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a111: Logged on 2016-07-16 00:23 mircea_popescu: "The Solution To No Problems Back in 2011, when I ran AnonNews.org, I had to cope with frequent DDoS attacks - not all that surprising, given that it was a very popular news site and community for Anonymous, which was seeing the peak of its media coverage at the time. In 2011, however, it was pretty much impossible to get working DDoS mitigation for less than $100 a month, and that was simply not a budget I had to spend on it

shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-16#1503716 <<< heh I read this, guy goes from bashing ClodFlare to recommending LetEncrypt in record time. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: "The Solution To No Problems Back in 2011, when I ran AnonNews.org, I had to cope with frequent DDoS attacks - not all that surprising, given that it was a very popular news site and community for Anonymous, which was seeing the peak of its media coverage at the time. In 2011, however, it was pretty much impossible to get working DDoS mitigation for less than $100 a month, and that was simply not a budget I had to spend on it ☟︎

a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 22:18 shinohai: http://archive.is/GgzK6 <<< dao 2.0 I guess will be engineered by *surprise!* a startup

a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 22:03 shinohai: Erogdan "I'm still in charge folks, I can tweet!"

mircea_popescu: phf i would expect this is a fair assessment.

phf: sometimes i feel, or rather i know, that i "learned" all these time saving techniques before i had time to save, and now i must unlearn them, because they ended up wasting a lot of time

mircea_popescu: not that i'd ever or have ever typed on anything but a proper fucking desktop keyboard. even the laptop is annoying to me because off spacing. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: you may call both notes, but they're entirely unrelated items. i want excellent records of any experiment i ever run ; but not of any flirting.

mircea_popescu: it's a separation of jobs thing. i fail to mentally divorce the point of "organizer" from entirely unverbalized, doodlery. getting an "organizer" is not, to my mind, unlike getting a cock holder made out of lego bricks.

phf: this position is at odds with your "no notes unless i can grep through them" somewhere in the logs. i don't know if i would necessarily care to grep through an agenda, but i somehow have more useful notes on paper, than i have on machine, despite trying very hard to computerize

phf: yeah, those were actually handy. i used to keep agenda in a "moleskine" year planner, but those get ratty 6 months in

mircea_popescu: a-page-a-day sort of items ; you can take all sorts of not-readily-verbalizable notes in there. it's essentially the year's doodle collection, i have no idea how you'd alphabetize that.

mircea_popescu: i'm not saying its a bad thing-that-it-is. just... you know the item i'm talking about ?

mircea_popescu: i guess.

a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 21:03 asciilifeform: i'ma guess it now services usg (e.g., 'general dynamics' army laptops) solely.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503490 << we see no such thing. she's (by which we mean, the system people that manhandled her into running for them) entirely desperate, going to lose spectacularly in november, willing to try literally everything. if i could show her 1mn trump votes in half dozen states, she'd write numbers on her tits for us here. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess it's funny to the outside observer, but here's me doing a complete reversal re the book discussion. there really isn't any way to make the 2cm thick, a6 agenda fit in silicon.

mircea_popescu: or else by a hardcore "if i can't remember you, we have no meeting"

phf: i have hard time keeping track of when i have various appointments, so i use an external "agenda" app. i'd be as well served by a paper calendar

mircea_popescu: i can't imagine why the fuck anyone would use the toy shits. if your affairs CAN be organized by the machine, you don't have affairs complex enough to require outside help. stop wasting your time with the thing and work teh noggin. ☟︎

a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 20:47 phf: i use a psion as an organizer, and i still can't get used to the fact that it looks ~good~ in direct sunlight. like it's some amazing novel technology

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503461 << i use a number of persons. works way the fuck better than any electronic gizmo ever invented. ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 19:55 asciilifeform: speaking of which, i'd still like to know where bock got all of those pubkeys that aren't in sks.

mircea_popescu: i dunno, maybe compost, maybe the lu zhi treatment...

mircea_popescu: i wish to buy caged "modern feminist" by the pound. eventually, usg WILL sell this product to me.

