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ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: would you accept use of a
token in headers for use from cli?
mircea_popescu: what am i
to be like one of
those us military base commanders
that can't run a quarter mile ?
mircea_popescu: the #1 most frustrating
thing known
to man is when computers don't do what you expect
them
to do.
mircea_popescu: why
the everloving fuck is sed -n '/\/start\//,/end/p' dump out
the whole pipe instead of just
the stuff between /start/ and end ?
mircea_popescu: if it were
the case
that contracts came in '|tar bottles" reading plain english would be as useful as reading latin.
mircea_popescu: you understand, i hope you do but if you don't i'll explain it,
that
the only -
THE ONLY - reason for literacy is so you can read contracts.
assbot: Logged on 25-12-2015 21:29:42; mircea_popescu:
thinking about it :
the one
thing i like about dpaste in preference of uploading files is
that i don't have
to provide a filename.
assbot: Logged on 25-12-2015 21:08:22; mircea_popescu: in short, i wisened up
to
the fact
that
this particular
thing is of
the "go big or go home" variety and insistence on peculiar versions of small are a waste of
time.
assbot: Logged on 25-12-2015 20:41:26; mircea_popescu: how about
this : only accept gpg-encrypted communications, and only distribute
the pubkey
to people you like.
assbot: Logged on 25-12-2015 20:38:47; ben_vulpes: punkman, mircea_popescu, asciilifeform: destestable
though
they may be for injecting state into
the stateless protocol, would a single "signin" page with an assbot-style decryption of OTP
that results in a session key authenticating
the user
to
the perlwad be an improvement, and are
there better solutions i'm not considering? anonymous drive-by pasting is not a better solution imho.
mircea_popescu: but a gpg would-be replacement
that doesn't have clearsign is not actually usable as a replacement
mircea_popescu: that's mostly what
these
things peddle : a particular sort of
theft.
mircea_popescu: that's exactly not it.
the difference is
that
the former STOLE something. a little bit of something, and something
that wasn't well bolted down by a legal process. 300 years ago you'd go
to jail for pretending
to be
the mayor ; even
today you can go
to jail for pretending
to be a cop.
mircea_popescu: See
the difference? Make some aspect of your product easy and fun
to
talk about, and make it unique."
mircea_popescu: "And
this worked really well for foursquare
thanks
to
the mayorship. If I
tell someone I’m
the mayor of a spot, I’m in an instant conversation: “What makes you
the mayor?” “That’s lame, I’m
there way more
than you” “What do you get for being mayor?”. Compare
that
to
talking about Gowalla: “I just swapped
this sticker of a bike for a sticker of a six pack of beer! What? Yes, I am still a virgin”.
mircea_popescu: how
THE FUCK do you increase engagement and no one cares.
jurov: it needs more attention
than fire and forget
mircea_popescu: how
to cheaply and efficiently ensure
the ire of people in
the wot : charge
them for
their own shit.
jurov: i suspect ben_vulpes is not up for
that kind of latrine anyway :D
jurov: i'm not hellbound
to having it. my idea was
to accept anything, signed or not, make it available for a week, and put older pastes behind a paywall
mircea_popescu: the
thing i fucking hate about dpaste is
the dumbass "select data
type" and
that
they
think
text is "plain
text" and starts with a p.\
ben_vulpes: (it's just a fucking latrine
that needs digging)
mircea_popescu: or, more generally :
that it's like clearisgn and not like detached signature.
mircea_popescu: thinking about it :
the one
thing i like about dpaste in preference of uploading files is
that i don't have
to provide a filename.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: which is why i
think it should be hammered out and left alone at
the earliest possible moment.
ben_vulpes: anyways jurov if i had an inkling
that someone would do it besides myself i'd not have done it in
the first place. if you want
the
thing on your plate, lmk, otherwise if you have an obvious solution you're not holding out for paste-opoly also let me know.
mircea_popescu: kinda why i stuck it in
there - bitcoin has deeper roots
than commonly realised.
