log☇︎
50000+ entries in 0.353s
asciilifeform: anything short of that, is a waste of time.
asciilifeform: a serious sw relay is not physically small, cannot hide in a tree or similar.
apeloyee: if you can't even plant a relay somewhere nearby
apeloyee: be a true вредитель and sabotage the spy device's uplink. they need a phat one.
asciilifeform: ideally said movement would consist of large number of geographically-dispersed stations, taking turns in a sequence not known to the enemy.
apeloyee: but also hard to hear you over all that noise. hence my "there's a fixed number of bits you can transmit before detection, assuming given ratio of intended recipient capabilities to enemy capabilities"
asciilifeform: a block of flats, full of led bulbs, quite possible is the electrical equiv of a 10watt sw station
asciilifeform: also i suspect that 'avoid gestapo' is a very small superset of the much harder 'physically undetectable'. for example, if you pirate on an already unusably-polluted band, you would probably never Have Problems for so long as you are not distinguishable from the usual polluters ( e.g. led light bulbs and other filth )
asciilifeform: hypothetically. problem is to make a balloon stay up for any reasonable length of time, and not loudly show up on radars wherever it goes
asciilifeform: naturally enemy who gets a hold of your receiver, or whatever secret param, can detect.
apeloyee: to a reasonable value, but there's probably no escape from "keep moving" ☟︎
asciilifeform: nope, but purely physical invisibilities are a-ok. as radio per se is invisible to savages who never heard of radio.
asciilifeform: ( iirc mircea_popescu has a 800kW diesel ) ☟︎
apeloyee: and where you get 100kW on a moving object ☟︎
asciilifeform: submariners reportedly live with a bit or so per sec.
asciilifeform: even if it's a bit per hour
asciilifeform: so long as i can force the 2 ends of the line, to differ in such a way as to carry information
apeloyee: Do you have any data as to how distinguishable defective motors are? e.g. it's probably an impulse filtered with a min-phase filter. whereas fake motor probably won't be.
asciilifeform: theoretically a positional modulator with a long enough span, could cover entire planet, with a few watt.
asciilifeform: reason is so that each station can be physically indistinguishable, from outside the door, from, e.g., a defective lift motor that arcs a bit ☟︎
apeloyee: didn't you describe a scheme for 1 transmitter? in each time interval, pick many cryptographically pseudo-random orthogonal waveforms, calculate a weighted sum, transmit. the weights encode information. can split into many transmitters in various places.
asciilifeform: 2 is the bare minimum for a working ( again conjectured, whether it could work ) item.
apeloyee: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-04#1733014 << this immediately smells like a magical voodoo invisibility potion ☝︎
asciilifeform: and i am willing to make an effort and stretch muscles to expand my definition of 'obviously correct', but to a point.
asciilifeform: i for one dun particularly care if keygenning takes a few hours.
asciilifeform: it's a fat pile of complexity, for a measely, what, 90% optimization.
apeloyee: It's a method to generate a muber not divisible by small primes. Might be still divisible by large ones.
apeloyee: how does it make bank from the captcha ? << it's just a proof of work. it's not unknown for sci-hub to ban etire countries also.
apeloyee: ......p_n are independent and uniformly distributed, then the probability of tuple of these being chosen is the same (by definition of independence), and because CRT gives a bijection, all outputs are equally likely. did I repeat myself enough? ☟︎
apeloyee: ...then, by the CRT, there exists a bijection between all numbers in range [0, primorial-1] not divisible by any primes in the primorial, and the tuples of nonzero remainders from division by the primes. "numbers in range [0, primorial-1] not divisible by any primes in the primorial", obviously, includes all primes in said range (except those in the primorial). if the remainders mod 2, 3,...
a111: Logged on 2017-10-07 21:48 apeloyee: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-05#1721485 << alternatively, can *construct* numbers which don't have very small factors. pick a nonzero remainder mod 2, mod 3, ... mod largest-prime-fit-in-your-primorial and find what number of primorial is congruent to it using chinese remainder theorem
apeloyee: so to recap, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-07#1722402 generates numbers in range [0, primorial-1]; it may yield a composite, but all outputs are equally likely, and all primes bigger than largest_prime_in_primorial and less than the primorial. Proof: since asciilifeform has admitted to believing in the statement of the Chinese Remainder Theorem (http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-07#1733392 ),... ☝︎☝︎
asciilifeform: unrelatedly, scihub seems to finally have broken, i get 11 'captchas' in a row, gave up
asciilifeform: ( exercise for n00bz : show that there is ALWAYS a prime between n and 2n, for n > 1. )
asciilifeform: incidentally it can probably be shown that you don't have to throw out ALL of the bits in a candidate R, when it is not found to be prime, and still not leak anything
asciilifeform: i am probably doomed to make a pci version, because of this, at some point. but so far not urgent itch.
