asciilifeform: 5 Egyptian pounds, according to traders, far more than the official rate of 8.78.'
asciilifeform: 'Egypt’s central bank has closed 48 foreign exchange bureaus since the start of the year for trading at black market rates and other violations, banking sources said on Wednesday, as the country tries to end speculation against the Egyptian pound. Egypt has accelerated a crackdown against black market traders it blames for growing pressure to devalue the currency. The dollar is being sold on the black market for about 12.65 to 12.7
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asciilifeform: the well of idiocy is truly bottomless.
asciilifeform: 'It's annoying to deal with because the motor has to be loosened so that the belt can be removed so that one can get to the set ***on the pulley. If you have the same problem be forewarned that there is a small flat on the spindle shaft that the set***should be aligned with.'
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: it doesn't appear to
asciilifeform: lel for a second i almost expected ^ that to be the protonmail turd i threw in.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: do you know of a place where one can conveniently test, without putting in actual work, what pubkeys the thing eats ?
asciilifeform: and that anyone might bother targeting it specifically.
asciilifeform: initially i missed the www-based crapolade entirely, because it simply did not occur to me that any serious number of people were dumb enough to ~use~ such a thing
asciilifeform: recall, searching for pgptrons which accept malsigned or otherwise malformed pubkeys.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i was testing it as a potential eater of khadeer-style keys.
asciilifeform: as if browser-based crapola weren't bad enough
asciilifeform: 'trade power for the fetish of power' (tm) (r) (tlp).
asciilifeform: it ~exports~ user's pubkey, but does not - as far as i can tell - have a knob for ~importing pubkeys~, checking signatures of incoming messages, etc.
asciilifeform: ies. "Easy Money" flew in and positioned herself between the enemy and "Birth Control" while rescuing the downed crewmembers.'
asciilifeform: in other historic lulz, 'In May 1967, "Co$t of Living's" M24-A 20mm cannon vibrated loose causing the weapon to rotate upward and fire into the forward rotor system. The blades separated and the aircraft tumbled to the ground killing all eight crewmembers on board. Then in February 1968, "Birth Control" suffered the destiny of her sisters. "Birth Control" received some bad hits from a gun run and had to auto-rotate into dry rice padd
