adlai: BingoBoingo: look at the specific tweet linked
adlai: this is like me asking mircea_popescu whether the reason that he talks so much about bitcoin is that he actually owns some himself
decimation: that zdnet "ken hess" story is amusing. In their hind-brain, the "guardings of the revolution" who are the shock-troops of the left recognize the clear danger bitcoin poses to their entire world
decimation: lol from the comments: "You obviously hate poor people, the elderly, children, minorities - the list likely goes on and on. Inflation has been at record low levels for many years now, so your scare tactics go nowhere. Bitcoins only allow the greedy rich to evade paying their FAIR SHARE in taxes and the like, and their evil transactions are hidden from those who are tasked with protecting the common folk, like the honorable senator
decimation: from the article. Progress will not be impeded by the haters."
decimation: "fair share"..."progress"... these are religious sentiments
BingoBoingo: decimation: My favorite part is where nothing the Senator says supports the Author's claim in the way he thinks
decimation: ;;later tell ben_vulpes re: explain "usg has generally used the power of printed dollars to make it such that most people don't pay taxes" << Well, I was thinking of the very straightforward sense in which the majority of humans on us territory receive more dollars from usg than give to usg.
decimation: note that these 'payments' are mostly not direct transfers (checks from the treasury). They are mostly things like implicit guarantee to banks that usg will 'force solvency', health 'insurance' (free health care), and 'free' roads.
decimation: One might protest: but they pay taxes too! Except - the eitc rebates much of the tax.
decimation: BingoBoingo: yeah the way I read the letter it's pretty clear that the writer flipped the 'crazy bit'
BingoBoingo: decimation: Either that or the lazy bit...
decimation: mircea_popescu: "all through 2015 we will be seeing a shitton of 50-somethings with so-so credentrials going all weirdo on bitcoin." << no they just realize that bitcoin == no free money for 'retirement'
☟︎ assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 46100 @ 0.00039487 = 18.2035 BTC [-] {2}
decimation: BingoBoingo: I like the story about the black folk who protect the white-owned gas station
BingoBoingo: decimation: I thought that story was a gun store, not a gas station
decimation: "One exception - a Conoco gas station and convenience store."
decimation: one wonders why more folks in Ferguson don't have a similar attitude - if for no other reason than the "don't shit where you eat" principle
decimation: in general, franchise businesses avoid setting up shop in us ghettos for exactly this reason
BingoBoingo: decimation: Well you have to consider North St Louis COunty ghettos aren't THAT compartamentalized. Most people looting weren't hitting where they eat
assbot: Logged on 25-11-2014 04:00:03; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if the rats set fire to the lab, what'd you expect they'd burn ? the cages or the files ?
mircea_popescu: Bruce Fenton @brucefenton · 7h7 hours ago @kenhess Do I own Bitcoin? I see your research into me is about as weak as your article.
mircea_popescu: Ken Hess @kenhess · 7h7 hours ago @brucefenton I don't bother researching rancid Twitterati. And I don't care what you believe that you are. Again, do you own any Bitcoin?
mircea_popescu: ahem. how come all poor research is always defended in the same manner,
decimation: mircea_popescu: maybe this ken guy knows mr. flood
decimation: they appear to have a similar attitude toward civilized behavior
Vexual: assbot talks to me now
assbot: Valiant prince MP explores the mother of all echo chambers. A saga of our times. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1rwhP5d )
mircea_popescu: what else did you think the something awful interest in bitcoin is and has been powered by, all these years.
mircea_popescu: roughly speaking, the progre's relation to bitcoin is fat ugly chick in your class that keeps calling you up and passing you notes in class, dozens of times a day. the content is all about how "women like to be treated" and "what makes a good man", but...
decimation: mircea_popescu: the reaction to bitcoin (by non-bitcoin holders) seems to fall into two camps: 1 - bitcoin sucks because I don't have any or 2. bitcoin sucks so I need to steal some
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah that sums it up nicely
mircea_popescu: <decimation> mircea_popescu: "all through 2015 we will be seeing a shitton of 50-somethings with so-so credentrials going all weirdo on bitcoin." << no they just realize that bitcoin == no free money for 'retirement' << the problem there is that they actually DID work, and should have some money. problem is, in typical tardstalk fashion, they got scammed and having nothing left, are now siding with the scammer.
BingoBoingo: decimation: Number 1 tends to be incredibly popular amongst people who have other things
decimation: BingoBoingo: yeah pretty much as mircea just outlined
Vexual: so 10 and twenties have more to worry about?
decimation: "I got scammed so we are gonna scam you"
mircea_popescu: decimation just look at all the glbse fanbois who TO THIS DAY prefer to derp instead of admitting that mpoe-pr was right and they were stupid.
Vexual: surely the scamming wont continue forever, due to satoshi being a wizard
BingoBoingo: Nah, 2 seems more popular amongst people who never had anything except through scams of their own
mircea_popescu: then there was a period of ken slaugther powered nonsense, where the losers made threads about how mpex is teh scientology.
mircea_popescu: and on it will go, for as long as there's something standing the zombies will try to crowd it out while pretending it ain't standing.
