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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> i see box where i can't ban ip as ~useless << why the heck.
asciilifeform: otherwise identical chipset, and same one as apu1
trinque: this was why "apu2" as standard example box
trinque: what I'd oppose is say, "and what if folks want to use it as a router, or NAS, or hair-net"
asciilifeform: my contention is that this functionality should never have been modularized / seen as optional.
asciilifeform: i see box where i can't ban ip as ~useless.
trinque: perhaps. you see firewalling as superior to shipping with "nothing but ssh shall be listening, and if you change this, caveat luser" ?
asciilifeform: 'Conexant's MicTray64.exe is installed with the Conexant audio driver package and registered as a Microsoft Scheduled Task to run after each user login. The program monitors all keystrokes made by the user to capture and react to functions such as microphone mute/unmute keys/hotkeys. Monitoring of keystrokes is added by implementing a low-level keyboard input hook [1] function that is installed by calling SetwindowsHookEx
asciilifeform: trinque: not as such. was wondering for which iron did you leave drivers in.
trinque a little sad to find the thing's neutered, but the updated infectious genbootstrap will work as well on the other, or any other device with kernel module tweaking
asciilifeform: if you believe the heathen chart ('bitnodes'), 'falcon' mega-relay-network etc has ~same number of nodes as... their count of trb.
asciilifeform: 'we lost on mining, let's leverage control of the telecoms, TeroristBlox will go as slow as we want, CornellBlox will go at the expected speed on the wire'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, chomski is getting out of usa about as much as gromyko
asciilifeform: you can represent this as a choice, but it is disingenuous and i gotta go change gas mask canister
mircea_popescu: a tribunal made of alf and working on alf principle as above, would hang alf for... http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-10#1654187 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: chomsky is, also, for opening bids, the only guy who pointed out what mp pointed out re joe stack. yes his version of "sops, you're cutting the branch you're sitting on" is neither as cogent, articulated, useful or descriptive as mine. but this is because he is old, comparatively stupid and comparatively uncultured.
mircea_popescu: ause it's online and we gotta compete on wordage''' items about current event which i'ma misrepresent as somewhow related to me really really hating the chomsky guy i really look up to for the reasons i actually look up to him, notwithstanding the whole pile exists only in my too-lazy-to-actually-read and too-eager-to-imagine-i-got-it-at-first-sentence''' dumber-than-rocks '''child prodigy''' head"
deedbot: BFEB1BB933BDE6C6F00C7A9956B9B11D967BCB16 registered as fbar.
fbar: An oath given freely is worth as much
asciilifeform: as seen with, e.g., mit lispm sources
asciilifeform: 'A 24-year-old man from Portland, Oregon, used a Tannerite explosion as a means of suicide. Officials indicated that on March 19, 2015, the man parked his car along US Route 26 in a rural area near Mt. Hood and walked into nearby woods, where he detonated a "large quantity" of Tannerite with a .223 caliber rifle. The blast shattered trees and resulted in a crater two feet deep and ten feet wide.' << lol, the sheer wtf
BingoBoingo: Or the wonderlands where tractor dealerships co-exist with car dealerships in a ratio that sometimes drops as low as 4/5
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/05/comey-out-at-fbi-swamp-thrashes-as-guileless-people-pleasing-politruck-fired/ << Qntra - Comey Out At FBI: Swamp Thrashes As Guileless People Pleasing Politruck Fired
mircea_popescu: not for years. about as relevant as being mentioned in the subway.
mod6: yah, same as both alf and I too.
asciilifeform: from same rag, 'President Trump’s sudden removal of James B. Comey as director of the FBI sparked immediate fears among legislators and others that the bureau’s probe into possible collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign might be upended now that Trump himself can handpick its new supervisor.'
mircea_popescu: this DOESN'T constitute some sort of misandrism, and it's NOT time to change the laws to you know, punish more girly shit ? how about 5 years in jail for watching netflix without a partner, speaking in a shirll tone, being fat or being obnoxious ? and striking male crimes suck as you know, fucking, from the books ?
asciilifeform: in other lolmatics, https://archive.is/MVqGZ >> 'As bitcoin rises, Mt Gox approaches solvency (vs. claims). Now Reddit users are asking @MagicalTux to reopen. They even new designed logos.'
mircea_popescu: "Mix a can of Cherry Dr. Pepper with instant coffee, cocoa, cappuccino mix, a carton of milk, and some leftover sugar packets to make a drink that tastes as close to cognac as you will get in prison."
mircea_popescu: see, alfie ? social behaviour. the dude will gladly state a nonsense to the outgroup (us) to gratify the ingroup. he's not even a part of it notably, but he aspires to see himself and hopes to be seen by us as if he were.
mircea_popescu: if your theory of man had any feet, solitary confinment weren't regarded as the mother of all torture. physiologically, people lose their minds. maybe you or i wouldn't care, or maybe we think so in our ridiculous, adolescentine misapprehension. but this anecdote doesn't do much.
