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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this is why the death of ussr is a global calamity - even folks like jurov and mircea_popescu, who saw the underside of the colonial boot, might see the argument as to how << i certainly do not see such.
mircea_popescu: chetty: well at least thats a respectable excuse << every excuse is respectable to the one guy whose respect matters you know.
mircea_popescu: decimation samuel was in all likeliness a pre biblical wiseguy. so technically jahweh just copy-pasted.
Duffer1: so here's a first for me, i got advertising dust today https://blockchain.info/address/1LaxoTrQy51LnB289VmoSAgN6J6UrJbfL9
xmj: thank god there's a lone guy judging another lone guy.
mircea_popescu: xmj: they have that elaborated there too <<, they being a lone guy who flatters himself that he's going to "continue" things he scarcely understands, from a purely theoretical perspective. because this works now, and the ample supply of tims and culwicks is somehow not self-defeating.
xmj: asciilifeform: ribbonfarm.com had a good article on that one
decimation: asciilifeform: indeed, and this is why you are making 'cardano' within a 30 minute drive of fort meade :)
asciilifeform: this is why the death of ussr is a global calamity - even folks like jurov and mircea_popescu, who saw the underside of the colonial boot, might see the argument as to how
chetty: well at least thats a respectable excuse
chetty: the 'we' seems to be a bunch of very annoying bureaucrats
asciilifeform: xmj: complicated. imagine you happened to live near a fission reactor.
asciilifeform: the presumption of a totalitarian 'we' - that will 'fix things' once 'take control' - jumps straight out of the page.
chetty: people seem to need religion, they drop one, they invent another, by a different name ..greenies for instance
asciilifeform: this generally works if opponent lives in a house usg has a habit, or otherwise might like, to set on fire - and could use pretext.
xmj: jurov: ideally we'll come up with a set of self-perpetuating institutions.
decimation: asciilifeform: as a Christian I find these 'godless anarcho-whatevers' to be amusing because they want to make usg into their god
asciilifeform: sometimes it's a 'respect my rights!11! or usg will set your house on fire.'
asciilifeform: jurov: back when the 'rights' folks believed in god, they at least had a sound psychiatric reason for pretending to have the pocket neutron bomb without actually having it
decimation: asciilifeform: agreed. to me, rule under a wise king/baron/whatever is much more likely to approach their 'libertarian' ideals than statelessness
asciilifeform: jurov: i like to tell them, 'come back when you've invented a pocket neutron bomb that can be made from sticks and grass. until then, enjoy the state (tm) .'
asciilifeform: jurov: gotta love the american 'anarcho-something-alists' who prattle on about 'rights' and a grandiose 'we' who 'shall do' things.
asciilifeform: not a political statement, really a physical 'captain obvious.' -- 'if you went splat, clearly your parachute was inadequate.'
decimation: right but then the next king takes over (usually with a different style), not an outbreak of anarchy-capitalism or whatever
decimation: asciilifeform: but that's effectively a capitulation to the idea that the permanent state is a necessity when humans live 'at scale'
decimation: jurov: that's true, they can always riot/subvert, etc, which ultimately puts a lid on the king's/noble's power
decimation: jurov: and I suspect that the solution was not to give every breathing biped a nanoslice of power
mircea_popescu: there's never going to be a solution for "all people", mind. what's at stake is for the solution to exist for the *right* people.
jurov: king had to be quite a populist
jurov: decimation dunno, in latin hungary there was always a struggle between a king and nobility
decimation: jurov: certainly a few hundred years ago the major population centers of europe were ruled in a 'non-populist' way
mircea_popescu: and until such a time, one breaks the hands of the opposition and beats it over the head with them until rendered.
decimation: yeah they had a pretty close approximation to 'allodial rule'
jurov: actually, does anyone knows how hunters and gatherers stumbled upon this horrid idea of having a state?
