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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: thimbronion is in line for a rockchip. First contact was as gernika where he killed his GPG key by signing "I agree"
asciilifeform: ( hence why asciilifeform set to work to build a 15 unit 2nd rk plant )
mp_en_viaje: exact same for a putative bitcoin foundation, together with a "count of donated bitcoins from the wider community"
asciilifeform: the rk was the 1 product where demand outstripped supply consistently.
mp_en_viaje: for as long as that's 0, meh. no working sales funnel over at pizarro.
mp_en_viaje: my (admittedly distant) metric is "count of canditates to lordship who made contact through pizarro contract"
asciilifeform: which was being built ( on asciilifeform's desk , needs still the ssds ) but now nowhere for it to live.
asciilifeform: and having ~what~ to sell
mp_en_viaje: sales is ~the whole thing.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, i don't know why you keep saying that. sales is neither an optional nor a coinditional part of business.
asciilifeform: can't sell boxen that aint there.
asciilifeform: again what sales process, when naught to sell.
mp_en_viaje: and then the pipe went sour.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: dun fughet where bv ended up delivering a crate for the cost of 3
mp_en_viaje: then took about a year for you folk to unconvincingly maneuver in the general direction of maybe any day now imminently starting a sales process
mp_en_viaje: anyways, there were then protracted derpings with the transfer, took like 6 months for you folk to (maybe ?) disentangle screamingly idiotic business practices including large encrypted scratch files etc.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: it was 50/50 tbf / asciilifeform .
mp_en_viaje: mod6 + benvulpes bought it iirc, and they did ~same for a while, then eventually you reorganized it as a venture that's specifically not to include my say lest i wreck it, which incidentally i've respected to date, notwithstandin gall sorts of incidental ineptitudes baked in all through.
asciilifeform: mod6 (at first as an act of tbf, but then bought back personally) + asciilifeform , bought, 50/50
mp_en_viaje: a brief history of pizarro would be, that after a lot of me haranguing over how the republic will cease without isp, BingoBoingo volunteered to go somewhere. the whole affair was very open handed, with him given a budget and a task. he picked uy, went there, failed to do a number of specific things, which resulted in me pulling the plug and selling the thing off 10cents to the dollar or somesuch.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: recall how asciilifeform ended up with the job to start with ?
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i haven't the capital to take it out, or a where-to.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, are you implying that you were forbidden from deciding to take it out or what is it ?
mp_en_viaje: imagine, you've been at this for years, some rando moldavian looks pretty good by offering what you were supposed to offer, on your own turf. is this only ridoinculous to my eye /!
asciilifeform: it takes a year to get handful of boxes built and carried in. because in uy. (where, again will remind, asciilifeform had no part in putting it)
mp_en_viaje: it didn't get past the starting, by specifically avoiding any sort of sales. in three instantiations.
mp_en_viaje: pizarro failed to sell, and failed to get localized in the one location it decided to care about.
asciilifeform: right but elementarily did not have the capital or the manpower to start with other than 1 rack and handful of irons.
mp_en_viaje: it evidently did no such thing. IT did no such thing. this has no bearing on "how boxes are diddled" etcetera.
mp_en_viaje: none of this is contentions, or that relevant. yes, if pizarro had 5k customers paying it 50k/mo it could've conceivably had the 25 boxes in 25 dcs.
mp_en_viaje: you said something that doesn't read but nevertheless implies "oh, this multi-dc thing is what i proposed and you rejected in 2017". then upon review it comes out i never rejected. then you link somewhere else where we discuss how, if pizarro ever manages to get any business, it can grow.
mp_en_viaje: nope. the only possible take is that ineptitude doesn't fix itself, either you fix it or it stays.
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-06 17:22:43 asciilifeform: in fuckholistans, the boxen will be electrically molested ; in 'civilized' -- physically.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: my current take, is that any adventure in republican isp, regardless where located , is a walk between scylla and charybdis .
