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Adlai: remember, my "server" is
a thinkpad ca 2002, so every cons counts
BingoBoingo: So OpenBSD 0.7.2 qt build 17 hours without an OOM kill (returned to 512MB process limit
a while back) Presently
a June 15th, 2013. Seems the space for bastards to be introduced has shrank enough to make bastards moar manageable.
decimation: I wonder if there's like
a little mini-clamp that you can affix to
a pin
decimation: asciilifeform: what do you think the best method would be to semi-permanently attach
a lead to an smt chip pin? I tend to ruin the pad by soldering
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: connect
a ttl-to-serial voltage converter to the convenient debug pins, and have at it << PC9000 largely valued because drive plugs in to IDE or SATA ports in this ISA/(hopefully there's
a PCI version by now) card. Boot to card. Diddle at leisure with curses interface. Most operations automated already.
decimation: I would like to get
a collection of 'chip clips'
BingoBoingo: <decimation> asciilifeform: it's impossible to analyze the rom contents of
a simple microcontroller << Once again PC9000. Russian product that basically lets anyone who can understand the interface su all over the hdd firmware.
decimation: hell I bet some of them have
a flash chip sitting there
decimation: asciilifeform: it's impossible to analyze the rom contents of
a simple microcontroller
decimation: in
a similar way that allowing the user to enter their own cryptography via
a separate front panel would be wrong
decimation: of course, the drive manufacturers couldn't put
a switch or toggle on the front of the computer
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: No particular reason. Makes Data recovery stuff easier with PC9000. Also creates
a market for that kind of data recovery when firmware makes drive shit the bed.
BingoBoingo: Reflashing firmware is one of those things that should require
a goat sacrifice. Fort Mead would smell better.
mircea_popescu: i actually walked by there, in the middle of teh night maybe
a month or two ago ?
mircea_popescu: at least if you mean "most of the people makin > 250k and living in
a big city"
decimation: " Market share of Bitcoin trading globally continues to mirror Bitcoin adoption stages, with China leading the way with 67%, the US capturing 27% of all Bitcoin trading, the EU following with 2.5% and the UK with
a stagnating 0.25%, mostly as
a result of
a lack of regulatory guidelines and UK banks withdrawing banking support from British Bitcoin businesses."
Adlai: last time i tried this, with
a financier watching over my shoulder, his bot trod on mine, and after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, both irrevocably crashed... that was nearly 5 months ago. now it's working flawlessly :D
mircea_popescu: it could work as
a wiki or as
a category on qntra i ugess.
mike_c: If you want
a bunch of people to contribute, the wiki is there. If you basically want to do it yourself, then sure, put it wherever.
cazalla: mike_c, that is specific to #b-
a moreso than Bitcoin in general isn't it? and anyway, if i pursue this by myself in the short-mid term, it'll reflect on me instead of b-
a website
mike_c: why not just use the b-
a wiki? It already has limited editors.
lobbes: So getting ZNC configured to use SSL ended up being
a great 'introduction project' for learning some of the basics of linux. I would recommend to all the other n00bs out there
mike_c: but seriously, if there were an L2 editable repository (like the b-
a wiki), I'm sure multiple people would contribute
mike_c:
a million eyes makes everything easy!
mircea_popescu: it would be good. if you have the time/energy, cazalla, it would work well as
a companion to qntra.
cazalla: researching an article and you know what would be good?
a wiki of bitcoin companies, who was involved, when they launched/closed etc etc, edited and maintained by
a select few
mike_c: hehe. it's
a strategy i suppose.
cazalla: mike_c, that's what friends are for, real friends, the ones with balls, the ones who will grab his arms from behind while you sock him
a couple times
mike_c: physically fighting bullies has
a short lifespan. when you get to high school they get
a lot stronger.
PeterL: but yes,
a few families at church bigger than mine
PeterL: religious belief? more of
a cultural thing
PeterL: how do you have half
a kid?
cazalla: pete_dushenski, how do you feel about actually letting the little shits in the playground run amok so that you can gauge how much of
a pussy your own kids are if they don't stand up to him?
Adlai: you managed to train
a cat!?
