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asciilifeform: who works for usg is public record
asciilifeform: in light of rumour of usg buying up cheap old asic
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag> idiot stotting bulls are a dime a dozen. << they're a dime a dozen exactly like how microscope is a dime a dozen in post-usg us.
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: possibly kid imagines that the company of others leads directly to 'militia', and usg stoolies, and straight into jail
mircea_popescu: so far the usg is like 3-0 for "kidnapped, murdered and extorted keys"
ben_vulpes: i also don't quite know what mthreat's doing in there beyond running search and being a known usg antagonist.
asciilifeform: partly that ecc systems are poorly understood and trivial to trapdoor and kleptographically diddle, very usg-friendly
mircea_popescu: this whole "overqualified" thing is a very peculiar usg instrument of lizardlet punishment.
ascii_butugychag: incidentally, i don't recall usg paying out any prize at all for aes nomination
ascii_butugychag: the one usg is playing is about asymmetric crypto, mainly
ascii_butugychag: usg is really getting desperate to get folks off rsa
asciilifeform: (and selling own vulns first-looksee to usg.)
assbot: Logged on 04-02-2016 20:37:03; ascii_butugychag: for a degreed mathematician, or even talented amateur, the life choices are generally a) web dev b) usg.
mircea_popescu: https://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html << also not a bad read. files from "the days before america turned to usg-shit and the inhabitants still entertained delusions"
ascii_butugychag: usg is doing a decent job of paying most qualified folks ~not~ to crypto.
ascii_butugychag: a wild cryptographer is as tolerable to usg as a wild nuke designer.
ascii_butugychag: for a degreed mathematician, or even talented amateur, the life choices are generally a) web dev b) usg. ☟︎
ascii_butugychag: it is one of the few fields where usg pays Moar and provides better working conditions than actual industry
ascii_butugychag: the thing about airplanes is that usg does not have so many captive welders, metallurgists, etc.
ascii_butugychag: usg does perfectly fine with well-specified, mechanical edifice
mircea_popescu: usg can build anything it wants, and it'll never want to build anything useful. much better, more interesting shiny baubles scattered all over the field.
mircea_popescu: usg is aboriginal.
ascii_butugychag: (the ~actual~ usg would not have it)
ascii_butugychag: this is so basic that it is even beaten to death in usg standards documents for their crud, in public
mircea_popescu: everyone here gives usg money, too.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-02-2016#1394695 << the motives for usg officially releasing a cryptosystem in 2013 can be discerned only by an expert psychiatrist ☝︎
ascii_butugychag: btw if you read that article, my hypothesis was that the usg ciphers are specially built to fail in a particular way.
ascii_butugychag: like the standard fortifications around usg pissholes
ascii_butugychag: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-02-2016#1393927 << the indians have the standard, entirely ordinary loyalty of the rest of usg, but hypertrophied: loyalty to the hand that feeds, supplies nice condo, fat retirement, princeyaletonward for the kidz ☝︎
mircea_popescu: yeah, which will happen five minutes after the usg stops hiring idiots, which will happen half hour after anyone who's not an idiot stops exclusively dedicating himself to the republic, which happens after i'm fucking dead, i should hope.
mircea_popescu: not even the usg itself is 75% usg by weight by now.
BingoBoingo: Anyways. The point is the Bundy fumbling has to happen for militia movement to develop which isn't 75% USG informant by weight.
adlai waits for the day when usg stagehands and muppeteers donate their entire income to the IRS (saves on paperwork!)
assbot: Logged on 01-02-2016 19:29:18; ascii_butugychag: ;;later tell mircea_popescu in what sense is adoptinc keccak a rejection of usg standards? it was actually adopted as sha3...
ascii_butugychag: ;;later tell mircea_popescu in what sense is adoptinc keccak a rejection of usg standards? it was actually adopted as sha3... ☟︎
mod6: ascii_butugychag: one fix every now and then isn't horrible or anything, id just hate to see the situation (like at usg-like job) where people create a turd, create a PR, and then have to keep chainging the PR until "ready"
mircea_popescu: yes usg loves to present "fixes" of this nature. the odds of them making it in are about the same as the odds of obama being smart.
ascii_butugychag: and south kr, usg muppet, owns ~100% of ssd fabrication.
mircea_popescu: note the very usg-tard approach to things : it IS true that ambiguous signatures are bad ; it is DEEPLY UNTRUE that we can counter this by AGREEING among ourselves "not to do it".
ben_vulpes: could just as easily be a USG FUD campaign.
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2016 20:48:02; jurov: asciilifeform: can't you just get rid of gmail? or it's the same situation as you and usg?
jurov: asciilifeform: can't you just get rid of gmail? or it's the same situation as you and usg? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: tmsr really is what usg aspires to be, funnily enough.
mircea_popescu: assbot> Networking Equipment Designated Weapon System | << speaking of which, i fully expect the first usg-designed bitcoin miners to be designated exactly that.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yeah. he also screams about how dumb usg is, hasn't yet moved away.
mircea_popescu: seems the matter of control is squarely resolved in the field. mp can get to anyone in usg, to anything to them he damned well pleases. so it goes.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-01-2016#1388202 << why do the usg-tards look so much like attention whoring hipsters these days ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: as demonstrated by every single interaction between them and usg, ever, to date.
