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mircea_popescu: and yes ben_vulpes is writing a style guide from what i understand
mircea_popescu: this'd be the last juncture at which people who seriously and staunchly are against the space to tab switch should raise hell.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: stuff like { much easier to fix as patches/code is reviewed, by and by.
mircea_popescu: and while it'd be tempting to overload it with stuff like moving the {, i would think it's better not to. make it simple and sweet to check.
mircea_popescu: so we'll have the 99996 > 99995 be "all tabulation, machine checkable"
mircea_popescu: oh ok, my bad. so what i was thinking here is : a) finish the patch ; b) do all the other stuff you were going to do in your own time ; c) when ready make a new version ; d) take a week off, during which everyone [who cares to] can write and run a script to / /
mircea_popescu: i guess i unwittingly confused you, sorry about that. the S-patch was not actually intended to mark a new release did it ?
mircea_popescu: so you get a week off or something, during which people just run teh script and sign the results.
mircea_popescu: mod6 well basically, cause the concept of "a man" is pretty much the key.
mircea_popescu: yeah cuz crazy argentines, they're like excited sheep in the airport.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yeah, i think you nailed the matter, can be laid to rest.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> merely tasking them to understand existing code is sufficient. "and no, you're not allowed to redo it nor pull libraries" << jurov has it.
mircea_popescu: sorta like crossword puzzles, same thing. a sort of cleverness.
mircea_popescu: the sad truth is that this is a very specific sort of ideal.
mircea_popescu: more generally, there's no algebra with a 1 but not a 0 in this sense afaik.
mircea_popescu: no but this is important. the measure is not 0-> but (undefined) ->
mircea_popescu: hey - this actuyally works. fundamentally, we're destructuralists.
mircea_popescu: not only "there's nothing common about common sense" - but there's a very good reason for this. common sense is decentralized system poison.
mircea_popescu: it is the direct equivalent of entropy-diddling for keysystems.
mircea_popescu: the ONLY viable attack against the wot is getting people to act in systematic manners.
mircea_popescu: and to bring back that very obscure thing on trilema about sybils etc :
mircea_popescu: keep things so it's never worth doing that, you don't care if it's hitler's own id.
mircea_popescu: new identity has to put in effort to establish trust. if it wants to abuse it later... it does have to burn it.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the corruptive influence of bitcoin over enemies works in gpg and v space too.
mircea_popescu: whether you like the idea or not - jack shit you can do aobut it.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing fundamentally wrong with being a dozen different oens.
mircea_popescu: moreover, gpg is specificalloy intended to work as a PSEUDONYMOUS system. much like bitcoin addresses are.
mircea_popescu: well thatg's what i said. how do you know "x is y". you basicaLLY don't.
mircea_popescu: now we're all stuck sitting around looking at a high strung dramatique discussion with a missing antecedent.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then the differences evaluated and it's just not fucking worth it.
mircea_popescu points out that all this private talk just makeswork down the line.
mircea_popescu: mod6 there's two (very general) problems here. one is that well, identification's always iffy. how do you go "x=y" when it comes to ids ? the other is that well, with or without wot trust, the guy can still write patches etc. not like anyone can prevent it. not to say that it shouldn't be resolved by any means.
mircea_popescu: <mod6> polarbeard: I apprecate your offer to work on the Reference Implementation, but before you get too far along you need to reconcile that -1 from ben. << the what now ?!
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i was even under the impression that the eulora build process was microshit-free << how are you going to make a windows binary "microshit-free" ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> just imagine a box where you can't pop a shell & grep << iirc they eventually got a grep in windows too
mircea_popescu: fancy that coincidence, i just had a pile of sushi myself.
mircea_popescu: just a simple "isis finally moving to pgp, like b-a/alf/mp said they should. usg petrified about actual, strong cryptography - as opposed to the ecc and assorted shit they peddle - being deployed by those opposing its reign of terror"
mircea_popescu: <danielpbarron> is the tweet deleted? i took screenshots of the pgpgram << it would be. pgp BURNSSSS teh usterrorists.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform likbez is ipso definitio "list of obvious, except not obvious to you"
mircea_popescu: <punkman> this doesn't matter in log in most cases << for one thing, alf was considering using the log for dumping and working with mempool.
mircea_popescu: much like someone delivering CPU shavings fundamentally misunderstands electronics.
mircea_popescu: whoever the fuck does stupid shit like "substring hashes" fundamentally misunderstands what cryptography is all about
mircea_popescu: polarbeard on the contrary. please fix the substring idiocy.
mircea_popescu: "i dunno, man, that's just what my bitcoin does" "it shouoldn't do that" "how do you know ?" "because..."
mircea_popescu: and the problem now dawns : nobody gives a shit's ass what you do to your emacs
mircea_popescu: is this MY windows or HIS windows ? (is that my emacs or his emacs ?)
mircea_popescu: marginally speaking, if i take random user's ipad and replace it with another ipad, random user'd never know.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: how are you going to have strong relationships with poorly defined entities ?
mircea_popescu: for all you know, this is how it was supposed to be all along.
mircea_popescu: whereas you have nfi how "a bride" should go. fuck you know.