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mircea_popescu: but the way which, whether it delegitimizes anything or not, nevertheless serves bitcoin, to do the switch, is by making sure that the proposed solution actually is
a good solution for the proposed problem. there's
a lengthy history of narrow, poorly tho9ught out, unreviewed and borderline nonsensical "solutions" that had to be reforged and then re-reforged, even 3-4-5 passes.
mircea_popescu: we had
a discussion about how bip 62 is not particularly controversial last spring iirc.
ascii_field: ftr, i do not believe that it has
a long-term future.
ascii_field: dunno how much sense this will make to
a nonplayer
ascii_field: jurov: if you recall, i began with
a backport of the orphan fix
ascii_field: if this is an actual flaw, it ought to be fixed in
a way which marginalizes and lowers into pederasty the phoundation, rather than legitimizes it.
mircea_popescu: in any case : the actual significance of this switch in crypto terms could benefit from
a review.
ascii_field: which afaik is harmless to anyone who isn't
a moron
ascii_field: nobody asked me, but letting the enemy spray his relevance-piss-pheromone on the thing is far more of
a nuisance than the existing malleability.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile righyt here, expert C in field p says something so outrageously stupid (and it's not just one thing - all his forays into finance and investing read like he's
a vocational school most likely to succeed from kharkov) in e that it's actually...endearing.
mircea_popescu: here's
a puzzling fact. in some cases, expert
A in field
a saying something stupid in field b not only turns me off on
A, but sometimes even makes me reevaluate his expertise of field
a.
mircea_popescu: "I'm putting myself on the record (not that I haven't
a dozen other times on this site):
ascii_field: anyway in usa it is
a very simple matter, as described by herr orlov: near-everybody there is 2 or 3 missed paycheques away from hobo-dom.
ascii_field: perhaps. but my mind boggles at the picture of
a hobo bush.
ascii_field: but can any (female) become
a 'crack whore' at will ?
ascii_field: the 'did not enjoy' feels more of
a stretch.
ascii_field: she described it in
a very peculiar and scarcely believable:
ascii_field: i had
a professor who confessed to having once been
a crack smoker
punkman: well surely smoking packs
a harder punch
punkman: it can be
a social gateway
mircea_popescu: at some point the argument was that pot is
a "gateway drug" for that matter.
a sort of kindled theory of chem addiction i guess.
mircea_popescu: ok, you've seen it, but chipping heroin is one thing ; cocaine as powder and as crack is
a rather different thing.
punkman: mircea_popescu: same with heroin, you start with
a sniff, then move on to smoking and finally iv
gabrielradio: i spend
a lot reading trilema, why not translate the ro articles while at it
mircea_popescu: "Ask
a 20 year crack addict when was the last time they used powder cocaine. Do they miss it? Are they in withdrawal? "But crack is cocaine." No, it isn't, or else they would be using both, wouldn't they? "But crack is more potent and addictive." Then why don't cocaine adicts move over to crack? "
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ben_vulpes: d'aww,
a newish client just sent us 3 boxes of fresh cookies
mircea_popescu: "I've never signed payroll, I never held
a paycheck, I've never seen the various small item salesmen visit the office on pay day nor have I ever asked for
a payday loan. Wider, and more importantly, I never worked against my will. Not even as
a kid, doing homework."
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: afaik it was
a su-only thing ?
mircea_popescu: they understandably don't wanna be on the hook for every fucktard with
a plane ticket.
ascii_field: ianal, but the implication is 'no jail if you come home, but don't expect supplies or rescue if you're in
a bind, or good pr'
punkman: it would be nice if we could at least have
a video library without remote code execution holes
mircea_popescu: yesterday i accidentallied
a router. it only took on the third stomp tho.
mircea_popescu: "Browsers without javascript aren't supported by Foswiki out of the box. We once decided to assume that nowadays everybody should have access to
a sufficiantly standard browser that implements javascript. Of course this was different 15 years ago when we still had to deal with IE6 and the like. But as almost all vendors constantly move forward in web standards. So we then decided to strip off the burden of having to su
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> Does ti have
a countdown timer? << and wires sticking out.
shinohai: I don't doubt that
a real FBI agent might say the same.
ascii_field: kakobrekla: hypothetical device in question is
a small sphere, the size of golf ball
kakobrekla: speaking of fish eye, i have
a 183 degrees lens buried somewhere
mircea_popescu: im not spending 50k in fisheye to be able to make
a ten cent report.
ascii_field: cameraball is
a hypothetical device consisting of sealed pyrex sphere with two fish-eye cameras inside. charged and addressed via induction coil. contains
a certain amount of eeprom, signs each frame with rsa key, which is zeroed if the glass is penetrated.
