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mod6: !%a trb I "Investigate blackhole" "Investigate what might be occuring with the so-called black-hole, described here: btcbase.org/log/2016-12-20#1586635"
mircea_popescu: bitcoin has a single office, like a fucking bidonville residence.
mircea_popescu: business has a secretary and an actual worker ; fast food has a front office and a back office. there's reasons for things wtf.
asciilifeform: you need the entire orchestra to decide whether to accept a tx for relay.
asciilifeform: this doesn't add up to a working btctron. in order to evaluate a peer, it is necessary to be able to distinguish block from rubbish.
mircea_popescu: mixing these into a single frail monolith is very much satoshism, but we're not supposed to stick to stupid.
asciilifeform: when it finally gets a peer going again,
asciilifeform: what's more, this is a rinse-and-repeat
asciilifeform: we get a block (dulap already saw same block; it was valid.) which simply takes ages to verify.
mircea_popescu: continuing the floundering sv-tech lulz for a moment, there's https://archive.is/Wdiyj
asciilifeform: or conceivably the described bear trap will actually contain a bear at the end of the day.
mircea_popescu: myeah. i have no problem with the baruch spinoza approach, esp when eg, dealing with viri etc. but it's not a universal wrench.
asciilifeform: and it'd be a few megabyte of swamp
mircea_popescu: imo this is a total waste of time ; we won't have the culprit even if we drink the gigabyte swamp. which we needn't be drinking in any case.
asciilifeform: after a few days of this, we have the culprit.
asciilifeform: so we get a snapshot of the, say, 20 minutes of tcpdump prior to node entering blackhole state.
asciilifeform: this will consist of a shell script that makes, e.g., getinfo api request, AND
mircea_popescu: just keeping track of the binary star is already a huge thing.
asciilifeform: first you need a blackhole detector.
mircea_popescu: it's not "a joker doses sockets".
ben_vulpes: mod6: no, the thing where either a shitty network client or some joker opens sockets and lets them expire, eating 60 seconds of the loop through each peer to service
mircea_popescu: to think the dork actually claimed he is "slightly more productive on linux than windows". satoshi never fucking as much as saw a posix compliant box.
asciilifeform: wireshark, and a good deal of patience, would answer it.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-20#1586638 << i was able to reproduce a very similar effect. simply throw blocks at a node that don't fail verification until the very end. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: there isn't any space, or any need, or anything else for these fucktards today anymore than there was in 1996 or in 1976. they know it today like they knew it then, and they're lying about it (to themselves, mostly) then as now because they know that's exactly all they can do. who's gonna hire pmarca ? to do what ? who has a job for zuck ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski speaking of which - i didn't use "spreadsheets" like the fucking usg tards ( http://trilema.com/2012/law-enforcement-never-fails-to-unintentionally-entertain/ ) or for that matter wordperfect 5.1 ; nor did i have any use for a pdf maker. the whole article came out of an awk and a sort
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: internet census is right up there eh ? the irony of that one little study making such a dent in a world awash in 'data' and 'research' where n=43 is otherwise sufficient grounds for public policy decisions... never fails to amus.
pete_dushenski: like clarkson's tampons (a reference only ben_vulpes make catch)
pete_dushenski: iirc a mural of him was covered up but name of building stayed.
pete_dushenski: woodrow wilson : a man ahead of his time.
pete_dushenski: trinque: that houston truck looks like it was headed either to or from a gulf refinery. pretty sweet assplosion. and ya, gotta ditch the ff!
pete_dushenski: if you mean the latest mpex debate as referenced in 'what lasts forever', ya the leclerc (pankkake?) feller and i had a little back-n-forth
mircea_popescu also stumbled on recent comment section reading it, apparently there's a whole debate etc.
BingoBoingo: Aha, pete_dushenski you now write like a genitle!
