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mircea_popescu: the only thing that'd be interesting there is discovering a supply chain attack.
mircea_popescu: afaik most folks copy/paste passwords, but that's besides the point.
mircea_popescu: i dunno who'd use password-based ssh. then again that paper is from a decade ago.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck sends passwords over the wire one character at a time is beyond the scope of this discussion/
mircea_popescu: it died over the kicking and screaming pile of the aforenamed and more, flying to japan to "Save it" and etc.
mircea_popescu: ascii_rear which is why mp keeps going Hey SEC... fuck you.
mircea_popescu: forget about looking where the scam troop tries to direct your gaze and instead look at the man pointing.
mircea_popescu: it's these scumbags that are the problem, the meni rosenfelds and etc of the world.
mircea_popescu: the actual crystal ball involved is just a bauble. could have been any random other item,
mircea_popescu: there's nothing remarkable about mtgox other than the facrt that merck, and vessenes, and gavin and theymos and ver and who have you kept pushing it.
mircea_popescu: there is nothing special about pirate other than the fact that theymos, and gigavps, and grubbles and EVERYONE ELSE kept pushing him.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you hafta understand this "X is a scammer" bullshit is pretty much ALWAYS some sort of entrenched structure trying to wash its sins on the cheap. oh, "madoff" scammed ? Really ? HE diod it ? not the 1k+ "experts" that recommended him to his clients etc ? not all the various "supervisors" and "authorities" ? it was... maddof ? fuck that.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless - they're not young men, fated to one day be mature men. they're worms. not caterpillars. worms. fated to NEVER be anything but worms.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller> BitGo says: "My personal view at this point is that it's more important that we successfully accomplish an intentional hard fork" << yes, it would be important for their self-validaiton. just like every pimply teenager is right in suspecting that the most important thing they could be doing for their own maturity is actually bedding a woman already.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well sure. i was discussing the "what is taxpayer billed" angle.
mircea_popescu: i guess technically speaking there is no such thing as "downward volatility".
mircea_popescu: o look, BingoBoingo and shinohai found some chicks too tall to be on okcupid!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes asciilifeform jurov if you'd kindly consider whether the noise is worth it i'd be grateful kthx.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.adlai.-1:0fa48cb748629fa46745f8cd9b2972541cc1408dde31d976415bca5b1869b678
mircea_popescu: anyway. lo and behold, most of the womenz trying to date online have a god damned reason for it! behind a monitor, nobody knows you're short!
mircea_popescu: once some chick fucks an octopus AND CONCEIVES we're in mule territory.
mircea_popescu: an ox is not a "transitioning" cow. it's an injured bull.
mircea_popescu: anyway, "transitioning" means you're an injured-whatever you were born.
mircea_popescu: the intersection between "suprmodel" and "okcupid" turns out to be nil.
mircea_popescu: here's a fun tidbit i forgot to mention in the dedicated article : out of ~278k female profiles (which really seem to be the total of the meat of okcupid, ie, women under 30) there is exactly NO actual female 180 cm or over. a buncha trannies but those obviously are not female.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i like it here. instead of "full nudity for all visitors. house rules." "what ?!??!" it's "full nudity for all visitors. house rules." "oh thanks god!"
mircea_popescu: oh, we're gonna talk about the MWh an atomic dirigible burns ?
mircea_popescu: it's a fucking soup out there. (turns out cooling humid air is way more energetically demanding than cooling dry air. who knew!)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo damned things set at 21 throughout. it has not yet happened i've seen it reach 21 yet, anywhere. shittiest unit sucks 3kw to try and fail.
mircea_popescu: and then people derp about mining being eco-unfriendly./
mircea_popescu: there you go, 144kWh per sqft, that's over 70 MWh for a two girl apt.
mircea_popescu: do you realise that with temperatures in the 30s and humidity over 5000% i spend about 100w per sq ft to keep the terrariums livable
mircea_popescu: it costs n times the LIFETIME AVERAGE INCOME of the world's poorest billion to keep a dude in jail for a year.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, the bottleneck for what phuctor does is ram, so whatcha gonna do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, let me know when it'd be a good time to do the 128-256gb ram upgrade.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not that i'd use key material there generated for any purpose. BUT it's worth pointing out yet another way computers a) don't work and b) can't be fixed.
mircea_popescu: libssh2-1.4.2-1.el6_6.1.x86_64 Sat 19 Dec 2015 06:28:16 PM UTC
mircea_popescu: openssh-5.3p1-112.el6_7.x86_64 Sat 19 Dec 2015 06:28:22 PM UTC
mircea_popescu: openssh-clients-5.3p1-112.el6_7.x86_64 Sat 19 Dec 2015 06:29:06 PM UTC
mircea_popescu: openssh-server-5.3p1-112.el6_7.x86_64 Sat 19 Dec 2015 06:29:07 PM UTC
mircea_popescu: (ie, rhel "backports" "fixes" so that you CAN'T actually get the latest version. or whatever, 5.3 bs is their idea of a latest version in this environment)
mircea_popescu: fucking logical. because why the fuck would something work.
mircea_popescu: hey, i'm not the one that puts this shit on their boxes o.O
mircea_popescu: quite exactly. it'd seem OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips does not actually utilize entropy to generate keys.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Can Drag be for kids? The Commedia Rapunzel Thinks So << this from the same people throwing a fit about 9 yo girls in make-up / leotards / whatnot.
mircea_popescu: a comb thr0ugh the githubs / mailing lists may turn out something. then again... huge workload, unsure payoff.
mircea_popescu: or maybe he was going to do the equivalent of the trb but for debian and well... couldn't have that.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i wonder if this has anything to do with the ongoing systemd-ization of foss.
mircea_popescu: seems improbable. fucking whitehouse came out in support lmao.
mircea_popescu: lmao. mtgox didn't die because mp leaned on it ; vesseness didn't hightail it because mp leaned on him. his scam foundation isn't sinking because mp leaned on it. welcome to the wonderful world of usg.coincidental.narratives.