BingoBoingo: I think the Ken SLaughter nonsense crowd moved on to GAW apologias, almost to a person
mircea_popescu: the only spawn of democracy, really. they fit with the electoral cycle really well. today, derp goes "i shall make money out of cockroaches, just have to have a pile large enough". they spend a year piling up cockroaches. no money appears, but just in time for...
mircea_popescu: 4 years from now, "different" derp, "i will make money out of frogs"
mircea_popescu: they collect frogs for a while... whatever, if it works free money and if itdoesn't at least it wasn't work.
mircea_popescu: this can keep on for as long as how did it go "evil people refuse to pay their fair share".
decimation: When I read something like that I think of that little rat Marat
mircea_popescu: fuck em, who cares. they can starve chanting whatever they please to chant.
decimation: at least "hail mary" doesn't generally end with "let's break out dr. guillotine"
mircea_popescu: a) none of those pages contains the string and b) as far as i can determine, the only site on the internet containing it is the qntra article.
Vexual: whats the story regarding the hostile ddos bot assbot mentions?
ben_vulpes: now to test new bouncer under laptop close and reopen scenario
Vexual: you bought a man phone vuples?
ben_vulpes: well a day later and a new emacs/irc toolchain in place
ben_vulpes: weechat has its own relay protocol, and someone wrote a half-decent emacs mode for it.
Vexual: oh yes, i forget, but i was being facetious anyway
ben_vulpes: we'll see how well it handles long disconnect periods.
ben_vulpes: Vexual: when the "android" "platform" isn't a total shitshow, maybe then.
ben_vulpes: more likely i'll have moved off of "smart" phones at that point.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32650 @ 0.00039643 = 12.9434 BTC [+] {2}
mats_cd03: the #1 thing keeping me on android is now the functionality i get with the moto x
mats_cd03: the always on mic, while creepy, is ungodly useful
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49400 @ 0.00039254 = 19.3915 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11854 @ 0.00038826 = 4.6024 BTC [-]
mats_cd03: i wonder if its the 5% private investor unloading shares thats causing this action
mats_cd03: ...or maybe its just a reaction to BTCUSD
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 89850 @ 0.00039879 = 35.8313 BTC [+] {2}
ben_vulpes: well you see it hasn't gone up in weeks, WEEKS i tell you!
mats_cd03: mp noted once that share price correlates with fiat price of btc
mats_cd03: and that this latest movement might be a delayed reaction
ben_vulpes: that said i can construct like 5 narratives to support it
ben_vulpes: this, however, is a good reason to not be a trader.
mats_cd03: i enjoy the rush from trading on the volatility
ben_vulpes: lol "enable security stuff" button in jenkins immediately locked me out
mats_cd03: i dun enjoy the drip from insufflating drugs
ben_vulpes: dissolve it into alcohol, enjoy boner-inducing synergy
ben_vulpes: ahaha well it only appears to lock you out, then it throws up the "no users - surely this
http visitor is the prophesiesed admin user!" screen
mats_cd03: my social media is being polluted by social justice warriors
mats_cd03: all i got to say is ... you come at the king, you best not miss
decimation: mats_cd03: to which king do you refer?
decimation: Think of it in “Lux Aeterna" as moldbug would say. The interesting thing really is to examine this completely artificial crisis - who benefits?
cazalla: i still stand by the article, it was a policy delete, seems unlikely they would complain against themselves and drop it without any consideration for reselling simply because it is allegly banned from facebook
decimation: cazalla: but he had no idea about the domain or its owner when he paid $A27000 for it
cazalla: plus i spoke to the guy who owned it last year and knew the ABN was expired then, could've dobbed him in and bid on it myself at the time but not something i'd do but super common in .com.au land
cazalla: decimation, it went to the drops, you don't need to know anything about previous owner
mats_cd03: decimation: i don't really care tbh. im armed, and god help anyone who thinks they're a better shot. i know how to kill a four man team breaching my home.
decimation: cazalla: I guess my point is that one might be a little curious before bidding such a sum
cazalla: decimation, i don't really follow
ben_vulpes: cazalla: this got you kicked from twitter?
mats_cd03: i sound like BB after he's had a few.
decimation: cazalla: maybe I'm daft, but in the link you just posted Tsvetnenko said: "“The domain in question was acquired with the possibility of being used for marketing purposes. Unfortunately it was discovered the domain has some serious issues not disclosed by the original vendor, which make it severely restricted in use if not valueless for any purchaser – I’m reserving my rights of recourse in that respect,"
cazalla: ben_vulpes, nah, "violent threats" did of which i didn't even make any
cazalla: decimation, yeah i guess you would say that if you didn't want to go to shareholders and say oh, i fucked up and lost this asset
decimation: so if you take him at his word, he apparently failed to notice the serious issues with the property
cazalla: decimation, the site redirected to localbitcoins forevarr
cazalla: maybe it was hijacked, who knows but you would still let something like that go for free instead of just fixing the issue?
decimation: which of course is much better (in his mind) than simply failing to update it
cazalla: because if people know you can't even secure a domain, pretty unlikely to then give you bitcoins in the wallet you're about to launch eh
decimation: in either case, he isn't saying that he fucked up
decimation: just that he fucked up in a slightly fancier way than you allege
decimation: I mean to say "he isn't saying that he didn't fuck up"
decimation: at any rate, I think this is a good sign, you are digging the right dirt
decimation: maybe you can run another story "Tsvetnenko admits to failure of due dilligence; has just discovered the principle of caveat emptor"
ben_vulpes: hate to pedant at you but that one gets up my nose decimation
cazalla: at the end of the day, no-one can disprove what he is now saying as auDA don't release the details of who made the complaint, sure it's possible he did this himself, highly unlikely
decimation: in my past I used to be good at spelling; then I used spell check and wrote code for a decade
ben_vulpes: "i don't need programmers to be *good* spellers, i need them to be *consistent* spellers"
decimation: ben_vulpes: did you get erc and your bouncer server thingy running successfully?
