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jurov: mircea_popescu: got it
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.Landgull.1:0b82e219e73f31d53dcbc506ec183a6ac468bef0f78d04b4d47ad21749e06332
jurov: mircea_popescu: looks like it can be snow leoprd and newer
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Biggest thing in their favour is that it was an airport that was closed, doesn't need 100% rebuilding
jurov: mircea_popescu: i see eulora moving, can we talk about release engineering reward?
jurov: mircea_popescu: it's same lulzy "protection" as the facebook gpg stuff
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: recent 'xeons' won't init unless thing is on the bus and functioning
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it's a mandatory usg rapehole; the remote admin thing is just a way to squeeze a bit of marketing juice out of it, since it is already there
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what are you reading?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: drowning
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Is the qntra server under DoS?
punkman: mircea_popescu: atm the whole chain still verifies if you care to. << has anyone actually accomplished this? verify every single transaction and block to date?
assbot: Logged on 22-05-2015 06:59:49; mircea_popescu: if th efield had needed such a thing, it wouldn't exist at all.
assbot: Logged on 22-05-2015 06:59:41; mircea_popescu: people do buy chemicals, but they don't buy "chemistry"
assbot: Logged on 22-05-2015 06:54:48; mircea_popescu: the idea here being that people wouldn't pay for a sane os for the same reason they won't payfor the sun.
assbot: Logged on 11-05-2015 20:00:50; mircea_popescu: "TLDR I ran afl-fuzz against libbitcoinconsensus to discover interesting Bitcoin scripts and used them to search for Bitcoin reimplementations vulnerable to forking. This discovered two bugs in btcd by Conformal. See the bitcoinconsensus_testcases repository for the discovered Bitcoin scripts."
asciilifeform: (see old mircea_popescu thread re: proof)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: granted, but 'don't let strangers throw ten pounds of shit each into your five-pound bag' is not higher mathematics ...?
Adlai: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-05-2015#1149204 ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha but here there isn't a 'me' and 'you' yet
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: our 0.5.3.xyz isn't any more clever on the transmitter end!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: which idiocy ?
assbot: Logged on 31-05-2015 12:11:09; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-05-2015#1148837 << i would like to see a patch which maintains VALUED list of other nodes.
assbot: Logged on 31-05-2015 19:47:00; asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> yeah its weird << nothing weird about it. the sync mechanism is braindamaged more or less as far as it is even possible to be braindamaged.
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> yeah its weird << nothing weird about it. the sync mechanism is braindamaged more or less as far as it is even possible to be braindamaged. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: again, signing a key - on ordinary gpg - does not throw your whole modulus in it
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu https://twitter.com/wences/status/595768917907402752 << mega-l0l! wasn't this fella a chum of yours at one point? give him a thrashing ?
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu paused pump, resumed werker. we have around 1/4 of the total rsa keys available submitted (or processed) at this point.
asciilifeform: jurov: i think what mircea_popescu was asking was - how a mircea_popescu modulus ended up in a jurov key
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: old mpex is an easy one - not all of the moduli changed
assbot: Logged on 31-05-2015 12:18:33; mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone had before a way to "check all the keys i've signed" on one page.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: I'll see if I can. If I can convince someone to bugger off with me for the day I will, but only there for a few days :/
fluffypony: [16:19:03] <+mircea_popescu>unfortunately, inhabited. <- it's like what I say about America: beautiful country, the biggest problem with it are the Americans
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Any pro tips for while I'm in Bucharest?
fluffypony: oh mircea_popescu you're famouze
assbot: Logged on 31-05-2015 03:03:55; asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu this is yet another attribute of the animal we are hunting (the yet-undiscovered diddled pgp client.) almost certainly it shows the claimed fp rather than the actual.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu this is yet another attribute of the animal we are hunting (the yet-undiscovered diddled pgp client.) almost certainly it shows the claimed fp rather than the actual. ☟︎
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu the next screamingly obvious step is to catalogue 'liar keys' - the most interesting species of which consists of keys where the claimed fingerprint stored with a modulus differs from the recomputed (by us) fingerprint. as per http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-12.2
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://nosuchlabs.com/stats << notice anything ?
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/8EE2B12D71183AE76CC5958CFDF198F9C1F0D10BF65B1118F0A49CF04029B6E8 http://nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/63C1658E30A500296C4975B61649B3C3A9C860AC037AC97C845944B85F9F6126 and, wtf, http://nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/F2DBF4B56A4C68D2C96B10DB9E60CE7D63A35FF1A8BAE1209E2408BE8D7B734F
felipelalli: mircea_popescu: I agree with you.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: given the world's apparent preoccupation with the bunghole, it is probably not in fact necessary...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so far i am not seeing even 'superficial level of understanding'
hanbot: hey mircea_popescu check out the mp shrinery http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/realwork/EXPORT/projects/bitcoin/wikipedia/Mircea%20Popescu%20-%20Wikipedia,%20the%20free%20encyclopedia.html
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what "the thing is worth" is a complex issue << let's put it this way. my crops are worth more to me burned than given to kolhoz.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... post it here, turn it into a weapon << as mircea_popescu well knows, weapons do not fight by themselves. (outside of norse legend)
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 03:29:25; mircea_popescu: if you are one of the people buying belgian rubber concessions on the stock exchanges, you make money. if you're in africa, you make quick with the hands and feet.
assbot: Logged on 22-03-2015 16:53:09; assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 03:29:02; mircea_popescu: making money is a purely ~political~ function. if you are among the favoured elite of the respublica veneta, you then may invest in the ships, and make a profit. if not, not.
