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mircea_popescu: "what do small children and
technical men have in common ?" "they're not scholars" "oh."
mircea_popescu: so i just went "wtf,
there's no mention of
this site in
the logs" and it
turns out
that... yes
there is, you gave it
to me last year. lol.
mircea_popescu: anyone at "inventions bureau" can confirm --
there's a profile of
technical employee matching
type of commonly-seen "invention"
mircea_popescu: it's what i'd call "a
telegraphist's intuition".
there are
these
things
that are particularily irksome/obvious
to
technical men (ie, not very intelligent) and small children.
mircea_popescu: of [preselected] idiots is a major, if not
the principal source of discovery ; something i know from personal experience for my own needs, if
the
theory weren't enough.)
mircea_popescu: (as it happens here --
the year being 1991 lubby was still a decade away, and fountain codes poorly understood, so a honest mind might very well have ended up predating lubby
through
the exercise of
trying
to make a decent answer for
this particular idiot. which process is exactly why "universities" exist in
the first place, and
teaching all-but-inescapable for researchers : it
turns out
that answering
the malformed questions
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but what it's
truly interesting for, is just how disingenuous bernstein's "destruction" is. instead of a curt, and correct, "go study OTP and when you understand
that, move up
to lubby", he picks
the wrong end of
the mechanism
to improperly reduce
to a strawman.
this is
the risk of arguing with idiots -- if you're a normal person your social adjustment circuitry might entice you
to make idiotic arguments in response and
then
mircea_popescu: shit's fucking epic, an all-in-one manual on how
to not design crypto, how
to not communicate your design, how
to not
think and so on.
mircea_popescu: in which vein : people despising "inept schoolchildren" who scribble
their names on
trees/wet cement/whatever forget (by which euphemism we render "never had any fucking idea") who actually started
that
trend.
mircea_popescu: people despising "script kiddies" for
their varied ineptitudes (of which insecure pipes are a fine example) forgets
that
there was a
time when
the "best and brightest" founders-of-whatever did
the exact same.
mircea_popescu: zineKing
the problem here is an asymmetry, whereby we started ~where you are maybe 5 years ago, and
then knowledge progressed.
mircea_popescu: maybe if we're sexually intimate and respecter's underage, but even
then... only briefly and still maybe.
mircea_popescu: i do not intend
to be respected on
the basis of "i can't explain why" if at all possible.
zineKing: Not much might be written by him, but he is
the founder..
Therefore he should be respected, just like I believe
the founder of
The Most Serene Republic ought
to be respected.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well
there was
that
time he showed up at what-was-it-called mpex-wannabe and got some lunch money from amir
taaki neh.
mircea_popescu: zineKing how do you unpack
this "gnu" symbol in your own head ?
mircea_popescu: preferably one
that doesn't consist of "tried
to",
that's what my slavegirls say before getting
the whip
zineKing: He is
to be respected for his contributions
to compsci.
mircea_popescu: that's
the echafaudage
the whole "export controls" and "microsoft monopoly" and etc wrangling in
the 90s and 00s was supposed
to distract from : please choose between empire and
the socialst alternative!
mircea_popescu: it goes directly
to
the ugly
truth at
the bottom of
the alt-usg (referenced above as 'cryptographic komyoonity' but rms's goons
too [recently i've been seeing pompous "explanations" as
to how linux is not a
thing, it's just gnu os
that matters btw]) : pure socialism.
mircea_popescu: pretty sure i implement a variant every
third
time i do anything with pointers.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-29 21:37 mircea_popescu: phf and if you don't share with heathens, make it so !!shelf returns a pile encrypted
to my key for instance, nothing wrong with
that.
mircea_popescu: the great age of
the bb was cool because of
the bang. for instance : Path: gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!lll-winken!~~~~elroy.jpl.nasa.gov~~~!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!spam!ross
mircea_popescu: funny you should mention
that, because literally next line, From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
mircea_popescu: btw,
that's a decent string for his early bb posts, back when he was a dicklet at nyu.
