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a111: Logged on 2019-06-20 21:48 asciilifeform: i do not begrudge danielpbarron his ddos laboratory, but imho he really oughta do it on rk.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-22 06:58 mp_en_viaje: and yes ima negrate dpb just as soon as i get to my main keys, he's too fucking busy to http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-12#1918049 while http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-20#1919091 all day long ? because what, what the fuck's this republic, everyone's suburban helicopter mom, to roll eyes at while eating her sandwiches and thinking about how to steal shit from the house to curry favour with a bunch of morons in school ?
danielpbarron: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-22#1919170 << i was waiting for them to get it working, as i irc from the pizarro shared host, and it was down for a day ☝︎
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-22#1919159 << i'm burned out from my recent misadventures, i've taken several approaches to both republican and secural work, and i'm failing to load it in my brain, or make any kind of dent ☝︎☟︎
bvt: oh, and re http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-24#1909684 -- i wrote to the dude back then, he promised to respond in a week 'after travelling', never came back to we afterwards ☝︎
bvt: i do expect that 'saltmine season' is over now -- i've been working on asming karatsuba squaring (ffa ch.12b) over this week, post expected tomorrow. ☟︎
bvt: hello. i am also sorry for my unacceptably low output over past ~2 months; and particularly sorry of not doing the right thing of notifying the forum (which i did before)
mp_en_viaje: and yes ima negrate dpb just as soon as i get to my main keys, he's too fucking busy to http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-12#1918049 while http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-20#1919091 all day long ? because what, what the fuck's this republic, everyone's suburban helicopter mom, to roll eyes at while eating her sandwiches and thinking about how to steal shit from the house to curry favour with a bunch of morons in school ? ☝︎☝︎☟︎☟︎
mp_en_viaje: we have no workable bitcoin nor any sort or kind of measurable progress towards one ; we have no working os, and not only is there no progress towards one but as best as i can discern the situation's rather turning in the direction of "buried in concrete" ; we eminently do not have any sort of meat acquisition system going, while pizarro can't get customers and all dpb can be bothered to do is ~USE IT~ to try and get meat for th ☟︎
mp_en_viaje: leaving aside how a rate of progress of 0 items / week for week after week after livelong week puts extremely low demands on my time and attention -- far, far from requiring it be a central locus of my focus, republican 2019 as seen so far would have worked just as well if i gave it an hour biweekly, and i don't mean twice a week, i mean every other week -- there's just no need to keep the engine running on big brutus for the "j ☟︎
mp_en_viaje: i have no idea how the fuck everyone's so rapidly settled mentally in this novel and apparently great new kanzure-republic of 2019, but i do not find myself comfortable here AT ALL.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-10 20:39 phf: craziest thing, i forgot my gpg password for about 5 days. was walking around trying to remember parts of it, obviously couldn't get access to anything meanwhile
deedbot: 2019/06/12 07:31:47 <spyked> I'd made a small toy proggy to draw a mandelbrot set, zoom in etc. when the time came to show it, no one in the room even knew what a fractal was, although ~all~ the teachers there were math-informatics graduates
a111: Logged on 2019-06-21 00:58 lobbes: small update: I've been inundated the last few weeks with $saltmines work; tsmr work ~0 during this time. however, these next two weeks will be somewhat clearer so I'll be back to eating through modlisp
mp_en_viaje: what all is going on there, anyway ? i mean, if you'll need to (or for that matter, factually engage in) multi-week stone cold absences in the future, let's talk about it and take measures prospectively
trinque: I want to apologize for my absence of late, been engaged in some sisyphean pushes elsewhere.
asciilifeform: i suppose they'll want their old submarine from the chicago hall of sciences next...
Mocky: I updated to the new shared ip address, looks good
BingoBoingo: The .247 address will be getting unblackholed at some point. In the interim I have put skeleton DNS entries for sites not previously using our DNS server in place. Using ns1.qntra.net and ns2.qntra.net will allow restoring public access to sites more quickly in the event a DDoS is mitigated.
