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cazalla: have not finished reading logs but
the
thing i do not like about
the
txt version is
that it's difficult
to read unless it's formatted correctly
mircea_popescu: and i mean, i can
tell anjie didn't sleep
to do
that one, which is exactly what she should have done, but once.
BingoBoingo: Yeah, so far most of
the deturdified
text has been low hanging fruit, but automating
the hard stuff is going
to be nice sauce
mircea_popescu: you'd
think everyone's got a college degree means
they are god damned good at exactly
that. but...
mircea_popescu: not
that anyone actually even exists in
the cloud of vaporized shit comprising
the kids-of-www
that even has
the drive or
the intellectual werewithal
to
take down an hour of speech or an acre of blackboard anyway.
mircea_popescu: and if you get it
to where you have
to fix a letter per
ten words you're way way ahead of someone who has
to press pause every five seconds
mircea_popescu: being able
to
take a
turd and
turn it into readable content within an hour or a day, and being able
to so process gigabytes of crud a month is, by itself, more barrier
to entry
than all
the collective "press" has
mircea_popescu: you seriously should spend a week or w/e it
takes
trying out ocrs and voice recognition
tools and whatnot, because going forward
this will remain an issue
BingoBoingo: Oh, I found a pdf
textualizer, but I dunno if it handles pdfs
that are just photographs of
text yet
mircea_popescu: iirc asciilifeform mentioned some pdf
textualizer in
the logs ?
mircea_popescu: but im serious about
the ocr and
the
text
to speech. it can do
the bulk of
the work.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> got any good ocr and sound
to
text software atm ? << Dunno of any yet
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> and prolly best
to make it a page rather
than a
txt file. people want what
they want when
they click. << Updated
this one now
to have both
mircea_popescu: and prolly best
to make it a page rather
than a
txt file. people want what
they want when
they click.
mircea_popescu: automate as much of it as possible and
then automate
the remainder.
twice.
mircea_popescu: textifying all
the pdfs/scans idiots dump online, as well as
textifying audio/video are very legitimates avenues for qntra
to add value
BingoBoingo: 38 pages so I'll
txt it a bit different. .txt file
to download
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you going
to make
that court document scan a
text btw ?
mircea_popescu: the very definition of a rogue state is "one which construes itself more powerful
than
the private citizen"
mircea_popescu: “The government posits
two standards of behavior: one for private citizens, who must adhere
to a strict standard of conduct construed by
the government,” read a final filing
Tuesday. “The other for
the government, which, with its elastic ability
to effect electronic intrusion, can deliberately, cavalierly, and unrepentantly
transgress
those same standards.”
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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
the
technicality known as "technically, i gotta eat, and
these people are paying for it."
midnightmagic: the form of an investigation is almost
the entirety of whether justice is served
BingoBoingo: The judge alledges he could have claimed ownership in a way
that wouldn't be a confession, but which would have effectively made his
taking
the stand either have
to end in a confession or perjury
midnightmagic: must
the neighbour give
testimoney
that
the police were
trespassing
to invalidate an apprehension?
trespass is presumed, not proven.
kanzure: did he claim
that his property rights were violated, or
that
the owner's property rights were violated?
midnightmagic: 14:30 <+mircea_popescu> gerstein addressing known shill, scammer and general clueless derp : "you're just like us! we love you here!" <<
thank you
thickasthieves: "Ulbricht hadn’t sufficiently demonstrated
that
the server belonged
to him, and
thus can’t claim
that his privacy rights were violated by its search. "
assbot: Judge Rejects Defense
That FBI Illegally Hacked Silk RoadOn a
Technicality | WIRED
assbot: Quantcast -
Top Ranking International Websites
BingoBoingo: Oh Quantcast and WP stats are pretty similar in
the numbers
assbot: Qntra.net
Traffic and Demographic Statistics by Quantcast
mircea_popescu: if and seems like were rowing in a boat. if if weren't
there, seems like seems like'd have drowned.
mircea_popescu: "SENATOR GERSTEIN (1:50:40) Mr. Antonopolous, your reputation preceded you prior
to your arrival. You may recall
that in my introductory remarks, I did not introduce you as a Bitcoin guru, but as
THE Bitcoin guru. I
think
that I could speak on behalf of all of
the members of
the committee in saying
that you have more
than lived up
to
that reputation. We greatly appreciate your presentation
today.
