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indiancandy1: so like check the vagina you kknow
indiancandy1: for sexual diseases
indiancandy1: but they changed the system
indiancandy1: before the nurse had 2 do swabs herself on the patient
indiancandy1: but now its a cotton bud u insert urself in toilet and then put it in the tube
mircea_popescu: btw, ask her what's the similarity between a practicing gynecologist and a healthy dog.
indiancandy1: then
indiancandy1: there is a machine that does all the work now
indiancandy1: so before they had to do the swabs and all but now no just blood test
indiancandy1: i duno about the seriose diseases how they work with that
indiancandy1: i dont ask
indiancandy1: like hiv etc
brendafdez: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2206613/Chinese-hospitals-introduce-hands-free-automatic-sperm-extractor-donors-play-videos-help.html
assbot: Chinese hospitals introduce hands-free automatic 'sperm extractor' for donors (that even play videos to 'help') | Daily Mail Online ... ( http://bit.ly/18TGopI )
mircea_popescu: the country of cheap hand labour. oh, how the mighthy have fallen.
indiancandy1: i like ur name
indiancandy1: pierre rochard
indiancandy1: exotic sounds like a disney character
indiancandy1: mp
indiancandy1: u need to get on instagram yo
trinque: loooool
brendafdez: lol
mircea_popescu: why ?
brendafdez: it even has rounded crners, dont ask
indiancandy1: its fun
indiancandy1: what has rounded corners
indiancandy1: the sperm donor thing
brendafdez: instagram
indiancandy1: okay
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/4da22b1f1235a8e2146a52f24352e900/tumblr_meo80dycba1rsltkro1_1280.jpg
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/18TGH3Z )
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 what do you mean "it's fun"
indiancandy1: her ipples
indiancandy1: nipples look fucked
indiancandy1: the older lady
indiancandy1: i hate nipples like that
brendafdez: he ventured into twitter and things didn't end well... someone got death threats and stuff
indiancandy1: look like they been slapped on
indiancandy1: but the other girl looks sexy
mircea_popescu: eh stop being so critical.
mircea_popescu: brendafdez ftr, my twitter account is from before o'reilly discovered bitcoin / created a house "expert".
mircea_popescu: but it's been abandoned longer than used, because well... the platform's retarded.
indiancandy1: i got better nipples obvios
trinque: mircea_popescu: if it's the same handle as IRC, got suspended
brendafdez: he has another one unused
brendafdez: i think
mircea_popescu: trinque yeah that one. 2009 iirc
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19550 @ 0.00025426 = 4.9708 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: because at the time all the fuckable ro chicks were like "mp, come on twitter, its fun"
brendafdez: hahahahaha :) instagram is tha future
mircea_popescu: yeah, the future of flies.
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 so when are you coming to argentina ? find yourself a nice brazillian bf, etc ?
indiancandy1: when you sponsor me
indiancandy1: can i stay at our house
indiancandy1: your|*
mircea_popescu: well you could but then you'll hafta do all sorts of things.
indiancandy1: like get you drunk
indiancandy1: take you clubbing
indiancandy1: be ur wing man
indiancandy1: :D
mircea_popescu: lol. not at first.
mircea_popescu: http://40.media.tumblr.com/7eaa07042c70a1a985dc05680728852b/tumblr_nfbv4oVaSc1u09k11o1_1280.jpg << lol, blanke schande.
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1OtkHNS )
mircea_popescu: !up indiancandy1
mircea_popescu: you gotta get in the wot already yo.
mircea_popescu: why let everyone think beauty and brains don't mix ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13900 @ 0.00025524 = 3.5478 BTC [+]
indiancandy1: i need to
brendafdez: Bc it gives hope to those of us who are ugly, or doesn't it work like that? Ok, now i don't even want to know... ;)
indiancandy1: but i need help
indiancandy1: can u teach me how
indiancandy1: .........
indiancandy1: waites
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15800 @ 0.00025605 = 4.0456 BTC [+] {2}
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10600 @ 0.0002489 = 2.6383 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: !h
assbot: http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/irc_bots/assbot
mircea_popescu: see that indiancandy1 where it says "first steps in bitcoin assets"
indiancandy1: nope
indiancandy1: where should i look
mircea_popescu: on the left.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20700 @ 0.00024899 = 5.1541 BTC [+] {2}
indiancandy1: i cant find it
mircea_popescu: http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/first_steps_in_bitcoin-assets/ <
assbot: first_steps_in_bitcoin-assets [bitcoin assets wiki] ... ( http://bit.ly/1Otojjb )
indiancandy1: all this text
indiancandy1: giving me head ake
indiancandy1: LOL
nubbins`: zzzz
indiancandy1: dont be rude
indiancandy1: nubins
indiancandy1: about zzz
mircea_popescu: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/36085/what-are-the-arguments-for-and-against-the-increase-of-the-block-size-limit << check it out lol.
assbot: scalability - What are the arguments for and against the increase of the block size limit? - Bitcoin Stack Exchange ... ( http://bit.ly/1OtoF9q )
brendafdez: i was asked to translate a piece of utter stupudity about "btc scalability" for a certain website. I'm making $30 on this but it sucks.
brendafdez: having to translate braindamage
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is murch, other than a guy with a skin rash, which he imagines comes from reading stuf online rather than from poor hygiene
indiancandy1: wow
mircea_popescu: sucks to be you i guess.
indiancandy1: whose murch
brendafdez: who? me?
indiancandy1: ahahah
mircea_popescu: brendafdez yeah you.
indiancandy1: mp
indiancandy1: when you booking my flight
brendafdez: I don't think it sucks too badly, but maybe as compared to being mp... ;)
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 a while after your tits are on the article, for sure.
indiancandy1: which article
brendafdez: hahah she refused the 0.1 BTC last time
nubbins`: a whole dime
nubbins`: !s dime
assbot: 88 results for 'dime' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=dime
indiancandy1: come on
mircea_popescu: tough work eh.
indiancandy1: my tits are worth more baby brenda
mircea_popescu: it's supposed to be unappealing. that's what keeps you in your current rut.
mircea_popescu: water in teh glass.
nubbins`: heh
nubbins`: clean glass? here y'go, your highness
indiancandy1: youu lost me
brendafdez: i wouldn't doubt it, indiancandy1, but I'd be more convinced if they were posted on trilema
nubbins`: you should probably ctrl-c that
indiancandy1: mp most my tits
indiancandy1: on trilema
indiancandy1: get them more famous
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7473 @ 0.00024547 = 1.8344 BTC [-]
brendafdez: Now you're paying him 0.1 for it :P
nubbins`: mine are on there
indiancandy1: nubbins send url
brendafdez: http://trilema.com/2014/ill-pay-for-your-tits/
assbot: I'll pay for your tits pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1D0bs4I )
mircea_popescu: http://www.ofnumbers.com/2015/02/06/what-is-the-blockchain-hard-fork-missile-crisis/ << Tim Swanson is making his own personal wot! confound this whole thing, who said independent minded texan has to kiss teh pinky pope ring!11
assbot: What is the blockchain hard fork “missile crisis?” | Great Wall of Numbers ... ( http://bit.ly/18TJKZM )
mircea_popescu: !up indiancandy1
indiancandy1: i like thr 3rd girls nipples
mircea_popescu: ;;seen sexysaffron
gribble: sexysaffron was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 37 weeks, 0 days, 0 hours, 17 minutes, and 3 seconds ago: <sexysaffron> ok!
indiancandy1: yes
indiancandy1: i remember her
indiancandy1: she did the utube vdeo
mircea_popescu: fetish chick.
indiancandy1: for 50dollars
indiancandy1: or something
indiancandy1: tits 4 30 dollars
indiancandy1: hmmm
brendafdez: http://i.imgur.com/rgzyJfv.jpg beat mine hands down? :3 I'm sure you do
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1Otrg35 )
mircea_popescu: lol you're too price driven. gotta be service driven to succeed, you're a woman after all.
mircea_popescu: ask not what this produces for me, ask instead how i could best serve.
mircea_popescu: brendafdez how does one beat tits ?
mircea_popescu: i mean, metaphorically.
indiancandy1: brenda
indiancandy1: is that u
indiancandy1: ur cute yo
brendafdez: by havinf a more squishy pair i dunno. Yes, that's me. Not now, i downloaded it from somewhere, but still me :P
indiancandy1: dont tel me 10years back
indiancandy1: ur pretty girl
brendafdez: no, like 1 year ago
mircea_popescu: so earlier trinque dumps trinquette, now indiancandy1 finds true love in brendafdez...
mircea_popescu: truely teh lord taketh, the lord giveth away.
indiancandy1: ahahah
indiancandy1: whose trinque
indiancandy1: etc
trinque: o/^ a time to be born; a time to die o/^
mircea_popescu: brb having my cock sucked again
mircea_popescu: the first one didn't take.
brendafdez: hah
brendafdez: indiancandy1 he was the guy writing yesterday night about the issues with his wife/gf/something
indiancandy1: this is 4 u mp
indiancandy1: old pic
indiancandy1: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1UU8sSdjP5w/UwyPfj_xJ-I/AAAAAAAABLM/DgfaV_zyRa4/s1600/A7YSCtZCIAAhltB.jpg
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1OtswTQ )
indiancandy1: bdms
indiancandy1: bdsm
indiancandy1: im looking 4 recent
indiancandy1: nipple pic
brendafdez: you're top quality, i can't compete :) but I have picture with the mazagazine with lots of issues: https://www.titsforbitcoin.com/pics/s-38.jpg?1427158661 the background says what a slob I am...
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ott3Fm )
indiancandy1: nice nail colur
indiancandy1: ur pretty
indiancandy1: babs
indiancandy1: babes************
brendafdez: thx it's the same I have on now <3
indiancandy1: dont forget u are fabulous
thestringpuller: lol mircea_popescu we are desiging your fortress/palace with a trap to push niggas down
thestringpuller: dat fall damage
indiancandy1: brenda have u met mp
indiancandy1: he lives near u
brendafdez: supposedly we inhabit the same city
trinque: thestringpuller: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110615180140/gameofthrones/images/1/18/Bronn_defeats_Vardis.jpg << eh?
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1OttH5N )
brendafdez: indiancandy but for sure, i was here first ;)
thestringpuller: trinque: essentially
asciilifeform opens crate with the ill-fated rngs (nominally - reworked)
brendafdez: but maybe they were REALLY random and you couldn't appreciate their kind of randomness u.u poor little things
brendafdez: I never had much success as to dating/sex/relationships, so I mostly learned languages through porn. One of my language learning resources for German back in 2007 was http://www.pantiesparadise.de/index.php i was an awesome place, and there was even another similar site, which must still be around. I never saw anything like this in English- or Spanish-land. There are som subreddits for used underwear and some girls sell theirs on eb
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/18TLJgP )
brendafdez: ay and such but nothing compares to PP and YP. And I have to wonder why during all these years nothing has emerged to occupy this space.
danielpbarron: !up Bagels7
indiancandy1: u learnt languages because of porn
indiancandy1: that is classic statement
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10350 @ 0.00024547 = 2.5406 BTC [-]
indiancandy1: http://pzy.be/v/2/Screenshot_2015-03-20-05-38-34.png
assbot: PicsCrazy - simple image hosting ... ( http://bit.ly/1OtvBTQ )
trinque: that's a better excuse than "for the story"
indiancandy1: my tits 2days back
brendafdez: through porn, nothing else works
indiancandy1: damn
brendafdez: indiancandy they are awesome <3 those tits. I feel guilty now that I made you start posting pics :)
brendafdez: !up indiancandy1_
brendafdez: !up indiancandy1
brendafdez: indiancandy1 indiancandy1_ now I'm confused...
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24500 @ 0.00023854 = 5.8442 BTC [-] {2}
indiancandy1_: why
brendafdez: bc there's two of you in chan
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6450 @ 0.00023527 = 1.5175 BTC [-]
indiancandy1_: s there
indiancandy1_: some loser is imposting me
indiancandy1_: how gay
indiancandy1_: some real sad fuckjer
indiancandy1_: fucker
brendafdez: How can we know which one is for real? care to gpg sign something? :P
indiancandy1_: who can go suck his moms vagina
brendafdez: no, now for real, didn't you register your username?
indiancandy1_: no
indiancandy1_: but u no
indiancandy1_: this happens 2 m
indiancandy1_: quite often
indiancandy1_: i dont get the wot thing mircea talkin about
asciilifeform: trinque: i forgot to ask, who is/was lena dunham ?
indiancandy1_: its to complex
asciilifeform: trinque: specifically as it pertains to the woman
gabriel_laddel: indiancandy1_: read more
gabriel_laddel: indiancandy1_: start at bitcoin-assets.com
trinque: asciilifeform: lol, just the writer of HBO junk food
brendafdez: You have to talk to NickServ and say register <password> <email>
indiancandy1_: i cant
indiancandy1_: it hurts my eyes
indiancandy1_: lol
asciilifeform: trinque: yes, i was able to discover that much. but why the emotion.
brendafdez: first you register your username, then you start thinking about the wot
gabriel_laddel: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=17-03-2015#1055439 << http://imgur.com/SXdFiZx ☝︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 17-03-2015 16:28:18; pete_dushenski: i'd never had a ball boy before and it. was. sweet.
assbot: Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1Otxn7r )
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 http://trilema.com/2010/nsfw-pula-mea/ << scam
assbot: NSFW - Pula mea pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1OtxobH )
trinque: asciilifeform: see pm, and also that said person consider herself an artist
indiancandy1_: huh
indiancandy1_: brenda
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18950 @ 0.00023527 = 4.4584 BTC [-]
indiancandy1_: why r u cominin on my name
indiancandy1_: that is real lame
indiancandy1_: i liked u b4
gabriel_laddel: .furrybait
gabriel_laddel: http://imgur.com/hUSTql1
assbot: Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1OtyFPU )
indiancandy1_: wtf
trinque: indiancandy1_: not hard to register
indiancandy1_: there is no pooint
trinque: /msg nickserv register <your password> <your email>
indiancandy1_: whatever like
indiancandy1_: i dont get it
gabriel_laddel: !down indiancandy1_
trinque: gabriel_laddel: sir you've blocked the influx of tits
trinque: this is a cardinal sin
brendafdez: indiancandy1_ just wanted to see if your nickname was actually squatted, it is.
gabriel_laddel: trinque: I'm trying to teach her the WoT
brendafdez: but you downed her :(
gabriel_laddel: hit her over the head with it... perhaps she'll grok?
gabriel_laddel: you can up her
gabriel_laddel: I'm not going to do anything, just... read moar
brendafdez: i'm the nowest one around, that might be a faux pas...
trinque: having not done so, I'm aware of the lesson being taught
trinque: yet... tits!
trinque: !up indiancandy1_
indiancandy1_: :O
trinque: indiancandy1_: register yo nick!
indiancandy1_: i duno how to man
indiancandy1_: i cant understand it
trinque: indiancandy1_: that thing I said
indiancandy1_: the site
indiancandy1_: with the text
indiancandy1_: i dont get it
danielpbarron: indiancandy1_, what operating system is on your computer?
indiancandy1_: windows
brendafdez: danielpbarron you have to ask
brendafdez: ?
danielpbarron: ok, first step is to remove windows
indiancandy1_: y
danielpbarron: i guess before you do that, prepare a flash drive with an installer for openbsd or gentoo or something
gabriel_laddel: trinque: http://imgur.com/pNm3zxY
assbot: Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1Otzx7l )
indiancandy1_: i cant not use windows yo
danielpbarron: indiancandy1_, because winblows is insecure malware masquerading as an operating system
danielpbarron: you are smart enough to keep coming back here
danielpbarron: give yourself a little credit
brendafdez: you're scaring her, let her register the nick before
danielpbarron: well yeah, you can register nick with nickserv as you are now
trinque: gabriel_laddel: already seen 'em
indiancandy1_: daniel didnt even understand what u mean
danielpbarron: winblows is bad
trinque: danielpbarron: installing an OS is going to be too much at once
indiancandy1_: but the other things are complex
indiancandy1_: do you use apple
danielpbarron: shouldn't take longer than 6 months to figure out :p
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17500 @ 0.00021571 = 3.7749 BTC [-]
brendafdez: indiancandy1: Once you try linux, you come asking for more
danielpbarron: indiancandy1_, no; there is more than just winblows and crapple
indiancandy1_: you and your names
indiancandy1_: i use my laptop for basic things thoigh
indiancandy1_: browsing chating social media
indiancandy1_: thats it
danielpbarron: me too
brendafdez: with windows your laptop uses you
brendafdez: not just your laptop
danielpbarron: so why do you use such a bloated complicated piece of garbage OS?
indiancandy1_: whats OS?
danielpbarron: operating system
indiancandy1_: what do you recomend
danielpbarron: gentoo or openbsd
trinque: lol, cmere toddler, check out the deep end
trinque: SPLOOSH
danielpbarron: openbsd has an autoinstaller but might not do everything you'd like
indiancandy1_: okay will look into it
trinque: indiancandy1_: it's literally as simple as what I typed
trinque: IRC has commands which are preceded by slash
indiancandy1_: literally i browse online
indiancandy1_: i do cam shows
trinque: msg sends a message to a name
indiancandy1_: listen 2 music chat
indiancandy1_: thats it
danielpbarron: indiancandy1_, what web browser do you use?
indiancandy1_: oh and i watch movies online
trinque: /msg nickserv means send a message to nickserv
indiancandy1_: chrome
danielpbarron: chromium works flawless on gentoo
danielpbarron: that's what i use
indiancandy1_: why do you change the names
danielpbarron: it's *better* on *nix than on winblows
indiancandy1_: LOL
danielpbarron: it's called chromium on linux
trinque: danielpbarron: yeah I find that to be true as well
brendafdez: trinque how do you comment the "/"?
indiancandy1_: ahhh
indiancandy1_: okay
trinque: brendafdez: if you do two
indiancandy1_: so im looking into gentoo
brendafdez: thx
indiancandy1_: i got windows 8 atm
trinque: only necessary at the beginning
danielpbarron: i can play youtube videos and do twitter / instagram / facebook / whatever
indiancandy1_: and webcam?
danielpbarron: haven't tried that
brendafdez: no, linux is srs os, no webcam :P
brendafdez: j/k
danielpbarron: nobody wants to see my knockers
indiancandy1_: lol
indiancandy1_: i mean
indiancandy1_: can u webcam
indiancandy1_: like use it on skype etc
danielpbarron: idk lemme try google hangouts i guess
brendafdez: if you absolutely want to use skype, you can. All else you mention, you can.
indiancandy1_: i do skype shows
indiancandy1_: linux is good right
brendafdez: Skype is rogue, I gather there are safe(r) ways to run it anyway.
trinque: nsa gon get ya tits
trinque: frankly a Ubuntu live cd is probably a more sensible first try
trinque: make a stick with ubnetbootin or whatever
BingoBoingo: Yeah
brendafdez: it calls home and sends encrypted traffic even when idle, so you never know what it's doing.
indiancandy1_: ubuntu is that a african tribe
indiancandy1_: it sounds familiaer
trinque: lol
indiancandy1_: seriose
brendafdez: my first distro was ubuntu-based, I wish I had started with something else
BingoBoingo: Ubuntu is traditional African software, from Rhodesia
danielpbarron: i can't in good conscience recommend nigbuntu
danielpbarron: lol "ubuntu based" such meta
indiancandy1_: rhodesia doesnt exist
indiancandy1_: anymore
indiancandy1_: its zambia
danielpbarron: sadly :<
trinque: I mean just to have something that boots to a thing with a mouse pointer
trinque: "k, this is linux"
BingoBoingo: indiancandy1_: It's still Rhodesia in my heart
trinque: arch/gentoo/bsd ass torture later
indiancandy1_: why
indiancandy1_: you from there
indiancandy1_: ?
brendafdez: torture as in enjoyable?
