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phf: "The key piece of evidence that led authorities to Vaulin appeared to come when Apple handed over his personal details after investigators matched an IP address used to log in to the KAT Facebook page with one linked to an iTunes purchase."
phf: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/07/21/apple-helped-identify-kickasstorrents-owner/
ben_vulpes: and it is heinous apple box, and so there is no unified way to split, shuffle, collapse.
mircea_popescu: one of my secret lulz, for all the extra holes apple gets in here, nobody goes "stfu winamp"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 12:23 mircea_popescu: every computer (well, except for windows and apple i guess ? but they're not computers) has a repl built in as some sort of bash. in most cases you also have both perl and python out of the box. how could it possibly be faster to first upload a chunk of data to some webserver somewhere ?
mircea_popescu: every computer (well, except for windows and apple i guess ? but they're not computers) has a repl built in as some sort of bash. in most cases you also have both perl and python out of the box. how could it possibly be faster to first upload a chunk of data to some webserver somewhere ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: if you build alf a web tool that looks and feels like whatever apple doohickey he fell in love with as a kid, he'll love you long time.
mircea_popescu: if qntra sells to... i dunno, who hasn't bought anything in a while, apple say ? for a perfectly market-reasonable hundred billion dollars, then a shareholder that bought however many shares for however many bitcents will receive however many hundreds of millions of dollars.
ben_vulpes to investigate how apple has broken his whitelabeling toolchain. again. still. now.
mircea_popescu: wikipedia has a meagre dozen, ie, abour 2%. "paginas amarillas" like 9. buenosaires.gob.ar a derpy page with large fonts and nice graphics, nothing useful. (in line with the entire government here, they're basically made by apple, 0 substance, harsh colors, foot tall fonts. smartphone sites.)
BingoBoingo: (german concerns like festool dun count because "apple-icized"
asciilifeform: 'Silent Circle already lost some of its key personnel in recent months. Cryptography luminary and co-founder Jon Callas departed for Apple in May and in June, CEO and President Bill Conner resigned, with Neiderman stepping in as interim chief. Co-founder Phil Zimmerman, best-known as the creator of encrypted messaging protocol PGP, remains on-board, living in the firm’s adopted home town of Geneva.'
deedbot: https://mymakie.com/makie/design/ << Makie Maker | Makies | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/makies-fablab-design-create/id806174619?mt=8 << Makies FabLab: Design, Create & Style Doll Fashion Maker on the ... | https://mymakie.com/ << Makies - Create Your Own Doll! (US)
pete_dushenski: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-29/-tesla-solar-wants-to-be-the-apple-store-for-electricity << speaking of the infantile mindset.
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-29#1492869 << lel. 'uber of molotov cocktails', 'apple of shingles vaccines', etc. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: and could totally buy... an apple.
mircea_popescu: anyway, usage suggestion : fill whiskey glass with good raisins, add rum to the top, leave for an hour. then take the raisins for apple pie, drink the remainder while chatting on irc.
mircea_popescu: it's this scheme to grow apple trees against a trellis
asciilifeform: i was asking after the apple harvester. but them also.
mircea_popescu: apple orchards now are constructed for robot. ie, tree isn't even recognizable tree anymore, but this lengthy thread on a stick.
mircea_popescu: us programmer's credentials could buy apple.
mircea_popescu: are you an apple product ?
asciilifeform: whether it is kim jong up, to build statue of himself out of them, or apple - dun matter.
phf: t it), but unlike federated gcc, llvm is owned entirely by apple and greater extent other apple aligned corporations. their interests are ~opposite~ to those of enterprising individuals.
asciilifeform: it exists strictly because apple wanted to be rid of the gpl.
mircea_popescu: sooo... apple "withholds" "tech aid" from trump campaign. best fucking thing that ever happened to those people, not being bogged down by macs & shit.
mircea_popescu: trinque the apple you're thinking of got pancreatic cancer, they got a replacement from central casting.
trinque: I do not recall a worse keynote ever given by "apple"
mircea_popescu: hence "apple could buy russia - if only it wanted to!" "oh yeah, what about russia ?" "oh, putin just doesn't understand how the world works" "oh yeah ? and who;s going to show him ? you ?" "democracy! humanrights!" "fuck your mother."
mircea_popescu: speaking of side effects : this morn i woke up, executed a bottle of champagne with homemade apple pie and scantily clad damsels to the backing of 70s/80s italian made-for-tv comedies (atti impuri, anyone ever seen ? THAT is how you make shit for the tv!).
