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asciilifeform: incidentally, apropos of gamez thread, there was very interesting french msdos item, 'little big adventure', that blew asciilifeform's mind, had 2010s-style graphic on 40mhz 486. ( how ? clever gourad system, and pile of asm i suspect ) ☟︎

mircea_popescu: o look at this BingoBoingo : http://btcbase.org/log/2015-02-19#1024573 << PICHING!!! i didn't notice it backl then... ☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: if i'm gonna field that sort of workforce, ima just make them make a new one.

a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 03:45 mircea_popescu: i choose the later, because... here's the problem : there's no because, properly speaking. "oh, hurr durr i want to own my games" wtf does this mean in a net context ? yes, i still have and still play homm2 / mm6 / gothic / whatever. but how the fuck are you going to meaningfully save a multiplayer game ? should they send me the server too ?

mircea_popescu: also, https://i.imgur.com/p6yUhdL.jpg

diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-02#1916745 - this actually sounds to me remarkably on point, thank you! (and it further explains to me just why I find the wooden tongue SO annoying; because yes, prayer.) ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2015-04-29 16:24 mod6: asciilifeform: I'm just trying to put together the monthy address; In one to three sentences cna you help me summarize what is going on with glibc/libnss?

mircea_popescu: oh oh now i remember, we had entire spanish-lang qntra support at some point.

a111: 2015-03-25 <brendafdez> mircea_popescu it works now. Anyway the IP I'm on now is one of a public AP, it shouldnt be whitelisted. I'll later give you my home IP, and BingoBoingo has my VPS IP already. I didn't know you were filtering.

mircea_popescu: i'm up to here with prayer, sick an' fucking tired.

diana_coman: what pops out to me from all those "other half" is the ...wooden tongue in there; different wooden perhaps than realizari marete but just as wooden as far as I can tell.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile in make the 1990s great again, https://i.imgur.com/TWFEaoV.jpg

mircea_popescu: oh, i'm sory, evowise is not a "", really it's a "Leading by Innovation". seriously : "About EvoWise EvoWise connects consumers and products in the digital space. We continually innovate to produce groundbreaking technologies to reinvent the way brands advertise.We deliver online customers to fortune 500 companies through our proprietary multi-channel technology platform. "

mircea_popescu: and of fucking course it's coming down a trickle pipe, so it was a 10 hour download when it started, half hour ago, then moved to 15 hours as i started ranting, and by now it's claiming to be done in 35 hours.

mircea_popescu: the name for software that changes with the user's pubic hairdo fashions is USERLAND. why the fuck am i... o look at that, there's 1.9 GB to download! the OS!!!! is two gigs. ☟︎

BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: ty, I'll hit the math a bit, sleep a bit, and propose something tomorrow that is a more sustainable way to price machines going forward than doing a bunch of log archaeology evey machine.

mircea_popescu: so as a factual matter, i expect ima pay something, and i expect it'll be entirely meaningless. in which case, da fuck do i care whether it's a mobile phone and you "own the games" or a nintendo and you "own the cartridges" except... well, you know, you virtually own them.

a111: Logged on 2018-07-25 02:38 mircea_popescu: mod6 go ahead an' invoice. i recall now seeing something like this b4 but no invoice either.

a111: Logged on 2018-02-24 18:39 ben_vulpes: i can give you a pretty steep discount for paying the year up front, but because i'm building out the downline i want to keep the box on the balance sheet. how about a 20% markup on the machine if you pay for the whole year?

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ima pay the 8-11 set of invoices for good time's sake, but gimme a break, if it's monthly it gotta track SOMETHING ? they're all the same amt. << The log I based the one server off of starts here http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-24#1785933 and the other starts here http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-25#1837621 I am more than happy to work something less ambiguous than those two stretches of log out. ☝︎☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-08-20 21:01 asciilifeform: lulzily i documented this in the past , in http://btcbase.org/log/2015-09-03#1260586 , http://btcbase.org/log/2016-02-15#1406177

mircea_popescu: i would like, of course, to have a say in how that money is spent, so that i don't end up paying 99% on ever-greater-pixelcount textures and support for 4k px wide monitors and other such http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-20#1843222 joys. but... wide franchise amirite, you know going in idiocy's gonna rule all things around you. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: there's no fucking difference. i expect to pay ~something~ because i don't expect anybody can just photosynthesize games into existence.