kuzetsa: mats_cd03: thanks. I don't talk much on freenode lately O_O
ben_vulpes: decimation: i've been meaning to ask - what is your irc toolchain?
kuzetsa: I'm pretty bad at networking in the social interaction sense :(
decimation: it sucks because it doesn't recognize any emacs keybindings
kuzetsa: decimation: isn't that the KDE one?
decimation: I'm generally partial to kde when I try to stomach linux desktop 'managers'
kuzetsa: I've used seamonkey's chatzilla before. it's not awful.
decimation: I kinda want to avoid mozilla stuff as much as I can on principle
decimation: unfortunately firefox is kind of a defacto standard
kuzetsa: I had a bad experience with firefox a few years ago. some greasemonkey stuff was part of my workflow and broke severely several versions in a row
decimation: it leaks memory like crazy and is generally shit code
kuzetsa: performance issues and lack of backward compatibility made me swear off firefox
decimation: plus the way they railroaded brendan eich put them on my 'enemies' list
kuzetsa: but now I'm considering giving the mobile version of firefox a chance on my mobile device one of these gays
fluffypony: I switched back to Safari a few months ago because it has the least battery impact on my MacBook
kuzetsa: my brain did a weird thing there... that's not an easy typo to make. sorry.
decimation: kuzetsa: no but it was unintentionally amusing given my earlier comment
kuzetsa: yeah, I like chrome personally. It's pretty cpu-efficient.
kuzetsa: mhm? which earlier comment?
fluffypony: Chrome is nice, but still does ~30% more battery drain than Safari in OS X
kuzetsa: brb, sudden crafving for a bowl of serial
fluffypony: at least you don't need a bowl of parallel
decimation: sign, google or apple, pick your poison
kuzetsa: it almost resembles a name
fluffypony: decimation: pretty much, you're damned either way
assbot: Media Lynch Mob Takes Down Mozilla CEO & Ignores Alleged Terrorist Gun-Running Democrat Leland Yee ... (
http://bit.ly/1yjNwF1 )
decimation: he was the ceo of mozilla that was 'lynched' out of office because at one time in the past he gave some money to "pro-prop 8"
decimation: which was a california plebiscite to make gay marriage illegal
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 370.79, Best ask: 370.86, Bid-ask spread: 0.07000, Last trade: 371.94, 24 hour volume: 12206.65649767, 24 hour low: 363.38, 24 hour high: 377.96, 24 hour vwap: 370.024814316
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42600 @ 0.0003953 = 16.8398 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18600 @ 0.0003953 = 7.3526 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: mp noted once that share price correlates with fiat price of btc << actually the private joke at the time was that it doesn't seem to correlate at all (it didn't move during the early mtgox induced runup to 1.2k). so i was kinda tongue-in-cheek referencing that "public knowledge" as it became apparently contradicted by the otherwise who the fuck knows what it's doing s.mpoe
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: that said i can construct like 5 narratives to support it << hey, me too!
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: my social media is being polluted by social justice warriors << the welfare state has succeeded in breeding a new type of cockroach.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: cazalla: this got you kicked from twitter? << twitter is broken in that if you spam it with "complaints" it will autolock accounts. trivial to hassle anyone you feel like, and the powerless generally revel in this sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: course the part where it's like... "you're banned from that shop run by retards you didn't really like or need but visited to support the mentally feeble" doesn't quite breach their consciousness.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: because if people know you can't even secure a domain, pretty unlikely to then give you bitcoins in the wallet you're about to launch eh <<< don't be ridiculous. "people" would give bitcoin to a boy with no arms that'll hate you if you don't please forward this email to all your fb friends,
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: hate to pedant at you but that one gets up my nose decimation <<< i kinds feel responsible for the dilligence bs.
mircea_popescu: dear world : i apologize for having come up with fucking double l diligence. it's because i can't spel wortha shit. i promise to work harder at it.
punkman: double d diligence is better
mircea_popescu: decimation: unfortunately firefox is kind of a defacto standard << o srsly ? check it out, and i never used it! ima go to hipster heaven now.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, you know of teh aleks toots - herman simm case ? pretty lulzy.
mircea_popescu: decimation: sign, google or apple, pick your poison <<< yeah, isn't chrome basically one of those spammy "toolbars" they had for netscape that sort-of mutated into being its own browser ?
☟︎ kuzetsa: true dildo-gence is very attractive
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mircea_popescu: ;;rate mod6 4 The "cave, age, tace" school of thought. Nice work with the Bitcoin Foundation.
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n6: hey i got some bunk rating with you
n6: friend of mine and me thought we might get on your exchange to check it out a bit, but we failed to do everything right and sent the wrong key but when i can came in irc you gave me trader rank but we never followed through.
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mircea_popescu: ;;rate BingoBoingo 4 qntra.net second officer. Ran a F.MPIF profit center before that without problems.
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mircea_popescu: ;;rate punkman 3 Head of Serenissima Notarial Services (SNS).
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mircea_popescu: ;;rate cazalla 3 Master of the scoop. qntra.net editor a la mode.
