asciilifeform: fwiw i believe that he did the things he said he did.
asciilifeform: PeterL: according to mircea_popescu, his machine polled a net of thousands of nodez, none of whom claimed to have heard of tx-a, before he transmitted the final tx of doom
asciilifeform: and the american съезд кпсс is ~equally influential and interesting as the original.
asciilifeform: y'know, as a boy, i was playing with other boyz in the yard and mentioned съезд кпсс , and they laughed. i learned lesson - for life.☟︎
asciilifeform: phf: the last thing i recall TaT doing is, mircea_popescu offered him a co-authorship on something or other, and TaT refused because afraid of gassing
asciilifeform: lives, iirc, under the heel of his wife (i could be mistaken, but did get this impression from the 4-5 h we spent together)☟︎
asciilifeform: phf: i actually met TaT in meatspace, at mircea_popescu's c2. we sat in the airport together in the end. i got the impression that he was 'ok guy' but somewhat lacked... courage.
asciilifeform: and seem to recall that TaT quit #b-a under somewhat questionable circumstances.
asciilifeform: i find it odd that he returns immediately when mircea_popescu leaves
asciilifeform: urgh, i scroll between two chans, and one is full of american election and the other - ThickAsThieves
asciilifeform: 'For open source code, you read the code, line by line, verify that it is in fact safe to run. You then issue a PGP-signed certificate which pretty much says "I the X of Y have reviewed the below code and judged it safe in accordance with Z".'
