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asciilifeform: '... Should everyone design their own ciphers, millions of companies and individuals designing their own terribly weak ciphers, new one every year? There is no automated way to cryptanalyse even naively weak ciphers (and many would make not so naive ones.) Tens of thousands of cryptanalysts cannot begin to chip away even at the weak security of millions of new custom and unpublished ciphers every year. First they would have to figure
asciilifeform: he power equation mandating uniformity of the protective gear, and is permeating both academia and the industry...'
asciilifeform: meanwhile, even in heathendom : http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/wv5Om/?raw=true >> '...the ideology of cryptography preaches the exact opposite: never do custom cryptography, always use the standard one, approved by the experts who know better than you... ...At this point, tens of thousands of cryptanalysts had ten years to compromise four algorithms, designed by less than dozen experts. The official mantra to use these four is part of t
mircea_popescu: i dunno how can possibly take us "legal system" in any sort of seriousness.
BingoBoingo now has next blog topic, death of superheroes
mats: also, 'The Supreme Court’s decision in Herring v. [U.S.] authorizes police to defeat the Fourth Amendment’s protections through a process we call evidence laundering [...] when one police officer makes a constitutional mistake when gathering evidence and then passes that evidence along to a second officer, who develops it further and then delivers it to prosecutor' https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2558737 ☟︎
mats: in stale news, 'More than 1 million student loan borrowers each year go into default. Outstanding education debt in the U.S. has tripled over the last decade and now exceeds $1.5 trillion, posing a greater burden to Americans than auto or credit card debt ... By 2023, nearly 40 percent of borrowers are expected to default' https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/13/twenty-two-percent-of-student-loan-borrowers-fall-into-default.html
BingoBoingo: And a proportional number of bicicletists trying to promote wheeled domination of the rambla will face "kinetics disposes"
BingoBoingo: My calves are just going to get meatier and meatier
BingoBoingo: Only so much water to retain
BingoBoingo: Just now I hit 73.9 kg on the scale
BingoBoingo: bandwidth is a thing
BingoBoingo: the question is how many am I going to lick with salted tongue
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The welts are unavoidale
BingoBoingo: Back in 2015 all the way to 2017 pantsuit had opportunities to pacify me when I sobered up. They could have probably offered me a smidge more to keep tossing bags of mulch and instead declared themselves broke. I would have also remained ignorant to the better, latin life.
a111: Logged on 2019-02-02 02:38 BingoBoingo 99.9876 percent sure no bitch from old county would convert to this less time consuming system without bloody welts
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-02#1891454 << but the bloody welts are half the fun. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: mats: All of the letters of the alphabet are different and words lose their last syllable. Very useful when playing bitches.
a111: Logged on 2019-02-02 02:23 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu could probably run one there for <dollar/day, if he felt like.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-02#1891425 << yeah, and amusingly the reason comes right around to pizarro customer acquisition files. ☝︎
mats: how does spanish not work in chile? or is that just your way of saying linguistic drift
BingoBoingo: ^ lobbes can you do that?
BingoBoingo: Honestly at this point I care more about how to get the stoner republic of paraguay to stop dumping phosphorus on my beaches
mats: thats something pocket does ( stripped down http://www.thetower.org/article/how-iraq-became-a-wholly-owned-subsidiary-of-the-islamic-republic-of-iran/ ) , but they implemented oauth at some point and i'm not sure how to consume the output, or if i really wanna do that sans jpgs/pngs etc
mats: only thing left for me to do is export my 'pocket' bookmark collection into text format (kobi has some support for pocket, but its not very good), which i haven't figured out how to do yet
mats: i recently bought a kobo aura h2o (1st ed) eink reader, which is 6.8in, water resistant, reads pdfs and most formats unlike the kindle (which i think requires mobi), and most importantly takes a microsd card. filled it with the books, papers, logs i've carefully saved over last 10y, still have tons of space left on a 64gb card
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and pinyin is possibly built as a joke on the 'white devil', the encoding has ~0 relation much of the time to the actual sound << FWIW Spanish doesn't work in Chile
BingoBoingo: Nothing beats the combination of private lessons for cultural context and the structured "don't miss anything" cause
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: This week after holding the Rockchip shelf holding went well, I am offering the Peruana the gift of English. She's ear training now on old looney tunes and winnie the jaundiced pooh
asciilifeform: neato. ( supposing the transl. is correct... )
mats: yes, an english sentence is followed by the transliteration
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: they taught me 'bbc', see
asciilifeform: i did similar thing for engl as a boy, it was terrible prep, had to unlearn later
asciilifeform: i'ma guess series of tapes ?
mats: are you listening to audio at all? pimsleur's mandarin series are pretty good
asciilifeform: and pinyin is possibly built as a joke on the 'white devil', the encoding has ~0 relation much of the time to the actual sound
BingoBoingo: Always hire a live coach. even in Spanish, "todo bien" takes months of live practice to master the intonation.
asciilifeform: mats: i'm where can mostly demodulate, but haven't even attempted to modulate.
mats: i can't for the life of me nail down tones, might have to hire a coach to help me with pinyin
BingoBoingo: Not when then have mega dog protected orchard and inexplicably immobile abuelos
mats: asciilifeform: learning to r/w chinese, struggling through 'microcorruption', backlog of books, ie https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/books/the-quest-by-daniel-yergin-review.html and http://www.cindyvallar.com/Hanna.html
asciilifeform: y'know, like boron trifluoride
asciilifeform: ( he had a piece re stripping their electron shell so they react )
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Working with her girlfriend on that, but... Lesbians
asciilifeform: you gotta get that pet dentist back
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: No, here that requires dentist in Ukrvzla
asciilifeform: oh hey betcha nurse has access to xraytron.
