mod6: nice work diana_coman
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-09-25 15:58 mircea_popescu: add a 1s delay between packets.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-27 15:36 phf: asciilifeform: but if you want a full "v replacement and i don't want to think about none of that" then just use esthlos's item. i believe he has a working keccak already
a111: Logged on 2018-09-27 15:50 phf: asciilifeform: you're just spreading fud, i don't know where to start unpacking this conversation
a111: Logged on 2018-09-27 19:52 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-27#1854952 << what you apparently did was completely ignore the matter for five months, then discover like children that you actually need tools at the time you started on the task (late at night etc) and so forth.
mircea_popescu: sadly there's no simple/just-add-water way out of "i've been ignoring this whole thing for x interval, wut nao". nao -- pick up from where you left off, what.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-19 15:56 asciilifeform: mod6: i dun like to discourage folx, esp. mircea_popescu's pupil, who is evidently pouring sweat into the job. but i expected the items would get better with time, and imho so far they haven't
mircea_popescu: but yes, the obnoxious part about the ignorant approach is that it purports to "identify as problems" the speciffic parts that are both well designed and functioning as designed, ie specifically the hash transition.
mircea_popescu: that alf manages to do this naturally and with i suspect no malice aforethought (or anything else aforethought at all) is in a sense supportive of the hopes of humanity -- apparently ignorance breeds the nonsense on its own, no "dark lizard" behind it all needed.
mircea_popescu: you realise, i'm not going to go "here -- use THIS .emacs". not in this life.
mircea_popescu: yes there's nothing wrong with people publishing toolsets ; but this can't become a fucking expectations wth. craftsman -- has toolset.
mircea_popescu: standardized tools -- for mcdo cashiers. actual craftsman, responsible for his toolset, which nobody inspects for him but himself.
mircea_popescu: as things grow, upgrades by parts become a matter of necessity.
mircea_popescu: restaurant served me complete pie, but body shop did only paint the preexisting car i supplied them with.
mircea_popescu: nb. let it run for a few weeks if you will, so we have nice datasets to work on
mircea_popescu: and bidirectional is good imo, i half expect to discover parity between lastmile->dc and dc->lastmile directions.
mircea_popescu: so then. phf did a new ~vdiff~. and a very good one at that, from all i can see.
mircea_popescu: and diana_coman or hanbot or who will you pick have little problem in turning over next-day keccak patches on trees, as recently put on display. i don't think they're either smarter or blesseder than you, they just have the toolset ready.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wanna run one with .1 s or 10ms ? that might be a good move.
mircea_popescu: just makew sure you put something in there to distinguish "my interface is shitdrops on the floor"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because we're not really into measuring shitty nat routers on cisco customer walls per se.
mircea_popescu: early proto-test indicated most of the lossage happens before 2nd hop
mircea_popescu: in the worst case, capture the flow upstream and see if the box actually puts out the packets ?
mircea_popescu: though in general can have interface log outbound, say.
mircea_popescu: but yes -- the test can (and likely will) be tightened. for starters we just wanted to get a sort of "absolute path limits". and THESE do indeed turn out to be further out than originally thought -- 2kb packets make it np unfragged and in order 100% of the time, and even 20-60kb packets made it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (and when didn't made it -- local interface dropping was the likely culprit)
mircea_popescu: that whole "1 packet per burst makes it" was very much "well doh, 1 gets sent at all"
mircea_popescu: apparently some parts of the internet DID get better over time.
mircea_popescu: truth be told, on the internet-as-we-thought-it-was, video on demand'd have been a miracle.
mod6: thats still 2 orders faster than the last test tho.
mircea_popescu: i don't really want the traffic to go much over the kb/s range
mircea_popescu: but anyway, imo if mmorpg needs > kb/s connectivity something's misdesigned somewhere.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not including here asset transfers ; merely the "bread and butter" so to speak.
mircea_popescu: even if you do voices, client should acquire the asset and cache it.
