asciilifeform: pretty good expository work in there.

asciilifeform: ^ do we know him ?

asciilifeform: http://www.royalforkblog.com

asciilifeform: likewise unrelated,

asciilifeform: would be interesting to see a robotic probe tell us wtf lurks in that channel

asciilifeform: and when it was discarded by the phoundation? 0.6 ?

asciilifeform: does anyone else find it remarkable how readily the 0.5.3.x irc seeding mechanism still works ?

asciilifeform: unrelated,

asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_I_of_Mexico#mediaviewer/File:The_Last_moments_of_Maximilian.jpg

asciilifeform: no shit.

asciilifeform: 'nuns of no mercy'

asciilifeform: ^ mega-lol

asciilifeform: http://qz.com/312464/in-china-highly-educated-women-are-mocked-as-a-sexless-third-gender

asciilifeform: speaking of which,

asciilifeform: l0l!!

asciilifeform: !s amanda hess

asciilifeform: whozzat

asciilifeform: teach the gurlz cpp or sumthing

asciilifeform: nein

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: chetty?!

asciilifeform: i could have sworn we had other folks in here who can/willing-to program....

asciilifeform: now it's again half as long.

asciilifeform: toss it, replace with call to whatever rng is presently in use

asciilifeform: for instance, that marsaglia rng thing is probably unnecessary

asciilifeform: or someone for fuck's sake other than meee plz

asciilifeform: or mod6

asciilifeform: perhaps ben_vulpes ^^^^^ .

asciilifeform: a substantially more compact but logically-equivalent mechanism is possible, i dare say

asciilifeform: most of what you see in that patch is only there because the fuckers changed the data structure used to represent the bastard blocks

asciilifeform: tried to keep the phoundation crud to a bare min.

asciilifeform: i did not backport it, because didn't even think this would fly

asciilifeform: the bozomatic bitcoin (0.9.something) has a command line flag to optionally specify this value

asciilifeform: the magic constant that results in a usable 'pogo', if such exists, has not, afaik, been determined yet.

asciilifeform: in the binary danielpbarron is using, it's 250

asciilifeform: 750 << or any other constant

asciilifeform: ^ readn'weep

asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/attachments/20150130/asciilifeform-orphanage-burner_80eb450469d93b270aa160e26b4cdab732add2c4.patch

asciilifeform: a backport of the bozos' mechanizm for purging bastards (in their lexicon, 'orphans')

asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-January/000038.html <<<<< that one

asciilifeform: the skull'n'crossbones patch

asciilifeform: blockheight=230170 (bastard node)

asciilifeform: (his firing squad, according to legend, was so large that he sorta fell apart, and various pieces were parcelled out as keepsakes)

asciilifeform: who doesn't know about poor maximillian and his souvenir nose.

asciilifeform: my beautiful artz

asciilifeform: damn, gpg mutilated my ascii art.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: jan. `15 broadcast.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: turdogram incoming!

asciilifeform: coprophagia is, yet, (for now!) a voluntary thing.

asciilifeform: it'll cost more after ban.

asciilifeform: get one.

asciilifeform: actual computers not banned yet

asciilifeform: and with nothing substantial else running on the box

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: didja start with a brand-new blockchain ?

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: that's a standard oomkill

asciilifeform: does it report that "WARNING: Displayed transactions may not be correct!... << not here.

asciilifeform: though normally this is extremely noisy on debug.log

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: and find out whether process actually died, or merely went into one of the up to hour-long fugues the bastard bitcoind goes into when everybody it connects to wants nothing but to supply bastards

asciilifeform: damn.

asciilifeform: -datadir=

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: change the paths to equal yours, srsly

asciilifeform: then see nohup.out for stdout

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: run in console as nohup /path/to/bitcoind -datadir /wherever/you/have/it &

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: no output?

asciilifeform: died silently ?

asciilifeform: because all four of my Shiva-hands are full.

asciilifeform: that means one or more of you lot are stuck with the misery of actually reading that patch.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2014#570183 << obligatory ☝︎

asciilifeform: obligatory >>>> http://poetry.about.com/od/poemsbytitleb/l/blkiplingballadeastandwest.htm

asciilifeform: danielpbarron ^

asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-February/000039.html << ty jurov

asciilifeform now can go to bed

asciilifeform: blockheight 214288 (bastard node.)

asciilifeform: docs inside.

asciilifeform: ^ what turdatron threw into the sun

asciilifeform: loper-os.org/pub/bitcoind-armv5-variants.tgz

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes et al: the tips i've given re: controlling memory fandango had better suffice. i'll post a buildroot for the pogo some time this week, but unfortunately i do not have time to do the whole thing personally

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu and anyone else waiting for s.nsa broadcast - it will appear shortly after i get a little sleep now. can't believe i blew a whole saturday on the pocket node thing.

asciilifeform: where the scene is from

asciilifeform fondly remembers 'monkey island'

asciilifeform: http://sigrok.org/wiki/File:WayEngineer16-board-top-2014-09.jpg << same, sans shitburial

asciilifeform: http://sigrok.org/wiki/File:Wayengineer_saleae16_atmel_24c02n.jpg

asciilifeform: http://sigrok.org/wiki/File:Wayengineer_saleae16_pcb_top.jpg << had no idea anybody still did this.

asciilifeform: aha that

asciilifeform: the films copying a classic one and the classic consequently seeming derivative tripe - thing ?

asciilifeform: hm?

asciilifeform: the usual term of art is 'trap door'

asciilifeform: i feel like i spent at least a decade.

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: possibly first mention of this was even earlier

asciilifeform: thread ^ a while ago, yes.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-03-2014#590953 ☝︎

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: as for killing, if you feed it a SIGTERM, it should die with decorum

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the simplest way is to run it inside the loop

asciilifeform: phillipsjk: it will be easier to explain just what it was, if i & the rest can view them at our leisure in 'wireshark'

asciilifeform: phillipsjk: talk to kakobrekla, he will give you a place to drop the dumps, if you believe that you have discovered something peculiar therein

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'killall' ?

asciilifeform: it's an amplification, by definition (attacker sends N bytes, victims receive k*N for some positive k)

asciilifeform: even using it as described, for ddos, requires the thing to be hooked up to an isp which happily routes packets with forged ip

asciilifeform: that is, of absolutely no use for taking control of a machine in the usual sense