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asciilifeform: I AM NOT A CROOK!!!11111 (tm) (r)
asciilifeform: ansparency is in order. Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a
mircea_popescu: this being the seal on the deal : "Also, be extra careful with leveraged positions. For example, if you have leveraged ETH long pre-fork, you may end up with TWO leveraged long positions of ETH1 and ETH2 post-fork, with each position value at only a fraction of pre-fork ETH."
mircea_popescu: ready to go for the next reiteration of "oh noes, a-guy-that-isn't-mp-i-can-tell-by-some-signapixels beat the shit out of our bitcoin weakening improvements, so now we're making a shitcoin alternative to take over".
mircea_popescu: (this, incidentally, was the main and is now the ~only reason for the ethereum hard fork. give a plausible excuse as to why nobody's trading it)
shinohai: Nah, it was just setup woes on a remote Ubuntu server, which is getting replaced with Deb as we speak. Hopefully will go a bit smoother.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-05 12:30 shinohai: Man php/mysql is a steaming pile of horseshit.
asciilifeform: not every muppet knows that it is a muppet.
shinohai: Well looks like Hillary dodged a bullet with the feebs
BingoBoingo: shinohai: editing "troubled altcoin" to more accurate "flaming tire fire in a shitpit"
BingoBoingo: In other news, Qntra now has a "Weather Category" to document notable instances of Aloha Snackbar http://qntra.net/category/weather/
thestringpuller: or hire a slave to be on-call
shinohai: Quite possibly it is this nasty box I am having to deal with, may try to obtain a Digital Ocean box later on this week
shinohai: Man php/mysql is a steaming pile of horseshit. ☟︎
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: business partner of mine had a really good quote about millennial girls: "everyone decided to raise a fucking princess not a woman"
mircea_popescu: is that a mortar actually ?
adlai: ;;later tell pete_dushenski http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-04#1497200 << 'If you wish to examine a granfalloon, just remove the skin of a toy balloon.' - Bokonon ☝︎
ben_vulpes: in other mortars: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451576d69e201b8d1fe4a9a970c-pi
mircea_popescu: phf comments have a limited set of tags they may contain , code isn't among them.
phf: well, there's a hack in comment.php, that wraps PGP messages in <code> and that gets somehow rendered differently
mircea_popescu: where "works" is defined as i can select and paste a gpg armored segment and gpg can process it.
shinohai: Looks like I should have a clean start to a suitable server to experiment with wp on by in the morning.
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/sKuQW#selection-1839.0-1826.4 << mp is a left winger, proof inside.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell xcfw748 consider making a proper theme for the wp shinohai's cooking, that'd be actually useful. also consider not doing this hit and run thing.
mats: asciilifeform: this looks like its for pogo's os, i'm looking for instructions re: a deterministic build process for armv5 you refer to on the ml
shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-04#1497253 <<< False, I can use css to do a pastejacking attack. ☝︎
xcfw748: BingoBoingo thanks. since the work is already done, it couldn't hurt to drop it in and get a free facelift.
deedbot: [» Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] All the elements of the USSA prison-industrial complex, coming soon to a neighbourhood near you. - http://www.contravex.com/2016/07/04/all-the-elements-of-the-ussa-prison-industrial-complex-coming-soon-to-a-neighbourhood-near-you/
xcfw748: made some updates to qntra css. album includes updated desktop, sample of current/updated mobile https://imgur.com/a/j0yFS
ben_vulpes: double-sadly, it's not a particularly stirring anthem either.
mats: yeah, need a bitcoind for it nao
a111: Logged on 2016-07-04 21:21 asciilifeform: do we have a man in ol' blighty?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-04#1497206 << my original recipe still worx and will always work. use a recent trb tho. ☝︎
mats: i tried to run dpb's script after reading it and it puked a small hill of errors
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 01:07 adlai: last i checked, tmsr has an ex-salesman? or at least a blogger who blogs a lot about how to sell
shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-04#1497189 <<< or the amount of money he went apeshit over when he accidentally refunded a customer too much once. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how did that go, "a man can live in the evereglades, where a man can hide an' never be found an' have no fear of the bayin' hound
BingoBoingo: A le https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4r5ax7/another_attempt_to_socially_engineer_a_fork/d4yhjnm
asciilifeform: do we have a man in ol' blighty? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: kinda sad end for the derps that irritated hitler, half a century later.
mircea_popescu: and also a fine comment on the state and aggregate value of the airstrip one economy : all it's good for, is to provide material for a blogger's article, in this manner.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, having the utterly irrelevant condo owner association meeting calling itself "the parliament" face the dilemma of either ignoring its own rule or else discussing whether queen should be flogged for being nigger jewess is exactly what a good blog article is made of.
mircea_popescu: well, us doesn't have a rule that congress must discuss anything.
mircea_popescu: the problem here is that asciilifeform lives in a mostly self-created world.
mircea_popescu: be that as it may, it's like very weaksauce trolling / a pretty cancerous forced meme by now
mircea_popescu: anyone want the side project of introducing a petition to discuss whether the queen should be flogged naked at the gate of westminster abbey for being a nigger jewess ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform love that "could". COULD upend, you see. whenever title contains a question mark, the implied question is always to be answered in the negative ; when title contains painful topic to lizard hittler, could can always be replaced by "certainly, but we'll pretend otherwise"
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do you have "a software bug" disable WRITE PROTECTION OMFG
a111: Logged on 2016-07-04 20:48 asciilifeform: or we could chip in to buy the fella a balticastle
asciilifeform: aimed he was doing in order to show “your democracies are a joke”. He also claimed to be “voting like crazy” on this petition.'
