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mircea_popescu: that's the codeword for non-usg-compliant-orc : "corrupt".
mircea_popescu: but yes, "fight against corruption" === "usg wants to steal your country"
ben_vulpes: "next you'll want to disband the tribes of the fertile crescent!"
ben_vulpes: challenge it on cultural diversity grounds: "baksheesh is how other cultures work, and this inane attempt to 'combat corruption' is really just thinly-disguised cultural imperialism justifying usg statal overreach"
ben_vulpes: "There’s no real thought about: what is the purpose of asset forfeiture? What is it designed to achieve?” said Kristian Lasslett, director of the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at Ulster University, who has been working to develop the emerging academic field of 'state crime'."
asciilifeform: '...- Polls /dev/random until it's available, then - Reads from /dev/urandom (the non-blocking interface) instead. Most of the code in this patch was lifted from libsodium, which already does this. Libsodium is ISC Licensed (by Frank Denis).'
asciilifeform: in other trololols, https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gcrypt-devel/2016-November/003973.html
ben_vulpes: the re-carving of territory up by the replacement right and replacement left could be interesting. not saying that it is yet, or that it mustest be, but that if it does transpire i will pop corn.
asciilifeform finds the ceremonial, null-summing back-and-forth components of usg political circus a mega-snore
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: or plain rerun of bush-II-era bone thrown to the church, snoar.
ben_vulpes: decent odds that cutting funding for abortion services abroad is just a prelude to cutting funding for * abroad.
asciilifeform: 'For one thing, Uzbekistan’s independent civil society has been decimated. Between 2004 and 2007, the government forced international organizations out of the country. ' << ohnoez!
mircea_popescu: seems like he was working for the great orange revolution movement.
asciilifeform: some ukratronicist got stern talkin'-to.
asciilifeform: apparently ukrtron misfired that time.
asciilifeform: 'Umarov was released to his family in Tennessee in 2009 thanks to high-level pressure from the U.S. State Department. The former oligarch turned political opponent is now one of the most prominent among many victims...' << lulzy
mircea_popescu: anyway. the bs is pretty thickly laid out, apparently dude at the center of all this is usg agent who got 20mn to try and overturn the govt but then stole the money ? or somesuch
asciilifeform: occasionally you do hear of thief who drops wallet at the scene containing moar than he stole -- but this is rare.
mircea_popescu: the numbers are lulzy though : 1trillion stolen from orclands ; 10x the aid inflowing.
mircea_popescu: check it out, they even call it us kleptocracy department! apt. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: how about washington DC air is subject to russian jurisdiction because it was transmitted to its current position through russia.
asciilifeform: 'if it ain't bolted down, it is subject to my jurisdiction' -- every thief ever
mircea_popescu: this notion that "subject to us jurisdiction because transmitted" is such lulz.
asciilifeform: '“A really surprising thing about that letter is that the Uzbek civil society would rather the money go back to the treasury of any government, than go back to their own government,” Campbell said.'
asciilifeform: in other lulz, http://archive.is/fsVJ0 >> 'Nearly $1 billion is now frozen in European banks, awaiting a decision by a U.S. district court on the U.S. Justice Department’s forfeiture claim. The assets are subject to U.S. jurisdiction because they were transmitted through U.S. financial institutions on their way to accounts held in Latvia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Ireland, Belgium,
asciilifeform: it still bothers me, for some reason, and currently trying to put finger on why
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in the scheme i described, and using, e.g., serpent, the p of an (x,y) recurring is ~0
mircea_popescu: somebody gotta buy all the dumpage.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is why you want large blocks. the odds of x, y recurring is given by the size of x and y
asciilifeform: in other lulz, 'Buffett told Charlie Rose in a recent interview that he loaded up on $12 billion worth of stock since the election through the end of January.'
asciilifeform: because enemy can do this just as easily with, e.g., first two blocks (and iv) of AES-CBC.
asciilifeform: however what i do not know is whether it is a worse idea than ~block ciphers per se~ !
