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00:00 mircea_popescu yeah, it's vaguely inhuman, this. the scholar in me is constantly opressed by various shits. 1. "oh we don;t alphabet - pdf" 2. "oh you can't reference text snippet" 3. "oh we forget, what was this ? linkrot ?" and i think there's more
00:00 mircea_popescu none of this is acceptable, intellectually.
00:00 mircea_popescu incidentally why the fuck is the web not native latex.
00:00 mircea_popescu seriously, this is allowed, "graphics" that aren't svg and text that's not tex ?!
00:00 asciilifeform latex doesn't survive ill-forming any better than html.
00:01 mircea_popescu hardly an argument
00:01 phf mod6: there was a hosting provider guy behind the domain cock.li, was interviewed by mp, was selling a vps box access
00:01 asciilifeform likewise i have a TB+ of scans here. these can exist as bitmap and naught else.
00:02 mod6 phf: ah oh yeah.
00:02 asciilifeform (fancy bitmap, with wavelet compression, but certainly not vector graphic)
00:02 mircea_popescu scans as bitmaps are ~in the situation of wine as stum.
00:02 asciilifeform as what?
00:02 mircea_popescu stum. the sweet juice of grapes.
00:03 asciilifeform ain't nobody gonna ocr TB of ru diagrammed b00kz.
00:03 asciilifeform (ocr, contrary to what you've been misinformed, doesn't actually work)
00:03 mircea_popescu that's another thing, must have MUCH BETTER ocr.
00:03 mircea_popescu google has the patience to fuck with go, hasn't the patience to fix ocr ?
00:03 mircea_popescu ocr is really a good fit for the markov chains as ai they do
00:04 asciilifeform incidentally djvu compressor is 'too good' and makes ocr quite a bit more difficult - it sometimes INTRODUCES typos
00:04 asciilifeform by transforming 'similar' letter into another.
00:04 mircea_popescu tsk
00:04 asciilifeform this is annoying but the 100x mass saving pays off.
00:04 mircea_popescu i had an issue with an ocr that was TOO informed, kept creating single glyph fl and other wonders.
00:04 asciilifeform (thing is per se almost like ocr in terms of sheer bowel-loosening turd-shedding)
00:05 asciilifeform yes! quite like this.
00:05 asciilifeform anyway ocr for mathematics is ~hopeless.
00:05 mircea_popescu more hopeless than ai for go ?
00:05 mircea_popescu i do not think so.
00:05 asciilifeform even for FICTION it is 99.99% accurate which is to say SHIT
00:05 asciilifeform (a turd on every 8th page on avg.)
00:06 mircea_popescu there's really no reason a 100% accuracy over 1mb text ocr can't be had today.
00:06 mircea_popescu self-trained, goes back and fixes typos.
00:06 asciilifeform problem is that 'fix' is not always mechanically evident, even.
00:08 mircea_popescu how do you mean ?
00:08 asciilifeform think about the kind of persistend turd that one gets with ocr
00:08 asciilifeform e.g., 'modern'-->'modem'
00:08 asciilifeform proggy has nfi that shakespeare didn't mention modems.
00:08 mircea_popescu o, really, it doesn't ?
00:08 mircea_popescu think again.
00:09 asciilifeform if yours does, it is because you tweaked it
00:09 mircea_popescu if proggy has no fucking idea modems don't go with macbeth a) it's not trained and b) everyone involved is fired.
00:09 mircea_popescu asciilifeform self-trained.
00:09 asciilifeform self how
00:09 mircea_popescu "hm, i wonder how come these guys keep speaking about modems in non-modem context".
00:09 mircea_popescu asciilifeform self-trained like the markov nonsense works.
00:09 asciilifeform it works except when it doesn't.
00:09 mircea_popescu makes ten trillion parameters, sets them all to 0, then sets more and more to values
00:10 mircea_popescu it works except where people don't bother.
00:10 asciilifeform realize that when you have more than a little meat sweat mixed in, you are no longer discussing a computer program
00:10 asciilifeform but a machine-assisted meat slave.
00:10 mircea_popescu mno.
00:11 mircea_popescu and stop with the romanticisms already.
00:11 asciilifeform no srsly nobody's gonna proofread a TB of ocr.
00:11 asciilifeform there is elementarily not enough qualified meat alive.
00:11 mircea_popescu trained statistical model for ocr, either markov or whatever.
00:12 mircea_popescu same principle as in machine translation, search engines, etc.
00:12 asciilifeform none of which work especially well
00:12 mircea_popescu they work a lot the fuck better than dumb ocr present currently.
00:13 asciilifeform my contention is not that it is physically impossible to improve on extant ocr
00:13 asciilifeform but that no one will improve on it to the point where i can throw out the original TB and be ~certain~ of no irrevocable loss.
00:13 asciilifeform without proofreading.
00:13 mircea_popescu phf incidentally, how interested are you in the unholy art of probabilistic models ? it occurs to me that making a proper ocr would be a most respectable task, but not really for everyone.
00:14 mircea_popescu asciilifeform so you read it once.
00:14 mircea_popescu there's worse fates to library text than being read once.
00:14 asciilifeform doing this correctly is ~same amount of work as manually ocring.
00:15 mircea_popescu no, it isn't.
00:15 asciilifeform i can apparently tell that mircea_popescu has never tried it
00:15 mircea_popescu when you have to correct on average 1 error per book, which is where i expect this can be taken, it's just a breeze.
00:16 mircea_popescu tried what ?
00:16 asciilifeform correcting several MB of ocr text against original.
00:16 mircea_popescu what's this to do with your defense of dumb ocr ?
00:16 asciilifeform l0l defense
00:16 asciilifeform simply that any improvement i expect to see will not be qualitative.
00:16 mircea_popescu there doesn't exist currently any ocr package that uses a proper statistical model, and is self-trained on the text, and on all text.
00:17 asciilifeform (would love to be proven wrong)
00:17 mircea_popescu asciilifeform 1 error per 500 pages or less. how's that.
00:17 asciilifeform .. all text ??
00:17 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: so long as it isn't in an equation, ever
00:17 mircea_popescu asciilifeform yes. "all text it's ever seen"
00:17 mircea_popescu asciilifeform equations, chemical formulas, everything you can note down.
00:18 mircea_popescu i was stuck publishing a pdf in my latest article because fuck me there's no sane ocr ;/
00:18 asciilifeform how do you intent to apply a statistical model to an element which NEVER recurrs ??
00:18 asciilifeform *intend
00:18 mircea_popescu asciilifeform all elements recur ; all elements are made of parts which recur.
00:18 asciilifeform parts yes
00:19 mircea_popescu properly made model can learn rules of chemistry from reading chemistry books,
00:19 mircea_popescu will correct your formulas.
00:19 asciilifeform now we have lenat's 'cyc' failed ai.
00:19 mircea_popescu THIS is what competent (not great. competent, patient, insistent) programmers + 20nm process means. that we can have this in a box.
00:19 asciilifeform 'learn rules of chemistry' l0l
00:19 asciilifeform wake me up when.
00:19 mircea_popescu that we don't have this in a box is simply because nobody wants to do any work.
00:19 mircea_popescu asciilifeform sedol lost.
00:19 asciilifeform and lenat didn't is because he lacked sufficient jolt cola ? or why
00:20 mircea_popescu yes.
00:21 asciilifeform granted this is why i even wanted computer
00:21 asciilifeform but it is waste of time to attempt it prior to having one
00:21 asciilifeform (we don't, of yet.)
00:21 mircea_popescu anyway - this is a correct wiki. a proper notation engine backed by a self-training, probabilistic model of language.
00:23 asciilifeform incidentally it is interesting to recall that at one point ai game player folks were interested in heuristic generators and the like - mechanisms that were ~applicable across domains~
00:23 asciilifeform but none of these worked worth a tinker's damn and not a single chesstron written by actual chess players ever won a serious tourney
00:24 asciilifeform instead what we got was ~extremely~ specialized slightly-refined brute force.
00:24 mircea_popescu this is what's contemplated here exactly.
00:25 phf i believe that was described in the "Sussman attains enlightenment"
00:25 mircea_popescu use the fact that the machine as is, runnign whatever crap it runs, can still do millions of cycles a second, and can store billions and trillions of bytes.
00:26 asciilifeform 'here's a REALLY BIG HAMMER. now go whack that mountain until a city comes out'
00:26 mircea_popescu ftr, i wouldn't take cyc for anything other than a fine guide of what not to do.
00:27 phf i like the idea of using hidden markov models on ocr-ed text
00:27 asciilifeform imho cyc is what the schmuck blew rest of his life on after 'eurisko' was confiscated for national seeek00000rity
00:28 mircea_popescu phf there's two (or perhaps three) aspects here. one is, that it should first pass through the entire item (book or w/e), to adjust itself, and then go once more through it, on the basis of that, and then again. similar to how "page rank" works, once the result is stable it thinks it's done.