mircea_popescu: us environment threats, such as you know, other civilisations, volcanoes and aliens landing is entirely up for grabs. these points make the good/bad adequate/inadequate distinction, not whether the "inmates" "like" it in their "hearts of hearts". for one thing they're not inmates, lacking the capacity of outmating ; for the other thing they can't like and for the third they've no heart of hearts.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-09#1653759 << no, no. the sad fact of the matter is that what people want is without exception stupid and harmful. not even one, both. a functional civilisation provides people with a good story as to why they're getting something other than what they want. whether what they actually get happens to also be a) what they actually need, as opposed to $random ; b) actually competitive with the vario ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually the premise for civilisation competing with dope od is finally here. prior to recently, the dorks were still needed for muscular power -- first, brute, then, finely controled by a cns, primitive as it was.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: brought to you by the same 400 yr puritan blight as 'graham cracker' ( look it up, the original ~deliberately designed~ shitfood , for mortification-of-the-flesh )
BingoBoingo: WoT coupled with handshakes is all that remains as opposed to the time where WoT was also coupled with BitBet
a111: Logged on 2015-04-07 00:10 mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
mircea_popescu: "In future, it would be great if I could just accept any old patch, from any urbit down to the merest comet, as long as it was sealed by ~zod. In general, I would find it comfortable, knowing that everything my urbit was running was a collection of patches, each of which had a signature, or a chain of them, originating in the urbit claiming authorship of that patch." << wtf.
mircea_popescu: honestly, i was hoping for something more along the lines of, "trayvon martin, the idle hoodlum who tried to beat up the wrong guy and got it as a result has finally received a less idiotic name. he's going to be exhumed and reburied as travis martin later this week"
mircea_popescu: "i have nfi what receptive member of a sexuate species would want to "experience sex" rather than run as fast as legs would carry in opposite direction."
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 21:25 asciilifeform: i for one have nfi why anybody at this point would want to 'experience american', rather than run as fast as his legs would carry him, in opposite direction.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653599 << happened all through south america. it's not "considered food" i nthe sense that "it's expensive", and they have some vague intuition as to the whole "in parismadrid they go to mcdo to experience american -- and SO DO WE111" ; however they are poor and cheap food is cheap food and they have local shitholes that "invented foccacia" sell them "pizza" or whatever, produced according t ☝︎
mircea_popescu: there's this automatic "judge human mass by the mass" mental process, visible here, visible when new guy was going "oh, capitalism will end because most people are spurious", as fucking if.
asciilifeform: 'There is a revision system out in the wild called v. It defines source code, or other data under version control, as a function of patches and their authorship, as sealed. Being a product of the Most Serene Republic, it is Spartan, manual, and instructive to Urbit's aspirations.'
asciilifeform: i for one have nfi why anybody at this point would want to 'experience american', rather than run as fast as his legs would carry him, in opposite direction. ☟︎
asciilifeform: as for 'experience american', there are all kinds of insane folx, there are even people who go to chernobyl to experience .
phf`: when i was growing up, mcdonalds was a place where you go to get a milkshake before going out. nobody ever thought about it as food, because people cooked at home and still do. i noticed this in paris this time, how similar mcdonalds is, that it's not food and not treated as such. it's a place where you go to experience american. if there was going to be qualitative jump where bulk of population considers mcdonalds primary source of nutrients, i suspe
mircea_popescu: teach the uppity poor to read and write as an escape from the hanging, they'll be penning subversive treatises about asking condolezza and her 5000 sister conclave.
phf`: asciilifeform: as opposed to wat, make sure to consult condoleezza and her 5000 sister spawn?
mircea_popescu: as you use it, i gather. as the historical element, not so much.
phf`: will of lord as in "don't go hunting in my forest"
asciilifeform: this is exactly same thread as with the credit cards
asciilifeform: where upscale auto now likes to start engine immediately 'as owner walks in', from pure proximity (it is continuously polling 'is the key here??' like idiot)
mircea_popescu: as per that resounding "n-am vazut niciodata hot mai prost decit prostu' care se vrea hot"
asciilifeform: 4 ) as bonus, acts as detector of radiological monkey business against your facility.
asciilifeform: 2 ) trivially verified to work exactly as described, incl. the analogue 'business end'
asciilifeform cements image of mircea_popesculandia as treasure island now in head
asciilifeform: hovercraft is controllable in lateral, as well as forward motion (unlike wheels); and comes with unbeatable emergency brake...
mircea_popescu: as opposed to turkey, then pinky and thumb touch, other thumb touches nose.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gotta love the folx who buy 12-cyl mazeratis to go REALLYREALLYFAST!!! between same red lights as the toyota goes << oh i had the lulz of all time with this yest. so we were coming back, in cab. on other side, porsche SUV! black! dude just peels off like crazy, in the middle of the night. i go "hey, i think he won" and dun think more of it. till... guess who's lined up at next stop ? oh, us and them. so i turn a
ben_vulpes: but driving as a thing done for fun.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653301 << gotta love the folx who buy 12-cyl mazeratis to go REALLYREALLYFAST!!! between same red lights as the toyota goes ☝︎
gizmolearner: After many years of slow growth, AI is currently looking to be on an unstoppable path. If a machine that costs $.25 an hour to run can out think a person who costs $50 an hour. What should the people do? Capatilism says the machines should win the jobs. So no you have factories and things that require almost no people, but still produce as much as ever. And a lot of unemployable people.
