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phf:
mircea_popescu: i don't think that's the case. there's some magic happening, because there are no provissions to do a key refresh yet my formerly expired key still works.
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 02:34:57;
mircea_popescu: "For the past two weeks Sandberg was anywhere nothing useful is happening, and I'm going to include Facebook in that. Some cry-baby over at Jezebel was thrilled that Sandberg was featured all week on Access Hollywood, holy Christ, she thought this was a good thing. "Feminism is back in the mainstream in a big way," she wrote, I assume in between quaaludes, "the women's movement is actually moving."
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 02:08:02;
mircea_popescu: you want a washbasin to shit in, plug the bidet and go at it.
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 02:07:53; *:
mircea_popescu never uses the innundated toilet model. it's fucking stupid.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: the basic problem is that you are decrypting $blob and, so long as the output has the expected form (and how many of us check? yes, i check. but there are folks who will pipe it straight into their irc via shellatron. yes, you know who you are
ascii_field: so he modifies assbot so that the next time
mircea_popescu is given otp token, it is actually carrying the rsa-enciphered symmetric key from $message
jurov:
mircea_popescu: when 4 will contain hash of 3 and 3 must contain hash of 2
ascii_field: say hitler has killed poor kakobrekla. and really, really needs one of
mircea_popescu's pgpgrams decrypted.
assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 22:11:29;
mircea_popescu: ascii_field not so sure how smart that is. garbage is interpretable.
ascii_field: nubbins`: this was an ancient thread.
mircea_popescu explained that if people could update keys of mpex account, it would become practical to sell 'secondhand'
ascii_field: jurov,
mircea_popescu: iirc
mircea_popescu did not accept refreshed subkeys either
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: say enemy captures key. signs whatever he likes, with indices you've already used.
assbot: Logged on 14-05-2015 21:32:19;
mircea_popescu: if you can upgrade your key for free, you don't have to pay mpex, you can just find someone with a key they don't want to use anymore and they can "upgrade" theirs to yours.
shinohai:
mircea_popescu gets mentioned for a year-old article?
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: that was one of the times when i thought 'wtf is this'
ascii_field: and here i thought
mircea_popescu believed in 'who is in the elite seat, is the elite'
ascii_field: by this logic,
mircea_popescu oughta love the soviet system
assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 15:36:41;
mircea_popescu: (thing is amusingly reminescent of how various people keep asking me what i pay in rent and expect a number. as if that's how it fucking works, somehow.)
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: how is rent not a scalar?
hdbuck:
mircea_popescu got it, ty, while im still at it, maybe you could enlighten me as therealbtf client.. how am i supposed to make it work?
hdbuck: good day
mircea_popescu assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 01:15:03;
mircea_popescu: only ppl with science degrees after 2010 ? my degree is fucking philosophy.
assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 00:58:15;
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'dlp' (mems array) with laser illumination. less than 1k usd when it was new. << un minimo respeto por el imbeciliator! argentina no es un pais pobre porque es rico en recursos umanos.
assbot: Logged on 11-10-2015 21:21:42;
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> folks familiar with usg 'scientocracy' will laugh, but the fact is, the mind-reading box does not necessarily have to... work. to be put in use. << right right. cholesterol is bad for you except its good for you and salt is bad except its good and hey, as long as they got "science" what difference does it make that they're 100% consensused on opposite things every 30 years.
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 00:18:24; asciilifeform: cabbie: 'this ford is a piece of shit. stalled again.'
mircea_popescu: 'i have a solution!' cabbie: 'oh???111'
mircea_popescu: 'here, have this broomstick.' cabbie: 'how do i drive customers on that, feed my family'
mircea_popescu: 'you misunderstand, my good man. you stuff it in your arse.' cabbie: 'and... how does this feed by family?'
mircea_popescu: 'no, you sit there with it in.'
assbot: Logged on 11-10-2015 21:20:00;
mircea_popescu: how'd that work danielpbarron ?
assbot: Logged on 11-10-2015 23:42:59;
mircea_popescu: as intended, every v installation includes a step where user securely populates his pubkey dir.
assbot: Logged on 11-10-2015 21:31:08;
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform>had standard lcd. but the latter do not resemble the machines i have previously used having such << speaing of which, i went to a local cinema yest. place tries real hard to be us like. they had digital projector. not only were the pixels visible with naked eye from middle of room, but
assbot: Logged on 11-10-2015 23:38:25;
mircea_popescu: (which is why i'm kinda chuckling to myself every time alf goes on a rant about teh rent bezzle. sure, it sucks. imagine a world without it.)
