#pest | 2023-08-08

if 1 of'em actually superconducts, you'll know it when folx start firing plasma pistols etc

13:55

this is rather like the periodic 'i broke rsa!1111' posts on ye olde sci.crypt. 'i'll be convinced immediately, just send me my privkey primes'

13:56

all you need for conclusive proof is a working e.g. levitator skateboard.

13:57

of the interpretations, the one where dorks were milking a financier and he called their bluff is the most entertaining

13:58

signpost: the original koreans, where 'leaked after 20y' ? or sumbody else?

13:58

prolly over9000 grifters milking financiers at this pt

13:59

just like there are still '+ev fusion! only need coupla $mil invest' folx to this day

13:59

somebody mentioned it a few days back in the logs. original koreans.

14:00

idea being the third guy was tired of hearing "any day now" and published their paper for them.

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a

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http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-08-04#1029516

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bitbot

Logged on 2023-08-04 19:39:42 crtdaydreams[jonsykkel|signpost]: who published everything. accordingly the observation is made that the first article that was published had 3 names on it (likely due to nobel prize laurelate limit of 3 people?). It seems plausible to me that Kwon called bullshit after nearly a decade of these guys draining his wallet, and held the view that it would be a

14:00

lulzy

14:01

in either case, the moment anything real does happen, there will inevitably be thousands of troons posting faked videos of same.

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already posting neh

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yup

14:02

saying the noise happens no matter what

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ancient tradition ( see e.g. + over9000 similar )

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14:26

incidentally, recall anuther interesting blaster 'unlockable' if had roomtemp supercon.

14:26

(trilema) 2017-04-14 asciilifeform: btw the 'beta decay can be arbitrarily sped up in magnetic field' throws a bit of new light on just how 'strange, new' a world with roomtemp supercon would be.

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shinohai

In heathen wallet news: https://milksad.info/disclosure.html

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19:41

"The victims ensured that their /dev/random Random Number Generator (RNG) subsystem of the Linux laptops had sufficient entropy, but perhaps that wasn’t sufficient after all ..?"

19:42

all that trouble and they don't even bother to roll dice

19:42

std::mt19937& pseudo_random::get_twister() lol

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asciilifeform also lols, just like last coupla of these, <30 coinz pinched total

19:44

that, over '... we discovered over 2600 distinct and actively used Bitcoin cryptocurrency wallets...'

19:45

redditus & their 'life savings'(tm) eh

19:45

b-but, they "ensured"!

19:46

run moar tardwallets.

19:55

sane 'wallet' would be nice, but aint happening befoar hell freezes over. ( see also )

19:55

(asciilifeform) 2022-05-19 asciilifeform: upstack, re: 'iron wallets' -- see also e.[http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciili

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Logged on 2023-05-24 20:59:04 asciilifeform: not expects anyone to bake sane 'iron wallet' -- the 'how' was imho obv. for 10+yrs nao, but who would pay

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bitbot

Logged on 2023-05-24 14:39:28 asciilifeform[6]: on this hypothetical iron, the 'knobs' oughta include a means of entering a decryption pw. the keys per se, to live on removable flashes, 'unclassified when unkeyed'(tm)(r) ergo as many backups as one feels like

20:00

redditus collectively has barely enuff coin to buy a coupla bulldozers to dig their graves with, much less pay for sane walletron to appear

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asciilifeform suspects that e.g. llm-powered shitcoad audits will yield at least coupla moar 'aaand they stole almost 30 btc!11' noose items

20:06

... the only 'btc business model' they can support is the 1 illustrated above, where you give'em a 'wallet' with mersenne twister rng and harvest.

20:08

even this is likely -ev most of the time. we simply dun hear about the ones where 'lolfuck i got over9000 redditards to use boobytrapped wallet and got 0.1btc summed'

20:08

lol

20:09

strangely, in an article entirely about the dangers of insufficient entropy, no mention of how to get sufficient amounts of said entropy

20:09

only offered "solution" is, "be sure to update your software to the latest version next time"

20:10

what'd 'sufficient entropy' do for these tards ?

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(asciilifeform) 2020-08-20 asciilifeform: it is also the case that rng as commercial product is a very questionable biz proposition. it takes quite a bit of 'adulthood' to even get to a place where you actually benefit from a 1000 $ rng. for instance, microshit victims dun really win anyffin from using whatever external rn

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billymg only skimmed, but 0 results for ctrl-f 'trng', 'true', 'dice'

20:14

it's a stereotypical lemon market and will continue to produce the very familiar lemons, ad nauseum

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