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cads: I wouldn't ever want to inflict my last name upon a girl
joecool: in fact she wants to change her first name's spelling as a package deal after she gets married
cazalla: joecool: she's just brainwashed by women's rights, funny how a lot of that went away once she fell pregnant
joecool: must have a crappy surname
cazalla: together almost 6 years though so with a kid, we're pretty much married
cazalla: I'll butcher it when I paraphrase but along the lines of it's not that the world sucks but you're looking at everything through the lense of a sore and tired drunk
cads: hey I guess that's not a bad place to be looking out from
cazalla: Ah, it's not a problem, I just see the habit forming again that's all
cads: I have a friend that is so boozy he's constantly at risk of being homeless and I have to ask him is it worth it :P
cazalla: i wasn't having a go at you
cazalla: you talked about it last year - i'm reading through the logs from the start and came across that like a week ago
cazalla: so what do you do for a crust
cazalla: breastfeeding mothers are in a class of their own when it comes to nagging/whinging
Mats_cd03: its well worth the 5 dollars a month imo
Mats_cd03: being a stay at home dad is privilege
cazalla: it's 2014, i can be a stay at home dad, check your privilege ffs
Mats_cd03: but theres a log so it doesnt really matter
cazalla: ah, he's not here.. who doesn't use a bouncer?
MisterE: we had that great chat the other night then nothing since I feel like I've ben dumped after a hot 1-night stand :p
cazalla: moiety: i know about one of those phantom cats (blue mountains panther), we were always told it broke free when a cage overturned from a circus travelling up the mountain
moiety: just kidding, you need to get a corgi
moiety: I didn't know you had a cat BingoBoingo! :P
moiety: ah.. "proud, plotting and evil, as though he might actually murder a small human just for sport."
BingoBoingo: moiety: That's a different one
moiety: asciilifeform: i didn't know they had a name for this either http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_cat [Alien Big Cats]
moiety: asciilifeform: thats incredible. its really interesting how they are all a bit different. I'm espcieally surprised at the ocelot hybrid. (and the fact theres such a thing as a cryptozoologist)
moiety: dignork: i rotate my manuls, some are unlabelled. and i would prefer a non-microshaft machine, but priorities just now
moiety: asciilifeform: i have a manul i cant read! its in russian i think
moiety: ffs.. i had to look, and yes someone has done it. http://futurefashionstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Pallas-Cat-Riding-a-Fox-15-Top-Cat-Tattoo.jpg
mircea_popescu: cazalla im not so sure there exist any tattoo on any twentysomething that could be explained by a 50 something
moiety: mike_c: thats epic, thanks for shairing... i would make a million of the rainbow cube thingys
asciilifeform: buy a generic docsis modem, reflash the addr, problem solved.
bounce: were it up to me I'd separate out the docsis3 part into a standalone thingy and do the rest elsewhere.
asciilifeform: bounce: you're using a router supplied by other people ?!
bounce: huh, since today ze wifi developed a habit of cutting all live connections every hour or so. possibly the isp did an "upgrade", they pulled that before, with similar effects. oh the joys of CPEs, even brand name issue ("cisco" here)
asciilifeform: and never a key
asciilifeform: cardano uses a micro-sd card for storage, and assumes that said card was built by the devil
asciilifeform: anyone who does, and uses an external drive that faithfully stores bits (no micro diddling) is vulnerable to a world of fun
asciilifeform: re: usb: it is important to remember that using winblows is a strictly voluntary surrender.
bounce: right. so ideally would want a new controller with old chips
asciilifeform: in the sense that a recent 'ssd' would barely last a few thousand write cycles without leveling.
bounce: the keys I have here are all well before the large leaps around the time of the barefoot controller. perhaps should replace a few. then again, I'd get inferior flash.
asciilifeform: mike_c: cardano emulates a usb drive, when connected to pc.
asciilifeform: i've tried this personally - it works. (you need a drive for which either docs or some reverse-engineerable flash diddler from the factory are available.) ☟︎
asciilifeform: usb keys have been penetrated before << this refers to various experiments where you re-flash the microcontroller inside a usb drive, to do various useful things.
asciilifeform: whether this has anything to do with practical security is a puzzle for students of u.s. bureaucracy.
asciilifeform: now, these gadgets are blessed by a priest, sprinkled with holy water before deployment, etc.
cads: dat moment when you realize you suddenly need to know a lot more about what was going in and around some historical event.
bounce: paleologoi doesn't light a bulb nor produces comprehensible search results. colour me uninformed.
cads: I'm sure they did but I've heard nary a one
bounce: they did do a lot of good work, but they certainly weren't the only ones
mircea_popescu: bounce i'd say it's uncontroversial that they did a lot of very good work. the problem with the propapress -> wikipedia -> reddit machine oif nonthink is that it flattens alternatives
bounce: you know, it's not even so much wikipedia as some good old fashioned propaganda that put bletchley park on such a socket
asciilifeform: it's a derisive poke
bounce: esp. going on the end they also put a lot of faith in "wonder weapons", "victory weapons", and such. bit of a parallel with the US, that
asciilifeform: anyone who had the misfortune of attending u.s. schools is in for a little mindfuck - the evidence that sk (at the behest of its puppeteer across the ocean) started the korean war is, imho, convincing.
