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pete_dushenski: phf: the old cities (nyc, chi, dc) all have at least a few, to be sure
phf: pete_dushenski: there's a couple of nice libraries in this country too
pete_dushenski doesn't think he spends an hour a month in front of 'tv'
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: if you're a liberal-atheist-spinozist-jewbilee, there's not really anyone to kick you off your 'table for one'
pete_dushenski: the world can use a good pissing off now and again, like the body can use a little rhinovirus here and there. helps keep everyone fresh.
BingoBoingo: I dunno, member of the tribe seem to have a poor track record when it comes to getting chosen for things by other groups
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Not a photoshop, taken in New England with a camera that sees time 7 years in advance. ☟︎☟︎
pete_dushenski: just because you're not a ~billionaire~ with x-ray vision, i forgot to mention that part. and if you tell me that you're also a billionaire, that's ok too because there are more parts i haven't mentioned yet!'
adlai: you know you're busy with less trivial bullshit when you are actually surprised by btcfiat updates in #b-a
pete_dushenski: that guy, despite apparently not having much of a stomach for money or finance, is a pretty respectable little investor, i'll give him that
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-02-2016#1408301 << brush off one ddos and 'to the moon' ? did i miss a meta-qntra memo here or what ☝︎
pete_dushenski: obviously, this afternoon, and the fact that i'd be nutso to enter into a 20-year contract with a non-entity is why i will under no circumstances, and quite to the contrary of 'every is doing it' advice from the whole peanut gallery of well-meaning busy bodies, be starting an 'resp' account (registered educational savings plan) for my kid(s). if they want to go to law or something, i'll pony up, but if i sure as
adlai: ehehe what do you take me for, a price signal? this message not directed at anybody in particular. goodnight #b-a
adlai: trinque: you should collect the deedynickles, i haven't swept in a while
mircea_popescu: omfg trinque is en route to becoming a prophet. ☟︎
trinque: adlai: there is a cost to accepting stupid money
adlai: fwiw it's a blended average
adlai: so i 'promised' a dude a blockchain spamatron, and he gave me 3btc after insisting that we not sign anything, not even a gpg contract
asciilifeform: where are you adlai, a sauna ?!
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asciilifeform: adlai: you know at this point a trained seal could build it
adlai: asciilifeform: patches are a ways aways. i'm still figuring out this whole C++ mess... last time i dealt with these shits i had MSVC+CLR to back me up, never touched the keyboard. click click click.
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adlai: but definitely tl;dr,able at a whopping 7,243 shares
adlai: so i'd actually say it's a move in the right direction, regardless of the authors's's position
BingoBoingo: adlai: A position paper is liek the vocabulary suggests, a paper that "advances" a particular political position
BingoBoingo: K, the bitbet affliate link thing probably has a place, but likely as part of a larger monetization effort when that time comes. I'm uncertain on this matter at this moment.
adlai: everybody needs a server they wouldn't be caught dead on
mircea_popescu: wait ... is pat moorhead married to a fellow named moorhead, who is the head of moor something or the other ?
asciilifeform: (have you ever heard of a ~person~ paying for winblowz?!)
jurov: "I see this as a best proof point for Microsoft showing that Windows 10 is certainly more secure than its predecessor and stable enough to be rolled out to millions of people," said Pat Moorhead, analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy.
mircea_popescu: a href="/bundle-393434.txt ah found
gribble: Bitcoin address 1FundZy7m7b8begbh9haCguKJcAdFopRJ9 ...: <https://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/address/1FundZy7m7b8begbh9haCguKJcAdFopRJ9>; Introducing A New Bitcoin Foundation | Qntra: <http://qntra.net/2014/11/introducing-a-new-bitcoin-foundation/>; The Treasurer's Contract - The Bitcoin Foundation: <http://thebitcoin.foundation/treasurer_contract.html>
mircea_popescu: which is why all the derpage around anonimity, as if it were a thing.
asciilifeform: because this is a technology that only makes sense in wot planet
asciilifeform: i think that a more elementary thing is at work - these folks literally can't imagine a box other than 'ubuntu', rathead, etc. with 'autoupdater' and the like
mircea_popescu: it's a deeply telling thing. THEY don't know what the fuck they are by themselves. why would a box.
asciilifeform: the other lul from the thread was the people (?) vigorously denying that a unix box could run without ever invoking dns
asciilifeform: there was a spiffy mircea_popescu article where he discusses how victim with no recourse internally re-wires itself
mircea_popescu: but, as any rapist knows, the best thing for that trade is a ready supply of victims who will deny the deed. "i was never raped!11"
assbot: 120 results for 'parachute' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=parachute
asciilifeform: oh one other thing, blocks really ought to live on a storage device where connecting tx outputs is a constant-time operation.
assbot: Reverse Engineering a NAND Flash Device Management Algorithm | Joshua Wise's domain ... ( http://bit.ly/1QJDjHI )
mircea_popescu: also - there's a reason ssd in raid.
asciilifeform: which opens up a rowhammer-like attack vector. ☟︎
asciilifeform: jurov: these likes are from my recent attempt to locate a modern supplier of antifuse rom of reasonable density
assbot: Obviously a Major Malfunction...: Fun with Masked ROMs - Atmel MARC4 ... ( http://bit.ly/1QJBHgX )
asciilifeform: one of the reasons i wrote 'g' (which remains unreleasable, ty mircea_popescu for the block cipher lulz, aha) is that the public node is not a sustainable thing.
asciilifeform: as for travellers, when the known world was a cold and empty place, and wolves outnumbered wanderers 9000 to 1, etc. - it was a different thing.
mircea_popescu: the caek produced the conclusion that there is nothing useful here - the heuristic value of a concept of "size" in evaluating the matter wholly comes from the evaluation that had been already pre-baked in the "size".
