asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the thing you had made, prior to therealbitcoin

asciilifeform: incidentally how is mircea_popescucoin doing ?

asciilifeform: (does mircea_popescu know the ancient expression? 'this is not a bug - it is a feature')

asciilifeform: hence 'not a bug'

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: we haven't even met the folks behind mircea_popescucoin.

asciilifeform has nfi how mircea_popescu runs his meatspace ops, with whom, etc.

asciilifeform: but i just checked the mailbox, there is no letter from sultan inviting me to move away.

asciilifeform: yes, i FUCKING HATE it

asciilifeform: at any rate, i personally live on planet public.

asciilifeform: kgb wasn't operating to 'save the cows' either, iirc.

asciilifeform: but i can't help but agree with the general principle. 'public' is largely vermin. and if mircea_popescu decides to open a meatspace lubyanka and make an old-fashioned entirely nonpublic intelligence-gathering corps, he ought to wake us all up.

asciilifeform: l0lz

asciilifeform: y'know, the one that has 'public'.

asciilifeform: i'd agree wholeheartedly with mircea_popescu on all of this, but presently i'm on the wrong side of a door.

asciilifeform: that was, as i understood at least, the intent of cryptome et al.

asciilifeform: e.g., phuctor.

asciilifeform: how about public disservices ?

asciilifeform: as cryptome is/was.

asciilifeform: well yes.

asciilifeform: incidentally, there is not, afaik, presently, a thing similar to cryptome

asciilifeform: (i'm still waiting for, e.g., ANYTHING from nsa crytologic directorate, etc.)

asciilifeform: it was always a kind of 'soft porn'.

asciilifeform: and certainly not on cryptome.

asciilifeform: not like there ever were REAL damaging-to-usg leaks on the net.

asciilifeform: and it isn't as if anybody will even notice the drop in the quality of the output

asciilifeform: i suppose.

asciilifeform: and why would it advertise being stolen.

asciilifeform: why would they advertise that they stole it ?

asciilifeform: 'A friend of mine who is a quite successful doctor complains constantly about her job. When people applying to medical school ask her for advice, she wants to shake them and yell "Don't do it!" (But she never does.) How did she get into this fix? In high school she already wanted to be a doctor. And she is so ambitious and determined that she overcame every obstacle along the way-- including, unfortunately, not liking it.'

asciilifeform: from the old pre-braindamage graham...:

asciilifeform: i.e. being perfectly capable of 'following' dead people, on dead trees

asciilifeform: there is such a thing as having an internal compass, if you will

asciilifeform confused

asciilifeform: and why does it need 'make every one worthy of following'

asciilifeform: what's an aspirational-14%

asciilifeform: i think i'm missing a step here

asciilifeform: it therefore ~is~ a problem.

asciilifeform: (american might answer: 'what's 'read' ?')

asciilifeform: 'what do you like to read about when not studying?' 'what's 'like' ?'

asciilifeform: machines purpose-built for playing the college roulette

asciilifeform: not much to tell. more or less the caricature depicted by the source tlp quoted, made flesh

asciilifeform: they are insufferable.

asciilifeform: (or east asian at all)

asciilifeform: most of'em were not, ftr, chinese.

asciilifeform: btw i went to school with these people.

asciilifeform: e.g., the 'capitalism where you give all of the capital to somebody else' one

asciilifeform: trinque: just about all of his articles have this flavour

asciilifeform: and a spout only so-wide.

asciilifeform: my flamethrower only has so much petrol.

asciilifeform: and ~would~ if there weren't an ocean of vermin

asciilifeform: for everything.

asciilifeform: IT WAS SUPPOSED TO REPLACE GLIBC

asciilifeform: apparently this is a no-go.

asciilifeform: and do things such as init scripts

asciilifeform: y'know, the kind where it is possible to install programs later.

asciilifeform: this was an attempt to set up an ACTUAL WORKSTATION on top of musl.

asciilifeform: (all of my previous buildroots involved busybox and didn't need sysv init)

asciilifeform: sysvinit.

asciilifeform: and the gravestone on top of it all:

asciilifeform: and at the same time these VERMIN mutter about 'you shouldn't write in nonstandard c, because of my gcc patches..'

asciilifeform: civilized, decent, irreplaceable ones, like midnight commander

asciilifeform is astonishingly astonished at the number of packages which fall into dust under musl

asciilifeform: l0lz

asciilifeform: nope.

asciilifeform: tarver wrote about this, i recall

asciilifeform: it doesn't like musl much.

asciilifeform: ^ buildroot-with-userland-on-arm7

asciilifeform: 'fseeko.c:103:4: error: #error "Please port gnulib fseeko.c to your platform! Look at the code in fpurge.c, then report this to bug-gnulib." #error "Please port gnulib fseeko.c to your platform! Look at the code in fpurge.c, then report this to bug-gnulib."'

asciilifeform: from other front,

asciilifeform: apparently!

asciilifeform: went from around 60, steady state, per, to below 20 connections/each

asciilifeform: incidentally, the number of working nodes OF WHATEVER KIND continues to fall. not only per the 'bitnodes' observatory thing, but per my own nodes' connections stats

asciilifeform: ' Why would Bitcoin XT be subject to censorship? Simply put, this fork proposal calls for something that does not suit the agendas of the people in charge of /r/Bitcoin.' << still this?!!!

asciilifeform: if they gave half a fuck re: 'relevancy' they would have to eat their pistols in grad school even.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these are not businessmen, recall, they are academitards. so long as the paycheques come and the tenure nest continues to be feathered with new paperz, they are as happy as a dung beetle in his pile of shit

asciilifeform: jurov: l0l

asciilifeform: they are laughing all the way to the bank, within half an hour's walk from where i stand

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik the university gang is still in business

asciilifeform: or is this the same animal

asciilifeform: https://root.cern.ch/cint

asciilifeform: cint

asciilifeform: ah i recall earlier attempts at this

asciilifeform: jurov: clang ?

asciilifeform: or whatshisname

asciilifeform: i thought that was stefanoupolis (?)

asciilifeform: prolly wouldn't bother to mention this if it weren't for the 'where do we get ws hardware' thread.

asciilifeform yes, cleans it, before anyone asks.

asciilifeform has now ascertained beyond any doubt that his box dies when under full load. prolly thermal.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2015#1308970 << iirc it was to skirt 'mandatory data retention' rule, rather than 'seek00rity' ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2015#1308966 << this is the chink in the armour of 'usa is irrelevant and can go straight to hell'. let's say, yes, but where do you intend to get ws cpu. ☝︎

asciilifeform: the bigger the motor, the bloodier the mess.

asciilifeform: the ~remaining~ ones - possibly - understood.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: they understood that if they were to simply draw the banner and say fuckit, it would devolve into soup

asciilifeform: i assume it is why mircea_popescu's ears stood up

asciilifeform: at the very least, these people didn't buy into 'the implementation is the spec'

asciilifeform: certainly something;

asciilifeform: yes, that was the one.

asciilifeform: ah.