asciilifeform: lizardgoering probably reviewed gossipd and answered, 'mein fuhrer, it's yet another pgp isomorph.' hitler: 'directorate 7b. next.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: will depend on how good of a job you & artifexd do, no ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that is, the lizard answer to it?
asciilifeform: 'hackernews' is more 'soviet' in the low-volume / active 'gardeners' running their fingers through the bag in search of undesirables - sense.
asciilifeform: afaik, reddit 'losing' threads is a very uncommon thing. whereas 'hackernews' - sop. this is because reddit follows the american philosophy of 'censorship by shitburial by the megatonne' rather than straight excision.
asciilifeform: bitcoin_charlie!452ee56a@gateway/web/freenode/ip.69.46.229.106', is not identified. << herr shrem is under house-arrest in a datacenter ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: blown away that the point that an eulogy's job is to illustrate how great the deceased was and how worthless the world by comparison is somehow controversial << their problem is with the second half of the sentence. which is, of course, entirely like disdaining one side of the battery
asciilifeform lives in usa for ~22 yrs but in a kind of cultural bubble, and not entirely certain how much of what he thinks of as civilization, remains intact there
asciilifeform: was specifically thinking of usa (where the reddit folks likely live)
asciilifeform: why's that annoying you << i have a heuristic for picking lines of inquiry that's heavily weighted against what i know other folks to be doing
asciilifeform annoyed, ^ remarkably similar to an idea he had been chewing on
asciilifeform: what even is the point of gigantic blocks ?
asciilifeform: or is this more of a 'camel's nose' affair
asciilifeform: re: fork wars << i find it strange that the phoundation folks are derping around with block size, etc. rather than shooting for straight dekulakization.
asciilifeform: that kind of behaviour is more or less the same as asking for a, e.g., 'ld_preload attack' or the like.
asciilifeform: and how does your $library actually implement this
asciilifeform: now have to decide 'OAEP' or 'PKCS#1' ?
asciilifeform: if you're doing crypto-whatever (e.g., 'gossipd') and you're gonna process signatures from pgp
asciilifeform: "oh, we included code but we had no idea what it does" sort of approach to code-is-spec specwork << this is actually a very serious boojum, beyond what most realize. i'll give example.
asciilifeform: can any of these really be 'for real' ?
asciilifeform: 'It's time for devs to bring hope and change to the Bitcoin community' << trololol!
asciilifeform: kakobrekla's serial buffer shuttle << good project. and he said enough such that anyone who wants, can build!
asciilifeform: (has anyone, incidentally, described the taste of Po-84 ?)
