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mircea_popescu: does a conference a week since 1995, hasn't yet explained the difference between things "not meant for practical use" and the rest. wtf is impractical use.
mircea_popescu: any program i ever cared about enough to bust open was meant for appreciation. such as fucking civ ffs.
mircea_popescu: anyway - same with music, because "it's not meant for use, but for appreciation". it's a fucking lasagna, what the fuck does this man actually believe ?
mircea_popescu: no ; then you don't yet know. the time to review is when you notice the walls.
mircea_popescu: if anything, free hardware is more important/useful/valuable than free software, because i've busted open way more programs than chips.
mircea_popescu: why not just you know, review thew priors. LIKE SANE FUCKING PEOPLE.
mircea_popescu: they always puzzled me, these inconsistent derps. jimbo wales thinks he's a "libertarian", and "objectivist". one that somehow thinks corporate spying is bad, but "the government should put as many cameras up as possible - they'd prevent crimes".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, you ever made any sense of the rms notion that "free hardware" is nothing like "free software" ?
mircea_popescu: ie, someone somewhere might have received a prototype.
mircea_popescu: im not atm persuaded they exist more than "bfl delivery" existed back in the bitbet bet days.
mircea_popescu: actually there might have been a coupla more publicly known of people with compromised keys
mircea_popescu: possibly, yeah. well, not pre-logs, but pre-what's public now i think.
mircea_popescu: hm, no, actually there was a derp that managed to exploit some timing issue early on.
mircea_popescu: and hate dun enter into it. derp's been making outright false, marginally false and otherwise tendentious statements since just about the day it became clear the oh-so-genius plan won't catch. i see no merit in it and reason to entertain them.
mircea_popescu: how exactly are you going to come to any sort of sensible conclusions on the basis of the random derpage of some dude who's principally known for random derpage ?
mircea_popescu: litte news reaches us from the distant fogs of mpex. but sure.
mircea_popescu: didn't seem particularly interesting. it's in public now, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: for the record : during the duration of that account, you deposited 20.02 btc, and withdrew : 670.37 btc. "your" btc is a misnomer at best.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you were banned from mpex subsequent your last doomed attempt to fuck up the bitbet process on davout's blog.
mircea_popescu: then in the unwarranted assumption that mp actually needs the piddly 1k btc held for bitbet, they tried to use whatever loose assemblage of assets to force mp to recant de facto. which idem backfired spectacularly when mp not only failed to recant as intended, but pissed with a large arch on the whole proposition, and cut out with hot irons anything that may even remotely resemble.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform look at the events. in the unwarranted assumption that mp will be impressed with a show of miner strength, they proceeded to mess with bitbet payments. this backfired spectacularly when mp was not only not impressed, but actually went public with it, live.
mircea_popescu: nah, that was early 2016 tech. it backfired something massive.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that was state of the art in 2015 tho, check teh dates.
mircea_popescu: take my advice boys and girls : have soup at least 4-5 times a week.
mircea_popescu: and in other news, damn soup is a wonderful invention.
mircea_popescu: the problem is they didn't have intelligent people at the top. this generally haunts.
mircea_popescu: that also ; though wikipedia does have a buggy, unspecified, half-baked wot implementation
mircea_popescu: basically, it worked as an unpaid effort to digitize books that's meanwhile run out of both books to digitize and wide-eyed excitable noobs to do the digitizing.
mircea_popescu: if you have the curiosity to check it out, the parts of any artiocle that you like are 5yo+ ; and stuff added the current year's never up to par.
mircea_popescu: and what's worse, the "wiki" style is proven not to work. even something originally as promising as tvtropes has over the years decayed into this unfunny collection of tiresome goop.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in the parts where it actually does something, what it does is collect derpy dribbles on irrelevant topics. yeah, it's the first place to have a discussion of the nth episode of the mth reboot of some tired us franchise.
mircea_popescu: the other thing is that wikipedia has ~no utility. in the parts that it outright copied actual encyclopedia is no better and no different from any random website out there that repackages other's content.
mircea_popescu: it'd be interesting as a wikipedia-conversion-to-sanity project, but it'd be predicated on the project ditching all the undesirables barnacled to it. and seeing that the whole thing is mostly barnacle by mass, i dun see it happening.
mircea_popescu: nah, i'm not paying so jimbo wales can continue meeting his personal bills.
mircea_popescu: if it makes you feel better, my parents were about your age when they were blessed with the wonder that is i.
mircea_popescu: so you've impregnated both the wife and the mistress and they're cooing in unison ?
mircea_popescu: wouldn't kibbutz incubation properly render as kibbutzation ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes anyone ever told you you've got housewife problems ?
mircea_popescu: Framedragger was mostly confirming your assumption. yes, if the motherfucker goes to indochina i want a nigger there hiding in a bowl of rice ready to suck its pubkey down.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, ben_vulpes has been making noises about things ; for one. maybe mike_c is bored, who knows. till you ask you don't know.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, you're pretty talented, or at least i liked your www output :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah. so are we looking for a wwwtronicist at this spot ?
mircea_popescu: Framedragger just make sure you add the ip to your comment.
mircea_popescu: that;s a call up to you as a putative eventual lord of teh republic neh ?
mircea_popescu: Framedragger many thousands read teh logs ; not everyone speaks, or directly. the republic shades a much larger area than meets teh eye. nothing wrong with that either.
mircea_popescu: honestly asciilifeform i'd much rather if phuctor held a table consisting of e,N,comment,pgp_crud1,pgp_crud2,etc. should be indexed by hash of first three fields. should not depend on the trailing fields existing
mircea_popescu: ah. and you were calling this later "convertor" ? whereas i was calling the former.
mircea_popescu: ok im well confused. so jurov : you have a thing that takes ssh keys, spits them out as e,N,comment lines in a csv. that right ?
mircea_popescu: 3) publish the results somewhere so alf can scarf them
mircea_popescu: 2) process the results on some sort of periodicity (daily ?) with jurov's soon to be published convertor