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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dun
think it currently is possible
to have an open source graphical anything.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 29-07-2015 04:17:19; mircea_popescu: but
the beating usg is
taking online for
the past half decade makes
the beating it's been
taking on
the ground in any military engagement since ww2 look like a piss in
the park.
assbot: Logged on 29-07-2015 04:16:42; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
they're getting decimated alright, you're just not in a
too good position
to observe it i guess.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's looking like
to build a working Eulora Imma have
to do it like Bitcoin-qt and hit delete a lot.
This closed source Nvidia CS-toolkit is no bueno
BingoBoingo: That was
the moment where
the
transition went from every individual computer manufacterer's branded Microsoft DOS
to
the unified Windows monolith. It really is no wonder... considering what was going on at IBM in retrospect...
that people
though OS/2 had a chance
pete_dushenski: "Drivers who work for Uber should verify
their vehicles are insured for commercial use,
the Insurance Bureau of Canada said
Tuesday after
the Alberta government concluded
the ride-hailing service's insurance policies don't meet
that province's requirements." << ayup. sv's 'sharing economy' is a whole whack of insurance fraud.
BingoBoingo: Windows wasn't really even much of a
thing apparently until Windows 95 when
the local Walmart had lines for it
thanks
to "marketing"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> <<
this was maybe os/x and generally crapple. it pretty much never was microsoft. microsoft was historically more like george costanza's annoying
tune. << Unfortunately for everyone's enshittenment Constanza and Windows 95 ascended
to prominence at roughly
the same
time.
assbot: Logged on 29-07-2015 00:28:06; nubbins`: nobody wanted windows,
they wanted
the experience of being dazzled by shiny
things
mircea_popescu: <phf> lizard hitler's stash <<< yeah, aka "i'll believe
this outside phenomena happened if and only if, and only
to
the degree it, confirms convictions i held previously and independently of reality"
mircea_popescu: phf yeah, which is how snowden (1) got all
the stuff in
the first place.
mircea_popescu: but
the beating usg is
taking online for
the past half decade makes
the beating it's been
taking on
the ground in any military engagement since ww2 look like a piss in
the park.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
they're getting decimated alright, you're just not in a
too good position
to observe it i guess.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <phf> lizard hitler's stash << Jurrassic World
topping
the box office because Lizards are real
assbot: Logged on 28-02-2015 04:57:56; asciilifeform: essentially, something so utterly catastrophic
to usg
that it could not possibly be a hangout
phf: if corporate sop is anything
to go by, it's probably easier
to get access
to powerpoints (cross-company shared materials),
then
to actual
technical details (contained within individual
teams' machines)
mircea_popescu: they couldn't even let
the ips
through, because
that badly set up.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah,
that was actually a rather lulzy forced humiliation.
mircea_popescu: and at
the
time at least
they still
thought "we" don't have
the list
mircea_popescu: the reason
they did is
that some of
the ips were actually
traceable
to various poorly protected shells.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> if nothing else whatsoever were known about
them,
the redactions make it entirely obvious << WHich is why
the escaped yet utterly contained Snowden1 is known for nothing but powerpoints. Censored and surrounded with phriends.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fwiw, i've not yet published
tons of reams of piles of stuff either.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> well, everything you saw
the guardian publish, at any rate. << Greenwald/Guardian did filter
the SNowden 1 documents
mircea_popescu: the fact
that
the barnacles are barnacles does not speak much of
the ship.
mircea_popescu: recall
that one
time when iu had
to force "wikileaks"
to publish documents ?
mircea_popescu: well, everything you saw
the guardian publish, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: but looky :
the fact
that some later schmuck had better/different materials
mircea_popescu: the problem with
this
theory is
that it's
thoroughly based on itself.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform>
the difference is a brick in
the face. << I lean
towards attributing
this
to
the
two having sifferent roles and access. Difference being Snowden1 achieved escape velocity before collaborating with Greenwald and others while 2 blindly followed 1's example into
trap
mircea_popescu: so,
t1 = snowden 2 ran off with some papers ;
t2 = usg figurdd it out ;
t3 = snowden 1 is created for purpose of defense ;
t4 = greenwald & co start promoting snowden 1 ;
t5 = snowden 2 finally makes public contact ;
t6 = greenwald & co claim contact ;
t7->to
this present day
mircea_popescu: not
that what you propose doesn't make for a better story, but still.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> who was killed << I suspect
this is more Greenwald
than Snowden1
mircea_popescu: the problem is not
that i don't understand what you're saying.
the problem is i don't see what you're basing it on.
mats: a man does not purport
to reveal govt wrongdoing and
then proceed
to dump hundreds of
thousands of documents indiscriminately
mats: snowden deserves
to hang
assbot: Logged on 29-07-2015 03:08:33; mircea_popescu: wait, kalughin ?!
the guy who was eventually bent in
two,
tied
together and
thrown out with
the
trash ?
assbot: Logged on 29-07-2015 02:43:09; mircea_popescu: lol
this is going
to be painful.
phf: i don't know
the bush and
the policeman reference, but i assume "bent in
two,
tied
together and
thrown out" is a reference
to his espionage
trial,
then
the same
mircea_popescu: the guy
that kept waking up and dreaming stuff with
the bush and
the policeman ?
mircea_popescu: wait, kalughin ?!
the guy who was eventually bent in
two,
tied
together and
thrown out with
the
trash ?
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Carnegie and Rockefeller did not invent Northern Aggression on
their own in
their own lifetimes without foundations
phf: i met oleg kalugin at russian cultural center, he had a handler with him, a
tall gentleman, presumably from cia, who mas making sure
that kalugin doesn't say something he's not supposed
to say. i always wanted one of
those, but until
that
time i just look for coded messages in
the new yorker :)