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asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: there's 2 separate qs.: a) whether it is possible to run a comfortably +ev miniature isp for use of l1/l2. b) is how to run large isp, hosting 1000 heathens, to make 100k's. presently it would be a lie if asciilifeform said that knows how to (b) , and suicidal if tried to (a) + (b) simultaneously right off .
mp_en_viaje: very boring story imo, but for its flatulent tedium popular.
mp_en_viaje: whereas the narrative of amateurship, also well standardized by now, is rather novel ; completed by about 1880s or so. "this is a thing i do ; but i am not this thing i do".
mp_en_viaje: the narrative of business was definitively complete cca 1700, it's like any other folk tale, always goes the exact same way.
mp_en_viaje: and from there on, "we aim to sell ~20 or ~200 or whatever item, therefore so many of them, and to get to that we do this" and on and on and on.
mp_en_viaje: 2+3 produce 4 : to make 50k / year at 20%, one must generate 20k/month in sales
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: propaganda/l2 growth is ~the~ project. and req's asciilifeform's 'weak arm' to properly exercise. which is 1 of the reasons i took up 'bake isp again'. but presently weak arm. intent is to use strong arm to build exercise machine for weak, among other.
mp_en_viaje: 3. you being a fortunately specified thing, will have also clear needs. "i want 50k/year"
mp_en_viaje: the whole tree is given there, too : 1. to dedicate life to X, X must cover your living. this is true today as it was always true, monastery provided monk wioth food enough to live, so as to make "dedicate life" possible. because, elementarily, if no food life ends, even if the monk stubborn enough to not move to greener pastrues.
asciilifeform: if you as matter of principle dun want to use an asciilifeform isp, plox to say so right off, rather than 'play with food'
BingoBoingo: If this thing grows and you fill cages upon cages, it survives. It it doesn't grow, when shit happens instead of being an ISP you end up with your upstream deciding you are a "problem customer"
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: is this actual q, or simply constructed to give asciilifeform a banana to slip on ?
mp_en_viaje: so you intend to grow the l2 ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i have no intention of housing heathens. specified right off the bat, l1+l2.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It's going to need the mechanized contact churner Pizarro never got. Even doing this in the reich with cheaper cages and more fiber, the thing has to grow to survive.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: can haz concretely ? 'i won't subscribe until this idjit shows how can actually afford to run working isp' is faircop. but am i even parsing mp_en_viaje's objection correctly ?
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mp_en_viaje: it's not "im going to do this for rest of life." it's "this is what i'm gonna do with myself, for rest of life".
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-18 12:02:14 mp_en_viaje: <mp_en_viaje> this sorta-kinda-and-i-do-what-i-please thingee is of no value and no interest. if you're seruous about committibng the rest of your life to running an isp, we can talk about some business.
mp_en_viaje: let's reread together : http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-18#1946352
mp_en_viaje: scare them up*
mp_en_viaje: what sorta margin do you need, what sorta margin do you intend to charge per box, how many boxes that comes to and how do you intend to scare up.
mp_en_viaje: well, so therein lies the problem : your margin must >= your living expenses, else the "dedicate life" is a sorta joke. a coupla boxes from me won't ever support such a margin, so what's missing is what you intend to do about this.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: 'properly' == 'delivers what's printed on the box' and +ev so can be carried on in fact indefinitely.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform arrived already at conclusion 'must run isp for rest of life', apparently is the only way to get proper isp is to physically build.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: plox to point to missing pieces, lately have been occupied with the actual bringup of the physical plant.
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asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i intend to run the cage indefinitely (will house own www also.) and properly.
mp_en_viaje: <mp_en_viaje> this sorta-kinda-and-i-do-what-i-please thingee is of no value and no interest. if you're seruous about committibng the rest of your life to running an isp, we can talk about some business.
asciilifeform: to continue in the spirit of 'fucking document the how-why' -- to asciilifeform , thoroughly battle-tested 'dulaps' are actually worth 1.5x of 'fresh' . the type of defects that occur in these, follow 'bathtub curve.'
asciilifeform: if no one can stomach such delay, what will happen is that asciilifeform bids on the iron auctions, and may go anyway at own expense to retrieve irons if wins .
asciilifeform: diana_coman: to return to subj of boxen trapped in uy -- these can be transported for 500/ea ( asciilifeform goes with own hands ) and is +ev for so long as there are exactly 4 to be carried, and that they then to go in asciilifeform's rails. ( and at same time can retrieve all FG, incl. customer-owned, they can be mailed anywhere in world, but apparently uy has customs idjicy if mailed ~from~ uy.) this may be worth considering. all
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform cremations are carried out with thermite. )
asciilifeform: it is my current understanding, tho, that smg mandates cremation for all disks that it has used ; therefore disks must be owned by smg, and i'ma buy the exact type requested & invoice immediately.
asciilifeform: diana_coman & co can make this decision at leisure, after e.g. properly evaluating performance of rack ( and asciilifeform as rack gardener ) for the prev.-announced phree month of service.
