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mircea_popescu: the whole thing it's such an elaborate cake of fail...
mircea_popescu: why ? wouldn't you want to know if it was at some point and is not now ?
mircea_popescu: if he hangs himself by the ears with a rope made out of state, that's his problem. but saving the thing is not that yet.
mircea_popescu: you're making the jump and presuming nonsensical usage, which may be a fair assumption in general, but not necessary here.
mircea_popescu: moreover, saving stuff to disk is not IN ITSELF a bad thing.
mircea_popescu: the bitcoin foundation has no fucking future. i say this from the same fucking throne i said mtgox has no fucking future ; and bfl has no fucking future ; and so on and so forth. it does not.
mircea_popescu: myeah. the problem being that most people have more sense than to lend their reputation to propping up the space's chief scam club.
mircea_popescu: "bruce_fenton 4 points 10 hours ago We've tried hard to invite others in, just like I just invited you."
mircea_popescu: "i don't want this email so i'll just send it back to its sender".
mircea_popescu: i can't believe this shit. dude srsly that's not how bitcoin works wtf. you can't just send btc back to originating addresses.
mircea_popescu: ing out a subhuman population. not quite monkey enough to be cute in a zoo, not quite human enough to be part of the world. uncanny valley all the way.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-09-2015#1263340 << the proposition that the library of alexandria has anything to do with a bunch of bronze-age derps is ridoinculous. that event was a clear cut case of the elites of one culture wiping the elites of another culture it had defeated. this happens to be right and proper. the solving of the indian problem is nothing of the kind, but simply the elites of a culture wip
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is the reason early us was so great : it correctly identified the natives as the scum that they are, by virtue of being people, and massacred them wholesale.
mircea_popescu: a sterner indictment of humanity as a species could scarcely be devised.
mircea_popescu: the only way to extract function out of the kicking-and-screaming pile of "human cultural & civilisational heritage" is to use things it doesn't know yet. unknown file extensions. unknown protocols. what have you.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so muchg fopr the ~actual~ intended usecase, where idiot can be emailed with the ml cc'd.
mircea_popescu: go for g58a2 or w/e, 5 character items. no .txt ; no .asc ; no anything
mircea_popescu: mkay. so the important rule being : never use any sane file extension.
mircea_popescu: well no cause i can see the sigs no longer verify/stuff was mangled if download the attachments.
mircea_popescu: the difference being that the limits to my activit yare my own discretion.
mircea_popescu: what i had in mind with the "accept encrypted only" thing
mircea_popescu: anyway. email does not belong in civilised society and that's what it is.
mircea_popescu: but honestly, if my choice is between this and nuclear winter im picking nuclear winter right now and everyone can just get a free tan.
mircea_popescu: you had this problem, almost ot the letter, and i confess i thought you were being unreasonable.
mircea_popescu: i was detrimentally relying on our already having shit that works.
mircea_popescu: since this was part of an email, my choices are fix it now or forget about it.
mircea_popescu: you tell me, what the fuck am i supposed to do. i got this thing here, i want it to be so and so. what now.
mircea_popescu: and then any reandom schmuck comes around and herp derp, s/x/y/ because hey, i read it in a coimputing cookbook once
mircea_popescu: at this point in life & time when i am stuck sending an item purporting to be "a payload" on its own, i've already lost.
mircea_popescu: "the thing that was signed" can not stand on iuts own.
mircea_popescu: that's why it's one thing. so they protect each other.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and now HOW THE FUCK IS THE PAYLOAD A THING
mircea_popescu: under no circumstances may one item be two files and fuck everything.
mircea_popescu: clearsign documents - one file. encrypted documents - one file. that's it.
mircea_popescu: that's where the night came in. when i allowed the use of detached sigs.