asciilifeform: not that backport should be used as is! but why piss away time on a turd ?

asciilifeform: see his article re: how 'no one alive has the authority to create a fork, deliberate or otherwise' (don't have link handy)

asciilifeform: nubbins`: mircea_popescu takes a 'sapper errs once' attitude to bitcoin compatibility, for reasons which should need no explanation

asciilifeform: bitwise-identical doesn't need a mathematician to prove... just a copy of 'diff'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is actually the reason why my first suggestion was to merely rip out the relevant parts of openssl (pick a version) so as the build ends up - 1) self-contained 2) bitwise identical binary

asciilifeform: until such a day as folks with 'skin in game' no longer think it necessary.

asciilifeform: if non exploitable, then 'it ain't a bug, it's a feature'

asciilifeform: if it was an exploitable bug, old chain is a dead man walking

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: somebody would have to cough up a mathematicized model of 'c' and stdlib + rest of the spittoon

asciilifeform: it should ask for only a tcp stack and a place to park bytes in some nonvolatile way

asciilifeform: fully algorithmic statement of bitcoin cannot have 'and a turd goes here'

asciilifeform: (if you're waiting for someone to mathematically prove equivalence, you'll be waiting a long time)

asciilifeform: fact is, i can run a graphical proggy on machine at other side of my house, or other side of the planet, and have the output - regardless of where in my display devices i shove it - look -exactly- the same as if it were local

asciilifeform: i -use- the functionality they don't see a purpose for.

asciilifeform: mats: for one thing, it it can't be piped over ip, it isn't a substitute for x ☟︎

asciilifeform: what's a german patriot in '45.

asciilifeform: merely suggesting that an official statement from usg has the same credibility as the testimony of a habitual mugger who's been in and out of jails since he was 8 y.o., given upon apprehension at 4am in an alley ☟︎

asciilifeform: quite a few folks who ought to know better make monkey noises when i/anyone speak of 'shadow state' and lizardhitler

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: that was about 10 minutes' work, and if you notice - didn't lead to a usable result

asciilifeform: none of the post-95 features are likely to be usable on a bare-metal build ☟︎

asciilifeform: punkman: get the 'rationale' book. every piece of 'gnarl' is justified, and the justification reads like your local fire code - every line is likely there because of a corpse

asciilifeform: incidentally, is somebody here interested in attempting a surgical replacement of 'openssl' in bitcoind 0.5.3 with 'micro-ecc' ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: this is sop for a generation now

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in usa, bank happily hands robber a bag of money with small mine inside

asciilifeform: jurov: can't recommend a large, recurring btc expense for s.nsa until revenue >0, and can't picture mircea_popescu liking the idea much either

asciilifeform: because usd is a renewable resource

asciilifeform: 'you need to go fuck yourself in the arsehole with a nice red hot iron dildo. I think that ought to improve your minuscule intellect.' -- from today's fan mail

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: but there is almost certainly a sound physical reason, because same was true on ru side

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it was clear to anyone who gives a fuck that usg would target ammunition, rather than small arms per se, when it 'gets serious' ☟︎

asciilifeform: 'There is just one set of rules that are effective and widely deployed: those that enforce the destruction of the natural world. Buried in the cross-compliance regulations is a measure called GAEC 12. This insists that, to receive their money, farmers must prevent "unwanted vegetation" from growing on their land. (The rest of us call it wildlife habitat.) Even if their land is producing nothing, they must cut, graze or spray i