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mircea_popescu: PeterL i dunno, but the parallels with 1935 england are striking.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i thought that thing was toxic.
PeterL: yesterday I was driving through Western Michigan, saw a house with a big Confederate flag in the front yard. was like WTF?
nubbins`: which means that i can get a goddamn /haze remover/ that's drain-safe :0
PeterL: I guess if you scale up any more you get RPG
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i kinda followed the whole thing; even bought - back when it was not clear what it was - the device (1st ed. 'raspberry')
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: broadcom. but also the apologists (many of whom, i gather, weren't even -paid- shills, but merely fools)
nubbins`: i'm researching some soy-based industrial cleaning products from a company called franmar
nubbins`: so, i'm sure we all know why debian is called debian
nubbins`: but yeah, 2nd sentence, "I learned some unstated rules about..."
nubbins`: yeah, i read the non-info of the press release bragging about open-sourcing the shim between the cpu and gpu
mircea_popescu: i am.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i wouldn't know either way, just saw a wikipedia page!! after googling
cazalla: i wonder if guy commentating as Jorge Stolfi is Jorge Stolfi
cazalla: i'm drinking some bundy, meant to drink last night but sidetracked with that orlov article and then zzz
Vexual: if you give a fuck i imagine it makes things real easy
Vexual: it was eating taipans, and i found them about the house missing the tasty parts, then it really dissappeared but remerged from under a junk pile with 3 new kittens
Vexual: well, i had this cat wot had 5v kittens
Vexual: why never anyone ups me until i am three sheets?
mircea_popescu: digging up to see which the fuck earl of somerset was pete talking about (i thought that's a duchy), it turns out there's two different 1st earls of somerset : John Beaufort (Gaunt's son, in 1300s) and Robert Carr, in the 1500s.
decimation: asciilifeform: now's the time to import euro strange I guess
mircea_popescu: i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a butcher. i don't revive dead cows, i just cut them apart.
cazalla: (and yes i know that this cannot be 100% trusted)
cazalla: mircea_popescu> archive.today thing works fine. <<< i have started to do this
mircea_popescu: i'm so curious if next mulatoo in chief actually finds a volcker v2.0
asciilifeform: now, i happen to have a large collection of hard (and soft) ware that i consider questionable. but it is kept around specifically for abusive experimentation rather than 'use' in the usual sense.
decimation: yeah I get your point
asciilifeform: folks ask me questions like this in meatspace and i end up explaining that no, i do not necessarily know of a specific sin for that specific part number
asciilifeform: decimation: can't say that i would
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2015#1044696 << this is sadly such sop, i doubt most derps even register there's anything wrong with it., ☝︎
asciilifeform: poor fella arrived just as i was thinking of attempting essay re: specificity-of-diddling
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've no idea who he is, but he fit my expected pattern for the inevitably next mr yetmoarspam far too well
mircea_popescu: i know people who try to write novels. another problem for which the solution can not exist.
asciilifeform: i seriously didn't imagine this being such a hard concept for folks to grasp
mircea_popescu: it's mostly a thirld world thing i gather.
decimation: possibly, I read it the other way
mircea_popescu: decimation i think you're doing it wrong. ~5mn made posts, of a total > 10bn profiles ?
danielpbarron: if it's dead it's because mods like the one i talked to "remove posts and comments all the time and every single day."
mircea_popescu: i thought it was pretty much dead, goiung the way of te yahoo briefcase or w/e
decimation: I came upon a google+ stat awhile ago in the logs: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2015#987609 ☝︎
danielpbarron: i barely use the thing and i have 1/5 the "views" of Ethereum's page
mircea_popescu: dead since... i dunno, 2013ish
danielpbarron: i was surprised too, decimation
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 21:27:52; asciilifeform: i might exaggerate slightly, but at any rate it won't be accomplished by a fella with a day job.
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 21:10:10; cazalla: the majority of movies are shit anyway so even if i had the time to watch them on the reg, they are not even worth pirating
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-03-2015#1044419 <<< fwiw, i watch films made in the past 20 years <1% of the time. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 21:00:46; danielpbarron: i'm probably in the *worst* place to be when this stuff goes down, although asciilifeform's locale doesn't sound very pleasant either
decimation: re: batteries < I've never heard of a non-Pb car battery http://corporate.interstatebatteries.com/msds/
trinque: what I'm gathering though is I have very little rational options beyond get rich, and do it now ☟︎
trinque: no no, I concede that
trinque: I'd probably have to learn romanian and read that part of trilema
trinque: mircea_popescu: I want the book on your life someday.