BingoBoingo: indiancandy1_: Nah, just heard stories
danielpbarron: it's really not so hard!
trinque: brendafdez: gentoo quest is now boring for me, but sure
trinque: rpg where you diddle nobs on an infinite wall forever
brendafdez: I want to go the Arch way, never do
danielpbarron: if you must compromise, debian is not yet systemd-ified
indiancandy1_: bingo u lier
indiancandy1_: u never heard no stories
brendafdez: head is starting to ache, more coffee will do...
BingoBoingo: indiancandy1_: I heard it was named after a dude who funded a bunch of scholarships. Don't see how there could be anything bad in that.
asciilifeform misread 'google hangouts' as 'google handouts', almost fell down
indiancandy1_: https://twitter.com/MYSADCAT
assbot: WHY MY CAT IS SAD (@MYSADCAT) | Twitter ... ( http://bit.ly/18TOQFE )
danielpbarron: well my webcam worked on ubuntu so it would probably work on gentoo if i recompiled my kernel to allow it
indiancandy1_: is ur cam a plugin
indiancandy1_: or inbuikt
indiancandy1_: built*
danielpbarron: it's built in
indiancandy1_: same
danielpbarron: that doesn't mean yours would work necessarily
danielpbarron: i guess it wouldn't hurt to make an ubntu installer flash drive and use it to boot live and see if your hardware is supported by a linux kernel in general
danielpbarron: do you have an old computer lying around that you can use as your offline machine?
brendafdez: resisting the temptation to install it will be to much
danielpbarron: well installing it would mean wiping out her winblows stuff
brendafdez: she can always do dp ehhr... dual boot
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Her big issue is supporting the cam tools. Ubuntu is probably going to be fine for the camera in general, Iffier for skype. Probably not possible for her to use all of the tools she could need for work on OpenBSD/Gentoo without going through hell and rewriting some of them.
danielpbarron: lol so ubuntu is linux for girls
trinque: and for white guilt
brendafdez: I subscribed to a linux for girls community a couple of months ago. Can't tell you what it's like ☟︎
indiancandy1_: i have aa laptop
indiancandy1_: i dont own pcs
indiancandy1_: i got 2 laptops
indiancandy1_: one samsung notebook thing
indiancandy1_: and this hp touchscreen thing
danielpbarron: i knew a chick that used ubuntu before i had given up windows completely, and she wasn't ugly either! looking back on it that was quite exceptional
brendafdez: http://i.imgur.com/TQmHfIX.png
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/18TPgfb )
danielpbarron: lol
danielpbarron: reminds me of the theo treatment
trinque: attestation of female compliance lol
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Oh, you emailed theo or what?
danielpbarron: !up Bagels7
trinque: "k now you can learn the handshake AND NEVER TELL ANYONE"
danielpbarron: lol no! I mean this whole "we need you to affirm the following before we can continue" b.s.
BingoBoingo: Ah
brendafdez: I was also asked to please not keep a public archive, but I doubt they'll be letting me in
trinque: you know, we're not a real cult until we have some brainwashing chant
trinque: this girls linux club has one up on us
BingoBoingo: indiancandy1_: If you like both laptops you have as they are you could get something like this to play with linux on http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=acer+aspire+pink&_frs=1
assbot: acer aspire pink | eBay ... ( http://bit.ly/18TPx1H )
BingoBoingo doesn't know of anywhere other than ebay that routinely sells interesting computers.
danielpbarron: 20 bucks for one of these things? what's the catch?
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Looks like the auction just stated. also the description is rather blah
BingoBoingo: On the $20 one
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: To be fair the things were about $200 new
danielpbarron: This aver pink laptop is used and is very slow and old. It would be great to use for replacement items or even for a starter laptop. It does work it's just slow. << I can live with slow
BingoBoingo: I had a grey one passed it on to a younger brother. Ran ubuntu fine. Ran rather awesome with an SSD.
Bagels7: Hi, Can I get a dime please. http://i.gyazo.com/bc55f87a2ad2dd0d5c222e3a0901d962.png
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1FSjCLK )
brendafdez: should talk to mircea_popescu
brendafdez: but I don't think that qualifies
brendafdez: Bagels7 you have to write a code on them, which he will provide
Bagels7: yes, I am aware
brendafdez: Bagels7 your first time here? :)
Bagels7: no, ive been lurking for months now
BingoBoingo: ;;bc,stats
gribble: Current Blocks: 348936 | Current Difficulty: 4.671754964470642E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 350783 | Next Difficulty In: 1847 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 4 days, 23 hours, 50 minutes, and 38 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 50205188349.2 | Estimated Percent Change: 7.46537
BingoBoingo: !t s.mpoe
assbot: Hell, ain't we about more fucked than a whore at closin' time, huh?
BingoBoingo: !t s.qntr
assbot: You know, I've had it up to here with this Indian malarkey. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: !t m s.mpoe
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BingoBoingo: !t m s.qntr
assbot: [MPEX:S.QNTR] 1D: 0 / 0 / 0 (0 shares, 0 BTC), 7D: / / ( shares, BTC), 30D: 0.00021105 / 0.00026069 / 0.000301 (36659 shares, 9.56 BTC)
Bagels7: [22:05] <+Bagels7> Hi, Can I get a dime please. http://i.gyazo.com/bc55f87a2ad2dd0d5c222e3a0901d962.png <<< Probably some sort of witchcraft
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/18TQ43I )
Bagels7: bad paste. [22:06] <+brendafdez> Bagels7 you have to write a code on them, which he will provide
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danielpbarron: wow, ebay is completely unusable unless I turn off cookie whitelisting
danielpbarron: lets me browse and think i'm logged in, and then hits me with a login page for any meaningful action like placing a bid or even asking a question to the seller
danielpbarron: Probably some sort of witchcraft << the secret code was just the random string assigned by webchat -- not sure what it would be for someone not using webchat
danielpbarron: maybe a shoe on head? or licking a hammer
danielpbarron: i have placed a bid for 20 USD for a pink laptop
brendafdez: use sniping
brendafdez: placing bids is bad
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron> lets me browse and think i'm logged in, and then hits me with a login page for any meaningful action like placing a bid or even asking a question to the seller << I find this typical. To be fair I'd rather it ask me to auth often and on actions. Ebay considered their auctions to be contracts.
danielpbarron is ebay n00b
danielpbarron: right but the extra special login WILL NOT WORK unless i disable cookie whitelisting
danielpbarron: just keeps cycling me back to the login page
BingoBoingo: Ah
danielpbarron: i don't mind putting *.ebay.com on my whitelist; I do mind putting all the other crap
danielpbarron: one of you girls who needs a linux training laptop should really outbid me on this pink thing
danielpbarron: guy responded, sounds like there's nothing substantially wrong with the thing
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BingoBoingo: scoopbot: -fetch
scoopbot: New post on Qntra.net by Bingo Boingo: http://qntra.net/2015/03/empire-in-decline-us-retreats-from-yemen-isis-escalates-to-doxxing/
brendafdez: weird wording "members of the Armed Forces to limit information the personal information they leak on social media"
BingoBoingo: fixed
BingoBoingo: I think
brendafdez: yep :)
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mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1066689 << lol
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 01:39:34; trinque: lol, cmere toddler, check out the deep end
mircea_popescu: i suspect they just want to see if the... buoys actually float.
brendafdez: " It is hard to interpret " there seems to be a 'not' missing
mircea_popescu: Special Forces soldier have been
brendafdez: unless you mean people are clueless
mircea_popescu: of dox ISIS included << comma before isis.
asciilifeform: again the 'doxxing' idi0cy
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not so idiotic as all that.
mircea_popescu: isis is pioneering the "before you can get voice, pick a name off this list and torture their children on cam"
asciilifeform: what, it's a secret that mr x drops bombs for a living ?
mircea_popescu: yes.
BingoBoingo: thx, fxd
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ever -met- these folks ?
asciilifeform: it takes all of 5 sec.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo there's a good idea somewhere in there but kinda mollase'd out.
brendafdez: i thought you'd write "it's hard not to interpret...", but it's ok this way too i's say
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand how the world works. people who meet us armed forces socially and people who are willing to write USG SATAN in 5yo guts, provided the 5yo was spawned by a private first class have virtually no overlap.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: yeah, but might be able to glue something with the molasses later.
mircea_popescu: it boggles my mind that one has to be "allowed" to introduce a defense.
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mircea_popescu: why even bother.
asciilifeform: is there a 'you are biodiesel-on-the-hoof' defense?
asciilifeform: (well, there is, but it isn't given in a court room)
asciilifeform: wtf is it with this surrender idiocy anyway
mircea_popescu: whose ?
asciilifeform: snowden
mircea_popescu: hm ?
asciilifeform: or is it fictional
asciilifeform: him 'wishing for fair trial'
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo did qntra eat my comment or they go to moderation or what ?
mircea_popescu: seems more like self-wankery. "here's what we'd do to mila kunis if she knew who we were or cared"
brendafdez: guys, I've seen gnome bashed security-wise a couple of times here in chan (or in the blogs, I'm not sure). What's so wrong with it? I'm really liking gnome-shell...
brendafdez: But if there's something I should know, I'd rather do
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1066736 << booberbootin'.
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 01:44:42; trinque: make a stick with ubnetbootin or whatever
mircea_popescu: brendafdez http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-283/Gnome.html ?
assbot: Gnome : Security vulnerabilities ... ( http://bit.ly/1CTfb49 )
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Rescued the comment from the spamtrap
mircea_popescu: "GNOME Shell 3.14.x before 3.14.1, when the Screen Lock feature is used, does not limit the aggregate memory consumption of all active PrtSc requests, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands on an unattended workstation by making many PrtSc requests and leveraging a temporary lock outage, and the resulting temporary shell availability, caused by the Linux kernel OOM killer."
mircea_popescu: sort of thing
brendafdez: hmm
mircea_popescu: it's just... not designed or implemented by people with an understanding of computing.
mircea_popescu: GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/. << lulzier one.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo is it because link ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Probably. Maybe it was a combination of link and maybe your commented here before cookie expired?
mircea_popescu: mebbe
BingoBoingo: I know you've fallen from *approved* to pending before.
mircea_popescu: such faet.
BingoBoingo: Sometimes cookies just get ate
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mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1066787 << does it revolve around the general principle that girls are dumb and boring ?
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 01:55:24; brendafdez: I subscribed to a linux for girls community a couple of months ago. Can't tell you what it's like
mircea_popescu: that's usually how this shit goes.
mircea_popescu: affirm lol
brendafdez: mircea_popescu I was just curious to see what it's like in a 'linux for girls' mailing list, but I think they won't let me in if I don'f affirm nicely enough
asciilifeform: linux for girls << when do we get, e.g., non-ferrous metallurgy, 'for gurlz
mircea_popescu: ;;google valorie zimmerman tits
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you mean bonbons ?
asciilifeform: just wondered why computing gets the treatment.
asciilifeform: what'd it do to deserve.
mircea_popescu: for some reason THIS dude pops up as the only result for valorie's tits : https://plus.google.com/101283637653265125298
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/18TUYNX )
mircea_popescu: unremarkably, he's all about re-tweeting poettering on google twitter.
brendafdez: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
mircea_popescu: "My personal conclusion out of all this is mostly just that I don't want to have much to do with the worst offenders, and the communities they run. My involvement with the kernel community ended pretty much before it even started, I never post on LKML, and haven't done in years. Also, in our own project we are policying posts. We regularly put a few folks on moderation on the mailing list, and we will continue to do s
mircea_popescu: o. Currently, the systemd community is fantastic, and I really hope we can keep it that way."
asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnWP2Emps1M << linked
assbot: malfunction - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/18TV2NS )
mircea_popescu: this incidentally is pretty true : i don't know that anyone sane would want anything to do with lennart and his horde of derps either.
mircea_popescu: " have a thick skin (and so do most of the others involved in systemd, apparently), and I figure that plays a major role why we managed to bring systemd to success, despite all the pressure in the opposite direction. "
asciilifeform: succ355
mircea_popescu: ahaha. 1) systemd is not nor will it ever be successful. 2) systemd is a grease spot strictly because of the red hat drilling platform upstream. once that goes away, the whole set of fleas and their "successes" and "ideas" and choices and whatever also go away.
asciilifeform: i thought rathead was more or less defunkt
mircea_popescu: but i gotta appreciate the delusion. really, lennart thinks he's me ? cool.
mircea_popescu: should be a fun thing to watch, this.
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, in the cisco way.
asciilifeform: more like the ibm way
mircea_popescu: defunct washington post/nytimes/libertard press spawned gawker.
BingoBoingo: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/23/gold-in-faeces-worth-millions-save-environment
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mircea_popescu: anyway, the ideological cleavage is pretty clear, and it will only resolve itself in time.
asciilifeform: 'we are policying posts' << ?@!??
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mircea_popescu: d';oh.
asciilifeform: what's 'policying' ?
mircea_popescu: "If you are a newcomer to Linux, either grow a really thick skin. Or run away, it's not a friendly place to be in." << also do not be in linux.
mircea_popescu: lol. and this is not his employer's agenda. this is just, you know, because reasons.
mircea_popescu: these people.
asciilifeform: 'go fellate nsa directly, not through a hose'
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's pretty well articulated. consider the way this place works : once anything can be said, people suddenly manage to find "representatives" of groups they thought they hated quite likable. this happens on a regular basis.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in idiot us discourse, because of all the "care" being "expended" to "protect", nobody can talk to anyone about anything, and as a result everyone hates everyone else for no reason.
mircea_popescu: then they morally responsible for the cesspool turn around and accuse the pillars making sanity possible of... you know, "fish rots from the head"
mircea_popescu: the reason chinese peasants are starving is not enough socialism, dontcha know.
asciilifeform: happens on a regular basis << wai wat
mircea_popescu: so fucking banal in its "cultural revolutionary war" rehash it's really hardly worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: brendafdez turns out half the people in the google grup of "women interested in linux" are actulaly guys.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think most recently it was "hey, this christian dude isn't all bad"
asciilifeform: yes i recall. where else though
mircea_popescu: i don't actually keep that well indexed a list of this score
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: betcha 100% of it is 'goldschläger' !
mircea_popescu: prolly more comes from the 10-50mn gold teeth
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Or the golden toilets at the local USG garisons erode
BingoBoingo: Golden toilet may not be mere metaphore
mircea_popescu: amusingly, n ceausescu was accused of this. people believed.
asciilifeform: like yanukovich
asciilifeform: and probably every 'tin dictator' of 20th c
mircea_popescu: serves them right for ruling over a group dumb enough to believe that shit.
mircea_popescu: somehow in the entire "must grow big fast" thing people omit to point out that well... you don't wanna rule over retards.
asciilifeform: 'we go to war with the army we have not the army we wish we had' (TM)
mircea_popescu: nobody forced him to be president.
asciilifeform: aha could've stayed shoemaker.
mircea_popescu: walkers and generals have very little in common.
brendafdez: mircea_popescu maybe the affirmation policying isn't being done right. Half the people in the fb lesbian dating groups are guys, too...
mircea_popescu: hahaha wait wait.
mircea_popescu: social justice warrior posing as transgender lesbian female to get cooch ?
asciilifeform: 'lesbian trapped in male body'
asciilifeform: (tm)
asciilifeform: (al schwartz)
brendafdez: whatever works, not that that especially does
mircea_popescu: i mean the entire "why do girls date assholes i have a great sense of humor she doesn't know what she's missing" beta lament is one thing
mircea_popescu: but going THAT FAR ?!
mircea_popescu: i like 69 as much as the next girl, but it never occured to me to pretend i'm a tupolev airplanewhile doing it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform truely usia is engaged in the empirical demonstration of the ancient notion that perversity knows no bounds.
asciilifeform: or schwartz's 'the titanic achivement of simultaneous boring -and- perverse'
mircea_popescu: i wonder if i could get tenure with a program on illiteracy.
mircea_popescu: you come study for 4 years how to be illiterate.
asciilifeform: already baked in every major us uni
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform all perversion is boring to the normally endowed.
mircea_popescu: no but i mean, plainly said
mircea_popescu: oh, that's a problem isn't it. shit.
mircea_popescu: i just don't understand how the dumbworld works.
asciilifeform: i had similar idea once -
asciilifeform: come to antiuni to unlearn xxxx
asciilifeform: then they carefully waltz it out of yer brain
mircea_popescu: that was a chinese specialty.
brendafdez: you know, the whole betu thing sucks, and somteimes the coping strategy could well be 'fuck it, i didn't even want it in the first place, I'd rather be a woman where bug becomes feature'. Dunno, just speculating, I hadn't given it much thought before.
brendafdez: s/betu/beta/
mircea_popescu: doesn't work that way does it ?
brendafdez: dunno, wouldn't go back either, this state of 'it not working' is much preferred to the previous state of 'it not working'. By orders of magnitude.
mircea_popescu: preferred in the impersonal ? who prefers it ?
brendafdez: me
mircea_popescu: well maybe you miss the barn of a difference between "guy who is a girl because he prefers it" and "guy who claims to be a girl so as to [...]"
mircea_popescu: causes an' purposes baby.
brendafdez: ;)
brendafdez: I can't keep in memory every single article all the time
mircea_popescu: pretty decent part of a play or something this. "so if i become a woman will my sex work ?" "no, it still won't work" "So then ?" "well maybe you like it not working this way better."
brendafdez: Anyway, I don't think claiming it and presenting female so as to x would be a good strategy at all, if you don't prefer it, you'll end up changing your mind, because it's hard to put up with all the attached issues to being perceived a woman if you were only doing it for a specific purpose
mircea_popescu: quite exactly mirroring the consumer computing market. "my windows computer doesn't fucking work" "switch to gentoo" "will it work then ?" "no, but maybe you like the icons better"
mircea_popescu: brendafdez you ever seen daisy diamond ?
brendafdez: nope
mircea_popescu: well, other than the part that it has infanticide, maybe you should check it out.
brendafdez: k
BingoBoingo: More snowflaking http://jenmylo.com/2015/03/23/defending-drupal/
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mircea_popescu: horrid fucking scheme omfg
BingoBoingo: ’ve given so many talks at WordCamps with a component about how it’s important to be nice, respectful, and welcoming — including the use of appropriate language and imagery — to the point that some people would really like to tell me to shut the fuck** up (or have!).
brendafdez: mircea, in all honesty what wasn't working was life to the point I didn't want to go on (should've put an ad on gofundme but didn't occur to me). That was solved: social intereaction now is a whole different thing and it's much better. The fact that I still don't get to have the sex I like with the people I like is a minor issue compared to social interaction being broken as a whole.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "adrian pintilie" ?
mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/adrianpintilie << this guy. would be ro drupal shop
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mircea_popescu: amusingly, i dun think he knows yet :D
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Oh so a marginalized Romanian is being pissed on by an empowered evangalist of politeness for interacting with the world according to his culture.
mircea_popescu: pretty much.
mircea_popescu: well... he's not marginalized. just marginal.
mod6: /names
mod6: oops
gabriel_laddel: Regarding lesbians. The definitive work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY0VmahBTkE
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brendafdez: https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/578424272353300480
assbot: OH MY GOSH YESKUBUNTU 15.04 BETA WHEN YOU RESTART HAS A COUNTDOWN TIMERTHAT COUNTS DOWN TO 0AND KEEPS GOING http://t.co/KXGwdILaxD
mircea_popescu: runs a tiny "digital agency" in practicaly akron, romania
mircea_popescu: http://www.listafirme.ro/softescu-srl-23226393/
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mircea_popescu: one employee, 10-100k turnover a year sorta thing
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Ah so the WordPress politeness is oppressing him.
mircea_popescu: doubt anything but "why would anyone pay you to fuck up php, when php comes pre-fucked and if not indians will fuck it for 1/3 the price" opresses him.
mircea_popescu: “You can feel good about our project without putting down other projects, so let’s keep it clean.” I said something similar << this, for the record, is fucking stupid.
mircea_popescu: putting dumb shit down is not about "your project". it's about your environment. you put shit down for the same reason you don't keep dirty textiles everywhere
mircea_popescu: which, obviously, these "cms geeks^H^H^H^H bums do keep. but anyway.
