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asciilifeform: 'he blackhat scene is always riddled with informants. The only thing a Darknet guy likes better than darknetting is ratting somebody else out. All hackers aspire to an upgrade to spook. Hackers have no shut-your-mouth “omerta,” so whenever they get arrested they’ll brag to the authorities for 72 hours straight. They’ll even draw helpful little flowcharts for the cops.'
mircea_popescu: aaaanyway. just a stray thought.
mircea_popescu: (you can write two pages of cannonical implementation in lisp even if your actual implementation that you use is in py/c/whatever. make it a sort of official lingua franca of coding, is my idea.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, just saying as a horizon thing.
mircea_popescu: and here's a two stroke engine to get the day started in gear. http://67.media.tumblr.com/c4a6298582c76943b282e9b85b59de44/tumblr_nukg7cFcjI1tvvddjo1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform an idea here would be to make a soft commitment to publish all cannonical code in lisp implementations.
mircea_popescu: and a blog is a valuable and important asset for the adult man.
mircea_popescu: yeah, if you get imagemagik installed (lol!) there's a bunch of interesting visual stuff. quick way to jumpstart a blog, socialmedia exists ~out of this.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah not the worst idea, i too think there may be not much of a market there though, but who knows.. good to know, if i ever come to consider b2b plans more seriously
mircea_popescu: Framedragger there's also nothing wrong with trying to package it for b2b and beat in the marketplace those derps mentioned in the log days ago. i don't personally think there's a market there, but maybe i'm missing a crease. teh republic'd support you in any case.
mircea_popescu: it is kind of a big deal. asciilifeform there must be a standard. this "submit key" thing doesn't work if for instance he's trying to dump 2mn static html pages into a website.
Framedragger: not a big deal at all tho of course, useful for laters and for future exploitations and analysis infrastructure though
mircea_popescu: yeah that's a good point Framedragger
Framedragger: asciilifeform: kk, thanks, a script (or some description) would be useful!
asciilifeform: Framedragger: there is not, currently, but i can clean up and post a script later. for the time being you can easily get the hash by submitting key to phuctor.
Framedragger: for example say i have some public key available. is there a way for me to derive phuctor's permalink for that key (acknowledging that the permalink may not be active yet, i.e. phuctor does not even know of the pubkey etc) ?
Framedragger: asciilifeform: is there a 'stable' algorithm / spec for deriving phuctor's hash / permalink? you'd mentioned before that it "includes the entire key - names, emails, ~all~ subkeys."
deedbot: [» Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] A brief discourse on specification. - http://www.contravex.com/2016/06/15/a-brief-discourse-on-specification/
phf: which i always thought is a pretty poor rhetoric tactic ever since i encountered it in like 6th grade
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, guy has a job, a wife and a child. who knows what trouble besets the man.
mircea_popescu: phf afaik yeah, trinque will give you a sql link
phf: i stopped following the other side, because it was a daily dose of "if you want to suck mp cock you know where to find it"
phf: bunch of people went a plague o' both your houses
asciilifeform: #b-a ? logged in still, but he ain't there iirc
gribble: Error: "laser" is not a valid command.
thestringpuller: i had an updated one for a while
mod6: if you use the script referenced above, it'll verbosely print out the patches being applied. which you can log into a file.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo we prolly should have a rule as to the maximum wordcount for an a href anchor.
mircea_popescu: http://superuser.com/questions/827002/mirror-a-blog-with-wget << one of numerous instances of people asking / complaining about the idiocy.
mircea_popescu: they're on a different domain, as per wordpress idiocy. and wget is apparently written by imbeciles. ☟︎
asciilifeform: anyway i got a copy. for whoever needs later.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I think that's a new record for time to qntra post being linked by another qntra post.
BingoBoingo: Perhaps MP is saving the mirror and gloating for a Trilema post?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-07 01:28 phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-03#1475432 << i've used it, and the wukix people are responsive to feature requests. i think the source is a fork of one of kyoto common lisp derivatives, probably akcl. fwiw it's the same lineage as gcl and ecl, so ascii's "why not compile ecl" is entirely reasonable
mircea_popescu: not so. so far they're paying through the nose, a good two thirds of anything their subjects consume being the usg's own contribution.
mircea_popescu: this may be the most amusing argument a taxpayer might ever present
asciilifeform: wake me up when it pays a cent.
ben_vulpes: they just did, to anyone with half a brain
asciilifeform: and backup is not a thing.
