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asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-26#1632693 << as solid as ecc in general ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-03-26 04:20 asciilifeform: nope, woke up from road noises as always
mp_en_viaje: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-24#1632408 << no, it is actually theoretically solid. quite as solid as the stuff we deem good crypto. ☝︎☟︎
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, no but the idea here is for the "expansion" to be ulterior of the item it attacks and sold as an "improvement"
asciilifeform: as soon as they have with what, such that doesn't crash 5 min. in...
hanbot: mp_en_viaje wouldja say it's as simple as setting a cutoff date?
pete_dushenski: i had a skinny neck as a kid, what.
asciilifeform: nope, woke up from road noises as always ☟︎
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: NYC chose this path when they picked DeBlasio as their Trump
pete_dushenski: it's indeed very painful to come to terms with how poor you really are when you discover that folks making 10-20x what you are ARE ALSO POOR. certainly not as poorly positioned, but not rolling out of bed and into silk house robes at 10am on a tuesday either. sucks.
pete_dushenski: aaaaan stan beat me once again to the punch on the news break. by two days! (bad pete, don't skim logs so loosely). but the spoofcard angle is at least novel, as a construction if nothing else.
pete_dushenski: woman. And rather than use a traceable credit card or PayPal, the perpetrator paid for his Spoofcard in Bitcoin—another dead end. […] SpoofCard and services like it have plenty of legitimate users, such as undercover cops […] "When requested, we [Spoofcard] comply quickly and responsibly with lawful requests from all levels of law enforcement, and we have built specific tools to prevent abuse.”
shinohai thanks BingoBoingo for preserving "Shillbert" as always
mircea_popescu: it's not nearly as unilateral as all that. 20yo afghani female is actually competent and appreciated for her competence. this is a damn sight more than anything hilary clinton ever achieved in her sad, contorted stump of a life
mircea_popescu: honestly i'd be muych surprised if the average bloke in the us wouldn't actually prefer living as 1997 average afghanistani instead.
mircea_popescu: certainly a much more respectable, as well as effectual, historical figure.
mircea_popescu: anyway. strong law-and-order ticket, repressed the bums (social group that today in the us masquerades as "students") and so on.
asciilifeform: for so long as there's any money in usa, it is 'worth money', purely mechanically, that's how money is collected from the peons
phf: well, i wouldn't go as far as playing nicely either. you have a clim editor, that you can theoretically extend in all kinds of interesting ways, yet you're still using it in combination with the emacs, etc.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: phf has it. use kalman reti's infamous bolix movie as a guide.
asciilifeform: fwiw i walked away with same impression as phf
asciilifeform: the feedstock is counted as 'pure product'.
gabriel_laddel_p: Reviewing all the log references in the "TODO: new, better hardware" node of the manual and compiling a list of hardware that is less braindamaged. Purchasing, assembling & them selling them as the 2nd generation of Masamune.
asciilifeform: reading that horror, it'd seem as if this were the heathen alternative to, e.g., http://shop.nosuchlabs.com ( and bbet, and similar )
ben_vulpes: yeah i mean it makes as much sense as any of the other magic green lock stuff
doppler: nah, not as far as I know
phf: {0..100} works as expected!
asciilifeform: lulzy bit of disinfo, also (as if virginal pnojes were 'clean'.)
mircea_popescu: this is rank nosense entirely bereft of any meaning. you might as well recount your dreams.
mircea_popescu: but the point being : nintendo utterly owned a market, which some years later had the n64 people killed for used as paperweights. sony owned the market, then lost to microsoft, and so following. this notion that intel has a hope in hell is about as ludicrous as the nonsense career bureaucrats in washington built their lives on.
mircea_popescu: and "foundations" SURE AS FUCK don't count as an improvement here.
mircea_popescu: because i sure as fuck don't want "free trade" and "open whatever" and "accessiblity" if what that means is that intel gets to rule it.
asciilifeform: ye olde chip racket, as exemplified by xilinx (see thread), where 'by the time the docs leak, not only we stopped making it 15 years ago but go and buy even secondhand one!' -- remains operational.
asciilifeform: (the 36xx console has a motherfucking m68k JUST FOR THE AUDIO - 16 bits! m68k was selling as ~cpu~ in other boxes)
a111: Logged on 2017-03-20 20:46 mircea_popescu: in other lulz, the state of casual gaming is completely fucked up. so other than utter throwaways, stuff that looks like someone's undegrad project, the ~entire market of ipad-likes (stuff that works in the browser, or else via a "light" client for windows/mac, or else as a ipad/android etc app) is wholly like this :
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 00:12 asciilifeform: if i ever make the fpgaized thing, it sure as fuck won't bother trying to drive an lcd or eat keyboard, wtf, just speak x11.
