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00:14 mircea_popescu Ehrsam wrote: "There is nothing that bitcoin can do which Ethereum can’t." << aha. bwahahah. how about not falling over every week ?
00:16 mircea_popescu trinque apparently this was the first time you commented under that name. i dunno, i thought i saw you before. anyway, should go straight through next time.
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00:58 BingoBoingo !~ticker --market all
00:58 jhvh1 BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 751.0, vol: 5686.78288839 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 751.66, vol: 5245.82133 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 752.23, vol: 8504.58373911 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 767.412464, vol: 1470969.48600000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 753.04, vol: 1733.8489545 | Volume-weighted last average: 767.191299207
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07:25 thestringpuller http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-11#1554678 << In practice dragging someone out of the cave usually results in temper tantrums.
07:25 a111 Logged on 2016-10-11 20:26 mircea_popescu: no, i'm implying that nobody in plato's cave knows how badly the cave sucks until someone comes in riding a pegassus
07:26 thestringpuller hence the pegasus (assuming they can see it)
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07:59 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/100CAE7A776AD64680BA79678B251D0FED4E74ED5809C0CB72E443D006DF15CB << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1397...5967 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '87.118.232.174 (ssh-rsa key from 87.118.232.174 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown RU)
07:59 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/A61730B2012A2336FD271D000CA46DC5653BB1D1D0EDE99267BCD2D8ABE8D49F << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1772...0167 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '79.98.25.160 (ssh-rsa key from 79.98.25.160 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (server.admode.lt. LT)
07:59 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/A699710E41B79E9651FA6BCE753216B8B7F39054A4150F856A74AB89952AA7B2 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1432...4237 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '41.223.152.240 (ssh-rsa key from 41.223.152.240 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown MZ MPM)
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08:35 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/EE1F2E9FC2C0ABFB22D1ED6985AAC2C7D16C5B215F17AABA0A6014570F19E7FD << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1432...4237 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '185.103.183.254 (ssh-rsa key from 185.103.183.254 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' ()
08:35 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/A699710E41B79E9651FA6BCE753216B8B7F39054A4150F856A74AB89952AA7B2 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1432...4237 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '41.223.152.240 (ssh-rsa key from 41.223.152.240 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown MZ MPM)
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09:02 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/9460417F17B2CD1F76F6DB069E697C5DABA33283141E06F1ABA005ACF08CD48F << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1797...6589 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '79.98.25.168 (ssh-rsa key from 79.98.25.168 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (server.mokamediagroup.com. LT)
09:17 shinohai https://blog.filippo.io/giving-up-on-long-term-pgp/
09:18 shinohai "I'm gonna quit using gpg, but you can contact me using signal + tor!"
09:19 * mircea_popescu has nfi who this schmuck is.
09:20 shinohai Works for cloudflare, nuff said
09:20 mircea_popescu whatever, he gets at least 2 encrypted mails a year i get about two dozen an hour.
09:21 mircea_popescu why does he figure himself as a "perfect user" i have nfi - before a business comms system works for you, YOU GOTTA HAVE A BUSINESS.
09:21 mircea_popescu random schmucko bum-student dun have a business ; or any business here.
09:23 mircea_popescu "I never ever ever successfully used the WoT to validate a public key." ie what we do here multiple times a day ?
09:23 mircea_popescu dude wasn't using pgp, what can i say.
09:24 mircea_popescu oh, he's trying to sell whatever other nsa altpgp. myeah, whatever.
09:24 mircea_popescu !!rate filippo valsorda -10 nsa asset.
09:24 * deedbot hands you a broomstick.
09:24 shinohai lol
09:24 mircea_popescu o look, works for... cloudflare.
09:24 mircea_popescu dem shocking surprises
09:25 shinohai >>> 09:20 +shinohai Works for cloudflare, nuff said
09:25 shinohai Their "Crypto Expert" or whatevs
09:26 shinohai (but opinions ....)
09:26 mircea_popescu aha.
09:32 mircea_popescu schmucks really came a long way from the 80s. srsly, consumer-mentality based fud "oh noes, i worry about my key! government should come and give me certainties! putin influenced elections! guns kill people!"
09:32 mircea_popescu that's all ? really ?
09:33 mircea_popescu just go make a littoral self-rape ship, this software/internet stuff is a waste of your talents, folks.
09:39 Framedragger ah, well it seems he did make progress with short ID bruteforcing, that's gotta count for something.
09:40 Framedragger (also rehi)
09:41 Framedragger "If you need to securely contact me, your best bet is to DM me asking for my Signal number" << hmh.
09:42 Framedragger (DM as in twitter)
09:43 shinohai total sekoority
09:47 mircea_popescu it's not gonna count for anything in this context.
09:47 mircea_popescu hurr durr, they were doing pgp subversion research and picked his hanno bock to publish some results.
09:48 mircea_popescu notice how he glued himself to heartbleed (which, unlike the normal hanno bockian crap, was a surprise to the empire).
09:48 mircea_popescu that's kinda what they do, whenever something moves without hitler they try to barnacle on it.
09:50 asciilifeform pretty lulzy piece; somehow the species of insect was quite apparent imho from 1-2 paragraphs of merely the style of the text !
09:51 mircea_popescu anyway, i guess all this gives a very interesting answer to the "how does tmsr gpd compare to fiat states gdp". apparently they produce 2 gpgrams/year/capita, and consist of what, 1k of the herbivores ? meanwhile ben_vulpes 's thing deals in what, dozens/day ?
09:51 Framedragger i think he's just young (https://github.com/FiloSottile). i remember his heartbleed test tool, it wasn't innovative but was useful. (but i hear what mircea_popescu is saying)
09:51 mircea_popescu !~calc 2 * 1000 / (24 * 365)
09:51 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: 2 * 1000 / (24 * 365) = 0.228310502283105
09:52 mircea_popescu ie, for every empire gdp tmsr does ~4.5
09:52 mircea_popescu Framedragger guess what, toddlers drinking bleach die just like adults do.
09:52 asciilifeform Framedragger: the way hannoboecks work is that they will pick a trivial but 'glamorous' problem to 'solve' and score 'cred' with rubes thereby
09:52 asciilifeform boeck himself does this ~weekly
09:53 Framedragger right, right. and also the whole "incompetence ~= malice" thing.
09:53 asciilifeform there was a thread re 'do-ocracy', a name one of the perpetrators gave to this practice
09:55 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-06#1578282 << 'Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) Server at 79.98.25.168 Port 80'
09:55 a111 Logged on 2016-12-06 14:02 deedbot: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/9460417F17B2CD1F76F6DB069E697C5DABA33283141E06F1ABA005ACF08CD48F << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1797...6589 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '79.98.25.168 (ssh-rsa key from 79.98.25.168 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (server.mokamediagroup.com. LT)
09:55 phf why does he go through song and dance of "officially" abandoning his key, if he has by own admission no counterparties?
09:55 asciilifeform was there an ubuntu based on diddled-debian, mircea_popescu et al ?
09:55 asciilifeform i had nfi.
09:55 * phf is confusedly observing native's rain dance of "sekure comms"
09:55 asciilifeform phf: same reason elliot r. 'abandoned traitorous women' though he had none..?
09:58 mircea_popescu asciilifeform ofcourse.
09:58 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: which one(s) ?
09:58 Framedragger http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20161206/#101 << hah, same hosting company and same /24 that is used for Framedragger's logotron and other things
09:58 scriba Something went wrong while attempting to read the log.
09:58 scriba Exception: ['utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x92 in position 5709: invalid start byte]
09:58 Framedragger oh shit.
09:58 mircea_popescu lol.
09:59 Framedragger "i dug the dirt myself and now gotta eat it"
09:59 Framedragger for logs, http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-06#1578325 ^ is what i meant
09:59 a111 Logged on 2016-12-06 14:55 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-06#1578282 << 'Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) Server at 79.98.25.168 Port 80'
09:59 mircea_popescu asciilifeform well, ubuntu repackages debian every 6 mo or so
09:59 asciilifeform aaah
09:59 mircea_popescu (they "commit to security updates within 9 months". fancy that wonder.)
