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ben_vulpes: noxious as it is, linux containerization and 'docker' in particular might be a good foundation for a 'cheap, angry' prototype
asciilifeform: btw there was a trojan bearing 'tinyscheme'
mircea_popescu: anyway. uci is not gossipd. there is a good reason to implement gossipd OVER uci, but on the uci layer the thing shouldn't be concerned with this kind of security i don't thinl
asciilifeform: where a node receives encrypted 'rubbish' and does ?????, and sends various rubbish back, and adversary would have to capture 67% of nodes to have any clue re what.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm thinking a "independent nodes" sort of botnet, as opposed to the zombie windowze thing usually run
mircea_popescu: not entirely sure bash it is the right way here ; but it does cheaply (in cognitive terms) expose the system for usage. which is why ssh runs into a bash shell.
mircea_popescu: it wouldn't necessarily be over irc, though irc IS rather resilient and we get the benefit of bootstrapping a major irc network if we bake it in
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: as i understand: by signing and broadcasting a message.
ben_vulpes: i don't have a good enough model to propse anything yet, hence the questions
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i would expect there'd have to be a management language for this.
ben_vulpes: how would someone in the wot interact with the uci; operation by operation over irc? shoop a script in uciasm for execution and billing upon completion?
mircea_popescu: it's really a draft of a spec as it is.
mircea_popescu: it must be capable to open a socket i think.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, just the guy's private history. bulgaria wouldn't extradite him a few years ago ; before that was wounded in daghestan but survived etc.
BingoBoingo: I dunno I'm thinking about a "weather" category nao
BingoBoingo: If we try to cover all of these qntra is going to have to add a "weather" category for them
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/since-what-you-do-all-day-is-jack-off-anyway/#comment-93555 << in other antique trilema lulz, check out what people didn't make a bitcoin for.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 18:48 hanbot: asciilifeform didja learn their variety speak? or figure it's a fluke (i thought theory was wrong demo)?
mircea_popescu: it's always a little disappointing when i hit the last lines of the logs ;/
asciilifeform: at any rate, this is not simply a usaschwitz problem, if ANY of you buy chinese glass-anything, there ain't no boron in there.
mircea_popescu: heresy, i know. but it's a square.
mircea_popescu: so i posit to you that your problem is not even slightly a matter of "wrong knife", along the lines of, "if only i had hyfdrofluoric acid - could melt glass", but more of low energy. you wish to amass moar power not more knowledge, to dent teh pot.
asciilifeform: it is a matter of finding it.
asciilifeform: there is always a correct knife.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that is a chick contorting herself in an insane position so her own urine dribble falls in her own mouth while some standing guy is also pissing in her mouth.
mircea_popescu: speaking of folks, here's a handy visual to explain the concept http://66.media.tumblr.com/e04a4eb96aecadff52219a05575fd1a8/tumblr_ng9qc75iM91shqa8eo1_400.gif
asciilifeform: that's a designated cow stall
mircea_popescu: a ok then.
mircea_popescu: jurov iirc it has an eukramic point, much like say carbon in steel. not just "some proportion", but a curve with some inflexion points.
ben_vulpes: shitty products are a viable strategy when nobody remembers quality.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-01#1494324 << i had carbide-oxygen blowtorch, blew own glass for my private chemistry lab as a 12yo! ☝︎
mircea_popescu: if i were a younger, innocent verision of myself, like the quoted alf has the unspeakable advantage of being, i'd disbelieve this story.
hanbot: the guy actually took out a second lace from a pair of shoes he was trying to sell and gave me that one to go with.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 16:31 asciilifeform: and if you ask mircea_popescu it is difficult to get so much as a stapler in buenos aires
hanbot: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-01#1494318 << speaking of which, i went into a shoe repair shop here the other day for laces (which are not sold in shoe stores, mind you). they had one. not one pair, one shoelace. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: them, and not pleading in favour of their intelligence, organisational importance or general sanity : they captured some black chick that shat her unwanted baby in a toilet and flushed. THIS is a "top 10 fugitive".
