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phf: i never grok why some of these javascript libraries don't just provide a demo console. "everything you need is loaded on this page, feel free to run your browser's dev console" ☟︎
asciilifeform: lel for a second i almost expected ^ that to be the protonmail turd i threw in.
thestringpuller: i've never used opengpg.js but most of those things have some kind of "demo" version so you don't have to touch the code yourself without gloves
asciilifeform: initially i missed the www-based crapolade entirely, because it simply did not occur to me that any serious number of people were dumb enough to ~use~ such a thing
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i was testing it as a potential eater of khadeer-style keys.
asciilifeform: it ~exports~ user's pubkey, but does not - as far as i can tell - have a knob for ~importing pubkeys~, checking signatures of incoming messages, etc.
asciilifeform: sooo i attempted test of https://protonmail.com/blog/openpgpjs-email-encryption as a suspected http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-04#1514630 , and discovered that it is plain and simple nonsense, won't import public keys at all! uses only pantomime of pgp ☝︎☟︎
trinque: I have a backlog of ~/src that'll get me through at least a coupla days :p ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "if i hang, let it be for something i did"
mircea_popescu: likely, but as i've never needed to i don't have it at the ready.
mircea_popescu: look for any time i typoed a title. the old url still works.
asciilifeform: lel just as mircea_popescu mentioned jooz i happened to be reading bio of streicher.
BingoBoingo: OMG you stole the name I was gonna give woodchipper when I pick one up
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't say elevating. it's an elevator shaft, it ... you know what ? it's mcdevil quickfaust, is what it is.
a111: Logged on 2014-07-19 03:15 mircea_popescu: now among this dozen, there was a mentally retarded girl. she wasn't badly touched, maybe 80 or so. definitely enough to take care of herself. definitely not enough for high level math. her parents however were i dun recall what academic country gentry, and so they insisted she go.
mircea_popescu: there's no difference between girl who's not hot squeaking her way into modelling job because she's willing to make her own costumes, and that misfortunate math assistant professor i mentioned yonder long ago in the logs and alf prolly still remembers.
mircea_popescu: take one single point of reference, i think it works pars pro toto : "She says that entrepreneurs need to have a thick skin. “Just don’t care” is her advice. She says you need to just keep going – remember, the internet is a cruel and malicious place for a girl in a bikini top and elf ears."
mircea_popescu: i posit a good comparison is "tb patient spit in your mouth. does it make a difference if you have aids ?"
mircea_popescu: i think so, yes.
ben_vulpes: that's kind of where i'm stuck too
mircea_popescu: do you perceive the difference between "im raping you because i think you're fucking hot" and "i'm raping you because i'm fixated on a character i've decided you represent" ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes not even that ; i see nothing here but george costanza's retort to the observation he did no work : "but consider, i am in the smaller office". the chick's not hot, she's average at best. her face's all weird etc. BUT! she makes her own costumes! out of construction paper!
ben_vulpes: i lack the context to understand the link
mircea_popescu: course with the current derps ... "haha they already lost it - i went to college"
ben_vulpes: anyways notion of IP outside of wot and outside of "i will negrate you if you rip me off" is fundamentally broken.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: hey i am still half an hour into digesting this very idea, of 'pro cosplayer'
mircea_popescu: i think not.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l! for some reason i pictured them paying royalties to mpaa or the like
mircea_popescu: all i see so far - is that softening the grip on IP is actually more harmful to human life than keeping it tight. this entire cosplay thing exists essentially because the various "ip holders" aren't nearly as vigorous as they were in the 70s (good fucking luck doing "your own version of mickey mouse/donald duck" because "you think you look like them" and then - horror of horrors!!11!!1 - selling fucking tschotchkes)
asciilifeform: i watched many hours of ru blokes cutting metal on youtube, at least i learned sumthing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have nfi, i'm trying to make sense of nonsense over here and it spills.
mircea_popescu: i suspect she's a super-soft camho. non-nude.
