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danielpbarron:
mircea_popescu, oh the why not irc, i'd have to ask for more specifics but generally he's pretty busy as it is, and he doesn't like to hang out with non believers too much
ascii_lander:
mircea_popescu: you can have dulap's gentoo, or make own when the ipkvm comes online tonight
ascii_lander:
mircea_popescu: it's racked. still need engentooation
danielpbarron: ^ there is hope for even you
mircea_popescu, for there have been rulers of the world who praised the true God
a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 18:32
mircea_popescu: because no, words don't "have meanings". your meanings for ANY WORD are a function of ALL THE OTHER WORDS YOU KNOW. which is why my definitions regularily blow out english dictionaries, wikipedia and other sources of "wisdom" out of the water - i know more words, and in this knowledge i know all the words i know ~better~. infinitely and irreproducibly so.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-11 18:37
mircea_popescu: this is how it manages the inapproximable "whisks" of meaning that latin-style then has so much trouble noting down.
danielpbarron:
mircea_popescu, re greek texts, drawin can read greek hebrew and aramaic, and is working on his own translation of the Bible
nodehelp:
mircea_popescu: i know but there are various, i was too lazy to open everyone and make a sum
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: so if the consulting demands suddenly disappeared forever, im quite sure great things would come
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: sure i can save a little. but the point is that the more i hustle consulting, the less time i have for making more valuable contributions to the world, like developing new crypto
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: interesting re:gentoo. im a gentoo developer
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: yea consulting is what ive been doing for over a decade now
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: well seems pretty clear that the future doing what im doing now is unlikely to yield aforementioned flowering sums of 2000btc (unless of course bitcoin tanks), unless a philanthropist comes along
a111: Logged on 2018-04-14 06:15
mircea_popescu: !!pay trinque 0.03
a111: Logged on 2018-04-09 15:16
mircea_popescu: soo trinque, can i hire you to install your blessed gentoo in there ?
a111: Logged on 2018-04-14 21:22
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-14#1799029 << anyway, i wouldn't simplify it quite to that point. obviously there's a pull and there's a push way to make money, and if i propose to some guy, "do x, get y" it's my push not his pull, and obviously if he wants to pull instead of waiting to b pushed aroundhe gotta do pull-y sorta things. but anyways.
nodehelp:
mircea_popescu: i know, but is going at like 1 mbit the download
a111: Logged on 2017-08-28 23:10
mircea_popescu: kanzure " Obviously there is no possiblity of meaning outside of a structure of authority, and the authority can not be predicated on the meaning."
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: so from your mention of "criminal org" it seems to me that your concern is not so much the mathematical issues that are discussed in the literature, but rather a particular history that to you indicates there must be secret attacks that only the select few geniuses at the nsa know about, and everybody pushing ecc is either in on the conspiracy or just dumber than the nsa geniuses. i guess you're entitled to this opinion -- what's
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: i take it now that mostly you're skeptical because the nsa was pushing ecc in the early years, before everyone else woke up to it
☟︎ zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: ahh that ignorant and antiquated notion, that "key size implies security size". or do you think there will be some amazing GNFS-like algorithms that come out for ECC, requiring ECC to use absurdly huge keys in the same way as RSA?
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: the keys in ECC are smaller. if your position is that this cant possibly mean it's more secure than RSA, then i suppose the actual claim you're making is that 'ECC with ECC-sized keys is less secure than RSA with RSA-sized keys'. what's the basis for this?
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: im curious -- why are you so bent on RSA? ECC has been around for quite some time now and has numerous advantages
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: the more interesting approach to foiling that kind of traffic analysis is the general topic of mixnets
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: and i think having that kind of thing always on -- constant chattiness -- would be a security step backwards, since it'd give up stealthiness. but of course if you still wanted it for a special use case, there's nothing in wireguard preventing you from having it pretty easily
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: wireguard isnt a library. its a virtual network interface that tunnels ip packets. what im pointing out is that your suggestion implies that both sides must _keep_ talking always, since thats the only way to obscure termination messages.
