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mircea_popescu: hey, people are lazy and stupid. there's a very good explanation why they don'
t do anything intelligent. for one thing, it requires work.
thestringpuller: i don'
t see that being a problem for regulating eulora coppers
thestringpuller: re: shinohai I don'
t think many bitcoin games exist other than eulora and dragon's tale. i don'
t see why more secondlife-like game companies don'
t get on board. since USG killed second life by regulating linden dollars.
PeterL: aha, I hadn'
t thought of that
mircea_popescu: in any case what's the rush, if it pays now or later ; as long as it's not paid dividends it doesn'
t much make a diff.
mod6: maybe even discussed previously? can'
t recall, but that'd be sweet. just connect, issue some coords and commands and let it rip.
shinohai: i just haven'
t been able to get eulora-level machinery yet
mod6: mircea_popescu sings "i did it one step at a time, and it didn'
t cost me a dime... i got the only one there is around" << lol, great song.
ben_vulpes: phf: did you ever release the original sources to which your mp-wp patches apply? i scanned a few days of logs and didn'
t see anything other than the wp-content and a few patches.
mircea_popescu: wouldn'
t have helped you anyway ; it was keyed to the people who asked.
mircea_popescu: if they weren'
t on efnet i might even have dropped in for a hi.
mircea_popescu: but it's certainly quite deep. the vermin doesn'
t merely aim to a comfortable existence, but more importantly to a memory-less situation.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: apparently a warning ain'
t enough. which... hey, the beatings can definitely continue.
mircea_popescu: they believe they'll get pensions, so why wouldn'
t they believe the usg will somehow, magically, protect them and their families.
mircea_popescu: also it should probably be noted that what worries them isn'
t "attacking police officer", but the very tmrs-esque "attack government drone"
thestringpuller: That was probably the case for people scamming usagi, which is what it boiled down to. Usagi issued insurance against people who were exposed to pirate (insured their debts), then collected it into risk trenches (A, B and C) of descending risk. he did 0 underwriting, and was overconfident. So all the people who told him they weren'
t exposed to pirate were.
thestringpuller: can insurance even exist in bitcoin yet without devolving into Usagi antics? the liability it too high to insure bitcoin with bitcoin. and insuring bitcoin with fiat isn'
t insurance.
mircea_popescu: they don'
t go "hey, you know what, MP was right all along, we ARE fucking idiots not fit to lick his boots clean, and will henceforth do just that"
mircea_popescu: and then, THEN, when it comes time to eat the shit they don'
t gop
mircea_popescu: who the fuck in management would say anything other than "so buy a proper phone" to employee who was like "i can'
t call the company"
mircea_popescu: almost like an entry bar. "if you can'
t get your team irc room together you're all fired"
trinque: irc doesn'
t have emojis and gifs.. would be the "reason"
mircea_popescu: these aren'
t to be assumed, just because fucktards think socialism, and all things are equal and all "people" are special and so forth.
mircea_popescu: for humans, because it doesn'
t serve any purpose to credit idiots; with anything. for computers, because the whole point of the idiot being named is to make it impossible for his life to continue outside of his association with his fucking a pig.
mircea_popescu: yeah, whatever. i can'
t be arsed to have anyone dig it up, but certainly germane to this idiocy. imbecile went as far to actually ~predict~, the obviously falsifiable point, that somehow the republic is unstable. because omg, it breks the tenets of socialism and dares have personally invested sovereignity, THEREFORE IT MUST BE BAD.
mircea_popescu: wasn'
t that sloven fucktard derping about how "everything will come to grief because mp stopped subsidizing my sorry ass AND I THOUGHT I WAS ENTITLED!11"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's ok, i didn'
t actually want to say anything @openbsd.
mircea_popescu: it's still unclear what exactly you imagine to achieve through this "i don'
t expect to live to see a thing" device either.
mircea_popescu: it didn'
t "move". they deleted it to circumvent tmsr ban. then, as you'd expect, later tried to lie about that, too.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 05:40 phf: i don'
t know the details of ken sievers, some lesser part of systemd's master wrecking plan, involving firmware devices. probably behavior is somehow mandatory in NSA injection sequence. or else guy is just another righteous prick
mircea_popescu sings "i did it one step at a time, and it didn'
t cost me a dime... i got the only one there is around"
mircea_popescu: he "has better things to do". "do those better things buy you a tanker ?" "don'
t ask so many questions!"
mircea_popescu: note that i'm the one explaining "life on the sea" is idiotic, you don'
t get to hijack that argument. fact remains that IF you're willing to bite the live-on-sea bullet, tanker by far best deal.
thestringpuller: So basically Steemit's fate is being turned into a straight up spam machine since it has no soultion in place for the eternal september except "premined votes from ned and dan" and btc bagholders who bought extremely early and can'
t yet exit. This is the doom I believe Bitcoin would have faced if Roger, Gavin, Hearia, or whatever incarnation of USG programmed hedonist-bot had hijacked the entire system and allowed spam to be cheap. Th
ben_vulpes: but the male-gendered bowel movements don'
t have a scrap of dole to redistribute.
phf: i don'
t know the details of ken sievers, some lesser part of systemd's master wrecking plan, involving firmware devices. probably behavior is somehow mandatory in NSA injection sequence. or else guy is just another righteous prick
☟︎ mircea_popescu: phf im mostly ignorant of the stuff (heck, i think i read gmane... once. in like 1996. it didn'
t deliver.) but what exact idiocy is kay sievers invested in not reverting at whatever cost, including his anal virginity ?
