asciilifeform: afaik boeing's passenger craft division is the last major usgdom holdout where still used
asciilifeform: Mocky: funnily enuff, it was resisted ( by lockheed et al, the whole golden toilet 'industry' ) from ~day1, and is pretty much dead in usgdom ( with respect to new contracts ) , the brass began to succumb to 'use cpp + massmarket programmertards + these-here-fancy-auditing-toolz-that-totally-work-we-promise in 1990 or so)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i seem to recall there was somebody who bought a few units and tried to resell with some name of his own making ( pete_dushenski ? ) and didn't seem to help him. so magic is not only in the name, it seems
asciilifeform: the film imho was notbad, and then she even showed up here and said ~nothing substantial, and then fell again through the floor
asciilifeform: incidentally whatever happened to that chix.
asciilifeform: i dun recall the string being in 'alfred' tho
asciilifeform: iirc the convo was approx : asciilifeform : it's ready, nao what should we call it mircea_popescu : how about FUCKGOATS asciilifeform : loox good, let's
asciilifeform: and a bunch moar, with small variations on the theme.
asciilifeform: turns out , there are several of these , already in db
asciilifeform: e.g. 'We don't need another slow, secure hash function' , 'no compelling advantage ', 'I don't feel that solving length-extension is a sufficiently pressing concern that we should all invest in SHA-3 now, rather than a hash function that hopefully comes with more advantages' , etc
asciilifeform: ( typical example : Supermicro SC216A-R900UB )
asciilifeform: was looking at '24 2.5" disks in 2U' chassis, for potentially 'tru ssd via usb3-to-sata cords' variant of rockchiptron; but seems as if all, without exception, such items ever made, feature 'sas expander', where all 24 hang off 1 plug. which is great for pc but completely destroys my notion.
asciilifeform: ( did it have hardwired exemptions for google's ip range , or wat )
asciilifeform: hm was it ? will have to take a look, how this worked
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: could, but then also would lose the lulz where sad-rsa victims see their name in google outputs
asciilifeform: if other folx have thought re subj -- plox to write in.☟︎
asciilifeform: thought in asciilifeform's mind was, it's a quite expensive item, and got to at least gedankenexperiment re offsetting some of its cost.
asciilifeform: picture, for instance, the poor mikrotik boxes , for which no fewer than 3 remote-root orifices were published in recent yrs (~on top~ of their phuctoring)
asciilifeform: i'd be surprised if there were any popsicles left to pinch
asciilifeform: but currently not clear to asciilifeform whether 'game is worth the candles'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for thread-completeness, my other notions in re 'for subscribers of phuctor' were , in no particular order : earlier access to new pops (after queue is ready, conceivably give subscribers day, week, etc head start ) ; ability to download generated ~privkeys~ for Fully Phuctored mods , in various formats ; full-text search ; built-in converters ( your item, but it is on the for-everybody conveyor for a while nao )
asciilifeform: mod6: lel, iirc mircea_popescu was in his 6+-piece, but i suspect that his is refrigerated, like cosmonaut's
asciilifeform: lol it was moar like a reasonable simulacrum of a crowded subway train, with 'club' lights and a few ceremonial fixtures largely for show..
asciilifeform: mod6: right, yes! for part of the time , there was
asciilifeform: i was thinking that ideally it'd be something that cannot be supplied by anybody who isn't actually running whole thing (i.e. anyone not us)
asciilifeform: rright but even nao people can add these, i posted converter ( and jurov earlier posted )
asciilifeform could not, aside from , possibly, full-text search, but nfi who would buy subscription merely for it
asciilifeform: while we're on subj : mircea_popescu can you think of anything that would conceivably make sense in a 'private api' for paid subscribers, in phuctor ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: indeed they do, it's how the ddosproofing thing works.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nfs ? they dun write html for you or anything of the kind, it's simply an ultraminimal hoster thing (somewhere between vps and plain unixhosting , hard to classify into 1 of the traditional categories)
asciilifeform: the interesting bit is that he could not have used stock gpg ( which won't crank out anything bigger than 8kbit )
asciilifeform: this should make the displayed results 100% free of wtf.
asciilifeform: aaalso about to do a primality walk, where (ditto from corner case) a prime p is known where m/p is a prime q but q was not registered.☟︎
asciilifeform: ^ from 2018 ! ( asciilifeform very recently fixed the corner case in bernstein which permitted this kind of thing )
asciilifeform: achtung phuctor readers! about to remove 676 spurious factors ( they equal their moduli, and are factors of no others) from the db; these crept in in late 2016☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: elaborate re what's wrong with normal btc ( you can sell it now, or later, or convert to whatever suits you )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo struck asciilifeform as a sensible fella, who won't blow whole wad on the proverbial h&b. more like , wants to maybe go on shore leave some day; and not to be 1 broken leg or frivolous charges filed by city hall (like they did to him in usa) away from penury
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: guess ?! 'which of 1500 users , hey let me throw a dart ' ? lol
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i have a jar of clear and nonexothermic potting epoxy right here. unfortunately it probably would not make it through airport
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: let's for sake of argument ignore other problems than 'whole box craps out' (i.e. particular users being hosed, by unknown party, with no recourse ) . how to determine which customer is culprit ?
asciilifeform: if ben_vulpes or anybody else can think of a better pill -- asciilifeform is all ears.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: this is the reason why i even built the rc pilot cluster; because it is a (laborious, and expensive, but genuine) solution to $problem
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform for instance has a rough draft of an adatronic ftpd . but this is not production-ready )
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it is possible to set up ftp properly .
asciilifeform: in the current scheme, you dun even need privescs to cause headaches for people, users can connect to each other's sql db listeners etc
