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mircea_popescu: better story, "dood took 80% pay cut trying to make
a secure drop thing work ; failed because ustards are retarded ; naggumed self".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "usg made the us army into what it is today" "you mean
a useless piece of shit, janissary corps 2.0 ?" "yeah!"
BingoBoingo: As far as I can tell, SecureDrop was some sorta pantsuit thing Gawker and
a couple other derpedias advertised accepting
mircea_popescu: "James’s encyclopedic knowledge of computer and network security was
a key reason why newsrooms were comfortable adopting SecureDrop when it was still seen as something relatively new and unknown." what THE FUCK are we talking about, am i in some kind of reality distortion field ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Yet SecureDrop would not currently exist without James, and he deserves all the commendation in the world for making it what it is today." << i'll need
a primer on this, what "is it today" ?
mircea_popescu:
a string of five random letters provides him with DOZENS of collisions.
mircea_popescu: there was
a time (not so long ago!) when EVERY mark was known by ~everyone ; and not knowing one was perceived as
a subjective lack not as an objective deffect ; and the whole shebang paid well. today i couldn't even order more of "his stuff" if i wanted to, putting in question the very possibility of "his" in "his stuff" and moreover the justification of labour or economic activity generally.
mircea_popescu: do you understand she's the equivalent of
a "very smart kid", ie, 1.5 or so standard deviations up from the average ?
mircea_popescu wonders what "just
a guy trynna make it in dis game" is gonna do.
BingoBoingo: They gave me
a lead on refurb equipment and should be emailing numbers my way for review
BingoBoingo: me voy
a cita, hope to return with news and numbers
mircea_popescu: (fwiw i always suspected that's the deep core of the pantsuit fascination with "eastern philosophy" : "o look,
a cultural space fundamentally as self-alienated as we ourselves feel inside! THIS IS THE RIGHT BRAND OF EMO FOR MY NEEDS!".)
mircea_popescu: basically early google bubble "search", let's hack speech into
a broken device that can only be used to communicate to those people we have nothing to say to.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-01-10 01:11 phf: i think somehow lisp symbols tie into this, i'd call it sanskrit thinking, because you also see that
a lot in sanskrit. let's attach as much meaning to this symbol as we possibly can, but when we speak the correct meaning will be communicated because the other person is also
a vedic god
a111: Logged on 2018-01-09 05:34 danielpbarron: you gotta wait
a sec lol
mircea_popescu: suppose "employee" wants to steal "secrets" from nsa hq.
a) encrypt to rsa key ; b) put in tmsr tumblr bot ; c) carry vacation pics back and forth. problem ?
mircea_popescu: let all porn i put in the chan be preserved forever as
a matter of "national security" by all teh national-whatevers, why not.
mircea_popescu: mandatory tumbler following by nsa ? seems like
a decent lulz.
mircea_popescu: confronted with this bot, said group of lamers has
a choice : either ignore it, or else start going around with copies of my tumbler account.
mircea_popescu: well, suppose there's
a (pompously named) "adversary", which is to say some group of lamers with delusions of self-importance, like say the (pompously named) united states government.
mircea_popescu: someone's gonna keep
a list of all the tumblr images ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone wanna do
a steganobot ? here's the spec : upon receiving
a link to
a pastebin, the bot picks
a random tumblr image, doctors it, and links it.
phf: on the lulzy side i can't get over american thing of keeping dogs and picking up their shit. i spent new years in upper east side, and was sitting at
a small cafe one morning, watching these posh old ladies in expensive furs one after another scooping up little turds after their tiny beasts
mircea_popescu: admittedly back then veterinarian surgeons were
a lot less common.
mircea_popescu: well, especially with small shot, it's
a mess. just takes nine weeks to die or some unseemly shit like that.
mod6: yeah, no sense in letting
a good dog go to waste
mircea_popescu knew hunt dog grower who wouldn't even sell to noobs. "how am i supposed to get
a dog ?" "first get some experience" "doing what" "hunting" "how am i going to do that without
a dog ?"
mircea_popescu: mod6 yeah, they were protected in old country most places also, it was the #1 trimmer of noob hunters. "don't wait to see what you're shooting, get
a falcon, spend 2 weekls explaining self to forest guard"
mod6: i went hunting on sunday and the dog flushed up what I thought was
a hen. was
a hawk, eating
a hen!
mod6: <+shinohai> mod6 would be proud of me, I managed
a pair of quail the other weekend when it snowed. << niiiiice!
