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mircea_popescu: it's this secure communication thing dreamed up by b-a.
mircea_popescu: you should prolly also look into the vaporware that still is gossipd.
mircea_popescu: that was my point : that if he was going to barf over tor, which doesn't actually matter or significantly touch the scheme, might as well pick any other random unrelated item
mircea_popescu: i'm not exactly in the business of pushing people to do things.
mircea_popescu: uh i dun see it. guy was gonna do some things, then got sick, then came back, then never did the things. i dunno, lost interest or w/e.
mircea_popescu: guruvan> seems like people round here need bigger heads <<< i thought "the consensus" was b-a heads already too big
mircea_popescu: as the saying goes, #b-a presence counts for 30 iq points.
mircea_popescu: as long as you do what's expected of you - no case can be brought.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes generally i'm thinking, to make it in people gotta put you in ; but once you're in, yoiu're in, and baring disaster you stay in.
mircea_popescu: otherwise what, wipe mike_c because he had a kid ? nonsense i say!
mircea_popescu: my thinking, vague as i admit it may be, is that if the guy's service is running, the guy is ok.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, the search is running ok. this is a thing.
mircea_popescu: chetty should also come off, seeing how she's no more.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no objection ; and in light of the traverser no objection.
mircea_popescu: well no, not really april yet. there should prolly be some discussion for a new one huh.
mircea_popescu: hey, an interest in actual crypto / security ? DEFINITELY terrorism.
mircea_popescu: maqp now you can self-voice ; just say !up to assbot in a pm and it'll give you a string to decrypt. pass it with !v and you're voiced.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.maqp.1:b036a6fcaa5939edc3d055c0d2d45c2e6e0e3c8d50eb416c651e482d87c90d7a
mircea_popescu: phf aha something like that. i suppose that's really it, move alt to shift or caps or something. tho really caps lock is kinda too high, crosses the fingers.
mircea_popescu: maqp basically you go !register 559FA134DE33AED70DF97D8B085ADF061C2B20CD
mircea_popescu: i keep the pinky on ctrl. which is why making it further in would be inconvenient for me.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a 1 BTC with your name on it here. if you post an address in this session you got it. if you disconnect before you registered a sig with assbot, you won't be able to get it cuz i won't know it's you.
mircea_popescu: maqp i suppose you could look into TRB. get yourself V and make your own secure node.
mircea_popescu: phf why the hell woulc you switch ctrl and alt around o.O
mircea_popescu: the other case is signed documents, there's a bot that keeps a notary service.
mircea_popescu: one case is ratings, which is how that wot is made. i go !rate x y
mircea_popescu: nah, but you can order specific things be entered into the record by signing them
mircea_popescu: also, it's a good idea to register your pgp key with assbot. that way you create an identity in the wot we can attach to.
mircea_popescu: you ever gave any thought to making some sort of marketable item out of that ?
mircea_popescu: you're the guy with the open source otp / airgapped thing are you ?
mircea_popescu: tomes could be written on the particulars of an overcompensating inferiority complex that seeks to remedy internal tension through far reaching "reforms" of the outer world. i'm too lazy. tomes could similarly be written about tardspedia, but i've done all of that i could be bothered to. so let's forget they both ever existed and move on.
mircea_popescu: th the Caps Lock key. It was funded by donations from the campaign's supporters and eventually raised €194.91." << this is a good summary of the man's contributions. they evaluate to < 200 euro + a wikipedia paragraph.
mircea_popescu: "In 2006, he started the CAPSoff campaign to reform the keyboard, starting with the removal of the Caps Lock key. He described this campaign as an example of an online campaign conducted entirely using free services like Wikidot and Google groups. Some new keyboards are starting to drop the Caps Lock key. In September 2006, he launched the "Million Dollar Keyboard" competition for the best keyboard design to do away wi
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: punkman Pieter Hintjens is imo gunk, the epitome of the plowing fly.
mircea_popescu: by no means the end of the world. won't even buy you a walk's worth of county road.