asciilifeform: 'Reg reader Rob has uncovered evidence that a botnet (i.e. automated computer program rather than human) is stuffing the second referendum ballot. There are 2,371 signatures from The Vatican - a place that only has a population of 1,000,” Rob notes. Also the json data shows 2735 signatures from the Antarctic and 23,694 signatures from North Korea.” A blackhat hacker from Syria claimed responsibility for the “hack” which he cl
asciilifeform: '...a UEFI bug that can be exploited to disable firmware write-protection... The company says the vulnerable System Management Mode software came from an upstream BIOS vendor – making it likely that other vendors getting BIOS software from the same outlet will also be vulnerable.'
asciilifeform: in other nyooz, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/04/lenovo_scrambling_to_get_a_fix_for_bios_vuln
asciilifeform: or we could chip in to buy the fella a balticastle ☟︎
trinque: gabriel_laddel: if you need a gentoo box to hack on I don't mind having such a thing on my network somewhere, provided you have a thing to get into it
mircea_popescu: wasn't anyone living close to him btw ? how about you fucking give him a thumb drive and charge it to me, i'll buy you a salad or something next we eat together.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-04 15:05 gabriel_laddel is currently shopping around for a USB drive that will hold all the masamune sources, as the current one is too small
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-04#1496952 << dude this "fix computing" project is a deadly land, worth traveling if only because it's a good death (TM) (R) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: plug a hole ben_vulpes trinque etc all felt so far.
shinohai: Sweet, coincidentally I have a fresh lamp setup to test on.
phf: shinohai: i literally just copy paste commands out of https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu and https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-14-04 into a fresh instance of dubuntu
phf: shinohai: if you unpack mp's tarball, unpack wp-content into it, apply the patch, you should end up with a working instance
a111: Logged on 2016-07-04 16:42 phf: shinohai: i updated my patch http://107.170.141.103/2016/wp-content-for-a/#update2
gribble: Error: "up" is not a valid command.
ben_vulpes: eg "how dare a few kids try to stick a pinwheel in our jetstream"
asciilifeform: when i get a chance.
phf: shinohai: i updated my patch http://107.170.141.103/2016/wp-content-for-a/#update2 ☟︎
mircea_popescu: it's a modern classic, very well constructed in counterpoint and a well fitted denouement
mircea_popescu: guy comes with just a small comment, turns out doesn't distinguish clauses, has no definitions and etc.
asciilifeform: http://a-pesni.org/drugije/markiza.htm << obligatory.
mircea_popescu: apparently a maid that was in the wake got horny as it often happens to young women at old people's funerals, while being vigurously used from behind turned over candlestick
asciilifeform: incidentally i distinctly recall a ru ver of prikoke
asciilifeform: or the regiment of black dudes standing in a circle, doing ~nothing, for hours
mircea_popescu: what, it's a carnival booth ?
mircea_popescu: 40 deaths/100k per year. who the fuck's gonna waste a bullet on you specifically.
mircea_popescu: "she walks into a room and all anyone can think about is "...really ?!?!?!""
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel needs to have a stern talk with his dope supplier
asciilifeform: i suppose if living there long enough, can catch a bullet, or jailed for bagging a protected species
asciilifeform: i predict that it would be a smash hit tho.
mircea_popescu: in other nuts, someone should totally write a universal program improver, which takes any legal code, unrolls all for loops and reimplements them as if clauses ; and unrolls all if clauses and reimplements them as for loops.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: it's mod6's garden, and not a garden, a basement
gabriel_laddel is currently shopping around for a USB drive that will hold all the masamune sources, as the current one is too small ☟︎
gabriel_laddel: nah, homeless atm and it is a bit of a pain to auth
mircea_popescu: you still don't have a key ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how are you going to make a boyfriend with that sort of attitude ?!
shinohai: After 35 years I'd wager it was as mushy as a virgin's vagina after a night in the mircea_popescu dungeon.
gabriel_laddel: Look, I don't have your personal ledger in front of me, but wouldn't paying ZERO in rent save you a lot, even if you only do it for a year and your pet has to go live with her mother?
mircea_popescu: hey, wadda ya want! alf is ~still~ making his original gf from back when he was 15 a pasta dinner. he just had to go to college first, find another woman, and other details.
thestringpuller: but then again most people wouldn't call it a shed.....
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: you can live in the guest house. it's like a shed but with windows, and a kitchen, and a bathroom.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-17 20:36 Framedragger: asciilifeform: yeah so i'll prolly end up dumping 10M ssh keys on phuctor's ass, via its web interface. i wonder if phuctor can handle parallel requests, to a point :P i won't be an asshole about it.
asciilifeform: 'my truck eats too much petrol, i'ma look for a new truck' 'here have this bicycle!1111' 'but it won't carry cement' 'HAVE BICYCLE'
asciilifeform: i live in a house, with windows, sunlight, locking doors, and intend to continue living in houses.
asciilifeform: i dun want to live in a shed. or in some fella's basement. etc
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: if I buy you a shed like the one in timasora, and mod6 installs it on his property, will you please just go live there and save money?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-28 03:38 mod6: <+asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i lived in a ~hole for 20 yrs. << you can come live in my basement if you're tired of paying rent. i've even got a garden. :]
gabriel_laddel: dija ask mod6 for a virtual tour of the property yet?
thestringpuller: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm << yes this is a real thing.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-04 10:24 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-04#1496683 << i'm not even sure that's true, ftr. php is actually a fine language FOR ITS INTENDED PURPOSE. hypertext preprocessor ffs! it's not even a language, as such! just a preprocessor, like an early scripting language.
thestringpuller: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-04#1496754 << facebook ruined. they use so much PHP they invented HipHop a PHP compiler. Yes, they compile PHP code to C to make it run faster. ☝︎