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mircea_popescu: i didn't even make one this time!
ben_vulpes: "i don't solve problems, i just make them"
mircea_popescu: ty, i try!
ben_vulpes: from pasteshite design to "all you-sians are congenitally retarded" in less than 50 lines.
mircea_popescu: there's little technological solutions to psychological problems.
mircea_popescu: but in fairness, this is just another facet of the monolithic usg-slavery-thoughtpattern. living in the states is good enoughy for me ; i don't really need a blog and it's not THE central, defining thing of my current existence ; on it goes.
mircea_popescu: i think i've done so a few times, actually.
ben_vulpes: i'm not saying that they won't, i'm say that nobody appears to actually be doing so.
ben_vulpes: people aren't getting blogs and using them.
mircea_popescu: how is this related to the above ?
mircea_popescu: the idea was, get a blog, use that.
ben_vulpes: and miscellaneous other pasteshites who shit crlfs and waste precious trb time
ben_vulpes: plus every irc community evolves until it has its own pastebin or how did that old saw go
ben_vulpes: that's what i've been doing, but it's not working and i'm still seeing heinous linefeed issues hamstringing and tripping up trb scouts
assbot: Logged on 25-12-2015 11:01:25; ben_vulpes: isn't that called a webserver?
mircea_popescu: alternatively : everyone get a fucking blog, and in that blog have a uploads directoy, and that's fucking that.
mircea_popescu: might do it a once a year or some shit, but that's about it.
mircea_popescu: meh, i'm not downloading new pubkeys every day to use your paste thing
ben_vulpes: but this is extremely inconvenient to use.
ben_vulpes: alternatively, rotate the pubkey every day, encrypting to l2 and hosting myself.
mircea_popescu: you can just deed a notice, which you encrypt to everyone's key.
mircea_popescu: something like that
mircea_popescu: how about this : only accept gpg-encrypted communications, and only distribute the pubkey to people you like. ☟︎
punkman: ben_vulpes: perhaps issue something like "api key" to users, have a shell script to pipe things to, that sends authenticated paste request
ben_vulpes: because i have no interest in building things for the mob.
ben_vulpes: punkman, mircea_popescu, asciilifeform: destestable though they may be for injecting state into the stateless protocol, would a single "signin" page with an assbot-style decryption of OTP that results in a session key authenticating the user to the perlwad be an improvement, and are there better solutions i'm not considering? anonymous drive-by pasting is not a better solution imho. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 25-12-2015 19:47:55; asciilifeform: there cannot be a reasonable way to do an unreasonable thing.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-12-2015#1353048 << no. this is a color of bits issue ; i couldn't care less what the technological constraints [appear to] be. a contract is a single item, not a text and a separate signature. ☝︎☟︎
ben_vulpes: but i was up till 5 last night, so not really applying the razor
mircea_popescu: as illustrated by discussion of "entrepreneurs" quoted in the logs.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes note that often these self-misrepresented "techs" are actually 6 weeks away from the day they first heard of "that css programming language"
ben_vulpes baffled that ipnohe coolie is starving somehow
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-12-2015#1353020 << dude. i am not maintaining two channels. clearsign is good specifically because it is clearsign. ☝︎
punkman: and he even has testing devices
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-12-2015#1352990 << the only megalol is wtf does some schmuck that can't afford food do withy computers. ☝︎
asciilifeform: AND in that it does not mutilate the payload!
asciilifeform: in that it does not pretend to be usable as-is without unpacking,
asciilifeform: and ascii-armour is an entirely distinct thing (really just 'uuencode') from 'clearsign'
asciilifeform: as soon as 'nice to have' transitions into 'this does not and cannot possibly work as intended but we'll use it anyway' you open the door to perdition.
punkman: I don't want 'clearsigning', but if I'm gonna have ascii armored messages/sigs, might as well stick them in one blob, and an unencoded "preview" of the message can be nice to have
asciilifeform: there cannot be a reasonable way to do an unreasonable thing. ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'clearsigning' is one of those 'dwim' retardations that folks apparently will have to burn themselves on painfully, again and again and again and again, until they finally grasp the futility
asciilifeform: but even there it barely worked.
asciilifeform: 'clearsign' kinda worked for documents intended to be STRICTLY human-readable, where newline crud doesn't have much of an impact
asciilifeform: i could go on and on with the braindamage
asciilifeform: 4) you have to de-crudify a signed file before it can be used
asciilifeform: 3) if your file is 7-bit clean, it WILL get mutilated somewhere from point A to point B, just about guaranteed, so whole exercise was pointless
asciilifeform: 2) now you have to care about endian - how to represent the magic length word ?
asciilifeform: 1) you can no longer transmit a file of unknown length through a signing widget and sign at arbitrary moment. gotta compute the length in advance
asciilifeform: because CAN'T PIPE THAT
assbot: Logged on 15-08-2015 17:56:24; asciilifeform: now you have to CARE ABOUT THE INSIDES
punkman: no reason we can't have pseudo-clearsigned, text at the top with hex escapes for unprintables, full msg+sig in lower base64 part
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=15-08-2015#1238786 << see thread. ☝︎
asciilifeform: so you are not signing what you thought you were signing, but a transform
asciilifeform: and since gpg is retarded by virtue of having to ride on top of 7bit-clean turdmailz etc., it happily mutilates strings to make'em signable
asciilifeform: with 'clearsign' - i can only sign certain strings which don't contain the escape magicks.