00:28 asciilifeform it was his 'blackphone'.
00:28 mircea_popescu the other is, that it should keep context of "this text" ; separately context of "everything i ever saw in this language" and yet separately "everything i ever saw".
00:29 mircea_popescu now 2 and 3 are iffy, for instance english-chemistry vs english-genre-fiction and english-trilema may be a more practical split than english vs french.
00:29 mircea_popescu asciilifeform quite so. it's palpably an elephant cemetery. won't do anything ever, because it's done by an ocd clean person.
00:29 mircea_popescu if you've noticed, all valuable engineering comes out of filth.
00:30 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: how's it to test a b00k containing a SINGLE instance of the canonical 'my sister, do you still recall как Ельцин бился мордой в пол ?'
00:30 mircea_popescu phf and the third is that it absolutely should not make any concession to the finite nature of the universe. three billion trillion parameters ? OK!
00:30 mircea_popescu asciilifeform english-russian
00:31 asciilifeform i'll sleep a bit while mircea_popescu sets the trillion parameters
00:31 asciilifeform wakemeupplox
00:31 mircea_popescu that's what electronics ARE FOR.
00:32 mircea_popescu anyway. some sort of pcfg.
00:32 asciilifeform now we know that mircea_popescu doesn't need warez - his hdd has a knob that turns whole thing into an adder, and he simply cycles through the states until he gets a disk with the desired 1333333337 w4r3z on it.
00:33 mircea_popescu asciilifeform it's easier for me, i wrote it all anyway!
00:35 asciilifeform http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/create.htm << obligatory.
00:37 mircea_popescu sedol lost.
00:38 mircea_popescu sedol lost to a machine that doesn't even know what beans are.
00:38 asciilifeform taking for a moment the assumption that sedol ~actually~ lost --
00:38 asciilifeform he lost in a game where evaluation function fits in a few lines of c.
00:38 mircea_popescu nobody can look at a go set and give you a position value. nobody.
00:39 mircea_popescu even chess is dubious. go - forget it.
00:39 asciilifeform um
00:39 * asciilifeform bangs head on desk
00:39 asciilifeform yes there is ~no position function when there are 3 stones on the board.
00:39 asciilifeform when 100 - most certainly is.
00:40 asciilifeform bridging the gap is where the monte carlo thing came in.
00:40 mircea_popescu the machine played dead reckoning not some sort of absolute evaluation of the eternal positions
00:40 asciilifeform aha. but reckoning dun work without a position function.
00:40 mircea_popescu deltas, not absolute values.
00:41 asciilifeform in any adult game - same
00:41 mircea_popescu "Dead reckoning dun work without gps". see, this is why cyc fails. this mindset.
00:42 asciilifeform dead reckoning dun work without some notion of where you are going !
00:42 asciilifeform or what 'motion' is.
00:42 mircea_popescu this is a tenuous view, historically.
00:43 mircea_popescu "some notion" carries no water ; definitely early navigation was bereft of either understanding motion or destination.
00:43 asciilifeform and it - largely - didn't work.
00:43 asciilifeform the 'great navigators' navigated by everett's device.
00:44 mircea_popescu asciilifeform it largely did work, out of thousands of tries a few successes. machine has space for many thousands.
00:44 asciilifeform (we don't remember the names of the dead in the water folk)
00:44 mircea_popescu (#$implies (#$and (#$isa ?OBJ ?SUBSET) (#$genls ?SUBSET ?SUPERSET)) (#$isa ?OBJ ?SUPERSET)) << wouldja look at this inept shit.
00:44 asciilifeform you still need a mechanizable notion of 'succeed'
00:44 mircea_popescu seriously, they're going to put the rules in by hand arbitrarily and expect the machine to do something with that ?
00:44 mircea_popescu sigh.
00:44 mircea_popescu asciilifeform no.
00:45 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: what were you looking at ?
00:45 mircea_popescu you do not. and more improtantly : you need no human anything in there. you wanna succeed in your own terms, go, succeed.
00:45 mircea_popescu machine does its own thing
00:45 mircea_popescu asciilifeform cycstupidity.
00:45 asciilifeform ah
00:45 asciilifeform vs eurisko, which actually came up with fresh heuristics.
00:45 asciilifeform and needed ~no hand-holding.
00:45 mircea_popescu distinctly reminescent of 9yo me writing "utility programs" consisting of pre-selected arbitrary aditions and their results.
00:46 mircea_popescu apparently only some people outgrow being 9, and lenat isn't one of them.
00:46 mircea_popescu asciilifeform how does this happen to people!
00:46 asciilifeform (who wants to read ? we had whole thread, where i FOIA'd everything lenat ever publicly did on taxpayer dollars, and posted here)
00:46 mircea_popescu i recall this.
00:46 asciilifeform some pretty interesting material in there, actually.
00:46 asciilifeform esp. re 'self-checking' mechanisms.
00:47 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2014-09-26#845518
00:47 a111 Logged on 2014-09-26 01:04 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: try: http://loper-os.org/pub/lenat-leaks.tar.gz.torrent
00:47 asciilifeform it was then mirrored by kako and for all i know is still up.
00:47 mircea_popescu yeah, agreed, unlike cyc bs, that is a credible starting point
00:47 asciilifeform prolly needs new home.
00:47 asciilifeform doubly so given how yudkowsky campaigns to have anyone trying this, killed
00:48 midnightmagic not still up :(
00:49 mircea_popescu all the weird shit you care about...
00:50 asciilifeform midnightmagic: one min
00:50 midnightmagic asciilifeform: What? Killed?
00:50 midnightmagic Oh, you mean he goes a little batty.
00:51 asciilifeform http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/lenat-leaks.tar.gz
00:51 asciilifeform ^ enjoy
00:52 midnightmagic Much obliged.
00:52 mircea_popescu lol the greatness of machinery.
00:52 asciilifeform 43d0f9aeb9e0d1d7a4a89754feb3cfbd487768c16fa3ef986512e91f25fb96f6e1b500e813d8655239e9970cc0b72e32dea6ad95617a8f3ef3ac1761f1be012c
00:52 midnightmagic asciilifeform: Again, thanks. Too few people care about that.. :(
00:53 asciilifeform some of the material appeared elsewhere, but not - afaik - the juicy bits re 'rll'
00:53 asciilifeform the actual implementation language and mechanism
00:54 asciilifeform see MANIFEST.TXT.
00:55 mircea_popescu phf anyway, it's a very reasonable way to waste one's life. it can live on a server(s), connect via chatbot, solicit payment which'll work once trinque gets it added to deedbot... it's an actual biznis.
00:59 asciilifeform why lenat dropped eurisko and burned the rest of his life on idiocy is the $64k question
00:59 asciilifeform in which possibly lie the answers to 1,001 riddles elsewhere.
01:01 asciilifeform (one - not very sexy answer - is that it was a fraud. source was published nowhere, nor anyone other than lenat exposed to it afaik)
01:01 asciilifeform another - nsa confiscation.
01:03 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2014-02-01#473009 << prev thread
01:03 a111 Logged on 2014-02-01 21:28 asciilifeform: dollars to doughnuts that lenat did not write eurisko.
01:04 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2014-09-26#845694 << yet moar
01:04 a111 Logged on 2014-09-26 03:11 asciilifeform: there are two versions of the lenat story
01:12 mircea_popescu maybe
01:13 mircea_popescu then again it's rather common for people to do something smart early and then be shockingly stolidly dumb for the rest of their lives.
01:14 asciilifeform not like this.
01:14 mircea_popescu sure.
01:14 asciilifeform he had the next step ready-made.
~ 4 hours 47 minutes ~
06:01 Framedragger asciilifeform: re. keys - interesting. i don't think i was mitm'd, 13 machines and all, not that it's not possible or anything, and the machines were on the same provider, so, lol, of course possible in principle. but specific mitm's which give working unique keys? hm. but, interesting, i don't have an answer here.
06:01 Framedragger i'm prolly mostly afk / travelling this week but would be interested to discuss.
06:02 Framedragger http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1491732 << which nickname was that? :) nvm i guess
06:02 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 00:28 mircea_popescu: Framedragger is this one of those guys you're friends with, then ?
06:03 Framedragger asciilifeform: maybe i did fuck up in some very unique way. don't know. oh and the ip addresses are in random order, so there's that
06:03 Framedragger http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-27#1491238 << i too expected gadgets with shitty rng. any source for that 0.1% figure?
06:03 a111 Logged on 2016-06-27 17:15 asciilifeform: the historic ~0.1% popping rate of ssh keys has nothing to do with flips, and everything to do with embedded gadgets with no rng
06:05 Framedragger asciilifeform: but have you considered that there are fewer implementations for ssh (and the better part of the ssh servers in the wild run openssh), and more implementations for all kinds of broken pgp? so it may simply be less likely to spot a badly generated ssh key.
