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mircea_popescu: you're abusing
time exactly like random housewife abuses benzedrine, and
to shockingly similar results. apparently
the quality of input meat reflects in
the exoticism of
the substance chosen, not at all in
the path
taken down adiction
tobogan.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile asciilifeform is actually idiotic enough
to "hates my face" ? really, dood ? because why, because you fucked up, AGAIN, are fully determined
to not fix it, and consequently "mp hates me" ? who
the fuck do you
think you are
to be worthy of such wonders ? my hate, really ?
mircea_popescu: such a fine rant it was,
too! however, i looked over
teh pizarro logs, an'
there's evidently no room for it. so good for you! my poor rant, now has nowhere
to go an' nothing
to do ;/
mircea_popescu: in other news, ben_vulpes / mod6 , i had a good rant all summoned up on
the
topic of "motherfucker, after years of watching me do business publicly, including
the lot with bingoboingo, you lot revert
to
the
tardstalk style of 'secrecy'
the moment gotta stop nodding along and actually put hands into pie".
mircea_popescu: then
the corresponding can also be implemented (l1 can have any blog added). vaguely curious as
to results.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: trinque should prolly make
the public blog rss
thing a l1 blackballable item. ie anyone deedbot
trusts can ask (in channel) for any item
to be discontinued -- and it is.
☟︎ diana_coman: also: is ave1's blog in
the rss list? I find it quite useful
☟︎ trinque: anyone opposed
to me removing pete_dushenski from
the RSS list?
this benchwarmer commentary
thing is about enough. contribute or get lost.
fromloper: I joke
that
the OS is actually cursed since every CPU arch
that it has been ported
to has died relatively fast. Since it's being ported right now
to x86_64 I hope I'm actually right.
fromloper: It's written in a combination of
three highly insecure languages (C, VAX macro, and BLISS), yet it averages very low bug counts.
fromloper: I guess. My main question for your community here concerns OS security. Basically, is OpenVMS
too good
to be
true?
fromloper: Interesting, although I feel
the 50 btc fee might be a bit high nowadays for attracting new users.
hanbot: phf> so by coming wednesday i'll release a c differ,
that conforms
to current vpatch format, but will hopefully let hanbot finish
the wp-mp genesis << kickass, looking forward
to it.
mircea_popescu: as
there's nothing
there
to unwind,
there's no moar problem
though.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron yes,
the idea back
then was
to send 24 fgs so as
to supply 2each for
the at
the
time dozen boxes i was
trying
to ship over.
the latter part fell
through, but as i
thought
the former part was still executed, and in phf's hands, i was
trying
to unwind it.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-18 05:57
trinque: probably plenty of ways
to improve
their process from here, yet
the
thing was dead in
the water, republic declared dead without hosting, and some folks came
together against
that.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-18 05:49
trinque: autodidacticism has been
thoroughly
trashed in
the logs
mircea_popescu: sure, whatever you feel like.
that's what
the fucking blog is
there for : whatever you feel like.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm getting dental work done
tomorrow. I would like
to blog
the experience of
turning 32 in Montevideo with Pictures, but I guess
that can be a separate blog.
mircea_popescu: lol so why not blog it, i enjoy
telling
that sorta
thing.
BingoBoingo: BingoBoingo's insistence on submitting
to active management, particularly from ben_vulpes in light of his experience..
BingoBoingo: <mod6> ben_vulpes, BingoBoingo, asciilifeform : Keep me honest here, am I missing / forgetting anything else
that needs
to be unearthed? << BingoBoingo sent a
tarball of fiat side paperwork, datacenter and BingoBoingo's South America allowance paid
through march. Emotional back and forth on BingoBoingo's part of
the sort where "Uruguayos can all fuck
themselves"
to "This place isn't so bad, but all
the Uruguayos can go fuck
themselves".
mircea_popescu: also, building further
the (summary)
testing infrastructure currently provided is imo a legitimate way
to patch upon
the
tree once complete ; and such work will prolly get sealed.
mircea_popescu: e portion of
the month of march.
those with domain knowledge are very much invited
to participate.
mircea_popescu: in other news : as work on eucrypt is winding down --
the whole item is just about complete, needs serpent and we've decided
to add an oaep-rsa wrapper (mostly as a pretext
to do some ada-c interop
testing), so roughly speaking by end of month it should actually be done -- we're moving on
to shaping up
the eulora client-server comms model.
this will mostly be a design discussion, will
take place in #eulora, prolly
take up som
mod6: Fair enough. I still would like
to see it continue.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-18 05:42 mod6: Furthermore, I may be
the only investor left in S.NSA, and I would very much like
to see it continue.
mod6: Solid question, we'll address
that in
the next draft, if
there is even
to be one.
mod6: I'm not seeing it show up yet, maybe copy
that
text just
to be sure. I
think we're still working out
the kinks on
that.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-18 17:45 ben_vulpes: (not
to derail, but i've moved
the Pizarro provisional charter
to
http://pizarroisp.net/?p=3 , comments actively sought from eg diana_coman hanbot mircea_popescu lobbes )
mircea_popescu dug it up ye ancient manifest.
there's 112 A3 and 10 A1s, of which iirc jurov got a dozen back
then, so i assume
there's 76 and 10 left ; and 24 a3s with phf. ie a coupla grand in
today's fiats.
mircea_popescu: nto it. let
the experience sink in, BECAUSE
THERE IS NO OTHER PERSONALITY
THAN HISTORY AND NO OTHER GUIDE
THAN EXPERIENCE.
mircea_popescu: and since
there can never be a better
time
than
the present
time : following up on asciilifeform's expert advice, i bought a crate of pogos um... about
three years ago, jan/feb 2015, ie when
the bitcoin was ~400.
