asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and rogozov performed a self-appendectomy in the antarctic.
asciilifeform: interestingly, it is a well-documented fact that when ivan iv sat his courtiers down on stakes, a very common (if not most common) last few hours was shouting 'god save the king'
asciilifeform: the gods could write a riotously funny book of what folks said while sitting on stakes, boiling in oil, etc
asciilifeform: what next, link to confessions from the trials of '37 ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they came to terms with their life. << did i forget to take my morning lsd today, or what? who and where ever 'came to terms with their life' ?
asciilifeform: (implication was - that they died. unless i misread)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so what cut down the superfluous males ?
asciilifeform: but outside of quasi-mythical sparta, the winnowing in the past was worked by 'four horsemen' rather than specially-designed school
asciilifeform: the basic observation is sound, in that we have a 'mouse experiment' situation where men (specifically) are built considerably in excess of how many 'places' are to be had for them
asciilifeform: possibly tonight will write a civilized loader which forgoes the idiocy of setting up http connection for each key submitted and pumps straight into the db
asciilifeform: (and they make pgpdump unhappy, in various ways, yes.)
asciilifeform: incidentally, now is a good time to mention the fact that sks also contains a great many keys which were too malformed to even attempt phuctoring
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: not at present. will probably end up spending some quality time with the sourc
asciilifeform: how that one was made - remains unknown
asciilifeform: notice it does not include the faux-anvin
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: you are correct. only applies to -every key in The List-
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: at present, we have sufficient info to birth these on demand from legit keys. but we do not know the magic trick which yields decryption (it does not necessarily take the shape of a private key! and may not even -exist- for every possible starting legit key)
asciilifeform: no one - certainly not 'hackernews' imbeciles who ship their hardware with winblows drivers because 'consumer has come to expect' - give a flying fuck about auditability, etc.
asciilifeform: apparently i can discuss my designs all i want without fear of being 'scooped' because 'everybody' thinks i'm entirely batshit.
asciilifeform: jurov: and yes, they are typically 'best practices' retarded - e.g., 'whitening' etc
asciilifeform: jurov: realize that folks have been selling rng since at least late '70s
asciilifeform: jurov: the submission thing is a hastily-written script.
asciilifeform: (just getting atomic writes (sort-of) on such a box requires disk controller with battery compartment)
asciilifeform: jurov: and i will point out that it is quite impossible to build a guaranteed power-cycle-immune anything on a standard x86 pc, which doesn't even have a powerfail interrupt
asciilifeform: jurov: the thing has no lisp or anything else interesting in it
asciilifeform: (which will not be an issue once werker runs continuously)
asciilifeform: aaaactually my understanding is that one of the 19 got requeued, which 'un-broke' it. say hello to our first annoying bug.
asciilifeform: and the pressure on sks server keepers to start removing things will be turned on, yes.
asciilifeform: incidentally, now more than ever is the time to set up an sks server under our control. because sks is our ultimate 'backup'☟︎
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu aaaand somehow '19' turned into '18' !?! (i do have a db backup, so if this is enemy action they can go fuck themselves.)
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu thing is still largely loading moduli missed (due to db locking idiocy) the first time around.
