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mircea_popescu: the entire french language is, in the us, a sort of marketing ploy.
asciilifeform: Vexual: the only (usable) hole in a google pNohe
Vexual: sd card is the only hole on a google netbook?
asciilifeform: thestringpuller, decimation: whether snowden & co. started out as psyop or not, fact is that at this point it is 100% a marketing machine for 'vaults' and 'redpNohes' of a thousand and one kinds
asciilifeform: Vexual: sd card with single-chip 'crypto coprocessor' (a la the atmel turd discussed a few months ago; possibly even the very same) - with extra holy water and marketing drivel included
Vexual: i assumed vault was just a word that presumed they were better than apple at storing nudes, so i didnt look
Vexual: none of this shoehorn a shit onto your shit
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i'm seeing a microsd single-chip turd
decimation: some people like to live in a civilized place, as opposed to barbarous
asciilifeform: no one will ever make a living, much less get rich, selling the sun.
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah it's true that 'selling os' is a terrible business
assbot: Logged on 22-05-2015 06:59:49; mircea_popescu: if th efield had needed such a thing, it wouldn't exist at all.
assbot: Logged on 22-05-2015 06:54:48; mircea_popescu: the idea here being that people wouldn't pay for a sane os for the same reason they won't payfor the sun.
decimation: it could be rebuilt, but not without the resources of a rich prince
asciilifeform: imho one of the most perplexing things about 'anti-bitcoin' agitators is how they all - to a man - miss the most cogent argument against bitcoin: it being, how it is implemented ☟︎
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asciilifeform: decimation: when formally freed ? that'd be a gcc bug
asciilifeform: on the other hand, it -is- a candidate for the possible hidey-hole of the 'phantom' ram
asciilifeform: just has the appearance of something one could perhaps shave a MB or two off, total.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> not 100% certain that we're all using same bdb... << but anyway, yeah, I'll check anyway. there is a chance that we could be looking at two seperate versions.
mod6: I should have put in a line maybe about "encouraged to read the submitted emails" or something, but perhaps I just thought it was implied.
asciilifeform: there is a cache cap option. setting it did precisely nothing.
asciilifeform: mod6: i would comment that technically the block-bastardage and tx-orphanage nukes are semantically independent. but the latter was derived from a main.cpp patched with the former.
decimation: yeah, but there's a difference between "here's our history; you verify" and "pls to give transactions"
asciilifeform: but a gavinabortion
asciilifeform: decimation: if you didn't verify the entire blockchain from end to end, you aren't a node!
decimation: asciilifeform: forgive my ignorance, but there's a single valid path through the blockchain
asciilifeform: it is a consequence of how screamingly retarded the sync mechanism is to begin with
asciilifeform: decimation: asciilifeform: maybe one solution to the 'bastard transmitter' problem would be ... this is still reasoning from the misconception that 'bastards' necessarily come from malicious or malfunctioning nodes. this is not the case - a 0.5.3.x will emit bastards - from point of view of certain nodes - just as often as any other
asciilifeform: <ben_vulpes> Adlai, asciilifeform: are the commercial lisps worth paying for? << extremely bad question. is a boeing worth paying for? depends!
Adlai found that in the gribble source, didn't realize it was just parotting a value from elsewhere
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-05-2015#1149172 << that is always and without exception the sign of a vps being sold as fake "dedicated" ☝︎
mircea_popescu: and someone coding in windows and without much of a clue about programming as a theoretical discipline.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-05-2015#1149145 << you have to appreciate the situation at the time. not that many nodes alive or expected, and a certain desperation to "make it work". ☝︎
assbot: 18385 results for 'patch gribble OR nanotube' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=patch+gribble+OR+nanotube
assbot: 898 results for 'gribble source' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=gribble+source
mircea_popescu: that's a point.
