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phf: haha,
that's pretty cool, reminds me of
transformers my parents brought me from amsterdam in
the early 90s
phf: you want
to be ready for when "i don't have a smartphone"
thing is in full swing in portland. you can be a full blown hipster avantguard
ben_vulpes: anyways cblgh logs are in channel
title, if you're going
to not wash out at least register a gpg key with deedbot
phf: unlike
the nokia
though
this
t139 sound quality doesn't suck, so i retract my previous statements!
a111: Logged on 2015-07-28 03:18 phf: asciilifeform: my point was
that feature phones are not particularly good at
their claimed purpose,
that buying an old nokia is a hemingwriter, and compared
to
them iphone has a good sound quality.
phf: i recently
threw out a perfectly working dual-sim nokia something or other, because i
thought i lost
the battery, but just yesterday i discovered
that i had whole
two batteries stored elsewhere.
ben_vulpes: i have developed an allergy
to bending myself
to fit my
tools over
the last four years; ios is one of
the last bits of sand in me gears
phf: "a face book? i do not poses a face book, i have many regular books
though!"
ben_vulpes: pretty
tragic
that one even has
the basis
to ask 'how bad is
the
t9', given how well it worked
two decades ago.
phf: ben_vulpes:
t9's not bad, it has an auto-updating dictionary which i only use for names, because it also amuses me
to write like i'm from a different planet.
ben_vulpes: you're happier hammering each numpad up
to
three
times for a single letter?
☟︎ ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: hey,
t9 implementations suck now
too. no auto-updating dictionary, statistic-based wordguessing...
phf: jesus what
the fuck is
this
ben_vulpes: probably
tastes great with a dash of "selectively run js load from google.com, facebook.com after everything else because
trackers are js dogs"
ben_vulpes: let's just continue with
the apple idiocy: "try
the new safari! fast, energy efficient, and with a beautiful new design."
phf: because
their maps are certainly shit for any kind of navigation
that's not by road.
phf: would make for a lovely
torrent dump
phf: one
thing i wrote
that i was really happy with is a very simple gps coordinates
to atlas grid mapper.
the
thing would basically draw a rectangle with atlas grid number, like p34 A7 and inside
the rectangle it'll draw a large red dot which roughly indicates where in
the quadrant you are. i was using it extensively on a
trip
through alaska, because
the
toy catches gps readily, but naturally can't catch internet connection. so it was a kind of navigation
phf: both
times i wrote anything on pythonista was when i was
traveling without a computer, and i do it semi-recreationally. with automatic indentation and completion it's not particularly painful, if
the goal is
to get some interesting computations going, rather
then you know "programming environment". it's more of a
turtle kind of exercise
phf: pythonista has been around for a while. it's literally
the only useful application for
the iphone
ben_vulpes: i guess
this is new as of
the lifted ban on interpreters and compilers?
phf: ben_vulpes: before i finally gave up my ios, i was using pythonista for almost everything, including
totp.
there's some python
totp implementation
that i lifted from somewhere,
that can be easily ported. i gave up writing a barcode recognizer,
though it's not a particularly daunting
task with numpy
ben_vulpes: or 'IT will want
to know how
to upgrade users devices without revoking every key and leaving accounts 'unsecured' during
the
TOTP rotation"
ben_vulpes: im astonished
this idiocy made it past
the enterprise sales people; 'IT will want
to know how
to back
these codes up'
ben_vulpes: here i was,
thinking
that a redhat product would have features like 'backup'
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: yr defectively steeped in security
theater
ben_vulpes: in other
top notch lolz,
the redhat "totp" ios "app" does not provide for backing up
the shared seeds.
ben_vulpes: the real fun is in asking "what word do you want me
to use instead?" and
then using it in such a way
that all
the partizans wince, knowing
that word means
The Bad
Thing now.
ben_vulpes: "humans can't be defective!" "well what do you call it when
they're missing a chromosome, eh?"
ben_vulpes: it's wildly entertaining watching people
thrash in
their own contradictions
ben_vulpes: not even use, but locked up
trying
to find
ben_vulpes: a few short seconds later
the same person practically pulled a 'halt and catch fire' when attempting
to use a word
that doesn't mean broken
to describe f. ex. chromosomal abnormalities
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're missing
the point. perhaps
the reason YOU didn't
think about it before is
that YOU are malicious ?
ben_vulpes: i had
to laugh last night; someone at
the
table wanted
to stake out
the position
that "people with downs syndrome aren't defective. you can't have defective humans!"
☟︎ phf: that is
to say,
that mp machine can really be anything, and it'll be used directly, rest of us will spend next year fucking around with dlls
phf: eh it's all irrelevant
to substance anyway, since bulk of computer activity amongst programmers is,
to badly quote logs from memory, getting everything ready
to meet girls by doing some misplacing activity somewhere where girls will never be
phf: i
think a proper cuntoo doesn't even need x11, bash scripts, lynx and framebuffer
to render images if need be
phf: mp is quite dangerous with
them bash scripts
BingoBoingo: In a bit under an hour, I visit la ciudad vieja for
the first
time and
there spanish
test
BingoBoingo: Outside of
tourist and mega business areas
the
trend seems
to polished interiors while letting exeteriors do as
they do.
BingoBoingo: On la avenida, such a building would have been kept its bones and been given a new facade because gotta sell vacation homes. 2 blocks away? What
tourist would go
there?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Ah,
there's a few of
them scattered around my Barrio, but few and usually at least dos quadras off la avenida 26 de de Marzo