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jurov: punkman: here teh manul only says "the word "random", which specifies that the block should be filled with
a random bit pattern."
punkman bought
a bag of chinese usb flash sticks with write-protect switch for "one-time use" and such
shinohai: Make some tea, roll
a doob, go bang
a prostitute.
shinohai: Unless you specified
a different datadir
shinohai: What is hilarious ascii_field is *their whole lives are just shattered* because they cannot monitor their snowflakes from
a screen.
assbot: Logged on 17-08-2015 19:35:54; mircea_popescu: irl, settlement's
a paperwoirk affair and actual delivery is much disconsidered. as
a token of the fact that everyone involved would muchly want reality to match their representation to the degree of absolute identity. so they desconsider the later.
shinohai: Not like they can't or won't just make it legal/illegal on
a whim at the stroke of
a pen.
funkenstein_: well if we work for the benefit of archaeologists, might as well throw them
a bone once in
a while :)
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2014 21:36:01; asciilifeform: if you are reading this - it is almost certainly
a terrible use of your time.
kakobrekla:
a bunch of nogoodfornothings exploiting state.
kakobrekla: the thing is, the exploiter
a supposed victim of the 1990 yugo breaking up and in has been given 'priority processing' & 'priority lawyer support' from state for free. Exploitee is
a poor old woman with nothing.
kakobrekla: if
a burglar breaks in my home, he can stay until years later judge decides he really shouldn't.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 03:51:24; mircea_popescu: mats that's nice to have. i always puzzled over the incredibly poor security of mobile as
a design decision
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 04:13:30; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-09-2015#1263077 << continuing our series of "power rangers are retarded lol", today's installment : bitcoind's idea of "passwords" allows digita and lowercase characters. no symbols no uppercase. not only does this mean
a bitcoind pw is half the strength of
a normal pw, but (the actual likely purpose of this retardation) it makes it trivial to identify wallet pa
punkman: asciilifeform: I run noscript,
a lot of it works.
punkman: what is 'sane browser' ? << must render HTML+CSS, with pictures. I don't need webfonts/flash/silverlight/java/webgl.
A scripting language that doesn't suck would be nice, so I can perhaps write some userscripts for certain websites. Small amounts of signed javascript might be okay.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 04:33:59; gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: because there is
a lot of information that needs to be sucked out of the web, and having
a 'sharp' blade with which to do this will be quite valuable moving forwards.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 08:40:53; mircea_popescu: making
a SECURE browser would kick so much ass... and it is not actually THAT hard. not in the sense that it's not hard, but in the sense that we have an IMMENSE advantage over everyone else, from mozilla to who have you, in the "piss on the world and light it on fire" doctrine.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 06:49:05; mircea_popescu: nd him were worthy of being told about it. for all you know the notions of "progress and science" incumbent in the perspective you propose are so much masturbatory jizz, and in point of fact intelligent people share their thoughts exactly like
a comedian shares his routine : to friends, in
a social environment, for the same reasons in the same ways.
assbot: Logged on 26-11-2014 00:46:13; asciilifeform: have to understand, jet fighter is not really
a complete machine. it is
a tentacle of the larger industrial slave empire which produced and employed it.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 06:42:51; BingoBoingo: Especially relevant for gabriel_laddel: "Babbage, even with remarkably generous support for his time, could not produce his great arithmetical machine. His idea was sound enough, but construction and maintenance costs were then too heavy. Had
a Pharaoh been given detailed and explicit designs of an automobile, and had he understood them completely, it would have taxed the resources of his kingdom to hav
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 06:09:10; mircea_popescu: "angela", stop being
a derp, we need chinese speakers for better jobs than mashing hands on keyboards to produce email addresses.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 05:58:00; BingoBoingo: <trinque> I am trying to make
a point of BingoBoingo's lamentations << I grad school I was in serious discussions where we lamented fiber optic was not used for project film over hundreds of miles.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 05:56:14; pete_dushenski: google mostly creates 'services' for 'free', undermines field, then mothballs and leaves
a competitive void
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 05:53:08; mircea_popescu: you won't have
a leakless pipe, ever.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 05:29:01; punkman: trinque: the web still exists; gotta deal with that monstrosity somehow << need
a sane browser first, without JS. then we can start writing custom handlers for heathen websites that we are unable to view.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 04:33:11; pete_dushenski: though i have to say, asciilifeform, for
a starved man, you think mighty clearly.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 04:33:59; gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: because there is
a lot of information that needs to be sucked out of the web, and having
a 'sharp' blade with which to do this will be quite valuable moving forwards.
