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RetroUpriser: heh, i have my kings on e
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic because... i don't know it ? so ended up making some shit up on the spot ?
mircea_popescu: then perhaps i could.
mircea_popescu: somehow i was missing a knight o.o
mircea_popescu: aw shgit i had the pawn moved not the bishiop. my bad.
decimation: asciilifeform: seems to me it would be easier just to send a pcm signal like bpsk or something, but I guess this was before that kind of stuff was well known
decimation: re: semi quad-copter << I don't get how that's more effective than a semi-truck full of small guided ballistic missiles
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i was always curious why nagant forward-cam did not catch on
mircea_popescu: so i got it right ? go me.
BingoBoingo: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--O-wxNBJR--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/omamfciqg1uiper3pdrj.jpg << Murican ingenuity
mircea_popescu: i dun have an ipad here ;/
mircea_popescu: i dun have a login
RetroUpriser: And i was thinking of using chess.com
mircea_popescu: i have no idea what h b is.
decimation: I get the feeling that's the wrong translation at times
decimation: yeah I also found it interesting in 'stierlitz' that he didn't send his own morse/radio traffic
asciilifeform: i have no idea what usa used, probably same.
decimation: asciilifeform: when I visited Bletchley park, they told a story about this. Apparently the germans initially sent the 'headers' in enigma traffic in plaintext before the message
decimation: I was amused the reference to the lady morse operator's "hand"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, i lifted 'kyristor' name not from the obvious place, but from a zoological exploration of a peculiarly malignant femiderp re: 'kyriarchy'
mircea_popescu: (and by "it's here" i means specifically, b-a)
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu The idea being that any current “social media” website is a defective implementation of the WoT, what I intend to do is prove this point. Because the sort of idiots involved won’t figure it on their own, and the assholes a la zuck and conde nast have about as much interest in the matter as your random bank cares about getting off shitty buggy ms software.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which is why the "unspecified" website i asked for someone to make a month ago and punkman volunteered is EXACTLY a wot-driven film database.
mircea_popescu: while the exercise is instructive, i don't really believe it's the girls' fault exactly.
mircea_popescu: but the problem is not merely storage. retrieval is up there too. consider the simple task "let us watc ha movie". the girls now have to find one. i've distributed more lashes for failure to find good films than for all other reasons combined, in 2014.
undata: the sites I'm thinking of solve this by making upload credits capital you spend on download, effectively
mircea_popescu: suppose i wanted to do something of the substance of actual reason, knowledge, science. da fuck do i do ? pray ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'll tell you something about obscure. perhaps the best franchise in the history of western pornography is kink.com. best in purely aesthetic terms. now, their various brands, things such as i dunno, publichumiliation exist on the piratebay in the sense of maybe a dozen items out of what, 500 ? 1k total ?
mircea_popescu: how about this canonical formulation of it : most of what i know i know alone, because the "internet" is made out of knowledge in the sense the earth is made out of grass.
asciilifeform: it goes beyond 'where do i put l337 w4r3z'
mircea_popescu: i know i've ranted about it on occasion.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i assume you studied some of the known bitcoin predecessors.
asciilifeform: as in, the one you and i read.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: american 'can't say exactly who i was' vietnam vet.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i want to link to an actual document. with a known sha2.
BingoBoingo: I've located a copy. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=running+rings+of+spies+kickass.to&t=canonical
asciilifeform: iirc i posted it once, to a 'file host' thing, but of course long gone.
undata: maybe I'll write that this weekend
thestringpuller: ^- did i do it wrong
mircea_popescu: i like it when hirelings go "hello micrea". on a first name basis with people you don't even know the first name of ? way to fail multiple times per line!
asciilifeform: in a, i dare say, psychiatric style.
mircea_popescu: i haven't a clue if they mostly do or don't.
asciilifeform: (bugger: 'i wouldn't work for no russian scum' agent: 'aha, but we're mossad, friendlies, dontchaknow')
mircea_popescu: think cc server - rooted box. i'm the rooted box. say something to me!
asciilifeform: i thought the hypothetical was that mr. o is the commander.
mircea_popescu: let's model it properly. you're the kgb special assets chain of command, and i'm orlov.
asciilifeform: unless i dramatically fail to grok how this works, a public blog is very much not the correct tool in the box for this.
asciilifeform: picture the letter: 'dear mr.o, where can i park my mystery crate that certainly does not contain a rocket launcher.'
asciilifeform: same way i might find a mechanic
gernika: I could see him as the "social media" branch of a wider effort that includes RT.
mircea_popescu: either he's an officer, which is weird, but weird is not new in the game ; or else he's just yet another aspiring-talking head, except not working for X company but Y, or else i'm wrong.
