asciilifeform: what i personally would like is: the smallest subset of the satoshi turdball that will still operate on the network in the customary way.
asciilifeform: am i the only one who wants that thing gone?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, jurov, ben_vulpes, decimation, (who else?) --- is there a reason to keep the json rpc apparatus in bitcoind ? imho all of its functions can be carried out by crafted command line arguments and parsing stdout...
asciilifeform: The20YearIRCloud: that was my question to the rest of you
asciilifeform: CPE being 'customer premise equipment' - the modem orifices in question
asciilifeform: rushed aside the serious espionage implications of having backdoors in CPE; believing that -- for whatever reason -- everyone has a right to choose what software is running on electronic equipment installed in their own home or office. Nevertheless, I am expected to appear in court in a couple of weeks...'
asciilifeform: 'During the police interview -- both in the "informal chat" before the official interview itself, and during that formal tape-recording grilling -- I was probed by detectives on topics quite unrelated to my arrest. In wholly irrelevant circumstances, I was grilled over my role in "unlocking" these CPE, and in my motives for doing so. Not in any way relevant to the accusations filed against me. In interview, I b
asciilifeform: dia storage devices, and paperwork was seized. The actual grounds for my arrest was cited as "harassment". This concerned a suspected fake news story that had been exposed on my blog.'
asciilifeform: '...This ELA technique is used to visually detect any conflicting compression levels in an "photo"; indicating composite fakery in an image... On 19 June 2014, in relation to discoveries published on my media fakery blog, my home in Shropshire was raided by six police/intelligence officers; only two of whom identified themselves. An undocumented quantity of electronics equipment, including modems, computers, me
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: back when i gave even less of a damn
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: could've sworn i had others, but no dice, must've actually cleaned disk at one point
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: best i turned up is: bitcoin-0.3.21-linux.tar.gz (leeched jun 2 2011) - sha256: 7e49fd93e9db98d57df31b789eb3cc46e94854958c86961514ff5cb1c7264071
asciilifeform: unrelated - is the standard unix 'patch' util braindamaged, or am i? specifically, the ludicrously elephantine output when deleting files
asciilifeform: so my accurate '1U of server' knuckle will not be asked after.
asciilifeform: in the apocalyptic dark future of kello kitty (TM) - the billion iPnohes may not power up, but they'll remain the same size... somehow people forget that the planet is cluttered up with a nearly-bottomless supply of objects of very exactly known sizes.
asciilifeform: my index finger knuckle-to-tip is a вершок to 1 %.
asciilifeform remembers recent machining textbook (american) which defended barbarian units of measure as 'intuitive to humans'
asciilifeform: at any rate, darkest ohio is a paltry 1-2x cheaper than where i am.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: u.s. post is worthless. private carriers will only deliver to reasonably large population centers, at least given normal 'human' (vs courier, $maxint) service.
asciilifeform: what does it cost to take next-day delivery of a crate of taiwanese FETs in rural (cheap) ohio?
asciilifeform: how many volumes in ru or de in the topology section of the largest academic library in ohio?
asciilifeform: what does it cost in ohio to get 1Gb/s fiber?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: "independently wealthy" affectation too often to count << not hard to tell the fake perpetuum mobile - it sorta grinds to a halt at some point...
asciilifeform: and woe be unto you if you have some calling that is more costly than watching tv.
asciilifeform: 'plan was to make some money in Silicon Valley and then retire as an independent scholar...' << notice, mr mold also didn't much care for arbeit macht frei.
asciilifeform: (his 'fuckyoumoney' was, he said, actually just 'temporarily fuckyou' and had run through. his dependopotamus had birthed.)
asciilifeform: when mr mold posted a begging box some years ago (prior to public urbit) - i gave...
asciilifeform: can't set the bozo bit on a fellow so quickly, i thought, esp. one who somehow begged/borrowed/stole enough free time to actually achieve something tangible
