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mircea_popescu: the typical botnet is what, a bunch of fridges sending ntp requests ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: though i've yet to see a good botnet.
sina: so basically it's just a pay to play botnet?
mircea_popescu: gotta put a price tag on this whole "we're too lazy to do security"
sina: so what's wrong with candi_lustt for this role? it just needs a billing thingo?
mircea_popescu: there's a management/pricing segment too
sina: mircea_popescu: when the people I know first wrote ZeroVM it was like 2012 or so, and at the time I was working at a startup you may recall that. and I told everyone we shoudl get involved, was ignored, then ZeroVM got "acquihired" by Rackspace
mircea_popescu: seems like you found a new home!
sina: I rant about it to my boss at least once a week
sina: you've probably heard of Amazon S3, it's an object store with REST API, so it responds to primitives GET/HEAD/PUT/DELETE/POST ...there is an equivalent open source project part of OpenStack called Swift. some people I know worked on a sandbox that only accepts input on stdin and writes to stdout, and wrotesome middleware for swift so you can for example upload a datset and compute on it and get the result
mircea_popescu: that is a fine example. or, you know, calculate the mpfhf over the gutenberg collection.
sina: so people could sell CPU cycles, in a pretty hard sandbox, that only offered those 3 syscalls
sina: it's a linux kernel feature you can use to limit which syscalls a program has access to...the original version of seccomp allowed only read()/write()/exit() syscalls ☟︎
mircea_popescu: nah. candi_lustt is a by hand, limited implementation of something that could be deemed uci in the sense of the donkey-powered shower.
sina: so can you untangle these for me as I'm a little confused
mircea_popescu: well, basically a bunch of people (ideally) will write ai bots, and solmeone will have to run their tournament.
mircea_popescu: obviously not. just, you realise, it's a republican artefact, "1st pcap of an early gossipd attempt"
sina: mircea_popescu: FYI that is a bunch of send and recv from 2 peers, (1 on port 5555, other on port 5556) on the same network interface (127.0.0.1) ...it's not a single "session"
sina: mircea_popescu: what do you want to see ideally? just a lisp repl with irc interface?
sina: today is Fri here, bout to return to work in a few days, so free time will be curtailed
a111: Logged on 2017-06-28 02:15 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-28#1675565 << the problem with the concept of a "session" is that it attempts to link machine state to world state. this is a very tenuous proposition, and the fundamental reason why sessionificatyion of (the correctly designed) stateless http protocol failed for 30 years straight and will continue to fail forever.
mircea_popescu: got some other stuff going right now, so not a good time, but tomorrow or such ?
mircea_popescu: i got a RECV: empty line
sina: sorry the UX bit of it is still a tad clunky
sina: so youcan add me as a peer with: gossipc --add-peer --name sina --host 127.0.0.1 --port 5556
sina: ah interesting I actually had a similar idea after reading abotu the ai stuff
ben_vulpes: tangentially relatedly, i've been working from a cheapo ssd in this ancient once-gaming-rig i got for a song and holy shit does it kick the ass off the ssds in macbooks
mircea_popescu: so, sina , shall we give this gossipd of yours a go ?
mircea_popescu: phf next you're going to come up with shade a la "the only reason it's fabulous is cuz it's ghey" and then ima get my disbaseball bat
a111: Logged on 2017-06-10 04:08 sina: or is this a spec bug
mircea_popescu: anyway -- thanks to the werkz we are now in a better position to find out if this thing even works.
phf: apparently it's called a "dis", african americans invented it in the 40s
sina: it was a pleasure to work on!
mircea_popescu: this has been such a pleasant little gem. thanks!
mircea_popescu: if no more changes, shit left to do re mpfhf : a) do some proper profiling work, with timings etc. could make a great blog article. b) try and break it, like any hash. could make a bnunch of great blog articles (tried this, so and so, didn't work -- can do this 500 times).
mircea_popescu: to wrap head. and such a wide palette ~impossible for anyone to not find a language he speaks.
sina: but only a suggestion
sina: yah, I just remember when implementing it I had to write out that sentence on notepad as A and B to wrap my head
sina: mircea_popescu: suggestion. "A third operation is the flipping of a number of bits in either S or R," should read "elements A or B" and make that operation generic
sina: missing a / http://github.com/sinner-mpfhf-golang
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2017/towards-a-better-hash-function/ < rfc
ben_vulpes: but yeah i caught that i got a new caftan! neato!
mircea_popescu: almost like a cult.
ben_vulpes: "you don't have a website?! linking to github?!"
a111: Logged on 2017-06-12 04:19 ben_vulpes: sina: sensible thing to do is make a genesis of your shit, stand up an mp-wp and post it on your blog
mircea_popescu: cuz it's a) work and b) unexpected
ben_vulpes: sina: why the resistance to making a website?
