asciilifeform: if there's another mircea_popescu somewhere, likewise curing, i do not presently know about it.

asciilifeform: well, if the statement 'education must sexual' is indeed troo, then how else.

asciilifeform: it wouldn't be any dismay to asciilifeform if we end up filling the rack with strictly mircea_popescu's successful patients, say. ☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the puzzler is, how to knock out the crutch. or persuade the sufferer to part with it on own power ? pizarro is isp, not psychiatric clinic

asciilifeform: sometimes -- curable

asciilifeform: aint even, imho, organic braindamage, but more typically 'learned helplessness'

asciilifeform: i've personally witnessed 'mul by 10?! where is calculator'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did this patient also reach for calculator to mul by 10 ?

asciilifeform: 'Thanks for the offer, but we already have methods of becoming a sponsor. I'd like to give that opportunity to up to 10 groups/companies/people through patreon. I hope you'll understand.' << lol!!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: by all appearances the 'free men on free soil' folx are http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-10#1849132 -stupid. without (to date) any detectable exceptions. ☝︎

asciilifeform: these are god's own pizarro customers. where are they.

asciilifeform: i puzzle over this q : where are the theos-without-becks hiding ?

asciilifeform: or, say, theo de raadt & bob beck pair

asciilifeform: aaa so ~indeed~ the lichen-fungus symbiont described by mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: i dunno if i can correctly model the weevils writhing around in that skull, but imagine it went something like ' i was looking for new isp, not to change religions '

asciilifeform: 'we already have box that stays up, but how will you make our dns stay'

asciilifeform: 'bbut dns!111'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik the clearest 'schoolbook' example of folx suckered in by pseudorepublic, were the weev people

asciilifeform: but in principle there is no reason why a colo customer cannot seal his disks, so long as he understands that he will have to come in person and swap'em then

asciilifeform: we also swap disks for colo folx, if they supplied spares.

asciilifeform: hence BingoBoingo's formulation, 'without permission..'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in point of fact we do currently open boxes on explicit request of owner, to emplace FG

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is rather like if snail could speak, and was threatened with the loss of its shell, in the hot sun

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the name sounds familiar, but i think the bulk of him happened before asciilifeform tuned in

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: loox pretty good, imho

asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had a piece where 'usg.college victim, thoroughly hollowed out, incapable of discussing subj , because he perceives that he ~is college~' or how did it go

asciilifeform: the 'TW' , 'educated' by decade of reddit and hn, is usually incapable of even considering 'tor is honeypot', it threatens 'depersonalization', sorta like pushing the hanging stool out from under feet. iirc naggum described this psychopathology at length. ☟︎

asciilifeform: typical exchange with these goes like, 'trng, what's that. tell me instead how is your tor onion hosting'

asciilifeform: i'd go as far as to say that the principal enemy is the pseudorepublic, the gapons.

asciilifeform: both types suffer from the sort of brain damage where they're readily taken in by pseudorepublic, where 'bulletproof hosting' served up on cisco and advertised with rounded corners www on rails etc

asciilifeform: ( then again iirc there was a mircea_popescu thread where explained that these dun use trng at all, as matter of principle )

asciilifeform: i admit that i was slightly surprised that there wasn't at least 1 casino etc d00d immediately banging on the door, of the only (afaik) isp that offers trng

asciilifeform: aite

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can you think of anything that oughta be in there, that aint mentioned above ?

asciilifeform: absolutely

asciilifeform: 'no social engineering, lose yer pgp key, lose yer acct'

asciilifeform: e.g. 'no bmc', 'no always-on kvm', 'no microshit', 'no disassembly of colo'd boxen without owner's permission', 'go ahead and seal'em', etc

asciilifeform: sanity is a very concrete thing.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mod6 : imho we oughta add a 'we do not use bmc's' statement to the pizarro www .

asciilifeform: ssl-certified nonfaek news!1111

asciilifeform: ( how did mircea_popescu formulate it earlier, 'if yer this stupid, a usg will coalesce out of the vacuum for you' )

asciilifeform: pravdas are created on demand side.

asciilifeform: www mirrors are for fleadom-washing.

asciilifeform: they already have single pravda

asciilifeform: (not holding breath)

asciilifeform: they could learn civilized langs, and climb down from trees. theoretically.

asciilifeform: this is unremarkable, cargo cults ~always turn up with copies, there's never enuff actual fuselage frags to go around

asciilifeform: 9000 layers, encrypted with kennedy's brain splat pattern!

