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asciilifeform: and a far bigger class of easy pseudonodables.
asciilifeform: there is a class of easy verifiables
asciilifeform: see log
asciilifeform: slow.
asciilifeform: it sucked balls.
asciilifeform: as example of what NOT to do.
asciilifeform: and kademlia.
asciilifeform: students of subj ought to begin there.
asciilifeform: anyway afaik state of the art re dht remains edonkey.
asciilifeform: and reliable pipes.
asciilifeform: aws uses far bigger chunks.
asciilifeform: but as for 'host a blog ON it and it be readable more often than not' - nobody yet discovered how.
asciilifeform: this, yes .
asciilifeform: and flows from gossipd.
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu just wants an ordinary chumpnet that is a different and far more practical convo.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ~would~ commoditize. if anyone knew how.
asciilifeform: and let's also say a % of'em are dead at any time, and dragged along by living
asciilifeform: how many chickens adds up to mercedes motor?
asciilifeform: didn't we do the 1024 chickens thing?
asciilifeform: why would you want unreliable storage?
asciilifeform: thing is, ~all trojans share heavily infested box.
asciilifeform: i have nfi what will replace it.
asciilifeform: this model is traditional but plays poorly with, e.g., cryptolockers, as these often result in hosed and reformatted box
asciilifeform: riding, so to speak, a bus
asciilifeform: typically they pay 'per install'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-10#1479838 << i was speaking of how most folks even get their proggy on the infected boxes in the first place ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: you need a new one ?
asciilifeform: now wat.
asciilifeform: you rent out yer chumpnet, and some bozo installs, e.g., 'cryptolocker', on all the nodes. ☟︎
asciilifeform: dun wurk either.
asciilifeform: it is ~precisely~ the 'rent out the space inside your nose!' contemplated in one of mircea_popescu's articles.
asciilifeform has been contemplating this very subj for many, many years.
asciilifeform: the only reason it does not happen more often with garden-variety botnets is that competent folk are few and far between and no one in particular is a sufficiently-appealing target.
asciilifeform: and there cannot even in principle be an answer to this.
asciilifeform: or at least perma-hose the boxen.
asciilifeform: is that a reasonably competent griefer can rent the chumpnet and ~clean it~ ☟︎
asciilifeform: the other thing about renting out pwned boxes,
asciilifeform: it is certainly impossible to reliably distinguish node from pseudonode, for instance.
asciilifeform: it is in principle quite impossible to verify that the thing you wanted computed, was computed, unless it is very tangible input/output pair like mersenne primes or whatnot.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479680 << not that, either. because how do you VERIFY ????? ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: ddos only exists for the rest of us. ☟︎
asciilifeform: as for ddosing, usg infrastructure is ddosproof because they multi-head their dns or whatever the term was for the thing you can ONLY do with crapflare
asciilifeform: there is ~no tech, only duct tape and chewing gum.
asciilifeform: this is sorta like our 'revelation' re crypto a few months back.
asciilifeform: and that's with 2+ DECENT unixlike boxen, with DECENT bandwidth and ~reasonably reliable hardware, that you CONTROL...
asciilifeform: recall how much misery ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ever personally arrange a db replication thing ?
asciilifeform: was not invented.
asciilifeform: but more importantly, the software stack that gives you anything like smooth migration between rapidly born and dying machines, is NOT THERE
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479676 << i suspect that there are not half a million machines with decent bandwidth and disk. ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: one of them things that costs more to parcel out than it is worth.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479673 << i distinctly recall mircea_popescu outlining this wish list a while back. but must confess that i suspect cpu cycle rental - even PINCHED cycles from OTHER PEOPLE, in botnet - to be a -ev proposition. strange, but there it is. ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: maybe borrow phf's formatting code he used in his patch viewer?
asciilifeform: thing is a good start
asciilifeform: vs the text that wants to be in them bubbles.
asciilifeform: why should there be ocean of white
asciilifeform: i have it on a 2160x3840 display
asciilifeform: because clicking
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479630 << lel what in satan's name is this for?? ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479597 << veeery labour-intensive to read ☝︎
asciilifeform lands face first into gnarly l0gz
asciilifeform: i looked for one when making s.nsa icon, had to make manually.
asciilifeform: ☭!
asciilifeform: hey nobody said it was true!11111
asciilifeform: ioned work session which you took part in leading. The very statement that the inception of a working relationship was in any way influenced by sexual conduct or even innuendo is offensive...'
asciilifeform: choice lulz, '...The other incident raises more serious concerns regarding Tor Project’s obligation to ensure a safe and comfortable work environment, especially as regards an environment that is unwelcoming or hostile to protected classes of community members. In this case, you made statements that implied that new community members were recruited in a sexually charged manner. This was made during the course of a Tor Project-sanct
asciilifeform: or rather, part of the disinfo re same.
asciilifeform: so this could be - answer.
asciilifeform: well mircea_popescu did ask, http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-06#1477797 ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu et al: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/9b3f1783-0fb7-4d13-a3a9-6291165a34ea (orig : https://cryptome.org/2016/06/appelbaum-suspension-2015.pdf )
asciilifeform: dun actually work off the asphalt.
asciilifeform: also typical 'suv' is 'fetish of power, not power'
asciilifeform: 'there is a first time for everything'
asciilifeform: what is interesting is that - as far as i can tell - no one has ever published example of finite field system from such.
asciilifeform: anyway pre-allocated-buffers-for-motherfucking-everything is sop in 'this must work' (e.g., avionics) world.
asciilifeform: which - notably - integers used in crypto ARE NOT.
asciilifeform: for items whose size you ~do not know~ in advance.
asciilifeform: i discovered that mainstream finite field libs are as complicated as they are largely because they insist on growable - and, ergo, heap-allocated - nums. ☟︎
asciilifeform: sooooooo in other nyooz here's a small preview of things to come: ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Why would a Bitcoin payment processor fail to fix an error that prevents them from processing Bitcoin payments for nearly a month?' << l0l!
asciilifeform: (probably is in all civilized countries)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479514 << ditto su. fa kit - required. ☝︎
asciilifeform: ~bleeding~ was the issue.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479510 << very definitely not limited to skin. see also http://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/48962 ( plain ascii, http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/f37606d5-9918-4858-8243-de922cb21f94 ) for historic lulz. ☝︎
asciilifeform brb
asciilifeform: still mystery to me.
asciilifeform: but why they feel safest in ok ?
asciilifeform: re this, and http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479380 , i am left to wonder why the plunder is not carried out in or near, e.g., airports, train stations. ☝︎
asciilifeform: like thirsty man wants to 'drink ocean'
asciilifeform: for some reason i pictured that when i get to stop using alarms i will sleep, sleep...
asciilifeform same
asciilifeform always imagines that mircea_popescu sleeps for 18+ hr/day, like a housecat
asciilifeform: ~every culture has own variant, and cracks down on alternatives.
asciilifeform: with own set of side effects.
asciilifeform: and it works for said purpose.
asciilifeform: where i'm from, the dope used to make intolerable - tolerable - is vodka
asciilifeform: you could make argument that the dope makes the intolerable - tolerable. as the spanish eventually permitted the inca silver miners their coca again.
asciilifeform: but point being that folks aren't doing stupid thing ~because~ of the dope.
asciilifeform: sure. or scrubbing toilet as in that film. or whatever stupid thing, if you're doing a stupid thing.
asciilifeform: the fella who needs to reach the shelf