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jhvh1: shinohai: Error: "bcstas" is not a valid command.
BingoBoingo: Yet, once again: "one of the protesters involved in the altercation struck the Jeep with a baton before the shot was fired"
BingoBoingo: missed the group and struck a nearby building."
BingoBoingo: In other self defense against antifa files: "Shortly before 5:30pm, it was reported that a silver Jeep stopped to argue with a group of protesters and began threatening, offering Nazi salutes and shouting chants about Hitler to the group that was near the bus stop. During the altercation, Tenbrink produced a handgun while the Fears brothers encouraged him to shoot at the victims. Tenbrink fired a single shot at the group which thankfully
mircea_popescu: in other news holy shit britannica.com looks just like a random spamsite.
shinohai: Meanwhile, on yours all the "Hot" articles combined total less than I could make for writing a single Qntra. (maybe 2)
mircea_popescu: "oh, sure, it has a float rate and everything". right-o.
mircea_popescu: it's like claiming "we accept dollars AND euros". why, because the euro's a thing now ?
mircea_popescu: the thing, is, no-one ever accepts any of the alts other than as a bitcoin derivative.
shinohai: Not that anything has changed in a month, but almost 0 utility for Bitcoin Crash AT ALL: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6x6uqh/list_of_bitcoin_cash_accepting_businesses/
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Well when making hardware shopping list gotta have idea what people want. Do people want beefy opteron things that'll have me on a 4th rack by Sunday or do they want PCengines boards by the dozen.
BingoBoingo: This seems to be a good time for any Lords or L2's interested in homing a box to reach out.
BingoBoingo: Roughly the same range, and Yeah, I don't see reason not too. Should have a bunch more numbers early next week.
shinohai would be thrilled if he figured out a viable business involving deedbot/tips
trinque: I'm over here eagerly awaiting a printout, first non-hand-keyed withdrawal
trinque does still owe a guide
shinohai: A bot that can pay for tits, such technology :)
asciilifeform: again if mircea_popescu , diana_coman , or anybody else here, wants to suggest a replacement dongle -- i'm all ears. or better yet if we didn't even ship a dongle, every machine owner has responsibility to find some way to have a working serial port, it is not properly a problem in the scope of FG
a111: Logged on 2017-10-20 19:01 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'sorry this is a tobacconist, not a colo' ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-20 18:49 diana_coman: on the possibly enraging more digging turned out a known shit -difference between pl2303 and pl2303x
a111: Logged on 2017-10-20 18:52 phf: a programmer had a serial problem, "i know, i'll use usb to serial", now he had two problems
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'sorry this is a tobacconist, not a colo' ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: who has a box that understands plain old circa 1960s rs232 -- can use fuckgoats
asciilifeform: so it is and will forever be a serial device, compatible with e.g. data diode.
asciilifeform: and i will NOT make a rng that doesn't work with msdos box
asciilifeform: afaik there is not a clean solution to this, other than to burn the pc nonsense to the ground
phf: a programmer had a serial problem, "i know, i'll use usb to serial", now he had two problems ☟︎
diana_coman: "the pl2303x can be distinguished from a pl2303 by checking bMaxPacketSize0 for device using lsusb -v -d 067b:2303; if bmaxpacketsize0 is 64 you probably have pl2303x"
diana_coman: on the possibly enraging more digging turned out a known shit -difference between pl2303 and pl2303x ☟︎
phf: asciilifeform: you can have a hardware button fixed pattern: hold a button, a fixed pattern of bits come out that you use for sanity check
asciilifeform: i don't see a mention of anything ~appearing~ in diana_coman's screen -- merely that it doesn't barf from nonexistent tty
asciilifeform: do you have a ftdi or other type of ttlserial cable in the house ?
asciilifeform: betcha it's a buggy pl2303 driver.
asciilifeform: it's a fuckknowswhat
asciilifeform: at this point i'd say that ubuntu is not a linux and explicitly unsupported...