mircea_popescu: kinda weird for a restaurant to also attempt to provide phone service for the patrons. what, they can't carry phones inside ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform through whatever they like. it's their fucking friends, neh ? sometimes gaming i'll speak acrossd table / yell across room w/e. my fucking harem, my fucking business.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-27 15:57 phf: i think v.pl is a venerable tool, it's battle tested, it has established interface, it's been worked on for three years now. i don't see any reason to throw it out.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-26 18:52 mircea_popescu: so delete them, then.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-27 15:58 phf: i guess it's presumptuous on my part to think that it's exactly obvious how to take vtools and plug it directly into an existing v's, but that's all that's needed
a111: Logged on 2018-09-27 16:02 phf: you can basically do (cat foo.vpatch bar.vpatch qux.vpatch) | vpatch and expect the resulting press to be fully valid, hashes and all
mircea_popescu: re stand-alone hasher : useful in general (for reason alf describes) even if not strictly needed for v work ; the only way to get one i know of atm is via eucrypt.
mircea_popescu: dunno how many people keep that around though. i don't think it'd be a crime or anything to make a command-line keccak branch off of it, so people can just press to that if they want.
mircea_popescu sitll goign through teh logs. apparently going out for a few hours IS UNSAFE
mircea_popescu: Die Kaisrin hat sich mit dem Franzosen alliiert und das Römische Reich gegen mich revoltiert. De Russen sind gefallen in Preußen ein, etc etc.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-27#1855041 << this is so, "here's a complete model" is a periodic necessity. just you know, can't complain that "not there jit when i wanted it". but yes in general, ur examples must be had, fully functional model trains must exist, etc. otherwise how to even run academia.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-09-27 16:08 asciilifeform: imho the situation where 'errybody made own hack' but no one posted 'because obvious' is a barbarism, really ought to have a civilized 'here is the whole thing' sitting on www somewhere.
mircea_popescu: we don't do shit for any other reason than because "alternatives were reviewed, this came out".
a111: Logged on 2018-09-27 17:27 phf: trinque: vtools has not been design or intended to compete with any particular v implementation. it's a set of tools that you can use in a v workflow (hence the name). at least initially it was two matching tools vdiff and vpatch that know how to produce and consume a canonical vpatch. the conflation came up, because i also published vtools in a form that broke existing canonical v, v.pl, and was tasked with fixing the situation.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-27 17:49 asciilifeform: esthlos's thing calls to gnupatch ?! ugh
a111: Logged on 2018-09-27 17:54 asciilifeform: phf: imho your approach , i.e. dispensing with gnupatch, is The Right Thing, historically there was quite a bit of grief from gnupatch's habit of eagerly attempting to apply an invalid (by vtronic lights) but 'partially ok' by barbarian lights patch
a111: Logged on 2018-09-27 19:17 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I have returned from the envirorast office, about to fire off a message to DHL informing them to try again as I am a provisionally acredited importer of packaged goods for commercial use
Mocky:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-28#1855218 >> players in sight of each other, all getting position updates for all others is *THE* central scaling 'n squared problem' for mmo. 20 byte position sent 4 times per second to 100 players is 8k/s per player. and 4 updates per second is really not enough for good playability when you factor in the round trip lag. 15/s is less draconian (many games send 30-60). 100 players gathered with 15 updates
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-09-28 01:14 mircea_popescu: but anyway, imo if mmorpg needs > kb/s connectivity something's misdesigned somewhere.
Mocky: per second is 30k/s per player.
Mocky: there are clever ways to reduce, somewhat. but no silver bullet
Mocky: and this doesn't count pets / hirelings / mobile npc's
mircea_popescu: however, the position is not 20 byte. idea is for eulora to make do with ~6.
diana_coman: also, note that eulora does not enforce "all players within sight get position update" because server does not push basically; it's up to clients to request what they want, when and if they want it
a111: Logged on 2018-09-28 00:20 mod6: nice work diana_coman
diana_coman: asciilifeform's published test data seems to match what I got on my initial tests with 1 second delay; my current plan is to collect first at least 1 week worth of data and then to repeat the experiment with a. smaller delays b. several senders perhaps
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-09-28 00:58 mircea_popescu: but yes -- the test can (and likely will) be tightened. for starters we just wanted to get a sort of "absolute path limits". and THESE do indeed turn out to be further out than originally thought -- 2kb packets make it np unfragged and in order 100% of the time, and even 20-60kb packets made it.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-28 00:54 mircea_popescu: just makew sure you put something in there to distinguish "my interface is shitdrops on the floor"
a111: Logged on 2018-09-28 06:24 diana_coman: asciilifeform's published test data seems to match what I got on my initial tests with 1 second delay; my current plan is to collect first at least 1 week worth of data and then to repeat the experiment with a. smaller delays b. several senders perhaps
BingoBoingo: In other news, the morning news program "Buen Dia Uruguay" has a fat wrinkly bag on right now reading Tarot cards and making predictions for 2019
BingoBoingo: Apparently it is going to be a good year for pork and problematic year for snakes, of which I have yet to see any in this country
diana_coman: asciilifeform, what's the shortest delay you tried?