BingoBoingo: Alright, sites using ns1 and ns2.qntra.net for their names are online. Others using shared hosting are welcome to point their domains at 161.0.121.240 I will put entries for all of the sites on pizarro shared hosting into the name server. This way in the future when we have an IP get DDoS mitigated, recovery will not be so time consuming.
PeterL: I was just about to ask, what is the timeline for getting it back online
lobbes: small update: I've been inundated the last few weeks with $saltmines work; tsmr work ~0 during this time. however, these next two weeks will be somewhat clearer so I'll be back to eating through modlisp ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Which is why I bring the thing up here. I'm not certain what to do. I am rather certain that whatever is done, a shared shell isn't the place to repeatedly draw aggro after having done so the first few times.
asciilifeform: near as i can tell , he's been doing only this, and for more than yr
mircea_popescu: i'm sure he is.
BingoBoingo: I'm mulling it over. It seems like he is going into their spaces, taking a piss, and getting told not to do that. Repeatedly.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i do not demand 'delish from my pov', no.
asciilifeform: i'ma let the man speak for self tho. but meanwhile problem , danielpbarron is paying for service but aint getting it, cuz unplugged; meanwhile other uy1 people also paying, and ditto
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-20#1919066 i got impression that he was poking stick into anthills, but was not able to discern what stick and what sorta anthill. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i.e. bombshell article ? i must've missed. ( mircea_popescu do you have a cached copy ? )
asciilifeform: not that i necessarily demand to understand what customer does with his box. but in this case it isn't w/out problem for piz & the other residents.
asciilifeform: also it'd be 1 thing if he were running a qntra and it were ddosed by washington. but i dun even get wtf he is doing, for what.
asciilifeform: i do not begrudge danielpbarron his ddos laboratory, but imho he really oughta do it on rk. ☟︎
asciilifeform: the shell i've had scrolling dulap log since 11 feb, didnt skip a beat, fwiw.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as i said, dulap was entirely reachable last time.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: did they do this last time around also? cuz to date i have not once observed any problem accessing dulap
asciilifeform: i do recommend that danielpbarron upgrade to a rk, however
mircea_popescu: sadly i can't load that.
BingoBoingo: I'm inclined to suggest to danielpbarron that when evangelizing on EFNet he use a different bouncer per the Pizarro good neighbor policy http://pizarroisp.net/pizarro-good-neighbor-policy/
mircea_popescu: i c
asciilifeform: tho even in msdos pc clone era, already 1st 'swallows of spring' of this were visible, i still recall the time of 9000 incompatible sound cards etc
asciilifeform: i.e. where errybody can be assumed to have ~exactly same~ iron/os state.
mircea_popescu: anyway, whatever, i'm not gonna debug shaders now. muh kb-wotn is broken and that's that.
mircea_popescu: "stack protectors" are such a dumbass idea, i swear. who are they supposed to help ? the dumb user doesn't need the stack protected, he needs programs that don't smash it. and the smart user doesn't need fucking blindfolds on, he needs honest, informative and actionable errors. wtf "generic fault of a generic type"
mircea_popescu: at least now it's crashing properly, so i know what the fuck to do.
mircea_popescu: i suspect what's happening is that the gl is trying to do depth comparison on a texture with no depth, through a sampling shader. which...
mircea_popescu: there's a broken shader / nvidia card issue at work here, it's not what i thought at first, pure spuriousness.
mircea_popescu: i've not been following tbh
a111: Logged on 2019-06-20 14:53 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it worked fine, i played heroes etc on it last time around (cca 2010 or so)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-20#1919005 << funnily enuff iirc '10 was the last time i tried to run game in 'wine'. never got audio to work. ( possibly on acct of never having poettering's audio libs, which i think it demands ) ☝︎
asciilifeform: ha, i was right, it ~was~ in an old ro piece asciilifeform not yet ate
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it worked fine, i played heroes etc on it last time around (cca 2010 or so) ☟︎
asciilifeform: torvalds's orig linux may have been a naturally occurring fungus, but i'm quite satisfied that 'wine' was written from day1 to prevent an actual working winblows substitute.