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cazalla: i have scoop of scoops very soon
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mircea_popescu: maybe the vulpes denhold does not readily understan what these buns are.
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mircea_popescu: ;;rate the20year -1 If you believe him you're stuck crediting a large pile of very improbable things, such as that no one out of dozen low income renters is interested in cashing ~50 bux worth of free BTC, or that buyers somehow materialize on Havelock to buy shares at 2x the going price for a single IPO day.
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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell Michail1 tell me more re this the20year squatter business ?
punkman: the20year gave free BTC to tenants?
ben_vulpes: lol wrote a post on the guy's scam and never rated him
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mircea_popescu: punkman if you recall, i paid nubbins to make some posters for the guy's tenants, redeemable for .1 each. nobody redeemed. since... i dunno, august ? something.
punkman: oh guess I missed that, thought the20year bought the posters
ben_vulpes: ;;rate the20year routinely freezes trading of his assets on havelock to "sell" shares at ~2x market rate. utter mystery, explanations inadequate.
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ben_vulpes: ;;rate the20year -1 routinely freezes trading of his assets on havelock to "sell" shares at ~2x market rate. utter mystery, explanations inadequate.
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ben_vulpes: ;;rate mrstickball -1 in cahoots with the20year
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ben_vulpes: perhaps ratpoison could alter its name to confuse the dosser?
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mircea_popescu: ;;rated BlueMeanie4 1 Meanwhile abandoned id used by meanwhile-abandoned USG-sponsored project to keep tabs on #b-a. Hey, was fun while it lasted.
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mircea_popescu: strangely enough guy hasn't logged into his wot acct since 2011.
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mircea_popescu: ;;rate bgupta -1 All outgoing ratings from 2011, someone by this username still chatting. Suspicious to my eye.
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mircea_popescu: raving lunacy aside, there IS an excellent reason convicted mobsters in breach of the terms of their parole (vleisides, bfl) been supported by vessenes's pseudo-foundation all through.
assbot: Stop calling /kenhess a "paid shill." I think he genuinely thinks poorly of Bitcoin. I wonder if he's willing to debate me on the topic?
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mircea_popescu: i on the other hand think he genuinely thinks poorly as a process.
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cazalla: had to remove bitcoin story, will update soon
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mircea_popescu: can they find satoshi in the body of a hot chick so i can get behind the find for once ?
mircea_popescu: you'd have to be one of these fucktarded kids to think this stands.
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cazalla: mircea_popescu, i burn a source if i leave it, issue isn't publishing, it's quoting email verbatim, i thought he was ok with but is not, he is going to have his source contact me to clarify things so will be another story
punkman: I got scammed once but then I got my monies back
mircea_popescu: cazalla heh ok but listen, gotta proof these better somehow or something.
mircea_popescu: un-publishin just doesn't work on the internets and is stupid generally.
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punkman: mircea_popescu: how many BTC was the loan?
mircea_popescu: eventually had a one too many case where someone went "hey, how about x", me pulling a blankl and then they going "but you rated em ?"
n6: are you ever going to bring back blog.b-a? rss site or has qntra replaced that?
mircea_popescu: n6 well peterl was working on scoopbot, areplacement. for unclear reasons it's down 90% of the time.
punkman: RagnarDanneskjol: make a ping endpoint so you don't have to poll the rss
mircea_popescu: that's not a bad idea, but gotta be able to filter teh wp ddos noob then
cazalla: mircea_popescu> cazalla heh ok but listen, gotta proof these better somehow or something <<< i have the proof, source didn't make clear what he was comfortable with what was published as does not want to be identified
mircea_popescu: cazalla i mean "to proof", like, "to clear" or w/e. you know, making sure it's all ok.
cazalla: or do you mean proof read? yes that needs work too
cazalla: are you saying i need my head checked or something
cazalla: i hated having mri's done, my worst fear is that someone sticks me in a cement sewer tube and buries me in the ground while water runs over my face and the pipe slowly fills with water until i drown.. mri bit similar in that cramped and tubular
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 60400 @ 0.00040608 = 24.5272 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: btw, do you know how that chinese emperess chick killed the other chick the emperor fucked ?
cazalla: aids? i nfi what you reference
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mircea_popescu: "She then had Concubine Qi's limbs chopped off, blinded her by gouging out her eyes, cut off her tongue and locked her in the latrine, and called her a "Human Swine" (人彘). Several days after, Emperor Hui saw the "Human Swine", and after realising that it who the "Human Swine" was, the emperor was so sick of his mother's cruelty that he virtually relinquished his authority and indulged in carnal pleasures."
cazalla: awful, my fear comes from when i was a kid, we use to ride our skateboards down the inside of the water drains, one day they dig a big trench of new but much smaller ones, i decide to climb in, get stuck like bishop in aliens when he wriggles to the other computer to fly the ship, started screaming get me out get me out, not really stuck, just difficult to wriggle backwards
cazalla: well, they say asians are cruel to animals so no surprise there
mircea_popescu: anyway. wu zetian was more of a badass than a raving psychopath.
mircea_popescu: what was it, "give me an iron whip, an iron hammer and an iron dagger and get lost"
mircea_popescu: anyway, here's what i thought it was : bones are constructed more or less on a micro basis. it is perhaps possible to construct such a bone configuration that if inserted into a human bone it completely destroyes the pattern and creates a never ending always expanding bone mass.
mircea_popescu: similarly to how the "computer always loses" pattern of guessing works for asciilifeform's markov chain simulator,
mircea_popescu: on the theory that bones are built by a markov process of the same type.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like a prion for bones. an insoluble problem made out of shape.
cazalla: xanthyos, we can rebuild your cock!
cazalla: but andreas worked at blockchain so it's gotta be bulletproof
mircea_popescu: these idiots using blockchain wallets through tor are perhaps the exact opposite of security and anonimity.
mircea_popescu: basically, the only way to make sure ANYONE who cares knows about your shit is doing that. it's more public than facebook.
punkman: some other guy lost 250+ BTC supoosedly
mircea_popescu: that;s right : i have more empathy for the god damned coins than for the derps involved.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23000 @ 0.00041472 = 9.5386 BTC [+]
nubbins`: ok so my laptop lost power abruptly and i think my bitcoind VM is hosed
nubbins`: "errors" : "WARNING: Displayed transactions may not be correct! You may need to upgrade, or other nodes may need to upgrade."
nubbins`: probably. debug.log is all like:
nubbins`: ERROR: ConnectInputs() : 190b9373da mapTransactions prev not found 1572ba70fe
nubbins`: ERROR: AcceptToMemoryPool() : ConnectInputs failed 190b9373da
nubbins`: hm, just delele latest blk000*.dat, err..?
nubbins`: "why would i keep a backup of a partially-downloaded blockchain?", he asked to himself, before muttering that it was probably to prevent things like this from happening
danielpbarron: that's another part of my bitcoind experience worth mentioning: make backups frequently
nubbins`: i actually intended to clone the VM when i got close to block 240k
nubbins`: so i could more-or-less easily check the wedge point
punkman: running the pathced 0.5 thing?
danielpbarron: i had it get corrupted once after a week of running.. never again
nubbins`: not even patched, just stock 0.5.3
nubbins`: anyway looks like that did it punkman, it's checkin em pretty quickly now
nubbins`: i guess now that i've got a cloak, maybe i'll find out if these random power-downs are due to bad RAM or a 0-day
punkman: smooth seas don't make good sailors
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:well if he did nubbins has some 'splainin' to do lol. <<< nope, in fact, i am also mildly perturbed by the fact that i mailed over $4,000 of goods to the guy and we didn't even get a couple measly pictures out of it
☟︎☟︎ nubbins`: remember when he was all "most of our tenants don't have computers"
nubbins`: a better idea would have been maybe to give 'em to people of influence, but hindsight
punkman: how did the redeeming for 0.1 work btw?
nubbins`: they take a picture of themselves w/ the poster, show it to us
nubbins`: i think the intention was for a bunch of poor nobodies from ohio to hang out here
punkman: yeah it does sound implausible that nobody has claimed one of those yet
nubbins`: well he got 'em and was all like "can i give one to each of my employees? my kids? etc etc?"
nubbins`: thenewdeal was on my ass so much about giving him a rating for buying a couple posters
nubbins`: imagine, rating someone because they bought an item from you :0
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2014 17:37:06; The20YearIRCloud: mircea_popescu: I'm going to write up a letter/note and give a poster & instructions to each one of my tenants, then offer a discount if they use BTC to pay for their rent( even if it's a fraction of the rent). But that will only account for 15 of the 50 posters, so I was gonna run a few contests on our FB page (If that's ok with you?) for the remainder
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> anyway looks like that did it punkman, it's checkin em pretty quickly now << yeah needed a reindex.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> i guess now that i've got a cloak, maybe i'll find out if these random power-downs are due to bad RAM or a 0-day << 99% they're due to transients from your power source.
mircea_popescu: srsly, these are booth babes nao ? and that cheap top sells video games ?
nubbins`: i did get a new battery recently
adlai: and to whom it may concern... please consider using some website toolkit thingy that'd let me link straight to a specific heading
mircea_popescu: in forbes this month : find out why and wherefore the most overvalued company of all time is "not at all" overvalued, because reasons unstated ; come see how their bezzle is not nearly as good as our bezzle, a fact directly proven by the happenstance that what our numbers show should be possible is directly and observably not possible
mircea_popescu: no wonder everyone in the us needs a college degree. there's no way native intelligence could deal with a tenth of the cognitive dissonance dished out on a daily basis.
☟︎ assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22850 @ 0.00040381 = 9.2271 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: " After a successful 25 year career in real estate and finance, Zoltan L Nagy has emerged as a versatile and reliable talent landing jobs in commercials, film, TV shows, print ads, industrials, radio & TV hosting and even some small movie roles."
adlai: kakobrekla: "Last block: 10 hours 38 minutes ago (331789)"
adlai loves when technology advances sufficiently
nubbins`: found a copy of 3d studio max r2 (w/ orange parallel port dongle!)
decimation: mircea_popescu: but the business model of stealing ideas from engelbart to built trinkets for those rich in bezzlars is a good one
decimation: note that apple has no problem punishing customers
mircea_popescu: basically this is like saying "for as long as the usg prints money , this company can capture about 1.2-1.5% of it"
mircea_popescu: great fucking deal, well done. and a calender left out in the rain can catch some rainwater.
decimation: well if the rain stops everybody is fucked
mircea_popescu: which is exactly why you can't "sell apple and buy all russian paper + 1 ipad for each russian citizen"
mircea_popescu: nobody in his right mind would do this deal, and for that matter who the fuck wants the ipads.
