170600+ entries in 2.84s
ascii_field: to the point that it was
a given that
a tv set would have
a 'stabilizator' underneath, buzzing steadily
mircea_popescu: i saw ONE power outage in
a year, which was most likely the building bus being old.
mircea_popescu:
a village's worth of african children could have gone through prostitution school for that dough.
mircea_popescu: everybody warned me when i came here, "o may gawd power outages". i ended up overprovisioning power by such
a wide berth it's ridiculous.
ben_vulpes: what I *really* want, though, is not even
a desk but 2 six-axis arms that keep my keyboard and monitors in the appropriate ergonomic relationship.
ben_vulpes: there's
a van with
a setup akin to that first link in Snow Crash of which i was always enamore.d
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: it's
a bit more complex than that. fontsize is nearly irrelevant, as i parse visually first by the structure of the code and then by wordshape. mispellings are rare, due to backround jobs that compile/evaluate text buffers on save and linters that have rules about symbol definition.
ben_vulpes: "wheels have had
a shaky beginning - several have fallen over when their rotational inertia dropped below critical stability thresholds or ran into other unforseen obstacles."
ascii_field: mats: ... similar gig as you, i imagine: working for 'the man' in compartmentalized ops, churning out weaponized exploits and such. << believe or not, i was never in this business. not even from ethical considerations, but starting with the fact that it is
a -terrifyingly- dreary kind of work, carried out largely with brute force 'fuzzing' by gigantic stables of fungible slaves.
☟︎ ascii_field: chetty: largely
a cover for existing infrastructural decay.
ascii_field: before that,
a dynasty of ordinary ups, which tripped so often that they frequently died
ascii_field: at present time, i have
a massive double-converting ups
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: in practice, rot is
a very 'peer2peer' affair
lobbes: 'The power went out during the daily State Department briefing, with Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf using
a phone light to continue taking questions from reporters.' << heh
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: 'what did you do to it' << walked down
a dark alley all unsuspecting like
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:hm, when
a motherboard comes on when the supply comes on, no buttons or anything, and then won't atx powerdown << what did you do to it
mircea_popescu: fine. that's it. i'm gifting
a friggin bitcoin and whatever, the gods have spoken.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu incidentally, trudeau's son (because this is what politics in north america is now) is currently the leader of the national liberal party, w/ maybe
a 50-50 shot at the big seat next election
nubbins`: somewhat more succinctly from the toronto star: "In 2000, four days after Pierre’s death, Margaret went out. She was confronted by
a TV reporter, the punchably cruel Mike Duffy, now
a senator, who barked at her, “How do you feel today, Mrs. Trudeau? Have you remembered it’s Michel’s birthday?” She collapsed."
nubbins`: Suddenly, somebody pushed his way through. Margaret turned and said "Oh, hi Mike," and smiled broadly. "This was Misha's birthday," the man said, referring to the Trudeaus' youngest son Michel, who died two years ago. Her face froze and she burst into tears. She turned around and quickly walked away. "It's Michel's birthday today," she said in
a strained voice to those around her. "I didn't remember." Michel, the youngest of her
nubbins`: It was all on live TV yesterday morning. Pierre Trudeau's grieving ex-wife had come to view the Centennial Flame shortly after
a ceremony marking the departure of his coffin to
a funeral train bound for Montreal. Margaret Trudeau was trying to compose herself and nodded quietly as people offered their condolences.
nubbins`: who, after being suspended from the senate, got
a job at
a strip club and threw his girlfriend down
a set of stairs
nubbins`: like
a house he never lived in
nubbins`: duffy was caught
a while back charging
a ton of frivolous expenses to his senate expense account
funkenstein_: ohio has been mentioned
a few time here recently so
mats: who knows. i'm sure most of the staff guys over there are busy avoiding locals for fear of catching
a bullet.
mircea_popescu: principal export than they received prior to adopting the market share strategy – and this will be
a permanent shift."
mats: "
A month before Maliki left office, there were $18 billion in the Development Fund for Iraq at the New York Federal Reserve Bank, plus the KRG’s share of 2014’s budget. When Abadi was sworn into office, there was only $1 billion left."
