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mircea_popescu: lemme know if the idea is plainly stated and can be followed from the text or i need to explain it better.
mircea_popescu: i know of litthe more shameful than being one of the mothers of these people.
mircea_popescu: i was thinking about this earlier. i wonder what % of times is a "matgic packet" router attack successful.
mircea_popescu: except for that one in bangkok, which i imagine si broken
mircea_popescu: https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/trilema.com << and now i'ts perfect
mircea_popescu: i dunno that it actually comes with money.
mircea_popescu: what i don't understand is how people like linus don't just return the "award"
asciilifeform: at any rate, i'm unable to say when exactly we reached the point where 'the hunchback can only straighten in his grave' - but it was some years ago.
mircea_popescu: ya but i mean...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i recounted various passages to pet, who cringed << specifically ?
decimation: yeah I remember the old AT chassis, built like a peice of HP test equipment
decimation: yeah I used to call it 'centronics' connectors, didn't realize their heritage
asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE-488#mediaviewer/File:HP7935_rear_HP-IB_port.jpg << i remember when a typical pc had this kind of beautifully painted steel chassis.
asciilifeform: but i would be greatly surprised if modern x86 dies did not have 'licensed' black boxes in them.
asciilifeform: i am told that each has a massive proprietary one
asciilifeform: i'm not entirely certain that any piece of silicon that hit the market in the past half decade or so, is a 'real asic.'
asciilifeform: incidentally, the last time i gave a damn (> 1yr ago) i learned that all the 'miner asic' products had been produced this way.
decimation: I know folks who have done this, and suceeded, but it took many months of debugging and swearing
asciilifeform: if you go and actually try to implement, e.g., ddr2 controller, using generic logic (yes, i did, and it fit) you quickly discover that it is useless.
asciilifeform: decimation: but i escaped having to program them.
decimation: asciilifeform: I suspect the same pattern one sees with bitcoind is common in free software, 'the ancients' (typically one elite guy) writes something useful, then shitgnomes dangle turds on it for decades
decimation: I suspect most folks thought they were getting 'free warez'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm not altogether certain it was ever alive.
decimation: I don't blame redhat et.al., like larry ellison, they are just exploiting what they can exploit
mircea_popescu: i was merely following the hints.
kakobrekla: anyway i mapped the memory hole
asciilifeform: decimation: i love it how retarded folks continue to pretend, 30 years later, that one cannot build a system where program is able to go back and correct the cause of an exception
kakobrekla: but i think the third was was 40k already
kakobrekla: when you see the green line at 1 gig is when i first tried mps suggestion i think
kakobrekla: i guess i should run locally and force local network only or smth
kakobrekla: what do you mean if i have to restart it, i have to restart it every 6 hours as it leaks blood
asciilifeform: because i did try the max_locks thing, to no avail
kakobrekla: i dont think its db log autoremove, it was there before stuck
kakobrekla: ben_vulpes and whoever else cares i managed to get .7 unstuck from block 252450 with such DB_CONFIG; http://dpaste.com/25E0QVP.txt .. also it took a while.
mircea_popescu: Remote Control solfware (i.e. TeamViewer) does not belong on a computer where you may have browser windows open or important files."
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: (on another note: if mp's ego explodes, and no one is around to see it, did it really happen?) << i don't have an ego anymore. it couldn't keep up.
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/Ha8tKf4.gif << lol.
mircea_popescu: davout:deterministic behaviour, too fucking mainstream <<< i didn't make the internets!
mike_c: idk about that. i don't own the electric company, but i have plenty to say to them.
decimation: Google: "Q: who owns the internet? A: nobody" << fuck you. if I have a router and a server, I 'own' that piece of the internet. Imagine some peasant showing up in the court of Henry VIII claiming that 'nobody owns' the land under his hovel because the list of owners is large
PeterL: yeah, one of them, hence why I mentioned it along with Nephi as a Utah city
BingoBoingo: PeterL: Drop the terminal i
PeterL: I still don't see the significance of a city named Moroni?
BingoBoingo: PeterL: The Moroni I spotted is in Comoros
nubbins`: i wanna start printing the covers tonight but i'm a bit intimidated :o
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Also what other OS could I run on a $10 computer when I got bored with Mac OS?
