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mircea_popescu: this ties into the discussion about nazis and their de-facto paper-processing computing
mircea_popescu: the reason for this is that so many titles start with The in english that it debalanced the sorting tree (implemented in nature as shelves)
mircea_popescu: ~ in this context is an interesting thing : a postprocessor directive meaning "take the string before the first comma and put it in here to reconstruct the correct title of this item". so that "Fanny Fucksticks, The Enchanted Travels Of ~" becomes "The Enchanted Travels Of Fanny Fucksticks".
mircea_popescu: this is really not a bad motto for b-a ; the funny thing for me is how varied the reaction of people is as they encounter it in practice.
mircea_popescu: if you have friends who need a prepackaged version of a $10 item you apparently need better friends.
mircea_popescu: bullshit. it was, at the time, incredibly cheap and convenient.
mircea_popescu: in short, i wisened up to the fact that this particular thing is of the "go big or go home" variety and insistence on peculiar versions of small are a waste of time.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that you're trying to sell webspace on a below-shared server level and by the kilobyte like some sort of idiot. either get into the business by running an actual isp or else let people do the thing sanely on their own.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes i do not think you should. !
mircea_popescu: bear in mind however that ... how are women that you've not fucked before going to find you ?
mircea_popescu: because why the fuck, 10 bucks a month is too much for these people to get a fucking blog up ?
mircea_popescu: still, you know, think about what this is. you're proposing to give people a modicum of webspace in some narrow constraints.
mircea_popescu: you know, giving examples of broken shit is not necessarily an effectual way to argue in favour of said shit.
mircea_popescu: i propose to not manage dns at all, and not have dns, either.
mircea_popescu: this is fundamental and fundamentally important. if you wish to be a person, you gotta maintain this level of control.
mircea_popescu: which is specifically what i said above : there will exist EXACTLY ONE place i authenticate at ; the name for that place is "my blog"
mircea_popescu: for the stated reason : for the same money i just use my blog to host the file
mircea_popescu: the correct solution also seems to have emerged, how's any of this my fault.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the dpaste : im not abstaining from helping or anything of the sort. there's been an idea, it's been trashing around in the b-a uterus trying to come to conception. it doesn't seem that it actually works tho, seems more like an irrealisable chimera of disparate, irreconcilable parts.
mircea_popescu: not you know, fucking odds and evens. not you know, fucking 1,2,3 vs 4,5,6
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, i go out buy a bag of dice. these idiots used blue and red for the paint on the faces. guess what numbers are red and what numbers are blue ?
mircea_popescu: there's little technological solutions to psychological problems.
mircea_popescu: but in fairness, this is just another facet of the monolithic usg-slavery-thoughtpattern. living in the states is good enoughy for me ; i don't really need a blog and it's not THE central, defining thing of my current existence ; on it goes.
mircea_popescu: alternatively : everyone get a fucking blog, and in that blog have a uploads directoy, and that's fucking that.
mircea_popescu: might do it a once a year or some shit, but that's about it.
mircea_popescu: meh, i'm not downloading new pubkeys every day to use your paste thing
mircea_popescu: you can just deed a notice, which you encrypt to everyone's key.
mircea_popescu: how about this : only accept gpg-encrypted communications, and only distribute the pubkey to people you like.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: as illustrated by discussion of "entrepreneurs" quoted in the logs.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes note that often these self-misrepresented "techs" are actually 6 weeks away from the day they first heard of "that css programming language"
mircea_popescu: i think locks and lock behavious is nsa's #1 favourite metacomputing item.
mircea_popescu: mod6 reconfigures BDB to pass the wedge at block 252450 << remember that alf ? :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know the (same vintage) aspirin contraception joke ?
mircea_popescu is partial to that fashion for girlies, perhaps on account of having grown up in a sea of teenybopper knickers.
mircea_popescu: was discussing more the hitler jugend one-inch-over-pubis skirts
mircea_popescu: the other guy that was going to "ruin bitbet in social media" because similar ?
mircea_popescu: the guy that got all butthurt about his eth short not good enough for you ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> maybe i'm just thick, but i can't think of what ben_vulpes's 'wotpaste' is actually for << not really his, i just idly asked why would we make a special thing for paste when deedbot already has all that functionality and more. within the same ten minutes it came to light why and the matter went away afaic.
mircea_popescu: the article kinda mocks some .ro rappers because hey, hunger. anyway.
mircea_popescu: looky, the 1990 revolutions happened because hunger. this is a fact.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> isn't verifyall equivalent to no checkpoints? << in trb yes. otherwise... complicated.
mircea_popescu: heh, i suppose that's the strongest indictment for the soviets ever : can't fucking distinguish 50s from 80s looking at the pictures.
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