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: re:rand(20,200) - sorry. random number of bytes is all i was going for. (an ip header is 20 bytes, so you'd probably want to bound it at that. and 200 seems like a reasonable cut off. but of course we could keep engineering and designing that sort of thing and come up with different numbers.)
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: if what you mean is rather than sending an empty packet, i should instead rand(20,200) zero bytes encrypted, then i wonder what this would accomplish. the other side now receives this. if it's a keepalive message (which it knows after decryption), then it goes silent. if it's not, then it either responds with whatever is appropriate to respond to that, or if it has nothing to say, it would have to send a keepalive too. in
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: let's take a protocol that just encrypts ip packets and nothing more. traffic analysis of the size of packets gives you something, especially in the case of TCP where there are necessary types of responses at various points. but i suppose you want me to consider "general purpose cases". so im thinking about a raw UDP protocol. in this case, it might be that at the end of an exchange, one side has nothing more to say, and so it says
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: im trying to apply what you said to IP
zx2c4:
mircea_popescu: could you elaborate your argument on why you think the 0 response is different from the 16, 32, 48, etc response? spare me the hand-wavy "its always an invariant!" arguments. can you give some real security analysis of what you have in mind? am willing to take your concern seriously if theres a good case for it
a111: Logged on 2018-04-16 14:45
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-16#1799724 << this is the equivalent of "designing" a caveroom. tell you what : if your approach is substractive, no systems engineering took place. the guy hacking a motorcycle out of two broken cars isn't an industrialist, he's a scavenger. these are fundamentally, and radically, different things.
ascii_lander:
mircea_popescu: 1 problem with 'modern' industry is that virtually every design includes elements of 'hack old cars that were ~given~ into new motorcycle'
ascii_lander: but
mircea_popescu is entirely right, gotta document
ascii_lander:
mircea_popescu: i read it, it was a snoar, ethertards doing their 'unhappen this eggog, unlose some shitcoin' thing again.
mod6:
mircea_popescu: no, thankfully. I'd probably have died. I have a mean-snowblower.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-14 21:22
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-14#1799029 << anyway, i wouldn't simplify it quite to that point. obviously there's a pull and there's a push way to make money, and if i propose to some guy, "do x, get y" it's my push not his pull, and obviously if he wants to pull instead of waiting to b pushed aroundhe gotta do pull-y sorta things. but anyways.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-14 21:12
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-14#1799018 << the notion that there's such a thing or could be such a thing as "resonable expectation" of pre-existing userland on the basis of os is not unlike young women expecting fucking them means they get to reorganize your bathroom.
douchebag: hanbot: I only asked because someone joined as
mircea_popescu but I wasn't sure if it was really him due to his name getting switched to guest. I'll be less noisy when bringing women in here.
hanbot: look at the log where i linked it, for example. the girl registers, the bot confirms she's registered, ---you announce that you got her registered---. a few lines down you've got four lines to announce that there's a problem with a picture, after the picture's been posted. how many times yesterday did you ping
mircea_popescu and then do it ---again--- to ask if he's around? etc.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-15 00:09
mircea_popescu: in other news : darwin fish, of fabled atruechurch group, agreed to do a q/a session for a coupla hours tomorrow / next week sometime.
douchebag:
mircea_popescu: I got this slut to do it the right way finally
a111: Logged on 2018-04-15 07:02
mircea_popescu: BethanyC, b1f4f729. half hour.
