mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2015/fefeleaga/#selection-127.19-127.34 << orig.

mircea_popescu: (orig story about old mine nag, very touching)

mircea_popescu: there's fine literary reference available, say "batore, sarace", but all this is cult.

mircea_popescu: i can't think of anything, actually.

mircea_popescu: whole shitpit fire could use some challenge.

mircea_popescu: o btw -- if anyone's excited of the prospect of trying to avoid my scraping and messaging bots, fetlife's hiring a senior ruby on rails dev.

mircea_popescu: i'd buy a random number four.

mircea_popescu: how did churchill put it, "he wouldn't stoop and didn't conquer"

mircea_popescu: of course they did.

mircea_popescu: Gigavps launched bonds, paid 3-40 cents to the coin to date (but you can dilute that if you wish to "upgrade", of course); hashking launched "investments", paid 30 cents or less; amazingrando idem, this is the story since day one. << http://trilema.com/2013/of-mice-and-men-revisited/#selection-131.313-131.544

mircea_popescu: incidentally, since we were discussing http://trilema.com/2018/surprised-by-joy-the-shape-of-my-early-life-adnotated/#footnote_163_80959 : ALL of these "early modern financial vehicles" are the same thing -- smoke and mirrors for a "government of England" to pay 30 pennies to the pound and keep the capital.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile of course, http://asicminer.com/

mircea_popescu: seems unlikely.

mircea_popescu: i doubt anyone'd have thought their promises solvent.

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/the-analysis-of-a-failure-asicminer/ << more detail on same topic.

mircea_popescu: anyway, whatever that discussion -- the point is that a bunch of tards with some modicum of chinerse connection turned <1mn into actual baked chips cca 2012.

mircea_popescu: they fucked up the financial side, after managing to be the 1-in-100 that didn't fuck up the operational side.

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/of-mice-and-men-revisited/#selection-35.0-41.334 is probably the controlling story, but basically, six or so years ago there was one single "success" in a cloud of utter inept idiots.

mircea_popescu: ok, so the thing that meanwhile "became" bitmain through "incorporating" in the sense of ditching the "forum investors" and any possible claims they may have was, before that move, the first and only ever "investment success" of tardstalk, made the "asicminer". "ceo" was one "freidcat"

mircea_popescu: let me dig through teh archives, might as well.

mircea_popescu: the actuall successful item was asic-something, unrelated entirely.

mircea_popescu: the fpga-sanded-off was usg's own fraud division "butterfly labls", with the mafia dorks.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, the first actually successful thing.

mircea_popescu: this was many years ago.

mircea_popescu: i didn't judge it more than "one of the schmucks is fucking some local baillif's daughter" or such ; they never looked like anything more than high six figures were ever available to them.

mircea_popescu: back in the original "asic" days, the first "company" that made it, consisted entirely of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-04#1847453 fellows -- not particularly bright, but with chinese presence. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: i have long suspected your numbers were off ; as recently discussed.

mircea_popescu: possibly.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im sure like the shovel merchants of 1848, they sell for cash sufficient.

mircea_popescu: ye olde http://trilema.com/2018/le-salaire-de-lidiotie/#selection-165.280-165.733 thing.

mircea_popescu: the infallible mark of the imbecile, whereby he'll create a "math proof world" wherein the fact he can't lean math won't enslave him to they who can.

mircea_popescu: doh.

mircea_popescu: in other words, the alphabet nonsense is certified to never do anything [to break out of the gulag] whereas the shitcoin nonsense just fucking might. unlikely as all hell, nevertheless unlikely's too dangerous a danger!

mircea_popescu: "but that's ok". why ? "because it's useless, or in proper terminology, http://trilema.com/2015/the-squares-and-the-holes/#selection-343.264-343.462 "

mircea_popescu: for all the derpage about "attack sites using your computer to mine shitcoins" in the usg.fakenews media, google's been using well over half of everyone's cpu an' ram for the past i dunno, decade ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: plus js shenanigans, plus dom/html5 shenanigans, plus etcetera.

mircea_popescu: so yeah, between the "googleapis", the "google fgonts", "google advertising" and "analytics" and 2-3 other culprits, google gets half dozen+ cookies loaded into your browser PER "3rd party" page.

mircea_popescu: opens it ~through a dom call!!!~ to hide it from the usual filters.

mircea_popescu: xmlhttp.open("GET", "https://www.googleapis.com/webfonts/v1/webfonts?key=AIzaSyCz-kpy86ft7U0Dh1LYkhTxrr_QPK27s1I&", true); fine example as any

mircea_popescu: look at eg https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_google_fonts.asp for an idea of how this works.

mircea_popescu: i get >10k failed attempts to load "fonts.google.com" a day for instance.

mircea_popescu: i'm confident article lists all current google ranges, but as it says, they might have secret ones etc. really what it does is shoot in the head the orcish habit of importing pantsuitism.

