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punkman: , whose eventual death— when just
a few thousand jihadists remain—will usher in the apocalypse."
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a bitcent before March"
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assbot: Logged on 17-02-2015 01:41:05; asciilifeform: hdd firmware << 1) snore. revealed definitively in doc. ~month ago,
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=18-01-2015#981436 2) proven as concept in 'linux on hdd head controller' ~2 yrs ago 3) experimented with privately by numerous folks, incl. yours truly, for
a few years before 4) mostly
a snore, even the best hdd diddle falls down in
a raid5 system
cazalla: not sure you can over pay for
a good kebab
lobbes has fuzzy memories being drunk in the DR; buying
a kebab from some street vendor. Probably over-paid
cazalla: tmw is such
a write off after drinking this much
cazalla: thestringpuller, u taking the piss mate? u having
a go? u wanna go?
cazalla: depends if you're
a bloke or sheila
cazalla: well ya wanna be
a true blue fair dinkum aussie cunt ya gotta get ya such is life tat to go with your southern cross tat
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: soon enough you'll be pretty disatisfied with the world in general << i thought this was naturally
a part of the aging process. i.e. "the old man".
lobbes: I have no idea what is running on my bill-gates machine, but I can find that answer in less than
a second on my Debian VPS
cazalla: damn susan sarandon is not
a bad piece of ass in rocky horror, nothing on magenta but better than the pixelated c64 shit back in the day
jurov: they say bluray has pit size 150 nm, track pitch 320 nm.. allows for quite
a density
cazalla: punkman, oh nice, that'll be
a help
punkman: cazalla:
a wiki of bitcoin companies, who was involved, when they launched/closed etc etc, edited and maintained by
a select few << I pitched this idea
a couple times, guess the time has come for it?
pete_dushenski: i have no interest in paying for
a wsj sub to see the rest of that article, however
pete_dushenski: "The Great Internet Power Grab: We’ve come
a long way from Steve Jobs as ‘phone phreak’ to Tom Wheeler as ruler of the Internet." << should i know who tom wheeler is ? if he's someone, why isn't he here ?
ben_vulpes: and
a more-or-less patched-up-to-date-with-mailing-list dynamically linked build
ben_vulpes: i'm endeavoring to sync
a portatronic build
pete_dushenski: that, or kaspersky needs to hire
a few more people with brains
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell the_scourge hey ninjashogun managed to crap more lines into the log over
a longer time than you. howzat feel?
pete_dushenski: "Researchers for Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab spent more than two weeks trying to crack the MD5 hash using
a computer that tried more than 300 billion plaintext guesses every second. After coming up empty-handed, they enlisted the help of password-cracking experts, both privately and on Twitter, in hopes they would do better. Password crackers Jens Steube and Philipp Schmidt spent only
a few hours before figuring
pete_dushenski: "Unraveling
a mystery that eluded the researchers analyzing the highly advanced Equation Group the world learned about Monday, password crackers have deciphered
a cryptographic hash buried in one of the hacking crew's exploits. It's Arabic for "unregistered." "
ben_vulpes: also had all the sony cd players that did mp3s before portable hdds were
a thing
cazalla: i opted for the creative jukebox.. what
a piece of shit that was
mircea_popescu: It's debatable whether keeping potential terrorists in Cuba is
a good idea. But when the State starts using pyschiatry to manage their population... I know you think I am exaggerrating. I'll bet you're not poor.
mircea_popescu: The system is designed with simply one outcome in mind: keep the poor with high recidivism rates and minimal social resources in jail--
a sort of half-way house for the disenfranchised-- until you can't possibly justify it any longer, and then give them
a quick trial, accept the guilty plea ("what guilty plea?") and sentence them to time served and probation-- where you can add further controls.
pete_dushenski: re goethe thing: "
a dingo ate my baby" is the first thing that comes to mind
ben_vulpes: this is topologically identical to the "Surface" shitshow, where when the retarded windows touch ui gets in your way you can get rid of it and go back to classic windows, with which one interacts with
a stylus.
Vexual: I think if brussexels had
a look at northern Australian, they would say 'don't bother'
ben_vulpes: now there's
a great conspiraci(!) theory
BingoBoingo: Indeed, delicious. Oxtail is also good slow cooked on
a kettle grill and finished in sauce
a lot like people do with pork and brisket.
BingoBoingo: If there is
a part of the cow that tastes more like beef than the tongue I have yet to meet it.