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> if mod6 came by all nonchalant like and was "hey, i shot
a 350 lb shrimp today" what i;d expect the steak to taste like would be ~alligator. << yeah, probably would!
mircea_popescu: the PROBLEM with this constructive view of hermeneutics is that
a) often G fails in its function and that b) just as often people fail to correctly apply it, impredictably and unreasonably.
mircea_popescu: suppose you have
a set of symbols S1..Sn each with meanings Mij, i in n j in k. suppose you have
a grammar G which has one function : if adding element Sx to
a string made of q S, it permits you to discern which Sij are thereby invalidated.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the doctrine that "alternative interpretations fall off as the tree is built" has two major weaknesses :
a) you'd be surprised how often there's an unexpected fault in the dielectric and b) you'd be surprised how often people get caught in emo insanity.
phf: Send Trump there with
a one-way ticket?
a111: Logged on 2017-07-22 21:11 asciilifeform: at the cost of
a bit of log clutter, let's indulge asciilifeform's crackpottery, and lay out 妓 ( U+5993 : whore ) :
mircea_popescu: phf in principle and up to
a certain degree this can be pulled off. but the management of that degree tree is i'd say the principal job of cultural management. because holy shit the failure modes.
mircea_popescu: anyway, speaking of roman numeral systems, the dumbest thing about writing is that , doesn't come with
a symmetric-comma.
phf: i think somehow lisp symbols tie into this, i'd call it sanskrit thinking, because you also see that
a lot in sanskrit. let's attach as much meaning to this symbol as we possibly can, but when we speak the correct meaning will be communicated because the other person is also
a vedic god
☟︎ mircea_popescu: jesus that phrase came out hard to parse. let's parens : (well, (it's not clear to me ((his position) was ((ever pro-unicode) (outside of
a (platonic object (unicode (was about as much (as smgl was)))))
mircea_popescu: well, it's not clear to me his position was ever pro-unicode outside of
a platonic object unicode was about as much as smgl was.
phf: huh, the world is
a large and complicated place
ben_vulpes: phf: sadly all i have is
a porch roof, bb gun, and alley full of squirrels and the occasional methwitch
ben_vulpes: which is the opposite of the cppmeatfield where
a thing going over budget and timeline simply results in bigger budgets and longer timelines
ben_vulpes: well if you ship machines with
a screamingly loud resonance because you took the pressure-hood's line feed directly off the air bearings feed lines without damping reservoirs most likely your office will never be tasked with anything other than sustaining work ever again
a111: Logged on 2016-08-03 15:40 phf: the whole font changes meaning take two is coming from the japanese. they were actively promoting this idea back during early unicode standardization days, where there was
a strong drive to include every idiosyncratic version of kanji in the standard, because "that's how my family writes it in our last name".
phf:
a proper base for genesis!
mircea_popescu: meaning you need
a 1990s emacs, serious antiquariania over here.
mircea_popescu: phf also, the split didn't happen around 18.59, it happened around whatever the fuck it was, 18.10. there was
a period when both lucid and fsf were releasing "newer" minor versions, skipping the other's.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, i can't think of any project that actually thrived under his management. systemd tard pm'd circles around
a decade's worth of collected rms effort in half
a year.
shinohai:
https://lust.agency/ <<< "
a goal to enable all human beings on earth to find their perfect sexual partner anonymously." What kind of sense does that even make?
mircea_popescu: eh nfi, lucid tried to make it
a qt app. except qt didn't exist yet.
phf: so emacs had some architecture, lucid took that architecture and tried making it more of
a lisp machine (i.e. better foundation for writing elisp applications), then they tried pulling google.vs.linus and failed
a111: Logged on 2018-01-09 20:48 mircea_popescu: "# fillerchar:
A chosen special filler character to be used. This character is assumed to have no occurrence in the given plaintextstring and is not alphabetical." << holyshit wat.
phf: actually i'm not sure i can, it's been
a while since i've seen xemacs internals (i.e. >10 years). the point i was trying to make is that emacs ascii is talking about is
a wholy different beats from the 1990s items, which were at the very least not cancerous
mircea_popescu: you say
a) emacs of 1990s were height of elegance andf b) whatever lucid did was improvement
phf: but i then used it for
a years, and learned elisp with it, and they were clearly making changes to elisp to make it not suck
mircea_popescu: the lulz are endless, "wolff is
a well known hack of 0 credibility, but his current crop of nonsense confirms '''what we already know''' so tjhere is that". ah, such lulz.
phf: my read on the situation is that it's
a bunch of lisp machiners taking emacs and trying to turn it into
a lisp machine, and rms having
a ptsd reaction to it
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-08#1766790 << xemacs was joint work by sun and lucid, it's hard to say who's the durps here, since it was
a bunch of professionals with lisp machine background trying to plug particularly nasty holes in emacs architecture (back before there even was an architecture)
☝︎ shinohai: They have to give themselves fancy titles since they can't be
a part of The Most Chauvinist Serene Order Of The Holes Gloriouses
mircea_popescu: other than obvious/glaring/cosmetic issues, this isn't even such
a terrible idea ; though the properties of the conventional padding scheme are something you'd regret losing.
mircea_popescu: pantsuit paradise over here, because really nothing is easier than to brand such efforts. "dude is evidently
a cook, look at $example".
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is why systematic education became
a thing.
mircea_popescu: "# fillerchar:
A chosen special filler character to be used. This character is assumed to have no occurrence in the given plaintextstring and is not alphabetical." << holyshit wat.
☟︎ knubie: trinque: Ahh, worked for me now, had
a couple min delay on the otp
mircea_popescu: anyway, friendly reminder : many people run this chan as
a main/major part of their tty arrangement, read all the lines, you do NOT wish to advertise yourself as an annoyance.
knubie: deedbot, is
a bit delayed... =)
phf: well, now that the fever dropped from halucinatory 39 to
a pleasant 37.5, i get to experience an mp lifestyle: i just lay in bed and all my whims are catered to :)