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mircea_popescu: give or take, but i'm not really crazy about the difference between 5% and 3% either way
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it's the other thing people use other than uclibc
mircea_popescu: "i make a loss on every sale but hope to make it up on volume"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field except the last perso who bought was later indicted for terrorist bombmaking.
mircea_popescu: kinda not bodes well for government, either, this state of affairs.
mircea_popescu: luckily, the 80s are long gone, and this strat simply does not work.
mircea_popescu: trying to be fucking aol over here, huge corp with by far shittiest product.
mircea_popescu: right. the bitpay "method", except they're doing out of their own money.
mircea_popescu: was discussed here. that ho being their "image" what's her name ?
mircea_popescu: unlike pretty much anyone, including google and facebook/ godaddy is like apple.
mircea_popescu: their yearly total gross attained 1% of yearly expenditure in no year since 2001.
mircea_popescu: the part i like best is the scamconferences they organise where they go to spend a coupla days in alt.universe where HUGE DEALS happen and stupidity is "an industry"
mircea_popescu: this is a business now. derps actually hope to make money out of this. someone might care about domain names still, because they did pre 2001, because dotcom people were idiots
mircea_popescu: anyway, it was good enough for the webpage + guestbook era, which is back when it shone. everything goes away eventually, and the duct tape and chewed gum contraptions holding togethere the everyman's arpanet especially so.
mircea_popescu: "no that doesn't happen" "right" "you don't understand how the world works!"
mircea_popescu: yes. "and what happens if letter server sends you crafted package ?" "huh ?!"
mircea_popescu: at least from what i've pieced together from what people have been reciting to me as bedstories since my involvement in bitcoin
mircea_popescu: but, regardless. every journey begins with a frenzied fuck and a sad kiss goodbye.
mircea_popescu: you being one of the perhaps five people that did it this year,
mircea_popescu: anyway, if one's interested feel free to contact me and i'll either say gtfo or tell you what you have to do. if you'd rather avoid the record of the gtfo feel free to discuss privately.
mircea_popescu: you will be helped by the glibc team but you.absolutely.must.know.what.you're.doing.
mircea_popescu: what's now needed is an expert computer engineer willing and able to take over maintenance of libnss, starting with fixing it so it allows proper static linking.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in the wake of my "who shat the libnss" investigation tptb have agreed something must be done about this.
mircea_popescu: i had to do a dbl take see if he actually put html cruft in his poc.
mircea_popescu: of course, in the converse view, a sysadmin that actually fucks with your binary on a valuable box...
mircea_popescu: "In this article I am going to show you how to create an executable that runs arbitrary code if it's examined by `ldd`. I have also written a social engineering scenario on how you can get your sysadmin to unknowingly hand you his privileges."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fluffypony kinda funny how the "decentralised exchange" is the webwallet of 2015.
mircea_popescu: yeah totally. i have incompatible internet. incompatible TO STUPID
mircea_popescu: We were unable to connect to the Hackpad synchronization server. This may be due to an incompatibility with your web browser or internet connection."
mircea_popescu: "We're having trouble talking to the Hackpad synchronization server. You may be connecting through an incompatible firewall or proxy server.
mircea_popescu: the people who take decisions aren't on skype. the people who are on skype don't take decisions.
mircea_popescu: here's a clue : no decision of any import was ever taken on skype.
mircea_popescu: which hackpad thing reminds me : re the earlier hacker news piece - i find it hysterical the agitprop is seriously pushing the "and they got on skype" angle.
mircea_popescu: well luckily ver invested the money he doesn't have into a new way to butter the coin!
mircea_popescu: ie, they really abandoned any attempt to communicate at all, and satisfy themselves with browbeat. supposedly this works on the stupidest of the working class.
mircea_popescu: but the pretense that his thinly veiled propaganda is "real journalism" is indicative of the state of the usg propaganda machine, be it daily beast or wapo.
mircea_popescu: if this were how the world worked everyone'd be john oliver.
mircea_popescu: the ordinary streetwalker couldn't explain how a car engine works, either. that doesn't make car engines unimportant.
mircea_popescu: you can by and large identify disinfo by this very idiotic "person on street" bent.
mircea_popescu: in any case : that particular leak, and the much less publicised but much ampler leaks since, are not important because "people on the street"
mircea_popescu: no idea why anyone'd entertain mildred gillars posing as a "comedian", but hey.
mircea_popescu: yeah well... it seems reasonably obvious that the usg's very uppity policy is insanity on the mid term. they need us a lot more than we could ever need them. obviously a bit of humility today will save a lot of abject humiliation in 2025, but in any case
mircea_popescu: "all of which will be running on chinese made ic anyway"
mircea_popescu: 300ish ships somehow sounds unimpressive. like a minor chinese port.
mircea_popescu: mats anything above and beyond the "they succeeded making their own nuke, further sanctions superfluous" ?
mircea_popescu: much easier than to try and you know, buy all pogos, as alf was discussing.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation once we settle in uclibc, uclibc gets killed.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> -somebody- saw it fit to break static linking on gnu platform in the traditional microshit way - suddenly, silently, and 'for your own good' (TM) << and the fact that silently worked tells mike_c why qntra market cap would reasonably exceed the sum of the market cap of all computing publications available.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> in other words, it only applies to code that the user himself has compiled << in other words, it is by its very definition dekulakization. run the fucking code usg & dept of friend computer say you run, terrorist!
mircea_popescu: anyway asciilifeform no you're not the first to notice. you're the first to notice who is actually connected and thus powerful.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm not entirely sure this is to go on the head of Andreas Jaeger.