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a111: Logged on 2019-05-16 17:20 mp_en_viaje: http://edgecase.net/articles/checkpoint_8 << what;s this ?
stjohn_piano_2: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-16#1913740 << an error, which i will have to go and fix. checkpoint 8 has been held back from "published" status, because there is a little bitcoin in the address derived from the checkpoint. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-05-16 17:11 stjohn_piano_2: asciilifeform: gpg --list-packets shows that the key ID is C8EFFF13 in the OTP file. The key ID of my public key is 5991 52AC. Is this expected? (the fingerprint shown by deedbot in the earlier line is correct, though).
stjohn_piano_2: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-16#1913698 << i also completely forgot that GPG encrypts to a subkey, not to the primary, so of course the key ID would be different. ☝︎
stjohn_piano_2: i'll go through some dropped references from yesterday:
stjohn_piano_2: turns out that for me fast real-time chat is still rather unaffordable at present. going forward, my replies will have significant latency. ☟︎
asciilifeform: ( where is the limit of the 'brilliant biz plan', i have nfi, but they haven't even scratched surface yet.. )
asciilifeform: for so long as it's < the typical plane ticket, tourists will prolly still pony up
mp_en_viaje: it's transparently a slot for us to humiliate itself, which it won't do, so...
asciilifeform: at least this , 10bux, vs argie 200
asciilifeform: in other ~recent lulz, 'Mar 9, 2019 - US citizens travelling to Europe will need to obtain a visa from 2021, the European Union (EU) has said.'
asciilifeform: 'doctor, you gave me these pills but nothing happens' 'didja take'em?' 'of course took, they're right here in my pocket'
asciilifeform: afaik 1st fella to press ~this~ particular 'anykey' .. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2019-05-16 18:22 asciilifeform: Key ID - 0x889ACC4FC8EFFF13 is defo not any of his subs ~or~ the primary. trinque ^ prolly worth a look
a111: Logged on 2019-05-16 20:10 stjohn_piano_2: by mistake, i was attempting to decrypt the OTP sent to asciilifeform
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-16#1914153 << lol, after asciilifeform went for tea thought 'hrm, that fp looked familiar', sure enuff http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-16#1913962 << >> asciilifeform's primary sub fp ☝︎☝︎
mp_en_viaje: Mocky, just sat and sifted through recruiter spam ?
asciilifeform: it dun happen in the gulag proper
mp_en_viaje: both tor-likes and linkedin-likes are ~same vintage and ~same flavour for a reason.
asciilifeform: last i knew, ~that~ was contracted out to same people who http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-16#1914284 ☝︎
mp_en_viaje: well, this was more re producing the webolade.
asciilifeform: it dun take so many hands to turn 'and we put buffer overflow at X' from microshit, into 'deliverables'
asciilifeform: iirc we had coupla thrds re whether they even still ~have~ a 'core of productive' somewhere.
mp_en_viaje: gotta distinguish the tiny core of productive employees from the large skirtings of african employees.
asciilifeform: ( dunno how 'desk flyer' ends up in afghan, i guess grunts could not be trusted not to mate cable connectors using sledgehammer..? )
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i recall coupla yrs ago an nsa flunkie reportedly ate a bullet in afghan. was novel enuff that was newsworthy.
mp_en_viaje: ~nobody available that can write the sort of shit they want, is willing to do it, and will even talk to them. so... reuse, recycle, reduce.
asciilifeform: ( dunno re cia, was never yet hungry enuff to try ~there~ )
a111: Logged on 2019-05-16 16:38 mp_en_viaje: it's my guess that systematically shooting about 15% or so of the first line troops would result in >80% deserion rate.
asciilifeform: upstack : asciilifeform at one time learned that nsa has an unofficial exemption from 'discrimination laws', they dun hire ru folx -- but china a+++ a-ok
asciilifeform: 'convergent evolution' . y'know, like how 'new world' & 'old world' vulture, unrelated birds, but to naked eye exactly alike
mp_en_viaje: in fact, the codebase similarity is staggering.
mp_en_viaje: "Real user monitoring data drives all aspects of Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management Citrix collects information from across more than 50,000 networks daily. Over 130 Clouds, CDNs and Datacenters are measured daily. Hundreds of millions of clients generate over 14 billion RUM data points every day."
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: entertainingly, some yrs ago i had to write a 'decompiler' for these, to pull out ie 'sploits etc
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, slim because naive derpitude load large piles of ~unused libs. but this is trimmed.
asciilifeform: of course generated. i doubt that the collective stable of monkeys have typed in half MB all together in 10y
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: half MB is even 'slim' by modern standards, for these.
