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asciilifeform: i.e. you gotta be a saudi prince or the like
mircea_popescu: just can't get a foot over this guy can i.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 13:46 mircea_popescu: sadly stopped a year or so ago it seems ?
PeterL: yeah, in college I compromised a couple vacuum manifolds by forgetting to add a stirbar to the flask before opening to the vacuum line
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aaaaa... /me broke a half inch thick ceramic piece through pouring purified molten sulphur in there. TO CRYSTALIZE!
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: either visit a local school and take the ochem, or work through the usual practical exercises before you engulf self and others in a fireball from, e.g., 'bumping' (look it up) boiled solvent under vacuum
trinque: unstable way before almost burning a condo.
thestringpuller: i've srsly never seen a successful longterm harem in my meatwot.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: the other one almost ended up in scenario where a girl burned down his condo, when she went unstable cause "My needs aren't being met".
thestringpuller: PeterL: yea i have a few videos where they use a vacuum pump and change the pressure (measured at the condensor)
mircea_popescu: harem made out of negative contributors is a pretty doomed affair.
thestringpuller: just didn't know if there is a lab I should do to learn the process better
thestringpuller: i'm doing it for refining "essential Oils", i'm going to buy a short path fractional distillation set ☟︎
PeterL: my current project at work is working with cocaine (measuring small levels of impurities in a pharmaceutical cocaine solution)
asciilifeform: believe or not, i also had a working toothbrush.
mircea_popescu: it's a wonder you still have ytour teeth.
asciilifeform while was a student, sometimes at an entire can of it in one sitting in place of a meal
mircea_popescu: es. You see a thick layer of dark brown jam-like material and think, this couldn't possibly be caramel, there's just too much of it. And so worldliness leads you to great giant bites and then disaster." << this is very much on point.
mircea_popescu: y case, and the containers go up to a liter in size. Even the churros are stuffed with it - the churros, Montresor! For anyone who has had pastries in Europe, the added horror is that dulce de leche is identical in color, texture and consistency to a number of much less sweet, tasty fillings, like the earthy chestnut material the French call crème de marrons, or the tart kind of plum butter popular in Eastern European bakeri
mircea_popescu: "Dulce de leche is a culinary cry for help. It says "save us, we are baffled and alone in the kitchen, we don't know what to do for dessert and we're going to boil condensed milk and sugar together until help arrives". This cloying dessert tar is so impossibly sweet that you wish you were ten years old again, just so you could actually enjoy it. It is everywhere. There is a special dulce de leche shelf in the supermarket dair
shinohai: Such a slow month for qntra, was trolling for stories found this braindamage
mircea_popescu: shinohai fucking reddit. apparently they not only not heard of V, but their ears are simply shaped in such a way they CANT hear of v.
asciilifeform: le, you begin to notice that all the essays are an elaborate set of mirrors set up to reflect different facets of the author, in a big distributed act of participatory narcissism.'
asciilifeform: y begin to understand that a hacker is someone who resembles Eric Raymond. Dave Winer has recently and mercifully moved his essays off to audio, but you can still hear him snorfling cashew nuts and talking at length about what it means to be a blogger[7] . These essays and this writing style are tempting to people outside the subculture at hand because of their engaging personal tone and idiosyncratic, insider's view. But after a whi ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'In Paul Graham's world, as soon as oil paint was invented, painting techniques made a discontinuous jump from the fifteenth to the twentienth century, fortuitously allowing Renaissance painters to paint a lot like Paul Graham. ... I blame Eric Raymond and to a lesser extent Dave Winer for bringing this kind of schlock writing onto the Internet. Raymond is the original perpetrator of the "what is a hacker?" essay, in which you quickl
mircea_popescu: sadly stopped a year or so ago it seems ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: the government has only itself to blame in all fucking contexts. either it's a government of the republic oppressing idiots, or else it has no excuse and no defense.
