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mircea_popescu: that is what im saying. to get a packet there, you need more than one
mircea_popescu: right, which goes through thermodynamic dissipation aka friction.
mircea_popescu: exactly for the reason you mention : who can afford or wants to give anyone free traffic ?
mircea_popescu: as long as friction is baked in, the ddos problem fundamentally doesn't exist.
mircea_popescu: you want n packets, you send at least n+1. you want n bits, you send at least n+1.
mircea_popescu: in spite of endless generations of imbeciles running wild all over it.
mircea_popescu: you always get less than what you put in. this is the chief principle that makes the world endure
mircea_popescu: it was made by idiots who do not understand what trade even is.
mircea_popescu: every anything used in an amplification attack meets the criteria.
mircea_popescu: it's like a beautifully drawn mmorpg made by blizzard. you KNOW the economy will be broken to all shit.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the entire world made by derps unaware of game theory needs to be redone.
mircea_popescu: "lets make computers fun" ; "you know, for kids" and "anyone can do this". fuck that.
mircea_popescu: mullenweg and the core of imbeciles "working" at wordpress go around claiming they program computers
mircea_popescu: you want the time ? ask twice. the server answers each request pair once, in the order of descending delta intervals.
mircea_popescu: and in connectionless environments such as ntp or dns even, it would cost nothing to require 2 tits for every tat.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile TO THIS DAY wordpress will go check 1.1.1.1 because 2.2.2.2 said so.
mircea_popescu: and to not send packets to X that were asked for by Y.
mircea_popescu: the solution is to not send 500 packets in response to one
mircea_popescu: " IP addresses that were not assigned to the device which is sending them."
mircea_popescu: not trivial to know where a packet enters tho. they do have to traverse it anyway
mircea_popescu: there IS something wrong to treating packets like fucking popcorn.
mircea_popescu: the world would be so much better if all the gmaxwells of this world were never taught to read.
mircea_popescu: "i was gonna do thinks with my gun... but then i got tired... then i got tired... and fell asleep"
mircea_popescu: "apparently mr i forgot my isis flag guy fell asleep" << ahahaha epic
mircea_popescu: "The #4890 pull-req in question had no ACKs at all, and only two untested utACKS, which I find worrying for something that made significant consensus critical code changes." via BingoBoingo
mircea_popescu: anyway, dumbass proxies desynced and started running around topless in the dc.
mircea_popescu: davout lol well, they have a split issue. the proxies are online, just... no data.
mircea_popescu: if they just wantr to idle in 500 "bitcoin related" channels fuck them.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if they're actively trying to stick, they can triviallydo so.
mircea_popescu recalls his last foray into #freenode, where some staf derp explained how he can revert hashes
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand how the world works!1111!!
mircea_popescu: yeah well, the time granularity here is closer to the day than to the second
mircea_popescu: but these aren't two dollar bills. one is a dollar bill of your paycheck today. the other is a dollar bill of your paycheck next month. they aren't fungible.
mircea_popescu: this arguing by simple restatement of one's position is uninteresting.
mircea_popescu: anyway, you'll get the new set later today, nottin' to get too excited about.
mircea_popescu: basically, we're cheating by using a singlke name for different instruments.
mircea_popescu: and because downstream providers & brokers need a settlement spot
mircea_popescu: but whenever reddit or whoever pours in, there's a huge upsurge in traffic visible for quantcast.
mircea_popescu: i think part of this might be that most of qntra stable readership are computer savvy folks and so invisible,
mircea_popescu: funny enoughy, awstats doesn't see the same sort of jumps
mircea_popescu: the way this guy cuts down on all the dumb idlers that imagine whatever, b-a is just another channel, can autopilot in is so fucking great srlsy.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller internet derp being what he imagines is sarcastic.