181400+ entries in 0.11s
ben_vulpes: eh i don't see how "stop bitching about problems you can
trivially solve without involving
the state eg rent control,
try moving
to a neighborhood as shitty as
this one was
two decades ago when you crept in" is quite "slice lengthwise"
Framedragger: yeah i guess
that's basically 50% of berlin (*dodge*)
erlehmann: on
the other side of
the street
the drink will cost half as much, but what do you know,
tourist!
☟︎ erlehmann: and
they'll smile and
take all your money
erlehmann: a suitcase on wheels marks a person like a shitstain on
their pants
erlehmann: if, on
the other hand, you are looking
to experience
tourist hate,
take an airbnb in mitte, in
the vincinity of st. oberholz.
take a wheelie case and new apple devices with you.
erlehmann: as i said: as a
tourist, i probably would not choose airbnb in berlin. reason is
that
the strategy is working. less stressful
to book hotel room or hostel.
Framedragger: plenty of folks quite content living
their frugal lives (in e.g. leipzig, from what i hear,
to be particular), i guess #t doesn't
think much of
them, i happen
to have friends, what do. if bitch at 5% rent increase, sure, not much sympathy from me
ben_vulpes: "but i'm poor and nobody
taught me
that rents usually go up and now my living expenses and rent max out my income!"
ben_vulpes: same people who are flabbergasted when rents go up 5%, having never considered allocating for
that scenario.
erlehmann: i
think it is not about rent per se. it is about long-term renting.
trinque: no. I mean if
they were free of
the
terribru rent oppression what human flourishing would sprout in
their place?
Framedragger: you mean, what's
their recourse / what leverage
they have? yes, not much leverage at all, sucks
to be
them
trinque: because otherwise
they'd what?
Framedragger: gotta agree with you, #t will disdainfully sneer at "omg, kom000nity!!", but it does suck
that local communities get negatively impacted in
this regard
☟︎ ben_vulpes: if
the "community" can't soak people who want
to come
there and spend money adequately
to make
tourism +ev for
the hosts incl. cities, how can
they even justify continuing
to live
☟︎ erlehmann: and are on
the average much bigger assholes
than people living
there.
erlehmann: more generally, communities.
tourists use infrastructure, but do not always pay
taxes.
ben_vulpes: who gives a flying fuck about "pushing up rents" because some people rent in ways not appealing
to
the local statal orgs
erlehmann: took me some
time
to understand
that.
erlehmann: it is most likely a
tactical action
to make you go away.
erlehmann: example: burning cars. if your car is insured and it burns,
that is not vandalism.
☟︎ erlehmann: it is just
that berliners have a very good understanding of how
to make people fuck off
Framedragger notes "join erlehmann's local anarcho cell when ready"
to list
erlehmann: basically, if you want
to go cheap: go
to a hostel, rent a room for 4 or 6.
jurov: O.o my first
two airbnb experiences were fine, but
that was in greece,
they don't mind noise
☟︎ erlehmann: i could not possibly comment on
that
Framedragger: any personal experiences
there? i've heard of "frozen piss" bomb concept, yeah
☟︎ erlehmann: also, did you know
that frozen piss can be shoved under a door and seep into
the carpet?
Framedragger: basically, if we were
to stay for a longer chunk of
time, different arrangements would be made. very-short-term... hm, hotels are boring
erlehmann: by passion, i mean: some door locks are faulty and seem
to spontaneously fail in
the middle of
the night, when you come back
to
the ap.
☟︎ erlehmann: b) many airbnb guests behave in such an obnoxious way
that entirely unpolitical people living in
the same house hate
them with a passion.
☟︎ erlehmann: furthermore,
two observations, one on a systemic, one on an individual level: a) airbnb drives up rents, because it is much more profitable
to (illegally) rent on airbnb
than
to (legally) rent
to someone long-term.
transients always spend more money
then residents.
erlehmann: re scammy: read reviews and
think if an airbnb host with
that name really exists. it may or may not do you any harm if “sarah” never shows up and is in fact a front for some rent-seeking dude.
Framedragger: erlehmann: girl says "wtf, plz
to elaborate" :D is
that due
to high degree of scams, or just
the high possibility of misunderstandings? (only
time i used airbnb was in morocco, but
that was planned well in advance, and kinda-vetted place)
erlehmann: i have a single, very important berlin
tourism
tip. avoid airbnb (and similar
things)
to
the strongest extent possible.
there are only a few faster ways
to make enemies, like putting on a police uniform and visiting rigaer straße alone in
the middle of
the night.