ben_vulpes: tis a marvel
asciilifeform: 'The photo above was posted recently to JQP Facebook as a means of commenting on the exorbitant waste of the Air Force’s multiple annual gatherings of its grand poobahs. Their gatherings, nicknamed “Corona” conferences, drain money, time, focus, and manpower from an already depleted Air Force in order to swaddle the service’s generals in the comfort of Earthly deification as they absorb formal dinners and presentations adding
ben_vulpes: there's also lockheed martin for a notbad bundle and zero risk
mircea_popescu: there's ~500 mn idiots without anything to do with themselves. finding a few hundred a year to do this is no particularly notable feat.
asciilifeform: 'BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian court has ruled that an investigation into the 1989 revolution where 1,104 people died can be reopened. Romania has been criticized for failing to investigate the revolution, where mainly unarmed demonstrators were shot dead around Romania from Dec. 17-30 as they protested against Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu.'
phf: i'm massaging them, i should be done within a month or so
BingoBoingo: Kohler seems to do a decent job making toilets, motors, and all sorts of other tub based products.
BingoBoingo: Not like a rifle you can just stuff full of cosmoline. Car has more tubes to get cosmoline out of later.
BingoBoingo: seriously, storing cars in a way that they don't rot and can run when you take them out of storage is a challenge
mircea_popescu: was a thing before where they stole ~200 cars some dude was keeping in storage on his own farm in the deserted inner argentina, because "obviously" they didn't belong to him "really".
mircea_popescu: shinohai the socialists (partido justicialista, kirschner's people) had been i npower for decades. the change to other group of thieves (the us-soviets, macri & co) was full of animosity as you'd expect, and now that they're in power the looting proceeds at a feverish pace.
phf: asciilifeform: that's a beautiful page
asciilifeform: '"He later told the nuns that police had tried to steal the money that he was trying to donate," Ritondo said. "There are dollars, yen, euros and a currency from Qatar ... It's a lot of money." He did not give an exact amount because the money was still being counted.' << l0l
BingoBoingo: From the mines: "I manage 2nd level escalations for a call center. I've trained my team to identify this type of person, and intentionally give them an inconsequential fight before agreeing. It actually leads to faster time to resolution and something like a 10% reduction in overall handle time."
shinohai: in a monastery yet
asciilifeform: 'On Friday, Secretary Penny Pritzker of the US Department of Commerce joined special assistant to the president for economic policy Adrienne Harris and other top White House officials for an event featuring a lecture from Brian Forde, director of digital currency initiative a the MIT Media Lab, and multiple panels on financial technology more generally speaking. Hosted at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the executive branch ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'McAfee was appointed as chairman and CEO of MGT Capital in May, causing a brief 1,000% surge in the publicly traded company’s stocks. Formerly a fantasy sports enterprise, the firm is in the process of being rebranded as John McAfee Global Technologies, Inc following McAfee's addition to the team.' << wat.
gribble: Error: 'brides' is not a valid currency code.
trinque: the inclusive mind is a schizoid mind.
pete_dushenski: 'ude pics as IOU: a new, risky online loan among Chinese university students'
a111: Logged on 2016-04-23 02:06 mircea_popescu: update posts set post_content = REPLACE(post_content, 'a href="http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/','a href="http://btcbase.org/log/'); will go from http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-01-2015#986007 to http://btcbase.org/log/?date=21-01-2015#986007
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: trilema q : how in the hell is every old log.b-a link now a btcbase.org link ?
pete_dushenski: there is such a thing as dumb money
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-14#1481878 << 'what is wot' is as common a question as any for noobs. might be worth adding to the list. ☝︎
asciilifeform: unrelatedly, http://www.changedetection.com is apparently a thing.
mod6: this is a temporary fix, and it's still on the agenda to get this resolved so we don't rely on remotely pulling down deps. stay tuned.
mircea_popescu: this is notably a dude that was wanted on a list of shit longer than my arm.
asciilifeform: 'Cybersecurity expert, libertarian presidential candidate, and founder of McAfee antivirus, John McAfee is taking over as CEO at publicly-traded MGT Capital Investments, Inc., (NYSE MKT: MGT). Fresh at the helm, McAfee is already charting a new course for the company, focusing on how to secure cryptocurrencies. The company previously invested in and developed a wide array of intellectual property.'