a111: Logged on 2018-09-28 01:01 asciilifeform: here goes :
mod6: not bad, for a Friday am.
mats: BingoBoingo: 2019 is year of the pig
mod6: mmm, i wanna throw some ribs in the smoker.
mod6: I'm about ready to start hunting too. It's getting close to that time of year.
Mocky: I don't see the benefit of building in a reliance on an external UDP fragment reassembly mechanism when the algo is 'all or nothing'.
Mocky: zackly. and when "doesn't" it magnifies packet loss %
Mocky: old log threads appear to have mircea_popescu with hatred of UDP, which has meanwhile dissipated ?
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <Mocky> old log threads appear to have mircea_popescu with hatred of UDP, which has meanwhile dissipated ? << There was a period when reddit hadn't yet given up on marginalizing the Republic and DDoS's were pestilential.
BingoBoingo: Sure, but less frequently aimed visibly at us
BingoBoingo: Gone from cover of "loud redditards" pissing UDP at webservers to bloat blocker shitting turd boluses at trb nodes
Mocky: asciilifeform, O(1) crapolade packet rejection is already available in software with your FFA lib, if RSA over non-frag UDP was built on top, no?
☟︎ Mocky: it's not constant time without asm?
BingoBoingo: In other news Japanese robot seals (the ones for keeping the elderly company) have made it to Uruguay
Mocky: Japanese robot seals ... wtf am i looking at right now, lol
BingoBoingo: Mocky: I have the local news playing in the background. But they are talking about these guys.
https://archive.is/RRHQ Mind the publication date and remember this country was Lego free until that awful movie came out.
mod6: can we get a squad of these seals to blockade runners for us:?
BingoBoingo: The national rolling pigeon club is a few blocks away. Could see if those would work
BingoBoingo: End then we'd have to strip down tcp over carrier pigeon to get UDP over carrier pigeon
mod6: lol, that's a long way
BingoBoingo: 500km is Brasil, Buenos Aires, the Atlantic Ocean, and Paraguay
mod6: im just sayin', overall, that's a suprisingly long way for a winged-rat.
mod6: regardless if it means our needs, in jest.
mod6: We still need fiat, any takers?
☟︎ mod6: I've asked a number of times in both castles, and a few individuals direclty (whom previously said they'd be willing); no takers yet -- however, still waiting on some info back before we're on our own. Will let you know.
mod6: *nod* makes sense. Once I get all of the info back I need, I'll send around a board comm so we're all on the same page, and will list some possible options.
Mocky: re: ice40 x250 and other projects: If I get a toe hold in Qatar, they have a 'free zone' to entice foreign R&D and tech startups which permits a new company to have 100% foreign owners, 0% tax on profits, duty free import/export. But requires them to like you and what you're trying to do.
☟︎ Mocky: they seem keen on most new tech, and particularly comms tech
BingoBoingo: Mocky: Uruguay has a similar "freezone" system, gotta read the fine print
Mocky: yeah, gotta find some people to talk to there
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Uruguay's cost mega-moolah AND imports USG/EU pantsuitism absent on the other side of free-zone border wall
Mocky: from appearances, qa version has similar "looks better to approvers if mega bucks will be invested" but also they are trying to 'silicon valley in Doha' so maybe some room at the 'bottom'
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> right, but iirc it was some outrageous sum, that made mircea_popescu's torpedo look economical << Closets from 3kiloUSD monthly
a111: Logged on 2018-09-28 15:13 asciilifeform: i for one would rather have no frag reassembly at all if writing ip stack. not only b/c complexity but also this.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-28 16:01 Mocky: old log threads appear to have mircea_popescu with hatred of UDP, which has meanwhile dissipated ?
a111: Logged on 2015-07-30 15:33 mircea_popescu: but yes, it was practically shown that a) no actual protection from ddos exists, outside of the ostrich method discussed above and b) udp is the key to this state of affairs.