asciilifeform: ( many folx have half a dozen, or more )
asciilifeform: folx who are in a hurry, can parallelize.
apeloyee: "pick random" will usually yield a composite, which must then be filtered out.
asciilifeform: and since i built the rng, i can also be quite certain that there is not such a prime that it will forever avoid generating.
asciilifeform: i want a method, as stated above, where inputs map one-to-one and onto, the primes , up to the register width.
apeloyee: plox to qualify. you want a method to generate Nth prime, but accept the "pick random number until prime" , despite in not being the Nth prime generator, but no other methods?
asciilifeform: but as i currently understand, my q reduces to 'find The Formula For Primes' (tm)(r), a millenium-long headache for mathematical folx , to this day unsolved. ☟︎
asciilifeform: if apeloyee knows a proof for this, i'll read
asciilifeform: to have a satisfactory constructor, it would have to be shown to reduce to this and exactly this.
asciilifeform: i.e. a 1:1 pipe from random ints to large primes.
asciilifeform: apeloyee: propose a hypothetical how ?
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 14:34 a111: Logged on 2017-10-07 21:48 apeloyee: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-05#1721485 << alternatively, can *construct* numbers which don't have very small factors. pick a nonzero remainder mod 2, mod 3, ... mod largest-prime-fit-in-your-primorial and find what number of primorial is congruent to it using chinese remainder theorem
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 14:34 a111: Logged on 2017-10-07 21:48 apeloyee: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-05#1721485 << alternatively, can *construct* numbers which don't have very small factors. pick a nonzero remainder mod 2, mod 3, ... mod largest-prime-fit-in-your-primorial and find what number of primorial is congruent to it using chinese remainder theorem
asciilifeform: but mircea_popescu's original point was correct, you do NOT want a small d -- but neither you want a small e, or obviously n, or ANYTHING small
a111: Logged on 2017-10-08 00:16 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-07#1722402 << this is a fundamentally wrong way to generate cryptographic primes. we had a thread about it, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-14#1697562
asciilifeform: 'This could even be a deliberate weakness with plausible deniability: "Oh, sorry, nobody warned us that 2 mod 11 was okay and 10 mod 11 wasn't."'
a111: Logged on 2017-10-07 21:48 apeloyee: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-05#1721485 << alternatively, can *construct* numbers which don't have very small factors. pick a nonzero remainder mod 2, mod 3, ... mod largest-prime-fit-in-your-primorial and find what number of primorial is congruent to it using chinese remainder theorem ☟︎☟︎
shinohai: You may remember Vitalik from other great books such as "How to run a quantum computing scam to raise capital for a crypto scam" and "Dress like a furfag and cook your own meth!"
mircea_popescu: just a flesh wound.
mircea_popescu: multi sig was such a brilliant itdea.
davout: or maybe they'll grow used to having Ctrl+Z as a thing
davout: buttfinex also has such a market with roughly the same volume figures
ben_vulpes: was shitty for a bit there
diana_coman: hmm, I suppose I could run a trial test on a batch of generated public exponents with co-prime rather than strict prime requirements, to see what small factors are there but not sure if this will say a lot really in itself; fwiw I don't feel particularly comfortable with the idea of a non-prime public exponent but I don't have mathematical proof for weakness introduced, hence my question
shinohai rushes to set up "betterbeastforum.com" and offer unlimited messaging and access for 5 bux a month .....
mircea_popescu: turns out it's not the brightest idea to deny people access to the body of a message if you're gonna send that subject line via email.
mircea_popescu: shinohai part 2 of the lulz is that the userbase is now revolting. "Well screw that then. This website is a big hoax."
mircea_popescu: idjits don't know when to open fire, keep waiting for "a better day".
mircea_popescu: hey, the saudis have a lot of paper moneyz.
asciilifeform: they can have a 1938 if they feel like, wainot
shinohai: I'm just happy to know mircea_popescu isn't building a new kind of stable.
