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mircea_popescu: Framedragger i dun right off know i'd have a problem with
turkey.
Framedragger: unfortunately northern syria (rojava) uses internet via
turkish radio
towers (checked / had chat with
them once).
that'd be an interesting location (kurdish autonomous region; i mean, while it lasts....)
mircea_popescu: i'd have bought in mossul had
the idiots been a little less inept
mircea_popescu: which is why i'm in no
terrible hurry ;
trying
to spawn actual alternative first etc.
mircea_popescu: eh, better
to overprovision
than
to underprovision
these
things. but no, not yet.
mircea_popescu: i'm actually
thinking of standing up a similar box for eulora.
Framedragger: pete_dushenski: curious how much
they'd quote for 256 GB ECC ram :) (phuctor)
mircea_popescu: well, "the made-1k-realpeoplecurrency-bought flat and cheap hooker in socialistan" anecdote has naught
to do with "saving"
trinque: I dunno how a kid from .lt
thinks whichever govt is everlasting; even
the last
two cocks
that fucked
them in
the ass withered
mircea_popescu: is
the idea
that
the family line ends with you or what is
this anecdote about ?
mircea_popescu: "framedragger's dad hjad
the sense
to leave shitistan, worked for dollars in 1991, came back with 1k bought flat, spawned kid, who is
too dumb
to leave shitistan and work for bitcoin, make 1k, perpetuate
the cycle"
Framedragger: but yes, saving over multiple decades, different
thing *entirely*, of course of course.
mircea_popescu: that
the braindead fiat of
the local socialists was going
to outlive
the at-the-time republic-of-smart-people currency ?
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: right, insane inflation. counterpoint "it's all about
timing and location" anecdote (purely for entertainment): dad worked in chocolate factory in u.s. back in ~1991, for 2-3mo.; went home with ~ $1k, bought car and flat. ppp!
mircea_popescu: there is no such
thing as "different fiats".
the chinese made a usd-counerparty-fiat just for
the purpose of insulating usg from
their economy.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger
tell you what, review what your grandparents earned in usd when
they were your age, figure out how well
they'd live on it
today.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: didn't you demonstrate
that lookup could be got down
to o(1)?
Framedragger: (just
to be clear,
this is another is/ought, i was doing
the "is" (imho) part ^, not "ought", of course)
mircea_popescu: saving in usd,
though. for retirement.
this gotta
take
the cake.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: alright, more
than
that: i place higher odds of usd surviving in 2050 if put against btc surviving in 2050. why: a very primitive "age of existence" heuristic. and, i don't
trust EC crypto, like, you know, no-one here does. so not willing
to put retirement savings into btc. it adds up, utilities, retirement.
mircea_popescu: "count for 100% just as soon as
they stop
telling
themselves
the 0% story
to get
to
the slop like
the rest of
the pigs."
mircea_popescu: consider : even if i somehow decided
to sell a girl,
there exists no one who can meaningfully pay for her. what "money" ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno how you managed
to miss
the esr poverty discussion and
the debian dork murder and
the devil's leaves metaphore and everything else.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger
the point you elide is
that all
that fiatola "money" is not actually anything.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu:
there is
that. point is, world is ~sheep (when approximated/rounded),
they have fiatbux/lifedebtbux,
they don't care about
these
things, intel's profits come at scale, hence investing into "decent
tech" is not business-viable. is all i'm sayin'.
mircea_popescu: the prototype of
the former being of course naggum, who would have some rather pointed questions
to answer hadn't he
taken
the easy way out. most of
the rest aren't quite
that hard stuff, live a life of living death instead, cowering in
their basement from
tmsr emails etc.
mircea_popescu: either "momentary lapse into lucidity" by dubious author with VERY clenched
teeth, usually decade+ old ; or else cat-v/##crypto/tardstalk/reddit/tedx/etcetera.
mircea_popescu: somehow
the examination comes out
the same fucking way all
the
time.
mircea_popescu: hey, i actually
tend
to
take
time out of my day and examine candidates.
