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ascii_field: mircea_popescu actually got
to see an example of my l337 p4ck1ng
mircea_popescu: just so customers don't look at you while you amble around with your
two left legs
transplanted for arms ?
mircea_popescu: wouldn't you
think, if you decide in your late 40s
to switch gears and open a wanna-be wine shop,
that you pick up
the fucking book of how
to pack, do exercises in your garage, something ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. it is fucking impossible
to make sense of
these people. it's like selective down syndrome, only half
the brain is affected.
mircea_popescu: since
they decided
to pretend like " swarovski crystals" yes.
mircea_popescu: then he packed
them. he packed ONE in about a cubic foot of corrugated cardboard, sat
the other bare next
to it. just like
that, in
the bag.
mircea_popescu: i bought
two champagne flutes of actual genuine bohemian glass (i
tested, couldn't believe either)
mircea_popescu: moving on : he can't fucking pack for
the life of him.
mircea_popescu: then,
the guy can't work his fucking machine,
takes him longer
to input my economic activity into his fucking compuer
than it
took me
to engage in it.
ascii_field: sounds more like an orc selling under
the register
mircea_popescu: 25%, fancy
that. clearly visa is such a challenger for bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: i go in, i want
to buy stuff, i select a decent half dozen. i get
TWENTYFIVE OFF for paying cash.
mircea_popescu: dude
this country... so
there's a nice wine shop,
trying you know,
to be upscale.
jurov: whatever, flushed. BingoBoingo if you are ever about
to !bN where N > 5, just add it
to wiki.
jurov: or
the badminton gayness
thread
jurov 's admining
the bash ... and would like
to have "please resubmit
this
to wiki" button
ascii_field: 'Of course, being Americans,
they have
to prosecute
this information war in
the silliest way possible. First, you
trot out your claims of civilian casualties before
the Russians fly a single sortie. Oops!
Then you stuff
the social media with fake pictures of wounded children produced beforehand by performers in white helmets paid for by George Soros. And
then, when asked for evidence, you refuse
to provide any.' << l0lz
ascii_field: 'Undeterred by diplomacy,
the US squeezed off a couple of cruise missiles in
the general direction of Syria, but
the Russians promptly shot
them out of
the sky,
triggering a major rethink at
the Pentagon and, of course, making
the US look rather silly.' << i missed
this?
ascii_field: y contractors are getting paid.
Things got even sillier when it later
turned out
that even
these few fighters got car-jacked by ISIS/al Qaeda in Syria (whatever
they are currently calling
themselves) and got
their vehicles and weapons
taken away from
them.'
ascii_field: 'The first bit of extreme silliness surfaced when Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III,
the head of
the United States Central Command,
told a Senate panel
that only a very small number of Syrian fighters
trained by
the United States remained in
the fight—perhaps as few as five.
The
tab for
training and equipping
them was $500 million.
That's $100 million per fighter, but
that's OK, because it's all good as long as
the militar
ben_vulpes: i'd dearly lurve
to see hitler diddle freenode like
that
ascii_field: 1) i encrypt a message
to ben_vulpes's pubkey 2) i send
to him 3) hitler picks it up from
the wire and
throws it away 4) hitler encrypts substitute message
to ben_vulpes's pubkey 5) he sends
mircea_popescu: davout
they don;'t have much roquefort here, unfortunately.
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: if i'm responding
to a message
that was encrypted
to my key, and demonstrate knowledge of
the cleartext, does
that not support unhitlerdom?
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 16:11:55; mircea_popescu: psa : brie is
THE omlette cheese.
diametric: supposedly my bouncer is suppose
to capture my damn highlights but it never seems
to work right.
trinque: diametric also for weechat
there's himon.pl
ascii_field: 'GPG
throws a warning [3]
that
the message could have been modified, but other implementations do not differentiate between SE and SEIP.' << what 'other implementations' ? microshit crypto ?
ascii_field: 'The implications are, among others,
that an encrypted and signed message can be stripped of its signature and modified arbitrarily, with certain restrictions, by an attacker without knowing
the key.' << ahahahaha
jurov: diametric, set your scrollback
to 1000 lines :)
diametric: ugh i hate when
the channel notifies me my nick was mentioned but
then it gets lost in scrollback.
mircea_popescu: assbot> [upon reading about it on
trilema,] Navy Diversifies Ships' Cyber Systems
to Foil Hackers - IEEE Spectrum << FTFT.
mircea_popescu recalls "specialty ink" was more expensive
than "double
the run"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway,
the "back
then" comment is
that i'd be much surprised you can find sanely priced layflat process anymore. because yes, mass production needs
the mass.
mike_c: ;;later
tell pete_dushenski I don't see a discrepancy. It updates nightly with
the wot database dumps. So probably he changed
the rating and btcalpha hadn't picked up
the change yet.
mircea_popescu: back
then it wasn't even fucking expensive, iirc it cost ~25 cents per
mircea_popescu: all
that's pod and if you inspect
the covers you'll see
the difference between layflat process and pod covers.
mircea_popescu: it died with
the death of
the entire publishing industry (actual publishing, ie, putting ink
to paper. not predend publishing, aka editing newspapers etc)
mircea_popescu: actually in
the early 2000s
there was some effort on
the part of mfgs
to support latex
mircea_popescu: it may not be
the last web pressed fiction offering in
the us, but it won't be far ahead of
the last i dun
think
mircea_popescu: a)
the printer can't use latex ; b) self published generally means, PoD and a sharky editor
that fleeces
the hopeful.
this was actually printed on web press, so in
this sense everything else printed hence is a lot more "self published"
than asylum.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, did i ever
tell you i did all
the
typesetting of
that
thing myself ?
mircea_popescu: they'll keep
trying. what else is
there
to do ? compete with pete in pr ?
mircea_popescu: well so i got your email but apparently
there;s still someting wrong because it's all garbled and what is
this "-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----" stuff.
mircea_popescu: either
that or
they didn't actually change it until
the 3rd.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the reason
this went by unobserved for ~20 hours is
that a) internal mail still worked, obviousyl, and b) enom decently adds its record with priority 10.
there's a bugfeature apparently where some relayers/dns servers prefer higher priority records even if older.
mircea_popescu: mk we should be back in business. asciilifeform mind remailing me just
to see
this goes
through ?
mircea_popescu: yes cuz within
the 27 days.
they only charged me 8.5 or so