decimation: right? Guest: Government wasn't even a--close to Montana at the time these were formed, these were people saying, 'Gee, our cattle are mixing with one another and are breeding and maybe we don't want that. And if you put all your cattle where I put mine, there will be a tragedy of the commons.' "
decimation: mircea_popescu: there's a good story about that in the podcast link I put up yesterday: "But even without Russ's lectures, people began to recognize the potential for the Tragedy of the Commons. And quite quickly formed Cattlemans' Associations--the kind of thing that Elinor Ostrom would, you know, love to talk about; and I've talked about it with her. Russ: These are voluntary restrictions on the use of resources, not government,
mircea_popescu: had a good lol when i woke up.
mircea_popescu: but also you know, many things that constitute th "reasonable" for they locked up into a tower / locked up into a 12yo body / locked away in that early phase of sleep melt away as ridiculous once the full mind is awake
mircea_popescu: not just that, tho prolly a large part.
decimation: it is interesting how russian propaganda took a noticeable right-wing turn sometime around 5 years ago
mircea_popescu: these fuckwits couldn't qualify for a driver job for the classic propaganda spinners of a century ago
mircea_popescu: this is like asking "how long will a chess player tolerate the other's crafty artfulness"
mircea_popescu: dude, seriously. the propaganda war is a propaganda war.
mircea_popescu: this happens to be a great thing, it's why mafias are better administrators than constitutions.
mircea_popescu: lotta buttsex with a lot of very scared womenz ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem with "real" conquest is that it sounds a lot like "let me just put the tip in". what do you mean "real".
decimation: I guess putin isn't happy with having a 'near abroad' anymore
mircea_popescu: a good for you.
asciilifeform: this brings up the old discussion of whether the arsonist 'builds' a city
asciilifeform: except that the modern ukrs aren't a resurrected 'Res Publica Polonia' - they're a cheap muppet of usg.
asciilifeform: the tired old 'cut 'em up into bantustans, make them a language, etc' recipe.
mircea_popescu: jurov dja think this makes a practical difference ?
asciilifeform: but it's a secondary thing.
decimation: mircea_popescu: and that's my point, for purely practical reasons alone, one would think that the 'married men' who have to deal with reality would prefer a power that has a track record of at least keeping a lid on the crazies at home and showing up to the diplomacy table with things in order
asciilifeform: i.e. - a place to which thinking men could defect.
asciilifeform: the worst thing for a totalitarian reich (like usg and its 'international kommunity' muppet theatre) is - the existence of a 'pepsi' alternative.
mircea_popescu: it really makes no difference. no matter his hair color, a married man is a married man. and so no matter the "ideology", whoever is stuck administering two billion people over ten million acres is similarly caught.
asciilifeform: decimation: it is necessary to understand why usg must do what it does. as in a 'wild west' film, 'ain't room enough in this town for the both of us'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not so. they like to pretend like they are, much like the 11 yo child of a man who keeps fighting dogs pretends to be the master of said dogs for the benefit of any visiting classmates.
asciilifeform: decimation: except that 'crazy islam' is an animal of which usg is a studious gamekeeper.
decimation: To me, mature adults could sit down and hash this stuff out "yes, you can have east Ukraine in exchange for helping us keep a lid on the crazy islams down in the middle east"
mircea_popescu: He was a prime minister of Denmark who saw he could rise beyond Denmark by serving as Washington’s puppet. As prime minister he strongly supported Washington’s illegal invasion of Iraq, declaring that “we know that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.” Of course, the fool didn’t know any such thing, and why would it matter if Iraq did have such weapons. Many countries have weapons of mass destructi
asciilifeform feels like a chump, apparently works for russian foreign service for free, should demand pay
mircea_popescu: lol check it out, the russian foreign service is quite active in the fringe of the us discourse. orlov, roberts, there's a list with these talking points.
decimation: asciilifeform: one can see a copy hanging in the nsa museum as I recall
decimation: re: hitler < the "old right" nobility and "old republican-style" conservatives in germany gave Hitler control after his party won a minority share because they thought they could 'control him'
asciilifeform: paypal is a classic 'crown privilege' monopoly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform maybe that's cause for a rewrite.
asciilifeform: a necessary snip.
mircea_popescu: but as far as i recall, it was a serious source of friction between the third reich gauleiters and eastern european nobility, that the latter despised the former on the grounds of... well... this, exactly.
asciilifeform: thiel, like his fellows, is less of a baron (with the attendant inviolable privileges) than a... reichsführer. whose lands, posts - are contingent on playing ball and being good boy.