09:59 phf Framedragger: fwiw the logs have properly reffed the original link, no need for a second one
10:00 mircea_popescu anyway. 10.04/10.10/11.04 are squeeze ; the rest up to 14.04 wheezy and then jessie.
10:00 Framedragger ah, sure phf, gotcha, cool stuff
10:00 mircea_popescu and they always package "sid" (ie, devel) as opposed to stable
10:01 Framedragger need the latest node.js!!!
10:02 mircea_popescu https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files << there's even a convenient listing.
10:02 shinohai !~later tell mod6 http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/ecRir/?raw=true
10:02 jhvh1 shinohai: The operation succeeded.
10:03 Framedragger (the 79.98.25.168 pop is interesting tho, as some of these hosting-company-i-use boxen get provisioned with everything installed, and i'm sure as fuck that "not all" customers regen ssh host keys. so there may be more pops, or other interesting goodness. probably the whole /16 is worthy of getting properly port-scanned, lots of broken stuff there i'm sure - if anyone has time etc)
10:04 mircea_popescu phf for the obvious reason, the horde of consumers want to do what other people have done. the idea is for terrorists to not be able to communicate with upstanding, law abiding citizens, not the other way around.
10:04 mircea_popescu gotta stop the spread of "fake news" and other burgeois propaganda.
10:07 mircea_popescu in other lulz, "Unicode on UNIX is only madness if you force it on everything. But that's not how Unicode on UNIX works. UNIX does not have a distinction between unicode and byte APIs. They are one and the same which makes them easy to deal with." (from thing guy linked, http://trilema.com/2016/minigame-is-probably-never-going-to-support-python-3/#comment-119991 ).
10:07 mircea_popescu obviously... except until www gets involved and you have escaped code points vs bytestream
10:17 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/9460417F17B2CD1F76F6DB069E697C5DABA33283141E06F1ABA005ACF08CD48F << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1432...5707 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '79.98.25.168 (ssh-rsa key from 79.98.25.168 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (server.mokamediagroup.com. LT)
10:17 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/100CAE7A776AD64680BA79678B251D0FED4E74ED5809C0CB72E443D006DF15CB << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1352...2407 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '87.118.232.174 (ssh-rsa key from 87.118.232.174 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown RU)
10:17 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/A61730B2012A2336FD271D000CA46DC5653BB1D1D0EDE99267BCD2D8ABE8D49F << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1514...6497 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '79.98.25.160 (ssh-rsa key from 79.98.25.160 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (server.admode.lt. LT)
10:17 mircea_popescu aanyway. the moral broadly speaking is that there's a windows-niggers-and-other-idiots python ("windows-niggers-and-other-idiots" which is how you decode "3" in unicode) and a normal people python which finally became stable cca 2010 and thanks god.
10:22 jurov http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-06#1578252 << as long as they fit into the head (like alexandria), fine for me. why are you asking?
10:22 a111 Logged on 2016-12-06 02:33 ben_vulpes: does the lispy lordship have opinions to share about cl extension libs like "alexandria" and "metabang-bind"?
10:22 mircea_popescu jurov hey, do you have any worn old screens ?
10:23 phf http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-06#1578252 << the two are different beasts. alexandria by design is a set of helper functions that wouldn't be out of place in the standard (complete with sometimes obtuse names!), some like with-gensyms doplist flatten iota if/when-let i've seen reimplemented all over the place. bind is more of a everything and kitchen sink replacement for builtin operators
10:23 a111 Logged on 2016-12-06 02:33 ben_vulpes: does the lispy lordship have opinions to share about cl extension libs like "alexandria" and "metabang-bind"?
10:25 jurov mircea_popescu: no and iirc i never used them
10:25 mircea_popescu oh i thought you bought one of the first ones.
10:29 phf ben_vulpes: if you were to use bind everywhere you can use it (e.g. as a replacement for let, destructuring-bind) your code is going to look sufficiently different that it's not clear if you're even programming in common lisp at that point. makes the result less readable for other cl programmers, and code becomes harder to future proof. the tradeoff is generally seen as not worth it (too intrusive for little payoff)
10:31 jurov mircea_popescu: just looked into storage to be sure, nope. but by time screens came out, i got scared by amounts you(plural) invested into eulora and gave up on it
10:31 mircea_popescu darn
10:31 mircea_popescu they kinda became rare and are selling for crazy, 500%+ premiums.
10:32 mircea_popescu anyway. any tool bps or stuff ? many things went up a lot.
10:33 jurov i doubt it, gave up on creating tools long before that
10:33 mircea_popescu aite.
10:42 * jurov had once amassed almost-significant amount of eulora stuff ... in a claim that vanished :D
10:45 mircea_popescu that sucks.
10:46 mircea_popescu anyway, you should prolly go through your inventory and hold a garage sale / auction. prices changed a lot since a year ago
10:46 jurov ok
10:52 shinohai I had nearly all my stuff in claims until I found out they vanish sporadically, so back to Electron it all went.
11:03 asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2016/a-collection-of-distinctions/#comment-120002 << mega-thread continued
11:16 asciilifeform https://archive.is/TzZnb << moar re: the crispy critters from earlier thread
11:23 phf this happens to squats all the time, but i don't think that the fatalities are as high in civilized world, because people tend to understand what they get into when they squat. sucks, because it's likely to make getting warehouses for legitimate use trickier in the future
11:23 trinque asciilifeform: suppose vectored sigs exist, and having provided a weasel route through V, nobody ever actually swears to an item in full.
11:24 asciilifeform trinque: then these same weasels, revealed to be weasels, don't get ticket to mircea_popescu's mars ship
11:24 asciilifeform as described in his reply
11:24 asciilifeform weasels are not created by weasel-routes.
11:24 asciilifeform nor are men created from idiot chickens via wing-clipping
11:25 trinque no, but it invites them to the party
11:25 mircea_popescu i r writing a reply fwiw.
11:25 asciilifeform they invite themselves to every party, neh?
11:27 phf i know a guy who lives in a shipping container (actually mutliple shipping containers welded together) in that area, but he built it himself, he works with steel and propane and is generally a competent person (he lives on his shop grounds). when i read the story i though maybe a warehouse rave caught on fire, but apparently the idiots were living there? it'll just make the authorities take a closer look at oakland warehouses and fuck
11:27 phf things up for not idiots
11:31 asciilifeform phf: the funny bit is: if fire safety laws were to be enforced in usa, most if not all of the suburban idiotboxes would be condemned and bulldozed
11:31 asciilifeform they are made of cardboard, of paper, and burn like old newspaper, regularly
11:32 shinohai https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzAXbebWEAE4riS.jpg <<< lulz (+10 for accuracy )
11:32 deedbot http://qntra.net/2016/12/missouri-governor-elects-wife-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-saint-louis/ << Qntra - Missouri Governor Elect's Wife Robbed At Gunpoint In Saint Louis
11:33 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: This is why electric code now includes puzzles like "arc fault" circuit breaker.
11:33 mircea_popescu asciilifeform answer't.
11:34 * asciilifeform reads.
11:45 diana_coman fwiw I kept trying to digest asciilifeform's proposed categories, but I must confess I would still have trouble deciding on one or another; basically my clear categories would really be binary: I'm USING this or I WILL NOT USE this; the rest I would rather expect to be sorted by competence meaning that one who wants to write a patch for eulora would better get a "I'm using this" from someone involved with eulora, not from his t
11:45 diana_coman eacher of computer science, no matter how great/capable that teacher might be
11:46 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: answr'd
11:46 asciilifeform diana_coman: he had a point, only 1 bit is really machine-usable
11:50 mircea_popescu diana_coman that part, of "who", is kinda baked in the design as it is, because of the .seals
11:50 trinque and the -1 doesn't undermine the opposability with "eh, I never actually read this" and etc
11:51 mircea_popescu asciilifeform back atcha.
11:53 asciilifeform trinque: expand plox
11:58 trinque the signed curse would be stood by in court / at the gallows, whereas something like "I am responsible for some of this" is what, the part that killed my goat, or "always not that part" ?
