asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as it is, it's a fallback after dns (snipped in patch i proposed last night) and irc mechanizms.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i posted that earlier today. observe: if the hardseed list were actually used with any frequency, we would have noticed the scarcity of still-usable seeds therein ages ago

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol, yours eaten too

asciilifeform: punkman: generally works within a few sec. when works

asciilifeform: punkman: looks like not

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: (it's hard enough with src)

asciilifeform: and this is quite impossible with binaries

asciilifeform: this is kinda why i was reluctant to distribute binaries - i want everyone to know precisely what they're eating

asciilifeform: mod6, danielpbarron: in case this wasn't clear, my armv5 build still has the checkpoints (other than orphanage burner, only the basic patches are in)

asciilifeform: (x.y.sig is an ascii-armoured detached sig of the usual variety)

asciilifeform: that's it (unless jurov has some other weird constraint in there we haven't yet discovered)

asciilifeform: body of msg is a cleartext signed pgpgram

asciilifeform: for all foos

asciilifeform: attach foo.gz and foo.gz.sig

asciilifeform: as described in http://therealbitcoin.org/mailman/listinfo/btc-dev

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: one diddled node at a time.

asciilifeform: is some joker trying to euchre in on satoshi's goodies.

asciilifeform: i'd love to know what blocks are in the molestation set.

asciilifeform: bombs away.

asciilifeform: as big fat gz

asciilifeform: to jurov's turdatron, say

asciilifeform: sign, post

asciilifeform: yes!

asciilifeform uses bitcoin as a scientific toy, curio, but if he had been firing it in anger for years as mircea_popescu had, would have finished own implementation eons ago

asciilifeform keeps a number of editions going

asciilifeform uses, when uses anything at all

asciilifeform: all molestation of britneychain is necessarily localized phenomenon

asciilifeform: and i doubt it's just 2 of us

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: guess who also keeps vintage blockchain around

asciilifeform: just say no to hardcoded magic numb3rz.

asciilifeform: config file - where they belong.

asciilifeform: mod6: this'd be why i objected to zapping the checkpoints thing wholesale. now, programmable checkpoints - by all means.

asciilifeform: not proclaiming a molested britneychain as proven fact yet, but if it had been, it would look rather much like this.

asciilifeform: mod6: make a copy of .bitcoin shortly prior to wedge

asciilifeform recites kakobrekla's sacramental 'did somebody molest the britneychain'

asciilifeform: aha found it

asciilifeform: mod6: for the wedge

asciilifeform: mod6: post your debug.log

asciilifeform: that'd be it then

asciilifeform: (presently irc is there and enabled)

asciilifeform: mod6: also note that the hardcoded seeds do not come into play unless irc fails

asciilifeform: why no more than hour, i do not know - either good fortune, or their connection flakes out (see former), or ?

asciilifeform: when it encounters a shit-feeder

asciilifeform: the 'bastard' variant will wedge, however, for up to an hour (in my experiments)

asciilifeform: with any of our 0.5.3 derivatives

asciilifeform: mod6: not once have i seen the wedge at 168000

asciilifeform: cuntbearer << can't help but imagine this as something like a cupbearer

asciilifeform: 'seinfeld effect' case.

asciilifeform: if does not work outside - unsurprising

asciilifeform: at any rate it was a mega-troll in gringolandia

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and it reads as the usual tedium because it -was- same, with words swapped

asciilifeform: mr h was trying, as a young academic in usa, to troll liberasts without being stoned to death immediately

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is (i thought this was very obvious) a spoof on subject

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i don't grok wtf this is supposed to be << was written when the whole 'pronoun warrior' thing was brand new

asciilifeform: mod6: trouble << do tell

asciilifeform: the proggy itself has never been large in comparison

asciilifeform: the blockchain is the bulk of the footprint, quite obviously

asciilifeform: ~1.2 compressed

asciilifeform: 4mb on arm

asciilifeform: even if you absolutely need it somewhere (e.g., bitcoind as malware payload)

asciilifeform: jurov: absolutely no reason to build it into bitcoind, ever

asciilifeform: jurov: you know, upnp can run as a separate daemon

asciilifeform: i don't know any serious computer user who does not have a multitude of spinning disks at all times.

asciilifeform also runs spinning disks

asciilifeform: root an ubuntu luser idli g herr << lol, time for honeypots

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: the only way to develop a new idea was to be born rich << or... take it. chingis khan style.

asciilifeform: not just for what it is, but for how it's implemented. (metric shit-ton of xml garbage, book-length standards doc)

asciilifeform: fuck upnp.

asciilifeform: jurov: if they're plugged into home routers then we need upnp then << why????!? every home router ever made, even utter garbage, lets user open ports the normal way

asciilifeform: in print nonstop since '79, iirc.

asciilifeform: GEB is really a book for intelligent children, or perhaps for adults who are n00bs to the whole thinking business. it's a fun, not serious, sort of book.

asciilifeform: http://www.physixfan.com/wp-content/files/GEBen.pdf << l33t w4r3z, hofstadter's best known work.

asciilifeform: dh is best known as an american/eng author, but iirc his native lang is fr. on account of peculiar upbringing. and he knows plenty of others.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: doug h is sui generis. can't really place him in a genre. he wrote a number of tomes for folks who like mathematics (in particular, logic and theory of computation), languages, translation. he is also a fairly good translator of ru->eng, even rhyme-preserving pushkin. blew my mind.

asciilifeform: PeterL: that was one of the first engineering terms to get liberast attention, actually

asciilifeform: he actually caught a good bit of shit for this number

asciilifeform: obligatory: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html << by doug hofstadter! yes, him

asciilifeform: sa?

asciilifeform: whoever is doing is - brilliant 'shit test' - will the idiots merge? turns out, yes! they will.

asciilifeform: which one of you jokers is 'bikinibabe'. confess.

asciilifeform: 'bikinibabe' ?! trololol.

asciilifeform: 252649.

asciilifeform: on the other hand - every cellular isp in usa (that i've tried) blocks -all- incoming connections

asciilifeform: also i am unaware of any extant isp outside of iran blocking an -outgoing- port other than 25

asciilifeform: it would be not entirely uninteresting, to learn his host flea.

asciilifeform: i do happen to know something about those. usually they exist as a little flea on the back of a larger flea, sometimes three or four fleas in a circuit

asciilifeform: eh, sure. small business that does no-one-knows-what, for usg only

asciilifeform: one way or the other

asciilifeform: theoretically - if registrar won't pull, we can regard the shilling as a proven fact

asciilifeform: if he stuffed the 'fvdt' contact in his own domain reg fraudulently, what's it take to get the registration judged & pulled ?

asciilifeform: this fella clearly read 'spam like a pro in twenty-one hours' !

asciilifeform: https://whoisology.com/email/archive_8/domainadmin@fdvt.com

asciilifeform: why is it in the satoshiroundtable.org 'whois' then ?

asciilifeform: Tech Email:domainadmin@fdvt.com << lol!

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: deserves a post << see thread here first

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes demanding to be gassed by gestapo ahead of schedule, lol

asciilifeform: so we ship, e.g., the pogos, with titanic list of nodes. some of which we own and operate.

asciilifeform: mike_c: how?