PeterL: I sprayed my cat
a couple times to keep her from walking on the dining room table, never tried it with my kids
Adlai: spraying water on
a puppy's face works wonders, has anybody tried that with brats?
punkman: "Until recently, firmware updates for typical desktop and laptop computers were difficult and somewhat risky. This situation, in part, was based on
a lack of friendly firmware download tools and operating system limitations. This situation has improved and Seagate now offers firmware updates as
a routine matter for the general support of your Seagate drive."
Adlai: sorry, this one:
http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=6 "The Western Digital firmware upgrade tools proves this is possible: it's basically
a tool you run under DOS to put new firmware to both the flash and the service area aka the reserved sectors of the hard disk."
pete_dushenski: The group used
a variety of means to spread other spying programs, such as by compromising jihadist websites, infecting USB sticks and CDs, and developing
a self-spreading computer worm called Fanny, Kasperky said.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> shoul;dn't that really be
a function/object/we ? << being
a bit sarcastic here boss
pete_dushenski: "Nobody’s really talking about it, but I suspect this is
a wider trend: blogs aren’t dying, but they are significantly declining. 2015 might be
a rough year."
mircea_popescu: While this discovery is familiar to readers of my blog, what might be
a surprise is what this heralds for our society politically and economically. It isn't socialism, or even communism, as I had feared. It's feudalism. It's not 2007. It's 1066."
mircea_popescu: "Taking Iraq and President Bush as starting points, and examining the defense mechanisms we use to cope with both, yields the unsurprising conclusion that we are
a society of narcissists.
mircea_popescu: someone drop it on hn, maybe the folk are bored and looking for
a rehash of 2005's internet politics ?
ben_vulpes: functionality that's worked for what,
a decade?
ben_vulpes: i just tried to share
a folder from one mac to another
PeterL: and there is not one king at the throne, it is more like
a council, or the greek forum
thestringpuller: lol. I can't wait til
a large crypto company is left to
a precocious 3yo.
thestringpuller: So I guess I visualize the IRC channel as
a bunch of people huddled in some large beautiful room.
A new person enters and one of the lords is like "you have permission to speak, what have you?" Which reminds me of congregations of days of old.
mircea_popescu: ok but generally two hydrocarbons united by
a double link at some point are called something no ?
mircea_popescu: "all is fine, don't worry, throw LOCs by the thousand million, because it's like
a truck, it can hold anything
mircea_popescu: ie, osama killed off the us simply by flying
a bomb disguised as
a plane into the us financial nerve center disguised asa building.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i wonder if the internet itself shouldn't have
a bus factor.
mircea_popescu:
a large part of the problem is similar to why you can't shoot fish worth
a crap. skin, muscle, fatand bone have widely variant refractive indexes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes except one pound of prime rib is
a) one pound rather than one hundred - and quantity has
a quality all of its own - for instance it won't likely spit blood in your eyes ; b) already intensively prepared. for instance ? skin removed.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, humans aren't "bare flesh" in the sense of, overgrown squid. it's really quite well designed
a mechanical apparatus. not least designed to... withstand swords.
mircea_popescu: (for instace : it's trivial to get
a blade stuck. say in the rib cage.
thestringpuller: so you don't like plants? I knew you were
a 100% carnivore.
thestringpuller: I was gonna visit you up in the great NW when I was out in SF in March since its
a train ride away.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i lived there i'd prep my girls with
a literful of it in the rectum before going to
a student party in one opf those cramped apts like they do.
Adlai: actually it's
a lot worse, he's part of BITCOIN
mircea_popescu: my dream is that at some future point two groups of people will beat each other up to cries of "the asshole's
a romanian gypsy!" "no he's an argentinian commie!"
mircea_popescu: how about "I am blocking you due to your association with
a argentinian ass bag named MirceaPopescu who has stolen the personal information of many people on fet life and posted it to
a web site."
PeterL: so to finalize where I was going, since n2o goes through the gas/liquid transition you can squish much more into the can at
a reasonable pressure than n2, and so you get fluffier cream when it comes out of the can. n2 whipped cream would not be fluffy.
nubbins`: also MFW i realized the "machismo" of north america in film, tv, commercials, etc etc was
a response to second-wave feminism
nubbins`: we have
a new batch of books done up
PeterL: h2 would probly need
a catalyst to do anything to your fat