BingoBoingo: I really don't know many computer vendors atm with compelling offerings other than Ebay and surplus auctions
kakobrekla: throw it though a closed one then , i dont mind
danielpbarron: i'm talking to him now, he called back
devthedev: kakobrekla: It's the only one I can access.
asciilifeform: incidentally, i have long expected that the day will come when all the world's idiots, with their bags of cheap tricks, arrive here.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03, i don't care.
asciilifeform: what funkspiel is, i think, is now obvious from context
asciilifeform: i assume that if mircea_popescu wanted to play funkspiel with the fellow on the other end of the wire, he would have kept the discovery to himself...
mthreat: I changed a bunch before leaving, at 14.4 / dollar
mike_c: i believe dslreports used to be broadbandreports (bbr?)
asciilifeform: as if i knew
davout: i think we could make a better headline : "How decentralized micro-tipping helped a man get his broken cock fixed"
davout: i would totally click on qntra's contact link, if only it accepted to load
danielpbarron: the address he included doesn't have any transactions, so i'm guessing he still has just the 0 bitcoin he probably started with
danielpbarron: "This one really hurts.. like I got punched in the gut and betrayed by a friend." << lol thief is now his friend, or bitcoin is his friend; guy got his feelings hurt
mats_cd03: i have faith he does
mats_cd03: i will pray for the safe return of his dong
danielpbarron: i don't know; no contact since he was about to go in
danielpbarron: i don't know the results of the operation yet
danielpbarron: i wish
danielpbarron: 05:22 <+BingoBoingo> I suspected he was going to DoS home ips << p.sure that's what happened to me this morning
rithm: i have to remind them of what the fuck DNS is every goddamn day
rithm: you know i manage like Tier A support peeople
rithm: i was gonna type that but i thought it was condescending :)
rithm: sometimes i can't get to things on the internets and usually may tracerout to that ip fails but ymmv
BingoBoingo: I suspected he was going to DoS home ips
cazalla: i thought it would amount to nothing more than ddos of pizza deliveries though
mircea_popescu: chetty, i imagine some sort of dns mitm or whatever noob "techz" the nsa script kiddies worship\
mircea_popescu: anyway, that favico was briefly reditrcting to 127.0.0.1 earlier, which is why i went to all the trouble of pasting it etc.
mircea_popescu: an outbound router i sometimes use got attacked earlier.
cazalla: xanthyos: when i was testing his empathy level on the phone <<< are you sure you're not a woman?
cazalla: nubbins`: BingoBoingo cazalla let's see a qntra story about blazedout's 28btc piece of wood <<< identifying wood.. it's wood type article? heh, i wouldn't buy that but i'll leave the man alone to enjoy his wood collection
cazalla: xanthyos: my doctor just hung up on me bcv i said he's a faggot <<< that's a good example of "passive bullying"
kakobrekla: i guess it strongly depends on recipient
mike_c: hm. that seems legit. I guess they just have better routes or something.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: all i will say is that it is not especially hard to arrange.
BingoBoingo: Sure they were frequently so in one place i lived.
asciilifeform: cars are 'stolen' (well, officially held for ransom) using an also compact towing crane, where i live
BingoBoingo: I just have trouble beliving in them given the lack of compelling use cases
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'm vaguely familiar with the concept
wao: ok, this is why I dont have voice, spent lot of time of talking )
wao: oh I have content for you!
wao: I see it comming, like Swift made it.
wao: I lately seen Watch SDK
kakobrekla: NO I WILL RAIN
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i had a lotta respect for the whole shebang << it was a different shebang in those times.
wao: yeah, I know :D
wao: yeah, I plan refactor whole coinroll code and convert it to responsive web, as now it's fixed :|
wao: oh, yes, I'm sometimes lurk here but mostly dont have that opinion that could be readed any other of you .)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's sad yo, back as a wee kitten in romania i had a lotta respect for the whole shebang.
Namworld: So I'm generating reports for now.
Namworld: So far I've sent email out to gambling directories. It's functional but no interface yet, wao is working on it.
Namworld: I have a feeling partner program is not your thing tho. Flat fee for advertising only. You're kind of a no fluff deals guy.
Namworld: Hmm, looks like I'm talking to wrong person.