BingoBoingo: Such is the peril of conflating a common interest into "community"
mircea_popescu: if you don't do that, you stand at risk of being called a cult!
mircea_popescu: nothing more intense, interesting or functional than this much is allowed!!! it would be bad. THINK OF THE CHILDREN
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brendafdez: Ok, if gnome can't be trusted: I'll be switching to Bob. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpenYCIiDkM
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brendafdez: It was the Metro interface back in 1995
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trinque: brendafdez: here's another good one http://www.smartcomputing.com/images/smartcomputing/fullsize/393n1209.jpg
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1HwXit4 )
trinque: emulates a real tabbed binder for enhanced usability
trinque: http://reeseriverson.com/rriverson/pics/IMG_3373-800px.jpg
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1HwXzfK )
mircea_popescu: !up marteen
brendafdez: Well, my first computer was a Pentium 100 Mhz with 8 MB RAM that my parents bought in 1996, I stayed with that thing until 2005 or so. For many years that meant that I used DOS and Win3.11 daily bc W98 was too much for that piece of hardware. Once around 1999/2000 I borrowed from a friend a linux book which came with a Red Hat CD but dual booting was not an option (also the HDD was like 500 MB). It brings back memories seeing those in
brendafdez: s, which I spent many years of my childhood with.
marteen: thanks mircea_popescu :)
mircea_popescu: sure.
marteen: I shouldn't be awake for longer than 30 minutes :)
mircea_popescu: looking at those pics... god almighty has the "visual" aka "graphical" interface been a dead fucking end omfg.
trinque: utterly pointless
brendafdez: Click on the dog, now click on want to change something, now...
mircea_popescu: swipe right to have sex with this dog
trinque: your mail's up his ass; he ate it
brendafdez: you can buy an expansion pack for $29.99 to get more dogs to have sex with, don't forget to mail your registration card
ben_vulpes: <indiancandy1_> i dont get the wot thing mircea talkin about << righteous
trinque: http://e.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/inline-large/inline/2013/09/3017236-inline-ibooks-publishing0.jpg << what, 20 years later?
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mircea_popescu: ba is so ecclectic.
ben_vulpes: marteen, eh?
ben_vulpes: howdy, you
brendafdez: but they removed the dog...
mircea_popescu: that url scheme looks like it's channeling django the drupal dog.
brendafdez: and invented a nice skeumorphic word for it
marteen: ben_vulpes: hello!
ben_vulpes: oh god this ubuntu from africa thread
ben_vulpes: priceless
ben_vulpes: look at the boys trying to gently inculcate sense into her
mircea_popescu: it goes on for a while.
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://www.city-data.com/so/so-Rye-New-Hampshire.html
assbot: Registered sex offenders in Rye, New Hampshire - crimes listed, registry-based, living in this city ... ( http://bit.ly/1Hx0fKa )
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1066787 << why not? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 01:55:24; brendafdez: I subscribed to a linux for girls community a couple of months ago. Can't tell you what it's like
mircea_popescu: holy shit, eight towns nobody heard about in a state that's barely extant, thousands of sex offenders ?
ben_vulpes: marteen: what brings you around here?
mircea_popescu: how many are there in total by now ? 1mn ? 10 mn ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: everyone's a sex offender in the states.
mircea_popescu: it seems so
ben_vulpes: piss in public - sex offender
brendafdez: ben_vulpes bc see this http://i.imgur.com/TQmHfIX.png
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1Hx0uVB )
marteen: ben_vulpes: i saw a reference to this channel on a mailing list
mircea_popescu: pissing is sex ?
ben_vulpes: it actually comes down to the "fight me and see" attitude of the attorneys
brendafdez: marteen which list? mine?
brendafdez: :P
marteen: brendafdez: yes
brendafdez: wow
ben_vulpes: plea bargin for sex offender or fight us for your life
trinque: also penises are illegal, they just have to find something else to say
mircea_popescu: John P. Mcsheehan
mircea_popescu: Crime: felonious sexual aslt, Conviction date: 1994-06-03
mircea_popescu: Crime: felonious sexual aslt, Conviction date: 1994-06-03
mircea_popescu: Crime: felonious sexual aslt, Conviction date: 1994-06-03
mircea_popescu: Crime: 3 counts of felonious sexual assault(victim 13 or older & under 16 & age diff more than 3 years),
mircea_popescu: 3 counts, because the girl was 15.
mircea_popescu: very odd counting.
ben_vulpes: no trigger plz
ben_vulpes: this triggers my america ptsd
ben_vulpes: plz stahp
ben_vulpes: can it be ptsd if i'm still living the nightmare?
mircea_popescu: anyway, turns out i misread the data. it's "residents per sex offender".
mircea_popescu: so basically... two guys, 5k pop -> 2l
ben_vulpes: !gettrust assbot marteen
assbot: marteen is not registered in WoT.
ben_vulpes: marteen, you savvy gpg?
marteen: brendafdez: i've been lurking there for a little while :)
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it'd be dtsd.
marteen: ben_vulpes: sure
ben_vulpes: marteen: get in the wot then, eh?
marteen: ben_vulpes: I don't know what WoT is though :(
ben_vulpes: dtsd << makes me think of that eegan story asciilifeform
ben_vulpes: linked a bit back
ben_vulpes: !help
assbot: http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/irc_bots/assbot
brendafdez: marteen they say 6 months is the bare minimum :P
ben_vulpes: oh god now i'm getting spammed by bots
ben_vulpes: trinque: plz to not overload !help
trinque: ben_vulpes: wut
brendafdez: marteen who are you in the list?
ben_vulpes: yous ay it
trinque: !help
assbot: http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/irc_bots/assbot
trinque: lol
ben_vulpes: hyuuu
marteen: brendafdez: hhmm, I'm not sure I've been there for that long...
marteen: brendafdez: I've never sent anything, just read
trinque: yeah I'll change that
ben_vulpes: marteen: basically it's a gpg-backed ident thinger
ben_vulpes: nobody's going to take you seriously until you buy in
marteen readin about the wot...
ben_vulpes: brendafdez is that weird chick from ba
marteen: ben_vulpes: I see, thanks :)
ben_vulpes: whereas indiancandy is just that hilarious hoo-er
ben_vulpes: difference being...
brendafdez: she has better looking tits
ben_vulpes: that's your insecurity speaking.
ben_vulpes: no, wot participation.
brendafdez: ;)
ben_vulpes: we all know how the bsasians are about their 'security'
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1066829 << is this a new one? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 02:09:27; assbot: You know, I've had it up to here with this Indian malarkey.
brendafdez: maarten your IP shows you might be located in Mendoza, that's interesting, I there not long ago, with Sebastián Serrano and others, and we had a couple of presentations and a meetup. Do I know you?
marteen: brendafdez: yes, I'm from Mendoza
marteen: brendafdez: but, I'm afraid we don't know each other :(
marteen: brendafdez: I think I know which events you mention, but I couldn't not attend
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16151 @ 0.00020765 = 3.3538 BTC [-]
ben_vulpes: then you must've been there!
brendafdez: We need more sponsors to keep doing that hah, we had a couple for that trip, still didn't even break even
marteen: ben_vulpes: heh, sorry, I meant "I could not" :P
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i give up, how are a practicing gynecologist and a healthy dog the same?
marteen: (it seems I couldn't decide between "I couldn't" and "I could not" :P)
brendafdez: marteen do you use irc often? I was pretty much a virgin before getting into b-a. You could go to the #freenode channel and ask for a cloak, so not everyone will see your IP. Also, you might be interested in registering your username with NickServ so it doesn't get squatted like indiancandy1_ 's
brendafdez: !up marteen
marteen: brendafdez: oh, I've been using irc for a while :)
scoopbot: New post on Qntra.net by cazalla: http://qntra.net/2015/03/four-new-jersey-schools-infected-by-ransomware/
marteen: brendafdez: my username has been registered for a few years
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-03-2015#1064798 << oh come now it's because your salesforce is down there and sales is nasty dirty work programmer folk hate to do. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-03-2015 07:55:57; trinque: all my money's coming from tejas; there's a reason for that
marteen: brendafdez: thanks a lot anyway :)
trinque: ben_vulpes: I was pissed
trinque: nbd
ben_vulpes: in more ways than one
trinque: ayep
brendafdez: marteen pretty nice to have a fellow list member over here. Were you reading the list in 2013? It was a space of sane and interesting discussion which has since been lost. That's why I mentioned b-a in my message, bc I htink some of the oldtimers might be interested. Also, we used to have wences and rdponticelli, both of them were also here back in the day.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6982 @ 0.00021108 = 1.4738 BTC [+]
marteen: ;;gpg eregister marteen 050434ED71A1704C
gribble: Request successful for user marteen, hostmask marteen!~martin@190.113.141.247. Get your encrypted OTP from http://bitcoin-otc.com/otps/050434ED71A1704C
ben_vulpes: marteen, you'll want to register with assbot for this crowd.
marteen: brendafdez: nope, back in 2013 I had no idea the list existed
brendafdez: !h
assbot: http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/irc_bots/assbot
marteen: brendafdez: well, I'm glad I came to this channel then :)
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-03-2015#1064878 << all hail the holy cunt ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-03-2015 08:53:20; mircea_popescu: http://41.media.tumblr.com/f54460da0cbc358c33a1304125119cb4/tumblr_mmwqr9Y3Ty1rsze6qo1_1280.jpg << the birth of an idea
marteen: ben_vulpes: oh, sure, let me see...
marteen: !register 050434ED71A1704C
assbot: That does not seem to be a valid fingerprint.
brendafdez: the whole key id
marteen: oh, I see, thanks...
brendafdez: Key fingerprint = 15F6 BD45 240C 4679 C5F5 59B5 0504 34ED 71A1 704C
ben_vulpes: !register 15F6BD45240C4679C5F559B5050434ED71A1704C
assbot: Nick ben_vulpes is already taken.
ben_vulpes: well duh, assbot.
ben_vulpes: full fingerprint, marteen. "long", as they say.
marteen: !register 15F6BD45240C4679C5F559B5050434ED71A1704C
assbot: Searching pgp.mit.edu for key with fingerprint: 15F6BD45240C4679C5F559B5050434ED71A1704C. This may take a few moments.
assbot: Key 71A1704C / "Martín <martinrd@gmail.com>" successfully imported.
assbot: Registration successful.
marteen: ben_vulpes: thanks!
ben_vulpes: brendafdez: just out of curiosity, do many people have things delivered across the river and shuttle them over via ferry?
ben_vulpes: !rate marteen 1 new blood
assbot: Request successful, get your OTP: http://w.b-a.link/otp/ad8bfcdd35cd592c
brendafdez: I couldn't possibly know. The only people I know who do it are bringing in stacks of cash
ben_vulpes: !v assbot:ben_vulpes.rate.marteen.1:7944d2caed41fbbd7aa09e713e695bfc06bea154bf64946071175cb7f764ac6f
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 1 for marteen with note: new blood
ben_vulpes: hm well try it and let me know, eh?
brendafdez: ben_vulpes so when do I get my prize for bringing in new blood to please the gods through sacrifice?
ben_vulpes: !rate brendafdez 1 blood for the blood god
assbot: Request successful, get your OTP: http://w.b-a.link/otp/6f4484e018020ae7
brendafdez: :D
ben_vulpes: !v assbot:ben_vulpes.rate.brendafdez.1:285f1f9f410f44c13ace2538b25bd5d53eec2cc674b822e19fc67a1a35827a2f
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 1 for brendafdez with note: blood for the blood god
ben_vulpes: i hope you're happy, jnerula...
brendafdez: ben_vulpes you need someone there you could ship things to?
brendafdez: ben_vulpes I could put you in contact with people who may want to do it, but I think they have their issues with customs too, not as stringent as argentina
ben_vulpes: interested in derpy small-scale arbitrage opportunities.
brendafdez: abritrage :)
ben_vulpes: kind of only insofar as it might get me lower price tickets
ben_vulpes: still fueling this rocket over here.
ben_vulpes: although, entertainingly, every day the election cycle grows closer, babe-o-tron grows more insistent about spending 2016 out of the country.
ben_vulpes: "couldn't agree more, dear."
trinque nods
brendafdez: !gettrust ben_vulpes assbot
assbot: Trust relationship from user ben_vulpes to user assbot: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 9 via 6 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/ben_vulpes/assbot | http://w.b-a.link/user/assbot
brendafdez: oh, so he still can't voice himself, right?
ben_vulpes: ?
trinque: !gettrust assbot martin
assbot: martin is not registered in WoT.
trinque: !gettrust assbot marteen
assbot: Trust relationship from user assbot to user marteen: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 1 via 1 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/assbot/marteen | http://w.b-a.link/user/marteen
trinque: derp
brendafdez: oh :)
ben_vulpes: brendafdez: you must be new here :P
trinque: brendafdez: those in L2 or better can voice
brendafdez: ben_vulpes :P i'm am, but i've already fixed the lastness issue. No longer the newest, new flesh blood, and on it goes.
brendafdez: s/flesh/fresh/
ben_vulpes: as far as the wot goes, you are actually the newest member.
brendafdez: why? hasn't he just registered?
ben_vulpes: oh, ah.
ben_vulpes: !gettrust brendafdez
assbot: Trust relationship from user ben_vulpes to user brendafdez: Level 1: 1, Level 2: 2 via 2 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/ben_vulpes/brendafdez | http://w.b-a.link/user/brendafdez
ben_vulpes: now's your chance to !up yourself, marteen
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell mike_c i've got high hopes for the wot-site -- you set a high bar with WoL
gribble: The operation succeeded.
brendafdez: marteen you can message !up to assbot and verify by decypting the string
ben_vulpes: wd.
marteen: nice... I need to automate this now
ben_vulpes: it
ben_vulpes: it's not so bad
ben_vulpes: the voice persists with your connection
marteen: oh, no more 30 minutes?
marteen: ok
ben_vulpes: 30 minutes is for strangers
marteen: cool
brendafdez: now whenever you're bored you can read logs or the blogs (http://blogs.bitcoin-assets.com). One never reaches the end http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1066689
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 01:39:34; trinque: lol, cmere toddler, check out the deep end
marteen: brendafdez: interesting! thanks :)
marteen: brendafdez: so... you planning on coming back to mendoza soon?
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-03-2015#1065272 << christ what are you doing ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-03-2015 16:55:19; nubbins`: mod6 ben_vulpes FWIW 0.5.3.1 downloading blocks on Darwin nubs.local 13.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.4.0: Wed Dec 17 19:05:52 PST 2014; root:xnu-2422.115.10~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
brendafdez: well, i don't have plans, but it may happen. The last trip we made as part of the Giras Bitcoiners project was Asunción in Paraguay last December. The funding issue wasn't getting better. Only one of the trips allowed us to break even.
ben_vulpes: okay fine, share your recipe
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i need something beyond "turd" now
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell nubbins care to share your darwin recipe?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
brendafdez: This brings us to another issue which is the way the 'foundations' present themselves as as sort of official representation of bitcoin. That way they are better able to get funds from companies which want to be advertised and from membes of the community who want to 'be part of bitcoin'. It's what the FBA was/is doing and what the BF was/is doing on a much larger scale.
marteen: brendafdez: ok, I see
brendafdez: When we presented our project as an independent bunch of guys it wasn't the same.
marteen: makes sense
brendafdez: but who know, neither me nor the other 3 'founders' have buried it, so...
marteen: brendafdez: you mention 'funding issue'... how do you usually get this funding?
brendafdez: it was awesome for us as an experience I must say, getting to know the local communites, to travel so much, also to be able to promote one 'real use case' for bitcoin to local service providers
marteen: of course... I can imagine it must have been a great experience :)
ben_vulpes: burning suckers' cash always is.
brendafdez: through sponsors, we had some of them, bitpagos sponsored every trip, digicoins sponsored the trip to mendoza, beOk sponsored the trip to paraguay
ben_vulpes: hence the startup as flamethrower fueled by bezzlars metaphor.
brendafdez: :D
marteen: brendafdez: aah, cool!
