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mp_en_viaje: https://seths.blog/2019/05/kinds-of-truth/ << this might be the dumbest piece of drivel i read today.
stjohn_piano_2: asciilifeform: i have indeed.
stjohn_piano_2: mp_en_viaje: makes sense. i don't think i'm a good choice for advertising work.
mp_en_viaje: stjohn_piano_2, aite. i guess you're fated to thicken the rows of techs then.
stjohn_piano_2: asciilifeform: i learned early on that he who has the money gets to decide what to spend it on.
stjohn_piano_2: asciilifeform: i agree. goal was to make "cnc mill for consumers" i.e. cheap.
stjohn_piano_2: although for speech rec, it was small company (my father), so I also did bookkeeping, reading about taxes, setting up computers, etc.
asciilifeform: stjohn_piano_2: i have cnc mill (for metal, not only wood, albeit slow) right here, made from scavenged materials + 1970s 'sherline'. it's a weekend's work. i.e. pretty hard to make profit selling'em, china nao ships complete kits.
stjohn_piano_2: mp_en_viaje: furniture factory: i studied all the components i was given and tried to make them work together: so, camera, computer, motion controller, servomotors, wiring etc.
mp_en_viaje: aha. but i meant since, made a "ycombinator" thing.
mp_en_viaje: tho i suspect other guy wrote, graham talked.
stjohn_piano_2: asciilifeform: so i discovered, yes.
mp_en_viaje: ah i see.
stjohn_piano_2: I've done: writing python scripts to sort large amounts of transcription data, running transcription projects, setting up raspberry-pi-powered cameras, figuring out what to do about gdpr, bookkeeping.
a111: Logged on 2019-05-16 17:51 stjohn_piano_2: i have unfortunately worked mostly in small businesses, making me something of a "learn this thing quickly well enough to get it to do X function".
mp_en_viaje: well, maybe i misread the substance of http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-16#1913875 ; afaik 80% of what "small business" means for the past ~decade is exaftly the above. ☝︎
stjohn_piano_2: not so far, but i can certainly see if i can do it.
mp_en_viaje: anyway, here's a consultancy i'm willing to hire you for : find some place that a) doesn't suck and b) offers a good price to advertise trilema on. large venues only ; none of the pompous bullshit. bulk adult traffic would do fine for instance, maybe talk to the juicyads dorks.
stjohn_piano_2: should i use the first or second, or either?
stjohn_piano_2: mp_en_viaje: ok. round 2 i.e. new OTP?
stjohn_piano_2: asciilifeform: i have imported the corresponding priv. will now export pub and confirm that it's the same as the one in deedbot.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: in the case of subkeyism, he oughta then see a diff b/w the dumps, as i understand
stjohn_piano_2: i've abandoned the stateless commands and am using the basic stuff.
stjohn_piano_2: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-16#1913894 << really wanted more-or-less self-contained unchangeable publishing. thought i might as well make it look nice. ☝︎
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, he prolly registered they main but gpg wants to use the sub (or vice-versa, i dun recall which this was)
a111: Logged on 2018-09-05 16:52 mircea_popescu: well, there's that old "as i became a man i put the things of childhood aside". "something else", you know ? not a girl, no, but who knows what terror ?!
stjohn_piano_2: i know, hadn't expected this part to produce trouble.
asciilifeform: stjohn_piano_2: this sorta thing is almost universal afflication of young folx. i can see why you choked on ffa tho, it has literally no 'parts that can be safely skipped'
stjohn_piano_2: i guess i could say that i'm very good at reading a lot of material and picking out the bit that is necessary for a problem.
stjohn_piano_2: i have unfortunately worked mostly in small businesses, making me something of a "learn this thing quickly well enough to get it to do X function". ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2019-05-16 17:48 mp_en_viaje: so look, and i hope you don't take this the wrong way (a hope mostly fed by your claim to have read the logs) : you're a guy with an evident humanities / non-technical background trying to get something going, start a company, all that stuff. nothing wrong with that. you are however currently beset by two prongs of problem. one is that in your quest to do something, you often do things that are getting in your own way -- there's no benefit for you f
stjohn_piano_2: BingoBoingo: I use relatives.
