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mircea_popescu: this is such a tempting notion to invest...
asciilifeform: fly swatter is not a viable method of serious pest control.
asciilifeform: it is a fly swatter.
asciilifeform: at one time asciilifeform burned 20-40min erry day manually banning . then got tired of this and went to properly optimize the phuctor db so that it doesn't give a damn re load, up to line speed.
diana_coman: asciilifeform, what did you use then? I'm not a huge fan of iptables in any way and this have-to-recompile-kernel doesn't help but I don't know of anything else that is better
a111: Logged on 2018-09-04 14:34 mircea_popescu: well this promises to be a serio0us problem that can't be winged, but will require some thought ; in part because i don't directly see the difference ; and in part because i don't really think a machine without a functioning way to limit access to it is actually seaworthy.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-04#1847273 << at the time i built the 1st kernel for these particular iron, i was not using (believe or not) iptables, was quite disappointed with the 'whack-a-mole' approach to bandwidth conservation ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-04#1847272 << this is correct, there's a lengthy list of 'optionals' , and not only in iptables, but for just about errything ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'iron babel' of x86 means that there is not and never has been such a thing as 'general purpose kernel'. there exist of course the fraudulent imitations, of shituntu etc. where they roll in 500MB of ??? 'all possible modules' , but it is beneath contempt
asciilifeform: so if you have a working kernel for a particular iron, you can use it with cuntoo, regardless of what shape cuntoo takes.
trinque: except that the product of the build isn't bootable without one, but build takes the kernel config as a parameter, so it can indeed be entirely separate
mircea_popescu: yeah ; we have a FG vs external-ssd issue baking ;/
mircea_popescu: alright. so basically, we have a july latest-kernel from alf at http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/conf_current.conf << diana_coman trinque erryone else interested read and see if it works for you / comment ? ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2018-08-01 21:28 diana_coman: after reading around on this mess with the usb speeds, the summary + questions would be: 1. the dwc_otg seems actually specific to raspberry pi so I don't see how it's directly useful atm; am I missing something? 2. the manual/runtime pill so far relies on the companion mechanism to force a USB port down from "high speed" to "full speed" so basically from ehci to uhci/ohci; wouldn't it make more sense to blacklist ehci, xhci and whatever
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is entirely so, take a look at the kernel config list sometime, it is a riot of ???
asciilifeform: yes, iirc it did not, given as it was a physical clone of mine, which at the time also did not.
mircea_popescu: but yes, evidently the (undiagnosed ; are these people morons ?!) problem is that "anything could be a firewall rule", ie, this is a place where the scripting turns upon the whole machine state. which makes me suspoect there's a more fundamental error at work somewhere (possibly the very attempt to build a pantsuit net, allcomers-based, possibly something else), but until we get a fix on that... ☟︎
mircea_popescu: make a cut between and that's it.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman 's thing above serving as a "no less than" seeing how minigame is a major downstream adopter ; and the usual "more loc ?! fu!" as a "no more than" driver.
diana_coman: it is asciilifeform's kernel indeed; iptables or something else to limit access though I think is a must on a server
trinque: there is an extremely broad category of possible iptables/netfilter doodads with which to make a firewall, router, etc. I could certainly see use in defining a subset of what's available as standard.
mircea_popescu: i mean, it'd be ok for a terminal. but as a server it gotta have something-like-iptables neh ?
mircea_popescu: well this promises to be a serio0us problem that can't be winged, but will require some thought ; in part because i don't directly see the difference ; and in part because i don't really think a machine without a functioning way to limit access to it is actually seaworthy. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, if "iptables" as a module requires recompilation in order for the scripting to work, it's exactly like a car which, upon turning the wheel, puts up an order for a new car via the useful app instead of turning the wheels.
mircea_popescu: even though a car with fixed wheel inclination would be more robust and cheaper to build.
mircea_popescu: it's my understanding that the point of adding scriptability to a program is exactly that : to permit changes in its functioning ("configuration") without requiring a whole recompile. much like the point of adding a steering wheel in a car is to permit the car to take arbitrary curves, as scripted at time of driving. rather than having to driver (how?) car back to factory get a new one with the differently inclined wheelbase.
mircea_popescu: this sounds like a terrible way to go about it. what, fiddling with iptables = kernel rebuild ? why even have a scriptable config if this is how it goes, jaysus
deedbot: http://bingology.net/2018/07/29/casa-boingo-a-photo-tour/ << Bingology - BingoBoingo's Blog - Casa Boingo - A Photo Tour
deedbot: http://bingology.net/2018/07/07/a-look-at-fraudball-the-terrible-spectator-sport/ << Bingology - BingoBoingo's Blog - A Look At Fraudball, The Terrible Spectator Sport
BingoBoingo: Well, a good chunk of it is the when of being around people
cazalla: i did get out of my head, i hear (and have read from your own account) what you're saying, went out on a few day trips with the locals and spoke to them etc
cazalla: surprised enough i got a plane and went overseas.. really should've done that shit a long time ago
BingoBoingo: Gotta give hostels a try
cazalla: even if it's for a job
mircea_popescu: does she have a very large clit ?
