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asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why are you convinced that it was a 'wordpress'-based ddos ?
PinkPosixPXE: asciilifeform: For serious security, perhaps yes, but everything runs on hardware, it's just the software layer that interacts with how entropy is derived from teh hardware wether it's something you plug in or something you run on a server
PinkPosixPXE: When the Mycelium Entropy is inserted into the USB drive, hardware-based entropy is harnessed to create a large, truly random, number. The random number is generated using a static RAM chip, which Holcomb, D.E.; Burleson, W.P.; and Fu. K. have proven is capable of generating “128-bit true random numbers.” This number is then used as the seed to generate a private key and corresponding Bitcoin
PinkPosixPXE: There's that new usb device called 'entropy' which is a usb coin wallet, that you can just plug in https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/mycelium-successfully-funds-usb-bitcoin-wallet-device-entropy-with-indiegogo/
asciilifeform: not hardware driven << a schoolboy can write his own 'mersenne twister', get the same inferior result, for no effort really.
PinkPosixPXE: So we have to increase entropy somehow. This can be done with rng-tools, a package to use a hardware true number generator (TRNG). Don't worry, you don't need any extra hardware, we will use /dev/urandom as our true number generator.
asciilifeform: PinkPosixPXE: this tool does precisely nothing without a hardware rng.
BingoBoingo: At the moment universe is headed to a hate death, because Wordpress's Matt Mullenwang dunno priorities
PinkPosixPXE: did it time out on generating a gpg key due to lack of entropy?
PinkPosixPXE: BingoBoingo: I'd need more details, but essentially you can use rng-tools/rng to increase the entropy on a server. How it would be implemented for your exact use, would require more discussion.
mircea_popescu: save everyone a click.
mircea_popescu: nanotube how a bout just sort on freshness ?
nanotube: mircea_popescu: it used to sort by rating value... i figured sorting by rating total is a more informative first display... though ideally it would sort by 'total trust from nanotube' or something like that, but that would require writing some code to run those calculations in batch mode and caching them, cuz running every rater live would be expensive...
PinkPosixPXE: or if anyone needs help with a linux issue, I can try to assist there
Apocalyptic: hopefully in a week we'll be at the new diff
Adlai: that's a fantastically ungoogleable tla
BingoBoingo: PinkPosixPXE: Try a post for qntra
BingoBoingo: PinkPosixPXE: I want a 6830, but with a GHz class clock. Or... daydreams
PinkPosixPXE: BingoBoingo: I have written prose, unfortunately to a fault at times... I'm not very succinct
PinkPosixPXE: BingoBoingo: A Motorola 6800, hrm fairly old, you want to scale out and replace it, or change the setup how, precisely?
PinkPosixPXE: You know how it goes, but I have to work with a lot of different things, so it broadens my skillset
PinkPosixPXE: I really prefer rhel/centos, but ubuntu is ok too, we use a variety of flavors in our environment, but those are the main ones.
PinkPosixPXE: Do you need a bash script written
PinkPosixPXE: For a Publishing company
PinkPosixPXE: I am a Sr. Linux Systems Admin
PinkPosixPXE: So to get level 2, I have to accomplish a few trades that go well and get in the ranking system, correct?
DowntimeBsns: why don't you guys start a hosting business
BingoBoingo: A /.ing isn't this bad
mircea_popescu: a ok
devthedev: Does anyone know if there's a way to determine how long a site's been offline?
mircea_popescu: this is going to be a riot tomorrow.
devthedev: BingoBoingo: Yeah, there's a ton of cloudflare resolvers that are pretty accurate. (Tried finding my server IP behind it)
Apocalyptic: damn, it was up a few minutes ago
mircea_popescu: you get a condom, put the phone inside, then shove it in either the girl's vagina or asshole
devthedev: I always have this in the back of my mind, Lol <kakobrekla> you have a death wish?
