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mircea_popescu: that's mostly what these things peddle :
a particular sort of theft.
mircea_popescu: that's exactly not it. the difference is that the former STOLE something.
a little bit of something, and something that wasn't well bolted down by
a legal process. 300 years ago you'd go to jail for pretending to be the mayor ; even today you can go to jail for pretending to be
a cop.
mircea_popescu: "And this worked really well for foursquare thanks to the mayorship. If I tell someone I’m the mayor of
a spot, I’m in an instant conversation: “What makes you the mayor?” “That’s lame, I’m there way more than you” “What do you get for being mayor?”. Compare that to talking about Gowalla: “I just swapped this sticker of
a bike for
a sticker of
a six pack of beer! What? Yes, I am still
a virgin”.
jurov: i'm not hellbound to having it. my idea was to accept anything, signed or not, make it available for
a week, and put older pastes behind
a paywall
mircea_popescu: the thing i fucking hate about dpaste is the dumbass "select data type" and that they think text is "plain text" and starts with
a p.\
ben_vulpes: (it's just
a fucking latrine that needs digging)
mircea_popescu: thinking about it : the one thing i like about dpaste in preference of uploading files is that i don't have to provide
a filename.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ~ in this context is an interesting thing :
a postprocessor directive meaning "take the string before the first comma and put it in here to reconstruct the correct title of this item". so that "Fanny Fucksticks, The Enchanted Travels Of ~" becomes "The Enchanted Travels Of Fanny Fucksticks".
mircea_popescu: this is really not
a bad motto for b-
a ; the funny thing for me is how varied the reaction of people is as they encounter it in practice.
ben_vulpes: all i want is
a prophylactic against crlfs.
ben_vulpes: try me, jurov. what's
a better direction?
ben_vulpes: "but it still led to
a $1.59 million increase in fees in one quarter" << how do you knoooow
mircea_popescu: if you have friends who need
a prepackaged version of
a $10 item you apparently need better friends.
ben_vulpes: not selling, really. more of
a toy for phriendz
mircea_popescu: in short, i wisened up to the fact that this particular thing is of the "go big or go home" variety and insistence on peculiar versions of small are
a waste of time.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that you're trying to sell webspace on
a below-shared server level and by the kilobyte like some sort of idiot. either get into the business by running an actual isp or else let people do the thing sanely on their own.
mircea_popescu: because why the fuck, 10 bucks
a month is too much for these people to get
a fucking blog up ?
mircea_popescu: still, you know, think about what this is. you're proposing to give people
a modicum of webspace in some narrow constraints.
mircea_popescu: this is fundamental and fundamentally important. if you wish to be
a person, you gotta maintain this level of control.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the dpaste : im not abstaining from helping or anything of the sort. there's been an idea, it's been trashing around in the b-
a uterus trying to come to conception. it doesn't seem that it actually works tho, seems more like an irrealisable chimera of disparate, irreconcilable parts.
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, i go out buy
a bag of dice. these idiots used blue and red for the paint on the faces. guess what numbers are red and what numbers are blue ?
mircea_popescu: but in fairness, this is just another facet of the monolithic usg-slavery-thoughtpattern. living in the states is good enoughy for me ; i don't really need
a blog and it's not THE central, defining thing of my current existence ; on it goes.
assbot: Logged on 25-12-2015 11:01:25; ben_vulpes: isn't that called
a webserver?
mircea_popescu: alternatively : everyone get
a fucking blog, and in that blog have
a uploads directoy, and that's fucking that.
mircea_popescu: might do it
a once
a year or some shit, but that's about it.
mircea_popescu: you can just deed
a notice, which you encrypt to everyone's key.
ben_vulpes: i did briefly consider letting people sub out
a disposable key
ben_vulpes: and having
a known set of users rules out
a whole class of misbehaviors.
punkman: ben_vulpes: perhaps issue something like "api key" to users, have
a shell script to pipe things to, that sends authenticated paste request
ben_vulpes: punkman, mircea_popescu, asciilifeform: destestable though they may be for injecting state into the stateless protocol, would
a single "signin" page with an assbot-style decryption of OTP that results in
a session key authenticating the user to the perlwad be an improvement, and are there better solutions i'm not considering? anonymous drive-by pasting is not
a better solution imho.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 25-12-2015 19:47:55; asciilifeform: there cannot be
a reasonable way to do an unreasonable thing.
thestringpuller: Meanwhile, I want to build
a sane computer, but I feel it's futile because Microshit and Apple ruined everything... :(
thestringpuller: Millions of people have been bamboozled into thinking that editing
a letter in real time requires
a supercomputer. << but how has the consumer been so easily bamboozled.
VariaVarietatis: asciilifeform: heard
a rumor they might close the drone base in turkey, think this is true?
mircea_popescu is partial to that fashion for girlies, perhaps on account of having grown up in
a sea of teenybopper knickers.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> maybe i'm just thick, but i can't think of what ben_vulpes's 'wotpaste' is actually for << not really his, i just idly asked why would we make
a special thing for paste when deedbot already has all that functionality and more. within the same ten minutes it came to light why and the matter went away afaic.
mircea_popescu: looky, the 1990 revolutions happened because hunger. this is
a fact.
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2014 00:46:28; mircea_popescu: so here is
a "witness" bitcoin, v 0.6 and there is your "improved" 0.10 (lulzy that it's not 1.0 anymoar)
mod6: Sorry that it's confusing and not super easy to follow, just hoping to make your cool historical timeline
a bit more accurate. Salud!
assbot: Logged on 25-12-2015 11:09:52; ben_vulpes: ah that's right you beat me to this one by
a long shot
assbot: Logged on 25-12-2015 09:15:18; ben_vulpes: the link you cite as mircea_popescu picking 0.5.3 is
a response to
a request for
a copy of the source of
a particular vintage
punkman: we'd have
a lot more bad signatures if it wasn't the case
ben_vulpes: ah that's right you beat me to this one by
a long shot
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 09:40:13; punkman: (exercise for students: clearsign
a piece of text. append as many trailing spaces/tabs/CRs as you like to the clearsigned text. check if it's still valid. repeat process with detached signature, see what happens)
jurov: heh, looks like
a bsnss opportunity for
a paid pastebin >:D
ben_vulpes: the link you cite as mircea_popescu picking 0.5.3 is
a response to
a request for
a copy of the source of
a particular vintage
☟︎ assbot: Every year this smug fat bastard breaks into people's home and stuffs himself with cookies. The worst part is no one says
a word about it. I blame fat acceptance. | fatpeoplehate ... (
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BingoBoingo: here near stl is is
a pleasant spring weather
assbot: Logged on 25-12-2015 01:30:11; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: let mircea_popescu know when you've reached the correct level of despair, he will issue you with
a pin with which to poke out eyes of guards
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 22:17:53; Azelphur: Haven't been active in here in
a while, howdy :)
ben_vulpes: how is it that place can get away without showing
a profit?
assbot: The myths of "the good life" and that work should be fun and happen in
a fun place only serve to enslave you to the progressive's hedonic treadmill ... (
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