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mod6: i'm kindof an asshole right now - I told diana_coman that I'd play more this year, just need to get
a new box first. that was... months ago. :/
mircea_popescu: mod6 yeah not bad idea. i have
a box playing eulora all day long
mod6: im gonna get myself
a new box one of these days.
mod6: mircea_popescu sings "i did it one step at
a time, and it didn't cost me
a dime... i got the only one there is around" << lol, great song.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-05 00:40 mircea_popescu: "Testing RSA keys after generation is
a fool's quest. This is
a nice thing to do to detect some poor implementations, not poor keys. Moreover, it detects only certain classes of poor keys (specifically, those with small factors). It does not detect poorly seeded RNG used in an otherwise correct RSA private key generation." << god i love reading year-old webwisdom/community consensusi.
mircea_popescu: "Testing RSA keys after generation is
a fool's quest. This is
a nice thing to do to detect some poor implementations, not poor keys. Moreover, it detects only certain classes of poor keys (specifically, those with small factors). It does not detect poorly seeded RNG used in an otherwise correct RSA private key generation." << god i love reading year-old webwisdom/community consensusi.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
a right, that's prolly the right reference, since shinohai was working on it.
ben_vulpes: phf: did you ever release the original sources to which your mp-wp patches apply? i scanned
a few days of logs and didn't see anything other than the wp-content and
a few patches.
mircea_popescu: best get phf's variant, iirc he fixed
a bunch of stuff.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: can i get
a re-link to mp-wp.tar.gz?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform oh btw, discussion in #eulora reminded me : peano,
a very respectable LITERATE mathematician, did in fact chase cantor's counterintuitve result, did in fact find
a unit interval to unit space mapping, DID in fact construct
a fucking tile to decorate his house, but did NOT put any fucking drawings in his work explaining how to make
a non-zone-differentiable function.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, idiot local glossmag had pic of i forget which celeb and her 11 or so yo daughter. who was, fitting for
a child that age in summer, topless.
mircea_popescu: if they weren't on efnet i might even have dropped in for
a hi.
mats: i did also notice he's
a big fan of the 'qntra is slashdot repost' line
a111: Logged on 2016-06-05 17:05 asciilifeform: 'We are building an anonymous, taxable payment system using modern cryptography. Customers will use traditional money transfers to send money to
a digital Exchange and in return receive (anonymized) digital cash. Customers can use this digital cash to anonymously pay Merchants. Merchants can redeem the digital cash for traditional money at the digital Exchange. As Merchants are not anonymous, they can be taxed, enabling income or sal
mircea_popescu: there was actually
a ton of this saccharine bs in the period.
BingoBoingo eventually will get it proper hosting and just convert site to
a static archived thing
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "(Visited 38 times, 1 visits today)" holy shit that's
a sad fate for an otherwise entertainingly (if superficially) penned piece.
mircea_popescu: "It’s generally
a mistake to let twitchy nerds get their paws on statistical data." <<
mircea_popescu: memory is
a high cognitive function, which is why alzheimer's
mircea_popescu: there's
a fundamental, perhaps "not visible" in some lights line that distinguishes the college twerps who KNOW what they did from the college twerps who need someone else to tell them what they did.
mircea_popescu: this is also
a large portion of why i'm so nonplussed by theoretical "improvements"
mircea_popescu: hence all the "drugs will make things better". the ONE thing all psychoactives have in common is
a destruction of identity through fucking up memory.
mircea_popescu: but it's certainly quite deep. the vermin doesn't merely aim to
a comfortable existence, but more importantly to
a memory-less situation.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: also
a nice bastadization of "you can be anything" with "if you want something the whole universe coelhospires for it to happen"
mircea_popescu: pretty much everyone with
a visible anything gets
a ton of these
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (in usa, this is typically not nyooz, recall the missouri governor - typically
a whole president has to get plugged before it is nyooz) << Auditor, would have been governor
mircea_popescu: apparently
a warning ain't enough. which... hey, the beatings can definitely continue.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo subject to enhance penalties as "hate" crimes. << missed
a d
mircea_popescu: they somehow fail to grasp this
a) has al ong history of being tried which b) never failed to produce the opposite effect.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: are you familiar with MPEx CDO? And how the derpage was so bad it was like
a 60% default rate.
thestringpuller: That was probably the case for people scamming usagi, which is what it boiled down to. Usagi issued insurance against people who were exposed to pirate (insured their debts), then collected it into risk trenches (
A, B and C) of descending risk. he did 0 underwriting, and was overconfident. So all the people who told him they weren't exposed to pirate were.
gribble: Bitstamp | This order would exceed the size of the order book. You would buy 9580.7606 bitcoins, for
a total of 33190089.2632 USD and take the price to 1000000000.0000. | Data vintage: 0.0211 seconds
mircea_popescu: who the fuck in management would say anything other than "so buy
a proper phone" to employee who was like "i can't call the company"
mircea_popescu: so why the fuck would
a software house hire eh nevermind.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is everyone in vcland making "chat things" after we started
a chat thing is anyone's guess.
mircea_popescu: i thought the grimy looking tual fellow had...
a chat thing ?
mircea_popescu: (it should be pointed out that the torpedo also weighs about the same as
a year worth of officer)
mircea_popescu: not that anyone needs
a 50km range ton-and-
a-half monster.
BingoBoingo: Where to fit torpedos among imaginary missiles, mortars and helicopers is
a mystery
mircea_popescu: literally, anything from ww2 even, should it score
a hit in that horrendous lip of nonsense will crack the ship in two and sink it
mircea_popescu: that thing at no point was considered with
a torpedo in mind.
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as "
a safe distance autocannon" for the love of fuck.
mircea_popescu: where's the "i'd like to not have
a wall
a foot behind me to reflect all napalm and ricochet on my head"
mircea_popescu: they're built up to exploit the force of this "it works" mistake you understand ? much like
a revolver uses the gas to move the next round.
mircea_popescu: you're getting the brunt of it for your "sin" of being naively open, but whatever, you're
a big enough boy to survive it i'd hope : the above orcish "when stated plainly they laugh so whatever, the face trick seems to work" is
a large part of why people like rms failed without meaning to and without realising they were. much like the hurtless cut of the apple carpace.
mircea_popescu: reusing the name does nothing for either, and moreover there's no cause for it. he's nothing to nobody, except
a pig fucker with
a matching face.
mircea_popescu: for humans, because it doesn't serve any purpose to credit idiots; with anything. for computers, because the whole point of the idiot being named is to make it impossible for his life to continue outside of his association with his fucking
a pig.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu has
a quite spiffy article, iirc, concerning the 'bobbeck' species << <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu has
a quite spiffy article, iirc, concerning the 'bobbeck' species