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asciilifeform: their entire toolkit, when confronted with something that 'mysteriously' refuses to die when asked nicely, appears to consist of http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-01#1511945 ☝︎
phf: there is nothing wrong with your television set. do not attempt to adjust the picture.
asciilifeform: or 'not-quite-blocks', 'segregated shitnesses', or what are they calling pseudo-blox today, i lost track.
asciilifeform: which is naturally a coveted wet dream of the enemy, retconning blocks.
asciilifeform: it helps to also remember that 'text of new york times' can - and often does - retro-mutate.
asciilifeform: 'we'll have tx whose outputs depend on the text of next month's new york times, fuckyou'
asciilifeform: 'here's what we gonna do when we get the rapehole in'
asciilifeform: re the 'crowbars' from earlier, we have a 'This BIP defines a new witness program type that uses a Merkle tree to encode mutually exclusive branches in a script. This enables complicated redemption conditions that are currently not possible, improves privacy by hiding unexecuted scripts, and allows inclusion of non-consensus enforced data with very low or no additional cost.'
asciilifeform: the contractors live off-campus, working out of, e.g., raytheon, grumman, lockheed, and a bunch of 'small minority-owned businesses' (tm), and generally specialize in 'tools', rather than particular ops
mircea_popescu: i think they're slimming.
asciilifeform: and naturally a full platoon administrative, 'diverse veteran-hire' barn animals for each of these folk.
asciilifeform: from asciilifeform's 'seeeekrit evidential' sources, there are ~300 men, plus several thou 'contractors', of which perhaps 1 in 10 is a trojan writer in the usual sense, and the rest '0day finder' monkeys, operations 'trigger pullers', and similar.
mircea_popescu: a dozen people (if that) carry on their "very reasonably engineered" with flecks of "right thing" a la mmap shoulders THOUSANDS of fucking social media monkeys and assorted barn animals ; they see a paltry few thousands out of the BILLIONS this shitfest burns each year ; and they don't even have good parking spaces.
mircea_popescu: the one true shocker (and unsurprisingly fishwraps avoid the mention) is just how few hands were involved.
mircea_popescu: but you got the code.
asciilifeform: how am i to count the hands, i dun work there
mircea_popescu: count the hands.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the leaked widgets give a pretty good impression of the production quality, actually
mircea_popescu: and he prolly had to fight with management over it.
mircea_popescu: found the one lone dude still competent in the whole shit fondue fountain-castle.
mircea_popescu: mmap is the right tool!
BingoBoingo: Yeah, kinda why if it still seems fresh enough this weekend will be roundup xtended
asciilifeform: 'anonymous buyer who may or may not exist bought bag of coin which may or may not have been there'
BingoBoingo: Unless someone else wants to support case of noose
asciilifeform: 'BLATSTING's implementers are a big fan of mmap. It seems to be used for all file access, not just for manipulating kernel memory through `/dev/mem`. Is it done this way to reduce the number of system calls, to be less conspicious, as well as not reveal what exactly is accessed when running in `strace`? Or maybe a later stage of the rootkit blocks certain kinds of syscalls on certain "hidden" files.'
asciilifeform: 'I see nothing wrong with having anonymous/pseudonymous contributors in an open source project, especially controversial ones like #bitcoin' << from https://twitter.com/orionwl , attributed to subj.
asciilifeform: '... laanwj is the one who actually holds all the control over bitcoin protcol for now. '
mircea_popescu: "But it is even worse when many of those attacks are agitated by someone that purports to be part of your own project. Not just involved with, even leading projects whose developers and users are openly hostile to us."
asciilifeform: ' If ever there were a situation crying out for a smart contract - this is it.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Given the contentious situation we are living it is just my opinion that laanwj has the moral obligation to give the keys back to Gavin. Satoshi can be considered a person who passed away and last will was to have Gavin in control.'
mircea_popescu: derp actually was dumb enough to cover for vessenes/merck and the rest of the scammer band ?
mircea_popescu: EVERYONE ELSE CONTRIBUTES TO COSTS!!! DOGE CONTRIBUTES TO SALES!!!1
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc it was tried, the doge thing
mircea_popescu: laughably stupid never prevented them before.
asciilifeform: a full frontal attack against the total issue cap would've been laughably stupid, so they will try ~every other possible angle.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-13 19:06 asciilifeform: bip64, aside from complicating the protocol and giving relevance to the gavin shitgang, is also a jam-tomorrow chumpatronic engineering structural element
mircea_popescu: eh. unlike the us, the reich worked.
asciilifeform: lizards nailed gold, and 'eternally refight the last war', just about all prb-isms are elements of 'here's where we can apply conservation-law-violation crowbar when we finally get hold of one'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-23#1527586 << waterfall outlets are not merely for spending coin stolen by usg to date (via pre-trial confiscations, transport searches, nsa pwnholes, etc) but for 'fyoootoor, planned' IOUcoin that is to be somehow rolled out. ☝︎
asciilifeform: which is to say, chumps, permitting freeloading on their machine resource.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: understand, 'these situations' can only exist for so long as somebody relays tx-with-ancestors-only-in-mempool.
mircea_popescu: eh, usg's problem is that it ain't got no money; not that it ain't got where to use the money it has.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: No. Miners already were looking for those situations to collect fees. This is just dump a bunch of unnecessary turdcode on the masses
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I don't think there was a time since I came into communion with the proto-republic where it wasn't the case.
asciilifeform: 'parent for child' gives usg a new place to spend the waterfall - as subsidies for 'expediting' Officially Blessed tx.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform back before they got smushed on eth, when they thought they got money and a voice ? yeah, i remember.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I thought since 2013 though some operations turn over
asciilifeform: recall the mit mega-leak (meanwhile 'unhappened') re bribing miners ?
mircea_popescu: trb is however distinguished by being the most acceptant. so...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Some miners already seemed to be running software that looked for "Child Pays For Parent" situations.
asciilifeform: (everybody, to date, accepts same blocks...)
mircea_popescu: it was put in because they're desperate for relevancy ; and it was free code ; and more code is more better.