11:58 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: answr'd2
11:58 asciilifeform trinque: proposed vectorizer concerned ~texts~, not facts
11:59 asciilifeform 'the picture of the pipe,' if you will, not the pipe.
12:00 Framedragger http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-06#1578290 << for completeness sake, i'm not sure if what is done here multiple times a day is the thing he meant, i.e.: key verification :/
12:00 a111 Logged on 2016-12-06 14:23 mircea_popescu: "I never ever ever successfully used the WoT to validate a public key." ie what we do here multiple times a day ?
12:00 trinque point being the "I am responsible for some" becomes meaningless because no one will ever be pinned down by that.
12:02 mircea_popescu Framedragger "using the wot to validate a public key".
12:02 mircea_popescu seems this is exactly defined as "get X's key from Y you trust". observe :
12:02 mircea_popescu !!key Framedragger
12:02 deedbot http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/r/vMWvd/?raw=true
12:02 mircea_popescu !#s "!!key"
12:02 a111 62 results for "\"!!key\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22!!key%22
12:02 mircea_popescu 62 times.
12:02 Framedragger and how the hell do you know that what thing-calling-self-deedbot gave you over fleanode is thing-you-requested?
12:03 mircea_popescu not only is it done, and done tons, contrary to his "never" : but it is eminently administrable and accountable, as i just proved.
12:03 mircea_popescu Framedragger because if it isn't, X will complain.
12:03 mircea_popescu that's what WOT-verified even means!
12:04 Framedragger hmm. i mean, sure, it just.. seems awfully promisetronic, to peruse local lingo.
12:05 Framedragger "X will complain some time maybe"
12:05 mircea_popescu "promisetronic" in the sense of "not rippletronic/ethereumtronic/etc" is a good thing.
12:05 Framedragger oh, sure, i understand that the scheme as currently implemented *actually works* :p
12:05 trinque as far as the lying wire is concerned, that's solved by a different gadget
12:05 trinque wouldn't be appropriate to approach that ad hoc
12:06 mircea_popescu ^
12:06 mircea_popescu once gossipd, this objection entirely vanishes.
12:07 Framedragger mircea_popescu: but what oftentimes ends up happening when you request key from deedbot is that the requester then promptly uses that key to encrypt $text, and ping recipient with a public url to $text. the fact that there's been no mitm, i think, only shows that the lizards do not find this place important enough (for better or worse, etc)
12:07 Framedragger suresure. awaiting godot!
12:07 Framedragger (i kid)
12:08 mircea_popescu Framedragger what happens when you go to a bar and order a drink is that the bartender pours you a drink.
12:09 mircea_popescu you see this as an argument against bars ?
12:09 mircea_popescu bar fraud ?
12:09 mircea_popescu the reason is that large scale crime syndicates don't... think bars important enough ?
12:09 Framedragger hmh. i guess it counts as "key verification" then. hm
12:10 mircea_popescu see, allowing a well tailored pyramid of risk eating is not bad. it's good.
12:10 mircea_popescu maybe i have a really important message and i send it 2nd, what.
12:10 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-06#1578425 << what if the result is that X is dead ?
12:10 a111 Logged on 2016-12-06 17:03 mircea_popescu: Framedragger because if it isn't, X will complain.
12:10 mircea_popescu maybe what you see is just a decoy. etc etc.
12:10 asciilifeform so far the sappers have gotten to err >1ce
12:10 mircea_popescu asciilifeform ytou can't talk to dead xen
12:10 asciilifeform this may not always hold.
12:10 asciilifeform point is that you don't always get a gossptronic takeback.
12:11 asciilifeform what if the decision to launch rockets or not has to be made based on signature NOW ?
12:11 mircea_popescu then the whole thing was badly designed and whoever deserves to lose.
12:11 mircea_popescu now is no part of strategy.
12:11 asciilifeform unrewindable 'nows' are part of physical reality.
12:12 Framedragger (this whole "request key before i encipher" seems weird to me at any rate. store the keys, have some out-of-band way of verifying them, and use them when needed. but i understand that the current mechanism is useful, and iirc i must have used it myself, even)
12:12 asciilifeform Framedragger: it is quite impossible to meaningfully cryptographicate with a stranger
12:13 mircea_popescu Framedragger it's "request keys before relationship"
12:13 mircea_popescu everything starts somewhere.
12:13 phf i think key reliance here is very much ~wot~ very similar to how otc used to operate. i.e. if there's no identity outside of key, then key-identity-trust are all tied together. nobody sends anybody sensitive command/control/comm without knowing them first. i had a version of asciilifeform's key for years, and my knowledge of asciilifeform was build on multiple verifications of asciikey-asciilifeform-rating entity
12:14 Framedragger right, right. it just appears that !!key is being used for established relationships, too. but, again, i guess, http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-06#1578425 etc
12:14 a111 Logged on 2016-12-06 17:03 mircea_popescu: Framedragger because if it isn't, X will complain.
12:14 mircea_popescu Framedragger give an example ?
12:15 Framedragger hm. i could be wrong. maybe http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-18#1569436 , http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-28#1549905 ?
12:15 a111 Logged on 2016-11-18 01:06 asciilifeform: !!key BingoBoingo
12:15 a111 Logged on 2016-09-28 20:31 shinohai: !!key thestringpuller
12:15 Framedragger (i guess WoT trust had been simply deferred to deedbot until those points in time, etc)
12:15 mircea_popescu 1st seems more like spot check and 2nd i'm not sure the two did have a prior relationship
12:16 asciilifeform ftr it was a spot check, i had existing copy of BingoBoingo's key
12:16 asciilifeform (they matched)
12:16 mircea_popescu Framedragger understand, it makes 0 difference that you "exist" in the sense of, have a tight relationship with your gf. existence is solipsistic, you exist to X once X bothers to get your key.
12:16 shinohai I didn't have a prior copy of thestringpuller 's key in that instance.
12:21 Framedragger kk.
12:21 asciilifeform 94.50.199.25 - - [06/Dec/2016:17:19:17 +0000] "GET /.bash_profile HTTP/1.1" 404 1014 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1" "-" [ snipped bunch of very very similar ] << lel
12:21 Framedragger A for effort?
12:21 asciilifeform GET /.secret << where does this even exist
12:21 mircea_popescu heh
12:21 trinque aim moar www at home directories!
12:22 asciilifeform GET /.private << lel
12:22 mircea_popescu dude wtf, isn't all www run off a "public_html" or similar homedir ?
12:22 Framedragger i bet `GET /../../../../etc/passwd` still works often enough :p
12:22 asciilifeform normally these scripts make some logical sense
12:22 mircea_popescu Framedragger but passwd is encrypted neh ?
12:22 asciilifeform and correspond to obvious possible oopses
12:23 asciilifeform in his case, it's a bunch of wtf
12:23 mircea_popescu maybe he's from the future.
12:23 Framedragger mircea_popescu: ya but iirc folx have attempted to crack things, and maybe it was some shitty hashing scheme before? dunno. but i've seen similar in old logs
12:23 asciilifeform ... or distant past
12:23 mircea_popescu afaik passwd encryption was strong.
12:23 asciilifeform neh, in classical times it was just salted hash
12:24 asciilifeform (today, often, also)
12:24 mircea_popescu afaik it was des ?
12:24 phf passwd didn't actually have passwords in it, encrypted or hashed, for many decades. even classical unixes have switched to shadow, which is usually not readable by anyone but root
12:24 mircea_popescu there is also that.