mircea_popescu: no. i am asking what exactly must be your thought process to give away your work to a bunch of usg tarded spammers so they can then turn around and sell it.
sina: mircea_popescu: are you asking if that is the only place it exists other than my HDD? a: no
mircea_popescu: will i have been made a sucker for your sake then ?
mircea_popescu: sina suppose, for the sake of entirely idle argument going over things that could never happen irl, that in a week github comes up with a "code of conduct" and you get booted off it.
mircea_popescu: it's what it is : a subdomain off a domain in a space run by fucktards who figure hey, "if this is all we sell it'll count"
sina: too bad sina.com is a giant chinese search engine!
mircea_popescu: well so then reg a domain and use that.
sina: wtf is wrong with me for not owning id.au? or for having a .id.au domain?
mircea_popescu: sina what do i ref you as ? got a blog or anything ?
mircea_popescu: aite gimme a minute here ima write a final-drafrt
sina: and I do remember a logline from asciilifeform "written in python because if I didn't then it wouldn't exist" or along those lines
asciilifeform: we have a winner
asciilifeform: take a guess
mod6: sina: aside from alfs previous assertions; do you not want a primary key field set in the messages or keys table?
asciilifeform: and whoever insinuates otherwise, is not a friend
mircea_popescu: quite a not inconsequential value.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 12:08 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-29#1633699 << it is a notbad library to study (no external deps!) -- but it DOES use heap.
sina: asciilifeform: wondering if you took a look at my revised gossipthing by any chance?
mircea_popescu: a look who's here
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6: betcha you can't build an x that will draw on any card you can buy in a store nao, without 5+ << yeah, any proper graphics card. std intel card tho.
mircea_popescu: interrupts were a bad idea from the get-go.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> ( moar-threads-than-cpus is fundamentally a lie to the operator ) << 'i can't believe it's not cpu' aha.
asciilifeform: i can't think of any reason to EVEN ENABLE INTERRUPTS on such a box
asciilifeform: ( moar-threads-than-cpus is fundamentally a lie to the operator )
mircea_popescu tried recently, literally felt like was fucking a little boy. ew.
asciilifeform: we may well eventually end up with fortran ( it is by far easier to write a fortran compiler from 0 than an adatron )
trinque: was actually going to ask if you had a vintage
asciilifeform: mod6: betcha you can't build an x that will draw on any card you can buy in a store nao, without 5+
a111: Logged on 2017-06-13 22:37 asciilifeform: end result is to be a vaguely msdos-like thing that understands how to configure x64 page table, put/get blocks of disk, and speak over rs232 port. and on top of this, a self-building gnat.
asciilifeform was once a penniless student, like many folx
ag3nt_zer0: could have a small home outside of town for 0.116376 btc/mo
trinque: ag3nt_zer0: what'd a month cost you there?
asciilifeform: what's a pharmaceutically feminist ?
ag3nt_zer0: Chiang Rai is very nice superior to Chiang Mai imo, smaller, cleaner, up in the hills a bit more
trinque: the place has been on my radar for a while; I've got a meatwot guy there
ag3nt_zer0: just got back a while ago and working my ass off to buy btc before it fulfills what appears to be its destiny of 1 trillion dollars/coin
asciilifeform: ( either variant involves, sadly, a binary bootstrapper, as gnat is written in ada... )
shinohai: I can't get a workable env going .... using gcc version 4.9.4 (Gentoo 4.9.4 p1.0, pie-0.6.4)
asciilifeform: pretty 'martian' algo for the usual O(N^2) mults, but notably it doesn't need a full Z's worth of temporary row space, but only 3 words' , ~regardless of Z width~ !
mircea_popescu: 2k black dudes registered as sex offenders for buying a can of canada dry are a-ok
asciilifeform: brings to mind this old '40s sf tale, where 2 d00dz are exonerated of murder after doing 20y on the toughest prison planets, with giant wasps & similar joys, and so each gets a 'murder pass' to actually do the thing he already sat for
ben_vulpes: on the topic of "us courts are a thin veil over the criminal enterprise": https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/appeals-court-public-defender-lacks-standing-in-dispute-over-court-software/
trinque: so here's a tip re: "omg cannot pull cash out of credit cards: 2017 panoptical broomstick hell"
mircea_popescu: hey, i also bought a blender. it was... swiss.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> a TWO-DOOR toyota. << $4000 buys a sports car convertible
asciilifeform: trinque: quite a stuggle to buy one ~without~ the crud , lately
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought buying new is a scam anyway. why would it be obvious you meant that ?
asciilifeform: i dun think i've ever sat in a car with <100k
mircea_popescu: having never bought a car etc.
mircea_popescu: in a word... no.
trinque: I bought a beast of a truck for 16k
mircea_popescu: a lawnmower!
asciilifeform: a TWO-DOOR toyota.