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thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: i used to belive this but I don't like using mice. I find the use of
a mouse kills my wrist.
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: re tmux etc like alf, i pretty much refuse to work in
a terminal
trinque: right now I'm just weechatting in
a tmux+mosh
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: why not use
a screen multiplexer? like tmux or screen?
ben_vulpes: the most obvious route to me at the time was to run emacs in
a terminal on
a remote host.
ben_vulpes: i like manipulating text in emacs, but wanted
a persistent connection to b-
a.
ben_vulpes: all for want of
a workstation, i suppose.
ben_vulpes: aquamacs -> railwaycat emacs port -> erc in
a terminal on
a remote host -> frustrations with tiling window managers in os x -> discovery of xmonad, ratpoison and friends -> x11 configuration -> stumpwm -> emacs on os x in x11 -> horrific bastard mode of "znc" on local machine with "znc" running on remote host -> emacs on remote host as bouncer displaying on
a local x11 frame
ben_vulpes: i've finally grown up
a bit then i guess.
punkman: mircea_popescu: as
a side note : secure comunication via gpg works as follows : << alt.anonymous.messages can also be useful
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Be aware that Henry is with
a Gawker Media venture
pete_dushenski: ascii_field just so i can have
a ballpark feel for the numbers, let's say dc
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: usual 30 bux
a month << for 1 gbps ?! fuck me if that's even close to accurate.
pete_dushenski: cazalla being geeky isn't cool for girls anymore unless it involves
a phablet
danielpbarron: b-
a is like the one place i'm allowed on the internet
pete_dushenski: i had
a bunch of people who'd blocked me last i checked
mats: it'd be
a holiday for me.
mats: working for
a PMC is
a sweet hustle. get into
a NG SF group, take work leave, teach iraqis trig so they can do some basic artillery targeting.
cazalla: unless i'm confusing him with someone else, i remember the name from an aussie forum 15 years back where one could learn to use
a mcdonald's straw to get free phone calls from payphones.. amongst other things lol
pete_dushenski: decimation:re: federal employees overpaid < I suspect the whole system operates as
a net with
a hole - all the talent get sucked in and immediately leaves, but the bottom suckers end up 'caught' << their getting caught is like
a lottery winner getting caught
pete_dushenski: then again, i'd never heard of moxie until he decided to be
a retard so i dunno if he really had that much cred to begin with. i assume he was small but not insignificant
assbot: I used to dream of
a world where everyone would install GPG. Now I dream of
a world where I can uninstall it:
http://t.co/eRZ0hdlmgx trinque: mircea_popescu: when I became disillusioned with god and state, that involved
a realization that I could feel towards myself any way I saw fit
ascii_field: their own young. Procreation slumped, infant abandonment and mortality soared. Lone females retreated to isolated nesting boxes on penthouse levels. Other males,
a group Calhoun termed “the beautiful ones,” never sought sex and never fought—they just ate, slept, and groomed, wrapped in narcissistic introspection.'
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if person has enough sense to limit how much agencyless activity they put out, they will stand
a much better chance to develop an actual idenity, and so not find themselves at age 40 flying planes into buildings.
trinque: his note got
a little slogan laden, but I unerstand the grief
mircea_popescu: the entire "act from cause not towards purpose" thing on trilema is exactly
a vaccine against that.
☟︎ trinque: friends and I had
a little celebration that day
mircea_popescu: this results in broken identity, and there's literally no solution except carnage (bring down that density), which is why people who figure it out usually leave
a note where their assault rifles used to be.
mircea_popescu: identity is the result of action. action requires agency.
a perverse system (such as any high density population will always create) separates action from agency. ("i'm only doing my job").
trinque: seems having
a name creates this bundle of "I am" in the head, which people protect as they do their own bodies
assbot: Count your blessings, government employees, to say nothing of your days. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1LEvTTR )
pete_dushenski: if he sat still for
a moment, you'd forget who was in the white house
mircea_popescu: hey, you're
a big player, right ? not doing anything is the default, i'm sure caesar could sit on his ass in the castrum and play dice with the centurions for three straight winters if he so wanted.
mircea_popescu: if anyone in any position of "big playerness" in fiat is curious to see exactly how true this is ? take
a week to not do anything. at all.
mircea_popescu: The money isn't corrupting him into thinking childhood bipolar is underdiagnosed-- he truly believes it. The reason he believes it is his entire professional existence-- his whole identity-- is predicated on believing it. He's not
a scientist, he's
a priest.
mircea_popescu: If Biederman never existed, nothing would be different. You read his resume, you think, wow, he's
a big player. You don't realize that if he didn't exist there would be some other person in his exact position, who would also have become
a Distinguished Professor, won awards, written 450 publications, etc. The machine was already in place, his slot was going to get filled; his mind didn't discover anything, those res
mircea_popescu: Believe me, I am no friend of Biederman's. But the money is
a red herring. If you want to be angry about the specific ethics of
a psychiatrist receiving Pharma money, fine, but I am telling you it is not worth the Senate time, not worth press space.
mats: learning windows internals is
a daily struggle...
