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asciilifeform: muh_buttcoins: if you were to meet with proof that it was so, or was not so, would the coins thereby unsteal themselves ?
asciilifeform blows dust off textbook
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and works, about as well as russian-english (which is to say, very threadbare)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is marked 'persian' there.
asciilifeform: the mere emission of a 'muhahahaha' - or some more specific activity peculiar to reverse-engineering purloined fpga bitstreams ?
asciilifeform: what, for instance, is 'doing satanic laughs ?'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can't expect hard proof of anything whatsoever, sure.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: occasionally there are idiomatic residual clues
asciilifeform: any scholars of farsi lang. here ? is above a plausible eng. mistranslation? and if so, of what.
asciilifeform: ( quoted from http://cryptome.org/2015/01/parastoo-opjfk.htm )
asciilifeform: ^ good 'dissociated press' (shannonizer) output? or actual human speaking ?
asciilifeform: 'PARASTOO IS INFORMING THAT "CPLD AND FPGA BITSTREAMS" RUNNING THE SECURITY MODULES IN BOTH GROUND STATIONS AND MANY OF THE HOVERING ACTUAL SATELLITES THAT ARE LINKED TO SOME TARGETED NOCs ARE FULLY DECRYPTED ..AND WE FOUND -- WHILE DOING SATANIC LAUGHS -- SOME OF THESE UGLY CODES ARE NOT EVEN COMPATIBLE WITH BASIC NIST'S FIPS SECURITY GRADE GIVEN TO THESE PRODUCTS WITH $+APPLAUSE .'
asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2015/01/snowden-nsa-pay-for-silence.htm << mega-lol
asciilifeform: or just slip in a few packets
asciilifeform: or rather, at any time could have been hitler, but previously the fuhrer would have been required to put in a little sweat and pwn fleanode wholesale, whereas now he just needs to break nickserv
asciilifeform makes small 'public service announcement' that, with gribble dead, any one of us present company could be hitler.
asciilifeform: well yes. but it is 'duct tape' for the cloak thing.
asciilifeform: (incidentally, at least every other fleanode host has broken 'sasl' auth. learn which ones, if your client has 'auto-connect' to #b-a)
asciilifeform: the node i was plugged into - is dead now.
asciilifeform: did a series of small asteroids just hit fleanode or what.
asciilifeform: ty mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: 'May your deeds with sword and axe / Equal those with sheep and yaks.'
asciilifeform: 'wagner: free; cyanide - extra five pfennigs'
asciilifeform: 'going the way of linux' << depressing
asciilifeform: 'here's a lesson all must learn: first you pillage, then you burn'
asciilifeform: *war
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what'd that do ? << if your estimate in 'this was exceeds that [necessary budget]' is correct - it will do nothing.
asciilifeform: (double-spend on the 'actual' net, naturally)
asciilifeform: say, by engineering a continuous double-spend attempt into normal operation of 'usgcoin' miners
asciilifeform: the only way enemy could win this hypothetical engagement is if he can set his fork up to 'catabolically break down' the original bitcoin network ( mircea_popescu's army on the board )
asciilifeform: box that will compile and run an unpretentious posix demon without major handholding
asciilifeform: minimal standard of computer for purpose of this thread
asciilifeform: but the entire problem is entirely avoidable
asciilifeform: doctor will say to patient 'if it hurts, stop doing it'
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: they will succumb to the temptation of running the entire demon, and not merely a proxy, on the 'bouncer.'
