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a111: Logged on 2016-09-22 18:13 mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160922/#495 << aha. power dun help so much after a while.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: linked solely for that detail.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-22: [15:31:23] <BingoBoingo> <mircea_popescu> are there any stations even left that do 100kw in soviet us ? << 50kw is the cap and requires "clear channel" Daytime range of such power not too impressive
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have b00k with his name on the cover, and it is genuinely valuable.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-22: [15:02:23] <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: the noose spreadz!!11 >> http://bioshacking.blogspot.sg/2016/09/down-to-silicon-level-debugging.html
a111: Logged on 2016-09-14 12:34 mircea_popescu: incidentally, and re http://trilema.com/2016/gossipd-design-document/#comment-119099 : if anyone likes to fuck around with markov chains etc, a prototype implementation of that would be perfect at this juncture.
asciilifeform: ... didn't mircea_popescu have a separate kindergarten for these folks..?
asciilifeform: that's a mircea_popescu question
a111: Logged on 2015-05-03 03:48 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: someone decided to use a microcontroller. quite possibly because 29 cents instead of 30 for a '555'.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: this isn't any old d00d, either, his b00k is excellent << Hence why very newsworthy. Raises your esteem and that of republic. Harder for a certain sort to ignore than Phuctor.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> are there any stations even left that do 100kw in soviet us ? << 50kw is the cap and requires "clear channel" Daytime range of such power not too impressive
burnsd03: mircea_popescu could you please make me an account? Just following the quick-start guide :)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and i am floored to discover that the man who wrote ~the~ book on subj of bios internals, never had an ICE.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this isn't any old d00d, either, his b00k is excellent
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the noose spreadz!!11 >> http://bioshacking.blogspot.sg/2016/09/down-to-silicon-level-debugging.html
asciilifeform: as soon as anybody ( mircea_popescu ? ) figures this piece out, folks can go, build.
asciilifeform: and likewise the power of the station can vary depending on who the operator is ( if mircea_popescu , megawatt, if asciilifeform living in amphora on the streets of athens, a watt, etc)
asciilifeform: sooooooo mircea_popescu , Framedragger , et al, while we're on 'pirate radio' thread, i'd like to put a few useful items in the record:
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: microscope is of course the 4th method. ought to be included for completeness .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's ~dozen subspecies of each, but yes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: another experiment, in similar vein, is fuzzing (yes) nics right on a desk
a111: Logged on 2016-09-22 12:20 mircea_popescu: you have a reasonably fresh list of respondent boxes, feed them 0x32 at offset 0x47f then poll in 5 and 500 seconds see if they're up.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-22 12:28 mircea_popescu: by now it's a 5 year old thing, if they were gonna do something about it they've had done by now.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: at one time i suggested thermovoltaic device to mircea_popescu , he wrote entire article
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik the concept was first described by dan mocsny
asciilifeform: Framedragger: mircea_popescu has a point, it is a sin
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: the sad part is that by "battling out" ideas in this wordspace, one gets a bit of serotonin rush, to feel *as if* they have actually done something material. i know i get this, at least. evolutionary side-effect, this whole "curiosity -> completion" gap used to be much larger, not it short-circuits easily. it sucks, need to make conscious effort to resist sinking into nihilistic bliss, i think. </rant>
asciilifeform: would mircea_popescu paint forest camo on his city t34?
asciilifeform: at any rate if mircea_popescu wants to build sw lighthouse on his dirigible, it'd be quite spiffy, not only do i not have any argument against it, but consider it the right and properly inevitable thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: your posited 30kps turns to 0.3
PeterL: mircea_popescu at one point I demonstrated a script to do that, asciilifeform scoffed at it as useless
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: stego is easily a 100x drop in channel capacity.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pass me a turing test and wake me up
asciilifeform: at any rate, pretty much 100% of asciilifeform's work re gossipd, incl. prior to mircea_popescu's publication, was so that eventually radio.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on odd full moons.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: and those will of course not have much bandwidth capacity. but i maintain that to usefully PoC the thing, you don't need much at all. jeebus, having a radio-based key server would be amazing already
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ionospheric lottery
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it counts for 0, they only care about international tx
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the board is trivial
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not at all lazy, here in usa they do ~100% of the spectrum policing
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 1 * 2 ** 20 / 10 / 60 * 2 = 3495.2533333333336
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 0 crypto
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: absolutely - will do! though, those 22mil boxes have ssh running on them; there's prob a semi-quick way to get a broader "is it generally online" list, too. but, gotta start somewhere
asciilifeform: (come to think of it, mircea_popescu , what nic was in the original dulap..?)
a111: Logged on 2016-09-22 00:53 mircea_popescu: https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-1000Mbps-Network-Adapter-RC-400-LX/dp/B004F3CO5M << 8 bux. prolly cheapest.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: earlier i think you were thinking of 'pa semi'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was specifically NOT asking after junkyard iron.
asciilifeform: also wtf mircea_popescu , 3com's been dead for eons
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's a number of them
asciilifeform: and sure, 'army and navy' is not a complete picture, it is possible to disagree a la hassan i sabbah, or mircea_popescu .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: try whatever it was you wanted.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: seems to load ok, but logs show hammering earlier
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: loads fine.