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/how-the-beastforumcom-private-messaging-function-became-a-paid-user-only-item/ << Trilema - How the beastforum.com private messaging function became a paid-user-only item ☟︎
asciilifeform: interest-bearing konsoomer accts are mostly a nostalgic memory in natoschwitz.
ben_vulpes: a zillionth of a percent in interest if we don't sieze everything on a whim
ben_vulpes: lookie, usg agents teaching the world that depositing into their banks is a fucking terrible deal
davout: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-06#1733218 <<< "The IRS wouldn’t comment on Kwon’s specific case, but a spokesman noted that he pleaded guilty to the structuring charge." ☝︎
asciilifeform: iirc somebody had a defang patch for it
trinque: soon as you want a chromium browser you're gonna get it
TomServo: Being rid of systemd isn't so hard.. but dbus is quite a bitch.
TomServo: Ah, bit more than I can chew, trying to fashion your crapolade masks into a workable Gentoo laptop.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-06 12:55 mircea_popescu: well, we're looking to hire a local.
shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-06#1733204 Got you a native packed and ready to go: http://btcinfo.sdf.org/uploads/chinagirl.webm ☝︎☟︎
ben_vulpes: unrelatedly, read "incremental approach to compiler construction" recently; reads like a "make you a scheme for great good" for von neumann fans
asciilifeform: and on top is this, there is ~state~ level copy of same apparatus. e.g. in asciilifeform's local moneychangery, there is a placard, hanging in plain sight , re 'to cachiers: you MUST report all tx of 2k or larger, even if customer was regular for decades, by order of maryland something-or-other commission'
mircea_popescu: "not breaking the law is a crime!"
mircea_popescu: spend the usual 200 hours/week connected to irc and doing whatever clerical tasks provided. must be native chinese speaker with a reasonable command of english, she's not expected to take calls or anything in it. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: well, we're looking to hire a local. ☟︎
RagnarDanneskjol: MP - I tried to follow the 'girl worker at a desk in Beijing' conversation, but not quite clear on the requirement there - anything I can do to help? I know lots of ppl in BJ and will be there for work next week.
shinohai: I shall have to purchase a pin meter and hire the services of 10-20 women to test this hypothesis .....
mircea_popescu: i can't say i've had the experience. but... sounds like they're trying to overperform to impress ? not a bad trait it itself.
RagnarDanneskjol: I am totally with you on "where is it written" Fuckin A, these Cali chicks always trying to prove something in the sac. I'm having the same conversation all the time - 'where is it written that you have to grind my dick off like a jackhammer before you even start to get wet?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo item is markedly better in that it contains factual details ; still not great in that the details there present are disorganised, not evidently sorted into a complete tree with branches clipped by an obvious importance criteria and so on.
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/11/05/iqaluit-nunavut-an-isolated-colonial-outpost-of-a-somewhat-less-isolated-colonial-outpost-of-the-pockmarked-empire/ << Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - Iqaluit, Nunavut: An isolated colonial outpost of a somewhat less isolated colonial outpost of the pockmarked Empire.
BingoBoingo: Yes, Brazilian DC very hungry for business. The why of their hunger is a portion of the reason I have been getting practice patching drywall these past two weeks.
mircea_popescu: that is a salient point.
BingoBoingo: Hopefully that is the route fellipelali's contacts will lead, but substantial due diligence required. A lot of pre-regd corps in Brazil are loaded with debt.
BingoBoingo: Panama also getting second deeper comb. First pass on Panama showed a lot of equinix
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo srsly, takes months to reg a corp in brazil ?!
BingoBoingo: In further digging looking at public undersea cable maps, Montevideo is apparently a popular destination for "disaster recovery" infrastructure.
BingoBoingo: The cost of doing anything in Brazil without already being established in a Mercosur jurisdiction also keeps adding up.
BingoBoingo: It's still there, but they timeline to make a business there is months out so I am still slutting it up and looking for faster sexier prospects where something might be able to turn on by Thanksgiving
BingoBoingo: Peru's a no go. Only independent "datacenters" advertising as such there aren't in the colo business. They are in the Pinoy spam for Espanol speakers business
mircea_popescu: and in other presentation suggestions, homemade pate on homemade bread with chilera de jalapenos and/or pickles. followed by a nice cigar with a rum.
asciilifeform: imho it is a quite obvious idea. but the above is the closest asciilifeform found to any record of it having been attempted.