PeterL: but will trb accept block with chain of transactions in it?
asciilifeform: this piece was put in as attempt to disincentivize connection to trb nodes.
mircea_popescu: miner runnign trb-esque thing only would not, right. the first gets cut off because fees, the second because unknown inputs.
PeterL: so miner running trb-esque thing would not have second transaction
mircea_popescu: basically prb is trying to act as a sort of bitcoin mining code repository ; some of the miners contribute some of the less critical code and well... github.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand, PeterL was pointing out that trb does not relay the ingredients desired in this kitchen.
mod6: (22:56) <@mod6> and don't forget to grab:
mircea_popescu: PeterL what's contemplated here is a) miner's internal kitchen, which he's allowed to do on the grounds of having paid for the gear ; b) not substantially different, you can just regard the two txn as one, provided you know about both.
asciilifeform: 'Backing up an HD wallet ensures that you will be able to re-generate any private keys produced by that wallet in the future...' << lift hdd contents via nsa lizardport once, lift coin that chump gets hold of years later !
asciilifeform: as per the 'NEVER something-for-nothing-to-allcomers' principle.
PeterL: am I correct that we (specifically asciilifeform) decided that a transaction should not be accepted/relayed if its parents are not already in a block?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> is there some rule that "experts" in anglosphere must be ludicrously inept at their chosen expertise, as per their own lights ? << Yes, if every "expert" sucks then tournament market doesn't need a very sweet pot for the winrar.
mircea_popescu: note that this is hardly a change in any sense.
mircea_popescu: anyway, why : because merchants want to be able to "service" the inept consumer by tacking on extra fees if they get delayed.
asciilifeform: and if this were not enough, now we get Official arm binaries, with 'These binaries are designed for Linux using GNU libc6'
asciilifeform: 'This incentivization scheme is often called Child Pays For Parent (CPFP). In the simplest version, miners group a transaction and all of its ancestors together, calculating their total fee-per-byte in order to determine whether mining them together pays a high enough fee to outbid other individual transactions the miner wants to include in its next block.' << ain't that O(N^2) ?
asciilifeform: ansactions part of the block for itself. If the node doesn’t receive all the transactions it needs to fully reconstruct the block, it requests the missing transactions from its peers, and then uses them to complete the block.'
asciilifeform: and let's also introduce a new lulzvector! -- 'There’s no need for the node to receive the transaction a second time if it still has the first copy. Compact block relay (BIP152) can eliminate this redundancy by allowing a node to receive from its peers an ordered list of what transactions are included in a new block. With this knowledge, the node can use the transactions it has already received to partly or fully reconstruct the tr
shinohai: ^ with tubez yet
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: has been reading too many comic books.
PeterL: have not set up game yet, but I have been thinking it might be fun to try
a111: Logged on 2016-08-23 13:54 shinohai: mircea_popescu , I am rather disappoint that not a single person has responded to generous Eulora offer.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in this case i was thinking of the microwave blaster thing
phf: i always assumed lizard hitler death ray is activated by total recall style machinery, complete with four fingered alien hand shape on the switch
mircea_popescu: hence all this bloviation.
mircea_popescu: anyway, ~everyone figured out by now the usg can not continue.
asciilifeform: ... and i got a bridge to sell.
asciilifeform: probably linked for the lulgem, 'It’s interesting to note that many of the Constitutional protections afforded to American citizens still apply to those in arms against the government. For instance, federal judges will still have to authorize wiretaps on rebel phones during all phases of the federal response.'
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: never mention the death ray!!!!11
thestringpuller: lol "we're combing the desert" i always thought the afro pick was a nice touch. they don't make movies like that anymore.
danielpbarron: https://youtu.be/g3iFJpGJiug << the scene
a111: Logged on 2016-08-23 04:53 boolcrap: is that a giant comb? wtf is that from
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you're gonna liek... ruin it nao, i'm just not gonna say next time!
asciilifeform: drifted off to sleep in my lonely bed.'
asciilifeform: 'That night, I threw a wild tantrum, screaming and crying for hours on end. I had the whole apartment to myself, so there was no one there to hear me. I raged at the entire world, thrashing at my bed with my wooden practice sword and slashing at the air with my pocket knife. I even downed an entire bottle of wine, and got so drunk that I spilled my wine all over my laptop, permanently destroying it. I soaked my pillow with tears as I
mircea_popescu: teh beoble want living wage! too dumb to otherwise feed self!
shinohai: making gpg key is too much I suppose.
shinohai: mircea_popescu , I am rather disappoint that not a single person has responded to generous Eulora offer. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the title is "The Story of Elliot Rodger. By Elliot Rodger. Adnotated."
asciilifeform: but he had something-or-other on time delay
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who? mark twain ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, i'm starting adnotation work on mega 110k word opus. possibly the only item of interest to come out of usian letters this year.
mircea_popescu: not like i didn't put a fucking notice! on the very trilema!
mircea_popescu: (all of which, of course, entirely oblivious to the fact that their "branding" entirely fails to work, for one, and of the global meaning of this sort of cultural crushing on the other)
asciilifeform: at least the ones with ~anything to say.
asciilifeform: half of the 313337 seeeek0000rity types nearly, already
mircea_popescu is idly curious just how many "independent venues" will be reduced to "here's my inept restatement of logs" before the year/decade's out
mircea_popescu: is he reading the logz or what.