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Bugpowder: yeah he had a bad stroke a few years ago. Mostly recovered, but may have hit him again on a bike ride.
Bugpowder: I think he died and the project stalled. But my news is a year out of date. Haven’t been paying attention until ETH/ETC… and there is just tooo much stuff in the ecosystem to keep track of these days.
mircea_popescu: but no, it's bitcoin-mmo. and after a year+, playerbase has not yet the slightest clue re mechanics involved.
mircea_popescu: a right.
mircea_popescu: "This faucet has A LOT of options. Since I don’t have time to write them all down I created a video explaining everything you need to know about the faucet" << this somehow made sense, to someone.
Bugpowder: Alternatively, a mediterrainian Yacht party would be dope..
mircea_popescu: it's always been a mix of both.
Bugpowder: It does worry me, but I put that into the known unknowns category of risks. And pricing risk adjusted EV, still makes sense for me to hold a signifcant crypto fraction in XMR as printer of new bitcoin. It’s harder these days to print BTC without MPOE-bot.
mircea_popescu: you know, a little like the adjustable arm mortgages.
mircea_popescu: ltogether) to detrimentally rely on a property that is temporary when he needs it to be permanent.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the allegation is that the "privacy" offered is very heavily time bound ; that it naturally dissipates over time ; and that after a sufficient interval - say a year - one can rely on any and all transaction being no longer at all private. this means that the monero ring signature is in fact an anti-feature : it makes the superficial user (who either foolishly doesn't invest the time ; or otherwise lacks the capacity a
Bugpowder: As for the controlling issue, coopting of the project is certainly a major risk moving forward, but I do think you have too much confidence in the sophistication and coordinatino of usgov.
Bugpowder: In turn, Monero has potential to fix a weak point in DNM function, which potentially provides significant value. Now, whether the tech geniuses that order on DNMs or vendors have the savvy to implement properly and with enough volume to make economic sense is another matter.
Bugpowder: DNMs provide a service to clients, make money for vendors and the host. The risks are assymetric to the reward, but so is swallowing 50 condoms of blow and flying into the US. Plenty of people’s life circumstances make the reward calculus more appealing than you or I might find.
mircea_popescu: in the absence of economic drivers, there will either be a political driver or no movement. which leaves us with the simple explanation. i don't gotta prove that every single individual woman thought of dick up her ass every time she spent too much money on cosmetics.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder looky : the original "dnm", ie silk road, never made any economic sense. and then went away. FOR THIS REASON. the subsequent attempts to enact this as a thing, including coming up with bullshit three letter acronyms, were strictly exercises in http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160902/from:404/to:404#404
Bugpowder: Really. A puppet show? Is AlphaBay an FBI honeypot? A “Playpen” for drug users?
shinohai: Why would you use ETH in a darknet market? Just huff the shit and call it a day.
mircea_popescu: you are aware that "dnm"s are entirely a puppet show by now, yes ?
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder seems it has some chance to become the next usg-sponsored wanna-be bitcoin thingee. that's usually good for a ride, fed still has a lot of printolade to spread around.
mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160903/from:119/to:119#119 << as opposed to anything else whatsoever happening, right ? like, if a girl walks up to them and says hi. or if there's an angry mob. or whatever else.
Bugpowder: so price is not supported by fundamental use levels now. BUT, you know how price works in this space. Every alt is a tech stock valued on hype and growth potential. And hype is pretty high right now.
Bugpowder: a cryptonote fork that provides user selectable transaction privacy, from public (like bitcoin) to fully private (only sender and recipient know) using ring encryption. ☟︎
Bugpowder: its been a good week. why not qntra article on how monero is not the one true bitcoin yet?
pete_dushenski: in fact, if anything defines a "terrorist" it's exactly this spitting in the face of http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-01#1533233 ☝︎
pete_dushenski: "“If you like comfort, and that’s what drives you, you’ll never do this,” he told me, taking a sip of the ice-cold vodka. “But sometimes you get really surprised. Once you have a commitment to something, all these things that you thought were normal in your day-to-day life become unnecessary luxuries.”" << amen. spoken like a true terrorist.
pete_dushenski: "Two months before Obama arrived, the government presided over what was widely considered a sham election, in which the ruling party won all 547 seats in Parliament, But Obama, making it clear that security trumped other concerns in the Horn of Africa, stood beside Meles’s successor, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, and described the government as being “democratically elected.”
