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asciilifeform: the_scourge: you will find that one of the more interesting ideas we run with in #b-a is that public opinion isn't a particularly interesting concept re: bitcoin
the_scourge: do the russians make LTE hotspots? they've started making smartphones with e-ink, but it's a shame i didn't hear about it until after i went off of smartphones entirely
asciilifeform: the telco drops anything at all coming your way that isn't part of a tcp connection you established earlier
the_scourge: this is a paying client. even though everything pointed to me being targeted, i still didn't want to make more noise than i already had
the_scourge: i didn't ask for the USB stick
the_scourge: yes it was ssdp, i couldn't remember (brain fart and i'm home chilling)
asciilifeform: TomServo: can't recall such a thing
jurov: mircea_popescu: your pastebin doesn't verify
mircea_popescu: a node of unknown provenance doesn't exist.
mircea_popescu: "All programs have been written, and that program is Lisp. With perfection already attained, implementation is left to the ignorant who do not already know the truth of this." << shit, now i know why i don't code.
mircea_popescu: jurov im reading the logs see why my email died, haven't gotten therer yet but will presently.
mircea_popescu: t negrate on sight
mircea_popescu: o hey good idea. why didn't i think of that!
mircea_popescu: trinque: who in the fuck let these bastards steal fire from the gods, and why wasn't I told about this? << but... http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming
asciilifeform doesn't know
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no you didn't
mircea_popescu: trinque: should I be de-publishing things that ended up timestamped on a dropped fork? << things can't end up detimestamped in the first place.
mircea_popescu: trinque: these "key value stores" are a joke << you don't understand the power ranger power range!
mod6: wow this thing ran all night wedged @ 168,000: but didn't die http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=384mvxXm
punkman: can't even find option to turn it off.
jurov: i have found this but it won't work with short key ids: http://w.b-a.link/trust/7C1FBEC924FBD66531A02AE3F95E4E395927DC9C/FC66C0C5D98C42A1D4A98B6B42F9985AFAB953C4/json
cazalla: mebe telemarkets and auto dialer couldn't find anyone free at the call centre to put you through to
trinque: why don't they just invite the phoundation to the real one
trinque: who in the fuck let these bastards steal fire from the gods, and why wasn't I told about this?
fluffypony: just don't ever restart
trinque: "sorry database, I don't know the data I want by name. You're supposed to tell me that..."
mircea_popescu: (also bear in mind these aren't really supposed to ever power down)
mircea_popescu: think about it : if it won't be easy to keep track of ips it follows it's no longer a chokepoint.
decimation: even if we want to start a backbone of little pogos, it won't be easy to keep track of ips
mircea_popescu: it's lightweight, large and dependable. all the qualities the dns letters don't actually have.
mircea_popescu: i don't see the letter dns servers perceive any need for putting my fucking ip in their list anywhere.
mircea_popescu: that's the idea isn't it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not specifically. we don't really care.
asciilifeform: but presumably we aren't trying to build a closed parallel universe
mircea_popescu: you see a nail go "don't hit me unless i actually go in the wall" ?
mircea_popescu: because the aliens aren't about to land with platinum visas for everyone.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform everything ever seems one thing until it isn't. you know ?
mircea_popescu: heh. people keep derping about the 1% but don't really want to be teh 1% eh ?
Vexual: i like the art deco font, reminds me of a time i can't possibly remember
decimation: usg ought to be careful with pushing this kind of shit, you don't want the little people to become confused about banking
mircea_popescu: decimation pity they don't have the backbone (and leadership) to start a cash only program, and publicly denounce banking as a scam.
mircea_popescu: i can;t wait for when it's not about the block size but about the total bitcoins, and it's noit about "saving africa" but about saving ubs, and the howlers are not on the forum but on every tv screen,
decimation: didn't some ubs guy jump out a window a few years ago
mircea_popescu: if ubs wasn't so very bankrupt, it'd even matter more.
asciilifeform: wasn't that an old idiocy ?
mircea_popescu: but then, for it doesn't end there! then she confronted teh comedy goldminers by saying that "they each paid a quarter to see a fool, but she's been paid 50 bux and sees a roomfull of fools"
mircea_popescu: the move from "laughed their ass at me" to "didn't like" ? blaming the band ? here : http://trilema.com/2015/have-some-chocolate-cake/#comment-111925
mircea_popescu: a) claimed that the poor arrangement / band / etc were the reason people "didn't like" her 2nd performance.
mircea_popescu: this was a simple woman who couldn't write, that infatuated herself with the notion that she can produce poetry
mircea_popescu: don't lol mr, my work on this topic has been reviewed by internet csseconomists and other lolexperts. plus oleg leganza.
decimation: cable companies don't want mickey mouse crypto to cause some kind of pr incident
asciilifeform: decimation: the funny part isn't any of this, but that wtf is the point, isp has plaintext of your packets necessarily, anyway
decimation: don't worry little consumer, your device uses 'military grade crypto'
asciilifeform: decimation: i can't be arsed to wade through spec, but didja find who generates key?
