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mircea_popescu: hey, it wouldn't be a sour grape if it could be had.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly the whole fucking point of "malleable encryption" is ~give or take to make lubby for computation.
mircea_popescu: this in itself does not make it approachable.
mircea_popescu: the whole point is -- that it's not clear to me this is an unaproachable limit.
mircea_popescu: lubby!
mircea_popescu: yes but now we're down the tree discussing types of flicker.
mircea_popescu: after all, your current machine flickers at 3GHz.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re "how many activities" -- it's not so clear to me, and moreover the consensus of hardware farmers (as opposed to coders) is that there's not much reason this absolutely should be the case, other than, to quote, "largely a lack of originality in the types of commands executed".
mircea_popescu: no rush.
mircea_popescu: i thought so too!
mircea_popescu: aha.
mircea_popescu: and also fries!
mircea_popescu: having the item running can't hurt in any case. if it gets owned, you learn a lesson. if it doesn't, it ... works.
mircea_popescu: on the basis of its record of accomplishments it's not even directly obvious if it was made by usg to orange revolution random shitholes, or rather to mentally swamp the not-entirely-dim lightbulbs in its own collegiate stables.
mircea_popescu: take Framedragger for instance. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: the thing sucked a lot of naive youth time that way.
mircea_popescu: a ok then. that was the hair lol.
mircea_popescu: but... he wouldn't have used it.
mircea_popescu: ok ?
mircea_popescu: now, a bunch of all-talk wedidits couldn't do whatever medium diff task. ok. how's this relate to silk road dood ?
mircea_popescu: nfi what you folks are discussing. i meant, the metering irc bot would be interesting.
mircea_popescu: sina wait, what ?
mircea_popescu: paging phf for ben_vulpes 's needs ☟︎
mircea_popescu: sina sounds interesting as a prototype at any rate.
mircea_popescu: are you kidding, i added rando peasant with my cock last week
mircea_popescu: gotta separate your vision from the shit on the glasses.
mircea_popescu: "directly"
mircea_popescu: and situation 2 where i sent you it via irc, how do you distinguish ?
mircea_popescu: now look : in situation 1, where bricktop decided to introduce me to you, and you do me, for which purpose he sent you some wotpaste and me similarily
mircea_popescu: a could be!
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why this is confusing
mircea_popescu: a yes, C not b.
mircea_popescu: could be. if it were how'd you know.
mircea_popescu: you just... BLEW my mind~!
mircea_popescu: we didn't fuck!
mircea_popescu: why ?
mircea_popescu: after all, you did get my key from... your irc client yes ?
mircea_popescu: ah, no, looky : http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-28#1675630 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: comms over gossipd
mircea_popescu: some kind of physical item
mircea_popescu: ok ?
mircea_popescu: right.
mircea_popescu: well... ideally atleast some are each
mircea_popescu: is a new child an athlete artist intellectual cook ?
mircea_popescu: it can be whatever no ?
mircea_popescu: i did,
mircea_popescu: pretty great name fuckupery, at that.
mircea_popescu: o, really ?
mircea_popescu: ahahaha
mircea_popescu: i suppose i'm missing out on a lot of watching four movies at once through pay per view.
mircea_popescu: "FOR THE DEMOCRACY! PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO LOOK UP YOUR BLADDER!"
mircea_popescu: people are liek "oh, mp can't be rich & powerful because rich & powerful people don't irc". totally, because it is really the goal of my life as well as everyone reasonable to be as rich and powerful as trump, so as to live the great life of idiots trying to insert cathetercam up your dick as you're trying to pee
mircea_popescu: word.
mircea_popescu: makes one feel.... alive, huh.
mircea_popescu: do we do anything else ?
mircea_popescu: as the saying went, "poll or get lost" hm
mircea_popescu: yeah.
mircea_popescu: "dis most popular guestbook php!"
mircea_popescu: among them, things from you know, 1997
mircea_popescu: "trying things"
mircea_popescu: i'm sure. trilema daily log is 1mn lines of crap.
mircea_popescu: dunno how much useful anything can a windows box execute, but for the sake of argument
mircea_popescu: i suppose.
mircea_popescu: people's understanding of "botnet" goes as far as the very deliberate automattic wp hole, for isntance.
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.
mircea_popescu: i suppose you could say that.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin+gossipd+uci -> pretty much time to say goodnight.
mircea_popescu: let them self-deploy.
mircea_popescu: this thing exists to put an end to non-tmsr computing, give or take.
mircea_popescu: sina no. 1. no "rules of conduct" 2. no usg / fiat "sovereign" interdictability.
mircea_popescu: so then i've not written them lol.
mircea_popescu: technically.
mircea_popescu: yes.
mircea_popescu: well ?
mircea_popescu: nor does it... acquire them.
mircea_popescu: sina it doesn't, for instance, spin up new ones.
mircea_popescu: gotta put a price tag on this whole "we're too lazy to do security"
mircea_popescu: there's two kinds of computers : public, and private. everyone else's computers are public, and by public i simply mean, not theirs.
mircea_popescu: yep.
mircea_popescu: see ?
mircea_popescu: nono, the attack consists of encryption.
mircea_popescu: nobody cared what their shitty data was, anyway.
mircea_popescu: then all the ad-hoc uci impls doing full disk encryption for maerks could be actually useful.
mircea_popescu: sina the idea is for me to go "do this" and for it to go "here's your bill sir"
mircea_popescu: which depends on deedbot payments, which reminds me... how's that going trinque ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: there's a management/pricing segment too
mircea_popescu: kinda how this stuff works.
mircea_popescu: seems like you found a new home!
mircea_popescu: lol!
mircea_popescu: amazon s3s
mircea_popescu: interesting. what was the problem with it ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i think we even used them at some point.
mircea_popescu: there is ?
mircea_popescu: or whatever, hashing, packeting, anything and everything.
mircea_popescu: that is a fine example. or, you know, calculate the mpfhf over the gutenberg collection.
mircea_popescu: lol. it's... somewhjat similar i guess
mircea_popescu: myeah. all sorts of these.
mircea_popescu: i have.
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.