asciilifeform: decimation: it was already abolished on 'palm pilot'
asciilifeform: decimation: but it will be wasted on 1970s garbage os
asciilifeform: decimation: not hybrid, if their literature is to be believed, but rather a 'flash' fast and durable enough to substitute for dram entirely
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: this would not require nanotube making any change to gribble, but would add an annoying extra step of having to auth a second time for rating
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: and opening the gates using it
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: folks suggested assbot having a synchronized copy of gribble's wot
asciilifeform: decimation: you're entirely correct that this will eventually be a thing, though. hence the need for stateless, single-packet auth hellos.
asciilifeform: no actual human transmits $maxint whatevers from a single ip per second/hour/etc
asciilifeform: hardwired dependence on pastebin then ?
asciilifeform: to the extent it makes sense to do it
asciilifeform: so as to have the ui we are accustomed to
asciilifeform: at any rate, the correct way to use it would be to have a proggy emulate an irc server and connect ordinary client to it
asciilifeform: and even if there were, it would be unsuitable for safety-critical signatures (e.g., wot ratings)
asciilifeform: decimation: right now there is no ready mechanism (except in my experiment, described earlier) for pronouncing ephemeral ('hot', machine-readable) keys for rapid signing
asciilifeform: weirdo protocol that would only by happenstance operate over irc
asciilifeform: separate auth to assbot would work, but how to feed through wot ?
asciilifeform: nanotube: it can only work if folks can authenticate with assbot (and hence with gribble, or equivalent) without exposing hostname
asciilifeform: and therefore functions predictably and perhaps in some way constructively.
asciilifeform: nanotube: my suggestion was to expel the enemy with an only slightly less annoying mechanism that is at least controlled by actual people, and not by spamming scum
asciilifeform: nanotube: let's look from another angle. right now, noobs are virtually banned from #b-a. but the ban is enforced by a hooligan, not by any of us
asciilifeform: nanotube: if he can do this, he deserves to be here.
asciilifeform: nanotube: he will have to go beyond passing the turing test, and into fabricating an interesting and invite-worthy personality each time.
asciilifeform: they read kakobrekla's www log, see who to pm, make a brief case for being invited