ben_vulpes: (it is
the root of cognition, no?) "usually
this makes
the food happen"
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 19:32:46; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu:
the other gestapo did not suffer from delusions of machine learning!1111111111
to help
them process somehow infinite
tips into an edible portion
mircea_popescu: this
ties into
the discussion about nazis and
their de-facto paper-processing computing
mircea_popescu: the reason for
this is
that so many
titles start with
The in english
that it debalanced
the sorting
tree (implemented in nature as shelves)
mircea_popescu: ~ in
this context is an interesting
thing : a postprocessor directive meaning "take
the string before
the first comma and put it in here
to reconstruct
the correct
title of
this item". so
that "Fanny Fucksticks,
The Enchanted
Travels Of ~" becomes "The Enchanted
Travels Of Fanny Fucksticks".
ben_vulpes: (what else would it be
the most serene republic of,
though?)
mircea_popescu: this is really not a bad motto for b-a ;
the funny
thing for me is how varied
the reaction of people is as
they encounter it in practice.
jurov: oooooh. i wanted
to see your megasuperdevstack in action,
tho
ben_vulpes: "but it still led
to a $1.59 million increase in fees in one quarter" << how do you knoooow
ben_vulpes: "The results: about 9 percent more poor students matriculated." << how would you know it's attributable
to your work?
ben_vulpes: not selling, really. more of a
toy for phriendz
mircea_popescu: bullshit. it was, at
the
time, incredibly cheap and convenient.
mircea_popescu: in short, i wisened up
to
the fact
that
this particular
thing is of
the "go big or go home" variety and insistence on peculiar versions of small are a waste of
time.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that you're
trying
to sell webspace on a below-shared server level and by
the kilobyte like some sort of idiot. either get into
the business by running an actual isp or else let people do
the
thing sanely on
their own.
jurov: he proposed for everyone
to have own webspace, no?
ben_vulpes: well
then what precisely were you proposing?
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes i do not
think you should. !
ben_vulpes: SO WHY
THE FUCK WRITE SHIT FOR PEOPLE NOT IN
THE WOT
ben_vulpes: isn't
the classic answer 'the other gurlz'?
mircea_popescu: bear in mind however
that ... how are women
that you've not fucked before going
to find you ?
mircea_popescu: because why
the fuck, 10 bucks a month is
too much for
these people
to get a fucking blog up ?
mircea_popescu: still, you know,
think about what
this is. you're proposing
to give people a modicum of webspace in some narrow constraints.
ben_vulpes: so riddle me
this: why
the everloving fuck *should* i make any
tool usable for anyone outside of my wot?
ben_vulpes: yes well clearly when we actually have gossipd auth i can wash my hands of auth
too.
mircea_popescu: you know, giving examples of broken shit is not necessarily an effectual way
to argue in favour of said shit.
ben_vulpes: if so i would like an introduction
to
this registrar,
they sound like good people
to know
mircea_popescu: i propose
to not manage dns at all, and not have dns, either.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu proposes
to manage dns without authentication? is
this like
the mythical bezzlebroker who only communicates in gpggrams with $maxint clients?
mircea_popescu: this is fundamental and fundamentally important. if you wish
to be a person, you gotta maintain
this level of control.
mircea_popescu: which is specifically what i said above :
there will exist EXACTLY ONE place i authenticate at ;
the name for
that place is "my blog"
mircea_popescu: for
the stated reason : for
the same money i just use my blog
to host
the file
mircea_popescu: the correct solution also seems
to have emerged, how's any of
this my fault.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back
to
the dpaste : im not abstaining from helping or anything of
the sort.
there's been an idea, it's been
trashing around in
the b-a uterus
trying
to come
to conception. it doesn't seem
that it actually works
tho, seems more like an irrealisable chimera of disparate, irreconcilable parts.
ben_vulpes: aight but before we go haring off completely is
there an argument
to be made in favor of wotmembers signing authentication
tokens over decrypting authentication
tokens?
ben_vulpes: well no it wouldn't be sensible
things
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, i go out buy a bag of dice.
these idiots used blue and red for
the paint on
the faces. guess what numbers are red and what numbers are blue ?