asciilifeform: say it has 50,000 nodes. then 2**32 / 50000 =~ 85899 packets sent at random is all that it needs to find a peer and rejoin its net.

asciilifeform: let's do a small gedankenexperiment, btw: let's suppose a botnet using pure udp for signals (say, signed packet.) can it find peers by random probe ? answer is -- very quickly:

asciilifeform: so prolly not ddos subject...

asciilifeform: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.3 is all he's got running there, tho

asciilifeform: if it was indeed this, then subj ip is the victim

asciilifeform: so victim/amplifier 'answered'

asciilifeform: diana_coman: i suspect that most likely it was part of a ddos, and the forged return address happened to match yours

asciilifeform: diana_coman: would be pretty neat imho

asciilifeform: ( there could even exist something, somewhere, exploitable via magic packet )

asciilifeform: diana_coman: they probe for peers

asciilifeform: pretty curious what it said

asciilifeform: diana_coman: plox to post the bytes ?

asciilifeform: prolly shitware

asciilifeform: aah interesting

asciilifeform: and dun seem to be a noad at all, for that matter

asciilifeform: diana_coman: btc noad ? never connected to zoolag ( at least not in past month )

asciilifeform: it's a racke^H^Hliving...

asciilifeform: hey, gotta pay diploma'd translator, to convert between kakobrekla and josef brosz tito...

asciilifeform pictures daily life of old norse translator in us army

asciilifeform: esperanto.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: read full list an' weep, they have ukr, old norse, ecclesiastical latin, koine greek...

asciilifeform: ( and they also issue, or at least used to, little boxen with point-and-grunt ui with eng buttons and speaker to bark orders in vein of 'hande hoch!' on other end )

asciilifeform: btw they mostly use orc translators in the field. but i suspect mircea_popescu knew this.

asciilifeform: listed in alphabetical order.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i happen to know the 'logic', btw, it aint even a 'what countries pentagon plans for war', but dumb bean counter 'whom fewest translators for'

asciilifeform: mega-'bonus'

asciilifeform: 'Military Services pay approximately $7M in FLPB to 27,000 Active Duty (24,000) and Reserve Component (3,000) Service members...' << lol!! what, ~2 benjies ea.?!

asciilifeform brb

asciilifeform: simple enuff, on paper.

asciilifeform: and then binarysearchates'em

asciilifeform: then thing loox for rows that ~could~ contain yer string

asciilifeform: which you otherwise would

asciilifeform: so you dun blow 127**3 / 8 == 256kB on ea. row

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they're stored sparsely, loox like

asciilifeform: cuz size dun matter so much

asciilifeform: '60s, iirc, algo.

asciilifeform: it's barbaric but seems to work great.

asciilifeform: and matches these up with similarly processed indexed items

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: takes yer search string, and cuts it into trigraphs, e.g. 'trigraph' -> 'tri':1 , 'rig':1 , 'igr':1, 'gra':1, 'aph':1

asciilifeform: there gotta be one

asciilifeform: i dunno what is the mysql equiv. presently

asciilifeform: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/pgtrgm.html for the interested.

asciilifeform: worx just as well

asciilifeform: err, 100mil

asciilifeform: and yes they're short, but there's ~10mil of'em .

asciilifeform: scales pretty well.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i used a 'trigraph' index, they're O(~n log n) , if yer interested. ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: trick lies in indices, so that 40G dun get walked erry time, elementarily

asciilifeform: not so expensive.

asciilifeform: across ~40GB .

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: phuctor goes in <1s

asciilifeform: and can see what others searched in it.

asciilifeform: i search my www, small as it is, surprisingly often. and i like that i neither have to use google or unsheath the launch codes, to do it.

asciilifeform: laff, but given cuntoo, it ~could~

asciilifeform: emerge --update trilema

asciilifeform: phf: lol, rsync

asciilifeform: ( google in particular no longer reliably forwards keywords in refer hdr )

asciilifeform: whereas back when they were stuck massaging google, didn't

asciilifeform: i also get the added pheature of seeing ~what~ folx search for

asciilifeform: until recently i also 'why should phuctor have search, i can search in postgres console'

asciilifeform: that way other folx also can search trilema without feeding the beast.

asciilifeform: rright, but why not keep it publicly. asciilifeform for instance does.

asciilifeform: btw was there particular reason mircea_popescu never exposed wp search box on his www ? ( cpu miser ? )

asciilifeform uses searchtrons perhaps 98% for eggog strings, 1% for electronic parts purchase, and 1% remain

asciilifeform: i.e. 'classy' usg honeypot for 'we are 133337 and h8t3 google'

asciilifeform: i strongly suspect that ddg is exactly 'hushmail'

asciilifeform: doomed, incidentally, approach -- they own (and undocumentedly) a good chunk of ipv4

asciilifeform: approx on par with e.g. 'yandex'.

asciilifeform: thing has slightly, barely measurably, less censored outputs, but that's pretty much it

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ftr asciilifeform doesn't see ddg as somehow less unsavoury than google et al. if it were baked by honest folx it wouldn't https.

asciilifeform: so indeed, 'bangs' -- work here. just not from curl's pov.

asciilifeform: but loox like it's done via jsolade

asciilifeform: btw lulzily, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=us! loaded via www browser -- redirects to https://userstyles.org/

asciilifeform: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/Q0xYA/?raw=true << via pizarro

asciilifeform: loox like.

asciilifeform: i think they use a balancer thing

asciilifeform: btw i get diff ip on erry shot

asciilifeform: ( why curl refuses to put the url in the debug dump, is mystery to me )

asciilifeform: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/0t1Fp/?raw=true << with that url.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope, plain url

asciilifeform: lol i only read as far as the cert

asciilifeform: tbf i have nfi what it looked like yesterday or prior

asciilifeform: loox to be largely same as mircea_popescu's

asciilifeform: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/oXo6i/?raw=true << mine

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-13#1861590 << what curl args to replicate this ? ☝︎

asciilifeform bbl,meat

asciilifeform: the dope people, by all indications, ~luvvv~ usd. and none of the 'remittance policing' exists at any level that'd bother'em.

asciilifeform: without usg's http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-22#1817099 thing, there's be as much 'dope cartel' as there is aspirin cartel. ☝︎

asciilifeform: returning upstack to http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1861511 , the fact that they haven't, is imho serious support for asciilifeform's traditional hypothesis of the dope folx being ~symbionts~ of usg , rather than antagonists ☝︎

asciilifeform: i meant the rack as a whole

asciilifeform: so not much surprise that there aint a lively otc market.

asciilifeform: fwiw it appears that BingoBoingo presently houses the ONLY actual btc noadz in BingoBoingostan... per http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-10#1859945 ☝︎

asciilifeform: ...because dream of miami ? i've nfi.

asciilifeform: naturally cattle cannot operate a btctron. they'd have to delegate it to an actual person. but even ~these~ , in orcistan, seem to prefer to stash up usd.

asciilifeform: yes!

asciilifeform: but apparently no dice.

asciilifeform: if they started saving in btc instead, there'd be 'hawaladar' to fill their appetite on erry street corner, from sahara to patagonia

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an old piece where mentioned orcs all over saving in usd, hanging on to erry benjie like it were a shard of the trooo cross. ~that~ is 1 of the elephants on which usg stands.

asciilifeform: idjit orcs would rather die, apparently, than risk exch rate swing

asciilifeform: part of the puzzler i suspect lies in the continued operation of the waterfall