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mircea_popescu: problem is rats are a lot smarter
than
their human counterparts.
they're immune.
mircea_popescu: except nobody calls
them
that. live from SOCIAL MEDIA.
mircea_popescu: or, if you prefer, a
transcript of
the chicken coop session on "things and
the world"
ascii_field: don't recall any dark-skinned folk in
that b-a
assbot: Here's what you don't know or understand about Facebook : everything. on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
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mircea_popescu: sure gramps. early history called,
they need you back
there
three seconds after
the big bang.
mircea_popescu: "we're all equal and equally
the same and
thus
therefore clearly - either
the H binds
to another H or
to
the end of a C or
to something wait, C doesn't exist. EVERYONE HAS ONE VALENCE AND
THE WORLD IS MADE OF HYDROGEN"
mircea_popescu: and why not ? "because it wouldn't be fair
to
the working man" ?
mircea_popescu: No
they weren't. Leaving aside morality, cheating on your wife means
that you haven't fully connected
to her, or have lost some of
that connection. You don't have
to be Don Draper
to pull
that off. "Well, I want
to be as suave as he is, I want
to pick up girls like he can." It's
the same disconnectedness. You could do it,
too,
then you'll lose
the ability
to be deeply connected
to someone. You can't do both sim
mircea_popescu: "But I want
to be a ladies man like Don Draper. Back
then it was easier, because affairs were more acceptable."
ascii_field: interestingly, rfc3447 (section a.2.4) allows other hashes, up
to sha512
mircea_popescu: "In PGP and GnuPG,
the public-key cipher is probably
the weaker of
the pair. Fortunately, however, if an attacker could decrypt a session key it would only be useful for reading
the one message encrypted with
that session key.
The attacker would have
to start over and decrypt another session key in order
to read any other message."
mircea_popescu: is
the guy notable other
than "forced youtube
to undo a ban" ?
funkenstein_: a quick scan shows a lot of references
to Christianity and Satan
mircea_popescu: who even knows. my lack of
time/patience for
teh youtube is certainly
to my detriment
funkenstein_: seems like more of an Alex Jones
than an Remé Gaillard
funkenstein_: as
to
the youtube vid stuff, who knows maybe Mark Dice has some worthwhile stuff
funkenstein_: big lurch was not an allegory, but a real rapper..
thanks ;)
funkenstein_: aha i was not missing
translation, just ignorant
mircea_popescu: he could have a ball ravishing
teenagers. in fact, possibly
the blog hiatus is
the direct result of his having figured
this out
mircea_popescu: the meaning of "red lines"
to be found in
the article previous
to
the quote.
mircea_popescu: "How
the hell come she can't see
through
this poser?" She does see
through it, you don't. She sees something fake,
then something "real" underneath, and falls for him; you see something fake, stop
there, and hate him.
mircea_popescu: Those who don't come
to it from exactly
the right perspective are infuriated, "this guy is a douchebag!" You
think you see something more real
than she does, but you aren't supposed
to see more deeply-- she is. You are supposed
to be infuriated--
that's why she looks more deeply. She doesn't like him, she likes what liking him says about her. She likes what your hating him says about her.
mircea_popescu: If you are
tempted
to look more deeply (if you're watching it, it's for you)-- like
the smitten girl does-- you'd see
this appearance first,
then
through it: "if you got
to know him, you'd see he's really a...!" And
then you'd pat yourself on
the back for having intellectual courage
to not judge by appearances! But you've been fooled by
the commercial art illusion,
thinking
that because you saw
through
the illusion,
th
mircea_popescu: He's dressing himself in red lines,
tempting you
to see if
they're real or not.
mircea_popescu: oh, i didn;t eat it
there. i was just mixing it as we had
the discussion.
ascii_field: looks not so different from my desk, except
that i can't bring myself
to eat
there
mircea_popescu: exactly
the right height. all
the useful engineering cisco ever did.
mircea_popescu: i had
the fucking box packed specially for a monitor lifter.
ascii_field: l0l cisco box. mircea_popescu
took it off a dead nazi, or what.
☟︎ ascii_field: thestringpuller: if i had
to guess - he nails'em
to
the wall, as i do
mircea_popescu: i don't need any cable where i can't see it nor anything but cable
tyvm.
ascii_field: the sort
that one normally stuffs behind drywall
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: rumour has it
there are still usg facilities
that have problems with
the newfangled electric
things. fbi headquarters (the brutalist monster death start in washington) has, i'm
told, ethernet snakes on
the floor
mircea_popescu: not
through any fault of his. it's what
the
text says, on account of it being written in romanian for romanians.
ascii_field: 'how many connections and interfaces
they have for every communication device I would want
to use' << l0l, srsly!!? 'come
to us, we have
thicknet and
token ring!!'
gabrielradio: oh, i
thought it was "buna" in
the other sense
mircea_popescu: " what a hottie of a secretary " << no. pointedly not. what a miracleworker
they employ in
the front desk.
ascii_field: Algorithm 4, we can unmask
the 4-byte values returned in a status VSC response
to reveal ”raw” RNG bytes from
the hardware side. Since
this is done pre-authentication, any attacker can generate
this from any locked drive.'
ascii_field: 'Another, even better, way
that can be executed pre-authentication was found later. In fact, when looking deeper into
the firmware code we noticed every
time
the status VSC is called,
the raw RNG bytes are masked with a static value.
