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phf: it's a fanless 486, one of the first "multimedia" laptops, i.e. has cdrom and midi chip. seems like the kind of device to play sierra games on
asciilifeform: or was that 705c.
asciilifeform: phf: the one with the folding keyboard ?
mats: rolling off the cheeks of the slaves doncha know
phf: asciilifeform: have you had your hands on thinkpad 755cd?
asciilifeform: mats: where's the salt ?
asciilifeform: any of them.
asciilifeform: pretty much everything with a public face and ANY 'hr types' is - by definition - salt mine. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mats: you can't count them because no public face.
mats: and even those, hr types run it anyways, for word and excel and what not
asciilifeform: the nagant is also there.
ben_vulpes: the web is always there
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: didja miss the line in the logz where i said ~who~ calls.
mats: the number of shops that don't, I can count on one hand
ben_vulpes: gotta love how quickly this guy goes from
asciilifeform: mats: and i remembered that i already lost respect, when i learned that they run shitblowz internally
mats: huh? I know several kaspersky employees that are americans
asciilifeform: well as it is i have a little bit of energy & time to work on things that you lot consider mildly interesting
trinque: I don't care what work I do on this side of things; the stars were already coming unglued from the sky by the time I was born.
asciilifeform: trinque: none of the folks calling give a tinker's damn re: 'sane computing' or b-a reich or whatnot. they just want good ol'fashioned reversing.
asciilifeform: in fact, i will lose all respect for k. if i ever learn that they did so.
trinque: furthermore if I were an ogre allergic to sane computing, I would eat a man describing it
asciilifeform: (apparently not everyone got the memo that i'm a dalit)
asciilifeform: but here, my phone's been ringing off the hook for a week, and it almost always turned out to be usg folks
asciilifeform: all i can say is that usg is the only major economic actor remaining, or at least in so far as is visible from my dismal tower ☟︎
trinque: or runs them headlong into each other
trinque: attaches them to something else
trinque: and perhaps someone breaks them off in whole chunks
trinque: but "works" is not necessarily to say what topology it is
asciilifeform: if at preventing traffic jams - doesn't work, never has
asciilifeform: if it's at supplying clean water out of the tap - it sorta works ☟︎
trinque: if such a thing can be described, and it's not some other messier topology
trinque: the effectiveness of the internal USG hierarchy is unknown to me
trinque: for a time
trinque: his thing was even shorter lived
trinque: but we're discussing the logistics of massive empire
asciilifeform: and since mircea_popescu is asleep, i must fill in for him and '... REAL MEN don't need warm places! they live on flesh of their enemies, and tree bark! in orbit!'
trinque: how does one get coherent action out of a thing where there is so much internal conflict?
asciilifeform: su had a ready warm place for all the competent folks to ~defect~ (DEFECT, not flee like rats and into pederasty, but fucking defect) to ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: if it is not clear why the difference matters, consider,
trinque: so one infection, the other cancer?
trinque: has the same problems
trinque: I fail to see how USG panopticon megastate can live any longer than the soviet megastate
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell mod6 your auto reconnect a) doesn't auth b) leaks your ip
trinque: the cutter cuts but is not a victor because the cutting is her decision
trinque: don't know, there were a lot of guys dressed up just like soldiers in the streets in france today
asciilifeform: usg decided to burn eu, so it burns.
trinque: so why would they
trinque: apparently all these types in the west welcome conquest with an open ass
asciilifeform: i'm actually kind surprised that none of these dns records suddenly decided to point to dhs 'confiscated!1111' page, quite yet ☟︎
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mircea_popescu: i now see the wisdom of your deed.
mircea_popescu: well, some of them.
mircea_popescu: trinque i dun own that one iirc.
mircea_popescu: anyway, everyone that needs my domains : dig/write down ips, just in case.
asciilifeform: e.g., domains with their name, etc
mircea_popescu: "Sergey Kabarukhin" << and they outsourced tech support to .ua
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2015 02:35:56; mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes dude get out, what consumers. this is a pro biz if there ever was one.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-11-2015#1323561 << afaik this is not so. derps buy domains like there's no tomorrow, for no apparent reason ☝︎
asciilifeform: that sums to nil
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what do you expect from a usg ministry. of course they have torchlight parades and weird masonic ritual
mircea_popescu: the people "buying" domains like slug.dance are 98743985743987 people who ARE GOING TO, and 3 idiots that do.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes may i remind you of the "cryptsy couldn't move a bitcoin because doesn't have a bitcoin" ?
trinque: autoupdates too, so you're always safe
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: the people buying domains like slug.dance
mircea_popescu: omfg but they have all the dnssec theatre ! !!! they;'re so credible, with their "And then we boot the single failure point laptop from ~~~a dvd~~~" bullshit.
asciilifeform behind the idiot www stack timez
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no way this works on ie6. vendor prolly tested it on latest chrome .
trinque: silver bullet then
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes dude get out, what consumers. this is a pro biz if there ever was one. ☟︎
ben_vulpes: lovely backyard vps provider that does domains too.
mircea_popescu: o look! i get a 12 month free extension on transferred domains.
asciilifeform: vendor prolly tested for ie6 and called it a day
ben_vulpes: ipxcore i don't think has any js.
ben_vulpes: they cater to consumers. it's fine for them.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck ok'd this is still a mystery my head can't wrap around.
mircea_popescu: just, this fucktardation is beyond the pale. it has TO WORK.
mircea_popescu: heck, if you recall trilema has a js based selectofunction.
asciilifeform: betcha he puts on a particular robe of mourning for the occasion
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i'm told there are times when even rms runs js !
ben_vulpes: oh man this is a riot
asciilifeform: 'nosuchlabs' is there, that is
asciilifeform: still there.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i'm rich. money insulates people. TO THEIR DETRIMENT. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: playbox << that's kinda what i did.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'm personally astonished you held out this long
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if only. the fucktard's going to die alone like the raymond nobody loves.
asciilifeform: ... and the nephews have nephews ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. i suppose what i do here is ima log in from a play box sometime, and push all the domains away in one session.
ben_vulpes: or like pick i don't know any other web tech tar baby
ben_vulpes: modern ui tech is horrendously time intensive to make do things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's what they said.
asciilifeform: if it worked, there'd be approx. 0 'help-wanted'
asciilifeform: the one interesting observation here is that this mostly-not-works thing is the essential characteristic of 'job-creating' tech
mircea_popescu: i took over a whole fucking province with less than 150 people./ ☟︎
ben_vulpes: which as trinque says is a feature of the whole thing.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes lost business + maintenance = "technology of progress is the future"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my weird delusion is 100% based on my to-date contact with physical reality (tm) (r) ☟︎
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: and we haven't even gotten to the maintenance cost of this shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you only think this because you have a weird sort of delusion going where everyone else has it rosy.