asciilifeform: Mocky: BingoBoingostan seemed to be ~solid samsung all over
asciilifeform: !Q later tell phf in bolix lulz : loox like dks relisted that 'ivory' for 3rd time nao... apparently not so many eager-worth-of-$5k archaeologists any moar
asciilifeform: lol i actually had nfi that were in there
asciilifeform: sounds like the making of a 3ring circus then
asciilifeform: ( re 'furries & trannies' -- there is a hilarious wankfest going, somebody spread rumour that trump is plotting to cancel, somehow, Official recognition of trannieism, all sortsa usual suspects are busy filling their pants as we speak )
asciilifeform: plox to expand for enlightenment -- how does 'impersonal miami' work
asciilifeform: ( and not because it interferes with their attempt to run usg-style printing press ..? )
asciilifeform: soo per this model, cn central bank fatwas btc because -- even there -- miami dreamers ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it wouldn't surprise me if 'rolex watch' is eventually displaced by a wrist-strapped gold brick stamped with word 'rolex' or some other such substitute. sorta how gentleman swords were replaced with jewel-encrusted lolsticks prior to vanishing entirely
asciilifeform: there was an old mircea_popescu piece with gypsies living in abandoned tunnels, where they had a desk fulla old sov-era phones, with 0 wiring, strictly for 'rolexism'
asciilifeform: re 'rolex' etc -- i've only ever seen'em on (usually) arab orcs ~in usa~ . they dun actually look at the time, lol, i suspect they dun even set the thing, it's strictly part of 'gentleman's uniform', by their lights, like sword used to be
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, diana_coman : '6.3. The server will issue type 5.2 messages encrypted to the corresponding client RSA key in response to any client messages for as long as it doesn't have a preferred client Serpent key set. The client is responsible for either maintaining or explicitly burning ~all~ of these, and will pay for them in any case' means that if a serpent key is currently set, serv won't issue another unless client explic
asciilifeform: so yea slow rsa would in principle work even today.
asciilifeform: can simply look up the expected key in curated db, prior to modexp
asciilifeform: ( btw for thread-completeness i gotta point out that asciilifeform spends most time on a rather slow box, that 22 is actually a 10 on recent x86 iron )
asciilifeform: most of asciilifeform's arithmatical massage is so that key ~gen~ can be carried out on human, rather than geologic, timescale
asciilifeform: then again if rsa is only used to register new user, even the current proggy is conceivably fast enuff
asciilifeform: my current best 4096bit modexp is still 22 sec. on the 'standard' test iron. but with barrett ( next ch. ) cuts down to ~5sec iirc; and with asm, hypothetically <1s
asciilifeform: soo from my pov it's still a 4096bit key ( my rsa worx strictly on powers of 2 )
asciilifeform: tho nao that i think about it, i could be wrong :
asciilifeform: i dunno that mine will ever be fast enuff for eulora without asm inline tho
asciilifeform back on that track, incidentally, shelved pretty much errything else
asciilifeform: ( so far from Mocky's description, picture seems like entire place consists of -- handful of natives, owning the petropipe, and much larger set of gastarbeiters servicing pipe + palaces + plumbing etc.; 0 agriculture, 0 industry, pipe economy, possibly ~0 lumpens, quite unlike mircea_popescu's egypt )
asciilifeform: just how many 'white snowflakes' in qatar
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought harem were sop in arabistan tho
asciilifeform: 'Register reader Stanislav writes in to inform us that the tech might not be so new and cutting edge, after all. In fact, he points to an analysis he wrote back in June detailing a similar set up on-chip security features that were going into Chromebooks'
asciilifeform: the 'blue wall of heathendom silence' breaks!111 :
asciilifeform: l the hand-written (!) ticket from pocket, wave at'em, they scatter.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-22#1864635 >> 'Romanian museum keepers are, with very, very, very few exceptions, a bunch of fucking orcs' >> verily. asciilifeform was in timis art gallery, and they offered tickets for extra penny 'take pictures', i gave'em. then i pull out camera, buncha old biddies immediately appear out of nowhere, like swarm of rats, stand in front of my lens like matrosov in front of german mg nest. finally i pul☝︎
asciilifeform: achtung, panzers ! zoolag is nao back in service.
asciilifeform: ACHTUNG, panzers! node zoolag will be going down for ssd upgrade in ~10m, for at least 1hr
asciilifeform: how do they even do lending ? fully collateralized loans only ?
asciilifeform: ( i dun recall whether mircea_popescu revealed whether this is troo in egypt, also, come to think of it )
asciilifeform: Mocky: aand do they still stick to the koranic prohibition against lending-at-interest ? (is that why they spend on 'bling' and oddball 'charity' ..? )
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform worked for some yrs for a fella who regularly traveled to dubai, and never failed to mention the 'gold bar ATMs' )