decimation: conde nast would want to push ideas into peoples heads via ipads
BingoBoingo: decimation: I thought Conde Nast was more concerned about stopping the bleeding
mircea_popescu: anyway, the lulziest part was all the inept tardstalk-level shilling, "o noes apple is not overvalued"
decimation: wait, are you using tardstalk to refer to the bitcoin forum or the wall street newspapers
BingoBoingo: ^ FBI once again sold them what they thought was a bomb
BingoBoingo: "The men wanted to acquire two more bombs, the sources said, but could not afford to do it until one suspect’s girlfriend’s Electronic Benefit Transfer card was replenished."
decimation: BingoBoingo: apparently usg isn't paying off the masses in bezzlars sufficiently
mircea_popescu: a decade ago, unscrupled salesmen sold some mentally slow old people 12 organs and 50 year's supply of toilet paper.
mircea_popescu: these days, unscrupled "fbi agents" sell mentally slow people "terrorism".
decimation: well, I doubt being an fbi agent pays much rent honestly
mircea_popescu: how fortunate i'm not the judge this shit ends up in front of
mircea_popescu: first case in three centuries where the state ends up prosecuted for bringing a case.
mircea_popescu: dude look! he could afford to buy like 1-2k prime asados!
mircea_popescu: hm. well... better save up buy an ipad then, turn it in for his share of the russian stock market later,
decimation: so you gotta wonder what they think in wall st. when some $90k a year 'bigshot' walks in and presumes to tell them how to conduct business
mircea_popescu: "Cyber Security Specialist" << note how it's all round numbers ?
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> that;s right : i have more empathy for the god damned coins than for the derps involved. << this.
mircea_popescu: "Godaddy sucks and it is a nightmare to register and transfer names using them." << doh.
decimation: anyone who has more than 18 mo. experience as a 'cyber security specialist' and has skills can easily clear over $100k
mircea_popescu: if only they weren't so retarded, and could learn the 18 month scriptkiddie thang.
decimation: mds in the us are basically insurance bureaucrats
decimation: they would like to think so. also bureaucrats
nubbins`: i tried picking up blender a few years ago but realized i just don't have the patience
nubbins`: i have a FOAF who's really into 3d modelling, did some work on the hive queen in ender's game
assbot: Logged on 16-11-2014 03:25:52; assbot: Logged on 13-10-2014 01:35:27; asciilifeform: rephrase, if you like, as 'unit of discretionary income per unit of lost free time.'
nubbins`: hopefully better than a 1:1 ratio
decimation: asciilifeform: what kind of salary do you think a decent skript kiddie could fetch in your area?
nubbins`: for context, there's probably a thousand posts on drug forums that go something like "SWIM took a large dose of 25I-NBOMe and is feeling severe heart palpitations, and wonders if they should call 911"
nubbins`: or "a FOAF has been making honey oil and doesn't know why it's green instead of brown"
nubbins`: my favourites were always "i had a dream the other night..."
decimation: nubbins`: hey I have a question - is there somewhere in north america where one can order custom calendars?
decimation: as in, I supply the pdf or whatever and they send the printed result
decimation: all of the sites I have found seem to want you to 'build the calendar with their web 2.0 warez!'
nubbins`: "i had a dream last night where i made a solution of 1.0 g 5-benzyloxyindole in 20 mL Et2O, cooled it to 0 °C, vigorously stirred it, and treated it with 0.6 g oxalyl chloride in 10 mL Et2O, added dropwise, over the course of 0.5 h. my dream self wondered if a yellowish precipitate was normal. any thoughts?"
nubbins`: try Staples, or your locally-owned independent copy shop
decimation: yeah that's a good idea, I guess a local printer would be a good start
nubbins`: it's just a stack of digital prints with two staples
nubbins`: oh, those too, yeah. not so common, but most copy shops can ring-bind as well
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 369.54, Best ask: 369.75, Bid-ask spread: 0.21000, Last trade: 369.75, 24 hour volume: 8754.46591541, 24 hour low: 363.38, 24 hour high: 375.33, 24 hour vwap: 369.344469208
kakobrekla: loot the container in far cry 4 - get 'Cryptocurrency Drive'
assbot: Prune differences between file manifests in bitcoin src dirs. Edit the "bitcoin" and "chicken" paths to suit your environment. ... (
http://bit.ly/1y5ye84 )
PinkPosixPXE: ok turkey cleaning time, bbiab! just msg me or leave me a tell if you have any questions, or need anything.
kakobrekla has been trying to warn people about lack or misuse of cloaks for the last day
Anduck: kakobrekla: what's there to be warned about not being cloaked?
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 you go in #freenode ask for a cloak, then you login first then join chan
kakobrekla: go ahead, join uncloaked. just wait i sec so i bring down ratpoison
diametric: i haven't been able to locate any freenode staff today or yesterday.
diametric: i'm actually quite curious how the ddos is taking place, my server show absolutely no abnormal traffic.
Anduck: kakobrekla: my host is anduck.net, so what do you do with this info?
diametric: i'm even ssh'd into my server when i get booted off freenode
kakobrekla: Anduck tell that to the ddoser - not me.
Anduck: i don't see why people should be pushed to use cloak or how to mis-use it. you can't really misuse it if you use sasl
Anduck: well, you've been ddossed because you werent cloaked?
kakobrekla: idk are you playin or fuckin retarded?
