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asciilifeform: 'Police claim the man refused to drop a pocket knife. In the video, the officer appears to kick something away from the man’s body, although no object can be readily seen. In typical police fashion, officers can be seen handcuffing the victims body as he lay in a pool of blood.'
asciilifeform: sounds about as 'clever' as my 'shiva' thing nuking its entire guts when you disconnect the term.
mircea_popescu: as most stupid shit in this country. or, come to think about it, ther world over.
phf: i'll just work it out from first principles :D as long as they don't kick me out in horror in the first few hours, i'd be fine
mircea_popescu: phf you double as a car mechanic ?
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-12#1481179 << flagged, but i got a handful leads as far as various work for food and lodgings places last weekend at four quarters ☝︎
Framedragger: i don't know, i applaud her even what she writes is shit and even if her mind is shit, good for her, i think it's easy to sublimate jealousy that shit people can still function as "justified anger" or whatnot </armchair-mode>
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-13#1481565 << she writes the crapolade ~so as~ not to be confined in an office. just like folks will hide unsheathed knives up their arse, kill guards with bare teeth, whatever, to get out of the camp ☝︎
mircea_popescu: the film is bad, as a film. but for people entirely unwarare of what curse women are upon themselves in isolation... a decent primer i guess.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, as various "open source" geniuses (ref http://btcbase.org/log/2015-09-07#1265178 ) found out on own skin, of the "26bn, $randomfigure" of paper dollars, precious few turkey-dollars actually trickle down to the "owners". black or otherwise. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: the scam being 1. govt prints and hands money off to "pension funds" -> 2. pension funds "invest" in microsoft ; 3. chosen sons form "online business", feed it as per http://trilema.com/2014/askfm-laid-bare-or-whats-half-a-million-uniques-to-you/ (there's an entire scamola pyramid to create "numbers" for these "properties", scratched the surface of documenting it on trilema but really it's collossal). and then finally, 4. 2 s
mircea_popescu: (obviously, the hallucinated "black as non-white" she imagines has little to do with anything found in nature, but hey, sucks to be a black dude with a human sized penis.)
mircea_popescu: i suppose this is as good a plan as it gets in the context.
phf: well, they've been buying up land around where they are with loans, and paying it off from donations and festivals which they write off as "religious ceremonies".
Framedragger should write some kind of simple thingie which takes (1) keyword and (2) timestamp pairs as intervals, and produces a kind of wiki page for all given keywords. (2) can be amended later as needed. so that there'd be a page for gossipd without much effort at all ☟︎☟︎
Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-13#1481381 << would the scheme of gossipd in your mind as it currently stands allow for signatures by a non-permanent gpg key (by something akin to ephemeral key)? identity (of communicating party) integrity would be within the decrypted contents; but not ascertainable by message header (here's gpg id 0xbabe) ☝︎
Framedragger: i'll sketch mp's scheme on a whiteboard tomorrow or thereabouts, so i can say that i get the picture. makes sense overall, in terms of no chans as such, etc etc.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i don't think ips were ever seriously considered as identity.
Framedragger: (i mean, ip address as it appears in an IP header)
Framedragger: (i hope you lost any hope in ip address in packet as a form of identity/proof/whatnot, though!)
Framedragger: both, i suppose, or either would be interesting. gossipd probably provides decent constraints and framework for thought, so might as well stick to that
mircea_popescu: otr is ~broken, i wouldn't want it as an example for functional pfs.
Framedragger: asciilifeform: won't argue as it's obvious that it'd be fruitless. i can certainly see the viewpoint. "what he pushes == snakeoil" is a strong accusation tho. however, i'm not prepared to provide defence till i'm old, weary, and wise (or at least till i'm old)
Framedragger: concepts not contradictory, you use one as session key, the other to link sessions in terms of authorship / who participates in said sessions. unless you meant something more technical/particular mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: but yes, gossip node can issue as many ephemeral keys as it wants - this is ~obvious~
asciilifeform: Framedragger: as reflected in the log search, marlinspike is usg asset and infamous pusher of crypto snakeoil.
thestringpuller: Framedragger: I was being hyperbolic. My point was more that the mass adoption crowd is too stupid to regulate themselves, and as such would like to punish all of Bitcoin.
