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shinohai: I find it rther liberating
to know I don't matter and no one gives a shit what I say.
pete_dushenski: shinohai: remember,
these 'others' aren't people in
the sense
that we are
pete_dushenski: they're not actually heard, of course, no functional system could handle
that much noise, but
they are lent a convincing simulacrum of importance
shinohai: Glad others find
the meaning of life with such simplicity.
pete_dushenski: the united states of
television : a channel for every star on
the flag
shinohai: People don't know "what
they want"
pete_dushenski: of course, behind
the scenes, is proctor and gamble, which is
to say,
that senile old limp-dick from omaha
pete_dushenski: why learn anything or do anything when you can just dick around until
the cows come home ?
pete_dushenski: their whole fukcing website is dumbass mom's giving
their 'reviews' of products and idjit gizmodo rejects writing 'how-tos' and 'top 5s'
☟︎ pete_dushenski: which, incidentally,
ties into mp's observation about smartphones being 'tvs in everyone's arse'
assbot: Logged on 05-09-2015 00:45:55; mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> >We are migrating
the website
to a new and improved and more dynamic site. Please excuse any broken links or choppy pages as we work! <<< one wonders wtf
the progre
thinks progress actually is. "new improved more dynamic" = "broken". so whydja want it ?
mircea_popescu: about as unenforceable in a sane justice system as "employee agrees not
to sue employer for any reason" employment contracts in california, but hey.
pete_dushenski: "Under a plea agreement, Calovskis, who has been in U.S. custody since his extradition, agreed not
to appeal any sentence of
two years in prison or less." << bizarro condition for a plea bargain
pete_dushenski: "Deniss Calovskis, 30, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan
to conspiring
to commit computer intrusion, admitting
that he had been hired
to write some of
the computer code
that made
the so-called Gozi virus so effective."
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> >We are migrating
the website
to a new and improved and more dynamic site. Please excuse any broken links or choppy pages as we work! <<< one wonders wtf
the progre
thinks progress actually is. "new improved more dynamic" = "broken". so whydja want it ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: clearsigned, armored body ; attachment 1,
text. attachment 1 detached signature, armored in ; nothing whatsoever out. god damned it...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha
thanks. gonna
try redoing
this for
the 7th or so
time
kakobrekla: >We are migrating
the website
to a new and improved and more dynamic site. Please excuse any broken links or choppy pages as we work!
cazalla: they never seem
to forget
the inclusion of
token african kid with mobile
mircea_popescu: i have nfi. all i know atm is
this does not in fact work as is
trinque: or do you mean replacing mailman with another mail
thing
that works better
trinque: maybe becomes a function of
the web page viewer for V ?
mircea_popescu: i estimate currently
this sort of
thing is 99% why we don't get more work submitted.
trinque: as far as I recall
that's right
mircea_popescu: the "with clearsigned body and .sig signature" version is exact replica of
the single email i successfully sent
to date, back in
the days of
the V patch.
trinque: huh, maybe
the ML's just busted
mircea_popescu: ok, for
the record : sent it with no body, and with a clearsigned body ;
the latter with .asc armored signature and with .sig binary signature. still nothing
there.
mircea_popescu: trinque hm it might have been
the armored detached sig o.O
xinxiwang: did
the authentication process change?
mircea_popescu: to doubleckeck here : email
to
the address, had a plaintext as 1st attachment and detached sig as 2nd attachment/
trinque: I'm still waiting on being able
to switch out of "digest" mode
mircea_popescu: the friability of
this
thing, whereby i did something, i didn't observe
the expected result, and don't know what
to do is driving me fucking bonkers.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 14:16:12; assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 00:51:50; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article (or perhaps a
thread here? but can't seem
to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps a pub somewhere in
thailand, or cambodia, etc.