a111: Logged on 2015-07-30 15:22 mircea_popescu: atm, im blaming udp. and i would very much like to see it go away, right now.
a111: Logged on 2015-07-30 14:41 mircea_popescu: udp is the problem atm.
a111: Logged on 2015-07-30 15:08 mircea_popescu: and the general point is udp does not belong.
a111: Logged on 2015-07-30 15:22 mircea_popescu: atm, im blaming udp. and i would very much like to see it go away, right now.
mircea_popescu: "worst thing for trying to maintain websites is that udp exists"
mircea_popescu: but, yes, alf has a point : meanwhile read up ~on tcp~. despaired.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-28 16:15 Mocky: asciilifeform, O(1) crapolade packet rejection is already available in software with your FFA lib, if RSA over non-frag UDP was built on top, no?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in lulz, "* You are banned from this server- You have a host listed in the DroneBL. For more information," YEAR OLD listing in some obscure bs "database".
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-09-28 16:26 asciilifeform: i.e. you'd have to ship'em out of BingoBoingostan in boxes.
Mocky: just need to breed strong pigeons that can carry 'return trip counterpart' plus payload
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz, managed to mount a "", which is now unmountable.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-28 16:56 Mocky: re: ice40 x250 and other projects: If I get a toe hold in Qatar, they have a 'free zone' to entice foreign R&D and tech startups which permits a new company to have 100% foreign owners, 0% tax on profits, duty free import/export. But requires them to like you and what you're trying to do.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-28 17:00 Mocky: from appearances, qa version has similar "looks better to approvers if mega bucks will be invested" but also they are trying to 'silicon valley in Doha' so maybe some room at the 'bottom'
mircea_popescu: their problem is the population, consisting of a half black slaves, and the other half donkey fuckers, neither of which possessed of enough sense to come out of a paper bag if it rained scissors.
mircea_popescu: and for all the arabic pretense, i'd be somewhat surprised if there's one guy in the whole country whose harem can toe to toe with mine.
mircea_popescu: considering the fucktarded shah of brunei, even, had the most ridiculous problems with women vaguely reminiscent of us army grunt.
BingoBoingo: Mocky: It is a possibilitit. The street dogs here are more reliable than many of the bipeds.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-28 21:21 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-28#1855353 << actually the winning conjunction here is that a) rsa message size is capped and b) udp packets are capped at ~same size. this is rapidly becoming a case of 4096 bit keys and 2048 bit packets and sayonara.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no see, 4kb key, 4kb message consisting of 2kb plaintext and 2kb padding.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but yes, the bojum is that with rsa you're always throwing away half the bandwidth.
mircea_popescu: much like with bitcoin you're throwing away half the energy.
BingoBoingo: Except when it comes to bipeds. Republic discards more than halvsies.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-28 22:21 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no see, 4kb key, 4kb message consisting of 2kb plaintext and 2kb padding.
mircea_popescu: maybe what we want to do here is actually get 11936 bit keys, and forever 1492 byte udp.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-27 23:56 asciilifeform discussed subj with asciilifeform's brother, who answered 'whaddayamean, what size packet, at $defunctgamesco we only ever used 1480, for decade, ideal'
a111: Logged on 2018-09-28 21:31 mircea_popescu: meanwhile in lulz, "* You are banned from this server- You have a host listed in the DroneBL. For more information," YEAR OLD listing in some obscure bs "database".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the nonsense of keeping lists of enumerated badness that a) are obscure and b) are poorly maintained... srsly, random costa rican home ip ? these people live for what, 4 months in the same place ?
mircea_popescu: i don't recall how long it's been, but i've been happy enough emailess
BingoBoingo interacts with substantial emailisms navigating orc hoardes
BingoBoingo: I dunno how many orcmade systems you interact with, but regression from AOL seems common
BingoBoingo: No, I mean descent from. There is still lower than AOL.
BingoBoingo: Well, the all time low of systems I interacted with is pre-Uruguay when I went to Southern Illinois University for my graduate philosophy stint. The independent university department had an interactive pdf web form everyone had to use to register for the sticker to keep their vehicles from getting kidnapped by University Parking.
BingoBoingo: 20,000 people including chosen urban youth, etc interacted with this system every year
BingoBoingo: To be clear this isn't a pdf merely filled out from the pdf reader. It is filled out and interacts(maybe interacted) with their backend system from pdf reader.