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the latest bit is easily your best piece yet. people generaly hated because yes, throughout the lenghty process you sounded ~like every other jew boy reading the torah for bar mitzvah, ie, ridiculous. but insistence pays off, and now i dun have to groan when reading your stuff, which is a welcome change indeed.
mircea_popescu: that's what makes it a failed generation, after all.
mircea_popescu: it ~never had a corpse to eat, it sucked its own dick for as long as that lasted.
mircea_popescu: anyway, selected butthurt from a flury of whining from back in 2014 when icahn told the fatso a few things : https://archive.is/jLZ1Z
mircea_popescu: incidentally - nothing is said about how marc andreesseen had to be rescue-married into old wealth to maintain the pretense of relevancy cca 2006 ; nor how zuckerberg's ~only noteworthy initiative (free basics, trying to turn the third world web into a sort of apple store) utterly failed, rejected EVEN BY INDIA
asciilifeform: 'The raw power of computers has advanced at a stunning speed, but has this advance translated into a comparable improvement in their usefulness? Word processing, to take the most obvious example, hasn't fundamentally improved since the late '80s. And in the view of many people I know, WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS was actually better for their purposes than any of the bloatware that has followed.'
mircea_popescu: and in perhaps unrelated lulz : last year, the romanian supreme court struck down the "because the company filed a criminal complaing against the employee" cause for terminating employment. yeah, you read that right. the reason given was that due to social importance blabla, employment ~must be protected from arbitrary decisions~.
mircea_popescu: that said, /me wishes teh very best to the actual ugandan children. oppressed as they find themselves under hermetically sealing, thick and numerous layers of dedicatedly-imbecile adults, it'd be a wonder if anything comes of them. but - all the better for all those who do make it in such conditions.
mircea_popescu: oh yes - chased the freenode idiots for year + back in 2012/2013 trying to give them servers. they - EXACTLY LIKE THESE OTHER IDIOTS - to the fucking t, never got the servers. then a few months later were "suspiociously hacked" and "will publish report" then neverp ublished any report and then went full nsa, which is where we're now.
mircea_popescu: so technically jurov is right : i'll burn down this uganda and make a new one, fuck 'em. this pretense of independent existence everyone keeps trying to put up is sickening to me.
mircea_popescu: this exactly mirrors me using planeshift code for eulora, did token gesture towards planeshift people, they be EXACTLY as idiotic as blender people in exactly the same way, so as a result /me is having the code refactored and will not work with them
mircea_popescu: this a few months before they decided to only support python 3, showing the soundness of that strategic decision.
mircea_popescu: tl;dr : me uses blender for eulora, originally wanted to work with the blender people, and as a "first gesture" sorta thing tried to make a donation. blender people turned out even more batshit insane than anyone could have imagined, which resulted in smg deciding to fork blender and not support their idiotic foundation
a111: Logged on 2015-06-24 21:05 mircea_popescu: punkman because a) when i first asked, their idea was "buy a mug" ; b) the link i finally fished out did not include any reference either i or fluffypony found (see it in logs) - they have A DIFFERENT unlinked page for this purpose
mircea_popescu: i suppose it isn't to be a surprise that in a world where the doctor expects you to pay him for him to do what ~he~ feels ; and the lawyer is strictly shocked that his position as counsel is STRICTLY to do all the legwork you don't feel like doing and absolutely not to do any of the cool management stuff, cuz you're paying and you're gonna be eating that - the charity dudes similarly expect nsa oodlebunches of moneyz
davout: the goal was "let's have the dude put a BTC address on vim's splash screen directly", which obviously went nowhere
mircea_popescu: i thought it was some gypsy who lost a finger through the unlikely avenue of filling a caravan full of papier-mache flowers and then using gasoline for lube when fucking his 16yo wife.
mircea_popescu: jurov dude may i just not know everything to the level of l0 cache here for a minute!
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2016/12/20/intolerance-to-modernity/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - Intolerance to modernity.
ben_vulpes: "we just can't handle the notion of a space where some people's suckitude is actually a barrier to their self-identification as 'a part of a thing'"
ben_vulpes: https://freenode.net/news/PSA-brief-update-infra << 'sekuridee measures have been instigated!' oh good thanks exactly what i want, a riot in the dc
BingoBoingo: And so a log laugh
ser: But he made a fortune
ser: Ether's a real definition of crap
asciilifeform: and the bugger runs a-ok at -55C.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, it is lovely, a FUCKGOATS rng board could run for year+ on one.
mircea_popescu: dude check them out they deliver 19k mah out of a 100g package.
asciilifeform: (the fat connector is a chained jtag for handy simultaneous reflash of both yoked units)
mod6 is still working on a public/private project-a-tron, making decent progress.