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Since July "SPV" in power ranger and other usage has gone from describing a specific class of idiocy to describing a more general class of turds.
hanbot: i suspect the recognition that things can actually be useful rather than superficially ego-satisfying is a more and more rare occurrence. or by now, ability. which explains a lot of the stupidity, but doesn't excuse it.
BingoBoingo: hanbot: That's actually a serious problem. Being excited about things for their "product" -ness and not that part where they are useful as things.
hanbot: "review". aka "say anonderp, i'm having trouble fitting my pretensions and emotional minutiae in a finite space. would you ask me how i feel about shit and host the results?"
mircea_popescu: i shall be off to eat a lot of cake and meditate.
mircea_popescu: so a small elite unit was capable of projecting a long shadow whereas a churned to death rifle unit from a siege emplacement was a mere dot.
mircea_popescu: something intuitively comprehensible as more akin the german-pioneered "tank shadow" item. whereby a unit was represented as a blob function of both its strength/battle readiness and it's mobility.
asciilifeform: this is a hilarious reversal of the old classic thread between asciilifeform and mircea_popescu re: 'programming == webdev'
asciilifeform: because he doesn't own a computer.
mircea_popescu: still.. a useful judgement of "size" in this particular sense is very hard to come by.
asciilifeform: now orc monkeys are not the sharpest tools in the shed, true - have you ~seen~ a trojan of recent vintage? 19/20 are in vb
asciilifeform: well, i can identify who gives a fuck re: pwning crapple users - 1,000,001 orc carder monkeys, for instance
mircea_popescu: it is a purely aesthetic choice. you realise this ?
mircea_popescu: no, this has absolutely nothing to do with any finding out. it is not a matter of fact.
asciilifeform: i admit that my crappleology is a few yrs out of date.
mircea_popescu: why don't you say "clearly nobody gives a shit about apple or its products - so few vulnerabilities they can almost chase them all down"
asciilifeform: when they leak out, are typically patched in a few days
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the fact that jailbreaking is a thing reveals that apple has not 'done it'
mircea_popescu: encapsulation is a dream. you know that. what exactly activates your memory hole to think that apple "done it" ? usg perfume ? what is it ?
asciilifeform: understand, this is largely a testament to the sheer nintendoism of the os
asciilifeform: or shows a trojanatronic 'gmail' login screen and waits for idiot to enter pw. etc
asciilifeform: for instance, one can write a proggy that tracks your location and uploads.
mircea_popescu: i thought theres one a week.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my point was that if you wanted to make own touchatronic os, it would be considerably cheaper to use a handset from another vendor.
asciilifeform: the 'open sores' world wasn't even able to cough up a mouse gui that didn't trigger anaphylactic shock in half the users
mircea_popescu: "saudi woman can drive a car - by driving a model car in the garage!!1"
asciilifeform: it ~is~ a consideration, in each new release they merge a few of the ic into one.
mircea_popescu: funny how space is not a consideration there lol.
mircea_popescu: and a coupla dozen more. wut a soup.
assbot: Logged on 17-02-2016 15:57:31; Reydevkiwi: just saw a doc on all the backdoors in apple phone os, then this
phf: also ftr i've never had a paid license. even without it developer.apple.com used to have all kinds of goodies. source code for all their opensource parts, legacy software, old version of xcode, various specialist tools for debugging, etc.
asciilifeform: (there is also a nand flash on there, some power supply crud, and the baseband)
trinque: at least in android's case there's something of a linux down there you can get to without back-alley surgery
asciilifeform: you will find a SINGLE ic, and a good chunk of the crapolade is in mask rom.
mircea_popescu: jurov seems like a great incentive to take the crap out altogether.
phf: there was a project for os replacements back in 3g days, back when you could still conceivably load your own blob as an os, and expect it to do ~something~
mircea_popescu: speaking of nintendo, i recall a thriving mod chip industree just about the time the bulgarians were taking over cd pressing.
mircea_popescu: PeterL a) phone is free with carrier bill is it not ? huge incentive - get out of 3k in payments ; b) usually specialist shops do it.
asciilifeform: there is a massive multi-GB bolus of shit
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is not a 'normal item'
PeterL: and you think average joe is going to replace a chip on his expensive phone?
asciilifeform: which tends to take a while.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'rooting' ipnohe is complicated. not in the sense of 'how to do it', it is braindamagedly easy. BUT you have to run a multi-MB closed turd. which installs ???????.
PeterL: my grandparents lived in Palo Alto for a while, that is where my dad went to high school (back in the 60's)
mircea_popescu: phf why the everloving fuck would you pay a license to develop.
phf: (in other apple is dead not so news, i logged into a developer account in hopes of grabbing xcode dmg's direct instead of going through apple store, and oh boy. what used to be a rather spartan list of downloads, docs, resources has turned into "Click your iPhone app into Apple Store! Anyone can do it!" complete with giant banners of hip womens holding iphones. where's the docs? where's all the shit? literally the only thing you can do
mircea_popescu: does this sound like much of a hostage to you ?
mircea_popescu: let me quote for your benefit, a second.
mircea_popescu: " is that usg has the politburo in both cases by the balls, they all have swiss accounts 'which could have problems' if they don't play ball." << if we were discussing a tissue sample, this would directly map to "god's life force prevails"