asciilifeform: sorta like the machine doesn't care if such-and-such is getting jumped to because a d00d munged the return address through buffer overflow, etc
asciilifeform: the ultimate stage of this development is to realize that the tramp was already dead, cut up by a long series of maniacs previously, and one's job is to in fact stitch its parts together into a frankensteinian creature of one's own conception
asciilifeform: nformed outsider can tell if someone is being archived. The leakage should be subtle enough that it is not easily noticed.'
asciilifeform: 'The underhanded goal is this: write surveil() in such a way that the act of surveillance is subtly leaked to the user or to the outside world. PiuPiu can not reveal the act of surveillance, but your function is technically able to edit the Piu or user structure during scanning. Find a way to alter that data (this alone is a bit of a challenge, since you are not supposed to alter the data, just scan it) in such a way that an i
asciilifeform: 'The PiuPiu oversharing site allows users to create PiuPiu accounts and post 140-character messages. The federal government wants PiuPiu to surveil user activity on the site, by archiving any posts that match certain patterns outlined in a national security letter. Subject to the nondisclosure constraints of the letter, PiuPiu may not inform anyone of the surveillance request.'☟︎
asciilifeform: so if anyone would like to do it first, please go, do.
asciilifeform: caveat: i cannot now say ~when~ i will do this experiment.
asciilifeform: (now that we appear to have bounded memory footprint, adding swap is no longer 'slowing death' but 'slow life')
asciilifeform: if this can be had, result will become part of a 'buildroot' for pogo with swap-enabled.
asciilifeform: then will see what obstacle, if any, remains to a static+uclibc build.
asciilifeform: my next experiment re: 0.5.3 is to be a complete amputation of dns (the sequence of 'amputator' patches starting with 'dns seeds' and continuing with yesterday's two is in place for this)☟︎
asciilifeform is sorta imagining a 'studio audience' of folks who might actually consider using 0.5.3.next on the battlefield, pending some actual clarification of wtf we did to it
asciilifeform: if you grep for '+' at linestarts you'll get what i actually ~added~
asciilifeform: good thing it mostly consists of minus signs.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it most certainly is. though it will get squeezed when i roll out the multicore phuctoratron
asciilifeform: incidentally, i've asked before and will ask again now - who has read my patches ?☟︎
asciilifeform: mod6 has the resource consumption data on the apparatus in question (assuming mod6 and ben_vulpes decide to ratify the requisite patches which added up to that sample)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, kakobrekla, jurov, other folks with serious servers - who wants to volunteer for node duty ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's the liver to do with it ?
asciilifeform: my understanding is that a sufferer of, e.g., mouth herpes, could actually infect himself with penile herpes if he were sufficiently.. flexible
asciilifeform: a) isn't quite a complete description. in the folks having the particular immune quirk which lets the thing blow up into red skin etc., exposure can plant it down in new places (thing lives in nearest nerve)
asciilifeform doesn't actually spend much time with pr0n, now or historically - for approximately same reason why he doesn't look at pictures of food☟︎
