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mircea_popescu: the more gfs you have,
the less you care about girls on
the rag.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-24 13:27 mircea_popescu: western union expects you
to know a magic number ("mtcn", 10 digits)
the sender is issued upon sending, and present id.
the sender only needs your name and city where you pick up payment. western union will ask you a bunch of inane questions (where you live, who
the sender is, how do you know
them, what's
the money for, etcetera) for which
they require no documentation.
mircea_popescu: hey, now you know what i mean by intel / how reports look / stuffs and
things.
mircea_popescu: currencies other
than eur and usd were out of scope for
this amusement,
though i doubt
there's much meaningful existence in
the "currencies other
than eur and usd" category.
mircea_popescu: i would say it is an absolute requirement for pizarro
to maintain a localbitcoins account and sink in
the required
time
to build itself a network of known-good users, as
these in fact appear
to exist, and may constitute humanity candidates / come in useful laterally.
mircea_popescu: in
the end, administrative overhead (finding localbitcoinists,
talking
to
them,
talking
to western union, updating
the site objects according
to reality in
the field etcetera) comes around 2 hours / successful payment.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the vast majority of localbitcoin lusers will require ~major~ amounts of decerebrated handholding (indulging
them may improve
the 1
to 2 in 10 figure quoted above), in
the form of incessant messenger-style confirmations and encouragements, "yes really, let's really, we're really doing
this" etc etc, easily 20 dribblets / head.
the damage wrought on
the preteen brain of
the contemporary 20something by "smart"phones and "apps"
mircea_popescu: ted enough
to issue a fake "mtcn" (number-password western union expects you
to know),
try
to get you
to release payment, and
then pretend like
they "cancelled" for whatever imaginary reasons when you come
to complain western union didn't have it -- a splendid way
to waste an hour or so in city
traffic.
mircea_popescu: you can further expect a strong showing of scammers.
these will be variations of "here's something, release payment". in about half
the cases
these are advanced enough
to output some kind of official-looking falsified screenshot / whatever bizarro standards of visual certification of
truth
they use in
their world (no, douchebag didn't come up with
the screencapping on his own, it's a
thing in his age-peer group,
the "proof").
mircea_popescu: you can expect actual payments in your hand in 1
to 2 cases out of
ten
tries (defining a "try" as having initiated a
tx on localbitcoins -- which btw jumps randomly for unclear reasons), worth about 90% of
the lulsite price.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (i ran 0.1
tests, so about 700 bucks. how a 10`000 sq foot of floor space electronics-and-white-goods specialist can not have made 700 bucks worth of sales by mid day is anyone's fucking guess. here is mine : nobody but me has any money.)
mircea_popescu: the first
time you use a piece of id for id
they'll also want a photocopy of it, and plenty of "wu locations" are in fact a counter in a pivapollo place somewhere, without a copier (they see no problem with
this). about one in
ten "wu locations" have not
the cash on hand
to make payment, and
they see no problem with
this, either.
mircea_popescu: western union expects you
to know a magic number ("mtcn", 10 digits)
the sender is issued upon sending, and present id.
the sender only needs your name and city where you pick up payment. western union will ask you a bunch of inane questions (where you live, who
the sender is, how do you know
them, what's
the money for, etcetera) for which
they require no documentation.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-05-23 17:26 mircea_popescu: but anyway, im off
to manage some efforts
to research
the world for pizarro's benefit inter alia, so bbs.
esthlos: okay,
the keychain in root should be fixed now
esthlos: i've notices
that
the behaivor of sbcl and ccl for make-pathname is slightly different
trinque: changed
the
temp keychain dir
to /tmp and hey! successful press!
trinque: esthlos: just built it, looks like it's
trying
to create
temp keychains in root
esthlos: I'm not free again until Friday evening, so I won't be able
to respond or do anything until
then
esthlos: to be clear: prevents use as an executable with ccl. sbcl seems
to work fine
esthlos: trinque phf et al:
http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/OYaGd/?raw=true << further steps on
the vtron. currently it is freaking out when used with my ccl 1.11.5 .
the make-temp-dir function phf provided
throws an error on
the first invocation, which prevents use as an executable, but oddly
the function works if I return
to
the
top level and
then call it again.
mircea_popescu: there's coffee in
the
thermos ; and
the jar is pickled chillies.
mod6: i love
this pic: a jar of pickled peppers? high heels, an empty plastic bag, and a map. Everything one needs!
a111: Logged on 2018-05-24 00:29 phf: hat
time it was concluded
that
the effort of mac upkeep is not
there, and i believe
that's also when mp/diana decided
to go with a custom protocol for a future non-crystal space implementation
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-23#1817898 << guess. meanwhile some other coinbase prints a "bitcoin domination" % (spoiler : it's very low, bitcoin dun matter bla bla bla), and
then WHENEVER bitcoin moves
the ENTIRE list of "blockchains" and "cryptocurrencies" movesd in sync. anyone with half a fucking clue would observe
that if
the movement is 100% coupled
then yes
tyvm, bitcoin domination = 100%. but
then again, democratic
☝︎ phf: crystal space has some complicated, xml based module system, and planeshift, i believe, approached
that module system not necessarily from first principles either. i couldn't really devote enough
time (and i spent couple of weeks on
the whole
thing
the first
time as it is)
to figuring out how
the whole
thing is supposed
to come
together. it's definitely possible
to run it on mac, but
the effort literally costs more
than buying a dedicated linux box
phf: hat
time it was concluded
that
the effort of mac upkeep is not
there, and i believe
that's also when mp/diana decided
to go with a custom protocol for a future non-crystal space implementation
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-05-23 21:57 douchebag:
There appears
to be an issue w/ homebrew and Eulora.