diana_coman: did a stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 -a on a working machine and on this machine, flags are same except for hupcl vs -hupcl on centos and onlcr vs -onlcr on centos; and a -cdtrdsr on centos, not mentioned on the other
asciilifeform: entirely possible that you got a defective cable, i do not test the cables, only the FG
diana_coman: hence, more a matter of what does screen do differently
shinohai: Indeed .... been a long time since I messed with CentOS so I may be wrong here ....
diana_coman: shinohai, that seems to be a bit closer but not yet solved: added -ixoff and next run of dd went fine but then it was stuck again; turned on and off again and it was still just hanging so simply reset on that was not enough either; something is weird there
diana_coman: on Centos 6.8 (64bits) trying to read fg's output from ttyUSB0 with dd hangs on most occasions (erratically it will work but I haven't figured out when exactly); at the same time, a "screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 " works perfectly fine <-- anybody knows what this is about?
phf: asciilifeform: don't forget to bring the customary earth in a small baggy from the motherland
BingoBoingo learns a lot reading ad copy
BingoBoingo: In other lols, there is a place in Brazil that has datacenters and it is lulzily enough named Uberlandia
mircea_popescu: "*A substantial profit. Our ageing editor needed the phrase translating." outsourced writing, too.
mircea_popescu: "here's a list of a half dozen tards who paid some scammers way too much money to be named in an inept piece in random fiat fake news outlet"
mircea_popescu: and here's a bit of an evolutionary biology mindbomb : since the ability to distinguish one's own sons from other's sons is positively selected in males, it is altogether probable males have developed the ability to recognize their own spawn as such.
deedbot: asciilifeform rated ascii_in_orcland 1 << a voyagekey of asciilifeform, inquire within
asciilifeform: !!rate ascii_in_orcland 1 a voyagekey of asciilifeform, inquire within
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: and so was dulap, a recent intel with 256G ram and 32core
asciilifeform: lol it's a small opteron
BingoBoingo: Why not light heatsink to case? Not like it's a fucking opteron
asciilifeform: heavy heatsink held with conductive epoxy is in asciilifeform's experience more often than not a recipe for ripping the chip from the board, balls, tracks, and all
BingoBoingo: One cannot simply assume a world in 2017 without jbweld, much as one cannot assume a world in 1800 without procelain tile
asciilifeform: the other problem with those is that they have no heat sink from vendor other than a little aluminum shim that depends on the stock iron case being there
diana_coman: I think there'll be some crypto play in this house, lol; tbh as a child this part of "secret" messages was terribly fun even as idea only
asciilifeform: ' if these pair are opposite -- this is a 1 ' etc
asciilifeform: can show with pennies on a table
asciilifeform: diana_coman: imho otp is actually simple enough to teach a kid
asciilifeform remembers the copybook : 'a wolf sits under a tree and sings a long song' etc
a111: Logged on 2017-10-19 21:10 diana_coman: but he is still only 5 so a lot to figure out yet
a111: Logged on 2017-10-19 20:49 diana_coman: aha, try explaining to a 5 yo what that is and what it does...
shinohai: lol in otc - 16:19 +joecool or fork the wot and start a weird little cult like mp did
diana_coman: but he is still only 5 so a lot to figure out yet ☟︎
diana_coman: BingoBoingo, not yet hardware store as such, no; he does get to see though anything that is going on (computers being operated on included), he does get to help with anything that he is able to atm and he does get to assemble his own stuff (the most recent of which is a fully functional water pump model thing that kept him busy for days as per http://www.dianacoman.com/blog/2017/10/08/lictis-plictis-ori-boala-copilariei/ (poor
phf: fwiw current patches convention is that genesis-less vpatch is rendered as a purple box with an arrow coming in, e.g. http://btcbase.org/patches?patchset=deprecated but when it's only one it's not working
phf: asciilifeform: i wanted to add your mpi to btcbase patches, but realized that it's not a valid vpatch, since it doesn't have a genesis. i'll add an exception to mechanisms (right now it just 404's and all kinds of broken, basically), but!
diana_coman: aha, try explaining to a 5 yo what that is and what it does... ☟︎
diana_coman: asciilifeform I guess I can vouch now for FG being "safe for kids" - 5 yo spotted one on my desk and asked the usual ton of questions BUT he figured out by himself that "it has a manual too, look!"
hanbot: anyway having spent a few years fulfilling copywriting specs i'll admit a fair amount of the work was absorbed in weighing whether a given spec-producer seemed likely to pull the penny-revision stuff
phf: i think i heard it called a "cultural honkey"
mircea_popescu: well, it's a large country. richer than the us per capita, and certainly culturally stronger. so...