Anduck: i am trying to find out the same about you, it is...
Anduck: normally one doesn't get dossed =)
mircea_popescu: ;;rate Anduck -1 random idiot, keeps waking up talking.
gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of -1 for user Anduck has been recorded.
diametric: sigh.. the staff keep ignoring my request for an unaffiliated.
diametric: i'm still intrigued with how it's happening.
Anduck: kakobrekla: by 'experience' you mean you would try dossing me?
mircea_popescu: anyway, for #b-a irc, an idea would be to have moderation for joins/parts.
Anduck: just answer and dont be smartass
Anduck: correct me if i'm wrong but you dont have be an asshat
diametric: i'm connected to my bounce server when the "ddos" happens, but i don't see any unusual packets coming into it, nor do is my connection to my server from my house impacted in anyway, but i do get booted off freenode.
Anduck: so, the 'experience' would be you trying to dos me?
mircea_popescu: diametric maybe you're not logging what needs to be logging ?
diametric: i mean the peak throughput i've had sustained for any period of time has been 100k/s
diametric: but i'd still see tons of packets on the interface coming in
mircea_popescu: diametric guy's a kid in a basement. if it's going to be something it's going to be some sort of very cheap, high leverage, poor control something. syn, wordpress pignbacks, stuff like that.
Anduck: kakobrekla: indeed. why would someone dos some random people at irc
diametric: mircea_popescu: yeah i figured, but the interesting part to me is that it only interrupts my connection to freenode. nothing else.
diametric: and thats what makes it suspicious to me
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla mebbe if you ignore it it goes away, and the room average iq jumps a coupla points.
kakobrekla: diametric i can saturate a gbps line with it.
Anduck: and mircea_popescu ofc you do shady things, you know what i mean.
diametric: I'm not looking at any particular ports, i'm just looking at the raw interface stats
Anduck: you may call it 'doing business' to say FAQ is ToS etc.
Anduck: most poeple call it shady shit
diametric: kakobrekla: oh yeah. i worked for the isp that hosted riaa's website when napster was shutdown, i'm all too familiar with ddosing =)
diametric: we actually fired riaa as a customer
Anduck: ddossing is pita when it's well done
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 68000 @ 0.00039442 = 26.8206 BTC [-] {4}
Diablo-D3 runs a host that deals with ddos mitgation
Anduck: Diablo-D3: btw are you a regular in this channel?
Diablo-D3: except I refuse to go through this whole identify to assbot shit
diametric: mircea_popescu: thats what i thought but i have been getting booted off freenode an abnormal amount of times. maybe it's shitty ipv6 freenode servers and entirely coincidental.
Diablo-D3: kakobrekla: the website sucks, we alllll know.
Diablo-D3: kakobrekla: never outsource website design.
diametric: i'll still get a cloak anyway because why not
Diablo-D3: kakobrekla: 100gbit, though no one has been stupid enough to try yet
kakobrekla: you can do 100gbit traffic or 100gbit mitigation?
Diablo-D3: cans, strings, and not as many DSPs as I had hoped.
kakobrekla: bring me up a test instance for a couple of days?
Diablo-D3: Honestly, I need to setup a lightning rod box.
Diablo-D3: somewhere in the realm of too lazy, though.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 3792 @ 0.00124991 = 4.7397 BTC [+] {7}
Anduck: is this !up !down thing actually useful or is it just a way to troll / annoy people?
Anduck: which one is weighted more
Anduck: mircea_popescu: i could test it =)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 47900 @ 0.00038809 = 18.5895 BTC [-] {2}
punkman: mircea_popescu: why this mikex version?
jurov: also, how would it prevent getting banned?
jurov: i had similar service, ended up k-lined
jurov: and freenode staff said if I publish unique whois per user it may help
jurov: however, the users were ephemeral, so i just blocked irc altogether
kakobrekla: wait doesnt kiwi have a solution to this?
mircea_popescu: i've been looking for reasons to ditch freenode for like a year.
punkman: many networks auto-cloak everyone
diametric: i actually enjoyed the wild west nature of efnet back in the 90s.
jurov: kiwiirc publishes "gateway/web/cgi-irc/kiwiirc.com/ip.84.X.Y.Z
Anduck: Anducktesting: = qwebirc.anduck.net
mircea_popescu: jesus sitting in the safe confines of over here one readily forgets just how fucktarded teh outside world is.
diametric: also theres a guy with magical powers in #freenode that can reverse hashes.
Anduck: if you hex-encode ip, it's... encoded
diametric: well, mp proposed hashing webchat ips as a solution to prevent abuse.
diametric: but someone pointed out that all it would take is someone to reverse the hash.
jurov: only if you hash it with secret salt
jurov: sha256(ip) alone can be bruteforced easily
jurov: is freenode prone to accept such solution?
punkman: I remember seeing mibbit or whatever with such a solution
jurov: that ips are obfuscated, but stable
punkman: been a while though, maybe freenode changed policy?
