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mircea_popescu: how many can he lose, if he lives as long as dad, 10-15ish ?
mircea_popescu: o.o junior's starting his failed bids for presidency career early ?!
mircea_popescu: by the metric that i just looked in trilema logs and Google Chrome 2,252,411 hits 41.1 % Firefox 1,986,192 hits 36.3 %
mircea_popescu: i think it's the former yeah. which is why the "p=q" thing triggers the reader, i guess
mircea_popescu: is rsa 4096 bit a guarantee you will have an n 4096 bits long (i think) or is it actually you will have two primes 2048 bits long each, with high bit set each.
mircea_popescu: not as in "what rsa means", as in "what rsa 4096" means
mircea_popescu: (i have trouble recalling that whole spec, which is one of the things that are fucking wrong with it)
mircea_popescu: it's not in the standard they're the same size, is it ?
mircea_popescu: this is true, but you have no guarantee you will only be handling keys generated by your own generator.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pete_dushenski your latest header sucks yo
mircea_popescu: i think we're talking about different things. idea was, it'd be useful to add these in for the future keys
mircea_popescu doesn't want to do this because then he'll fuck it all up.
mircea_popescu: ah, but if it gets added in it'll serve against future keys too
mircea_popescu: yet they don't think 100 bucks / month is too low, or that apartments should go for > 10k a pop.
mircea_popescu: the notion that the average argentine derp is worth 1k/year in salary is ludicrous. they're white, yes, but otherwise the skilset is on par with sierra leone
mircea_popescu: not like any of them are worth even 10% of what they pretend they're getting paid today anyway.
mircea_popescu: let income shave a zero and real estate shave two, we can talk.
mircea_popescu: atm they're living in this lala-land where they're like, a country.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel nah, i'm not buying anything until they get fucked
mircea_popescu: and my next through was... and in order to get in, a dude has to be in wot.
mircea_popescu: so i was all like man, ima buy a garage and make a fucking disco. own this town.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the garages are what, > 10k sqft. no exceptions. acreworth.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the people here are really fucking derpy, for many reasons. one of which - all the clubs where kids go are like 100sq ft. literally.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the cost of properly stealing his code would be i guess log n
mircea_popescu: seems the sort of meta-prograsmming task for which lisp was invented anyway. keep your code as a s-expr of the code you deliver.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: then as a licensee you DONT know what you need to transform to wipe the watermark, so you have to transform... "everything". which results in a turd, which as he says, who the fuck will want that.
mircea_popescu: bit 1 : presence or absence of space after dot at position x y
mircea_popescu: and then just make a hash and interpret it as bitflips over that list
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes he would maintain a list of places where he can change things
mircea_popescu: entries like "add blank space after dots in following positions" or etc
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes he would just build a list of things to change and change them all.
mircea_popescu: yeah, the result is not worthless. << i mean, the result of this convo, re code watermarking, even if notperfect is still not worthless.
mircea_popescu: this is a drastically degraded version ofthe code tho, i readily grant
mircea_popescu: by transforming everything that's not required by the machine.
mircea_popescu: but code being by its nature code, i have a firm guarantee that i can wipe your watermark out.
mircea_popescu: before i leak it i just hash all entity names with a "fuck gabby" salt
mircea_popescu: which may be more work than they're willing to put into it, but still, would kill your drm like it kills that stupid "sound security" thing we discussed a coupla weeksa ago
mircea_popescu: course, they could just edit the names to some random hash of their own.
mircea_popescu: of course you could use a "32 char hash" convention for all your entities
mircea_popescu: name a class HerpyClass in one version and Herpy_Class in another
mircea_popescu: traditionally this is solved with watermarking, but that only works on idiots and catpictures. you can't watermark code.
mircea_popescu: and from D it goes to E and soon enough it's free, at which point everyone loses the -ev counter-incentive.
mircea_popescu: except if D proposes to get it for half price and not tell you, they are now +ev
mircea_popescu: the problem you have, however, is one of externalities. say A, B and C are your customers, and yes for them giving your stuff away is -ev if you know about it.
mircea_popescu: but it isn't actually enough for to pay for me to be doing it.
mircea_popescu: this is also a point. amusingly enough, trilema makes more money than the mean of web properties, notwithstanding the fact that it's enforced very laxily.
mircea_popescu: not persuaded taking that away is enough to fix drm tho