pete_dushenski: "Once a Bucknell Professor, Now the Commander of an Ethiopian Rebel Army"
pete_dushenski: speaking of the power of violence as a force for edumacation : http://archive.is/WiEYD
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-01#1532666 << thought this was plasticarwagon a la BingoBoingo at first. prolly citroen/peugeot upon further review. ☝︎
pete_dushenski: there's a lotta "if trump were elected i just wouldn't even know what to say or do" going around
a111: Logged on 2016-09-01 14:14 mircea_popescu: so i watched a southpark episode last night, it was one about how all the canadians moved to the us because they had elected a trump and canada was turned into a total detroit by his idiocy BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T PAYING ATTENTION, and it made me think of http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160831/from:98/to:98#98
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-02#1533505 << this is sop for dudes who get their balls sucked with any kind of regularity. mebbe it's a bit pornstarish but it's the only way to live. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: how this came to pass is anyone's guess, but the arabs had a reputation for engineeringly inept.
asciilifeform: i have nfi if this tale is true, but there is another, steve dutch (geologist, i linked to a few of his pieces) reported that arabs initially had serious problems with oil well maintenance when no migrant worker could be found to wash a part, oil a machine, etc.
mircea_popescu: aha. hey, i'm a man of simple tastes. 120 tdw boat , dirigible... i always content myself with the very inaccessible.
mircea_popescu: this isn't a horse, or a scorpion. it's a fashion.
asciilifeform: before stomping a scorpion, i do not need to buy a new scorpion. but before shooting horse, i gotta buy a new horse.
mircea_popescu: this is universally true. a lot of "work" was "put" into myspace. so ? nobody cares, nobody uses it. same is true of google, or of facebook.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this isn't to say that there can't exist a market ; or that one can't write useful code.
diana_coman: <mircea_popescu> it's entirely a social-media thing. boys "program" exactly like the girls "are popular" <- only today I read in that sad ACM magazine that *used* to be a thing about the great discovery of "helping" children finally learn programming by...making it social!
mircea_popescu: programming is not an economic activity ; it has no value. it's a social activity, like clicking on lolpics or liking on facebook.
mircea_popescu: this is plowing with chickens. they work for a year at a time not for a two hour stretch ; then you got a business.
mircea_popescu: review the problems of running mines in the us cca 1800. dumbass minersd want to work a week and visit a brothel.
mircea_popescu: it's entirely a social-media thing. boys "program" exactly like the girls "are popular"
mircea_popescu: like a large sort of ant colony digesting leaves of denim
mircea_popescu: flour also keeps ; esp at sea. ten tons will still only cost you a few thousand dollars, who cares.
asciilifeform: incidentally, if this is a thing, how come nobody afaik uses old cargo ship as office space.
mircea_popescu: it works better if you have half a dozen slavegirls with you ; buy ten tons of flour, have them make bread each day
mircea_popescu: hey, i had them deliver 2 tons of water by hand ; the whole purchase was a few hundred bux.
mircea_popescu: you got a crane or two. get people to bring you supplies by boat.
mircea_popescu: how long do you think you got, a century ?
mircea_popescu: if you buy a newish one at a fire sale/bankruptcy proceeding today ; you will die before it dies.
mircea_popescu: mean time between hull failures is about a century.
asciilifeform: these ships have exactly all of the appeal of driving a ww2 panther tank around town.
mircea_popescu: tis a fact.
shinohai: "An unknown individual using the encrypted privacy tool Tor to hide their tracks accessed an email account on a Clinton family server, the FBI revealed Friday." <<<< bwahahaha
asciilifeform: he is pushing a new, gpg2-only thing.
mircea_popescu: o he has a replacement ? lol
asciilifeform: in epic spam noose, 'HONR378Q Honors Seminar: Islamic Radicalization Drivers of Youth in the United States and Afghanistan Omar Samad, former Afghanistan Ambassador to France. This is a Global Classroom seminar: Using teleconferencing technology UMD Honors students will be conducting research with their Afghan peers at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul.' --- then, 24 hrs later,
mircea_popescu: considering we have millions of keys, and considering the sort of shenanigans we've seen currently, including werner koch's gpg subversion most recently ; it would not be inconceivable at this point if a good chunk - thousands, hundreds of thousands of keys can actually be factored once we figure out which exact 20, 30, whatever bits are actual entropy , and how the nextprime is chosen on the basis of that.
asciilifeform: and the tube is only seeing a microscopic fraction of the photons.
asciilifeform: think of it as a geiger that rattled all day long at 1000x the familiar background for the room.
