asciilifeform: wtf does that thing even care about timestamps
asciilifeform: atm i don't have access to a usable bitcoin node at all!
asciilifeform: because what i am seeing has every mark of an orchestrated attack against degavinated network, under the smoke cover of the ph0rk aftermath
asciilifeform: and is anyone else experiencing a wedged 0.5.x node of the precise kind i have ?
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu that box really hasn't sufficient i/o to comfortably house phuctor and node. but i presently haven't any other place to put a node.
asciilifeform: this appears to be the proximate cause of the wedge
asciilifeform: and also, as before, ERROR: CheckBlock() : block timestamp too far in the future ERROR: ProcessBlock() : CheckBlock FAILED
asciilifeform: seeing many thousands of 'ERROR: AcceptToMemoryPool() : nonstandard transaction type' also.
asciilifeform: punkman: no, megatonnes of tx garbage
asciilifeform: these are running 100% identical 'stator'
asciilifeform: and interestingly, a node '-connect'-ed to that one, is wedged at 363954 for 12+ hours now!
asciilifeform: (because higher price tag + vapour delivery is far more lucrative than low + same vapour)
asciilifeform: just like an f-35 engine compressor made from monocrystalline shitanium with unobtainium alloy blades is far more lucrative than an ordinary steel one
asciilifeform: which also means that there is that much more to be embezzled via meta-armies of imaginary labourers
asciilifeform: decimation: the process of crafting, concealing, and then digging up '0days' is extremely labour-intensive
asciilifeform: if 'selling the rope with which to be hanged'
asciilifeform: what i'd like to see happen is for all the poor schmucks who report, e.g., a 'xen' 0day, to 'cert' et al, to understand that they are ~weaponsmithing for usg for free~
asciilifeform: decimation: notice that 'winblows' now includes much of the unixlike world, in practice.
asciilifeform: the hell they rot in is a strictly voluntary place
asciilifeform: what next, we are to care about the 'innocents' 'securing themselves' with winblows?
asciilifeform: at any rate, the offenders for this last item are known, habitual, and loudly unrepentant.
asciilifeform: every devil, great and small, held up by his hindlegs over the fire will say exactly same thing: 'mistake'
asciilifeform: i personally refuse to make any distinction between someone who wrote, e.g., 'heartbleed', into existence - and some other fella who ~knew of it and didn't tell me~
asciilifeform: i don't give a flying fuck personally, but the terminology might sow some confusion among readership
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu minor nitpick with article: 'bitcoin core' is what the gavinists call their turd. the traditional client is generally known as 'bitcoind'.
asciilifeform: 'The average C/C++ programmer's intuition says that uninitialized variables are fine as long as you don't depend on their values. A more experienced programmer probably suspects that uninitialized variables are fine as long as you don't access them. ... Well, it turns out that even if the caller does nothing at all with the return value – ever... ... the program might bomb.'
asciilifeform: better to have nothing than a shit-wine hybrid barrel.
asciilifeform: (oop systems which aren't clos (or possibly smalltalk's, and generally meta-object-able) are like btc securities exchanges which aren't mpex.)
asciilifeform: why not, e.g., vernam (one time pad)? seemingly low-tech. but in point of fact, i can picture the conversation. 'provably unbreakable.' 'by what proof' '...' 'ah, but this mathematics is not in our wot.'
asciilifeform: doing anything more recent - even, e.g., a 16th century italian cipher like gerolamo cardano's grille - would be quite inconsistent with the whole framework
asciilifeform: the fella we keep bringing up, who directed his followers to use caesar's cipher, was actually being the very example of intellectual consistency here.
asciilifeform: (the cost is not apparent while the spoils of war - american tanks, ru/cn-contributed ammo, asian electronics - are plentiful. but try after!)
asciilifeform: look how much of the 'thoughtchain' the folks flying the mohammedan flag ended up having to ditch
asciilifeform: makes global thermonukefest look like a cheap carnival ride
asciilifeform: as mircea_popescu points out, 'thought forks' are ruinously expensive
asciilifeform: or that other thread, which i can't seem to find, where we spoke of how 'maths wot is not essential for being published, but for even having publishable ideas instead of burning your life on fibonacci sequences or some other solved/irrelevant dead end'☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