asciilifeform: this sorta dovetails into mircea_popescu's 'schmucks can't own gold' article
assbot: Logged on 30-05-2015 14:56:17; mircea_popescu: they don't know alternatives exist, is my guess.
assbot: Logged on 30-05-2015 12:31:23; mircea_popescu: hopefully they have enough sense to use 5:1 mix of armor piercing / high explosive-incendiary ammo.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-05-2015#1148577 << what does mircea_popescu picture american shootouts being conducted with? panzerfaust ? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 30-05-2015 12:02:42; mircea_popescu: but be nice. if there's a woman that earned the right to be treated well, stoya's it.
assbot: Logged on 30-05-2015 10:28:18; mircea_popescu: that's the natural distribution in a 2 million strong society : 10k blokes with a harem averaging high 80s headcounts, 140k blokes double-tagging 60k hos and the rest watching the previous on instagram.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [10:29] previously it was rock concerts, but that kind-of died somehow << it mutated into the 'festival' circuit
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Yeah, its fairly informal
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.deedbot-.1:30a2cb90b6b63b6ea796be21fc7551a0643ce1c546cf97a0b1403101c2950363
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Doing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if our manufacturing phriends continue their good work, then very much so. incidentally i am in the process of investigating a possible alternative firm
asciilifeform: trinque: understand that the first crate will be given to mircea_popescu, who has the unenviable chore of deciding precisely what to do with it
asciilifeform: iirc it exists as two sentences in an old mircea_popescu piece, and several dozen lines of log here
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: y'know, at some point one of us needs to write the canonical 'specificity of diddling theorem' article. ☟︎
decimation: mircea_popescu: of course, don't rest it on your balls
decimation: mircea_popescu: why is a laptop worse than a standard workstation console?
asciilifeform: nowhere, unless mircea_popescu had one hand-soldered for his use by pretty gurlz
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform shipment of small women from southeast asia ? << next best thing. sealed sony trinitron, of what i think is the largest 4:3 size that was made.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'grace' in the very general sense that these folks are untouchable (see gary condit, who even got away with killing a fucktoy) until they aren't.
assbot: Logged on 30-05-2015 00:51:24; mircea_popescu: check it out alfie, guy is starving in the street. good enough yet ? :D
trinque: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/the-crime-of-being-american/ << ftr I agree with this 100%. this struck me years ago, occupies my mind daily
assbot: Logged on 30-05-2015 00:40:56; mircea_popescu: honestly, if i was seriously contemplating living in the us, i'd seriously consider getting a life sentence. that way they're stuck paying for it all
assbot: Logged on 29-05-2015 23:43:29; mircea_popescu: this should be enough indication of the importance of dns-in-bitcoin for the shitgnome.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: And Serna is young enough to potentially leave jail after the full sentence
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: On that one basically the half brother milked some fiat fails and went to Pakistan when charges hit. Syed helped some of his cash return to him.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: but yeah you hire them for their license and make em paralegal for you
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: ty very much for the timing of that one
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> williamdunne yeah that's exactly the sort of thing. what clueless derp would think of the press bias in these terms ? << Whichever Timothy go hooked into working for Vox faced this dilemma. Staid with Vox to his peril
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That and he's got a few fresh off the reddit faces he finds to help throw up occasional extra stories
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.cusipzzz.-10:7efb49656c3c4fe3426e105cd84804e418313f0ad96ac8ae211f55148c7a83cf
decimation: mircea_popescu: what conversation were you referencing "goes right back to yesterday, and before's discussion re starving in the street"
assbot: Logged on 30-05-2015 00:34:33; mircea_popescu: danielpbarron http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-05-2015#1147706 logz ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the idea is, that e coli is commensal or symbiotic, depending on your perspective, whereas salmonella is pathogenic << unless you are a chicken or turtle... then salmonella is just normal poop bacteria
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> salmonella ? << It Birds and reptiles it is part of their normal flora. Can't be considered an adultrant
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Its not like that is the USGs responsibility </sarc>
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> honestly, if i was seriously contemplating living in the us, i'd seriously consider getting a life sentence. that way they're stuck paying for it all << Get yourself Bariatric, then get the life sentence for maximum cost infliction
trinque: mircea_popescu: ok give it another go
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu asciilifeform : http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/34155307/ << this nigga has declared war on the anti-forkers... seems like spinning wheels but knowing hearn, we'll likely see an XT release with the 20MB removed.
assbot: Logged on 29-05-2015 05:34:06; mircea_popescu: "and managing locking somehow" win of the day award lol
punkman: mircea_popescu: "free heating if you live next to a mfg plant!" << "Academica has installed a new 2MW database server centre ... Water warmed while cooling the servers will go on to provide heat for 500 homes or 1,000 flats ... After the heat is extracted, the water will be recycled back to cool the servers again."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'peek' and 'poke' were sop on c64 and most micros of the time, aha
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: interpreter wasn't in rom on your thing ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: you think folks will make do with shit c++ code for our lifetime?
assbot: Logged on 29-05-2015 03:35:55; mircea_popescu: by now i heard the "nsa didn't want strong encryption at all, and lobbied against inclusion of anything like it were microsoft on a bender" from so many people it's settled
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i want the thing to shoehorn into, e.g., 'hootoo tripmate'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: snapshot lets you take counts of live allocs as often as you like
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nah this is an entirely other animal, 'igprof.' takes malloc byte counts from a living (!) process
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah but the interesting thing is to see how they were involved in the early creation of internet protocols
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: plz read log. these are not leaks...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i get a ballooning all the way to ~23M during first few hours of runtime, where it stays (based on pmap data)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: which ?
asciilifeform waits for mircea_popescu to eat the log