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> devthedev: Maybe write about how Mullenwang sucks a big bag of dicks? <<< btw, you want data to write a qntra ddos piece or not really ?
devthedev: Well it looks like Moolah investors are at a loss.
BingoBoingo: devthedev: Maybe write about how Mullenwang sucks a big bag of dicks?
assbot: /hashtag/tittytuesday?src=hash What do you guys think of me as a blonde? ;) /hashtag/NSFW?src=hash /hashtag/boobies?src=hash http://t.co/tnGAlGl1Ja
BingoBoingo: SexySaffron got a dye job https://twitter.com/SexyMissSaffron/status/522190151637024771
kakobrekla: punkman make a new user for the thing clearly
BingoBoingo: Also allegedly the other party is not a conservative, but the avatar of socialism incarnate.
nubbins`: wait, you left a death threat on someone's voicemail?!
assbot: Quest for vision is a great blessing.
kakobrekla: well what is at stake here, a few bit cents?
nubbins`: it's like they just rolled a bunch of word dice.
kakobrekla: a bit of emergency here
punkman: a terrarium for its snakes
punkman: kakobrekla, deedbot needs a home, you got a corner it can sit in?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:nanotube could the defaults on viewratingdetail.php be sorted by time rather than by rate'rs total point count ? it kinda pointlessly emphasises a meaningless measure, as-is. <<< iirc this used to be the way it worked, and only recntly changed to sort by rater total rating.
mircea_popescu: the net is full of crap, and instead of people urinating the mouths of crapmongers a la matt mullenweg and co,
BingoBoingo: I'm kind of impressed we burned through a shitbox so quickly
BingoBoingo: Or Mullenwang to stop insisting DOS cannon be a part of default wordpress installs
bounce: need a pingback sink then?
bounce: you could try and condense the actual attack into a single paragraph. the paper and announcement are less than helpful.
kakobrekla: search is delayed a bit.
kakobrekla: jurov you really need to do it at a lower lever
Adlai: tbh it's amazing that a business primarily focused on "payment" processing for the dogeconomy was able to survive this long
mircea_popescu: "After 10 months as a high-risk startup in a volatile environment, Moolah has reached a stage where it is unable to continue operations in today’s market. With rising costs and dropping revenue, and the loss of a number of key clients vital to the ongoing operation of the company, we are no longer able to continue functioning."
thickasthieves: https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/qntra.net
thickasthieves: http://cardozolaw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=01b5be00-c8df-4688-a1dc-5302b6ca3c7e in Lawsky in 10m, the video feed has a chat function if qntra wants to ask Q's
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> jurov: i'm not part of the 'cash economy' in any way, shape, or form. but even if i had the skills and social connections to house and feed myself using paper benjamins, it is quite impossible to obtain industrial equipment and parts from overseas in that way. <<< yeah, which is why meth isn't a problem either.
bounce: wonder if buying chunks of laid up corporate tax evasion bezzle at a discount would be sellable to them corps.
bounce: if the fab is laid up there's lots of tax break leverage. but you'd have to be a big corp to really make that happen. you know, apple and their sea^Wocean of bezzle. they can't use it in the usa though, have to buy up something somewhere else.
asciilifeform: jurov: recall my gravity well analogy. one gram of rocket fuel gets you nowhere nearer to escaping, e.g., earth or moon. a hundred tonnes - does. the gram brings you nearer to blowing out from the well only in the sense that it's one gram less that you must collect.
asciilifeform: jurov: great question. if critical mass of btc, i can escape to a friendly country and build small plant using modern tech.
thickasthieves: good to have a plan
assbot: Logged on 02-10-2014 05:27:15; asciilifeform: the pick'n'place cum pastelayer is the only cut to a 'gordian knot' - namely, can't have the boards populated at a genuine factory (prohibitive cost for small batches) - but can't populate by hand with acceptable yield (very fine-pitch components)
asciilifeform: bounce: this discussion is academic, however, because we can't afford the NRE that would be involved in having prototypes made in a 'proper' plant.
