asciilifeform: in other lulzies, http://www.loper-os.org/pub/bbet.jpg

asciilifeform: ( you will see non-kr brand marks, but the internals are samsung )

asciilifeform: ~monopoly.

asciilifeform: any moar.

asciilifeform: ssd landscape is far sadder, ~nobody but s. kr makes serious flash roms.

asciilifeform: that was mechanical disks, when, iirc, taiwan flood

asciilifeform: a 300 $ ssd could easily turn into a 30,000 $ .

asciilifeform: before the koreans burn.

asciilifeform: speaking of hdd, now is probably not bad time to load up on ssds, if you use'em in any qty.

asciilifeform: i bet it goes great with the dying hdd bird

asciilifeform: brekekekex.

asciilifeform: i went out to the swamp and tried to tell this to the frogs, the cicadas, dun seem to have worked.

asciilifeform: 'i forgot moar maths than you ever learned, maggots' (tm)(r)(prof. b)

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: asciilifeform has degree. it is in a cardboard tube, in a broom closet, with mops, pans, old pcbs.

asciilifeform: wtf is a graduate head

asciilifeform: will look quite similar.

asciilifeform: you can transform bytecode liquishit to whatever language, fortran, basic, if you like

asciilifeform: what kind of surprise does ben_vulpes expect ?

asciilifeform: 'yay! we finally can haz opaque blobs of liquishit running in our cl proggies!11111'

asciilifeform: what the fuck is the point of running a cl runtime so as to run llvm bytecode ?

asciilifeform: still snoar.

asciilifeform: ok, looks like they are there so that 1) clang can build them to llvm bytecode 2) emulator then runs same.

asciilifeform: did somebody just collect rubbish from old 1990s hdd and upload ?!

asciilifeform: how about doom1.wad (?!!)

asciilifeform: what is 'This is a quick hack of Quake ported to the Simple DirectMedia Layer library' doing in there ?

asciilifeform: what is sdl graphics library (c) doing in there ?

asciilifeform: what sort of 'lisp os' needs a massive c compiler ?

asciilifeform: and why does it need to build llvm and clang ?!

asciilifeform: linked item is a llvm bytecode to cl translator ( undergrad homework )

asciilifeform: where's the 'os' ben_vulpes ?

asciilifeform: in other lulznoose, 'Pennslyvania Avenue in front of the White House and Lafayette Park have been evacuated.' 'suspicious object'

asciilifeform: the one thing that is quite opaque to asciilifeform -- does somebody's head ~actually~ work like this ? or is this elaborate parody/mockery

asciilifeform: to 'verify' -- get this -- he periodically asks ~hash of the perl src~ -- because it Would Be Wrong!111 apparently, to write a proggy that sends the right hash but runs Wrong logic..

asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/Zg1MF/?raw=true << deobfuscated perl from subj. he loads arbitrary extensions via -- yes -- plain ftp

asciilifeform: even will spend money to put it on better iron

asciilifeform: add basic flavouring, and idiots install your ???.exe

asciilifeform: to revisit upstack, it is fascinatingly easy to assemble ~voluntary~ arbitrary-code botnet

asciilifeform: they exist, presumably, for the mcfood dispensaries, the riot cops, 'professionals who deal for a living with the stinking poor' per mircea_popescu's old article

asciilifeform: they don't show up on the radar tho.

asciilifeform: plenty of nubbinses seem to be quite all right not saying much of anything, but only sitting and metabolizing their mcfood

asciilifeform: i thought nubbinsing was a more elementary 'there are no superior men! see, this one, he's a piece of shit just like me, i'll show how'

asciilifeform: ( btw bbet still dead!1111 )

asciilifeform: it still doesn't explain why some frogs croak, others -- emit lolcats, but yet others -- faux phuctors

asciilifeform: ( and notice, there is a piece re 'cryptoguru.org' but never phuctor . )

asciilifeform: and likewise promoting the notion that bitcoin can have 'rightful owner' who differs from the keyholder.

asciilifeform: https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/trophies << quite different interpretation suggests itself -- they are 'princetonizing' the work of the 2014 folx who searched for reused nonces.

asciilifeform: ( what is the motivation, i have nfi, probably the usual dekulakization itch )

asciilifeform: but apparently these folx dun care.