mircea_popescu: yes, the people with shitty opsec are never a tiny fraction of any group ; even if we don't meet them often
asciilifeform: well other working hypothesis is that it is ~not~ tiny fraction, but a tip of the 'birthday theorem' iceberg. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: trinque depends on setup ; sometimes nat people do this. gotta remember we're talking of a tiny fraction of the space here.
asciilifeform: do you still see a 'debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password' ?
asciilifeform: trinque: try a ssh -v ipaddrgoeshere -l root on one of these
trinque: I am on a terribly laggy connection, but people there can be understood as "manufacturers"
asciilifeform: but instead shipped with a script that generates keys on first boot
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: typically the key used for actually logging in is generated on same box. with same braindamaged rng. hopefully i dun need to draw a picture, it makes sense
asciilifeform: 'Last week, a defense lawyer argued that the FBI drastically improved the performance of a dark web child pornography site in the process of investigating it. On Thursday, the Department of Justice responded, denying those claims.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: eh, betcha hanno boeck et al are already nearly done cooking up a 'we've been surveying bad ssh keygen for 111 years' crock of shit
mircea_popescu: yes, it could have, at any point during the past year, been a significant way for the derps to contribute ; and very cheap for them.
mircea_popescu: anyway. none of this is a good use of your time atm.
mircea_popescu: ie, if paul biggar weren't a total idiot, he'd be here doing this.
mircea_popescu: get a "cloud" of likely primes, much in the way "artificial intelligence" works.
mircea_popescu: the correct move here if we had spare engineers would be to run a complete review of open sores crypto material generators, starting with openssh
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the major point re the Framedragger keyz, is that if going by the usual braindamaged-rng hypothesis, we are uncovering a small % of phuctorables.
mircea_popescu: hm this is a good point huh
asciilifeform: the latter typically do not allow for remote access (this is a major sticking point, they dun like incoming)
mircea_popescu: but yes, when i had garden in timisoara i also had a spool of cat5.
asciilifeform: sent it back, the claimed coverage area was a fiction.
asciilifeform: btw i once bought a 'clear wireless' modem thing.
asciilifeform: s inability and to provide a remedy. An indicator of the seriousness of the Board's concern is the PMC been requested to report to the Board every month, starting in August, rather than quarterly, the normal case. One option for remedy that must be considered is retirement of the project. The request is for the PMC's consideration among other possible options." '
asciilifeform: 'Outgoing Apache OpenOffice project management committee (PMC) chair Dennis Hamilton has begun the discussion of a possible (note possible at this point) shutdown of the project. "In the case of Apache OpenOffice, needing to disclose security vulnerabilities for which there is no mitigation in an update has become a serious issue. In responses to concerns raised in June, the PMC is currently tasked by the ASF Board to account for thi
BingoBoingo: Well, shinohai's about to have a really disappointed Venezualan on his hands if mp doesn't
shinohai: Sure it ir, but you don't have to be a graduate of Don Juan university to do it either.
mircea_popescu: the reason he's meeting venezuelan friend isn't what you think, but - they'll both go meet the girl, take her back to hotel, then shinohai's gonna be "alright bro, now take your pants off. not those pants, these pants. yes off. here's a webpage with screenshots. ok, now..."
shinohai: you are welcome to take over maintenance BingoBoingo, I bought it a dedi shell and everything.
PeterL: obnoxious thing about winblows #67542: using \ as a directory separator rather than / like other OSen. bleh.
mircea_popescu: what kind of a man doesn't get blowjobs ?
boolcrap: ;;8ball "will i die a free man"
boolcrap: i clicked it, and it wasnt gay. that was a suprise
mircea_popescu: and in other surgical news, http://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqkkz0k6Yn1qf2htfo1_500.gif the problem with boob implants is that the boob becomes a two-medium item, and now you experience refraction etcf.
BingoBoingo: There's a few other makers, but yes. Costs weight in silver.
mircea_popescu: it's also a dying item. pre laparascopy it was a major tool of the trade.
asciilifeform: (they converge to a needle point, that is lathe-turned conical, and ~stays that way~ after years of stabbing into various objects)
asciilifeform: for that matter, how many folks here have ever used or even seen a proper pair of tweezers.
mircea_popescu: anyway, someone found a reimplementation of eve online in php made by some mexicans (literally), edited some stuff in his notepad ; but then the machine "caught some viruses" when he was making banners (ie, downloaded random photoshop crack) and well...