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mircea_popescu: but to get back to it : no, hitler didn't have much of a clue, nor were any of his decisions either sound, useful or correct.
mircea_popescu: hitler cost germany a little over halfd a century.
mircea_popescu: a sanely managed german "empire" would have outcompeted britain out of the ground by 1950.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the quack of 5millenia before is not a comparable item in this scope though.
asciilifeform: take qin shi huangdi , say. definitely a credit, one of the few credits, to his.
mircea_popescu: had germany been led by a sane man, it'd have just maintained a defensive alliance with japan an' argentina. never empowered the idiots, not in italy, not in russia.
mircea_popescu: srsly now, hitler was a rank imbecile, and in practical terms a major discredit to his country.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you think hitler was much of a man ?!
asciilifeform: iirc no less a man than hitler, supported whole stable of alchemists, quacks.
asciilifeform: faux crypto ain't ever going away, it is like homeopathy, astrology, fills a niche in the poor, the lazy, the intellectually powerless, for 'control'
mircea_popescu: that's the rub. not "need one billion". you don't. but you DO need a giant fly swatter to oppress teh masses with.
asciilifeform: 'if i had a ' hamme^H^H^H^H^Hfab, i'd start with very humble things, like... rom.
mircea_popescu: nothing prevents you from using a normal one this way as it is.
asciilifeform: (oh imho a future otp rom, if anyone finds himself sitting on a throne, and wants to make one, ought to have not one but TWO fuses per bit. so that nobody can turn a 1 into a 0 later by blowing an unblown fuse. so you'd have 10 -> 1; 01 -> 0; 11 -> dead cell, ergo dead chip; 00 -> blank cell, only found on blank (new) chip.)
phf: that would be a nifty project if it didn't just reduce to "raspberry pi"
shinohai: http://archive.is/4AQNB "Rising polonium prices and a stagnant economy force Russians to use gravity poisoning to save rubles"
phf: i tried doing that through the citrix client, no dice (back when i was working for a place tha tuses a citrix client)
asciilifeform: ( you can easily piss an exe into existence, via vnc, using 'alt codes' , or by getting hold of exploder and pissing in a url to load from, or possibly other ways. similar process in other os with exposed vnctron )
asciilifeform: incidentally, i wonder if anybody's ever written a vnc worm.
asciilifeform: (there is, as of yet, nothing resembling a tolerable substitute for x11 protocol, sadly.)
phf: i'm confused. genera is client, unix is server means that genera is going to display itself in a window on a unix box. (client/server in xorg terminology)
asciilifeform: seems like a way to make a really slow xterminal ?
asciilifeform: not a 'lombard'.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: on examination it turns out the box is a 'wallstreet'
a111: Logged on 2016-03-20 13:54 mircea_popescu: phf> ok, not sure if anybody tried yet, but asciilifeform's gentoo chicken works as prescribed << it does, yes, and it IS a very good and useful thing. almost makes me feel bad when mocking linuxen.
asciilifeform: phf: the wacom ? it's a 2nd mouse, aha
phf: i think the only thing i haven't tried yet is the stylus, which doesn't work if you just startx. i vaguely suspect there's a second mouse device i need to wire into the right place..
asciilifeform still has a 'libretto' with openbsd
asciilifeform: hey there was actually a standard.
mircea_popescu: "this is a standard ibm pc at clone"
pete_dushenski: powerbook g3 ? thought those were nifty as a kid but i was still on desktops at the time. brief foray into laptopery didn't come until college in 04
phf: pretty sure it won't, i even read a reason for it, but don't recall what it is anymore
asciilifeform: 10.4 iirc was a bitch
pete_dushenski: myea, that's next step for sure. was trying to configure dual boot for no other reason than that i like the idea of 10.4 in the house. but that's probably a lost cause. there's only so much time to dump into the sinkhole.
asciilifeform: *a tip from
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, pete_dushenski , trinque , et al : here's a top from asciilifeform's house of horrors : don't bother selective-booting the things. just yank the drive and put what you want on it ~directly~, then put back.
asciilifeform: ( it'll be interesting , however, if i ever actually turn 'nqb' into something like a btctron, to see what it'll run on, with the programmable memory footprint and hard-realtime mechanics.. )
mircea_popescu: tbh i have nfi how you could run trb in a vps. i don't think it's possible, not really. would be certainly quite the medal of merit on any software that can handle such. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i also have a gb or so of pix.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-22#1631005 << this is not a bad idea, for eventually. ☝︎
asciilifeform: yea it's a pre-plastic auto. ☟︎
ben_vulpes: not only is that terrible for your alignment but if you ever even come close to hitting the rev limiter in a car you want to preserve the value of....
ben_vulpes: you want to hoon around the parking lot making smoke? buy a drift slut, don't do that to the wrx
asciilifeform: i could picture a water-cooled thing with a very short loop, and good seals (i.e. no expectation of ever being able to disassemble it: welded copper pipes, like your fridge) not leaking.
asciilifeform had a water-cooled box, with around six litres, for some years. (it ~did~ eventually leak.)
ben_vulpes: this is like a water cooled small plane engine
trinque: seems like quads are a bit harder to find
asciilifeform: (i.e. not a repainted wintel box, but actual exotica)
ben_vulpes: i've yet to lay hands on a qc
ben_vulpes sighs a sigh for the days gone by
ben_vulpes: thing showed up with a fresh 10.4 install
ben_vulpes: optical media is a go, though.
