asciilifeform: hm did asciilifeform mention he is going on a voyage.
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu , diana_coman , & co want to use 'serpent', i can make a pick-your-own-bitness-via-shamiring twist on above snippet. but prolly not until after i come back from voyage
asciilifeform: it isn't even that asciilifeform is particularly enamoured of 'serpent', but does believe that any cipher that cannot be implemented in the style shown in the paste, is ipso facto braindamaged beyond repair
asciilifeform: iirc it is the one in final draft ( submitted to braindamage competition ).
asciilifeform: ( could just as well break tomorrow as aes et al could, voodoo is voodoo )
asciilifeform: incidentally it is very simple to use multiple blockciphers and get guaranteed best-of ( asciilifeform described scheme in old thread )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all blockciphers are pseudoscientific. the only differences you can take to the bank, is that camellia was approved by nato bureaucrats, serpent was not; and the fact that serpent runs in constant time ( branch-free ).
asciilifeform: ( the sad thing re nfs co, is that it is in fact a kolhoz, quite like amazon's and the rest, but more ancient and built by actual men, vs 'millenial' scum, and so it actually ~works~, and delivers on the promise -- you don't own your hdd, BUT you never have to go down from a dead hdd; you own no ip; BUT no ddos; etc. it however IS STILL A KOLHOZ , with the complacency and inevitable day of doom that comes with this. )☟︎
asciilifeform: i have nfi. but 'fireproof house' is nice even if people only very rarely try to burn your house.
asciilifeform: find "normal" pictures of him - or Arkady - or "Red Countess" (his (ex)wife). It is just plain and simply impossible to make any fun of him any worse than this. What more could you say that isn't actually true already? David Gerard himself is disappointed that this article doesn't make fun of him more.'
asciilifeform: 'He really is a bisexual goth s&m freak with a disabled wife and furry girlfriend, and he got that girlfriend pregnant, while his wife has her own girlfriend. He really is a senior member of Wikipedia - the motherfucking UK media spokesperson and a Checkuser. He is meant to be respectable! He uses his real name in all of this. These are his real photos that he took himself, and has listed for public download. It is very difficult to
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in orlols, https://archive.is/Bz5MY >> 'The final numbers, announced early the next day, came to exactly 59 dead and 527 wounded, and they haven't been updated since. Of the wounded, not a single person has subsequently died. It appears that the only two options were instant death or swift recovery.'
asciilifeform: and pediwikia Definitely Not Hourly Cocksucker For Usgshills...
asciilifeform: 'Ayre plans to build Bodog into a mainstream 21st-century digital entertainment conglomerate. He is noted for his "billionaire bad boy" image yet shrewd business sense.'
asciilifeform: in other thefts, 'The researchers went on to find 15 factorizable keys used for TLS. Strangely, almost all of them contain the string "SCADA" in the common name field.'☟︎
asciilifeform: in usa this is only not a thing because of lavish ( by manual labourer standards ) pay for postmen
asciilifeform: shinohai: in some orcistans, post office dun even handle money, as such, or the orc staff will steal it. so gotta pay for ALL mail with... stamps
asciilifeform: 0 customs problems with ^ . even though i'm pretty sure that if you bring something that looks like this to an american post office, you won't get to walk home on own legs
asciilifeform: to certain (limited, as observed by napoleon himself, 'can do whatever with bayonet, but not sit on it' extent -- the bayonet up the arse is incentive
asciilifeform: the inbred brahmins get the noyade and guillotine, as surely as california kindling catches fire
asciilifeform: i didn't colour the revolutions, as error
asciilifeform: culminating in brezhnev's re-introduction of the feldwebel
asciilifeform: most recently historically, consider lenin's 'rank-less' red army, and slowly growing back all of the ranks of imperial ru
asciilifeform: 'gotta have ordered ranks; exactly ordered ~how~ is distantly secondary'
asciilifeform: possibly this was the piece re buluceala in the mosque
asciilifeform: where on 1 hand mr turing has a point, and folx beat him for no particularly good reason; on other hand the civilization with ~no~ arbitrary rules, goes unglued.
asciilifeform: there was another mircea_popescu article re , iirc, buggery, with similar thesis
asciilifeform: 1 megamystery ( at least to asciilifeform ) is why hajnal line even exists
asciilifeform: i dun have hard proofs, but... it isn't inconceivable that, e.g., french rev & the consequences, happened when it did because of genetic degradation
asciilifeform: exhaustion of finite resource, looks entirely always 'infinite until not'
asciilifeform: just like 'safe' to sink sr-90 in ocean etc