06:06 Framedragger asciilifeform: but cross-checking makes sense, say if you do ssh-keyscan for a small randomized sample, nothing bad can come out of it. let me know if you want scriptz
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07:30 thestringpuller ;;seen mod6
07:30 gribble mod6 was last seen in #trilema 7 hours, 28 minutes, and 31 seconds ago: <mod6> phf: ah oh yeah.
07:31 thestringpuller https://forum.bitcoin.com/pools/a-bitcoin-com-mining-pool-t8999.html << why did our pool never get off the ground?
07:40 jurov lol i was then prolly mitm'd too.. aside from ~10 cases of obvious corruption (openssh won't even read them) i did not find any key with factor in 10000primes.txt
07:44 Framedragger asciilifeform: ^
07:47 jurov Framedragger, imo we should mix few interesting failures into the data. otherwise we risk getting kicked out from tmsr :D
07:51 Framedragger and maybe make sure some of those ip addresses are in /24's which also house chinese bitcoin miners ;)
07:52 jurov or NSA
07:53 Framedragger or labour union websites but that may just cause a stroke and best to avoid stress induced fatalities
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08:45 shinohai http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1491796 <<< If this is actual need phf I would have no problem at all maintaining.
08:45 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 03:47 phf: i have that cockli box by the way. i'm probably going to spin up an instance on it, but if anybody wants to attempt that task, feel free to take over
08:49 shinohai http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492019 <<< bwahahaha A Riger Verified pool that will cause bigger blocks to be mined since he can't get anyone to do it xD
08:49 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 11:31 thestringpuller: https://forum.bitcoin.com/pools/a-bitcoin-com-mining-pool-t8999.html << why did our pool never get off the ground?
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09:14 thestringpuller if it's possible to mine and validate against TRB...
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09:39 mats because mining has -ev outcomes for virtually all participants without some kinda competitive advantage
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10:14 thestringpuller mats: well from a financial perspective, not a political perspective. at the very least bribe miners to vote one way or the other...
10:15 mats so you've moved the goalpost from 'our pool' to 'bribe miners'
10:17 shinohai We got a Roger Ver in the making here!
10:17 asciilifeform ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/45c39efb-967b-4c3b-9c6a-b9d2dff8afeb/?raw=true (re the tor thing)
10:17 gribble The operation succeeded.
10:20 mats anyway, i think its premature to assume we need to influence miners one way or the other
10:21 mats as i understand it, the heterogeneity of clients in the wild naturally prefers the status quo
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10:39 mircea_popescu so apparently reddit has selected for this large-ish population of chicks that want to post selfies "anonymously". because they're THAt desperate for male attention and THAT incapable of handling male presence.
10:39 mircea_popescu nuts, teh "technology" an' its effects on the herd.
10:41 mircea_popescu asciilifeform no patience to read, but by now, "at MIT" is damning.
10:42 mircea_popescu anyway. yes dingledine & other sleepers (reilly, whatever) push for chasteen and whoever the fuck else to "be hired", because that's how their job goes.
10:43 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492008 << it seems rather improbable.
10:43 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 10:01 Framedragger: asciilifeform: re. keys - interesting. i don't think i was mitm'd, 13 machines and all, not that it's not possible or anything, and the machines were on the same provider, so, lol, of course possible in principle. but specific mitm's which give working unique keys? hm. but, interesting, i don't have an answer here.
10:43 thestringpuller mats: nah. if it's truly believed miners are well enough gripped by the balls, it's not a big deal.
10:43 thestringpuller shinohai: Them is fighting words...
10:44 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492015 << i wonder if this is true, even.
10:44 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 10:05 Framedragger: asciilifeform: but have you considered that there are fewer implementations for ssh (and the better part of the ssh servers in the wild run openssh), and more implementations for all kinds of broken pgp? so it may simply be less likely to spot a badly generated ssh key.
10:45 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492022 << bwahahaha
10:45 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 11:47 jurov: Framedragger, imo we should mix few interesting failures into the data. otherwise we risk getting kicked out from tmsr :D
10:47 mircea_popescu comrades, your production of failures per hectare is insufficient! comrade kosygin is displeased!
10:49 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i'd be curious to see where all the rng-less home routers etc. went
10:49 mircea_popescu possibly same garbage dump cisco went
10:50 asciilifeform in other lulz, http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2016/06/firing-elites_28.html
10:51 asciilifeform ' If they don’t want to see their country overrun by illegal migrants (note that having had you country destroyed by NATO does not qualify you for political asylum) then they are called racist and bigoted. If they fail to grasp some of the finer points of EU’s bureaucratic governance (because, frankly, who would want to waste time on all that nonsense?) then they are called ignorant and misguided. And, most importantly, if there
10:51 asciilifeform is a financial crash (which was inevitable in any case; see “Ponzi scheme” above) then that is blamed on their bad choices at the polls.'
10:52 mircea_popescu asciilifeform for the record, i just tried to ssh to a few known home routers. no answer. try it yourself.
10:52 mircea_popescu i suppose isps filter incoming for the domestic space (not out of any safety concern, just, to not sell a useful service, which is anathema in usian style economy)
10:52 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: most units of recent vintage have the port closed
10:53 mircea_popescu so then your q has pretty good answers.
10:53 Framedragger i would like to scan the whole /0 0:65535 range some time though, i'm sure there'd be quite a few ssh servers lurking behind strange ports, and quite a lot of them could be old embedded gadgets. just speculation tho
10:53 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492032 << let's also bribe the cockroaches in the kitchen to 'vote' to leave ?
10:53 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 14:14 thestringpuller: mats: well from a financial perspective, not a political perspective. at the very least bribe miners to vote one way or the other...
10:53 mircea_popescu Framedragger i personally doubt it.
10:53 Framedragger http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/ suggests there's more of fridge on the internet than there should be
10:54 Framedragger but yeh dunno about ssh
10:54 thestringpuller asciilifeform: if you call punching someone in the dick when they get out of control a bribe...sure
10:55 asciilifeform thestringpuller: what specifically did you have in mind ?
10:56 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492041 << linked mainly for the last line: 'settled out of court'
10:56 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 14:41 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no patience to read, but by now, "at MIT" is damning.
10:57 mircea_popescu Framedragger what i'm more and more discovering is that the legends about the internet and the facts about the network (not just the internet, network in general) are very much at odds. consider a few examples : L1 : "many eyes means better code" ; R1 : "many eyes means bikeshed effect" | L2 : "Bitcoin has many nodes" ; R2 "yeah, like less than 50." | L3 : "there's many weak consumer grade boxes out there" ; R3 : "maybe in 19
10:58 mircea_popescu 96." | L4 : "there's no rsa collisions in the wild" ; R4 : "if you don't count the 300 or so phuctor found" and on and on and on it goes in this vein. at this point i do not expect any "common sense" held truth about any network to be any closer to reality than what miss america thinks on the subject.
10:59 asciilifeform eh we're still waiting for ~proper~ rsa collision
10:59 mircea_popescu what is and what is not ; what can or can not be done ; how things should be done etc experimentally benefits little from importing reasonable_expectations.h
10:59 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you'll still be waiting for "proper" anything and everything. heck, we're still waiting for proper asciilifeform .
10:59 asciilifeform lel
11:00 mircea_popescu well ? sad but tru!
11:01 asciilifeform R2 "yeah, like less than 50." << it bothers me that i actually have NO IDEA how many
11:01 asciilifeform (there is ~no mechanical way to count)
11:02 mircea_popescu best thing you can have about a large UNSPECIFIED construct is a guess.
11:02 asciilifeform for all i know, mine are the only working ones presently
11:02 asciilifeform (this would be sad)
11:02 mircea_popescu after the shocking revelations earlier this year, that really many things which seemed actually hosted properly (ie, own box etc) and on this basis assumed independent were really THE SAME ONE ITEM, i think even the 50 figure is generous.
11:03 mircea_popescu the fact remains it's trivial to run gluster/galera on 5000 boxes and have what appears 5000 independent nodes that neverthelss have all the solidity of a puppet install.
11:03 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492029 << because nobody actually did it.
11:03 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 12:49 a111: Logged on 2016-06-28 11:31 thestringpuller: https://forum.bitcoin.com/pools/a-bitcoin-com-mining-pool-t8999.html << why did our pool never get off the ground?
11:03 asciilifeform incidentally!
11:04 asciilifeform anybody consider experiment where clusters of nodez with similar latency / uptime patterns are illuminated ?
11:04 mircea_popescu yes.
11:04 asciilifeform care to share output ?
11:04 mircea_popescu mno.
11:05 asciilifeform but not hard to guess what it looked like.
