asciilifeform: iirc the serbs were doing an a++ job of bugspraying it, until intervention
asciilifeform: i'd like to borrow the lens through which mircea_popescu saw his model, but i suspect it dun work with earthling eye.
asciilifeform: ( iirc mircea_popescu actually had a piece re subj, where not only about iliescu, but where all the new managerial class was also ex-party, because nobody else adequately literate, or how did it go )
asciilifeform: even ro '89 'revolution', which i suspect is mircea_popescu's basic model, dun quite fit pattern : old regime croaked precisely when regular army turned on securitate. ( and yet somehow even after this, iliescu -- communist -- ended up on throne )
asciilifeform: kosovo is simply condom clinton wore when he waltzed serbia in erry hole
asciilifeform: 'kosovo independence' another mega-lol, product of nato bombers
asciilifeform: possibly unwritten at least partly cuz not actually happened yet
asciilifeform: arafat's folx ditto, still living in concentration camps
asciilifeform: ira mega-example, gave up arms and went into reddit
asciilifeform: ( will observe that it seems to take moar bricks/molotovs than the 'dindus' of bmore are able to muster, to date, they 'revolution' ~yearly but it ain't detectable at all from 100km with naked eye )
asciilifeform: point was, i dunno of any direct parallels in recent white man's hist
asciilifeform: if contention is 'tower of shit, takes a few brick' -- i'll buy
asciilifeform: lenin + 2e6 folx coming back armed an' pissed from ww1
asciilifeform: sure, and 1917 kept killing pretenders, and just about erry other example. but not with crowd hands.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: which historic revolution actually fits the 'while(cops willing to larp) kill()' model ? erry one i can think of had some participation of regular army with flipped sign bit
asciilifeform: ( as for frags, even industrially produced item suffers from 'if fuse is long enuff never to run out in yer hand, enemy can throw back' headache )
asciilifeform: glass makes for cheap 'impact fuse' tho, hence why still popular even tho plastic bottles are errywhere
asciilifeform: so given that factors of a 1872b key fit in 1024b ea., double of above will be your encrypt, approx, time.
asciilifeform: 1024b (full width) currently 0.295s (exercise for reader -- why almost same as 2048?)
asciilifeform: then will be 0.296 * ( 64 / 2048 ) = ~0.009 encrypt , and as for decrypts with crt,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ah so take the 2048 figure as base then
asciilifeform: ( granted, this figure does not include hashism, but hashism is a O(N) op )
asciilifeform: for ~decipherment~ if one were to use crt, that'd be a 2 * 0.296 = 0.592s .
asciilifeform: e.g. for mircea_popescu's euloratron, his exp is 64bits, and his pubkeys iirc round to 4096b, so that'll be a 0.028s encipherment.
asciilifeform: for mircea_popescu's in particular, if you shorten the pubexp , you speed up (encipherment strictly) by b/exp, where b is bitness and exp is max len of your exp, times.
asciilifeform: where's livable and where -- not, will depend on application.
asciilifeform: i dunno whether the yugos had native ic production
asciilifeform: my current impression is that ro was closer, tech-wise, to ddr, than to (konsoomer, at least, level) su
asciilifeform: i recall father brought back from ro also a flashlight thing with fluorescent tube, not all that useful but blew asciilifeform's mind cuz 'how is this physically possible, the ballast in our jury-rigged fluorescent at dacha is bricks-sized'
asciilifeform: phf: lol! where'd they keep'em? on balcony?!
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's most recent livestock-keeping ancestor died during reign of hruschev , so sadly cannot eruditely add to chicken thread☟︎
asciilifeform: ( neighbour -- does keep chickens. used to be entirely unheard of in city here, but naodays local polizei close eyes to livestock (tho theoretically banned) for so long as it aint a pig )
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i dun keep chickens but imagine it'd work great, lol
asciilifeform: somebody oughta start a 'dindu' one in bmore
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have one of these coupla blox from my street. they tend to cluster around courthouses , 1 or 2 for small city one, up to dozen around a major
asciilifeform: ( i dun recall a previous , but asciilifeform does not actively follow subj )
asciilifeform: is this 1st time they stole a cn brass ?
asciilifeform: somebody give washington the memo, i think they missed
asciilifeform: maybe i'm out of date on subj, but iirc unless yer sitting in an embassy, yer subject to local lol-enforcement