deedbot:
mircea_popescu rated ckang 2 at 2018/04/12 16:37:51 << diplomatic agent o.O
ben_vulpes: thanks for questioning,
mircea_popescu ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: i haven't put major time into this particular burr, but it is on my conveyor and i don't expect it to be a major pita or be seen by anyone but me
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: i must be thick, or whoever packaged it for gentoo did some inscrutable 'simplification' as a vanilla apache install over here came with none of the conveniences i expected to see a la a2ensite or sites_enabled/disabled, adding Include /path/to/vhosts.d/*.conf caused serverwide barfage
mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2018-04-12 06:48
mircea_popescu: anyway ben_vulpes here's where you thank me profusely for having saved you dicking about with entirely nonbroken stacks for an alfternity.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-15 00:02
mircea_popescu: !!pay Jennnie 0.02
tracy38:
mircea_popescu: dance, i friends with mirrah
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I think there was a prior zinging which would make this a zong
douchebag:
mircea_popescu: I got her registered
ascii_lander: ( vs
mircea_popescu's old tumblr linx, where i several times noticed dupes from 2014 say )
ascii_lander:
mircea_popescu: right. not iirc, i dun recall seeing one that i suspected resembles old
a111: Logged on 2018-04-15 00:07
mircea_popescu: ascii_lander, tell me this, have we actually seen these tits before ?
ascii_lander: but otherwise yes, what
mircea_popescu said, re gloves. wai not.
a111: Logged on 2014-08-12 02:16
mircea_popescu: TimSwanson you the guy with the ofnumbers/book thing ?
ascii_lander:
mircea_popescu: 'not shakespeare, but other man by that name'(tm)(r) eh
ascii_lander: hey it's
mircea_popescu's game, if this is cricket -- then who am i to say.
douchebag:
mircea_popescu: Jennie is here for tits
a111: Logged on 2018-04-14 21:39
mircea_popescu: maybe the vape thing is destined to one display case in the weird bongs and indian spices shop, i figure.
lizza:
mircea_popescu: hello, here for tit pic
douchebag:
mircea_popescu: Missy420 needs a code
douchebag:
mircea_popescu: She's another discord girl
a111: Logged on 2018-04-14 05:34
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron so what's the dirt, what happened between the david fish fellow and the al soto fellow ?
a111: Logged on 2018-04-13 20:16
mircea_popescu: zx2c4 you'd be terribly worse off, and so would be the bitcoin ecosystem.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-13 16:21
mircea_popescu: the moment we bake in the assumption that "this is a bitcoin node", suddenly the os is no longer gp ; we'll want a special fs in there etc.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-13 16:20
mircea_popescu: now then, a "general purpose operating system" is "that set of code which is trusted implicitly", "as long as it makes no particular assumptions about the rest of the code that will run on the machine".
mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2018-04-14 01:17
mircea_popescu: trinque you might be overdramatizing ; what, you think i've never lost a team ? what am i, made of pure energy ? shit happens ; gotta have plans in place and move on.
trinque: ohey
mircea_popescu, pls to gpg an ssh pubkey
mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2018-04-14 02:49
mircea_popescu: or is this your discreet way of proposing pizarro's bust :D
a111: Logged on 2018-04-14 01:42
mircea_popescu: whereas this, it's more a case of carrying a knife up your ass. it decides when and what.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-19 01:32
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-19#1686438 <<< yes, because you're applying the pretense of statics to a dynamic situation. trinque 's metaphore is very much factual : we were paradopped on hot coals, by the FAULT, inexcusable, and indelible, of our parents. they should have taken care that we do not get dropped on hot coals, as children barely able to move. they did not, and derelict in their first and practically speaking on
trinque: ben_vulpes: that's an accurate rendering of my opinion. I think
mircea_popescu was correct in that there's an unavoidable cost of doing business of a startup wallet service.
trinque:
mircea_popescu: wallet is back online
a111: Logged on 2018-04-12 18:58
mircea_popescu: avgjoe it's exactly equivalent to "segwit" except much less expensive.
douchebag: I just want to have a dedicated box to review these on, and as
mircea_popescu mentioned I'll be sent a server
trinque:
mircea_popescu: just trying to frontload the decisions so I'm not on my ear when somethign raises its head.