mircea_popescu: and in other incredibly postmodern lulz : https://archive.is/zhCZf << postmodern art must be translated, so : fbi.gov has a banner roller just like any wanna-be "news site^Hmedia property" of the "mainsteam" variety. on this roller, because they apparently ran out of photographs or photography, in the age of the most abundant photographism, they have a picture of a lcd screen. that lcd screen depicts material originated from
mircea_popescu: that cost the us 100 bucks, there's ten "this is a solved problem" idiocies that cost 100 mn each.
mircea_popescu: for every "go to college" piece of bad math and general ineptitude (see http://trilema.com/2014/a-practical-exercise-for-people-who-cant-afford-airfare/ << btw, took me 5 minutes to fish this out, because apparently google filters out any searches related to airports, planes, etc from site:trilema.com type searches thank you tsa, you've clearly helped LOTS!)
mircea_popescu: "When a technology matures into a cash cow and then grows old, research into subtle undiscovered potentials abates in the name of cost-cutting. The neon sign has been common for a half-century and more. It is obvious that nothing remains to be discovered. There is no further technology to evolve, there are no new art forms to explore, there is no possible cross-fertilization with other disciplines" <<< al has an excellet poin
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 16:25 gabriel_laddel: Not especially, but was brainstorming products to sell in SA (south america) that are a PITA to get into / create here in the USSA
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 16:02 ascii_deadfiber: i expect a shift of resources back to the 'corrode bitcoin' stratagem, vs the 'pump shitcoin'
jurov: trinque: what a stratagem!
asciilifeform: nobody cares if yer a martian or whatever.
phf: probably just found somebody who has their shit sufficiently together to follow up on a sales lead without much prodding
hanbot: asciilifeform didja learn their variety speak? or figure it's a fluke (i thought theory was wrong demo)? ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 03:22 mircea_popescu: church of x is a little dubious neh ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 16:26 asciilifeform: simple pocket spectroscope that would let you distinguish shit-faux-pyrex from the real on, in a shop.
asciilifeform: and if you ask mircea_popescu it is difficult to get so much as a stapler in buenos aires ☟︎
asciilifeform: simple pocket spectroscope that would let you distinguish shit-faux-pyrex from the real on, in a shop. ☟︎
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i had an idea re pyrex, a few yrs ago
gabriel_laddel: Not especially, but was brainstorming products to sell in SA (south america) that are a PITA to get into / create here in the USSA ☟︎
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: have you ever considered becoming a glass blower?
mircea_popescu: a kk then
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-01#1494280 << dunno about other folx but i have a parachute packed for this. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: that reddit is not worth a dime alltogether is true ; yet there's an ample supply of these idiots who think otherwise. why not help them get their "traffics" ?
mircea_popescu: there's a humongo strategic difference between "no alternative exists" and "we don't like the alternative as it contradicts our ideology". bitcoin is the ur-example of how to drive this through.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform perfectly fine way to win a war, don your scuba diving suit and drown the place.
asciilifeform: ah hm now i recall mircea_popescu had a piece about spamming derps to death
mircea_popescu: we can't be spammed. web-anything "social media" or whatever you call the bullshit - can. this advantage must be a) kept sharp and b) driven through.
mircea_popescu: woman is a superbly engineered piece of machinery ; can take incredible amts of abuse
shinohai: lulzy. Much better than trolling x user with a downvote script.
