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phf: i dunno if
there's acceptable usage at
this point, since
the jeff k culture is long dead, in waves and waves and waves of eternal september
phf: pete_dushenski: lunix is of course jeff k
tradition, and
there's not much
to it, besides arbitrary switching letters, but it helps
that
the result sounds durp
pete_dushenski: 'lunix' also has etymology of 'luna', which maps well
to
those same fat-ass proportions
pete_dushenski: Pearce writes
that
these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more
than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries.
They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by
the Edo people …
They
took an estimated 150 million hours of digging
to construct, and are perhaps
the largest single archaeological phenomenon on
the planet”."
pete_dushenski: "Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in
the south and deep ditches in
the north. Beyond
the city walls, numerous further walls were erected
that separated
the surroundings of
the capital into around 500 distinct villages.
assbot: Story of cities #5: Benin City,
the mighty medieval capital now lost without
trace | Cities |
The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1Ui1xQ3 )
jurov: his professed utter inability
to function as mobster aside
jurov: asciilifeform explicitly rejects anything he'd have
to pay
taxes from,
that's lost cause
jurov: but if your mobster has access
to *all* your data and communication...
that's another level
pete_dushenski: this 'protection'/extortion business model could be just
the gravity well extractor
that guys like asciilifeform need. it can even be done from laptop on beach!
☟︎ pete_dushenski: in most of
the world, most. whether it's greasing
the local mob or
the local bureaucrat makes little practical difference. it's
the way of
the world.
jurov: hm,
that makes me wonder how many businesses are paying for such "protection" every month already
jurov: you see -
they are used
to pay for licenses. whether
to m$ or
to extortionist, makes a little difference
☟︎ pete_dushenski: aha. anyways, for casinos specifically, it ~is~ a windows
thing. at least for
the operations around here.
jurov: yes, usually
they "host" malware
there
pete_dushenski: wait, so hackers backdoor linux server and resell hosting on it, unbeknownst
to
the 'owner' of
the box ?
jurov: also, it's not "windows"
thing. plenty of linux servers were backdoored, but
there it's more profitable/convenient
to resell
the server resources
that
to extort
the admin
pete_dushenski: once one
target has coughed up danegeld, surely
they'll continue
jurov: there are enough
targets
pete_dushenski: 'who knows what evil lurks in
the hearts of men' (tm) (r)
pete_dushenski: though i have a
tough
time imagining
that anything in
terms of digital security has changed with either
that client or his 'professional' since.
pete_dushenski: i've also sold btc
to 'it professional' who had client with cryptolocker.
this was ~2 years ago
though and i haven't heard any reports of a second or
third hit.
jurov: but
they did not want
to pay for
the work
jurov: but he complained he proposed
to install seafile server (which I shown him
to exist)
that would work nicely with
their windows boxes
jurov: pete_dushenski: i did sell some btc
to be paid
to cryptolocker and
there was an admin
ben_vulpes: does anyone remember a story about a last-minute us presidential candidacy
that was run on highly personally
target emails?
mircea_popescu: anyway. lulz at
the entire "we'll
talk about
things in
the vague and be all pretentious and shit" junior high ugly girl club
thing. i'm so impressed i almost
think
the whole prb/mit/blabla crowd of shitheads is worth pissing on.
mircea_popescu: otherwise,
the bar for "conference organizer" as an identity pillar includes
tits & gtfo and so on. it's a job dita von
teese gets cred for,
typically.
mircea_popescu: well, if anyone here went
to
the
thing
that you organized and liked it,
they might rate you, sure.
mircea_popescu: and yes i imagine
there's some cred
to be had for doing
that, but only in america.
PaulCapestany: that was just shitty "reporting" in
the case of
the article... I'm not a r/bitcoin mod, but I guess my 'claim
to fame' was
that I was co-organizer of a big bitcoin developer meetup in SF
assbot: There's a one Bitcoin reward for
the death of Pieter Wuille. Details below. on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1lxiG9S )
mircea_popescu: lmao. so reddit is copying me on
the quiet, forgets
to link anything and is all "hey, we're cool" ?
mircea_popescu: PaulCapestany " would my supposed
threat against Classic earn me any street cred (or WoT cred) here?" << link, something ?
BingoBoingo: And it isn't so much a fork as... "historical artifact conveying
truth" (TM)(R)
PaulCapestany: BingoBoingo ah, yeah, ya'll have your own sorta stripped-down fork, correct? if I wanted
to read up on
the reasoning behind
that, what'd be a good link?
BingoBoingo: <PaulCapestany> people in here are generally anti-Classic I presume? would my supposed
threat against Classic earn me any street cred (or WoT cred) here? << anti-Classic, anti-"Core" etc
PaulCapestany: people in here are generally anti-Classic I presume? would my supposed
threat against Classic earn me any street cred (or WoT cred) here?
danielpbarron: there's relevant Eulora spash
text :
the worst
thing you can wish on your enemy is
that he gets lots of followers (or something like
that, I'm paraphrasing)
PaulCapestany: danielpbarron falkvinge has lotsa followers, and is supposed
to be pro decentralization...
assbot: Logged on 18-01-2016 18:06:37; punkman: lol Falkvinge, "If
there's no profit
to be made in using bitcoin as a drop-in replacement for credit card payments, bitcoin will not be deployed at scale. Deployment and outcompeting legacy systems depend entirely on merchant financial gains from rollout."
PaulCapestany: asciilifeform reddit wars are dumb, agreed, but I got concerned when people like Rick Falkvinge were starting
to post on r/bitcoin about how Bitcoin Classic was a good idea..
the misinformation and propaganda
that had been going on seemed
to have worked on some people
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2016 17:19:29; shinohai: !rate nubbins` -10 I'll wear
this as a badge of honour from a person
too cowardly
to negrate me in logs.
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2016 17:13:47; BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Just don't have anything
that runs 'top' on it yet
to my knowledge
shinohai: I ask myself every day why fate has not allowed us
the pleasure of fireworks blowing Roger Ver's balls off.
BingoBoingo: What did you
threaten
to
take Marshmallow Long's donuts?
PaulCapestany: BingoBoingo so I can !up myself via msg
to assbot I see.. got it
assbot: Successfully added a rating of -10 for nubbins` with note: I'll wear
this as a badge of honour from a person
too cowardly
to negrate me in logs.
shinohai: !rate nubbins` -10 I'll wear
this as a badge of honour from a person
too cowardly
to negrate me in logs.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: PaulCapestany: A good place
to start would be !upping yourself
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Just don't have anything
that runs 'top' on it yet
to my knowledge
☟︎ PaulCapestany: BingoBoingo how does a L1 bitcoin-assets n00b like myself level-up
to L2? (was looking on wiki, but haven't come across an explanation yet..)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But do
these new ones process a bitcoin block in under 10 minutes?
BingoBoingo: That's
the same conclusion I've had
to reach
shinohai had a dream
that Vexual was really
TradeFortress and was
trolling us all.
BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell Vexual I'm sorry I've been ignoring you for months, but I've got
to
take my sobriety seriously if I want
to live
BingoBoingo: Breaking: Multiple Black people reportedly injured in several police raids, more
to come once filtered by Pravda