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asciilifeform: decided that it would be a particularly apt name for the ideal 'crucifix' against the vampires in question.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, i lifted 'kyristor' name not from the obvious place, but from a zoological exploration of a peculiarly malignant femiderp re: 'kyriarchy'
mircea_popescu: (and by "it's here" i means specifically, b-a)
mircea_popescu: just how well fortified it actually is =- that's a technical discussion'
mircea_popescu: a fortress is first and foremost an embodied fuck you.
mircea_popescu: now see, THAT is a fortress worth making
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu The idea being that any current “social media” website is a defective implementation of the WoT, what I intend to do is prove this point. Because the sort of idiots involved won’t figure it on their own, and the assholes a la zuck and conde nast have about as much interest in the matter as your random bank cares about getting off shitty buggy ms software.
asciilifeform: in fact, 'reddit' gizmos can be seen as a specially broken case of wot - having the same relationship to wot as baited rat poison has to food
asciilifeform: (an individual could be a 'node' on any number of orthogonal wots, such as film tastes, mathematics, etc)
asciilifeform: ^ my ancient failed attempt at 'wot.' was to be used with another (never happened) apparatus, 'sollipse,' for running a 'multiverse' of wots. ☟︎
asciilifeform: (a review of the very primitive state of the art)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which is why the "unspecified" website i asked for someone to make a month ago and punkman volunteered is EXACTLY a wot-driven film database.
undata: given a BTC transaction which represents an "item" in the catalog, there could as well be transactions which refer to that one and rate it
mircea_popescu: how do you find a good film ?
mircea_popescu: careful what she says, next she gets a bag of fucks.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: reminds me of a tale from the pet. she was once given a bag of 'books' by a 'friend' who vaguely recalled that she 'likes reading books.'
mircea_popescu: in fact, the way digital stuff is handled, it reminds me of how books would be handled in the house a functionally illiterate peasant from the 1900s.
asciilifeform: well if you want something to read we prolly have a coupla books << prison library.
mircea_popescu: imagine if libraries of the paper variety were organised on the principle that "well if you want something to read we prolly have a coupla books"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'll tell you something about obscure. perhaps the best franchise in the history of western pornography is kink.com. best in purely aesthetic terms. now, their various brands, things such as i dunno, publichumiliation exist on the piratebay in the sense of maybe a dozen items out of what, 500 ? 1k total ?
asciilifeform: it's a serious problem, and folks who don't routinely discuss 20+ year old, moderately-obscure documents don't even know the beginning of it.
mircea_popescu: is clear testament to this being a major problem.
mircea_popescu: problem goes deeper : if "who can add is finite" then you have a point of failure baked in quite nastily.
asciilifeform: and a few others
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, there is a lot of overlap between the problem of packing bits and the problems of blockchain and crypto isn;'t there.
mircea_popescu: just make a scan.
BingoBoingo: Known sha2 for scans of print text is a very hard problem unless designated agent goes to Paladin press, buys dead trees, and signs hashlists
mircea_popescu: the ideal would be to have a permanent file storage that works by incrementally adding chickens to the task
undata: seems like seeding a trackerless torrent with your thing and a signature of the thing solves this
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is a different piece, not suvorov
BingoBoingo: That's a harder problem.
asciilifeform: or it isn't a real discussion.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i want to link to an actual document. with a known sha2.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: and may or may not be the actual scan or a questionable ocr turd
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It's a path that leads to a copy, that lives
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the top link is to a torrent which may or may not be alive
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that's not a copy
BingoBoingo: I've located a copy. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=running+rings+of+spies+kickass.to&t=canonical
asciilifeform: iirc i posted it once, to a 'file host' thing, but of course long gone.
asciilifeform: a curious little vintage monograph
asciilifeform: instead of crapping out a 'go find it, it's there somewhere on the net'
asciilifeform: not only this, but it helps to be able to link to a document in a thread.
thestringpuller: host on #b-a satellite in space
asciilifeform: 'ring of spies' << when does #b-a get own w4r3z ftp?
undata: thestringpuller: not a clue
mircea_popescu: i like it when hirelings go "hello micrea". on a first name basis with people you don't even know the first name of ? way to fail multiple times per line!
asciilifeform: (an intelligence case officer is a kind of psychiatrist, in the same sense that a sniper is a type of surgeon)
asciilifeform: in a, i dare say, psychiatric style.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you happen to have a w4r3z link to 'running rings of spies' by 'paladin press', it has some (authenticated and not) case studies.
asciilifeform: (most folks, apparently, feel less 'edgy' re: the idea of muppeting for a small-time intelligence agency, than ru or us)
mircea_popescu: "a stunted copulation between a woman who hadn’t been laid in decades and a man who interrogated mattress springs for a living"
mircea_popescu: i haven't a clue if they mostly do or don't.
asciilifeform: just that it fails on a few basics. for one thing, ru recruiters traditionally false-flag.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck knows, it's a shitty life the junkies, whores and assets lead.