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34817 @ 0.00020828 = 7.2517 BTC [-] {4}
brendafdez: but also it was always open to people who wanted to come with us. As generally we weren't even covering the costs, having more poeple participate usually meant each one had to pay a smaller fraction, usually less money.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27000 @ 0.00021289 = 5.748 BTC [+]
marteen: brendafdez: ah, of course... that's nice
brendafdez: I wanted to write an article on 'bitcon evangelism' or 'selling bitcoin', which of course is selling it to the companies not the people :P
brendafdez: selling the campanies the idea that you'll be selling them with bitcoin to people who attend the talks/conferences/etc
marteen: that would be great
brendafdez: The whole 'evangelism' thing is bullshit, but there are incentives to do it, companies paying for it, who get their money from vcs and desperately need adoption, users, whatever
marteen: well i think we need more companies accepting bitcoin
cazalla: mircea_popescu: why let everyone think beauty and brains don't mix ? <<< get those eyes checked, perhaps same time as indiancandy gets that nose seen too
brendafdez: the point about evangelism is that if you suck the right cock you may make a living out of it. I'm not naming names
marteen: hhmmm, interesting...
marteen: brendafdez: you you can make a living out of it, even being from argentina?
brendafdez: why do we need more companies 'accepting bitcoin'? No, really, why? http://www.contravex.com/2014/02/25/matters-of-bitcoin-merchant-adoption/
assbot: On Matters of Merchant Adoption | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1FSEbaU )
brendafdez: I told you i wasn't even breaking even :P ask the FBA guys, they got funded in late 2012 to do it, and a few who suck theirs get a small part of the cake
marteen: oh, ok...
marteen: well, I mean... I'd like to buy more things more directly with bitcoin...
brendafdez: you can sell the bitcoin and buy with fiat,
cazalla: brendafdez: indiancandy they are awesome <3 those tits. I feel guilty now that I made you start posting pics :) <<< great tits, great body, but what a busted face she has
brendafdez: if you hold gold you dont need merchants to accept gold
marteen: brendafdez: yea, but that's still pretty inconvenient (selling btc for fiat)
brendafdez: why is it? bc there are no people doing it cash in mendoza? i know for a fact thats not the acse
brendafdez: if you were in a small town and no bank account then maybe inconvenient
marteen: I don't know any people here in mendoza that provide that service
marteen: and still, it's an extra step
brendafdez: santiago castiglione travels there often bringing cash, the two btb braindamaged morons do it, if you can stand their stupidity. Tha saner person in Mendoiza is Adriel Araujo from Bitpagos. Contact him, he'll be able to help you, no doubt.
marteen: and if it involves a bank account, then that adds to the inconveniency
marteen: brendafdez: wow, thanks for all this info :)
marteen: anyway, even if there's availability of btc <-> fiat services, i'd much rather avoid the intermediaries (and the banks)
brendafdez: the banks can be avoided entirely. The intermediary is not a must. You can just get in contact with other people, publish your own listings and such. When you're paying with bitcoin, they are selling the bitcoin, so the cost is also there. In Argentina anyway pretty much no transactions at PoS are made in bitcoin, it's just a show for companies which pretend to be doing busniess helping merchants accept bitcoin
brendafdez: If mircea or pete were online and willing to discuss it, it would be easier, they have a more solid and convincing rhetoric than I could dream of myself
brendafdez: but it's problematic for many reasons to think that the value of bitcoin is to be able to pay coffe at a shop
brendafdez: bitcoin is like gold. And gold is no less valuable when you can't spend it at a coffe shop. And even if there are large costs to exchange such modest amounts of gold or silver
marteen: hmm, ok... I think I understand your point
brendafdez: There was a point in bitcoin history when bitcoin was basically free, it had no monetary value, at least during 2009, and mostly also 2010, now it would be unthinkablee
brendafdez: In the future we'll look back and wonder how bitcoin transactions used to be free, when they have large costs involved and it needs be so to keep the network secure
brendafdez: so when blocks fill up and transactions start competing and miner subsidy goes down halving after halving the cost issue of why its not for coffee will be clearer
marteen: but I would still like to be able to make small electronic value transactions without recurring to a central trusted party though
marteen: would this be possible?
marteen: ever?
brendafdez: i'm not sure, there are alternatvies, alternative chains, sidechains, whatever, which certainly can't compete with bitcoin.
brendafdez: right now bitcoin is an alternative even for coffee
brendafdez: however i doubt it's a better technology than handning a piece of paper in exchange for drinks
marteen: hhmmm, i don't like these papers
brendafdez: print your own
marteen: hehe
ben_vulpes suspects a sybil
brendafdez: after all, fiat and the monopoly of money by the state has been going for barely a century.
brendafdez may be saying lots of bullshit here. Hope to get corrected.
brendafdez: for most all the rest of human history private money was no big deal
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26831 @ 0.00021616 = 5.7998 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5569 @ 0.00021944 = 1.2221 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: lol https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202858
assbot: Bug 1202858 – restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive (rm -rf /*) ... ( http://bit.ly/1BK4DNV )
marteen: brendafdez: btw, thanks for taking the time to explain all this to me :)
brendafdez: that's where we're heading back with bitcoin, taking away the power of the government. Sometimes one loses the big picture. Taking the ability of the government corporation to finance itself through robbery (taxes) and deceit (inflation) is important. Decentralizing coffy purchases at small shops maybe not so much. You could do it in centralized brandatokens and get your bitcoin sent at the end of the day. If I charge you much you go
brendafdez: indiancandytokens instead.
marteen: i find it all really interesting
marteen: ohh, yea, that last part I could accept
brendafdez: it's not that bad having centralized private tokens.
marteen: I agree with that
brendafdez: for certain use cases.
marteen: the key there is that it should be very easy and almost free for anyone to create a centralized private token
BingoBoingo: brendafdez> bitcoin is like gold. And gold is no less valuable when you can't spend it at a coffe shop. And even if there are large costs to exchange such modest amounts of gold or silver << It going take some intermediate step. Instead of trading you highly valuable Bitcoin/Plutonium for coffee you trade it for big bundle of credits at the coffee shop or whatever the local cash sustomarily used for small value trades is
brendafdez: but for quite a while there's been a trend to sell 'decentralization of your grandma through smart contracts in the blockchain' as the next big thing, that's maybe just smoke and meaningless bullshit to appeal to the vcs
brendafdez: BingoBoingo brendatokens would be fine.
marteen: coffeetokens
marteen: I can trust my coffee shop
brendafdez: if they can trust you back, especially now that youre in the wot you could pay with your own
marteen: and I can even trust the 'verdulero', etc., but i definitely don't trust my bank
brendafdez: you'll like it: http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html
assbot: Shelling Out -- The Origins of Money ... ( http://bit.ly/1BK562B )
marteen: brendafdez: thanks, I saved it for reading it later
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12591 @ 0.00021946 = 2.7632 BTC [+] {2}
brendafdez: There's also qntra, it's the sane place to get your bitcoin cup of coffee without all the CoinDesk shit
brendafdez: that's where one goes when time's not enough to read logs and blogs :P
marteen: nice, thanks
brendafdez: Next time I'll see BingoBoingo I'll try to get him to gpg sign something that says they want my Spanish translations :P
brendafdez: *Next time I see BingoBoingo really drunk
brendafdez: I was going to say
brendafdez: Sadly he will not be coming to the conference, so I can't put substances in his drink to make him open the keyring (?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.QNTR] 10000 @ 0.00020865 = 2.0865 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20509 @ 0.00022537 = 4.6221 BTC [+]
cazalla: <brendafdez> Next time I'll see BingoBoingo I'll try to get him to gpg sign something that says they want my Spanish translations :P <<< did we not make it clear that they are wanted?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5041 @ 0.00022041 = 1.1111 BTC [-]
cazalla: my suggested would be to set you up on es.qntra.net, but ask mircea_popescu and BingoBoingo for their thoughts
cazalla: suggestion* even
cazalla: alternatively, translate the spanish bitcoin news to english and have it on main qntra
mircea_popescu: es. works
punkman: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202858
assbot: Bug 1202858 – restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive (rm -rf /*) ... ( http://bit.ly/1xecN5z )
mircea_popescu: now that's behaviour i can get behind!
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1067167 << wet nose.
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 06:11:21; ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i give up, how are a practicing gynecologist and a healthy dog the same?
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1067250 << agreed, guy's incredibly talented for web design without being retarded. he ruined all sorts of pet theories with that.
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 06:44:05; ben_vulpes: ;;later tell mike_c i've got high hopes for the wot-site -- you set a high bar with WoL
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1067273 << scammers will scam. unavoidable with any new thing.
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 07:00:23; brendafdez: This brings us to another issue which is the way the 'foundations' present themselves as as sort of official representation of bitcoin. That way they are better able to get funds from companies which want to be advertised and from membes of the community who want to 'be part of bitcoin'. It's what the FBA was/is doing and what the BF was/is doing on a much larger scale.
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1067295 << i'm a talented politician yo, dun hate.
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 07:14:17; cazalla: mircea_popescu: why let everyone think beauty and brains don't mix ? <<< get those eyes checked, perhaps same time as indiancandy gets that nose seen too
mircea_popescu: ahh check it out, everyone's asleep, i got the whole multiplex all to myself.
jurov: heh i just woke up
mircea_popescu: top o' the mornin' for you.
mircea_popescu: hey, i recall your friend that was going to help with eulora for windows. he ever got in wot ?
jurov: not heard from him since :(
mircea_popescu: any way to ping him ?
jurov: will email/phone him
mircea_popescu: thanks.
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1067323 << check it out, all the stuff brenda figured out on her own. pretty quick twist eh.
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 07:39:37; brendafdez: so when blocks fill up and transactions start competing and miner subsidy goes down halving after halving the cost issue of why its not for coffee will be clearer
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fluffypony: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202858
assbot: Bug 1202858 – restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive (rm -rf /*) ... ( http://bit.ly/1xedMTv )
mircea_popescu: lol even found the old szabo threads and everything. i'm curious what comes of this.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony oddly, was in log.
fluffypony: oh
mircea_popescu: which... i grant you... figure the fucking odds.
fluffypony: lol
mircea_popescu: fucking groupthink in here i swear.
mircea_popescu: you people are worse than slackernews.
mircea_popescu: cazalla you know how to set that shit up tho ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: probably the easiest way would be to just create the es. en. spaces and install a fresh wordpress for es.
mircea_popescu: seeing how wp does not actually support multilanguage natively.
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jurov: O.o :P dat log.. fake indiancandy?
mircea_popescu: who's to know.
mircea_popescu: "Iran will emerge, whether we like it or not, as the central power in their sphere," said Aaron David Miller, an analyst at the Wilson Center and former State Department official.
mircea_popescu: heh,
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mircea_popescu: omnipotent impotence! make way! all hail!
mircea_popescu: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/03/19/syria-predator-drone-isis/25034633/
assbot: Drone shot down by Syria vexes Pentagon, White House ... ( http://bit.ly/1GOIum7 )
mircea_popescu: methinks the entrie drone thing is getting abandoned eventually. they don't actually seem to work worth a shit.
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mats: wtt is going on with the share price
mats: im hemorrhaging money ☟︎
mircea_popescu: yeah down for what, two weeks straight by now ?
mats: something like that
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12525 @ 0.00023126 = 2.8965 BTC [+]
punkman: mats, you just gotta buy more now
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20000 @ 0.00023056 = 4.6112 BTC [-] {3}
mircea_popescu: or sell, lol
punkman: maybe the shareholders didn't like that all new accounts are depositing to private addresses?
mircea_popescu: timing seems off.
punkman: !t m s.qntra
assbot: Yeah. No damn tobacco, that's for sure.
mircea_popescu: 4 letters.
mircea_popescu: !t m s.qntr
assbot: [MPEX:S.QNTR] 1D: 0.00020808 / 0.00020865 / 0.00021 (10000 shares, 2.09 BTC), 7D: 0.00020808 / 0.00020865 / 0.00021 (10000 shares, 2.09 BTC), 30D: 0.00020808 / 0.00024954 / 0.000301 (46659 shares, 11.64 BTC)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10000 @ 0.00022635 = 2.2635 BTC [-]
scoopbot: New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/house-of-games/
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: methinks the entrie drone thing is getting abandoned eventually. they don't actually seem to work worth a shit << whatcha talking about, they're as good for rocketing trucks full of unarmed people as they ever were...
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17600 @ 0.00022706 = 3.9963 BTC [+]
asciilifeform: 'restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive (rm -rf /*)' << not bug, pheature!
asciilifeform: 'Я просто кончил :) красношляп доставляет!' << from comments
mircea_popescu: if they ever get close to a truck.
asciilifeform: approx. 'i simply cummed. redhat's simply something'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the way the machines are typically used is that usg knows precisely where the truck will be
asciilifeform: at time t
asciilifeform: often because someone inside has a phone or is otherwise pissing rf
asciilifeform: (or did at any point while truck was moving)
mircea_popescu: provided of course they're not in range of fire,
mircea_popescu: or of gsm jamming. or etc.
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you mean gps jam ?
mircea_popescu: right
asciilifeform: a little high for rifle, but a ww2-era airplane could take it down.
asciilifeform: none of the american unmanned machines have any defensive armaments.
asciilifeform: (they are not built to fight, but to assassinate)
asciilifeform: 'predator', interestingly, has a top speed similar to a decent car's.
asciilifeform: a small flying machine 'toy' could easily catch up with it.
asciilifeform: payload can be ordinary thermite.
asciilifeform: (the 'no defenses' thing is not strictly true, at one point 'predator' was fitted with a small anti-aircraft rocket, iirc in gulfwar-2)
nubbins`: <+ben_vulpes> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-03-2015#1065272 << christ what are you doing << 8) ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-03-2015 16:55:19; nubbins`: mod6 ben_vulpes FWIW 0.5.3.1 downloading blocks on Darwin nubs.local 13.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.4.0: Wed Dec 17 19:05:52 PST 2014; root:xnu-2422.115.10~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i need something beyond "turd" now << wai wat
nubbins`: i'll put together a makefile.osx and some modification instructions that you can ritually burn
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if you really need a working crapple build i think mod6 had one
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: but consider reconsidering
nubbins`: <--working crapple build
nubbins`: currently block182959
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thousands of sex offenders << my understanding is that the lion's share of these are 'statutory' violators
nubbins`: anyway it's srsly two sed commands and a new makefile
nubbins`: to modify 0.5.3.1 for darwin/osx
nubbins`: probably bsd as well, i guess
asciilifeform: aha there we go.
asciilifeform: perhaps we can do, e.g., vms, next.
asciilifeform: or TOPS-10
nubbins`: (example: sed 's/MSG_NOSIGNAL/SO_NOSIGPIPE/' on two files is approx. half the work)
nubbins`: haha man, i had to use a VMS system on my first work term
nubbins`: i'm still not sure wtf that was
asciilifeform: the non-retarded sibling of unix
nubbins`: :D
nubbins`: it was always a case of "please check this before i hit enter"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` publish
nubbins`: will do later today
asciilifeform: i'm actually rather surprised that nobody's clamouring to reintroduce winblows build
asciilifeform: one would think somebody has a botnet deployment to consider
nubbins`: asciilifeform speaks to the preferences of the room, i guess
asciilifeform: i zapped the win32 ifdefs on account of them cluttering up my reading material, and for no particular other reason
asciilifeform: (would have done the same for nintendo ifdefs if there had been any)
asciilifeform: incidentally, the ifdef-iness of bitcoind speaks for the horrendous mega-ugly of cpp
nubbins`: ^ ha
asciilifeform: which lacks even such an elementary thing as mix-ins
asciilifeform: Adlai ^
nubbins`: << had to sacrifice a few IFDEFS from makefile.osx
asciilifeform: (the one other fella here who might know what i speak of)
nubbins`: i'll warn that this is *not* a svelte makefile, more fat can almost certainly be trimmed. this is simply a "compiles, runs" thing
asciilifeform: nubbins`: any changes -not- in common with openbsd ?
asciilifeform: out of curiosity
nubbins`: sum total of changes: modify SSL_ARCH_TYPE to Darwin64-x86_64-cc
nubbins`: replace sha256sum with shasum -a 256
nubbins`: replace MSG_NOSIGNAL flag with SO_NOSIGPIPE
asciilifeform: starting from item 3, is in bitcoind proper ?
nubbins`: yes, started from 0.5.3 base
nubbins`: irc.cpp and net.cpp
asciilifeform: was asking, whether any but the last item (signals) concerned bitcoind source itself
nubbins`: ah, right. no
nubbins`: the signals thing is the only actual code change
asciilifeform: aha
nubbins`: random forum quote: "In linux sockets (BSD 4.4 compliant) there something called MSG_NOSIGNAL"
nubbins`: so without having the ability to check, i'd advance that SO_NOSIGPIPE might be an osx-specific fix
Adlai: my pet theory of late is that satoshi intentionally built 0.1 on winblows as a red herring
nubbins`: oh and the 0.5.3 makefile.osx doesn't have *any* of the hardening stuff that makefile.unix does
nubbins`: so uh, there's that
nubbins`: but again. PoC here.
nubbins`: it compiles.
nubbins`: was able to find equivalents for most, but not all, of the hardening compile options
jurov: http://bturn.com/10286/soviet-erotic-alphabet :B mircea_popescu asciilifeform
assbot: Database Error ... ( http://bit.ly/1IpCxgG )
jurov: лoл
mircea_popescu: notbad.jpg
nubbins`: ahhh... hot coffee, cool code, and les deux rondes
nubbins`: notbad.tuesday
jurov: nubbins`: you can use these as illuminations for alf's book
asciilifeform: 'в советском союзе секса нету!' (TM)
nubbins`: that's one way to fight illiteracy
nubbins`: lel @ drawing for Ʒ
nubbins`: is that /pan/ about to poke someone?
nubbins`: nm, that's not a flute
nubbins`: http://bturn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Soviet-sex-12.jpg lel "one one of us has a car, baby"
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1IpEMk5 )
nubbins`: *only one
nubbins`: mega-lel @ top 4 comments
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nubbins`: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2015/03/23/voices/spare-thought-western-men-trapped-japan/#.VRFfxzTF-kB
assbot: Spare a thought for the Western men trapped in Japan | The Japan Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1IpIgTz )
nubbins`: tldr "i thought setting down roots in a foreign country where i'm a visible minority who doesn't understand the language or culture would be EASY but it's HARD"
asciilifeform: nubbins`: there was an entire newsgroup for these folks (and 'candidates') once - soc.culture.japan
asciilifeform: i used to read it.
nubbins`: "dave's ESL cafe" full of similar
nubbins`: with more of a lean towards korea
asciilifeform: the 'pathology' was that these people imagined they wanted to move to japan, but what they -actually- wanted was: -to have always lived there-
asciilifeform: and that wasn't on the menu.
nubbins`: i, on the other hand, thought setting down roots in above would be HARD but it was only MODERATELY DIFFICULT AND SOMETIMES FRUSTRATING
nubbins`: asciilifeform +1000
nubbins`: they wanted the trappings of japanese without being japanese :D
asciilifeform: no
asciilifeform: the more serious ones wanted to 'be japanese'
asciilifeform: but this doesn't work unless, well, you are
nubbins`: oh hmm, the manga fans and neckbeards who say "that's so kawaii"
nubbins`: a lot of them don't make it to japan
asciilifeform: the only reason why jp is still interesting to anybody is precisely that these folks -can't- get in their wot
nubbins`: the ones that do, i truly pity
nubbins`: because they quickly alienate themselves from the locals as well as the other foreigners
Adlai: especially that one guy
asciilifeform: the foreigners who are in jp for the long haul, are typically on serious business and live among their own kind.
nubbins`: the one with the blond ponytail and a dragon painted on his jeans in the subway? yeah, that guy
nubbins`: asciilifeform +1
Adlai: no, the one with the frapuccino
Adlai: although it's a little hard to pity him, given the nonzero chance that he also has a few coins
asciilifeform: in other news: http://imgur.com/YqbQh33,VN8dqBv,xJ6WGhl,nTPgWYW,WX6hpiT#4 ☟︎
assbot: Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1GcFOR9 )
nubbins`: there's a term in korea for young people who live poor at home so they can buy frappucinos in public
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^
nubbins`: Adlai disposable income in .jp might not be as much as you think
asciilifeform: reworked units appear to pass basic test
nubbins`: dat smt
asciilifeform: fifth photo shows replaced cap
nubbins`: by hand?
asciilifeform: presumably
asciilifeform: they did it, not me
nubbins`: steady as she goes!
nubbins`: ah
asciilifeform: probably with 'hot tweezer'
asciilifeform: (tool used for such occasions)
Adlai: this seems like a fairly ideal domain for another one of those robotics startups
asciilifeform: Adlai: what is
Adlai: testing individual components to confirm that they meet spec, soldering them onto the pcb
nubbins`: speaking of soldering tools, anyone ever used one of those "cold heat" (resistance based) soldering tools?
asciilifeform: Adlai: actually, pick'n'place machines build in the '80s did this as routine matter
asciilifeform: nubbins`: aha
asciilifeform: nubbins`: pretty worthless, imho
nubbins`: suspected as much
Adlai prefers the smell of lead in the head
asciilifeform: nubbins`: but -looks- impressive, yes
nubbins` is clumsy
asciilifeform: sorta like a spot welder
nubbins`: nod
nubbins`: good luck tinning the tip of it ;p
asciilifeform: (for those innocent of the thing - it was simply a box with battery, and tipped with a small carboniferous fork. stick the fork on solder ball, it melts...)
