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mircea_popescu: but yes, getting
a bunch of kids out there'd definitely help.
BingoBoingo: Ah, that's the Plus sized model who is
a dead ringer for Karpeles in the face
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you will note, re "lying", that in my extensive experience 90% of beatings that ever get administered do get administered to
a crying, repentful slave that does not believe she was lying.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is
a longstanding bit of C"S" idiocy. somehow the idea of
a "painless" subsystem is "
a subsystem that lies about being in pain". if organs worked like that we'd be all dead.
mircea_popescu: but yes - i would have loved to be
a bff of gpg. instead we're just best enemies.
BingoBoingo:
A subkey for every device that might be captured it advocated
kakobrekla: didnt
a few ba folks write gpg tutorials including subkey handling not 2 years ago
assbot: Logged on 24-09-2015 06:18:08; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: one example of something which Must Die is 'subkeys' << absolutely. i have no fucking idea what chickenbrain thought that's
a thing. "o hey, you know what this chevy is made out of ? chevys! because they didn;'t get me that lego set when i was nine and now im fucked in the head."
assbot: Logged on 04-01-2016 23:18:07; phf: with some effort and towards certain purpose you could host aspects of b-
a on top of say
a private facebook group (see recent stenography thread), but the illusion that something like b-
a already exists there is what gives facebook pretense to relevance.
phf: with some effort and towards certain purpose you could host aspects of b-
a on top of say
a private facebook group (see recent stenography thread), but the illusion that something like b-
a already exists there is what gives facebook pretense to relevance.
☟︎ phf: b-
a on the other hand relies on the fact that we control the subtrate, and can defend it sufficiently. the log, blogs and services are hosted on own machines, developed to own requirements to reflect an evolving set of ideas of how this place is supposed to run.
trinque: I was contrasting with #b-
a, but yes
trinque: facebook spews "everyone should have
a voice"
shinohai: I though it was
a terrorist recruitment centre. That's why I came here :/
davout: and #b-
a is all about propaganda, not advertising, so: not social media
trinque: Tomiii: social media is
a matter of contriving
a reason for people to "interact" on
a given site for the sole purpose of feeding them advertising.
Tomiii: Cool, so adding those 3 things to
a chatroom, transforms it "not social media. Not IRC."? :)
pete_dushenski: "Self absorbed by
a culture that no longer exist in the civilised
thestringpuller: Which is ironic since all of Facebook's investor meetings are focused on some weird vision that Facebook will become the "center of the internet".
A vision where you log into Facebook and you consume all internet content from there.
thestringpuller: Except now older people use it reverting everyone to
a teenage angstified mentality.
thestringpuller: pretty sure pankakke bailed on #b-
a cause of systemd shit-talking
thestringpuller: Also didn't get to go to microcenter to get
a new hard drive for big 'ol blockchain, these tards want to make even bigger.
thestringpuller: sinus season. also not used to being at
a desk for 8 hours again.
BingoBoingo: For some reason they started generating
a lot of noise this weekend. Bunch of derps yelling BUY and such.
mircea_popescu: in
a country where human herd stampedes regularly kills hundreds, any death reports with finer granularity are irrelevant anyway.
copypaste: neither have i - but i read
a news report where they killed
a muslim because he ate beef
copypaste:
a cow to lick his dick and another cow to marry
mircea_popescu: yes, or perhaps i wanted
a cow mounted on my kitchen wall to give me milk.
copypaste: sure, but perhaps you wanted
a screen to give it input
copypaste: and "nobody" does do it because apple both makes it difficult and it makes no economic sense, an iphone is essentially
a rasberry pi with
a screen and so on - small computers have their uses
ascii_butugychag: i have netbsd running on, what,
a dead squirrel in
a cardboard box maybe, somewhere.
mircea_popescu: i'm unfamiliar with any jurisdiction where i'd give
a shit.
copypaste: mircea_popescu: to use an iphone as
a GPC, you first have to jailbreak it; which requires reverse engineering, which requires breaking the USG DMCA anti-circumvention law
mircea_popescu: so how is it illegal to use your iphone as
a fucking doorstop if that's what you want.