Mocky: got my current job via linkedin, msg from recruiter wed, I answered thurs, interview friday and monday
asciilifeform: otoh the other kind, where you sit for 6mo and then 'we have a great honour for you...' trickier
asciilifeform: Mocky: the ones where already gotta be a eunuch right off the door, pretty easy to avoid
asciilifeform: Mocky: i left a slave galley at one time when they presented me with a fully-filled set of forms and 'we shall do you great honour, mr. d, already paid for, nao please sign here to take holy orders'
Mocky: I had one recruiter 'if you get hired, they will sponsor your clearance' 'no thx' 'what??!??'
mp_en_viaje: the less they do, the more are needed.
asciilifeform: the various lulzministries grow like mushrooms, there is no decree that they may not overlap, quite opposite
asciilifeform: and whoknows whateelse, asciilifeform doesn't get reports on his desk re how many there are atm
asciilifeform: and these
asciilifeform: ( + cia + two dozen or so misc. tentacles staffed mostly by ex-army )
mp_en_viaje: actually, for a decade or so it has a real nsa and the traditional nsa. on top of ^
asciilifeform: on acct of some ancient and obscure bureaucratic degree, usg has ~two~ nsa, 1 usual and 1 that does sats
asciilifeform: (~that~ was logo of spy satellite ministry, iirc also applied there, but no snail)
nicoleci: asciilifeform, i think it is still mandated to send letters for government jobs (more regulations for proof of hire eligibility)
mp_en_viaje: such a lizzard, that octopus.
asciilifeform: this slightly prior to octopus with 'gott mit uns' lol
mp_en_viaje: not yet moved to octopi ?
asciilifeform: the lulzy part was that snailmail, from ft meade, complete with eagles etc
asciilifeform: if they're dumbenuff, wainot
nicoleci: asciilifeform, 'we regret to inform you' is built into sites like careerbuilder and indeed jobs now. they even write the reject message for hr people
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, great way to earn a living from eg albanian secret service. "oh look, i have connection!!!"
asciilifeform: ( you could spam people and they usually clicked 'ok wainot' )
mp_en_viaje: nicoleci, try the screenshot thing in any case, so you learn how to use it.
asciilifeform: nicoleci: the 'connections' wank was hilarious. e.g. asciilifeform had generals, admirals, etc. as 'connections'
asciilifeform: ( some statute required'em , iirc, to 'consider' applicant N times '
asciilifeform: nsa had the classiest output, they actually sent ~snail mail~ 'we regret to inform you...' full year, like clockwork , erry 8 weeks
asciilifeform 10y ago or so, was starving long enuff to actually try'em all
asciilifeform: afaik the only ministry that didn't use it, was nsa, they had even shoddier thing in java
nicoleci: asciilifeform, sounds about right with the theme of connections vs qualifications
asciilifeform: prolly still exists today.
asciilifeform: btw there was an actual Official similar www for usg civil service. in, naturally, microshit 'asp', erry other page load was eggog
mp_en_viaje: pretty much all of the "web 2.0" usg."tech" stuff peaked cca lehman brothers days.
asciilifeform: haven't heard much about it in past 5-6y tho
asciilifeform: nicoleci: iirc this was a usg.valley play at 'arsebook, but for work, make it so that plebe can't find work if we kick him off site'
nicoleci: they spam their premium feature
nicoleci: asciilifeform, lol. you get the special privilege of getting the FULL linkedin approved names of whose viewed your profile instead of just the job titles, plus all the other hr bullshit like being able to post a job add
mp_en_viaje: can play six hours of original doom on the cpu juice one linkedin pageload requires.
asciilifeform: sounds like typical india. betcha there's a 1000-tall pile of if-thens in there.
mp_en_viaje: js deliverer estimates if the final webdocument whatever is right or not, tries diff approach.
asciilifeform: iirc we saw a thing like this at one pt
mp_en_viaje: ie, if obfuscator of pathway A results in unloadable page, there's also pathway B.
mp_en_viaje: if you can imagine this.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, it;s so bad they're stuck having multiple paths for reliability.
mp_en_viaje: i didn't use at all. i know things through... guru meditation.
asciilifeform: typically these , are the tallest piles o'shit
mp_en_viaje: fetlife relatively straightforward naive, linkedin employs truly complicated tower of obfuscation to prevent scraping.
asciilifeform can't speak re the complexity, did not use intensively
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, dissimilar in terms of complexity.
mp_en_viaje: ALL the script-side cleverness you can imagine, it;s beyond comprehension. i do nto expect they currently can maintain their codebase.
asciilifeform: rather similar to fatlife, arsebook, etc
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: it's a pretty standard, as they go, 'indian code'
nicoleci: mp_en_viaje, cant since i clicked off and it now shows different views, unless of course i wanna pay for that sweet sweet premium account
mp_en_viaje: in fact, possibly the WORST software i've ever seen.
asciilifeform: so possibly framed as this, on the derp end
asciilifeform: diana_coman: there in fact are trojans which post spam to this & other heathen pits as 'updates'
diana_coman: possibly they "cleaned" her account for herself since it can't possibly be that she wrote such a thing there !!
asciilifeform: nicoleci, mp_en_viaje : i have possible piece for this puzzler : asciilifeform's old notes suggest that this particular heathen pit structures text for censors as 'patch' deltas
mp_en_viaje: then upload to https://imgbb.com/ ; double-click on icon, left click copy image link
mp_en_viaje: use alt-f2 in firefox to open up console, then type :screenshot filename.png --fullscreen
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, part and parcel of problem there is fetlife really nosedived past ~coupla years. it's one thing to sift through mountain river for gold ; it's another to sift through garden hose spout.
nicoleci: mp_en_viaje, it shows that people from linkedin viewed my profile and like asciilifeform said, why just delete the company instead of the whole profile ☟︎
nicoleci: it seems like some linkedin 'developers' read the logs and got butthurt
mp_en_viaje: i dunno, kinda thoroughly squeezed lemon, imo.