asciilifeform: if enemy knows that a particular (x,y) come out to a block of, e.g., 0, (via known plaintext), he can store (x,y) for future use
a111: Logged on 2017-02-14 19:19 asciilifeform: specifically, for every byte you intend to send, you instead send two: x, y. which you generate by obtaining rng byte r, and payload byte b, and x := b xor r, y := r
asciilifeform: in other noose, i realized that http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-14#1613906 is a bad idea. ☝︎
asciilifeform: what i ~did~ find was a tremendous volume of deliberate, artful obscurantism, e.g. the german linked earlier.
asciilifeform: it isn't much less ridiculous than ~multi-user~ one
asciilifeform was reading up on design & history of '/dev/random' and reeling at the lunacy of the very idea of multi-proggy rng pool
mircea_popescu: that's the proper degree of centralization.
mircea_popescu: as per the very apt asciilifeform observation, rng flux === tty flux. there should be one rng per human, more or less.
asciilifeform: relatedly vintage bernstein, http://archive.is/xZZmb >> ''Some people argued that randomness generation should be centralized--- whether in the OS or hypervisor or CPU---and fixed at that central location if it doesn't work properly. Other people argued that each library and application should defend itself against failures of the centralized mechanism. There actually seem to be three positions...''
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> 'Politically, though, rehab further radicalized him. "All I did was read books on far-left theory," he said. "I started to understand intellectually what I already understood emotionally."' << lelz << What sort of shit rehab is that!
mircea_popescu: no "global alphabet" which is why utf may not exist. pretty much everything relates to this refusal of the golden calf.
mircea_popescu: no "global money", which is what the idiocy of "scaling bitcoin for africa" is all about.
mircea_popescu: there shall be no man-made universals. it's a heathen practice, and it is also inhuman. this means : no "global state" ; no "global id", not for women, not for their children, cows, computers, whatever other livestock.
ben_vulpes: 'twas never explicit, but care to explain why?
ben_vulpes: oh we hate uuids now today?
mircea_popescu: "if you're not a criminal you have nothing to hide"
asciilifeform: 'The read-only files uuid and boot_id contain random strings like 6fd5a44b-35f4-4ad4-a9b9-6b9be13e1fe9. The former is generated afresh for each read, the latter was generated once.' << what is the theoretically legitimate use for this ?
mircea_popescu: such as taking out uuids permanently.
asciilifeform: in vintage lulz, http://archive.is/4BNQN >> 'Recurring universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), as reported by the smolt hardware profiler client program, had some worried about problems in the kernel RNG. As it turns out, the problem exists in the interaction between Fedora 8 LiveCD installations and smolt – essentially the UUID came from the CD – but it sparked a discussion leading to some
asciilifeform: elsewhere in monkeystan, https://archive.is/7NjO4 >> 'In the late 1990s, the median home price in Washington was just over $150,000. Around 2000, however, prices began to rise, and in just five years, the median home price rose from $159,000 to $420,000.'
ben_vulpes: you think the phb character knows or cares?
ben_vulpes: "how do you do delivery?" "we just package a whole linux, anything less than that is annoyingly complicated and we can't hire people who know how to do it"
asciilifeform: '1. Install Docker. 2. Download the docker-compose.yml file to launch the ATSD Collector container bundle.' << lel
mircea_popescu: gotta ugc all that ugc somehow!
ben_vulpes: iono, aren't republicans in the habit of pasting lulzy pm logs?
mircea_popescu: if tomorrow cia dork makes up story about you sending who knows what over pm to who knows who, we'll laugh and they'll eat it up.
mircea_popescu: more practically, there does exist "OUR COUNTRY'S INSTITUTIONS" etc.
asciilifeform: as pointed out in the last thread, there may theoretically exist 1 or moar idiot who think 'pm' is s33kr1t etc.
asciilifeform: tell it to ~them~.
ben_vulpes: at risk of boringly rehashing a point there is nothing to collect!
asciilifeform: (when the weather is calm)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the nsa collector probably worx.
ben_vulpes: > irc: sasl authentication timeout
mircea_popescu: the more i think of it the more i'm satisfied this is the ur-underpinning. once women manage to get the slaughter of children taboo-ified, all the rest of the rot flows from there.
