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asciilifeform: filleting kittenz for obamitler's table ?
asciilifeform: eh there are worse things than web dev
thestringpuller: even if i got multiple job offers I still got bills to pay in the meanwhile!
asciilifeform has gone from the 'omfg how do i pay teh billz' to 'omfg which of these outfits should i sign with' in past week or so
thestringpuller: ugh. it'd be funnier if it wasn't my life the past 3 years.
ben_vulpes: KILLER OF THE MIND
thestringpuller: but I got bills to pay too
asciilifeform is quite glad that he does not need this for anything nor ever will
thestringpuller: Ah yes. I encountered this in our infrastructure (we use google cloud)
assbot: Issue 87 - google-compute-engine - UDP Packet Fragments cannot be reassembled - Google Compute Engine issue tracker - Google Project Hosting ... ( http://bit.ly/1lwKQkE )
asciilifeform: as if the shitlang weren't enough
thestringpuller: btcd is going to pull in BIP-101
trinque: this guy is a terrible narrator
asciilifeform: sadly they lacked modern brissant explosives. but think how picturesque.
asciilifeform: (what kind of trigger? use your imagination)
asciilifeform: if we lived in 18th c. britain, prior to the ban of security boobytraps, a frag would be an interesting item to build into a padlock ☟︎
asciilifeform: (ianal. ^ this may or may not mean anything in your jurisdiction)
asciilifeform: meant to signal that something was not merely left to be picked up and taken home by whoever
BingoBoingo: Seriously the bullshit though. It's like FU, the most important job of the lock is sparking the thermite!
punkman: vibrating toothbrush (or dildo) works great for bumping
asciilifeform: a vibrating dildo, or electro-toothbrush, with needle taped on, works for this trick
asciilifeform: (essentially random walk brute force attack for shitty pin tumbler locks)
asciilifeform: aah l0l apparently this is a 'bumping' demo.
punkman: the one time I saw a locksmith work, it was hammer time
asciilifeform: hammer << why not dynamite then.
assbot: Skip the picks, expert uses hammer to open a Master Lock | CSO Online ... ( http://bit.ly/1OyhG06 )
thestringpuller: since unlike the nuclear powers of the 60's; these people just have a fake "fork it now" button rather than an actual fork ICBM launcher
thestringpuller: more of a cold war, that doesn't matter
asciilifeform: aaaah yeah, i was wondering where the ph0rk w4rz folks went
trinque: ahaha... wd to the troll responsible
thestringpuller: just stop peeing in the pool
asciilifeform: 'national swimming pool!... ...filtration system, a marvel to behold! it removes eighty percent of hyooooman soooolid waaaaste!1111'
asciilifeform: punkman: 'kazahstan!! greatest country in the world! all other countries are run by little gurlz!!11' (tm) (r) ('borat')
assbot: San Bernardino shooting: Suspects on the loose - CNN.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1OGLbuN )
punkman: one would certainly be tempted to use kalash as input device for current computars
phf: haha, that perelman illustration (re scientific take)
asciilifeform: ends: '... which one of them's at fault? / i cannot say! / but that old cart's / still there today!' -- approx.
asciilifeform: https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%8C,_%D0%A9%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B8_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BA_(%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2) << compl3337 t3x7
asciilifeform: ^ mircea_popescu prolly had this b00k
asciilifeform: http://preemnik2008.net/img/content/i1/1939.jpg << or for moar scientific treatment!!1
asciilifeform: unless you're of the mircea_popescu or orlov school of thought, in which case better gifts include horse and kalash ☟︎
asciilifeform: i can think of few better gifts -
trinque: I played with BASIC on DOS back in the day; I can think of worse gifts.
thestringpuller: i imagine trinque will buy his son a commodore 64
punkman: because now you can play Golden Axe in teh browser! https://archive.org/details/msdos_Golden_Axe_1990
asciilifeform: other than as a demo of 'turing completeness' for schoolchildren, i can think of no actual use for this
thestringpuller: Why is this a thing?
asciilifeform: afaik it was a 'we do what we must, because we can' sorta thing
asciilifeform: (~why~ to do this, is an entirely other question, which i am unable to even begin to apprehend)
jurov: iirc they did arachne in js?
asciilifeform: so there is hope.
asciilifeform: though there is a js x86 box emulator, yes
thestringpuller: now we can do everything in da javascript. the browser is da future!
thestringpuller: it's the best thing the internet has to offer!