asciilifeform: once we have a reasonable 'embrace and extend' of sync mechanism - then yes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha but here there isn't a 'me' and 'you' yet
asciilifeform: but this reflects the lack of a reasonable 'gossip' mechanism - on both ends
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-05-2015#1149130 << notwithstanding that the dudes in question are probably illiterate, gold standard does in fact not work for a large array or reasons. this exercise is not unlike an attempt to deride qm on the grounds that the various twerps making money out of govt grants in physics academia could not explain it. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 31-05-2015 12:11:09; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-05-2015#1148837 << i would like to see a patch which maintains VALUED list of other nodes.
mircea_popescu: it's a complicated problem tho.
mircea_popescu: somebody should write a better estimator sometime.
Lk4_DPB: i would not know, perhaps it was not a smart question
assbot: Logged on 08-05-2015 01:17:36; ben_vulpes: look danielpbarron there's a function in common lisp named for you!
Lk4_DPB: i was at some event in milano and they talked about assets as a the place that knoews best about bitcoin adn that discovered a probem with rsa keys
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midnightmagic: williamdunne: We are forced to use a TLS channel to order product from them. We should be able to spin up a fresh server using that interface solely, and ssh keys entered via it.
williamdunne: Yeah its definitely not a perfect in every way, but looks pretty good
jurov: I personally got only an offer to share a rack with 4x100MBit(can be upgraded to giga) and 4xIPv4 for 500 euro/mo ☟︎
midnightmagic: A 100% freshly-installed, default-settings online.net server in France was owned virtually immediately. Online.net support didn't answer the reinstall ticket for a month. If online.net has been successful, then success probably caused them to start sucking.
Adlai: it's a compromise
Adlai: it's ok, you start looking for a toilet after 750 nuggets
asciilifeform: let's rewrite it as a maxim:
williamdunne: Deflation is bad because why buy a sandwich today when you can buy two in 30 years
decimation: Anil Kashyap of U. Chicago '10 strong disagree' A gold standard regime would be a disaster for any large advanced economy. Love of the G.S. implies macroeconomic illiteracy.
decimation: If the US replaced its discretionary monetary policy regime with a gold standard, defining a "dollar" as a specific number of ounces of gold, the price-stability and employment outcomes would be better for the average American.
decimation: Question A:
decimation: lol http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-results?SurveyID=SV_cw1nNUYOXSAKwrq < apparently now there's a 'facebook' for economists to 'like' ideas or not
decimation: jurov: there is definitely tracking of when a node was 'last heard'. what misbehvior are you talking about?
assbot: Logged on 31-05-2015 02:04:22; asciilifeform: (one of my early, unreleased experiments had a disconnector that tripped when we learn that the node we're syncing from is spewing orphans above threshold. perhaps time to bring this back ?)
asciilifeform: (incidentally, a while ago i posted a patch that kills log rollover. might be of interest to some of you)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: again, signing a key - on ordinary gpg - does not throw your whole modulus in it
assbot: Logged on 31-05-2015 18:16:50; ben_vulpes: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/05/how-a-grad-student-uncovered-a-huge-fraud.html << merit washing plus "social science" leads to lulz in short order
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-05-2015#1149080 << special interest politics, from gay to womens to minorities to what have you is fraud, run on ambition, high hopes and bad numbers. i am so shocked i think ima become a vegetarian nao. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 31-05-2015 16:48:57; asciilifeform: the idea of phuctor is to detect duplicate privatekey material in use anywhere. the reuse of one particular divisor is only one possible scenario - it is also possible that a very ham-handedly sabotaged pgptron somewhere reuses a whole pair of factors - that is, two or more strangers may, somewhere, share an entire private key.
