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asciilifeform: nao i'm curious, would gabriel_laddel even ~feel~ a cup of coca tea ?
mircea_popescu: sorry gabriel_laddel i was just kidding about the coca tea. sent some to other people.
asciilifeform: consider, i have a http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-06#1766133 , and that's a (slow but working) rsa. really everyone using multi-MB-of-c-liquishit for whatever application, should be scratching his head and thinking about life ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i get it, you're lazy, nothing wrong with it. the lazy implementation approach is even defensible politically.
asciilifeform: i dun particularly care ~how~ this is accomplished.
mircea_popescu: "i don't see why this fish should have colors, bleach it" is not much bioengineering.
asciilifeform: this i can see.
asciilifeform: fwiw i'm still quite convinced that errything other than GET and PUT is ~= prb orphanage. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i thought we weren't doing keepalive.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: upstack, i recommend against 'extend OPTIONS to do names' or any similar; http is a fundamentally damaged-at-birth item , and really oughta be trimmed down to bare minimum , and kept alive for strictly so long as it cannot be avoided
asciilifeform: i'ma have to dig into subj
asciilifeform: keepaliveism gives sour flavour in my mouth, in effect it permits 'oh i can't seem to shit, but DON'T kick me off the pot'
asciilifeform: i dun think keepalive ( of the http variety , rather than tcp's ) comes into play at all when you aren't on a dialup modem or similar horror
asciilifeform: i'ma wait till mircea_popescu eats rest of thread tho
a111: Logged on 2018-02-02 15:54 asciilifeform: i've never written proggy that issues 'HEAD'
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779447 << i have. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: (i don't mean it's the same thing ; i mean it's in the http because it was in the tcp.
asciilifeform: possibly none; i just have nfi why it's there
mircea_popescu: i never had anything stolen from me.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> shouldn't be over 20kgs all told, this ; should fit among clothes. << I used beach towels and blankets.
asciilifeform: i've nfi
mircea_popescu: i don't expect this'd happen.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think phf possibly was alluding to ordinary orc-theft of cargo, rather than the usgistic sort
asciilifeform: i.e. to shove red hot poker up the arse of 'intellectual property'
laplinker: asciilifeform: it should be possible, i need to do some tests
asciilifeform: i.e. specifically things that MUCHLY do not want to be debugged.
mircea_popescu: yes, well, i don't foresee littoral combat airplane following copa around to diddle your equipaje.
phf: mircea_popescu: hey i flew moscow in the 90s, i'm trained that putting anything in luggage is playing a roulette
asciilifeform: i SPECIFICALLY am interested in debugging militantly noncooperative items.
asciilifeform: exactly as i said then
asciilifeform: laplinker: and yes, what mircea_popescu said, write a post about this, i'd like to know what boxes this works on, how to talk to the chip, etc
laplinker: i havnt tried that one yet, just dumped smram so far
laplinker: no soldering, and yes, i can confirm i tried it myself
phf: hey, i'm down for a free vacation, but i'm not convinced that the costs work out in our favour
mircea_popescu: yeah i'm not satisfied this can be done economically.
mircea_popescu: which i expect he will.
laplinker: yeah, i know. i thought you'd like to know that
laplinker: i tried, but no one gave me voice
laplinker: asciilifeform: no i hadnt had the chance, sorry
phf: ben_vulpes: republican matters is like reading leaves, i'm trying to figure out dimensions and who's sending what first. fwiw shipping a rack full (as opposed to ascii's original "2 machines") is going to run up the bill just on the oversized charges with airline
asciilifeform: and i think i even have a z...whatwasit
ben_vulpes: no, i have viral load and it's in my everything
ben_vulpes: fuck i can't use this keyboard wtf
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i have'em in thick cardboard'an'foam crates
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i took copa via panama & bolivia, to c3 back in the day, it worked ok, ~empty planes some of the way
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform incidentally intel sayz good links to sa are all from miami/ft lauderdale etc ; not so much ny. << The plane that does the American Airlines direct Miami-Montevideo route is older than I am. Flights routinely cancelled for repairs. Copa's panama to Montevideo service though is reliable.
mircea_popescu: the alf methjod, and i expect is correct, is "i got technical samples, i am taking to $conference" or w/e.
phf: ah, i wasn't sure about ascii
mircea_popescu: phf as i said, none of this refers to item at hand.
asciilifeform: and grr i can't seem to find the glass ball thread
asciilifeform: i personally muchly luvv the subj
mircea_popescu: but i find it a great cranktopic to crank in mind. if for no other reason than because it's probably the ancient invention of seal that we owe technology to
asciilifeform: i ~do~ have a spotwelder...
asciilifeform: not in the traditional plebeland sense ( i can set up a box such that with own hands i can see if it was opened. but what else is there ? )
asciilifeform: incidentally i got also smaller boxes of various descriptions, that may or may not merit deployment in bisp
asciilifeform: right. i can see it.
mircea_popescu: it will become a sort of reference item over time i suspect.
asciilifeform: i'ma have to uncrate and photo then, later this weekend. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-09 18:40 asciilifeform: i have currently 3 boxen for pilot plant. all 3 contain 32cores of 'opteron 6376'. 2 of them contain 256M of ram; 1 currently has 24G ( can hold up to 256 ). each has 2 x G/sec nics, 2 x (reduntant) 700W ps .
