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asciilifeform: btw if anyone here happens to come across 1 of these lolboxes, feel free to send to asciilifeform for xray ( if you want it back, will cost return postage )
asciilifeform no longer specifically stampcollects these, but occasionally turns up by chance
feedbot: http://trilema.com/2019/the-working-philosopher-and-the-what-if-philosopher/ << Trilema -- The working philosopher and the what-if philosopher
a111: Logged on 2019-02-26 23:18 asciilifeform: spyked: that thing is on a 28kbaud modem or wat?!
spyked: ^ re de-header-ization: it's currently in the works, I'll shoot out another update once the new .tar.xz is ready.
lobbesbot: spyked: Sent 9 hours and 54 minutes ago: <asciilifeform> that gutenberg tarball -- didja get a chance to auto-kill all of the header liquishit ? i'd prefer to mirror a flensed copy, the 50kB of 'this text copyright wikitards(tm)(r)' is eyesore
spyked: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-27#1899477 <-- ty, asciilifeform! I'll update the post with a link to your mirror later today ☝︎
hanbot: <BingoBoingo> hanbot: There's a team with one profoundly fat person working deep in the hot aisle putting filling up a rack. The hamplanet's moving about makes keeping a terminal plugged into the machine a precarious proposition. Will dive again later. << lol ty for the perseverance in the face (crack?) of doom BingoBoingo
asciilifeform: sent his daughter to 'journalism' (iirc) school, just so to optimize for eventual miamiization ☟︎
asciilifeform: was 'textbook case' of 'miami of the central nervous system'
a111: Logged on 2017-11-03 13:08 asciilifeform: asciilifeform confessed to a cabbie that he wants to move, and cabbie looked as if asciilifeform grew a cock on his forehead
asciilifeform: i still remember that d00d i talked to in timis , where http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-03#1732376 ☝︎
asciilifeform: but from what clues BingoBoingo dug up prev, the vz folx have already 'let miami into their hearts'
asciilifeform: notbad, i suppose, if troo ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Well, border closed. Convoy torched by "protesters" on Colombian side
asciilifeform: or why, for that matter, not stormed pantsuit 'parliament' and dragged guiado out by the heels to the public stake ?
asciilifeform: e.g. how come erry man of fighting age in vz aint on the boarder, pumping lead into the 'humanitarian convoy', manning ack-ack batteries, etc ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as i understand, maduro is on the chopping block; and i dun think these are unrelated
asciilifeform: soon enuff , when no moar castros, those bananistani will be living in mortgaged cardboard, eating mcd, and watching 'netflix', shitting out 'blogs' fulla malapropisms , an' ~nobody will remember any other time. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Stockholm syndrome is a thing
asciilifeform: i have nfi how anyone can escape the conclusion that 'western civilization' of the past-50y model is in any way diff in effect than eating pb paint chips.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-13 02:20 mircea_popescu: it was utterly the case of eg ro revolution. none of the people there wanted "freedom". they were literally pissed off they can't drive over to austrian border and load up the car at the w/e discount shop.
asciilifeform: or e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-13#1669415 thrd. ☝︎
asciilifeform: sorta how in ru today 1e6 lolcat watchers for erry d00d with half a brain who builds pdp with own hands. whereas in 1990 , 1e6 builders of pdp and 0 lolcat. ☟︎
asciilifeform: when 'civilization' swallows island, they'll be watchin' 'netflix' like mircea_popescu's argentines.
asciilifeform: right nao in cuba, there's this wonder, orcs who machine toyota gearboxes to fit in 'lada', etc.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-16 20:09 asciilifeform: which is why north kr was priceless treasure -- the ONLY remaining experiment with industry sans konsoomer-spending-britneyizes-all
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform Well hard to tell if they are opening to McDonalds or simply moving to converge with Uruguay's Fat Forehead party
asciilifeform: inevitable, since fuhrer croaked, tho.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: imho pretty sad , actually : the (afaik) last 100% mcd-free reservation on hemisphere, totters.