asciilifeform: ory wonders take on a second, clandestine life under advanced socialism. The local plumber who needed a new piston rod for his Fiat 126p certainly didn't mind if it happened to be machined out of elemental titanium to a tolerance of 0.05 microns, and the next time a pipe froze you could count on him to show up bright and early. In this context of creative craftsmanship and mutual aid the government had only itself to blame when illeg
asciilifeform: 'One reason you don't want to cross Eastern Bloc scientists is that they are by necessity handy people. Operating in a barter economy, even the most unworldly theoretician learns certain marketable skills. Besides the inevitable need to jury-rig spare parts for their own experiments, scientists have to horse trade for basic conveniences like anyone else. And so it was not uncommon to see ultraprecision machine tools and other laborat
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo send the man a congratulatory email ? since it turns out you linked him first.
asciilifeform: a wide audience. We couldn't use a weather balloon, however, since it would be easy to check where it had come from. ...'
asciilifeform: hematician Leon Jeśmanowicz, was an electronics engineer and an ardent glider pilot. He determined that even a weak radio transmitter in an airplane flying at great height could be heard perfectly well over a significant area. That was an idea. Jerzy Wieczorek, a physicist (later president of Toruń) pointed out that we could attach the transmitter to a balloon. It would make the transmitter harder to find while enabling us to reach
mircea_popescu: thing is, we had the nod thing back in romania ; when i visited the eastern empire as a tyke, native chicks that spoke no language i spoke nevertheless knew how it works just fine.
mircea_popescu: "Men ask women to dance by trying to make eye contact and nodding towards the dance floor in a gesture called the cabeceo. In theory this is a discreet way for men to save face in the event of a refusal; in practice it means men cross the darkened room, stand three steps in front of their intended partner, and wag their head gravely until she either gets up to dance or tells them to go away." <<< bwahahaha. fucking idiots. th
mircea_popescu: "People dance tango at a structured event called a milonga (the word can also apply to the dance hall itself, or to a two-beat older form of tango music), the only social setting in Argentina where you must fetch your own drinks and empanadas at a bar rather than waiting for table service." <<< ahaha fucking bs. as erryone can attest, you get table service.
asciilifeform: (not to deploy pubkey weight a MB in battlefield..)
mircea_popescu: and honestly, if you need a larger key than 4096 you should just pick a different crypto system.
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/4fd101d5-8f2d-4e01-94c9-239bd9abefb3/?raw=true << a 4096 run
asciilifeform: apparently needs a pill
mircea_popescu: in any case : if you're going to genocide an entire fucking skin tone, do me the general courtesy and don't turn around dressed in a plush costume of their dance.
mircea_popescu: oh btw, re tango : it is a living testament to the ignorant, molasses-thick hypocrisy of these people that they regard tango as "their national heritage", when tango was invented and developed by BLACK DUDES. who then got a little bit of genocide, deliverately (argentina declared war with peru, told black people they make better fighters, sent them to fight, got them exterminated by the mountain folk. this is not unlike telli
trinque: guy on IRC elsewhere was earlier expressing his amazement that I could find a coffee shop at 7am
mircea_popescu: who THE FUCK locks a shop door.
mircea_popescu: anyway, "San Telmo is a tango-rich environment and there are many studios advertising instruction, but this one seemed the most accessible for someone with social anxiety. There were no buzzers to ring, stairs to climb, or windowless doors to knock on." << the difference of style is palpable.
Framedragger: of the argentinian-flavoured posts of his, this one is apparently well-regarded (haven't read yet) http://idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day.htm
mircea_popescu: apparently he lasted all of two years a decade ago ?
Framedragger: ^ true, i guess; and political control over idiots is not a de facto given at all, so, sure, problem.
trinque: ah well, there's a lot of them around so far.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's altogether unclear how much political control over others is required for individual freedom. certainly political control OVER IDIOTS, which includes small children, as well as all the adults with the mind of a small child.
