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mircea_popescu: ideally, one that doesn'
t support utf. (not necessarily utf per se - just an instantiation of the principle that features may be supported only if inexpensive enough.)
mircea_popescu: it's one of those cases where the team may be better than the codebase ; though honestly, the size of the matzah ball hanging on their head means that they'll prolly get crushed if haven'
t already
mircea_popescu: well since phuctor has a bunch of rsa work already done ; converting github rsa keys to a usable format and checking them by the same process isn'
t that tall a step.
mircea_popescu: the experience of myspace should be informative in this sense. "network effect" is valuable for as long as the median view is that it's cool people there ; once that goes away, all turner's billions can'
t fix the suddenly un-critical network effect.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t credit this "network effect" criticality thing. yes, people came up with that particular rebranding of panglossism to sell inept investors on why they should throw money away. it worked. that the sale pitch worked does not make the theory true.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> anywya, once mod6 gets that
T thing going we can actually create tickets for all this, which'll make the task less insane. << making daily progress!
mircea_popescu: but that's all temporary and a bandaid for a chainsaw wound. in the end, you don'
t see many oxcarts carrying freight today.
Framedragger: k, i see the.. angle. i suppose you belief in them having to adapt or die comes from most of your endeavours of the kind succeeding? which - don'
t get me wrong - is very admirable - but, like, it requires napoleonic levels of confidence. not that it's bad in and of itself
mircea_popescu: anywya, once mod6 gets that
T thing going we can actually create tickets for all this, which'll make the task less insane.
Framedragger looks for reasons to hate git in logs. (spoiler, i don'
t hate git.. at least not yet)
Framedragger: i mean let's say one wouldn'
t depend on gnupg or anything like that. fine. use RSA. but with the (admirable) level of scrutiny employed herein, i'd be wary of even suggesting a single implementation of RSA which would not be shitty. i mean, there is libressl...
Framedragger: "apparently you can'
t EVEN DO MATH in js" << yes yes YES :/ i knowz... that's why people want a web crypto api (crypto itself implemented in browser).. but the answer to your snarky follow-up "that just adds salt to the wound" is yes.. it's doomed
mircea_popescu: lmao. i dunno why they have a page about how php sucks, and nothing about javascript. apparently you can'
t EVEN DO MATH in js (9007199254740993/28059810762433 === 321 is false).
BingoBoingo: Anyways best thing in CHicago isn'
t even in Chicago. Go down to Joilet and tour the old prison.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that you don'
t sit around to sniff the anthill, but merely care how tall it is.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: correction, When plea out, you aren'
t a militia hero anymore
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> hard enough that bush's idiots couldn'
t do it unless the thing beaconed. << /me remembers that lulz
mircea_popescu: easier to explain to the peons why they can'
t have chocolate this week if there's an "all out total war" going
hanbot: it wasn'
t, but prolly coming.
mircea_popescu: the sad truth underneath this all is, that the "computer [security] industry" has slowly became dependent on usg-sponsored burnings to the degree that unless weimer and co actually write all the stuff and put it out, they can'
t do it on their own, in any sort of timeframe.
mircea_popescu: tey said "wrong hands", they didn'
t fucking say "reddit's hands"
mircea_popescu: even your "primitive man won'
t stray" argument is broken, as you stop midway. a) the point of his following your recipe is that he got off lazy butt ; if he doesn'
t, he doesn'
t AT ALL. why would he get off lazy butt JUST AS FAR as you imagine he would and no further ?
mircea_popescu: wasn'
t clear that part is intentionally meaningful. fine, consider same item with a single such spoke
mircea_popescu: but the implications for your position are pretty lulzy, wouldn'
t you say ?
mircea_popescu: but if it's actually useful to do, it can'
t fucking be done worth a shit.
mircea_popescu: i use "technology" to describe my numeric head-mathing, though most gurlz can'
t do it.
mircea_popescu: do me a favour and don'
t go all religious freak on me, absence of proof / proof of absence stew etc.
mircea_popescu: but you still can'
t, and marry her, and learn inuit, and still can'
t, and what now ?
mircea_popescu: and the important point here is that no agent may be universal ; and no universal may have agency. which is why god can'
t act.
mircea_popescu: no. it picks you up, in that some can and some can'
t ; some do and some do not.