they're just as rare now as
they were
then, and
they could have been bought
today for
the ~same i paid for
them
then. meaning i lost 95 bitcents
to
the bitcoin on
this deal, for howevermany bitcoins i cared
to sink i
mircea_popescu: so
that you know, ben_vulpes can just press a v
tree when he needs
to stand one up. and so on.
phf: mircea_popescu: well, i know
that hanbot is waiting for a vdiffer
that can actually produce a genesis from what she has, current one fails because of
the whole -- regexing
phf: by wednesday after
that, i'll add keccak
to it, and by yet next wednesday a c patcher
that can eat a proper vpatch
a111: Logged on 2018-02-02 21:26 mircea_popescu: 11 days should be enough for alf
to bake
the boxes i expect. danielpbarron i
think he's better suited as
they're right next
to each other ; but pending discussion with bb can you fedex some pogos ?
phf: so by coming wednesday i'll release a c differ,
that conforms
to current vpatch format, but will hopefully let hanbot finish
the wp-mp genesis
a111: Logged on 2018-02-18 18:23 mircea_popescu: speaking of
that, hey phf how's
the new vdiff coming along ?
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-18#1784792 << i got overwhelmed with vdiff becoming all
things
to all people, and since 4 year designs are no longer in vogue, i'm going
to change
the strategy and unblock specific people waiting for me
☝︎ mod6: ben_vulpes, BingoBoingo, asciilifeform : Keep me honest here, am I missing / forgetting anything else
that needs
to be unearthed?
mircea_popescu: (the business case for
this would be something like "but look at symbolics gear".)
mircea_popescu: is
there any interest in
this line with current management ? get a storage unit somewhere in uruguay, pile up all
the pogos and other non-replenishables ?
☟︎ mod6: <+mircea_popescu> last call on
this matter : are
the surprises done or is
there more exoticism waiting
to be sprung on innocents ? <<
The only agreement not stated in
the charter was indeed, stated in here,
that alf doesn't want
to be involved with mircea_popescu as backseat driver.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
to get back
to
the land of designs for a second :
the original idea for
tmsr isp was
that it'd also function as a holder of valuable (ie, "no longer produced") iron. and it'd carry it on its books, giving it a whole other kind of value.
mircea_popescu: sounds like plenty and i know from experience it won't be nearly enough. but
ty.
phf: i can keep
them until end of may
mircea_popescu: phf yeah, actually, i should prolly
take
the rest of
them from him, rather
than stuff back in.
they're long overdue. mind holding on
to
the grosse for a little ?
mircea_popescu: it does occur
to me
that indeed
tmsr-isp would make a much better repository of "just in case" iron
than danielpbarron who's
trying
to move. you wanna do anything with my large crate of pogos fellas ?
phf: i believe dpb is in between houses so
there will be some
time before he has a reliable return address, but we've already agreed
to as much
mircea_popescu: phf alrighty, send
them back an' send me
the bill please.
mircea_popescu: last call on
this matter : are
the surprises done or is
there more exoticism waiting
to be sprung on innocents ?
a111: Logged on 2018-02-18 18:26 ben_vulpes: i'd been drafting what
turned into
the charter from very nearly
the very beginning;
there's no arrangements or agreements
that are not covered in
the linked document.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-17 04:55 asciilifeform: it so happens
that asciilifeform has purchased a 50% stake in bisp. and specifically with one condition:
that mircea_popescu (named, concretely) will not be a back-seat driver
there.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-18 05:23 mod6:
Things like, what
the bills were, where
they need
to be sent, who would do what.
This kind of
thing.
mircea_popescu owns
too many
things,
to
the point people are getting confused which cask of amontillado
to ship.
phf: i seem
to recall
that
the original request was for FGs, so i was surprised
to see pogos in
the box, but
they
then
the point was already moot. (box got here on friday, i picked it up saturday afternoon)
a111: Logged on 2018-02-18 14:49 danielpbarron: mircea_popescu,
the pogos? i sent
them and phf has
them
a111: Logged on 2018-02-18 14:10 mircea_popescu:
that aside : danielpbarron phf what ever became of
those fgs ?
mod6: Well,
that was
the idea. Maybe not a great one.
mod6: And probably should be somehow put out
to pasture.
mod6: I'm starting
to agree
that
the foundation is not useful.
mod6: I don't
think 'sheild/ralying' flag. More of "is
this
thing useful". Much
to your question
that I
tackled you about a few weeks back.
mircea_popescu: it's what it's for, after all. mod6 you have
to appreciate
the outside view, "this item existed for x years, never involved itself, now does. why now and not before ?"
mircea_popescu: so basically
the idea was
to use
the foundation as a shield/ralying flag as may be needed.
mod6: I could step up and remove
the foundation from
the entire
thing, and put in my own coin.
mod6: It's no secret
that we need mircea_popescu's, hanbot, and S.MG's business.
mod6: So by using
the foundation's endowment
the idea was here, "the foundation is doing something", as opposed
to "mod6 doing something".
That was
the idea.
mircea_popescu: but
they're questions, and no more, barren and not pregnant. "and where did you put
the salt" is not "you stole
the salt, didn't you".
mircea_popescu: cuz we're of
the
tribe
that believes
that a good deal.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-18 05:10
trinque: so leaving alf aside, when
two folks dive on
this boondoggle of a business venture
to right it, we're going
to suspect
their methods and forget
their long reputations?
a111: Logged on 2018-02-18 05:04
trinque: I'd say any judgment of how
they're doing (at what, a day in?) is premature.