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decimation: peru is going to throw the idiots in peruvian jail
decimation: they went to put a sign on the ground near ancient drawings in a desert, to protest the desecration of climate change, and they descrated the lines in the process
decimation: it's pretty much the same deal as your idiot-'academic'-woman stereotype
thestringpuller: decimation: I thought greenpeace was norwegian.
asciilifeform: (they exist! everyone remembers the 19th c. 'eternal students', who were bequeathed a certain income to live on -while students- by rich family, and so stretched out study for decades - today, it's loan deferment.)
decimation: did we link to the greenpeace idiots in peru?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Concerning number of those
decimation: yeah I buy that
mircea_popescu: pity there's no talented comedienne to mock the type.
mircea_popescu: decimation basically, in the 90s the typical aimless, 30something undergrad was perfectly typified by tom green in roadtrip
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mircea_popescu: ;;google "but i used the juice"
decimation: the women donning disguises in front of the security camera is hilarious
mircea_popescu: does anyone want to actually administer this project ?
assbot: The WELL - the birthplace of the online community movement. ... ( http://bit.ly/1Afq5LX )
PeterL: I think I might have been linked to bitcoin by Reason, back in 2011
mircea_popescu: you know what i'd really go for ? happy thursdays or something, wherein participating bars/coffee shops all over the world give free drinks to people in the b-a wot.
ben_vulpes: some earlyish webby forum thing
mircea_popescu: what's that ?
ben_vulpes: they have their hole, and it's the best, goddamit
ben_vulpes: may as well invite The Well, PeterL
PeterL: Reason does have some good commentors, they would fit in well here
mircea_popescu: "Remember: anything a prog/leftist/SJW accuses others of doing, they always are guilty of themselves. Always. And that's why they can't see the contradiction here. Because the projection is a defense mechanism. They can't see the contradiction without realizing some very nasty truths about themselves."
BingoBoingo: Well, you have to admire the stunningly poor opsec.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck else imagines "nobody likes you" is a valid attack lmao
mircea_popescu: i could have told you itwas women
mircea_popescu: That was the end of the story—until last week, when The College Fix reported that Mahmood's off-campus apartment was vandalized. The four criminals wore hoods and baggy clothing to disguise themselves; less brilliantly, they changed in full view of the apartment complex's security camera. They appear to be women of unclear ages. The video footage is available here.
mircea_popescu: who is this will fellow ?
BingoBoingo: Good for them
PeterL: At my alma mater, the school president tells students to grow up, lets the guy speak anyway
assbot: George Will speech set to go ahead despite protests to Michigan State trustees | MLive.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1AfoHci )
assbot: OpenSXCE 201**4**.05 LiveDVD for Intel/AMD IA32 and AMD64 plus for Sun/Oracle SPARC (from 1995' UltraSPARC_I till 2011' sun4v UltraSPARC T3) ... ( http://bit.ly/1AfnEZS )
assbot: Vandalized: Residence of U-M Student Who Dared to Mock Trigger Warnings - Hit & Run : Reason.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1Afms8N )
BingoBoingo: At the time Artillery was cooler than fighter Jets ever were, or John McCain's shit eating grin would be on signs as far south as Rio
mircea_popescu asks nubbins to make him a sign
asciilifeform: 16th c. trigonometers did not have to beg folks to agree. they were fought over by the chiefs of their time, because artillery.
asciilifeform: point here was that it has immediate engineering applications. like trigonometry.
mircea_popescu: equalitarianism is a pipe dream, whether it calls itself democracy, socialism or anything else. hierarchy is both good and indispensable. this is factually correct, which means it's practically falsifiable and scientifically approacheable.
asciilifeform: i've no idea why he did it. for all i know, 'they' threatened to feed his children to shoggoths if he refrained.
asciilifeform: mr mold realized this, but for reasons of his own he ended up crapping out a centrally-controlled abortion
asciilifeform: the important takeaway from the earlier thread is that 'democracy is mistake, hierarchy is useful concept' is a testable hypothesis with immediate engineering applications.
assbot: wow, that leaked James Bond script looks terrible http://t.co/OuIZAs25A1
BingoBoingo: That is very true.
mircea_popescu: he remembers the end ofwords
BingoBoingo: Cuts ceramic tiles.
mircea_popescu: kinda how civilisation works. life too.
mircea_popescu: if you think about it sculpture is also fantastic waste of marble
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: What was your earlier maybe project that got supplanted, the resistor?
