asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: may have been 'bus pirate'

asciilifeform: in addition to whatever else.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i half-expect to hand out otp's at the next meat gathering.

asciilifeform: and try catching 1,001 !

asciilifeform: well yes, deliberately picked it as example of humbly-clever opponent

asciilifeform: if anyone knew how to make 'npc rat' as clever as actual meat rat, games with robo-npc would be considerably more interesting !

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand (and this is quite certainly not an expert view) most mmporg tried to use robotic 'npc' to fill this eco niche. ☟︎

asciilifeform: $up abrr

asciilifeform: and know how it ends.

asciilifeform: i never had one, only seen picture.

asciilifeform: it is instructive, to a kid

asciilifeform: (ever have toy 'biosphere globe' ?)

asciilifeform can picture it.

asciilifeform: just as in life.

asciilifeform: and there, evidently, even must be folk who can do nothing but to take a shit.

asciilifeform: just like in life.

asciilifeform: in mircea_popescu's movie - turns out - yes, everyone must.

asciilifeform: this is quite reminiscent of ~every little kid's question to father about movies, 'how come nobody shits'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's the gain of having the 9 around ? makes the fella with the 250 feel extra-31333337 ?

asciilifeform: and floors to mop.

asciilifeform: shinohai: real life has dishes to wash.

asciilifeform: count me as naive, but i gotta ask

asciilifeform: of what use is brute labour in a sim world ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how do you stand the barn folk? what do they contribute to your game world ?

asciilifeform: ah yes.

asciilifeform digs in log

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ah, i had this notion that it was discounted recently.

asciilifeform: abrr: are you here as part of mircea_popescu's 'pay for tits' program ?

asciilifeform: then yes.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2014-08-27#811154 << mircea_popescu see also. ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'show me table of chicks ranked by kegel pressure in newton-metres'

asciilifeform: asker presumably wanted a crib sheet. i.e. benchmark.

asciilifeform: what did mircea_popescu think it was ?

asciilifeform: 'FEMLISP is a Common Lisp framework for solving partial differential equations with the help of the finite element method (FEM).'

asciilifeform: http://www.femlisp.org << ?

asciilifeform: $up abrr

asciilifeform: not blindfolding of self.

asciilifeform: ecological hygiene is the Right Thing.

asciilifeform: i strongly dislike client-side filters for anything.

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: phf: this is quite spiffy, but not yet enough to make me use erc.

asciilifeform: symmetric ciphers have period, just like any other prng, nyooz at 11.

asciilifeform: Sonnentanz: hello?

asciilifeform: $up Sonnentanz

asciilifeform: ... apparently includes DES.

asciilifeform: 'that is not dead which can eternal lie' (tm) (r)

asciilifeform: er in OpenVPN, and Triple-DES is supported by nearly all HTTPS web servers, and currently used for roughly 1-2% of HTTPS connections between mainstream browsers and web servers.'

asciilifeform: 'It is well-known in the cryptographic community that a short block size makes a block cipher vulnerable to birthday attacks, even if the are no cryptographic attacks against the block cipher itself. We observe that such attacks have now become practical for the common usage of 64-bit block ciphers in popular protocols like TLS and OpenVPN. Still, such ciphers are widely enabled on the Internet. Blowfish is currently the default ciph

asciilifeform: https://sweet32.info << moar crypto lulz.

asciilifeform: and largely full of arbitrary rubbish.

asciilifeform: trinque: more importantly, a precise description of why 'i stored x, y, z, and binary is now B ~BECAUSE~...' would be book-length.

asciilifeform: some idiocies are powerful attractors.

asciilifeform: ditto binary turds silently morphing, storing state.

asciilifeform: because it stinks, ergo CLEARLY POWERFUL

asciilifeform: hey, think of how often shamanic pharmacopeia involves... shit.

asciilifeform: 'keychains' are a work of evil.

asciilifeform: (a sane pgptron would operate ONLY on what state is given on the command line !)

asciilifeform: and is the only way to get ~sane behaviour out of gpg.

asciilifeform: phf: it is how my vtron worked.

asciilifeform is a reformed ex-gpg2 user, and had no conversion work to do when moved

asciilifeform: incidentally i dun recall gpg2 having own keyring format.

asciilifeform: dunno that this question has an answer.

asciilifeform: *pit

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/tS7S2 << meanwhile in the genius pi;t

asciilifeform: ^ 'you will be raped with plenty of lubrication, will hardly notice!'

asciilifeform: format the first time that they run GnuPG modern but, again, the transition is transparent enough that it is not likely to be noticed.'

asciilifeform: 'For end users, the switch to the new branch will likely only be noticeable in a few situations—and perhaps only if one is looking carefully. For instance, the gpg-agent process will prompt the user for the passphrase to unlock a key, rather than the gpg process, but the workflow itself will not be altered otherwise. Users who have existing keyrings on their machines will have those keyrings automatically updated to the new storage

asciilifeform: MODERN!111111

asciilifeform: ^ notably, aug. the 10th

asciilifeform: 'Debian to shift to a modern GnuPG'

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu https://lwn.net/Articles/696561 << moar fruit from the nailgunned-murdock tree

asciilifeform: (iirc it featured 5 or 6 'reasons' for ending up as one)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: would you say 'name of the rose' is a reasonable portrait of 'who monks' ?

asciilifeform: historically i have a reasonably detailed picture.

asciilifeform has intel gap wide enough to drive a train into, re who becomes monk ~today~

asciilifeform: tru!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the only clear thing it means is 'not monk, did not take vows of celibacy'

asciilifeform: (though, interestingly, modern epidemiologists do not all agree that we know today what leprosy was!11)

asciilifeform: 'leprosy' is also a symbol, and has a meaning.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu never met such ?

asciilifeform: 'invcel'.

asciilifeform: i will have to introduce an americanism,

asciilifeform: virgin, on reflection, is wrong word here.

asciilifeform: sorta how we know that folks who cannot tie own shoes, are quite similar.

asciilifeform: but there is a great deal of similarity between ~all 40+ y.o. male virgins

asciilifeform: not going from the declared 'i am'-s, but from the record of soulless life.

asciilifeform: that includes harris & klebold, but not, say, capt. aguilera (of 'problem in the sewers' spanish civil war fame) who killed his family

asciilifeform: the rodgers, having been taught rudimentary literacy, left sufficient record to establish themselves as a meaningful equivalence class

asciilifeform: postal, in the true rodgerian, or harris&klebold-ian, sense, is specifically 'supernumerary child' thinning the biomass.

asciilifeform: it is, (and i think the correct engl. criminalistic term) 'a domestic'.

asciilifeform: but 'grandfather' scenario is not a postal.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from sov criminalistic records, the typical picture is 'grandfather kills family with axe', or 'mother drowns children', but no, afaik, 'village idiot axes dozen in town hall'

asciilifeform: the 'destructive' exists only in the parent's eyes

asciilifeform: so 'loose cannon'

asciilifeform: diana_coman: statistical effect - most of the objects in your house that the 2yo could break, are not kept for this purpose

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has article where 'supernumerary children who failed to find their infant graves'

asciilifeform: etc

asciilifeform: others - 15.

asciilifeform: for some folks, it is at age 5.

asciilifeform: question is when.