maqp: Okay, so basically I tell my peer that this message should at some point reach my contact
maqp: and evetually it will reach them
mircea_popescu: consider what happened in gossipd when i said the line above : "<mircea_popescu> you don't know who he has in his contacts.". buncha nodes that i know went "we heard mp say so" to their downlist
mircea_popescu: as far as anyone who wasn't there is concerned, this may as well be a fabrication altogether. and so on.
maqp: Why not instead have a public repository of all public keys similar to Tor
mircea_popescu: because why would i gift upon a would-be atacker that;s really a lame ass kid unable to on hios own merit secure the cost of a proper burial
maqp: then when you want to send a message to contact, you encrypt the message with the public key and ask users to pass along the ciphertext
maqp: Why not? To have even a tiny bit of integrity you need trustworthy peer network
mircea_popescu: i don't want any integrity outside of what my wot provides.
maqp: The point is, unless you encrypt the message, anyone might have created the plaintext
☟︎ maqp: and you can be assured that only the recipient will read what you sent
maqp: so you get secrecy without affecting the anonymity
mircea_popescu: but i do not wish to be assured this ; moreover this "assurance" you provide is false, in substantially the same manner your idea of "infosec" misses security.
mircea_popescu: think about it. can i be assured ? maybe the person saves it in plaintext and loses the laptop
mircea_popescu: the only assurance to be had here comes from a gossipd model. where anyone could have written the plaintext, and for all anyone POORLY CONNECTED knows, they probably did.
☟︎ maqp: Yeah, I'm afraid there's really no situation this could be used in
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> heh anyways i just cracked xotika, picked a random feed and whaddaya know the last frame of the bloomberg video that autoplayed itself is superimposed on this poor girl's face << Known bug on Chromium using OS X and Nvidia
maqp: Security is, and has always been about adding layers, enough layers to make attack unbeneficial to attacker
maqp: usually, expensive enough
mircea_popescu: as far as i see that's pseudosecurity. security is and always has been about being secure.
mircea_popescu: adding layers is how you end up making agincourt famous.
maqp: There is no way your system can defeat targeted SIGINT monitoring attack, where government drives within a few hundred meters and collects signals emitted by your keyboard cable.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: other than by shooting on sight anyone caught doing that.
maqp: Should we abandon all security because security isn't absoulte?
maqp: The range with illuminated retro reflectors is up to 10 miles. You going to shoot anybody within that range?
mircea_popescu: well, there's no "we". but i have no interest in adding layers of sheet metal to my limo when everyone shot got shot getting in or getting out of the limo.
mircea_popescu: sure. i've been hoping to do some snuff videos of "operatives" caught with gear for years now.
☟︎ maqp: Okay. I really hope you end up creating somethign cool. Just be sure to get someone elses opinion too
BingoBoingo: Ah, there's always someone trying to find an easier, softer, way.
maqp: It's just that this type of nihilistic reasoning and security t-bones with the standard infosec discourse so badly I can't offer advice.
maqp: If you're passionate about the project, I hope you dive into it, write a paper on this and prove us wrong.
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maqp: me and whoever might agree with me
mircea_popescu: yes, that's kinda the point of b-a. it t-bones with standard * discourse so badly, as you put it.
phf: maqp: there's a number of existing cryptographic primitives that, depending on the fashions, are combined with each other in various obvious ways. we understand your approach, because it's obvious, and there similar existing attempts. you find our approach ~confusing~, maybe there's a hidden point that you're missing. a thread model that you're not quiet grokking.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, person walks into the republican capitol. there's ALL THIS SHIT. it'd be impossible not to feel even the little bit queasy.
maqp: phf: Well, when you look at history of TLS, you'll notice that modes of operation are not obvious. My approach for TFC is first of it's kind (at least in FOSS world). My approach on a-b is to see whether CIA-triad is fulfilled. If my peer can be tricked into sending messages to infiltrator / network attack that changes a single public key etc. all security is lost
maqp: confidentiality, integrity, availability
mircea_popescu: incidentally - your tinfoil suite is not at issue here. and actually to circle back to an earlier point :
mircea_popescu: you ever thought about selling i dunno, optic diode kits or something ?
maqp: It's a complicated problem. Let me quote an expert on this
maqp: Basically, LEDs and phototransistors might be secure against interdiction attacks, but the problem is finding a properly functioning pair
maqp: I think it's more safe if people download manuals from the network, and then buy COTS hardware and build data diodes / HWRNG themselves
mircea_popescu: one day someone calls up foxconn and is like hey guise... can i have fridge in cpu ?