11:05 mircea_popescu it didn't look terribly good. for bitcoin.
11:05 asciilifeform noshit.jpg
11:05 mircea_popescu but, factually, there COULD be other reasons behind it. such as you know, hosts offer centos 7 prestamped on dedicated boxes, and so therefore, everyone runs centos 7
11:05 mircea_popescu that sort of thing.
11:06 asciilifeform that wouldn't create chorus of 'all these 5,000 nominally distinct nodes down for 20 minutes'
11:07 mircea_popescu anyway. the existential, fundamental, first and foremost threat to bitcoin is emerging to be, the essentially centralizing nature of the modern human. slave's born to live in empire, so if there's a lot of slaves, there'll be an empire. once nero died it wasn't a case of "ah fucking finally, now we can go back to republic". no, it was "WE MUST HAS EMPEROR! EVEN GALBA!"
11:07 mircea_popescu so : they have the option to be varied in hardware. not only they don't take it : they AMPLY eschew it.
11:07 asciilifeform the other interesting spice in the mix is that some unknown number of nodez are 'dark'
11:07 mircea_popescu they have the option to spurn bullshit. they don't, they seek bullshit.
11:07 asciilifeform i.e. plugged in solely to each other via ssh tunnels etc
11:07 mircea_popescu see something as "benign" as http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492039
11:07 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 14:39 mircea_popescu: so apparently reddit has selected for this large-ish population of chicks that want to post selfies "anonymously". because they're THAt desperate for male attention and THAT incapable of handling male presence.
11:08 asciilifeform with some unknown number on periphery being public 'leaf' nodes.
11:08 mircea_popescu oh, "the state attacks the family" no dude. the state moves in a vacuum you made.
11:08 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i'm not certain that anyone PRESENTLY has the real option to 'be varied in hardware'
11:08 asciilifeform but this could be same as your example above
11:08 asciilifeform they HAD the option
11:08 mircea_popescu asciilifeform this exists, obv. as much as a backup chain store is "dark node" after all.
11:09 asciilifeform 'when DEC Alpha existed, did you motherfuckers buy?? no?? have fun'
11:09 mircea_popescu asciilifeform point being, idiots are idiots, and if their favourite idiocy is denied in bitcoin, they reddit desperately until they find a doge/ripple/ether replacement.
11:09 mircea_popescu in short : salvation can not come from the mass of people. the mass of people is here for one thing only, and that is to supply holocaust fuel.
11:09 thestringpuller http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492039 << interestingly. most millennial girls find guys creepy. cuz honestly, what sane female would be attracted to a redditor?
11:09 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 14:39 mircea_popescu: so apparently reddit has selected for this large-ish population of chicks that want to post selfies "anonymously". because they're THAt desperate for male attention and THAT incapable of handling male presence.
11:09 mircea_popescu ie, "they want consensus".
11:10 thestringpuller everytime I hang out wiht my female friends and ask them about guys, its usually how creepy they are.
11:10 thestringpuller it's a plague
11:10 trinque they're saying weak
11:10 mircea_popescu thestringpuller has little to do with redditor per se, they find everything creepy for the reason and in the way pig finds everything too tall.
11:10 mircea_popescu trinque no, they're saying "i got all the food i could possibly need and this clicker thing. wut ?"
11:10 asciilifeform thestringpuller: as dan mocsny pointed out, 'creepy' is a word which largely means 'unattractive but not yet castrated'
11:11 trinque his female friends must suck then.
11:11 mircea_popescu you should see the local herps. "i like staying home and netflix".
11:11 thestringpuller exactly. but unattractive in the way of "get the fuck away from me I wouldn't fuck you if you were the last man on earth"
11:11 mircea_popescu and the shit they netflix isn't even fit for in-flight entertainment, admittedly a low bar.
11:11 mircea_popescu trinque no, because sucking is gross.
11:12 trinque lol
11:12 mircea_popescu the temptation to vegetate is great. absent a driver, plants will plant.
11:12 asciilifeform ^ i utterly fail to grasp
11:12 thestringpuller trinque: no. most of my female friends prefer "actual guys" you know the ones who don't live at home in their mom's basement jerking off to girls on reddit all day.
11:12 asciilifeform where is this temptation
11:12 mircea_popescu asciilifeform and it's not even fucking inborn, it's TRAINED! whip "lazy" girl that got to 20 and never achieved anything, she becomes in a year or two as self-driven and capable as you'd like it.
11:13 mircea_popescu take any girl, stick her in the "modern democracy" box, she becomes fat.
11:13 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492031 << there is this.
11:13 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 13:39 mats: because mining has -ev outcomes for virtually all participants without some kinda competitive advantage
11:14 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492032 << the problem with this approach is that bribing is for losers. i for instance never bribed anyone, THEY BRIBED ME! because what the fuck is this, i'm going to pay derpy mayor/judge/whatever ? how about he buys his wife from me each year for the love of fuck!
11:14 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 14:14 thestringpuller: mats: well from a financial perspective, not a political perspective. at the very least bribe miners to vote one way or the other...
11:15 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492038 << an iffy point best left undisturbed.
11:15 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 14:21 mats: as i understand it, the heterogeneity of clients in the wild naturally prefers the status quo
11:16 mircea_popescu thestringpuller yea, i'm sure they do, until "real guys" say "bitch, get in there and make sandwiches" at which point "real guys are too hard and redditards are too soft and i'ma spend five hours on the phone with my "friend" ie exactly equivalent part."
11:17 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: fwiw, thorough walk of my nodes' traffic suggested 95%+ prb (until i put in malleus)
11:17 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: You forget today's American girl happiy makes a sandwich, but can't hold itself together enough to make it to the next room with out eating the sandwich (repeat x5 times)
11:17 mircea_popescu lmao
11:17 mircea_popescu this reminds me of the joke with the alchie. you know it ?
11:18 Framedragger tell it already
11:18 mircea_popescu (meanwhile back at the party house, A : http://67.media.tumblr.com/d73cd8b9c93c23df097d4183fe3463a7/tumblr_mu0mciNBEN1qg7xwvo2_400.gif B : http://66.media.tumblr.com/a7ba4153b4f7dd56c8c6272f7074819b/tumblr_mu0mciNBEN1qg7xwvo3_400.gif )
11:19 mircea_popescu lol ok ok! so alchie takes a bad fall while drunk, gets huge bruise on forehead.
11:19 mircea_popescu doc says "eh, it'll be ok, rub some alcohol on it".
11:19 mircea_popescu three days later alchie calls doc office in a passion. "doc, wtf do i do, i can't lift alcohol above my mouth."
11:20 thestringpuller mircea_popescu: depends on if said guy has "bitch dependency" syndrome or not.
11:20 mircea_popescu howssat ?
11:20 thestringpuller A disease that leaves a person addicted and dependent to a bitch. If that bitch decides to leave him/her, that person becomes an emotional train wreck and does nothing but lay around and mope. In worst cases, that said person would think he/she is in an R&B music video- something worse than self-mutilation.
11:20 thestringpuller The only cure for Chronic Bitch Dependency is learning how to control the bitch and make her behave- hit the bitch if she doesn't do what you say until you achieved desired results.
11:20 mircea_popescu oh. but wait, this is good, because victim ticket.
11:21 mircea_popescu sit around, write bad poetry while torturing a guitar, do a lot of pot, be all you know, "sad" an' whatnot.
11:21 thestringpuller Meanwhile Usher runs off with your wife.
11:21 mircea_popescu what, there's no bullying so nobody's gonna fuck your shit up for being a loser and admitting it.
11:21 mircea_popescu thestringpuller even better!
11:21 mircea_popescu now not only you don't have to put up with her, but it's POOR YOU!!11
11:21 asciilifeform usher, as in 'the house of ' ??!
11:22 mircea_popescu no, as in the 11 or 95 yo that lets people in cinema hall
11:22 asciilifeform no, no, http://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/usherf.htm << him
11:22 BingoBoingo Usher's a sort of Tyrone who sings
11:22 thestringpuller ^- yea.
11:22 mircea_popescu ahahahah check it out, black community came full circle! from usher to usher! one century of revolutionary progress.
11:23 mircea_popescu (where revolutionary means what it in fact means - what the earth does around the sun is a revolution)
11:23 thestringpuller one day Bieber will run off with your wife, but then again I guess that's the point you were making with shitty American girls.
11:24 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo check it out, the top hit is about how he wore a don't trump america jacket.
11:24 mircea_popescu i'm sure this'll lose trump some votes in the 12% black + 4% lgbtdskfhkejrhdfg community, and gain him some in the 78% white and pissed group.
11:24 mircea_popescu good deal!
11:25 asciilifeform +111% cuck voatez
11:25 BingoBoingo For serious
11:25 mircea_popescu crisis of representativity, this is it. when people are so confused about what they stand for and whom they stand before, they end up achieving counter-intentional results.