BingoBoingo: I need to accomplish X. Tool Y weights Z and offers A mass of utility B and C mass of utility D.
mircea_popescu: "a kilogram of hammer is composed by taking half a kilogram of hardness and half a kilogram of smashing"
a111: Logged on 2016-06-14 05:37 trinque tries to imagine what a hammer would look like if it were composed of orthogonal categories of "lets make everything to do with hardness" and "everything to do with smashing"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-14#1482531 << this, unaccidentally, is a very platonic ideal. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: well it's just a plan yet. but sure, give it a whirl.
Framedragger: lol, contactless cards. it's such a stupidly bad idea. reminds me of some hack0rz stealing us passport info because us passports used to have (or maybe still have dunno) *active* rfid chips. yes, active
Framedragger: always wanted to experiment more with artificial life a la karl sims virtual creatures but in larger mmorpg world
Framedragger: unrelated, allele set usage in eulora? damn, looks like i *may* have to give that gay game a try
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between buying products of engineering and buying products of the theatrical arts. sure, they'll drink, let 'em.
asciilifeform: 'Handling SSH keys or SSL certs for your clients? Get in touch with us for a premium access to our key testing API.'
mircea_popescu: "While authorities begin the painstaking work into why gunman Omar Mateen massacred at least 50 people at a popular gay nightclub in Florida, they'll have a number of clues for understanding the mindset of the mass murderer" << guy didn't care for your stupid cult ?
mircea_popescu: fuck you, a bunch of X-type derps getting killed is entirely not about x-derps.
BingoBoingo: Victimhood jostling: "if you’re straight i really appreciate you uh, making posts about this and trying to raise awareness and give your 2 cents but please….. don’t? this isn’t about you or what you think and it’s making me really uncomfortable lmao please let us raise our voices, please share our posts instead of making your own. today isn’t a day for you to be reaching for ally points"
BingoBoingo: "A furfag lied and pretended one of their friends was killed during the shooting, which caused a moderate amount of drama in the furry scene; go raid and troll his Fur Affinity account and stir up some drama for the lulz! "
BingoBoingo: This is a serious bug in the Internet. I fixes oral history as printed text too soon.
mircea_popescu: arguably a process much more important than its results.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell shinohai The PwC thing is a bit too much noisy to run
mircea_popescu: http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=4026 << incidentally, the "we got a hooker in X" / 5 dudes in main room hanging out and woman locked in bathroom for later use is very much emblematic male society. from the greek's gynecaeum to the mongol's "the smoked deer up that pole and the captured hos up that pole".
mircea_popescu: "usg runs a racket ; tmsr runs a ratchet."
asciilifeform: folks have been calling m sc4mz0r for eons: http://io9.gizmodo.com/did-a-case-of-scientific-misconduct-win-the-nobel-prize-1565949589
asciilifeform: take that pi and build a house.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'provided by universe' is a practical thing - like calculating digits of pi works the same regardless of whether you do it with darts, afghan - with kalash, and me - by throwing rocks, in a circle-in-square.
mircea_popescu: so now you're doing two things of the same kind - a convention and another convention.
asciilifeform: usg is at this very moment attempting a cleave of 'socialism fails'
mircea_popescu: it runs into a problem of "what it means to be provided by universe". for instance - is failure of socialism provided by universe ? is the fact you can't walk through fire conventional or universal ?
asciilifeform: (the notion of 'high vacuum', interestingly enough, ~has~ a hard spec: mean free path of a particle in the vacuum must be larger than the vessel is wide along any axis)
Framedragger: (ahahaha re bassett disaster.. yeah i would view 'cache' as an inevitable result of *constraints* (finite c).. i think it was a confusion of terms (spec / things that emerge from constraints), and i suppose the point of confusion itself is possibly an interesting object to discuss, etc)
mircea_popescu: "I once worked with a crew who all huffed the Airwick room freshener and then sat back against the pallet stack and giggled and said “Wow man” for an hour. " << check out the theorematicians.
asciilifeform: normally a quick stomp suffices, i haven't the patience or time to pull the wings off.
mircea_popescu: aww i was hoping for a thorougher trashing of the imbecile redditard and his "hey guise let me tell you what alt universe my unchallenged 15 yo mind dreamed up"
mircea_popescu: Framedragger should be able to serve a file neh ?
Framedragger: oh uh, it's a shitty python web server there, i should provide something better huh
Framedragger: ..and a signed checksum: http://95.85.10.71:8000/all/SHA256SUMS.txt