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mircea_popescu: but i still dunno wtf is wrong with it. so, it has open compiler. it has open libraries.
asciilifeform: i mostly have.
asciilifeform: i'll run own client. (will tweak it for compatibility with the rest of you, when i have a little time.) and invite anyone who wishes, to read.
asciilifeform: i know of no reason to put one lick of trust in its crypto libs, for example.
davout: i was about to add 'specifically?' :D
asciilifeform: i didn't commission the thing, lol
mircea_popescu: well you know it occurs to me it'd be a lot more productive if you go in early with a "hey, could it please be c ? i would like to run this on mips" discussion than a late paniucwhen guy picks whatever he happened to pick.
asciilifeform: as discussed a few days ago, i recently installed a mips64 router.
asciilifeform: i run virtually every arch i know of.
mircea_popescu: ... i run x86 ? don't you ?
mircea_popescu: i know about as much of go as i know about hawaii.
asciilifeform: and i fucking hate turdlangs.
asciilifeform: i don't run other folks' binaries.
artifexd: I have linux servers and vm's that I use for testing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have no idea, it's an open spec.
artifexd: Because I'm writing it.
artifexd: I could write it in C or C++ but cross compiling is an absolute nightmare that I choose not to put up with.
asciilifeform: 'go' is a turd that i will not have on my systems.
asciilifeform: i wouldn't either
artifexd: I'm not going to write in lisp.
artifexd: <asciilifeform> speaking of which, did artifexd follow mircea_popescu's prescription and use a hacked gpg for 'gossip' ? << No. I'm using go's openpgp code. However, I'm structuring the code so that I can later add the option do the crypto via a shell out to gpg. Then you can use whatever version of gpg your heart desires.
asciilifeform: the earlier crowed of 'early adopting' cultist weirdos made considerably more sense to me. they just wanted 'to get rich,' i.e., to quit their jobs
asciilifeform: what's the appeal ? i find it hard to picture any of them amassing any kind of serious coin this way
ben_vulpes: i love how they have precisely 1 vine
mircea_popescu: i mostly hung out with the girls. and if the girls didn't show up i mostly harrangued the prof.
jurov: i don't know how i managed to survive 4 hour lectures on uni, had only nokia brick then
MetatronOne: mircea_popescu> unrelatedly : today i find that prior to 1820 or so, hawaii was all-nude, and that the proper an' traditional hula dance is to be done without panties or other apparel. | woah. what a way to ruin it!
PinkPosixPXE: morning ben_vulpes .. sorry, I got pulled into a meeting hehe
joecool: but i will continue to read on this and see if i can come up with a better way to handle it
joecool: mircea_popescu: i was unaware of the entropy issues on signing until after this was implemented, until then i had assumed it was only important to generate the keys themselves with sufficient entropy
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly : today i find that prior to 1820 or so, hawaii was all-nude, and that the proper an' traditional hula dance is to be done without panties or other apparel.
joecool: an adversary with large resources will likely be able to get around that through forced coercion before even needing to try to attack the implementation (which I still believe would be a nontrivial task unless the system had a rootkit installed that maliciously generated signatures, that i would see on the counter)
joecool: mircea_popescu: there are two major problems with this implementation that i see. both are problems the cardano solves, 1. the system knows it's a smartcard and malicious software could use it, and 2. weak entropy generation for signing
mircea_popescu: nobody ever said "if i'm ever in a fire i'll have bigger problems than this tiny fire hydrant can solve"
joecool: if i needed to protect from a 3-letter agency i'd have bigger problems than the shortcomings of a smartcard
joecool: yeah i know you hate them
joecool: asciilifeform: it's just constant fighting to do most anything with the software, it's laid out poorly, simple tasks like minting smartcards, i literally have to back up the config directory for it and copy to mint more cards
cazalla: i use to cover the company A raises X amount of capital but have been skipping them as you could really just word replace the amount and company name from a previous article and be done with it. does anyone actually care about such things and wishes to see them?
joecool: i can't do a static build
joecool: asciilifeform: it's just ugly ugly horrible software, unintuitive, i have to swap out pinentry implementation between environments
joecool: 1.4 was decent for usability, 2 i am constantly fighting
asciilifeform: i do have 2 somewhere
mircea_popescu: i dont use gnupg2
joecool: i wish -assets would take on attempting to make gnupg2 less horrible, which is the preferred version of gnupg in here anyway?
mircea_popescu: the one with "too important, i didn;t recognize him" had me rolling on the floor lol
mircea_popescu: i dunno how inclined teh arabs would be to fight if losing means they're eaten.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what the us army would look like on the ground if they actually started eating the afghanistani.
asciilifeform: e boards; and for back-up, deep in all their hearts, there were always the Nukes, they loved to remind you that we had some, “right here in-country.” Once I met a colonel who had a plan to shorten the war by dropping piranha into the paddies of the North. He was talking fish but his dreamy eyes were full of mega-death.'
