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mircea_popescu: to put this morning's set of realisations in a simple, clear package : making a battleship is nowhere near as good as making a battleship out of ustard decapitated heads.
mircea_popescu: you can use fucking twitter for all the difference it makes.
mircea_popescu: nobody cares if "fall over" because there's so damned many of them.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside the theory. the model here contemplated is actually workable.
mircea_popescu: is both a lot more feasible and way cheaper than the alternative "we'll lay our own cable fu"
mircea_popescu: looky. a gossipd based on the concept that you keep firewalled clients at home and they connect to a random pile of websites, which simply respond with pgp -w text
mircea_popescu: he could get 8.5 bts/byte from urandom for the same money.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo Posted on November 29, 2015 by Bingo Boingo ?
mircea_popescu: so far we're mostly finding novel ways to use up entropy we don't really have.
mircea_popescu: one could in principle do exactly what FM does to radio waves.
mircea_popescu: in so doing it actually promotes both personal-ness and variety.
mircea_popescu: which is to say : it provides a clean, standard interface that preserves personal and various thing entirely.
mircea_popescu: i suppose here wins. anyway : the proposed scheme has exactly the advantage of alphabet
mircea_popescu: (that's CarbonMan, before you ask. his superpower is well... super power.)
mircea_popescu: what ddos ? your node works exactly like your home nat router, only allowing outbound connections.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: whenever one in my wot wants to see what i'm up to he should connect to trilema, read "plain text" of the pgp -w ilk above, that's it.
mircea_popescu: gossipd must work on a pull model. exactly like old ml.
mircea_popescu: there is absolutely no reason for gossipd to work on a push model of data transfer.
mircea_popescu: also, thinking about it, it occurs to me that the model we've been using to think about gossipd is fundamentally broken.
mircea_popescu: as long as she sucks the cock and you buy her food, who the fuck cares what you call it.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski in fairness i saw this for years in worthless dumbass "artists"
mircea_popescu: shit, i never even knew pizza went in paper in the first place.
mircea_popescu: the only problem with this "abundance perspective" being thgat the measure often is something as retarded as "how large the grease spot on the paper is"
mircea_popescu: yes, arguably the individual wonderbread slice is slightly larger in some measurement than the pizza slice.
mircea_popescu: or else a slab of wonderbread dipped in palm oil with petrocheese and some fenyl-flavouring split in 32
mircea_popescu: the options are either hand-made pizza out of wheat flour with actual anchovies, olives and proper cheese, split in 8
mircea_popescu: adding more people not only reduces the available slices through them eating it,
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski except it doesn't grow the god damned pizza.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, re the eventual republican reimplementation of pgp : other than the -a armored mode, i want it to also have a -w armored mode. in this mode, it should load a list of lines from a file, modulo the message by the line count of that file, replace every numeric unit with the respective line,
mircea_popescu: "the man who helped spawn the whole debate" and all teh other avatars of usg wooden tongue in full display.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo just don't give yourself pneumonia before you get moar kids in the qntra mines!
mircea_popescu: heck, i lived in a time when people smoked on planes, to no detriment.
mircea_popescu: if they're going to make show you up x hours early because security theatre, might as well spend them wasting their time.
mircea_popescu: i lived in a time when travel took more than "boarding"
mircea_popescu: sit around in govt checkout booth, then go for a slutwalk and mcdonalds takeout.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that the conflict in europe was the smaller half of the conflict.
mircea_popescu: i seem to remember that according to the pravda, russia won ww2 all by itself also