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is like "apple could buy russia" talk. no, they do not. they like to pretend they do. and much like the dumb housewife of some random local tough, some people BELIEVE THEM.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-22 00:31 Framedragger: "<product-security@apple.com>" hah!!
a111: Logged on 2016-05-22 00:37 Framedragger: ^ re. product-security@apple.com's key, or is that some broken sub-key of the master key, or somesuch? (broken 'cause of the "Modulus has mirrored low-order 32 bits !", for whatever original cause/reason)
Framedragger: ^ re. product-security@apple.com's key, or is that some broken sub-key of the master key, or somesuch? (broken 'cause of the "Modulus has mirrored low-order 32 bits !", for whatever original cause/reason) ☟︎
Framedragger: seems that their current key is different fwiw: https://www.apple.com/support/security/pgp/ ?
Framedragger: "<product-security@apple.com>" hah!! ☟︎
deedbot: [Recent Phuctorings.] Phuctored: 4294967297 divides RSA Moduli belonging to 'Apple Product Security <product-security@apple.com>; ' - http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/01242DCED832B429633FEE0CE9B056C695BBF80CA513619A2CA3AA895AC4735F
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, monsanto is very much apple'd. the original idea seemed promising, in the 90s. sometime years ago, dunno exactly when cuz they've been keeping it secret and i never cared that much, they found out it's a doomed entreprise. ever since then... MON's been pretty much a stock scam.
mircea_popescu: phf he has a point, if you consider that have you saved the money back in 86, put it in apple shares, and then use it to bid now 4k would be what, 3% ?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-china-idUSKCN0Y404W, to pick at random
ben_vulpes: nobody finds the proximity of this to the 'apple invests 1b in didi" story interesting?
phf: (and since nobody should be arsed to read that shit, i'll spoil the names for you, "But Todd Combs, who joined Berkshire in 2011, and Ted Weschler, who arrived a year later", rest of article is a mix of head scratching and guarded apple praise)
phf: http://www.wsj.com/articles/buffetts-berkshire-takes-1-billion-position-in-apple-1463400389 << "just didn’t seem like a move Mr. Buffett would make. It wasn’t, as it turns out. Instead, it was among the largest investments yet by the two former hedge-fund managers that Mr. Buffett brought on board as potential successors to run his company’s $129 billion stock portfolio."
jurov: http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/16/investing/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway-apple/index.html lol and they are interested in yahoo, too?
jurov: asciilifeform: paywalled http://www.wsj.com/articles/buffetts-berkshire-takes-1-billion-position-in-apple-1463400389
jurov: "Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Takes $1 Billion Position in Apple" lol the end is nigh!
mircea_popescu: " The result was an onslaught of mentions so great that it occasionally caused my iPhone twatter app to crash." << perhaps apple could ~literally~ wink wink nudge nudge buy russia ; then make it crash now and again.
asciilifeform: e.g. apple security hotline
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-02#1461046 << seems like the schmuck sat down on one of the helpfully prepared stakes - wrote 'apple' a bug report, which was duly read at ft meade on account of his using 'apple' key as appears on phuctor ☝︎
mircea_popescu: apparently there's some sort of apple shenanigans at work here. you reclal, apple, the dedicated-to-privacy company that recently wouldn't do something or the other to some phone or somesuch, i forget.
shinohai: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/04/27/body-apple-campus/83598174/ <<< "I can't take working at Crapple ANOTHER DAY"
mircea_popescu: ima have to file this as "the Apple standard" next time i have to come up with a term.
mircea_popescu: funnily enough, ~nobody sought to burn down apple for this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apple "internet suite" pre getting lucky with the pods.
mircea_popescu: apple strikes again ?
gribble: MobileMe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobileMe>; iCloud: <https://www.icloud.com/>; MobileMe Control Panel for Windows - Apple: <https://support.apple.com/downloads/MobileMe_Control_Panel_for_Windows>
deedbot: [Qntra] Millennials, Apple Reject Capitalism Together - http://qntra.net/2016/04/millennials-apple-reject-capitalism-together/
mircea_popescu: about as bad as the shit apple came up with in the same period, you'd just look at it and wonder wtf is this
BingoBoingo: The slants as Apple's confused idea of me downloaded: 天天萌萌消2016魔法经典版(正版授权) - 糖果星球连连看,每天不停消消消!单机免费免流量也能开心玩的消除小游戏!