maqp: Too bad we can't have a mature discussion about this
mircea_popescu: we can't possibly have a mature discussion about the silly in that dpaste.
mircea_popescu: understand : bitcoin consists of billions of dollars worth of custom run chips. "we"'d know.
mircea_popescu: anyway : it'd be better, of course, if users made their own. but users don't make their own, for many reasons, chief among which that they're lazy. do you specifically not want to market a product ?
maqp: There is absolutely no way to guarantee delivery against interdiction. So unless the device uses unbackdoorable components, then no.
maqp: Oh, that picture is classified Top Secret
maqp: so if you're emplyed by US gov it's illegal to view it
maqp: unless you have the clearance
mircea_popescu: you understand the difference between a gps beacon and some sort of tiny subvertor that'd fit inside an optodiode somehow ?
maqp: you understand the size of required logic and NSA running best fab in the world? ;)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so you're suspicious that your mail may be subverted, but you don't suspect pravda might be ?
mircea_popescu: tell you what, the best korea register has a story about how that fatass what's his name runs the best fab in the world.
maqp: The site uses nsa.gov as a source. If you can disprove their claims, it should make quite a scandal
maqp: But like I said, all the best. It's 3am I'm off. Night everyone!
mircea_popescu: i'll just wait for reality to disprove their claims instead. heck, they're still making the best invisibly-visible aircraft-submarine scooba diving platform, or whatever that was.
phf: ;;later tell maqp if i were you i'd split tfc.pdf into separate papers. HWRNG, data diode communication, tfc otp, tfc cev and "rationale", the last one to include all the superfluous NSA shoutouts
phf: ;;later tell maqp on a cursory inspection i couldn't figure out how the protocol decides between otp and cev, how those are identified on the wire, etc. is that up to the user?
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phf: also having read the paper, i stand by my words
phf: for extra lulz paper includes proof of otp perfect secrecy taken from a coursera cryptography course
☟︎ phf: it is also filled with the kind of things that will give asciilifeform a severe twitch: guy takes hardware rng, runs it on raspberry pi gpio, whiteness the result, and then xors in /dev/urandom. you know, for the kids!
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BingoBoingo: Ah, the best fab piece is from 2001. Plenty of time since then.
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mircea_popescu: phf internet produces necessarily a mixed bag. still, the guy correctly identified a workable airgap scheme on his own, should count for something.
☟︎ danielpbarron: he kinda reminds me of that dude who showed up in #eulora talking about how things are done in gaming or whatever
BingoBoingo: It's things like these and the /. comments that reveal's everyone's tolerance for anthropology
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo dude i just laughed hysterically at the korean derp on horse pic.
BingoBoingo: What. Preet got a picture. I figured I needed to get a picture for Kim when he tested the new bomb.
BingoBoingo pretty sure it's a shoop. Kim's kinda a ham.
BingoBoingo: Anyways the picuture was found on the internet wilds, likely shooped by Kim himself
punkman: "-hey guys remember <blink>? -Yeah... -I just reimplemented it in our browser, but even cooler. - So where do I turn this off now? -Why would you ever want to turn this off?"
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2016 02:23:29; phf: for extra lulz paper includes proof of otp perfect secrecy taken from a coursera cryptography course
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2016 03:00:17; mircea_popescu: phf internet produces necessarily a mixed bag. still, the guy correctly identified a workable airgap scheme on his own, should count for something.
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2016 00:51:02; maqp: you understand the size of required logic and NSA running best fab in the world? ;)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some sillyness about how some derp prankcalled an unnamed silicon manufacturer, pretended to be a secret agency so secret not even the name is known, asked for a spec on an unspecified cpu packaging other than "it must be just like irl ones" and received a 100k firm bid on the phone as long as he provides "his ip"
mircea_popescu: i'd actually very much want to see this wunderwaffen where they put bluetooth in the optoitem.
mircea_popescu: in parts the reddit-powered "infosec" "community" sounds a lot more like some sort of clinically relevant entomophobia in imminent danger of taking the leap into delusional parasitosis.
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mircea_popescu: the irony of the situation being that the soviets weren't nearly as impressed by the significantly more powerful soviet state.
