asciilifeform: entirely unrelatedly to recent threads: anybody here ever experiment with 'toslink' ?☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Let us hope this gives the WF the resorces it needs to complete the Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces which is not yet ready for the Community to vote on after having been suggested at Wikimania 2015'
asciilifeform: 'Today, the Wikimedia Foundation announced the launch of a community health initiative to address harassment and toxic behavior on Wikipedia, with initial funding of US$500,000 from the Craig Newmark Foundation and craigslist Charitable Fund. The two seed grants, each US$250,000, will support the development of tools for volunteer editors and staff to reduce harassment on Wikipedia and block
asciilifeform: what if i were Officially Sad and typed with my arse, and have no mouse. what then.
asciilifeform: did somebody cancel the clinton-era invalid 'accessibility' law while i slept in my cave..?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, other crappletronicists : also lulzy is that dialog boxes in recent crapple os are no longer TAB-navigable
asciilifeform: as if anyone gave half a shit about any attacker but the One.
asciilifeform: ' The amount of resources required for such an attack would be very significant and likely only accessible to a limited number of attackers.' << lel
asciilifeform: !~later tell ben_vulpes plox to enlighten me, a poor sinner, why did crapple break the HOME and END keys ? what did they ever do to'em ?
asciilifeform: 'There is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just feasible (although very difficult) because...☟︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: megabux are not allotted by 'buttcount', you know this.☟︎
asciilifeform: (and their associated support machinery -- whores, drivers, et al)
asciilifeform: what's in sf other than sv/pg bubbletrons?
asciilifeform: new england is where they keep academitards; and lockheed.
asciilifeform: and sf is google, cupertino - crapple.
asciilifeform: just like , e.g., seattle, is microshit
asciilifeform: trinque: i have not been there. i associate it mentally with galois corp., the outfit to which usg.nsa subcontracts a good chunk of critical dev work
asciilifeform: whether you are under stalin, or fdr, or mao, whoever.
asciilifeform: expensive, breakable machinery in a geographic concentration, that is orders of magnitude easier to destroy than to rebuild -- is still a thing.
asciilifeform: is there a shortage of idiots where trinque lives today ?
asciilifeform: trinque: as soon as plug is pulled, all of usa is iraq.
asciilifeform: trinque: ask the syrians, or iraqis, how profitable is refinery when there is measurable chance of it eating a thermite grenade on particular day
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: aha. say 'i have a buried container of XYZ' and folx write down your coords.
asciilifeform: ftr it is monumentally bad idea to advertise one's 'i've got plenty' (we had an old thread re subj)
asciilifeform: trinque: folks who 'i've got plenty' end up raided by neighbours; spend time manning machine gun instead of plowing
asciilifeform: where groceries are grown -- imported agri-machine parts, petrol.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: wasn't re embargo, but re ease of subjugating ~any part of usa simply by cutting off shipments of imported cheapolade to it.
asciilifeform: trinque: granted, i have not yet been to all parts of usa.
asciilifeform: e.g., bush, created dhs/gestapo unmolested, shots fired against same: 0 (afaik)
asciilifeform: there ~are~, just as in every other part of the world, folx who can live on tree bark and make musket from old truck axle, etc.
asciilifeform: there is a not an autarkik wonderland sitting inside usa.
asciilifeform: the 'we are autarkik paradise in the making, as soon as we eject the parasitic rest-of-continent' is only slightly less laughable re tx than re ca.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the mega-q imho is 'how many days can texaslandia survive without chinese plastic shipments restocking lolmarts'
asciilifeform: but usa, like any mega-empire, had a motivatory idiology for the rubes, and said ideology is sinking, because the necessary chumpatronic rewards are increasingly unavailable.