ascii_field: at any rate, the procedure i suggested is only half
a solution. because it merely helps to establish the fact of the betrayal ('caught man-sized figure moving near cabinet, power lost in 3 seconds'; 'chassis lost power for 10 minutes, moves three metres' etc)
mircea_popescu: as
a last ditch before going "fuck this shit, all our things are to be held on zombie computers"
mircea_popescu: basically, trying rto sound out
a sort of "b-
a best practices hardware server upbringing"
ascii_field: process, much as i am loathe to admit it, would have to involve an airplane and
a trip to some godforsaken pesthole.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: and to think, we could have carried on 'thinking we have
a server' if phuctor had found nothing.
mircea_popescu: seems
a little twisting the screw is in order. fine. how do we go about it ?
mircea_popescu: it turns out that this is not true : "commodified market" actually means that there is no market - you can either not have
a server and think you don't have
a server ; or else not have
a server and think you have
a server. those two, no third and sure as fuck no having servers.
mircea_popescu: so we decided more or less on
a lark to phuctor/s.nsa server. on the general expectation that hey, "commodified market" means you get stuff and it works and forget about it.
ascii_field: it is an exercise in approximating
a solution where no clean solution exists.
mircea_popescu: my browser is also
a very configurable animal, and the configuration mostly results in blank pages and "your site can't be used" emails.
ascii_field: (
a civilized setup will have rsa backing on both sides)
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 15:55:25; mircea_popescu: ematicians and the practitioners: an adversary can perform
a single enormous computation to “crack”
a particular prime, then easily break any individual connection that uses that prime."
mircea_popescu: in other b-
a news : world infrastructure is shit. in all respects, at every turn, everything.
assbot: The Philippines Is Still Pissed Off That Canada Is Using It as
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assbot: Logged on 30-01-2015 17:27:51; mircea_popescu: oo-weak-to-try rapists want to be anonymous. Smart women write clickable articles about their sexuality for nothing, because what good are you if you can't make someone else money? Interesting to observe that the article's single suggested solution to cyberharassment is to reframe
a criminal problem into
a civil rights issue using
a logic so preposterously adolescent that if you laid this on your Dad
mircea_popescu: 'd backhand slap you right out of the glee club: "it discourages women from writing and earning
a living online." Earning
a living? From who, Gawker? Most of the women writing on the internet are writing for someone else who pays them next to nothing.
mircea_popescu: o-weak-to-try rapists want to be anonymous. Smart women write clickable articles about their sexuality for nothing, because what good are you if you can't make someone else money? Interesting to observe that the article's single suggested solution to cyberharassment is to reframe
a criminal problem into
a civil rights issue using
a logic so preposterously adolescent that if you laid this on your Dad when you were 16 he
mircea_popescu: your feelings-- but because criticism makes women want to be more private-- and the privacy of the women is bad. The women have to be online, they do most of the clicking and receive most of the clicks. Anonymous cyberbullying is
a barrier to increasing consumption, it's gotta go."
mircea_popescu: Keeping in mind that actual stalking has never been dealt with in any significant way ever, the desire of
a few female writers to curb online anonymity wouldn't be enough to get an @ mention, except that this happens to coincide with what the media wants, and now we have the two vectors summing to form
a public health crisis. "Cyberbullying is
a huge problem!" Yes, but not because it is hurtful, HA! no one cares about
mircea_popescu: nny Carcosa. On occasion what the activists think they want may happen coincidentally to align with what the system wants, and from that moment on they will be lead to believe they are making
a difference, which means they're making money for someone else.
mircea_popescu: "The force for this change isn't coming from safety or ethics. Neither is it activism. If you see any group advocating influentially for change in
a media they don't own or control, you can double down and split the 10s, the dealer is holding status and quo. No change is possible on someone else's dime, and if what looks like
a supermodel approaches you with
a microphone and
a camera crew, you should run like she's Joh
shinohai: I have
a bike, but around here you just ride in the damned street. I only use mine downtown to *avoid* traffic
mircea_popescu: "ima paint
a line on your ass so it's half train depot"
mircea_popescu: "oh, the town house painted
a line on the sidewalk so it's half bycicle route now"
mircea_popescu: no but i fucking hate that shit. "you know what we'll do to fix the problem of dumbass cars encroaching on pedestrian everything ? we'll make cheaper cvasi-cars so all the dumbass hipsters who can't afford
a car can still get in your way"
shinohai: There was
a guy lived
a few streets over that got locked up for throwing water-filled condoms at any Mexican that rode by his house on
a bike.
mircea_popescu: and if
a bunch of biking fucktards move on that sidewalk ima start carrying
a billy club
assbot: D.C. church says
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mircea_popescu vaguely remembers an obscure discussion about exponents and whatnot, which consisted of
a guy asking on some derp social media sites about one of my articles, and getting an "expert" answer within hours.
mircea_popescu: ematicians and the practitioners: an adversary can perform
a single enormous computation to “crack”
a particular prime, then easily break any individual connection that uses that prime."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "For the nerds in the audience, here’s what’s wrong: If
a client and server are speaking Diffie-Hellman, they first need to agree on
a large prime number with
a particular form. There seemed to be no reason why everyone couldn’t just use the same prime, and, in fact, many applications tend to use standardized or hard-coded primes. But there was
a very important detail that got lost in translation between the math