asciilifeform: or what am i seeing
mircea_popescu: dude... i'd pay a mn a year to just not be her.
mircea_popescu: "Lindsay’s costs are mostly for costumes. Prices vary, depending on complexity. Her favorite costume, Game of Thrones Cersei Lannister cost $200 (and didn’t sell many prints). For this she used upholstery fabric at $30 a yard." << im trying to recall when it was i bought a woman an outfit for less than $200. wtf.
asciilifeform: waiwat, i thought 'cosplay' was a hobby thing?
ben_vulpes: phf: i will kick your bot over while you're at the burn if nobody else has/will step forward ☟︎
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i suspect they meant the grift not the graft.
mircea_popescu: "The line was for TwitchCon merchandise. T-shirts were $22 – $25. The next day they were $150 on eBay." right, right "were". how many fucking sold ? "I CAN DO ANYTHING! I'VE NEVER BEEN PUNCHED!"
mircea_popescu: somehow the "184 servers were probably planted by you on the interwebs" line forgot to be mentioned in response, i assume ?
mircea_popescu: might be a rose by another name. i'm curious now.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i did ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: (really bitch, it's "win-win" ?) << this, as it happens, it what specifically set off my bullshit alarm. i don't disagree that technology means doing more with less, nor with the place of religion in filling the materialistic voids created by modernity.
mircea_popescu: back at the ranch, i wish to make 10 dollars in a world where the peons make one ; and i specifically do not wish to make a hundred in a world where the peons make ninety. to say nothing of fucking equality ; let alone the hollywoodian imbecilism of lottery winners.
ben_vulpes: and it's hysterical that i should say "these kids" because wtf i'm younger than many of the worst specimens i've met
phf: possibly because i might've ranted about it before. anyway, gate gate paragate..
ben_vulpes: > I'll stay because i'm full of unearned confidence!
phf: ben_vulpes: that video is now the prism through which i see majority of millennials. our support team were literally like this, down laugh, awkwardness, and the painful "whiteness".
asciilifeform: or rather, 'zombie cucumber', which i initially misidentified it as
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it isn't even in my yard, or on my street, but i do walk by it occasionally and think 'cucumber'
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I dunno, but I accidentally defeated two of the things last year with overspray from actual target weed.
ben_vulpes: > because i have no shame or self-awareness!
phf: "i want 40 days of outstanding pto" "your own calendar says you took 60 days already, so you should be paying us" "..."
ben_vulpes: plus i don't know that i have the energy to disabuse another twenty something of a lifetime of miseducation again
ben_vulpes: dunno that i'd be willing to trade the time sink of mistressmgmt for the sweet relaxation of being brought beers and snacks on the hammock after biking home from work
ben_vulpes: yeah although i don't actually have a mistress
phf: mircea_popescu: that's what i thought when i saw it too
mircea_popescu: lmao! I BLAME PHF FOR FREENODE OUTAGE TOMORROW.
asciilifeform: i'd go.
asciilifeform: what i'd like to know is why there is not a Freezing Man festival in, e.g., alaska.
ben_vulpes: to which i "YES PLEASE GO"
ben_vulpes: "hey i'll be out of town from aug 25 through sept 6, so if you want to come down south and bring the bambino i'll fly y'all in"
phf: i need the bot in a fully autonomous state, for the week of burning man
phf: i have a new bot ready too, but i need some stretch where i can hand hold it if it starts acting up to switch
asciilifeform: phf: yes, i noticed, worx great
phf: (i fixed the order, i'm so happy about that)
asciilifeform: i have nfi what 2 and 3 are
pete_dushenski: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37020906 << pretty sure this is how tesla started : "i have a wacko idea" said elon, "we have a whackload of fake paper money" said the obama.gov. whether 'transit elevated bus' has a 15-year++ scam in it remains to be seen, but it looks no worse than the endless miles of surface-level light rail transit edmonton is vapidly installing atm.