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, did i miss something in there ? seems to me that "this alternative is unrelated to a proposal by asciilifeform back in 2017 when he couldn't get anyone to usefully answer from ru or india" would be a much closer summary.
mp_en_viaje: it'd have been much better if resident in small orcistan ended up with strong local presence to the point of running in local elections etc.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: this. and ftr i still think it would have been mistake. just a different mistake.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: oddly enuff, this scheme is ~exactly asciilifeform's orig. alternative when objected in '17 to mp_en_viaje's 'we need whole isp, with whole cage'
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, yes, he flies. airfare in yurp is in the 50euro range.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/ossasepia/2019-09-27#1004197 << i am with you here, there doesn't seem to be a problem ?
mp_en_viaje: anyway, one possible continuation is to install resident in say budapest, have him colo boxes in each dc from portugal to moldavia, implement an upgraded version of point 2 above.
mp_en_viaje: as it turns out, it's a hollow spec, entirely holy water dousing. the orcs are just as pantsuit as the zeks, they're just too stupid to express it in specific forms, but otherwise will pantsuit reliably anyways.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i know you don't liek to read castles, but this thread b/w asciilifeform and diana_coman's heathen isp man is pertinent.
mp_en_viaje: and to continue that list : the "not nato" line in the original spec defo not asset. we ate the cost of orcistan, but gained (through whoever's fault, leaving this aside) no upside from orcistan. we have no priviledged connection past what somone off the street yesterday would have, but we do have massive headache with eg supplies.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: the more 'exotic' iron is the fact that all of the iron lives in a cabinet operated by BingoBoingo , and not touched by unknown apes.
asciilifeform: i think moar than 40
mp_en_viaje: seems fg was asset. exotic iron was never asset, arguably promised to be, but never made it.
mp_en_viaje: i asked from the pov of pizarro ; what % of its business is related to fg deployment. i guessed a bout 40%, could be wrong, maybe it's only 20%, w/e.
mp_en_viaje: ah, from that side. what's the relevancy here ?
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: we made 2 parties of 100 , net 200 . 1st party sold immediately to dpb. 2nd sold to a variety of people, leaving the 36 that went to piz and a half dozen emergency spares kept in asciilifeform's desk.
mp_en_viaje: at the very least both smg servers need it, which is what, 2 out of 5 colo'd machines, with the rk making up another 1/3 of pizarro business ?
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: shall i post'em ? i dun think was ever fully laid in public
mp_en_viaje is not exact on numbers, having followed this only on the "when brought to trilema" level of detail.
mp_en_viaje: never managed to be much sold, but yes, it generated perhaps as much as 40% of the business
asciilifeform: and yes, republicans are there because republic. if republic wants isp, will have to devise how, out of what.
mp_en_viaje: that part is true, fg ver ymuch is asset.
asciilifeform: likewise , mp_en_viaje's smg specifically landed there because wanted FG colo'd (in fact before asciilifeform had anyffin to do with the proj)
asciilifeform: the rk people are specifically there because they do not want 'rando vps'.
mp_en_viaje: this makes it a liability for the business.
mp_en_viaje: on the green side, you have 0 business you can point out to as acquired because specific iron configuration, in preference of random "vps" ; on the red side, you have plenty of loss you can point to as lot because same iron arrangement.
mp_en_viaje: yes, but looky : for this to be a business rather than a dream, it has to be construed, and managed, as a business.
asciilifeform: what to sell if iron is packed ?
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: there wasn't what to sell !
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, i don't believe the iron buildout was actually an asset for pizarro, business wise.
mp_en_viaje: BingoBoingo, it beggars belief that after two years on the ground, your relationship to the derpy orc dc consists of form letters and usual arby's runaround.
BingoBoingo suspects we need a species of cosmonaut better than BingoBoingo to have a working Pizarro.
mp_en_viaje: hey, as long as we're doing wants i have a list right here. shall i go through it ?