asciilifeform: let's approach mathematically. with detached sig in gpg, i can sign ANY bitstring which fits in the machine.
assbot: Logged on 25-12-2015 11:10:20; ben_vulpes: but i don't think you called out specifically that you can rewrite the whole file's line ending styles without invalidating it
thestringpuller: so not like I have lunch money to begin with
thestringpuller: too bad the bullies shake me down for it everyday
asciilifeform: the boojum in building a sane-anything is that it will have to be financed with your lunch money.
thestringpuller: Meanwhile, I want to build a sane computer, but I feel it's futile because Microshit and Apple ruined everything... :(
asciilifeform: troying the disk, importing a virus from a disk, or letting Word destroy your day's work.'
asciilifeform: 'look at Microsoft. nobody in their right mind would want their buggy shit. what Microshit users want is something entirely separate from the products. Microshit is _not_ user-friendly, but it is marketed as user-friendly, and then other software products, far more user-friendly, are made to look as if they missed the whole point about what "user-friendly" _is_, namely to look cool in nice colors while you're crashing and des
thestringpuller: I blame the web developers. Fancy CSS and prettiness > functionality
asciilifeform: just as they happily used microshit
thestringpuller: but yet when Atom or Sublime or other bastardized notepad explodes they complain.
asciilifeform: if it were 'use vim or stop eating' they will use vim.
thestringpuller: ofc. but yet still operators today, for instance coworkers refuse to use VIM cause "hard"
asciilifeform: but just this thing, like water, takes shape of container (as portrayed in old mircea_popescu article)
thestringpuller: some schmuck has to be like "This is how it is, and this is what you are to expect." for "consumers to have come to expect"
thestringpuller: Millions of people have been bamboozled into thinking that editing a letter in real time requires a supercomputer. << but how has the consumer been so easily bamboozled.
assbot: Loper OS » Going Nowhere Really Fast, or How Computers Only Come in Two Speeds. ... ( http://bit.ly/1OVhuca )
thestringpuller: no one in the class had an answer
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: that reminds me of professor who said to class, "Why the fuck does Word need 1GB of memory and we got to the moon on 12kb of RAM?"
assbot: Logged on 04-09-2015 03:52:50; mats: jesus the hp 16c goes for 200+
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=04-09-2015#1262347 << see thread. ☝︎
asciilifeform: '... A physical calculator (and not a touch-screen app on a tablet) has something that the surrogate doesn't. For one thing it does not require you to do GUI context switching. It does not compete for mouse (or keyboard) with the other tens of open programs. I find this invaluable. On the other hand, touch screens take away tactile feedback. This gives the same bland taste as the soft power-off switches.' << yes!
asciilifeform: ore inefficient, using more and more RAM and CPU to do the same things. Since right now, I am very low on money, this means I am stuck using Xcode 6.2, and trying to not misclick anything when I plug the testing devices and iTunes nag me to update them... because if I allow them to get updated, I will have to upgrade Xcode, OSX, and the entire machine, and right now sometimes I can't afford even food ...'
asciilifeform: 'For some reason, completely unknown to me, Xcode is ALSO tied to OSX version, For example Xcode 6.3 requires a OSX version more than Xcode 6.2, despite having no huge differentes between the two and Xcode 6.3 don't requiring any new OS capabilities that Xcode 6.2 didn't already used anyway. But every time you update OSX and Xcode, not only they sometimes explicitly require a new machine model, but they also get increasingly m
asciilifeform: VariaVarietatis: how the hell would i know.
VariaVarietatis: asciilifeform: heard a rumor they might close the drone base in turkey, think this is true?
asciilifeform: (anybody recall the race condition 0days in linux kernel circa 2011 ?)
mircea_popescu: way the fuck better than a smash.
mircea_popescu: i think locks and lock behavious is nsa's #1 favourite metacomputing item.
asciilifeform: and ~despite~ this, the source is still peppered with 'critical section' locks etc
asciilifeform: client walks the fd's and sees if socket 'needs service' and gives itself over to it wholly until whatever operation (however long it takes) is complete
asciilifeform: the whole polled socket thing is deeply braindamaged
mircea_popescu: yeah, take some load off poor iptables for this.
asciilifeform: one idiot can trivially monopolize a node.
asciilifeform has been looking at the socket handling, and it is imho the most urgent crock of shit ~after~ the leak
mircea_popescu: honestly the only way to replace that seems bitcoinfs
asciilifeform still loathes bdb and would like to see it go, asap
mircea_popescu: mod6 reconfigures BDB to pass the wedge at block 252450 << remember that alf ? :D
assbot: A brief history of the Bitcoin Foundation's activity from 10/2014 through 4/2015 ... ( http://bit.ly/1Od7bis )
mircea_popescu: http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2015/05/02_a-brief-history-of-the-bitcoin-foundations-activity-from-102014-through-42015.html << actually re-reading this... hey, pretty fucking cool huh.
asciilifeform also partial to same fashion
asciilifeform: ( ... you'll have what to hang yourself on, just in case )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know the (same vintage) aspirin contraception joke ?
mircea_popescu is partial to that fashion for girlies, perhaps on account of having grown up in a sea of teenybopper knickers.