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform rather, can i get out of you a post with what there is ; and what there can be had reasonably (out of the very narrow set of reasonable gear anyway)\
mircea_popescu: i think since we're doing this let's do it right, so get it an 8 cable card all sat down. what boards were these i forget ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun keep a massive pile of ssd on my person, lol. but:
asciilifeform: the one with 4, i've outfitted with a proper 3ware card that knows how to raid5 ( the stock card in mobo is also 3ware but only knows how to raid10 )
ben_vulpes: i live in possibly one of the worst places to travel from, but i've got two servers for the foundation sitting on my office floor i gotta get down there as well, so if asciilifeform's rotrip delay is that much sand in the gears i can make the run to uruguay
mircea_popescu: 11 days should be enough for alf to bake the boxes i expect. danielpbarron i think he's better suited as they're right next to each other ; but pending discussion with bb can you fedex some pogos ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i'm picking up your flight if you're putting in the sweat.
phf: "cheapest" i'm finding is feb13-feb21st at $1100
mircea_popescu: i dunno, imo huge premium for <8 vs >8 hour flight
danielpbarron: i just need to be in court whenever they say, don't know a date yet
phf: dc all airports to montevideo LATAM, Avianca, also the usual pick of american, united, etc. looked at flights.goog. i suspect there's some indirect hop from southern u.s. but flight there within u.s. from dc is not going to be cheap ("going to warm places vacation season")
danielpbarron: i'm about to move to oklahoma, waiting to hear back from lawyer regarding a reckless driving charge before that.
phf: fwiw, i could pick up ascii's stuff and go next week even, but the flights are ~~$1200, which i don't have a budget for at the moment.
mircea_popescu: and re the "use ips" : very cheap solution is to run bitcoin nodes, i'm told. those evidently can't share ips.
mircea_popescu: (i think)
asciilifeform: i can easily fedex box(s) to danielpbarron , incidentally, no reason for him to take many days to drive
asciilifeform: did i miss any ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform am i decoding this incorrectly or are you saying that we will be paying ~at least~ one month of rent on an unused rack ?!
mircea_popescu: when we originally met, many moons ago, hanbot was very impressed with my casual "diplomatic car ? of course i've ridden around in one". in her girly days this had seemed like the crux of cool, you know, "wanna gimme a ticket ? send it to bucharest."
mircea_popescu: in principle, sure. i'm unconcerned.
asciilifeform: i dun have with what to pay 10% of a 100,000 imaginary 'value' say.
asciilifeform: i still see it as open question, whether they'll wink through a crate with N servers as 'personal effects', or steal the whole lot
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779772 << i have 3 boxes prepared for bisp under s.nsa banners ; 1 is dulap-III , which is 'endisked', en-FG'd, and crated for its journey; 2 want disks; if mircea_popescu has specific config he wants for #2 and #3, or to obtain moar , gpggram. ☝︎
xahlee: i email u then, later.
asciilifeform: xahlee: if you have an old key, try and dig it out. otherwise, make new one, i'll rate you.
xahlee: yes. thx. yeah i think that's the site i saw few weeks ago
xahlee: yes, that i knew, recently saw u guy's chat. :D
xahlee: i thought asciilifeform the handle is familiar but forgot where
mircea_popescu: (i'm aware everyone derps about "DANGERS", but seems to me very much a case of photographed box)
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779437 << why woulkd you cut that ? consider you like something in the vein of http://trilema.com/wp-content/themes/trilema/images/ ; am i to not do this anymore now ? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779434 << i sent gabriel laddel some coca leaves tea, we see. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: "here's what your fashions were three decades ago, dear european masterfriend. i hope you are very much impressed with how up to date we are here in $shithole! just like real people rite ???"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779424 << i entirely expect this. it helps to think of all of orclands, which is to say all asia, africa and south/central america as nations of scavengers with a thin layer of aspierational idiots approximately floating atop it. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-02-02 15:37 BingoBoingo: Still, they get an email along the lines of "I am scaling up my business here in Uruguay and need a bunch of 1U server boxes. What can you get as whole computers or empty cases?
mircea_popescu: no, I KNOW!@
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i hope it's clear where i'm headed with this : brace yourselves for the future of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-31#1778943 ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2013-11-02 00:07 asciilifeform: when i read these pitches, i can't help but recall: "...Filtration System A Marvel to Behold! It Removes Eighty Percent of Human Solid Waste!"
mircea_popescu: i expect they hit their genuine lusers with it about 99x more frequently, but that's just a hunch.
mircea_popescu: oh the bot. it got iced once for one week in the intervening... i dun even recall, quarter or two
mircea_popescu: in other "i'm back here let's check things", teh fetlife bot has been going unmolested for the interval. it must suck to work for these website-business-technologies.
BingoBoingo: I will have to dig that up, but it is not trivial and requires having a foreign corporation in the loop somewhere. Perhaps someone with a corp that is offshore to Uruguay can inquire? Depends on the revenue reported and a whole bunch of other miscellanea. ☟︎