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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell namworld so what's the bvps side of the usagi drama ? how did his server get shut down ?
mircea_popescu: xmj: i'm living in a country whose minimum wage is 300EUR/month, and make a few orders of magnitude. so that's going to be feasible << out of gaming fidelity rewards ?
mircea_popescu: "Hello. This is the letter I never expected I would have to write, primarily because I never saw this coming." lol usagi is such win
mircea_popescu: they do need to be women, willing to relocate and live as slaves for a few years. but those aside, yes, they can.
mircea_popescu: that article is amusing. The idea that the "normals" can "wake up" and do something about their situation is silly. << they can, i have experimentally verified this.
mircea_popescu: imagine if you're hired to maintain an old codebase, and upon going through the tarball the first thing you notice is a file claled
mircea_popescu: anyway, the argentinio-brasileiro amorous congress, 4th edition (today) requires my presence. so i bid you all a very good hasta manana
mircea_popescu: actually the russians prolly have the best classics depts atm
mircea_popescu: on some searches trilema now outranks twitter, fucking finally.
mircea_popescu: you certainly can't send a few ks to a specialist butcher to bring you random derp's head on a platter.
mircea_popescu: decimation, the difference being that if you like your profit you can keep your profit.
mircea_popescu: decimation: My point is that $450 million is really cheap for a leading silicon fab firm << definitely a good buy yes
mircea_popescu: assbot: Illinois Governors In Prison: 4 Of State's Last 7 Governors Were Convicted, Imprisoned << isn't it time for a whore governor ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c: talk about a battle of retard nations. twitter vs bitcointalk. which is worse? bitcointalk banning mpoe-pr or twitter banning mircea? << actually, me on twitter was prolly against their business model. mpoe-pr on btctalk is also against their business model.
mircea_popescu: decimation, so he was there telling the stewardesses when to take their belts off when suddenly a mountain hit it
mircea_popescu: pilot is more there to tell the stewardesses to fasten their seatbelt than anything
mircea_popescu: \cgcardona: the header on trilema changed again? i thought it was once a quarter << i made an exception
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: tried to blind a flir drone? gasenwagen. << im still boggled by what's involved into weaponizing this. seems more like a bureaucrat striving to limit imagined risks than anything sane
mircea_popescu: well it turns out i was living on argentine time when in romania
mircea_popescu: took ~4 years to go from 0,001 to 500, will it need 4 more to go to 500k ?
mircea_popescu: depends. btc = 500 death threats, btc = 500k own computer parts factories
mircea_popescu: but i mean, how hard would this be, just a pluggable microsd.
mircea_popescu: decent way to generate terrabytes of prng data on the fly too
mircea_popescu: have a slot on the thing where end user plugs his own chip
mircea_popescu: i suppose one of the best ways to go, actually, would be to embed the encryption in the drive.
mircea_popescu: spo let tens and tens of indians and somali kids twitter undesirable words, it's not a bad net result.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i imagine there's some interest against mass bannings. moreover, you aleways want to allign the creed leeching of scammers with your agenda.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i shall interestedly propose the heuristic "were they banned on twitter"
mircea_popescu: i think its lack of popularity has a lot to do with its usefulness.
mircea_popescu: and her armpits and behind ears would grow new fucking strains of unbeforeseen molds
mircea_popescu: like if a woman was washed by the FOSS, her nipples and vulva would be very clean
mircea_popescu: even if it were proper open sourcde (which truecrypt never really was) the entire "oh million of eyes" is a total myth.
mircea_popescu: one DEFINITELY doesn't want a populr packaging that's too likely to be attacked anyway
mircea_popescu: im just saying you know ? the tools are there, one doesn't actually need a particular packaging thereof
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, doesn't have to. you can give it a ramdisk
mircea_popescu: prolly byte for byte mor efficient than truecrypt or anything else.
mircea_popescu: and i doubt it works any less than your system works anyway.
mircea_popescu: there's fucking reasons tar ended up the way it did, and they have to do with 30+ years of actual use in the field.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if one must have container encryption, use the fucking tools. make a tarball that you gpg encrypt
mircea_popescu: pankkake: I guess you could do file level encryption with gpg, but… there are probably better solutions << i still don't get why anyone thinks container encryption is a thing or makes sense