12:24 asciilifeform phf: you can still enumerate usernames with /etc/passwd, which i assume is the point of shooting in the dark at it
12:25 asciilifeform then you take your 100,000,001 leaked lusernames+pwhashes, the subset you bruteforced, and fire away
12:25 Framedragger ahyeah, i also remember reading about folx extracting /etc/shadow due to bad file permissions, god knows why
12:26 phf well shadow for a longest time was md5 hashed (on linuxes anyway), so there was a nice window where you could with some craftiness extract passwords out of it
12:26 phf !#s john the ripper
12:26 a111 0 results for "john the ripper", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=john%20the%20ripper
12:26 asciilifeform it went exactly like 'brainwallet mining' goes today
12:26 asciilifeform sit and stab at your leisure
12:27 asciilifeform makes a fine party game, key in a pw and see if it corresponds to any of 100,000,001 hashed lusers
12:28 phf actually i'm wrong it's not even md5, it's a version of DES
12:28 mircea_popescu sounds like two-decade-legacy stuff
12:29 phf actually i'm wrong again, crypt takes special $id$salt$encrypted format, where id is 1/2/5/6 for md5/blowfish/sha256/sha512. on the box where i looked that up all the passwords are $1$
12:30 mircea_popescu ahahaha lmao
12:30 phf it's a glibc2 variant, i wonder what openbsd does..
12:30 mircea_popescu in other random words, https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/derick-ion.jpg
12:31 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: dafuq's that
12:31 mircea_popescu "art".
12:32 asciilifeform fart
12:33 phf ^ http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/content/kgo/images/cms/automation/vod/1638700_1280x720.jpg
12:33 asciilifeform gavin?!
12:34 asciilifeform or wait... is that the warehouse d00d
12:35 mircea_popescu phf ubuntu has a bunch of "rtkit:*:15016:0:99999:7:::"
12:35 mircea_popescu supposedly... * means "account disabled" and null means no pw needed.
12:36 asciilifeform kinda lulzy usgism that these flags are separate; rather like an auto with 4 instead of 1 brake pedals
12:36 asciilifeform all enemy needs to do is to flip 'disabled' bit off, while keeping 'no pw' bit...
12:37 mircea_popescu yeah not a very good scheme. anyway, convention is pw field uses $ver$pw, and i see ubuntu sets it to 6.
12:37 mircea_popescu ie sha512
12:37 asciilifeform wtf is even the point of a salt if it is kept in the same place as the hash
12:38 mircea_popescu which salt ?
12:38 asciilifeform load the salt into kernel ram on bootup via toggle switches.
12:38 shinohai lol
12:38 asciilifeform salt in general, in 'we hash pw with salt' schemes
12:38 mircea_popescu i think it's just a pw hash.
12:39 mircea_popescu (salt, it should be pointed out, is nonsense leftover from the "md5 is broken and that's ok" days. if your hash needs a salt you need a new hash.)
12:39 phf asciilifeform: i think it's specifically to prevent rainbow tables
12:39 asciilifeform idea isn't 'needs a salt' but that having a machine-local salt makes brute force exponentially more expensive regardless of what hash algo was used.
12:39 phf or what mp said
12:39 asciilifeform it is not per se a dumb idea.
12:40 mircea_popescu asciilifeform incidentally i intend to use this in eulora - have the privkey file encrypted, and have both a client-wide settable prefix and a password
12:40 phf also those flags are not separate, but in the same field. difference between "anyone can login" and "can
12:40 mircea_popescu "set this if you want only this machine to be able to run your account", long time a holy grail of high-value game accounts
12:41 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: waiwat... what means 'only this machine'
12:41 phf "can't login" is literally one symbol. obviously i've seen that on compromised machines, somewhere in that large column of of id:*:... there would be a random system account with :: go look
12:41 asciilifeform anyone with your key, is you, runs your account, fucks your wives, etc
12:41 mircea_popescu only if they also have the game client you use.
12:41 mircea_popescu otherwise... your pw won't work.
12:42 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: for some reason i thought that the client src was published
12:42 mircea_popescu yes, but you'll be able to set the salt in config, is the point.
12:42 asciilifeform how does that differ from enter-the-pw ?
12:42 asciilifeform or does it reduce to pw that breaks into two pieces.
12:42 mircea_popescu that a keylogger won't find it.
12:42 mircea_popescu yes.
12:43 asciilifeform aah ok
12:43 mircea_popescu a better yubikei or such, if you prefer.
12:43 asciilifeform reasonable
12:43 mircea_popescu not some sort of genius thing ; but leaps anmd bounds above what eg blizzard offers.
12:44 mircea_popescu anyway ; still not entirely convinced as to WHAT to use to encrypt the eulora-privkey with.
12:48 asciilifeform brainkeyed rsa?
12:49 mircea_popescu uh.
12:49 mircea_popescu no i mean symmetric something.
12:49 asciilifeform well yes
12:49 asciilifeform abused rsa.
12:49 mircea_popescu same principle as bitcoin wallet.
12:50 mircea_popescu i was thinking maybe someone gets abused cs done in time.
12:50 asciilifeform ( it is not clear to me that rsa-abused-as-symmetriccipher is in any way worse than to use the idiot usg ciphers. )
12:50 asciilifeform or it.
12:50 asciilifeform but same principle
12:51 mircea_popescu anyway - even if the client src is published - it will ship with pw_prefix = "" pw_suffix ="". if you edit these and recompile your pw won't work on stock or anyone else's client, and there's no rule you have to compile on the exact machine you use. you can keep the src in your safe and run object code.
12:51 mircea_popescu yes one could dissect it to find the cappers and fuck your pw, but this is a lot less easy than most anythingelse.
12:52 deedbot http://qntra.net/2016/12/oakland-warehouse-destroyed-by-artist-infestation/ << Qntra - Oakland Warehouse Destroyed By "Artist" Infestation
12:53 mircea_popescu game accounts from what i currently known are compromised through 1) "dude used password as a password", perhaps with debian-strengtheners as per http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-24#1558621 and 2) drive-by flash / activex / webshit exploit.
12:53 a111 Logged on 2016-10-24 16:26 mircea_popescu: "Avoid easy selections, such as qwerty or password. If you want to pick an easy-to-remember but somewhat unique password, consider a variation of a word, such as a1rPl4nE for airplane."
12:53 mircea_popescu poor BingoBoingo is oppressed by a manifest news drought.
12:53 shinohai Last month was my driest since I started.
12:54 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Seriously. "How the redditards live" made today's paper.
12:54 asciilifeform meanwhile: http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/crate.jpg
12:54 mircea_popescu that looks a lot like a crate full of electronic parts.
12:59 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Though Governor elect's wife robbed in "nice" part of StL is awful lulzy
13:00 mircea_popescu anyway, this is very lulzy because a VERY similar fire in bucharest resulted in a govt shuffle.
13:01 mircea_popescu !~google incendiu colectiv
13:01 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: Incendiul din clubul Colectiv - Wikipedia: <https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incendiul_din_clubul_Colectiv>; Colectiv nightclub fire - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colectiv_nightclub_fire>; UN AN DE LA TRAGEDIA DIN COLECTIV . Portretele celor 64 - Stiri: (1 more message)
13:01 mircea_popescu almost exactly a year ago
13:06 BingoBoingo I await Twitter and startup creatures complaining about more street people.
13:08 deedbot http://qntra.net/2016/12/aussie-faces-investigation-after-defending-dog-from-viscious-roo-attack/ << Qntra - Aussie Faces Investigation After Defending Dog From Viscious Roo Attack
13:09 BingoBoingo !~later tell cazalla http://qntra.net/2016/12/aussie-faces-investigation-after-defending-dog-from-viscious-roo-attack/
13:09 jhvh1 BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
13:13 shinohai It waz cazalla ... in the outback ... with a lead pipe.
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14:11 mats http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-05#1577947 nop
14:11 a111 Logged on 2016-12-05 16:01 asciilifeform: mats ?
14:12 mats http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-06#1578394 not true, see e.g. pg8 of http://www.nfpa.org/~/media/files/news-and-research/fire-statistics/overall-fire-statistics/ostrends.pdf
14:12 a111 Logged on 2016-12-06 16:31 asciilifeform: phf: the funny bit is: if fire safety laws were to be enforced in usa, most if not all of the suburban idiotboxes would be condemned and bulldozed
14:13 asciilifeform mats: i strongly suspect that the vast tracts of UNINHABITED suburban shitboxes pull the overall fire stats downwards.
