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mircea_popescu: or more properly said : to finally splitting the fake-www chain from www.
mircea_popescu: im so looking forward to moving entirely off the www already...
mircea_popescu: well yeah, that goes without saying. student means vagabond and "university town" means tramp central.
mircea_popescu: depending, one sometimes needs backup. but it's funny how "the people" changes once it's no longer in a group that supports it.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i bet you you don't harrangue the participants.
mircea_popescu: "honey, if you put half the energy you waste on this stupid shit into sucking cock you wouldn't have any of the problems killing you atm."
mircea_popescu: well, not necessarily, just i dunno, to hang out with the angry dumb girlies.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field ftr, that "hack" appears to have been a leak.
mircea_popescu: it's the clenched teeth after having trying to think and managing to exhaust oneself.
mircea_popescu: (and no, before you ask : "dictatorship of the law" is the sure mark of a man out of ideas.)
mircea_popescu: was for a while. nothing lasts forever : will-based systems go the way of russia once the will is out ; intelligence based systems go the way of lybia once the intelligence's out.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i disagree. intelligent attempts result in something like lybia. determined attempts result in somewthing like cuba/venezuela/nk etc.
mircea_popescu: "The Ceremony Administrator boots the laptop from a DVD" << example of "security".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: dinosaurs and other fossils from a pre-bitcoin world trying their best to not have noticed.
mircea_popescu: and no, contrary to all the pompous / ceremonious bullshit, there's no security there nor any measure of trust worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: George: "Well, then, I am gonna have to ask you to turn your key."
mircea_popescu: missiles from a submarine. Both of use have to turn our keys."
mircea_popescu: Maura: "I refuse to give up on this relationship. It's like launching
mircea_popescu: George, in his apartment with Maura: "And so, for all these reasons, we are
mircea_popescu: who the fuck came up with the bright idea of editing together retirement home surveillance footage.
mircea_popescu: necessarily a re-route of all traffic through third-party "anti-DDoS" systems.' << run moar cloudflare!
mircea_popescu: then your thing doesn't work anymore and the progre's holding conferences.
mircea_popescu: there is no fucking stable solution to this problem for crying out loud, to have html you need a standard. the moment you have a standard you're stuck with the progre.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: whole heap of "oh we'll make our bitcoinxt subreddit and everyone will come there!!11" crickets "oh hey look at this nobody gave a shit!"
mircea_popescu: da fuck is with all these people, namecheap went stupid, quantcast went stupid, they're just falling into their own kabukihole
mircea_popescu: yeah. listen, take that !-- Quantcast Tag -- stuff out.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo is it just me or did quantcast go stupid ?
mircea_popescu: now what does this say about women's marriage prospects ?
mircea_popescu: that's kind of the one thing that support[s/ed] the centralised state : on their own, warlords warlord over a hunting range.
mircea_popescu: the thing with the thugs is, they really don't like going outside of their territory.
mircea_popescu: all those "associate professors" in their late 30s, without tenure, ahhh...
mircea_popescu: let's leave it at "google ssl fails", it's good enough.
mircea_popescu: well, firefox complains, but if i hit it up with curl on the same agent string it just hits a dumbass redirection thing. prolly some cookie based discrimination and fuck me if i have the patience to debugt the webshitstack.
mircea_popescu: "issued by google internety authority g2" which is pretty lulzy but w/e.
mircea_popescu: best "victims of our own success" story of the decade, really.
mircea_popescu: the grunts know why they're showing ivy league the dead cat. /me enjoys the popcorn while people we don't like fight to the death.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field understand : if the "huge hedge fund masquerading as church" engine gripes, the democrat party will have to be restructured.
mircea_popescu: yes, they're all soviets. slightly hungry pissed off low level grunt soviets vs fatcat libertard soviets.
mircea_popescu: like soviet union was on both sides of THAT chessboard.
mircea_popescu: throw rocks at the media, force them to pick the "evil people" narrative.
mircea_popescu: obviously you can't make "the media" aka usg agitprop machine unhave all the vans and ex-sorority chicks and whatnot. so the only practical solution when you can't prevent them acting on their options is to limit their options to one.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the rules for successful are very simple : a) throw rocks ; b) no media.
mircea_popescu: a reality show, and by the time Naomi Klein got there I had already been told to expect someone like her. Do you see? She had already appeared before she got there. Yes, I can take pride in thinking for myself but if I'm going to be honest, all I'm doing is reacting to what I'm told
mircea_popescu: The reason "peaceful protests" don't work anymore is because now the protests are slower than the media coverage. When they threw the tea in Boston Harbor it was urgent, immediate, and by the time the press could interpret it it had already been digested by the public. But now even before the protest reaches critical mass the media, whose agents outnumber the protestors 100 to 1, has packaged and produced it, like
mircea_popescu: If you hold a protest and you aren't throwing rocks it will fail. I'm not telling you to throw rocks, I'm explaining why your march won't work.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ima just quote tlp, because he has a very nice distillation of the problem :
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the move of kicking out the media is not odd in the slightest.