BingoBoingo: Not delivery. Aunt made
a delicious monster of
a chocolate on chocolate recursive cake.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo quite exactly. "fuck you, i'm
a dragon". "because i say so". you seen /search-and-destroy/ ?
mircea_popescu: who owns it, becomes
a little lord. You want money? They demand your service. It is the opposite of owning
a stock, where you demand their service. It's more than just
a concentration of wealth among the few. It is also
a concentration of control, and, more importantly, risk. You may not be able to profit from it, but if something goes bad, for sure you'll be asked to pay for it.
mircea_popescu: But now things are different. Not since the 1980s, and before that never, has there been this much M&
A activity, share buybacks and privatization. While this boosts share prices in the short term, as privateers bid up the price in
a takeover, there's
a huge downstream cost: the company is no longer public. You don't get to profit from it unless you work for it. Each privatized company, or the private equity firm
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 01:42:33; decimation: then I heard this podcast:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/glenn_reynolds.html << "Guest: It's funny--one of my friends, who has been
a long-term, upper level bureaucrat in Washington said to me his favorite phenomenon to see is these people coming through these usually politically-appointed jobs and, he says: They think everybody loves them. And then they leave the job and they realize that eve
mircea_popescu: hose soldiers were thinking, "look, I know who I am, I know I'm not
a coward, I'm not helping the Iranians, but I have to do whatever is necessary to get out of this mess." What they are saying is that they can declare who they are, and what they do has no impact on it. "I am
a hero, regardless of how I act." That's the narcissist fallacy. Whatever they may think about themselves, the fact is that they did help the
mircea_popescu: "Here's an example I fear no one will understand. The Iranians took 15 British soldiers hostage. The soldiers surrendered without
a fight (ironically, so as not to start an international incident), and then pretended to go along with the Iranians. They did the song and dance "we are bad, we are imperialists, Ahmadinejad is good, we're sorry, thanks for being so nice to us" and were eventually released. So I'm sure t
decimation: asciilifeform: clearly what you need to do is fashion
a tool to 'capture' the microfiche screen
decimation: actually there's already
a business where people 'resell' 'free' usg records - ancestry.com
Adlai: the more i think about it, the more it seems that nicks are
a second layer on top of the wot, provided by specific wot nodes - either
a centralized nick->node mapping like assbot, or individual gossipd configs
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Taged mega lol for
a reason
mircea_popescu: "Consider this: In the past 10 years has the distribution you run changed significantly in what it offers over other distributions? I think you'll find the answer is largely no. I do have to give
a shout out to openSUSE for the OBS, but otherwise I've used my desktop in the same exact way that I have always used it within the continuity of distribution X,Y, or Z since I started using them. Distributions simply aren't f
decimation: actually
a sprat is the same thing as
a 'brisling'
decimation: asciilifeform: do you have
a favorite brand
BingoBoingo: decimation: Not proper mind you, but
a tease.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: More RAM makes << there's
a legitimate "keep blockchain on ramdisk" thing. sadly... it won't be feasible. it's luxury.
mircea_popescu: by the way, i scored
a major victory in the battle with culinary darkness.
decimation: the median usian has
a strange aversion to tinned fish of all kinds
decimation: how is the 'ic printer' gonna grow you
a pure si substrate?
mircea_popescu: nah, say by 2030-2050 you will be able to buy one of today's ic printers in the size of
a 3d printer
mircea_popescu: and electronics hit their wall, half
a decade or so ago.
Adlai: but there's an inflection point. the deskjet printer would have seemed equally wonderous to
a (human) printer in 1700 and in 1850, despite the former being twice as far away
mircea_popescu: not really. it was
a big deal for as long as miniaturization was going strong, 1950 - 2000
Adlai: i guess the question is, what purpose does the wot serve? is it just
a way of programming the congregation's robotic doormen, or is it something more?
Adlai: let the user assign nicknames, let wot nodes publish
a signed message of which nicks they use, let wot nodes produce signed lists of which nicks they trust as which nodes... endless possibilities can be built on top, but why make nicks part of the fundamental model? they're not first class citizens. keys are.
BingoBoingo: <Adlai> let's take
a step back. the wot should be about who trusts whom, and trust is verified on the basis of signatures. i see no reason why node identity should be based on anything other than signing keys. << limit in wetware when parsing single identity multiple nicks
Adlai: you can have
a wot (and anything built on top, such as gossipd) without nicks entering the equation
Adlai: let's take
a step back. the wot should be about who trusts whom, and trust is verified on the basis of signatures. i see no reason why node identity should be based on anything other than signing keys.
☟︎ Vexual: Does blockchain still dl from
a single source?
Adlai: mike_c: i'd rephrase that as "is it kosher to associate
a single wot node with multiple nicks" ie ratings to nicks sharing
a gpg key should apply to both equally
BingoBoingo: ^ For the people who have not suffered this PC-BSD is equivalent to
a 90's era Winblows reskinning. Ubuntism brough to FreeBDSM.
BingoBoingo: Mtier = Golden toilet company that sells exportable installs of desktop systems for oil rigs et al makes Gnome
a centerpiece of their OpenBSD desktop solution.
decimation: asciilifeform: the concept of
a closed design chip is dead forever too
decimation: "asciilifeform doesn't see the appeal of closed source unixen" << I see the appeal of actual people maintaining
a unix, closed or open