mircea_popescu: incidentally, usg.cloudflare got apparently mandated to involve usg.alphabet, they now import it

mircea_popescu: it's likle... redundant triangulation, the bs they got. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: which is what the article was about ; "privacy" "online" isn't worth two shits when every single page loads google.ajaxapi googlefonts googleanalytics etc.

mircea_popescu: truthfully, it was originally attempt to control firefox hopeless idiocy ; but the research into that yielded more generally useful "how to truly escape panopticon"

mircea_popescu: nah, it was to cut down on bullshit webpages doing cross-site loads.

mircea_popescu: well no, but i mean... what's the server ever connect to google for ?

mircea_popescu: trilema never had google analytics in the modern period.

mircea_popescu: not like servers do google searches

mircea_popescu: well yes, what's it to do on a server ?

mircea_popescu: but that's on the terminal ; what's it do to with the server ?

mircea_popescu: i did ?!

mircea_popescu: search enbgines separate heading, 0.5%

mircea_popescu: my conclusion is that ~100.0% of the people who could possibly read trilema discovered it already.

mircea_popescu: spamolade counted separately for my convenience.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mostly, swamped by direct traffic.

mircea_popescu: but they don't figure as even 1:2k in general.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the numbers aren't absolute 0. there's reddit and facebook and the logs and your site and everything in there, the full list is >2k separate domains

mircea_popescu: meaning that ~nobody finds trilema via the web, ie, everyone who can read it already knows it.

mircea_popescu: and in other "the web has failed, utterly" lulz : trilema's "Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines)" managed for the first time in history an epic 0.0% this month. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: but hey, at least doing things & trying things.

mircea_popescu: the sad of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-11#1849428 ever recurring. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: meaning we're, well, you're the first & only to even try this thing ?

mircea_popescu: the idea being that they're made for consumer market, and no luser complains because no luser seriously uses them or somesuch ?

mircea_popescu: so in the end the idea is, plant ran too hot, ssd contacts lost contact ?

mircea_popescu: well what can i tell ya, this looks like it's a premium item.

mircea_popescu: isn't this a metal casing item ?

mircea_popescu: strangely these are supposedly very low heat.

mircea_popescu: anyway. what model samsungs ? or ?

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo is quite the useful remote pair of hands by now, isn't he.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile in freenode idiocy, i give you http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/Baprj/?raw=true aka "how to ping out for being idle 4 minutes while exchanging data the very second prior"

mircea_popescu: 148 days 13 hours 4 minutes 56 seconds on trilema box.

mircea_popescu: apache ~will~ fall down now and again, usually through oom.

mircea_popescu: and in this context, all sorts of "improvements"

mircea_popescu: hence "nationalism" as a concept -- aims to be the answer to "what boy society could exist in female world ???"

mircea_popescu: there's this weird period in the 19th and 20th century wherein the application of "that there was a limit where the flaunting of their foul acts and opinions before the world must stop" was that "if you agree the world's in summary ourdemocracy, you may continue to try and implement your boyish nonsense in particular, short ranged versions"

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as i say, not so similar.

mircea_popescu: process not so similar to the invention of "modern russian".

mircea_popescu: all "conquered peoples" must be let do as they will, all syllabic agglomeration must be permitted to sit undisturbed, millet all the way

mircea_popescu: very federative mindset, the turks.

mircea_popescu: i suppose in the end a very rosettian view.

mircea_popescu: but certainly to disparage london & paris.

mircea_popescu: imo it's the better euro town. not to disparage vienna

mircea_popescu: classical tk, in the sense of sublime porte tk, is mostly a case of "do you know all the relevant poetry"

mircea_popescu: it's like "do oyu know neogreek" "who the fuck ever would ?!"

mircea_popescu: yes.

mircea_popescu: very vaguely.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other news nobody cares about, ro "musama" is not, as i had thought, commie-era invention to describe early plastics (in early application, vinyl table cloth) like "bakelite", but ancient tk word for waxcloth (müsemma). all neologisms are turkish in origin!!1

mircea_popescu: aanyways.

mircea_popescu: yeah, i r forgot.

mircea_popescu: wait, these are the stick-for-hdd items ?

mircea_popescu: for ssds especially is most illustrative (pro tip : it is not popssible to get bad sectors while drive not worn out (ie spares still exist) ; if drive worn out why was it in) etc

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-11#1849583 << it has smart data, doesn't it ? read it. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: "Where would he ever find a woman who could compare with her?" dawg, check it! out and out fury-ism!

mircea_popescu: lol did you contribute a few boxes to the internet's efforts to spam itslef ?

mircea_popescu: k

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform described*

mircea_popescu: ^ it's strictly impossible for the problem asciilifeform to be involved, seeing how i actually do handshake.

mircea_popescu: > GET / HTTP/1.1