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Adlai: one of my first ever mind=blown moments was seeing a solder removal wick
asciilifeform: Adlai: anyway, what i was saying was that it was once not uncommon for components to be measured before placement. but guess what, in modern world this is 'unnecessary' we're told.
nubbins`: Adlai heh
asciilifeform: solder wick << aha, it behaves just like any other liquid.
nubbins`: was your second moment putting a wilted celery stalk in a glass of water? :D
danielpbarron: height=295140 vs height=215904
nubbins`: today i learned that the cost of a variable dc power supply is much less than i'd imagined
nubbins`: me rummages for credit card
nubbins`: ^ + /
asciilifeform: nubbins`: mine was fiddybux or so
nubbins`: nod, clean used ones on ebay for about the same
asciilifeform: (appears in one of the photos linked earlier, displaying supply voltage and current consumption of rng)
asciilifeform: yeah it was used
danielpbarron: !up Bagels7
nubbins`: been wanting one ever since EE labs in uni
asciilifeform: had to be resoldered for american mains (move to center tap of transformer) as it was brit-made
nubbins`: somehow never bothered to even /price/ them
asciilifeform: it is very difficult to do anything seriously electronic without one
asciilifeform: avoid the chinese ones, they not only have fans (yes) but plenty of ripple in the dc
asciilifeform: (at any rate, if buying chinese, do it somewhere you can return if necessary and measure the ripple)
nubbins`: i generally avoid chinese-made anything
nubbins`: phun phact, you can get a flash dryer for curing plastisol inks for $800 (american-made) or $300 (chinese-made)
nubbins`: the $800 one has a massive network of tiny coils to evenly heat the shirt
asciilifeform: what size/shape is the heat bed ?
nubbins`: the $300 one has... a domestic oven element. http://imgur.com/KJqDivg
assbot: Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1GcJvX9 )
nubbins`: various sizes, ours is 16x16". pizza box profile
nubbins`: the really nice ones ($3k+) use quartz tubes
asciilifeform: nubbins`: you know, the oven heater would work fine if you had a thermal buffer (think 'pizza stone') between it and the payload
asciilifeform: it is how i reflow boards on a hob
nubbins`: that's what the mesh screen is attempting/failing to do
asciilifeform: the mesh screen is not a buffer !
nubbins`: nope. :D
asciilifeform: no thermal mass to speak of, in it
nubbins`: but there nonetheless, to give the appearance
asciilifeform: just pointing out that it isn't even trying
asciilifeform: whereas the 'network of tiny coils' is likewise unnecessary
nubbins`: http://images.dharmatrading.com/images/eng/products/image/flash18-1-090218113336.jpg
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1GcK9UC )
asciilifeform: scylla and charybdis of chinesecrud and americangoldentoilet !
nubbins`: ^ chinese unit from afar
nubbins`: thermal buffer = massively long heat-up times, additional weight
nubbins`: now here's a funny thing: supposing that flash was made not-in-china. now it's $800. to add a dwell timer, a servo motor, and a foot pedal: extra $800.
asciilifeform: the 'correct' solution is probably ir lamp.
nubbins`: http://www.silkscreeningsupplies.com/files/799934/uploaded/FLASHAMATIC.jpg
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1IpOgf6 )
asciilifeform: fast heat, fast cool
asciilifeform: and 100% even
nubbins`: nod. i have a link here.
nubbins`: competition uses IR flash
nubbins`: http://img35.olx.ua/images_slandocomua/181436811_1_644x461_ik-lampy-r7s-sushka-red-chili-mr-belaya-tserkov.jpg
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1IpOvXy )
nubbins`: http://www.mrprint.com/images/news/red_chili_1418web.jpg
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1IpOAKO )
nubbins`: with optional proximity sensor!
nubbins`: in a perfect world i'd buy one of those
nubbins`: proximity sensor = turn off brain when printing
nubbins`: no sensor/no pedal: 10-second timer running in your head at all times
asciilifeform: in other news, lee kuan yew is dead
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nubbins`: underside of our flash: http://www.digitsmith.com/attachments/18238d1340119986-black-body-flash-cure-panel-bottom1small.jpg
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1GcLZ7R )
asciilifeform: greatest wisdom of this ruler was, iirc, 'when you come to power, begin by putting three of your closest friends in jail. you already know -what for-, and they also know -what for.-'
nubbins`: ha
nubbins`: wisdom indeed
asciilifeform: srsly
nubbins`: incidentally, the conveyor oven used for final cure has these same black-body panels inside
nubbins` had to play electrician for a day when all this equipment showed up
nubbins` will have to play electrician again in a month's time when we upgrade to 240v flash unit
asciilifeform: in other news,
nubbins`: nerding out on equipment is phun
asciilifeform: 'They are looking for the people who are in this room right now: you will be the target. Not because you are a terrorist, not because you are suspected of any criminal wrongdoing, but because you have access to systems, you have access to infrastructure, you have access to the private records, people's private lives. These are the things that they want.'
asciilifeform: (mr s, naturally, http://www.zdnet.com/article/snowden-it-workers-are-now-the-target-of-spies )
assbot: Snowden: IT workers are now the target of spies | ZDNet ... ( http://bit.ly/1GcN27J )
nubbins`: my face when i found unfiltered blacklight bulbs that peak at the *exact* wavelength my emulsion is most sensitive to
asciilifeform: 'No wonder foreign husbands often complain about Japanese women suddenly transforming from sweet and cute girlfriends into shufu — professional housewives emotionally and physically distant from their husbands and fully devoted to their children and home.' << dependopotamus (TM) !
nubbins`: :D
nubbins`: put another way: those who are unable to judge the character/nature of others are more likely to wish for escape, and their disability follows them to their new life, where they make the same sort of mistakes they'd make at home
nubbins`: "nobody understands me at home"
nubbins`: no, you don't understand anybody, period. moving to jp will not fix this.
nubbins`: if anything, exacerbate
nubbins`: oh hey
nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/young-girl-struck-by-school-bus-in-mary-queen-of-the-world-parking-lot-1.3006801
assbot: Young girl struck by school bus in Mary Queen of the World parking lot - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1GcRbZq )
nubbins`: my alma mater
nubbins`: phun phact, when i was five years old, i missed getting run over by a taxi in this same parking lot by about 6 inches
nubbins`: that was when i learned you don't run on parking lots when they're covered in gravel
asciilifeform: 'no, you don't understand anybody, period. moving to jp will not fix this' << what kind of folks are you thinking of ?
asciilifeform: (who 'don't understand anybody')
nubbins`: i'm thinking of roughly half the foreigners i met while teaching overseas
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nubbins`: there's about a 50/50 split between "young people who want to see the world, travel, pay off debt" and "weirdos escaping to start over"
nubbins`: it's much, much easier to cover up idiosyncrasies if there's a language and culture barrier in the way
nubbins`: update re: sealskin: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/i-m-shocked-corner-brook-woman-fined-250-for-sealskin-purse-1.3006358
assbot: 'I'm shocked': Corner Brook woman fined $250 for sealskin purse - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1GcSQ18 )
nubbins`: "My major concern at the time, because I travel to the states every now and then, is there going to be a red flag when they scan my passport? Is something going to show that I'm bringing in endangered whatever?" <<< yes, with 100% certainty.
nubbins` gets the VIP treatment every time due to an incident involving some undeclared goods
nubbins`: "She doesn't expect to ever see her bag again, but has received multiple offers from people who want to replace her purse." WHAT
nubbins`: this woman has enough disposable income that NOT ONLY does she own a sealskin fucking purse, but she regularly travels internationally to SHOP
nubbins`: and people are offering to buy her a new purse.
nubbins`: because newfy.
asciilifeform: reminds me of how when clinton was half-heartedly prosecuting microshit for antitrust violations, some 'think tank' (cato? i forget) had a 'microsoft defense fund' that the public was invited to contribute to !
asciilifeform: or how a firm i once worked for, that shall remain nameless, invited the public to contribute spare change to one of its (congressionally-funded!) wunderwaffen projects that will 'help save our boys in iraq'
asciilifeform: (last i checked, a few yrs ago, the donation button was still there!)
nubbins`: the gall, hey?
asciilifeform: and the obligatory orwell observation,
asciilifeform: 'Until recently the characteristic adventure stories of the English-speaking peoples have been stories in which the hero fights against odds. This is true all the way from Robin Hood to Pop-eye the Sailor. Perhaps the basic myth of the Western world is Jack the Giant-killer, but to be brought up to date this should be renamed Jack the Dwarf-killer, and there already exists a considerable literature which teaches, either overtl
asciilifeform: y or implicitly, that one should side with the big man against the little man. Most of what is now written about foreign policy is simply an embroidery on this theme...'
nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c-51-hearings-first-nations-activists-toronto-police-to-testify-1.3006731
assbot: Bill C-51 hearings: First Nations activists, Toronto police to testify - Politics - CBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1GPCSIn )
nubbins`: first nations activists are generally pretty hardass
nubbins`: the protest crowd could learn some lessons from em
nubbins`: altho TBF "get the fuck off our land" doesn't work if you're a kid in downtown montreal
nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/the-astounding-rise-of-china-s-currency-don-pittis-1.3005562
assbot: The astounding rise of China's currency: Don Pittis - Business - CBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1GcX7lg )
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asciilifeform: nubbins`: it is being felt. i distinctly recall watching some trashy american adventure film a year or two ago, involving time travel to the future, and the hero had a treasure chest under his floorboards with thick stacks of yuan
nubbins`: i sorta feel like getting on the yuan train
asciilifeform: nubbins`: problem is, that train doesn't go anywhere you would want to be.
nubbins`: shit, there was a Crichton book (sphere?) where the future coca-cola cans were all in chinese
nubbins`: asciilifeform what's my other choice, CAD? :D
asciilifeform: nubbins`: unlike, apparently, most other beggars, i won't give investment advice.
nubbins`: mark of a wise man
asciilifeform: it isn't a problem that i have
asciilifeform: and hence i cannot suggest solutions to it
asciilifeform: having no experience or opportunity to practice whatsoever.
asciilifeform: (i don't knowingly participate in chumpatrons and hence haven't and won't be buying fiat stocks at 10-20bux/trade)
nubbins`: nod
nubbins`: i'm not saying i'll remortgage the house or anything
nubbins`: but it'd be fun to add a few k's worth of yuan to the basket
asciilifeform: if can afford to lose in the casino - why not
nubbins`: a small amount of "can afford to lose, why not try btc" in 2012 provides the opportunity for "can afford to lose, why not try ___" in 2015
nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/francis-boucher-son-of-hells-angels-leader-accidentally-released-from-jail-1.3006335
assbot: Francis Boucher, son of Hells Angels leader, accidentally released from jail - Montreal - CBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1Gd1Ov6 )
nubbins`: hahahaha. "accidentally".
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i am waiting to hear of afghanistan-style jailbreaks in usa
asciilifeform: the kind involving armoured trucks, rockets, demolition charges
nubbins`: i.e. "hundreds escape"?
asciilifeform: aha
asciilifeform: and one or two are removed by the 'rescuers' for proper (i.e. heads-off) justice
nubbins`: restorative justice, this 8)
nubbins`: i.e. let's restore your meat to its natural state
asciilifeform: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/24/world/crime-legal-world/police-unable-confirm-gang-rape-university-virginia/#.VRFybHW9_ft << this was brought up in an older thread iirc
assbot: Police unable to confirm gang rape at University of Virginia | The Japan Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1GPHIVV )
asciilifeform: rounds off with some lulz,
asciilifeform: 'Longo said the case is suspended, not closed. He said the fact that investigators could not find evidence “doesn’t mean that something terrible didn’t happen to Jackie.”'
nubbins`: ...which is generally true, but probably not in this case.
nubbins`: http://i.imgur.com/ksBVtHB.png
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1GPIthT )
nubbins`: note how the emphasis is on the feels ^
nubbins`: not be as valuable as you could be
nubbins`: just feel it
asciilifeform: iirc the case in that article ended with police finding no one on the planet remotely matching the description of the perpetrator
nubbins`: yeah
nubbins`: name, description...
nubbins`: "turns out the complainant didn't even have any orifices"
nubbins`: what was it, rolling stone or smth that broke the story?
asciilifeform: the former i think
nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/iraq-mission-stephen-harper-recommits-to-coalition-against-isis-1.3006469
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nubbins`: if there's one thing that will stabilise the region, it's a year of bombings
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asciilifeform: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/communication-security-establishment-s-cyberwarfare-toolbox-revealed-1.3002978 << l0l, canadian snowden heap
assbot: Communication Security Establishment's cyberwarfare toolbox revealed - Canada - CBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1GPJwyl )
nubbins`: pretty light on content, that article
nubbins`: slideshow on bottom ("CSE's toolbox") is 100% generalities
asciilifeform: mega-snore
nubbins`: "toolbox" = general trade practices
asciilifeform: reads like disinfo
asciilifeform: in the sense that if you kidnapped a generic american undergrad, chained him in a cellar, and didn't let him out until he reads the snowden dumps and craps out a deck of 'plausible' canadian slides, the result is likely to be something like the above.
asciilifeform: then again, these people have long ago crossed the parody horizon.
nubbins`: ^
asciilifeform: at least the ones from whom there are leaks.
asciilifeform: there has yet to be ONE SINGLE cryptologist leak.
asciilifeform: from anywhere in the usg empire.
mats: they know better.
nubbins`: guess they really do screen candidates for some fields, hey?
nubbins`: or, put another way, what mats said
asciilifeform: picture you're taking a hill
asciilifeform: there is a machine gun nest on the hill
asciilifeform: the gun is silent.
asciilifeform: is it because gunner is dead?
asciilifeform: or is he waiting for you to come closer?
mats: living a life of secrecy is hard as it is
asciilifeform: now, afaik all available evidence suggests that american cryptological establishment is occupied mainly with crafting monstrosities like dual_ec_drbg - rather than actually breaking 'real' crypto
asciilifeform: but the available evidence is very, very thin.
nubbins`: i think they'd be remiss if they weren't working on both.
asciilifeform: !s rsa pill
assbot: 6 results for 'rsa pill' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=rsa+pill
asciilifeform: ^ pointing n00bs to logs
mats: i'm not convinced dual_ec_drbg is rigged
asciilifeform: mats: see the old thread re: malice and incompetence
asciilifeform: mats: next we know, you'll suggest that hearbleed was a traditional bug ?
mats: for the record, there is still absolutely zero solid evidence that Dual_EC_DRBG is backdoored. the Snowden leaks never mention it by name, never talk about backdooring a CSPRNG, and indeed never talk about backdooring anything. the extent of what they mention is that NSA wanted to 'influence standards'
asciilifeform: mats: nope
asciilifeform: mats: several of the documents (in particular, one classification-level guide) mention subversion of commercial products specifically.
nubbins`: "Protects exploitation of specific communications associated with ... money laundering ... and targets of interest"
mats: ive personally confirmed with schneier - in person - and have second-hand confirmations by others who have interacted with recipients of leaks
nubbins`: codeword STRESSFUL
asciilifeform: (-which products- was redacted by the greenwald gang)
asciilifeform: mats: the word of schneier is worth less than zero here.
nubbins`: didn't schneier advocate windows as an acceptable PGP machine?
asciilifeform: he is a known stooge
mats: the 2006 analysis and subsequent cryptanalytic work stand on their own when it comes to making the case for suspicion of a backdoor, but lets stay within the realm of reason here
nubbins`: as long as you installed all yr updates?!?!
asciilifeform: mats: let me rephrase. i advocate that it is -wrong- to treat any case like dual_ec as anything other than sabotage
nubbins`: mats it's worth mentioning that most of what snowden revealed was not considered "within the realm of reason" by many, before the fact
asciilifeform: because 'i accidentally the bug' can never be proven
nubbins`: ^
asciilifeform: obligatory: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-09-2014#846621 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-09-2014#846620 ☝︎☝︎
assbot: Logged on 27-09-2014 02:36:41; asciilifeform: 'If you're a defendant, you don't get to claim your fingerprints miraculously appeared at a crime scene... If you're a bookkeeper, you don't get to say money miraculously disappeared from your company...'
assbot: Logged on 27-09-2014 02:35:49; asciilifeform: if you create a 'heartbleed' - you are a вредитель. and whether you did it intentionally, given the impossibility of proof - does not matter.
nubbins`: PIEDMONT: "Provides protection to NSA's bottom line capabilities to exploit SIGINT targets by attacking the hard mathematical problems underlying public key cryptography as well as any future technologies as may be developed"
mats: i hate discussing these things with you people
asciilifeform: nubbins`: that plus another directorate name is pretty much all we publicly have on the 'directorate of breaking pgp'
nubbins`: PAWLEYS, PENDLETON
asciilifeform: mats: very curious now - why ?
mats: its always bogeymen, can't have serious discussion
asciilifeform: mats: a serious discussion would involve what?
nubbins`: OPALESCE sounds like keyboard rf sniffing
asciilifeform: the mathematics, disembodied ?
