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mircea_popescu: i hope it's in the shape of
a T overimposed over
a W. because obviously.
shinohai:
http://archive.is/W1aIA "the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) has launched
a logo to reassure readers that they are being protected from fake news."
ben_vulpes: true also in communistan, visceral fear of large things in rearview apparently universal. i grew up driving
a "suburban", aka "urban assault vehicle"; know full well joys of operating twuk
trinque: y'know at least when you drive
a tank around they get out of the way.
mircea_popescu: condoleances, yes. and how do you petition an authority ? you present
a list of ... ?
trinque: nah, I started up
a thing, feeds me to this day
trinque: mostly though, was dumping it into
a knob to adjust time spent in saeculum
mircea_popescu: trinque part of the problem is that fellow is ~hurt puppy, has
a lot of misadventurous baggage / unfortunate experience.
mircea_popescu: that opens
a legitimate inquiry of, well, what didja do with the time.
mircea_popescu: it only becomes
a problem when the argument presented is "i didn't have the time to do x"
mircea_popescu: in general it dun give
a very convincing picture of alf-starving-under-bridge.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're cutting bits and pieces of
a thing then hurting self with them as
a proof the item was dangerous. item wasn't dangerous as it was, you cut it up into harmful pieces deliberately!
a111: Logged on 2017-12-05 14:42 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so for my own curiosity : considering the choice to
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-12#1655064 (i recall
a more recent mention but search isn't yielding) has cost you over the past YEAR the equivalent of what appears like 118`337 here + whatever the non-delivery of
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-27#1591437 would have amounted to (iirc no amt was ever set down ?), are you putting this down to
a case of bad managem
trinque: went very well, thanks! went out to austin with ben_vulpes and another fellow, had
a fine time.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-05 15:04 mircea_popescu: anyway, re the "and then in the end to take s.nsa crypto lib and use for phree anyway" portion of
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-05#1746522 : that discussion was mid and then late 2016 ; on dec 2017 i had to direct s.mg tech to CREATE rather than simply use
a cripto lib. for this reason i don't wish to pay nsa anything -- it didn't do the work i wanted it to do. it's true that it released
a "intangibles and goodwill" sort of
mircea_popescu: item, which is generically useful, and in exchange it gets paid with the exact sort of intangibles and goodwill these sorts of intellectual leadership moves warrant and generally attract -- for example by s.mg being married to 100% of its product line to date as
a deliberate move ; and being very inclined to consider its isp offering when that comes online (is it coming online btw ?) and such things.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-05 14:17 asciilifeform: as for asciilifeform , he would actually prefer if mircea_popescu shot straight and said 'hell no i won't pay for no stinkin' software', rather than the peculiar ritual of having
a contest, then to proclaim the submitters as
a whole 'self-indulgent indolent' and then in the end to take s.nsa crypto lib and use for phree anyway
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the "and then in the end to take s.nsa crypto lib and use for phree anyway" portion of
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-05#1746522 : that discussion was mid and then late 2016 ; on dec 2017 i had to direct s.mg tech to CREATE rather than simply use
a cripto lib. for this reason i don't wish to pay nsa anything -- it didn't do the work i wanted it to do. it's true that it released
a "intangibles and goodwill" sort of
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: i'm guessing six digits is
a large enough chunk of change it'd warrant some quite serious examination in any case.
mircea_popescu: ent of your own time on your part (ie, wasted it in fiatlands instead of using it productively in the republic) ? or is it
a case of on the contrary, judicious use of your time ("the republic'd have made me rich but empire made me richer still") ? or is it out and out, deliberately learned helplessness in the vein of
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-29#1744043 (as recurrent throughout logs) ?