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-23#1817823 <<
the
taps you're using are for previous release of eulora (which already had some odd issues on mac, but worked). i
took a stab at updating
them when
the latest release came out, and enough
targets moved
that it was again non-trivial
to build
the stack. i've managed
to hand build it/jerry rig homebrew
to build it, but
the result out of
the box was working even worse (mostly i lost
textures entirely). around
t ☝︎ ben_vulpes: nevertheless, "once upon a
time we made cars in flint, and
the water was unsafe
to drink in mexico.
these days,
they make
the cars in mexico and flint's water is poison."
ben_vulpes: you won't notice lead in
the water until your kids are born all fucked up either.
ben_vulpes: i'm not prodding you about "issues" you mighta "noticed" but
to
think about who's involved in your decryption and signing flow.
ben_vulpes: they would never back your whole hdd, precious linux vms and gnupg keychains and all
to icloud, no never.
ben_vulpes: is "can get root privs" all you need
to feel comfortable using gpg on
the
thing?
douchebag: ben_vulpes: I've never had any issues doing what I need
to do, I can get root privs so I never really noticed any issues.
ben_vulpes: douchebag:
the incessant whining
to "upgrade!",
the lockout of gdb shy of signing executables for execution, none of
this screams "not your computer! get your hands out of
the machine!"
to you?
ben_vulpes: reports are
that even exwm works with it
ben_vulpes: purged it manually, after
throwing
the "no seriously i am a grownup" switch?
douchebag: I've been running MacOS for about
two years, prior I used Linux for 6 years. I love my Macbook, I find
that I can multitask a lot better,
the window manager is great
ben_vulpes: or or, have you
tried deleting "iPhoto"?
ben_vulpes: douchebag:
the pushing of multigigabyte files
to "your" computer doesn't make you pucker at running gpg on
the
thing?
LordMPofTMSR: well, i
think most people hate
them because
they're inept and unwieldy, not specifically "compromised" whatever
that even is.
douchebag: LordMPofTMSR: I know, I just haven't seen evidence proving MacOS is comprimised other
than
the fact
that it's a large company
a111: Logged on 2018-05-23 22:17 douchebag: Well, although many people will disagree with
this statement. I'm a pretty boring person, and I'm not
too concerned about if
the NSA is watching me - if
the NSA wants
to watch me
they will do it regardless.
LordMPofTMSR:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-23#1817840 <<
this is not so different from saying "i have plenty of blood, and if
the lice wants
to get it
they'll get it regardless." hygiene is not directly a consideration of denying
the alimentary cycle of parasytes ; it's rather a question of self-respect, and in
the 2nd line a question of socialization, because no matter how cool you might be "otherwise", at least some chicks won't fuck you with lice no matter
☝︎ LordMPofTMSR: asciilifeform, in nomine diaboli avocando, maybe x finally became
too large a pile of hair, exceeded
their capacity
to
translate hair
to wet noodles.
a111: Logged on 2016-02-09 18:09 mircea_popescu:
then
turn into your wolf form and cheat some more.
LordMPofTMSR: download
the carplanesubmarine app for not going anywhere!
LordMPofTMSR: imperial boons : a wife is a female
that agrees with you for as long as you're not saying anything and a mac is a computer
that works for as long as you're not
trying
to run anything.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-23 21:57 douchebag:
There appears
to be an issue w/ homebrew and Eulora.
LordMPofTMSR:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-23#1817823 <<
the only person who either managed or almost-managed (or, i guess, were going
to manage) running eulora on mac was phf, maybe
two years ago. i dunno it ever went anywhere ; nor am i all
that sure macs are computers.
☝︎ LordMPofTMSR: asciilifeform, yeah, hanging out with
the neet crowd.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-23 21:33 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in entomology dept,
https://archive.li/Uj74z <<
the reich claims ownership of all satellites
ben_vulpes: the debian rng bug is a good example of hosed RNGs,
that's a fine place
to start
ben_vulpes: i'm obliquely suggesting
that you have nfi how your keys were put
together because
the layers of abstraction are
too
thick.
douchebag: Nope, not really. Can you
tell me about
that or provide some resources?
ben_vulpes: ever wonder about how
the deterministic number generator on
that vm was configulated?
douchebag: I'm not really imagining it does anything, I just happened
to make my keypair in
the VM because
that's what I was using at
the
time I created
thm
ben_vulpes: gnupg does, so for
the
third
time why are you using a vm, what do you imagine it gets you
douchebag: Even
though most Linux applications work just fine with MacOS, a lot of
them don't.
douchebag: Well, although many people will disagree with
this statement. I'm a pretty boring person, and I'm not
too concerned about if
the NSA is watching me - if
the NSA wants
to watch me
they will do it regardless.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: i do not
think
this does what you
think it does
ben_vulpes: douchebag: have you
tried installing gentoo on your macbook?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: it's a rubby
trojan horse masquerading as a package manager
that posts ~/.gnupg
to www.google-analytics.com
ben_vulpes: brew edit $formula might help, but i ditched
the mac nigh for reasons of pervasive upgradism like
this a year ago, haven't looked back, can't suggest
that you spend much
time doing battle with republican softs on
the crapple.
ben_vulpes: on a less glib line, homebrew changed
the calling syntax on
the
tap. you should read
the error message for
the correction instruction.
douchebag: There appears
to be an issue w/ homebrew and Eulora.
☟︎☟︎ BingoBoingo: But no one
talks about
the Aeron
Thrombolyticus Maximus chairs being installed
that day
a111: Logged on 2015-11-18 14:54 asciilifeform: shinohai: 'i heard
that ivan won a car in
the lotto.' 'yes! but not ivan but piotr, not a car but an overcoat, not in lotto but at cards, and not won but lost'