asciilifeform: trinque, phf, mircea_popescu , et al ^
asciilifeform: ( would mircea_popescu do this ? )
asciilifeform has a very lengthy treatise in the works, but it needs a) trimming b) refinement, took mircea_popescu's 'stop sending gibblets' criticism to heart
shinohai: mircea_popescu let them pay for advertising like any other wanna-be corp. <<< nb and good point
PeterL: !~ty mircea_popescu
shinohai: mircea_popescu does story merit a qntra just for the lulz ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/4in79/?raw=true
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: microshit's traditional (and to this day favoured, as in default in their toolchain) incarnation of uniturd has fixed 16-bit characters
a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 15:03 mircea_popescu: in other fucking lulz : https://www.eir.ie/egt/standards/iso10646/ucs-roadmap.html
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: My hero Diogenes the Cynic | Outre monde: <https://outre-monde.com/2010/07/16/my-hero-diogenes-the-cynic/>; Diógenes Kyon Profiles | Facebook: <https://www.facebook.com/public/Di%25C3%25B3genes-Kyon>; My Hero Diogenes the Cynic | Psychology Today: <https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hide-and-seek/201203/my-hero-diogenes-the-cynic>
a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 14:43 mircea_popescu: you'll end up in a bath tub i'm telling you.
phf: mircea_popescu's xchat specifically still does that. so his latin-1 encodable text comes out as such, otherwise it gets promoted to utf-8 ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 13:18 Framedragger: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160921/#109 << znc puts shitty non-utf-but-should-be-utf chars in logs, bot trips over them and can't ignore them. that is also (cc mircea_popescu) the reason why it keeps saying it's the same char at same position: even if you just read() the whole file into buffer, it's gonna fail (at the same place). obviously this is unsustainable, i.e. i won't put up with this.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-21: [13:35:47] <asciilifeform> http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-21#1546311 << humans, barring massive and normally -ev external intervention, do not 'change selves'. mircea_popescu knows this.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 12:26 mircea_popescu: ou are", forever trying to change anything and everything except what'd actually help : his dumb fucking self. that's "sacred" in "humanism"!
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-21#1546311 << humans, barring massive and normally -ev external intervention, do not 'change selves'. mircea_popescu knows this. ☝︎
Framedragger: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160921/#109 << znc puts shitty non-utf-but-should-be-utf chars in logs, bot trips over them and can't ignore them. that is also (cc mircea_popescu) the reason why it keeps saying it's the same char at same position: even if you just read() the whole file into buffer, it's gonna fail (at the same place). obviously this is unsustainable, i.e. i won't put up with this. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 12:26 mircea_popescu: ely neurotic self inspection, of which "transgenderism" of the alice/leah flavour is very strictly a subset, not to mention plainer nonsense of the kind displayed by eg. richard kulisz (see http://trilema.com/2016/full-loper-os-blogroll-review/#selection-847.0-851.1) or for that matter "lesswrong". between psychotic and neurotic, the beta boi is forever floating on this sea of delusional "you are special and perfect the way y
a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 12:26 mircea_popescu: http://fexpr.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/schools-of-artlanging.html << the perisocial behaviours of beta males, rejected as they are from human society, stubbornly decided as they are to NOT address their actual faults is utterly staggering. the creation and maintenance of "tulpas" ie imaginary friends, of which "artlangs" is very strictly a subset, much like toy collecting (warhammer, magic the gathering, etc) also is ; elaborat
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: wants his three minutes back!
a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 04:54 ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: watched linked vid?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: watched linked vid? ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it'll die no sooner than american tax law. at this point there are 100,000 parasites who make cushy living purely from professionally navigating the kabuki.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we found a megatonne of these
a111: Logged on 2016-09-20 07:52 mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160920/#33 << not really. block 0 (sometimes referred to as 1), ie the genesis block was handcrafted.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 02:34 mircea_popescu: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8727 << also interesting. templeton, eh ?
a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 02:32 mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160921/#64 << for the obvious reason. they're petrified of giving away the little they know.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 02:20 mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160920/#690 << holy shit notice that ITS NOT THE SAME N
a111: Logged on 2016-09-20 23:50 mircea_popescu: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8732 << altogether epic article.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for some lulz, calculate how many planets would be needed to hold the 8ball that you briefly thought we had.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-20 23:42 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform shared factors with 8ball ?
BingoBoingo: ty mircea_popescu for authoring title in lawgz
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lulzy.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we had this thread. either 'hand' or the most elaborately slow bot in existence.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: do you have a log of that convo? it would be an entertaining read. or maybe a short non-time-consuming blog post? ;)
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: kicked in 3 2 1
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: idea, as far as i can see, is to appelbaum the whole thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the point of this escapade was not to steal the dud bios.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for a long time he had a mips thing. which was pinched by an argentine and he, recall, publicly had nervous breakdown
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: y'know what 'libreboot' was/is, right ?
asciilifeform offers mircea_popescu the necessary barf bag
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is more or less on par with labour cost in re 'why china'.
Framedragger: i know you dont care about mobile users because they suck mircea_popescu , but what's nice with rendered fonts is that they scale nicely; among other things
asciilifeform: and here mircea_popescu thought that he wore the hairiest shirt...
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-20: [14:26:03] <scriba> Logged on 2016-09-20: [07:35:31] <mircea_popescu> http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160920/#6 << nice! but asciilifeform consider fixing your urls, this ?p=blabla is for the dogs. and lafond i guess, but really, most yahoo thing one can do blogging.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-20: [13:19:58] <Framedragger> mircea_popescu: does your wp comments box support basic html tags (such as href)? (i know it supports them when posting comments from *within* wp's dashboard)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^ for the killing jar.