asciilifeform: decimation: i haven't a clue, but generally a mass-produced gadget in usa -never- used proper public key crypto
decimation: but I don't know if the spec is open
asciilifeform: i can't say that i've kept up with the work on the subject
mircea_popescu: decimation the two aren't really distinct.
asciilifeform: decimation: i can't speak for the whole planet, but nothing i've used in usa filters incoming except in the sense of -all- incoming being denied by wireless providers
mircea_popescu: it doesn't really need as much.
mircea_popescu: all the people who act all shocked when gavin & co can't get enough credit to write a hello world in basic fail to recognize about two years of history trying to gently nudge, then educate, then eventually beat the idiots into some sort of shape
mircea_popescu: always handwaved away by teh power rangers, but hey, you don't end up at the bottom of my shitlist by being responsive and responsible.
mircea_popescu: i probably didn't do it right.
asciilifeform: mod6, danielpbarron: in case this wasn't clear, my armv5 build still has the checkpoints (other than orphanage burner, only the basic patches are in)
asciilifeform: that's it (unless jurov has some other weird constraint in there we haven't yet discovered)
mircea_popescu: i don't just "keep it around', it's what i actually use.
mircea_popescu: mod6 wasn;t it the old plan ?!
mod6: I wasn't fully sure that it wasn't our build script or something wonky screwing it up... but a hand-build showed the same result.
mircea_popescu: mod6 i didn't see a 168000 exactly freeze either, ever
asciilifeform: cuntbearer << can't help but imagine this as something like a cupbearer
mircea_popescu: well here's the thing : i don't happen to give a shit about the guy's color
mircea_popescu: ith this piece, despite-but also because of-its shock value. I think it makes its point better than any factual article could. As a friend of mine said, "It makes you so uncomfortable that you can't ignore it." I admit that rereading it makes even me, the author, uncomfortable! Numerous friends have warned me that in publishing this piece I am taking a serious risk of earning myself a reputation as a terrible racist. I
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i don't grok wtf this is supposed to be << was written when the whole 'pronoun warrior' thing was brand new
mircea_popescu: A Person Paper on Purity in Language << i don't grok wtf this is supposed to be.
mod6: we're still testing this out... but i/we haven't encoutered anything like this until just this past 72 hours:
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform afaik windows doens't mind secret partitions.
asciilifeform: i don't know any serious computer user who does not have a multitude of spinning disks at all times.
jurov: people who know how to open ports either do have a node or can't be arsed to even for free
jurov: jus' saying i don't have anyone to give pogostick to.
jurov: i won't contend that
assbot: man I'm glad the systemd devs all have SSDs. http://t.co/92rGdSitBF
assbot: Haha. "Please use the shared hairdryers only for the hair on your head. Thank you for your cooperation." http://t.co/49FIEB4iKo
pete_dushenski: I think that in the old days where the financial system was not too developed, the only way to develop a new idea was to be born rich, to have resources and use them. Today and increasingly so to the extent the financial system works well, you can start a company, apply an idea, or even run large companies even if you are not born rich and don't have a lot of money.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: doug h is sui generis. can't really place him in a genre. he wrote a number of tomes for folks who like mathematics (in particular, logic and theory of computation), languages, translation. he is also a fairly good translator of ru->eng, even rhyme-preserving pushkin. blew my mind.
mircea_popescu: not exactly unconnected, for sure, but never invited to a fundraiser either, unless it's for the state capitol and they couldn't fill the seats.
mircea_popescu: eh get out. i control so many I don't know all of em by name
asciilifeform: theoretically - if registrar won't pull, we can regard the shilling as a proven fact
mircea_popescu: wasn't goping to say anything, but since it's public now..
mircea_popescu: in the words of one of the numerous us generals remembered for losing a war, "the unknowns that we know about, we name terrorism. the unknowns we don't know about, we predend don't exist. that and the state department is how we spend a trillion for the priviledge of spending another trillion."
mircea_popescu: trinque don't make it larger than your head.
trinque: if one part shouldn't talk to another, it doesn't
punkman: with -connect=ADDRESS it doesn't use built-in seeds
mircea_popescu: "you haven't happened yet"
mircea_popescu: well i haven't run a stock node in years, so.
mike_c: hopefully addnode didn't get nixed
mircea_popescu: irc should probably stay because a) it doesn't actualy do anything atm and b) it will be an easy upgrade to gossipd
asciilifeform: but we can't zap both it and the dns seeder (already submitted zap for the latter) without a fresh list of seeds
asciilifeform: and, much as it is intriguing that so many nodes still hang out on irc bitcoin-xx channel, that thing doesn't belong in the RI
mircea_popescu: mike_c a mechanism made by someone not in wot doesn't really exist.
the_scourge: um "i need to get laid" doesn't mean fuck all