mircea_popescu: they'll just get cooked as per swift's cookbook and that's the last anyone'll ever hear of them.
gizmolearner: I think in the not so far future most poeple will be obsolete, so capatlisim is out. If machines can outthink and outwork the average person that is a lot of redundant people. On the plus side, the world would still be producing as much as ever. So what do we do ? Try socialsim again?
gizmolearner: Even starting engineers make more than I did as a CTO for startups 10 years ago
mircea_popescu: oh, for my own curiosity, as an anon data point : would you say spending a few years mid career working for failed start-ups makes one more money than working for corp ? less ? ~same ?
mircea_popescu: yes, but as Joe Schmoe or as nobody in particular ?
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner "used to do security software" as in, anonymously ?
mircea_popescu: seems rather like the whole nic-dma combo is being fortified as a wolf's last stand. i guess they expect ot lose cpus (to the chinese).
asciilifeform: if your box still has such things as intel NICs, DMA, pci.
asciilifeform: so equally painful as making new comp from 0.
asciilifeform: amd g-series has been properly crippled, as of 2y ago.
mircea_popescu: "the password should be just as long as the password presented was, wut, problem???".
asciilifeform: as in, these are sold wherever. not rarity. and not at all useful for subj.
asciilifeform: the linked item is a socket. as in, solders onto a bare pcb.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's a socket ! as in what goes on a mobo. not interposer.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 13:04 asciilifeform: gizmolearner: theoretically you can attach probe to any (but the latest, crippled) amd cpu using a 'socket interposer' that sandwiches under the chip. but as to where to get it -- no one seems to know.
mircea_popescu: being born to a stupid mother and inheriting her stupid tongue is a heavy burden indeed, as it turns out.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1652989 << no, i have no objection to it being incomprehensible, it strikes me as nutty also. perhaps a major part of the explanation is that whenever i don't remember something i just pick a girl who likely doesn't know it, ask her about it, and when she doesn't know it she gets ordered to research it. another part of it, maybe even larger, is that the stuff that actually interests me isn't ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1652986 << used to, until this year. i like the fresh air scent of clothes / can't stand detergent perfume bs. unexaminedly i didn't even consider non-open air drying of clothes to be acceptably hygienic in the first place, as per ro traditionz. ☝︎
gizmolearner: Yeah would have been really quickly if it wasn't buried in compressed code. Instead it's in years of BIOS's and basically gives remote as if local root access.
deedbot: B147983D4E7087710B0DC9D0BA56F6ACA4219D40 registered as gizmolearner.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 05:27 mircea_popescu: it dun have a centrifuge, it sucks the water out inertially. ie, as it lifts the clothes they lose water.
asciilifeform: gizmolearner: theoretically you can attach probe to any (but the latest, crippled) amd cpu using a 'socket interposer' that sandwiches under the chip. but as to where to get it -- no one seems to know. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 05:27 mircea_popescu: it dun have a centrifuge, it sucks the water out inertially. ie, as it lifts the clothes they lose water.
mircea_popescu: qntra dsid it, as it turns out. http://qntra.net/2016/12/oakland-warehouse-destroyed-by-artist-infestation/
ben_vulpes: "they will drink it at whatever speed i choose as well" my popesculator says
ben_vulpes: nobody i know is so tasteless as to waste good wine like that.
trinque: no no this was the bottom tier shit nissan; I'm cheap as fuck
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess this gets classified as /mp finally figures out what top loading washer is, likes it.
ben_vulpes: "new tax" as in tax for buying goods new
ben_vulpes: you say "stupid rotating faraday cage thing, horizontal", as in a front-loading washer?
mircea_popescu: it dun have a centrifuge, it sucks the water out inertially. ie, as it lifts the clothes they lose water. ☟︎☟︎
ben_vulpes: oh gross do you like front-loaders as well?
ben_vulpes: junkies, minorities groups imported as refugees within the last decade, whatever.
ben_vulpes: way the heck upstack; BingoBoingo i have determined that "crack-o-my-ass" county late summer county fair has a talent competition, gospel competition, but as far as i've bothered to look so far, no amateur ag competition
BingoBoingo: Anyways, the most reliable treatment for addiction is conversion therapy (i.e. removing the obsession through a spiritual experience), this requires as a prerequisite a "rock bottom" experience. Adversity is the kindest thing you can offer.
BingoBoingo: It's the same as alf's squirrel fixation. The junkie in the throes of addiction is a pest control problem.
ben_vulpes: probably same pharma abuse rates as anywhere else