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mircea_popescu: improvements don't have
to be absolute solutions
to be useful.
they just have
to be absolute improvements.
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, we have a much shittier version currently,
mircea_popescu: artifexd nothing prevents
the
thing
to be further upgraded later on.
artifexd: It is also possible
that my own ignorance is complicating
the design.
artifexd: Fountain codes, insomuch as I don't understand
them, complicate
the design. Padding
the
the structure
that gets encrypted doesn't.
mircea_popescu: should be obvious
that model does not work. it doesn't, specifically because it caters
to
the idiocy it proposes very flimsily
to be "against".
mircea_popescu: on a more practical angle, you will note
that
the various entities relying on "secrecy" are in jail, from
the pirate robets
to
the shrem dude. even "thanking
the judge for a justice well done".
mircea_popescu: no, i shan't live by any entities' permission.
the state will live by my permission, or go down in a hail of bullets and flame
thrower exhaust.
mircea_popescu: if
the state controls
the field of identity it doesn't need much more.
mircea_popescu: let
the derps analyze it until
they fall over.
this retreat of person
to "anonymity" is exactly
the wrong strategic moves.
mircea_popescu: artifexd more's
the point, i don't specifically give a shit about "analysis"
artifexd: Right. But "once a second" is in
the first draft of
the rfc.
artifexd: As far as
traffic analysis goes, as long as all of
the
transmissions are opaque noise (because
they are encrypted) and are of constant size, analysis is impossible.
artifexd: Boxes
that sit in front of
the server
that establishes connections and only passes on
the connected ones can be bought of
the shelf, right?
artifexd: TCP does offer advantages. Not having
to reinvent/reimplement
transmission reliability/ordering is not a minor
thing.
mircea_popescu: ideally we keep away from any really dumb ideas
that'd prevent moving away from
the current situation
artifexd: Is "can be
transmitted via carrier pigeon" really a priority for
this project?
artifexd: I fear
that
the more complicated
the math,
the more likely I am
to screw it up.
kakobrekla: >As you well observe,
this
thing is in fact Bitcoin without
the shared public ledger (kept instead as a virtual private ledger by each node).
mircea_popescu: reading
the comments,
this new ircd
thing is actually fucking exciting.
mircea_popescu: (possibly
the first in
the
trend of white
trash "do-ologists", something
that's apparently coming en vogue what with all
the couch surfing entrepreneurs)
mircea_popescu: such as, in medieval
times punishment lists were put out in
the marketplace.
mircea_popescu: i
thought about it for a while, but fundamentally, wot has a lot of
trouble existing independent of
the forum.
mircea_popescu: arguably ircd isn't really any of
these, but going by intent rather
than practice.
mircea_popescu: artifexd it's supposed
to replace ircd as a secure, fast and reliable means
to communicate directly with others.
artifexd: mircea_popescu: Do you envision
the ircd project have
the end goal of replacing
the freenode #b-a channel or is it only supposed
to be a way for one individual
to communicate with another individual?
mircea_popescu: it's akin
to saying
that
there's child porn in
the blockchain. yes, of course
there is.
mircea_popescu: they can sort-of push
the levers,
they can send over diddled code
to whatever "specialists" never
to be heard from again,
mircea_popescu: i don't expect "the freenode folks" have
technically very much at
their disposal.
this is
the
thing, frozen since
the days lilo walked
the earth.
kakobrekla: prolly same dude
that is pestering
trilema/qntra
these days.
mircea_popescu: anyway, go read
the log, come back in half year or
thereabouts.
muh_buttcoins: Do you guys
think
the Bitstamp owners stole
the coins and made up
the hacked story?
BingoBoingo: hanbot: Is
that a comment or a article submission?
BingoBoingo: Ah, in
that case prolly no more
than 97-95 percent so you don't starve or go homeless. Prolly keep
the number lower
than
that
though. Diversify get apartments in different cities around
the world, ya know.
muh_buttcoins: what % of your net wealth do you
think is a good amount
to invest in bitcoin
mircea_popescu: "Saudi Arabia shipped 54 percent of its crude oil exports
to Asia in 2013, with another 17 percent
to
the United States, according
to Saudi Aramco's annual report. It shipped just 5.4 percent
to Europe and 6.7 percent
to
the Mediterranean. In
total, crude exports ran at 6.8 million bpd."