mircea_popescu: i choose the later, because... here's the problem : there's no because, properly speaking. "oh, hurr durr i want to own my games" wtf does this mean in a net context ? yes, i still have and still play homm2 / mm6 / gothic / whatever. but how the fuck are you going to meaningfully save a multiplayer game ? should they send me the server too ? ☟︎

a111: Logged on 2019-06-01 11:34 mircea_popescu: hmm, so since i'm building a gaming station... what's the republican notions for gfx-heavy os ?

mircea_popescu: all joking aside : the best answer i could produce for the http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-01#1916471 question stands as "choose between steamos and ubuntu", which in plain terms is "do you wish to make your computer a supernintendo and buy virtual cartridges for it ? or would you rather make your computer a mobile phone ?" ☝︎☟︎

a111: Logged on 2019-05-30 19:20 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: got it, worx. plox to deedbot-invoice asciilifeform (i'ma have to refill the piggy before i can fill it tho).

mircea_popescu: i start caring eventually.

mircea_popescu: i don't specifically care about a few bitcents or a few hundy, but by the time we're talking of

asciilifeform: ( i actually knew a fella who tried to check into an asylum, on own steam. the latter still exist, but they keep patient for a week, jack'em up with 9000 meds, and let go. to get 'full program' generally you gotta kill somebody )

asciilifeform: i wouldn't put him to make paper airplane, sure. but let'im write an os in asm or sumsuch for 20yrs before eats a train.

nicoleci: lmao, i wouldnt trust that guy to put together a model airplane

asciilifeform: ( the 1 i got, was this )

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: iirc he had a diff crackpottery for each. i never got the airplane 1.

BingoBoingo: <nicoleci> the last email i glanced at he mentioned me being part of the international police << Through your affiliation with the Republic you are an international authority figure of the sort the uninitiated may call police.

nicoleci: the last email i glanced at he mentioned me being part of the international police

asciilifeform: guess i gotta manually

BingoBoingo: I thought janissaries were somewhat effective in the field

mircea_popescu: a game being, definitionally, "i don't want to KNOW what it does, i want to DISCOVER what it does"

a111: Logged on 2019-06-01 12:49 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i'd much rather dump a package deal than baby this box. i figure the grand or so it cost ain't worth an hour of my time

asciilifeform: played on last serious gamez box i had. w/ ye olde 'voodoo II' card

asciilifeform: i liked the old 'thief'

asciilifeform: i knew a d00d who almost flunked school from overindulging in 'freeciv', shit thee not

mircea_popescu: but i will not consider this upfront sorta nonsense.

asciilifeform: i , also, never had appetite for ' blow k/mo on virtual cartridge' heh

mircea_popescu: i generally pay whatever, 20-50 bux / mo for a game i'm actually playing, on the theory that the fucks who made it, let them eat.

mircea_popescu: i ain't fucking doing this.

mircea_popescu: so basically, if i install steamos, then i can pay eg 35 eur to play sme random title.

asciilifeform: diana_coman: i saw . decent 'elite' variant

asciilifeform: i saw one vaguely original thing coupla yrs ago, iirc was 'far cry' -- very ornately graphixy thing set in... stone age. ( twist : character is able to tame animals and lead a sort of army )

diana_coman: out of curiosity I went and checked "requirements" for "no man's sky" (I keep hearing of it, possibly because it's made a few km away from my location): ps2 or windows 7; and the game will take up around 10GB of storage, lolz.

mircea_popescu: well, apparently i could auto-install steamos on it.

asciilifeform: i recall this time.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, when i was a kid, a top notch gaming comp was like a year's labour.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i tend to play things like heroes, diablo, fallout etc.

asciilifeform: indeed it can, i dun think this is surprise to anyone

diana_coman: now I'm rather curious if mircea_popescu finds any "other half" re games, lol

asciilifeform: ( the last 1 i personally touched was 'portal' )

asciilifeform: they were all a++ on warez last i knew.

mircea_popescu: i was gonna go for steam but then they took off bitcoin. so meh.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: microshit's , i meant

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i DO have a use for the box. "find out how the other half lives"

asciilifeform: generally i have a use thought up for box before arising off arse to sew one , lol

