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BingoBoingo: Dulap probably needs
a datacenter with dogs on the floow
mircea_popescu: online webexperts assure me that this is
a coincidence and also was published before by
a scientist somewhere.
ascii_field: i would dare to suggest that the subcontract should include
a stipulation that >1 unsanctioned reset per year == termination
mircea_popescu: yeah i dun see
a problem paying 1-1.5 for this. provided the box is decent and the dc unretarded, i'd take it.
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> not
a ~real~ recession, those don't happen in the biggest bestest firstest americas << Testnet Americans
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i am ready to move it. but can't think of, yet,
a good place to move it ~to~
ascii_field: i can't help but wonder if someone is getting
a red star pinned on his uniform in moscow, for having planted this bug
☟︎ punkman: "More and more known enterprises reach out ot me these days, asking theirselves if they have
a huge problem with their scanned documents. Others are already certain thay actually have
a huge problem, some of them in security critical contexts. All have in common that they understandably are afraid of publicity."
punkman: "
A reader tells me there is
a small notice in his copier's admin panel about character substitution. On his device, the “bug” can be avoided by setting compression from “normal” to higher. As
a consequence, the issue must have been known by Xerox – so why was nobody telling us?"
ascii_field: ^ from my reading, this had
a very real chance of destroying the non-pgp contract as even
a theatrical production
ascii_field: yes, i would ~like~
a gcc library; (and
a gpg library.) but i understand the authors' logic re: how this could easily and catastrophically help the enemy
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 16:43:28; phf: “Can't we have
a gpg library?
ascii_field: it is really
a weapon against 'embrace & extinguish'
ascii_field: also it is
a mistake to suppose that this practice is merely for protecting against plagiarism
phf: “Can't we have
a gpg library?
☟︎ phf: re gnupg, that was actually in faq for
a while, but they shortened the whole answer to "not
a chance"
trinque: but I do also see
a benefit in barriers to poetterings
ascii_field: think of your internal organs. what if they were as easy to steal, cleanly and quietly, as
a bicycle ?
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 16:05:28; trinque: yup, in the case with gcc, I think the idea was that there'd be
a barrier to understanding it if it were monolithic
phf: ccl for example uses
a hacked up version of this ffi generator
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lth/ffigen/, which is in turn
a set of intrusive patches against gcc. can be done, but wouldn't go into upstream for political reasons
trinque: ben_vulpes: also
a barrier to poetterings, maybe
trinque: and therefore
a barrier to say ripping off components and making non-free versions
trinque: yup, in the case with gcc, I think the idea was that there'd be
a barrier to understanding it if it were monolithic
☟︎ ben_vulpes: asciilifeform has referred to rms doing this with i believe
a compiler as well, and i would hear the story. 'cawsmic rayz and shitgnome bitrot' isn't the kind of story to scare children into losing sleep over.
mats: conspiracy aside, probably just twenty years of glue and paperclips on
a design nobody ever expected to be in production
☟︎ trinque: lol, now technical means "not really
a (but yes really
a)"
pete_dushenski: not
a ~real~ recession, those don't happen in the biggest bestest firstest americas
trinque: mod6: surely this is just
a temporary correction or whatever the fuck the propaganda term is now
assbot: How
a bug in Visual Studio 2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and cost me $6,500 in
a few hours ... (
http://bit.ly/1LIaQls )
assbot: Logged on 28-06-2015 04:49:55; asciilifeform: decimation: i don't think that
a mathematically-rigorous description of openssl (not to even mention boost and bdb) could be achieved in 10,000 years of sweat
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 08:27:20; mircea_popescu: anyway, the ridiculous pretense that openssl is still even
a thing at all.
shinohai: Haven't read any sci-fi in
a while. That will be good.
punkman: I put "The Three-Body Problem" on my list recently, seems like it got
a Hugo award in the meantime
shinohai: Any bibliophiles here that would care to make
a recommendation for my Winter reading list?
shinohai: Perhaps he could be described as
a member of the species whose brain has not yet fully evolved.