decimation: which is a fantastic waste if you think about it
decimation: most of the modems that are now in use on shortwave are designed to turn the natural broadcast medium into a point-to-point link
mircea_popescu: if i didn't i'll take it anyway.
decimation: actually vint has much to answer for, because of tcp. TCP was a step backwards in networking
asciilifeform: who was it who compared wot to semiconductor? mircea_popescu ?
asciilifeform: because folks who eagerly push the limits of the permissible - will find themselves dealt out of the game.
asciilifeform: the beauty of a wot-enabled net is that you no longer need to think about perverse edge cases quite so much.
decimation: wasn't kakobrekla explaining about the saturated nature of the torrent 'clouds'?
asciilifeform: or, to be more charitable, f-students
mircea_popescu: all thieves!~
asciilifeform: all thieves. ted nelson wrote about it in no uncertain language, in the late '60s.
decimation: absolutely. mr. yarvin linked to a vint cerf lecture where herr cerf was talking about global persistant namespaces
asciilifeform: (to pervert the liberast slogan 'a different world is possible')
asciilifeform: wanted to be sure to hammer in the point.
asciilifeform: perhaps will live to regret.
asciilifeform: decimation: i deliberately oversimplified things here.
decimation: well, it need not be a per-session ephemeral key in that case
asciilifeform: just like to take analysis you gotta pass arithmetic.
mircea_popescu: but for that you need the cardano.
mircea_popescu: isn't fixed sig + nonce equivalent to ephemereal sig ?
asciilifeform: nah, that's what the nonce (see, i left out details i consider profanely obvious) is for
mircea_popescu: replay attacks for one thing come to mind
asciilifeform: i bet mircea_popescu can tell us why ephemeral key is a must
decimation: well, I guess if you didn't have it, you would have to store all of the irrelvant derpage until you could check it
asciilifeform: can anyone tell me why?
decimation: asciilifeform: why bother with the emphemeral key? wouldn't a signed blob (however you do the error coding) be good enough?
mircea_popescu: because the telcos WILL do a mickey mouse or should i say microsoft version of it
mircea_popescu: and i'd kinda like to see this implemented right by sane people this decader
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: how many more bytes would GPG sig add to packet? (i assume binary signatures?)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did just say this.
mircea_popescu: if it doesn't like the sig
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the important part isn't even trhere, the important part is that the machine WONT ROUTE
thestringpuller: that seems like a huge packet though ~_~
asciilifeform: i've deliberately described only a point-to-point link. routing with multiple hops is left as an exercise for the reader!
asciilifeform: to finish the earlier thread: machine on the other end of the link (destination) decides whether to keep packet and attempt payload reassembly based on simple criteria: 1) is it a hello from a wot-blessed (from his pov) key 2) is it signed by an ephemeral key from one such 'hello' received recently.
decimation: I managed to get that pci card with the onboard ocxo working with a slightly custom ntp driver
decimation: I've actually spent some time reading the ntp source code
asciilifeform: set to serve up ntp for no particular reason.
asciilifeform: decimation: nope. iirc, it mostly uses misconfigured tv boxes
decimation: re: ntp amplification << the thing is, ntp tends to run on actual servers people might care about, so they might respond to notices
decimation: "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense"
BingoBoingo: * mircea_popescu shudders, thinks of bunnies << This is how Qntra's taking over reddit.
decimation: asciilifeform: did you see that david mackay book I recommended? He has a chapter on fountain codes
asciilifeform: at any rate, tiny packets plus fountain code plus each one is signed, will work great with transmission media other than internet (say, shortwave)
mircea_popescu shudders, thinks of bunnies
mircea_popescu: all this shit is starting to come back to me
mircea_popescu: o that
asciilifeform: max. 576 is max that won't fragment.
mircea_popescu: wqasn't the actuyal max 64kb anyway ?
asciilifeform: but if working with existing planet, have to swallow some very basic dirt like udp.
asciilifeform: fucking magic numbers << mircea_popescu wants to buy everyone on the planet a new nic and lay own oceanic fibers, launch own satellites, etc. ? sure, why not.
asciilifeform: what follows is the payload, divided into K gibblets, each below udp mtu in size, each signed with ephemeral key. the gibblets are coded using fountain code (e.g. 'raptor') and you need N of K - in any order - to reassemble. ☟︎