14:13 asciilifeform (they are typically kept without mains power)
14:16 phf meanwhile at asciilifeform's secret lair, http://68.media.tumblr.com/777c5ef9c401f1b5dc87e6b0d4a62331/tumblr_ohojvpsbsr1u3vseto1_500.jpg
14:17 asciilifeform lel i think that's mircea_popescu's lair
14:17 asciilifeform all that empty space!1111111
14:17 mircea_popescu meh, what's with the ugly costume.
~ 26 minutes ~
14:43 mircea_popescu certainly high density overvalued property (ny, sf, etc) is unmaintained to standards.
14:44 mircea_popescu this is perpetually the case, the people who live in high density live there because they can't afford lower density ; but the needs of various countermeasures are greater the higher the density (exponentially).
14:45 mircea_popescu so if poorfag gets a dollar, he's much more likely to apply that dollar towards going further away from the high density rats nest than towards getting the very high density rats nest closer to habitable standard.
14:45 mircea_popescu and so the plague, and the great fire of london, and so on.
14:45 asciilifeform why mircea_popescu in buenos aires and not patagonia , then..?
14:46 mircea_popescu cheap low density is one way to put it.
14:46 mircea_popescu really, the notion that buenos aires is a CITY is ridiculous on its face.
14:46 mircea_popescu you realise it's about five times the size of new york ? it's a village.
14:47 asciilifeform why was new york 'compacted' as it was? it isn't as if there were no room to 'flatten' it
14:48 mircea_popescu because immigrants.
14:48 asciilifeform i.e. orcs who don't particularly care how densely packed ? and in b.a. they do..?
14:49 mircea_popescu as in, orcs flooded new york ; bereft of any means to do anything ; ended up in harlem.
14:49 mircea_popescu nazis flooded ba, with gold. moved out.
14:53 BingoBoingo Lettuce not forget to lol at "artists" thinking themselves better than the building trades
14:53 mircea_popescu plenty of those here as well.
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15:16 mircea_popescu !!up Guest13734
15:16 deedbot Guest13734 voiced for 30 minutes.
15:16 mircea_popescu eh.
15:16 mircea_popescu !!up Guest73114
15:16 deedbot Guest73114 voiced for 30 minutes.
15:28 mircea_popescu in other views, http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/against-the-hard-fork/
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15:55 asciilifeform http://www.truthcoin.info/images/jeremy-rubin-affair.txt << i recall this! but had nfi how it ended
15:56 mircea_popescu in other lulz :
15:56 mircea_popescu !~google fiverr "may not be contacted at this time"
15:56 phf tmsr, the third group
15:56 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: (Username) may not be contacted at this time - Fiverr Forum: <http://forum.fiverr.com/discussion/what-does-username-may-not-be-contacted-at-this-time-mean/>; what means " may not be contacted at this time "? - Fiverr Forum ...: <http://forum.fiverr.com/discussion/what-means-may-not-be-contacted-at-this-time/>; Alert!: Usermay not be contacted at this time . - Fiverr Forum ...: (1 more message)
15:57 mircea_popescu ^ idiots managed to fuck up their site ; all links to answers are 404
15:58 shinohai Probably because they paid someone from fiverr to admin their servers! :D
15:58 BingoBoingo Fiverrception!
15:58 mircea_popescu lol!
15:59 asciilifeform still trying to harness small animals to pull cart, mircea_popescu ?
15:59 mircea_popescu asciilifeform what do you mean "what came of it" ?
16:00 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: ah i assumed that the students were expelled, jailed
16:00 mircea_popescu no, no. more bezzle : the new jersey lawyers get to pretend like they ACHIEVED ; the eff get to pretend like they mattered ; the students get to pretend they were cool.
16:01 mircea_popescu they managed to sell the same apple three times.
16:01 BingoBoingo lol "But there’s something special about Comet Ping Pong, and it’s that distinctive character, sadly, that may have allowed the campaign against it to fester. Comet is, after all, D.C.’s weirdo pizza place."
16:01 mircea_popescu this is the true cause of us law prolixity / enforcement sparsity.
16:02 BingoBoingo "In the venue’s all-ages policy, a time-honored practice of radical inclusion in the D.C. punk scene, they see a cover for pedophilia."
16:02 mircea_popescu all age punk scene ? what the fuck ?
16:03 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: interestingly, in so far as that type of joint goes, pedopizza is imho pretty good. i guess small chillunz make good pizza topping
16:03 BingoBoingo lol
16:04 phf in russia punk scene was also all age, you just showed up. here it means that everyone's allowed, but none's allowed to have fun
16:04 mircea_popescu salted fetus. like anchovies.
16:04 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: aaaah they plead, didn't they.
16:04 mircea_popescu phf i dunno wtf punk schene this is, but children were never allowed anywhere near, to my knowledge.
16:05 mircea_popescu asciilifeform butofcourse.
16:06 phf mircea_popescu: well, define children? an pissed tike in a dirty косуха could be of any age for all anybody cares. but certainly not in a sense of "child-friendly outing"
16:06 mircea_popescu enforced through the dual a) must be able to handle being punched b) must have tits approach.
16:06 mircea_popescu phf male children, you crack lightly nose bleeds / eyes leak.
16:06 mircea_popescu female children, no 2ndary sexual characteristics.
16:08 mircea_popescu im npot even aware people were allowed to be married ; let alone have children. really, punk fathers ?
16:08 mircea_popescu sounds like tales from the future.
16:08 asciilifeform buncha stimulating items in mircea_popescu's link btw. e.g., http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest
16:08 asciilifeform in so far as heathens go, this one is worth writing to imho
16:10 mircea_popescu pretty sure the guy reads the log with some sort of frequency.
16:10 phf "sorry-for-you-loss cutthroat meritocracy"
16:11 phf oh yeah, of course i remember it as "everyone was children", but there was a cutoff point. "younger brother" sort of thing
16:12 asciilifeform seems like he runs something that looks like an attempt at distributed-chickens bbet
16:13 phf dc punk scene reminds me of this story i read at some point by an отморозок trying to run some hustle in london. at some point he says he saw some suspiciously clean looking skinheads, so was about to go "how are you brothers" until he saw that the two were holding hands. after that he goes on a long rant about how london skinheads are all fags, etc.
16:14 asciilifeform ( i suspect that this is one of those perpetuum mobile attractors that will continue to eat people more or less forever, this 'bbet reddit' thing )
16:14 mircea_popescu to my eyes the whole "social media" is running out of attraction juice, but what do i know.
16:17 mircea_popescu phf ironically punk (90s, romania) was uncharacteristically tolerant of faggotry. discreet, but present. "rockers" much less tolerant.
16:18 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: This particular heathen iirc visited befor
16:26 shinohai http://archive.is/uNkYw <<< Train your children young to accept others controlling their private keys
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16:47 mircea_popescu "kids will virtual currency too" ? what is this, illiterate indians will preet as well ?
16:52 phf "The Disrupt Hackathon is a 24 Hour event preceding the annual Disrupt London conference organized by TechCrunch."
16:53 mircea_popescu pedophile old men like paul graham & friends used to CORRUPT the athenian youth
16:53 mircea_popescu apparently now they disrupt it.
16:53 mircea_popescu same cornhole tears result either way.
16:54 mircea_popescu but on the other side of the coin, "As you probably already know, but my trademark thoroughness still obliges me to say, AI stands for "Artificial Intelligence" and comes in two flavors, "deterministic" (like minmax) and "statistical" (like SVM). The combined efforts of various researches lead to an important breakthrough in this field, known to meteorologists as "the AI winter". This is the season when you can't get any VC m
16:54 mircea_popescu oney if you mention AI anywhere in your business plan."
16:54 mircea_popescu yosefk, eminently readable.
17:05 mircea_popescu "If the thing is even remotely close to "intelligent", you can no longer issue commands; you must explain yourself and ask for something and then it will misunderstand you." << he's wrong, incidentally. intelligent and obedient are not in any way orthogonal, a matter i have verified experimentally to my satisfaction.
17:06 asciilifeform he did say 'intelligent', rather than intelligent !1111
17:06 asciilifeform you can't buy intelligent at the comp shop.
17:06 asciilifeform (plenty of 'intelligent' tho)
17:06 mircea_popescu yes but if he is seriously contemplating a distinction along those lines his whole piece just exploded into unrelatable islands.
