asciilifeform: 'Online Monitoring of the Alt-Right... ...The discussion will include some of the tooling that developed to monitor the alt-right and their online communities: both online and off. Also included will be coverage of the analysis that was performed alongside Unicorn Riot on analyzing thousands of leaked Discourse chats, as well as a dictionary of alt-right terms and memes that Caroline has been assembling...'
asciilifeform: 'Introduction to User Freedom... ...the four freedoms of free software...'
asciilifeform: 'Autocrypt is a user-centered, developer-driven effort to make a set of standards that support convenient, usable, easily-adoptable end-to-end encrypted email. With multiple email programs participating, they aim to make interoperable tools that actual humans can easily use...'
asciilifeform: gotta wonder if at some point the nostalgia culture will be in turn replaced with nostalgia-for-the-old-nostalgia-culture with each new generation of moar-redditous derps
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the very same massscan Framedragger used
asciilifeform: re irix boxen -- the last pre-intelization machines, e.g. 'octane', 'octane 2', were princely, errything-hotswappable, on rails, copper meshing against emp, redundant cpu/memory/power/etc, prolly eternal.
asciilifeform at one time had box that was suchly configed, to report 'kremvax'
asciilifeform: gotta wonder who still reads from the irix box. prolly some fella who is stuck operating one in some godforsaken corner of heavy industry
asciilifeform: drawer not quite same thing as active duty tho
asciilifeform: 'this os/2 box still runs, why should i change it'
asciilifeform: gotta wonder if some folx do this re old comp
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu do you recall your essay where 'more common than anyone admits, chix keep the stuffed bear they frottaged the hell out of at age 12, well into adulthood' or how it went
asciilifeform still has ancient 'pizza box' sun , from that era
asciilifeform: lol sun was actually quasi-respectable at one time
asciilifeform: iirc BingoBoingo actually loaded trilema on a '80s mac box
asciilifeform: somewhere prolly even amiga still in use.
asciilifeform: today in ~same archaeological circlejerk as e.g. 'beos'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ancient brit item. from bbc acorn, the orig perpetrators of arm arch.
asciilifeform: when i ditch the last glibctronic gentoos, it won't be a day too soon.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i considered making a http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2295 -style canned gentoo out of my dulap trad-gentoo, but really would rather switch to trinque's item when it is baked
asciilifeform: lol was that meant for the roadconetraining chan ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: amusingly enuff , even the troo diehard ukrs are entirely ru-speaking folx, at least when camera aint rolling. and , extra lulzily, ditto the chechens ( witness, their 'all things ru suxxx!' 'official' www linked earlier -- 100% in ru )☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Today 28 June at approximately 20:20 UTC unknown individuals have gained control of the Github Gentoo organization, and modified the content of repositories...' etc
asciilifeform never been to the orig vegas 'fedcon' tho
asciilifeform: and the sheer redditude of the attendees
asciilifeform: mod6: a few yrs ago asciilifeform went ( or rather, was sent ) to a smaller/sadder version of said item, 'shmoocon', you wouldn't believe the sort of snake oil that was sold there☟︎
asciilifeform: and, from same fishwrap , 'Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned effective immediately. Krzanich is stepping down due to a past consensual relationship with an Intel employee and the company's internal investigation has confirmed a violation of their company non-fraternization policies. '
asciilifeform: at least google fwiw didn't try to advertise cr50, similar 'feature'.
asciilifeform: while in other 'open sores' idiocy, https://archive.li/GXp09 >> 'With not being able to deliver a 100% fully free software / libre system, the Librem 5 smartphone will rely upon a secondary processor for dealing with the necessary binary blobs for hardware initialization to keep them out of touch from the U-Boot boot-loader and Linux kernel' << pushed as ~feature~ , didjaknow.
asciilifeform: they did manage to pyrrhicly win the 1st war with ru; erry bit as good orc troops as any, perhaps if cherokees had kalash they could have put up same level of fight.
asciilifeform: iirc they also tried the 'caliphate' thing, with the attendant lulz
asciilifeform: ( and from orcological pov, attractively-impenetrable, to earthling philologist, language isolate )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: waiwat?! the anthem ?!
asciilifeform: 'We were born at night when the She-wolf whelped / In the morning, under lions’ howl we were given our names / In eagles’ nests our Mothers nursed us ...' etc
asciilifeform: generally -- the industrialist saw the artisan as a headache, and killed him. nao we get to 'enjoy' the fruits of de-artisan'ed industry.☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: and so in erry case there was attempt to replace. the tailor, with 'singer' chix, the greybeard -- with google monkeys; the whole lot.
asciilifeform: for the demented purposes of 'mass konsoomer crud', it made +ev sense.
asciilifeform: upstack -- the 'deskilling' process is concerned specifically with removal of 'heroes' , e.g. mircea_popescu's hand-picked acrobats, and their replacement with grey biomass.
asciilifeform: what can they do, the Right Chix are evidently occupied, as mircea_popescu's drivers...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was speaking of the living, lol
asciilifeform: evidently there is moar to that biznis than physiological punishment.
asciilifeform: so far all i know is re the tailhook thread.
asciilifeform: re drivers and their long legs : su mil establishment did various tests, and reportedly concluded that chix would make ideal pilots -- take moar g's, typically better reaction, can work under outrageous o2 deprivation, etc. but they did not go so far as to start recruiting'em en masse. the americans, however... did. many great feats of pilotage nao ?
asciilifeform: trinque: that's the whole of asciilifeform's arg, aha
asciilifeform: sorta the problem with the chinese, per the old thread, in the larger picture.
asciilifeform: folx with 'frustration threshold' set to 9000, and who go on 0 benders, ~can~ become , in principle, mircea_popescu's driver, or mega-ww2 nurse who handles 9000 wounded per hr when suddenly roused at 4 in the morning, or some other astonishing and meritorious thing. but the moar typically observed pattern, afaik, is the biorobot.
asciilifeform: in su factories also was a thing, 'we hire females because they don't bender'
asciilifeform: trinque: typical 'male tech' today is not even fit to empty sewage tanks reliably, verily
asciilifeform: upstack -- for whatever reason, the lowell mills and straight to modern chinesium plants, use chix, they seem more content to perform repeated program all day, erry day.
asciilifeform: lucky fella, trinque , to have such relatives