Framedragger: vc: just fyi, there appears to be a ~10k packets / second limit somewhere upstream, are you aware of anything of the kind? i'm just running some self-tests (using a program which has its own TCP stack, i.e. no use of kernel networking / sockets). same tests produce at least 10 times as much elsewhere. cpu not the bottleneck. just wondering what it could be
BingoBoingo: Trackbacks between sites were nice while they lasted, but as noted on Trilema this piece of the shitfrasctructure was fired in anger.
asciilifeform: 'The HaoBTC Kangding mine is one the three Bitcoin datacenters that HaoBTC currently operates - as of the time of writing, it generates 33PH hash rate. The miners deployed are Avalon 6 and Bitmain S7s. Here is an unedited walk-through filmed on June 11, 2016.'
shinohai: I got Pierre Rochard triggered on twitter as we speak because I dared to call it a scam more or less.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 23:02 mircea_popescu: %add UCI F "Create UCI supervisor" "Interacts with UCI worker through interface ; interacts with peers through #trilema standard bot. Maintains list of prices for exposed abilities (in satoshi/Gb/second of storage for instance) and Bitcoin address for payments ; list of trusted peers for accepting orders and verifying Bitcoin payments ; administrative policies as appropriate. Directs worker to execute accept
mircea_popescu: of course alf doesn't count as downstream, he complains anyway.
mod6: oh, how? people often miss deadlines, especially developers. im just as guilty as anyone.
asciilifeform: i tread spinning rust as i once treated tape
mircea_popescu: i famously ~stole~ a 200hp excavator as a 6 yo.
ben_vulpes: "might be interesting to look at" as a legal problem cracked me up when i first learned of it
ben_vulpes: point i was seeking to make is that as much as usians like to bitch about cost of health insurance and what it doesn't cover, they have no idea what pain is lurking in the near future
ben_vulpes: the windows shop approach is not at all bad from a resourcing perspective. 'software is complicated and sucks and we need a budget for maintaining ours. may as well just pick technologies we can staff for 60k/yr/butt and allocate integer butts.'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ~nobody sees it as 'maintenance costs', but as 'job program.'
a111: Logged on 2016-06-10 21:10 davout: ben_vulpes: as much as rails is in many ways retarded i tend to think that if this were true, folks would write websites in straight c
mircea_popescu: you're acting as if they're doing that, or any other thing, for fucking fun. it's not for fun. they're doing that, like everything else, for the same reason : they perceive they gotta do something ; dunno how to do anything useful or effectual and so this is what's left.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: considering that the whole ministry hasn't been closed down and personnel - jailed as members of a criminal org - i'd say the pretense is maintained.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-10 21:31 davout: the point is that wtf do i need golden toilet for, i shit just as fine on a regular one!
a111: Logged on 2016-06-10 21:10 davout: ben_vulpes: as much as rails is in many ways retarded i tend to think that if this were true, folks would write websites in straight c
a111: Logged on 2016-06-10 21:05 asciilifeform: my realization is that this kind of thing is EXACTLY same as fiatolade
davout: "have larger club, kill more enemies, rape moar of their daughters", pretty clear to me. "intentionnally shit in my own soup, so i can remain employed as a maker of fresh soup, as a general thing" is something i have a bit more trouble seeing though
asciilifeform: currently these folx are living in a golden age of 'i'll take a shit as big as i like and somebody ~else~ will clean up'
asciilifeform: as per http://oglaf.com/delusionist
davout: the point is that wtf do i need golden toilet for, i shit just as fine on a regular one! ☟︎
davout: probably just as many people that are willing to pay $maxint to be able to shit in golden toilet
a111: Logged on 2016-06-10 21:10 davout: ben_vulpes: as much as rails is in many ways retarded i tend to think that if this were true, folks would write websites in straight c
davout: i blame 16gb of ram being seen as a small-sized server as the main cause of lazyness
davout: ben_vulpes: as much as rails is in many ways retarded i tend to think that if this were true, folks would write websites in straight c ☟︎☟︎☟︎
davout: but that's kind of the same thing as saying "work creation is rewarded" when more modern airplanes require more maintenance
asciilifeform: my realization is that this kind of thing is EXACTLY same as fiatolade ☟︎
asciilifeform: as per http://www.loper-os.org/?p=388 .
ben_vulpes: *tearing noises as /me excises more sillicon valley horseshit from client stacks, fixes all problems that had previously been papered over with docker, and deploys to fresh ubuntu 14.04*
asciilifeform: here's to hoping that docker undergoes the same death as described earlier.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "as it always is, pleb!"
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it dies as described in the link.
ben_vulpes: and burgeoningly the go environment as well
mircea_popescu: which historically has existed specifically so as not to meet them.
mircea_popescu: "mpapis commented Dec 22, 2014 it is standard and harmless thing, but ruby could allow filtering out this flags, this could be done as part of the filtration process that already happens in preprocessing in miniruby - but I do not think it would be considered as a ticket without pull request / patch to address this problem."
mircea_popescu: " mpapis commented Dec 22, 2014 @behrangsa its limitation of remembering compilation flags by ruby, when the binary rubies are compiled by me or on travis they require to be given paths to statically linked libraries (*.a objects) - this path is then remembered by ruby and added to every gem compilation, as you can see this is not an error as only warning is issued, if you feel this requires fixing open a bug for MRI asking
mircea_popescu: if you're gonna do that might as well engine neh ? but anyway!
asciilifeform: as most sail people appear to.