nubbins`: mats, drop bombs on x for
a decade and
a half and see how sincere the Xers are about anything
mircea_popescu: hm, when
a motherboard comes on when the supply comes on, no buttons or anything, and then won't atx powerdown
nubbins`: may have to just to
a manifest and then modify pinkposixw/e's script
mircea_popescu: "but without instructions on how to replciate, it's just that --
a turd"
nubbins`: haven't had the time to actually diff
a .config before and after and turn it into
a patch
nubbins`: ben_vulpes:perhaps i am behind the times, but is there
a buildroot config that's been passed around? <<< it's
a bit of
a frankenstein... i run make pogoplug_defconfig and then i run make nconfig to set
a handful of extra flags
nubbins`: can post the turd if anyone's curious, but without instructions on how to replciate, it's just that --
a turd
funkenstein_:
A is associated with decreases in the frequency of
A mircea_popescu: meanwhile you can't get
a competing quote on your fucking health insurance.
punkman: there's
a ton of companies selling price fixing software, they call it "repricing"
mircea_popescu: "saying
a man has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to illegally fix the prices of posters he sold online."
mircea_popescu: "Quora hereby agrees not to serve or display any third party commercial advertisements or solicitations on the profile page of any user who uses the Quora Services on the Agency's behalf as identified by associating
a .gov or .mil email address with the Quora account"
punkman fondly remembers the "by entering this website you promise you aren't
a USG agent"
mircea_popescu: in today's lol at people who are not lawyers but think they are : quora has
a tos and
a special-for-usg tos. the tos says it's the only agreement between user and quora. the special-for-usg tos says "language in the Quora ToS and Quora Privacy Policy indicating it alone is the entire agreement between the Parties is waived"
mircea_popescu: "BACKGROUND Hospira is
a US-based company that maintains offices in several countries around the world." ... srsly ? us-cert.gov is
a pr service now ? "please god anything, some text in here to dilute this shit o lord"
mircea_popescu: that Lars Bøgild Thomsen dude... nice work on the anonybox piece of crud. however... he's embedding facebook, running
a wiki and
a phpbb forum he wants you to comment on, there's no way to leave
a comment on his article (wp blog) without "being logged in" and in general what the shit already.
mircea_popescu: wouldn't you want your tor router quietly on
a cable ?
mircea_popescu: "If the siteA string is empty, it is taken to be the local machine.
A target like @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@victim would cause high load by recursive finger invocations, and could be used to contribute to
a DOS attack. Michael H. Warfield reports that in
a SUN NIS environment it is easy to kill
a network using finger."
mircea_popescu: dude the way the world spins. the dons of the 50s didn't approve of drugs, at all. then in the late 60s it was like, "whatever, sell them to blacks, they don't have
a soul anwyay". then in the 80s it was "whatever, sell them but don't let anyone know". by now it's like... "sell drugs and write opinions for the spectator and send the customer list spam emails to upvote you"
kakobrekla: lol check it out > anonabox bad news: can get
a root shell via local ipv6 with hardcoded root password "admin"
mircea_popescu: "
A representative for Venmo would not respond specifically to the question whether they were helping police with their investigation into Getzler"
assbot: Using the docker command to root the host (totally not
a security issue) // reventlov's silly hacks ... (
http://bit.ly/1HKV0Dz )
Vexual: or
a plane. if they check da specs
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 01:27:08; asciilifeform: doesn't ring
a bell
Vexual: who gives
a shit about the aussie dollar now anyway
decimation: so there's probably
a quantity of skilled labor
decimation: they are 'angel funded' but I think he said they can turn
a profit at current prices
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu i did indeed, though you're right that i should fiddle with those values because there's
a reasonable chance i got them wrong!
joecool: phison, now that's
a name i haven't heard in awhile
Vexual: here i remember when that kid rode in on
a tricycle
mircea_popescu: any liability that may attach to one from his being
a director or officer.
decimation: yeah but usg ensures that they have
a press op where they say the opposite
decimation: mtd2 appears to be
a configuation area, it starts with
a hex string that equals my h/w serial number
decimation: asciilifeform: would you be interested in
a dump of that?