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/02/cuban-people-overwhelmingly-vote-to-preserve-single-part-system-in-exchange-for-more-socialism/ << Qntra -- Cuban People Overwhelmingly Vote To Preserve Single Part System In Exchange For More Socialism
lobbesbot: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: !Q later tell spyked that gutenberg tarball -- didja get a chance to auto-kill all of the header liquishit ? i'd prefer to mirror a flensed copy, the 50kB of 'this text copyright wikitards(tm)(r)' is eyesore ☟︎
asciilifeform: i went 'let's mirror', but loox like will take whole day
lobbesbot: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: !Qlater tell hanbot http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/IWcky/?raw=true Your machine is back online
asciilifeform: spyked: that thing is on a 28kbaud modem or wat?! ☟︎
BingoBoingo: His side of whatever he's contributing to their build is in the hot aisle. But he's ~350 pounds, so he can only stand to be in the hot aisle ~90 seconds at a time. That's a lot of purposeless movement I would rather not deal with when the hippo workday has to end sometime.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Roughly the size. It blocks setting up the keyboard and monitor for an extended period of time without the risk of his ass propelling the setup into the rack because he imagines he can move like a dainty princess.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: he's the size of a hippo ? why would this block work in the rack?!
BingoBoingo: hanbot: There's a team with one profoundly fat person working deep in the hot aisle putting filling up a rack. The hamplanet's moving about makes keeping a terminal plugged into the machine a precarious proposition. Will dive again later.
feedbot: http://thetarpit.org/posts/y05/085-gutenberg-iii.html << The Tar Pit -- Project Gutenberg ASCII text archive
feedbot: http://bimbo.club/2019/02/philosophical-transactions-for-the-months-of-april-may-and-june-1714-part-iii/ << Bimbo.Club -- Philosophical Transactions. For the months of April, May and June, 1714. - Part III.
feedbot: http://blog.lobbesblog.com/2019/02/a-bridge-to-cuntoo-for-the-lenovo-x61-x86_64/ << lobbesblog -- A bridge to Cuntoo: for the Lenovo x61 (x86_64)
asciilifeform: hanbot: plox to lemme know if you require a moar permanent setup.
asciilifeform: hanbot: it's riding on a boot usb, has to be manually en-ip'd. BingoBoingo will reignite when wakes up.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that makes sense.
mircea_popescu: they care deeply, indeed. they all do.
mircea_popescu: "While much of the data affected is public profile information, it includes usernames, emails, hashed passwords and the salt (allowing the hashed passwords to be reversed). We care deeply about our users’ security and are taking numerous steps to prevent this from happening again and to protect against the misuse of information."
mircea_popescu: once there, well...
mircea_popescu: until then, it's gonna be piddly.
mircea_popescu: so what you want to do, is exactly the "everyone is doing this", hence systematization.
mircea_popescu: the second only works worth half a shit when it's "in order to stay out of jail". and even then very dubious.
mircea_popescu: there's exactly two arguments who can work on typical moron. the first is, "everyone is doing this" ; the second is "you must this in order to that".
asciilifeform: entirely troo. and in light of this, just about miraculous that any of the konsoomer shit can even be repurposed for actual work, at this pt
mircea_popescu: they eat like they watch movies like they work like they etc.
mircea_popescu: well this yes, but nothing is different from this. the chronic masturbators making up white esltardland don't suddenly become serious about some selection of topics, or even one topic.
asciilifeform: and 99+% of pc bought to run spreadshit & 'hearts', no less
mircea_popescu: out of the people going to see some blockbuster, 33% are there because they're mouthdrooling retards, 66% are there because they're with their friends, and <1% are there to see the movie.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this sector is not substantial, is the point im making.
mircea_popescu: you have the top inch and the bottom foot, and in between miles upon miles of NOTHING
mircea_popescu: there's ~nothing in between~. there's no pyramid, one inch wide the first inch, three inches wide the third inch, and a hundred inches wide the hundredht inch
asciilifeform: 'pruning of middle' happens, in re konsoomer tech, but consider also that moar goes into garage, or even iraqi roadside mind,
mircea_popescu: ad asked open-ended questions like "how can I trust you?" and "how do I know this is for real?"--these were future investors. They were asking me to persuade them. They wanted to believe."
