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trinque: I'm considering wiping out this gentoo install with openbsd
danielpbarron: huh, I seem to be shadowbanned on reddit -- finally!
trinque: I'm going to afk for a bit and finish up some work stuff, then see about haxing on the bot
trinque: speaking of things I should throw cycles into
trinque: I hear scope creep is met with beatings.
trinque: I can never stay focused on it (rather, cannot pull self away from moneymaking endeavors) long enough to finish something
trinque: https://soundcloud.com/signpost << coupla loops I farted out
trinque: I've done some chiptune stuff, nothing good
trinque: BingoBoingo: I kinda like it
decimation: also I think it would be rather inconvenient to disassemble and reassemble watch to use screwdriver
decimation: asciilifeform: I think that came from combat doctrine
asciilifeform: probably the most easily fundamental concept i know of in what used to be called 'cybernetics' (what's it called today? even exists as a field?)
asciilifeform: for anyone who actually bothered to read the link: i did not yet know the term 'OODA loop' when i wrote that piece.
asciilifeform: i can't even say for certain that it is real. it's rather like describing dreams. if there's no way to get it out of your head, it exists only for you.
nubbins`: if i'm not mistaken, your problem is the inability to express your tune as either notes or as a hum that can be recorded
nubbins`: i once dated a woman who worked at a craft store. a guy comes rushing in one day screaming about music paper. he needed to write down the notes in his head before he forgot them.
nubbins`: then i feel your agony
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i've played with continuously-variable synths, as an electronics enthusiast; trust me, it made zero difference.
asciilifeform: that's what i've found.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: unless i misunderstand, the linked device is something like a theremin (in the continuously-variable input sense, rather than mechanism per se) ?
nubbins`: asciilifeform i dunno man, it honestly sounds like a 'tribe can do what you're describing
asciilifeform: (i mostly gave up on the subject years ago)
asciilifeform: i generally don't discuss music with musical folks because 100% of the time it turns out that they are trying to accomplish something very different with their time
nubbins`: why am i trying to sell you an analogue synthesizer?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> piano keyboard is meaningless to me. despite plenty of time spent attempted. << This I experience as well.
moldysnizz: I've accepted my new identiy as the snizz
asciilifeform: nubbins`: as a fellow who can program, and at one point owned a 'commodore 64', i've played with just about every basic kind of synth tone
BingoBoingo: Tuba/Euphoniums are the only solo sort of wind instrument I can play where actual sound produced overpowers bone conduction bias that would otherwise render me tone deaf
hanbot: <BingoBoingo> Damnatio Memoria sort of thing, but if someone want to dump some history I'll pull a thing together. << see the marchenko/alisie theft accusation back-and-forth here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=129722.msg1387064#msg1387064
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Prolly that too. I am lacking in that department as well. Tuba is forgiving in that regard.
nubbins`: ah ah, i see
asciilifeform: nubbins`: at various points i've tried all kinds of 'cheats', incl. 'ear trainers' etc
nubbins`: i might have to get him a monotron
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: After the war I might have to get you a tuba, instrument of kings
nubbins`: http://i.imgur.com/PVxlSq6.jpg
mircea_popescu: and with that, i'll be off.
decimation: "And the consumers of intelligence say out loud “Why should I trust you on this issue when you were wrong on that one?” Weak performance in one DI area immediately calls into question all work in the CIA."
BingoBoingo: Damnatio Memoria sort of thing, but if someone want to dump some history I'll pull a thing together.
BingoBoingo: When they told me in early 2013 to not bother submitting to them I kind of exiled them on my own.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Do you have a good file on the Bitcoin Magazine drama. I'm at a loss for history on that one.
mircea_popescu: lol "i advise people to learn html, becausre that's a language and it worked for me. wut ?"
nubbins`: "arch your back" "WHAUET? I CAN'T HEAR YOU"
mod6: ok i re-sent with a new version number and "<modsix at gmail dot com>" written in by me.
mod6: one of these times, I gotta get mutt back going again
mod6: when i had mutt setup properly with my own mx it was pretty sweet because it would check sigs and everything automagically.
asciilifeform: and am i the only one who actually checks sigs ☟︎
mod6: i'll send out a new copy.
mod6: so yeah, i signed "<modsix@gmail.com>"
mod6: i bet that the damn translation of my email address did it
mod6: oh i know what it is.
