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mircea_popescu: keep throwing them in the river.
trinque: bought the samsung for 8 bucks on ebay used
mircea_popescu: 65g phone. beat that.
phf: i have similar phone, somewhere in logs, and last time i checked amazon a few months ago it was going for $200-$800, while same model a year ago cost $30
shinohai: I thought a little context might be nice, to know what I was bwahahaha'ing at but whatevs.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-01 18:22 danielpbarron: i don't see the value in referencing the conversation from within itself..
phf: there is nothing wrong with your television set. do not attempt to adjust the picture. you are about to experience the awe and mystery of asciilifeform's ever shifting constraints space!
mircea_popescu: anyway the cable convertor is like 5 bux
asciilifeform: name the iso ?
mircea_popescu: nah its a standard thing
mircea_popescu: ~20 bux as the esteemed attendance pointed out.
mircea_popescu: i drove over the thing, worked fine.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-01 18:14 trinque: ones I've seen look like they'll break the first time they're sat upon
asciilifeform: trinque: the frequent transitions is a sad carrier thing, afaik
danielpbarron: i don't see the value in referencing the conversation from within itself.. ☟︎
asciilifeform: trinque: i have nfi, for all i know your house is under a microwave death ray from across the street, or the like.
asciilifeform: and makes logz work in the future - smoother.
asciilifeform: imho it is a worthy thing
asciilifeform: trinque: do you get same effects when standing next to the antenna ?
asciilifeform: trinque: this may be artifact from being on the edge of your 802.11 ap zone
trinque: and daily it drops calls or suffers misc glitches where one end can't hear the other
danielpbarron: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-01#1512203 << what is the deal with quoting the previous line?? This is also a live chatroom ya know! Perhaps asciilifeform can comment as he does the same ☝︎
trinque: at least on tmobile; I use it daily
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes talks to heathens via smoke signal or wat.
ben_vulpes: nobody needs to call anyone else.
asciilifeform: all of these devices are 'chinese as hell'
trinque: asciilifeform: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61WcU%2BYf74L._SL1000_.jpg << chinese as hell. shitty screen, bad buttons, hates the human hand
asciilifeform: lulzily, the iturd is the only phone that reliably works here in the house (because it supports telephony over tcp, transparently, instead of being stuck with tower, ~all of which are far away / weak)
trinque: I don't care if I spend a couple hundred on something that can be dropped and on which I can actually make a phonecall
trinque: ones I've seen look like they'll break the first time they're sat upon ☟︎
trinque: I've seen them; they're garbage
gribble: Error: We broke The Google!
asciilifeform: trinque: no such thing as solid. but, next best, small and inexpensive.
trinque: I haven't found a single dumbphone that looks solid
asciilifeform: 'punkt' is a quite appropriate name for this idiocy.
asciilifeform: and i will point out that '2g' is being phased out in the industrialized world.
asciilifeform: holy SHIT that thing is expensive for a shitphone
trinque: which seems to never be able to act as an actual phone
trinque: https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp01-mobile-phone/ << I've been thinking about getting this dumbphone, dropping my iTurd
deedbot: [Qntra] Coinbase And Reddit Work To Hide Blood From Users - http://qntra.net/2016/08/coinbase-and-reddit-work-to-hide-blood-from-users/
asciilifeform: ('fixed' being, replacement of whole chassis, keyboard, touchpad, batteries)
a111: Logged on 2016-08-01 15:08 asciilifeform: ;;later tell ben_vulpes http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-01#1512078 << wat was this ?
ben_vulpes: seen it on laptops, though.
asciilifeform: i'ma trepane the thing tonight...