the locals - drink for free. he fancies
that if he begins
to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in
the back of his head he knows what will happen
to his sorry
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <mats> bitcoin is not deflationary, will never be useful for 'mainstream retail usage', and does not intrinsically 'go up in value just by people holding it' <<
the first point is
true in
the objective. it is however "relatively deflationary" in
the sense
that
to
the rocket, all
things seem
to be sinking ; 2 is an obscure point of
the future but seems likely correct ; 3. is outright false. willingness
to hold === value
assbot: Logged on 04-09-2015 22:09:22; mircea_popescu: ascii_modem if women had
thermite up
their ass which blew up every
time someone grabbed it, ~I~ wouldn't have any arms.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> ^ guess who and what isn't cited in
this paper, l0l << omfg
that is FUCKING RIDICULOUS.
shinohai: Music is
the ambrosia of
the soul and all
that. When one is drunk, one rarely cares if it is fine wine or swag.
mircea_popescu: nothing about womenz and panties in
there whatsoever. i'm sure.
trinque: yeah I'm
total shit on
the guitar
mircea_popescu: shinohai i
think unlike most music lovers, he knows he stinks.
trinque: just commenting on
the scum about
trinque: eh I don't cry over
that shit
shinohai: I'm quite sad for you
trinque because a similar situation occurred
to me. Losing an instrument
to someone
that loves music as I do is akin
to losing a limb.
mircea_popescu: trinque coupla hundred are certainly cheaper
than shooting some derp.
mircea_popescu: and im lioke what and he's like it's fixed and
then is like "oooooh"
trinque: shinohai: yeah I have pictures of
the relevant stickers with all
that, but don't give a siht
mircea_popescu: then he
turns
to me and goes "what
the fuck have you done
to it ?!?!"
ascii_modem: in usa - both jail. but
there is a difference.
ascii_modem: note
the difference b/w
thermiting a stolen box remotely, and minefield
mircea_popescu: poor girl'd have holes
through her butt, finger shaped, and collapse out of sheer exhaust of
turning and saying "doin't do
that" fifty million
times.
mircea_popescu: but in
the us of
today
this is not feasible, for
the same reason email spam is a
thing
mircea_popescu: and yes, much like
the "don't
thermite"
thing,
this worked fine in a world 1/50 as small and very deeply patriarchical.
mircea_popescu: (this event actually happened. splendid ass, /me grabs it, woman
turns unamused and asks me what i'm doing, i retort
that i'm innocently grabbing your ass, she says don't do
that and i say alright.)
trinque: eh can't just come out blasting; say
the guy's looking for his dumb
toddler
that wandered onto your porch
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem if women had
thermite up
their ass which blew up every
time someone grabbed it, ~I~ wouldn't have any arms.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes, it does, but
this should not corrupt our understanding of history, politics, or legal matters.
trinque: stealing half my posessions seems it oughta come with a price
though
trinque: bum wanders into my lawn; he doesn't necessarily deserve
to be shot
mircea_popescu: owing
to a population 1/20 as large, kept in check by a deeply patriarchical society.
mircea_popescu: (but in
the original context it made a lot of sense. you really don't want
to lose an arm because you innocently wandered into what you
thought was a shop. because
the patrimonial dispute
thereby ensuing can be fixed, but
the arm can not be reattached.)
trinque: place in
town fixed same day in
two hours; I was impressed
trinque: reasonable's you smash a man's car and
that's
the end of you
mircea_popescu: one of
the most fucktarded
things
the brits gifted
the world.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem if
they break into his car and
thereby lose a hand in
the explosion he's going
to jail.
trinque: ahaha, well if
they plug anything in... I have my ways
shinohai: trinque: got serial #'s on
that ?
trinque: on
the plus side, less
to unpack later; I wasn't going
to bring furniture anyway, so
these were mostly
toys stolen
trinque: hope
the 4u fell on someone, fucker was heavy
trinque: yeah, clearly had a
truck/van, smashed back window, grabbed all
mircea_popescu: "hey, what's
that big ipad
thing ?" "i dunno man, some older version. worth some scratch fo sho"
ascii_modem: usually
they steal first, ask questions later