RagnarDanneskjol: this is the one i was thinking of http://trilema.com/2014/the-problem-of-enforcement/ - also worth rereading
asciilifeform: but i give enough of a miniature shit to link mr. o
asciilifeform: mostly on account of i can't be bothered to give a shit.
mircea_popescu: i don't see you churning out an article a week about how "evil nato" and "nice putin" ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if orlov's a paid muppet, when do i get paid.
mircea_popescu: i just published it
RagnarDanneskjol: oh yes very interesting indeed - I read it before - always get more the second time around. thank
TheShrander: i'm trying get some more people here, so they can understand and not waste money in fucking startups... we will see :D
BingoBoingo: cazalla: I was, but... you can go ahead
cazalla: dignork: a, lol, i see what you mean, it's a typo in original css, full text then: http://dpaste.com/0D7MGFD <<< thanks, it's a bit of an improvement for mobile
TheShrander: i'm gonna hold a speech about the WoT in Italy next month. mircea_popescu we have already talk weeks ago, i'm wyrdmantis, remember?
undata: gernika: when I was 16 I worked for a software company which persuaded staff (myself excluded of course) to alter their stock options unfavorably given that they subsequently sold out to HP
mircea_popescu: gernika i can see it.
mircea_popescu: 12-08-2014 05:29:50 <punkman> I am subjecting myself to Swanson's book << anything came of this ?
mircea_popescu: which is, i guess, what "traditional marriage" is all about.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather BE the prostitute.
mircea_popescu: why would i go to fucking london.
mircea_popescu: so orlovs' prediction is that in the near future i will be able to order oligarch underage daughter prostitute to my hotel room in odessa ?
mircea_popescu: diametric i bet you it's a "cost saving measure"
ben_vulpes: i've been a busy boy it's true
mod6: mircea_popescu: eh yeah, just making sure i guess, those wern't posted to the mailing list.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i already forgot most of this
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: aha, i think you wrote that one
undata: I'm not convinced I'm asking the right question.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't disagree the brain works. im just saying, it's not working till it does work.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't agree. it doesn't do any work.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: e.g., i like to imagine that i had 'working brain', yet here i am 'on mars', far away.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't say that i agree. they're cheap as dust. but very far, typically, from the 'levers of power'
asciilifeform: stuxnet << as i described in my article 'don't blame the mice' - imho, iran doesn't really want to live. how we know this? if they wanted to live, there would have been a public impalement of whoever said 'everyone runs winblows, it's ok for us to'
mircea_popescu: i dunno what he meant by it, but what he actually said does allow an interpretation that actually works, so. benefit of the doubt.
undata: mircea_popescu: ah I understand; I took it as "violence start-ups"
mircea_popescu: i have servers, too, and as the ddos rises so do the servers. simple equation there.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i always did, but that is besides the point anyway.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'd say i'm the poster child for orlov's "violent entrepreneurs". it's not that i make an enterprise of violence, is that i clearly and pointedly reserve the right to use violence without limit.
undata: I am unaware of their total capacity to defend themselves
undata: mircea_popescu: the one I'm thinking of is better termed a distributor
undata: mircea_popescu: here in Oregon there are plenty of farming operations that I wouldn't be surprised if later they take on a more political nature
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at least where i live
mircea_popescu: and i dont mean no dime peddling doofus either.
undata: asciilifeform: there we go; I was going to suggest "state govts"
undata: I could see that.
undata: asciilifeform: It is likely a failure of my imagination that I cannot guess what sort of violence-entrepreneurs might emerge in the US.
ben_vulpes: i can't imagine that was set at any time.
ben_vulpes: i have no idea where /foo/ is even configured
jurov: i saw blender+py from 2007
jurov: Oh you want to sort out weird old mess. Sounds like stuff I am good with.
jurov: Dunno if guru, but I do have few pull requests against py projects.
mircea_popescu: borlandc++ sucked by comparison. maybe because i was too dumb to properly grok the language, or too lazy to learn the spec
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually ironically enough, pascal was supposed to be a shitty program. c++ was supposed ot be the cat's teats. yet the experience i had over a coupla summers with turbopascal is pretty much unmatched. maybe the only time i actually enjoyed coding.