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mircea_popescu is so entranced with that circleci post he's out researching it, turns out https://aphyr.com/posts/335-tattoo << aphyr actually exists.
asciilifeform: ave gotten you off the hook for and it only took a week to find you.'
asciilifeform: 'As a member of the team that caught MacDougall, I can say we figured it out in less than a week. He may not yet realize that he might not have violated any existing law at the time he did it -- even though FCC threatened prosecution and he then"copped a plea". The reason why 18 USC 1367 was soon passed was to remove the ambiguity in this area. So Mr. Smart Guy, you pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor that a decent lawyer might h
asciilifeform: from the commentz:
asciilifeform: (why? ask the builders, not me)
asciilifeform: incidentally, to this very day there are sats with ~0 authentication.
asciilifeform: i dun think he picked hbo sat for any particular reason other than 'it had unsheathed arsehold'
mircea_popescu: it's like... midnight shopping channel decided to open a tcm competitor.
asciilifeform: the man had ~nothing to say. and so today is remembered by asciilifeform and , idk, half dozen other weirdos.
asciilifeform: http://www.macdougallelect.com/bio.html << the man himself.
mircea_popescu: dun think so
asciilifeform: what, exactly, will reading this on the surprise tv screen do to the typical 'patient' ?
mircea_popescu: but really, the only message that's worth broadcasting is some variation of "fuck you, you're not good enough and i don't like you."
mircea_popescu: what's wrong with "fuck you torun, none of you are smart enough to know how this was done."
asciilifeform: what would mircea_popescu have put in there ?
mircea_popescu: pity that all they find to do is herp the plebe song.
asciilifeform: price hikes, lies, repression". Twelve days later, the same slogans appeared superimposed on the hated evening news. The dissident radio astronomers had struck again.'
asciilifeform: or, from today's earlier link, 'On September 14, 1985, residents of the Polish city of Toruń watching the popular James Bond ripoff 07, Call In (in which a blond and ideologically correct Citizen's Militia officer fights crime from within a series of tight sweaters) were surprised to see the show briefly overlaid with block white letters reading "Solidarity Toruń: Boycotting the election is our duty," and "Solidarity Toruń: Enough
mircea_popescu: understand : propaganda doesn't want you to agree. it just wants you to participate. dun matter so much what value you participate with, which is the point.
mircea_popescu: and do you know why it exists ? because it counts on grannies and alf to get confused by the content, as if words have meaning OF THEMSELVES, not of context, and click/spread the link.
asciilifeform: and what is it that they like ?
mircea_popescu: they know what they like, and seek getting it.
mircea_popescu: what blind ? they're not blind anymore than gut bacteria is blind
mircea_popescu: none of these humanizing metaphores apply.
asciilifeform: blind - leading the blind.
asciilifeform: circus has two ends.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck do you keep linking this irrelevant crap in here omg.
mircea_popescu: o wait, and the whole shit is a miserable vessenes spam domain trying to capitalize on underhanded c ?
mircea_popescu: ahahaha first prize by "our judges" to sole submission ?
asciilifeform: https://underhandedcrypto.com/2016/08/17/the-2016-backdoored-cryptocurrency-contest-winner << meanwhile in the world of sport.
asciilifeform: koch et al did a thorough job gluing the nonsense on with broken glass.
asciilifeform: we lived with this shit.
mircea_popescu: yawell. to quote from this great link, "I’m just back from ContainerCamp and Gluecon and I’m going to Dockercon next week. Really excited about the way the industry is moving - making everything simpler and more reliable. It’s the future!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform oh you mean teh luserbase ?
mircea_popescu: when we link them they get 10x usual fare.
asciilifeform: i was referring to the gpg users.
mircea_popescu: if one of these shits gets read by 3 people, it's a high water mark.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform after the whole "oh, mp cares about beingmentioned on our obscure mail list" debacle coupla days ago, i actually had this measured.
asciilifeform: the 'i do not expect to UNDERSTAND the code' is the enabling sin.
asciilifeform: dun forget the other half of the circus -
mircea_popescu: there's no fucking special integers. they're all equal.
mircea_popescu: so fucking strange for the sort of idiot who imagines "all people are equal" to constantly be finding SPECIAL integers.
mircea_popescu: why not make it 88 + 40 + 40 then and while on it, why not fuck their ugly fucking mother.
asciilifeform: 'The more particular difference is that the first cycle (Figure 2a) deviates from the other cycles (Figure 2b). Here, the hash is computed from the bytes [L − 20, L) ∪ [0, 44).'
mircea_popescu: is this twice as good as 22 + 10 + 10 ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mechanical drawing of the stuttering whitener slide thing.
mircea_popescu: i went to math school, they never taught me that theorem.
mircea_popescu: dafuq is any of that dumb shit and da fuck is 44+20+20
mircea_popescu: honestly im not impressed with the whole scheme , whether fixed or not.
asciilifeform: the depizdification is worth seeing tho.