asciilifeform: i am quite able to discuss the mathematics
asciilifeform: but it did not come from god - it came from people
asciilifeform: who want their faces to stay hidden
asciilifeform: one -must- ask - why
nubbins`: mats i understand your viewpoint but plz to understand that paranoia has proved to be justified time and again
nubbins`: while one may feel silly taking the paranoid stance as the default.... we're just evaluating the evidence as presented
asciilifeform: nearly everything i and fellow paranoiac crackpots have ever spoken about crypto has proven to be abundantly justified.
nubbins`: ^
asciilifeform: justification coming out of our ears, arses
asciilifeform: enough for anyone, i'd think, at this point
nubbins`: i think the overwhelming amount of justification triggers a "this CAN'T be true" response in a lot of people
asciilifeform: once you amputate your vestigial 'this can't be true' organ, you are left with only your understanding of the physical world to go on
asciilifeform: unfortunately, for most of the folks who do this, it ends in a belief in unidentified flying proctologists
nubbins`: heh.
nubbins`: the gasenwagen, it can't be true.
asciilifeform: but if you have the upbringing of a thinking (that is, polymathic) person - you can get somewhere.
nubbins`: the usa invading a foreign country on 100% false pretenses, it can't be true
mats: look, i'm putting my skepticism on the record. if there was evidence, it'd look like 'Tor Stinks' or the slides from Der Spiegel's work on the Belgacom pwnage. i'm not saying that Dual_EC_DRBG doesn't have obvious flaws or that anyone should continue using it, but my skepticism regarding it being an intentional backdoor remains
nubbins`: all american internet traffic flowing through an NSA closet in an at&t building -- it can't be true
asciilifeform: mats: at the risk of repeating myself, i will phrase my position as a kind of maxim: 'it is necessary to behave as if hearbleed and dual_ec were crafted vulns, regardless of any apparent evidence to the contrary'
mats: the whole 'NSA is undermining all crypto standards!' meme is overplayed
asciilifeform: this is a fairly outlandish thing on the surface, and i will justify it with something like 'pascal's wager'
nubbins`: 1% chance of it being an intentional backdoor is 1000x the proof you need to not use it
asciilifeform: thing is, there are not so many good opportunities for crafted vulns, and the usg folks know it. hence they try to cultivate an overall maggoty flavour in software culture at large
asciilifeform: e.g. poettering and his merry men
asciilifeform: in hopes that the maggots will hatch naturally
asciilifeform: this doesn't even require very much support
asciilifeform: just a strategic lack of support for anything which might poison the maggots.
fluffypony: I think it's very hard to tell the difference between mistake and malice.
fluffypony: (in this instance)
nubbins`: fluffypony +1
asciilifeform: so it is not necessary to -believe- that every single bug is deliberately crafted
thestringpuller: is there really a difference?
asciilifeform: but it is necessary to -behave- as if they were
asciilifeform: is this too subtle for people ?
thestringpuller: isn't there that saying, "Road to hell something something good intentions?"
fluffypony: thestringpuller: mistakes don't always stem from incompetence
nubbins`: sometimes it's carelessness!
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thestringpuller: aka apathy?
fluffypony: http://safecurves.cr.yp.to
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nubbins`: asciilifeform put another way: not everyone has syphilis, but you'd be remiss not to wrap it up when sexing a stranger
fluffypony: DJB believes secp256k1 is broken ☟︎
asciilifeform: nubbins`: very much the wrong analogy
asciilifeform: because it had nothing to do with probabilities
asciilifeform: the original idea, that is
nubbins`: hm, true
asciilifeform: it has to do with the impossibility of knowing intent
nubbins`: maybe intent is to give you the clap
asciilifeform: all you have to go on, when answering the question 'usg stooge or not' is - 'by their fruits you will know them'
asciilifeform: there is literally nothing else (other than a certain measure of 'guilt by association')
asciilifeform: and aside from stooges and people, there also exist useful idiots
nubbins`: ^
asciilifeform: which is to say, folks who are acting in the interests of usg but do not consciously know it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu uses word 'asset' for both, but they are distinct animals
asciilifeform: every intelligence service on the planet has own jargon word for these
asciilifeform: yes, some crypto designers make mistake, they are good people, sure, whatever. i will borrow from slavoj žižek and say then 'we put them to a good wall, shoot them with a good bullet from a good gun, and bury them in with a good shove in the good earth' - since sure, they are good people.
asciilifeform: *shovel
nubbins`: heh
asciilifeform: for the bad people - who deliberately sabotaged algo - bad wall, bad bullet, ..., bad earth
nubbins`: gun was bad so we had to use the bayonets
asciilifeform: bayonets so bad - spoons.
asciilifeform: but overall picture should be clear at this point.
nubbins`: the shovel was bad but wolves are always hungry
fluffypony: wait so we should have no crypto designers?
asciilifeform: fluffypony did not get it
asciilifeform: we presently have many sappers
asciilifeform: how many mistakes does a sapper make ?
nubbins`: the crypto designer errs but once
fluffypony: and then we shoot him
asciilifeform: or at least fire him
fluffypony gets his shotgun and his pitchfork
asciilifeform: let him earn a living in some other way
fluffypony: when do we start burning the jews?
asciilifeform: fluffypony: when they all take up diddled crypto ?
fluffypony: ok Monday at 3, then
fluffypony: works for me
fluffypony: :-P
nubbins`: that's six days from now!
asciilifeform: see, everybody's got these mental patterns, in the ru thinking sphere it is called 'tolerasty'
fluffypony: on on the seventh day we'll rest, nubbins`
nubbins`: ok
asciilifeform: one has to work against one's upbringing, typically, to arrive at the message i was trying to pass here.
nubbins`: ;;ud tolerasty
asciilifeform: that from -tolerasty- comes poettering & crew.
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tolerast | Aug 6, 2012 ... tolerast. a mix of `tolerant` and `pederast`, hyper tolerant person, who will sacrifice all of his beliefs just to avoid being thought of as `intollerant`.
nubbins` cackles, claps
asciilifeform: ^ l0l! in englisch at last
nubbins`: example from link: "When a black guy works at Starbucks and one hesitates to ask him for `black coffee" ☟︎
mats: fun fact: the tor browser bundle uses the Windows heap instead of jemalloc
nubbins`: poor example
asciilifeform: mats: mega-l0l!
asciilifeform: mats: i did not know this.
nubbins`: (calling a black coffee a coffee without anything in it is sacrificing your beliefs?)
mats: it makes heap grooming more reliably supposedly
asciilifeform: aaaaha sure.
mats: but, you know, bugs
nubbins`: under your skin; everywhere
nubbins`: let me find a relevant quote from a recent communique i received
nubbins`: http://pastebin.com/89espBZ1
assbot: DONT WORRY MASSIVE EDIT Sat across from a serious man. He’s sunken himself - Pastebin.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1GPSmvQ )
asciilifeform: mats: let's put another example. if you are found holding a smoking pistol, with $famouspolitican in a bloody heap on the floor where he was not long ago giving a speech - do you suppose the judge would believe that you drew the pistol and pulled the trigger by accident, while reaching for another object in your pocket ?
asciilifeform: if not, why not?
asciilifeform: note the folks routinely shoot themselves and one another in not altogether dissimilar way
asciilifeform: in some situations, 'benefit of doubt' is not - cannot - be given.
mats: there is actual evidence of malfeasance by NSA on other counts, documented and sometimes committed to powerpoint glory
asciilifeform: nubbins`: reads like burroughs
mats: but i don't see that this is the case here.
nubbins`: burroughs no doubt had some similar shit going on upstairs
nubbins`: i have reams of this material
asciilifeform: mats: if you have philosophical objections to 'behave as if X even if possibly ~X is true' then try to come up with some other syllogism. but it -must- end in 'the people who gave us heartbleed and dual_ec DO NOT GET TO MAKE CRYPTO ANY MORE'
mats: show me the motherfucking evidence! you mean to tell me these bureaucrats decided not to commit anything to paper this go-around?
mats: but did, all those other times?
asciilifeform: the bloody corpse is the evidence
asciilifeform: all the necessary evidence.
asciilifeform: if the paperwork is missing - it isn't like we have all the usg archives on display!
asciilifeform: hell, we don't even have 1% of the kgb archive.
asciilifeform: when ever man and woman who ever worked at nsa dies under torture and doesn't say anything about dual_ec - then i might believe 'mistake'
asciilifeform: but not before.
asciilifeform: and then i will question the loyalty and competence of the torturer.
asciilifeform: because how else.
nubbins`: ("he wanted it done quick, not right")
mats: i guess you'll have to torture the interrogator.
asciilifeform: 'headsman, behead youself' aha
nubbins`: http://imgur.com/rhqsdb4
assbot: This snake's defense mechanism is to become a treble clef - Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1GPUzYa )
asciilifeform: but in all seriousness, i was not arguing that 'the evidence exists somewhere damnit' (though i belive it)
nubbins`: lelelelel
nubbins`: "dude, just chill out, remember how much you like music?"
asciilifeform: but that 'the evidence cannot be had and we must operate without it'
asciilifeform: best as we can.
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asciilifeform: and that whatever else we conclude, the fella who wrote hearbleed doesn't get to say 'oops. i promise i won't do it again. now let me write some more critical code'
nubbins`: http://i.imgur.com/6OsxazV.jpg
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1GPVhVj )
nubbins`: ^ packaged w/ mycelium entropy thingy
nubbins`: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/304rt1/anyone_else_getting_tired_of_this_bullshit/
assbot: Anyone else getting tired of this bullshit blatant downward price manipulation? : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1GPVHLD )
nubbins`: "anyone else getting tiredof having no control over our surroundings, or the world at large?"
mike_c: ;;ticker
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 246.02, Best ask: 246.2, Bid-ask spread: 0.18000, Last trade: 246.01, 24 hour volume: 55703.96526026, 24 hour low: 241.39, 24 hour high: 268.99, 24 hour vwap: None
nubbins`: yes, reddit commentor. many others.
mike_c: i blame whaleclub
nubbins`: i blame the guy's teachers and parents
fluffypony: do you speak whaaaaale?
nubbins` burns another 10btc for show
nubbins`: too bad you can't light cigars with these things
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chetty: <nubbins`> "anyone else getting tiredof having no control over our surroundings, or the world at large?"// no one ever controls the world at large :P get used to it
nubbins`: but we're tiiiiiiiiiired
nubbins`: of our inherent powerlessness
nubbins`: this place has done more to fundamentally change my thought processes than six years at university
ben_vulpes: hear hear
nubbins`: block=184374
nubbins`: this'll be what, about a week?
ben_vulpes: 'tis a miserable march.
ben_vulpes: i've lost track of how many times i've done it.
nubbins`: for the good of the republic
ben_vulpes: aws, however, haas not.
nubbins`: heh
ben_vulpes: blocks for the block god
chetty: <nubbins`> this place has done more to fundamentally change my thought processes than six years at university// it is what a uni should be
Adlai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=20-03-2015#1061123https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Chimerical-color-demo.svg ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 23:29:17; jurov: lol you insist on psychedelic and whatnot. i'm about normal brain function
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1GQ14du )
Adlai: from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color
assbot: Impossible color - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1GQ15OM )
jurov: so?
thestringpuller: chetty: what university did you go to?!? lol
Adlai: so nothing, just sharing an effect i wasn't familiar with before
Adlai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=24-03-2015#1067856 << so when do we get op_ed25519verify ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 14:55:51; fluffypony: DJB believes secp256k1 is broken
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nubbins`: some of you may find this interesting, i found some pics from when i rebuilt my coffee roaster: http://imgur.com/WrXz3WY,CbtEo0O,uojejnr,A8KKjzG,yTGzvNA,Te8ddW5
assbot: Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1GQ2FA9 )
fluffypony: lol Adlai
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nubbins`: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color#/media/File:Impossible_Colors,_Blue_and_Yellow,_for_3dTV.png
assbot: Impossible color - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1GQ3EQY )
asciilifeform: oh and mats, forgot to ask: why have you forgotten about the massive (iirc, 10-20 mil) usg bribe to rsa?
nubbins`: ^ adlai see you next week ;/
asciilifeform: mats: and what do you suppose it was for, if not dual_ec ?
jurov is doing shit with lowlevel dbus interface.. and very first sample caused the introspection to timeout, how else
Adlai: nubbins`: my eyes aren't that far apart
asciilifeform: nubbins`: http://i.imgur.com/6OsxazV.jpg << the bozo actually pasted that into #b-a if you recall
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1GQ3TeM )
nubbins`: gotta cross em duod
nubbins`: in fact, i do not!
asciilifeform: nubbins`: when i told him about sram behaviour below 0c
Adlai: much less stressful to shrink the image and uncross
asciilifeform: !s entropic
assbot: 19 results for 'entropic' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=entropic
nubbins`: rassah?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-07-2014#757004 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 15-07-2014 20:23:09; Rassah: In our tests, it still had plenty of entropy at 0ºC, but it smoothly went down to zero entropy around -20º. Maybe we should put warning stickers on these things saying "Caution - Chaotic System. Do not use in low entropy environments above the Arctic or below the Antarctic circle, unless exposed to external sources of energy" :)
asciilifeform: ^ see thread
Adlai: ahah '"Reddish green" redirects here. Reddish Green is also a place in Reddish, Stockport, in Greater Manchester in England.'
nubbins`: :D
nubbins`: dat #b-a fingerprint on device
nubbins`: Reddish Green!
asciilifeform: not that any rng will function especially well in the arctic, but that fella's insistence on baking a known-bad design was memorable.
nubbins`: nevermind the arctic
nubbins`: i'm at the 49th parallel, and i wouldn't be able to use one of these things outdoors in the winter.
mats: RSA upheld their end by backdooring the BSafe product
asciilifeform: i'll emphasize that it isn't a 'won't work in the cold' so much as 'entropy relying on sram effects degrades ungracefully'
asciilifeform: mats: we know this how
mats: that this happened at the same time as the push towards DUAL_EC as default looks incidental, not malicious
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asciilifeform: mats: and you concluded this based on what? the perpetrators' word ?
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mats: same premise as before! no proof.
nubbins`: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w2UxDdhZPk&feature=youtu.be
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nubbins`: my sides
nubbins`: man, if my goddamn roommate leaves the front door unlatched one more time, he's gonna find his possessions in the street
nubbins`: i've asked him SEVEN FUCKING TIMES
nubbins`: "just check it. it only takes a second."
nubbins`: not sure how else to phrase it
jurov: get your own room?
mats: what i'm saying is that, as the evidence stands, i'm unable to take a firmer position on Dual_EC than the previously accepted consensus that the weakness being a backdoor is quite unlikely, and that Dual_EC should be shunned only because of the abundance of caution with regard to any issues that is endemic to the crypto field
mats: by being excessively paranoid, you deprive yourself of a lot of useful engineering
mats: the claim i'm most concerned about is that the weakness was engineered by NSA, and that, by having approved it, NIST was complicit, thus casting doubt on all other NIST standards
mats: (not necessarily a claim made here -- but nonetheless)
jurov: what's the difference wrt NSA?
nubbins`: jurov i already phrased it that way :D
nubbins`: just running down the clock now
nubbins`: (just so we're clear, roommate in north america = "flatmate" in uk. we do not share rooms)
nubbins`: mats NIST was either complicit or oblivious. both share the same implications.
nubbins`: i.e. that all other NIST standards are cast under shadow
nubbins`: consider that "NIST approved it without knowing that it was backdoored" is probably the least desirable of the two
mats: this kind of innuendo with an utter lack of specifics divides reasonable people into two camps (maximally-paranoid, NIST is evil too, avoid all crypto standards vs. minimally-paranoid, no evidence for anything so we do nothing)
mats: leaving us with no real basis for actually figuring out the situation.
mats: and re: BSafe, i'm not convinced RSA could be sold on destroying their reputation for packing peanuts.
nubbins`: you're implying we can figure out the situation
nubbins`: and i'm saying that whether NIST is complicit or incompetent doesn't matter
mike_c: what? i thought it was common knowledge rsa sold their soul.
ben_vulpes: see malice and incompetence.
mats: well shit. i guess we're all back to handcrafting our own crypto then huh.
thestringpuller: https://slack.com/ << people keep trying to reinvent IRC
mike_c: mats: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220
assbot: Exclusive: Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer| Reuters ... ( http://bit.ly/1GQ8uh3 )
mike_c: "RSA received $10 million in a deal that set the NSA formula as the preferred, or default, method for number generation in the BSafe software"
pete_dushenski: triplescoop : http://www.contravex.com/2015/03/23/want-to-drive-for-uber-first-you-need-to-make-some-mistakes/ http://www.contravex.com/2015/03/24/the-meta-solution/ http://www.contravex.com/2015/03/24/another-day-another-fissure-in-the-internet-this-time-ebay/
assbot: Want to drive for Uber ? First, you need to make some mistakes. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1GQ8Zrl )
assbot: The meta solution ? | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1GQ8ZHN )
assbot: Another day, another fissure in the Internet. This time : eBay. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1GQ8ZYh )
nubbins`: <+mats> well shit. i guess we're all back to handcrafting our own crypto then huh. <<< no, that's not what we're saying
pete_dushenski: !gettrust mats
assbot: Trust relationship from user pete_dushenski to user mats: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 3 via 3 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/pete_dushenski/mats | http://w.b-a.link/user/mats
pete_dushenski: mats seems to be pushing his dual_ec point a bit. i'm... skeptical.
pete_dushenski: nubbins`, re: jamaica << there's a spectrum of behaviours within the 'poor service' realm
nubbins`: nod
pete_dushenski: on one end is disinterest, a la paris or w/e, on the other end is entitlement
nubbins`: why only two ends? it's a triangle
pete_dushenski: you could argue that they both grate on different people in different ways, sure, but for me it's the latter that annoys
nubbins`: what you see as entitlement is a desire to not waste time
pete_dushenski: triangle with 'good service' at the third point ?
nubbins`: no, realistic expectations
pete_dushenski: what fucking 'wasted time' could jamaicans possibly have ?
nubbins`: trying to lick your asshole for a buck?
pete_dushenski: so they want to chill at the bar and smoke some weed instead of making a buck ?
nubbins`: when there's 500 other tourists who will just cough one up?
pete_dushenski: maybe they lick my asshole for a 100 though
nubbins`: dude, people the world over want to chill at the bar and smoke some weed instead of making a buck.
pete_dushenski: maybe they put in a bit more effort, because sure, i have standards, and maybe they get rewarded for it
nubbins`: it's a buck.
nubbins`: that's two maybes
nubbins`: how much of your own time do you waste on maybes?
nubbins`: i'd say 5% of the time, or less, "more effort" results in "reward"
nubbins`: so why bother?
pete_dushenski: non-linear payoffs are a thing
pete_dushenski: if 5% chance yields >20x reward then +ev
nubbins`: you're omitting a variable
nubbins`: the extra time required
pete_dushenski: ok, so 40x payoffs are also a thing
nubbins`: ok, so 1% chance.