BingoBoingo: Was actually published a few hours ago, but Freenode weather
BingoBoingo: Oh, crap I went for a walk and missed cazalla
cazalla: i'll give it some thought and planning, likely go back october/november once it cools a bit more
cazalla: yeah, i get that, but the taiwanese speak/read/write a different chinese to the mainlanders, as to how different it is i don't know
mircea_popescu: this is one of the places where a honest fail is worth some chunk of a flat success.
mircea_popescu: well, are you going back ? we've been trying to hire a sinoslut for ages.
cazalla: well, i just got back from a month bumming around taiwan, probably says enough
trinque: will cut a release with the v-tronic portage shortly and we can see if that also breaks for ya.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/cltKR/?raw=true << you were in a few times. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i still suspect a very noisy 'route through london' lulz afflicting deedbot.
PeterL: then you fill it with a creamy potato soup and basically fall into a starch fueled happy coma after you're done eating
mircea_popescu: in my old age i barely dare a coupla slices a day. and no, they're not footwide slices either ;/
mircea_popescu: that's a lot of bread! how long till you go through that ?
asciilifeform as a small boy, 'if i jump this-high, can i see turks??'
PeterL: it sounds like a nice place to visit
PeterL: she does get the "randomly selected" additional security screening every time she goes through a US airport, we assume it is just because of "lives in turkey", but maybe she is on a terrorist watch list somewhere
asciilifeform: i suspect even northkr has a list of 'tolerated untermenschen' with us passport who go in, out
PeterL: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-26#1844708 << my sister-in-law lives in Turkey (teacher at a foreign school), goes in and out every few months just fine, but she was living there before they tightened their border ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i outright deny it is possible to build anything other than a ~model~ mosque in the new world.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-01 15:53 mircea_popescu: in fact, thinking about it, me and you might be the ONLY TO people present who've even ever been inside a mosque
PeterL: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-01#1846578 << I have visited a mosque, it's actually the biggest in the US, in Dearborn MI ☝︎
mircea_popescu: republic-as-hobby is a pre 2018 item, really.
mircea_popescu: PeterL how in are you to begin with ? pick a rifle stand a post ; alternatively pick a lord help out in his castle ; alternatively may i suggest radiomodelism ? or perhaps fishing ?
a111: Logged on 2018-08-30 13:22 mircea_popescu: the overarching point being that neither #trilema nor tmsr is a sort of dilbert-larping-zone, here for the http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-29#1845588 "salaried zek" element to gather after hours, smoke, and predictably if circularly discuss how-stupid-everyone-but-us-is.
mircea_popescu: i put in the more egregious ones, such as "timeout 260 seconds" coming BEFORE a message and such nonsense. but really...
trinque: it has been a waste of my time to investigate every instance of this, always ending up with "bot thought it was connected, was not"
asciilifeform: Mocky: i've seen this before, sometimes i suspect trinque runs the thing on a 386...
asciilifeform: their compressor was a thing resembling old school fire brigade pump, the kind with seesaw handle
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform takes a while and very good quality mechanicals.
asciilifeform: takes a while tho.
mircea_popescu: a man divided upon himself can not stand. let people looking for mockybot gaze upon mockycock, it's good for them.
mircea_popescu: a ok.
