asciilifeform: among the most eager to slurp up the cock

asciilifeform: usg colony

asciilifeform: http://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-cracks-down-on-pirated-scientific-articles-150609 << somehow missed this when it was 'news'

asciilifeform: gotta love the 's333k000r1ty benefitz' of running a blob of hipsterystrange as root

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu https://github.com/Rossem/RedditStorage << somebody liked your reddit-shitburial idea ☟︎

asciilifeform: but not an arbitrary code exec thing

asciilifeform: it's a known backchannel, yes

asciilifeform: decimation: that's not an escaper

asciilifeform: afaik

asciilifeform: decimation: not comparable

asciilifeform: (not to be confused with the last such, which relied on a flawed emulation of pc floppy card. this one uses nic.)

asciilifeform: based on yet another piece of qemu cruft

asciilifeform: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-135.html << moar lulz. yet another (!) xen escape

asciilifeform: ^ contains a link to the original paper, for anyone unfamiliar.

asciilifeform: http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/04/poker-is-hard-especially-for.html << see also shamir's famous 'mental poker'.

asciilifeform: decimation: that is only needed when one is verifying the 'fair' bit

asciilifeform: but afaik this was never pursued by anyone.

asciilifeform: (see, for example, the 'millionaire protocol')

asciilifeform: now, it is not physically impossible to solve this problem

asciilifeform: it was never claimed

asciilifeform: iirc the satoshidice inventor offered a reward to anyone who might devise a means whereby he can prove that he doesn't do this

asciilifeform: whose only purpose is to be one of the 'provably fair' winners that day ☟︎

asciilifeform: one obvious observation, however, is that 'house' can never prove that it had not shared its seeds with a shill

asciilifeform doesn't care for either kind of dice game, cannot comment re: the appeal of 'provable' ones

asciilifeform: same reason vegas uses prng (supplied, incidentally, by usg)

asciilifeform: because go & prove that it is a physical whatever, rather than a house-always-wins source

asciilifeform: the whole 'provably fair' thing

asciilifeform: same reason 'satoshi dice' did ?

asciilifeform: iod, think hundreds of requests in under a second. The result of this is that he knew all the information required to corroborate the outcomes of his bets. He knew whether if he would win or lose, and could wager accordingly.'

asciilifeform: 'Part of the functionality of our site is that we have to give out decrypted server seeds (to assure users no bet manipulation has occurred) and put a new random seed in place, essentially trashing the old revealed seed. Hufflepuff found a way to “confuse” our server, and made it give out a decrypted server seed that was also an active seed. This was done by sending it more requests than it could handle in a small time per

asciilifeform: https://medium.com/@Stunna/breaking-the-house-63f1021a3e6d << mega-l0l

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: and weird dependencies

asciilifeform: except i'm not sure why this requires GBytes of rubbish

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: query the cutout (said full node)

asciilifeform: the full node is '-connect'ed to a public-facing node, yes

asciilifeform: decimation: neither side, properly speaking, ought to be 'public'

asciilifeform: public ?

asciilifeform: account ?

asciilifeform: the bitcoind, in turn, needs to know how to 1) crap out a proper tx for it to sign 2) eat the result

asciilifeform: thing on the other side needs to know how to sign a tx

asciilifeform: elementary

asciilifeform: what is the purpose of said replacement ?

asciilifeform: no thx

asciilifeform: ick

asciilifeform: wtf is the point

asciilifeform: needs a custom bitcoind ?

asciilifeform: ugh

asciilifeform knows that one can 'theoretically' be turned into the other, but is not so much interested in the particulars as in the overall flavour of the design, as to whether it rejected networking to begin with

asciilifeform: or does it open ordinary sockets and expect a tcp stack ☟︎

asciilifeform: does it know how to communicate over a serial cable with a full node ?

asciilifeform can't comment re: 'electrum', never used

asciilifeform: other than that, 'take it or leave it'

asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu ever feels like saying any more on the subject, he can.

asciilifeform: and that's pretty much it

asciilifeform: and, possibly, that he did the Right Thing and sawed off wallet into a separate mechanism: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2014#890284 ☝︎

asciilifeform: and that it uses the traditional blkxxxx format to keep said blocks in: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=30-06-2015#1182019 ☝︎

asciilifeform: which is what we, in particular, care about, for this purpose.

asciilifeform: all i can personally say about this is that it serves up (big fat surprise!) apparently correct blocks ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=24-06-2015#1173899 ☝︎

asciilifeform: for the specific purpose of running mpex

asciilifeform: shinohai: my understanding is that mircea_popescu, with the help of trusted phriendz unknown to us, did something quite like therealbitcoin, early on

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: since, i think, 2011

asciilifeform: it is running his own personal, unpublished port of bitcoind

asciilifeform: 188.68.240.167 ☟︎

asciilifeform: shinohai: mircea_popescu has one up ☟︎

asciilifeform: (most of which are, at present time, considered highly experimental and will not be making it into a release any time soon)

asciilifeform: i just made a couplea patches

asciilifeform: shinohai: i must point out that it isn't 'mine', but therealbitcon's (in the face of ben_vulpes and mod6)

asciilifeform: ..?

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in turdmeisterdom, http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/2015/07/03#l1435884599.0 ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: http://buildroot-busybox.2317881.n4.nabble.com/PATCH-0-5-Support-for-musl-based-external-toolchains-td52730.html << buildroot apparently supports it

asciilifeform: mod6, possibly: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_musl

asciilifeform: and, interestingly, https://github.com/sabotage-linux/sabotage

asciilifeform: http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html

asciilifeform: for fundamental reasons

asciilifeform: trinque: thing is, 'lispy' interpreters written in a hurry by students end up being all quite alike

asciilifeform: (e.g., dynamic scope)

asciilifeform: more or less a throwback to very impoverished 1970s lisps

asciilifeform: elisp, incidentally, is a world-class turd

asciilifeform: the difference is important

asciilifeform: trinque: mno. because it doesn't (except in the most minimal sense) try to handle unixisms ~from within~

asciilifeform: trinque: emacs, you might be surprised to learn, predates rms

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-07-2015#1184640 << a bit of a fundamental misconception here. 'emacs' in particular is ~not~ a 'text editor', but a kind of poor man's lisp machine. and is used as such by many folks ☝︎

asciilifeform: trinque: aha, precisely like the 'real communists'

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-07-2015#1184666 << as i understand, this is an example of 'smv' (sexual market value) as described by mocsny and kokkarinen at work. it takes the form of 'man: what can i afford' 'woman: with your bid, you can afford to be my driver and pay two-thirds of my rent. in return, you get every 47th fuck, if good behaviour.' ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: in both cases, the pathology of failing to 'set the bozo bit' on a philosophically-bankrupt system

asciilifeform: just as the 'гласность' folks were the strongest believers, in their time, in concept of ussr

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-07-2015#1184659 << in a very important sense, those folks are the ~strongest~ believers in usg as a concept ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-07-2015#1184723 << wai wat ?! ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: particular people.

asciilifeform: and not of computers (which, last i saw, did not program themselves) - but of ~people~

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-07-2015#1184748 << in order to formulate ~rational~ distrust, you need literacy. which is not and cannot be a mass phenomenon. hence the choice, for the lumpens, is between mystical trust and mystical distrust ☝︎

asciilifeform: (not that it is impossible, but there is nothing to recommend it vs any other hypothesis)

asciilifeform: the 'email client' thing, if you recall, was a canned fabrication by the 'debunking' fella

asciilifeform: trinque: i can think of no reason to suppose that the folks named in the keys had anything whatsoever to do with submitting the 32bit-diddled versions

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field