trinque: haven't ever been certain whether that was
a metaphor
mats: teamspeak sounds like
a horrifically bad medium to communicate with more than, say, three people at
a time
mike_c: if we could sign into b-
a with our facebook accounts we wouldn't have to get up'ed when we were in the field.
ascii_field: 'For
a goat may butt, and
a worm may sting, / And
a child will sometimes stand; / But
a poor dead soldier of the King / Can never lift
a hand.' (herr kipling)
mircea_popescu: no argument that health care was attainable in the us cca 2010. just cost
a liuttle more.
ascii_field: decimation: how can any kind of signal magically compromise
a stu? << no magic necessary, just ordinary heterodyne
ascii_field: (e.g. i get ~100 megabaud and can get 500 if paid
a little more)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: high speed << not actually
a major problem in the american population centres
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 's "gravity hole" is
a constructive element, not
a random occurence.
mircea_popescu: it's how africa's being "helped" : ban the perfectly fine fillament lightbulbs just as they get to where they could maybe make some, trickle in
a little food so most people don't want to work.
mircea_popescu: being humiliated by shitholes like romania apparently isn't going to be
a temporary situation.
chetty: well this fcc chair was against net nuetrality
a while back, then he had
a meeting with ?? and 332 pags of new regulation (stamped secret) appeared. You figure it out
thestringpuller: except when you exercise it they just throw you into
a hole
thestringpuller: chetty: or turns into
a gasenwagen! gas just starts spewing out.
mircea_popescu: nah, because
a) the usg doesn't care to steer you
a particular direction. it only wants you to not move - it's
a bureaucracy after all, it has no resources to deal with change, nor can change mean anything but it's ass ; b) the illusion of free wheeling is what's important.
jurov: dunno better comparison to pki would be
a car without steering whell, steered by usg
mircea_popescu: i should probably ycombinate
a start-up to deploy tons of these in old warehouses across the us
mircea_popescu: plus, it prevents not only traffic accidents (leading cause of death!) but also, this one time, this guy used
a car and was robbed!
mircea_popescu: "but it's just as good and much easier to use than
a car!11"
mircea_popescu: "Even the projects that attempt to use it as
a dependency struggle." heh
mircea_popescu: 2) you generate - SECURELY (see airgap guide etc)
a new keypair for yourself
mircea_popescu: as
a side note : secure comunication via gpg works as follows :
mircea_popescu: Looking forward, however, I think of GPG as
a very dangerous technology that really has to go away if we're serious about making it impossible for journalists, their sources, activists and other enemies of the state to survive in
a NSA/TSA/ETC-only world."
mircea_popescu: "nobody else" as in, all people are equal, getting
a 50k elite out of
a 4mn aspirational set out of
a 1bn population is somehow unexpected and un-natural.
mircea_popescu: "Worse, it turns out that nobody else found all this stuff to be fascinating. Even though GPG has been around for almost 20 years, there are only ~50,000 keys in the “strong set,” and less than 4 million keys have ever been published to the SKS keyserver pool ever. By today’s standards, that’s
a shockingly small user base for
a month of activity, much less 20 years."
mircea_popescu: "There just seems to be something particular about people who try GPG and conclude that it’s
a realistic path to introducing private communication in their lives for casual correspondence with strangers. Increasingly, it’s
a club that I don’t want to belong to anymore." << well... granted, eh.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Reportedly did it in
a locked bathroom with
a .357 magnum
mircea_popescu: "That
a public education system could disgorge untold legions of literate, numerate, and motivated graduates is beyond their collective comprehension. How unlucky the Caucasoid races are to have all the kids with learning disabilities."
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, chetty just found
a layered bug in the stack eulora uses. one bug prevented the functionality (wrong pointer reference) ; the other bug prevented the previous bug from crashing every single machine all the time.
mircea_popescu: that b-
a drives "biutcoin foundation" policy is not even remarkable. that assets like the marlinspike dood are thrown in the fray to try and prevent
a wot based republic however...
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitstein in
a purely ops perspective, it's always
a bad idea to link those you disagree with. replace with
a link to something you agree to. @moxie knows what he wrote.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2015 14:39:34; lobbes: "Looking forward, however, I think of GPG as
a glorious experiment that has run its course. The journalists who depend on it struggle with it and often mess up (“I send you the private key to communicate privately, right?”)" << lol, this doesn't sound like
a problem with gpg. I'll never understand this 'hard-to-use' argument. Just take an afternoon and learn the fundamentals!
PeterL: add that to the #b-
a todo list?
assbot: Logged on 23-02-2015 15:20:03; mircea_popescu: the ONLY way i'd have them fighting overseas is if congress approves this plan whereby
a) all territory we step on gets granted territory status ; b) soldiers once veteranized are rewarded in homesteads there, and HAVE TO marry local
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2015 08:22:52; gmaxwell: man y'all will get
a kick out of the latest foundation lol-event. They have some _utterly_ braindead 'blockchain voting' scheme for their board vote run off (gotta love changing voting infrastructure mid election for election integrity)