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johntraveller: asciilifeform: maybe some chinese kid will
try and build his own lisp machine. sadly
they’re not
there yet
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
think about it, a cop-filming, revenge-porn-making, electrictity stealing personal dronepet!
johntraveller: bounce: dunno about cost. I don’t
think he went especially ‘custom’,
though lots of chinese firms have been making custom handsets with custom android mods.
bounce: those
things aren't loss-free
mircea_popescu: bounce spite is
the only real engine of human progress.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform better yet,
thing should know where
the batteries are kept, fly over, change ITSELF. let
the spare charge.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> + much better homemade porn << noisy as shit
though
mircea_popescu: bounce but one specifically optimised for
the role of following you around
taking pictures of
things. like a sort of gopro with ai.
mircea_popescu: you know, ever since
the photo debate with bounce a few days ago, i'm kinda curious
to see
this photography drone gadget. imagine all
the YOLO picutres
taken by
this orbiting drone
thing.
chetty: dont use fingerprint, usg says you have no privacy rights with
those
johntraveller: bounce: a dutch entrepreneur in
the city I’m moving
to had his own
tablet built a few years back
bounce: freedesktop.org needs
to die, more or less
mircea_popescu: "There is no motherfucking reason conceivable or inconceivable
that x.org should depend on netbase." i say!
assbot: Ubuntu is a worse piece of shit
than MS-DOS ever was. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: bounce i'd be happy with os stacks
that didn't make world depend on internet etc.
gribble: (rated <nick>) -- Get
the details about
the rating you gave
to <nick>, if any.
bounce: and do a network side
that isn't as full of holes as
the current crop, and do proper separation, and provide a full off of
the wireless side while leaving
the other functions available, and so on.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if mail is used correctly (send/received armored gpg blobs)
this yields no further information
than already available.
bounce: you could make a phone
that gives you as much insight and control as available;
this is quite a bit more
than currently available.
chetty: true, but we do what little we can ...(mostly I use
the off button atm)
bounce: yes, and
to fix
that you'd really need
to redesign
the protocol
bounce: have shop run up a sample or
two and I'd be happy really
mircea_popescu: bounce aren't phones one of
those
things you gotta make 1mn units min ?
bounce: more like, have a couple drafts laying around, should probably
try and merge
them
assbot: Gas now cheaper
than milk - New York News
johntraveller: mircea_popescu: hmm, maybe I should organise a couple local guys
to do research and I write it up in english?
bounce has a phone spec in mind
that could stand building
mircea_popescu: johntraveller fluent foreigner is usually a better model
than local esl, but maybe worth a shot.
johntraveller: sadly not
that exciting. mostly stuff around mobile marketing. my friend is
the kind of guy involved in multiple pies
though
jurov: johntraveller:
the qntra writers are rewarded by shares
johntraveller: mircea_popescu: so I’m moving back
to china in a couple of weeks. (working with my russian friend on a bunch of mobile-related projects). depending on how much money
there is in it, my 1st
thought is find a local finance student who could research/write part-time?
mircea_popescu: also i wish it entered into
the record
that romania was at no point during its ~2500ish year history sane. not ever.
jurov: today is
the ipo,
tomorrow is GLORY
BingoBoingo: Definitely a glory hole in qntra's coverage
there
mircea_popescu: johntraveller one major
thing is
that qntra doesn't/can't quite follow chinese language news atm. if you can bridge
that gap
there's glory in
there.
johntraveller: mircea_popescu: not looking for work but definitely open
to btc-related projects
johntraveller: mircea_popescu: spent a couple of years in china and a year in HK, visited malaysia, india,
tibet, phillipines, algeria and a bunch of european coutnries
mircea_popescu: on
the plus side, it's very easy
to see
the craziness of romanian o wait. nope. listen, somehow english speakers had a lot of
trouble figuring out exactly how and exactly where ro nonsense was broken, back in
the 90s.
johntraveller: asciilifeform: oh yeah, you’re right. my
theory was
that people like MP or
taleb, who grew up in somewhat sane cultures, instinctively see
the craziness of anglo-american ideas. if you grew up in
the english speaking world it’s harder
to see
that
mircea_popescu: guy had a pretty gf and a
two year old kid.
too old, iho.
johntraveller: asciilifeform: yeah. I also get
the sense he hasn’t
travelled much. living abroad makes it much easy
to see your own cultural matrix, so
to speak
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have
this earlier convo burnished in my memory, me: "you know, it's quite possible you'll die
there" op: "eh, fuckit. i'm
too old anyway." me: "you're
twenty four!"
mircea_popescu avoids starting a rant on
the
topic as he's ranted recently and is well rantsated :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform strange
that he
tried
to copy bitcoin but didn't manage
to
think of
the assbot voice.
johntraveller: asciilifeform: yup, I’d agree with
that. he himself said he had enough friends, he wanted better critics
mircea_popescu: we don't have a plan either. who
the fuck needs plans when you got wmd.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform everyone eats what
they can. it's just
that for a few
that doesn't come out of a can.
johntraveller: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yeah, I followed a bunch of
the NRx guys for a long
time as I hadn’t encountered anyone else saying
the same
things. but I got bored after a while,
they clearly don’t have any plans or goals
cazalla: kakobrekla: >2000 coinbase.com accounts in less
than 2 weeks for a
total of almost 17 BTC. <<< a lot of
the accounts were empty from
the sample bitcomsec provide
mircea_popescu: johntraveller chan's kinda on
the fence re moldbug. you can search for him
to get
the various discussions if you care.
bounce: alright, n'mind me
then
mircea_popescu: johntraveller which brings us
to
the next question. how do you distinguish
this from
the usual usg psyops ? astroturfing/trolling for pseudo-communities ?
bounce: googling gives a couple of instant brainrot inducing "solutions". man, freedesktop is bad for
the brain and no mistake.
johntraveller: xenosystems,
twitter and 8chan.co/duck are
the main gathering places
mircea_popescu: jurov better a software
tumor of
the mailman
than a malignant
tumor of
the sexware!
johntraveller: mircea_popescu: prior
to 2012, yes. but since about a year or
two ago people have started
to cluster around
the ‘neoreactionary’ label.
that image is
the meta-community growing self-aware
bounce: as a
totally wild guess, could
try and stop nvidia from modesetting so
the intel
thing gets
to do it
johntraveller: mircea_popescu: yes. but
there’s a fringe of right-wing people (who have been slowly leaving)
mircea_popescu: johntraveller isn't
the lesswrong crowd flamingly libtard ?
johntraveller: mircea_popescu: interesting. I would say
the most active pre-existing groups (in order of size) were
the manosphere guys,
the HBD/white nationalist bloggers,
the ‘orthosphere’ (a bunch of catholic bloggers),
the lesswrong crowd
mircea_popescu: remmeber,
this is ubuntu, ie a linux implementation of windows