tb0t: Project: trb, ID: 34, Type: F, Subject: Configure Checkpoints by Configuration File, Antecedents: , Notes: Allow for a user to set a given checkpoint within a configuration file. See discussion: btcbase.org/log/2016-12-20#1586436
mod6: !%a trb F "Configure Checkpoints by Configuration File" "Allow for a user to set a given checkpoint within a configuration file. See discussion: btcbase.org/log/2016-12-20#1586436"
mircea_popescu: prolly mature enough by now i guess. anyway shouldn't be a huge thing.
mod6: yeah. ok, it merits a ticket in the project.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 that "separate config file" references what i recall as a previous discussion. << aha, now i recall. I think the suggestion was that one could, from a config file, turn checkpoints on or off, or add new ones if they wished.
mircea_popescu: mod6 that "separate config file" references what i recall as a previous discussion.
mod6: and it kinda continues from there, so worth a bit of a read
a111: Logged on 2015-06-24 18:31 mod6: ascii_field: re: checkpoints: the patch worked fine to remove checkpoints, but it was tabled for the time being. the main discussion around this was that it could be helpful to hvae checkpoints in there to prevent spamming of blocks from timestamps before a checkpoint.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but a raid controller that is made-for-our-purpose, and part of the whole stack all the way to db...
mod6: <+davout> did we just add tmsr-db on the todo? << there is a ticket for this: http://thebitcoin.foundation/tickets/trb_tickets.html#6
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes iirc the discussion at the time ended with me pointing out it should be made arbitrary to user's choice. << there was a whole public discussion on this at the time. and at that point, i backed away from it.
asciilifeform: ( most famously, smbx lispm was findable for a few hundy during a very brief burst when amex flooded the market with theirs, which had been replaced with java shitware )
mircea_popescu: no, i mean the kind of cheap you're talking about, "oh, soy is cheap and gold is expensive". volumes scale, soy is sold in the ton and gold in the ounce. there's no "cheap" ; if it's 20 a pop you bundle 1k together.
asciilifeform: though i can think of a few exceptions ( transport for, e.g., cray, or connection machine - and yes, i knew a d00d whi bought connection machine! is not easy or cheap ) -- generally old hardware of the interesting sort ( vs everybody's old 386 ) is cheap
mircea_popescu: especially if a) the piece is actually useful as opposed to curio and b) it's being sold for scrap by the imperial idiots.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i mean that if some guy who is actively developing for some iron is shying away from buying a piece because he only has part of the money i'd consider cutting a deal.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 23:23 danielpbarron: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-19#1586263 << i'm trying to get eulora working on some new machines, they came with video cards, official nvidia driver doesn't work on latest linux kernel, (works fine on older kernel) but somehow this is nvidia's fault for not releasing a free fix every time someone comes up with another way to make a driver stop working
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-19#1586393 << this is actuyally a very valid complaint ; i'm not necessarily proposing the finn's right. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-19#1586388 << ideally more of a lend-lease sort of deal than simply warehousing the parts though. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 20:16 mircea_popescu: writing drivers is two things : a) write the fw ; or b) call nvidia faggots on a mailing list.
danielpbarron: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-19#1586263 << i'm trying to get eulora working on some new machines, they came with video cards, official nvidia driver doesn't work on latest linux kernel, (works fine on older kernel) but somehow this is nvidia's fault for not releasing a free fix every time someone comes up with another way to make a driver stop working ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: (or was it a 'b')
asciilifeform: what is a 'weemoney' ?
trinque will have a monthly buy of this and similar till doomsday
mircea_popescu: certainly a LOT more saner than "prepper" idiots storing canned food etc.
mircea_popescu: trinque i am saying - depending on exactly what one's life goals etc are ; running a warehouse full of old iron bought on the cheap is a very reasonable lifestyle choice.
mircea_popescu: because there's no functioning religion without a strong ascetic line.
asciilifeform: of course this all comes with a very real risk of turning into theo de raadt and moving into a cave, muttering, wearing hair shirts, sleeping in coffin
asciilifeform: for a while, local uni surplus here was selling g5 monsters (big iron things) by the pound
asciilifeform: or is this a vintage box
asciilifeform: trinque: if it isn't megaseekrit, where'dya get a hold of a ppc ?
trinque: this younger dood already has a pile of ppc
asciilifeform: a younger d00d like, e.g., trinque , might get more result.
asciilifeform: now must reverse it. will take a while, and only can even begin when hands again are free to do this
asciilifeform: believe or not, for a card made in 2011.
asciilifeform: it'd be a few 100 lines of asm
mircea_popescu: think for a moment what immense pile of varying switches the other approach would be like.