mp_en_viaje: rom all the pomp of "datafeed article 103," etc. it just clunks up your thought process. i know you don' tthink so, familiarity breeds a feeling of safety etc. but it's absolutely never worth it to have more shit than you need. ☟︎
mp_en_viaje: so look, and i hope you don't take this the wrong way (a hope mostly fed by your claim to have read the logs) : you're a guy with an evident humanities / non-technical background trying to get something going, start a company, all that stuff. nothing wrong with that. you are however currently beset by two prongs of problem. one is that in your quest to do something, you often do things that are getting in your own way -- there's no benefit for you f ☟︎
asciilifeform: i dare say this is not the 1st line of work i'd picture a fella with broken hands going into.. ☟︎
stjohn_piano_2: asciilifeform: this computer doesn't have a djvu reader, but i have no doubt that it's painful.
stjohn_piano_2: well, i'd use human-powered ocr then (given residual rsi). i've hired transcribers before. i'd then correct the result myself.
stjohn_piano_2: ah. i'll look at the original.
mp_en_viaje: i mean, it'll be more work to correct than to write.
stjohn_piano_2: well, we'd choose some hourly rate agreeable to both of us. i'd use an OCR site and correct the result. eventually, i might invest time in my own ocr fork.
mp_en_viaje: may i be curious ?
stjohn_piano_2: mp_en_viaje: i highly doubt that edgecase can compete with slave labour.
stjohn_piano_2: asciilifeform: yes. i have imported the corresponding priv key to this instance of gpg.
stjohn_piano_2: mp_en_viaje: i agree. no problem, i'm used to that reaction.
mp_en_viaje: so i guess i just assumed, lol. sat.
stjohn_piano_2: i have not implemented a javascript select thing yet.
mp_en_viaje: why can't i select "Plaintext renditions of books, documents, and PDF files" off http://edgecase.net/pages/edgecase_services ? you against javascript also ?
stjohn_piano_2: asciilifeform: diffing the output of pgpdump -i [key] and pgpdump -i [deedbotkey] shows no difference.
mp_en_viaje: anyway, to belabour the point : there is immense value in having low barriers. part of why trilema is so great is all the time i put into making it very easy for myself to write on/for it. and my life in general is very finely tuned by this principle.
stjohn_piano_2: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-16#1913785 << well, i had time to think. wanted to understand transactions, and by doing so achieve airgapped bitcoin storage. ☝︎
mp_en_viaje: but you nevertheless understand what i mean ?
stjohn_piano_2: mp_en_viaje: certainly. i'm not certain that i knew about xxd at the time.
mp_en_viaje: because if i had a criticism to present toyou re your (in many ways quite laudable) efforts -- it'd be this scratching around head with wrong hand approach to life.
asciilifeform: the tx i mean
a111: Logged on 2019-05-16 17:27 mp_en_viaje: http://edgecase.net/articles/displaying_hex_bytes_for_manual_copying << is this exactly what i did in http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-16#1913584 ?!
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i'ma guess he's trying to 'airgap' but with no slave typists
mp_en_viaje is currently quite satisfied with the trilema/rss > irc > archive.is system of archival. for one thing, on very rare occasions i will retrofix a typo or something. for the other, if i actually wanted to deed each trilema article i would, but by automating that itnerface. seems overkill atm.
mp_en_viaje: so i take it the pissing into blockchain of article checksum is automated ? or you do it by hand on some level ?
stjohn_piano_2: asciilifeform: i did not. thanks.
stjohn_piano_2: you wrote an article once about parsimony vs efficiency, i think. ☟︎
mp_en_viaje: http://edgecase.net/articles/displaying_hex_bytes_for_manual_copying << is this exactly what i did in http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-16#1913584 ?! ☝︎☟︎
stjohn_piano_2: mp_en_viaje: yes, I've learned a lot. also distribution of risk.
stjohn_piano_2: i cannot alter previously published articles.
mp_en_viaje: ok, but "consulting services" means nothing and secure publication's what qntra already exists for ? why would i use your thing ?