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danielpbarron: i don't always archive links, but i had a feeling someone would be asking about that noe
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nubbins`: no coincidence that it reappears after yrs trooly
nubbins`: i need a 3.5mm TRRS to 3x RCA cable
shinohai: ;;later tell mod6 Node caught back up I think my issue is the crap box I am running it on. Going to start shopping for better node hardware I guess.
nubbins`: ty! the air was stale, not to my liking. had to resurface
shinohai: Yup BingoBoingo I keep getting connection boots, had trouble all weekend keeping it online.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: Ah mine just froze about 10-11 hours ago, finally eating blocks again
shinohai: I started another node on Friday on my friends server, it is still catching up. But I think it showed me I need to upgrade some equipments.
ascii_butugychag: ;;later tell mircea_popescu do you know of any working implementations of cramer-shoup other than the emacslisp one i linked last week ?
shinohai: I guess it isn't much in the face of Bitcoin Classic's 100's of nodes "coming soon" but trying to do my part.
mircea_popescu: sadly all everyone planted were turds, but the field's manure alright
ascii_butugychag: i suppose this then is one of those 'salvation of the drowning..' situations.
mircea_popescu: one day im going to meet these people in heaven, or else organise a special safari to hell, and give them a piece of my mind.
ascii_butugychag: where did the diode fella who came in from the cold come from ?
thestringpuller: remember though. bitcoin classic is still in beta. and it's chinese new year. and other things.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu same place just w/ less computer usage
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag punkman's wide net of stuff / danielpbarron invitede him
ascii_butugychag: i always found interesting the kind of lice and worms these folks usually walk in with
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag self-directed education always looks like this.
nubbins`: made a buncha books. been brewing a lotta beer
thestringpuller: ascii_butugychag you sound like the health food store people. "drink this dewormer before you enter"
assbot: Logged on 05-07-2015 23:53:20; asciilifeform: or that other thread, which i can't seem to find, where we spoke of how 'maths wot is not essential for being published, but for even having publishable ideas instead of burning your life on fibonacci sequences or some other solved/irrelevant dead end'
mircea_popescu: the recent debias-otp-plaintext thing being a splendid if amusing example in this exact line.
mircea_popescu: (meanwhile i asked for the why and wherefore of the "debiasing" of the plaintext. "no you idiot, it's so you burn less otp. what the fuck's wrong with you!")
mod6: shinohai: ok thanks for the update. let us know how it goes.
ascii_butugychag: but with the difference that one might, given a miracle, find more ammo
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag see, bering the commander of a glorious, victorious army unit does not protect one from dying in a drunken bar brawl.
nubbins`: re: ex-ss agent shaun bridges: hyper-lel
mircea_popescu: nubbins` think about it for a second : that man had no friends.
ascii_butugychag: and in defense of mircea_popescu , the arithmetical boojum involved was a subtle one, sorta like montyhall
mircea_popescu: a fifteen year old in what alf calls "orc" lands has at leastr a coupla of friends.
mircea_popescu: that man, that redditards are supposed to be affraid of, had none.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu my heart empathetically raced as i imagined the empty pit of despair engulfing him at the moment of re-arrest
nubbins`: the korean term for this is literally translated as "smelling sesame oil"
mircea_popescu: like the idiot thief, sorry he got caught, not sorry he's the sort of dumbass that feeds himself in the least effectual way, yes.
mircea_popescu: a bettrer man would have despaired when realising that he has no soul to rely on.
nubbins`: a better man'd be worm food decades ago
nubbins`: what a lel. i wonder what /else/ they nabbed him with.
mircea_popescu: so far the usg is like 3-0 for "kidnapped, murdered and extorted keys"
nubbins`: they pointedly stated that the released list of bounty was abridged
mircea_popescu: ofcourse, they're mostly doing their own people, but anyway.
nubbins` imagines future heavily-fractured internet reminiscent of times of old, "warez & keyz" web rings &c
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag incidentally, this is the most shocking part of the maqp kid. he is utterly alone, for this reason entirely hopeless, and his solution is "hey, better aloneliness potion would help!"
mircea_popescu: no you fucking idiot, it won't. "anonimity" is what got you in the pickle in thefirst place, you don't want more of it. you want fucking less.
nubbins`: ascii_butugychag in this fantasy, the s:n ratio is back where it was
mircea_popescu: my article specifically says "it will make kids lose their mind", and kid with lost mind reads it and it helps naught.