Framedragger: sadness is a useful state of mind, fwiw
mircea_popescu: (why 0x010001 ? yes, it's a magic number. but it has magic reasons : 1) it is prime ; 2) it is the fastest multiplication on a 64 bit machine, because it's just a concatenation ; 3) could make it even longer by the same process, but that has a significant impact on speed with no visible security benefit. so it's magic for a god damned reason.)
trinque: Framedragger: among other reasons anarchism is not a thing, this.
mircea_popescu: LET ALONE people with pretensions as to a life of the mind.
trinque: buddy of mine had a twatter somewhere listing the various open sores curl-to-sudos
trinque: you forgot a sudo on your curl |
mircea_popescu: Framedragger this bs just can't fucking stand, how someone can sleep at night thinking "hey, i'm a maintainer!" atop THAT codebase is anyone's guess.
mircea_popescu: and i'll be singing a prayer
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah, i'm actually felling a bit of that constructive mp-rage towards gnupg. by god it should be kicked and replaced as soon as possible
mircea_popescu: there's a pile of incidental nonsense (such as min length for name but not password hurr ; such as 2.0.30 current doesn't even fucking compile, such as etc) that shouldn't disappear under "oh, mpi"
mircea_popescu: yest log is a grim testament of just how little faith republic has in gnupg, and for that matter gnu/foss generally.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger well he got a little excited. but the original observation was pretty scary, which is what got every hand on deck following along (me, mod6 etc)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sha512 and cut to be defined by user ; with the caveat that if they don't produce a min of 258 bytes / 257 258 bytes user is taking life in his own hands. we provide defaults (keccak , "take first nth bytes" respectrively). key size NOT to be defined by user ; tmsr-rsa keys are al 515 bytes long.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger you realise it turned out to be a datastruct artefact yes /
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform since we're on this btw, the way i want tmsr-rsa key generation to work is as follows : a contains a number of entropy bytes specified by user in tmsr-rsa.conf read whenever tmsr-rsa.conf specifies (such as urandom); b contains a base-tmsr string specified by user. c = base-tmsr(a).b ; p = nextprime(cut(sha512(c),257)) ; process is repeated for q = nextprime (cut(sha512(c'),258)); ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: there is a cleaner, still, unpublished ver.
asciilifeform: try it yourself with a phuctor key.
mircea_popescu: is this a matter of fact ?
asciilifeform: they have a WHOLLY DIFFERENT format.
asciilifeform: which transforms to an actual sequence of meaningful bits of the bignum via a gnarly process.
mircea_popescu: i thought it's a memory dump
asciilifeform: that does not correspond to an integer, as such, it has pieces of it, chunks, each having a header
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu this is still a raw mpi hexdump
asciilifeform: so far i am at a loss as to how one becomes the other.
mircea_popescu put them through a binarytron
mircea_popescu: well im running a 1.4.10 just for shits and giggles.
asciilifeform: and what did mircea_popescu use for a compiler, that ate this.
asciilifeform: let's try a small variation on the theme.
asciilifeform: dun forget to glue a saf to an ety first.
mircea_popescu: this guy's "reasoning" is a process of incredible awkward awesome.
asciilifeform: If we are generating a secret prime we are most probably
asciilifeform: contains a single rng invocation,
asciilifeform: generate_secret_prime( unsigned nbits ) gives us a
asciilifeform: you gave it a passphrase.
mircea_popescu: check it out... if you do ANYTHING but -a "username", ie no quotes, or fp or anything, it just dumps ALL PRIVKEYS IT KNOWS.
asciilifeform: btw, here is a handy elementary proof of a certain thing,
asciilifeform: this is promising to be a very awkward occasion.
asciilifeform: soooo the subkey idiocy is apparently the 2nd half of a bipartite poison.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : when generating a new key, name NEEDS to be at least 5 chars long. password however - can be 4.
mircea_popescu: ima run a bunch and we can see
asciilifeform: this is a headshot.
mod6: give me a few here...
mircea_popescu: mod6 do a ocupla more ?
asciilifeform: and this is not a hard bound, either
asciilifeform: that's ~26 bytes of a 1024-bit prime.
asciilifeform: this may be enough to blow away a good fraction of extant gpg pubkeys.
asciilifeform: sarkar and maitra give us a bang if we know 0.266N consecutive shared bits.
mod6: 2.x is such a pile of dung
mircea_popescu: arguably it's a lot more useful, too.
asciilifeform: funnily enough, testing on a box that, long ago, used to have gpg2 working...
mod6: yah, this is just a test box.