cads: but using it in a way such that they could not deduce that we were decyphering everything
cads: haha, all I know about what sunk the germans I learned from a fictional account of breaking the Enigma machine
mircea_popescu: if you were a party organiser and all you had to show me were math wallflowers i'd equally point and laugh at you.
mircea_popescu: cads understand that a spyshop is not math kids.
cads: all those mathematicians and they're still a laughingstock to mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: well, academia is hte largest, but ohter than that as a single entity, i believe it.
mircea_popescu: there's a german Peter Sragher version which is pretty decent. but otherwise the guy seems an incredibly well kept secret. funny how that works.
asciilifeform: it's mostly a product of my diseased imagination, but has some grounding in soviet history
asciilifeform: cads: the two-nsa hypothesis is that the americans have a stable of folks with brains squirreled away somewhere
mircea_popescu: no, he was a philosopher, theory of knowledge.
mircea_popescu: one of his lines is meanwhile common cultural cliche in romanian, "sa nu strivim corola the minuni a lumii"
mircea_popescu: there's a romaina guy that did extensive "research" on this topic, his name was lucian blaga
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and the average cunt with a hidden angler fish right under the flesh would be also indistinguishable from the average cunt.
asciilifeform: it's a pill that would be kept in reserve for some unspecified 'dire times' that never come - as nukes are
asciilifeform: the interesting thing is that nsa-as-we-know-it, but with a pill against modern crypto hidden in an 'indiana jones'-style vault, would scarcely be distinguishable from what we can now see
bounce: not sure if it's a cause or an effect, but the shifting is happening, yes
cads: their emperor is a God!
mircea_popescu: bounce watch the influence spheres move as a result.
bounce: not a european country among them. huh.
moiety: lol shit bullet is a new one on me
bounce: I forget whose documentary it was where some cia operative went "well we just have to step into all these messes you lot (==all the world) keep on being in" -- meaning it seriously and conveniently turning a blind eye to the glaring fact it's the us, more specifically the cia, that's been busy causing the messes in the first place
bounce: they're not a human spy shop, no. they do deal in information and so also in misinformation.
mircea_popescu: the us humint was never any good, even at the height of the cold war they were more of a laughingstoc operationally,
mircea_popescu: nsa is not a spy shop tho.
cads: "obviously the corporate leaks were not done by the CEO" "But he's gotten great publicity!" "he's going to spend his life in jail" "yeah but he'll be a mover/shaker in the real world via his letters" "he hanged himself last night" "yeah but this was all of his plan so that now he can laugh at us and manipulate the stock market from Hell"
bounce: it's a valid concern, though. spy shops must be masters of misinformation.
mircea_popescu: skinnkavaj more like "because they fucked up a bitbet."
moiety has looked into es a lot
bounce: one of the reasons I bought a nokia e52 was because there was cryptophone source available that was supposed to work on that thing
mircea_popescu: cads he's just a random has-been talking about the topic of the moment, imo.
cads: everyone knows they're recording the phone calls, now everyone believes that they can only keep the phone calls for a month, that the program to do it is called MYSTIC, and that it hasn't been used against the US
cads: so possibly he's doing us a favor by explaining the capabilities in more complete way
cads: when he covers a larger new outlet's story on the revelation of a new capability, he's always pointing out the technical ways in which the capabilities go further than the article explains
cads: it's kinda like he's playing some kind of theatre, dazzling and shocking us with these capabilities, then here and there dropping a paragraph about how we should do something against them
cads: more recently he covered something called MYSTIC, which is a system that can "record 100% of a nation's phone calls"
cads: mircea_popescu: also I know you don't like schneier, but for a while he had his "NSA Exploit of the day" that was a near daily analysis of a new exploit from his researches of the leaked documents - here he apparently concludes that with basically saying, I've shown you all these exploits. Now we need to come up with ways to defend against them because not only the NSA will use them, but also criminals and other countries
turbo_ac100: I have a different user ID on the keyserver and eregistered here. Matters?
moiety: can anyone explain to me how a self-confessed "indoor cat" like snowden ended up with a model gf? im suspicious of this
mircea_popescu: cads snowden was a contractor. he didn't have access to the strategic bundle.
mircea_popescu: bounce this is a good point actually.
moiety: BingoBoingo: can we play chess tomorrow or soon? preferrably after you have had a ton of vodka
BingoBoingo: Possibly. She has yet to tweet this month, and seemed rather interested in the topic. This reading thing is a hell of a drug
bounce: that with tweets maxing at 160 chars and irc messages at a little more, wouldn't it make sense for ozbot to special-case twitter.com/.../status/... and include the actual tweet?
cads: Nowhere do we see documents on what the NSA percieved to be a serious threat!