asciilifeform: (however if new owner, then responsible for transportation cost, should new owner wish to move it later out of usa. and also for cost of any disk swaps.)
asciilifeform: also available for purchase is the actual, entire box, which i'ma value at 1k usd (not incl. of disks) . then will live at colo rate.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: if diana_coman & mp_en_viaje would like to set up smgtron on 1 of the new boxen, plox to let asciilifeform know asap, so can purchase the desired type and qty of disks. there are 4, as before , disk rails in ea. 'dulap'.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: the 1 irons that absolutely must be retrieved, imho, is fg.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: right, i see it as unlikely (but afaik still possible) that the old boxen are worth picking up. which is wai i did not wait for output of 'what costs pick up' ; loading up on habitable irons already .
ossabot: (eulora) 2019-10-18 mp_en_viaje: chickachew, atm the server's offline ; long story, our uruguay dc died an unseemly death and in the process of moving atm
diana_coman: asciilifeform: the part I can't see is how can they end up better shipped from Uruguay than just bought in the US and shipped to you; re the rest I got it and it can wait; onth s.mg servers better online asap since uhm, so far had to even tell new players that no server
asciilifeform: there is a stockpile of emergency spare FG here. will install on request of mp_en_viaje , there is enuff for 3 boxen w/ paired sets.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: quickest way to put a smg box in asciilifeform's rack is to put to use the new 'dulaps' (due in at end of next wk). however you may find it +ev to get the piz boxen sent to england, this depends on exact outputs of BingoBoingo .
mp_en_viaje: honestly, we prolly dun wanna wait, better to re-make the servers starting this weekend than to wait for w/e
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i've purchased new boxen, because 'time is money' and not yet even known what costs removal. but potentially +ev to remove, req's data from BingoBoingo re carriers, customs shamanics.
asciilifeform: ^ above 500 also is only, obv, correct for irons going strictly to usa ; to send elsewhere, would cost moar , potentially -ev. main appeal of 'meat transport' is that could also cleanly move the FG crate.
diana_coman: asciilifeform: by the sounds of it though it would anyway be cheaper for s.mg if putting them in your rack to just buy the servers in the us and ship to your door, no?
asciilifeform: diana_coman: there's apparently customs nonsense threatening to get in the way. however ~absolute~ ceiling for removal cost is 500 per 1u (u.s. $) , asciilifeform can physically extract 100kg of iron for a ~2000 cost. ( this however would require 4 u worth of iron evacuation request, to be practical. ) BingoBoingo will say moar when wakes up.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-18 09:31:54 mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-17#1946126 << wait, how are those to continue ?!
asciilifeform: ( which is why i suspect there will be at least 1 new (if smaller) auction . or >1, if, pessimistically, BingoBoingo runs for a spell on personal battery while searching for work )
asciilifeform: in that order.
asciilifeform: hen mod6 (maj holder) + asciilifeform (min holder) to decide re remaining piggy , how much, if any , to spend on suit (supposing latech not surrenders) ; then potentially evacuate BingoBoingo , unless he actually finds ecological niche in uy
asciilifeform: diana_coman: atm plan is to properly handle all evacuations ( data, afaik, evacuated, BingoBoingo uploaded gpg'd backups, yours is afaik done but BingoBoingo forgot to send me login to fetch it before went to sleep ) ; after this, publication of cost for evacuations of irons ; after this , auctions of jettisoned irons, liquidation ; then to pay mp_en_viaje , he is owed ; then BingoBoingo returns output re cost of action vs latech ; t
diana_coman: asciilifeform: I'm really in no hurry re pizarro but since there's the talk re how much for the s.mg servers and so on - is there some concrete plan on how will this and all the rest be determined to tidy it all up?
ossabot: Logged on 2019-01-15 13:04:09 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in a quite hilarious conclusion to the http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-15#1887012 saga : http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1390&cpage=1#comment-19775 << yarvin throws in the towel.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-18 09:57:03 mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-17#1946210 << that ignoble schmuck's just never gonna quit following around what we do, monkeying it in his retarded style, is he.
asciilifeform: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-18#1946274 << seems that they have a new schmuck. ( old one -- retired )
mp_en_viaje: holy fuckingshitsticks. how hard is it, you talk to someone, ABOUT THEM.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-18 09:50:40 mp_en_viaje: in the end i suppose whether build new or buy pizarro's comes down to what it costs. what does pizarry want for the two boxes used to run smg servers before ?
asciilifeform: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-18#1946268 << BingoBoingo is working on a detailed quote ( transportation cost is the unknown; and appears that meat-powered transport may actually be cheapest. )
diana_coman: mp_en_viaje: well, there was the naive assumption on my part that "how hard can it be"; fwiw though I rather doubt it really makes a difference simply because there is no real interaction from the other side either.
mp_en_viaje: but he's certainly made it more difficult for anyone coming after him. which is the exact fucking opposite of helping.
