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mircea_popescu: the client IS pretty gnarly. but as the bot did most of the interfacing work already, it's not THAt bad.
mod6: its a bunch of fun. and there's jerbs to be had (as some players will hire you) and/or money to be made.
asciilifeform: (as reported by various folks in earlier years, but afaik never exhaustively catalogued publicly)
mircea_popescu: almost as good as reading year-old "intelligent commentary" in various fishwrappers
asciilifeform: mats: as typified by today's #b-a
a111: Logged on 2016-06-05 17:05 asciilifeform: 'We are building an anonymous, taxable payment system using modern cryptography. Customers will use traditional money transfers to send money to a digital Exchange and in return receive (anonymized) digital cash. Customers can use this digital cash to anonymously pay Merchants. Merchants can redeem the digital cash for traditional money at the digital Exchange. As Merchants are not anonymous, they can be taxed, enabling income or sal
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-05#1477470 << let's leave the last thread here as cheap alternative to redoing... ☝︎
asciilifeform always suspected that 'fuhgettting', such as happens to drunks, is very similar to other things which happen to drunks, in being substantially a matter of ~wanting to~
mircea_popescu: As I informed Mr. [redacted], there are treatises between the Nations of the United States and yours, I believe, Norway, which mandate compliance with the California State and Federal privacy laws respectively.
ben_vulpes: read as though you were implying i lived off setting ircd's up for folks.
asciilifeform: so long as it stays a 'disorganized' thing.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo subject to enhance penalties as "hate" crimes. << missed a d
asciilifeform: the proprietary clients do such things as guaranteed retro-ordering of messages, very frustrating to folks raised on irc, but the folks who have it - expect it.
mircea_popescu: (it should be pointed out that the torpedo also weighs about the same as a year worth of officer)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it needs such things as locks and seals. the plywood boats are very spartan affairs, lacking even flush toilet.
asciilifeform: same 'design process' as made every usg outpost a horrendous mess of bollards and spikes
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as "a safe distance autocannon" for the love of fuck.
asciilifeform: anyway this is american sop, they don't expect to be fired on by so much as bb gun.
mircea_popescu: yeah, whatever. i can't be arsed to have anyone dig it up, but certainly germane to this idiocy. imbecile went as far to actually ~predict~, the obviously falsifiable point, that somehow the republic is unstable. because omg, it breks the tenets of socialism and dares have personally invested sovereignity, THEREFORE IT MUST BE BAD.
asciilifeform: then there is the 'do-ocrat', as exemplified by boeck, who 'has done SO MUCH for the komoyoonity! and who are you again pigfucker to question his guiding light'
mircea_popescu: as i said, i'd defo read it.
asciilifeform: before the thread is lost, i'd like to nominate 'flycheck' as an own and distinct type of fraud, the 'bus broke down, yes, we're the bus now!111' device.
mircea_popescu: it didn't "move". they deleted it to circumvent tmsr ban. then, as you'd expect, later tried to lie about that, too.
mircea_popescu: there's ~no value in considering the individual "people" as people. take mike hearn. he's not as much "mike hearn" as he is "lemme break this while right solution" + x + y.
asciilifeform: shinohai: Framedragger has one as well.
mircea_popescu: so what is this, you'll be sinking the ru navy as part of this project ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL as above. he's a lilly ass murican, not a somali.
asciilifeform: i can understand folks who buy the subs (as described by mircea_popescu re costa rica narcos) but tanker is lunacy.
PeterL: For less than a boat you could get an isolated cabin here in MI and be as isolated as you want
asciilifeform: i am interested in the sea as ~strictly~ a place where the dollar buys moar social-isolation bang than elsewhere, and in no other way.
asciilifeform: to the point that i've never thought of gmane as anything but a polluter of search results.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 05:16 phf: not really drama as such, oldfag bailed, took his project down with him, project being gmane an old repository of mailing lists (and an ntp<->mailing list proxy) https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/
mircea_popescu: crazy american, has more cleannign girls than mating girls on the premises. as a result... wine suffers.
mircea_popescu: explain to me how this thing can be useful as kept by unrelated randos.
