asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the funny bit is that 99999 turns off gavinalertism but turns on heathen cmd's
asciilifeform: aaaand some alarmingly large % of the supposed-nodes, can't or won't come up with old blox on demand..
asciilifeform: if you set your hello-version to 99999, they stop, if <=70001 -- they spam it
asciilifeform: already turned up a buncha oddities re noades -- for instance, just about errybody not-trb still sends out gavinalert (with 'key compromised!' message. wai -- i have nfi )
asciilifeform: unrelatedly, while mircea_popescu is awake -- mircea_popescu do you still have a 'mpb' noad running on public net ? would like to try my exerciser on one
asciilifeform: aha. it's the basic labour of writing sane proggy -- tossing out the duct tape & replacing with sumthing that actually worx
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only this, but if folx build on the right slab, they can get 9000x less complex proggy in the end
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the mmap thing is major labour-saving item, lets you fughet about db etc, you define the data structure you want and it gets persisted to disk / loaded as-needed into ram, transparently to proggy
asciilifeform: ( bonus, it has no .c component, builds strictly gnatistically , tho it imports several unixisms as funct calls )
asciilifeform: i expect e.g. diana_coman will eventually need mmap
asciilifeform: ( contrary to the 'broken telephone game' on the net, the thing ~does~ show colour under sunlight, if backlight is set to minimum. if to 0 : b&w and ultralowpower ( whole day battery, in theory ) )
asciilifeform: unfortunately photo dun really do it justice, gotta be seen with eyes to be believed
asciilifeform: sadly the box it ended up going in, is nuffin to write home about ( slightly slower than the goldstandard x60, and smaller, and sad kbd ) but it worx as described
asciilifeform: Mocky: yes it's an imaginary object. q is whether 'imaginary like devils' or 'imaginary like electron cloud'. i favour the latter, mircea_popescu , i think, the former
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i obv dun have a reductive model, and dun know of any honest people who ever claimed to. but this is somewhat diff thing than 'to even try model is waste of time, it's rngolade'
asciilifeform: same model as strength, agility. tho. where is strength before subj is asked to lift the weight.
asciilifeform: lol how would one conceive of establishing it without the training
asciilifeform: some lions can be trained to play 'tetris', others, no matter how much stick and cookie, not, mircea_popescu of all people i expect would know this
asciilifeform: it's a thing like agility, or strength ( rather than height, or cock girth, etc )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: near as i could tell, d00d had plenty of native intelligence. but grew up in the circus, and so knows nuffin but idjit acrobatics.
asciilifeform: hey, 'spreading -- works!', subscribe to google ads and get the 'asked-for' number of 'clicks' (from bots, but who promised anyffing in particular)
asciilifeform: aha, gets buckets of printolade and dresses up as 'income', like other usg.tbtf.corps.*
asciilifeform: ( my model dun differ so much from mircea_popescu's, aside from where i lump the digg & reddit waves together in lump element, afaik they consisted of largely same lost souls )
asciilifeform: after a coupla cycles of this, what history possibly left.
asciilifeform: imho biggest surprise re mircea_popescu's fetlife dig is that any actual chix turned up at all. i wouldn't have expected there were any.
asciilifeform: in reality mostly bots talking to one another. with the occasional meatbot in the mix.
asciilifeform: 'there are infinite chumps, nao if could find'em'
asciilifeform: the aolization of the net created this illusion; is what gave us spam, 'marketing', pestilential ads
asciilifeform: ( 'played role to the end! growled as he expired! posthumous award of order-of-lenin!' )
asciilifeform: in sov. urban legendology there is a persistent, if not particularly plausible, tale, that some d00d had been given the job of dressing up in bear costume for brezhnev's safaris, and eventually shot
asciilifeform: sorta why the ancients distrusted theatre actors, neh
asciilifeform: 'you are what you pretend to be'(tm)(r) eh
asciilifeform: wonder how many of those accts consist solely of ivan, and a paper cutout placeholder chix 'so others come'. sorta like duck hunt decoy.
asciilifeform: ( unlike e.g. xen, these are pretty rare, at least publicly )
asciilifeform: in other lulz, 'VMware ESXi, Fusion and Workstation contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in SVGA device. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host.'
asciilifeform: ( in prelim experiment thus far, virtually errything that aint a known trb noad, appears to show one or more obv symptoms )
asciilifeform: and eventually nodes that show 0 symptoms of prbism will get priority in rescan queue.
asciilifeform: ( this includes ipv6, 'tor', whatever abortions )
asciilifeform: prolly goes without saying, but i'ma perma-ignore anyffing that aint on ipv4
asciilifeform: if node answers, it gets asked version, then getaddr, then given 10sec to issue 'inv' (for tx observatory), then (not baked this yet) gets asked to provide a block from known_blocks.
asciilifeform: candidates added via peer recurse (i.e. getaddr output) start with state 'untried'
asciilifeform: when idling, N (parallel) threads select probe candidates from 'nodes', with highest priority given to 'untried', followed by 'live', followed by 'dead', in the latter two cases probed if and only if 'time_probed' is > hour ago
asciilifeform: probe algo currently simple: 1) ip:port thrown in search box 2) probed 3) getaddr 4) all ip:port from (3) queued for probe
asciilifeform: i'm currently thinking of giving 'tx observatory' a rollover of 3 days ( i.e. drop all that have time older than 3d, nightly ) to keep the mass manageable there
asciilifeform: ^ and if anyone has a handy dumpblock-derived list with which to populate known_blocks , plox to sign & post, otherwise i'ma bake one laters
asciilifeform: ^ comments from db experts welcome ( trinque , ben_vulpes , mircea_popescu ? )