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: !~later tell mod6 http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/70L1b/?raw=true
mircea_popescu: and obviously since hacking kids up and feeding the remains to sewer rats is taboo, there's no need to consider anything along the lines of "bitch, that rule is there so your dumb ass may be excused from immediate slaughter"
mircea_popescu: basically the whole dynamic is, "child noticed adults tend to be rule-bound, is trying to get maxcake out of it"
mircea_popescu: i mean, literally, that introduction is exactly on par with the misspelled "petition" linked earlier. "there is a rule agains what we're trying to do which is unfortunate (for the rule!) because we wanna do it anyway!"
asciilifeform: 'attacking facts and those who convey them (journalists, scientists)' << gold
mircea_popescu: inst rape for as long as the rapists are mostly on the right ; are against violence for as long as we're more likely to be on the receiving end ; and believe the goldwater rule should be respected at all times it prevents the ousting of a libertard!"
mircea_popescu: "Silence from the country’s mental health organizations has been due to a self-imposed dictum about evaluating public figures (the American Psychiatric Association’s 1973 Goldwater Rule). But this silence has resulted in a failure to lend our expertise to worried journalists and members of Congress at this critical time. We fear that too much is at stake to be silent any longer." or in plain words, "we on the left are aga
mircea_popescu: it's not just "laws" in the style of "nobody read this 2k page pile of crap" ; it's not just "regulations", in the style of "whatever random czar and his bureaucracy came up with". there's a struggle to add a further red guard of the revolution! THE COUNTRY'S ORGANISATIONS!
mircea_popescu: didja see the "mental health care professionals warn" bit ?
mircea_popescu: you know this is traditionally the female maturation process ? "with menopause i did some reading, finally understood my place as i had already spent my life in"
asciilifeform: 'Politically, though, rehab further radicalized him. "All I did was read books on far-left theory," he said. "I started to understand intellectually what I already understood emotionally."' << lelz
mircea_popescu: anyway. judging by the orwellian reaction of the bedwetters, iraq has every chance of turning into a sort of 1920s spain.
mircea_popescu: apparently it's a very convenient narrative for the adolescent underclass. the mystery and intrigue of being mp seduces them.
asciilifeform: 'Franceschi was vague about his background, but wore a Mao pin, owned a fortune in Bitcoin and spoke seven languages, including Arabic and Kurmanji. With no military experience, he was sent to the front line, where Kurdish defenders were outnumbered perhaps five to one...'
mircea_popescu: women aren't sexually exploited. this is THE problem of the west. wtf is wrong with the coolies.
mircea_popescu: again with this ?
asciilifeform: 'I spent a cold night huddled in a grimy kitchen, befogged with eye-watering quantities of cigarette smoke, while young PKK militants lectured me on the crisis of late capitalism and the American media's sexual exploitation of women.'
mircea_popescu: "he's black, of course he's retarded, you're supposed to not say anything about it" being the dem ideology.
mircea_popescu: watch nobody on the left engage the point.
asciilifeform: 'Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?' -- mr.t, twatter, today.
mircea_popescu: the women's state very much wants the latter.
mircea_popescu: myeah. things are pretty simple : either peace with russia and therefore war with china ; or else bickering with russia while china continues to fatten unmolested. ☟︎
asciilifeform: speaking of which, the show goes on, https://archive.is/bmtZj >> 'Russian intelligence officials made repeated contact' etc.
mircea_popescu: eh, everything with these faggots is about putting on a show.
asciilifeform: well noshit in our native 15th century poison was to avoid 'alert the victim.' but today apparently it is for putting on show. e.g., polonium.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how leet it is, if it alerts the victim
phf: i'd say this could be a new look, but she already looks like a williamsburg hipster from 8 years ago
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: !~later tell ben_vulpes your client is leaking ip
mircea_popescu: (we know this because the ~only portion of the donkey party still standing, ie the socialists that tried to push sanders failfully, are VERY butthurt at the notion.)
mircea_popescu: ahahaha in the best lulz odf all time, chelsea clinton has political ambitions.
ben_vulpes: i don't have enough compenstors on the ground yet apparently if there's a baby stroller type to be had
ben_vulpes: well now i gotta see this f350 of baby strollers