BingoBoingo: OH, there's the food! During her "weekend" which as a nurse is the mundane middle of the week I send her with a saddam worth array of chemical weapons and half the pesos I would carry on the same adventure during the actual weekend. Then I eat well.
asciilifeform: ( ate a 'jonathan' in timis, see, 1nce )
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's pet , ~erry day at breakfast : 'when can i eat apple that tastes like apple again' ☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there's moar to life than automatic wash. consider :
BingoBoingo 99.9876 percent sure no bitch from old county would convert to this less time consuming system without bloody welts ☟︎
asciilifeform: whatcha up to these days, mats ?
BingoBoingo may have become a petty tyrant
BingoBoingo: The AC compressor now does double duty drying the clothes
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The clothes get washed in buckets, lovingly. I have the whitest socks in the barrio.
BingoBoingo: At a cost of time, either hers or mine depending on the day of the week
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: how does that work ? thing is hermetically sealed and you fill it with hose from the wash ??
BingoBoingo: With powdered determent sold by the kilogram and Latina sleeping here 3 nights a week (not taking her out of secular employment) I have a recipe for next day clean laundry.
asciilifeform: ( phunphakt, in plague-years europistan, garderobe often was combined with shitter, idea was that the miasma would kill fleas somehow )
BingoBoingo: I acquired it after two months of not needed the local laverdero located on this same block
BingoBoingo: It fits exactly the space my AC compressor blows
BingoBoingo: Today I acquired a cultural artifact known locally as a tenedor de ropa.
asciilifeform: it dun buy that much, see. ( see also the article with the bear. )
asciilifeform: if one could terraform planets with mere moneys, not only bmore but buenos aires , patagonia, etc. would be inhabited.
asciilifeform: sure does if yer The generalissimus, lol
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu could probably run one there for <dollar/day, if he felt like. ☟︎
asciilifeform: it aint so much about materiel, or asciilifeform would already have built base there.
BingoBoingo: What materials do you want to defend your microscope in James Lafond presents Baltimore?
asciilifeform: see also the bmore thread.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: not after you acct. for the cost of defense.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you think about it, it's actually quite logical that floorspace in all places asciilifeform can easily get to , costs approx. same.
BingoBoingo: Bidding competition is the 11-12 story residential overbuilders
BingoBoingo: The main thoroughfare 18 de Julio is dominated by old fucks running single retail stores spending the rest of their space on warehouse surrounding their showroom.
BingoBoingo: In other news, the apparently perfect mellow high yeild short time to flower marijuana genetics have been identified. None of the orcs want to bother planting it. It could unleash hell in the US and do ~nothing here
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: even supposing i had a teleporter -- dun seem like BingoBoingostan is in fact the mythical mecca of cheap floor space envisioned to exist somewhere
asciilifeform: assumption is 'terrorists want to move objects FROM orcistan TO reich'
asciilifeform: it's funny, actually, the queue to come ~out~ of usa is 10 minutes long, and they 'search' for pocket knives and other ceremonials. queue to come ~in~ is 3hrs and they search arse, with dogs.
BingoBoingo: There's an implied circuit of transit where at least one leg is underweight
BingoBoingo: Paste only happens here because Vasquez wants to be BFFs with Morales
BingoBoingo: There is more surplus cocaine paste here than the number of pichis can justify. The Powder has to be headed somewhere.
asciilifeform: well, speaking generally, 'microscopes' move ~from~ the collapsing industrial reich that they fall out of.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu had essay the other day where 'typesetter works for the bigger bux, elsewhere.' the folx with uboat capability, are moving 'white gold', not microscopes.
BingoBoingo: Less than a kilometer from El Puertito de Buceo to the datacenter. There are other "clubs" on the city shores.
BingoBoingo: If the payload is worth trying
BingoBoingo: If there are interesting objects outside of suitcase ability and with sufficently economic need, shit can be tried
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i suppose if mircea_popescu ever feels like putting his to use for such thing.
asciilifeform: presently we're limited there to uninteresting-looking objects that can be hand-carried.
BingoBoingo: Yacht club is a thing.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there's no way in heaven or hell that i can get these through orc customs; not without uboat
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Do you want me to specifically look for floorspace?
asciilifeform: it's the only reason i dun have e.g. electron microscope, etc
asciilifeform: all sortsa surplus gear is sold for less 'per kg' than those platform shoes. principal difficulty for asciilifeform specifically, is floor space
BingoBoingo: A few old "retire for less" folks may be in Piriapolis and Atlantida on undefendable homesteads. All the other UStards rent fast with the exception of single digit count of 20-40 year old losers selling pot under market and "teaching" english to get by
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only reason i did not go with it prior, is that overestimated the expense
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah, Brasiltards are the target market, but naturally they can't hook the brasil tards because Protuguese trips the faggot signal in their ears
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've had this notion in the pipeline for ages.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is a great idea, actually.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo sure, lotta ustards touristing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thinking also, when we bake batch of 'FG 2' or etc., can include radiographs of virginal pcb for extra fee