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ascii_field: whereas nobody serious gives
a fuck re: disks
ascii_field: tickets to Punk Rock Holiday 2015. (Merlak is keen on punk rock and has played in
a band.)'
ascii_field: 'In addition, to prevent future capital losses of this kind, we have contracted with
a vendor to provide “multi-sig” technology to better protect our hot wallet (this particular transfer could not have happened today) and hired
a skilled technology company, Xapo, to assist in managing our cold wallet.'
ascii_field: i'm gonna guess the entire link between anywhere i can go without taking
a plane, and mircea_popescu's box, is burpy on account of packets hitting tape before they get to me
decimation: I have experienced buffer bloat issues using
a centos router
decimation: if you are using
a standard linux distro, it's well known that older kernels had buffer bloat/tcp tuning issues
ascii_field: i suspect we have come to
a 'chinese' point
ascii_field: (on the former, no way to flip
a bit - physically - at all; on the latter - need high current and moderately high voltage)
decimation: I do give
a shit if none of the pogos have
a coherent record of the blocks
decimation: yeah, but I don't give
a shit if
a pogo's code bit flips, probably will crash
ascii_field: decimation: i'm pretty certain that i experienced
a bitflip last night
mircea_popescu: anyway, it is interesting to point out that the first 2 gb blockindes fit
a whopping 188k blocks
decimation: mircea_popescu: but seemingly everyone is
a "crypto enthusiast" today.
decimation: mircea_popescu: bottom line, satoshi stores
a binary blob of the blockchain AND also the bdb database
decimation: ascii_field: shit, you are right, the amazon s2d is just
a pretty TLS wrapper around the openssl crypto turd
ascii_field wonders if it was transmitting into
a philippino buffer
mircea_popescu: nah, they had the "unsustainable" crapola on the back burner for
a coupla years, as they were hoping they may actually elbow themselves into relevancy all through 2013-14
punkman: "We have always been able, on the authority of the home secretary, to sign
a warrant and intercept
a phone call,
a mobile phone call or other media communications, but the question we must ask ourselves is whether, as technology develops, we are content to leave
a safe space"
ascii_field: i'm sitting on
a different, industrial isp, 100km away from home
mircea_popescu: which hate has apparently saved
a bit of internet comedy from extinction.
mircea_popescu: ok so last time there was
a bona fide index/db problem, which made it be slow and painful.
mircea_popescu: i've last used windows xp
a decade ago to play might and magic.
mats: another goxxing is just
a matter of time at this point
mircea_popescu: "i got
a new girlfriend - she came with
a built in boyfriend!"
pete_dushenski: "why have
a symphony when you can have
a one-man-band !"
mircea_popescu: "oh you know, if your head needs to take
a walk - now it can!"
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 15:35:54; assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 02:32:10; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, et al: in case this was not clear, it is now possible for the first time to carry out FULLY DETERMINISTIC tests of therealbitcoin (memory consumption, etc) by denying
a node
a net connection and syncing from disk using 'eatblock'.
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 15:28:43; mats: "One of these, UPE_application_form.doc, contained obfuscated malicious VBA script. When opened, this script ran automatically and pulled down
a malicious file from IP address 185.31.209.145, thereby compromising [Kodric's] machine."
mircea_popescu: i wasn't born
a bug and how the fuck did i end up here ?!
mircea_popescu: i'll tell you im getting plenty sick of this entire "everything around is
a bug's nest"
Jautenim: worth noting that I used
a subkey
mircea_popescu: fucktards already. i'll use uber just after i go to work for
a transvestite brothel in bang gook.
mircea_popescu: "we want
a db of everyone's travels, what is this bs where people can get
a cab in peace"
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 15:57:34; pete_dushenski: "Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) said on Tuesday it would buy OpenDNS,
a privately held cloud-based security company, for $635 million in cash and equity awards to beef up its security business." << might as well consolidate the crown corps, save on letterhead.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the proposition that greece is
a democracy is beyond laughable, and in general he takes
a completely nonsequitur turn straight into nonsense midway.
mircea_popescu: "These aren't words that an American or
a European politician can utter in public, and perhaps not even whisper to their significant other while lying in bed, because the American eavesdroppers might overhear them, and then the politician in question would get the Dominique Strauss-Kahn treatment"
mircea_popescu: “Just because I get
a judgement, it’s
a piece of paper—I can try to put
a lien on his house, take his car, but he has various homestead exemptions,” he added, citing
a law in Kentucky and elsewhere that exists to protect homeowners with deceased spouses who owe money to creditors.
