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mircea_popescu: see, italy in the 30s ACTUALLY HAD people in it. us ~never had, as best as can be discerned, samuel clemens marks down the one or two he found in a 3k mile trip as extreme rarities, in the 1800s.
mircea_popescu: what, he got a cp50 chip in his missing ballsac ?
mircea_popescu: and he understands that police is either there to keep the niggers in line, in which case it is a legitimate organ of the state, or fails in this its only duty, in which case both it and the criminal gang backing it are strictly abominable.
mircea_popescu: now : this fellow understands that the only legitimate reason for having a state in the first place is to protect the priviledge of some against the intolerable pressure of the many.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-18 16:19 mircea_popescu: here's a riddle for the student of history :
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the root lul, of course, 'pass, the Simple Password Store, is a shell script to use GnuPG for password management. Each password is stored in a separate file, encrypted with one or multiple GnuPG encryption keys.' << didja know this were 'needed'.
mircea_popescu: (of course, it was always "a thing" for the confederacy of dunces)
mircea_popescu: "extension scripts", fancy that wonder. koch put ethereum in gpg before ethereum was even "a thing"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform regexp and sigverification, what would be a better mix.
asciilifeform: aside from a coupla additional pairs of hands, lol, nuffin
a111: Logged on 2018-06-13 01:32 asciilifeform: phf: speaking of which, consider the easiest winner , if the anti-patch condition is absent -- a google shitmonkey who knows the hole already and 'wins' on the monday right prior to patch tuesday.
asciilifeform: and yet meanwhile, in http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-13#1824742 : https://archive.li/wGKk1 << where dummkopf 'responsibly dislosed' a 0d to yubico, which then went on to: 'reported the issue to Google's Chromium browser project – the core software of Google Chrome – and received a $5,000 bounty in return' ☝︎
trinque: I'm thinking I can probably shave a meg or two, conservatively. current script naively snarfs whole ebuild dir, and not just the particular version of ebuild used
asciilifeform: 'Outgoing Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust tried to pre-empt the news in an e-mail sent to Harvard alumni and “friends”: In the weeks and months ahead, a lawsuit aimed to compromise Harvard’s ability to compose a diverse student body will move forward in the courts and in the media. As the case proceeds, an organization called Students for Fair Admissions—formed in part to oppose Harvard’s commitment to divers
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-18#1826418 << pretty lulzy , '...the inclusion of a “personality” component in evaluating applicants... ...traits included in “personality” were: “humor, sensitivity, grit, leadership, integrity, helpfulness, courage, kindness and many other qualities.”' ☝︎
trinque: we'll have a clear chain of custody back into ye olde gentoo, and from there can continue to digest the turd. subsequent vpatches should only ever contain one ebuild plus that ebuild's deps.
trinque: obviously this is far into "difficult to meat-verify" territory, so what I'm working on is a set of instructions such that another can produce the same genesis.vpatch himself.
trinque: phf, Mocky, and others waiting on cuntoo, the genesis.vpatch which contains only the ebuilds necessary for a minimal system is about 4mb. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, to unite those other threads, there is ~a reason~ simulated culture, be it in the shape of "trained" bacteria or "trained" "expert systems" or whatever else "unlearn faster than they learn".
mircea_popescu: rather, "i expect you to adapt to me". or, to quote the freshest social media cunt, "I'd have to provide a lot of terms and conditions". because... totally, what, democracy and shit.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-18 19:19 hanbot: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-17#1826240 << are you for fucking real? what you're actually saying: "i just got back" = "fuck all y'all." "what was the" = "i can't be bothered to read, so how about you read for me and lay a ribbon-tied summary at my feet like i could be you and you could be my slavegirls and work for me!" "exact reason i was negrated" = "and don't bother me with the details, i dun gas, i just want to know how to exam take this th
a111: Logged on 2018-06-18 18:26 phf: asciilifeform: they burn the seeds, and then overbrew the drink, and it's exactly that "come to expect". girl worked in a coffee shop, but having been exposed to good coffee she brews it "soft", and lots of people complained that it's "watery". of course there was also a group of european expats that religiously came every morning
a111: Logged on 2018-06-18 18:09 phf: asciilifeform: americans are uncomfortable with own butts. "enema" is a european concept that only freaky health nut anorexic girls are into..
