65800+ entries in 0.545s
Framedragger: well, i recall asciilifeform's "nearlyfreespeech" hosting provider which boasts are "very honest" resource cost scheme, something to the degree of seconds, with loyalty (depending on total resource usage) discounts being applied every second (or minute, too) :D but that can be
a bit childish.
mircea_popescu: but sure, day works, hour works, i have nfi who would not be interested in
a per hour deal because he wants per minute!!11
Framedragger: re. per minute, i guess i should reach out to consult first eh - this was borne from
a solipsistic "me as
a customer" consideration: e.g. i want to test out some trb feature across multiple different instances, i need good i/o and memory; monthly costs would not be trivial (for the purpose at hand), so i wish to be charged on smaller timescales.
Framedragger: (or, becomes cost-effective if users commit to more extended periods of time; i suppose the thing would have to be flexible re. latter, anyway. i may want to spin something up for testing purposes just for the evening; or, i may want the thing for months+ (with expectation for
a discount.))
Framedragger: unless of course one finds
a provider which can provision physical boxes in
a matter of minutes programatically, but the whole thing would then be
a bit like
a reseller-for-bitcoin, no?
a111: Logged on 2017-05-02 15:50 mircea_popescu: btw, that separate means ~separate~. it's ok to advertise
a max you can supply, 3 or 15 or w/e it is.
Framedragger:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-02#1650908 << i assume that here you meant "separate physically", even though the context was
a discussion about vps? there could of course be
a knob (separate instances, or separate instances on different boxen; the latter attracts
a higher cost).
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2015-08-12 21:41 ascii_field: 'nstead,
a file called "wpbbin.exe" was placed in C:\windows\system32 and executed. That turns out to be
a method Microsoft introduced with Windows 8 to allow the BIOS to execute code on boot up (!?!) called "Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT)". I can find almost NOTHING about this anywhere on the internet except
a single document on Microsoft's website (link to the Google Cache since it's
a .docx file) and in
a random
trinque: she's got
a bare mattress with
a cat on it, looks like
trinque: put
a sheet on your bed god, and get it off the floor
mircea_popescu: btw, that separate means ~separate~. it's ok to advertise
a max you can supply, 3 or 15 or w/e it is.
☟︎ Framedragger: mircea_popescu: well, while i of course agree in general, i don't agree in particular: i'd certainly find it useful to be able to supply
a "curl phuctor stats every 24h, serve here" instruction. or, you know, "submit key", or "comments", or anything else of the sorts.
Framedragger: so in this case it'd just be static content hosting, which is minimal on cpu etc.; there could of course also be an option of supplying
a (signed, of course) payload, but less clear on definite application.
mircea_popescu: and this is
a bona fide economically useful service, mind you, it'd entirely cut the whole "cloud" business at the knees, seeing how 99% of all the actual value they deliver is ~this, execpt at 100x the financial and 10`000x the administrative cost.
Framedragger: easiest way of doing this if it were to return
a non-dns-poisoned ip, as in, trilema.com/stuff1.tgz => 45.56.78.91/stuff1/
mircea_popescu: fast and painless mirrorring is certainly
a valid application for your irc'd vps,
Framedragger: (also, perhaps
a more gradual way of "easing into" tmsr-isp?)
shinohai: I'd certainly be more likely to use irc shell from
a tmsr Lord than rando docker service ran by SV weirdos
Framedragger: there is
a question just how much would people use it. of course, best market research is testing the market itself...
mircea_popescu: well it was sort-of in the logs, at least in general, but it's still
a very cool idea very much needed. scriba-based provisioning or what ?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-29 12:43 mircea_popescu: aaand in not-really-news : avalance in retezat (romanian mountain) killed
a few kids that were european and world record holders in mountain-related items. ro "our democracy" media railing about how the trainer (also father of one of the victims) "forced his two daughters to break record after record while training in EXTREME CONDITIONS!!!1 ONLY TO SATISFY HIS OWN EGOTISM!!1111"
mircea_popescu: then 15 years later they're having "
a conversation" on ~~facebook~~ about things (
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-29#1649833 ) and expect to be taken seriously, and for their INCREDIBLY offensive tone to pass as socially acceptable. the romanians of facebook, disgusting crawlies that came out of the eggs laid by the "romanians on ms office" repugnant creepies.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: to them it seemed natural to get
a govt job and explore what the computer "lets them" do
mircea_popescu: and
a whole generation of fucktards who should have been hung instead got into computers.
mircea_popescu: it started once "romanian language" became
a thing, they started hawking keyboards for it and "localized ms office" and bullshit.
Framedragger: b-b-but they have
a list of approved ports and they would only use them approved ports!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but just make it incompatible with internet. nic / "router" / whatever item which
a) sprays out numbers just like current but b) does all the alf magic routing + encryption + etc.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger only if the firewall isn't
a slut for the same punters.
mircea_popescu: not exactly undoable, either, but not much of
a priority as we don't have yet
a tmsr internet spec.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger like in that scene derps love to quote, "what good is
a phone mr usg, if you can't talk ?"
a111: Logged on 2017-05-02 11:09 Framedragger: HN is like "Ah geez. Time to create
a competent chip manufacturer. Anyone got
a spare US sized military budget?"
Framedragger: HN is like "Ah geez. Time to create
a competent chip manufacturer. Anyone got
a spare US sized military budget?"
☟︎ pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: could you take
a picture of said $28k pickup ?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-10 01:43 mircea_popescu is more than willing to share his dollar-
a-lb bounty with l1 all-comers. i also made myself fruit salad out of [actually ripe] mango, [actually ripe] pineapple, [actually ripe] banmanas, drenched in fresh oj etc.
mats: and claims as to 'our team was looking for hardware backdoors' when the guy's
a 'journalist' is dubious at best
mircea_popescu: also
a row boat where you live goes for $200 to $800 depending on model.
