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mircea_popescu: brendafdez: I was wondering if the Wordpress pingback DDoS is still an issue
<< it was never fixed. they just "Refactored" the code to preserve all th bugs but break people's ability to find them. someone in the comment section did the work and identified the new form of the ancient bug.
mircea_popescu: brendafdez :I could be running some shady business there instead...
<< wut ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: either a 'loose lips' or - more likely - ancient disinfo reworked for www
<< that.
mircea_popescu: decimation:
< 'leadership' at its finest
<< no, he has a point, and it's perhaps the first time i've seen obama say something intelligent.
kakobrekla: x arbitrary time
< not when x approaches infinite
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but to somehow lay out electrical logic elements at the customary densities
<< you're right that it's the wrong thought, and also, "customary" - honestly even making something like a z80, as long as it can be made at home, with equipment costing about what a z80 cost, is well worth it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: probably needs entirely new chemistry.
<< graphite base ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: safe and secure in the ca government's hands.
<< fountains gotta fountain.
danielpbarron: "Zhe was walking zher dog down the street and then gave zhim a treat."
<< couldn't it be "Zhe was walking zher dog .. and gave zher a treat" ?
BingoBoingo: "And if some high official, such as the president, says it will use gender-neutral pronouns for its own writing, and ask that those writing to it do so also, that would provide a powerful boost."
<< Ther fixed with objectification
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: minuteman
<< did you ever read into the 'amateur' rocketry group with whom i dorked around for a while in undergrad?
mod6:
<+mod6> we'll see if it passes 160001
<< derp. 168,001
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> [] but to somehow lay out electrical logic elements at the customary densities without resort to a $1B factory.
<< for the record, this is a hobble.
decimation: "I’m as strong as I have been. I think the only concern is our law enforcement is expected to stop every plot. Every attack. Any bomb on a plane. The first time that attack takes place in which it turns out that we had a lead and we couldn’t follow up on it, the public’s going to demand answers."
< 'leadership' at its finest
BingoBoingo: 7b0e48befe8051bdeb8a31272abb1b9067928e4a237110105897334a08b02fd197b47a52a3eb4bb508a2983b75e0457f059c85aff0f8aea9a161cb83fee14e31
<< FOr plaintext saved as name "test.txt"
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: the sheer amount of smoke and misdirection being sprayed over the disk diddler article is epic
<< Interested in producing a likbez for qntra on this sort of disinformation, in this case specifically?
nanotube:
<mircea_popescu> nanotube ^ can two nicks have same gpg fingerprint ?
<- nope, gribble checks upon registration if the key is already in use.
Adlai: "i'm renting a physical *(yes)* box"
<- as in, "have i visited the box personally and confirmed that it occupies the same reality as me? _yes_"
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> i'm renting a physical (yes) box for ~25 usd / mo
<< wherewherewhere
danielpbarron: SetBestChain: 1 of last 100 blocks above version 2
<< anyone else seeing this in their .bitcoin/debug.log ? does it have to do with 0.10 coming out?
lobbes: asciilifeform: unless i misunderstand, jurov isn't opening a clinic for the poor
<< Fair enough. Point taken
mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> jurov why not run a bitcoin host ? we kept wanting it
<< yeah!
mircea_popescu:
<assbot> 0 results for 'resistor dac'
<< you know this came to 0 because you had to ruin steming ? hm ?
mircea_popescu: jurov: they say bluray has pit size 150 nm, track pitch 320 nm.. allows for quite a density
<< easier to do on the disk than on the ic, but you have a good point there.
mats: 01:41:05 asciilifeform: ... 2) proven as concept in 'linux on hdd head controller' ~2 yrs ago ...
<< link? a googling wasn't helpful
assbot: Logged on 17-02-2015 01:41:05; asciilifeform: hdd firmware
<< 1) snore. revealed definitively in doc. ~month ago,
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=18-01-2015#981436 2) proven as concept in 'linux on hdd head controller' ~2 yrs ago 3) experimented with privately by numerous folks, incl. yours truly, for a few years before 4) mostly a snore, even the best hdd diddle falls down in a raid5 system
lobbes: jurov: lobbes it's matter of degrees, the more deeper you go, the less you think you know
<< yeah, that seems to be the theme of everything I learn. Which plays into the 'addiction' point MP made. "There's more to learn!"
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: soon enough you'll be pretty disatisfied with the world in general
<< i thought this was naturally a part of the aging process. i.e. "the old man".
punkman: cazalla: a wiki of bitcoin companies, who was involved, when they launched/closed etc etc, edited and maintained by a select few
<< I pitched this idea a couple times, guess the time has come for it?
pete_dushenski: "The Great Internet Power Grab: We’ve come a long way from Steve Jobs as ‘phone phreak’ to Tom Wheeler as ruler of the Internet."
<< should i know who tom wheeler is ? if he's someone, why isn't he here ?
ben_vulpes: 'fyiad'
<< worst part about living here is the misery endured to scrape food credits together
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> those early ipods were phenomenally well designed.
<< yes. because they were built around exactly one core value. "what's that for ? fuck you, you're not putting that in here."
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 01:42:33; decimation: then I heard this podcast:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/glenn_reynolds.html << "Guest: It's funny--one of my friends, who has been a long-term, upper level bureaucrat in Washington said to me his favorite phenomenon to see is these people coming through these usually politically-appointed jobs and, he says: They think everybody loves them. And then they leave the job and they realize that eve
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> In other words, is it possible that our enemies judge us by our actions, regardless of intent-- and if you support Ahmadenijad on TV, then that counts-- while we retreat into the narcissists' hideout of identity-as-declared, where any actions can be disavowed as "not who we are?""
<< AKA argument by "FYIAD"
BingoBoingo:
<mmeyer> I'm confused, new to irc
<< Many people are indeed new compared to IRC. Meat odometer just rolled over and yet IRC is still older than me
ben_vulpes:
<mmeyer> quite in here
<< you did make it, yes :P
decimation: "Records of the German Foreign Office Received by the Department of State. Microfilm Publication T120. 5,485 rolls. (Includes records of the German Foreign Office, 1867-1945, and records of the Reichs Chancellery, 1919-1945)."
<< $685k
mircea_popescu: mike_c: hm. is it kosher for two nicks in the wot to have the same gpg key?
<< notrly. is this observable ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: while everyone knows the caveats of the 'million fly eyes', the concept of closed source os is really dead forever
<< agreed.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: More RAM makes
<< there's a legitimate "keep blockchain on ramdisk" thing. sadly... it won't be feasible. it's luxury.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> decimation what srsly ?!
<< Pickled hering much more common is USia. We care to stock for our Joos but not eastern Europeans
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: So Free world chip foundries are what, 5 to 20 years out?
<< about that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ^ specifically prohibited in the export control statute
<< except the us exports diddly squat. it imports everything
BingoBoingo:
<Adlai> let's take a step back. the wot should be about who trusts whom, and trust is verified on the basis of signatures. i see no reason why node identity should be based on anything other than signing keys.
<< limit in wetware when parsing single identity multiple nicks