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asciilifeform: after that, it is precisely the same as working with 'stator'
asciilifeform: as on 'univac'
asciilifeform: who ~knew~ that they were winners as soon as they popped out of the womb
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo "as was the case with this one." << link missing ? << That's a cazalla
asciilifeform: that can be used as a one-time pad
asciilifeform: the 'crushed glass secret key' was picked up by academitards as 'physically unclonable function'
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "as was the case with this one." << link missing ?
mircea_popescu: they like live flesh about as much as you like birdshit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for as long as china takes the coupons...
asciilifeform: jurov: it is the very meaning of the word 'addiction' as commonly used. (no one speaks of being 'addicted' to air, sunlight, etc)
mircea_popescu: but other than that, it's as useful as "wysiwyg" or "point and click" or "just works!"
mircea_popescu: it makes as much sense as drawing horses on a car.
decimation: actually you could argue that 'email' as a concept is 'let's pretend we are working at the post office'
asciilifeform: respecifying email as null << win
mircea_popescu: decimation how about respecifying email as null.
jurov: all out email and else woes are due to text originally defined as "interspersed by cr in shorter intervals than any buffer wherever gets() is used"
mircea_popescu: or my info as to how the entire fucking house of cards came down chiefly bewcause some idiots were doing copula calculations
mircea_popescu: anyway, re punkman's reddit link - the tards miss the fruit and focus on the pit of that thing, as usual.
asciilifeform: the thing that ~must~ be understood is that the ancient iron is maintained entirely, wholly, as a shield against microshitification
asciilifeform: iirc the 'cypherpunk' folks thought of themselves as anonymous soldiers trying to pave the way for 'lords' to use key without insta-flagging
mircea_popescu: the "industry", such as it is, is fucking google, holding hackathons
asciilifeform: (as do a great many american .mil systems, of the kind which still work)
mircea_popescu: as someone's hobby.
asciilifeform: folks with beards as long as my arm.
asciilifeform: and the 'pretend culture' at least in as far as it concerns public key crypto, was a very deliberate plank of the 'cypherpunk' folks - 'let's use crypto for every piece of shit, to defeat traffic analysis'
asciilifeform: as in, nothing ever changed from their signature being on it or not ?
mircea_popescu: crazy as it may sound.
mircea_popescu: well, it exists as a signed thing in the hands of the conference participants.
mircea_popescu: srsly, there;s nothing new there as opposed to yest.
asciilifeform: as it is, you have... perl.
asciilifeform: at any rate, i originally wanted this as a wall poster
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you're a nihilist. everything's ultimately based on nothing as fatr as you're concerned, if you're willing to take the time and look.
BingoBoingo: So, since everyone is apparently looking at db behavior in BTC now... A few hours ago I reset my BIOS clock back a full day. Rightly It refused to acknowledge blocks more than two hours into the future. Then I reset clock to be right. Client refused to correct itself all at once. However many block it scooped up in the verifying databases phase seems to be as far as it got before permawedgeing. Killing and restating fixed issue. B
decimation: granted, there are measurements that show more improvement, but 4 years and 45-22nm buys you as little as 17% improvement
asciilifeform: it is precisely as if someone were snipping out just the packets with useful payload, while leaving enough in place to leave the connection open.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-08-2015#1221792 << as easy as setting up for 'arm' build, etc. change the knob. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: unflattering as that may be
shinohai: ruby is just as useless as java
mircea_popescu: why do it on demand ? just dump out the "block explorer" material as you process the txn
mircea_popescu: i was thinking you write it in c++, like the rest of the code, can be compiled as an addon
mircea_popescu: in fact the blk0001 covers as you folks observed, the first ~3 years of bitcoin or some shit.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-08-2015#1221256 << this is pure wank. all blocks are 1mb, and it's reliable as set in stone. the right move is to pad all blocks to 1mb and forget about it ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 01-08-2015 18:32:03; trinque: if bitcoind were intended to obscure the functioning of the bitcoin algorithm for as long as possible, it would've come out the same way
shinohai: I'd rather be known as a knight of La Serenissima.
decimation: ... to the title "Mr" as a snub to the RCP."
mircea_popescu: it's as unmedical as it gets.
asciilifeform: edge connectors with reasonable pin counts are flaky enough as it is.