phf: oh, and he's giving up domain to anyone willing to "set up a new web based service" "all previous permalink.gmane.org (etc.) links continue to work as before, but they’ll look new and spiffy in your new and spiffy web interface" bunch of anons in the comments going "yeah, i'm kind of sort of interested plx send money to this btc address^W^W^W^W^Wdomain"
phf: not really drama as such, oldfag bailed, took his project down with him, project being gmane an old repository of mailing lists (and an ntp<->mailing list proxy) https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/ ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "could recon", for as long as you stayed within certain demos
ben_vulpes: operate as a triple-bottom-line corp, strive to lose money, and sell stock on an ongoing basis to 'ethical investors'
phf: ben_vulpes: your non raw version does not escape html, so it parses #include <header> as a tag
asciilifeform: fromphuctor: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-03#1513678 << example of rsa key generation, as seen in gpg ☝︎
trinque: asciilifeform: guy gets trotted out every shooting to "islam is not about this!" so one might suspect him as having a reason to have a bad key
asciilifeform: from same beauty contest as BingoBoingo's 'beauties'
asciilifeform: 'In March a Frenchman was actually jailed for sending his ex-girlfriend the pistol emoji, in what was interpreted as a threat. What if a joke sent from an Apple user to a Google user is misconstrued because of differences in rendering?' << lel
asciilifeform: as oil drillers do.
asciilifeform: could just as well paint walls, pick strawberries, etc.
mircea_popescu: item such as "articulated bulldozer" which now exists and is factually useful in particular applications, did not exist 50 years ago, mostly because of machining difficulties involved.
asciilifeform: for so long as maggoting on software is even ~thinkable~, the upper echelon of 'aspirational' maggots will bang on the door, and some - will get in.
mircea_popescu: the reason argentines drive horribly, as well as are incredibly inept economically, and the reason for pretty much all visible misbehaviour is exactly the same : lack of negative reinforcement.
mircea_popescu: that's the thing. especially to the inferior man, "hygiene" does not exist, as an abstract. it may only exist as "mechanized individual squishing"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but hygiene starts as well as exists as a "better squishing". people given the "hey, it'd be elegant to wash" will wash and retain the bugs. people given the "hey, you will be in this dungeon until you squished all the bugs" given "hey, use this, works faster" WILL fucking wash.
mircea_popescu: being "inclusive" is not merely distasteful. it is actually something to carry on your conscience, as a murder, except worse.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless - there must be collective guilt at work here, as a concept, for the opposition. if you are "a computer programmer", and you aren't part of the solution, you ARE part of the problem, ands personally responsible for it.
asciilifeform: and not, as they usually contend, simply M units of unlucky, for M == number of maggots
mircea_popescu: even if any single maggot only exerted 1/800 N and as part of squirming in a different direction altogether,
mircea_popescu: yes, everybody did. that's the problem. when derp mcherperson wants commit access to vomit her versiuon of invidious gossip therein as "comments" and "sensitivity", PEOPLE FORCE IT
asciilifeform: just as, per yesterday's thread, nobody forced the bathroom mold.
mircea_popescu: as per aristotle, there is no such thing as "no design"
asciilifeform: so rng gets stuck as an os api function
a111: Logged on 2015-05-20 15:03 mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-05-2015#1139680 << speaking of this, am I the only one nonplussed by all this "we use <<best practices>> fixed exponent" bs ? it's an unavoidalbe magic number , okay, but it's tyhe sort that should eminently be a knob for the user. a proper gpg would have e user-settable at the key generation phase (with 65536+1 as a default, sure)
fabio__: so alternatives that are more complex are regarded as lesser
asciilifeform: there is not such a thing as 'we used for x years and no reported problem.' quite conceivably the correct yamamoto has simply not yet flown.
mircea_popescu: unlike bob, nobody on a stick and sam altman own nothing, and have nothing to lose. they sleep in ~prison / airbnb as it is.
asciilifeform: ergo, the folks offering said 'equivalence' has same credibility as, e.g., 'herbal viagra' spammers
asciilifeform: one of these bargains is that you cannot build a career as a university academic with 'use rsa, kthx, bye'
asciilifeform: djb is respectable and talented, but labours under certain faustian bargains as part of his employ.
BingoBoingo: But until he registers a key and bros out here questionable in his respectability as he lacks a declaration of allegiance.
mircea_popescu: as far as i know the fellow's quite respectable.
fabio__: So what does the nsl faq mean, are the obvious mathematical weaknesses the NIST curves or some other issue with ECC as compared to RSA?
mircea_popescu: then they induced the bishop of munster, a sort of medieval thug, to invade the republic, under promise of "large subsidies". those subsidies never materialized, being promised by the broke-ass anglos as they were ; brandenburg moved in from the east and the naive turk uh i mean bishop of munster was forced to a rather disfavourable peace for his trouble / idiotic naivity.
mircea_popescu: also missing, the great american novel. as well as a dictionary of the french language.