a111: Logged on 2018-06-18 17:51 asciilifeform: in re cr50 -- if anybody's puzzled re why they put this level of effort into locking down what is essentially a less-popular, bulkier ipnoje -- it's a beta test for bleeding edge of their pc fritz ( the latter, reportedly already in service in google-built serverz in datacentres )
hanbot: don't imagine the kneejerk retort of it "wasn't intentional" is going anywhere. it was intentional, you're the degree of moron whose intentions are hidden from "himself", assuming we'll pretend there's a "yourself" to be hidden from in the first place. which we mostly don't. isn't this beautiful, he magicallly knows how everything goes, even how to sort things, starts with the fuck you, everything. just as long as it's pro-inca, 'cause being a re
hanbot: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-17#1826240 << are you for fucking real? what you're actually saying: "i just got back" = "fuck all y'all." "what was the" = "i can't be bothered to read, so how about you read for me and lay a ribbon-tied summary at my feet like i could be you and you could be my slavegirls and work for me!" "exact reason i was negrated" = "and don't bother me with the details, i dun gas, i just want to know how to exam take this th ☝︎☟︎
phf: (that was entirely unrelated to conversation, i'm just using it to get a transliteration out)
asciilifeform: phf: re 'it's watery' , iirc we had a related thread about how prohibition turned usa into a country of rotgut drinkers, for whom the ~only important bit is 'strong', with sugars etc added as required
ben_vulpes: phf: is "seeds" a ru-ism or are "beans" an usgism
phf: asciilifeform: they burn the seeds, and then overbrew the drink, and it's exactly that "come to expect". girl worked in a coffee shop, but having been exposed to good coffee she brews it "soft", and lots of people complained that it's "watery". of course there was also a group of european expats that religiously came every morning ☟︎
asciilifeform: ( speaking of which, a meat processing plant would be a great cheap place to hold http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-13#1824988 experiment ... ) ☝︎
phf: asciilifeform: americans are uncomfortable with own butts. "enema" is a european concept that only freaky health nut anorexic girls are into.. ☟︎
asciilifeform: would take approx 3-6 mo. on dulap to break a summer-2017-and-prior infineon-generated key .
asciilifeform: ( re infineon -- anybody who was dumb enuff to actually generate a key with it, got fucked to death last summer, even if he dun realize it yet. this, too, Unhappened. )
asciilifeform: in re cr50 -- if anybody's puzzled re why they put this level of effort into locking down what is essentially a less-popular, bulkier ipnoje -- it's a beta test for bleeding edge of their pc fritz ( the latter, reportedly already in service in google-built serverz in datacentres ) ☟︎
BingoBoingo: !Q later tell shinohai http://btcinfo.sdf.org/blog/spain-welcomes-moors.html << Since you don't have comments, Moors are a specific kind of black people.
asciilifeform: they unhappened it when tpmism became a fact in x86dom
a111: Logged on 2018-06-11 14:37 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the entomological pit : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFritz-chip >> 'I've deleted most of the article. The information here is already presented in a more up-to-date fashion at Trusted Computing, which is the correct title for the technology. "Fritz-chip" was never more than a moniker used by critics of the technology put forth by Sen. Hollings. The article now represents this fact. Warrens 23:24, 29 April 2006 (
BingoBoingo: ESL is a curse, especially when WikiBritain keeps redirecting their Fritzchip articles to TPM wank
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's transparently a case of "we optimize for average player", imo. if they figure out 90% of time-spent-playing by a playerbase that averages 30% completion is in the first 10% of the game, therefore they'll aim to spend 90% of resources to make that first 10%.
mircea_popescu: it's such a sad property of 90s video games that the further in, the less effort per square foot. endless straight corridors and bs.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Pyramid Space Ships are a bonafide religious belief of the "Nation of Islam"
mircea_popescu: pro tip : southerners in egypt cca 3k years ago lived exactly like southerners in us cca 200 years ago : it was presumed they were someone's slave as a matter of course, because how else beast in city.