asciilifeform: jurov: i have made inquiries. they know about it. but no one, readily, yet works for coin. or, more importantly, can be trusted to carry out a contract with the white man without the strings attached to using fiat/usd.
asciilifeform: jurov: having large cash holdings is a health hazard where i live. and it isn't like i can buy machinery from, e.g., taiwan, with it, either.
thickasthieves: jurov, closed last short with profit, spent that on coins and am sitting out for a bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjQtzV9IZ0Q
cazalla: i'm not gonna try and contact the guy, aus gov already kicked down a bunch of doors for less
mircea_popescu: A twitter account, @QA_AF, is now seeking bitcoin to assist in paying server costs although the donation address2 is yet to receive any bitcoin donations. << you know, those are usually scams.
BingoBoingo: Yes. Now that the domain's been pointed It's a matter of messing with configs until site comes alive
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo do you happen to have a backup at any point ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's my one ticket. which is why i've spent 90% of my free time and 100% of my disposable income on it, for... a while.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> i mean, a couple thousand hits a day shouldn't trigger any limits.. << you don't know much about the shitbox biz model do you.
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> suspended for excessive use of resources, can't even access cpanel or ftp to make a backup, submitted a ticket << that's classy o.o
asciilifeform: ty kakobrekla (i'm working from a terminal, in a faraway place, for reasons of having to eat. not entirely irrelevant to this discussion...)
asciilifeform: ... to think and work (no day job in the ugandan salt mines, for example) is not a cheap proposition. if i knew of a magical pill against this, i'd have swallowed it already.
asciilifeform: im sure he has some sort of plan to extract himself... << i've lost count of the people who asked me about this. it's terrifyingly elementary problem - living is expensive. it's cheaper in, e.g., uganda, than usa, but the equipment i use does not get cheaper when far from the industrial world. on the contrary. and extraction of my own sorry hide, and that of my pet, in a way that still leaves me able to think and
mike_c: it's cached for 10 mins. not much use showing a list of dead links.
mike_c: plus, they get -2 points for serving a 200 with some fucking blank page instead of a 50x.
mike_c: i mean, a couple thousand hits a day shouldn't trigger any limits..
cazalla: BingoBoingo: Apocalyptic: Cazalla is hosting it, I don't have panel access <<< suspended for excessive use of resources, can't even access cpanel or ftp to make a backup, submitted a ticket
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kakobrekla: well bring a slave to up them then.
mircea_popescu: <thickasthieves> bubbles come in all sizes << here's a good size : http://40.media.tumblr.com/d1de684d0883d3901ebc07fef4d7dd5d/tumblr_nbswvrlyaN1qcpg61o1_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cisco << i personally oversaw robot legs (steel pipes) purchased for several hundy usd each, while a thrall of usg - much less cisco
mike_c: thickasthieves: it exists if you run linux. i heard a rumor diana_coman compiled it on windows, but have not verified.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and 7k usd! one could build a small planet for that! << you have any idea what cisco and friends sell stuff like balancing routers etc ?
asciilifeform: bounce: suitcase << i have a ~30,000 volume library; a small machine shop; a woman; and a great many pieces of laboratory equipment.
bounce: you got more stuff to relocate than fits in a container and a suitcase?
thickasthieves: what, s.nsa cant have a legal operation in US?
asciilifeform: thickasthieves: get vendors to accept btc << that would not solve the problem of a 200+K usd machine sitting in my civilian home for easy confiscation by
thickasthieves: seems like a problem that needs to be stalled, s.nsa being throttled that hard
mike_c: hatemail is a poor motivator
assbot: Logged on 02-10-2014 05:23:31; asciilifeform: i may have said it before, but i will repeat: s.nsa has a piggy (see mircea_popescu's site); every month, i invoice him for materials, get some btc. but, since i can't safely convert btc to usd where i live, i just sit on them. they will probably be buried with me. hence: s.nsa, presently, in practice runs on guess what (my pocket money...)
thickasthieves: what's a xmas gift?