phf: yeah, somehow killing internet infrastructure doesn'
t make him throw up
mircea_popescu: eh, i wouldn'
t be too worried. by now most of "the crowd" is made out of washed outs who thought at some point they were somebody.
mircea_popescu: obviously a lot of the cpu is not really used to do bignum mults. a smaller lot of the gpu isn'
t.
fromphuctor: so for this brute-forcing, don'
t you need a little bit of fast PC?
fromphuctor: so when we can modulus N, how do you use bignum calc for it? don'
t you need to brute force 2^x -1 starting from 2^1023 ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, "owned by whitening" is not altogether a bad theory wrt the null-entropy keys. ie, "they replaced rng with null-outputting one, never noticed because whitening". this, of course, doesn'
t explain why gpg would end up with null-generated keys, but whatevs.
_FeltPen: tbf - haven'
t mined in a while, but i have a nice fleet of antminer S1s
_FeltPen: what are you talking about shinohai? i don'
t have a 21co - i tend to root for folks that make things for this ecosystem.
_FeltPen: i'm trying to figure out what shinohai is randomly tweeting at me and making up shit about VC relationships that don'
t exist. a little confused atm.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-03 03:05 fabio__: There has been quite a bit of noise about ECC NIST curves (nistp256, nistp384, nistp521) being tampered with by the NSA. I thought using ECC was all good if you don'
t use the NIST curves and instead use community approved curves like Curve25519 and Curve1174 by like DJB and friends, or other approved ones at
https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/. mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the romans : the whole "dickus maximus" bit in monty python is actually very strict scholarship. to the "rugged men of the fronteer", the speech of proper roman citizen sounded so fucking faggoty you can'
t imagine.
mircea_popescu: i can'
t comprehend why anyone'd summon the interest to care. the only correct solution is to insist strict latin set exists throughout, and otherwise they can all get fucked.
mircea_popescu: "a font can'
t change your interpretation of a letter" AHAHAHAHA OH MY FUCKING IEHOVA
mircea_popescu: i also didn'
t mind them - but it did drive one girl positively crazy. couldn'
t sleep, eventually had a mild psychotic episode. so i got rid of them.
mircea_popescu: they patrolled all the outside walls constantly. being no damage they could do to rebared concrete... i really didn'
t see the harm.
mircea_popescu: if you are a guy who was on a list where a maggot tried to get in and you didn'
t, personally, flame and humiliate that maggot,
mircea_popescu: nevertheless - there must be collective guilt at work here, as a concept, for the opposition. if you are "a computer programmer", and you aren'
t part of the solution, you ARE part of the problem, ands personally responsible for it.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-03 13:57 mircea_popescu can'
t think of any valid excuse anyone involved in os design could possibly have not to already be in wot.
mircea_popescu can'
t think of any valid excuse anyone involved in os design could possibly have not to already be in wot.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it just doesn'
t actually speak to the foregoing. i suppose the correct rsa implementation comes with a kernel patch.
mircea_popescu: but i do dispute that for this reason it then follows there also can'
t be put any.
mircea_popescu: anywya, i don'
t dispute that "accidentally"-deliberately nobody put any effort into rng quality assurance ; key quality assurance ; etc.
mircea_popescu: (also by definition whitening doesn'
t trivially pass the tests, just superficially seems to.)
mircea_popescu: otherwise you're in the position of the camper who doesn'
t pack a burner because, technically speaking, he doesn'
t know there will be oxygen where he goes, not having been there before.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-03 06:15 mircea_popescu: and speaking of gpg deplorable state asciilifeform can you think of any possible reason the damned thing doesn'
t come a) bundled with ent and b) with ready implemented tests of local entropy while c) key generation is a subset of entropy testing in all cases ?
mircea_popescu: and speaking of gpg deplorable state asciilifeform can you think of any possible reason the damned thing doesn'
t come a) bundled with ent and b) with ready implemented tests of local entropy while c) key generation is a subset of entropy testing in all cases ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes but no. for one thign you don'
t do lattice search iirc ? for the other, the keys we're working on are too large.
mircea_popescu: but "the new better replacement for copper pipe" is not worth contemplating today like it wasn'
t worth contemplating in 516 ad.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing simpler than rsa ; ecc certainly doesn'
t meet that qual.
mircea_popescu: fabio__ you don'
t specifically know whether and which curves may be surprisingly weak. community consensus can'
t fix this.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo hey, somehow they didn'
t miss out implementing utf, they just neglected to check their crypto code. great set of priorities there.
fabio__: ok, I didn'
t realise there was not a consensus.
mircea_popescu: the republic doesn'
t, nor does any lord that i know of, recommend using ecc in any serious capacity. that's the community. otherwise, if you wish to say "i trust djb and whatever he says i'll take" this is fine, but it's a matter of personal investment not "community" nonsense.
fabio__: There has been quite a bit of noise about ECC NIST curves (nistp256, nistp384, nistp521) being tampered with by the NSA. I thought using ECC was all good if you don'
t use the NIST curves and instead use community approved curves like Curve25519 and Curve1174 by like DJB and friends, or other approved ones at
https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/. ☟︎