asciilifeform: for some reason reminds me of the su prisoners who , legendarily , got 5, 6 school diplomas each, because kept signing up again and again, teacher is the only chix in the joint after all
asciilifeform: 'They looked at me like I was a fucking videocard artefact, "something that can't exist", and I didn't insist.' << lol!!
asciilifeform awaits the first fractional-btc deathray trial.
asciilifeform: picture, chix gets 20y , for less than the 5btc asciilifeform cremated at bitbet
asciilifeform: afaik krebs is -- possibly -- the best-known moxie .
asciilifeform: a moxie is more of a 'gift of gab' item. writes 'trendy' 'pgp is obsolete' treatises, appears at 'best' parties , inevitably consulted at 'seekooority cons', 'podcasts', inevitably shills for multicoloured-phone-of-the-day vendors, never skips a chance to 'plug for' other moxies ; appeals to boecks for 'technical cred'.
asciilifeform: in contrast with, e.g., a boeck : who is 'technically' flavoured ( i.e. mouthpiece for dropping vulns usg wants 'burned' )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'd propose 'a moxie' , a la 'a preet', fairly large group of very similar kanzure-style politruks
asciilifeform: i fully expect that attempts to 'fix' the 'bugs' will continue. ( which bugs? e.g. the 'bug' where bitcoin actually works; the one where it dun belong to the moxies and boecks, i.e. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-05#1637750 ; the 'bug' where it doesn't need to ask for permission from them to work ; etc )☝︎
asciilifeform: ( funnily enough, the particular variant of nonsense from above link is not at all new, but sat on shelves for decades -- 'electric money' schemes that relied on 'unbreakable tamperproof hardware' crapola were proposed -- and laughed off -- in 1990s )
asciilifeform: think, d00d is paid, slaves full time, to walk around and pretend to have something to do with 'cryptography'. it's a living.
asciilifeform: the 1 likely item is that 1) exists 2) poor quasiliterate orc under usg magnifying glass from before the 'crime' was conceived , as in the new york deathray (tm)(r) plot.
asciilifeform: note that there's no particular reason to believe in any particular part of the story
asciilifeform: 'the defendant attempted to leave the United States and travel to Syria' << ohnoez, republikflucht!
asciilifeform: 'Shahnaz took out more than a dozen credit cards earlier this year and used the money she borrowed to buy cryptocurrency and send it abroad, according to an indictment filed by US attorneys in federal court.'☟︎
asciilifeform: incidentally mircea_popescu , phf , consider a particular cut : suppose that ( otherwise unchanged ) diff format did not mention paths at all, only hashes. and there is a separate section, 'manifest', that is table of hashes to paths. during press, the latter is eaten and traditional unix dir appears.
asciilifeform: whereas if you want to be able to compactly represent ~arbitrary transforms of text and of dirs, you end up with something like sed on top of a... text representation of a tar ?☟︎
asciilifeform: ( and 'everyone already has it, and it works' etc )
asciilifeform: the tragicomic part is that i picked plain old diff for vtronics 'so that patches will be readable'
asciilifeform: it's a pathetically dumb state machine.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-14#1751725 << the retardation of unixdiff is unfortunately not limited to file moves. it also has no ability to represent , e.g., sections of a file moving ( iirc this came up during the original genesis thread )☝︎
asciilifeform: you could in phf's unified-namespace thing, but i dun see how else otherwise
asciilifeform: ( where length of FZ 0 is ~not~ permitted, because wtf )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a cmachineism -- 'hey this register CAN haz a 0 in it, ergo lengths of 0 are permissible'. observe that i banished this idiocy from ffa planet
asciilifeform: incidentally if mircea_popescu wanted to go 'whole hog' re http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-14#1751589 , could even throw out asciilifeform's mpi and make new one from the source material. see if it ends up same, possibly find new cuts.☝︎
asciilifeform: mechanical tools can make the job slightly smaller, or - when they're rubbish - slightly larger. but it remains.
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu decides to have the eulora programmers not only copy the thing verbatim, as if v never existed, but to retype it, and whack'em with a stick for each mistyped letter, who am i to object . it's his proggy.
