asciilifeform: http://yarchive.net

asciilifeform: well yes.

asciilifeform: mainly on various people's disks.

asciilifeform: it left artifacts.

asciilifeform: zero.

asciilifeform: should be ~30,000 posts

asciilifeform: ^ example

asciilifeform: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forumsearch/psmith9626

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: ('early usenet archive' is separate gizmo there)

asciilifeform: but not '80s

asciilifeform: try something '90s

asciilifeform: or, hm, now - no

asciilifeform: works

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform: is it really possible that i'm the only one who noticed ?

asciilifeform: try it.

asciilifeform: joecool: of 'usenet.' no longer searchable.

asciilifeform: but anyone who thought that a 'library of alexandria' was safe in the hands of the likes of 'google' - was a fool from the start.

asciilifeform: and the devils who fear.

asciilifeform: but precisely because attributability.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: note also my observation last week, that i intensely suspect 'google usenet archive' was zapped not on account of any accident

asciilifeform: !b 2 ✂︎

asciilifeform: l0l!!

asciilifeform: no one cancelled, even, 'google.'

asciilifeform: surprising he'd use the name again.

asciilifeform: what does true hate even mean, if not this.

asciilifeform: how could they not.

asciilifeform: devils - hate crucifix, yes

asciilifeform: or 'malleus scamificorum' alternatively.

asciilifeform: one day we produce a koraktor, wrapped in sc4mz0r pelt cover, 'the art and science of hunting shitgnome'

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2014#922643 ☝︎

asciilifeform: attribution.

asciilifeform: invented by, afaik, herr korolev.

asciilifeform: !s three-man system

asciilifeform: but in practice - this.

asciilifeform: ferglubssake we didn't invent pgp.

asciilifeform: a year ago.

asciilifeform: and we watched herr dingledine give private performance for nsa.

asciilifeform: and attribution of works.

asciilifeform: he skipped red finland to end up in... this.

asciilifeform: this is what means 'not free man'

asciilifeform: except that he was frog-marched.

asciilifeform: and the printed one was a 'print on demand', there was no actual reason to zap it

asciilifeform: ilkka's book << notice he pulled the 'kindle' version also.

asciilifeform: because vita brevis.

asciilifeform: normally this is at least minimally mechanized.

asciilifeform: 'source based distro,' classically, is when nothing (other than bootstrap compiler & kernel, thomson says hello) gets on the box without being built there.

asciilifeform: and win2k.

asciilifeform: msdos source also 'released'

asciilifeform: source released != source-based distro

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that was sorta my point in reply

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sarge << i don't consider non-source-based distro as suitable for serious work

asciilifeform: blog was called 'fourth checkraise'

asciilifeform: also a very decent mathematics handler.

asciilifeform: he was a die-hard poker player and loved applying the metaphors to, well, relevant things.

asciilifeform: ask'em.

asciilifeform: foseti and a few other guys have warez scans

asciilifeform: i have the dead tree book, it's a 'best of' his blog

asciilifeform: or the like

asciilifeform: tried to contact him 2 yrs. ago, he said 'shoo'

asciilifeform: ilkka.kokkarinen at gmail

asciilifeform: then came back. then, disappeared again, taking all of his materials with him, this time - for good, apparently.

asciilifeform: first time, made to recant, threatened.

asciilifeform: not once, but twice.

asciilifeform: he is/was a finnish emigre, working as a comp sci prof in canada. was hounded off the net by 'outraged mass' for moldbuggery.

asciilifeform: i own it

asciilifeform: that book is all that's left of him.

asciilifeform: i think ilkka kokkarinen had a colachobot

asciilifeform: (what do you usually do with those?)

asciilifeform: good picture of heads

asciilifeform: aha yes i recall.

asciilifeform: or is this normal for the species

asciilifeform: damaged by what?

asciilifeform: aha rabbits.

asciilifeform: but also a region.

asciilifeform: it was.

asciilifeform: cazalla breeds radiation-damaged deer in butugychag ?

asciilifeform often wonders if mircea_popescu is logged in from mars. or if asciilifeform is, himself.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: teenager would run and hide in a corner << puzzling over this. why would this happen ?

asciilifeform: (folks will bite but not the ones you want)

asciilifeform: don't advertise for a 'stierlitz' in a public channel...

asciilifeform: don't ask me why.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in parts of near east, folks mix it into chewing tobacco.

asciilifeform: well yes.

asciilifeform not expert on the mechanics whereby cow shit does not count as shit

asciilifeform: human turds -> dalit

asciilifeform: so long as human turds not involved - ok.

asciilifeform: somehow there was an exception for children doing chores

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: oddly enough - brahmin, entirely unsullied by this

asciilifeform: had some interesting stories.

asciilifeform: undata: a fellow i work with spent his childhood (india) in cow shit detail. fuel for the local cremation pyre.

asciilifeform: (when it was almost readable)

asciilifeform: many years ago.

asciilifeform: folks who have not boiled in the cauldron cannot fathom the kind of hells that exist. i once worked in a salt mine where scores of people dredged 'reddit', illicitly, all day.

asciilifeform: n

asciilifeform: doesn't mean it needs the stones for anythig

asciilifeform: sparrow in the park may be used to children throwing stones at it

asciilifeform: micromanagement << most folks around here used to it, but i always imagined they would profit from its removal

asciilifeform: ah hm ok. i don't think the other thing was public