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: possibly kid imagines that the company of others leads directly to 'militia', and usg stoolies, and straight into jail
ascii_butugychag: which, for the typical usaschwitz 'dissident' - may well be ~true~
mircea_popescu: his present reasoning is "eating hurts, so i'll stop eating".
ascii_butugychag: and his answer may well be 'i'll die of starvation instead of eating fallout, fuckyou'
ascii_butugychag: godel famously starved because, in his words, he was convinced that he was being poisoned.
mircea_popescu: on the contrary ; a) make farts visible in the night ; b) maybe you acquire flight.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag and godel famously wasn't quite together.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is where alf's celebrated "engineering is separation" comes in.
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ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: it is almost possible to catalogue the cockroaches typically infesting n00b heads - for instance, having a set of 'too big to contemplate' steps, such as junking 'nacl' et al and writing own libs
ascii_butugychag: 'but mustn't do that, schneier told us never to write own crypto'
mircea_popescu: writing own crypto [especially if done by the typically ustardian aloneman, a la shaun bridges etc] is bound to crash in the local maxima problem discussed a minute ago.
ascii_butugychag: in the same way as 'don't cut open a man's abdomen if you want him to live' is ~generally~ correct
mircea_popescu: and if we know for a fact you're alone, the advice is entirely correct.
ascii_butugychag: and i think mircea_popescu had an article specially about this
ascii_butugychag: and the timecube linked earlier, was an even better illustration
ascii_butugychag: (it was a compendium of writings of a sci.crypt usenet crackpot)
nubbins`: the danger of homebrew beer: too yummy
nubbins`: all things in moderation! i'm down 5kg since the holidays!
nubbins`: thats not to say you can't binge drink, you just do it in moderation
mircea_popescu: im stuck with a bunch of women that all cook well and like to do it. and so i've recently discovered that eating less actually makes me feel better!
nubbins`: you can give up booze, smoking, drugs, etc
mircea_popescu: it's not fucking fair. god damned shitlords ruining the world for everyone.
mircea_popescu: harem is a fucking unbalanced construction. i should have a small army around it so they could eat my pies and i could look on and be happy in my old age.
nubbins`: give back to the local community 8)
BingoBoingo: #b-a goes through its mostly epicurean stage. nubbins` drinks less, mircea_popescu eats less, BingoBoingo realizes he only binge drinks has to stop entirely
nubbins`: BingoBoingo get on the reefers dude
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Then I'd fac the Shrem's bong dilemma.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, prolly best to learn to cope with actual sobriety first
BingoBoingo: pretty sure December I set a personal record for words. Then January set a personal record for headlines.
BingoBoingo: I think, actually checking would take time away from newsmining
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2016 16:14:35; mircea_popescu: nubbins` my problem is that i really can't stand idiots.
nubbins`: "free piez 4 smrt people" leaflets
thestringpuller: ;;later tell ben_vulpes Box is stood up. Hope you enjoyed superbowl.
mircea_popescu: "do i have any proof for my <<<claim>>> they're idiots ???"
nubbins`: mircea_popescu alberta has a peculiarity of law where one can walk away from one's mortgage, mail the keys to the bank, & not have any further liability
nubbins`: and now the gov is QQing because a bunch of people are doing it
nubbins`: well say in the meantime you razed the house and added a viper-and-mercury pit
nubbins`: ascii_butugychag i was surprised to learn (a) that this exists only in alberta and (b) that it was once so common that they came up with a catchy name for it
mircea_popescu: credit is credit ; it works like credit. what makes banks special ?
nubbins`: the canadian housing market is very strange
nubbins`: it'll be interesting watching canada regress to a hunter-gatherher society over these next few decades
nubbins`: maybe some small-scale subsistence windowsill farming in between to help bridge the gap
mircea_popescu: it would be fucking great. there's absolutely no reason for canada to pretend it's a sort of europe anymore than there's reason for argentina to.
mircea_popescu: fucking frozen wastes/soy fields ultra crepidam already.
assbot: LeSean McCoy, Curtis Brinkley in altercation with off-duty police | Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia ... (
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nubbins`: been playing with synthesizers a lot lately
nubbins`: recently watched "i dream of wires" and was sorely disappointed by it
BingoBoingo: In other news Rush Limbaugh just saved Rubio's Saturday debate performance with the other candidates were wrong for insisting Bahamas is jsut stupid and not instead abjectly evil.