asciilifeform: this is screamingly -ev vs., say, ordinary mining.

asciilifeform: ( https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/man/theory )

asciilifeform: seems like they search for ripemd collisions, 'At the moment, the pool is looking for private key collisions of P2PKH addresses. We are looking only at addresses with funds on them (see below for the why) and at the moment there are around 9 million of these in use. The pool uses a probabilistic data structure called Bloom filter to do the checking for each newly generated hash160 against all of the known hash160 with funds on them.'

asciilifeform: hey, we linked timecube neh.

asciilifeform: ( 'breaking into wallets' apparently consists of searching for sha1 puzzles )

asciilifeform: oh hey mircea_popescu , didja know that rando derp Could Be As Cool As Phuctor Even Though Never Finding Anything ? >> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-large-bitcoin-collider-is-generating-trillions-of-keys-and-breaking-into-wallets

asciilifeform: mod6: and yes, 1G+ -- the moar, the better, esp. for 'dieharder'

asciilifeform: mod6: make sure to include your terminal settings

asciilifeform: or who was it

asciilifeform: housman?

asciilifeform: what'd be, then , the point, actual jpg would almost certainly weigh ~less~ and display moar reliably

asciilifeform: unicode aint ascii

asciilifeform: but rather that asciiated films look ok, but still looks like shit much of the time.

asciilifeform: the scarcity of ready proggy for it wasn't the reason at all.

asciilifeform: i'ma leave it as an exercise then .

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: reading the paper -- it worked exactly as you'd expect -- simple deduction.

asciilifeform: in other lulzies, http://monerolink.com

asciilifeform did not succeed in making sense of linked item, despite sinking entire 10min or so into subj

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-15#1643916 << what am i reading ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-15#1643932 << this works considerably better for films than for stills . ( the 'why' is exercise for reader ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-15#1643942 << emacs is not an engineered object, like, say, mercedes, or even trabant. instead it is a pile of amoebic dysenteric liquishit. ☝︎

asciilifeform went to one that used to have empty fields around, last yr, and it was now surrounded with this cardboard.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-15#1643950 << look near just about any train stop now ☝︎

asciilifeform: ugh

asciilifeform: Fe dun turn white.

asciilifeform: i was about to say

asciilifeform: what colour is it

asciilifeform: aint no such thing as 'just oxidation'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: rust?!

asciilifeform: 'colt45 health-and-life insurance co.'

asciilifeform: moar useful.

asciilifeform: how does '9k wikipedia spelling corrections' appeal, is what i wonder. why not also walk around picking up rubbish from side of the road.

asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu described this, in the 'golden helicopter' thread

asciilifeform: ( tangentially -- i have nfi, to this day, why 'hi, i'm a lurker' needs to sit logged in. can read logs ! )

asciilifeform: where escalated ?

asciilifeform: was there more to this exchange than visible here ?

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: but i know 0 else about CompanionCube . or the other one, whose name escapes me

asciilifeform: well the original tip from him was re an item that was not indexed by any (afaik) searcher.

asciilifeform: i certainly do not.

asciilifeform: iirc a lurker/reader. was also the d00d who wrote to asciilifeform re the bolix genera thing.

asciilifeform: modern chinese gov is smarter than mao's, won't hamhandedly dekulakize, nationalize the mining farms. will instead drive them slightly farther into -ev , and they will simply be sold off to pliant shell corps

asciilifeform: davout: from my (admittedly distant) chair, it'd appear that chinese gov strategy was, roughly, 'this bitcoin heresy, let's wait for the americans to kill it, it's the kind of wetwork they specialize in'. and when this failed, now they smell burning flesh, 'looks like gotta do everything ourselves'

asciilifeform: Framedragger: i can hardly picture how it could be any easier, iirc they already de facto own ~all real estate anywhere that is for sale

asciilifeform: this strange notion, that you can have a 'your' bitcoin where privkey is held by somebody else, is a serious problem imho.

asciilifeform: if you didn't generate the privkey for it -- it ain't bitcoin

asciilifeform: davout: ergo goxcoin

asciilifeform: ( how would you 'lock down bitcoin' lol )

asciilifeform: davout: goxcoins

asciilifeform: ( ...china? )