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mircea_popescu: <assbot> Is using encryption suspicious? Half of Americans say yes, according to Pew << half of americans also think an mit degree means basic electric competence.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile /me has ordered gentoo researched and will probably migrate.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` me either. nor would i have considered it, pre debian showing all the leadership of a stale clump of bread.
mircea_popescu: really, solitaire is dependent on networking ? fuck the whole lot of them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the idiocy of how linux nowadays handles dependencies makes me fucking hate the entire thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from what i've seen they mostly do "bad actors in bad period costumes and elevator scripts"
mircea_popescu: ah, no. im peripherally aware of it cuz coupla of de girlz are fans
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know it occurs to me a broad systemd test script would be useful
mircea_popescu: they may also be doing it for the principle of the thing.
mircea_popescu: and that they should prolly take advantage of the opportunity seeing how it's widely read by the world's elite such as for instance mpex discussion.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform maybe tell them that if they provide you with a full diagnosis / story of what happened you'll publish the whole thing on your blog,
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo " I am severely undrqualified for this" said every virgin at her defloration party.
mircea_popescu: "Far be it for me to question the veracity of claims made by screenshots of anonymous comments from 4chan, but did anyone bother to stop and ask why a man would be dancing in a room full of people wearing coats?"
mircea_popescu: anyway, jurov found a guy willing to do the windows stuff, so there's going to be that, too.
mircea_popescu: except not really saying that, because hey, still same dumb, ten years older.
mircea_popescu: "here's how stupid i was and here's what you could learn from it : don't EVER go with the libertard ideology, ever."
mircea_popescu: preferring instead to write plaintive missives of no value ten years later, like the netbsd derp.
mircea_popescu: nobody has so far taken a strong "fuck you, and red hat, and the usg" stance. it is likely they never will,
mircea_popescu: seems gentoo is going to be a major platform for eulora beta / many things we do.
mircea_popescu: it's latest but old. a new one is in the pipe so give it a few.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` if memory serves the stuff was upgraded once since hten
mircea_popescu: otherwise, i could probably make an audiotrack of obama confessing his erotic dreams of stalin.
mircea_popescu: if it is worth anything, it is worth anything only through the sheer ignorance / ample cupidity of the jury.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what value a 3 year old audio testimony produced by a media company with ample access to recordings of the person's voice could be worth in court.
mircea_popescu: that article should have been dripping invective. but of course, such is not possible. so random internet imbecile reads it and moves on, unbothered. HE IS LESS WRONG
mircea_popescu: "Your LinkedIn account says you’re in Sweden, so perhaps English is not your native language. That’s cool. Spanish was my first language, so I feel you. However, your generalization about women is a reprehensible bromide."
mircea_popescu: you know you should prolly look into ipa rather than that atrocity w/e it is.
mircea_popescu: that's a mildly interesting problem : calculate the probability of naturally occuring exact geometric shapes of a given metal and mass.
mircea_popescu: Adlai you ever slept in the desert, camels lined up to break the cold wind ?
mircea_popescu: (this is why birds hang out in trees while reptiles hang out on rocks - birds need the shade, lizards need the heat)
mircea_popescu: that's expensive at rest (it's also the only reason they can fly, larger buffer to absorb the heat they can't dissipate)
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes birds maintain 42 degrees body temperatures, vs your 36.5
mircea_popescu: generally birds are inefficient because of the 42 degrees problem. but also, polar bears eat a lot more than lions, per body kg.
mircea_popescu: certainly put gilliam on the map for me. and then imaginarium...
mircea_popescu: it's pretty good. maybe i'm distributring name tags at conference all reading Mr. Tuttle