asciilifeform: if i want to change keys, i should have to specifically sign a message to that effect.

asciilifeform: ';Urko is a dog. Urko is one of my best friends. Urko is a fantastic dog becoz sometimes..... Urko SPEAKS! Urko is very timid and only speaks to me...and not always...urko only speaks when both,urko and me,we start to smoke that rare cigarretes that urko has. Then urko start to speak a lot of :) and we stay all night speaking,smoking and seeing films orplaying trivial pursuit,or coding,or doing a lot of things :)'

asciilifeform: artifexd: well-thumbed copy of this right here on my desk. beautiful book, if you skip all the parts that must have been thrown in to give it a sensational/saleable 'seekoority' flavour (vignette about h4xx0rz shuffling floppies around in ch.1, mostly)

asciilifeform: artifexd: i recommend a particular monograph, 'malicious crypto' by a. l. young & moti m. young.

asciilifeform: someone still remains here in #b-a, of such a habit?

asciilifeform: and fella uses a winblows box for daily life ?!?!

asciilifeform: it wasn't around in '89. won't build on a vax.

asciilifeform was simply floored with mindfuck that anyone would choose google's turdlang for a piece of critical infrastructure, and could not resist ringing the bell ☟︎

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: it isn't simply an 'other language', it's a massive toolchain created and maintained by a usg satrap.

asciilifeform: it didn't even occur to me that anyone would write such a thing in anything other than c

asciilifeform: as discussed a few days ago, i recently installed a mips64 router.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a google-proprietary language similar to 'd.'

asciilifeform: what are you developing on? a vax ?

asciilifeform: 'go' is a turd that i will not have on my systems.

asciilifeform: davout: 1) his gizmo is in 'go', a google-proprietary turdlang 2) he's using its built-in crypto routines 3) if you don't like this, have fun waiting 300-500msec/packet using the shell-callout

asciilifeform: the part that's puzzling is - a classical cargo cult has 'the airplane flies', or an analogous prayed-for outcome

asciilifeform: or is it a kind of chumpatronic acid trip, like lotteries

asciilifeform: what is with reddit and the 'tipping' thing? is everyone 'roleplaying' a waiter, a bootblack ?

asciilifeform: speaking of which, did artifexd follow mircea_popescu's prescription and use a hacked gpg for 'gossip' ?

asciilifeform: do they give a damn re: being eaten? now pigburial may be another matter.

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

asciilifeform: 'My suggestion was quite simple: Put that needed code number in a little capsule, and then implant that capsule right next to the heart of a volunteer. The volunteer would carry with him a big, heavy butcher knife as he accompanied the President. If ever the President wanted to fire nuclear weapons, the only way he could do so would be for him first, with his own hands, to kill one human being.'

asciilifeform: (how and why it works is a primary school level mathematical proof. i recommend that anyone unfamiliar with it, try to derive)

asciilifeform: von neumann's balancer is not a whitener.