17:07 mircea_popescu as the idea is to make ai not a"i". THAT we already have.
17:07 asciilifeform the way i read it, he was talking about something like http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram-alpha-and-hubristic-user.html .
17:07 asciilifeform 'The error is that control interfaces must not be intelligent. Briefly, intelligent user interfaces should be limited to applications in which the user does not expect to control the behavior of the product. If the product is used as a tool, its interface should be as unintelligent as possible. Stupid is predictable; predictable is learnable; learnable is usable.'
17:08 mircea_popescu well it's also not clear the interface/drill bit dichotomy is supported by his piece.
17:08 asciilifeform !#s http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram-alpha-and-hubristic-user.html
17:08 a111 4 results for "http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram-alpha-and-hubristic-user.html", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=http%3A%2F%2Funqualified-reservations.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fwolfram-alpha-and-hubristic-user.html
17:08 asciilifeform ^ thread.
17:08 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: which yosefk piece was this btw..?
17:09 mircea_popescu http://yosefk.com/blog/ai-problems.html
17:09 mircea_popescu i must confes : that i am not sufficiently an idealist to presume some sort of "human-brain-substance" that's somehow irreproducible in any other paradigm than via cunt-perl.
17:10 mircea_popescu i guess in his terms this makes me an ai weenie. you know, like hofstadter.
17:10 asciilifeform there are 2 types of ai skeptic, the 'vitalists' ('immortal soul') and the 'shambling horror of computer', 'we don't even know how to make a spreadshit that dun crash' folk.
17:10 asciilifeform asciilifeform is the 2nd type
17:11 mircea_popescu i can grant that ai is a psychiatric issue of plenty of computer programmers ; i can even grant that it is perhaps best to pretend like ai is "impossible" in the sense he means to perhaps cure the idiots.
17:11 deedbot http://qntra.net/2016/12/liberal-west-today-merkel-announces-burqa-ban/ << Qntra - "Liberal" West Today: Merkel Announces Burqa Ban
17:11 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the brain is a shambling horror of cells.
17:11 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: nobody has any fucking idea how to replicate the fault-tolerance of meat, afaik.
17:12 asciilifeform hell, we don't even have a working ornithopter, and the problem is, what, 800+ yrs old as posed.
17:12 mircea_popescu understand that in order for the cunt to work, you don't have to understand its parts and mechanisms. iraqi "elite forces" use bridges and cartridges just fine even though they evidently can't make either.
17:12 mircea_popescu people who believe in immaculate conception manage to reproduce just fine etc.
17:13 asciilifeform that's not the issue; airplane worked just fine but was not adequately explained in physical terms until '50s (and if you are a stickler for rigour, even today)
17:13 mircea_popescu quite.
17:13 asciilifeform (see also von karman.)
17:13 mircea_popescu "explain turbulence" etc.
17:14 mircea_popescu now then : the issue of arbitrarily hard ai existing / being produced is separate of same being produced ~by you~. for any definition of you.
17:14 asciilifeform ( likewise the workings of, e.g., a FET, are quite different from what digital engineer learns in school, and ~nobody designs ~anything using the actual equations as understood by maxwell et al )
17:14 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: quite correct
17:15 asciilifeform we already know 1 method for producing it. just not yet - afaik - a 2nd.
17:15 mircea_popescu yet the rule says 0, 1, infinitits.
17:15 asciilifeform aha.
17:16 mircea_popescu but then again : the most hardcore anti-ai stance, and the one to which i vaguely subscribe, is to observe that the 1 is entirely illusory
17:16 mircea_popescu see the "your brain is not a thinking mechanism" discussions.
17:16 asciilifeform observation was not 'it is impossible', 'liek heavier-than-air flight!11111' but that none of the approaches ever tried afaik have led to anything of interest.
17:17 mircea_popescu yes, but the approaches "ever tried" have been "ever tried" in a short period of history which is chiefly distinguished by the incredible quality that NONE of the approaches tried, in ANY fields, worked to any degree or produced anything of interest.
17:17 asciilifeform the 1 piece you can 'take to the bank' is that it is idiocy to consider solutions to a problem that is not even actually defined.
17:17 mircea_popescu be they "how to run your household" or "how do do war and diplomacy" or anything else ABSOLUTELY.
17:18 mircea_popescu the "consumer" is not an answer to any valid question in socioeconomics ; the "unique" says nothing interesting of the http/html/web-of-blabla. and on it goes.
17:19 mircea_popescu the same 60-70 years that failed to produce anything woreth the mention in ai also failed to produce an even vaguely coherent model of the state, or of any sort of identity in any field, or of you pick it. not even their distribution models work.
17:20 asciilifeform there is not so much that was made that is worth remembering... the FET? RSA..?
17:20 mircea_popescu perhaps rsa. though i'm entirely unconvinced it's not to be found in medieval arithmetics.
17:20 * asciilifeform pictures archimedes's lost rsa
17:21 trinque it's entirely possible - and I think likely - that what counts for human intelligence does not run in a single human head
17:21 mircea_popescu we agree, hence my various stances on language and its effects.
17:21 asciilifeform 'what is soldier's deadliest weapon'
17:21 asciilifeform 'his radio'
17:21 mircea_popescu "shovel"
17:22 asciilifeform shovel - 2nd.
17:22 mircea_popescu (classical antiquity take on it - they didn't have radios)
17:22 asciilifeform they might have answered: 'bugle'
17:22 mircea_popescu anyway, the idea was similar - war is won by the shovel means same thing, that indirect effects drown out direct effects.
17:24 phf http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-06#1578710 << https://www.amazon.com/dp/1558605959 classic book on subj
17:24 a111 Logged on 2016-12-06 22:21 trinque: it's entirely possible - and I think likely - that what counts for human intelligence does not run in a single human head
17:24 mircea_popescu "i've never seen anything remotely as annoying as prolog, with the notable exception of makefiles, running on top of a wonderful inference engine of their own" << ahaha!
17:25 trinque ty phf
17:25 asciilifeform phf: i had earlier edition of iirc that thing (the one with the ants on the cover) at umd
17:26 * asciilifeform always pictured, when hearing phrase 'ant colony optimization', lowering the speaker into an anthill and asking him to please optimize! before he is eaten
17:26 BingoBoingo !~bcstats
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17:26 mircea_popescu what do anthills supposedly optimize ?
17:27 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: term referred to an algo where you have 10,000,001 simulated ants, or bees, etc., navigating your phase space and leaving 'pheromonal trails' for one another
17:27 mircea_popescu (this is my stock question to cut the new age-y idiots at the knees. "oh ant colony optimizes" "what ?". sooner or later they realise they can't actually SAY what the fuck it is, because it's not a scalar ; nor a vector nor a bitfield. yes they optimize something, now put it in a hard typed language. what is it ?)
17:27 mircea_popescu yes yes.
17:28 phf asciilifeform: i think the ant one is the algo book, where's eberhart is an overview
17:32 jurov ants supposedly optimize paths to food. but slime mold can do it too, without pheromone trails that have potential to make cycles
17:32 mircea_popescu jurov this "ants optimize paths to food" is like saying "trump won the election". o, really, he did ?
17:33 mircea_popescu it works as a retrospective, "looking at this anthill, it becomes evident it mostly managed to feed itself historically". yes. so... what.
17:33 jurov they could use drunk walk or quantum bogosort or something.. they don't
17:34 phf i think that's one of standard thinker childhood experiences, making a closed loop in the ant pheromone trail
17:35 mircea_popescu dropping the abstract for a concrete anecdote here :
17:35 mircea_popescu this country has a lot of foraging ant species. i enjoy watching them. on numerous occasions i have observed individual ant dragging acer type seed.
17:35 mircea_popescu the general impression is of an ant that decided to take up yachting
17:36 mircea_popescu the sail blows in the wind, topples it, the animal will happily spend half an hour spinning in a dime's area.
17:36 mircea_popescu you'd think they had wind back in 50`000`000 bc back when ants were a hot new gizmo.