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: there are folks about (some even in #b-a) who have a habit of using something other than an actual computer for their daily work (i won't point fingers)
asciilifeform: artifexd: http://trilema.com/2015/artifexd-a-better-ircd-rfc/#comment-111220
asciilifeform: the miners in the sealed mine will mine on body fat for as long as they can.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, artifexd, other interested folks: http://trilema.com/2015/artifexd-a-better-ircd-rfc/#comment-111218
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i argue that all transmissions must be signed, if this is to be the thing it is really meant to be.
asciilifeform: perhaps misleading title, 'better ircd', i admit i almost postponed reading it when first saw on account of this
asciilifeform: active thread on mircea_popescu's site, btw
asciilifeform: rithm: did you actually read mircea_popescu's article ?
asciilifeform: centralized ?
asciilifeform: has no one actually -read- the thing ?
asciilifeform: but this isn't irc !
asciilifeform believes that the scheme as originally described is disastrously mistaken
asciilifeform: answerd
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2015/open-a-better-ircd-rfc/#comment-111210
asciilifeform: 'lenin is young again!' (tm)
asciilifeform: from whence come the mass of idiot coin, though
asciilifeform: on the contrary, synthetic chumpfracking fluid is a usg product.
asciilifeform: it has to be chump fracking.
asciilifeform: the 'gaw' crap boggles my mind. how is this shit even still possible.
asciilifeform vaguely recalls ben_vulpes having wangled together an autobuilder of sorts
asciilifeform: list, yes. wasn't sure about the tree itself
asciilifeform: aha
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu: which one(s) of you is even doing the merges, anyway ?
asciilifeform is sitting on a shameful quantity of unfinished patches for their apparatus
asciilifeform feels guilt re: mod6-vuples foundation, almost like it were a bastard son he can't quite afford to feed
asciilifeform: and bring in the naturally-occurring but recalcitrant chumpers.
asciilifeform: not only to drive waterfall directly, but to create an appearance of a 'happening', 'hot' chumpatron
asciilifeform: synthetic chumps (btc stolen by usg organs) is pumped into eth
asciilifeform: just as in hydraulic fracturing, foreign substance is pumped into the earth to liberate the goods,
asciilifeform: i dare to suggest a possible term for another thing the ethereum folks do; 'chump fracking'
asciilifeform: waterfall.
asciilifeform: hm
asciilifeform: 'etherium'
asciilifeform: was.
asciilifeform: presently true
asciilifeform: own
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu incoming pgp
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu achtung
asciilifeform: axe-time, sword-time, coming closer
asciilifeform: would you buy an x86 pc box and use it with the factory-installed softs? no? then why would you do this with router ?
asciilifeform: must remind readers that your machines are as 'real' - or unreal - as you are.
asciilifeform: (see earlier 'arm' threads)
asciilifeform: as in something that doesn't have a multitude of undocumented internal sub-cpu cores running fuck knows what
asciilifeform: (this gets you over the arguably low bar of having the router be no more exploitable than the machine(s) it is connected to...)
asciilifeform: build - personally.
asciilifeform: 'openwrt' etc, on hardware of reasonable vintage
asciilifeform: https://books.google.com/books?id=Ut_0AgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA44&ots=uzdXPijFi9&dq=ruble%20vanity%20exchange%20rate&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q=ruble%20vanity%20exchange%20rate&f=false << herr orlov's recollections
asciilifeform: (yes, people found ways to 'milk' it.)
asciilifeform: quotes the dollar officially at 12 bolivars. meanwhile, black rate is ~17 << mega-lol!! >> at one point, iirc, 'vanity' exchange rate of soviet ruble was 12 per usd.
asciilifeform: decimation: await the next version, resembling 'iron maiden' ?
asciilifeform: or something like that.
asciilifeform: not everyone can afford golden toilet, but anyone can have a throne with ipv6.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-10-2014#864590 ☝︎
asciilifeform: lol, emotions!
asciilifeform: when the moon is just waning.
asciilifeform: i still want that fpga that evolves to live in one particular floor tile of your cellar.
asciilifeform currently failing to load mircea_popescu's site, but believes that somewhere it works
asciilifeform: at any rate, i did bring it up in here on a few occasions. but did append the gotcha, 'not ready for battlefield because little time' - which is presently true
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu does not like surprise
asciilifeform: from scratch.
asciilifeform: now one of you lot will end up having to write it!
asciilifeform: why mircea_popescu had to ruin my surprise gift to the fine folks of #b-a. i was gonna roll that thing out with cardano.
asciilifeform: !up svetlana
asciilifeform: after approximately 1.03N bytes for a payload originally length N