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Bingoboingo: I suspect they anticipated I would have been dumb enough to declare their boy as counsel or invite a nagfest despite... Their receipt of a certified telegram from muh boy.
Bingoboingo: Judging from the size of the crowd in the humans box today, I suspect offering them contact information for the counsel I did was a surprise.
Bingoboingo: asciilifeform: I expect your new home is far more resistant to fraud complaints concerning their failure to actually be a datacenter
asciilifeform: Bingoboingo: another ameri-dc oddity -- they dun seem to have a one standard voltage. the bmore people offered strictly 208v (where else in usa 208 ?!)
Bingoboingo: The 9" needle nose also is THE tool for the retaining tabs on the supermicro rails. I imagine Linesmans would also work in a pinch, mebbe
asciilifeform: Bingoboingo: also came w/ a pdu but with 1 of those 30amp ameriplugs (90 degree prong) and could not be plugged into the new meter'd pdu, had to mothball
Bingoboingo: But every single one a #3 philips
Bingoboingo: There was an east indian fella working on a 1/2 cabinet. He borrowed my pliers to cut something. Did not ask why I was emptying a cabinet.
Bingoboingo: Everything is out of the cabinet in WTC 4. Uneventful other than I was received by a new face. Heavier, ginger bearded fella that had a private security/investigator look.
Bingoboingo: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-10-25#1948177 << To be clear they wrote their contract in a way that allows then to charge interest specifically LIBOR + 12% on late payment rather than declaring immediate default and suspension of service.
mp_en_viaje: basically, they're one of those dudes with no gf tryina talk to you at the swing club. "find a hand somewhere, talk to that"
mp_en_viaje: unless they hit you in the head with a power supply or something, you dun have what to talk about with the local cops.
mp_en_viaje: orcs do a lot of thse "copies of human land extremities as ordinary business"
Bingoboingo: Just in case I will be bringing my receipt from making the "hecho policial" and the laywer's card so I can make a phone call if they are dumb enough to do something REALLY stupid.
mp_en_viaje: he'll call a call center. just like any pleb upset at his washer/dryer.
Bingoboingo: asciilifeform: Their contract lacks a retention clause. Also I am not in default with them
Bingoboingo: This morning I had in my inbox from Maxi of the damned: "Buen día. Está bien por mí. No hay problema en proceder a dicho retiro. Ello no implica renuncia o dispensa de la obligación de cumplir plenamente la obligación de pago prevista hasta la finalización del contrato."
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-23 04:47:07 spyked: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-21#1947307 <-- defo interested and my schedule is open for changes/amendments come november. I am currently working a full-time saeculum gig, so I wouldn't be able to take this as a full-time thing, but I could do this in small weekly/monthly pieces, as with previous published work. so if you think this works and I'm th
mp_en_viaje: neways, ima to bed. megapost tomorrow sometime, if i can dig myself out of the slutpile. have a great time erryone & all!
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-24#1948116 << ayup, precisely, usg paper asset thing, holding up a notional market.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-24#1948101 << i'll sort it for you if you have a specific set that needs sorting. i dun wanna make general pronouncements, more trouble than worth.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-24#1948009 << it's always a crapshoot. you can get counsel worth millions through springing for a $500 nothing. eminent lottery ticket, only comparable to picking up girlfriends. famously (if fantastically) frank sinatra picked up the woman that died for him through buying her a ten dollar bus ticket.
mp_en_viaje: but in context of tmsr. again -- because there;s a heavy undertone here of "hire yourself out as apprentice" which i don't particularly want fucked.
mp_en_viaje: it's not fucking cool, it's the death of a thousand cuts.
mp_en_viaje: satlink even worse. in fact, satlinks are a major pain in the fucking ass, i have nfi why even bother
mp_en_viaje had a great fucking time tonite.
