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mircea_popescu: anyway, how did that theory go, it's a balancing act.
asciilifeform: thing is, a fellow who doesn't 'believe in' or like pgp, and doesn't care for the guarantees proper use provides, can automate up to a hundred percent of the process
mircea_popescu: then paste the result. it's maybe 30 seconds. but yeah, i guess, a hassle.
mircea_popescu: kanzure generally the way i use it is hit a curl http://bitcoin-otc.com/otps/8A736F0E2FB7B452|gpg and feed it my pw
kanzure: you have a very high tolerance
TomServo: it's really not a big deal.
asciilifeform: kanzure: it takes me all of 5 minutes to auth, and i do it every other week or so (when isp disconnects for a spell)
kanzure: i'm not gonna sit around like a jackass sending signed messages to gribble all the time
kanzure: asciilifeform: because i don't want to setup a pgp user agent with my irc client
rithm: i'm a part-time Stalker
asciilifeform: kanzure, fluffypony, a few others i think
asciilifeform: ^ that channel appears to be besieged by obnoxious crackpots, and they're starting to talk of #b-a-esque voice controls
BingoBoingo: It happened a few times all right after making the latest post
BingoBoingo: Is qntra a 500 internal server error for anyone else?
BingoBoingo: She said: "This is very disturbing but can you imagine! The author was over 60 and cut his [Pooh's] testicles off with a razor blade because he had a problem with his identity."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: why nl gets to and de not ? <<< because nl is not a fucking ally, and was not defeated in ww2.
BingoBoingo: One official is heard saying: "It doesn’t wear underpants because it doesn’t have a sex. It’s a hermaphrodite."
punkman: there's a ton of these shops, wonder how many went under this year
mircea_popescu: punkman it's a luxury thing tho.
punkman: always found these shops curious, trying to sell furs in a place that doesn't get cold http://www.vossfurs.com/media/1087/Hersonissos1.jpg
mircea_popescu: you'd expect you know, as much as a "hey, maybe this embargo thing is actually fucking eu more than ru"
mircea_popescu: sports press fulla it, especially if you count wrestling as a sport.
xanthyos: i just hope i'm not a sucker, i was a bitcoin denier for years until i got backdoored into it through my interest in getting around the internet poker ban
xanthyos: or a sequel
ben_vulpes: i had a nightmare about cracking my cock
xanthyos: the one positive aspect of having a broken penis is having an excuse to show it to people on webcam in a non-perverted medical way. so they can all see how big i am
davout: "hello kids. i'm on drugs." <<< saying hi like a boss
mats_cd03: we can go to the beach, do a pub crawl, discuss world domination, scribble on a man's dong cast... it'll be great
mats_cd03: #b-a trip? i'll rent a van.
gribble: Error: "seens" is not a valid command.
mircea_popescu: "We're not just talking about a CD of anything, of love songs. We're talking about a CD (cover) … there is a revolver with bullets," said Deputy District Attorney Anthony Campagna.
mircea_popescu: here's a thought : preet bharara benefited from the shootings, because HIS gang gained in status, allowing him to sell more whatever the fucks he's selling.
mircea_popescu: actually 4 way amputee chicks is a shiockingly large fetish
asciilifeform might write a real translation if he were awake, sober, and anyone gave half a damn
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Girl under a train - they sometimes fumble, / She might cry hysterically, or no; / You can hear Reanimator mumble: / 'Please give up your ghost, my dearest, go!' / Lifetime as a cripple? Who will feed you? / Even could I do a bloody thing? / Tell me, dearest, who you think will need you, / Without legs, and without everything?' << approx. partial transl.
asciilifeform: not 1 in 10 has a known english
Vexual: sir, this is a prime mover.
Vexual: that way i've got a story ready for when i get pulled over
decimation: some cars in the us have a 'flicker' mechanism built into the tail lights which I find highly annoying
Vexual: do a beat box
decimation: but the point is that apparently it sets a 'noise floor' for low lever signals
decimation: yeah, actually I've been told I have a deviated septum
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I've had a few as adult, and I found that I passed if I breathed through my mouth - breathing through my nose was too noisy <<< if breathing through your nose is noisy you should prolly have it fixed
decimation: I've had a few as adult, and I found that I passed if I breathed through my mouth - breathing through my nose was too noisy
asciilifeform: decimation: occupational, no, but did as a child. passed.
decimation: inductor microphonics are the bane of anyone trying to make a very stable rf circuit
asciilifeform can see the led blinkers on cars in traffic, which 'no one can see', it's a torment
asciilifeform: except i'd probably end up throwing it through a wall on account of vibrating pixels
asciilifeform: punkman: if that thing came in a double-height variant i'd buy
devthedev: See everyone in a week
asciilifeform: yes, there was a time when we have 'commodore 64' or 'bk-0010' and tv out, and that was it.
