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mircea_popescu: see above in log why i'm currently expecting to see some horrors.
mircea_popescu: well since phuctor has a bunch of rsa work already done ; converting github rsa keys to a usable format and checking them by the same process isn't that tall a step.
mircea_popescu: the experience of myspace should be informative in this sense. "network effect" is valuable for as long as the median view is that it's cool people there ; once that goes away, all turner's billions can't fix the suddenly un-critical network effect.
mircea_popescu: in historical terms, "all good things come to the port city", yes. until the port gets a sand bar.
mircea_popescu: i don't credit this "network effect" criticality thing. yes, people came up with that particular rebranding of panglossism to sell inept investors on why they should throw money away. it worked. that the sale pitch worked does not make the theory true.
mircea_popescu: trilema is created as a "general purpose for literate people", so it contains lots of mini-versions of otherwise more seriously studied topics.
mircea_popescu: but that's all temporary and a bandaid for a chainsaw wound. in the end, you don't see many oxcarts carrying freight today.
mircea_popescu: sure, some are hobbists, some may get (for some time, while that lasts) subsidies.
mircea_popescu: and as to the other thing : numbers per se are meaningless. if there's a million truck drivers in the world, and 999`990 use a truck that does 10 mpg and i have 10 people using a truck that does 12 mpg, guess who'll be selling and who'll be buying trucking companies in the not so distant future.
mircea_popescu: but in short : it's not that ~my~ endeavours succeeding ; there's no personal flair involved here, nor any magic. it's that all the endeavours of a certain type will succeed.
mircea_popescu: there's no argument to be had with functionality. not all the talk in the world ; nor all the money nor anything else can stand in front of something that functions.
mircea_popescu: there's at least a dozen disparate, independently useful items that go into a gossipd.
mircea_popescu: anywya, once mod6 gets that T thing going we can actually create tickets for all this, which'll make the task less insane.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger actually, the process of creating github and then confusing git for github, aka embrace and extinguish / "rms-ing" is also amply discussed in teh logs :)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Framedragger read up on v, it's worth the read. more generally, you are ideologically naive, for which reason you're perhaps missing things. for instance, when i say "add a html parser" i do not mean "introduce support for THEIR definitioon of html". rather, i mean "create our own html, and by its presence passively force them to adapt or die".
mircea_popescu: a properly made, functioning this will turn the "browser" period over, entirely and without respite. they'll become what the bbs are.
mircea_popescu: and make no mistake, i said it and i'll say it again : this is one of those moments.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger the ~only way you're going to end up with a web crypto api in browser is if you/someone builds the social media app discussed and then adds a html parser to it.
mircea_popescu: it's field fucking arithmetic, not omfg engineering slide rule
mircea_popescu: it's ridiculous beyond belief, all crypto works with ints.
mircea_popescu: anyway Framedragger : just THAT fucks up permanently the notion of "crypto in javascript".
mircea_popescu: so it has alll the === lulz, but also... nonfunctioning arithmetic.
mircea_popescu: lmao. i dunno why they have a page about how php sucks, and nothing about javascript. apparently you can't EVEN DO MATH in js (9007199254740993/28059810762433 === 321 is false).
mircea_popescu: a process that'd have been perfectly safe on its own becomes deeply insecure when part of "the community".
mircea_popescu: this is like the anti-vaccine. not immunity through the herd, but insecurity through belonging to a herd.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but even as a very low effort thing you know, "everyone's on aws". and they all use the same fashionable shitstack. and there's... millions of them.
mircea_popescu: well now we know what it is, and otherwise, who cares.
mircea_popescu: not putting more in deliberately is one thing ; but actually taking time to remove them... forget it, do it sometime when you do stuff with the site.
mircea_popescu: giving the web pointless buttons is what the web is all about.
mircea_popescu: Moduli Waiting for Test: 20 << this is like... permanently. pretty incredible, so "the public" puts in keys at about the rate of 1 every 3 minutes for a month now ?
mircea_popescu: we absoluely gotta get those ssh keys in there. jurov you actually working on it ?
mircea_popescu: there's no way to check for this "multiplicity", it's essentially brainwallets-for-computers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, random guy on reddit points out to a very lulzy attack indeed. consider : you boot up 1k VMs running the same os, and upon boot-up you sshgen. how many keys share primes even if they are properly generated ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what do you mean! it's a town so chic they put it in the name! chic-ago!
mircea_popescu: anabasis being the one true marathon. yes, good point, i shoulda said that.
mircea_popescu: this means, a marathon, not a sprint ; and most things "people generally" count as a marathon here are still a sprint
mircea_popescu: Framedragger this problem re-occurs here with some frequency. #trilema and tmsr generally are for adults.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that you don't sit around to sniff the anthill, but merely care how tall it is.
mircea_popescu: strictly a matter of numbers, any 800 vote / 300 comment thread is exactly equal to any other.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'll have to disabuse you of the notion that "the content" ie "what it says" matters in that context.
mircea_popescu: govt "borrows" in europe, pours the cash into subsidies, defaults ; borrows more.
mircea_popescu: whole country exists entirely as an exercise in subsidy.
mircea_popescu: it's worth a lulz tho. they have to catch bbc or else it may be the case they should fire.
mircea_popescu: fun factoid : the (only!) uk sub actually has a... mile long aerial in tow.
mircea_popescu: anyway. this whole thing... children threatening with holding their breath.
mircea_popescu: yeah, well, that's where the pain starts : it'd be a wonder if the whole nato fleet can launch a coupla dozen simultaneous.
mircea_popescu: nah. it moves fast in air, large profile, it heats significantly.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter - a nuke IS a fucking beacon. thermally even!
mircea_popescu: i'm not particularly interested in defending the us from imaginary attacks
mircea_popescu: how hard do you think it is to put a missile in its path ?
mircea_popescu: point remains, the item is in the air for half an hour, during which it is a larger source than anything in the sky in about a third of the spectrum. it weighs a hundred fucking tons, and is about as maneuvrable as a dead whale.
mircea_popescu: and whole shebang is made of fucking epoxy, if you can imagine that. all the structural integrity and shielding of chewing gum.
mircea_popescu: if memory serves, it goes for 10k kms at a top speed of maybe 20k km/h