asciilifeform: i.e. loyal servants of reich, exactly like the previous set of derps, or the 'rezistenta prin cultura'(tm)(r) idjits in ro ☝︎
asciilifeform: i.e. exact preview of the 2013 'movie', where the nsa radiobugism docs leaked, and yet somehow still 'why wouldja want emshielded comp, paranoiac'. or heartbleed , and then somehow still 'openssl is standard, shuddup and Don't Write Own Crypto(tm)(r), terrorist'
asciilifeform: problem as it is, is even older than linuxism -- recall in '90s, 'dr-dos', and how worked with only ~some~ msdos proggies but not others, given as people wrote 'for msdos', i.e. intimately wedded to the bugs and undocumented misfeatures etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re 'wine' breakage -- i'm not aware that the opensores 'wine' ever worked even with ancient gamez. the 'play on linux' thing iirc uses the commercial (formerly payware) version, which iirc includes actual libs copied wholesale from microshit. i.e. cocktail of oddball crapola and ~actual microshit~. so, unsurprised that it barfs.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this was either in a very classic ro trilema ( that i did not eat yet ) or elsewhere entirely ( in-chan lnk )
mircea_popescu: and so... i guess ima go garden or something.
mircea_popescu: and i can't write, because i need a reference i can no longer find.i have no fucking idea how to fix this sort of problem, nor do i truly speaking expect it'll ever get fixed. so w/e, i guess ima trash this thousand words and move on. except the specter of "there's an X% chance you won't be able to complete the article you wish to write" is sufficiently chilling to permanently discourage one from even starting.
mircea_popescu: well so let's see here : i can't play, because after sinking however many hours in chasing dependencies and fixing assorted if widely distributed breakage the end story is that "foss" has managed to really give the whole game away -- there is ONE chain, consisting of play on linux so-and-so using wine-so-and-so on ubuntu this-and-that, and you pray it works -- because if it doesn't work, THAT IS IT, "there was an error" li ☟︎
diana_coman: I'm not sure the 2 groups are any different really
mircea_popescu: so i brought back screen to manage the term sessions for these idiots. THIS is the sense of progress : from 10.04 to 18.04, they lost terminal management, i'm back to screen. i didn't actually use it in 10.04
mircea_popescu: ow i'm riding scaled down text.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of terrible accessibility : they changed the taskbar structure from purely linear to a sorta broken tree, so that all terminals snap together into a single terminal icon (holy shit WHY, everyone's taskbar is 90% terms and that is THE ONLY REASON to even HAVE clickable taskbars) so now i have to do two clicks, one to bring up a derpy bubble and a second to bring up the wanted terminal, which blows btw because n
a111: Logged on 2019-06-19 19:59 mircea_popescu: meanwhile continuing the http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-19#1918697 nonsense : wine doesn't work worth a shit on the new ubuntu. it never worked splendidly, granted, but it was quite workable last i looked into this half decade ago. it degraded significantly. for instance, after a bunch of installing various, i'm left with a taskbar fulla dead icons. (well, in fairness they bring up a transparent exclamation point in a tria
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 15:50 mircea_popescu: remarkable just how useless computers are these days. so first, i chugged in 2gb of ubuntu. the moment it came up it wanted to get a further 450mb of "updates". then it turns out ~every game out there has pretty much outsourced its distribution (and, i suspect, debugging, such as it is) to steam (with a minor gog presence as well). so you gotta install steam. that's only 50mb or so, but a third layer by now.
mircea_popescu: holy shit, they manage to include NOTHING (i also had to include a c compiler myself earlier. and fucking make.) in those 2GB of bloat that ARE ANTIUSEFUL!!! ☝︎☝︎☝︎
mircea_popescu: so one, obviously, is stuck installing a proper wine on the system, because fuck me if i'm not getting off beginner island (VERY fucking annoying manifestation of the bug -- crashes you in the final battle, with that asswipe eric).