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 05:34:04; decimation: which defeats the point of asking individuals to make
a decision for the group
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 04:41:25; asciilifeform: hard to picture
a sorrier bunch of bitter schmucks, eagerly taking it up the arse from history's biggest and most obscene communist mega-empire (usg) to spite their little piss-ant one
mircea_popescu: now, it existed as
a cleaner, more useful thing before being coopted for this purpose, of course. much like anything else that's now being used to make large population densities possible was
a lot nicer before being shat on
mircea_popescu: anyway, the broadly fraudulent proposition that "you can make yourself better through X Y Z" be they hard work or prayer or anything else fundamentally exists as
a direly needed social control mechanism. because the social cost of the ambitiously ungifted is plainly immense, societies have universally and often independently constructed this method to deal with the afflicted.
mircea_popescu: but they also don't have
a retroactive abortion mechanism (not that they aren't trying, look at any ghetto ever).
mircea_popescu: all the avatars of orphaned boyhood, kids who grow up without
a father have no idea what games to play are there.
mircea_popescu: some of the anal children will instead make
a "different" version of yachthing, which will consist of, for instance, birling.
mircea_popescu: some of the healty, sane boys will put
a lot of work into it, and get good enough to compete with us.
mircea_popescu: we introduce to these people the practice and contest of yachting. this is hard work, in that you have to make
a yacht, and then sail it.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181511 << there's
a fascination with precarity i suspect the culprit here. to illustrate hwat i mean, suppose we take the island of hawaii cca 1815. at this point, the indigent savages are going about naked doing their indigent savagery, which does not much include murdering each other, and pointedly no writing or so on.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 30-06-2015 02:32:10; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, et al: in case this was not clear, it is now possible for the first time to carry out FULLY DETERMINISTIC tests of therealbitcoin (memory consumption, etc) by denying
a node
a net connection and syncing from disk using 'eatblock'.
☟︎ mats: gonna wait for BingoBoingo to wake up and get to it if you don't mind, i don't have
a blog
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181418 << it's very funny to me, this. idiots are carefully averting other idiots' eyes from important shit. which is altogether
a good thing, last fucking thing anyone wants is
a deluge of "well meaning" idiots and other "enthusiasts". at least if the anyone in question stops and thinks about it for five minutes.
☝︎ mats: "One of these, UPE_application_form.doc, contained obfuscated malicious VBA script. When opened, this script ran automatically and pulled down
a malicious file from IP address 185.31.209.145, thereby compromising [Kodric's] machine."
☟︎ decimation: intel's icc just puts in
a useless extra check
mats: BingoBoingo: ^ may be good for
a scoop? not sure how new this information is
mircea_popescu: decimation maybe im slow, but what about it ?
a push
a pop two moves an imul
decimation: yeah, well except would you rather
a 'link shortner' to the same?
mircea_popescu: "*BUT*: updating the C library is no trivial task and it is very easy to damage one's system. Therefore, persons who do not exactly know what to do, should consider using
a binary distribution instead, when it becomes available."
assbot: Logged on 29-06-2015 20:38:44; ascii_field: 'Stallman recently tried what I would call
a hostile takeover of the glibc development. He tried to conspire behind my back and persuade the other main developers to take control so that in the end he is in control and can dictate whatever pleases him. This attempt failed but he kept on pressuring people everywhere and it got really ugly. In the end I agreed to the creation of
a so-called "steering c
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re teh seed : ima hopefully have it either working or
a better idea of wtf is the problem in ~3-4 hoursd.
jurov: incredible, these lennards contortions "but we are not vendor, systemd is not
a product"
jurov: "No. We don't add configuration options for
a thousand different things. This is really not something I want to see in systemd upstream."
cazalla: BingoBoingo, ya got
a veg garden going with tomatoes or anything this summer?
cazalla: and if memory serves, i think this is the 2nd or 3rd time you've mentioned the movie so is it
a personal fav?
cazalla: ya really got
a thing for those black chicks eh :P
BingoBoingo: HeySteve: It takes
a fuckton of calories of oil to stamp
a plastic card indeed
HeySteve: Krugman moaned about the energy costs too, not sure who came up with this nonsense originally but that was at least
a year ago
HeySteve: I wonder how much energy it takes to produce
a credit card
shinohai: That is what I was thinking, since you can connect only to
a specific server
BingoBoingo this fall wants to be able to run
a Foundation bitcoin release powering an electrum server with 200-500 connections.
shinohai: Lol I probably would have gave up on that project for
a while if you hadn't mentioned it.
shinohai: ;;later tell mod6 Plox pm me when you have
a spare 3 minutes, gracias.
ben_vulpes: 'tis
a messy business. men lose hands, minds and lives.