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mircea_popescu: if your philosophy is that the file modification is what you defend against.
mircea_popescu: undata i think it'd be better that the execute bit gets trashed every time the file is modified.
mircea_popescu: however, if you > or >> a filename that exists already, you can run it just fine.
mircea_popescu: so if you > or >> a filename that doesn't exist and you want to run it, you have to set a permission bit separately.
mircea_popescu: linux permissions are about as fucking nonsensical as it gets.
mircea_popescu: unsung heroes, that's exactly it. "if the bot weren't down nobody would have noticed".
mircea_popescu: yeah, if the bot weren't down nobody would have noticed.
mircea_popescu: if anyone asks me, i'd rather see as few of these vacations as possible.
mircea_popescu: but, fair warning to the ones still left inside the beast : nano, prior to his vacation, was a law abiding economy teacher, a bright kid and a very loyal and honorable fellow all around.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if there's multiples lying becomes that more difficult and less valuable anyway.
mircea_popescu: maybe if it convincingly performs for a while the two wots can be bridged later on (how such a thing could be done in principle has been discussed a few times) and that'll be a great step towards de facto decentralization with central servers and that's that.
mircea_popescu: gribble is only relevant in this channel by specific inclusion from assbot. once it lost that, it lost it.
mircea_popescu: i don't know that guy is anybody, outside of social engineering everyone. he doesn't have a rating from nano, the notion they know each other is improbable on the face, and if in fact this were a job you'd fully expect a bunch of unknowns talking authoritatively in such manner.
mircea_popescu: what with all the stuff being build atop it and so on.
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure that in realpolitik terms this was the more important use of gribble.
mircea_popescu: and infrastructure didn't fail meanwhile, with no word.
mircea_popescu: well... perhaps reasonable's not the right word. safe.
mircea_popescu: yes, nano's not been heard from, the only reasonable assumption is something asciilifeform'd say.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> can't wait for gribble to come home. << i dun think gribble is coming back. if it were, i wouldn't trust it.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron couldn't have been for that reason, i recall the guy following me on twitter, back before the antonoderp murder.
mircea_popescu: make a container or w/e they call it, just have people run it.
mircea_popescu: TomServo just as long as it works. i imagine nubbins` ec idea is pretty good.
mircea_popescu: not only will IT grow, but the diy capabilities of the right people will grow, which is significantly more valuable.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: may i recommend a step by step tutorial for the borderline retarded such as myself who have the resources but not the know how to run it, provide a step by step diy and it will grow << he has a point there, ben & mod6
mircea_popescu: because "i own a hotel in mali, wtf do i want with your stinkhole" is not good enough ?
mircea_popescu: i had no problem getting romania's like i dunno, 3rd ? 10 year visa fifteen years ago when i actually wanted one. notwithstanding that romania was you know, a sort of ukraine in 2025, and notwithstanding that bush was in charge.
mircea_popescu: now, it's all fine and dandy to all agree on how teh us is the empire of evil. however, the notion that they'd err on the side of not letting anyone in is plain ridoinculous.
mircea_popescu: the uncomfortable reality that he has neither is obviously something he's not willing to confront, and so it has to be about how bad teh us customs & immigration is.
mircea_popescu: it is customarily shown by a) substantial assets and b) family ties.
mircea_popescu: that's always been there, for foreigners, which people who renounce a citizenship become.
mircea_popescu: this guy was never sober. literally. you know what i mean, that drunk functionality of the hardcore ukrainian ?
mircea_popescu: so when i first landed here i kept a hotel room for about a week. my across the hall neighbour was this ukrainian dude. we met in the elevator and well, at the time the ukr stuff was just blowing up and so i was curious, and he was as happy as anything to speak to someone... wise.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lemme tell you a story that will illustrate this point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform people aren't as fixated on things anglos are fixated on here.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller doing anything out of the ordinary carries a higher sentence than everything else in there, you've not noticed yet ?
mircea_popescu: you know, the original somethingawful/buttcoin threads about how bitcoiners are mentally retarded didn't come out of pure malice. they came out of the simple fact of the matter : the early people involved are struggling with severe mental disabilities.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that there's anything but comic relief in keeping track of ver's activities.
mircea_popescu: except he did that at a time when they were worth cents to the dollar, and they're long gone.
mircea_popescu: also, the passports in question don't ever cost that much. he's pulling a kakobrekla's car trick on the value of bitcoin that could have been. by the same measure, his donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the scam foundation.
mircea_popescu: for the record, for the unassuming individual capable of normal socialisation (ie, score a gf if one wants a gf) about 1k usd a year is plenty in argentina.
mircea_popescu: obviously, he was being his usual retarded self, only younger.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the guy claims he was shremed and it's all okay.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's been discussed even in log a few times.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, that's all the excitement i can take for today. later fellow cultists!
mircea_popescu: minute an' a fucking half of full automatic fire, flames half meter high for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: cazalla ok, well, here's some ideas : his ears would be bleeding ; his arms'd have fallen off as he holds that thing wrongly ; the heat transferred to the barrel is probably enough to melt it ; he's fired more bullet weight than the child.
mircea_popescu: fucking derp from the lumber yard, you know, here's my machinegun drill. i drill all day with it. lalala.
mircea_popescu: that thing, WITH AN ATENUATOR EVEN!!! is probably jammed to shit by now
mircea_popescu: what is this, for people who never discarged a weapon /
mircea_popescu: this in case anyone wonders why i "have to" call gavin an idiot. same reason you have to beat the donkey. only way it groks.
mircea_popescu: i did leave them a splendid link to that great scene in miller's crossing, but i guess when you're an idiot it's easy to miss the more subtle messages.
mircea_popescu: but i somehow don't like to think we're being opposed by people this thick.
mircea_popescu: it is marginally possible everyone in his handler's office is retarded enough to not have seen this coming, of course.
mircea_popescu: otherwise he literally will not be able to protect the scamchain.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah, fork block has to go in before end of march is what my numbers show.
mircea_popescu: 1k txn is ~ 400kb. that means with a 800kb block that merely creating a 1k 1btc txn bundle will guarantee 50% separation on gavincoin chain.
mircea_popescu: 338019 731.52 338018 731.55 338017 731.62 338016 731.5 << last 4
mircea_popescu: and if he had a year, do you think he'd have spent xmas and new year's "filling his hdd with blocks" while i was on vacation ?
mircea_popescu: he's prolly aiming for putting it in by february, but won't actually have the tech resources to do it and rather than risk a total humiliatory blowout delay it to march
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah, they don't have the time. gavin has to force it through rapidly, before blocks actually start regularly overflowing 1mn, because that's his only chance to get pools surrepetitiously mining v3 blocks while gavincoins not being massively doublespent.
mircea_popescu: journalism is about collecting facts and giving the parties the *opportunity* to comment. they don't want to take it, silence belies guilt.
mircea_popescu: cazalla if you get enough of those together, that list + a "we don't wanna say" from bp/cb is good enough.