BingoBoingo had a productive day. So far. Sat down with the fellow who recommended yesterday's audition. Told him that I was letting him know as a courtesy that after the meeting I developed the strong suspicion that the recommended fellow was the other party's counsel. That I don't know how good his relationship with the fellow is, but that I do not mind, and it may even help me if he warns the fellow that in the case I have been
snsabot: Logged on 2019-10-24 18:07:31 asciilifeform: unrelatedly : seems 213.109.238.156 is new trb noad, in kiev ? who built? seems to actually work, a++
bvt: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-10-24#1948109 << it's mine, installed in my ancestral home (and not kiev, no). it switched from -connect to independent mode only yesterday, so i'd let it work for at least a month before advertising it as a stable node.
asciilifeform: aand 'Although debuting at the height of the telecom industry, Cogent soon found vast market wealth eradicated and many other ISPs thrown into a state of turmoil. In a survival of the fittest competition, Cogent became the consolidator in a consolidating market. Over three brief years, Cogent completed 13 acquisitions of other flailing providers. Whether it was an entire company or just select assets, Cogent was able to acquire valua
asciilifeform meanwhile found a : 'Cogent Communications is a public company trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol CCOI. Cogent is headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America.' from horse's mouth.
asciilifeform: also unrelatedly, but imho interesting : apparently 'mivocloud' hangs off a euro branch office of same carrier as asciilifeform's chair.
asciilifeform: unrelatedly : seems 213.109.238.156 is new trb noad, in kiev ? who built? seems to actually work, a++
BingoBoingo: Pretty sure I said this before, but is was nice to be able to read the whole of this country's penal code in a few hours.
mod6: Would this be a good time to calculate, then refund Piz customers who've paid in advance?
BingoBoingo: The meeting with him also opened with a FAR harder grilling than the meeting with apparently opposition counsel did.
asciilifeform: a, logical.
BingoBoingo: If the truly damaging denuncia is filed before they can sit down... kinda spoils the sitting down. Once a denuncia is filed it goes to the local prosecutors office.
BingoBoingo: Contact with the enemy and all that. Anyways, there are ways to inflict costs on the damned without actually suing over the civil matter. Like a criminal fraud complaint.
mod6: Thanks for the info. Sounds like he'll be letting you know, updating you on a regular basis as to what he's hears, etc.
mod6: asciilifeform: werd, just trying to get clairification on what's expected, next steps. Perhaps we can continue to clean up Piz while BB may have some laywer-downtime for a few days.
mod6: So while you're just 'continuing to be a model plaintiff...', is the idea that our lawyer is going to review the facts from the compiled case-file/complaint that you've gathered while he gets his complaint strategy in order? As my assumption is that he'll want to have a meeting with 'the damned' and their lawyers before filing a motion with the court?
mod6: So it sounds like the third group is more in the audit business; are there other 'auditions' already setup, or a few that you are in discussion with currently, or have targeted for discussion?
BingoBoingo: mod6: Retained no. It is a pay as needed situation.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-10-24 13:00:05 feedbot: http://ossasepia.com/2019/10/24/a-gulp-of-filthy-isp-waters/ << Ossa Sepia -- A Gulp of Filthy ISP Waters
diana_coman: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-24#1947996 - also, wouldn't this have belonged as a comment there really? or some reason to comment on... feedbot's announcements?
BingoBoingo: Continue being a model plaintiff while standing in front of the arrayed tools which are absolutely ready to disproportionately impose costs on the damned faster than they are acrued.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-10-23 01:02:38 asciilifeform: discovered today -- similarly to earlier find -- that his new ip range once housed a (long-dead) 'nudecelebritease.com' .
snsabot: Logged on 2019-10-24 13:00:05 feedbot: http://ossasepia.com/2019/10/24/a-gulp-of-filthy-isp-waters/ << Ossa Sepia -- A Gulp of Filthy ISP Waters
diana_coman: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-24#1947996 - that would have been such an outlier reply that I'd have at least taken the time to both talk in more detail to the guy AND report it for sure; can confirm: no, nobody came anywhere close to replying such a thing.
BingoBoingo: As I was saying, very un-Uruguayo office culture. It's not as ideal as a cultivated relationship with an independent, but for my failure to have that... this seems to be the next best option for having leverage.
BingoBoingo: And he seems to have a motivation to perform to spec in order to get more business referred to him.