asciilifeform: and for good measure http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-19#1826806 ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-05#1848105 << see also ☝︎

asciilifeform: as if it had any substance to begin with

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-10#1849057 << note that if you plug the thing into net, anybody can push 'update' into it etc ☝︎

asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://archive.is/lRDfh << supermicro bmc confirmed usg.porous. (there's a reason asciilifeform didn't plug'em in)

asciilifeform: esthlos: http://summaries.logs.esthlos.com/#2018-09-08_4 << was re ww1, not 2 ☟︎

asciilifeform: who in his right mind would move, even for money

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the most eyepopping nonsense was where timis was covered in 'win a flat in bucharest' ad crapolade

asciilifeform: ever since the flood

asciilifeform: and on erry other street corner, http://btcbase.org/log/2015-07-19#1206677 ☝︎

asciilifeform: *furs

asciilifeform: (today there's an inner core of printolade-purchased glass boxes, outside of it - 1890s construction, some of it still with faded e.g. 'fine imported furst' stencil print on the smog-coloured walls )

asciilifeform: newyork even in 1990s was mixed bag

asciilifeform: bucharest has maybe 6 blox that look like euro civ. the rest -- bananistan

asciilifeform: i think they're using the same trains

asciilifeform: in related lulz, bu subway is almost exact copy of chicago's, at least in re the degree of rust and grime

asciilifeform found a decent turkish place in bu., was in outskirts, behind a playground where trees grew through the slide

asciilifeform: what was this

asciilifeform: ( and i walked no more than 30km of bucharest )

asciilifeform: asphalt so fulla holes, asciilifeform wore out a set of shoes

asciilifeform: lotsa equally rusted/dusted monuments to 'shot during uprising', ads for german kindergartens, miscellaneous parts of ??? rusting on the ground (where are the metallists!?) , etc

asciilifeform: standing right next to ordinary-looking (presumably)working ones

asciilifeform: and also the other great marvel, the 1980s-looking autos, standing 'parked' near boarded-up (yes) city park, on blocks, solid block of rust

asciilifeform: nah, actually saw this scene

asciilifeform: apocalyptic wasteland

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when i think 'inhabitants of current bucharest', immediately think of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730399 ☝︎

asciilifeform: i could eat whole can ( but wouldn't , these days )

asciilifeform: asciilifeform prefers the ru-exported one, costs ~1.5x , sold in the same spots where sprats

asciilifeform: ( granted, it comes out of usg.cows here, so possibly not comparable )

asciilifeform: that's approx same as what it costs here in usgistan (~3usbux)

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-03-05#1422436 << see also. ☝︎

asciilifeform: same clay, same bricks, eh

asciilifeform has yet to meet a us.muppet who knew of priest gapon

asciilifeform: 'father gapon'

asciilifeform: so fully expect 'donations' to all go to google or whoever's in charge of sed s/terroristbtcaddr/reichsbtcbank packet-diddlage these days

asciilifeform: 'Bitcoin has become the preferred payment method for Stormfront, the oldest and largest white supremacist...' << ~they~ dun have pubkey either, last i saw

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only by 'stopped clock is right 2x/day' fortuitous accident

asciilifeform: to this day no 'isis' pubkey , for instance.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: fuckknows, could be based in some fact, somewhere, cousinfuckers afaik are genuinely this stupid

asciilifeform: just when 'hard to think of anyffing dumber than goxcoins', this

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-09#1848980 << lol privkeys via usg.post ☝︎

asciilifeform: ideally oughta work ~same when overgrown with vines, moss, etc

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-09#1848970 << right. so imho oughta be built with 0 expectation of direct light. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-09#1848896 << btw reading the title i cannot help but think of later esr's 'surprised by wealth' lulgem ☝︎

asciilifeform: could be 'clever' and make the atmosphere-facing end a parabolic reflector, and collect sun, but then subject to birdshit etc.

asciilifeform: before this gets lost upstack, http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-09#1848800 >>>> <<<< http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/ffrbd/?raw=true << basic scheme ☝︎

asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu fatwa'd bot that speak by themselves , other than deedbot

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have a (limited) idea

asciilifeform: aa hm there's 2 of'em?

asciilifeform: waiwat i thought the whole point was euloratronic bot

asciilifeform: ^ e.g.

asciilifeform: !#s two humps