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asciilifeform: observe that this was not the fault of how the germans built their roofs.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-28#1690484 << when in 80s volga germans were expelled from their spiffy and self-sufficient freeholds in kazahstan, the shitmonkey locals promptly removed the roofs (kindling!) set up yurts (houses are for sheep!) and shat everywhere (toilet is for sheep watering bowl) ☝︎
asciilifeform: lol!!
asciilifeform: lolk
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's an avvers
asciilifeform: nm worx
asciilifeform: trilema down?!
asciilifeform: phf: i can also imagine future where cannibals wear my stuffed skin, what of it ☟︎
asciilifeform: all sane programs do fixed allocation.
asciilifeform: bit twiddles to save 1 byte here and there etc
asciilifeform: phf: ftr i'm going for the exact opposite of this liquishit.
asciilifeform: dunno, afaik opposite, every d00d arrested in usa for anything, from pickpocket to seller of nsa key, seems very surprised
asciilifeform: i'm a little surprised that northkr has not attempted cultivating reputation as tmsr-friendly
asciilifeform: 'free country' may be contradiction in terms.
asciilifeform: all i got is the observation that no ransomware writer who targets anglotards seems to feel in the slightest bit of danger in ru.
asciilifeform: i dun have the desired exhaustive proof of absence.
asciilifeform: preet prosecuted free men for doing free man things.
asciilifeform: expand then plox
asciilifeform: that ain't a 'hacking trial
asciilifeform: thinking of the kaspersky betrayal case ?
asciilifeform: what about mihailov
asciilifeform: i dun read every single local rag of every nowhere district in all of ru. so conceivable that i missed one.
asciilifeform: have counterexample?
asciilifeform: but 0 usg-style preet process.
asciilifeform: nao maybe they feed'em into woodchippers locally, and quietly, i have nfi.
asciilifeform: and 0 extraditions to anywhere, for whatever reason.
asciilifeform: i do know that ~0 'hacking' prosecutions in ru.
asciilifeform: i see where mircea_popescu was going tho.
asciilifeform: supposing it is so. ( it is far from my africa, and can't say for sure. perhaps phf will comment. )
asciilifeform: i can see the argument 'some things needed burnin'
asciilifeform: what's the cultural value of a fire ?
asciilifeform: waiwat
asciilifeform: wassat
asciilifeform: but specifically to subj d00d , plenty value.
asciilifeform: 0 from my telescope
asciilifeform: 1991 or so
asciilifeform: d00d would be a free man if he sat in moscow.
asciilifeform: in this case yes
asciilifeform: not quite everywhere. afaik 0 successful usg kidnappings in ru to date.
asciilifeform: for gassing, i mean.
asciilifeform: as good as usa.
asciilifeform: gotta wonder, are the ru folx actually dumb enough to regularly visit natostans ( greece in above, spain earlier ) or dragged there 1st and parallelconstructed.
asciilifeform: 'Homeland Security Investigations is strongly committed to tracking down criminals who seek to strike at the foundations of global financial security through complex money laundering schemes' didjaknow.
asciilifeform: meanwhile in sunny monkeystan, http://archive.is/AxHUh : 'Russian National And Bitcoin Exchange Charged In 21-Count Indictment For Operating Alleged International Money Laundering Scheme And Allegedly Laundering Funds From Hack Of Mt. Gox'
asciilifeform: oh neat
asciilifeform: 1337w4r3z.
asciilifeform: neat.
asciilifeform: chix handkeyed didntthey.
asciilifeform: where didja find an unbitrotted ocr of that
asciilifeform: 'responsible disclosure' shitsackery. ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'The issue was fixed in GCC back in March but only disclosed today on the oss-sec list as CVE-2017-11671. '
asciilifeform: 'RDRAND/RDSEED instructions for pulling random number generators on modern CPUs may have not been as random as desired when using GCC. '
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-RDRAND-CVE
asciilifeform: ( the veto-overriding ritual is still upcoming iirc ) ☟︎
asciilifeform: in other noose, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-26#1607654 passed. ☝︎
asciilifeform: where was the old mircea_popescu piece, re culture forming from struggle b/w the sane and 9,001 types of subtly mad
asciilifeform does not disagree with above
asciilifeform: become spartan, speak with sword..
