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asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-19#1468573 << i'ma bite this bait. tell me, what constructive thing have improvements in finance in past 30y enabled ? ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: and quite like ~all the other usg academics i spent most of my working life working with.

asciilifeform: (i was sent to sit on a committee of sorts, with him in it)

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-19#1468579 << lulzily, shortly after i wrote this i actually met the man. ☝︎

Framedragger: re. golang, i understand the sentiment yeah

Framedragger: yeah i see what you mean. also nice to keep idiots in single basket

mircea_popescu: for instance, i'm deliberately keeping my ongoing "war on the web" as far as attacking forums goes on a very low roar. not that i couldn't scale it up and end ~any web-based forum, owing to the incredible incompetence of the scammers involved. but then, millions of derps would in a voice go "ok so these are bad, what should we do ?"

mircea_popescu: this is where one writes code as a young man that then makes them famous for rest of life, the c and whatnot of our time. you see what i mean ?

mircea_popescu: it's not very much clear there's anything much there besides the usual marketing crapolade. i dunno how familiar you are with this phenomena, but let me dig a fine example out of the log.

asciilifeform: and so i am not interested in a crypto lib that calls out to google crapolade.

asciilifeform: until very recently i used to think quite like mircea_popescu above, 'sure, i'll read even if implemented in js'

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude i'm going to make the REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION of your next girlfriend in golang and what'll you do then.

asciilifeform: Framedragger: i think you just answered yer own question

Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah ok i'm afraid i've to agree

mircea_popescu: nah. i disagree. usa was first to pretend like underage male fuckwards are "worker bees", which only can be meaningfully attempted for ~a certain kind~ of software. what we reference here as the web.

mircea_popescu: incidentally speaking of https://voat.co/p/partnerprogram anyone knows the voat people ? i think it's conceivable mpex might list them...

mircea_popescu: i did find what i wanted in the end, though.

BingoBoingo: You know, I bet the local farm supply store would have had a better ball gag than all those porno stores...

mircea_popescu: if i had any sort of local confirmation or somesuch actual meat. but i've not been investing in connecting to the local agros who the shit cares, and obv el presidente'd rather die than give up this one, and i'm noit about to start torturing elected presidents just yet.

BingoBoingo: I will in a couple hours, gotta get a string trimmer and re-piece. Or you know you could do the tie ins from Argentina bsns perspective.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i guess we retrospectively discovered what a major point of discussion in the recent bahamas-macri meeting was. and the local socialist fucktards thought they ran off and hid in the countryside because of them. lelz. "reddit we diddit!!1"

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, monsanto is very much apple'd. the original idea seemed promising, in the 90s. sometime years ago, dunno exactly when cuz they've been keeping it secret and i never cared that much, they found out it's a doomed entreprise. ever since then... MON's been pretty much a stock scam.

BingoBoingo: Anyways what I found especially lulzy was putting glyphosate and dicamba in the same bottle and calling it innovation.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i suppose that must be the explanation, "carried resistance". ie, they had it, genetically, but not normally expressed. until environment changed and so genetic expression changed to fit.

shinohai: I read "toxic Ether"

mircea_popescu: incidentally i have nfi how that worked so well for the weeds. pretty impressive.

shinohai: I haven't looked into D-STAR much, but it is proprietary chip, which opens possibility that it is already pwnd at that level, you cannot decrypt message without it.

shinohai: I still have an sdr and god-awful yagi hooked up to this day

shinohai: Radio was like the first thing I was interested in as a child.

shinohai: I grudgingly admit that mircea_popescu was right as always, that I would enjoy it if I got off my ass and did it.

Framedragger: so, i'm not gonna argue..

Framedragger: maybe i have. look, i know those folks personally, by which i mean, not only over the internets. however, malice/incompetence are the same in terms of effects

shinohai: That black loose-leaf from Iran or China is what I'm making

shinohai: ^ dafuq did I just read

mircea_popescu: "Are you a business man/woman or an ARTISTS,POLITICIANS,PASTOR,ENGINEER,DOCTOR, STUDENTS, GRADUATED and you want to become Rich Powerful and famous, in life or,Are you frustrated in life. What type of wealth do you want? Today is your luckiest day, 'I want to join great Illuminati occult in Nigeria' we are here for those of you that want to join Illuminati Brotherhood in Nigeria and across Africa."

shinohai: I guess it got lost in the other noise in mah feed

shinohai: Nice fph archive there BingoBoingo ... I'd love to see a 450 lb sloth attempting to pedal a bike.

Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-19#1468376 << yeah.. because fuck URLs amirite.. i'd think the nadim guy (of cryptocat) rebased commit history on purpose.. what's funny/sad is that many many stupid people did use cryptocat during those periods of encraption in cryptocat.. too bad for them ☝︎

Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-19#1468376 << yeah.. because fuck URLs amirite.. i'd think the nadim (of cryptocat) rebased commit history on purpose.. what's funny/sad is that many many stupid people did use cryptocat during those periods of encraption in cryptocat.. too bad for them ☝︎

mircea_popescu: "Why did it all turn out like this for me? I had so much promise. I was personable, I was bright. Oh, maybe not academically speaking, but ... I was perceptive. I always know when someone's uncomfortable at a party. It became very clear to me sitting out there today, that every decision I've ever made, in my entire life, has been wrong. My life is the opposite of everything I want it to be. Every instinct I have, in every fac

a111: Logged on 2016-05-18 21:23 mircea_popescu: lol i see the Framedragger fellow got his baptism by fire ?

Framedragger: *i

asciilifeform: 'Bad crypto. DO NOT USE. There is IV reuse and the password KDF is one of the worst I've seen: cryptcat -k bunnies -l 12345 cryptcat -k b5ee9e3 127.0.0.1 12345 or cryptcat -k Kue.ins 127.0.0.1 12345 Also no MAC and you can XOR anything to the first 16 bytes of each packet without artifacts.'

mod6: soooo i went through the epic headache of setting up sks server on dulap, only to learn that the thing will not work without blessing from existing sks operators. <<< uuuuugh

asciilifeform: i thought we were doing escape artists.

mircea_popescu: i suspect this interpolation is correct only up to a point, and what;s interesting happens long after that inflexion.

mircea_popescu: i took "temperament" to stand as proxy of general human quality.

mircea_popescu: institute for this or the other, i forget.

mircea_popescu: i think its purpose was to feed some semblance of usable rw data into the research center of w/e it was called

phf: i realize more and more that the fall of soviet union was to my great disadvantage.

a111: Logged on 2016-05-18 22:57 phf: i don't actually know, but i think i recall some высоцкий records with 30kp markings?

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-18#1468267 << hilariously, i never saw a vysotsky VINYL until a family phriend gave me his massive set as a gift in usa! most folks heard him on bootleg tape. ☝︎

phf: mircea_popescu: you know that is weird, seems like sop was accessible prices even at fancy places, but was discouraged from attending. i might be misremembering something

phf: i don't actually know, but i think i recall some высоцкий records with 30kp markings? ☟︎

phf: oh, that's not restaurants i'm thinking of. i'm thinking places that would have names, and that certain kind of su crowd would reminisce over, like "Prague" or "Astoria"

phf: given that u.s. entry level engineer is somewhere in the 60k, that's like paying $1200 for a cup of coffee with pastry. and i realize that it's a totally meaningless analogy

mircea_popescu: dude... i dunno. complete (romanian style, 5 course) meal at the "university house", ie, restaurant for high ranking profs etc, ~20 lei. which was the 3rd largest bill, 1% or so of average salary.

phf: i think restaurants in su were still question of money. grandpa designed rockets, so my mom would go to restaurants with girlfriends growing up (later she worked at Sovicenter, which is a whole different level of access), and she would quote prices like 2.30 for a coffee and eclair. i think junior engineer salaries were somewhere around 90, a well to do pleb's end-of-career would be around 140, grandpa was making somewhere in upper

pete_dushenski: i never could quite understand the 'no tipping' blather. never seemed like much of a trend. turns out, i was right!

pete_dushenski: lol!1 i always thought torahs (torot?) were carried in brinks trucks or similar

pete_dushenski: lel. couldn't be more relevant. i have not one but two amigos who are actively searching for... car washes

pete_dushenski: reminiscent of stories i've read from croatia (and rest of east bloc presumably) where tp was golden after the fall.

