asciilifeform: decimation: actually i must disagree. i followed mr mold's project since the day i ferreted out the semi-public dump where he kept it

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1352

asciilifeform: i'm sorta glad he did the escapade, because those were the easiest four-and-half btc i ever made

asciilifeform: unless he's blown it on 'paid best friends'

asciilifeform: no secret, this

asciilifeform: but, stopped posting, it seems.

asciilifeform: doesn't mean mr mold isn't grinding away in his cellar again like before.

asciilifeform: i'm also still, for some reason, on their mailing list, and mostly nothing has happened there in a while

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo's 'review' - and mine - are on front page.

asciilifeform: searched using google, for 'urbit', via a few proxies, cookieless browser - and discovered that...

asciilifeform: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2014/08/hiatus.html

asciilifeform: ask him

asciilifeform: 'At the 1980 Olympics, Brezhnev begins his speech. "O!"—applause. "O!"—an ovation. "O!!!"—the whole audience stands up and applauds. An aide comes running to the podium and whispers, "Leonid Ilyich, those are the Olympic logo rings, you don't need to read all of them!"' ☟︎

asciilifeform: ze fuhrer says through his megaphone - whatever he is asked to say. for example, '38400 baud.' >> http://imgur.com/a/oZSiI

asciilifeform: lest they deprive the crown of its entertainment.

asciilifeform: except that one must appreciate the kind of monsters methodist/puritans are. e.g., not only are various measures taken to prevent inmates from offing themselves, but those condemned to death are on 24/7 'suicide watch'.

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform when read about this for the first time, wondered if some 'lifer' inmate will file a 'cruel and unusual punishment' claim against the u.s. department of prisons for potentially extending his lifespan and thus adding years to his sentence without a judge's say-so

asciilifeform: trading something else.

asciilifeform: as i understand, one's kaishakunin would typically be a respected teacher, who approves of you enough to take the risk of embarrassing himself by chopping incorrectly.

asciilifeform: not only witnesses.

asciilifeform: ;;ud kaishakunin

asciilifeform: respect as in 'i wish this person to do the privilege of being my kaishakunin.'

asciilifeform: when i read 'shall be delivered', i knew virtually nothing about the author -- but instant respect, of the deepest kind.

asciilifeform: !s shall be delivered

asciilifeform: and the immortal...

asciilifeform read them all many times

asciilifeform misses the mpoepr essays

asciilifeform: 'entire cl455! except for those bozos who cheated by studying'

asciilifeform: !s kyristor

asciilifeform: but did, sadly, actually have the concept in head, and did nothing useful with it

asciilifeform: or possibly saw it, and did not digest

asciilifeform: when wrote that piece.

asciilifeform must admit for the record that he did not know about nanotube's 'wot'

asciilifeform: now declassif1ed!

asciilifeform: http://pastebin.com/f4TeW4zQ

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: ;;google seventeen moments of spring

asciilifeform: quite the polar opposite, in most ways

asciilifeform: other than being a fictional hero

asciilifeform: but not at all like james bond

asciilifeform: stierlitz

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: well certainly

asciilifeform: wtf even means 'like james bond'. everyone he fucked died same day?

asciilifeform: ???

asciilifeform: obligatory - http://www.loper-os.org/?p=939 << my first excretion on the subject, inspired by glbse

asciilifeform: (unless they fail to play ball at some point)

asciilifeform: glbse, mtgox - folks who are doing 'god's work' from usg point of view will not be molested by usg.

asciilifeform: eh.

asciilifeform: !s anarchotyranny

asciilifeform: e.g., mtgox

asciilifeform: or wait, what

asciilifeform did not invent pinyin, is not to blame for it

asciilifeform: no.

asciilifeform: !s yi yi zhi yi

asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: glbse was 'yi yi zhi yi' and therefore legally untouchable.

asciilifeform: barf

asciilifeform: that'll be the day.

asciilifeform somehow misses this

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform: who, if anyone, owns the meatspace trademarks anyway ?

asciilifeform: !s the problem of enforcement

asciilifeform: the current phoundation rolls in coin of mysterious (or not-so-mysterious) origin, this powers a certain amount of 'loud shout' idiocy

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that is, the ridiculous meatspace org thing

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the name collision gambit - how far to take it? are we to carry on the entire papal court thing?

asciilifeform: !s sybil attack

asciilifeform: what kind of secret, exactly, is the existence of a node ?

asciilifeform: decimation: the folks who do this now, what do they gain from it ?

asciilifeform: rope-a-pope.

asciilifeform: how to dislodge?

asciilifeform: there's a fat arse parked at rome already

asciilifeform: so are we going for an avignon papacy ?

asciilifeform: how is this a good thing ?

asciilifeform: shouting contest

asciilifeform: eh, this is like jamming radio

asciilifeform: and is there a name, anyway?

asciilifeform: I find it likely to confuse << who said to call it a phoundation?

asciilifeform: chumpnet node, snore

asciilifeform: tripped the alarm?

asciilifeform: who exactly is part of this perverse digression anyway

asciilifeform: someone wants to suggest string?

asciilifeform: speaking of which.

asciilifeform: decimation: what, precisely, would this accomplish?

asciilifeform: again, the whole ftdi boobytrap - just another little proggy for microshit virus os.

asciilifeform: decimation: they exploited their own 'don't care' bits.

asciilifeform: they simply took the spec & reimplemented.

asciilifeform: simple enough best, so there was no real need to make electron micrograph and laboriously reverse the mask

asciilifeform: from scratch.

asciilifeform: decimation: if the chinese had simply copied the die, as folks often do, the vulnerability would be no surprise. but instead they reimplemented the thing bug-for-bug.

asciilifeform: joecool: see mircea_popescu's site for monthly reports.

asciilifeform: joecool: yes.

asciilifeform: Because It Would Be Wrong (TM)

asciilifeform: and, afaik, no wp pin on any of them

asciilifeform: decimation: traditional ftdi chip, for no particularly good reason, is reflashable in-band.

asciilifeform: !s the air seller

asciilifeform: re: ftdi, microshit, usb phoundation:

asciilifeform: let's fire that again: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-10-2014#889092 ☝︎

asciilifeform if knew - would demonstrate now

asciilifeform: undiscovered enough to fuck with some heads