mircea_popescu: he usually misstates this as hav ing to do with cpu foundries etc, which it pointedly does not.
asciilifeform: GB nics have 2 parts, that are electrically independent and often made by separate firms, the 'mac' and 'phy' (the latter is what actually drives the transformer, the former -- what you/os think of as 'the nic') ☟︎
asciilifeform: in other recent lulz , https://archive.is/xXW9T >> '...race condition in the n_hdlc Linux kernel driver (drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c). It can be exploited to gain a local privilege escalation. ... This driver provides HDLC serial line discipline and comes as a kernel module in many Linux distributions, which have CONFIG_N_HDLC=m in the kernel config. ...introduced on 22 June 2009'
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 03:39 asciilifeform: the old iron, doppler , is not -- contrary to the delusions of 'collectors' -- interesting per se. the ~software~ was not even interesting per se -- it was a tall pile of stinking mit hacks. the CONCEPTS, however, as described in http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284 , WERE interesting.
mircea_popescu: enjoy teh tv fiction, i say, tis as close as you're fucking getting.
mircea_popescu: "roses are sweet, bruises are blue, i had a great time but not as great as your asshole is now."
pete_dushenski: http://archive.is/fmGhw << i don't even know where to begin with this 'day in the life of 28yo credit suisse banker'. is bi that fucking cocksure that they think their readers will swallow pictostory about nice kid who plays squash and eats in cafeteria all day ? as if this kid isn't pushing dodgy shit onto worthless clients he and his bank don't give a shit about all because his higher-ups have some bad
a111: Logged on 2014-06-02 18:05 asciilifeform: (e.g. power station on every street corner, wall wiring as thick as your arm, etc)
a111: Logged on 2015-07-29 00:35 asciilifeform: at any rate, if you go and read edison's writings, you get a very similar flavour of 'idiot savant / malicious imbecile' as from bill gates
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: moar analogous to ac current. which very nearly went to same place as symbolics.
asciilifeform: 'same as slave, but clunky, snoar'
mircea_popescu: there's just about nothing interesting you could find by opening hood of ancient car, as an engine designer today. not one trhing. most of them are collected, and are revered by a so-minded public, and aren't documented worth didly squat. i dun think this sunday hobby item is different from that.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is free to be as 'unpersuaded' as he wants. fact: his machine -- can overrun an array; bolix -- could not; his box -- crashes, cannot be examined or uncrashed (yes) -- bolix -- could; and various other aspects, well covered in teh logz. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: shinohai who the fuck esteems a two bit instructor in an obscure university that's been circling bitcoin for years and has as of yet produced nothing besides tweets and dandruff ?
asciilifeform: and the iron -- is also of interest, in so far as it made the soft -- possible.
asciilifeform: the old iron, doppler , is not -- contrary to the delusions of 'collectors' -- interesting per se. the ~software~ was not even interesting per se -- it was a tall pile of stinking mit hacks. the CONCEPTS, however, as described in http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284 , WERE interesting. ☟︎
asciilifeform: it is almost as if they did not want their 3-10k $ investments to turn into the equivalent of old nintendo. ☟︎
doppler: I have enjoyed the content that I have read in the logs over some months and watched scroll by as I idled here the past few days
asciilifeform: ideally you'd have the glass window on it, as on an epro, also! but strictly so that you can read it optically.
mircea_popescu: nothing prevents you from using a normal one this way as it is.
asciilifeform: every couplea months i do an 'can haz otp rom?' and answer, as always, is 'nope', not at any price, simply not made in past 30 yrs.
asciilifeform: (there is, as of yet, nothing resembling a tolerable substitute for x11 protocol, sadly.)
asciilifeform: if i ever make the fpgaized thing, it sure as fuck won't bother trying to drive an lcd or eat keyboard, wtf, just speak x11. ☟︎
asciilifeform: interesting ^ -- apparently x11 was not as standard as i thought
a111: Logged on 2016-03-20 13:54 mircea_popescu: phf> ok, not sure if anybody tried yet, but asciilifeform's gentoo chicken works as prescribed << it does, yes, and it IS a very good and useful thing. almost makes me feel bad when mocking linuxen.
pete_dushenski: powerbook g3 ? thought those were nifty as a kid but i was still on desktops at the time. brief foray into laptopery didn't come until college in 04
asciilifeform: (not , naturally, as many as trilema.)