mircea_popescu: and as its survival is actually its only paramount value (recall george costanza in the fire scene ? "without leaders we'd all be lost! i had to survive" - life as supreme value perversely translates to, perpetuation of socialism state at expense of all life), it WILL at some point spontaneously recrystalize from "modern democracy" socialism to national socialism.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun see that capitulation as a possibility.

mircea_popescu: anyway - i wonder at what point of turning the vice around its ballsac, usg finally relents, admits that it is way the fuck cheaper and therefore better to be friends with the smart people, throws idiots to the dogs. so we get license to capture humanities majors from horseback on campus, and they get the default immunity they like to pretend they currently have.

a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 19:28 trinque: I criticize "USG" as a category; it barely defines anything

mircea_popescu: i tell you, when i wanted specific effect i wrote it out, works fine to this day.

asciilifeform: i suppose old muppet tore, new one is being readied.

asciilifeform: not having a staff of latrine divers, nor esp. inclined myself, i tend to be a little behind on such tidbits

asciilifeform: but i'd be the last to know

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno if you recall buterin's humble beginnings as a "bitcoin magazine" gofer ?

mircea_popescu: bitco.in › ... › Bitcoin Protocol › Bitcoin Unlimited 11 ian. 2016 - BUIP011: Andrew Clifford for President Submitted 12/01/2016 I think that a lot of people will know my posts from bitcointalk, reddit, and now the

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all i could find is 'sheriff concludes that only bomber died' and 'attempted revenge on boss'

shinohai: http://archive.is/GgzK6 <<< dao 2.0 I guess will be engineered by *surprise!* a startup ☟︎

pete_dushenski: apparently that little rain storm was worse than i thought... chunks of the city are w/o power... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/roads-flooding-in-edmonton-after-epic-thunderstorm-1.3681796 << "epic!"

shinohai: Erogdan "I'm still in charge folks, I can tweet!" ☟︎

shinohai: I found a bug, car is pos made in America. Send bounty plox.

asciilifeform: anyway, exotic lcd aside, i would HAPPILY buy a device with newton's lcd but modern (lightweight) micro inside.

trinque: I'm not launching a product here, lol

asciilifeform: i know of 0 exceptions.

trinque: asciilifeform: I've seen them wired up to controller boards that speak vga/hdmi around the net

trinque: I just called them actually, asking pricing and so on.

asciilifeform: i'ma guess it now services usg (e.g., 'general dynamics' army laptops) solely. ☟︎

trinque: I researched those this week; pixel qi sold to an outfit that seems to be sitting on the patents ☟︎

asciilifeform: i guess modern konsooomer is expected to sit in a cave, like a mole, and not try to use machinery in the sun

phf: yeah, i have a dx too, i also have two or three small keyboard ones, but they break easily (i broke like 4 or 5) with they way i use them anyway, and since the kindle direction is clearly dodgy i just don't feel like doing anything with them

asciilifeform: and a more recent unit, with frontlight, which i gave to pet, i could not abide the lack of mechanical switches

asciilifeform: phf: i still have that one ('dx')

phf: i was really happy with the old keyboard kindle, it had free internet, and was just generally a very promising oldfag device. hardware keyboard, promising screen, ~lighter than any versions since~, had a bunch of linux hacks including a terminal. i ported a zork interpreter to it. and of course amazon doesn't care about oldfag market, so kindles went downhill fast since

asciilifeform: i can even tell you what is in store for epaper aficionados: the thing will be colourized, and the original b&w version will be taken off the market; just as with lcd; the colour version will be blurrier and less suitable for text, but WATCH LOLCATS YOU TERRORIST

asciilifeform: and before anyone asks, yes i have the latest example made.

asciilifeform: i ~like~ lcd, and its crisp edges, epaper is fuzzy, like badly tuned old crt

asciilifeform: i've been reading plain text off epaper for years now. but only because it is IMPOSSIBLE to get device with decent b&w reflective lcd.

asciilifeform: but NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR

asciilifeform: why would i pay 700 for this??

phf: i use a psion as an organizer, and i still can't get used to the fact that it looks ~good~ in direct sunlight. like it's some amazing novel technology ☟︎

pete_dushenski: it was a bit too geek chic for artsy school but i enjoyed it.

phf: i couldn't afford pro level palm, had to use "visor"

