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mircea_popescu: ("Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State; and it is for the individual in so far as he coincides with the State, which is the conscience and universal will of man in his historical existence.")
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (the foregoing is also, if you're following the score, the principal argument of liberals (who, in practice, often end up very radical right wing, individual rights people) against the death penalty : since it is at least in principle possible that the whole thing was a misunderstanding, it is infinitely better to put the guilty in stocks in the basement than to throw them from a moving airplane. the later's reviewable.)
mircea_popescu: it's true that the failure is never (at least to date) permanent, but that dun seem dispositive.
mircea_popescu: but this phenomenon exists whereby girl ends up in trouble for reasons which, upon later examination, turn out to not actually exist. that the whole thing was actually a misunderstanding is proof positive the entire system fits in no one's head : not in mine, who misunderstood what was going on, not in the girl;s herself, who, confronted with the misunderstanding, failed to identify what to say to dispel it.
mircea_popescu: the saving grace is that they ~very much do not want to~ be bad. machines don't care.
mircea_popescu: the whole "don't fuck up or i'll beat you" mechanism exists ~specifically because~ the whole array doesn;t fit in my (or anyone's) head.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-28#1649528 << it is avoidable as a matter of fact. i have by now built an item that is too complex to fit in my head. i call it $harem for convenience, but it's a set of girls who do things on the basis of rules which they were at some point in their girly youth illo tempore been beaten / screamed at for.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: in fairness, asc also rather wasteful for large files.
mircea_popescu: hey, i am not defending their contortions, i am speaking as to fact.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this happened at least two times i know of.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's a funnysituation this, miners just can't stick to mining. gotta gravitate towards the flame. so what if ~only thing flame does is burn butterflies.
mircea_popescu: well, as conclusive as it gets. see the gossipd design document comment section.
mircea_popescu: so basically if master key annuls a key it is thereby annulled ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think he's thinking, basically, of divorce.
mircea_popescu: trinque the hole stuff is eerily apt for the article i'm just brewing.
mircea_popescu: well, maybe. i'm not really able to evaluate a framework rightnao.
mircea_popescu: (predict : i know what it will do in the future ; understand : i know what it is doing now ; recover : i separated it from what it did in the past.)
mircea_popescu: but to return upstack : if i can't enumerate the states of my machine, i will thus therefore worry about it ending up in a state i can't predict, understand or recover. this is rational.
mircea_popescu: even more directly : every kid who ever tried maintaining a machine, be it linux, bsd, anything, knows very directly the problem with this framework thing. apt-get is guess what ? a package framework. what's its principal function on anyone's machine ? that it imports packages you a) didn't want or need and b) turned out vulnerable.
mircea_popescu: not "download the latest cl framework". that's the opposite approach/.
mircea_popescu: see, naggum's (correct) advice in that piece ##crypto barfed at was... MAKE YOUR TAILORED CL!
mircea_popescu: if your protocol is, for the sake of this argument, a state machine with about 150k states, and then the "framework" is a further state machine with about a half million or so states, your protocol framework escapes security as a fundamental property of it.
mircea_popescu: abstraction has this cost, that if i have to maintain AB i spend twice the time if i maintained an A and a B.
mircea_popescu: let's revisit the early cs classes. if you have state machine A, with 4 states, and state machine B, with 5 states, the composed mechanism AB has... 20 states.
mircea_popescu: which is of course what your crapapp will do post haste, if you've any luck.
mircea_popescu: because nobody actually looked at all the edge cases, on the assumption that they were only generated through the interplay of idle abstraction and will "never be encountered in practice"
mircea_popescu: i'd fucking worry. and i'd have great cause to worry, too.
mircea_popescu: the part that enables you to not worry thus is in your head not in the openssl.
mircea_popescu: you mean that it runs on linux and consequently you can process its output ?
mircea_popescu: and who's going to cover the edge case interplay three feet deep ?
mircea_popescu: (at least that's what i parse the words to mean, framework = "standard with a lot of user serviceable knobs")
mircea_popescu: either you have a protocol standard, or else you have more prototyping work to do.
mircea_popescu: ie, a "protocol framework" is definitionally premature.
mircea_popescu: to put it another way : when a fundamental problem is well understood enough to approach conclusively, and yet the approach eschews creating a standard in favour of preserving choice, the signal is that the problem was NOT actually understood enough.
mircea_popescu: even if we don't consider practical experience (hey, automake tried to be a makefile framework yes ?) and only focus on the theoretical aspect
mircea_popescu: does it not seem to you that a protocol framework (ie, some sort of method for "creating" or "tailoring" protocols) is broken in the head ?
mircea_popescu: some people end up with dual char mode because no chinese support in the default.
mircea_popescu: trinque since we're on it, what do you take "lesbian" as ?
mircea_popescu: all you get is... "well now you GOTTA stand on tiptoes, sucker"
mircea_popescu: electricity is not actually serving you, much like the idea of "stand on tiptoes to see better at ball game" doesn't actually serve you.
mircea_popescu: but it's exactly the same as the rent market : yes, you sell more jujidgets but guess what ? so does everyone else. so now you HAVE TO sell more jujidgets.
mircea_popescu: truth be told you don't actually need, or for that matter want, electricity to juju worship. be a lot happier with a coupla tubers rather than all this unmanageable complexity
mircea_popescu: in other electricities, "La exmujer de un oligarca comparte su secreto para ganar dinero en Internet..."
mircea_popescu: how did that go, electricity + power of soviets = socialism ?
mircea_popescu: to my shock the answer's not quite as directly obvious as one'd like.
mircea_popescu: i've been contemplating the point of whether more than 1 in 1000 humans actually have need for electrical power.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for a moment there i almost thought there's something wrong with phuctor.
mircea_popescu: in any case it should have been, it's ancient, dude keeps signing others with it etc. "strong set" as they call it.
mircea_popescu: dude's key is ancient and yet reported as submitted today
mircea_popescu: and this is symptomatic of the sheer confusion OF EVERYTHING these fuckwits live in. "Personally, I will only sign keys if I have done at least casual checking or very careful checking. I will not sign a key if I have not verified the ownership of the key. This weakens the Web of Trust." and then eats up weak hashes and government paper. because why the fuck not, PERFECTLY coherent with his "careful" stance.
mircea_popescu: 1. let's make "government issued id" the underpinning of the pgp web of trust, because totally, what could be better or above the fiat empire du jour ; 2. key ids. because really.
mircea_popescu: if i one day actually wish to entertain adolescentine farts about "qc" or such nonsense ima just invite for dinner any of the bois oogling my women from a safe distance.