BingoBoingo: The impression I got from the guy Monday is that he, personally, was bored for a want of interesting work.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: mp did warn, that the only way to get ~genuine~ (vs 'meal ticket') legal service is to retain and groom for loyalty a trusted specialist for yrs.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-10-23 01:02:38 asciilifeform: discovered today -- similarly to earlier find -- that his new ip range once housed a (long-dead) 'nudecelebritease.com' .
snsabot: Logged on 2019-10-24 13:00:05 feedbot: http://ossasepia.com/2019/10/24/a-gulp-of-filthy-isp-waters/ << Ossa Sepia -- A Gulp of Filthy ISP Waters
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-23 19:59:48 asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: if after all you dun need a znc , leave the thing switched on, i'ma reformat when next test pilot volunteers, until then will run trb , i want proper test of trb perf on apu1. but if you decide you want a znc, su znc ; znc -c will run promptistic configurator. then reboot, and you'll have it.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-10-24 07:57:25 mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-23#1947933 << meanwhile did a 2nd pass, the result thereof should hit the rss feeds in a few mins. but yes ima leave it switched on.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-10-24 06:52:51 diana_coman: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-23#1947931 - this is something I end up asking for ~each time I get a new server; not sure why it's always forgotten.
BingoBoingo: mp_en_viaje: ty, baking a reply to the comment. I was not entirely without that suspicion. They just hit so many of the local "Flavor of Aunt dumb filters" that the tone of the brain dump was overpowered by that.
feedbot: http://ossasepia.com/2019/10/24/a-gulp-of-filthy-isp-waters/ << Ossa Sepia -- A Gulp of Filthy ISP Waters
spyked: mp_en_viaje, it does this once in a while: the archival job is placed in a wait-queue and takes a while to process. problem is that this worked only on the 2nd try, 1st one returned a 503. so prolly they're overloaded or something.
mp_en_viaje: delegation works on tasks you've mastered, not on tasks you've no fucking idea how to do. there's a great component of "get hired aka apprentice with masters" in tmsr, don't fuck it up with dumb lazy precious cuntlet antics
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-22#1947756 << lest this passes forgotten into the logs : other people are ~other people~, not supporting cast for your insanity. "hiring" is not this process whereby you scare up a scapegoat for later, what, you'll "hire" him for the job of being later "promoted in the field" to do a job you don't know how to do and are too petrified to try, child toeing the water from the safety of the shore ?
mp_en_viaje: it can be argued that this is the ~principal~ utility of www in the first place, that it permits things such as "reading trilema" only as a 2ndary bolt on. what it's for is to turn a half hour trudge into a five second job.
spyked: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-23#1947852 <-- quite. I did a search for cl jobs a coupla years ago and... derp (wtf, it took 10 mins to archive this)
mp_en_viaje: www permits you to select, visually, a few target spots in a sea of possible target spots with default populations ; command line takes you through a serialization of the same thing.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-23 19:59:48 asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: if after all you dun need a znc , leave the thing switched on, i'ma reformat when next test pilot volunteers, until then will run trb , i want proper test of trb perf on apu1. but if you decide you want a znc, su znc ; znc -c will run promptistic configurator. then reboot, and you'll have it.
mp_en_viaje: re http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-23#1947933 leaving aside how it belonged in the orig thing, not as an afterthought, and focusing on the znc -c thing : there is a GREAT advantage of www-for-config over command-line-for-config that can not be underscored enough :
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-23 19:59:48 asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: if after all you dun need a znc , leave the thing switched on, i'ma reformat when next test pilot volunteers, until then will run trb , i want proper test of trb perf on apu1. but if you decide you want a znc, su znc ; znc -c will run promptistic configurator. then reboot, and you'll have it.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-23#1947933 << meanwhile did a 2nd pass, the result thereof should hit the rss feeds in a few mins. but yes ima leave it switched on.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-10-23 08:07:58 spyked: asciilifeform, btw, how much money+time did you invest in this so far? and how much of that went on e.g. iron? this kind of stuff is useful first and foremost for you to review, but e.g. if I decide to start something similar in bucharest 1yr from now, it'd be hugely useful as a comparison point
diana_coman: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-23#1947931 - this is something I end up asking for ~each time I get a new server; not sure why it's always forgotten.
asciilifeform: reminds me, i have a still-sealed crate w/ temperature logger...