mod6: thanks
mircea_popescu & ben_vulpes; plz let me know if you have questions or wanna discuss anything about how it works.
assbot: Logged on 11-10-2015 18:15:21;
mircea_popescu: this is the sunday psa that eulora needs more noobs.
assbot: Logged on 11-10-2015 18:04:22;
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno that nonsense is of any interest rly. ever since ashcroft usg has been putting forth all sorts of spurious claims.
assbot: Logged on 11-10-2015 18:21:32;
mircea_popescu: it's so badly contorted, for one thing it's anything but a need, for the other why the fuck are you so affraid of me you need to start by lying.
hdbuck:
mircea_popescu when is the next b-a gathering?
hdbuck: !s
mircea_popescu in other words
assbot: Logged on 10-10-2015 12:56:49;
mircea_popescu: punkman afaik gnupg actually started with the zimmerman code at some point
assbot: Logged on 10-10-2015 11:50:17;
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform agreed re subkeys. tho i think we had agreed on this before.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Logged on 25-03-2015 05:16:55; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: if you have a favourite << i don't imagine the 6 months caught us any fish, but anyway.
assbot: Logged on 10-10-2015 17:36:25;
mircea_popescu: in fact gpg has a lot in commnon with bitcoin : an original prototype of a good idea, with a lot of quick and dirty stuff,
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2015 05:16:55; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: if you have a favourite classical tarball of gpg, please consider sign and post it (with disclaimer similar to your collectible 0.5.3 tarball on listserv)
assbot: Logged on 10-10-2015 13:14:11;
mircea_popescu: who the fuck wants to stick it in a 11 yo boy looking woman.
trinque:
mircea_popescu: space is cheap and that's a worthy addition.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: did you ever do a piece on the mailing list/prediction scam where the operator keeps splitting the list on predictions until he's down to a tenth of the original list who've only seen him make winning predictions?
assbot: Logged on 24-09-2015 03:18:40; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: one example of something which Must Die is 'subkeys'
assbot: Logged on 09-10-2015 01:21:57;
mircea_popescu: the "chore" of having and maintaining blogs is NOT negotiable. you must, you MUST be your own facebook washington post vice gawker etc.
assbot: Logged on 08-10-2015 00:55:27;
mircea_popescu: man who the fuck was the bright mind that made the camera usb connector not also charge the camera while connected.
assbot: Logged on 08-10-2015 00:28:54; BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Basically turns 2015 awesome diesels into 1980's diesels
assbot: Logged on 09-10-2015 14:29:58;
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> z80 box won't keep the blockchain ~only~ on account of slow instruction clocl. << peeps gotta understand that there's really nothing magical about longer numbers. if your computer can add bits, it can add 64 of them also. which is how we were doing arbitrary precision math on the z80, too.
dexX7:
mircea_popescu: i didn't know how i can voice myself with a different nick
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: so looking into the deathandtaxes he was "running a business" in the unknown interim to replace his bitcoin4cash business or whatever
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: yep; i'm waiting for a mail from him should come later on today
BingoBoingo: *
mircea_popescu remembers that time when kyle torpey was it posted an article begging for something or the other and then michael derp came in and beleeted it and made a lengthy "full responsibility"-flavoured nonsensepost. << Those were some lulz
mitch_callahan: one day
mircea_popescu, you crossed my mind. i visualized a bunch of shapes collapsing in on themselves. it was the universe eating itself.
hanbot:
mircea_popescu how many lightbulbs can you turn on at a time with that?
mitch_callahan:
mircea_popescu, I was using menahem, but my key expired.
phf:
mircea_popescu: will do around saturday. i'm still in transit, so no working client
phf:
mircea_popescu: back then it was kek, these days i could probably get a hackernews frontpage "fundamental vulnerability found in gnupg, no one is safe!" either way completely irrelevant. just reminded me, it was 2005 or so
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: There's a Thomas Jefferson statue on campus along with his original grave marker. As part of outrage over a group of people overhear someone say nigger in a phone conversation, Social Justice Whale Hamiltonians want the statue and the grave marker removed.
assbot: Logged on 08-10-2015 01:56:30; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: 'incienso, ...., sandalo hierbas especificas que dejaran tu hogar libre de malas ondas!!' << mega-win!
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Basically turns 2015 awesome diesels into 1980's diesels
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo you know drinking never got anyone anywhere. << But it got people to no where