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i'd much rather dump a package deal than baby this box. i figure the grand or so it cost ain't worth an hour of my time ☟︎

asciilifeform: aha, what i had on mine. ( not ubuntu, naturally, but vendor's binturd installer actually does shit forth a loadable kmod , and goes on conventional gentoos for so long as k 3+ )

mircea_popescu: or else https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/05/24/ubuntu-19-10-nvidia-proprietary-gpu-driver-iso-linux/ i guess ?

mircea_popescu: i wanted to try the outside world

asciilifeform: as i understand mircea_popescu's own eulora knows what to do with 3d card tho ( can't picture why would need whole 1070 however , for such )

mircea_popescu: i don't mind the hardware -- i just wish to know what software anyone knows of.

mircea_popescu: then i did other things, and i come back 15 years later to discover -- "linux, wut, where you been granpa"

mircea_popescu: last i looked into this, cca 2004, linux was JUST about to eat windows' lunch

asciilifeform: ( naturally winblows will eat the 1070, but i dun imagine mircea_popescu was asking 'which winblows to get' lol )

asciilifeform: but i confess, not tried

mircea_popescu: but i can't fucking run old gentoo on it. for one thing, what games even run on old gentoo ?

mircea_popescu: innit tho ? lifting the motherboard with it i had this distinct impression it's gonna snap right under it

asciilifeform: i'd stuff that thing in a chassis of some kind btw. else it's only matter of time till you elbow it and snap the card edge imho

asciilifeform: i think exactly same brand even

asciilifeform: lol i have 1 of these in a recently-sewn box

asciilifeform: if i omitted anyone else's ffaisms, plox to lemme know. ( PeterL: your item will be in 19 )

mircea_popescu: hmm, so since i'm building a gaming station... what's the republican notions for gfx-heavy os ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: also apparently has autobio: 'how and why i tried to shoot the head of totalitarian state, m. gorbachev.'

asciilifeform: oblog period sovjoak : buncha d00dz standing in queue, to buy vodka. ( 1985 'dry law', shortage nao of the 1 thing that there was never shortage of... ) finally one of'em had enuff, 'i'ma go off and kill gorby'. hour later comes back to end of queue. they ask 'so didja?' he : 'there was even longer queue there'

asciilifeform: vertical rudder was found turned 20 degree left. i.e. suggested that vessel had attempted very sharp turn, to avoid obstacle.

asciilifeform: ( i.e. most compartments not flooded )

mircea_popescu: honestly, i spent ~5 minutes this week ; 60% of those searching the spam list for "protonmail" after it turned out this last smartypants ended up there directly. which is how i found the 2015 item (contrary to redditard lore, protonmail was never popular, few dozen total)

asciilifeform: if i had somehow arrived at mircea_popescu's algo then, prolly would still use it today, it does work wellenuff.

asciilifeform: fwiw i have also nonzero muscle in the loop, after all still have mod queue, for when inevitable idjit pumps in 10,000 copies of helloworld

asciilifeform: i dun have, sadly, so much of it to spare.

diana_coman: asciilifeform: the way I see it re your approach is that it effectively takes the "prove you are not a robot" route i.e. assumed default is robot, human only if proven rather than the other way around.

asciilifeform: to round out thread : interestingly, prior to adding the 'fg baud' q , i did see several spams.

asciilifeform: and afaik also worked ~100%, tho i do not know specifically

mircea_popescu: 3 + VI i thought

mircea_popescu: i agree that's an improvement over the broken commentbox from before.

asciilifeform: since i put in the new booby, had two dozen or so comments from half that many people, who did find pressing, and 0 spam of any description..

asciilifeform: i have 0 objection to 'this aint pressing enuff to comment'

asciilifeform: i threw out the googlistic captcha thing only this yr.

mircea_popescu: what's the idea anyway, that i'm going to scour earth to find some net dork that sad the unkind about my slaves ? cuz what, i give a fuck ? and what, if i give a fuck it'll be protonmail and 10bux/year vps that's gonna prevent me ?

mircea_popescu: and i'm not about to change it so these go to mod list. let people pull head out of arse already, understand that http://trilema.com/2013/anonimity-not-for-the-poor/ inter alia.

mircea_popescu: 0% chances for this to pass if i don't actually fish it out of the spam list by hand. and for obvious fucking reasons : people who use protonmail are retarded.