stjohn_piano_2: i have not spent the time to go through the pieces manually.
stjohn_piano_2: i mean, i understand the idea.
asciilifeform: stjohn_piano_2: this is actually 1st time anyone wrote in and said 'i tried but not understood'. plz feel free to leave comments re what did not understand.
stjohn_piano_2: asciilifeform: yes, although i have not been able to understand it.
stjohn_piano_2: mp_en_viaje: first thing i bumped into that solved my problem.
stjohn_piano_2: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-16#1913731 << i've only recently set up IRC. http://edgecase.net/articles/setting_up_irc_irssi_znc_digital_ocean_freenode ☝︎
stjohn_piano_2: but i've been recovering from severe rsi
stjohn_piano_2: but i did consider it.
stjohn_piano_2: mp_en_viaje: i severely dislike PHP.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, i tell you i don't see it.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: consider diff b/w 'im'a go pirate on the high seas, take spanish gold' vs 'i'ma pray for gold to fall from sky', is the contemplated diff.
stjohn_piano_2: i studied trilema's layout.
asciilifeform: stjohn_piano_2: diff the pgpdump -i output of the two pubkeys.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i can grasp the 'old world socialism', where http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-25#1904728 ; i dun really grasp ~these~, they dun even make surface sense to the uninitated ☝︎
stjohn_piano_2: asciilifeform: when i run your command there, I get: "gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID C8EFFF13, gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available"
stjohn_piano_2: i'll try that
stjohn_piano_2: well, i'm using the sequences i developed in
stjohn_piano_2: i had some prepared commands, but i'm having some trouble decrypting the otp.
stjohn_piano_2: i made this current key my communications agent via this contract: http://edgecase.net/articles/contract_0
stjohn_piano_2: i have registered my communications public key with deedbot. my master public key (which is nearly 2 years old, timestamped in the Bitcoin blockchain) is http://edgecase.net/articles/public_key_identity_document_stjohn_piano
stjohn_piano_2: i've read a lot of the logs
stjohn_piano_2: my name is stjohn piano. i run edgecase.net, which offers several services that may be of interest to people here.
asciilifeform: i dun recall whether mp_en_viaje ever said anyffin re how it fell of his list. ( if above theory correct, mp_en_viaje could even nao have himself crowned king there etc )
asciilifeform: i.e. brit reservation fulla sheep fuckers
mp_en_viaje: i imagine the arabs. nfi tbh.
asciilifeform: i recall this
mp_en_viaje: do this experiment : walk up to kids gathered on college campus, ask "how man yof you would fight me if i raped this girl ?"
mp_en_viaje: absolutely never. i npoint of fact im not so sure about the 30.
mp_en_viaje: kinda how i explain this sort of behaviour. if you were a deeply unpopular, and irredeemably, unfixably unpopular tyranny, and all you had were two sets of reserves for your 30-man strong repressive police, wouldn't YOU go all out ?
asciilifeform: in usa, 'future of policing' is prolly http://btcbase.org/log/2015-03-26#1072977 ; in usg periphery like nz, i expect soon enuff they'll just drop 500kg bomb from air and write down 'today neutralized terrorist compound' etc ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'brilliant biznis model', i suppose. 'let's lift text and inject ads'
a111: Logged on 2019-05-15 06:38 mp_en_viaje: bitcoinrabbithole.org/writings/ok-so-what-is-bitcoin-disrupting/ imagine that shit, and then http://archive.is/IqhDe#selection-605.1-607.13 (fancy that wonder, i'm the #1 author, with 6 "works" to nic carter's 5.)
asciilifeform: i suspect mp_en_viaje's term settings but cannot immediately guess wtf
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-16#1913541 << btw i see a http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-30#1532187 . on what sorta box didja greek this in ☝︎☝︎
asciilifeform: related lul from last time i was there : http://www.loper-os.org/pub/umd_book_lulz.jpg
a111: Logged on 2019-05-15 16:35 asciilifeform: at one time i tried to find out who. apparently in world of printing (i.e. where 'colour calibrations' etc) it is monopoly, the presses for last decade or so demand adobism