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mircea_popescu: "because he wqon't read me! and there's no other way to vent my little penis!"
mircea_popescu: still, they're funny. guy derps about how "concerns echoed again and again are ignored!!11" and is amazed. then people echo again and again the concern that "wtf loosen up" and "why are you publishing some guy's emails ?" which he... amazingly... ignores. why ?
mircea_popescu: tl;dr : gnome twerp is "I’d strongly encourage you to refrain from such comments in the future.", because that's how the world works nao.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform specifically, gaddafi was regarded as similarly odd,
mircea_popescu: in my limited experience with harems and the people keeping them, you can more or less get a trial run. especially as a young, entused woman.
mircea_popescu: this proves harem in the sense person offering large stores of grain to dissinterested cad thereby proves cat's a farmer.
mircea_popescu: well yeah, so, i don't understand wtf he's saying either.
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt half his closest collaborators grok what he means on the strenght of his text. you yourself, i suspect, followed the logic of the situaiton not the logic of his words.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he's characteristically weak in the rhetorics involved.
mircea_popescu: side note : i read someone (maybe joel on soft ?) in a wonderful piece "why i never upgrade" and i've never been able to find it again. ne1 know it ?
mircea_popescu: seems very reasonable really. how short would you have put up with it ?
mircea_popescu: then they were cast out and a bitcoin foundation constructed.
mircea_popescu: then there was a group of youthful men doing what seemed clumsy but well meaning stuff
mircea_popescu: first, there was one man, who couldn't code, doing idiotic things like windows and qt.
mircea_popescu: yes, actuyally, they have. here even, publicly and explicitly.
mircea_popescu: you mean, has anyone considered how idiotic "update now" is ?
mircea_popescu: not that THAT is a bad move in any sense, of course. but timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
mircea_popescu: anyway, ima get on teh comparison requests tomorrow. if anyone has more names to suggest as per above...
mircea_popescu: unless there's some sort of major backdoor in wuille's ecdsa implementation...
mircea_popescu: them a clear dependency to use when they need consensus-critical
mircea_popescu: dependency. It'll also help advanced protocol implementations by giving
mircea_popescu: probably give us fewer consensus problems than our existing OpenSSL
mircea_popescu: and well-understood library designed with consensus in mind that'll
mircea_popescu: is a good idea on the grounds that it provides us with a well-written,
mircea_popescu: opinion that migrating Bitcoin Core to libsecp256k1 in the near future
mircea_popescu: excellent testing the library has undergone - I personally am now of the
mircea_popescu: Wuille's recent findings¹ CVE-2014-3570 - strong evidence of the
mircea_popescu: have very good consensus-critical design. Along with Maxwell and
mircea_popescu: above incompatibility does strongly suggest that OpenSSL may not itself
mircea_popescu: for verification on the grounds that consensus trumps correctness, the
mircea_popescu: "While I have often cautioned people before to avoid using libsecp256k1
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo let me dig up my own words from the damned logs
mircea_popescu: llvm compiles faster, sucks at encryption (lol) and by degrees at everything else.
mircea_popescu: i have not looked at the matter in at least 3 years. does llvm still own gcc much to everyone's chagrin and denial ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, the gcc-emacs merger seems slowly but surely emergent
mircea_popescu: apparently there's some debate about ast output in gcc.
mircea_popescu: i don't get it. so, stallman-gcc, is at odds with stallman-emacs and they don';t wanna talk inside his head because cacti ?
mircea_popescu: obviously, on a strategic plane the difference would be "stop making broken by design software ; behead all the shitgnomes ; adopt bitcoin as us currency" etc.
mircea_popescu: mats if i defend my windows, i look for holes. if i attack your windows, i... look for holes ?
mircea_popescu: "fix the damned software" "nu-uh, we'd rather look for bugs in the chinese's" "they're using the same shit, you know"
mircea_popescu: experience over the past few years shows that answer is generally yes
mircea_popescu: so thinking further on the project to compare ecdsa libraries from yest... i guess the best thing would be to email respectable crypto people see if they want to do it as a contracted job. anyone wish to make recommendations ?
mircea_popescu: <xe4l> think TOR but you always do 10mbit FD << o that's what this is, you fixing what you read about tor vulnerabilities recently ?
mircea_popescu: if it were a military matter they wouldn't cut the walls offhouses.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you realise searching 100k houses just "creates jobs" right ?
mircea_popescu: xe4l i don't get what the attacker is supposed to think here. "oh, it's ok, that's just what that weird node does" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform now that's an excellent approach to make the point.
mircea_popescu: "david has a mental issue that makes him see vivid scenes from literature and also forces him to write about himself in the third person."
mircea_popescu: David is on track to retire in two years from investing in bitcoins. David wants to help you understand the once in a lifetime opportunity this digital currency revolution provides."
mircea_popescu: in general, to keep 99% out of any attacker's hands you'll need to spend 100x what they spend.
mircea_popescu: i think you will soon discover if you ever get to the practical side of things that denying ALL INFORMATION to an undefined attacker is a function of infinite budgets.
mircea_popescu: xe4l i guess i don't understand what the purpose would be
mircea_popescu: xe4l there's a deeper point involved here. stealth does not work in and of itself, as a strategy. if you want safety, you deploy an army. if you want to play the stealthy, you attach yourself to something with an army.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: why are you on a zoophile site ? << it's not a zoophile site. it's a women's site.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Related: We just detected that you’re now among the most attractive people on OkCupid. << Profile picture is a Llama. Not metaphorically or anything. Picture is actual shaggy Llama. << ahahaha wut.
mircea_popescu: what do you think this is, some sort of wh fast tracked project ?