asciilifeform: this is the traditional bitcoin sync behaviour, and i have not altered it.

asciilifeform: and then never again! will passively sit and wait 'for rain to fall into mouth'

asciilifeform: the reason why mike_c's node appears 'stalled' is that it stopped fetching blocks. trb's block sync behaviour is unspeakably moronic, it will attempt 'long sync' ONCE, on warmup ☟︎

asciilifeform: i.e. accepts connections, processes mempool tx ( which, if said tx relies on a yet-unseen block, WILL be rejected, and will look exactly like the snippet mike_c posted, and in fact most of the debug log of a syncing node WILL consist of these )

asciilifeform: then it is working normally,

asciilifeform: !#s blackhole

asciilifeform: if trb node is not fetching blocks, but is not showing symptoms of 'black hole'

asciilifeform: !~later tell mike_c http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-23#1702508 << this is NORMAL behaviour for a trb node. and see below re 'stalls' : ☝︎

asciilifeform: !~later tell mircea_popescu http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/729p2/?raw=true

asciilifeform: !~later tell ben_vulpes http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/gOIbx/?raw=true

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hilariously wrong description of trb

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-22#1702441 >> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-23#1702465 ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: ( if yer here, you too have a net pipe ! )

asciilifeform: if speaking of cheap nodez, zoolag costs ~0 ( aside from disks ) , i get fiber to the grounds regardless

asciilifeform: if that's 'pretty good', what does prettybad look like

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-22#1702441 << lol! 'convened in #bitcoin-assets'. 'emergent consensus' ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-22#1702390 << for some reason i thought that one was mircea_popescu's ☝︎

asciilifeform: 49 zoolag

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-22#1702389 << .30 is dulap/snsa ☝︎

asciilifeform: prolly needs at least another wk before backinbusiness

asciilifeform: ( and counting )

asciilifeform: at 272303 nao

asciilifeform: ( block verify is blocking )

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-22#1702394 << it is zoolag, it is resyncing, and ( i assume everybody knows ) it is ~impossible to usefully connect to a trb node that is syncing ☝︎

asciilifeform: not 'do whatever'

asciilifeform: do IT whichever way you do IT

asciilifeform: naggum's 'cdrom brains'

asciilifeform: i wanna hear how 'natural' is to borrow from others for phree

asciilifeform: !!up r0nin-

asciilifeform: r0nin-: in rome today, or in rome 100ad

asciilifeform: r0nin-: if you don't borrow, your interest rate is 0

asciilifeform: betcha r0nin- thinks usa has a 'mortgage crisis', not a fucktard crisis, even

asciilifeform: r0nin-: 'rome had..' how ? martians landed , imposed ?

asciilifeform: ( suits )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc gorbachev got his in rome

asciilifeform: r0nin-: 1930s japanese patent.

asciilifeform: dun burn, dun melt, dirt won't stick

asciilifeform: vinylon is the good synthetic

asciilifeform: northkr could make a tourist killing, offer tailored vinylon suits

asciilifeform: !!up r0nin-

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-17#1699732 << unfortunately sometimes -- is. ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unfortunately the 'mega productivity boost' dun work for maths. asciilifeform goes through many kg of laser print paper each mo.

asciilifeform: must be for the 'i'ma boot up my aol station, check aol, and switch off 10 min later' people.

asciilifeform: i can't fathom how anybody uses it

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'the romanian canaris' lol

asciilifeform: or soldier, or general, or anything else.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-22#1702083 << this is entirely true : carpenter is not free to ~negotiate with the task~, only with the wood. now for engineer, you also need a built-in ~master~ in yer head, aka ' царь в голове '. but at no point does unconstrained amoeba brain become a craftsman or engineer. ☝︎

asciilifeform recalls the siguranța agent in ye olde #ba

asciilifeform: as in late '90s ru

asciilifeform: sorta the main diff b/w 'terrorist' cells org, and usg-style org, neh. the latter in fact has a 'crown jewels list-of-every' somewhere in it.