mircea_popescu: , I always knew whether or not they would invest. Those who would not become investors always made specific requests for information, requiring several referrals of non-alts who had been playing the game for a few years. Obviously I could not provide this without giving the names of other investors. Since my business' website guaranteed anonymity, this was not practical. But those who did not make specific requests, and inste
mircea_popescu: consider this item i recently fell upon by accident : "And so the scam rolled on through April and into May. I gathered around fifty active investors, and scammed about a billion non-Morty investments. I was repeatedly pulled into convos, usually lasting only a short time as they asked a few questions. Within the first few lines of communication
mircea_popescu: that old http://trilema.com/2014/in-which-you-become-grain/ discussion is not an idle consideration. this is the fundamental structure of everything, from baltimore gangland, where the police shoots the 20-gun tribes to make room for a dozen 2-gun tribes, to whatever you pick, "Merchandise scores in the theme park stores" and Disney is the king of the hill.
a111: Logged on 2018-07-06 18:46 mircea_popescu: (ro used the prefab construction process -- first, send mining equipment, flatten land ; then, put in rail ; then, roll out a rail crane, and roll prefab on cars up to it ; then move the derivation
mircea_popescu: globalisation is another way to say "systematization". whether it's systematized delusion or systematized http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-06#1832377 nevertheless the middle is thoroughly pruned in all contemporaneous groups. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: whatever, tv, space rockets. it wasn't amateur electronicists in garage, that's for sure.
asciilifeform: pretty sure that most elcaps ever baked, went into tv. but can see the pt.
mircea_popescu: yet, without the pc there's ~no market.
mircea_popescu: certainly. nor do electrolytic caps specifically require the pc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fg dun exactly require cuntoo tho. runs a++ with, e.g., my msdos box. ( via 'max232' ttl to rs232 transformer )
mircea_popescu: oklahoma treatin you well ?
mircea_popescu: how's tricks these days, danielpbarron
mircea_popescu: that's the limit -- the sum total of folks alive capable of going through one of these bootstrappings is ~5.
mircea_popescu: consider what hanbot had to go through to stand up a working environment ; now consider potential customer has to ~same.
mircea_popescu: the star of the http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=55 vivisections still runs to spec << market communication still pretty fucking terrible.
mircea_popescu: things reinforce themselves, you have fg AND pizarro AND AND AND.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gotta build teh mommentum.
asciilifeform: ( tho i do not currently know what dose will actually do it in )
asciilifeform: as it is, if yer launching yours into orbit, i recc pb foil over the cpld.
asciilifeform: if it were possible to source an antifuse fpga for the http://btcbase.org/patches/fg-genesis/tree/fg.v , thing would be trooly indestructible short of incinerator or train running over it
asciilifeform: ( caps -- strictly ceramic , with tantalum for the larger filter )
asciilifeform: helps that there aint much in the way of vlsi, or any electrolytic caps, possibly.
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: you ( & customers... ) may find it interesting, that even tho fg was not specifically built for radiation-hardness, the star of the http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=55 vivisections still runs to spec
BingoBoingo: Seems like a poverty of folks who know how to give a serious shit about crypto
asciilifeform: possibly only that many folx alive who give a serious shit re crypto. possibly i made it the wrong shade of red, fuck if i know.
asciilifeform: pretty modest ( tho asciilifeform was still surprised how large ! ) uptake for FG. asciilifeform doesn't even have a rigid handle on why, specifically.
danielpbarron: i'm holding on to a bunch of computer parts but i'm not sure how useful any of them are
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: are you still doing the 'warehouse of iron' thing these days ?
asciilifeform: ( and possibly even the lightest, in re count of moving parts.. )
asciilifeform: it's one possible path to that fabled bootstrappable box.
mircea_popescu: not particularly, but good to know.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if asciilifeform weren't sitting under a pile of unfinisheds -- then conceivably yes
mircea_popescu: haha, so then, scheme in iron, in 2 weeks ?
a111: 2019-01-03 <danielpbarron> i did not tell him to join, and i have given up on reaching that crowd
asciilifeform: hrm, whatever happened to that fella
asciilifeform: in vehehery other noose, asciilifeform accidentally, in the course of unrelated worx, dug up the long-sought pill for the http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-19#1586264 item. ☝︎