nubbins`: let's both make up numbers
pete_dushenski: or maybe it's more quality of time, not quantity i'm looking for
nubbins`: maybe.
nubbins`: consider that if your suggested approach worked, people would do it
nubbins`: but they don't
nubbins`: so.............
pete_dushenski: in fact, my experience was that people gave me TOO MUCH time
pete_dushenski: they'd walk up to me and want to show me this and that, start following me wherever i was going, trying to nudge me here and there
pete_dushenski: they seemed to have an abundance of time but little notion of how to use it effectively (at least on me)
thestringpuller: i'm an expert time waster, and wasting time is an art pete_dushenski
pete_dushenski: jamaicans should have a museum dedicated to this art, i say.
nubbins`: pete_dushenski minimum wage in jamaica is $1.25/hr.
nubbins`: if they get two dollars pestering you for an hour, they're ahead.
nubbins`: ten bucks is a day's work at an honest job
nubbins`: why does it seem irrational that they'd harass tourists for money?
nubbins`: consider how many of them just fork over the $$ to get rid of the guy
pete_dushenski: ok, so now you're saying that it's worth their time to be of service to me... make up your mind
nubbins`: i'm saying it's worth their time to try to get $$ out of tourists, but it's not worth their time to chase dead ends
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: well it's in art in the sense of the Oracle from the Matrix. Once you realize there is a lot of "waiting" for events to occur, then it's best to spend the meanwhile in enjoyment.
pete_dushenski: i don't see that harassment, jostling, or whatever you want to call it is effective
nubbins`: pete_dushenski it's not effective --against you-- but it's *precisely effective* against the average vacationer.
pete_dushenski: if it were, jamaica wouldn't be worse than marakesh
nubbins`: these guys immediately realize that you're not some sucker who's gonna fork over a tenner
nubbins`: so they leave you alone
pete_dushenski: except they don't!
pete_dushenski: that's the thing!
nubbins`: ever?
pete_dushenski: they waste their time on me.
nubbins`: right.
nubbins`: and they do this because....
nubbins`: ....it sometimes works.
nubbins`: sometimes they harass a guy for an hour and get a payday
pete_dushenski: they all want to talk to the white kid with hair like them. i was the most popular thing on the street
nubbins`: pete_dushenski understand that you're a wallet with an afro when you visit resorts
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: hm. i can see it
nubbins`: all behaviour you observe follows from this
pete_dushenski: what fucking resorts ?
pete_dushenski: these are cities i'm talking about. namely, ocho rios and kingston
pete_dushenski: the point i'm making is that quality is more valuable than quantity
pete_dushenski: (though yes, quantity does have a quality all its own)
pete_dushenski: and i saw a fuckton of quantity and very little, but admittedly non-zero, amounts of quality
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-03-2015#1064047 << "the revenue" != "their revenue" ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 22-03-2015 14:04:46; nubbins`: "sourcing their ingredients from within spitting distance, thus keeping the revenue in the local economy" <<< you mean keeping their /expenditures/ in the local economy. their revenue goes elsewhere, unless they're the ones buying all the dimebags.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1066610 << ha!! ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 01:22:24; gabriel_laddel: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=17-03-2015#1055439 << http://imgur.com/SXdFiZx
nubbins`: heh
nubbins`: anyway tl;dr their approach works well enough for them
nubbins`: if you're gonna upbraid them for not trying hard enough, why leave out the rest of the world?
nubbins`: none of us are trying hard enough
pete_dushenski: well, this'd be mp's recently identified economic meta problem
pete_dushenski: to which i humbly proposed, above, immigration of workerbees.
nubbins`: my recently identified pete's-blog-post-about-jamaica meta problem is that you identify entitlement as a problem but fail to realize that you're acting more entitled than these guys are
nubbins`: 8)
pete_dushenski: there are plenty of people on the planet trying to improve their lot in life.
nubbins`: "how dare they not realize i deserve red carpets and back rubs"
nubbins`: "i'm non-black, after all, and i can afford to come here. what more must i do?!"
nubbins`: what more, indeed
nubbins`: brb
pete_dushenski: that alone is a huge difference between me and kid scooping frozen fly guts
pete_dushenski: they're not me and i'm not them, so ya, if we say words that sounds superficially similar, they have different contexts, thus different implications
nubbins`: sure, but doesn't mean automatic handjobs for the guy who doesn't scoop fly guts
pete_dushenski: well that's too bad
pete_dushenski: in that case, why bother doing better than fly guts kid ?
pete_dushenski: if we're all treated the same.
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pete_dushenski: "An Airbus A320 crashed en route to Dusseldorf from Barcelona, likely killing all 150 people on board, in what would be the worst air accident on French soil in three decades. Germanwings Flight 9525 operated by the low-cost subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa AG went down in the French Alps following a rapid descent from cruising altitude, France’s civil aviation authority said."
pete_dushenski: i guess cutting costs from air travel has consequences. who knew you can't race to the bottom indefinitely.
pete_dushenski: this is assuming it wasn't hacked, shot down, etc.
nubbins`: <+pete_dushenski> in that case, why bother doing better than fly guts kid ? <<< same reason one might bother to do worse: different tolerance for comforts or lack thereof
nubbins`: low-cost airlines = no fun
nubbins`: dat legroom
pete_dushenski: and the paper thin seat cushions
pete_dushenski: flying oz's jetstar made me appreciate air canada like nothing else
nubbins`: flying air canada made me appreciate westjet like nothing else XD
nubbins`: porter also gets points for free beer
pete_dushenski: haven't flown porter yet.
nubbins`: you ask for a beer and they just give you one, it's great
pete_dushenski: i don't mind westjet, their staff are quite well trained
pete_dushenski: dat customer service ! ;)
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: different tolerance for comforts or lack thereof << i guess jamaicans have a higher tolerance for discomfort than i do
pete_dushenski: perhaps a surprise to no one
nubbins`: almost certainly
pete_dushenski: given the mini-bus trip i took from the north of the island to the south, with 8 rows of people jammed, and i do mean jammed with mothers and children, 5 across
pete_dushenski: with no a/c
nubbins`: part of me feels this speaks to the relative lack of environmental stressors
pete_dushenski: memorable experience. hell, i'd do it again.
nubbins`: i recommend you keep doing it for the forseeable future :D
nubbins`: (but srsly, marrakesh, you would not enjoy)
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pete_dushenski: lol funny you should mention marrakesh, i was actually going to go to morocco instead of jamaica but didn't have the 2-3 weeks needed to make the haul worthwhile
pete_dushenski: mebbe some day
pete_dushenski: i should say, i had the 2-3 weeks, but chose to spread it out over two trips instead of 1
pete_dushenski: next up: home of the chf
pete_dushenski: "One of Britons' favourite places to visit in North Africa has been named the world's top destination by TripAdvisor users. With its desert landscape and bustling souks, Marrakech came out on top in the website's annual Travellers' Choice Awards for the first time."
nubbins`: i went to marrakesh for a week
pete_dushenski: ^the wisdom of the crowds, i guess
nubbins`: turns out, stupid length of trip
pete_dushenski: no fez, no casablanca ?
nubbins`: no time!
pete_dushenski: lol
pete_dushenski: guess not eh
nubbins`: holed up in a hostel somewhere in the maze of souks for the week
nubbins`: saw the countryside a couple days
nubbins`: actually, touts aside, i'd go again for the food
nubbins`: but straight up, there is a club med about 100 meters from the main square, and you can tell
nubbins`: i'm not sure i'll be able to find a photograph that accurately captures what a bizarre juxtaposition this is, in the meantime
pete_dushenski: heh, well if you do, toss it in here
pete_dushenski: howdy Pierre_Rochard !
pete_dushenski: looks like you're coming just as i'm going..
Pierre_Rochard: howdy pete_dushenski
Pierre_Rochard: well I saw crapple mentioned was coincidentally reading up on their developer chumpatronics: http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2015/3/24/fear-of-apple
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Pierre_Rochard: pete_dushenski: ships that pass in the night, gday!
pete_dushenski: ya, it's not a pretty picture over in post-stevelandia
pete_dushenski: Pierre_Rochard: keep nubbins`occupied while i'm gone, wouldja ?
pete_dushenski: cheers !
nubbins`: you're on the clock
Pierre_Rochard clocks in, sighs
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danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1067902 << all coffee is "black" at starbucks; if you want your coffee ruined, you have to do it yourself at the designated coffee ruining station ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 15:06:52; nubbins`: example from link: "When a black guy works at Starbucks and one hesitates to ask him for `black coffee"
danielpbarron: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: from the lulzfarms: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/science/hydrogen-bomb-physicists-book-runs-afoul-of-energy-department.html
assbot: Log In - The New York Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1BKUqR6 )
ascii_field: mats: your phrase 'avoid all crypto standards' is very much -not- the inevitable implication of dismissing usg crapolade
ascii_field: -avoid all usg crypto standards- - yes
ascii_field: mats: leaving us with no real basis for actually figuring out the situation. << know perfectly well that we -have- a real basis. any crypto standard promulgated by known malefactors is to be thrown out. and replaced not with iraqi caesar ciphers, no, but with derivation from first principles of perfectly reasonable modern crypto.
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: what, precisely, was it that you wanted from the jamaicans ?
ascii_field: i still don't get it
danielpbarron: i get what he meant
ascii_field: danielpbarron: the vibe i got was 'why won't they lick my boots, whatddayamean it isn't 1890 and i'm not a brit'
ascii_field: but guess what, a modern italian can't go around proclaiming 'civis romanus sum' to any useful result, either
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mats: http://knoema.com/ahvcqac/global-oil-stock-levels-in-days-of-net-imports
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ascii_field: 'Recent revelations show that the situation has gotten so bad that today there are only approximately 3000 apps profitable enough to support a median income of $50k for their developer. It is also important to note that not all apps are built by one developer, many work as a team. So it follows that there are many fewer than 3000 developers sustainably doing independent development.'
ascii_field: ^ tournamentmarket lulz
ascii_field: 'According to reporting, "1.6 percent of developers earn more than the other 98.4 percent combined. And the bottom 47 percent of engineers earn less than $100 per month." Yet somehow, independent app development has often been described as a 'gold rush' despite it being quietly understood by developers, even as early as 2009, that this was hardly the case.' << does this person have any awareness of what the '49 goldrush
ascii_field: is actually remembered for?
ascii_field: or do words have no meaning to him
chetty: ascii_field, most likely no real knowledge of the gold rush
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nubbins`: haha
nubbins` wrote two iOS apps, submitted to overlord for review & put up for sale
nubbins`: can verify, not reasonable way of making living
ascii_field wrote one long ago, never published, wouldn't do it again
nubbins`: (anyone with half a brain could probably extrapolate that doing work on speculation, in general, is not a reasonable way of making a living)
nubbins`: fwiw i earned enough money to buy an ipad
ascii_field: obligatory: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=05-02-2015#1008262 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 09:57:56; punkman: "app rating farm" https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9EKh_lIEAE1O8u.jpg
nubbins`: so i guess there's that
ascii_field: ^ how the 'making a living with apps' folks do it
nubbins`: ha
nubbins`: that's great
nubbins`: "wait now, all those ipads are viewing the bitcoin forum"
ascii_field: -these- and precisely -these- people will always be the first to swear to you that 'being a star just happens'
nubbins`: ascii_field not unlike bitcoin, early "adopters" of writing ios apps scooped up most of the "free money"
nubbins`: i.e. for about three weeks, way back at the start, writing a "fart app" could reasonably earn you several months' wages
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-08-2014#814511 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 29-08-2014 04:59:28; asciilifeform: church (evidently in some other piece, forget which) likens the vc circus to the process whereby american 'pop musicians' are industrially manufactured by, among other outfits, disney corp.
ascii_field: the app 'gold mine' thing is precisely the 'disney entrepreneur farm'
trinque: seems to be precisely the same mechanism
ascii_field: nubbins`: not even speaking of 'early adopters' - but of who it is who owns the 'app' market -today-
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ascii_field: and why.
nubbins`: i do know a guy who earns his living making mobile apps, but he's truly gifted and also concentrates on bespoke apps for product launch displays, interactive booths, etc
trinque: the few low-tier VCs I've talked to werent' the slightest bit interested in the fact that a) we're already profitable and b) had a sane plan to become more so
ascii_field: nubbins`: very different from the populist chumpatron, though
nubbins`: i know of noone else who can support themselves, let alone a family, on iOS
trinque: just "hey how are we going to chase this loyalty/social/... trend"
nubbins`: almost so different as to not warrant mentioning
nubbins`: nobody mentions how "angry birds" devs made, what was it? 52 failures before they hit that one
nubbins`: !up ascii_field
nubbins`: fifty-two apps that had to be written, tested, submitted, accepted, promoted...
nubbins`: anyway, i said it earlier
ascii_field: article mentions gruber. who i recall very distinctly as an especially smarmy 'volunteer' apple propagandizer. he once sent fifty or so thousand morons to my site
nubbins`: doign work on spec is fucking nuts
ascii_field: when i blasphemed against his prophet
funkenstein_: i refuse to admit that any creature would pay for an app
nubbins`: doing work on spec where it has to pass through a single arbiter is /daft/
nubbins`: funkenstein_ i paid eight or so bucks for a GPS app, 10/10 would do again
ascii_field: in other news, https://underhandedcrypto.com/2015/03/21/all-underhanded-crypto-entries
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funkenstein_: one that had already been written?
trinque: I've paid for a few apps, but my phone tends to be a mobile web browser
nubbins`: funkenstein_ try asking a different way?
nubbins`: trinque +1
trinque: were the web not insane, there'd be no 'app stores'
funkenstein_: software that has already been written is free
ascii_field: ^
trinque: funkenstein_: weird way of saying warez? or do you only use open source?
danielpbarron: funkenstein_> i refuse to admit that any creature would pay for an app << I've paid for a few
nubbins`: yeah i'm not sure what
funkenstein_: i ran windows at one point too, not gonna brag about it though
nubbins`: but to answer your impossibly odd question, yes, the GPS app that i purchased had already been written when i purchased it
trinque: I'm not keen on intellectual property, but that's not what I (tell myself I) pay for when I buy software
funkenstein_: i pay folks to write software, not to uh, well whatever it is you paid for
danielpbarron: i paid for an app called "drafts" which had the selling point of being a no-nonsense text input and saving app
nubbins`: funkenstein_ problem is, i can't get much of a GPS app written for $8.
danielpbarron: isn't Waze free?
ascii_field: danielpbarron: this is an ancient plague in the apple world. vendor releases an unusable os, and then various 'entrepreneurs' show up to expensively offer to paper over the turd, and users - oblige
trinque: waze has an upsell iirc
danielpbarron: i'm pretty sure i've never given waze any money
trinque: so when do we fix the internet guys?
trinque: is that next month?
ascii_field: check out the many apps whose functionality sums up to one line of 'sed' on a sane machine
nubbins`: funkenstein_ that said, if you know of a way i can turn my phone into a full-featured GPS unit for eight dollars, feel free to let me know
trinque: need a sandbox which runs lisp code and can do rudimentary socket IO
nubbins`: i'm sure others would be interested as well
funkenstein_: what is a full featured gps unit?
trinque: exchange pub key to get access
funkenstein_: gives you two coordinates of your location?
nubbins`: ah, we're doing pedantics here
danielpbarron: i paid for the up-sells in an app called "unfollow" so that i could keep an exceptions list; had it remove it recently because it became too buggy
nubbins`: no, it lets you create tracks, waypoints, PoIs, displays your avg speed and distance travelled, switch map overlays, blah blah
funkenstein_: you are looking for good map software actually, GIS is what you mean to say
trinque: best thing about gossipd is probably going to be writing software around it
nubbins`: no, i have good map software and good free maps
nubbins`: i'm looking for /bells and whistles/
nubbins`: if all i wanted was a map i'd take a fucking map
mats: https://github.com/ryancdotorg/undercrypto2014
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funkenstein_: i'm sure you can find what you are looking for
nubbins`: i'm sure you're talking out your ass
trinque: ehehehe
funkenstein_: if not let me know i'll get you the apk or whatever for free
ascii_field: mats: yours ?
trinque: called it, warez
danielpbarron: the nicksquatters are mad at eachother!
nubbins`: funkenstein_ are we even speaking the same language here?
trinque: funkenstein_: there's nothing wrong with paying for software
trinque: I would like access to the source but that's a separate issue
ascii_field: not long ago i paid for - air.
funkenstein_: trinque, that depends who you pay and when
ascii_field: for tires.
nubbins`: "i paid eight bucks for a binary with neat features" "yeah? well i pay everyone to write the software i use. or i use free shit. you're a dummy, use free shit!"