BingoBoingo: Haiti was a promised land, etc
mircea_popescu: amusingly, a bunch of subnormal "usians of color" actually bought this nonsense.
mircea_popescu: ikr ? started a whole pile of wank down there, also.
mircea_popescu: the only problem is that islam's been retarded for a long, long time. they had a brief culturalization period under the (mostly, disinterested) turks, but otherwise they periodically prune the tinking folk (say, persians).
mircea_popescu: if they started making sense, even a little, where would they be ?
mircea_popescu: it's an un~reasonable~ demand. the ~reason~ it's a dream is so it dun make sense.
mircea_popescu: and consider also the makework angle, it's fucking beautiful. so german-italy, as a thoroughly nosnese piece of fanfic/wank, needs some sort of something to hold it together. what do they pick ? oh, eritrea! which they can't do, but need german airplanes etcv for (and still can't do). meanwhile sicilian-italy'd have had no such problem at all, THEY don't need eritrea for anything.
mircea_popescu: i mean in some places, like iran or w/e, actual theological approaches were fielded. but in yurp it was still mostly a matter of burgeois thought, aka "reason"
a111: Logged on 2018-06-12 20:40 mircea_popescu: you're not going to reproduce the former by the latter ; just like you're not going to lure my slavegirls away by promising to be "a good sensitive guy with a great sense of humor".
asciilifeform: 'The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won’t do' etc
asciilifeform: blair, just possibly, actually grasped it, 'All three of the great dictators have enhanced their power by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples. Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people ‘I offer you a good time,’ Hitler has said to them ‘I offer you struggle, danger and death,’ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet.'
mircea_popescu: now try and construct a thought process explaining mussolini's choice in ~any other terms~ than the foregoing, i wish to see it. why exactly did he not say "o boy, i am so impressed, the government is henceforth to be formed exclusively from among the sicilian men of honor" but instead said "o boy, i am so impressed, the government is henceforth to be formed exclusively as per german orders" ?
mircea_popescu: it is clear to the dork that he has to pick one, and notwithstanding his very model comes to life for him to warn against following the former (in the uncertain terminology of "you'll end up germans' bootblacks"), nevertheless he doesn't pick reality. because he can't pick reality, because he's a ghost not a person.
mircea_popescu: there are two important meetings in his new life : one is when a fellow named francesco cuccia shows him the way of his country ; the other is when a fellow not named schicklgruber shows him the way of his fancy.
mircea_popescu: here's a riddle for the student of history : ☟︎
mircea_popescu: it's not just e a blair going "oh noes, what if the indian mob laughs at my gun!!1 better wet the bed" 1920s ; it's not just j k huysmans going "il s'arrangea, enfin, de façon à ne pas être souvent obligé de leur parler ou de les voir.
mircea_popescu: it's at the very least what their lawyer entered as a plea.
asciilifeform: i suppose it's a defensible pov, that the various 'social democrats' etc derps who agreed to 'coalition with provisional gov' , played role similar to the human bridges over barbed wire in ww2
mircea_popescu: the mammies that "just wanna" "the system" to continue "until they get their pension" are supposed to share a seat with the "fuck you all and if you all burn tomorrow it's not soon enough" smart people. duh ?
mircea_popescu: it's not fucking self-hating at all, lol, it's simply not a thing.
asciilifeform: ( the only other faction that shared this pheature, were mahno's anarchists, and they came pretty close to a win )
mircea_popescu: simply the ideology marx explicitly feared, "they'll rally around a flag saying 'mort aux cons' instead of our pantsuit preference".
mircea_popescu: ~this~ is the fundamental reason the tsar got killed ; lenin isn't so much a "bolshevik" as he is a decadent, in this proper sense : "by fucking god ima hang all of you", spoken 1890.
mircea_popescu: then sometime in the 90s there was a split : the bulk of these intelligents decided "we just want to", ie, "not interested in politics", proceeded to discuss colors, in the vein of
mircea_popescu: this led to a strict rejection of "modern science" and "the rational process", thereby implicitly of "modern democracy" (it was just as modern then, too) and so forth.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how aware you are of all this, but here : the previous set of "holy shit, the inca's a pile of idiocy" folk deserted the leadership under the flag of "we just want to". you know ?
asciilifeform: a bedlam full of 'droolers' was not only aesthetically preferred by the bedlam-keepers of the time to one full of 'screamers', but also cheaper.
mircea_popescu: o very medical - a dood donned a butcher's leather apron and sent gibbets flying every which way 8 hrs/day).
mircea_popescu: the dood was a talented talk-psych, good structure of thought in his head.