11:25 mircea_popescu and, in classical theory, crisis of representativity is always resolved through open warfare.
11:26 mircea_popescu from the two kids in schoolyard ("ce ma, te crezi smecher ???") to the empire falling apart or uk/argentina going to war notwithstanding the disaster it is for both, crisis of representativity -> conflict.
11:28 mircea_popescu and obviously enough, jewish groups trying to boycott german goods in the 1930s us is tghe exact equivalent of obscure rapper dude saying things about trump to an audience of obscure wanna-be rapper, wanna-be gay, wanna-be mit etc dudes.
11:35 thestringpuller asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492068 << No specifics just a solution to push "The Prequisite" through.
11:35 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 14:55 asciilifeform: thestringpuller: what specifically did you have in mind ?
11:36 thestringpuller i imagine though best case scenario, power rangers takes mod6's patches and merges it into prb
11:36 asciilifeform ugh wat
11:36 shinohai (-__-)
11:37 thestringpuller worst case* yay for doing 5mn things at once
11:37 thestringpuller :P
11:37 asciilifeform anything other than unconditional capitulation to trb, == prb.
11:37 thestringpuller yes. hence NOT DESIRABLE
11:37 thestringpuller mining pool, not desirable. etc. etc.
11:39 mircea_popescu uh.
11:40 mircea_popescu what're you on about thestringpuller ?
11:40 thestringpuller http://btcbase.org/log/2016-03-05#1422535 << this thread.
11:40 a111 Logged on 2016-03-05 15:15 mircea_popescu: i suppose IF the july many-fork time comes and trb has nothing to offer then it might as well close.
11:41 mircea_popescu alright, what about it ?
11:41 thestringpuller I don't see a good scenario where TRB could deploy a fork i.e. "the prequisite".
11:42 mircea_popescu you're confusing things. everyone but us deploys a fork.
11:42 mircea_popescu o noes, guyse, why is eth dropping ? i thought they fixed it!
11:43 thestringpuller so who deploys "the prequisite"?
11:43 mircea_popescu $up drizztdourden
11:43 deedbot drizztdourden voiced for 30 minutes.
11:43 mircea_popescu thestringpuller anyone who feels like it.
11:43 thestringpuller aha.
11:44 mircea_popescu these two are not specifically related, they're separate items.
11:45 mircea_popescu item A is a discussion of what at the time was a possible outcome, something of the kind of "if we don't fortify these walls and enemy army comes over, we're fucked". this has been muchly degraded meanwhile, principally by "well, every march lord on their path has harried the fuck out of them, and so not much of an army left".
11:45 mircea_popescu item B is a discussion of peace, ie, what's the absolute minimal required basis for an agreement.
11:46 mircea_popescu necessarily, in order for such an agreement to be had, "everyone" must deploy "the prerequisite".
11:46 mircea_popescu make sense ?
11:46 thestringpuller Aha. "peace" is the part I didn't understand. "the prequisite" is a treaty, not a war proclamation.
11:46 mircea_popescu "there can be no fork unless it includes this".
11:47 deedbot [Qntra] How The Tor Project Pays And Pays CIA Agents From Their USG.Navy Coffers - http://qntra.net/2016/06/how-the-tor-project-pays-and-pays-cia-agents-from-their-usg-navy-coffers/
11:47 mircea_popescu meanwhile, random derp on twitter, "Can anyone point me to a summary of solidity exploits and common patterns to avoid them?". really bitch, you want the COMMON solution ? common fucking MADE the exploits! holy shit.
11:47 shinohai This was covered in trilema article, no?
11:47 thestringpuller aha. then mats comment makes more sense. ty.
11:47 mircea_popescu shinohai i would have thought so.
11:47 asciilifeform 'common patterns to avoid them' << gold
11:47 asciilifeform ^ the mental process of homo phpicus exposed
11:48 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Common is also a black man who sings, but he acts more. Far less Tyrone than Usher though.
11:48 mircea_popescu "David Chasteen hired a law firm and that members of the list should have no contact with David Chasteen or discussions about him." << what the fuck is this crap ?
11:48 mircea_popescu dude, i'll discuss whoever i please. ESPECIALLY some usg tool that meanwhile took posturing lessosn.
11:48 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Employment law FTW
11:48 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo fuck that.
11:48 mircea_popescu my right to mock the shit out of idiots is fundamental and can not be abridged.
11:48 BingoBoingo Well tese aren't quality outlaws
11:49 mircea_popescu no, they just wanted to.
11:49 mircea_popescu asciilifeform "i gave at the common office, mr exploit, pls don't fuck me."
11:50 mircea_popescu see ? slave empire IS BUILT BY SLAVES.
11:50 asciilifeform not by martians, no.
11:50 mircea_popescu the only error there is to imagine "against their will". no dude, literally, it is built by the slaves.
11:50 mircea_popescu they, out of their own idiocy, FORCE otherwise employable folk to be their massah.
11:51 mircea_popescu asciilifeform sometime btw, someone should undertake the job of finding the number of the exploit. you know, do with the maths or system theory or something, like that lisp thing.
11:52 asciilifeform l0lwut
11:52 mircea_popescu then everyone can have the number of the exploit embroidered on their underwear and there'll be no more exploits.
11:52 asciilifeform right after i calculate the number of their pubic lice.
11:52 mircea_popescu (btw, best if it comes out small. say up to three digits. two best.)
11:52 asciilifeform $s how many bugs
11:52 a111 5 results for "how many bugs", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=how%20many%20bugs
11:52 mircea_popescu asciilifeform a nononon, this isn't a count. this is THE NUMBER OF! you know how they say "i got their number" ? like that!
11:52 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2014-04-29#650474
11:52 a111 Logged on 2014-04-29 22:56 asciilifeform: dijkstra once read a lecture, and exclaimed 'how many bugs shall we tolerate?!' one wag stands up - '3!'
11:53 mircea_popescu it's not that there's 666 devils. it's that 666 is THE NUMBER OF!
11:53 asciilifeform The Number Of
11:53 mircea_popescu now you know it, nothing bad can happen from there.
11:53 asciilifeform (of... those who Just Wanted ?)
11:53 * asciilifeform has a book on his shelf, titled THE OF
11:53 asciilifeform (faded print, i fuhget what it was originally)
11:53 mircea_popescu it's the number of! say if we knew 97 is the number of solidity exploits, then solidity would finally be solid.
11:53 asciilifeform i'ma consult 'the of'.
11:53 mircea_popescu plox ty.
11:54 mircea_popescu also not too much math squigglies they make sally's head hurt.
11:54 asciilifeform it tells me 'a if an'
11:54 mircea_popescu and break state of the art pdf converters
11:54 asciilifeform aha!11
11:55 mircea_popescu lol wait, putin now wants russia to become "blockchain leader" ??? https://www.znak.com/2016-06-27/o_samom_glavnom_seychas_biznes_ombudsmen_pri_prezidente_putine_lider_partii_rosta_boris_titov << is this a thing ?
11:56 asciilifeform wat
11:56 mircea_popescu i can't even.
11:57 asciilifeform i see nothing about blockchains etc
11:58 mircea_popescu mmmm
11:58 asciilifeform it's a lengthy mega-snore, re politico who wants to implement equivalent of american fdic, reduce tax, etc.
11:59 asciilifeform ok THERE it is
11:59 mircea_popescu yeh.
11:59 asciilifeform 'Например, мы будем поддерживать идею, что Россия должна стать лидером в мире в области блокчейна. Значение его не меньше по важности, чем создание интернета. Если мы сегодня привлечем к себе все основные технологии и инвесторов в области б
11:59 asciilifeform локчейна (саморегулируемая система транзакций, функционирующая без центральных банков — прим. ред.) и криптовалют, у нас есть все и географические, и людские ресурсы выйти в передовые страны мира не только в этой области, но и в целом.'
11:59 asciilifeform snoar.
11:59 mircea_popescu seems altogether just a "ms office shanonizer" job, they got stuff from the internets and copy-pasted it into a "government official blabla"
11:59 asciilifeform aha.
12:00 mircea_popescu which is how 99% of tyhat crud is made ?
12:00 asciilifeform snoromatic.
12:00 mircea_popescu myeah k.
12:00 mircea_popescu anyway. if anyone's following the lulzdrama : ethereum people realise their "fix" ie softfork will in fact be defeated, want hard fork nao.
12:01 mircea_popescu "consensus is building" :D
12:01 mircea_popescu "all of humanity is counting on us to deliver" (~nobody on reddit)
12:01 asciilifeform where does this lulzdrama even live ?
12:02 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the original fuckups, ie, slock.it, is a "company" of the web sort that runs some shitty proprietary irc. so there's that. then there's reddit, twitter, livejournal, facebook
12:02 mircea_popescu etc etc. where bugs live, these bugs live.
