164 <<< if they do it right after a run of bootleg liquour, it also disinfects! ☝︎

mircea_popescu: it also introduces a kinda dubious but possibly useful ddos protector, in the sense that one can run different ips for the meatriver and for the wotdns.

mircea_popescu: hey panzers... we actually game to doing this ? it really dun cost much and it does resolve an actual problem, provide a serious incentive to participate, makes nice media headlines... low hanging fruit.

mircea_popescu: and incidentally, how the dns was actually designed to be used. the current centralist windowstardian webstupidity only works the way it works because of the userbase. the design is fine, but "everyone"| and "has come to expect" and bullshit like that make people pretend like a suboptimal local maximum is relevant to the graph. well... it ain't.

mircea_popescu: in fact, v-powered /etc/hosts may even be a serious improvement over the current situation.

mircea_popescu: otherwise, a bitcoin vanity address with five specified letters (out of the whole set) takes a day.

mircea_popescu: naming is by its nature this : that there will be a group in power, allocating the names, and everyone else can go suck it. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: there is no other way to design a naming system.

mircea_popescu: heck, there was a bitcoin-based thing that kinda worked on that premise. namecoin.

mircea_popescu: but in point of fact you can run a dns server right now, and tell everyone to use it, and for everyone who does use it... your version of the ns will be visible.

mircea_popescu: obviously EVERY naming system will work exactly like the dns, or like the wot works : either be at the table, or be a child looking for parents.

mircea_popescu: for one thing, if half a mil is " you can just forget about that right away." to you, then on what the fuck is your expectation to participate in the workings of society based ?!

mircea_popescu: originally i registered the domain with namecheap ; originally namecheap was a great registrar. meanwhile they went to utter shit, the story is both on trilema an' in the logs.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-01-2016#1366096 << no, i moved it a few weeks ago. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: i want domain names like i want a wide selection of hats.

mircea_popescu: anyway, judging by the [Ticket#2015121310000406] header it'd seem they sat on this for almost a month - from dec 13 to jan 9th. but whatevers, i was just looking for a pretext to throw the whole dns bullshit away anyway.

mircea_popescu: from what intel reports they had a cowboy period ~in2014 when they stole a bunch of domains, got slapped with some suits, lost a coupla worth their income for the decade and settled right the fuck down.