asciilifeform: (other than further spew to hang koch by)
mircea_popescu: i dun think i will, ty
mircea_popescu: and i also can't read "depdfization" any other way than "depizdification"
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: see l0gz, this actually came up.
thestringpuller: so all these thugs turned rapper are lying to their constituents?
mircea_popescu: "Miss out on Comic-Con? Relive all the action at Comic-Con with IMDb's Comic-Con 2016 Guide." << dude, if there's anything to miss it's the underage nuts, wtf is a guide gonna do.
thestringpuller: cookin' in da pyrex isn't a thing anymore?
asciilifeform: and still even humble tube of solder is stamped 'this product is known....'
asciilifeform: i've never set foot there
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well not everyone lives in the mordor swamps.
mircea_popescu: (short version : lawyer lobby added law on books that allows them to sue anything that doesn't have a warning label on ; there's 0 enforcement from anyone but the lawyer mafia ; and for that matter no penalty for mislabeling anything ; consequently all of california is today a huge sticker reading "this item is known to the state of california to cause cancer") ☟︎
asciilifeform: it is quite impossible to forget about it.
asciilifeform: i have megatonne of items with the idiocy stamped on the package.
mircea_popescu: read up on that crazy shit sometime, it's epitomical for the current us.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-18#1524497 <<< lol in similar what the fucks, anyone know about the lulz of california's "proposition 65" ? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: pscho waters has a sausage tied with rope
asciilifeform: because the scene sounds familiar.
mircea_popescu: much like that scene in pink flamingoes
mircea_popescu: in and of itself, there's nothing dishonest about any code. now imagine dude who keeps putting up this pretense and keeps aluding to his skillz and hunk... then in bedroom he takes slippers off to reveal dildo ductaped on.
asciilifeform: there is nothing dishonest about dildo tho.
asciilifeform: whitening is in a class of similar items, childhood fears coupled to faux techno-fixes, deserves own separate discussion one day imho.
asciilifeform: going by the reaction.
asciilifeform: try suggesting this to typical luser, it is almost as if he had to open reactor containment vessel to check.
asciilifeform: 'what if the wire frays and rng is feeding 000000...'
asciilifeform: the fundamental psychiatric reason why folks like whitening, is, i suspect, a demon that wakes them up at night:
asciilifeform: i.e. the only way that does not introduce a linkage between bit n and n+1.
mircea_popescu: i thought providing keccak as default is elegant ; but can also provide xoring scheme
asciilifeform: straight waltzing is the only correct way
mircea_popescu: entirely open to that implementation also.
asciilifeform: you waltz over the buffer.
mircea_popescu: none of your business ; and how you propose this to work ?
mircea_popescu: suppose i set my keys to be produced with 1mb of entropy.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 12:32 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform since we're on this btw, the way i want tmsr-rsa key generation to work is as follows : a contains a number of entropy bytes specified by user in tmsr-rsa.conf read whenever tmsr-rsa.conf specifies (such as urandom); b contains a base-tmsr string specified by user. c = base-tmsr(a).b ; p = nextprime(cut(sha512(c),257)) ; process is repeated for q = nextprime (cut(sha512(c'),258));
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-18#1524210 << wai, wai the waitening, mircea_popescu ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: i'd like to see what he's made of.
asciilifeform: liveth among you the hero who will get this fella to visit ?
asciilifeform: http://formal.iti.kit.edu/~klebanov/software/entroposcope << klebanov's auditing tool thing. (teaser, apparently)
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://www.loper-os.org/pub/20166313-pg1_2.png and http://www.loper-os.org/pub/20166313-pg2_2.png (depdfization of dorre and klebanov's report on gpg whitening idiocy)
asciilifeform: and has of course replaced our piece 'everywhere that matters' (tm)
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu https://threatpost.com/gpg-patches-18-year-old-libgcrypt-rng-bug/119984 << the hannobockization is ready!!!1111
asciilifeform: jurov: go and try to buy actual borosilicate, e.g., teapot.
asciilifeform: the remnants of 'western prosperity' are made of precisely these chumpatrons, the items which are wholly worthless but continue to be sold as the genuine article, and ONLY A TERRORIST would try to distinguish.
asciilifeform: tastes great with, e.g., airplanes that won't take off, pension funds that consist of /dev/null, and the rest of the rot.
asciilifeform: pyrex that doesn't withstand temperature shocks is as american as crapple pie.
asciilifeform: the pyrex switcheroo was enabled by the fact of the two glasses being visually indistinguishable. ☟︎
asciilifeform: bait and switch is a form of fraud, regardless of how strong a legal 'roof' the fraudster has.
jurov: how it's fraudulent? it's perfectly legal for pyrex brand owner to sell blown turds
asciilifeform: ^ see threadz
asciilifeform: likewise, fraudulent 2000s american 'pyrex' (non-borosilicate! all that's left is the name) can cost you a great sum in hospital bill.
thestringpuller: PeterL: I asked a friend who blows glass for a living, and he said nowadays it's more expensive to blow science-ware by hand than to get the mass produced stuff... ☟︎