mircea_popescu: us army grunts notably don'
t know how the fuck their shit works.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t give the first inkliong of a shit as to whether it could "rightfully" be called technical, inovation, or pornography. that's a concern for kids debating superman-vs-spiderman encounters.
mircea_popescu: but as per our discussion of monsanto, if your idea of "innovation" in humanities is alligned with "absolute first", you can'
t even PERCEIVE humanities, let alone meaningfully interact with em.
mircea_popescu: i also count all SORTS of things, including 3% corp tax in romania, for instance. wasn'
t there in 86
mircea_popescu: can'
t quite answer "get fucked" to something like that, not unless you're prepared to follow through and holocaust them all.
mircea_popescu: for instance, i'm deliberately keeping my ongoing "war on the web" as far as attacking forums goes on a very low roar. not that i couldn'
t scale it up and end ~any web-based forum, owing to the incredible incompetence of the scammers involved. but then, millions of derps would in a voice go "ok so these are bad, what should we do ?"
mircea_popescu: anyway, Framedragger golang is not liked here because we don'
t own it, and we don'
t like usg.google more than we like usg.anything, and because it seems quite well engineered to work as a baited hook for the usg chump works.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform right. which is my point - if you don'
t like golang pretend there isn'
t one. you can'
t invalidate design by "bad implementation" wtf.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger doesn'
t mean much more than, "the correct path is to take a decent crypto lib, a distributed-hashtable-storage thing from one of the p2p torrent tools, and make a real social media app"
☟︎ BingoBoingo still wonders why Monsanto hasn'
t been digging for Diquat decomposing bacteria to make a wunderwaffen
mircea_popescu: shows teh sort of "scientific research" that happens in the us based labs for the lulzy sham it is. "oh, we treated a crop of grass with this vial and the grass died. ERGO IT WORKS!!! we studied genetics under lamarck et all, don'
t understand much of anything. what do you mean, cultivate the survivors and see, what do you mean need a chain of witness blocks going down many generations ?!?!?!"
shinohai: I haven'
t looked into D-STAR much, but it is proprietary chip, which opens possibility that it is already pwnd at that level, you cannot decrypt message without it.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile asciilifeform still hasn'
t explained why he hates early radio so damn much.
mircea_popescu: it's a sad day in any man's life, when he's squeezed into admitting that personal connection be damned, incompetence and malice aren'
t usefully distinguishable.
shinohai: Because being here isn'
t complete until you have met Vexual.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: su dean didn'
t have housing racket, but could he buy plane tickets to paris and rent apt there for summer ? (honest q)
a111: Logged on 2016-05-18 22:57 phf: i don'
t actually know, but i think i recall some высоцкий records with 30kp markings?
phf: but there might've been some twist there, like pastry was the kind of pastry you couldn'
t buy anywhere else because "specially made only here on thursdays"
phf: i don'
t actually know, but i think i recall some высоцкий records with 30kp markings?
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2015-04-07 00:10 mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn'
t alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: do you know for a fact that khodorkovsky didn'
t stock tp up to the rafters ?
pete_dushenski: lel. couldn'
t be more relevant. i have not one but two amigos who are actively searching for... car washes
a111: Logged on 2016-05-11 19:33 mircea_popescu: fwiw, young males that aren'
t entirely dumb go almost universally through this phase of "fantasy busienss" where they keep doing various coups in their heads, start a carwash then buy a shoestore with the proceeds then trade that in for a chain fo restaurants etc etc etc.
pete_dushenski: the thesis reduces to 'old soviets didn'
t have it so bad, new soviets have it worse than they realise'
mircea_popescu: somehow it doesn'
t occur to them that the sort of people they reach don'
t have fucking gold bars;
a111: Logged on 2016-05-12 15:47 mircea_popescu: also, please don'
t refer to tmsr as "a community". it is not "a community", it is your liege.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'd say that in the interest of conserving manpower, the realtime leeching should not be a priority (honestly, it wasn'
t in my mind anyway, giving the ease with which hitler'd have turned it off anyway). instead the priorities for phuctor are :
Framedragger: i wasn'
t sure whether you intended for there to be a facility to post unencrypted public texts, for example (that is, that there would be a way to not only encrypt text to recipient key or set of keys corresponding to, say, a particular group - but also to post plaintext for meet-and-greet, whatnot).