Thank you very much,
t bounce: though even if he'd shouted high and low it was something else entirely
that just happened
to carry
the exact same unit value as a us dollar
they'd still hang him on
the nearest
tree of accusations.
they're like
that. any old excuse will do.
mircea_popescu: cazalla dude
this chick can write. let it not be said all qntra articles are short ever again lol
mircea_popescu: and it was pretty derpy/insane
to boot. i mean literally, going by shops,
telling random people
that hey,
this is as much a dollar as
that.
mircea_popescu: something anyone with any sense could have
told him will never float unless he also has an army.
bounce: ``The founder of Liberty Reserve, a virtual currency used by cybercriminals around
the world
to launder proceeds of
their illegal activity, was extradited from Spain and arrived in
the United States
this afternoon.'' -- so, uhm, why aren't
they even investigating
the current owners and propagators of
that much more widely currency used by criminals, "cyber" and otherwise, world-wide?
bounce: ah, of course it's extra-doubly-criminal if you are a /former/ american doing all
that outside of
the US
mircea_popescu: and fuck whoever came up with
the soap-rest false dichotomy,
too.
bounce: "REST" is all
the rage
these days, and is obviously a fine and good excuse
to push off all
the processing into
the client (and
thereby reinventing just about everything, badly), instead of, oh, having
the server process all
that or just serving up
the content right away.
mircea_popescu: but
there's a bunch of
them.
the retarded crowd
that does videos instead of articles
tends
to send links
to
them instead of plain
text.
mircea_popescu: then everyone copied it. casetext.com in
this exampole
mircea_popescu: google has
this "document" format
that's basically just a bunch of spurious javascript
mircea_popescu: now if only someone made a site
that wasn';t a retarded ball of javascript
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Well
the ones I asked some Indian kid
to do for money and
then diginork beat him
to
the prize when he no-show'd
danielpbarron used BingoBoingo's instructions
to compile bitcoind 0.7.2 on OpenBSD 5.5
cazalla: ;;later
tell princessnell just missed you, was sleeping
The20YearIRCloud: The property I just got is a smoking deal. $30k purchase, about $2k in rehab if
that, will bring in $1050/mo rented with about $300/mo in costs (Taxes, insurance, repairs)
kakobrekla: (im just
thinking re your idea of being a hedge)
The20YearIRCloud: Although
that's gonna go down as we lever, but as of property #10, our costs are a little under 30% of revenues
kakobrekla: seems
to be stuck
to 0.45 no matter what btc or you do or is it just me
assbot: Hospital Pilots Pet
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bounce: those wily belgians
trying
to make a name for
themselves in
time-honoured fashion: "sound scary? read on!"
assbot: Poor punctuation leads
to Windows shell vulnerability | Ars
Technica
assbot: SoundCloud - Hear
the worlds sounds
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: like
that
time
the eulora gameplay post was almsot lost forever?
bounce: oh I have my notes, just didn't jot
that one down
chetty: <thestringpuller> in
the future we will have nanomachines
that prevent us from physically disclosing our handler.
that will be a scary
time.//pls
tell me at least a day ahead of
this
bounce: uhm. looks like I forgot
to
take notes last
time I had beef with some of what he was saying and forgot
to keep up in
the meantime. oh well.
thestringpuller: in
the future we will have nanomachines
that prevent us from physically disclosing our handler.
that will be a scary
time.
mircea_popescu: there's not
that many handlers,
they drive cars,
they have wives, it's a solved problem.
rithm: what's
the meaning of life other
than 42?
mircea_popescu: what/how much
they paid him, but he won't answer
that one.
mats_cd03: i
think i might see schneier again sometime in
the near future
mircea_popescu: if
the code stops working you shouldn't have been using it in
the first place
mats_cd03: i don't know anything about
the web
mircea_popescu: in cryptography, every constant's a salt. you're well advised
to change ALL constants
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 you know how if you install wordpress you're supposed
to change
the pre-generated salt
to something ?
mircea_popescu: so no, i'd
trust anything nist/ieee/etc certified a lot less
than i'd
trust random shit.
thestringpuller: remember
that point you brought up about someone reading a newspaper article about a field
they are well versed in.
That person says, "Wow holes everywhere" etc.
Then he moves
to article from field he is less familiar with and just agrees with it?
mircea_popescu: you are in fact better off using homebrew
than "well vetted", inasmuch as
the western world is in denial about exactly what "well vetted" means as well as what "working
towards stopping use for illicit activity" means
mircea_popescu: bounce except
this would meet
the definition of "well vetted" as commonly deployed.
bounce: it's been ages but an exponent of one isn't a great idea, no.
they shipped with
that? oops. (could see it as another reason why you don't implement crypto yourself; you use a well-vetted library, as in written by cryptographers and
then read by other cryptographers)