asciilifeform: outpatient, presumably?

asciilifeform: point remains, it is the Wrong Thing to use flippable registers to store bits that ain't EVER supposed to flip.

asciilifeform: ( if making own 'disks' -- use otp roms for blockchain. as discussed in old thread. now if only somebody still made otp roms !! )

asciilifeform: ( old blox ain't ever gonna change )

asciilifeform: now try this idea on for size : picture a 'btcfs' that knows how to use a dead ssd

asciilifeform: cheap ( 'sandisk' and a few others ) actually become unreadable, the controller decides to shit itself when it can't find writable blocks

asciilifeform: not merely predictor -- it gets finite writes in each block, after that -- it's a rom

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: ( in raid5 )

asciilifeform: naturally runs at speed of slowest disk.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what can i say, it worked great, for the year+

asciilifeform: goxlag!111

asciilifeform: amoeba dun have with what.

asciilifeform: they dun have ~with what~ to have clue.

asciilifeform: i suspect these and other derps know what the answer is. ergo still sitting in bunker, taking in the wagner an' cyanide.

asciilifeform: what does one ever want from'em

asciilifeform: dunno, unconditional capitulation?

asciilifeform: after that let's write to obummer and ask for the aes pill.

asciilifeform: ( the answer, quite unsurprisingly, never came )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you'd like to pen a 'can haz the pill against your $B 'intellektual property' racket for phreee? ' letter to lattice, go ahead. i did xilinx.

asciilifeform: clitoral combat ship

asciilifeform: '... and if the tub had been stronger, my song would have been longer'

asciilifeform: shinohai: no, but if you paint it on bathtub!11

asciilifeform: well today there ain't any british at all, only 'airstrip one'

asciilifeform: but yes.

asciilifeform: it's like putting napoleon in a tricorn.

asciilifeform: shinohai: gotta nitpick, pykrete was (rejected by) british navy. ( back when there was a british navy )

asciilifeform: lolk

asciilifeform: colibri climbed into exhaust pipe ?

asciilifeform: yer www is still dead

asciilifeform: ohai mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: 1 hole is -- definitionally -- enough-to-break-everything

asciilifeform: spyked: ~any~ unanticipated behaviour of your program, is proof that it did ~not~ fit in your (the author's!) head

asciilifeform: spyked: more fundamentally, it is ~impossible to write a nontrivial c proggy without pointer arithmetic, and it is ~impossible to meaningfully prove the correctness of a nontrivial program involving pointer arithmetic.

asciilifeform: valentinbuza: do you know what lustration is ?

asciilifeform: valentinbuza: the 'frameworks' are the fruits of poison tree

asciilifeform: and to not be readable+fullygraspable by one man in a few hours.

asciilifeform: ( or greater still )

asciilifeform: the second purpose of tls, 'noise', and every other 'protocol' published, is to install in your head the idea that it is acceptable for a cryptosystem to consist of 50kLines of c.

asciilifeform: whereas they serve the exact opposite purpose.

asciilifeform: the ~actual~ purpose of the attempted 'frameworks' is to drill into your skull and install the idea that nullcipher, diffiehellman, aes, are acceptable things to exist in this world, and can be pushed as 'cryptography'

asciilifeform: or rather, hole without donut.

asciilifeform: the 'framework' is a null, a donut without a hole.

asciilifeform: spyked nails it.

asciilifeform: valentinbuza: i regard the entire concept of 'real time automated public key crypto' as a scam, and anyone claiming to offer such a thing, as a scammer, until constant time rsa routines are public.

asciilifeform: ( generously 'helped' by nsa assets )

asciilifeform: both tls and 'noise' are the products of exactly the same type of broken mind.

asciilifeform: this is not a debateable point.

asciilifeform: a recipe that explicitly features liquishit -- suxx