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i had several, ending with that one.

pete_dushenski: http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/palm_v.jpg << one i had. 'v' :P

asciilifeform: but every time i look at newton, i recall why it died, thing fits in ~no pocket.

phf: it's funny how back then was like "well, this is not quite there, but i'm sure they'll work out kinks in the future"

asciilifeform: i still miss the thing

pete_dushenski: aha. i had one as a kid. it was very spiffy toy.

pete_dushenski: http://www.gizmag.com/tap-strap-wearable-bluetooth-keyboard/43337/ << speaking of styluses and alt-input devices, i give you this abomination.

asciilifeform: and what, precisely, kept him from having exact superset of sks, for that matter, i got quite a few which he did not.

asciilifeform: speaking of which, i'd still like to know where bock got all of those pubkeys that aren't in sks. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you need ONE magic login is what i mean, not infinity logins.

a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 17:49 asciilifeform: long ago, i tried my hand at 'sane blogging engine' and barfed; simply can't stand wwwtronic idiocy, e.g,. 'logging in', 'browser state', https crapolade tower, css, etc.

pete_dushenski: and yet i sit here, and usg does not.

trinque: so, while I loathe the creature, while it still sits there, it is *literally* still effective.

pete_dushenski: i can see it.

trinque: I criticize "USG" as a category; it barely defines anything ☟︎

a111: Logged on 2016-07-12 20:35 mircea_popescu: "oh i know, we've created a sort of monarchy without a king, basically just the court and nobody there to behead us - we'll call it democracy. if anyone inquires into the matter we can always add modern in front and it'll be all good!"

pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: i'm aware of this ancient thread. aha

pete_dushenski: i hesitate to ask what usg understands 'cryptoanalysis' to mean in practical terms because it's hard to fathom that it can either think or act on such terms, but...

asciilifeform: i have nfi for what they are used, for all i know they glue them into a throne for hitler to sit in.

diana_coman: hm, as far as I know it should be able to pin the part/shape based on position+pressure and then I don't see indeed why wouldn't it be able to react to turning the pen - maybe it's a precision thing?

asciilifeform: shinohai: contingent of fresh shills? i did say, they will never run out

asciilifeform: and i know of no particular reason why not.

asciilifeform: diana_coman: i do, e.g., cad, and would like to be able to, say, rotate a part by pinning it with a pen, and turning the pen. but this does not, afaik, exist.

diana_coman: ah, I just played around a bit with it kind of tried all sorts from some basic drawing to handwriting (it was supposedly to be useful for some remote discussions kind of stuff) to mouse replacement

danielpbarron: i have a broken toshiba portege m200 that had a decent pen/touchscreen thing, but that was with winbl0wz and I can't imagine it would be easy to get that working on a linux

diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503266 <- I *tried* to use a small wacom tablet & pen thing and it was quite atrocious really ☝︎

pete_dushenski: https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/14/nintendos-classic-mini-is-a-tiny-nes-with-30-games/ << whattheshitthisiscoolgimmegimmegimmeonenownownowiwantitrightfuckingnow. ok i can wait until nov 11 but for $60 how not ?

a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 14:56 BingoBoingo: I'm not sure they *need* the Levant if they have France

asciilifeform: re: earlier thread: i'm a little surprised that nobody (afaik) has combined the sensing antennae of 'wacom'-like apparatus into the lcd pixel addressing lines themselves.

asciilifeform: long ago, i tried my hand at 'sane blogging engine' and barfed; simply can't stand wwwtronic idiocy, e.g,. 'logging in', 'browser state', https crapolade tower, css, etc. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: dubious if it's worth the hassle, which is ~why i never seriously pursued it.

asciilifeform: apparently there is now 7 types of this thing, since i last saw (decade or so ago.)

asciilifeform: admittedly i want this for cad, rather than sierra gamez. ☟︎

asciilifeform: but i never had it, cannot comment.

asciilifeform: this is a shame, because i ~like~ pens

asciilifeform: i have nfi if this was so when it was new, and hence why the thing can only be seen in junk shops, or otherwise.

asciilifeform: i picked up an old 'dell' at a junk store not long ago, that had built-in wacom-esque pen, and tried using it