BingoBoingo: Huh, apparently Apple let some Chinese into my old unused "Apple ID" account.
mircea_popescu: usg.microsoft, usg.apple, usg.nsa, usg.sfpd along with usg.* are still our little bitch.
mircea_popescu: as it is today, chinese plants run two shifts a day to make iphones for apple and one shift to make bootlegs for themselves.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-20#1454029 <<< i'm sorry, you want free access to IP, go ask apple. and for that matter intel. ☝︎
deedbot: [Qntra] Apple Keeps OSX Users Stuck On Vulnerable Git Version - http://qntra.net/2016/04/apple-keeps-osx-users-stuck-on-vulnerable-git-version/
asciilifeform: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-apple-fbi-encryption-debate-20160412-story.html << unrelated but lulzy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: signed with apple's developer cert !
mircea_popescu: if fucking apple can't keep its key safe...
mircea_popescu: ironically, this shit was signed with apple's whatever.
mircea_popescu: suppose, alternatively, that tomorrow china declares that apple is banned as a terrorist organisation, and no azn corp can do business with them.
mircea_popescu: wywialm i sympathize with the "not every asset is a scam angle". but consider say apple. could it buy russia ?
asciilifeform: ^ apple app store !11
mircea_popescu: somehow "apple is mostly mp's fucktoy by mass" and "reddit could buy china" don't collide in her head.
trinque: danielpbarron: yup, apple, google et al
mircea_popescu: can make $$$ out of attachables, too, apple style.
mircea_popescu: lmao wtf is this, apple nipple scandal
asciilifeform: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/florida-sheriff-pledges-to-arrest-ceo-tim-cook-if-apple-resisted-cooperation << vintage (few wks) related l0l.
trinque: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/father-begs-apple-ceo-to-help-unlock-his-dead-13-year-old-sons-iphone/ << bawwww!
BingoBoingo: Prolly Just something Apple's going to use to speed adoption of iOSX
trinque: I assume they plan to beat Apple on the head with "your phones aren't as s3kur3 as you claim" until... something
mircea_popescu: it got in trouble, was reorganized, works again. this is more reputation than apple has
ben_vulpes still waiting for integrated apple/ms/mobile linux
trinque: perhaps usg asked something drastic enough apple is concerned
trinque: asciilifeform: perhaps usg's threat is they will shame Apple in public unless they privately bend over more obediently
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2016 23:17:55; shinohai: http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/21/technology/doj-apple-hearing/index.html dun, dun DUN
shinohai: http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/21/technology/doj-apple-hearing/index.html dun, dun DUN ☟︎
BingoBoingo in k-12 watched computer training degrade from turtle graphics on Apple II, to adobe dreamweaver/flash on Crapple OSuX
ben_vulpes: inanity in detail if anyone cares: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/lldb/lldb-69/docs/code-signing.txt
assbot: FBI could force us to turn on iPhone cameras and microphones, says Apple | Technology | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1pkIQyn )
trinque: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/10/apple-fbi-could-force-us-to-turn-on-iphone-cameras-microphones << check out Apple dropping hints
mircea_popescu: i would not hire, eg, "apple laptop fixer".
deedbot-: [» Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] The Aviator and the flying Apple TV. - http://www.contravex.com/2016/03/08/the-aviator-and-the-flying-apple-tv/
assbot: TIFU by inquiring to Apple about iButt : tifu ... ( http://bit.ly/1oZQddZ )
nubbins`: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/495vr7/tifu_by_inquiring_to_apple_about_ibutt/
mircea_popescu: some idiot somewhere last year looked at whatever the fuck they look at and came to the conclusion that "we'll win this one apple - style, vc and software plox!"
ben_vulpes: the fbi's side - why would they argue apple's side?
asciilifeform: https://cryptome.org/2016/02/usg-apple-edny-029.pdf << lulz! apple 'wins'
asciilifeform: 'DoJ is required to cloak NSA-CIA capabilities by pretending full sharing does not take place. Redacted and excluded filings and decisions by DoJ, district, appeal, SCOTUS and FISA courts along with open and classified executive orders by and POTUS, and best of all, classified contracts, implements this. ... Going to court melodramatizes and sanitizes the bung-holing (like USG v. Apple) with in camera, withholding, stonewalli
assbot: Can Spies Break Apple Crypto? ... ( http://bit.ly/21xv1Kz )
asciilifeform: https://cryptome.org/2016/02/can-spies-break-apple-crypto.htm
pete_dushenski: "Now, in my first week in the states, something got trapped in the earphone jack of my laptop so I went to an Apple store to see if they can fix it. The genius there told me that he would need to first check it in and that I would only be able to come back and pick it up after four working days. I knew there were other computers in line before me and I really didn't think I could survive four days without a laptop an