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> and 1910 romanian market is NOT fucking walmart, but "that place where we have reason to suspect more other people will come". << Well, that's sorta what walmart is in a more retarded fashion
mircea_popescu: anyway. the arguments he presents don't work -- travel is much more likely in a country devastated by war than in one stable. in the latter case people feed themselves by tending to their crops ; but if no crops, they feed themselves by... GOING TO THE MARKET.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, ugh, that guy always stank to me of americanism of the most annoying sort; and this "how could they have travelled" is precisely of that sort; "oh noes, how can one WALK a MILE???"
mircea_popescu: they're a humourless lot.
mircea_popescu: i suppose it's a case of "i came up with this theory which is mine".
mircea_popescu: but whatever, "i can't see how people travelled before they had electric cars or why would a wife benefit from the occasional beating"
mircea_popescu: f 10 for most of a year.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that this is the 1900s, whereas peopel routinely travelled large distances in the cold and ate just five five centuries prior, and before that. because a) the cart of the time was intended as and functioned as a whole-family-mover, which is exactly how oregon trail happened ; and because the grain->bread and corn->mamaliga cycle permit something to the tune of 2mn calories per ton, ie enough to feed a family o
mircea_popescu: https://kingofromania.com/2014/12/03/the-curious-case-of-the-100-thousand/ << this is a delicious exercise in ignorance (from the same guy that's very carefully angered by the notion of beating women, o golly!).
asciilifeform: i pawed through the manual , looking for a 'do not install backup mem batt, we put that hole in while drunk' but found nope.
asciilifeform: it was a serious wtf moment
asciilifeform: and removal of the latter turns it, suddenly, into a usable item...
asciilifeform: sooooo recently asciilifeform bought a 1990s-style electrodictionary for a language . and like any 1990s gadget, it also 'is a phone book, and organizer' and other misc rubbish , and this rubbish functionality required a DIFFERENT calibre of watch battery from the 2 main 3v cells. and would whine that 'memory batt low' etc, while draining main cells in MINUTES after insertion:
a111: Logged on 2015-02-21 01:19 mircea_popescu: "she's been going through 6-7k each month since autumn, but i get to go visit p diddy whenever i feel like it. it's a wash"
mircea_popescu: hey, a slim minority of the girls actually market their own produce to the point of obtaining cash for it. i see no serious problems with this situation.
asciilifeform: i knew a d00d who ended up in this typical meat grinder : he supplied 100% of the income, she -- 100% of the debt
mircea_popescu: actually it says that a) marriage is a corporation in which b) each spouse owns 50% and c) unless specifically excepted prior, all income of either party is assigned to it.
trinque: ah son of a bitch, texas is a "community property" state too
asciilifeform: if you're a sultan
ben_vulpes: in tangential lulz, one of the "children rescused in fbi child trafficking sting", touted as an "18 month old, rescued from sex trafficking!" was in fact hooker's baby and is now a state ward
asciilifeform: but, horrors, what if you haven't got a wife! whatthen!
ben_vulpes: i need a fiatcorp to make that happen like i need an uncooled 42u cabinet
ben_vulpes: "baby, it is moments like this that i sincerely regret not just signing a declaration and broadcasting it to the republic"
mircea_popescu: im kinda hoping they reintroduce the "village community". want you to buy a car, ask first the мир for permission.
ben_vulpes: you wanna hear about fascism; fuckin irs wants spousal consent for electing to treat a certain corporation a certain way
mircea_popescu: apparently if you're a free market individualist without any regard for "the state", you're suspekt. news at 11 i guess.
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz of all time, a terribly bad test "for fascism" gives me 43%, ie fellow-traveller status.
mircea_popescu: i have never met in my entire life an ethnic romanian who was a competent merchant. not once, not one, not ever.