12:02 asciilifeform livejournal?!
12:02 mircea_popescu https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4q9ewf/ethereums_dao_wars_soft_fork_is_a_potential_dos/d4r8060 << sauce for given quote
12:05 asciilifeform http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/06/28/ethereum-soft-fork-dos-vector << parent link, explains what mircea_popescu was suggesting last night ?
12:05 mircea_popescu myeah
12:05 mircea_popescu well, what they understood of it at any rate. i take no responsibility for the shitheads.
12:05 asciilifeform couldn't they walk a script for the verboten addr ~before~ running it ? or does the shitlang allow dynamic generation of addrs and you ~must~ run
12:06 mircea_popescu lol
12:06 phf oh look russia is doing nanotechnology^Wblockchain
12:06 mircea_popescu what are you, from the future ?
12:06 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492262
12:06 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 15:59 mircea_popescu: seems altogether just a "ms office shanonizer" job, they got stuff from the internets and copy-pasted it into a "government official blabla"
12:06 asciilifeform nanoblockchology!11111
12:07 shinohai http://futurism.com/protein-uncovered-that-stops-arteries-from-clogging/ <<< Hail the U of Missouri BingoBoingo !!!
12:07 mircea_popescu THEY WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT!
12:07 mircea_popescu mit, whatever. so they go around, copy/paste code from expert sex change, and that's it.
12:07 mircea_popescu phf word!
12:09 phf hmm i wonder what's english equivalent for распил. i think the word is as apropos, but just doesn't exist
12:09 asciilifeform i looked for a good translation for ages phf
12:09 asciilifeform normally i just say 'sawmilling'
12:11 phf multitran gives some definitions, that are not too bad, but different for different contexts
12:11 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo btw what was the intended reference for tyrone ?
12:12 * phf brb
12:13 asciilifeform phf: in usa they sometimes speak of 'porkbarreling' but it is imho not quite same thing.
12:13 mircea_popescu re raspil, is this a sort of ro "fumat" as in "s-a baut tot, s-a fumat tot"
12:13 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Gets all dey white wymenz
12:14 mircea_popescu aha
12:15 trinque well now I gotta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxnN05vOuSM
12:15 mircea_popescu word!
12:17 mircea_popescu dawg they're great. iron maiden ftw.
12:17 * asciilifeform just took delivery of 50 years (400 pounds) of 'scientific american'
12:17 asciilifeform up to the 1998 shitocalypse
12:17 mircea_popescu cold winter prognosised ?
12:17 mircea_popescu ah
12:18 asciilifeform lel
12:19 mircea_popescu "Additionally, planners had to aggregate many types of goods and inputs into a single material balance because it was impossible to create an individual balance for each of the approximately 24 million items produced and consumed in the USSR." << ftr, this is actually actively pursued by yellen & co.
12:19 mircea_popescu because shannonizer meanwhile CAN make excel templates for 24mn items. in java!
12:20 asciilifeform weizenbaum (of 'eliza') predicted 100% of this in his 'computer power and human reason'
12:20 mircea_popescu (brought to you by the people who believe closing factories and making "transfer payments" to "workers" is a superior pareto alternative to soviet planned economy)
12:20 mircea_popescu asciilifeform mhm.
12:20 asciilifeform namely, that welfare state would make use of the machine to produce vaguely-plausible nonsense in gargantuan quantities, in precisely this manner
12:20 mircea_popescu stupid doesn't just go away. it simply dresses in the sky of the day.
12:28 mircea_popescu asciilifeform so you gonna photocopy the sa, for when phf has the tits svg'er ready ?
12:29 asciilifeform at some point
12:29 asciilifeform it was a 'buy now or wait another decade' thing
12:29 mircea_popescu myea
12:29 mircea_popescu if my collection of kvant taught me anything, it's definitely the best of all investments - paperwork of the old library.
12:29 mircea_popescu definitely beats art.
12:30 asciilifeform kvant was bowel-looseningly awesome
12:30 mircea_popescu aha
12:30 asciilifeform the american sci-am (to '90s) was similar
12:30 asciilifeform schematics for particle beam machines, etc.
12:30 mircea_popescu well... we were younger, then.
12:30 asciilifeform in late '90s it was purchased by a news conglomerate (i fuhget which) and turned into a rag
12:31 asciilifeform (many pretty pictures of pandas etc but no actual material for thinking folk)
12:31 mircea_popescu hey, this just means they were successful startup amirite ?
12:31 mircea_popescu sell to someone else!
12:31 asciilifeform ahahaha right
12:35 shinohai $s http://www.coindesk.com/presidential-candidate-hillary-clinton-pledges-support-blockchain-tech/
12:35 a111 1 results for "http://www.coindesk.com/presidential-candidate-hillary-clinton-pledges-support-blockchain-tech/", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coindesk.com%2Fpresidential-candidate-hillary-clinton-pledges-support-blockchain-tech%2F
12:35 asciilifeform lemme guess, speech at mit ?
12:35 mircea_popescu lmao, as part of the democrats' "bitcoin is terrorist money" initiative ?
12:36 mircea_popescu "we'll support mit's hole-ridden ''blockchain'' instead!"
12:36 mircea_popescu anyway, asciilifeform, there you go : that's how they paid ~200mn to terrorists past two weeks.
12:36 mircea_popescu hopefully the woman gets elected, we turn that into a cool trillion.
12:40 asciilifeform with 5 working nodez lolk.
12:41 asciilifeform 'Hard Fork: A hard fork would put a decisive end to the ongoing corewars game that is being played.' << lel somebody reads them l0gz
12:51 BingoBoingo Look he cured his obesity! https://archive.is/kDmQf
12:52 shinohai LO
12:55 wyrdmantis $up drizztdourden
12:55 deedbot drizztdourden voiced for 30 minutes.
12:56 drizztdourden hello everyone, my fellow wyrdmantis brought me here to try eulora
12:57 shinohai Welcome, hope you enjoy.
12:57 trinque drizztdourden: you'll have to ask mircea_popescu for an account
12:58 drizztdourden yes, thank you
12:59 drizztdourden mircea_popescu: i want to try eulora, thanks
13:08 BingoBoingo ;;bc,stats
13:08 gribble Current Blocks: 418389 | Current Difficulty: 2.0945315859538098E11 | Next Difficulty At Block: 419327 | Next Difficulty In: 938 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 6 days, 0 hours, 18 minutes, and 27 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
13:09 mircea_popescu hi there drizztdourden
13:09 mircea_popescu $key drizztdourden
13:09 deedbot http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/r/e9c4c3fe-0d0b-4348-8512-75cbb10c4e02/
13:10 mircea_popescu be a moment.
13:10 drizztdourden sure
13:12 asciilifeform in other non-nyooz, http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2016/04/coda.html
13:14 asciilifeform https://twitter.com/moldbug_ebooks << lel this exists
13:17 mircea_popescu drizztdourden http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/7dffa58b-67d5-4a11-9a4d-68bff768a047/
13:17 mircea_popescu $rate drizztdourden 1 Euloran
13:17 deedbot Get your OTP: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/r/3342e645-676f-449a-83a5-20bbd8ef0d5e/
13:17 mircea_popescu $v 5103B823052B00BC3F996775D13A928B72402A581CBCC639EFDA312E3E74A2E0
13:17 deedbot mircea_popescu rated drizztdourden 1 << Euloran
13:18 mircea_popescu asciilifeform top tweet, "your chains can only be broken by our patented AA method, join the cult now!"
13:18 mircea_popescu wtf is wrong with usians srsly.
13:26 mircea_popescu and in the daily trilema roulette, http://trilema.com/2014/a-practical-exercise-for-people-who-cant-afford-airfare/
13:32 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1487874 << we're up 440k in the first score and 200k on the 2nd. is this still from recent sks dump being put in ?
13:32 a111 Logged on 2016-06-23 12:38 a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 10:30 mircea_popescu: speaking of that, asciilifeform any idea how it's possible that Submissions: 3305302 Known Moduli: 2708380 Moduli Waiting for Test: 3677 ? shouldn't these add up ?
13:35 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: current sks still has ~2 wks of juice in it
13:36 asciilifeform but yes, i will outline the algo, when you throw in a key, you get +1 'submissions', regardless of whether said key has moduli, and +M known moduli, where M is the number of rsa moduli in said pgp key.
13:36 asciilifeform 'moduli waiting for test' are any moduli that have never yet been crunched
13:36 asciilifeform presently cruncher runs 1x every 4hrs.
13:37 asciilifeform (covering ALL moduli in the db, not merely 'queued')
13:37 mircea_popescu the point being that if there's less than 1 moduli known added for each ssh submission processed, we got a problem there.
13:37 asciilifeform 1.
13:37 asciilifeform thus far no rejects in the logs.
