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mircea_popescu: thickasthieves kinda what irks me. so obviously wasted effort, and a lot of it. i don't think the people in question are actually nefariously motivated, but you'd think old timers'd have more sense. anyway.
mircea_popescu: it was launched in 2011 and abandoned in 2012, but w/e
mircea_popescu: it's this mozilla evil. sort-of like the darkemail or w/e that was
mircea_popescu: anyway. i wonder if the long term effect will be to help idiots get familiar with the wot (positive) or to get idiots to think they;re part of the wot on a facebook login based bootstrap website (negative)
mircea_popescu: don't tell the seo spammers, but google indexes stuff from the logs in ~1 minute.
mircea_popescu: basically prima facie the scammers made themselves a bootstrap fake wot.
mircea_popescu: depends in what sense. i wouldn't trust someone because htey're "facebook logged in"
mircea_popescu: course nobody is answering in their otherwise barren support chan.
mircea_popescu: so it's either an attack or a degenerate reimplementation. one or the other.
mircea_popescu: basically, guy imported the otc wot as-is, is not talking back to it, and is allowing users on his system to log in through shit like facebook, and make ratings.
mircea_popescu: basically the original creator of tardstalk surreptitiously forked otc
mircea_popescu: "this letter can not be used for any purpose". how fucking dare they ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, not that anything karpeles [ever] said can be taken at face value, but admire the difference between mtgox and bitbet when it comes to the position of the usg. perfectly symmetrical, karpeles is "up to the usg" ; usg is up to bitbet.
mircea_popescu: xiando i just fixed that above. there's a delay, bout an hour or so, cause multiple cache layers.
mircea_popescu: ok, so what can we do for you, xiando that is not important ?
mircea_popescu: not a bad idea, considering they probably want exposure. dubious if it's worth the hassle.
mircea_popescu: how does ziri work or w/e was apple calling its paperclip ?
mircea_popescu: (it won't scale. if one day i want to do 1tb i can just throw more chickens at it, provided it runs on chickens)
mircea_popescu: people are not for steady work. machines are for steady work.
mircea_popescu: and seeing how the very purpose of this stuff is for people to be able to do deep searches for impredictable later interests, it'd be less than useful.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i wouldn't trust random fiverr derp not to mess up the words
mircea_popescu: cazalla the point being that it's easier to format/spellcheck a predeturdified turd than to write from scratch
mircea_popescu: and i mean, i can tell anjie didn't sleep to do that one, which is exactly what she should have done, but once.
mircea_popescu: you'd think everyone's got a college degree means they are god damned good at exactly that. but...
mircea_popescu: not that anyone actually even exists in the cloud of vaporized shit comprising the kids-of-www that even has the drive or the intellectual werewithal to take down an hour of speech or an acre of blackboard anyway.
mircea_popescu: and if you get it to where you have to fix a letter per ten words you're way way ahead of someone who has to press pause every five seconds
mircea_popescu: being able to take a turd and turn it into readable content within an hour or a day, and being able to so process gigabytes of crud a month is, by itself, more barrier to entry than all the collective "press" has
mircea_popescu: you seriously should spend a week or w/e it takes trying out ocrs and voice recognition tools and whatnot, because going forward this will remain an issue
mircea_popescu: iirc asciilifeform mentioned some pdf textualizer in the logs ?