mircea_popescu: i thoughjt the discussion was "left alone"
mircea_popescu: i spent months going from town to town by bus.
mircea_popescu: recall, i actually spent months walking that place.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i just think you'd admire someone who'd want to completely gut the welfare state
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 20:41:27; asciilifeform: trinque: as i understand, this isn't ru circa 1917, the hypothetical rebels don't 'just want to be left alone' - not one in ten thousand is able to grow anything edible without regular deliveries of petrol, pesticides, etc.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-03-2015#1044342 << i think you grossly misunderstand it. yes, they'd love to be left alone, yes all of them could grow with no deliveries of anything. ☝︎
trinque: nobody I was talking about collects food stamps
asciilifeform: (looks like i misremembered re: fins)
asciilifeform: but i bring it up because of the 'low-tech small arms' thread
mircea_popescu: honestly i'd have stored .5 AP
mircea_popescu: i dun get it, honest.
asciilifeform: i'll add that virtually 100% of r&d investment by extant pharma firms is precisely this and only this
asciilifeform: every ups vendor i know of is shipping chinese cells
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't be so sure you'll get permits for new development in the us, eithert.
mircea_popescu: i don't think you may use pb anymore.
mircea_popescu: you know, i'd like to read a sf novel which explores a future where technology has re-arranged deep magma of earth into a humongo battery
cazalla: mircea_popescu, it's not that i'm interested in it (or would understand/appreciate the issue tbh) but it seemed obvious way to poke a hole in orlov's prediction, at least that it might occur in my lifetime anyway
cazalla: asciilifeform, i read orlov's post soviet lessons.. article last night and my impression is that some of what he predicts relies on suggestion we've passed peak oil, but then i have read elsewhere peak oil has been debunked or that we're not even close to passing it.. can you share thoughts? not much turns up in logs
airgapped: I will, danielpbarron already pointed out his notes
airgapped: I'm running it on latest rp but pogo looks like good alternative
airgapped: what i'm looking for is just a node, wallet is out of scope
mircea_popescu: an' i'm losing control...
mircea_popescu: janyary my foot! omg! I GOT BUGS! THEY'RE MULTYPLYYNG
airgapped: I have been loking for minimal node for some time but there is no good option it seems
asciilifeform: i'll pass.
asciilifeform: jurov: ...that supposedly leaks key material by any channel conceivable << i never suggested any specific channel.
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2015 21:52:21; asciilifeform: 'raspberry?' terrible, terrible i/o. ethernet on same usb as the storage. no thanks.
airgapped: no I have no illusion that secure processor exists
airgapped: yes they call it secure but I fully agree these are just micros with crypto accelertion
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 22:59:43; airgapped: pete_dushenski: working, I specialize in "secure" microcontrolers
asciilifeform: if somebody walks in and 'i drop screaming nuns out of helicopters for their insurance money' there'd better be a good story at least.
asciilifeform: to make long story short (i am quite uncertain that making it longer will improve the understanding of anyone who does not already grasp the above) -
asciilifeform: but let's reverse course and suppose that i'm buying a very specific crypto asic
asciilifeform: if i'm buying 'fpga', and he doesn't have the exact bitstream, he's more or less shit out of luck
asciilifeform: if i'm buying a general-purpose cpu, and he does not have a precise bitwise knowledge of what i intend to run on it, his options are rather limited
asciilifeform: his options depend on what i (think i am) buying
asciilifeform: for the benefit of n00bs, i will briefly elaborate ☟︎
danielpbarron: what if i'm caught traveling with my private key ascii armored and printed on a sheet of paper? do they even know well enough to ask for a passphrase?
pete_dushenski: 'you're going to join isis! i know it!'
jurov: but really, do they routinely rummage through photos and documents? and when i have virtualbox on desktop, will they ask me to fire all the vms, too?
pete_dushenski: i'm pretty sure traveling is incriminating
jurov: well... if i wasn't on this chan, i'd easily ended up carrying any to/from canada
pete_dushenski: i thought it was some white-list or something
pete_dushenski: http://qntra.net/2015/03/14-bidders-34-bids-in-latest-usms-bitcoin-auction/#comment-13004 << first i've heard of 'coin'
pete_dushenski: i'm under the impression, though hardly an expert, that there isn't.
airgapped: pete_dushenski: working, I specialize in "secure" microcontrolers ☟︎
jurov: <mircea_popescu> i don't recall why we didn't like the pi for this purpois << alf proclaimed it as depending on binary turd (that supposedly leaks key material by any channel conceivable), thus unworthy
mike_c: heh, i kind of like that better. "janyary"