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mircea_popescu: daring acts of bravado belong to they in possession of a map.
mircea_popescu: still, the conservative approach in unknown terrain has yet to be beaten in the field.
mircea_popescu: i dunno. i don't understand internets - which is common, admitting it is rare
mircea_popescu: can you see any reason he'd suspect the ip provided by the socket ?
mircea_popescu: no, retarded is a different degree. has to be actively dysfunctional somehow
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, "it's strange" is not much of an arghument is it ?
mircea_popescu: i am inclined to believe this is more likely the result of original author having nfi how tcp works rathger than having an idea about some obscure weakness he's deliberately mitigating
mircea_popescu: this sounds like an argument against assfucking. "because there's a cunt there"
mircea_popescu: more insane than requiring machines to know their name.
mircea_popescu: well... you don't plan on being there long anyway, so.
mircea_popescu: computers get their public names the same way women do : owner states it.
mircea_popescu: mod6 yeah, definitely. esp if current one giving you trouble.
mircea_popescu: anwyay. there's no argument that the irc thing has to go.
mircea_popescu: this thing is not so much an emergency as something that needs to be done. if it sees the light of box this month say it's perfect.
mircea_popescu: mod6 depends on how advanced the work is. how advanced is it ?
mircea_popescu: decimation gossipd is not ready yet. freenode you mean ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 we've not yet put the entire that change in yet, apparently, because one per.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think they run more or less basic ircd ya
mircea_popescu: part of it is to have a backup in case lfnet is a piece of shit / the enemy. which is pretty likely.
mircea_popescu: part of it is to see how well bitcoin holds up by being hosed from the irc side.
mircea_popescu: you run it closed loop, with your own bitcoin-as-snipped above
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no, this is a temporary test thing, to see just how bad alf's latest butchery affects things
mircea_popescu: mod6 how valuable and how difficult dja think spinning an ircd compatible with lfnet would be ?
mircea_popescu: contrariwise - that why we have teh foundation is centrally so it participates in this sort of activity
mircea_popescu: if the bitcoin host is the go-to thing for this job, it's the bitcoin foundation.
mircea_popescu: CAddress addrConnect("92.243.23.21", 6667); // irc.lfnet.org << would it be wiser if we spin up an ircd special for this purpose ?
mircea_popescu: basically it takes out fNameLookup and forces a function to always return false.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes would the foundation spin up an aws and run this ?
mircea_popescu: so this is actually something of purely academic interest - shoud not be run as is period.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if the irc falls over for whatever reason this thing is dead.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile guy trying to piss on electric fence won't stay stupid long
mircea_popescu: the thing is, derp sitting at home and seeking supportive subreddits for his drawings is never going to figure out he's fucked in the head.
mircea_popescu: reading comments on unqualified reservations, it occurs to me the main reason this guy got to be popular was being so amply wrong about so many things.
mircea_popescu: i don't think there exists a culture in which boys past the age of sexual maturity show any preference whatever to sleep with the women, just like girls of all ages much prefer to.
mircea_popescu: i suspect this is mostly because human males do not actually wish to sleep with human females.