mircea_popescu: but this is a technical objection.
asciilifeform: moscow: 'we need to park a http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-11-2014#917246 within 10km of 'camp david.'' ☝︎
asciilifeform: or at least a controlled muppet
mircea_popescu: now, propose a situation, sketch a plan and give me an order.
asciilifeform: unless i dramatically fail to grok how this works, a public blog is very much not the correct tool in the box for this.
asciilifeform: picture the letter: 'dear mr.o, where can i park my mystery crate that certainly does not contain a rocket launcher.'
asciilifeform: let's play this 'chess' a few moves in
asciilifeform: same way i might find a mechanic
asciilifeform: s never met any Soviet citizens, leads a lonely, introspective life, far from other people, and is by profession a forester, fisherman, lighthouse-keeper, security guard or railwayman. In many cases such an agent will be a physical invalid...'
asciilifeform: 'A portrait of an ideal agent for spetsnaz emerges something like this: a man of between fifty-five and sixty-five years of age who has never served in the army, never had access to secret documents, does not carry or own a weapon, knows nothing about hand-to-hand fighting, does not possess any secret equipment and doesn't support the Comunists, does not read the newspapers, was never in the Soviet Union and ha
mircea_popescu: sorta fringe-y, sorta-angry but not really, "let's make a new alphabet"
asciilifeform: in the classic book, you had a fella going up to the junkyard keeper, offering him a bag of benjies 'for almost nothing'
mircea_popescu: put up a craigslist ad ?
asciilifeform: that one had a perfectly pedestrian military logic.
asciilifeform: 'demoralize decadent west.' but why take a contract out on a corpse?
gernika: I could see him as the "social media" branch of a wider effort that includes RT.
asciilifeform: iirc that's the one where 'we need a new fleanode'
mircea_popescu: so wait, you COULD be a tailor ? cuz yo usorta like cut stuff now and again ?
asciilifeform: but i give enough of a miniature shit to link mr. o
asciilifeform: mostly on account of i can't be bothered to give a shit.
mircea_popescu: i don't see you churning out an article a week about how "evil nato" and "nice putin" ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if orlov's a paid muppet, when do i get paid.
cazalla: dignork: a, lol, i see what you mean, it's a typo in original css, full text then: http://dpaste.com/0D7MGFD <<< thanks, it's a bit of an improvement for mobile
TheShrander: i'm gonna hold a speech about the WoT in Italy next month. mircea_popescu we have already talk weeks ago, i'm wyrdmantis, remember?
undata: that was a formative experience
undata: gernika: when I was 16 I worked for a software company which persuaded staff (myself excluded of course) to alter their stock options unfavorably given that they subsequently sold out to HP
gernika: It's hard to go for more than a year here without the company you're working for being sold.
assbot: Logged on 27-09-2014 02:45:16; asciilifeform: decimation: the cure for this depression is to understand that a machine can be built to be -understood-.
assbot: ImperialViolet - A shallow survey of formal methods for C code
mircea_popescu: jurov so give it a look let me know ?
mircea_popescu: "Some of the action is bound to be quite shocking; for instance, while the elites and the oligarchs themselves are rather well defended, at least initially, their children, ensconced in various elite schools, academies and universities, comprise a soft target, setting the stage for school take-overs, mass kidnappings and shootings of a very different sort from the ones seen to date. "
mircea_popescu: diametric i bet you it's a "cost saving measure"
ben_vulpes: i've been a busy boy it's true
undata: sure, but there's a question of degree there
mircea_popescu: it's like accusing someone of us "rape". do they have a penis ? well....
undata: mircea_popescu: my question is how a parasitic overclass is avoided if one is to believe in soverignty and aristocracy?
mircea_popescu: otherwise endlessly spinning the "simulated loads" of bezzle is a great way to keep a great engine away from the road.
asciilifeform: doesn't do any work << usually folks ask 'if x works' with the understanding that x may be on a shelf, in a crate, has not been used in anger yet
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's a much larger issue there. iran is mostly ethnially persian. the leadership, ethnically arab. on their own, the arabs are usually poor. therefore they depend on govt dole.
mircea_popescu: till you get your wheels on you're just a prototype. a good one, sure, but...
undata: but to ask a different question, how do we end up with authorities who are rational?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is the engine spinning on the test bed a working engine or not ?
undata: Iran to me is a great example of why strict authoritarian systems do not work
asciilifeform: stuxnet << as i described in my article 'don't blame the mice' - imho, iran doesn't really want to live. how we know this? if they wanted to live, there would have been a public impalement of whoever said 'everyone runs winblows, it's ok for us to'
mircea_popescu: a they found the domains huh.
mircea_popescu: " There tends to be a clean break with the old, collapsing society, which is motivated by money and prestige within society at large, because these entrepreneurial groups are motivated by honor and prestige within the in-group only." << what is the wot if not exactl;y that ?