BingoBoingo: I remember very recently back in the US the power was out for an extended period of time because it was summer and the line carrying power into town caught fire.
BingoBoingo: Not particularly, but the local news has to do the panic thing to make ad sales I guess.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i am a skald, my name's oglaf, an' FOR THE C
asciilifeform: i saw them, i think, alive
asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/winblows10.jpg << from a reasonably fresh install. i shit thee not, is what stock install's menu loox like.
asciilifeform: dungo yet, mircea_popescu , i took a screenshit just for you!
BingoBoingo: AHA, yes. I have seen the Win10 ad machine in a zoo!
mircea_popescu: meanwhile i actually got this thing going. you ever played the kb franchise ?
mircea_popescu: oh, no, it's so accessible and usable and progressed, i dunno what you could be griping about
asciilifeform: 3 whole weeks, i cannot even picture
mircea_popescu: but i was trying to get king's bounty legends of the north booted.
asciilifeform: i had nfi that 'linux steam' ran under emulator.
asciilifeform: fwiw i never used the icons / faux-winblowz-desktop pheature
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: last i knew, 'wine' worked pretty well... then again, the only thing asciilifeform ever ran in it, was 'ida pro', and with fully decade-old copy of 'wine' by nao
mircea_popescu: this damned thing is almost exactly windows, i dunno why even bother with emulators, should just run win binaries native by now.
mircea_popescu: for instance of what i mean by "any way" : you'd expect kill $(ps aux | grep wine | cut -f2 -d" "| awk '{print $1}') will do it. and indeed it kills DOZENS of processes.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-19 16:30 mircea_popescu: i could keep on forever -- old one, had directly accessible screen resolution switcher. new one -- does not, so that if (for instance!) your settlers 4 wine installation fucks the screen leaving it in 800x600 mode upon closure, either you know to xrandr -q xrandr --output --mode directly, or else you reboot.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile continuing the http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-19#1918697 nonsense : wine doesn't work worth a shit on the new ubuntu. it never worked splendidly, granted, but it was quite workable last i looked into this half decade ago. it degraded significantly. for instance, after a bunch of installing various, i'm left with a taskbar fulla dead icons. (well, in fairness they bring up a transparent exclamation point in a tria ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: these look quite like the usa prices, i.e. 200-300k dubloons for a tub that won't even sleep 2 people
mircea_popescu: what can i tell you. u;ltimately all things are baubleds/.
mircea_popescu: which is the deep problem here : in socialist economy this class of "i made 20mn being smart" thing no longer exists.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: From what I understand the chinese commercial fishing vessels tend to not get customs checked with any frequency
asciilifeform: i suspect mircea_popescu missed a 0 in there somewhere, even diesel to cross ocean is prolly >10k naodays
asciilifeform: as i understand, the world of rich folx 'not in a hurry to anywhere' is gone, yes
asciilifeform: i'm sold on mircea_popescu's pt re how proper boat is not a standalone system . ☝︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i dug into subj very briefly in usa, and found interesting the diff b/w 'new' and 'gently used', more than tenfold typically
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Quite a few boats I suspect are on the whisper market in kinda the same way just about any piece of real estate in the city has a price if you bother to ask.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did it stop being thing ? i went to boatyards, saw ~0 empty spots, lotsa boatism
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: orlov et al were telling the troof, i went and priced, a parking space for standard habitable boat is <1k/mo in most of usa, well under what 'condo downtown' cost
asciilifeform: incidentally, while on subj -- and i did even try to warn pete -- folx who abuse fg as 'collectible stamp' set themselves up for hurt, unlike patek etc thing is quite deliberately designed to be simple to replicate, lacks any form of serial numeration etc, and the only tests are for mechanical correctness, where all units built to spec pass, whether orig by asciilifeform, or by zimbabwe, or martians.
mircea_popescu: the yachting thing was pretty big in the... well, the 90s mostly, i'd say.