Naphex: but it's
a straight up 2s->5s delay for everything
Naphex: RTMP has
a lot of hardware support[switchers, video compositing, streaming tools, relays;etc] and most video producers just use that
Naphex: punkman: it doesn't but it's
a bussiness pick
mircea_popescu: maybe this is retarded, but, wouldn't you be better off adding
a slight delay, converting to something like gifv on the fly and relying on html5 ?
Naphex: chrome runs it okay, but its filled with goog data plugs; got to spend 40mins just to do
a "sane" config. Firefox somehow got stuck in 2010. And IE just gets stuck eats all memory and crashes with OOM
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 05:30:29; trinque: BingoBoingo: I would much rather download someone's signed lisp program and run that locally than have this horrible half-creature that grabs code from everywhere, tries to "sandbox" it, and runs without so much as
a gpg fart in the wind
mircea_popescu: making
a SECURE browser would kick so much ass... and it is not actually THAT hard. not in the sense that it's not hard, but in the sense that we have an IMMENSE advantage over everyone else, from mozilla to who have you, in the "piss on the world and light it on fire" doctrine.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 05:29:01; punkman: trinque: the web still exists; gotta deal with that monstrosity somehow << need
a sane browser first, without JS. then we can start writing custom handlers for heathen websites that we are unable to view.
BingoBoingo: Also actual computers,
a rarity: "With machines for advanced analysis no such situation existed; for there was and is no extensive market; the users of advanced methods of manipulating data are
a very small part of the population. There are, however, machines for solving differential equations—and functional and integral equations, for that matter. There are many special machines, such as the harmonic synthesizer which predicts
BingoBoingo: OLEDs how do they work? "Use chemically treated film in place of the glowing screen, allow the apparatus to transmit one picture only rather than
a succession, and
a rapid camera for dry photography results."
BingoBoingo: Laser printers etc. "Another process now in use is also slow, and more or less clumsy. For fifty years impregnated papers have been used which turn dark at every point where an electrical contact touches them, by reason of the chemical change thus produced in an iodine compound included in the paper. They have been used to make records, for
a pointer moving across them can leave
a trail behind. If the electrical potential on the p
BingoBoingo: ength. There is
a built-in photocell on the walnut such as we now have on at least one camera, which automatically adjusts exposure for
a wide range of illumination. There is film in the walnut for
a hundred exposures, and the spring for operating its shutter and shifting its film is wound once for all when the film clip is inserted. It produces its result in full color. It may well be stereoscopic, and record with two spaced glas
BingoBoingo: "Let us project this trend ahead to
a logical, if not inevitable, outcome. The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead
a lump
a little larger than
a walnut. It takes pictures 3 millimeters square, later to be projected or enlarged, which after all involves only
a factor of 10 beyond present practice. The lens is of universal focus, down to any distance accommodated by the unaided eye, simply because it is of short focal l
BingoBoingo: <punkman> I assumed "save-as" meant
a button already in my browser << Of all things Chromium on OpenBSd has this along with most other browsers
gabriel_laddel: Now, I don't *know* exactly what particular sexpr will 'click' for my program, so I'll write
a few versions, find something I like and then distribute it.
ben_vulpes: no stop i have to go do things to
a girl
mircea_popescu: flaubert is famous for having declaredly spent weeks trying to decide on
a temperature value in cote de chez swann
mircea_popescu: note that im not saying this is
a good idea. i'm entirely unconvinced at the moment. but still, fwiw, iwii.
gabriel_laddel: so, for example, the notion of references on
a CLIMweb running on
a WoTnet
mircea_popescu: the only way such
a thing will be published will be under
a tmsr license. for obvious reasons.
punkman: I assumed "save-as" meant
a button already in my browser
mircea_popescu: punkman generally you need
a decent video driver, something that does the equivalent of "print to file"
mircea_popescu: "this femlisp privileges useful work and meaningful abstractions over other verbiage that is
a lot more important to us"