BingoBoingo: ascii_butugychag: But one of them cracked a law enforcement skull
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BingoBoingo: Just offering for the record that on equal terms US police lose to demographics with more sophisticated doping methods
BingoBoingo: Right, but this time they were on the wrong side of unequal
ascii_butugychag: ianal, but afaik most usa subjurisdictions multiply penalty manyfold for damaging a whole policeman
BingoBoingo: Notable in this case is police are struggling to get arrest warrants for the sportsball players
BingoBoingo: Many ways in this case that the police for the moment are on the wrong side of unequal
thestringpuller: thought it was common "street honor" not to kill five-oh. cop has to do something really fucked up for actual criminal (the one's capable of organizing) to do "whole harm" to one, unless society has finally devolved into all out barbarism here
BingoBoingo: Cop had Champagne and Sportsball player had none in that moment. Apparently that was fucked up enough.
ascii_butugychag: in other equally-interesting news, somebody somewhere prolly got mauled by a rabid dog today.
PeterL: actually, it was a leopard
BingoBoingo: ascii_butugychag: I far more interesting news some dude in India was smote by a meteor
mats: why would you do anything less than kill cop and annihilate the remains, when it comes to harm?
mats: give the fella a chance to tell his buddies, have you beaten by plainclothesman in holding cell?
mircea_popescu: oddly enough, criminals have enough sense to murder rape victim ; do not have enough sense to murder police dude after altercation.
mircea_popescu: extra lulz points if the "rationale" is something along the lines of "hey, we'll kiss and make up".
mircea_popescu: your odds to manage that with woman you just fucked without asking about 1000x your odds to manage that with policeman that lost some teeth.
ascii_butugychag: su police, at least formally, were forbidden to appear anywhere in public except as 2+ man group.
mats: ascii_butugychag: who is the 'idiot bull', 'walking hindbrain'?
ascii_butugychag: (and likely also the policeman, but that is outside the scope)
ascii_butugychag: i really do not grasp why BingoBoingo enthusiastically follows the doings of walking hindbrains, but that's his business
ascii_butugychag: personally i find the daily life, birth and death of that meteorite linked earlier, more interesting
ascii_butugychag: (apparently they almost invariably even piss away 100% of the serious money that is paid to them)
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mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag> idiot stotting bulls are a dime a dozen. << they're a dime a dozen exactly like how microscope is a dime a dozen in post-usg us.
BingoBoingo: <ascii_butugychag> su police, at least formally, were forbidden to appear anywhere in public except as 2+ man group. << This is part of what interests me in this case. 4 police officers met 4 hindbrains in mutual combat and lost resoundingly. If not for the equal numbers would be far less interesting.
BingoBoingo: Other more boring stories about this species of hindbrain beating police in confrontations this year are piling up, but this is starting to look like a trend.
BingoBoingo: The proper approach to sportsball hindbrains is considering them as a sort of Nevada test site, but for optimizing performance of doorkickers. The trend of these hindbrains whooping the police suggests that the "Black Lives Matter" business is internalizing with the ordinance and the Trinity bomb is going feral.
BingoBoingo: But yeah, seems to support the Gendarmie hypothesis
mod6: I've basically just added the corresponding source file in the data there.
ascii_butugychag: (did i even have the filename in there? no matter, this is what we want)
BingoBoingo: In other news FSF certified the Talos Power8 workstation board. Looks like Stallman has a new computer.
☟︎ mod6: and just to verify, we *do* want to be looking at the post-patch hash value correct? the 'b' as opposed to the 'a'.
mod6: this will give us when the hash was introduced, not the last time it was changed.
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BingoBoingo: Yeah, and web browsing by wget to his email inbox
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mod6 is just pondering weather the converse is useful. finding the last time the file was changed from <given> hash
ascii_butugychag: BingoBoingo: i specifically mean his 'follow my example, use this here iron!!111' 'but no there is no place for you to get it, hahahaha'
mod6: s/from origin/since genesis/
mod6: ok, i'll leave origin in for this second beta patch.
ascii_butugychag: BingoBoingo: also gotta love how a single-source, 'monoculture' box built by ibm, as far from wot as can possibly be imagined, is now somehow an appealing thing for 'phree' enthusiasts
ascii_butugychag: also the nsa fund for this must've been quite pitiful, one would at least suppose they could have it secretly subsidized so it prices to sell !
ascii_butugychag: this being said, if the thing consisted 100% of ~documented~ fpga fabric, i would buy it
BingoBoingo: Desire for FPGA instead gets you $6 PASCAL machine
BingoBoingo: But 3k price tag likely seems to target gullible potentially disloyal lizards. The Clintons and Sean Bridges.