Mocky: mircea_popescu, it's not new just sitting unused. I'll use blog, yes. If I find a use for the alternate, will be ready to go
mircea_popescu: i even saw ancient "invention", was pretty entertaining : barrel has holes cut, through which walls can fall in. as the projectile moves through barrel it clicks the supports walls fall behind it, leaving a chamber. low pressure (ordinary 50kg air compressor) resulting in common bullet shooting at supersonic speeds.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: giant artillery is a fertile field , imho ( take for instance the concept of evacuated barrel. impressive results even among basement aficionados with air rifles, in these )
Mocky: I'm getting "#pizarro :Cannot send to nick/channel" so will just drop this here: I created a dir named 'wwwhabeeb' in my shared hosting account. can you set me up to have domain mockyhabeeb.com be fed from that?
mircea_popescu: make a lengthy light barrel, do most of the acceleration towards the end, loose less energy to ^5 rule.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, ~that~ may be a good use of ye olde pellet gun.
asciilifeform: sort of a modern-day hochdruckpumpe
a111: Logged on 2018-09-02 01:53 mircea_popescu: time to learn that there's a time to grease, if one aims to avoid anal rape lubed in own blood.
mircea_popescu: the fall of the pantsuit citadel depends on technology transfer. ending the bullshit one impregnable fortress at a time.
mircea_popescu would like to point out at this juncture that the fellow known as orban was in fact very not hungarian, but a transylvanian fellow. from brasov.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of this in late byzantine artefactry, too, btw.
asciilifeform: i recall a thread where mircea_popescu contracted a foundry to make a whipping fixture or what was it, because argentines can't make anyffing
a111: Logged on 2018-09-02 17:31 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-02#1846877 << this is nothing. girl got sent (to major us metropolitan area) to scout for specific sex shop items. returned list of "best sex shops" in early stage. upon review of their "online store" it was discovered a) they are 100% cheap-ass white label crap, exactly indistinct from what douchebag would run and b) entirtely not representative of 1% of the stock of the brick and mortar store.
mircea_popescu: there, the republic has equipped you with a very useful book in dealing with the locals.
mircea_popescu: hanbot was it quite a thing or just a bit ?
hanbot: mircea_popescu hanbot also had a good chuckle when diana_coman's kiddo found the backseat stash: "i've found a thing!"
diana_coman: it was worth a good chuckle :P
mircea_popescu: hanbot had a good chuckle
diana_coman: no, no,there was a bit more for 2nd evening :P
diana_coman: well, it was so good, we kept sipping it and then it would have been a pity to leave behind and then it's ugly to pack an opened bottle and so ...we finished it :P
Mocky says from a coffee shop
a111: Logged on 2018-09-02 17:03 asciilifeform: ( oblig. emulated-mircea_popescu answers, 'why do you need to take a comp on airplanes! sit on throne, in beach, drink rum, instead' )
a111: Logged on 2018-09-02 16:24 diana_coman: to me apple stuff is still essentially a fashion item and yes, usually that comes with insanity as far as I can tell
mircea_popescu: ie, problem is WAY the fuck worse than mere failure along the lines of http://trilema.com/2018/must-suck-to-be-one-of-you-average-guy-with-a-great-sense-of-humor-losers-seriously-now/#selection-91.829-95.1 ; they literally have given up on commerce as a going concern, and universally.
mircea_popescu: because average ustard actually perceives that a) limiting himself to his broke-ass, never-seen-money-in-life compatriots is not merely an acceptable business strategy, but legally mandatory and b) the correct response to "unexpected situation" is "nopenopenopenopenope".
a111: Logged on 2018-09-02 16:21 asciilifeform: in (mostly) unrelated lulz, recently asciilifeform found himself visiting several different crapple shops, and standing in a queue for hours, sov-style, simply to submit for repair a crapple lappy (2 yr old !) with swollen battery, whole thing looked like spoiled food tin
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-02#1846877 << this is nothing. girl got sent (to major us metropolitan area) to scout for specific sex shop items. returned list of "best sex shops" in early stage. upon review of their "online store" it was discovered a) they are 100% cheap-ass white label crap, exactly indistinct from what douchebag would run and b) entirtely not representative of 1% of the stock of the brick and mortar store. ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: aanyway i'm off to unwind for a spell in the room where it's 1982 , bbl.
asciilifeform: ( oblig. emulated-mircea_popescu answers, 'why do you need to take a comp on airplanes! sit on throne, in beach, drink rum, instead' ) ☟︎
asciilifeform: ( since mircea_popescu is asleep, i'ma have to put in placeholder for the oblig thread, [ m: 'you deserve this for working for a living, idjit' a: '...' ] )
asciilifeform: crapple has never not sucked, but the battery glue is imho a new low. gotta wonder what's next, maybe spikes will randomly emerge from the kbd
asciilifeform: diana_coman: fashions aside, if you're misfortunate enuff to need a recent x86-64 lappy where can attach large external displays, wifi, etc without aeons of config tweaking and flaky, yer stuck with crapple
diana_coman: to me apple stuff is still essentially a fashion item and yes, usually that comes with insanity as far as I can tell ☟︎