decimation: but it's in the living room and is a media computer
asciilifeform: the array, naturally, is shaped a little like a titanic horizontal display (to match visual field of eyes)
BingoBoingo: Solaris intoduces hell often trying to hunt drivers for a civilian machine
decimation: I note that it is more popular on many tech forums to openly discuss ditching linux in favor of a 'unix' clone
assbot: Eizo's Square Shaped FlexScan EV2730Q Monitor Features a 1920x1920 Resolution | Maximum PC ... ( http://bit.ly/1xY7DrW )
asciilifeform neglected to tell the surprising part of the dead lcd story - that replacing a side screen is a royal bitch on account of virtually all extant lcd being worthless in terms of poor vertical view angle tolerance
BingoBoingo: cazalla: I kind of wish you would have cooked it in a little rabbit wheelchair like Phillip Seymore Hoffman
asciilifeform: (device was a 'tecan evo 200')
asciilifeform: decimation: just one not featured in the list, because afaik i was the first to ever plug the damn thing into a linux box
assbot: USB.org - Getting a Vendor ID ... ( http://bit.ly/1xY6OiW )
decimation: here's a shopping list http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids
decimation: I think ftdi will give you a pid off of their vid if you use their chip
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Samsung plasma monitors sold as TV's seem to have good longevity. Just need to sit at a distanc
decimation: are you going to pay the $5k fee for a vid/pid for cardano?
decimation: asciilifeform: you should buy a stack of plasma displays
asciilifeform just dug out a 'radiforce g21' from emergency stash, but fears it may be too heavy for the hoist
asciilifeform: and it'll be a bitch to swap. like disassembling a pipe organ.
thestringpuller: never would take you for a beavis and butthead fan mircea_popescu
nubbins`: it's a special one
nubbins`: literally so bright you couldn't read the knobs on a dark stage
nubbins`: i've got a small 12-channel mixer i use for live shows that I had to putty over the power led (blue)
mircea_popescu: eventually i taped a businesscard in there. 1/16th inch of cardboard did it.
kakobrekla: see ddoser now ddos /a
mircea_popescu: it's an approximation not a science this thing.
decimation: ah now it just came up (/a) without the error
kakobrekla: anyway /a works here
decimation: on one computer when I try to go to qntra.net the "ABE" noscript warning pops up blocking a get to 127.0.0.1
assbot: A Free* Bitcoin ATM Machine For Suitable Hosts | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1z0akaJ )
mircea_popescu: i get what assbot said, http://qntra.net/2014/10/a-free-bitcoin-atm-machine-for-suitable-hosts/
kakobrekla: decimation try http://qntra.net/a
decimation: I got a qntra page with a 127.0.0.1 link
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wait, a melon what, stabbed threateningly ?
asciilifeform: 'a woman - for duty, a boy - for pleasure, but a melon - for ecstasy.' -- turkish proverb
punkman: that was a long time ago
mircea_popescu: punkman: nah not UK, some shithole in south-east europe << wait srsly ?! i always figured you for a brit.
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B27NMbuCAAAxOKa.jpg << dude got a decent beard.
BingoBoingo: A++ Carpenter
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Jesus wasn't a scam till Peter and Paul got into a fight over marketing and royalties. made good tables.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell missshibe hey, maybe instead of a class action suit against random bankrupt derp, you could organise a comet landing against him ? at least it'd be a novel novelty item...
xanthyos: ;;rate alevin 2 Known thorugh EFNet channels nearly a decade. "Seinfeld" expert. Buddhism aspirant.
mircea_popescu: MissShibe: Hi all, if anyone has lost money in Moolah / Cryptsy we are working on a class action lawsuit against Ryan Kennedy. <<< because "class action" suits exist for the purpose of allowing a bunch of derps to not have to pay anything in civil claims against individuals now.
cazalla: fuck it, i'm over it, gonna put a rabbit in the pan
mircea_popescu: TomServo decimation is this a matter of you not resolving the domain ? what's dig qntra.net say ?
BingoBoingo: Well, ad nao has more modest sidebar placement. Don't want to seem like too cheap a hooker when second potential advertiser wants to negotiate
decimation: yeah I get the fact that it is a compiler, but why would you want to use it to compile itself and then use the compiler to recreate the target lisp?
cazalla: mircea_popescu: wait so it's free ? <<< lol yes, not a paid placement, this is more a test anyway
asciilifeform: decimation: 'sbcl' is a compiler. (a very spiffy compiler, that you can generally use in precisely the same ways folks used primitive interpreter-only lisps, but still a compiler.)
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's a revenue share thing, dunno its been up long enough to get clicked yet
assbot: reproducible builds - a month ahead of schedule ... ( http://bit.ly/1uNs5eG )