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mod6: haha, what you hear the bell and you mentally think 'food' and you see food dish and think 'bell' ?
asciilifeform: actually the bell and the food dish are my pavlovian trigger.
mod6: 'keyring' is alf's pavlovian trigger
asciilifeform: FUCK every pissant proggy getting to have its own miniature version of the microshit winblowz 'registry'.
asciilifeform: and if it doesn't come in explicitly and deliberately through the command line or stdio, it doesn't belong in the input.
asciilifeform: state is what the motherfucking file system is for
asciilifeform: phf: one of the big reasons gpg is a turd is the 'keys in dbs' idiocy
phf: trinque: because gpg --verify is not intended to be used in batch process, if you're doing verification specifically should be using gpgv, which also expects env (keys in dbs specifically) to be in a certain state
asciilifeform: davout: if using format of classic gpg, there is no way to uniquely specify 'this is vtronically signed'
asciilifeform: and anyway why are you relying on the exit code ?
trinque: I was horrified to discover yesterday that gpg does not exit nonzero when a sig doesn't verify
asciilifeform: and, importantly, ~fails~ to break things that oughta break
asciilifeform: davout: because it breaks things.
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2016 20:48:53; asciilifeform: (but decided that this was retarded)
davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2016#1437476 <<< why's that retarded? kindof the first thing i thought about when reading your piece ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2016 20:48:01; mod6: I like the idea though. We just don't have the tools yet.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2016#1437473 << a CORRECT approach and literally 1 line of sed is worth 10,000 hours of misguided toolmaking. ☝︎
mod6: but since you're writing one... you could wrap that in there perhaps?
asciilifeform: there is no clean way to do it with classical gpg
asciilifeform: mod6: this was deliberately not specified
mod6: asciilifeform: if the various bits for hands/eyes/heart/brain are not to be in anyway invovled with a signature, any thoughts on how we pass these around with the signature?
asciilifeform: (but decided that this was retarded) ☟︎
asciilifeform: though i considered, brifly, hijacking the high bits of the timestamp 32b field for it
mod6: I like the idea though. We just don't have the tools yet. ☟︎
asciilifeform: if i'm gonna depend on an antique, i'd rather take one that was made in qty 500,000,000 in 11 countries. than 10,000 in usa-only.
mod6: this is all implementation and theory.
mod6: phf: well, other than saying "interesting" and "cool", i couldn't figure out how to do that either. unless we create a vtron signature style in 'g' or is it 'p'? i cant recall.. cause how will someones vtron be able to pull the bit string out to know how to categorize someones seal?
mod6: we'll get there.
phf: asciilifeform: but what i'd like to know is why none of you lot commented. << i'm not groking how that's supposed to work with gpg signatures
mod6: you've been over this a hundred times im sure.
mod6: -connect is great for getting blocks from a trusted node, but you're only connected to just that node. so if there is some sort of blocking issue... you might get starved.
mod6: once fully sync'd pete_dushenski, make a back up your your block chain, and then use -addnode
asciilifeform: y'know, the ones with 0 docs
pete_dushenski: mod6: to two of the b-a nodes and one of my own
asciilifeform: mod6: you could fit 500 of them on a cheap fpga. but you will be using an AMERICAN FPGA
mod6: is it crazy to think that said chip you're talking about be re-constructed on a fpga, perhaps many of them on one fpga?
asciilifeform: i once decided to determine the simplest box that could be assembled from readily-available (preferebly, sov-block) components, that could GENERATE and OPERATE a reasonable onetimepad.
asciilifeform: this, i must add, is not an official s.nsa project of any kind. but it is there on my desk with a dozen other items of 'parachute' variety
mod6: so i/o drivers need to be written by hand alf?
mod6: pete_dushenski: i didn't see anything crazy in there. runnign with -connect or -addnode?
asciilifeform: whereas thing really oughta take modern 'flash'
asciilifeform: in other instances, there are anachronisms that create wholly unnecessary problems, e.g., tape and extinct disk systems
asciilifeform: and is not even in all cases 100% documented, so will be difficult to re-create.
asciilifeform: they also contained various custom i/o, that is gnarly, of heavy incidental complexity, and - importantly - cannot be had in new production
asciilifeform: largely because - while they were indeed built on top of some excellent 8-bit cpu, most of which can still be had -
asciilifeform: ~actual, whole~ '80s micro is a good toy and learning instrument, but poor foundation for a battlefield system.
asciilifeform: mod6: prolly ought to share my observations here.
asciilifeform: mod6: i started with this.
asciilifeform: mod6: and if you were thinking of vax, 1st one was sold in, iirc, '77
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the weirder thing is that the stuck node is on the physical box i have, not either of the two vpses i have. and all are running 99997k or 99996k.