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry, was he hearing a rape case ?
asciilifeform: S. Secret Service only discovered once it was ordered by a court to pay a portion of the seizure back to affected claimants,”...' << gold
asciilifeform: 'According to an affidavit unsealed Thursday, the Justice Department learned in April 2015 that Bridges might have kept a private cryptographic key giving him access to a bitcoin wallet with the $700,000 in currency that the Silk Road task force had seized in 2014. The department urged the agency to move the funds elsewhere. “Unfortunately, the U.S. Secret Service did not do so and the funds were thereafter stolen, something the U.
mircea_popescu: whoa asciilifeform that's A NEW ONE
mircea_popescu: which is why the sub-normals end up gathered around doorways. they approach a threshold, get all panicked, stop. then eventually they cross it, at which point - mindblank.
shinohai: John McAfee to start a hydroelectric Bitcoin mining operation, becomes target of Chinese mining cartels.
mircea_popescu: shinohai yeah, i don't always care. i like nano when it's a simple matter of "i know what i'm looking for, but approximately, so it's easier to ctrl-w and look at context than to grep string"
mircea_popescu: truly web measures are a measure of wonder.
shinohai: You too can sit at home all day if you allow an undocumented worker hit you with a forklift!
shinohai: thestringpuller: I don't have a job other than trb/Qntra
thestringpuller: also shinohai how can you stand driving in your area? I was there during rush hour last night and think I had a minor stroke.
shinohai: Rum sounds like an excellent idea, may pick up a bottle later.
mircea_popescu: im having rum and watching butts rise. altogether a wash!
deedbot hands you a broomstick.
trinque: I'll make sure that one goes through, and $deed will work in a few min
deedbot hands you a broomstick.
deedbot hands you a broomstick.
mircea_popescu: church of x is a little dubious neh ? ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-06-30 13:22 mircea_popescu: shinohai kinda why i put this in the open, so people can come up with a good name maybe.
BingoBoingo: Clintonese is a New York dialect that Pretends to be a hillbilly Arkansas tongue until it can use its husand like the first stage of a rocket for its own political career
mircea_popescu: "nonprofit, nonpartisan" sounds like it's a clinton-for-president thing
asciilifeform: 'This year's challenge (detailed below) is a real-world problem in nuclear verification, sponsored by and designed in partnership with the Nuclear Threat Initiative (http://www.nti.org/), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to reduce the threat of ...'
asciilifeform: in other 'news', this year's underhanded c contest is a lul: http://underhanded-c.org/#summary
BingoBoingo: * adlai exaggerates slightly, but this doc is not a pill pusher, which is why i sought him out - confirmation bias ftw! << Or he wants a baseline adlai without lsd...
phf: it up - oh and the seat is leather - very classy so i want to pick it up - anyway, maybe you should think about it - nah i want to pick it up - well give it a day or something - ... ok i'll pick it up tomorrow" haven't heard anything from the guy.
phf: my first attempted motorcycle purchase went exactly like this. i show up, and the bike's fucking spiffy, a honda cafe racer conversion. i saw it on craigslist, research all the things, etc. etc. the conversation went something like "check out this thing that i did to this bike – ooh yeah it's cool, so i want to pick it up – yeah i replaced the pipe from this one to this other one - yeah i saw the original this is much better, so i want to pick
asciilifeform: pulls ~= same wattage as a large vacuum cleaner, and sounds also very much like one when operating.
asciilifeform: adlai: machine can be in silver spring, md, working, on a week's notice.
phf: his objections are bogus, even the time/money thing, and they go through the usual asciilifeform escalations. thing can be taken of his hands within a week, for $5k or so, with no effort on his part, besides "take it to the front porch when a man gets there"
adlai: would you be willing to show a non-technical (but intelligent) visitor that it works?
asciilifeform has a ~very~ acute perception of the value of his time
mircea_popescu: (which is understandable - you need a soul to lisp)
adlai: how about you sell me a call on it
mircea_popescu: a republic in every town!
adlai: i don't think you sell a lispm door-to-door
mircea_popescu: and as a general fucking principle : make girlfriends, yo, don't figure out how to all be buttbudies.
mircea_popescu: it'd be better to recruit a local than to make someone leave warm sunny canada!
adlai: last i checked, tmsr has an ex-salesman? or at least a blogger who blogs a lot about how to sell ☟︎