shinohai remembers the Dogecoin chan had this, worked exactly as one would expect .....
ben_vulpes: may as well immerse in mineral oil at that point.
ben_vulpes: as if the plane weren't stupidly complex enough already, let's bolt another pile of heinous complexity to it as well
trinque: ben_vulpes: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/macppc/INSTALL.macppc << I want to say the device comes up as "ud" for USB... sometimes
trinque: ftr, all trb downloads come from a dedicated deeds box I've been happy to run as core infrastructure pro bono.
asciilifeform: (rather than a proprietary crapolade uploader, or ftp, as typical in ye olde 'shared host')
Framedragger: bots autoup folks there, use channel as funnel of good material into #trilema; or, bots calculate entropy of nicks outputting there, creating automatic pipeline.. horrible idea i know
ben_vulpes: i assume, yes, and ask as i have nfi what even to search for
ben_vulpes: "thousands of files with the same hash values as known child pornography files"
ben_vulpes: surely that's not going to be as simple as adding the right CROSS_COMPILE flag to portage conf files, right?
asciilifeform: as asciilifeform did for, e.g., pogo.
asciilifeform: 'Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer holds a pistol as he prepared to shoot himself in front of cameras during a news conference in his State Capitol office in Harrisburg.' << pretty great
mircea_popescu: phf and i bet the happenstance that friend-describes-him-as-not-smooth and the incidental that no-hot-chicks-take-to-his-bower are entirely and wholly unrelated in his own estimation, if somehow it were to be obtained yes ?
mircea_popescu: most "bad relationships" are exactly that. bitter moon (the film) if anyone saw that crap is best summarized as "two subbies arguing who should top that evening".
mircea_popescu: heck, the whole africa used phone market isn't there because THESE FUCKS EAT THE LEFTOVERS AS A DEFINITIONAL CHARACTERISTIC. but purely as a matter of choice.
scriba: ssh banner of 200.62.176.35 as seen on 2016-06-13: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9 ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "As reported by Motherboard, a September 2016 filing by a Canadian court revealed that the Dutch police were able to decrypt the PGP-encrypted messages because the Dutch investigators may have found the decryption keys on the seized server itself."
shinohai is a little sad to see vim as an app
mircea_popescu: as always, the empire is consistent, in its batshit insane sort of logic.
mod6: You will find that The Bitcoin Foundation website has duly been updated as well as the TRB How-To Steps (nothing more has changed than the version number of the tarball to grab for V).
mod6: I'll tell ya, I've never had much prior experience but... the american health care "system" is about as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from 'Bitcoin Foundation Appoints Llew Claasen as Executive Director Monday, June 20, 2016'
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, remember the time when the fake "bitcoin foundation" was a thing ? noticed how it... sorta got dropped ? and nobody felt any strong compulsion to explain or inquire as to... why the fuck ? nor did this lack of intererst seemingly inform any self-examination along the lines of "if this thing could be dropped so easily, what consistency did it really have ???"
shinohai: I suppose BU feels that tmsr members must secretly support the blockstream agenda as well.
shinohai: Further lulz develop in the BU camp as nodes are crashing yet again: https://github.com/BitcoinUnlimited/BitcoinUnlimited/issues/386
mircea_popescu: ~same as $random-athlete to move on to sportscaster position.
mircea_popescu: hey, that's just as much a harvest.
trinque: what this does is empowers every slackjaw peasant to use "we'll go apeshit" as leverage
trinque: as though the thing somehow comes from them
asciilifeform: chix went wild as they watched the hempen jig danced, the jizz fall
danielpbarron: speaking of pedestrian vs car. in this city the orcs spitefully and intentionally obstruct the road as some sort of bizzarro power signalling. Things like waiting until there is a car before crossing the road ; opening driver's side door without even looking, and then taking their time with it, digging around like its their closet and not a public street
trinque: houston area has loads of toll roads, great filter that keeps you able to get anywhere you want quickly as long as you pay
scriba: ssh banner of 64.150.192.42 as seen on 2016-06-13: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-8
mircea_popescu: look : if my slavegirl wears a red dress and i dun like it, i go "take that thing off". maybe i don't go anything. but i sure as fuck don't go "oh honey, red dresses aren't good."
mircea_popescu: "no one shall make any covenant as to the use of land."
mircea_popescu: bitch, what ? would have been 2x as good and 10x as cheap to build rail.
asciilifeform: also suggests that the chinese fucked up their golden chance to make the auto continue to be worth something as a transport for the reasonably elite, vs 'we ate a mutual spoon of shit for free'