13:37 mircea_popescu ah you watching it ? cool.
13:38 asciilifeform i have the thing scroll.
13:38 asciilifeform it is how i know anything at all.
13:38 mircea_popescu http://67.media.tumblr.com/0c49f3cf0ae644308babd5b13509d1e3/tumblr_na8aaagXtw1th1i2xo1_400.gif << brought to you by misppeal meddia.
13:39 * asciilifeform revels in the museum-quality sa issues, they are in airtight cellophanes
13:40 mircea_popescu nice!
13:40 asciilifeform most of'em anyway
13:42 asciilifeform ;;later tell BingoBoingo https://cryptome.org/2016/06/OPD-Pulse-Shooting-Log.pdf << lulzy, possibly qntrable
13:42 gribble The operation succeeded.
13:42 thestringpuller whoa. did I really just make 34% shorting ETH...
13:44 trinque lol, good work.
13:44 asciilifeform 'PER WANDA FORD SHE ADV ANY MEDIA CALLS WE GET TO EMER01 6:40:13
13:44 asciilifeform TELL THEM TO REFER TO OUR TWITTER PAGE. THEY ARE EMER01 6:40:21
13:44 asciilifeform HOMELAND SECURITY 1097'
13:45 asciilifeform ^ and other lulz.
13:45 asciilifeform complete with mysterious censored bits.
13:47 asciilifeform http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/d521af7c-48ce-4a78-8e0a-75d4d4845906/?raw=true << somewhat readable depdf
13:50 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: The censored bits really detract from my motivation to do anything with it, but if someone else has the inclinations to do it...
13:52 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: no big loss, for all i know - whole thing is disinfo
13:52 BingoBoingo Which is the other suspeicion
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14:16 mircea_popescu and today in signs of patriarchy : me and girl dress to go out. i have 172 buttons. she has one.
14:17 mircea_popescu win.
14:23 asciilifeform lel 172?! mircea_popescu dressed as what, 17th c. hussar ?
14:26 trinque http://thesuiteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/michael-hussar-michaelhussar-oil-canvas-painting-art.jpg << googled hussar for visual, got...
14:33 shinohai ^ Satan in BingoBoingo 's personal hell.
14:34 BingoBoingo Nah, Satan's supposed to be your buddy, not a hambeast
14:38 trinque https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/f4/36/2a/f4362a9c0e8650babb6aec4e64dc2656.jpg << I have another one for BingoBoingo
14:39 BingoBoingo Would not sign a contract with, disqualified from being the devil.
14:49 mats at least she can stand upright
15:02 asciilifeform urgh
15:10 asciilifeform in other lulz, i have nfi what this is : https://gist.github.com/rgov/c605161835a78ebea095fee9429c8c8a
15:11 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: https://rstforums.com/forum/profile/209287-romanuls-anascutprostan << wtf..?
15:13 midnightmagic asciilifeform: Are you the one managing the phuctor effort?
15:13 midnightmagic or looking after it or whatever?
15:13 asciilifeform midnightmagic: i wrote it, fwiw
15:14 asciilifeform ( with generous support from mircea_popescu )
15:14 midnightmagic asciilifeform: If you are interested in a copy of the SKS keyset as of.. I want to say mid-2012 or so (the same one that was used as evidence that Craig Wright backdated his keys) I can stuff it into an archive for you.
15:16 asciilifeform midnightmagic: i started with an only slightly younger sks
15:16 asciilifeform but it wouldn't hurt to have a historic copy.
15:16 asciilifeform for one thing, we could nail the question of whether the sks folk tell the truth in re 'nothing is ever removed'
15:17 asciilifeform (or rather, nail it in the negative, if evidence of such turns up. otherwise it stays open)
15:17 midnightmagic Okie doke. I originally downloaded a copy of it because I was having a discussion with some peeps about fingerprinting keys and preferences and bitsizes to see how unique various peoples' choices were, and then just never went anywhere with it.
15:17 midnightmagic asciilifeform: You can wget from a tor HS site?
15:18 asciilifeform not easily
15:19 * asciilifeform brb
15:26 midnightmagic Ah, okay, so the first one is dated Feb 19 2012. And I have another one here from Dec 6 2015. I'll zip up the 2012 one and post a URL and signature.
15:36 Framedragger http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492150 << ahahaha nice one! never heard this
15:36 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 15:19 mircea_popescu: three days later alchie calls doc office in a passion. "doc, wtf do i do, i can't lift alcohol above my mouth."
15:37 Framedragger http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492071<< yeah i see your point, and incidentally agree here completely
15:37 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 14:57 mircea_popescu: Framedragger what i'm more and more discovering is that the legends about the internet and the facts about the network (not just the internet, network in general) are very much at odds. consider a few examples : L1 : "many eyes means better code" ; R1 : "many eyes means bikeshed effect" | L2 : "Bitcoin has many nodes" ; R2 "yeah, like less than 50." | L3 : "there's many weak consumer grade boxes out there" ;
15:38 Framedragger those opinions and past rumours on the nets are sort of detrimental if anything to the experimental effort which is sorely needed in all areas here
15:38 Framedragger who would have thought
15:39 Framedragger (not me, apparently; need to work against that internalized bias some more)
15:39 Framedragger (bias to trust legendz)
15:39 trinque was just about to say, cartography > traveler's legends
15:41 Framedragger problem when world is big and you need to trust other cartographers, i guess
15:41 trinque use your WoT
15:42 Framedragger that's a start for sure. sometimes cartographers from far away lands not connected to your network of trust, i guess. but then perhaps no need to trust much about far away lands anyway
15:49 Framedragger http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492083 << out of loop; soo, many awesome bitcoin nodes actually run on the same host? kinda hilarious / sad
15:49 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 15:02 mircea_popescu: after the shocking revelations earlier this year, that really many things which seemed actually hosted properly (ie, own box etc) and on this basis assumed independent were really THE SAME ONE ITEM, i think even the 50 figure is generous.
15:52 trinque $s sybil
15:52 a111 68 results for "sybil", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=sybil
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16:08 BingoBoingo Framedragger: See alf's AWS hammer
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16:36 BingoBoingo $up linton_s_dawson1
16:36 deedbot linton_s_dawson1 voiced for 30 minutes.
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17:08 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492397 << yes! :D
17:08 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 18:23 asciilifeform: lel 172?! mircea_popescu dressed as what, 17th c. hussar ?
17:09 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492398 << see also alt spellyng, hussy-arr. http://66.media.tumblr.com/8f8a4e297b0bd1d6a3c698d2d9e2923f/tumblr_nz1hjgjn0q1v0vlh7o1_500.gif
17:09 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 18:26 trinque: http://thesuiteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/michael-hussar-michaelhussar-oil-canvas-painting-art.jpg << googled hussar for visual, got...
17:10 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492406 << hm ?
17:10 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 19:11 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://rstforums.com/forum/profile/209287-romanuls-anascutprostan << wtf..?
17:12 wyrdmantis mircea_popescu apparently i can't log in eulora
17:12 mircea_popescu lol dude... check out all the obscure venues where people discuss me knowingly.
17:12 mircea_popescu wyrdmantis server's up, what's teh problem ?
17:15 BingoBoingo Why you can't hire redditurds https://archive.is/re5Z0
17:18 drizztdourden mircea_popescu now he's online but i get always incorrect username or password
17:18 drizztdourden we are connected to the same router
17:20 mircea_popescu yeah well that doesn't work.
17:20 shinohai There's just not enough asylums in the US anymore fr these people.
17:22 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492429 << the link is quite germane. even as late as 1800 romanian popular geography included "muscali cu coada", literally, moscow people had tails, like a cat.
17:22 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 19:39 trinque: was just about to say, cartography > traveler's legends
17:33 mircea_popescu lol someone plugged the router cable ?
17:36 shinohai https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/747897783802277888
17:38 deedbot [» Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] Dealing with idiot car buyers: A primer. - http://www.contravex.com/2016/06/28/dealing-with-idiot-car-buyers-a-primer/
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18:07 shinohai Ethereum: -11.73 % The DAO: -17.88 %
18:08 mircea_popescu no ?
18:08 mircea_popescu wasn't it fixed ? i thought THEY WERE COMING AFTER ME!!11
18:09 shinohai :D
18:10 mircea_popescu gonna leave https://archive.is/UlYmh for the posterities.
18:11 asciilifeform 'I could not understand, this is a company who had a hard hit by a bug, yet they could able to hit again by a bug. Okey they have pressure on they back but this is a second market crush. I'm so sad to see this post.'
18:11 asciilifeform gold.
18:11 mircea_popescu gotta love it when the "solution" to the "solution" consists of PLEASE DONT RUN OUR CODE
18:12 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492454 << 'dog men' appeared in atlas until when, 15th c ?