This static 4-byte value, 0x271828af, is xored with
the 4-byte RNG output. Further
this value is xored with
the last 4-byte SY N value before sending
the value
to
the host computer. Using
the
ascii_field: (which is
to say, massively disproportionate roi)
mircea_popescu: if your solution does not include cheating what even makes you
think it's a solution at all!
ascii_field: because you cheated by using a willing slave
to begin with
mircea_popescu: caning. what's
that even ? barely noticeable biologically.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile you don't even need much caning
to get a willing slave into a sane head space.
mircea_popescu: as a result, no amount of pain suffering or violence could have matured
the individual. on
the contrary - it drove infantilization.
mircea_popescu: it was in fact exactly
the same : an exercise in esteem engineering.
mircea_popescu: ironically, auschwitz has a LOT more in common with
the "boost self esteem" version of us schools
than with actual education.
ascii_field: the folks who came
to
think
that 'this is
the real me now'
threw
themselves on
the wire
mircea_popescu: but
the adolescent wakes up with "i wonder what insane demands will my chosen identity put on me
THIS
TIME"
mircea_popescu: adolescence is not childhood.
the child wakes up with what SEEMS "what shall i do
to amuse himself", except
to him it';s a dealdy grind.
mircea_popescu: just like
that, go
to school,
take a job
that's "not
the real you", on it goes.
ascii_field: he 'grows up', which means he no longer wakes up and
thinks 'what shall i do
to amuse myself' but 'off
to
the salt mine' and when comes home 'what do i eat and have i enough spare change?' and
then
tired, and
then again a day of living death
mircea_popescu: what franklin spoke of was a different
time. a
time when adulthood was unavoidable, and as such lazy people simply succumbed
to
the hollow form. "hey, if no kid can
tell me from any other adult, why bother."
ascii_field: (i am
told
there is actually a subculture of 'hipster keyboards' but
they are not collecting 1980s workhorses but actual oddity art objects, of mahogany, ...)
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> how is
this a mistake? << see
there. i don't say such.
ascii_field: and you'd say i am supposed
to react
to
that ..?
ascii_field: to
the point
that just about everyone i know in meatspace bought what i had...
mircea_popescu: quite. and how much of one's passion with rare keyboards is driven by a fear of
this issue ?
mircea_popescu: because
to
the adolescent it seems like
the same
thing.
mircea_popescu: so : we can sit right here and smoke
the same cigar for different reasons altogether.
ascii_field: my garbage collector kicks in long before i can get
to
this point.
mircea_popescu: and
there she is,
the cat, with her smile
that deserves a caning just for
that. she knows what she's doing, quite exactly. so what now ?
mircea_popescu: suppose you like cohiba because it
tastes good, and you're at a party and
this chick you used
to fuck DELIBERATELY introduces her current derp, who goes on a rant about how he loves cohiba and did you see
that commercial ? maks him feel like who he really is!11
mircea_popescu: lemme see if you ever had
this experience. was it ever
the case
that you enjoyed a product, only
to be confronted with some idiot enjoying
the same product for
the "wrong reasons" ?
ascii_field: when ben franklin wrote
that 'most people die at 25 but aren't buried
till 75' he was describing a very real
thing.
mircea_popescu: this could, apparently, be misinterpreted as a reduction of individuality. but it'd
take a
teen
to make
the mistake.
ascii_field: (although limonov is prolly not
the metric here, as he was almost entirely
the same animal as orwell - complete with 'ritual' visit
to a war, even got
to fire a rifle, yes! cummed in his pants)
mircea_popescu: they individuate out of
this, maybe, into adulthood. ironically, adults are apparently a lot more similar
than
the adolsecents are.
mircea_popescu: the big secret being
that juveniles have no soul.
they're not individuals,
they're
the zerg creep.
mircea_popescu: the irony here,
true, unadorned irony of
the greek sort, is
that
the champion of
the faux, out of a misguided desire for authenticity metastasized out of his own problems with
the faux and handles
thereof, stuck
to
the infantile version instead of individuating into
the adult.
ascii_field: ergo honesty is better - if you are constitutionally unsuited
to being limonov, be someone else
ascii_field: mr o did not
think he were 'too good.' he
tried
to become a limonov. and failed.
ascii_field: this is why we disagree on 'them fools
think
they're
too good'