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mircea_popescu: except they';re trying tyo you know, make it opposable. to everyone but not themselves.
mircea_popescu: and it's all cancer outgrowth from republican spleen, as it happens. that idea that republican "ideal man" is same in public and in private.
mircea_popescu: but if you look at it, whole movement is built on this thing. "hypocrisy" is how you say "we think we decide what other people say in public or in private" in pantsuit.
mircea_popescu: as if that's how it fucking works, and pantsuits get to decide what is joe's public and what is joe's private communication\
mircea_popescu: it's a whole thing, "oh, PRESERVE HIS DRUNKEN TWEETS"
mircea_popescu: for some reason they're obsessed with making the old man's life miserable by pestering him constantly.
asciilifeform: 'Latest from our investigations White House spotlight: Tracking Donald Trump By The Center for Public Integrity February 13, 2017' << aaaah yes
mircea_popescu: no, that part is explicable
asciilifeform: ( and for some inexplicable reason i had to strip the headers, for these to get eaten )
asciilifeform: re the nuke piece, for future reference :
mircea_popescu: heh. the sad times when the best you can hope for is the idle class staying idle.
trinque: in that, I can't dislike him *that* much
trinque: guy's job as texas governor was primarily to do nothing, and make sure the other parts of government did as much nothing as possible, too.
mircea_popescu: trinque to quote the rage of central america... "deeeeeespaaaacito... como lo hacen en puerto rico..."
mircea_popescu: aha. was even lulzed vaguely in the logs last year iirc.
asciilifeform: '...they gathered eight rods painstakingly crafted out of plutonium, and positioned them side-by-side on a table to photograph how nice they looked.' << lol! slotin spins in his lead coffin
mircea_popescu: ive not seen one but i think they do exist here
shinohai is amazed how these butterflies are like a coin flip. iridescent on one side, drab brown on reverse ....
shinohai: Do you ever see any of the Morpho menelaus around where you are in Costa Rica? Those are my favorite.
mircea_popescu: lotta that on trilema. gets me all thew time too
shinohai: Somehow I overlooked that gem, but better late than never!
shinohai is enjoying the Rhopalocera from http://trilema.com/2017/the-pulation-and-other-biodiversities/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform by now that verbiage is as good as a paper comedy gold certificate of deposit.
asciilifeform: aah the one where 'elite team of experts understands complex security issues'
mod6: mornin' tmsr~
deedbot: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/66C8EBEA4DE5ACA6EFC6B1B1BE33ECBCC9D4D64BD6D5F1CBEFC5818CE16AE914 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1211...2273 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '112.16.4.16 (ssh-rsa key from 112.16.4.16 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown CN)
deedbot: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/8F1E48FD50BC89EFA18F3A63DFD88482CB3B74362F99077EA25B771FD7F10AFF << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1015...6687 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '183.246.76.198 (ssh-rsa key from 183.246.76.198 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown CN)
deedbot: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/78EEABCADE0AAF24BF0A74FFC4499719B490E7A27952560F9860F82FFF341545 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1015...6687 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '183.246.78.224 (ssh-rsa key from 183.246.78.224 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown CN 33)
deedbot: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/66C8EBEA4DE5ACA6EFC6B1B1BE33ECBCC9D4D64BD6D5F1CBEFC5818CE16AE914 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1015...6687 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '112.16.4.16 (ssh-rsa key from 112.16.4.16 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown CN)
BingoBoingo unsure if this is related to smoking cessation or alf's dosimeter hypothesis
BingoBoingo somehow picked up a case of acedia this week
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/nicaragua-es-un-pais-pobre/ << Trilema - Nicaragua es un pais pobre.
mircea_popescu: to them it makes sense.
mircea_popescu: and in random lulz : bus line in costa rica chose the facebook handle viajEROTICAbus
ben_vulpes: wat-as-hell pitfalls of modern timeshare scams: https://sysdig.com/blog/container-isolation-gone-wrong/
shinohai: http://archive.is/9jQzU <<< Top kek OPSEC
a111: Logged on 2017-06-28 21:15 asciilifeform: in other noose, in 6236676 phuctor moduli, still just the same old 2 fermat-factorables as 6 mo. ago.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-28 20:23 ben_vulpes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/06/27/seattles-higher-minimum-wage-is-actually-working-just-fine/ << "minimum wage increase is totally working!!!"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-28#1676078 << "twice the heroin works ok for me!" ☝︎
mircea_popescu: there is time tho
a111: Logged on 2017-06-28 17:55 asciilifeform: ( this was very near the time when FUCKGOATS was beginning to happen , and it took over asciilifeform's head for a long while )
asciilifeform: palatine: enjoy. and also there are logs, http://btcbase.org/log .
palatine: just reading trilema and contravex and followed the lead here
asciilifeform: ( 10,000 shots of fermatola / per.; took ~40 min. )
asciilifeform: in other noose, in 6236676 phuctor moduli, still just the same old 2 fermat-factorables as 6 mo. ago. ☟︎
jurov: a parallel with economy struck me. economists invented something they call "value" and are jerking off on it it ever since
ben_vulpes: best part, "their results are just completely out of the standard accepted by minimum wage hike advocates as reasonable"
ben_vulpes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/06/27/seattles-higher-minimum-wage-is-actually-working-just-fine/ << "minimum wage increase is totally working!!!" ☟︎
TomServo: also, take *its* toll
BingoBoingo: ^ Pulling over to make phone call like you aren't a suicidal psycho bitch, nao suspicious
BingoBoingo: ^ Workvehicles now assumed to be crime scenes
BingoBoingo: In other citizen complaints: "Regarding recent posts about a suspicious white panel van that has been spotted ... was contacted by the owner who recognized his vehicle after seeing the posts on social media. He is a local construction worker who had pulled over to take a phone call after leaving a job site near the original complaint location... this was a false alarm."