mod6: i think i need to start doing all of my computing with paper and pencil, in a room with no doors, no windows or lights.
mod6: ya. this hardware scares the bahjeesus out of me.
asciilifeform: mod6: until then - to excavate.
mod6: we've got a lot of stuff to fabricate and create.
asciilifeform: mod6: i am comfortable in the supposition that nsa cannot yet travel backwards in time.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the most recent jam was at 403`396
mod6: asciilifeform: hm. im misremembering something. eitherway, outside of well, anywhere really, i can't think of a single place in the known universe where the nsa can't diddle your shit.
pete_dushenski: it's jammed twice in the last week now.
mod6: now i gotta dig something up on trilema. thought there was an article?
mod6: ook anyway, one time pad - i can create with dice no?
asciilifeform: mod6: and i probably ought to point out that 'quality random' was baked long ago, ben_vulpes actually took a sample unit home after c3...
mod6: other than some otp
mod6: But my good man, a serious cornerstone / building block to sanity and in the direction of "workable" computer will come when your work is complete and I can get quality random numbers.
davout: asciilifeform: with tmsr~ spanning a few timezones, there's bound to always be someone with an open bottle
mod6: anyway, that looks like an interesting novel.
asciilifeform: am i the only one here right now who isn't sitting in a dark room with a bottle of vodka and loaded nagant ?
assbot: 8 results for 'the man who was thursday' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=the+man+who+was+thursday
asciilifeform: !s the man who was thursday
mod6: who's to say anyone is anyone when P & Q are fingerfucked by the NSA or other spooks.
asciilifeform: folks still gotta take the time to wash.
asciilifeform: whole point of the instrument is to ~make it possible for there to be such a thing as a Who~
mod6: who's to say what is anything
mod6: I think if people can make punishment first, they will. cause no == yes && yes == anal.
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2016 19:50:15; mircea_popescu: and it is cheaper for this group to put forth an ideology than to do any actual investigative work
mod6: <+asciilifeform> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2016#1437337 << the way i see it, the 'punishment' aspect of vtronics is secondary. the main thing is that ACTUAL PEOPLE, i.e. folks willing to ~take responsibility for their actions~, could find and recognize each other. << i think so too. but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. ☝︎
asciilifeform: i actually considered this, in the beginning.
mod6: maybe having different keys (key certifing "i read this" [eyes] / "I wrote this" [hands] / ... etc.) is an analog for the polyphase system that replaced it.
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2016 19:50:15; mircea_popescu: and it is cheaper for this group to put forth an ideology than to do any actual investigative work
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2016#1437337 << the way i see it, the 'punishment' aspect of vtronics is secondary. the main thing is that ACTUAL PEOPLE, i.e. folks willing to ~take responsibility for their actions~, could find and recognize each other. ☝︎
asciilifeform: now i could be wrong, entirely, and this-is-as-solved-as-it-gets
asciilifeform: in the same sense that, e.g., edison, half-solved electric grid distribution
asciilifeform: i keep getting the feeling that we only half-solved vtronics
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2016 19:49:37; mircea_popescu: yeah, sure, not a difficult one for as long as one lives on imaginary half mil a year and theorizes away. in practice, it will not be seen, nor has it.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2016#1437334 << the distance from workable theory to cold iron here is quite short, and eminently bridgeable. if we had the usable theory. which is a problem i was taking a stab at. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2016 19:48:46; mircea_popescu: and, importantly, if it WERE to fail, how would we resolve the problem if it is or it isn't your fault.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2016#1437332 << troika will decide!111 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: not like the actual malibu dwellers are coerced to live in the vinyl sidings abominations. meeting of the minds.
mircea_popescu: the one problematic part is that stilts or no stilts, the product is actually very well adapted to the market it serves.
mod6: its like a house in malibu, built on stilts, on the side of a hill that mud slides after .25" of rain.
mod6: anyway, sorry for the rant. but it is not lost on me how hosed up "computer land" is these days.
mod6: ah. thats right.
asciilifeform: mod6: that was support chipset, and a buncha z80
mod6: is the 6502 those cocaine looking packages you got?
asciilifeform: mod6: it is a parachute, in case certain things happen.
mod6: but until we all have shit that doesn't suck... we're kinda just waiting until it doens't suck. in the context of blame and "i don't have to /hope/ this thing works, I know mod6 said it does, ergo, it works."
mod6: well, maybe alf is farther along on this journey than anyone had thought. and maybe "sucks" is only very temporary.
asciilifeform: but you already have, chances are, a 6502 micro somewhere in the cellar.
mod6: we can't have real true responsibiltiy of code ownership.
mod6: until we have computers, and i mean "have computers" in the sense that alf would be happy to say he has a "comptuer", whatever that means.
asciilifeform: we are, however, overrun with vermin, and this opens up astonishing perspectives in pesticidal work