17:36 mircea_popescu but apparently... the acer seed / wind combo hasn't needed any optimization or anything hence.
17:36 asciilifeform quite possibly that ant -- or that seed -- came with the spanish ?
17:36 mircea_popescu i dunno.
17:36 asciilifeform so perhaps not
17:37 mircea_popescu contradicts my naive expectations as to what "optimization" is.
17:37 asciilifeform the one thing it most definitely is, is very very slow.
17:37 mircea_popescu asciilifeform what, so they didn't have samarae where the ant came from ?
17:37 asciilifeform i couldn't begin to hazard a guess. but - who knows - perhaps ~had~, but somehow not ant-compatible.
17:38 mircea_popescu how about we just agree that the data type of the optimized variable is not computable.
17:38 asciilifeform anyone recall those wasps ? the ones that can eat a beehive in 15 min. or so
17:38 mircea_popescu yes, they optimized. what ? von kaman's underpants, that's what.
17:38 jurov i can only guess neurons are too expensive and having extra to avoid above spinning is not...optimal
17:38 asciilifeform lethal to all bees but a species somewhere in jp, that knows the pill against the wasp (surround it, and kill with own head)
17:38 asciilifeform *heat
17:38 asciilifeform own heat.
17:38 mircea_popescu jurov yes, but the trouble is not only that your guess is not formal - it's that your guess is not formalizable.
17:39 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: what are your expectations of 'data type' ?
17:39 mircea_popescu pretend you're a programmer, and use yours.
17:39 asciilifeform then i say 'function'
17:39 mircea_popescu you know, data type. that i can put in an ada-like manual and write a compiler for.
17:40 mircea_popescu lol function. oookay.
17:40 asciilifeform takes inputs from the beast's sensory organs and gives outputs for its locomotive organs.
17:40 asciilifeform (e.g., wings)
17:40 mircea_popescu and the anthill optimizes for the ... pointer to the function which is... the element of the anthill ?
17:40 mircea_popescu what's this, "i'll make sure the turing machine don't ever stop, i'm having too much fun" ?
17:41 asciilifeform anthill, if said to optimize for something (and this is at least mildly sinful, somewhat like describing the operation of a submarine as 'swimming') optimizes for energy/food ROI.
17:42 trinque if it were optimizing solely for energy it would be better off not existing
17:42 asciilifeform trinque: there are nonexistent anthills everywhere around you!1111 even in your nostril
17:42 jurov maximize biomass of the species?
17:42 asciilifeform these are the most successful, if you permit division by 0...
17:43 mircea_popescu anyway - the reason the yaching ant is such a good example is because - it COULD just fucking cut off the god damned sail. couldn't it ? just drag the seed without the air drag ?
17:43 jurov anyway, if it's not optimization, what does mircea_popescu call the its-not-doing-drunk-walk phenomenon?
17:43 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: examples like your ant abound. consider the infamous sphex wasp
17:43 mircea_popescu jurov i call it being an ant.
17:43 mircea_popescu there's no requirement that the world makes sense in my categories, see.
17:44 mircea_popescu asciilifeform tru.
17:44 mircea_popescu "anthill optimizes for anthood" is a very true if not particularly useful statement. and the type of "anthood" variable could be... "anthillyness".
17:45 mircea_popescu and wo and behold, we're about to reinvent wikipedia.
17:45 jurov "could fucking cut off the sail" is formalizable but "having extra neurons to be able to do so" is not?
17:45 trinque can't really said to be optimal, just that various other anthills were less so
17:45 mircea_popescu jurov ah, mine's not formalizable either!
17:46 mircea_popescu trinque this doesn't explain why ants aren't like trilobytes see. most species are extinct, ants are uniquelly successful at the game of life.
17:47 asciilifeform on long enough scale, everybody's trilobyte.
17:47 trinque maybe, maybe not
17:47 trinque at any rate the AI thing is exactly "discover the meaning of life"
17:47 mircea_popescu except things like dog vomit, or the previously discussed black alcohol modl. they've been here fopr a long long time now.
17:47 asciilifeform they can't breathe red dwarf any moar than trilobyte can.
17:48 trinque might be entirely natural to fart around on a planet for a while then get knocked by some rock onto the next one
17:48 trinque who said those molecules give a shit about you
17:48 mircea_popescu asciilifeform there's some possibility their spores made it out into outer space.
17:48 mircea_popescu the spores are EXTRMEELY hardy.
17:49 asciilifeform everybody is fond of 'space spores' but so far 0 clues re a 2nd place where they might work.
17:49 mircea_popescu sure ; but they've got time.
17:49 asciilifeform btw it might be possible to approximate ~how much time~
17:50 mircea_popescu there's planets with wild volcanoes of ethylene in our very solar system. red dwarf may make them rather pleasant.
17:50 asciilifeform a kind of mean-time-to-collision-with-energetic-particle-that-smashes-you
17:50 asciilifeform (you being spore)
17:51 asciilifeform folx putter around with crackpotteries like proton decay, but imho this is a more interesting number
17:51 mircea_popescu could be.
17:52 asciilifeform (if you're something like a, e.g., deinococcus radiodurans , assume it takes >1 bullet. some finite number.)
17:52 mircea_popescu the energies required may indeed be very high.
17:52 mircea_popescu as per the "man breaks, horse splashes" theorem.
17:53 asciilifeform planet3, iirc, gets a particle with energy of well-thrown brick every day or so.
17:53 mircea_popescu but afaik nobody has done serious work on "order species by spore resistance to proton beam illumination".
17:53 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: actually!
17:53 mircea_popescu which should prolly be a decent grant topic for the curious.
17:53 asciilifeform but i suppose it'd depend on what means 'serious work'
17:53 mircea_popescu i dunno, output a list of 10k items ?
17:53 asciilifeform but 20th c. megaempires obsessively irradiated various living things, to see what comes of it.
17:54 asciilifeform neutrons, electrons, gamma, you name it
17:54 mircea_popescu if they did produce anything useful in the above vein i've never seen it.
17:54 asciilifeform su was obsessed with 'radioprotector'
17:54 asciilifeform afaik very little came of it, other than substance that induces certain side effect - gigantism in mammals
17:55 asciilifeform (housecat that grows to german shepherd size, other side-show attractions)
17:55 mircea_popescu in general they were directed at "interesting" things which didn't include fungi
17:55 asciilifeform fungi also. radiosterilization is a thing
17:55 asciilifeform and industrially lucrative
17:56 mircea_popescu yes, but there's a very few fungi that are industrially relevant
17:56 asciilifeform now this --- yes.
17:56 mircea_popescu most aren't interested in your frozen tv dinner.
17:56 asciilifeform correct.
17:56 mircea_popescu which is why i say, not much seriouys work done on the actual topic.
17:56 mircea_popescu governments, turns out, tend to waste their resources.
17:57 mircea_popescu (actually, for they reading to educate : most fungi live in more or less mutualistic relationships with lichens ; a few with trees, which are advancedlichens)
17:57 asciilifeform what, in the eyes of mircea_popescu , would count as 'serious result' in subj field ??
17:58 mircea_popescu <mircea_popescu> i dunno, output a list of 10k items ? <
17:58 asciilifeform is there even 10k known species of fungus ?
17:58 mircea_popescu there's a good few millions of species ; 10k would be a negligible dent.
17:58 mircea_popescu yes.
17:58 asciilifeform good student project!111!!!
17:58 mircea_popescu they are some of the most diverse biota, possibly 5 to 50mn different species.
18:12 mircea_popescu and to round off the "fungi are interesting" general literacy thread - the way most (and the most) poisonous mushrooms work is through a substance that inhibits extremely selectively rna polymerase 2. this makes the affected cells unable to reproduce, and hence the "eat destroying angel, get cramps/diarhea in three days, drop dead in 7" effect.
18:13 mircea_popescu since recently dna understanding improved significantly, and the workings of the immune system, esp in its binding functions, became more understood ; and since complex molecule synthesis muchly developed as well, a universal cure for cancer based on the principle of getting alpha-amanitin bound to a specific tumour cell seeking protein seems altogether very feasible.