BingoBoingo: There is the very live possibility after today's meeting that the internet weather had nothing to do with us as a primary target.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: if after all you dun need a znc , leave the thing switched on, i'ma reformat when next test pilot volunteers, until then will run trb , i want proper test of trb perf on apu1. but if you decide you want a znc, su znc ; znc -c will run promptistic configurator. then reboot, and you'll have it.
mp_en_viaje: so the only way this can happen is if it can happen with a coupla edits, five minutes sorta thing.
mp_en_viaje: i'm not against zncing through your own machine so you can piggy-back test on what you suppose is ddos (but isn't) ; but the utility to me just about zilch -- for one thing if czech tubes take a break, i'll lose the znc connection just as well as i lose the direct. i suppose it'd save on revoicing, but honestly i have that setup to be entirely painless as it is, 1s op.
mp_en_viaje: well, so far nano /home/znc/.znc produces a new buffer for some reason.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: item is general-purpose pilot box, plz feel free to mutilate any way you like. the trb is a copy of 'zoolag', can replace w/ own favourite build, or switch off, etc. there is a nearly full chain. znc is set to smoketest knobs, if using , must reconfig.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: prepared, however, box, if still interested. runs trb and znc ( the latter w/ default config, presently logs into fleanode as 'pilotplant' and joins #a , can fill in yerself or switch off by removing the crontab ) on boot.
asciilifeform: i'ma set up both, in case takes him a while to beat modem into submission an' answer...
asciilifeform so far saw a few udp farts on the line but nuffin that detectably affected bot
asciilifeform dun expect he will, but it'd be a++ ddos litmus...
asciilifeform: can i persuade mp_en_viaje to take a (pro bono!) bouncer rk in asciilifeformstein ?
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-23 11:18:46 asciilifeform: fwiw a mp-wp extension that lets folx 'download these-here patches' imho may be useful. but really ought not to be ~in vtron~ .
mp_en_viaje: now do me a favour and don't turn into the bush that grew up fast in the clearing, but for being just a sad sorry bush found itself soon enough overtaken by the actual trees.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-10-22 22:42:23 mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-22#1947723 << imo 3% is already exaggerate. i'd be thinking more like a half percent, ideally.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-23#1947788 << a there you go. now within what my notes claimed. still would like to minify it, but at least you know, livable.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-23 04:47:13 spyked: e right man for zee job, let's discuss a timeline.
mp_en_viaje: you have the great advantage of being able to "sprint" more than most, and do a lot of the homework "without even trying". but this is also readily a disadvantage.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-08-20 21:05:03 asciilifeform: ( recently, asciilifeform's brother : 'know what, mr p could design an os; you can't' a: 'why's that' b: 'he has the beard' )
mp_en_viaje: looky, you were a beardless 20yo at some point, but that's normal in boys. meanwhile you've made 30, and that's iffy. soon you'll be 40, just as boyish faced, and bitter-er for having watched all the others grow beards betimes all around.
asciilifeform: for what, exactly ? to meet the spec of a fella who aint even subscribing ?
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-22 19:01:43 asciilifeform: and incidentally, if asciilifeform cannot actually supply the service mp_en_viaje needs (e.g. if he needs a 24/7 staff of 4 working in shifts ) would rather know about it sooner than later.
mp_en_viaje: isn't that a pretty weird approach to your problem ? what are you, a woman ?!
asciilifeform: when , incidentally, will set the bozo bit on all the other useless dabblers ? throw out , for consistency, 'v', deedbot, auctionbot, all sewed by also folx who work for a living and managed to steal some time in which to do sumthing useful.
mp_en_viaje: it's whether you're going to be a professional.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-18 12:18:47 asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: is this actual q, or simply constructed to give asciilifeform a banana to slip on ?
mp_en_viaje: ~this~ is the discriminant ; it's not a matter of how great you can do at the hobby of this, when "real life" permits. it's not how impressive, or above-others, or anything else your amateur effort might come to be.