Framedragger: (in fairness, it wasn't 'newlifeomg!', it was '
a buncha things in 1991~2 .lt during bank crisis etc')
a111: Logged on 2017-05-01 19:37 mircea_popescu: the lulz of all fucking time,
a grand bought his father
a new life 25 years ago ; i just did the household accounting, my petty cash line is
a shade over $8`000. that excludes rents like it excludes isp bills or agents on
a mission or anything else worth the fucking mention.
a grand would buy me half
a week's worth of groceries, taking
a girl out or buying her some random dress we saw in the window so she comes out of the sho
Framedragger: almost as if the thing would need to wait and then send
a challenge to that same nick, but this is kinda promisetronic i guess.
mircea_popescu: trinque there's
a vulnerability in how deedbot handles registrations in that even with nick enforcing on, one has enough time before chanserv kicks him off (2-3 seconds ?) to shoot
a reg string at deedbot and get the name registered to his key.
Framedragger: "tl;dr: OVH had an issue where your second network card was connected to other servers in the datacenter. This allowed you to run
a DHCP server and offer
a gateway. This also allows you to MITM several machines outbound traffic, I had 35 machines responding back with DHCP Leases and about 4 routing outbound traffic to me as their router."
Framedragger: re 'years from now', guess so, can't see why not. fun exploit times! (but seriously, opened ticket at $provider to query about
a xeon cpu)
Framedragger: ('provisioning' (see link) is (i think)
a separate thing.)
Framedragger: "I can vouch for iluvbitcoins. I haven't dealt with him but I have
a spoken to him
a few times
a while back." what
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: in theory, any objections to
a dc located in india ?
shinohai should start brokering shitcoin for ecu at
a btc 2:1 ratio
mircea_popescu: nobody said you gotta be
a figment of some redditard's imagination, now did they.
mircea_popescu: yes. the alternative to not being
a creature of this world is BEING
a creature of this world.
mircea_popescu: if
a million dollars buys you
a decent meal in another 25 years you should count yourself lucky, and that's only 2042, 8 more to go to 2050.
mircea_popescu: the lulz of all fucking time,
a grand bought his father
a new life 25 years ago ; i just did the household accounting, my petty cash line is
a shade over $8`000. that excludes rents like it excludes isp bills or agents on
a mission or anything else worth the fucking mention.
a grand would buy me half
a week's worth of groceries, taking
a girl out or buying her some random dress we saw in the window so she comes out of the sho
☟︎ mircea_popescu: just like it doesn't really matter what specifically you watch on tv, it's still turning you into
a single fat middle aged woman.
Framedragger: i admit that i still have this notion of "global internet" in my mind, as
a +ev thing.
mircea_popescu: so explain this to me. yesterday i was in ##crypto. after
a while i... left. this has the blessed effect that the inept idiocies spewed by some immature dickheads no longer befoul my timeline. turkey allowed wikipedia. then after
a while it turned it off. this has the blessed effect thjat immature dickheads no longer befoul its timeline.
Framedragger finds any "blocking" to be retarded on
a fundamental level
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: they have massive firewall, blocking at will. could be not
a problem, depending on business case of customers of course. and i guess the counter would be "everyone does"
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: lol if people want boxes racked in the heart of the empire i can do it for 100/mo for
a 2U
mircea_popescu: Framedragger i dun right off know i'd have
a problem with turkey.
mircea_popescu: i'd have bought in mossul had the idiots been
a little less inept
mircea_popescu: i'm actually thinking of standing up
a similar box for eulora.
trinque: I dunno how
a kid from .lt thinks whichever govt is everlasting; even the last two cocks that fucked them in the ass withered
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as "different fiats". the chinese made
a usd-counerparty-fiat just for the purpose of insulating usg from their economy.
Framedragger: (also, by 'usd' meant
a portfolio of different fiats)
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: alright, more than that: i place higher odds of usd surviving in 2050 if put against btc surviving in 2050. why:
a very primitive "age of existence" heuristic. and, i don't trust EC crypto, like, you know, no-one here does. so not willing to put retirement savings into btc. it adds up, utilities, retirement.
mircea_popescu: consider : even if i somehow decided to sell
a girl, there exists no one who can meaningfully pay for her. what "money" ?
mircea_popescu: the prototype of the former being of course naggum, who would have some rather pointed questions to answer hadn't he taken the easy way out. most of the rest aren't quite that hard stuff, live
a life of living death instead, cowering in their basement from tmsr emails etc.
Framedragger: yes but this is
a bit circular, one of those "prove P: if tmsr, then P; ergo, P"
Framedragger: they just use linux and do not give
a fuck about getting fucked in ass if money keeps flowing in. money from business and customers who *are not* high-principled powerusers
mircea_popescu: then they wanna go around pretending like fucking goats is somehow obscene. had they fucked goats instead they'd be quite
a lot more respectable.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger or they have
a 3 ring binder, or whatever the fuck. why should i debug their process when instead i could debug yours.
Framedragger: maybe
a matter of renting rack unit vs rack vs cage
mircea_popescu: i mean of course you'll colocate boxes, this is what you do. isp places his boxes in
a datacenter, it's the job description.
mircea_popescu: this is like
a discussion of dairy attempting to avoid cows.
mircea_popescu: russia is not without its own problems but having
a dc there is certainly
a sound plan.
mircea_popescu: ~any isp will open you
a wire channel if you're paying them substantially. pay them quarterly, it'll be substantial enough.