Framedragger: the whole fucking UK is built on this back-and-forth financial-wannabe masturbation. in that sense, "fuck your mother" (which includes such material manifestations as russian winter as you try to move troops in it) sounds much more sober, lively and worthwhile, heh. /incoherent-ranting
mircea_popescu: also of some (psychiatric) interest, the nonsensical attempt to equate "meaning" altogether, as the concept, with the shoddy, untenable implementation by usg & friends. "ip" is not the superset of noesis ffs.
mircea_popescu: and get yachts quite as long as the "sec compliance" dickless failed lawyers or w/e/
mircea_popescu: there's this pile of special pleading/peculiar interest "views" on reality. such as the marketeer derping about how "everyone else - contributes to costs ; marketing dept contributes to revenue".
mircea_popescu: i was discussing capital goods reliability ; as an economic consideration.
asciilifeform: as in, hose with two ends.
asciilifeform: can just as easily keep 1TB on a single chip die secret as 4096 bits.
asciilifeform: and yes, bitcoin (in the most general case) relies on there being such a thing as strong asymmetric crypto.
trinque imagines pad-courier as a nice gig for the wandering type
asciilifeform: version of the license and then a classified addendum to the agreement. The company who seek the license will be assigned a classified compartments code name that will be "Top Secret/ESI" with the ESI standing for "Extremely Sensitive Information" as disclosure could directly lead to economic devastation to the company, and their involvement must be kept secret.'
mircea_popescu: here they work as indended, ie anonymously.
asciilifeform: at one point they were 'anonymous' but then merchants were usgized into collecting names, addressed; today they are largely used by lumpens who can't get normal phone (as it requires credit history)
mircea_popescu: yeah. ustards are like ~that~. just as dumb.
mircea_popescu: as in "i'm not making contracts with you get lost"
asciilifeform: as in 'call card' ?
asciilifeform: many years ago, i was working in uni. of md., in the same building as one of the 'root dns' boxes. we had no fewer than 4 stationary diesels, of various makes. they worked.
asciilifeform: so long as we're speaking of a house, rather than datacentre or factory
ben_vulpes: i was just looking at fuel consumption as an upper bound
davout: as we say: "je comprends vite mais il faut parfois m'expliquer longtemps"
mircea_popescu: (doesn't have to come with the trailer, of course. you'll need a battery rack about the same size and a serious converter, ie, 100kW as opposed to 1050kW)
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah i mean.. yeah. it's almost as if: if bitcoin valuation of ip returns > 0, then bitcoin failed in terms of one of its design principles, or something
asciilifeform: let's start with 'If a bitcoin block strictly larger than 1000000 bytes (1 MB) gets mined on the main chain and subsequently receives more than 100 confirmations before December 31st 2016 at midnight GMT included, this bet resolves as "Yes".'
asciilifeform: ^ how the fuck does this even make sense as written ?
Framedragger: one of potential clients: scotcoin (as in chief operators - haven't looked yet if that even makes sense)
Framedragger: lol just had a meeting with boss: he wants to create a general valuation (as in IP valuation) framework for cryptocurrencies
mod6: yeah, i see how that, especially in this case as opposed to V does warp the mind a bit.
tb0t: Project: UCI, ID: 8, Type: F, Subject: Create UCI supervisor, Antecedents: 2,7, Notes: Interacts with UCI worker through interface ; interacts with peers through #trilema standard bot. Maintains list of prices for exposed abilities and Bitcoin address for payments ; list of trusted peers for accepting orders and verifying Bitcoin payments ; administrative policies as appropriate. Directs worker to execute accepted commands,
asciilifeform: 'Around 800 backbone fiber connections in the continental US (95+% of the backbone) have been tapped for data collection. Some of the telcos are aware of this, but are silently cooperating by not implementing point-to-point bulk traffic encryption. There is an extensive ghost network that connects these nodes, enabling traffic analysis and tracing in near-real time. As of recently, the passive taps are being converted to active filte
mircea_popescu: such as, sell them out for number crunching ; but not for pinging. or w/e.
mircea_popescu: "list of trusted peers for accepting orders and verifying Bitcoin payments ; administrative policies as appropriate." this has a meaning.
mircea_popescu: but you discuss it as if i'd give a half of a flying fuck.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as something is computable ; defection is attributable.
asciilifeform: as example of what NOT to do.