asciilifeform waves to mp_en_viaje & diana_coman
diana_coman: mp_en_viaje: and yes re painful + it was worse; no idea why is it so hard apparently to actually talk to people on the internets.
mp_en_viaje: diana_coman, i got it fixed meanwhile ; ty.
mp_en_viaje: it's llike watching silviu gherman pick up chicks. "hi i am from the dick people"
mp_en_viaje: no more timbrion-style "diplomacy" plox ; not from him nor from anyone else, it's too much like three stoges religious service.
mp_en_viaje: i really can't read this nonsense ; it's fucking painful.
mp_en_viaje: [10:24:32] Hey Ahnberg I'm coming from TMSR (http://logs.ossasepia.net). << wtf is wrong with this guy ?
mp_en_viaje: hey trinque, you about for entitrely unrelated issues from a few hours ago ?
mp_en_viaje: i guess so yeah. ty
nicoleci: what am i going to do, copy/paste by hand byte by byte over here?
nicoleci: mp_en_viaje, well i don't atm know what to do. basically there's 6.6mb i'm trying to send you. i tried split -n5 and deedbot's paste still spits (1.3mb chunks, so the limit is only 1mb ???)
mp_en_viaje: nicoleci, that shit dun work, "curl: (35) error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version"
mp_en_viaje foresees a whole fucking ocean of these before we're done, much like the few good rockbands of the 70s had an entire fucking ocean of morons with guitars trying their best to choke them out
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-17 22:13:06 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in heathendom lint traps, new lolz from a very old lolcow .
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-17#1946210 << that ignoble schmuck's just never gonna quit following around what we do, monkeying it in his retarded style, is he.
nicoleci: mp_en_viaje, sorry about that. here it is https://privatebin.net/?6e4559a5dd8cd7a2#9MsAxE4i6grdfKGKMPz39mbmnApRZNMnLUxSQqRQFBD (couldn't if it on deedbot, conn dies).
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-17#1946199 << the spirit of service-eagerness is fine, but you're going overboard with the options. no, he doesn't want a pogo, simmer down.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-17 16:52:03 asciilifeform: does not know whether smg has the provisions to operate ~simultaneous~ mirrors , but if does, may be good idea to sit in 2+ racks
mp_en_viaje: in the end i suppose whether build new or buy pizarro's comes down to what it costs. what does pizarry want for the two boxes used to run smg servers before ?
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-17 16:50:42 asciilifeform: additionally , if smg would like to operate 1 or moar boxen here in asciilifeform's cage, i'ma happily service, either on transported iron, or on own stock, either worx .
mp_en_viaje: no it's not, dorkster. too short.
mp_en_viaje: a cool! let's put this in then
mp_en_viaje: oh, is this the slutfare ?
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-17 15:44:00 diana_coman: asciilifeform: ha, congrats! honestly, by the sound of it, once you got moving, you found everything needed!
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-17#1946136 << yup, and once he chases a different skirt in a week or two again, "problems" again and so on.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-17 14:53:27 asciilifeform: presently puzzling over where to get exchange rate for pricing; prolly will have to lift from BingoBoingo's auctions, for so long as they're happening with reasonable regularity .
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-17#1946126 << wait, how are those to continue ?!
mp_en_viaje: stop tryna fix imaginary problems as a transparent cover-up for not fixing existing problems. it's transparent and it'll stay transparent, disavowing it'll NEVER work
mp_en_viaje: the problem of pizarro was, 100%, your joint an' several failure to build it a customer base.
mp_en_viaje: to be perfectly clear, nfi why this keeps gettting forgotten, and thereby needs to be reiterated : the problem of pizarro was NOT!!!! anything even vaguely or remotely similar to "general staff in same trench". in part because eg, i resisted moving trilema whenever you asked, in part because trinque similarily, and so on. we had EXCELLENT partition of services, and principally because you weren't involved with doing it.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-17#1946112 << nor do i really want her to.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-17 12:10:30 asciilifeform: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-17#1946045 << i entirely buy the argument. and will also buy ip -- when either asciilifeform figures out how to do it for 'toyota' rather than 'boeing' budget, or -- larger budget ;
mp_en_viaje: http://jswin.github.io/ meanwhile 404s ; i'm sure this is totally how github works yes.
mp_en_viaje: http://jswin.github.io/javascript-window/jquery-thickbox-fullscreen-iframe.html http://jquerythickbox.com/thickbox-not-working-with-firefox.html check out these fucking idiots, 1990s era url keyword stuffing, works a-ok in 2019 google (just as long as what it's pushing is its shitty jquery infection vector)
mp_en_viaje: if you don't change for change's sake then you're happy with everything as it is, if hilary didn't give you your rights then pangloss gave you the best possible world, god fucking love 'em with a sharpened stick already.
mp_en_viaje: this is the fucking problem with the "progressive" claptrap : it is the only cure democracy/retardation has yet come up with to deal with these other morons.
diana_coman: mp_en_viaje: but they are happy as they are!!11