asciilifeform: i even have a notion that something like it once existed in usa but i suspect that everyone who remembered it is dead by now

mircea_popescu: pretty much the same effect on my hindbrain as i suppose the "NUDE GIRLS" shows for vegas habituals

mircea_popescu: you had those too, i suppose ?

mircea_popescu: which really are way on the top of things i miss.

asciilifeform: in case engl.speaking n00bz are now perplexed, i oughta explain that 'restaurant' in su world meant something quite more specific than in, e.g., usa

asciilifeform: i recall my father recently told a tale, when he met with several phriendz some time in '70s who were reunited after long dispersal in army

pete_dushenski: speaking of ebay, i always thought pitney bowes (oft forced upon shipping intermediary) was a subsidiary. looks like not.

asciilifeform: i.e. something typical folks could afford to do once in a spell, but usually would do 'when occasion merits'

asciilifeform: i prolly ought to point out for pete_dushenski's enlightenment that going to restaurant was a quite uncommon thing in su

asciilifeform: possibly i fail to understand the thesis of the article

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: yeah i saw

asciilifeform: i.e. maintain schellingatronic monopoly on the concept

mircea_popescu: aha. quite advanced too. i jusrt assumed ebay must be doing something to stay in the game

asciilifeform: i actually found several gigs using it

a111: Logged on 2016-05-18 16:04 Framedragger: i just think someone may have a hard on for hating X (for good reasons) but not dismiss things produced by X prima facie. then again, i suppose it's a useful heuristic in resource/time scarce universes to do just that :)

mircea_popescu: lol i see the Framedragger fellow got his baptism by fire ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: anyway, i'd say that in the interest of conserving manpower, the realtime leeching should not be a priority (honestly, it wasn't in my mind anyway, giving the ease with which hitler'd have turned it off anyway). instead the priorities for phuctor are :

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah i see. that's unfortunate.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'will not work' means that sks gossip protocol requires blessing on both ends of the line, so i'd have to make friends with an existing user

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wanted a leechatron

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu soooo i went through the epic headache of setting up sks server on dulap, only to learn that the thing will not work without blessing from existing sks operators.

asciilifeform: but recently i understood the ~reason~ why it is a waste of time

asciilifeform: at one point - in fact, until very recently - i would compulsively dig in and, weeks later, would, e.g., 'yet another google turd'

Framedragger: i just think someone may have a hard on for hating X (for good reasons) but not dismiss things produced by X prima facie. then again, i suppose it's a useful heuristic in resource/time scarce universes to do just that :) ☟︎

Framedragger: i think that's just stupid, but owell

Framedragger: well, agl is part of chrome security team, so i guess that's one more reason for you to dismiss pond

Framedragger: well, i too like non-garbage-collected no-bullshit systems languages. but golang is not shit just because it's golang. unless reasons? but maybe you've elaborated on this before..

asciilifeform: i found that it is a 100% perfect litmus for shitware.

Framedragger: gossipd is more of a federated social chat system i guess

asciilifeform: where two sides exchange, a:'i have x,y,z' b:'i have p,q,y' ..... and a sends b 'x,z', b sends a 'p,q'

Framedragger: ahhh. i should have known; hence all the names; thanks asciilifeform

Framedragger: i'd just think that they prefer that environment to the other, is all

Framedragger: best to just read the original i think: https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/fbi-harassment.html

asciilifeform: i wish i knew what he's smoking.

Framedragger: mircea_popescu: great, thank you! will do (i'll be on-and-off today, too)

mircea_popescu: Framedragger answered./ i'll be off to town now, but we can continue this discussion once i'm back, feel free to add comments.

Framedragger: i wasn't sure whether you intended for there to be a facility to post unencrypted public texts, for example (that is, that there would be a way to not only encrypt text to recipient key or set of keys corresponding to, say, a particular group - but also to post plaintext for meet-and-greet, whatnot).

Framedragger: mircea_popescu: fwiw, posted as comment on your article, and paste here: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/516b9972-337a-4b88-ba48-711af84dc281/ - easiest format of responding is probably as a follow-up comment on blog, though.. anyway. i liked the overall idea.