mod6: also, I think the idea of deedifying my version of V is also worthwhile... I think I've simply been waiting for it to satisfy the constraints before creating a genesis. Once that's created, then I'd say it'd be worthy of freezing.
trinque: and understand, outside of the L1, your opinion on how infrastructure is run is worth nothing, and your "everyone does X, so I can" construction makes you sound like a bed-wetter.
trinque: ftr, all trb downloads come from a dedicated deeds box I've been happy to run as core infrastructure pro bono.
mircea_popescu: eh. no way in fuck anyone walks up to a naked woman and talks to her.
mircea_popescu: i think he was married. there was a very hot and bothared youth. he made it first.
asciilifeform: here in northern monkeystan 'no papers' is a guaranteed trip to the station.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to my eye the amusing thing is that if you get a nude hottie out in the open, what'll happen is the half dozen boys that'll dare approach will a) be symbolically protected by their magical uniform garb and b) ask for the perturbation in the force be removed OH PLEASE GOD MAKE IT GO AWAY.
mircea_popescu: i didn't get a ticket for it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is that even a ticketable offense in mircea_popesculandia ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, mp takes girl to picnic at neighbourhood park, she goes naked, within 15 minutes there's half a dozen local cops around the blanket being all concerned. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i set up a lisp in there once, even (i forget which, may have been clisp) but it was a pain, whole process had to be born when page is loaded, and promptly die
asciilifeform: the thing is hyper-optimized for hosting well-ddosed blogs. and specifically ones running on 1990s-style software, where the cpu is idle except when somebody is actually loading a page. but other than that imposes no restrictions on proggies you run, last i saw you even had gcc in there, could build own, run.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: we are speaking of simulacra. i have nfi if it is physically a 'whole' process.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: whoa a whole process? not a connection?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: you get a postgres process tho. by ticking a box in the www acct panel; it then magically appears in your pseudolinux.
asciilifeform: (rather than a proprietary crapolade uploader, or ftp, as typical in ye olde 'shared host')
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it is closer to vps, actually, you get an ssh login and a thing that superficially resembles an actual linux box from inside said ssh
ben_vulpes: shared hosting, traditionally, no? but what else is a vps but shared hosting
asciilifeform: (they also have a thing, iirc, where you can buy 'buckets' of bandwidth, for use in case of elaborate ddos, but i have not tried it)
fd_travel: yeah i liked quite a few things about them when i spotted them long ago, micro-precision accounting, etc.
asciilifeform: they also claim that they have never dropped a paying account other than by court order , but i have no way of knowing if true.
asciilifeform: fd_travel: they have a strange and ancient setup, you use their nameserver, the boxes actually serving up your thing, vary, the ip is not static, quite eldritch
ben_vulpes: in other top lols, you can now have a "custom gender" in the google play store
asciilifeform: i am actually rather fond of my vps hoster, nfs co (discussed in the logs at least twice, one of which was the time mircea_popescu wrote to them 'why not bitcoin?' and they answered 'bitcoin is a snore', he then barfed)
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform's www is on a vps, has been for decade+ , but it is not 'infrastructure'. )
ben_vulpes: do you have a citation for that claim?
fd_travel: hey to my knowledge quite a bit of tmsr infra is on vps :)
asciilifeform: it's on a vps?!
danielpbarron: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-22#1630987 << for a second this looked like a response to the previous line :D ☝︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: iirc he posted a photo at some point, is in the l0gz
asciilifeform: that one time i sent a sample of boards to mircea_popescu , in 2014, was a real lulzfest
Framedragger: (mail from US takes a while here sometimes)
Framedragger: it's one thing tor jumping ahead with newhope because omg POSTQUANTUM, but a pgp board.. lol
ben_vulpes: oooh and make a bunch of work for 'ai' image recognition programmers
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/0qmNU << from same rag. 'The US Third Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a lower court ruling of contempt against a chap who claimed he couldn't remember the password to decrypt his computer's hard drives.'
asciilifeform: gentoo afaik never had a theo de raadt, with cellar full of vax, pdp
asciilifeform: iirc - a postman's widow could collect a mil. depending on when he dies.
mircea_popescu: and it still is a whole million of 1980 dollars.
asciilifeform: 'where am i?' 'you are in a car'
asciilifeform: 'Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer holds a pistol as he prepared to shoot himself in front of cameras during a news conference in his State Capitol office in Harrisburg.' << pretty great
ben_vulpes: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/03/30-years-ago-a-look-back-at-1987/520290/ << featuring agent orange, liza minella, old compaqs, the clintons, and a few ships on fire
mircea_popescu: they were trying to do final fantasy tactics! holy shit, a decade later
mircea_popescu: most of the tubes lead nowhere / most of the nerves aren't connected / most of the cables lay buried in a pile of mud.
mircea_popescu: contrary to the common fantasy, most betas would actually be a lot fucking happier if they could live in out and out sexual slavery rather than the bs they're stuck with currently.
phf: he's not that smooth, though that would be a sop reaction in india
mircea_popescu: so he turns around and "ass grabbing carries a twenny dollar fine m'am"
phf: i know a guy who rickshaws (in new york, now in austin), and loved it for that very reason. i think he stopped because young girls don't typically get pedicab, mostly drunken old women who "grab his ass" etc.
asciilifeform: from the position of a draft horse?!