decimation: as an edge connector
trinque: wouldn't be lame to do it as described
jurov: as shown above, even mp had to succumb to that
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: as far as i can tell, the factors found thus far all fit the profile of factors-of-randomly-chosen-integer
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, if something strikes you as odd among these factors please do tell
asciilifeform: 'The Die. A die complained: "I have not been / Quite comfortable in my skin. / Of my six planes, the sitting side, / And bore it but my single mark, / Must ever gaze, not far and wide, / But into earth's eternal dark." When earth beneath him heard the cube, / She very nearly blew a tube. / "You jackass," said she, "what a farce! / I'm dark when covered by your arse! / As soon as you will move the same, I'll shine as with a ge
Adlai: decimation: you can "cold store" an infinite number of addresses in your head as a phrase,but only a finite number of distinct keys
jurov: cold store the seed once and get as many addresses as desired
punkman: and the whole HD wallet thing provides extra targets as well
trinque: if bitcoind were intended to obscure the functioning of the bitcoin algorithm for as long as possible, it would've come out the same way ☟︎
asciilifeform: trinque: 'google' does not, as a matter of routine, push 'redo' button on every key
mod6: Any other Linux OS Testers: Steps will be gathered soon and will be updating as that information becomes available.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the pill against this is for phuctoring to register as ~an event~
jurov: no, i set it to 0/5/3/1 as default
asciilifeform: as of now, their shit not only doesn't stink, but is made of monocrystalline diamond as far as the dean is concerned
asciilifeform: and as i said then, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-04-2015#1085974 ☝︎
asciilifeform: in precisely the same way as a cpu where buffer overflows don't happen
asciilifeform: the heart of the matter is that these things were built by folks who simply did not believe in collapse even as a theoretical possibility.
asciilifeform: american reactors are still, for instance, built in such a way as to be helpless in the face of a total shortage of diesel
mircea_popescu: but yes. the us is not only just as inclined to outright lie as the su was, it's also blessed with the gift of suck in the shape of a purely imbecile population.
asciilifeform: the incentive for vendor to lie about this, is, obviously, there. but on other hand, if it functions as part of a semiconductor, it more or less ~has~ to be radiologically clean!
decimation: as long as you are willing to melt it
mircea_popescu: meanwhile buying a kilogram bar of non radioactive rare earth metal is perfectly feasible as-is.
decimation: I was pointing out that if you are gonna such halfnium from seawater, might as well get some U too
decimation: eh, as long it's just a little bit you'll be okay
decimation: silver is pointless as a monetary metal - too common with too many reserves
BingoBoingo: Seems just as much of a shithole really
cazalla: same mods there as /r/bitcoin BingoBoingo?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: malloc is dumb as ox : either ptr to the 900, or null.
mircea_popescu: if my suspect is true, this very neatly shows openbsd as a superior os.
BingoBoingo: 367892 as well
mircea_popescu: whereas proper bitcoin as released by actual foundation doth in fact always work.
asciilifeform: 'A gloomy ass one morning said / Unto his mate of board and bed: / "I am so dumb, you are so dumb, / Let us seek death together, come!" / As it turned out (and often will), / The two are blithely living still.' (c. morgenstern, engl. transl. of w. arndt)
asciilifeform: as of 20 seconds ago.
mircea_popescu: same as objects, for no good reason.
assbot: Logged on 05-07-2015 15:33:42; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-07-2015#1187470 << what i was saying there bears repeating. if we had a fleet of pogos deployed, they would ~all~ be paperweights now. and for so long as we use the cpp turd, there can be no guarantee of this kind of thing not happening in the future.
decimation: as usual usg claims success early and often
BingoBoingo: Follows same way as in March 2013
punkman: "There is now a pull request to remove mention of "zero or low fees", "fast international payments", and "instant peer-to-peer transactions" from bitcoin.org. For those non-technical users who do not read source code, this may come across as the breaking of the social contract on what Bitcoin is ultimately intended to be."
phf: i misread that as "couch", was not surprised
decimation: I suppose the 'market' will just be what happens naturally as folks shop around for reliable nodes
asciilifeform: except that, as i understand, this is a mechanism where miner is one of the moving parts
mircea_popescu: because, as they say in omaha, "you're smart and i'm right, you'll figure it out"
asciilifeform: so i'm still at a loss as to how to subscribe those that supply the fat.
asciilifeform: as in, folks who paid for the vpn key.
alpalp: i have been drinking as well
ben_vulpes: phf: we're drinking and talking about how to persist data appropriately in cl proggies as we speak
phf: ben_vulpes: your discussion with trinque is apropos. naggum had a technique described in one of his emails, where he would load/unload clos objects' data transparently on demand. i want to experiment with that as far as block index
shinohai: I just don't see this as a stellar idea: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2015/07/31/driveway-raises-10-million-to-track-driving/?utm_campaign=ForbesTech&utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_channel=Technology&linkId=15988103
shinohai: Why yes, that is the one. That means I am not quite as inebriated as I thought.
mircea_popescu: anyway, whole french state can go hang. nobody has any right to be forgotten as long as i fucking live. for any reason under any circumstances in any context.
trinque: that is a question of mine as well, though
mircea_popescu: prolly never as much as set fire to the very boat keeping him afloat a glacier lake or anything