Framedragger: yes but
this is a bit circular, one of
those "prove P: if
tmsr,
then P; ergo, P"
Framedragger: anyway, i don't see much outrage in regards
to intel ME outside of
tmsr et al.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger and why are
they capable of hiring anything but sheilas ?
Framedragger: asciilifeform:
that's
the more dramatic
take on it;
the other one is "most of linux powerusers are dirt poor, and
there aren't many of
them [and
the companies which *run* on linux do not count as part of
the former group.]"
Framedragger: amd dropped coreboot support in (iirc) 2013 *because* it deemed it not profitable. impact
to business probably ~0.
mircea_popescu: count for 100% just as soon as
they stop
telling
themselves
the 0% story
to get
to
the slop like
the rest of
the pigs.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: how
the fuck do smart people stand up agaionst
the empire of stupid ? BY NOT BEING PART OF IT. hurr.
mircea_popescu: this company will not buy anything with
that crap. nor can it -- if it
tried everyone'd just leave anyway.
mircea_popescu: then
they wanna go around pretending like fucking goats is somehow obscene. had
they fucked goats instead
they'd be quite a lot more respectable.
mircea_popescu: and all
this happened because well,
the dorks
that were supposed
to stand up against it were jwzing.
Framedragger: (at least in intel ME, from slides i infer
that if it doesn't detect
the "ME firmware part in BIOS flash", it doesn't even
turn on?)
Framedragger: asciilifeform: no, but
the src of
the separate kernel at
the very least. "gotta start somewhere", again. but yeah i know, sisyphus much
Framedragger: access
to main memory, access
to *network* (complete bypass of cpu), yeahyeah... amazing
Framedragger: amd "kinda said"
they may release full src for coreboot et al., but obvs no dice yet
Framedragger: asciilifeform: yeah apparently. but gotta start somewhere. and yeh i understand
that shit's different *again* since
then
mircea_popescu: shinohai so basically
this is
the monero unraveling / going away party or what.
Framedragger: summary of short chat with cherryservers (hey can't hurt):
they used
to offer colo but do no more (hmh);
they "may" consider attaching "arduino-sized" (my description) hardware device, will report back
tomorrow after consulting with
technicians when
they are in.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger or
they have a 3 ring binder, or whatever
the fuck. why should i debug
their process when instead i could debug yours.
mircea_popescu: which,
to resolve ~that~ problem, alone eats plenty of yearly
thousands of dollars. it alone,
the loss leader of one of
the projects etc.
Framedragger: could it be legitimate concern of space in
their cramped cages
that
they are worrying about? (i know, naive interpretation)
mircea_popescu: it was an isp. one
that on
the price front is pretty cool but on
the service front sucks.
mircea_popescu: i mean of course you'll colocate boxes,
this is what you do. isp places his boxes in a datacenter, it's
the job description.
mircea_popescu: "oh but
they moo" "so what
the fuck if
they do." "it's scary!" "dude..."
mircea_popescu: this is like a discussion of dairy attempting
to avoid cows.
mircea_popescu: i don't get what
the problem with colocating boxes is supposed
to be. pro
tip : every box in every rack in every datacenter on planet earth WAS COLOCATED
THERE.
Framedragger: cherryservers do seem nice but
their nato affiliation is over 9000 hah
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i said cherryservers (ex balticservers) didn't want
to.
Framedragger: some providers may agree
to attach usb devices. iirc (possibly) leaseweb. (based in .nl, i know, but
they also fought some 'give us yer customers' cases iirc)
Framedragger: (iirc pinspb hosts, or is related
to 2x4 dns boxes. would need
to dig up)
Framedragger: asciilifeform: yeah, but
they don't offer colo, at least upon initial glance. can send query, of course. but may as well deal with
their upstream DCs