BingoBoingo: in not-peaceful end USG does have to run money printer for life insurance on its instruments
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: didja think they had some magical elixir to magic away usg ?
adlai: but this is greatly reassuring, it suggests usg will build coke machines regardless of their EV signum, saving worried folks the trouble of proving it one way or the other
asciilifeform home in record time - because usg was closed, no cars...
ascii_butugychag: (gotta have some way of keeping folks from simply busting people out. as usg famously failed to do in iraq.)
ascii_butugychag: thestringpuller: but in practice the folks who sit down in jail are white middle class types, for whom the amount owed is known exactly in real time by usg every time they get salary, and never mexican 'illegals' who work for bags of benjie.
ascii_butugychag: this is why, even if you work for usg, they pay you and then you have to send the exact amount, ~calculated by you~, back...
ascii_butugychag: but see, in the other usg, you could actually take up those professions and still live like a white man
mircea_popescu: you have that much in common with 1980s inteligentsia in the other usg.
ascii_butugychag: last i checked, it was usg beating the shit out of derps pretending to sovereign
ascii_butugychag: it gets away with whatever in exactly the same way as the usg it is a tendril of
ascii_butugychag: like the rest of usg.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> hausmann has a story to tell about how and why poor countries suck, and it's not because they're untrained monkeys, it's because they need more phree airplanes or some shit <<< venezuela is what happened after a gaddafi died of natural causes. yes the usg 5th column's unhappy that it has not yet been invited to save venezuela, they were predicting $$$ years ago.
mircea_popescu: o wait... usg's own ws didn't exist then yet either huh. a well.
mircea_popescu: if only they were doing this back in the day when usg's own corp didn't exist, america'd have looked a lot different.
mircea_popescu: and finally c) that facebook, just like every other usg corporation, tends to outsource all its workload TO UNPAID THIRD PARTIES.
asciilifeform: https://z.cash/team.html << usg rogue's gallery
asciilifeform: and we are likely to see recognizable riffs on this theme as usg rockets along its path to the bunker of '45.
asciilifeform: at any rate, my observation was re: what usg ~thinks~ it is doing when supporting crackpot energy wunderwaffen
mircea_popescu: pyongyang is still there at incredible sino-usg expenditure.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the representational needs of the usg are exactly highest in MN as opposed to say alaska. because THAT is the true fronteer atm, separating the bundys from the bahamases.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the simple proof that wind is purely for show - so that soviet citizen sees it and is impressed with the usg, just like the red army red square parades of otherwise useless missiles - rather than for energy is that the one place where you should have them (tierra del fuego) doesn't have them.
asciilifeform: punkman: ahahaha use moar usg standardz!
danielpbarron: i would think it's easier to make a real key and decrypt an actual message than to fake the whole thing in video editing but then again I have a dedicated gpg machine and not a video editing one. USG probably has the opposite
mircea_popescu: just a simple "isis finally moving to pgp, like b-a/alf/mp said they should. usg petrified about actual, strong cryptography - as opposed to the ecc and assorted shit they peddle - being deployed by those opposing its reign of terror"
ben_vulpes: usg has a plenty strong relationship with me, lol
assbot: Logged on 24-01-2016 01:51:14; adlai: fwiw friend who teaches classics at a usg 'prep school' attests to having had a student excused from any and all performance standards due to APD (which stands for 'auditory processing disorder')
adlai: fwiw friend who teaches classics at a usg 'prep school' attests to having had a student excused from any and all performance standards due to APD (which stands for 'auditory processing disorder') ☟︎
hanbot: <mircea_popescu> me: 'the measure of a state's sovereignty and quality of life therein is the degree to which it can deny benefits to outsiders' << certainly works to "why is B,TMSR~ superior to USG and necessarily a replacement thereof". << to borrow a recent parallel from copypaste, couldn't the same be said of best korea?
mircea_popescu: me: 'the measure of a state's sovereignty and quality of life therein is the degree to which it can deny benefits to outsiders' << certainly works to "why is B,TMSR~ superior to USG and necessarily a replacement thereof".
asciilifeform: actually it suggests usg confidence that it will ~never~ suffer shortages of ammo
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: modern usg is going for 'eastern despot' caesaropapism.
ben_vulpes: the log history that you're missing is that blockheight is the only non usg-shared time.
asciilifeform: as a former participant in the racket, i will say that 8m - even in ~today~'s watered-down usg - is a princely grant bag.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381687 << the definition of "effective" under which he operates is both peculiar and self-defeating. he wants to get something (in this case, anything, whatsoever) for nothing (in this case, no casualties, the one thing usg can't afford is coffins). so in that sense, his insanity is sensible. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: much like everything else usg
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: you would be surprised to learn what seemingly pedestrian items cost when purchased on usg dime
ascii_butugychag: what, usg botnet only works on trilema ?
ascii_butugychag: or does it even make sense to suppose that usg uses anything of the kind
mircea_popescu: heh, the usg can't afford to throw away half a bil just for this.
ascii_butugychag: also they sent usg home
mircea_popescu: <mats> int'l law: for other people that are not usg. << it's widely reported in ru and chinese. "everyone"
asciilifeform: mats: usg does not believe in the sovereignty of any other crown anywhere
mats: int'l law: for other people that are not usg.
mats: why nobody is talking about how usg is actively violating .sy sovereignty, idk
adlai would at least prefer a "tries hard but mostly fails", but will settle for "either retarted or usg" because it's 'nearly a laugh'
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2016 21:56:07; mircea_popescu: check it out alfie, your clone with less technical skills is running the usg's largest bank-department.
mircea_popescu: check it out alfie, your clone with less technical skills is running the usg's largest bank-department. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Shit's popping up everywhere now. USG phillipino delivery for ClassicCoin must have finally arrived a week late
asciilifeform: if trb is sleeping in a dumpster and picking old razors out of the rotting mcd 'meal' trays to eat, prb is drowning in a usg paper dump
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Or just trying to "be cool" like all those movie stoners or something. It's not unknown among USG agents to either have or have invented a "groovy" drug history.
asciilifeform: i've held off attempting to do anything about this because 'usg can diddle packets arbitrarily, we need gossipd' but there is no particular logic to this.