18:14 mircea_popescu there's been various successful tests, including prostate-cancer-rat achieving complete remission through 1 iv application. so we have maybe 50-50 chances to see a ~general~ cure for cancer within our lifetime.
18:15 mircea_popescu which is the deep reason for a major redistribution of research resources from other fashionable causes to cancer in thepast decade, as cartman aptly observed.
18:16 mircea_popescu (general here means exactly the same it does when i say we have a general cure for infection. it's not that nobody can die of infections ; but that there's antibiotics, which mostly work.)
18:16 asciilifeform eh pretty much every half-useful attempt at cancer has been 'bind $poison to $selector'
18:16 mircea_popescu aha.
18:17 asciilifeform only semi-relatedly, rat models have a very obvious (to outsider) problem, that academitards pretend is not problem at all
18:17 asciilifeform (inbred to the point of tumouring 'when you look at them sideways')
18:18 mircea_popescu well... gotta model on something.
18:18 asciilifeform which accounts for heroic 'cures', their cancers would last 3 seconds in a healthy organism
18:18 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> eh pretty much every half-useful attempt at cancer has been 'bind $poison to $selector' << That's essentially all of pharmacology. X fucks Y receptor
18:18 asciilifeform it is largely why virtually no 'rat hero' substance ever leaves the rat lab.
18:18 asciilifeform (typically it does ~0 in people)
18:19 mircea_popescu yes, but the models sometimes do.
18:19 mircea_popescu anyway, i dun recall the specifics but i think this may have been grafted not endogenous
18:19 asciilifeform grafted?! even 'better'
18:25 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the poison part was never the difficulty -- e.g., ricin, is even more specific 'cellular' poison
18:26 asciilifeform rather, the 'guidance system' is.
18:27 asciilifeform it isn't even entirely clear that 'is this a tumour cell?' is a computable function.
18:28 mircea_popescu myeah.
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19:00 danielpbarron http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-06#1578646 << he's aware of it, and he lives near me
19:00 a111 Logged on 2016-12-06 21:10 mircea_popescu: pretty sure the guy reads the log with some sort of frequency.
19:00 mircea_popescu !!up zKawaiiKittyz
19:00 deedbot zKawaiiKittyz voiced for 30 minutes.
19:05 zKawaiiKittyz :O
19:05 zKawaiiKittyz hi, im new :#
19:06 zKawaiiKittyz to life O_O
19:06 mircea_popescu what do you do ?
19:06 BingoBoingo Who is your daddy and what does he do?
19:06 mircea_popescu or that.
19:06 zKawaiiKittyz xD
19:07 zKawaiiKittyz this is confusing, or maybe im not that smart XD
19:07 zKawaiiKittyz Jk, I came here for special purposes, nothing more :3
19:08 BingoBoingo But introductions help make the world go round. Let's play a game. It's called Who is your daddy and what does he do?
19:09 zKawaiiKittyz What does that even mean?
19:10 BingoBoingo It's a simple question.
19:10 trinque "No one has ever asked me who I am before."
19:10 BingoBoingo http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/16/kindergarten-cop-2-trailer
19:12 BingoBoingo I am the party pooper.
19:14 BingoBoingo Anyways zKawaiiKittyz Here's a sample way to anwer the question: "My dad's a gynecologist, he looks at vaginas all day long"
19:14 trinque same name is some kind of spam account on twitter
19:16 zKawaiiKittyz who's name?
19:16 trinque why, yours!
19:17 zKawaiiKittyz another person copied me :(
19:17 zKawaiiKittyz this has been a rising problem I've noticed -_-
19:18 shinohai A problem solved quite well by following the instructions within these hallowed walls.
19:18 zKawaiiKittyz ?
19:18 BingoBoingo !!help
19:18 deedbot http://deedbot.org/help.html
19:18 trinque and the topic
19:19 zKawaiiKittyz Well I can asue you I have no twitter with this name xD
19:20 trinque so far your output has not differentiated yourself from it.
19:20 BingoBoingo We don't even know if there is a you!
19:21 zKawaiiKittyz I'm so confused, What did I do wrong?
19:21 jurov you are unable to say who/what are you :)
19:21 BingoBoingo You never answered one of "Who are you" or "Who is your Daddy and what does he do?" Pick a question and answer it.
19:22 zKawaiiKittyz oh, I'm a cat xD
19:22 zKawaiiKittyz :)
19:22 jurov male or female?
19:22 zKawaiiKittyz genderless
19:23 * trinque finger hovers over the button
19:23 * mats coughs
19:23 shinohai Well at least he's not a tulpa.
19:23 zKawaiiKittyz ?
19:23 asciilifeform is this another eulora dirt-digger or what were those called
19:23 * BingoBoingo calls on Dog
19:23 asciilifeform mircea_popescu is this one of yours ?
19:23 trinque !!down zKawaiiKittyz
19:23 danielpbarron typical n00b job is ord builder
19:24 trinque "the internet is a place I make inane noises with other creatures to soothe myself"
19:24 trinque got enough of those in logs
19:24 mircea_popescu not afaik.
19:24 asciilifeform and everybody knows there is no such beast as genderless cat !!
19:25 mircea_popescu it's impossible to know, apparently the "hello i am joe of clan moe" is no longer taught in primary school.
19:32 mircea_popescu but that said, i could use some new players.
19:43 deedbot http://trilema.com/2016/no-such-labs-snsa-november-2016-statement/ << Trilema - No Such lAbs (S.NSA), November 2016 Statement
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20:19 asciilifeform http://i.imgur.com/uByC0cK.jpg << in other...wtf
20:21 mircea_popescu prolly art.
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21:26 mircea_popescu !!up EDLionX
21:26 deedbot EDLionX voiced for 30 minutes.
21:28 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-02#1576190 << dude... this thing...
21:28 a111 Logged on 2016-12-02 11:32 Framedragger: totally recommend it, even if my film-recommendation-credit has run dry
21:28 mircea_popescu i've never seen more reluctant male even among the actual mongoloids.
21:38 mircea_popescu EDLionX so who might you be ?
21:38 EDLionX oh hey
21:39 EDLionX im just trying to import me gpg to deedbot
21:39 EDLionX but its confusing the heck outta me
21:39 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-17#1568554 << like that.
21:39 a111 Logged on 2016-11-17 02:05 RodrigoBTC: !!register http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/po1v0/?raw=true
21:41 EDLionX oh man thats even more condusing
21:42 EDLionX im submitting my key to deebot
21:42 EDLionX but it keeps telling me this:
21:42 EDLionX Import failed for EDLionX.
21:42 mircea_popescu what are you saying to it ?
21:43 EDLionX !!register ----
21:43 deedbot EDLionX is already registered.
21:43 EDLionX oh what
21:43 EDLionX that worked
21:43 EDLionX and i had no idea how
21:43 mircea_popescu !!key EDLionX
21:43 deedbot http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/r/ucCLf/?raw=true
21:43 EDLionX !!key EDLionX
21:43 deedbot http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/r/FfofN/?raw=true
21:43 mircea_popescu ok so there you go.
21:43 EDLionX ok cool
21:44 EDLionX thanks m8
21:44 mircea_popescu don't mention it. so how is brunei ?
21:44 EDLionX huh
21:44 EDLionX now howd u know where im from
21:44 EDLionX its fine
21:44 EDLionX very hot though
21:45 mircea_popescu magic and skills and shit
21:45 EDLionX dayum
21:51 shinohai Lulziest headline of today "Pablo Escobar's former hitman robbed in Medellin"
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23:10 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/55CD9F30ACFFAF6583F74987FBF4CC60F05BF7145C543061E9F49F1C7DB83443 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1466...3029 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '79.174.78.171 (ssh-rsa key from 79.174.78.171 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (5429.ovz-ssd9.hc.ru. RU)
23:14 asciilifeform http://79.174.78.171 << lul
23:15 asciilifeform 'Производитель перегородок «Орман» является ярким участником отечественного рынка современных конструкций, позволяющих отлично дополнить интерьеры офисных, частных и общественных помещений.'
23:15 asciilifeform cube farms to order!1111
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