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: stop hating on the world wide web
trinque: gimme the data and leave me to say what I'll do with it
trinque: browser needs to die.
assbot: Married couple too fat to have sex: Husband and wife to undergo weight loss surgery ... ( http://bit.ly/1OGFRro )
jurov: and i don't ask even that, only for browser to manage session without possibility of js mucking in it ☟︎
jurov: asciilifeform: how many webdevs or even W3C dudes ever thought about pgp?
asciilifeform: but tend to get equally shoddy treatment in school on account of being jammed into same course in one semester.
asciilifeform: they don't really have much to do with one another.
asciilifeform: also arguably 'compiler' is two entirely separate disciplines,
asciilifeform: best place to learn is still... by reading an actual compiler from 1980s or prior
thestringpuller: http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Compiler-Implementation-Andrew-Appel/dp/0521607655 << this looks neat
thestringpuller: or is that not a good reason :(
asciilifeform: it also helps if you have something like an actual reason for doing any of this.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: if you're a complete n00b you might want to try one of andrew appel's schoolbooks
thestringpuller: That's about as far as I can get before it looks egyptian to me.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: So. Got to page 3 of dragon book.
asciilifeform: 'I can't believe no one ever thought of a way how browser can authenticate a session without giving out secrets to anyone, including javascript.' << pgp ?
deedbot-: [serialized delusions] Tragedy of web security - http://explo.yt/post/2015/12/02/Tragedy-of-web-security
jurov: ^ i should think of better way to check if still having voice
shinohai: we lost assbot i think
shinohai: "a hub went boom" that sounds unfortunate.
mircea_popescu: this schmuck, gengis khan, whadda hell's the difference.
mircea_popescu: buncha outlier barbarians in temporary positions of power missing what civilisation is all about by the usual mile
mircea_popescu: since oh i dunno, the fucking concordat of worms.
mircea_popescu: THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF EUROPE.
mircea_popescu: “What we want is like a military Schengen zone,” the three-star U.S. general said, referring to the border-free travel regime adopted by most European Union countries. “Right now refugees can move across Europe faster than military convoys.”
assbot: Logged on 02-12-2015 14:56:30; punkman: https://archive.is/34zMO "That would mean investors are valuing Yahoo’s core business at less than zero if the Asian assets were spun out tax-free."
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-12-2015#1335410 << this happens to be a correct valuation. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: yeah, to my kjey.
jurov: so, i'm to push your shares somewhere, too?
mircea_popescu: jurov qntra shares deposited. (including my batch. i have no idea why i had been doing the splitting, but anyway. no more.)
assbot: Yahoo Board to Weigh Sale of Internet Business - WSJ ... ( http://bit.ly/1YHS4B0 )
punkman: https://archive.is/34zMO "That would mean investors are valuing Yahoo’s core business at less than zero if the Asian assets were spun out tax-free." ☟︎
assbot: China may be trying to hide its submarines in the South China Sea | Miami Herald ... ( http://bit.ly/1YHRX8u )
punkman: re: text steganography http://www.semantilog.org/biblingsteg/
asciilifeform: but the timez have a-changed.
asciilifeform: and of course, known to every su schoolboy, the canonical: 'Изуверскими делами Он теперь известен всем - В диком штате Алабаме Страшный город Бирмингем....' (tm) (r) (mihalkov)
asciilifeform: 'By coming forward almost a decade later after these letters, this group of officers who witnessed drugs and weapons being planted and had the moral courage to bravely do the right thing are hoping the United States Department of Justice will intervene. The want a specially appointed federal prosecutor, from outside the state of Alabama....'
assbot: Want to move your tank battalion to take on a threat? NATO’s got a form for that. ... ( http://bit.ly/1YHm13Y )
asciilifeform: http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/11/26/want-to-move-your-tank-battalion-to-take-on-a-threat-natos-got-a-form-for-that << from the lulzfarmz
assbot: Leaked Documents Reveal Dothan Police Department Planted Drugs on Young Black Men For Years, District Attorney Doug Valeska Complicit | The Henry County Report ... ( http://bit.ly/1N34BYe )
phf: kakobrekla: hey, uploaded log files are busted, title fetches done by assbot have extra newlines, that correspond to newlines in the title. here's affected entry ids, http://paste.lisp.org/display/163299 ☟︎
asciilifeform: mirce_popescu et al : if i ever dementia into the 'the hackathons where great work happens' level plz take me behind the shed & shoot. k thx
Duffer1: am i the only one having probs lately w/ freenode?
mircea_popescu: "this makes no sense but i'm going to be insane nevertheless - anything, anything just as long as i stay depersonalized kthx"
BingoBoingo: "On a personal "hate ramen noodles and tuna" level, I agree. But my good-for-project-good-for-the-world side says the OpenBSD Foundation is more effective at growing the contribution pie and in particular funding the hackathons where great work happens." - Theo De Raadt ☟︎