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mircea_popescu: anyway : i am itching
to declare extant browsers obsolete and force
through a replacement.
trinque: independent of
the site author!
trinque: and it would know
things you could do
to
the media!
trinque: yeah nah, I'm
talking burn it all
to
the ground
phf: trinque: closure is a browser, which spawned a bunch of projects, one of
them is closure-html, an html parser
ascii_field believes
that hypertext, at least as presently implemented 'in-band', ~is~ wrong
trinque: because hypertext isn't wrong,
the browser is
trinque: phf:
this is hypertext atop lisp in clim?
phf: trinque:
there's "closure"
trinque: sounds like some kinda CLIM
thing with a socket
trinque: god have I spent
time in
this hell
trinque: the DOM is far
to intermingled
to ever deallocate certain
things
ascii_field: who doesn't believe
this - get
thee
to valgrind, and see for yourself.
mircea_popescu: so for my own curiosity (inspired mostly by our bitcoin experiments here) i had it
tested.
there's no modern browser
thatr doesn't leak memory.
ascii_field: (to date i have not been able
to source any but huawei which does
this)
ascii_field: their usb dongles, at least
the ones i
tested, can even make/receive voice calls
ascii_field: btw, best gsm modem i presently know of for
this application is just about everything made by 'huawei'
phf: version 1 of
that was written for razr, because first phone i had with a usb connector
trinque: for example I know of a guy
that built some radio doodad
that farts out s-expressions
phf: trinque: i parse gsm by hand, because. but
there's a handful of linux packages
that'll do it for you
ascii_field: trinque: how else is
the
thing
to let your machine know
that it got a call, msg, or whatnot
mircea_popescu: i bet you he gets
the bulk of it from womenz
that don't know enough contemporaneous culture
to just send nudies.
trinque: phf: what's
this modem? is
the sms aspect special, or do I just need
to learn
those horrible looking codes?
ascii_field: here in
the stone age lands, it is generally expected of a 'serious person'
to be reachable by voice phone
trinque: and if something doesn't do either of
those
things, it gets
taped into one of
them, or abandoned
trinque: voicemail's
terrible; I use email and IRC
mircea_popescu: if someone is dumb enough
to
talk
to a machine
they should CONTINUE.
kakobrekla: bbbut you are starting off with
text which is best, especially
to download on
the road
phf: obviously,
they get lame'd
ascii_field: they were a loophole in
the
tracking grid and had
to die, yes
ascii_field: incidentally, and not unrelated, payphones of
the
traditional kind where almost entirely abolished where i live
phf: trinque: i have a gsm modem on home base,
that saves sms
to
text file and generates wave files of left messages. when i
travel i just periodically download
that stuff, when i get internet connection. you could probably harden it in various ways
to minimize your location being
traced, as an exercise
ascii_field: granted, not as extensive as once before, in
the old days
jurov: they rely on 'net,
too, back since desert storm
ascii_field: jurov: bugmen rely on radio
too much, in modern
times, for proper sov-style jamming
mircea_popescu: this problem is easily resolved :
there can not be an "any" node.
jurov: ascii_field: if it can filter internet such,
then it can do radio,
too
ascii_field: 'a' == every
territory presently occupied by
the bugmen
mircea_popescu gapes in amazement at
the incredibly powerful
tool he came up with over dinner conversation.
ascii_field: fine. when i pull
this 'cord', we get a bitcoin node in a place where usg does not wish for
there
to be honest nodes.
mircea_popescu: so
then you say
this, and your "Certain" has become an "every"
mircea_popescu: think is "all". wank is "some". "certain" is iffy and should be resolved
to either.
mircea_popescu: actually, i would propose
that's
the difference between
think and wank in
the space in question.
mircea_popescu: see,
that's
the difference. i don't
think we ca do a "like
to
think" if
the premise is not an "all" or "every"
ascii_field: one effective answer is 'don't go
there' - reasonable
ascii_field: premise is
that in certain zimbabwes, net access is dodgy
ascii_field: as with yesterday's block fattening
thread.
ascii_field: nah just doing a mircea_popescuine 'i like
to
think'
mircea_popescu: ascii_field "providing punctual
technical solutions for poorly understood future situations".
ascii_field: ^ ANOTHER reason
tx ~has~
to be expensive, and blocks - light.
punkman: well US
transactions need
to leave
the continent no?
punkman: you can send
tx with satphone
ascii_field: and when i can
throw a
transaction into a wireless parasite mesh
ascii_field: but do wake me up when somebody starts
transmitting a
therealbitcoin blockchain i can pick up with my rtlsdr !!
ascii_field: trinque: it still lives & dies by
the official
transmitters
trinque: general notion being
that I might do some driving around with
the laptop soon, see
the states while it's easy, and I'd like
to rely on passive
tech (beeper, gps, etc) more as an exercise
than because of any operational need
mats: danielpbarron: wait what? 'MPEx1' hasn't
tweeted since 2013
jurov: lizardhitler must be able
to page you at any
time!!!1
ascii_field: surgeons, i'm
told, still carry classic 'beeper.'
ascii_field: signal from
the station is very strong, can be received,
typically, even in a lift, or an underground station
ascii_field: small box
that only receives (somewhere in
the 400 MHz band), with character display
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: no, it was (and
to a limited extent, still is) an actual product where i live
trinque: surely
this, being sane, must be on
the way out
ascii_field: trinque: passive in
the sense of not
transmitting
trinque: not so much as a peep back
to
tower?
danielpbarron: most useful feature of my iPhone is mod6's MPEx
twitter bot announcing
trades in real
time
to me wherever I go
trinque: ascii_field: now
that I'm reading about it, is
the passive in one-way pagers actually passive in
the sense I care about?
ascii_field: just like around 2007 it became ~sop~ for cars
to last 5 yr instead of 15
ascii_field: that scarcely anyone keeps
these for longer
than 2-3 yrs
ascii_field: danielpbarron: wait
till
the os update is mandatory
mircea_popescu: but
then again gold is a very low bar. almost anything makes more sense
to hoard.
ascii_field: unless
they have peculiarly short shelf lives