mircea_popescu: using the box as
a general purpose computer is illegal << what ?
copypaste: apple also ships boxes where the batteries cannot be removed and where in less free countries using the box as
a general purpose computer is illegal
ascii_butugychag: meanwhile... 'Spurious check failures happen for machines without ECC memory. Of our test systems, all machines with Intel CPUs as well as some AMD low-end systems lack ECC. This is
a result of that AMD supports ECC generally while Intel only supports ECC for Xeon CPUs relying on more expensive motherboards. But the GMP project is struggling to afford even the cheapest hardware.'
mircea_popescu: guy had to do
a travesti because that's what
a comedy was at the time. the situation of true romance is very similar : compare tarantino's own cut with the bullshit the studio released.
copypaste: also, mircea_popescu, if i may ask you what you think of the end of the Merchant of Venice, in this article
http://trilema.com/the-most-serene-republic-and-its-laws you quote
a good portion of it, but skip the end of the proceedings where the out of town lawyer is invited in and (nonsensically, in
a deus ex machina way, in my opinion) determines that blood is not part of one's flesh and therefore the
copypaste: if the best fiat can buy is such
a poor understanding of bitcoin, we really have nothing to worry about
mircea_popescu: there seems to be
a pervasive meta-conviction that so and so, but i have never yet encountered the thing it purports as
a practical matter. as best i can determine it's just another fashion, self-induced. people have read "on the internet" that the government hid elvis in hoffa's urinary tract and so now "everyone thinks so".
ascii_butugychag: actually latest one has
a big eye with arms, legs, holding magnifying glass
ascii_butugychag drives past 'see sumthing say sumthing' billboard every day. usually it has
a very cute, furry demon pictured
mircea_popescu: and honestly, i blame you dumb fucks. that dumbass lived her entire life without anyone ever telling her what her place in the world is, i'm ready to bet. it's
a shameful fucking situation.
mircea_popescu: these two work together to produce
a very unhappy populace even in the ideal case socialism.
mircea_popescu: item ii : for very good evolutionary reasons,
a geometric increase in stimulus is required for
a mere linear increase in sensation.
mircea_popescu: for as long as you're committed to not beating the woman, the necessary result is
a vicious circle of ever more annoying, lazy bitches.
mircea_popescu: the point, mind you, isn't even
a "z80" planet. and yes i think that extremely unlikely.
mircea_popescu: this thing we're discussing here is such
a hard limit.
mircea_popescu: but yes : the policy of socialist government is to keep rolling up its failures. until it hits
a hard limit.
mircea_popescu: it means
a lot more than that. this fork will come stab them in the eye again and again AND AGAIN.
mircea_popescu: that culture depends on, and knows it depends on,
a specific sort of infalted delivery of hardware.
mircea_popescu: the point however is not this. the point is that... hm, how should it put it so it clicks. looky here : usgavin and his merry cattle troop were not ranting about moore's law for no cause, early on. they represent not some people, not some institutions, but some beliefs and
a way of life.
a culture.
mircea_popescu: but anyway : if it gets so bad that no further chips can in fact be manufactured at some point, then yes over time existing hw will become unusable. maybe
a few decades tops.
mircea_popescu: yes, but this doesn't matter : on
a planet with z80s you can mine with z80s, and on
a planet with asics the asics that mine STILL have to mine.
mircea_popescu: so there's
a major differential, which colors the discussion.
mircea_popescu: and as such,
a subclass of "so just stop using the damned colored unicode bs". not gonna happen.
mircea_popescu: as
a result it ends up embarassed by charlotte manning or w/e that was.
mircea_popescu: if she had to repay all her debts (and forget the financial angle - if she had to do all the work to count as educated at the level of education she perceives herself to occupy, manifest inability to think or even spell be damned) she'd simply figure "life is not worht living" and lie in
a ditch to die.
mircea_popescu: you see... it's not
a problem that there won't be infrastructure available. it'll just "not be worth using". what, it can't even unicode in colors ?
mircea_popescu: it's the essential item of "what's worth". do you recall the kid that got
a truck for his birthday ?