asciilifeform: 'That night I listened while a colonel explained the war in terms of protein. We were a nation of high-protein, meat-eating hunters, while the other guy just ate rice and a few grungy fish heads. We were going to club him to death with our meat; what could you say except, “Colonel, you’re insane”? … Doomsday celebs, technomaniac projectionists; chemicals, gases, lasers, sonic-electric ballbreakers that were still on th
TomServo: I thought he was maybe North America's Dotcom knockoff.
mircea_popescu: TomServo welll... some guy i never heard of presented on some webpage i never saw before as important, turns out he's another gavin, doing parlour tricks atparties and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: cazalla no, but i am not an egotist. i think of my fellow man
cazalla: mircea_popescu: if illegalizing things did anything i'd make mosquitoes illegal <<<mosquitoes in BA?
mircea_popescu: i have half a mind to do it anyway.
mircea_popescu: if illegalizing things did anything i'd make mosquitoes illegal
undata: I'm thinking of Oregon's legalization and how its lauded as some social victory
undata: asciilifeform: I guess I'm speaking as a guy in his 20s
mircea_popescu: it's somehow the fashionable thing, i dunno.
pete_dushenski: i already broke into the b-a lordship in 2014 so...
pete_dushenski: ^i'm gonna go with yes
pete_dushenski: "look mom, i made a straight line to infinity!"
mircea_popescu: In the immortal rights of Moss, Goddamn right, that's right. Guys come on: "Oh, the blah blah blah, I know what I'll do: I'll go in and rob everyone blind and go to Argentina cause nobody ever thought of this before."
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> well whos the guy ? < fuck if i know. i just made a bet he wont reply, but he did. iirc.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> why these folks renamed it, i cannot say. << guess/
thestringpuller: i srsly though the hawks were still owned by Ted Turner/Time Warner
TomServo: Is that the 'no, I assure you I'm racist' self-outing guy?
thestringpuller: i never knew he owned the hawks until recently
pete_dushenski: so i visit pretty much every year
thestringpuller: I <3 french canadians
thestringpuller: i see him more often now
asciilifeform: (how and why it works is a primary school level mathematical proof. i recommend that anyone unfamiliar with it, try to derive)
asciilifeform: why these folks renamed it, i cannot say.
jurov: i went on some googling why the "conditioning" and found this gem: http://lwn.net/Articles/525204/
kakobrekla: so i guess i had my expectations scammed
asciilifeform: i wish i knew why folks still think rng is high science. it isn't.
rithm: BingoBoingo I know some spots who sell 87 octane for 1.88 cash and 1.99 credit fwiw
BingoBoingo: I'm not sure either, but the tweets surrounding it are praise
mircea_popescu: i dunno what that means ?
assbot: What I find interesting about it, is that it appears to be effortless; like these are the cast offs, the "While ima here, Ill let you know".
mircea_popescu: it's kind-of remarkable (not really) just how self-labeling stupidity actually is. the difference between trying to "explain yourself" as an idiot and simply wearing a lot of large "hey everyone, i'm the idiot!" signs and tags is hard to notice.
mircea_popescu: "And for three years it worked. But on Thursday the Swiss suddenly gave up. We don’t know exactly why; nobody I know believes the official explanation, that it’s a response to a weakening euro. " << ha-ha. everyone you DON'T know knows the explanation. it was published on fucking trilema for crissakes, not even as a news item.
mircea_popescu: Hey! This page will never end! Just keep on scrolling to see more posts! < lol busted. anyway! i guess it goes back i nthe pile that has been holding "open transactyions" since about 2011.
davout: i was personnally quite impressed by the "let's start by a financial report"
mircea_popescu: i guess.
mircea_popescu: this would explain the shockingly large 50 btc donations figure for an altcoin i guess.
assbot: This is probably going to be disappointing for you, but I am not and have never been Dread Pirate Roberts.
jurov: ohh so i remember wrong.. reports actually say 5-6GB
jurov: just for fun i have tried to cap RSS using control groups so that the rest would go to swap
fluffypony: davout: I think our Year in Review report is a good start - https://forum.monero.cc/1/news-and-announcements/134/monday-monero-missives-22-year-in-review-january-5th-2015
davout: just so i have an idea what it's about so i can dig further if needed
davout: 2~3 pages to start i'd say
fluffypony: http://i.imgur.com/Alg0gBv.jpg
midnightmagic: i need undeformable support. the weight of my leg on my heel while driving is pretty excruciating, but normal shoes would ruin my feel of the floor and pedals
midnightmagic: that's a good idea.. for a long time I thought I'd have to cast a form out of carbon fiber or something
mircea_popescu: there must be some shop left somewhere that still does it. they make chain mail by hand and whatnot, i can't imagine shoemakers all died out.
mircea_popescu: by now... i have nfi.
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: I've been looking for a heel form specifically like that to wear for long trips in my sportscar. Minus all the metal and straps. I think a heel form support over the outside of a vibram would probably double my range without rest.
asciilifeform: (i can think of perhaps one or two ways, but labour competition is quite certainly not one of them)
mircea_popescu: i keep the girls nude indoors.
decimation: yeah, I can see that. note that this wave of 'volunteers' makes life very difficult for actual pros