asciilifeform: it counts as 'stfu terrorist'
asciilifeform: 'Not every wiretap request is granted. Only 313 federal wiretaps were installed in 2014, far fewer than the number requested, Landau pointed out. Each one costs the federal government about $41,000, most of which is spent on “minimization”—that is, someone to monitor the wiretap and assess its content.' << lulzy: the universal dragnet thing dun count, evidently, as 'wiretap'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lel, as per https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> incidentally BingoBoingo : it ~would~ be fair to say that the bitfinex failure as presented by bitfinex amounts exactly to a major failure of the dao as meagrely implemented in bitcoin. << Indeed, as presented
asciilifeform: ^ in case anyone ever had whatever doubt as to the meaning and purpose of multisigification of whatever sort.
asciilifeform: spoiler: in the massive turd, usg functionaries propose to rebrand ye olde key escrow as 'multisig' and mandate! 'k of n' !
shinohai: mircea_popescu: maybe they use the same metrics counter as twitter does.
asciilifeform: it is almost as good a test as what colour winnie pooh is, in a given country
mircea_popescu: incidentally BingoBoingo : it ~would~ be fair to say that the bitfinex failure as presented by bitfinex amounts exactly to a major failure of the dao as meagrely implemented in bitcoin.
shinohai: I read that sign as "Spammed Travel" mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: an orwell of bedwetting is defined as that quantity of bedwetting sufficient to give a wilde of a woman a single white hair.
asciilifeform: and let's say i propose 'the aristotle' as a unit of tautological circularity.
mircea_popescu: and note that naming the tolkien for tolkien isn't blaming him for the gulag. merely recognising his intricacy in the civilisation-masquerading-as-a-culture that spawned him.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: for bonus gross, the entire inside of the metal cup that comprises the body of the pnoje, is razor-sharp, literally you will not notice as it opens all of your fingers at once ☟︎
diana_coman: what can I say: it wouldn't even be the first time I saw someone as the best version they could be rather than what they actually really were
diana_coman: phf, in that case basically mircea_popescu has a point anyway and there isn't anywhere to go otherwise; I read it to mean what I said above (so no, not the best etc) - maybe I was just so tolerant as to miss the bullshit entirely
phf: i think that if you approach jrrt as literature and worse start applying literary analysis to it, then mircea_popescu wins in the first round. if you start looking for life lessons and values in jrrt books it's a lot of really dodgy shit
phf: diana_coman: perfectly fit for proper and good life as defined by tolkien, somehow magically fit for all the necessary tasks of the quest. even fighting, like pippin and merry after they are split from fellowship. they are literally only unfit for things that are bad, and even there frodo eventually at the last moment gets corrupted, Let That Be A Warning To You All
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, hm, as far as I recall they are not great fighters at all for one thing
diana_coman: <mircea_popescu> really, byzantine fiction (currently known as the vulgate) is much better. but i don't think much more of the people who regard the bible as "great writing" than of the tolkien fans. <- fans, lol; out of curiosity: an example as to "much better"?
asciilifeform: aaaand guess what, after they lowered into pederasty, and then murdered, ian of debian, we get: https://bits.debian.org/2016/08/debian-and-tor-services-available-as-onion-services.html
mircea_popescu: really, byzantine fiction (currently known as the vulgate) is much better. but i don't think much more of the people who regard the bible as "great writing" than of the tolkien fans.
diana_coman: I find it actually quite interesting that it's perceived as saying "britain the isolated , small, insignifiant by now island actually matters/is mighty/hero/whatevs" when I read it quite the opposite: as long as they are happy in their own world, they don't matter/contribute nothing/and if they are not interested in the world, the world at some point will be interested in them - and with a big stick at that
diana_coman: as to length that indeed I can agree it is a big fault of tolkien - at times he rambles because apparently he's just too much in love with the landscape basically
asciilifeform: 'As we account for individualized customer losses, we may need to settle open margin positions, associated financing, and/or collateral affected by the breach....'
asciilifeform: 'Today we discovered a security breach that requires us to halt all trading on Bitfinex, as well as halt all digital token deposits to and withdrawals from Bitfinex. We are investigating the breach to determine what happened, but we know that some of our users have had their bitcoins stolen. We are undertaking a review to determine which users have been affected by the breach. While we conduct this initial investigation and secure ou
mircea_popescu: hanbot i was referencing this with the baudelaire and whore story. but then again... absolutely nobody would have guessed as much, i figure, amirite.
mircea_popescu: scandalous how many randos die the same day as you.
mircea_popescu: as i said, we're not about to dispose of this matter here and now anywayz.
mircea_popescu: mark twain being the best example as far as trouble goes - by "rights" you should add him, and yet he doesn't belong, at all.