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Why is why I !up you. I am suffering wit deficiency
nubbins`: i disconnect often enough that authing isn't really a priority
trinque: vs say mats experience of "fuck god, I am god"
trinque: I don't know; thinking about this runs into the inability to coherently do anything
mircea_popescu: there's always one of these, that came in and ruined "a good thing". prollly the chinese i gues, tho you never know.
mircea_popescu: nah. i happen to know what they'll do. sadly it's all in romanian, but there's dozens of articles detailing the "what do idiots who thought they were right and in power do once it comes out they were wrong and never really in power".
mircea_popescu: trinque i suspect they actually understand this pretty well, which is why the vehehehery gingerly treatment of actual powers that be, and the very loud derpage around idiots asking for a cock in their ass, like schwarz.
trinque: this and the inability of the NSA to act coherently I think come from the same dead culture
trinque: I expect a collective mental breakdown followed by wailing and gnashing of teeth instead
asciilifeform: i haven't any idea how, specifically, he was lowered. but fact is.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: http://www.contra.org/pgp/PhilZimmerman.html << i see. scary.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long until it sinks in, with the mostly empty head of obama, with the mostly empty head of blasio, with the mostly empty head of everyone else in that group of derps : that they're still alive because nobody could be bothered to kill them yet.
thestringpuller: i thought he avoided jail time
mats: we had a few in my intel section while i was in, fucking things would fall out of the sky a quarter of the time, 20 mins into flight
mats: i'd like to take this moment to affirm that this is purely speculative, and i have no intention of being so much as within the city limits of POTUS...
mats: i think the WASP is a more economically feasible approach
trinque: asciilifeform: it's that coherence bit that I think is important. An N1 rocket has plenty of power at its disposal
thestringpuller: I'm certain this is not recent theory as its pop culture by now.
asciilifeform: i don't even believe, necessarily, that they have achieved anything. but in a logically distinct hypothesis that the snowden papers do not prove 'usg is impotent' any more than the famous kgb defections of the '70-80s proved that soviet intelligence was dead
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: this is why I think private spy agency with $maxint budget are more efficient than any USG version.
thestringpuller: i thought they just protect obama and slap around counterfeiters
mircea_popescu: but then again, i don't know anyone but asciilifeform to both honestly and seriously propose viewing the nsa as aserious endeavour, and even he's been kinda shaken latelyt.
mircea_popescu: i feel the need to contribute to this conversation, so http://41.media.tumblr.com/98462099f6f241b5474709437fd38b0e/tumblr_moiadqjAx31r4amwso1_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: jurov: why am i seeing the win32 crap ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: lol idiot << i left him a comment too.
trinque: I'm sure this accessibility crap can remote control any gtk app
trinque: when I find out how to kill it I will
trinque: mircea_popescu: wasn't started by openrc, nor .xprofile, just spawned off by gtk I think... ?
mircea_popescu: trinque: why the fuck for example do I have some daemon running for accessibility << generally that's because if you need it you can't turn it on, so it has to be on by default. you can turn it off obviously.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how prevalent this actually is. as opposed to interested parties trying to create a niche for their ngos.
trinque: I think one's dominion whereas the other's destruction.
mats: some metaphysical nonsense... but i still think about it from time to time.
mats: i'm quoting heavily from a book that was influential in my youth.
mats: you say to all the universe, only I will be great, and to make room for me the rest of you must give up even what you already have, and become nothing
mats: unless i wanted to.
mats: i resolved that day to become god, so i would never have to see anyone die again
thestringpuller: trying is a key word there I'd suppose
BingoBoingo: Given the common internet saying, I'm assuming the dick nipple must also engage in shitting?
mircea_popescu: ima look i na sec translating a great short
thestringpuller: i miss the bye command from ftp
mats: shortly after i came back, i left the faith. if god is real... i would seek him out and kill him.
mats: hell on earth, and there i was, doing religious tourism.
mats: two kids i played ball with and taught spanish to died when a few shacks collapsed
mats: the second checkpoint i hit after leaving Manila, the church van i was in got shaken down by cops for cash
mats: i never felt so depressed as when i did 'missionary work' as a young man in Quezon City
mircea_popescu: yo yellen! at least gavin has the ballsack to carefully come here when i'm not around, you know ?
jurov: i didn't read all the slides, sry
mircea_popescu: i got inside that hour.
mircea_popescu: but in other news, i've had actual sysadmins thank me for the tip. made my fucking day. danke davout :D
mircea_popescu: i feel vile and like my feelings don't matter.