asciilifeform: largely from ru folks working into/out of cn
asciilifeform: at any rate, who am i to say that mircea_popescu would not fit in cn. perhaps he has always wanted to eat roast dog, pay 90% of his revenue as bakshish to local party 'райком', and endure the stench of the most packed mass of beoble known...
asciilifeform: i bet nubbins`'s cook roomie isn't any more present in pyongyang than in pekin
asciilifeform: idk, but i imagine it isn't any less entertaining than crashing a lame thin fuck's party ?
asciilifeform: dirigible shield generator not strong enough for pyongyang ?
asciilifeform: incidentally, if pekin, why not pyongyang ?
asciilifeform: unless i am catastrophically misinformed.
asciilifeform: could prolly find a spot with nothing bipedal for 500km+
asciilifeform: i mean, if i had to give up something like eating Proper Food, i'd rather live on tree bark in siberia. nice, quiet, prolly could get a photovoltaic set and satellite horn running there.
asciilifeform: y'know, the place which makes ru look civilized, friendly, inviting in comparison
asciilifeform lacks the necessary lsd to fully digest the notion of mircea_popescu moving to the world's statally-strongest, taking-no-shit-from-the-white-man mega-ethnostate
asciilifeform: '...For the women whose jobs are to lead men astray Circe, Delilah, Morgan Le Fey.'
asciilifeform: (cracked game machines were formally forbidden on ebay, iirc, long ago)
asciilifeform: the one thing which may have been the boojum, other than straight laundry, is a secret dog-whistle via the price that the unit is modded
asciilifeform: nah they were (at the time) standard-issue.
asciilifeform: understand, there weren't vintage/rarity/mod-chipped units
asciilifeform: (it is not altogether a waste of time to comb the site for items getting sold (not merely listed) for orders of magnitudes above any reasonable estimate of their worth. educational.)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: but if you know what money laundering is, then no surprise
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if 'ebay' is any guide, an 'x-box' game machine is worth a few $k.
asciilifeform: 'The third part was triggering bans on proxies VPNs and tor exit nodes, making as many file requests as possible so that users will not be able to use them to safely access websites. It involved using or circumventing the .htaccess file I am not sure which. "The goal is to divert bandwidth strangle traffic and get them to block their own users."'
asciilifeform: mike_c: gpgme is a wrapper for gpg !!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a shell-callout to gpg
asciilifeform: and that magic feeling you get when you learn that 1) dealing with a massive pile of shit 2) the only alternative is to recreate the thing from minerals
asciilifeform: mike_c: eat node corresponds to a particular 'v' filehash.
asciilifeform: mike_c: may be premature, i haven't fully written the antecedent walker yet. but basic idea was to create a browsable (possibly clickable) directed acyclic graph