☟︎ assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 2 for adlai with note: scalpl rocks!
cazalla: might be time to make
a kanye leaves kim bitbet
BingoBoingo: Well, If I know the FBI/Treasury/WTFObolaBBQ is watching why would I even create an opportunity to be framed as
a person looking to participate in drug commerce?
assbot:
A Law Enforcement Encounter: If you ran
a Bitcoin related service before the thing hit $100 you prolly ought to be somewhat concerned and/or prepared | Bingo Blog
mircea_popescu: anyway, the ridiculous pretense that openssl is still even
a thing at all.
☟︎ shinohai: Nice article BingoBoingo All you need to do now is drop it off in r/darknetmarkets and
a few .onion forums, there goes your BIP101 support
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: that's
a CMake best practices thing, the guy that did that (Ben Boeckel) is one of the CMake developers
mircea_popescu wouldn't feel safe fucking kim w/o
a coupla wrestler wingmen ready to tag.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'v' is
a double-edged sword, however, i must say, in that it makes it possible to build therealbitcoin without reading patches or giving
a fuck << blind trust is only
a problem to the blind trustor.
assbot: [bitcoin-dev] AT&T has effectively banned Bitcoin nodes by closing port 8333 via
a hidden firewall in the cable box ... (
http://bit.ly/1JIwQce )
phf: which wouldn't be
a problem in
a traditional c code, but in case of gnupg half of the code seems to have hidden, side channel concerns, that i just don't have yet enough experience in practical crypto to grok
mod6: <+asciilifeform> rather than roasting in the hell of figuring my patch topology out with
a pencil << imagine how much easier it is now for
a person to literally pick
a place in the flow and patch directly to it. instead of wading through mutliated corpses trying to find the least smelly ones.
phf: i spent some time going through exercise of getting rid of main in gnupg 1.*, compiling it into
a dynamic library, loading into
a lisp and calling c functions through ffi. it's doable, but yeah environment very hostile to librarification: often times reporting is done only as
a printf, with no status codes, so impossible to do simple (= (ffi-call...) 0) without unpacking the c level function
mod6: oh it's just
a wrapper?
mod6: i guess i don't mean to confuse.. was just thinking about it in the capacity where
a stripped down box is being used.
mod6: i saw punkman say something about dropping in
a python-gnupg side-by-side with V -- i've gotta try that yet. might be cool for an airgap box or something.
mod6: sure. i was able to figure that out straight off np. helped by having
a few bundled up in v99/wot/
mod6: heheh, my fingers didn't want to type what my brain was trying to say. it's
a little baked from the sun today at the fair.
mod6: i was mechanically cross checking the output file checksums against the v054-TEST2 bundle and noticed that i didn't come out with -verifyall in there. was really wondering for
a minute lol.
mircea_popescu: there's
a finite count of failing to goal that these things can survive.
mircea_popescu: "Alydian Inc.,
a unit of CoinLab Inc., on Friday filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. bankruptcy court in Seattle. The 10-page court filing didn't disclose why Alydian filed for bankruptcy or how it hopes to repay its debts."
mircea_popescu: "mircea_popescu: giving inept infantrymen good horses doesn't create an elite cavalry regiment, it just creates
a lot of injured horses. giving stupid people smart things doesn't make them smart. it'll just make
a lot of broken smart things."
mircea_popescu: wehn i linked to it, i linked to an item put there
a week or so ago.
mircea_popescu: had i met linux as
a boy i'd be pissing with froth on the entire stupid stack.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more in the sense that the blondy teen that is always clenching her jaws shut is vaguely interesting in
a way her verbose airheaded cogeners are not
mircea_popescu: The upshot of this is that you can run
a client that is
a year old, but pretty much after that 1 year anniversary you'll be dropped off the network (even if there have been no "real" changes in that year)."
mircea_popescu: Anything that is more of
a soft fork will kick in immediately (as long as it doesn't drop pre-fork clients off the network). Anything on the p2p layer (ie. hard forkable) will be kept in the wings until the next fork date (as roughly estimated from block height) and then is enabled.
mircea_popescu: Every 6 months, either on March 15 + September 15 or on April 15 + October 15, the Monero network will have
a hard fork. 30 days before the fork we will have
a code freeze + tag + release, and if there are no major changes we'll have an increase in the protocol version (ie. that's at
a minimum).
A similar fork system to Bitcoin will apply, whereby
a rollover to the new code after the trigger block will only occur if
a mircea_popescu: "Basic bottom line: every 6 months there's
a hard fork. You get 1 hard fork's grace before you have to update or be left behind.