Framedragger is also curious if isis from
tor is still in berlin,
too
Framedragger: erlehmann: i've been
to c-base a coupla
times, curious if
there are any hackerspaces which are less about showing off and more about actual DIY projects etc (not sure if can meaningfully interact in
the span of only a week
tho, i guess)
☟︎ Framedragger: funny
thing is i'm not really into raves. at
the same
time i have a pile of high quality mdma
that i now need
to dispose of, because changing country. so who knows
☟︎ Framedragger: erlehmann: airbnb apartment, 3-4 people, possibly neukoln or
thereabouts, not sure yet
Framedragger: good point, i'll get back
to you later. it's not a well-defined request/problem in my mind. "shit
to do at night in kreuzberg / east berlin" would count, including rave parties (sounds
teenage-ish when i put it like
that heh)
erlehmann: Framedragger where will you stay?
type of venue / part of city?
trinque: but
then you're on
teh way
to an ebuild anyway.
danielpbarron: and
the way i'm writing it up, it's also a crash course on how
to gentoo in general
trinque: btw
this could be
turned into a portage "set"
ben_vulpes: recipe for portage
to make $package happen
to a gentoo
danielpbarron: a portage package? no. it's more of a recipe from scratch: how
to install gentoo for optimal eulora
Framedragger: erlehmann: question #3 -- any recommendations for what
to do in berlin in july? i'll be
there with a few friends from 5 july (may
travel
to leipzig), random recommendations welcome (we'll visit
the nsa
tower/hill, etc)
danielpbarron unofficially works on eulora. occasionally publishes patches
to
the client. almost ready
to publish a eulora-gentoo recipe
☟︎ Framedragger: oh lua, cool, is
that how you write
those subgames?
Framedragger: i see map generators, but
that's something else, i assume
the subgame
thing is
the way
towards
the "generalized"/"arbitrary"
Framedragger: erlehmann: i like my voxels, looks nice... generalized CA, as in, you can run arbitrary programs in
the space (or somesuch)?
mod6: i misspell a lot of
things
too. so
there'
that.
erlehmann: mod6 sorry
then i assumed
the latter (even
though
the keys are right next
to each other)
mod6: <+erlehmann> mod6 did you mean "word" or "weird"? <<
the former.
erlehmann: it's not? most i3 users have no use for draggable windows.
the maemo wm (i forgot its name) also has none.
erlehmann: mod6 mouse-wm means mouse can have
two modi. managing windows and managing application.
mod6: if so, do you just use keybindings
to navigate?
mod6: <+asciilifeform> if answer
to either 1, 2, or both, is 'yes' -- asciilifeform won't use. << wait... i
thought you were big on a workstation
that you could use... but
this doesn't include a mouse?
erlehmann: it seems way less
than 100kb of c. but
then
there are libs.
erlehmann: well,
they are optional.
they are used because i3 can not only
tile windows, but also
tab
them. and float
them, if you *really* want
to.
erlehmann: i3: 1.
tiling, so probably not until you order it
to draw
title bars. 2. focus can follow mouse and windows can float, but keyboard-only use is sensible.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: ever
try 'ratpoison' ? << yeah, i still need
to
try
this
ben_vulpes: erlehmann: looks like something i'd have
to learn in addition
to emacs
mod6: <+ben_vulpes> mod6: neat recommendation; i'm working with an abortion called 'exwm' for now << ah ok.
this is all emacs related eh?
erlehmann: one guy even wrote his own wm,
then switched
to i3
erlehmann: everyone using
tiling window management in my vincinity seems
to end up
there
ben_vulpes: but yes, .xinitrc does consist of `exec emacs` at
the moment
ben_vulpes: claims
to, but i don't desire
that at
this moment
ben_vulpes: exwm puts
the x window into an emacs buffer, so can eg C-x b opera
shinohai: Stay
tuned
to find out why
the ETH genesis block funds have moved. Absolute pin-drop silence on
that one.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-06-20 16:30 phf: building wot for all comers will suffer
the same fate as pgp. since nobody's using it, it
turns into an arms race of easy
to use, or "innovation" also known as masturbation over
technical minutiae. i sort of realized
this when i
tried applying
tmsr solutions
to my cypherpunk friends: "no we don't need
to research
the difference between signal and
telegram, just encrypt it
to my gpg key and post it on dpaste or whatever." eliminated all
the
technical di
shinohai makes every effort
to exhaustively research his lulz