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> apparently in usg also there are 'untouchable' folx. << Care to do a qntra? Your interpretation seems more interesting than mine.
asciilifeform: ( this was very near the time when FUCKGOATS was beginning to happen , and it took over asciilifeform's head for a long while ) ☟︎
asciilifeform: gotta do this, at some point , after done with the rsa thing
a111: Logged on 2017-06-28 01:32 Framedragger: (ah in fact a bit up the stack, http://trilema.com/2016/gossipd-design-document/#comment-121602)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-28#1675561 << i reread the mega-thread, and it seems that i promised mircea_popescu an algo ! and never iirc posted... ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( it ~wants~, seems, TB+ )
asciilifeform: ecutors. He will also have access to the case files associated with criminal trials.'
asciilifeform: 'Around the time of the attack, the pro-government Supreme Court expanded the role of the state ombudsman, a human rights guarantor who is closely allied with Maduro, by giving him powers previously held only by the state prosecutor's office. Tarek Saab, an ardent Maduro ally, can now lead criminal investigations by ordering state officials to conduct autopsies and carry out ballistics tests, powers previously reserved for state pros
asciilifeform: '"It's a terrorist attack that is part of an insurrectional offensive by Venezuelan right-wing extremists with the support of foreign governments and powers," said a Venezuelan government communique on the helicopter raid.' << didjaknow
mircea_popescu: i was thinking one of the military ones.
asciilifeform: i had nfi there were any place to even fit a barrel on these
mircea_popescu: you ever been in one odf those ? they're ~useless for aiming
asciilifeform: further lulz from recent fishwrap, https://archive.is/37eB9 >> 'Venezuelan police helicopter strafed the Supreme Court and a government ministry on Tuesday...'
asciilifeform: ( try running dh on, say, a kByte of anything whatsoever )
asciilifeform: well no, not so simple, dh is happy to print 'weak' or 'fail' that resulted from... IT WRAPPING THE STRING
mircea_popescu: bcause nobody can ever be told they'\re not fucking good enough omfgbbq
asciilifeform: i could live with 'too few bits? yer stuck with lower P, and oh here i'll print the P'
asciilifeform: it is in this case specifically cargocultism, rather than application
mircea_popescu: p-value worship, as such, numerically. i betcha if i told him i have a dentistry certificate he'd be impressed.
asciilifeform: 'cannot rightfully apprehend the confusion of ideas that would lead to such...' (tm)(r)(babbage)
mircea_popescu: then that becomes a pattern when you reuse it
mircea_popescu: fucking stupid camp. there's a guarantee real random stream will vary from 01010101 by some count.
mircea_popescu: yes but then he implements rewinds ?
asciilifeform: as i understand it was a statistical ('p value') demand by the author.
mircea_popescu: well running 1mn times over 1mb is not "bettering" the mb
asciilifeform: some tests still read 'rewound 15 times'
mircea_popescu: eh, TB ?
asciilifeform: and would not reply to asciilifeform's or other (iirc BingoBoingo ) attempts to find why
asciilifeform: author apparently considered 'p value too low unless TB of input' or whatnot
a111: Logged on 2017-05-23 01:06 asciilifeform: ( the grade outputted by the 'hungrier' tests appears to be in direct proportion to sample size, and very little else; and FG, /dev/urandom, various fashionable prng, intel's mysterymeatrng, and several others, all exhibit same effect, 100% pass begins somewhere b/w 1-3GB sample size. )
mircea_popescu: not that i've seen
asciilifeform: hey, it's a hose from the stable's piss trough -- but at least it doesn't block !!
mircea_popescu: "showers require prohibitive amounts of mule-carried water to operate"
mircea_popescu: see, what do you want dirigible for. alreadfy got one, looking down through telescope at teh stone age folk
asciilifeform: 'Sources need to be statistically assessed. The quality of the entropy being produced needs to be estimated so that enough can be released to properly seed the RNG. The dieharder and TESTU01 suites are good but they both require prohibitively large amounts of random data to operate. NIST's SP800-90B tests seem to be statistically sound and have manageable data requirements....' << didjaknow!
asciilifeform is quite looking forward to the frenzied butthurtz of the shitlibs folx when 'p' is released.
mircea_popescu: yeah lolz. "this is what is important TO US"
asciilifeform: 'we are talking about it, THEREFORE RELEVANT!1' etc
mircea_popescu: "oh, but the only reason i even discuss that generazl point is to try and sell you cheetos"
asciilifeform: or even to promote the notion that openssl has whatever kind of future.
mircea_popescu: bitch, that "silly" does not map on your "use this broken one"
mircea_popescu: opposite i mean to the general. like "making rng more complex is silly -- here, use tyhis broken one"
mircea_popescu: this "arguing in the general for opposite particulars" byzantine "wisdom" ie stupidtity is just about all us by mass now
a111: Logged on 2016-08-17 16:54 asciilifeform: all i solidly know of the tptacek fella is his reaction to phuctor.
asciilifeform: !#s tptacek
asciilifeform: beloved sage ideologue of the schneierism komyoonity, author of gems like https://archive.is/ootJi ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-06-28 13:17 sina: "It’s not crazy for OpenSSL to redesign and simplify its CSPRNG. It is silly to make it MORE complicated." from tptacek
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-28#1675879 << ftr tptacek is the infamous 'USE /DEV/URANDOM !!' d00d ☝︎