asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://archive.is/n1IbD >> 'The training of today’s SWOs was further eroded by the Pentagon’s focus on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before 2010, many Navy officers who were expected to learn on the job were not on ships at all. During critical times in their professional development, they were taken away from their ships and sent to serve as individual augmentees with soldiers and Marines fighting in land-bas

asciilifeform: not quite what i picture as 'retired', but nfi

asciilifeform: iirc was spotted in prb chat , harping re evil ol' mp&co, as recently as april

asciilifeform: was exactly as mircea_popescu described.

asciilifeform: ( who took over as chief prbist? ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: nah, same way as they unplugged his executive orders. 'pardon? very funny, d00d stays in jail, whatchagonnadoaboutit'

asciilifeform: another plus of small box with ssd -- you can use ordinary 12v lead cell as backup power.

asciilifeform: ^ the one that took laughing gas as oxidizer

asciilifeform: i expect they will doctor the evidence, and witnesses, as needed

asciilifeform: phunphakt -- at one time usg considered these 'dual use item', on account of their popularity as carbomb trigger

asciilifeform: mno, i knew about it as a boy. but had no clue that time would come to write it with own hands

asciilifeform: in those days, asciilifeform naively -- and silently -- imagined that as soon as btc began to be worth palpable moneys, the 'big kidz' quietly hired d00dz with long, long beards, to write ada node

asciilifeform: ( the office, as such, dates to clinton reign )

asciilifeform: goat will go to the soup pot still thinking of man as simply a vertical goat, 'and if the cards had fallen differently, it'd be him under the knife' etc

asciilifeform: there's a few interesting divergences from the protocol as commonly understood, in the actual clients ( esp prb ). for instance the capacity to backtrack orphan chains longer than a dozen or so is ~untested for eons

asciilifeform: ( why to do this ? just as in other cases of 'i can't believe it's not X!', dram is not actually random-access -- all currently sold drams only achieve their rated speed in 'burst mode'; and from that it follows that they are only ever read to fill a cache line; and from this, trivial timing leak etc. and the joys of 'rowhammer', bonus. ) ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform not wholly off subject, was looking into what using sram for main memory would cost. turns out -- surprise? -- approx same as what dram cost in mid-90s

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-23#1702512 << reads like the same ameritards as before, 'can haz reddit and paypal but kinder and gentler' ☝︎

asciilifeform: as in late '90s ru

asciilifeform: ( if making own 'disks' -- use otp roms for blockchain. as discussed in old thread. now if only somebody still made otp roms !! )

asciilifeform: the ~actual~ purpose of the attempted 'frameworks' is to drill into your skull and install the idea that nullcipher, diffiehellman, aes, are acceptable things to exist in this world, and can be pushed as 'cryptography'

asciilifeform: valentinbuza: i regard the entire concept of 'real time automated public key crypto' as a scam, and anyone claiming to offer such a thing, as a scammer, until constant time rsa routines are public.

asciilifeform: as for diffie hellman, it is nsatronic , and this is fairly well known at this point ( whether because timing side channel, primes-which-ain't, and other sabotage of concrete implementations- or more fundamentally broken - is unknown )