asciilifeform: 'the fraud could have been uncovered sooner, potentially forestalling a great deal of the disruption it inflicted on various careers and on social science as a whole.' << mega-l0l! as if any of the 'careers' built upon this or similar crocks of shit - other than the exemplary scapegoat's - will skip so much as one beat
asciilifeform: 'This was a graduate student who successfully ran the gauntlet of the Princeton interview process with a publicly posted CV that contained wild falsehoods about his grant receipts ... ' << this is sorta like counterfeiting usd. when the counterfeiter-in-chief cranks up the press and doubles the toiletpaper in circulation, that is blessed by the crown. when some schmuck ? headzoff
asciilifeform: 'It’s the sort of brazen data fraud you just don’t see that often, especially in a journal like Science.' << this particular item from the gobbelsism toolbox needs a name
ben_vulpes: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/05/how-a-grad-student-uncovered-a-huge-fraud.html << merit washing plus "social science" leads to lulz in short order ☟︎
asciilifeform: jurov: if you give me a permalink, i will pull it out of the db for you
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu https://twitter.com/wences/status/595768917907402752 << mega-l0l! wasn't this fella a chum of yours at one point? give him a thrashing ?
asciilifeform: if someone can suggest a better phrasing for this, please write in.
asciilifeform: the idea of phuctor is to detect duplicate privatekey material in use anywhere. the reuse of one particular divisor is only one possible scenario - it is also possible that a very ham-handedly sabotaged pgptron somewhere reuses a whole pair of factors - that is, two or more strangers may, somewhere, share an entire private key. ☟︎
asciilifeform: the basic unit of pgptronics is the public modulus / exponent set, rather than 'key' - which is a fairly arbitrary collection thereof
asciilifeform: jurov: but i can take any set of moduli and shoehorn them into a valid key, sure
joecool: well i don't see any in there so far without a second uid on the keyserver
asciilifeform: jurov: i think what mircea_popescu was asking was - how a mircea_popescu modulus ended up in a jurov key
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: what if instead you found them speaking of sex with pigs? would it then also be a matter of interest ?
asciilifeform: which is a microscope-hammer
asciilifeform: i thought of adding a download link on individual key pages, but then folks will be tempted to use phuctor as a key server
assbot: Logged on 31-05-2015 12:18:33; mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone had before a way to "check all the keys i've signed" on one page.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-05-2015#1148942 << not an accurate picture of what it is. what we have is a list of keys that share one or more public modulus. nothing to do with signatures ☝︎
williamdunne: Guessing there's a train or summin?
mircea_popescu: williamdunne only about 100 miles or so, shouldb't be more than a coupla hours.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: I'll see if I can. If I can convince someone to bugger off with me for the day I will, but only there for a few days :/
williamdunne: A country of that size can't exactly *not* have beautiful parts
williamdunne: Just did a google, yeah looks like there's some kinda cool architecture there
williamdunne: Kinda looking forward to it, only gonna be there for a few days though.
mircea_popescu: i could never stand bucharest. i think i spent a total of a week there in my entire life. shittiest town in romania. so i really dunno.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-05-2015#1148879 << this is a complicated problem, in part because the spec isn't terribru good. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 31-05-2015 03:01:54; decimation: it's amusing that satoshi re-implemented MFC classes in his little util.* stuff. he was definitely a winblows VC++ guy
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-05-2015#1148870 << imagine that a windows user managed to pull a disappearing act. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: where name fragment is a 32 character match across the users textfield
mircea_popescu: can it somehow be structured to serve that purpose ? as a dump it's ok for now because it's short, but by the time the entire db is processed it will be a gb or some shit. maybe make it a list of entries of the format "name fragment", "first 32 characters in base 64'd modulus"
mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone had before a way to "check all the keys i've signed" on one page. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: then it could allocate 1/n of its available bandwidth to each available peer, and disconnect peer under a threshold
mircea_popescu: with a time decay, with a penalty for sending bad blocks and a positive for sending good blocks at a good speed. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 31-05-2015 02:04:22; asciilifeform: (one of my early, unreleased experiments had a disconnector that tripped when we learn that the node we're syncing from is spewing orphans above threshold. perhaps time to bring this back ?)