ascii_butugychag: i don't object to the price, this is quite cheap for a proper computer
ascii_butugychag: just that it is unlikely to end up on the desks of the poor 'lone types' mircea_popescu discussed earlier
BingoBoingo: Poor 'lone types' get their own honeypots. This is for rich and mortgaged 'lone types'
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ascii_butugychag: also no prizes for this guess, but 100% of the 'power8' will be running poetteringola and drepperism
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 21:23:54; mircea_popescu: then the outline showed up. "the change will be introduced in phases. for the first five years, only trucks and vehicles over 5 tons will switch to driving on right"
mircea_popescu: mod6 im not even sure we can depend on a notion of "time" for v purposes.
ascii_butugychag: but with possible local variations. sorta like relativistic mechanics.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 im not even sure we can depend on a notion of "time" for v purposes. << oh yeah 'the last time' is probably a bad choice of words, "the last alteration" or some such.
mod6: anyway, doesn't matter for now anyway.
mod6: im just gonna leave what i've got in there. will replicate what alf's does.
ascii_butugychag: i will half-seriously suggest that we refer to the ~set of patches, seals, keys~ that a particular vtron is aware of at his particular point in spacetime, as... his lightcone
☟︎ ascii_butugychag: your 'set' is specifically what you have in a particular v shot, usually this includes your conscious choices for that run
ascii_butugychag: your lightcone is all of the possible parts you have access to, and know of, at all, that you might build a set with
mircea_popescu: well, what you get and what you start it. "what you press" -> press -> "what you pressed". ie, the press.
ascii_butugychag: anyway i can only suggest, if mod6 wants to call his 'bzortl' this is his to make
ascii_butugychag: light cones will be relevant once we get autonomous bots scouring the universe for v set components...
ascii_butugychag: but even now, folks who get their sets from mod6's mirror, and folks who get theirs from the ml, are on divergent lightcones
ascii_butugychag: and imho this is not an entirely inconsequential thing, and ought to be remembered.
ascii_butugychag: ^ for educational reading, in case this is not obvious, rather than for battlefield
ascii_butugychag: but i must point out that a trb node that isn't synced should not be added to connection lists
shinohai: Almost @ 70% Just staryed that one a few days ago.
shinohai: Probably in the upgrade plans for this year though.
trinque: may be extremly slow going from about 350k onward
shinohai: My home node was agonizingly slow fro 300k onward.
PeterL: has anybody had ideas for how to make syncing go faster?
mircea_popescu: in general, the checking of blocks should be properly paralelized. this is a complex task, and will take a while.
ascii_butugychag: PeterL: sign a copy of the blockchain, then push it to new box...
mircea_popescu: in practice results can be achieved with more hardware.
mircea_popescu: the power rangers have esentially gone down the path of "well... let's just not do checking", which is exactly in line with us fashions.
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: actually it would be quite trivial to parallelize, i just haven't the hands presently
PeterL: has anybody here published signed blockchains?
ascii_butugychag: and i measured what takes up most of a sync time - it isn't verification
ascii_butugychag: and transmission of blocks which can't possibly be absorbed at time t
PeterL: yeah, it seems like there should be a way to tell it to cache some blocks to check later?
shinohai: I keep backup copy of blockchain on pogo now, I have it syncing from real node every 12 hours.
PeterL: but I guess that would open up a ddos attack vector?
PeterL: but could you connect to a trusted node to get past that?
phf: i recall that was first major trb patch
phf: but the thinking at the time was that trb peers shouldn't be cascade sending you bogus chains, when you don't ask for them, and that optimization should start with improvements to block request/response mechanism
mircea_popescu: <ascii_butugychag> the stock sync mechanism is batshit insane << this yes. but even if all that were fixed, verification will still take time.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10936 @ 0.00057795 = 6.3205 BTC [-]
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: it takes ~10-20s on a reasonable box, for a full block
phf: it seems like a cool profiling target, how long it takes to eatblock entire chain across different ssds on some test hardware
mircea_popescu: phf it's so fucking random you'd have to do 1000s of assays
shinohai: ^ how I imagine mircea_popescu would mine for BTC
ascii_butugychag: (picture a trb box eating blocks via diode, and shitting tx out another diode, when the knife switch is on, strictly)
ascii_butugychag: ' your ideological battles should not be waged on the backs of readers and authors who dedicate their lives to producing and disseminating good science. But if you want to commit career suicide, no one will stop you.'
mircea_popescu: show me some of this good science an english speaker produced on the basis of anglopsychosis.
mircea_popescu: seems the concept is more likely a derivation of "good law", ie, conventionally not-discarded yet, than actual science in any sense
ascii_butugychag: every other year i do end up dragging my arse to uni library solely to excavate forth a paper