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mircea_popescu: "Cabletica, ICE, Kolbi, Claro, Moviestar all need to be called and asked to open this port." << at least the last two are cheap mobile providers in argentina.
mircea_popescu: not exactly unconnected, for sure, but never invited to a fundraiser either, unless it's for the state capitol and they couldn't fill the seats.
mircea_popescu: basically they're one of the what, 100k or so small tech-ish corps that live off the usg dole.
mircea_popescu: eh get out. i control so many I don't know all of em by name
mircea_popescu: it's a smallish business, think in terms of roger ver's used laptops shop
mircea_popescu: Fleetwood Digital Video Technology Corp is not like... haliburton or something.
mircea_popescu: topdollar.commegawealth.commutualfundcenter.com atlanticfinancial.comcapitalgain.com etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know that's just a general support email, and the connection between fenton and fdvt is about the same as between reddit feminist incel and starbucks
mircea_popescu: in any case, the pogo plugs will be quite welcome. the network's been suffering for a long time,
mircea_popescu: wasn't goping to say anything, but since it's public now..
mircea_popescu: it was highlighted by intel about two weeks ago, and we're generally tracing it to philippines "top quality" content farms working for a number of (mostly ct and wash based) pr firms.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: "I've noticed certain repeating characteristic in the writing of many members of this forum: they construct grammatically correct sentences but absolutely disregard the underlying semantics: incoming vs. outgoing, local vs. remote, source vs. destination, etc. Here in regards to TCP/IP ports, but I observed that in regards to pretty much any technical issue."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Of course many ISPs block out outgoing 8333 by default . Why do you think we see all these threads where people complain that they are getting only 8 incoming connections on their bitcoin QT wallet? Why do we average less than 7k nodes worldwide at any given time?"
mircea_popescu: in the words of one of the numerous us generals remembered for losing a war, "the unknowns that we know about, we name terrorism. the unknowns we don't know about, we predend don't exist. that and the state department is how we spend a trillion for the priviledge of spending another trillion."
mircea_popescu: dude these fucktards. LEARN PGP!!1eleventyfivethousand cocks in your mother's dumb mouth.
mircea_popescu: "Show your face. Those who know what you look like can verify that it's actually you, and not a sockpuppet trolling us all."
mircea_popescu: punkman asciilifeform yeah that's more intended for proxy chaining them iirc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nothing quite like a camel with dolphin skin.
mircea_popescu: trinque so what's almost done ? this week ? tomorrow ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform maybe this seed-from-file mod is more stringently needed than i thought ? mod6 ? ben_vulpes ?
mircea_popescu: trinque ok, but it was nearly done like a week ago too ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought the node's own memory was the primary bootstrap ?
mircea_popescu: and speaking of how's it going yo trinque ! what happened there ?
mircea_popescu: and remove a lot of dumbass pressure off the blockchain. ("want to talk to people ? talk through the node process not through the tx process)
mircea_popescu: which will make bitcoin full nodes a much saner thing altogether.
mircea_popescu: irc should probably stay because a) it doesn't actualy do anything atm and b) it will be an easy upgrade to gossipd
mircea_popescu: "In general I have found so far that the best results in computer security are achieved not by those who are most competent at securing a system, but by those who are backed by management most inclined to simplify their task. "
mircea_popescu: i gotta find this quote of myself, not enough self fellatio today.
mircea_popescu: ip addresses seems to be the manner to connect via tcp/ip neh ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c a mechanism made by someone not in wot doesn't really exist.
mircea_popescu: this, in particular, is a good discussion of macroeconomics, something you rarely see in english
mircea_popescu: sure, that';s the general idea, have all the magic strings in a file somewhere.
mircea_popescu: if the king can pay nobles for their service in "heraldics" he will do so. and issue and issue and issue until there's more crowns than the estucheon can hold.
mircea_popescu: giving voice to anyone that asks has its disadvantages.
mircea_popescu: if sex were merit based how do you explain masturbation ?
mircea_popescu: so "i have all this love to give" vs "i need to get laid" ?
mircea_popescu: i know i want a new internet too. who knew dilma got it
mircea_popescu: there was also a case in ww1 when the romanian general was put in command of all the german units and so on.
mircea_popescu: (one of the rare cases when a romanian was supreme commander of the russian troops in any war theater)
mircea_popescu: then later in ww2, romanian army went all the way to stalingrad, raping and pillaging with the germans, then got beaten back, went over to like, prague, and then after the war there was all that "sociailism" thingee/
mircea_popescu: anyway, the turks mowed them down, and so the commanding officer sent the romanian kind a "plz save us telegram'. so the romanian army moved in, beat back the turks, took some impossible redoubts, lost like a third of the men and that was that.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well, romania as a sovereign nation was mostly constructed around this event where the czar declared war on the turks on the fumes of imagining himself like the germans, and buying the british propaganda about the "dead man of europe". the turks were the origina lrhodesia.
mircea_popescu: heh. most everyone in romania was in teh projects coupla decades ago
mircea_popescu: how do you feel about that ? i got a few ancestors that were killed by teh turks and teh russians.
mircea_popescu: stress test the system, as it were. see what happens when there's i dunno, 500k pps ddos, but not from wordpress to me.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Exploiting the Robocaller Gap - Global Guerrillas << speaking of this ben_vulpes, how about a site where people can get bitcoin for reading messages on the screen, then autodial them into say 5k different emergency zones across the us.
mircea_popescu: just exactly what do you think this lynching business is :D
mircea_popescu: show up with a blue one then, mess with everyone's head.
mircea_popescu: heh. so bring a girl, and go "don't lynch me, take her instead" then run.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: i'd go if they didn't still lynch negroes << who does ?!