asciilifeform: that was actually asciilifeform's 'omfg apparently i'm a moron' moment re open sores 'culture'
asciilifeform: iirc i asked ( on, laugh, slashdot ) re why there is not a 'warez p2p'-style replacement for soresforge , for pissing on bans etc. ( no prizes for guessing how many answers )
mircea_popescu: europe is such a lulzy shithole these days. sorta like the whiplash of its erstwhile colonies.
asciilifeform: '[Global Notice] On June 20th, the Legal Committee of the European Parliament will decide on a copyright reform that could radically change copyright laws throughout the EU and have an impact on open source software. If you're in the EU please see https://savetheinternet.info/ and https://blog.github.com/2018-03-14-eu-proposal-upload-filters-code/ for more information'
asciilifeform: esthlos: 'forced trust' is a contradiction . ( but iirc mircea_popescu already described why )
asciilifeform: i find it mildly interesting ( tho entirely unsurprising ) that, year and a half after FUCKGOATS released, there still appears to be nobody else selling unwhitened trng.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-15 02:13 mircea_popescu: this very much ~wasn't~ the first mention of bitcoin on trilema, there's earlier march http://trilema.com/2011/de-ce-trebuie-protejat-angajatul/#comment-43648 and april http://trilema.com/2011/guvernul-cu-rata-de-succes-33/#comment-47237 mentions by a fellow named gheorghe
spyked: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-15#1825614 <-- I wonder if dood is still tuned in (maybe read-only? I know I was for more than a coupla years). kinda enjoyed the conversations back in the day. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: yeah, not much of a theory. theory in the sense theory of evolution is theory.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at the den, https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6dx03ZOqI1qh1gdpo1_1280.jpg ; guess why it's even called a den.
mircea_popescu: in this context, "if you're going to trust implicitly, either trust the republic or it's the lime pits for you" is a direct continuation of "if you're going to believe in god, you'd better fucking believe i am that god", ie some minimal mental hygiene.
mircea_popescu: nobody buys an ipad because "otherwise they'll get shot by LAPD". they buy the ipad because "i am so fucking stupid, i literally can't tell the difference between this piece of shit and a working programmable machine".
mircea_popescu: nobody trusts implicitly "or else". idiots trust implicitly because they objectively lack the capacity for anything else, so it's a strict "either trust implicitly or not at all" dilemma they face.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: unit 'A' .
a111: Logged on 2018-06-17 17:38 mircea_popescu: anyway, nfi why thailand is famous for its ladyboys. they're a minority there, while united states consists of nothing but.
BingoBoingo: It'll probably still be a bore, but I will have seen the exception to 1-1 ties that proves the sport is a bore
BingoBoingo: I want to watch a double digit blowout
a111: Logged on 2018-06-17 17:36 hanbot: <asciilifeform> hanbot: that d00d is a riot. having trouble dispatching himself, in ameristan, where 300buxorz buys you a 'mossberg' << you know? but regularly checks himself into institutions, picks fights (where fights = crying and yelling across a parking lot) at "knights of columbus" meetings, of all fucking things, etc etc.
BingoBoingo: Absolutely awful. If I make it to my 70's I want to retire then in a baseball Latino country.
mircea_popescu: it's a terrible spectator sport.
BingoBoingo: Colombia plays tomorrow, but thus far Uruguay is the only South American team with a win.
BingoBoingo: Before the game tied, Brazil scored their goal. For that on goal about a theird of the way into game time the handful of Brazillians for more audible for more time.
mircea_popescu: anyway, nfi why thailand is famous for its ladyboys. they're a minority there, while united states consists of nothing but. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: maybe he starts a church.
hanbot: <asciilifeform> hanbot: that d00d is a riot. having trouble dispatching himself, in ameristan, where 300buxorz buys you a 'mossberg' << you know? but regularly checks himself into institutions, picks fights (where fights = crying and yelling across a parking lot) at "knights of columbus" meetings, of all fucking things, etc etc. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-17#1826190 << there's a lot to be said for not wasting each other's time. ☝︎
asciilifeform: 5bux at toy store buys you a 'oh noez he was armed!11' and a phree police firing squad, for the pathological coward. etc
asciilifeform: ( in the coupla states where it doesn't -- 10bux still buys you a box of shells, and another 10 -- iron pipe at the 'home despot' and old nail... )