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes has, i imagine, seen this
asciilifeform: and there is no way for it to bulge through the aluminum bottom, so it bows, instead, the glass
asciilifeform: but is extra-lulzy in a device where the thing is sealed inside
asciilifeform: well this happens to all cells of this chemistry
BingoBoingo: NO, targeted assasination attempt on a Lord of TMSR ☟︎
trinque: they're trying to take you out alf!
asciilifeform: eh boring, snoreworthy well-documented thing apparently
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Takes pictures write qntra?
asciilifeform: i shit thee not
asciilifeform: and speaking of defective american tech, i have here an ipnoje that is about to... frag
mircea_popescu: well known / documented case of brand fallen through the cracks, for all the branding enthusiasts out there.
mircea_popescu: speaking of : frusen gladje was a competitor in the 80s. kraft said it sold it to unilever in the 90s ; unilever said it didn't. the brand ... dissapeared.
deedbot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Boys_II << Bad Boys II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172156/ << Bad Boys II (2003) - IMDb | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APhw7rju-Co << Bad Boys 2 Reggie - YouTube
asciilifeform: this appears to be the ~only way to get edible icecream in usa
mircea_popescu: also in the news, haagen dasz is made in new jersey.
mircea_popescu: along most other shit supposedly taking place in places.
shinohai: I always found it hilarious that Dexter, which supposedly took place in Miami, was actually filmed in California.
trinque: university of houston is in the ghetto
mircea_popescu: (i'm not even kidding. these fucktards actually admire miami, which is the first time i ever heard anyone say anything like that. moreover the influence is visible in society, architecture, economics etc.)
mircea_popescu: much like miami is the true capital of argentina.
mircea_popescu: well houston is not technically part of texas
mircea_popescu: boy these are getting hard to tell apart.
mircea_popescu: is it him or her in the end ?!
trinque: thestringpuller: I too like to reply "go away" in the ticket system
BingoBoingo: ^ Related to latest Qntra
shinohai: ;;later tell BingoBoingo http://ix.io/19Kv
mircea_popescu: yeah, that crowd.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the sooner he joins the rankls of the roger vers, the better. << And the doctor foreskins
mircea_popescu: boys wanna play in the adult pool, better keep up.
asciilifeform: (which is, likely, hastily in the works as we speak)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc 'coinbase' is presently ~the~ tame usg exchange in usa, and is unlikely to be simply 'let go away' until replacement is ready.
mircea_popescu: teh public has a right to knoe.
shinohai: As for the insolvency rumors, I guess cryptographic proof is just too hard.
mircea_popescu: the sooner he joins the rankls of the roger vers, the better.
mircea_popescu: curious if the usg is going to actually gather in support of it or just let it go away./
mircea_popescu: anyway, the matter should be chased shinohai ; a good time as any to put a fucking end to that miserable cancer.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is "multisig" got to do with controlling own private keys.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-01 16:41 mircea_popescu: prolly should have bought some f.derp just to be sure.
mircea_popescu: prolly should have bought some f.derp just to be sure. ☟︎
thestringpuller: VMware brought to you by...slaves!
thestringpuller: i don't dictate my own actions in the uranium mines
mircea_popescu: so redirect it to http and be done with it.
thestringpuller: Seriously who came up with this bullshit. https is such a scam
thestringpuller: Oh my god. i have to pass the certificate requests through the load balancer separately?
mircea_popescu: "not worth it". an assessment i find difficult to dispute.
asciilifeform: iirc they dun even get smallpox vax, except if enlisting in the army
mircea_popescu: gotta pump them full of useless crap that doesn't work, instead.
asciilifeform: then again, what ~do~ they still get
asciilifeform: by that token we all are 'infected' with those weird fungi aids victims get devoured by.
mircea_popescu: as long as the pathogen is included in the organism, the situation is called "infection"
asciilifeform: no moar than latent herpes == herpes
mircea_popescu: latent tb stll is tb.
mircea_popescu: ftr, about 2.5 of the world's 7.5bn are infected with tb.
thestringpuller: why does https exist again? oh consumer has come to expect.
asciilifeform: speaking of the shuttle cocks, when i was a young apprentice at a usg lab, mandatory safety lectures still reminded chemists to refrain from mouth-pipetting...
mircea_popescu: the victorian ideal of the phtysic beauty is pretty much === the "feminist" ideal of cosmo & co.