asciilifeform: though i disagree that cowardice is inevitable 'professional disease' of the thinking man. illusion, comes from the fact of bipedal turds masquerading as thinking folx.
asciilifeform: cultural zero.
asciilifeform: and ditto of ru mob et al. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: and the valor of afghan sums to 0
asciilifeform: the interesting folx were 'practitioners' -- folx with actual meatspace professions -- rather than today's 'talkers'.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-27#1690214 << tumourigenesis circa 1993 ( 'eternal september' ) and mostly dead by 2000. ☝︎
asciilifeform: as i see it, mircea_popescu had the verdict quite ready before reading any.
asciilifeform: ^ has some favourites of asciilifeform's.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=yarchive << see also past threads.
asciilifeform: probably buncha other folx -- have similar.
asciilifeform: it ain't a full bore 'sinners and saints' usenet snapshot, but certain fella's 'best of'. i have my own, that really cries to be organized and similarly cleaned, posted.
asciilifeform: ( contains, incidentally, schwartz also )
asciilifeform: if i had to pick b/w keeping my library, and keeping yarchive, on trip to mars -- would pick yarchive.
asciilifeform: http://yarchive.net .
asciilifeform: well i do.
asciilifeform: as such it is worth imho whole modern net put together, gram for gram
asciilifeform: vintage usenet ( in fact the 'yarchive' d00d -- no relation to ycombinator tards et al , see l0gz - has good chunk ) contained folx who actually spent good chunk of 20th c doing things such as organic synthesis of novel 'better living through chemistries', overseeing petro exploration, various productive pursuits of now-mostly-evaporated civilization
asciilifeform: i haven't visited the productive non-nonsense planet yet, so cannot further comment
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually rather than 'get along', contained blithering 'einstein was a lyin' j000' crackpots, aetherists, perpetuum-mobilists, etc.
asciilifeform: schwartz played ~same role, (unpaid..) on sci.chem, sci.physics, a few elsewheres.
asciilifeform: ( received , incidentally, much the same way as mpoe-pr was on tardstalk. )
asciilifeform: originally there.
asciilifeform: d00d laid out how to do the eotvos thing. recipe still on his www last i saw.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-11#1501551 << it ☝︎
asciilifeform: nope
asciilifeform: [insert the benzyl thread here]
asciilifeform: al schwartz's material for 1.
asciilifeform: proof is in the archive.
asciilifeform: dunno what set you hung with. certainly not 'just want'.
asciilifeform: not really
asciilifeform: eh you were there. the fatal weakness, these folx could not make hardware.
asciilifeform: probably asciilifeform gives the most shit. but also has the smallest free hand atm.
asciilifeform: who wants to be the hero, to confiscate usenet fossils from the heathens?
asciilifeform: at any rate i cannot currently be arsed to paypal to find out,.
asciilifeform also found a https://www.theusenetarchive.com but it appears to be payware, and possible scamola.
asciilifeform: ( circa 2003 . )
asciilifeform: '...world has one single USENET archive (I hope they have backup floppies!), how can I obtain historical data...'
asciilifeform: related vintage lulz : https://ask.slashdot.org/story/03/07/25/1947231/obtaining-archives-of-usenet
asciilifeform: e.g., https://archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive , https://archive.org/details/cdrom-usenet-sources-newsgroups-1994-01
asciilifeform: it is possible to glue'em back into something useful
asciilifeform: incidentally, the derpy usg archive thing purports to have some of the original tarballs google 'harvested' to make its now largely dead usenet search : https://archive.org/details/usenet
asciilifeform: some of the folx here might greatly enjoy.