decimation: Re: Thiel working with usg << I can't imagine anyone running a 'bank' or 'bank-like' service and not being a spy for usg, it's the law yo
asciilifeform: great story. how nostalgic! like robert sheckley's 'the academy.' usa was once a rich country, people imagined that they would get to retire into comfortable prisons when an 'age of the robot' comes
asciilifeform: '"Do you have guest status with any resident?" The robot asked. "No." "Do you have means of support unknown to me?" I suppose I could have stashed a cache of gold under my mattress, and this question allowed me to declare it. Such a cache would, of course, be grounds for arrest, so I was screwed either way. "No." I was without any means of support. "In accordance with ordinance 605.12b, you have been assigned ro
decimation: re: lithium batteries << yes the conventional solution is a spring-clip style battery holder if one can't spot-weld lead to device
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla is this "fast food employee tries to parlay his work experience into a novel, because write what you know" ?
asciilifeform: it doesn't have to be a coin cell, either. can attach one of, say, these - http://www.ictradenet.com/models_pic/BH2AA-W.jpg - to outside of cartridge. drill a hole, attach terminals to correct spots. won't win any beauty contests, but will work. ☟︎
asciilifeform: (soldered-in batteries are a classic 'forced obsolescence' scam.)
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: alternatively, solder in a battery holder of appropriate shape, and insert battery after it cools.
asciilifeform: i recommend attaching a replacement battery using conductive epoxy.
asciilifeform: i regret to say that i do not run a repair shop.
asciilifeform: unless done with a spot welder or laser
mircea_popescu: im sure thiel will give 100k prizes to whoever came up with the brilliant idea of a wait, no. they don't need it.
asciilifeform: notice when diddled cpus are commonly thought to have appeared. not only when vlsi went far enough to create a comfortable padded hiding place, but when spread of linux, etc. exposed the limits of the diddled-os approach.
asciilifeform: but have some sympathy for poor dr. evil. he only has, what, half a dozen vans in a city. doesn't care to sift through every idiot playing 'quake' pissing in his sse regs.
mircea_popescu: that's nonsense. here's a simpler approach : every time a new value is loaded into sse register append it to a special buffer. buffer gets dumped in return for any packet headed so sent to port so.
asciilifeform: but this would take up a good deal of real estate on the chip die, and someone might notice.
asciilifeform: consider the problems dr. evil faces when he designs a diddled cpu.
asciilifeform: to see this as issue with aes in particular is a grave mistake. it's an issue with using a 'food chain' that you aren't intimately aware of to the bottom.
mircea_popescu: i guess the author doesn't realise it or something, but this lays bare a much used, fundamental, very valuable exploit of aes.
mircea_popescu: It gets worse. Nearly every AES implementation using AESNI will leave two values in registers: The final block of output, and the final round key. The final block of output isn't a problem for encryption operations — it is ciphertext, which we can assume has leaked anyway — but for encryption an AES-128 key can be computed from the final round key, and for decryption the final round key is the AES-128 key. (For AES ☟︎
asciilifeform: next year, suppose, they include a gigantic multiplier and special instructions for rsa. want to use these ?
mircea_popescu: Consider the "XMM" registers on the x86 architecture: They will only be used by the SSE family of instructions, which is not widely used in most applications — so once a value is stored in one of those registers, it may remain there for a long time. One of the rare instances those registers are used by cryptographic code, however, is for AES computations, using the "AESNI" instruction set.
mircea_popescu: but ideally - while i can live without running a webserver off this - i still want to have bash
mircea_popescu: yeah, that may be a good starting point
asciilifeform: what even means 'superuser' in such a machine
asciilifeform: a sufficiently dumb os won't provide a way of allocating non-paged heap, yes.
mircea_popescu: "decided to sanitize his stack by zeroing until he triggered a page fault" this in particular does nothing.
asciilifeform: let's suppose that you cannot escape the sin of running crypto on a multiuser os with von neumann cpu (for sake of argument.) let's also suppose that you are stuck with a traditional 'C' compiler, and your work must remain portable (no inline asm)
cazalla: nothing like someone using a chainsaw at 3am to wake you up