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, supposedly because you have good automated fallbacks people can't be bothered to write themselves. sorta early handcranked UCI.
mp_en_viaje: if pizarro is here rather than not, what's lost ?
mp_en_viaje: over all these possibilities, your entrenched, utter inability to actually produce business sits as a complete smog cover. i had been harping about how you have a limited time to life and either you use it to live or die for years because o fexactly this reason : now when the push comes to shove, who exactly is the lifeblood we're talking about ?
asciilifeform: dafuq would be the point of (2) ? that aint a locking cage, colo'd FG, etc. who the fuck needs intermediary for this, anyone can get rando heathen isp right nao.
mp_en_viaje: there'd be also a theoretical 3, where you move to different dc because this one specifically wasn't good ; but considering you didn't discover on own feet the not-goodness, but had to wait for events, thisis purely a theoretical alternative.
mp_en_viaje: 2. you folk move on to simply hiring space from 500+ random internet isps, and snowshoe your load around. this requires a lot more technical acumen than i've seen so far, seeing how you've not as much as managed to implement in practice bash scripts given on trilema for mass-interneting, the level of avg 12yo script kiddie.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-06 12:59:23 BingoBoingo: the proposed sane solution
mp_en_viaje: ), but instead you use 2week term to produce oscar that'd rather cut own throat than inconvenience you.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-06#1940834 << in practice, there's the following practical solutions : 1. you folk move on to an ipx. this requires exactly the skillset you don't have, wherein you don't sit on ass 2y talking to an "oscar" who couldn't give shit about you (after however long failing to produce any modicum of insertion that led to the original blowup / massive investor haircut pizarro came out of
asciilifeform: i dun come up with these from thin air..
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-06 12:41:52 asciilifeform: btw my suspect list re ddos includes latech itself. possibly ploy to upsell on pipe.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-06#1940824 << the part where the bs started the day after "hey, what's with your shit bw" inquiries certainly points a hand/.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i dunthink enemy gives rat's arse re loggers. objective was to take out piz.
mp_en_viaje: it's funny how this shit works, we had single logger for years, then when there's finally redundancy, bang.
BingoBoingo has an asshole so sore in the metaphorical sense that he's contemplating a donut pillow
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: 'all's fair in war', i enlisted for this headache, no one forced.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: throbbing, genuine physical headache
BingoBoingo: Well, from the progre horde's perspective things may look more like Mao's "Problems in China are big, but they become very small when you divide by the chinese people]
mp_en_viaje: hows the headache alfie
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-05 12:39:49 asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-10-05#1940637 << this is reasonable but will point out that we dun have a spare uruguay , a spare BingoBoingo , or budget to start from 0 with a new cosmonaut.
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-05 16:52:01 mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-05#1940666 << this is sad, but unrelated. you drop the hand when you establish it can't win, not when you decide you "can afford to lose" your imaginary share of the value of the pot.
asciilifeform: i dun even disagree with mp_en_viaje's drop if you can't win -- but the flip side is that must NOT surrender if still could.
asciilifeform: see, BingoBoingo , if we had pipe from antel, perhaps could buy additional capacity on temporary basis as ddosism ebbs and flows. like adults.
BingoBoingo: It is appearing that is the case. It seems Latecho is creating our pipe by using a router that splits our bandwith from a bigger Antel pipe coming into Latecho. Rather than having acquired a line for the purpose of serving us, it appears from this crisis and their reaction that they simply contracted more bandwidth to a pipe they already had.
asciilifeform: ( readers may recall that asciilifeform did not put BingoBoingo in montevideo, or the rack on latech )
asciilifeform: ( granted this setup was complete ~before~ asciilifeform picked up this grenade. but at the same time it was still a waiting bomb. )
asciilifeform: currently it seems to asciilifeform that we did a shoddy job in setting up the orig arrangement. and lived with it as long as did because 'appeared to work', just like we lived with phf's logger
asciilifeform: if were 'expensive' ddos , so as to saturate whole fucking oceanic pipe, would not have , elementarily.
asciilifeform: cuz , as mp_en_viaje observed, it's a 'cheap' ddos, given that BingoBoingo is still able to use net from his flat in the same town
asciilifeform: then will actually fulfill mp's orig spec of 'own fucking line, with no one to say 'we pulled you to protect our other derps' )
asciilifeform: then to hang directly off antel may be the ticket.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It seems the blackholing happens at the Antel level by request of Latecho
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: were you able to determine whether the blackholing is perpetrated by latech or antel ?