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mircea_popescu: it's this euro thing. "lowest maintenance male appearance" = lmma
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, the ssh keys were advertised by live boxes
mircea_popescu: shinohai that "foundation" think wasn't ever to be taken seriously.
mircea_popescu: the strangest thing about all this being the sher fucking age. really, 8 year old keys ? most people in bitcoin have trouble maintaining a key for a coupla years at a stretch, how the fuck did this wonder work.
mircea_popescu: i mean obviously sunlight and thunderstorms did it, but nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the whole "ssh key made on debian recast as gpg key" thing is pretty bizarre.
mircea_popescu: come to think about it... butts, probably. but anyway.
mircea_popescu: and diablo with the 1mn btc datacenter to be powered independently.
mircea_popescu: come to think about it the early years were better in terms of sheer crazy. there was also atlas, and that dank dude with the festival.
mircea_popescu: i dunno who that is. oh, no, nefario was this iirc brit dude living in poverty.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes there may be better ways to go, but not many better ways to come.
mircea_popescu: naphex was this guy who tried to get a camwhore thing going but i think it ate him
mircea_popescu: i've kinda ditched the whole thing once they did that butt-teary "oh, failure of pc means we should do more better pc".
mircea_popescu: before i was famous the stock explanation was that "you don't know which girl was his girlfriend - but he does!".
mircea_popescu: mats you old enough to recall that angry canadian dude what was his name...
mircea_popescu: Framedragger ha-ha. he's behind seven resolutions. got proxies ?
mircea_popescu: but it'll be the only thing that'll buy anyone a house. or perhaps the house.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, direct for alf : 95.7 % fall in quarterly profit at new york times. the cause being... unexpected costs related to firings.
mircea_popescu: the_scourge stop with the relogs. either get a line that works or read the web log.
mircea_popescu: lmao at usg complete unravel. kirby of state dept makes claims in public. op asks for details. kirby responds by claiming that he didn't make the claims he made and that "they've seen" "credible" reports from "aid organisations". which terms mean as follows "they've seen" = "some starving intern at random mfa blog pulled from ass" "credible" = "saddam wmd" and "aid organisations" = "hillary's friends children trafficing netwo
mircea_popescu: (millenials, obviously, and i suspect the plan is to "fuck them".)
mircea_popescu: part of which reason may be they're somewhat dangerous.
mircea_popescu: ejector runs you about half what the plane did lol. for some reason usg is fixated on them
mircea_popescu: most airports have them, but... the problem is material resistance. upkeeping a couch made of wood != upkeeping a couch made of paper. similarly, upkeeping car engine != upkeeping jet engine.
mircea_popescu: anyway. it's not actually altogether clear that sexually intimate folk can be fooled.
mircea_popescu: then you know, "i didn't say the tape exists, i said it was offered", blabla.
mircea_popescu: who had you know, in preparation announced the item, which then failed to materialize.
mircea_popescu: in the process burning a "respectable" "physicist" (horia-roman patapievici)
mircea_popescu: one party was intending to use it because hey, "cheap technology" but then it was discovered that it's actually cheap enough other party can also do it so they decided at last minute to eschew rather than make even more fools of themselves
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what's publicly available, but eg 2010 ro pres campaign i saw enough to be satisfied.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not really. it's a solved problem in the exact sense pixaring is cheaper than shooting.
mircea_popescu: in other news - voice is not authentication. pgp is authentication ; and nothing else.
mircea_popescu: anyway - most languages use <1k syllables, which makes creating a "fake" reading in a person's voice of a given fragment out of a larger recorded set quite a banal exercise in combinatorics.
mircea_popescu: it's true that linux recognizes ethernet devices. it's not true that it loads it or dhcps over it (unless idiotic defaults, which sure, african os argument prevails). but non-192.168.* as local zone requires fiddling with configs.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what system would accept insane local zones by default.
mircea_popescu: this is actually the existential problem of the kids, innit. yes, they're lazy. but also...
mircea_popescu: so my digging through the dank heap has produced a very shiny item. it says : "born too late to explore the earth ; born too soon to explore the galaxy".
mircea_popescu: because if the pig ran off to be a highwayman, he'd mostly waylay grain carts.
mircea_popescu: and yes, they preferred western union and paycheck-cashing-certificates/store scrip over bitcoin
mircea_popescu: MOST communication happened in plaintext, in spite of ... well of anything really.
mircea_popescu: dude... on the fucking "secret" market on tor, whose secret author ACTUALLY VOLUNTEERED IT TO TRAFFIC COPS or anyone who'd listen,
mircea_popescu: generally the problem with these fringes (of finance, tech, you name it) is that the "people" involved correctly score themselves as more able with other things than the subject. so you get a lot of "value add", ie, "services".
mircea_popescu: mostly on puffery / whatever can be misrepresented. it's closer to gold-for-gop-retirees than soy futures.
mircea_popescu: well depends what you do. but once someone implements the interface, the user is free to actually price these correctly. maybe there's more demand for box with X than with Y, but the only way to know is if bidding can actually occur.