18:12 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 21:22 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492429 << the link is quite germane. even as late as 1800 romanian popular geography included "muscali cu coada", literally, moscow people had tails, like a cat.
18:12 mircea_popescu "we are the premier engineer and science institution IN THE WORLD!"
18:12 mircea_popescu and could totally buy... an apple.
18:12 mircea_popescu asciilifeform aha.
18:19 mircea_popescu and to round the lolz farm, " The code was open-sourced on March 3rd, so experts had almost two months to find vulnerabilities before it was deployed. It was also audited (at an alleged cost of $250k) by the same firm that audited geth before the frontier launch." (you remember, by the "dejavu" derps, that proud scion of bitcoin security of bitcoinica days. https://archive.is/yZ0ke )
18:23 mircea_popescu and, of course, let's not forget historical posturing https://archive.is/iKC07 by the TRULY professional slock.it "all staer" team : simon jentzsch (founder & "ceo"), christoph jentzch (founder's relative & "CTO"), stephan tual (staph patient & coockoo), lefteris karapetsas, griff green, colm herbert, and the one, the only, dr! christian reitwiessner, the creator of stolidity!
18:23 mircea_popescu "CTO" &
18:24 mircea_popescu https://archive.is/iKC07
18:28 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492457 << so basically, as part of its ongoing cold war against insufficiently-pliable torvalds, the usg through its usg.twitter agency... repurposed what it claims to be "linus' account", ie, a voodoo doll they made for him. and this somehow is supposed to reflect on the man ? why, because we're all from the great nation of africa and ergo fucktarded in the brain ?
18:28 a111 Logged on 2016-06-28 21:36 shinohai: https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/747897783802277888
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20:28 asciilifeform in other lulz: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-draws-flak-for-pushing-windows-10-on-pc-users << somebody sued microshit and won
20:29 shinohai https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4qb4kz/this_is_intolerably_ridiculous_hard_fork_and_move/d4rr6t3 <<< naturally this guy gets downboats
20:34 asciilifeform what was it mircea_popescu said, 'never interrupt an enemy who is in the middle of fellating his nagant'
20:34 shinohai :)
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21:08 phf "You can buy one or more Urbit stars for $256 - or, TODAY ONLY, only $205."
~ 18 minutes ~
21:27 phf from https://sale.urbit.org
21:40 mircea_popescu it was nappy leon!
21:41 mircea_popescu they were playing bridge and someone was about to say 1nt with akj in 6 hearts.
21:43 mircea_popescu asciilifeform see, but his link is very informative. "how about you look before you leap ?" "STOP TALKING NONSENSE!!!!! NOBOSY CAN USE NOGGIN!!11!!ELEVEN WE ARE HERE TO BUILD CENTRALIZED DECENTRALIZATION!"
21:43 mircea_popescu "AND WE ALL R AGREES IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO!"
21:44 mircea_popescu if it blows up, you can always "hard fork"^H"pretend it never happened".
21:44 mircea_popescu "that's how life works" etc.
21:45 mircea_popescu anyway. #etherape right on schedule.
21:46 mircea_popescu hopefully hilary has enough money leftover from bill to pay for round two of lolz.
21:47 mod6 #hardfork_timemachine
21:48 mircea_popescu phf is this for the people who bought battleships, islands, now they can buy asteroids, next alphabet letters...
21:48 mircea_popescu yarvin really should have his own breakfast cereal company.
21:49 phf yeah, it's that same game
21:49 mircea_popescu brb ima liquidate my doge profits buy some more scamtokens from usg tools!
21:49 phf but it's interesting to observe a "hip" version of it
21:50 mircea_popescu is it hiperer than the previous ?
21:51 phf there's a video of a guy doing a pitch, some nice fonts, stripe integration. it is now, it is happening
21:51 mircea_popescu heh stripe.
21:51 mircea_popescu yeah.
21:51 phf could be a yc project
21:52 mircea_popescu in other news, ethereumgear.com now advertises in google searches for me. because yeah, totally.
21:58 phf smart ads!
21:59 mircea_popescu totally smart.
21:59 shinohai Have a tshirt made with that pic of mircea_popescu in Egypt, but replace the pyramids with burning ethereum logos.
22:01 phf trilema store on cafe press
22:02 mircea_popescu better than bitdaytrade, this shit.
22:02 phf just pictures of all the "show your tits" girls on white t-shirts American Apparel style
22:02 mircea_popescu rarely has such large a collection of entirely inept shitheads been so utterly exposed.
22:02 mircea_popescu i mean, bitdaytrade rivals it for utter, but that was what, meni rosenfeld and a bunch of web freelancer pakis.
22:02 phf s/american apparel/supreme/
22:03 mircea_popescu phf actually this isn't a terribru idea, make shirts with the numbered tits.
22:03 phf half way through i realized i wasn't just trolling
22:03 mod6 <+shinohai> Have a tshirt made with that pic of mircea_popescu in Egypt, but replace the pyramids with burning ethereum logos. << the drawing of Mr. P. that was made a while back would be a good t-shirt.
22:03 mircea_popescu $google "i'll pay for your tits"
22:03 deedbot http://trilema.com/2014/06 << June 2014 on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-07-2014 << NEXT: 28-07-2014 | http://trilema.com/they-really-are-buttcoins-nao << They really are Buttcoins nao on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.
22:04 shinohai Yeah mod6 that *would* be great
22:04 mircea_popescu yeah, anyone wanna run a tmsr tshirts bidniss ? preferably someone who isn't a lazy math guy who pretends to lie to self and call it "downshifting" or w/e.
22:06 phf http://www.projectblitz.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/1800x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/_/m/_mg_4285_copy.jpg
22:06 phf ^
22:06 mircea_popescu uh whassat ?
22:06 phf can just do it in this style, doesn't need to be a quality print. just a bunch of shirts with lowres tits
22:07 mircea_popescu you're from like the punk movement arent you.
22:07 * shinohai is nostalgic for those shirts from the 80's where the vinyl flaked off ....
22:07 mircea_popescu o fuck, that was THE best deal of 1992.
22:09 mircea_popescu buy thermotransfer crap in turkey, for like 10 bux a pile of 100, sell them for like ten bucks a pop. "advanced!"
22:09 phf "got some business going"
22:10 mircea_popescu sometimes i wonder how eeurope'd have looked today had the soviets managed to dredge on.
22:11 * asciilifeform had to look up 'downshifting'
22:12 phf $s downshifting
22:12 a111 7 results for "downshifting", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=downshifting
22:12 asciilifeform and aha we dun have a nubsy no moar so no shirtz.
22:12 mircea_popescu $up meau`
22:12 deedbot meau` voiced for 30 minutes.
22:14 mircea_popescu in other news, brexit cost the robo-lizzard-hitler club ~2.1 trillion in notionals.
22:14 mircea_popescu ie, more than the 2008 crisis.
22:15 asciilifeform wtf does it mean to 'cost' the folks with the printing press something.
22:15 asciilifeform they still have same # of turkeys.
22:15 mircea_popescu yes yes.
22:15 mircea_popescu notionals are now slightly smaller than afore ?
22:15 asciilifeform that's called 'devaluation' neh?
22:15 asciilifeform like ruble
22:16 mircea_popescu more like de-posturation ?
22:16 asciilifeform ~=
22:23 mod6 ;;bc,stats
22:23 gribble Current Blocks: 418439 | Current Difficulty: 2.0945315859538098E11 | Next Difficulty At Block: 419327 | Next Difficulty In: 888 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 5 days, 22 hours, 4 minutes, and 48 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
22:27 mod6 wow. remember 1M?
22:37 mod6 ok that was interesting. at some point tb0t got bounced out -- but it was *still* logging from here.
22:37 mod6 o.O
22:38 mod6 oh, it just got devoiced.
22:38 mod6 ok
22:40 mircea_popescu wb.
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23:33 asciilifeform http://qntra.net/2016/06/how-the-tor-project-pays-and-pays-cia-agents-from-their-usg-navy-coffers/#comment-62660 << lulzy
23:35 BingoBoingo Eh, that's just detail lulz
23:38 asciilifeform a q for BingoBoingo :
23:38 asciilifeform lafond mentions a map of bmore he annotated
23:38 asciilifeform where is it?
23:38 BingoBoingo I haven't seen it. Perhaps requires javascript?
23:39 asciilifeform alluded to in comments of http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=4264
23:39 BingoBoingo Maybe ask him in comments for url?
23:44 mircea_popescu http://qntra.net/2016/06/how-the-tor-project-pays-and-pays-cia-agents-from-their-usg-navy-coffers/#comment-62660 << check it out, qntra worthy of its own pinoy dept nao ? who could have predicted!
23:54 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: found it, http://www.jameslafond.com/btg
23:54 BingoBoingo oh, ty
23:56 mircea_popescu "north and south ok, east and west bad, diagonals in between"
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