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell davout wd on moving to mauritius. the few ppl i've met from there speak ~the~ mostly lovely, most noble french i've yet encountered. enjoy!
asciilifeform: diddled pgptrons that shit out dupe primes are 'yesterday's' thing. i suspect that the state of the art involves rng that still gives each chumper a unique prime pair, but it can be calculated via some kleptographic clue.
asciilifeform: it is the kind of crumb i've been searching for.
asciilifeform: i'll say that this is the first not-wholly-plagiarized paper on subj since bernstein's.
mircea_popescu: i can't summon the interest. "vague discussion of a topic that previously didn't exist for reasons we won't discuss by people who aren't qualified to participate"
sedition: Thanks much. Saw the channel on NoSuchlAbs and thought I would idle for a bit.
PeterL: I seem to remember there are things like F-HC=C=CH-F which are chiral too
PeterL: I would never use an inorganic solvent like dihydrogen monoxide to clean clothes!
asciilifeform: PeterL: about as precious as a dry cleaning shop i walked by once, advertising the use of 'strictly organic solvents!'
mircea_popescu: the silk however i do not.
mircea_popescu: the lead balloon i believe. trivial fluid dynamics.
phf: everything i need to know about javascript i learned from mochikit, which was written by a bunch of sane hackers back before "javascript library" was a thing. ~first~ thing they implemented is comparator, iterator and printer protocols (they gave up on numerics as braindead). because javascript doesn't have those. they were also the last ones who even bothered to.
asciilifeform: i suppose this here is the kind of 'standard' that makes mircea_popescu reach for his pistol when he hears word 'standard'.
ben_vulpes: i mean hey that's pretty amusing as well, that js doesn't have ints.
phf: i know there are all these asm.js extensions that add uint32 and such
mircea_popescu: most of the country. i tell ya.
asciilifeform: ( http://motherboard.vice.com/read/i-used-to-write-apocalypse-survival-guides , confessions of pay-per-word spamola pinoy, supposedly )
asciilifeform: from same rag, a gem for BingoBoingo, 'While lurking on a prepper discussion thread on Tea Party Community, a social network marketed as a conservative alternative to Facebook, I once saw a rousing discussion about navigating the tricky business of armed combat while confined to a mobility scooter. In that particular hypothetical scenario, individuals were discussing the best ways to kill NATO peacekeeping forces. These are real peop
phf: like i remember watching fps speed runs and tricks on youtube back when it started and it was wholy unsatisfying experience. you want to be able to fly around and look at trick from different directions to know what's going on. not to mention pro level duels, where half the info comes from sound, you want to be able to figure out what player B did that player A reacted to, so you have to pause, rewind, and switch to other player, to
phf: i think i watched notch livecoding a wolfenstein clone in java on twitch. it was mildly entertaining, because he was writing everything from scratch (i.e. tick locked mainloop, ray casting onto an awt canvas, etc.)
asciilifeform: ^ somehow i missed.
mircea_popescu: i'm having trouble finding phd's that aren't.
asciilifeform: and for all i know, already done somewhere
mircea_popescu: speaking of "actionable steps towards better itnernet", do i have benchmarks yet ?
asciilifeform: the most galling thing is the VERY NOTION of a tcp that isn't porous. because tcp breaks BOTH of the two, as i found, iron rules of network sanity: 1) NOTHING TO RANDOS FOR FREE 2) NO OPERATIONS ON UNSIGNED INPUT
mircea_popescu: you recall ? was some foss "expert" blog article, in which he detailed some bugfixing he did, except it was of the nature of "i removed undigested corn kernel from shit on wall - all better now"
asciilifeform: and none of the reference material i have on the subj, features it.
asciilifeform: (i haven't any dispute re dns being a work of evil, from day 1, but the rms solution is not a solution and i will continue to laugh)
mircea_popescu: as you might've noticed, i'm the opposite of a micromanager.
mircea_popescu: oh oh that. i don't care what they do.
mircea_popescu: but i ... don't. for honests.
asciilifeform: sometimes i wonder if mircea_popescu is seeeekritly an orthodox jew: