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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That thought influenced the title word choice. Can't kill a corpse, but you can still hit it for damage.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Which is why it is entered into the record. All of the secondary reporting made finding their report ON THEIR OWN PROJECT a serious bitch.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo they have a point, only sane way to look at the orcs is as what they are -- a primitive culture.
BingoBoingo: <mod6> I'm not going to be done with this report a few days ~at a minimum~. << I am here so you can unload this on me
mod6: BingoBoingo just got me his numbers, so I can start calculations on that stuff now. And I think I'm about to lock in a price point for October. Which we need not only to keep the lights on, but also so we can start invoicing folks so I don't take another beating like I did in July.
mircea_popescu: hanbot lend the fellows a hand ? ☟︎☟︎
mod6: I'm not going to be done with this report a few days ~at a minimum~.
asciilifeform: mod6: i dun think it will be a terrible thing if it has to wait a day, so long as we do it shortly
mod6: I gotta get the report done for pizarro. I've also gotta lock in a price and get the bills paid.
mod6: I mean, my ticker can't keep up with this stuff. Gonna give me a heart-attack.
mod6: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-03#1857737 << nicoleci - So what was going on there was this: I had compiled a new trb with a new patch that I was testing, and I was remarking about that it's build was finished. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mod6: example: 'dear herr editor at volkischer beobachter: you have been misinformed by your sources re the subject of bitcoin. the client maintained by gavin et al, known as 'core', currently offered at version x.x, and infamous for lethally compromising bugs, most recently [qntra link] , is not the definitive client but a work of malicious impostors ; the actual bitcoin client can be found at [tbf] , consists of x LOC (and decreasi
a111: Logged on 2018-10-03 16:26 asciilifeform: if mod6 is overloaded, i can give it a shot myself later this wk, but imho this is suboptimal, asciilifeform does not represent tbf
mircea_popescu: and even that aside -- gotta write them, or otherwise vehehery tenuously can say "r foundation". because this is the sorta thing a foundation does, and this one's chartered to do -- outreach.
mircea_popescu: gimme a fucking break.
mod6: it may have been a while ago, ya.
mod6: i'll find it, just a minute. then I gotta reivew the rest of the log, and move on to pizarro things.
mircea_popescu: did a bunch of such letters end up on deedbot ?
mod6: I gotta dig it up. It was from the "if you go on a fork..." thing iirc.[
mod6: well, lol, I guess the ML is in a bit of a state lately.
mircea_popescu: because you're all lazy and psychotic, and would rather talk my ear off than go ask a girl out.
mod6: I've just had 9000 lbs of shit in a 5 lbs bag lately. If someone wants to help me, or write something in conjunction with me, that'd be really great.
mod6: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-03#1857624 << I did hear about this bug, of course. I had considered perhaps sending out something about this, but before I even dared to speak, I wanted to investigate the problem in prb-shithub, as well as the CVE. I haven't even had a spare moment yet. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-10-03 13:28 asciilifeform: aaand i'ma skip this morning's 'in trb observatory...' , it's a straight line of 'ACCEPTED' from known trb people
BingoBoingo: And before anyone brings up the latest Sokal 2.0, yes. A qntra is baking.
asciilifeform: Officially(tm) opium den, and the attendant preparation tech (the raw vegetable had to be processed in a particular way) are extinct. but betcha mircea_popescu , who traveled in the near east, knows the troof...
asciilifeform: re opiumists, as i understand the procedure was fiddly enuff that it in fact required a second set of hands -- for rich d00d, servant; for poor -- den flunkie
BingoBoingo: Well, apparently the hot thing in California the Uruguayos haven't figured out yet is called "dabbing". Apparently it's a way to crack pipe hashish
asciilifeform: ( pharmacologically also interesting : old-school opium 'smokers' ( wasn't actually smoked, it was sublimated in a device resembling today's 'crack pipe', and pretty 'high tech' procedure, look at photo of the kit some time ) -- the moar active components of the vegetable -- morphine & relateds -- didn't make it out of the pipe bowl, broke down, so theoretically the chinese were actually doing a somewhat different dope than today's j ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Now, If Trump makes Maduro sink a USG aircraft carrier the derp squad might try a run at US embassy, but I doubt they would have the commitment they do when serving as hinchas de Peñarol
BingoBoingo: Not so much anymore now that stadium security is a thing, but historically
BingoBoingo: Yes, they try to sneak "supergas" cylinders into the stadium, but on the other hand the locals care intensely about little else. Unless they are fans of Club Nacional de Futbol in which case they are a bunch of little pussies.
asciilifeform: ( possibly he even has it nao, i recall seeing a trb noad running from ru not too long ago )
asciilifeform: diana_coman: iirc at one time mircea_popescu actually had a ru box ; but i dun recall him sharing how he bought it, possibly it was a mircea_popescutronic transaction and not repeatable on demand, i have nfi presently
asciilifeform: 1 commonplace gotcha in orcistans is where they demand a 'physical presence' locally so they have a neck to squeeze if $box 'found to be' serving up naked pics of nazarbaev or whoever equiv.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i was not able to discover a 'hard nope', but all of the attempts that answered, ended in this eggog
diana_coman: o.O what, you mean you can't just rent a machine there?
asciilifeform: diana_coman: pre-pizarro i actually tried a dozen ru isp. they all wanted ru corp.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-02 23:39 asciilifeform: diana_coman: do you have one back in 'old blightey' ? or know of a place there where i oughta put one
diana_coman: asciilifeform, see the paste; that one is part of the live capture basically - the error log simply logs all bytes that have a different value than expected
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i suspect it's a frag, but hard to be certain until one's captured 'alive'
a111: Logged on 2018-10-03 16:27 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: wai does the switch have a public www face ? afaik this is optional toggle, and really oughta be off
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: item will need some tuning to work as pizarro main switch, presently i only ever used it as a nat ( large-ish lan to 1 external ip ) thing
mircea_popescu: very much a case of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-03#1857547 etc. ☝︎
asciilifeform: but fwiw has been running asciilifeform's torture room for nearly 4y without a single burp
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a sow's ear
asciilifeform: $subj is not , of course, custom silicon, but is a heathenware switch where asciilifeform ripped out the internal ssd and emplaced hand-sewn kernel + 'pf'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: wai does the switch have a public www face ? afaik this is optional toggle, and really oughta be off ☟︎
asciilifeform: if mod6 is overloaded, i can give it a shot myself later this wk, but imho this is suboptimal, asciilifeform does not represent tbf ☟︎
mircea_popescu: as a factual matter, did random "bitcoin news" crapola know or didn't know mod6 represents tbf and can be reached foir comment ?
asciilifeform: but difficult to debug a thing that returns null
mircea_popescu: this idea whereby we can both a) long endure and b) persistently remain null at outreach on all levels is the stuff of alf's boats.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-01 15:51 mod6: I feel like I can be pretty successful in doing that, it's the other things that I feel like I'm lacking -- a senseable direction to a 'Standford'.
diana_coman: I can certainly try and leave a tcpdump going to see what /if it gets anything
asciilifeform: diana_coman: my notes dun feature a -254...
diana_coman: anyways, at a quick look, no errors on either direction between the 2 concerned nodes, ~99.80% made it to the other side ; will get to do a proper write-up with more details by the end of this week
a111: Logged on 2016-04-12 15:09 asciilifeform: it always struck me as a kind of 'bsd 4' - yes, 'hackable', yes, 'small', but the ~wrong kind of small~, the kind that will balloon into the same megalith as sbcl if you were to add all of the missing but necessary pieces.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-03#1857577 << amiga's os was a pretty simple thing, rather closer to msdos 'init the iron & get the fuck out of the way' than to current-day items ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-03#1857575 << imho it would be difficult to find a worse example of 'if only could have lived, if not linux!' than beos ( at one point i was quite into archaeology of 'anyffing nonmicroshit', eagerly dug up vintage/'resurrected' pc os, but once actually got close to the things typically found that 'ugh, ~same shit, different bottle' ) ☝︎
asciilifeform: aaand i'ma skip this morning's 'in trb observatory...' , it's a straight line of 'ACCEPTED' from known trb people ☟︎
diana_coman: www is up, date is set, everything so far looks fine; I'll give it a more thorough checkup in ~2 hours and get back to you
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo here's a +1 : i return from the beach also! took there, inter alia, girly whom i bought a perfectly see through, 50% of surface holes, inch-over-cunt-if-upright "dress" which i authoritatively declared to be "her bathing suit", last week. and told her she'll have to wear it at the beach. and she fretted over this wearing of this peculiar bathing suit. so today the day came, and she stepped on the beach, and the ne
BingoBoingo: Condensing these logs into marketing is a thing being pondered
trinque: i.e. there's this fine gentleman BingoBoingo actually in the bowls of the machine, steadfastly giving a shit.
asciilifeform: if can think of a way to conpress!
asciilifeform: trinque: the text to answer 'wai republican isp' exists, unfortunately it's a coupla hundr MB, aka.. the l0gz
trinque: oughta say something about why the fuck someone wants a republican ISP
mircea_popescu: the incredible transparency they got going is actually a very strong selling point
lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-03#1857528 << forgot to respond to this, but you have my a-ok to reformat old drive. and thank you gentlemen for the smooth swap ☝︎
asciilifeform: a+++ as usual.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: do you have one back in 'old blightey' ? or know of a place there where i oughta put one ☟︎
asciilifeform: sooo if anybody ( mircea_popescu ? diana_coman ? ) knows of some place that 1) isn't complete shit 2) doesn't have a trb noad living there yet -- plox to write in.
asciilifeform: but it for same reason as stated earlier it wouldn't do so much good if i put a noad in same place
BingoBoingo: It's also possible there's another trb node I haven't put my own eyes on running on a residential connection in this country
BingoBoingo: Or maybe got adlai'd into a rehab
BingoBoingo: It ran openbsd fine, runs a linux fine now, FreeBSD was flakey last time I tried it on this one
trinque: huh, I ran one of the early x86 Be versions for a bit, didn't hate.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i strongly suspect that a box that smoothly runs the haiku thing will also run freebsd..
asciilifeform: i'd stick a kernel that dun crash on these..
BingoBoingo: Or throw on a video playing box
BingoBoingo: Sure. Its the sort of thing you'd stick in a lobby to let people check the weather.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-02#1857438 << ok i wasn't sure whether diana_coman's keccak knew how to output arbitrary bitness. but my other point was that a 32bit hash may as well be crc32, there can be no notion of collision resistance when yer output is 32b. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: im really only using it as an adhoc crc ; possibly should either get rid of it altogether, or implement a proper ec.
asciilifeform: so moar of a checksum ?
mircea_popescu: but this'd be a collision inside an encrypted packet.
asciilifeform: does diana_coman's keccak do this ? ( aside from the q of what does a 32bit hash output win, it aint exactly hard to collide into a desired 32bit regardless of how you make hash algo.. )
asciilifeform: 'n*(4*int64 + int32) (32 bytes each key followed by a 4 byte ID calculated as the keccak hash of the key itself)' << unless i misread, how does one get a 4byte output from keccak ?
BingoBoingo: s, that was in response to me pointing to that as a precedent for LGBT rights, but I’m not sure that makes it better. I’m just aghast. How can I make him see how wrong he is?"
nicoleci: yeah thanks, Master. privilege in knowledge, torture in a chromebook
mircea_popescu: some clever bits of math permit one to encrypt a message with the use of that 221 so that only he who knows 13 * 17 =221 can ever get it back out.
ben_vulpes: i was going to ask for a traceroute
mircea_popescu: ok, so this back of a digital envelope seems to suggest we want : 1. fixed size 1470 byte rsa packets, made to work with 3920-bit rsa (of which i presume the useful message size to be 1872 bit, diana_coman plox to confirm maffs ?). such a packet has then 1696 bits spare for e and bullshit. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i expect decryptions will be the principal cpu expense of running a rsatronic box. at least until the fyootoor day of fpga etc
asciilifeform: the nic will simply insert a 0 octet
asciilifeform: fwiw asciilifeform is still sitting on top of a 2048b main key
diana_coman: yes; anyway it's basically a knob to turn, not a big issue in itself
mircea_popescu: but yes, as far as anyone knows 2048 bit keys perfectly safe, now and for the foreseable future (this isn't a comment on koch faux-pgp, which unsafe at any length as well documented in logs qntra and so on).
diana_coman: from a practical point of view it does mean that Eulora doesn't use directly TMSR RSA keys though
asciilifeform: afaik it's not unlike diff b/w a 25 and 50 megatonne nyook
mircea_popescu: but i mean... it's for a reason, not just cuz bored.