☝︎ mircea_popescu: yes ; but can you appreciate how ffa is
a lot more apt for tmsr-rsa than for
a simm cipher ?
mircea_popescu: but the man who decides to pursue pure research and is annoyed that industry meanwhile makes money is in
a very strange mental space.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but this outlook is
a luxury, the prime luxury of life, in fact
mircea_popescu: not that i'm particularly concerned, myself. i'm rich enough to not specifically care to monetize work ; trilema can be free for all i care, and i'm more than happy to minor partner with
a view to
a very long term.
mircea_popescu: well, you enjoy the freedom to work under your own direction, and
a major proportion of all the gains this work produces.
mircea_popescu: the deeper problem here is that the evolution of warfare has rendered
a symmetric cipher useless. for the launch codes or how you call it we're mostly in consensus to use pure rsa, if memory serves, and for the prattle of eg game server, serpent will do.
mircea_popescu: the implication isn't "but instead sat" necessarily. you take this altogether very personally, but there's
a good dozen "crypto experts" opining importantly in the comment section there.
mircea_popescu: actually it was written with
a view to having the bounty paid to nsa. it's just nsa had to actually do some things.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the point re "it's unfortunate that open ended terms, such as one's own life, and other things, end up quite closed termed in the end" is sound. yes it's quite unfortunate, and rather regrettable. nevertheless, it's how it goes ; if i knew better in feb 2016 i'd have said "this'll be open for
a coupla years". as it happens, i didn't know any better in 2016.
mircea_popescu: or, to state it conversely, waiting copulation upon the perfect erection will result in
a very old virgin bride, AT THE MOST. generally it will result in divorce.
mircea_popescu: otherwise the result is that you leave it unsignalled for
a coupla years and it dies out.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-19 16:35 asciilifeform: to which i bolted
a cramer-shoup thing, and started out thinking 'i'll reuse the elgamal piece, c-s is after all
a variant of elgamal' but nooooo
mircea_popescu: going to construct
a v tree (on the basis of her sig) that builds into eulora crypto lib.
mircea_popescu: there's
a difference between socializing (which yes, is the free exchange of valuable bits of knowledge / information) and work (which is the DIRECTED etc)
mircea_popescu: however. if i don't have
a neck to squeeze when something blows up no work was in fact done. that's the writing/reading distinction, code is enacted by reading, in the speciffic v sense of the term.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-18 15:35 asciilifeform: fwiw there is
a quite short ada serpent existing, passes the test set ( and branch-free ).
mircea_popescu: it is actually possibru she's going to use
a signed item by you ? though i dun recall this being mentioned
mircea_popescu: there's
a whole train of "here's some efortless stuff" in there, if you've noticed, "x could be used [but i shall do no work]".
mircea_popescu: i put
a comment in ; seared with hot irons, and hopefully alongside the indolence and self-indulgent idiocy of all days to come.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-18 15:19 mircea_popescu: in other items of republican interest : eulora is at
a stage where we have to set down what we'll use for sensitive data encryption (such as for instance the privkey files). i don't particularily wish to use aes ; anyone wants to contribute to this emerging spec ?
phf: there was
a hairy bug in search, that didn't consider all the possibilities. though now there's
a highlighting issue..
phf: !#s learned
a chinese
mats: oh, thought it was
a cock ring
phf: yeah, i think that's
a bug unrelated to moon language
mircea_popescu: i don't really think it's much of an issue altogether, except for the part where it fails to find
a line for ascii search.
mircea_popescu: aaaah. the bit is
a chinese version of that romanian curse the french speaking chick learned phonetically for her role in occident.
phf: it's fundamentally two different approaches, bvulpes's thing relies on
a lot of pre-written code that comes with postgresql, mine, for better or for worse, is custom written. the approach that postgresql uses is much more elaborate than what i'm doing. (for example they have explicit lexing phase both for search and for indexing, that takes care of language specific break up of sentences)
a111: Logged on 2017-12-04 19:37 mircea_popescu: totally would love
a substitute.
phf: mircea_popescu: i'll investigate
a bit the specific mechanics of failure in this case, but there are certain situations where unicode search doesn't necessarily work
a111: Logged on 2016-12-11 16:18 mircea_popescu: in other news, today i learned
a chinese! it goes like so : 和我一起，那是你的婊子掴你进监狱，并与所有的民族疯人院
phf: it takes about 12 seconds to walk the log for all the messages containing "
http" and then narrow it down with
a somewhat hairy regex that i found somewhere some time ago