Anduck: mircea_popescu: you trying to silence me here :x :)
Anduck: i love your negrating and !down
fluffypony: someone shoot that person for being a moron
Anduck: if you hash the ip, it's trivial to get the ip. unless salt is used
fluffypony: it's trivial to brute-force or use rainbow tables
fluffypony: besides, this is a trivial problem - all IRC servers in a network need to be in-sync (services etc.), so just sync up a table of IP -> random string key-value pairs
jurov: syncing 3e9 strings is trivial problem?
fluffypony: jurov: no more complex than keeping nickserv+chanserv+memoserv+operserv in sync
jurov: oh you mean that for freenode replacement?
fluffypony: jurov: yeah I meant on the IRC network level
mod6: ;;later tell PinkPosixPXE Thanks for coming up with that in short-order! I took a look, check PM.
ben_vulpes: amusingly, it's faster and more robust to tail ~/.bitcoin/debug.log than it is to actually query getblockcount on 0.5.3
ben_vulpes: tail -n 20 ~/.bitcoin/debug.log | grep height
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10750 @ 0.0003862 = 4.1517 BTC [-]
Anduck: ben_vulpes: guess which one is more accurate in case problems show up
ben_vulpes: well grepping the debug log is going to show other things i suppose
ben_vulpes: i'd hope that getblockcount would return the height of the verified chain...
adlai: where'd the -assets go!?
adlai: oh derp, i was scrolled up
adlai: ben_vulpes: thru you
ben_vulpes: you're a common lisp programmer. sanity would be too much to ask.
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 368.93, Best ask: 368.99, Bid-ask spread: 0.06000, Last trade: 368.99, 24 hour volume: 7610.99576218, 24 hour low: 363.38, 24 hour high: 375.33, 24 hour vwap: 369.972949579
nubbins`: <+ben_vulpes> amusingly, it's faster and more robust to tail ~/.bitcoin/debug.log than it is to actually query getblockcount on 0.5.3 <<< +1
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell PinkPosixPXE thanks you're a gem
adlai: "I would like to claim as my own… the theory of comparative superpower collapse" - dmitri orlov << I get that he's perceptive about the present, but has he not read any history from more than 100 years ago!?
adlai: shouldn't yhwh always be voiced?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49450 @ 0.00038095 = 18.838 BTC [-]
ben_vulpes: i'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it's not a real blockchain unless it has all of the transactions.
adlai: you don't need every transaction
ben_vulpes: a thing that "computes" a thing that "displays" a thing that "accepts inputs"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45480 @ 0.00037666 = 17.1305 BTC [-] {2}
adlai: ben_vulpes: section 7 "Reclaiming Disk Space" in the whitepaper explains this, and also suggests that this issue long predates and is unrelated to block size
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ben_vulpes: adlai: i see what you're getting at but i don't know that i buy it.
adlai: what is there to buy?
adlai: whether you keep provably irrelevant merkle branches is more of an afterthought that an individual node can do on its own
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diametric: so even cloaked I'm getting randomly booted off freenode. I think my disconnects are entirely coincidental and unrelated to any join ddos, since I can't find any evidence of the latter.
decimation: diametric: I don't see any join/leave logs from you in the past few minutes
decimation: asciilifeform: there is also an art to packing the keys on a keyboard to just the right density
diametric: decimation: happened about 30 minutes ago, i was afk until now, but i could see the bouncer informing me it was booted from freenode.
diametric: decimation: pretty much whats been happening for the last few days
decimation: diametric: ah yeah I see those, but your cloak is good from here
diametric: yeah, i don't think i was ever being ddos, i think its just a coincidence.
diametric: i'm connecting over ipv6, port 6697
diametric: i configured sasl on my bouncer, but i'm not sure its working
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42300 @ 0.00030027 = 12.7014 BTC [-]
diametric: anyone have a recommendation on a vps provider that accepts bitcoin and isn't a scam?
kakobrekla: they are a spinoff of some serial company
kakobrekla has been abusing their shit with bitcoinds
kakobrekla: ;;later tell diametric vultr takes btc
mats_cd03: the evaporation of my mpoe shares continues
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diametric: okay i figured out what was up with my connection, I think anyway.
diametric: the particular ipv6 freenode server i was connecting to I was getting like ~15% packet loss on. I picked another server from the round-robin AAAA records for chat.freenode.net, no packet loss now.
diametric: So the server running at 2610:150:4b0f::: is fucked up badly.
decimation: Must be some crap network port or something
decimation: diametric: do you actually have ipv6 routed to your host or do you use a gateway?
diametric: --- 2610:150:4b0f:: ping statistics ---
diametric: 15 packets transmitted, 5 received, 66% packet loss, time 14072ms
diametric: looks like thats morgan.freenode.net
diametric: i'm tempted to go drive around now and look at the idiots waiting in lines for black friday midnight sales.
jurov: assbot prolly ignores imgur
jurov: fivezerotwo are you ddosing that poor creature?
fivezerotwo: so this is why you don't put everything in one basket
gribble: Error: "isdown" is not a valid command.
jurov: log's fine from here
jurov: The attached image is an ominous depiction of a massive Walmart retail shop with throngs of would-be shoppers waiting outside with American flags in the evening rain as dark clouds roll in.
mircea_popescu: lol people love to herd. you should see teh argentines, it's like their favourite passtime, form a queue.
mircea_popescu: adlai: you don't need every transaction << you're an expert now ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: diametric: decimation: pretty much whats been happening for the last few days << freenode (and irc generally) isn't exactly a paragon of predictable behaviour
mircea_popescu: diametric: anyone have a recommendation on a vps provider that accepts bitcoin and isn't a scam? << nope. this is an oft recurring problem, nobody wants to make one already. for what, a year ? three ?