mircea_popescu: nobody runs a bot on his home fucking computer ffs, why would
they
mircea_popescu: ANY bot can get past
this dumb shit, it's entirely constructed out of "and
then nobody has
their own box"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's possibly
the most ignorant and outright infuriating "security" i could
think of
mircea_popescu: anyway, for
the record : nothing in
the world fucking easier
than socat -u
tcp-1:113,fork system:./say_mp.sh
mircea_popescu: this is a reminder
to future self : plox negrate countercomplex / viznut on sight
ty.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, im not going
to read
the rest of
this, he can go fuck himself.
mircea_popescu: gimme a fucking break, freenode is >100k cucks logged in any one day and
there's still 0 content anywhere.
mircea_popescu: right, because a guy who wrote something interesting in 2014 (free and unpaid for google's ezine he abandoned a year later) is spreading pearls of wisdom about
there.
mircea_popescu: (who will just shuffle
through "apps" on
their "phone" until one "works")
mircea_popescu: mno, it's not
the equivalent of "to enter
this door, you must solve
this puzzle". it's
the equivalent of "to enter
this door, you must suck
this cock". so it allows strictly
the indiancandies
mircea_popescu: so it's not a minefield, it's a "must be
this short
to ride"
thing
mircea_popescu: no, see,
that was
the original
theory. but now
the "mines" are specifically
targetted
to
thinking people.
mircea_popescu: the guy you linked lives on an irc network
that does
the EXACT equivalent of "we dug up
this OBSCURE, DECADES OLD "you must run
this software
to play WoW" sorta nonsense.
mircea_popescu: (Closing Link: [unknown@b.clients.kiwiirc.com] (K-lined: BSP - Enable identd for access)) << now look into what
that is lmao.
mircea_popescu: check it fucking out, irc.cs.hut.fi also drops conns. i'm starting
to suspect
this is
the kiwi client rather
than
the servers. lessee here
mircea_popescu: because srsly, it's better being born a nigger in alabama
than being born a krautz in germany.
mircea_popescu: did anyone mention german folk are fucked in
the head for reason of being born
there yet ?
mircea_popescu: HOWEVER,
this has no bearing on how
things work irl. irl, bigger minefield, dumber villagers.
mircea_popescu: this is what i introduce as "the mmorpg fallacy"
to
the slavegirls. it's
true
that in mmorpgs some obscure vilage in
the fucking mountains has
the BEST fucking weapons + plasma armor and whatnot while
the imperial capital somehow makes do with cotton rags and sharpened sticks
to kill
the rats.
mircea_popescu: so far
they end up with a "holy shit brains are broken"
mircea_popescu: the "society" as a usg captive item,
that
thing ?
the ghetto jewry of 2017, about
to make pretty ash piles by 2040 ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in imperial narratives, "Parker Lewis Retweeted Vitalik Buterin
This about sums it up, @brian_armstrong retweeting @vitalikbuterin about how creating sound money (not controlled by government) is not a meaningful achievement for society,
the first
thing
that finally caused me
to
tweet"
BingoBoingo: Oh, one last item of importance. After 3 weeks of eating real food,
the smell of my farts started
to change.
BingoBoingo: And on
that note, I have a group
to escort
to
the feria.
BingoBoingo: (Turns out ivermectin is not a guarenteed kill, but it usually paralyses
them before
they make it back
to a hiding spot for easy disposal of
the pests)
BingoBoingo: And as
the year closes out
the problem of
the chinches de cama appears
to have been remedied
through my secret campaign of chemical warfare
BingoBoingo: Also
the hostel staff have
taken
to recommending me as a
tour guide/travel buddy
to single brasileras
traveling alone
BingoBoingo: In other news: breaking up is easy in a place where all
the pretty girls smile at you.
BingoBoingo: ISP monthly statement will be published
tomorrow following yet another rereading of
the accounting standards,
the lack of Qntra at
the close of
the year is a great disappointment.