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ascii_field: didn't 'feel good' about it though
mats: ascii_field: ha, no. a finalist from this year
funkenstein_: i prefer to pay software developers for software
nubbins`: as if my time is so valueless that i'm willing to give up a couple hours over EIGHT DOLLARS
trinque: nubbins`: he git-tips a penny! good enough for anyone
nubbins`: ....
ascii_field: nubbins`: payware costing money is by far the least significant problem with it, in my experience
trinque: funkenstein_: ascii_field may give you a beating if you claim you have full control over your software stack
ascii_field: and i've used software packages costing six (usd) figures
danielpbarron: yeah i really don't mind paying for nice things, software or otherwise
ascii_field: (as i'm sure many others here have)
danielpbarron: heck i recently paid 120 USD for OpenBSD cd sets
nubbins`: <<<
nubbins`: i'm not sure what's so hard to digest here
nubbins`: "why would you purchase a moleskine notebook? just use vi"
funkenstein_: danielpbarron did you send the 120 to an appstore?
trinque: holy fuck
nubbins`: ;;calc 8*.3
gribble: 2.4
trinque: funkenstein_: openbsd doesn't come from an app store
funkenstein_: bingo
danielpbarron: i used a credit card so...
nubbins`: so of my eight bucks, $2.40 went to apple.
funkenstein_: don't let it happen again ok?
nubbins`: is there anyone present who would take on the job of finding me a piece of software compatible with my needs, for $2.40?
funkenstein_: i'm happy to look around for free
nubbins`: your time is your own to waste!
nubbins`: my time has value
danielpbarron: the better argument may be "don't use the kind of device that has an app store" or something
funkenstein_: uh, and here we are
nubbins`: no, you're there and i'm here
danielpbarron: but seeing as how i have this stupid iphone, i really don't mind paying 1 to 10 USD for an app that actually works as described
trinque: soon as there's a fully open and documented phone/computer, I'll buy that too
funkenstein_: even though it has a detrimental effect on distribution and the software ecosystem
danielpbarron: i don't care about the principle of the thing -- that a text input without cruft should just come with the thing
nubbins`: ah get out
danielpbarron: on a related note, i'm totally getting a moleskin notebook
nubbins`: me buying a handheld garmin has a detrimental effect on distribution and the software ecosystem
trinque: funkenstein_: you can moralize about any step in the supply chain of the thing
nubbins`: you buying a car has the same effect
danielpbarron: in the time it takes to unlock phone and open text app, i could have already written the idea down
trinque: I've got a highly customized gentoo running all OSS.... on a fucking lenovo x1 carbon
nubbins`: trinque lenovo? did it come with windows?
trinque: still not sin-free (TM)
trinque: nubbins`: yeah win 8.1
nubbins`: ^
nubbins`: thanks for having a detrimental effect on distribution and the software ecosystem, judas
trinque: saying you can't escape
trinque: nubbins`: :''(
nubbins`: right?
nubbins`: senseless wank-off
trinque: or hell I get an "open computer" whatever that is
ascii_field: there is no sensible 'pNohe', we already knew this
trinque: now I want wireless internet
trinque: fucked.
nubbins`: but at least we have people happy to look around for free
trinque: or the parts are completely open and NSA spent infinite money discovering hardware flaws
trinque: and now I'm part of the NSA botnet
trinque: not sin free
nubbins`: i'll just pop on irc every time i'm tempted to pay two dollars to satisfy an impulse
danielpbarron: the only software ecosystem that matters is right in here and i don't see it getting harmed by us paying for a gps app on our phones
ascii_field: trinque: part of the NSA botnet << most of us will live and die without having the honour of an 0day spent (yes, they're used up when used, think about it) on our sorry hides
nubbins`: danielpbarron "but if the gps app is closed source, it could be sending your location to the NSA" 8)8)8)8)8)
danielpbarron: so then the argument is "don't use iphone at all" which is a much more sensible argument
trinque: ascii_field: hm, I took the hard drive firmware situation to mean malware could hide and resurface without being detectable at the OS level
trinque: I wouldn't know
trinque: that led me to believe that they infect everyone, make almost all dormant
trinque: this led me to thinking about how much of what I've heard through leaks is psyops
danielpbarron: trending in social media == likely psyops
trinque: ascii_field: makes sense though that they would treat these like fire-once weapons
ascii_field: trinque: basic tradecraft - the more shocking the exploit, the louder will be the cry when it is discovered; the more victims - the sooner it ends up on, e.g., my desk, or that of 100,000 other folks who can pry it open
mats: http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/
assbot: Project IceStorm ... ( http://bit.ly/1BKXug8 )
ascii_field: mats: neato, there was a similar project for xilinx 'virtex'
ascii_field: mats: actually, at least two
mats: how was their progress?
ascii_field: mats: surprisingly usable
ascii_field: but
ascii_field: mats: the way the story normally ends is that the reversed fpga becomes quasi-usable nearly the same time it goes out of print and replaced with incompatible version... ☟︎
ascii_field: ...and...
ascii_field: 'as long as no block memories or hard IP blocks are used' << ahahahahaha.
ascii_field: academic turd.
ascii_field: worthless.
ascii_field: even something as simple as dram is not, in practice, usable without the 'hard' blocks
ascii_field: on any fpga whatsoever
ascii_field: the timing constraints are unforgiving.
ascii_field bashed his head on this for most of a year, at one point
ascii_field: also see old threads
ascii_field: !s xilinx
assbot: 56 results for 'xilinx' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=xilinx
mats: i didn't know that
punkman: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CA10nFyUQAAiegp.png https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CA2qpYEUcAA3ByF.jpg:large
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1BKXGfp )
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1BKXGfs )
danielpbarron: !up ascii_field
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10700 @ 0.0002305 = 2.4664 BTC [+]
jurov: http://animalous.com/ in the bottom, 33 reasons for lulz
assbot: Animalous ... ( http://bit.ly/1BKY7q7 )
jurov: and the motivation, too
ascii_field: 'The library implements the AES block cipher in CTR mode and for the most part behaves as it is described in almost all circumstances it would normally be used in. Notably it passes all the FIPS and RFC test vectors for AES encoding and can interoperate with openssl. The library can be used in most any application where AES is needed and will behave appropriately. The library becomes exploitable specifically when it gets
ascii_field: used as part of an implementation of IPSec over IPv6 in a resource constrained IP stack. In such a case, under normal operation the library will perform properly, interoperating with other IPSec aes-ctr hosts. But when it is triggered by a forged ICMPv6 packet it will lead to a full plaintext reveal. Another forged ICMP packet will restore the conforming behavior so that normal packet retries will mask the improper
ascii_field: behavior.'
ascii_field: ^ winner of ucc
ascii_field: from a runner-up:
ascii_field: 'Provides a working implementation of a backdoor embedded into the RSA modulus of a Certification Authority public-key certificate and the code for a minimalistic client and server communicating over a TLS channel:'
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6305 @ 0.0002305 = 1.4533 BTC [+]
ascii_field: 'Shows how this backdoor can completely pervert the security guarantees provided by the TLS protocol... even the presence of a single CA certificate with a secretly embedded backdoor in the certificate store would render the entire TLS security fictional...'
ascii_field: (Alfonso De Gregorio)
jurov: there's also ECDSA goodie "I have extended this attack to work in cases where there is a
jurov: known difference between the key values used in two signatures"
ascii_field: jurov: sop
ascii_field: this was, iirc, actually fired in anger and coin was recovered
ascii_field: incidentally, one of the entries is a diddled ecc curve
ascii_field: 'It is my aim to set a new high-water mark for transparency in parameter generation. To that end, all of these values are nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers which I generated by singing the Bohemian Rhapsody backward with my dog barking in the background, digitizing the audio as an MP3 at a bitrate of 192kbit/s, and taking every 17th byte of the result. Their integrity can easily be verified by repeating this procedure.'
ascii_field: ^ i won't spoil the riddle here
jurov: can i borrow the dog?
jurov: :D
ascii_field: ... and one of the submissions is a pwning of actual wild openssl when an idiot uses dsa.
ascii_field: jurov: the rpm signature entry isn't yours by any chance ?
ascii_field: i could've sworn you discovered this very item in the actual wild
jurov: no, i have no entry
jurov: which one?
ascii_field: it's the one by S. Nicolussi
jurov: ths is something different
ascii_field: ah
ascii_field: i highly recommend reading the ucc winners
ascii_field: to all of the people here.
BingoBoingo: !up ascii_field
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell mircea_popescu es.qntra sounds cool Seperate wordpress install for it does seem necessary
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell cazalla es.qntra sounds cool Seperate wordpress install for it does seem necessary
gribble: The operation succeeded.
jurov: i was thinking at first "how is he patching yum or what?" but it's about principle
jurov: that it is checking for error messages, not "GOOD signature" string
mats: http://bitseed.me/product/blockchain-node-developer-version/
assbot: Bitseed Personal Server - Bitcoin Node Edition - Bitseed ... ( http://bit.ly/1EOuxoj )
mats: all the moar reason to sell pogos imo
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: 'OS is Ubuntu 14 with optional GUI desktop. It can support to a mouse, keyboard and HDMI monitor if desired' << l0l!!
jurov: omfg... checked /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpmUtils/miscutils.py
mats: http://i.imgur.com/09FTJTl.jpg pictured: one partially disassembled hellfire missile ☟︎
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1EOv2ic )
jurov: and it *really* does say:
ascii_field: mats: yours ?
jurov: if str(e) == "public key not availaiable":
mats: (training round as indicated by green tip)
jurov: on live cnetos installation
mats: ascii_field: nah. acquaintance's.
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1067407 <<< i can figure it out, alternatively, another idea would be to just make another wordpress install in qntra.net/es/ ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 09:25:50; mircea_popescu: cazalla you know how to set that shit up tho ?
ascii_field: mats: what do these cost (assuming this was surplus ?)
cazalla: BingoBoingo, there's also wordpress multisite, but i have never used it
ascii_field: mats: and is that a flir camera head in the left hand side? another golden toilet
mats: ascii_field: iirc bezzle rate for live rounds are 70k+
Adlai would call this a partly disassembled enclosure, the missile has its own insides too
BingoBoingo: cazalla: They moved most of that functionality into wordpress, better to separate the things at a moving parts level anyways
mats: ascii_field: i think so. i believe the tip is transparent like the 'Sidewinder'
cazalla: the only downside to es.qntra.net would be that it won't benefit from the mother, a subdomain is essentially a brand new site (in the eyes of google)
BingoBoingo: Ah
ascii_field: mats: tip is normally transparent in heat-seekers
ascii_field: mats: what precisely is the point of a training round rocket ?
ascii_field: size-and-mass model ?
mats: i can't explain it.
Adlai: some training ordnances let you toggle in simulated errors
Adlai doesn't know about this specific one
ascii_field: judging only by the photo, the electronic components are in
ascii_field: and one can presumably speak to them
ascii_field: at any rate, such rockets have not really changed since the '70s
ascii_field: there is nothing 'magic' in them.
Adlai: iirc some training ordnance also simulates in-flight behavior of the real thing
BingoBoingo: My guess is it is either for training pilots under load or training maintenance techs without a sapper's margin of error
Adlai: ... actually, there's a lot of new magic?
Adlai is more familiar with anti-tank than anti-air though
Adlai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_(missile)
assbot: Spike (missile) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1HABooQ )
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ascii_field: if it is anything like the training version of 'strela' (man-portable surface to air rocket from ru, whose manual was discussed in here a few wks ago) the training variant lets you lock onto and track a target, but doesn't fly or explode.
ascii_field: (or did we do 'igla' ? i forget)
BingoBoingo: lol q&a at the end https://www.allcrypt.com/blog/2015/03/what-happened-and-whats-going-on/
assbot: What happened, and what’s going on « AllCrypt Blog ... ( http://bit.ly/1HAE3yJ )
BingoBoingo: I think we did discuss igla
BingoBoingo: !s igla
assbot: 4 results for 'igla' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=igla
BingoBoingo: It's there
nubbins`: ben_vulpes mod6 mircea_popescu and other interested parties: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=uJQDaKcz
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1HAEBoj )
nubbins`: ^ Compiling bitcoin-v0.5.3.1 on OSX
BingoBoingo: !Up ascii_field
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: nubbins`: any changes -not- in common with openbsd << For versions earlier than 5.7 and -current some wallet.cpp code needs changed to use better random
mod6: great work nubbins`!
mod6: thanks for posting.
thestringpuller: ascii_field: axe time has begun
ascii_field: thestringpuller: hm ?
thestringpuller: you see the bitnode news?
ascii_field: aha
ascii_field: snore.
ascii_field: doesn't cost any less than a normal computer
ascii_field: (say, from 'pcengines')
nubbins`: mod6 i should stress that *none* of the hardening options are included in that makefile, and it really should not be used for anything other than reference
mircea_popescu: lol cazalla i just got it.
nubbins`: mod6 but FWIW this process should generally be able to be applied to future releases as well
ascii_field: thestringpuller: if they were passing these out for tenbux each, then.
ascii_field: but otherwise snore
nubbins`: i.e. 0.5.3.2 should patch just the same
thestringpuller: ascii_field: snore for now, but if they start selling, they lower barrier to fork.
thestringpuller: selling in volume*
ascii_field: the photo suggests something like a 'raspberry'
thestringpuller: just bad feeling seeing summer 2015 as their schedule and this aligns with gavin wanting to have enough dick's sucked to push his shit into github around then as well
nubbins`: ascii_field i thought it was a raspi between two sheets of acrylic at first
nubbins`: looks like similar class of hw
nubbins`: commodity sbc
nubbins`: .foundation 0.5.3.1 running on pogoplug w/ SD card is a stopgap here
ascii_field: i think i've identified the board
ascii_field: it is a 'banana pi.'
ascii_field: not revealed in the phoundation site, of course
ascii_field: but can be inferred from the port layout and the chipset in the spec sheet.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field lol.
mircea_popescu: the blessing of suck these people have srsly...
mod6: # Modified March 22 2015 by Satoshi Nakamoto for La Serenissima << :]
nubbins`: dat paying for a needless gpu, hdmi, etc
mircea_popescu: lol win
ascii_field: nubbins`: them's chumps paying
nubbins`: i wonder how much $$ pogo boards could be had for in quantity
nubbins`: (if at all)
ascii_field: nubbins`: probably ~19 usd forever until they run out
ascii_field: upon which $maxint.
mircea_popescu: hemeans just the boards.
nubbins`: lel. i know, i mean actually having just the boards produced
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the plastic casing is at least as valuable as the boards.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu +1
nubbins`: it comes with a fucking 3-foot cat5!
nubbins`: and a power supply too!
ascii_field: and dc brick
ascii_field: aha
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21678 @ 0.00023498 = 5.0939 BTC [+]
ascii_field: and don't forget the steel heat sink in there
nubbins`: and so on!
mircea_popescu: ^
nubbins`: so what i'm wondering is what you're looking at for, say, 10k units without all that fluff
ascii_field: i'll add that the case is not merely decorative
ascii_field: it holds the heatsink in place, and cradles the hdd
mircea_popescu: nubbins` 10k is not in quantity noob.
ascii_field: ^^
nubbins`: lel you're right hey
mircea_popescu: 10mn, you can prolly have for ~7-8 or so
ascii_field: rupees.
nubbins`: i obv have no idea as to scale here
ascii_field: 10 mn, i'd stuff it all on one die.
ascii_field: and a socket on the side for another identical unit, for when the flash fills.
ascii_field: ad infinitum.
ascii_field: (ethernet socket on other hand side, naturally)
ascii_field: like 'lego blocks'
nubbins` shrugs
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8147 @ 0.00023239 = 1.8933 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field
nubbins`: pogo is what, marvell kirkwood?
thestringpuller: http://bitseed.me/product/blockchain-node-developer-version
ascii_field: nubbins`: aha
thestringpuller: ^- posted by same dude on reddit
ascii_field: !s marvell
assbot: 13 results for 'marvell' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=marvell
nubbins`: might be worth contacting /them/
nubbins`: if anyone'd have a handle on someone down-chain who has however many k units..
ascii_field: nubbins`: for what ?
mircea_popescu: Storage4 GB NAND Flash
mircea_popescu: 160 GB HDD
mircea_popescu: ahaha this is exactly a pogo
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it's a 'banana pi'
ascii_field: retails for around $60.
mircea_popescu: i mean performance wise.
ascii_field: sand disk, brick, case
ascii_field: slightly faster than pogo, iirc
ascii_field: *sans
ascii_field: pogo has 128m flash also
nubbins`: wait, 4gb nand!
ascii_field: nubbins`: for what do you need a 4g nand ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field but the 4gb is only because they run crud.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu has it
mircea_popescu: in no way better than 128mb with deturdified os
ascii_field: but iirc that board comes with it on
nubbins`: ascii_field that's what i'm wondering :0
ascii_field: you can't get it without the extra bells & whistles
mircea_popescu: anyway, speaking of this, what was the status of teh pogo project ? we ready to bake ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: if you ask me, releasing the memleak version is lunacy
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28200 @ 0.00022994 = 6.4843 BTC [-]
ascii_field: regardless of what else works
mircea_popescu: you can't postpone everything until everything else just like you can't have everything louder than everything else.
ascii_field: i specifically mean that a node running bitcoincrashcrashcrash is dangerous to itself and others.
mircea_popescu: how ?
ascii_field: nondeterministic behaviour
mircea_popescu: all bitcoin nodes run that o.O
ascii_field: if i could quantify it, it wouldn't be nondeterministic, would it
ascii_field: i meant that it trashes state unpredictably
ascii_field: upon death
chetty: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/stealing-data-computers-using-heat/
assbot: Stealing Data From Computers Using Heat | WIRED ... ( http://bit.ly/1BL7dTB )
mircea_popescu: inb4 ascii_field snore.
danielpbarron: nubbins`> it comes with a bobbaing 3-foot cat5! << most do; not all -- the power supply also varies in shape
ascii_field: chetty: ancient tech
nubbins`: danielpbarron uh
mircea_popescu: he'd know.
ascii_field: chetty: a certain semiconductor vendor had a heat-based tattletale mechanism for detecting clones
ascii_field: transmitted a few bytes with small variations in surface temp
nubbins`: dat impure word replacement
chetty: yeah old tech, but showing up in more mainstream sorts of pubs is interesting
ascii_field: the receiver here is the built-in thermistor found in most servers
ascii_field: which is mildly clever
ascii_field: 'The two systems would then engage in a handshake, involving a sequence of “thermal pings” of +1C degrees each, to establish a connection. ' << stopped reading here
ascii_field: noise sensitivity makes it hopeless in the wild
ascii_field: (a passing draft will drop your channel capacity to nothing ?)
nubbins`: a passing draft will drop your outdoor coffee roaster by 20C
nubbins`: wait, that conversation was from somewhere else
danielpbarron: how hard would it be to get OpenBSD on a pogo? I've been idling in their channel but I'm not sure how productive it would be to just go "hey someone should start supporting this architecture for my pet project!"
ascii_field: danielpbarron: same problem as netbsd
ascii_field: (no support for the nand; bizarre bugs in other drivers)
danielpbarron: i don't mind paying someone to do it, but i probably can't afford whatever that kind of work is worth
ascii_field: i would do it pro bono but haven't the time
ascii_field: (i know exactly how)
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danielpbarron: i got your netbsd kernel to boot on the pogo; this is possible with openbsd as well?
ascii_field: haven't tried personally
ascii_field: but iirc the device support of openbsd is a subset of netbsd's
nubbins`: was bsd chosen because of smallest footprint or other?
danielpbarron: http://www.openbsd.org/armish.html << this is it?
assbot: OpenBSD/armish ... ( http://bit.ly/1HARjU5 )
nubbins`: i recall you saying a bare bones install could be impossibly tiny
BingoBoingo: <nubbins`> was bsd chosen because of smallest footprint or other? << small footprint no crud
danielpbarron: i wouldn't mind gentoo
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> (a passing draft will drop your channel capacity to nothing ?) << BUT DRM IN AUDIO WORKS!!!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes mod6 what do you two figure is a realistic timeline for "bitcoind version that doesn't allocate memory without checks and so doesn't crash in THAT particular way" ?
mircea_popescu: apparently ascii_field wants a provably-correct stack of five layers of software before we ship out ten dollar items.
ascii_field: neh just something that isn't guaranteed to kark its breeks after 40min
mircea_popescu: 40 mins is the new 2 weeks
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron what was the current block count on those things ?
ascii_field: anyone who wants an illustration of roughly what has to be done, is invited to read my skull&crossbones patch
danielpbarron: height=295831 vs height=216046
mod6: For me, and I might be wrong here, but fixing that is a huge chunk of work. I'd have to break it down to give a decent estimate. But I'd guess 6 months or more, easy.
mircea_popescu: remind me, what are the configs on them ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 i am of the same persuasion.
mircea_popescu: if we live to see it we've lived a long life.
mod6: srsly.
ascii_field: wai wat
ascii_field: fixing leak ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you familiar with how long current foundation patch took ?
mircea_popescu: or anything else for that matter, deedbot, cardano, eulora, name it.
mircea_popescu: i'm just about to release v5 eulora here AFTER A YEAR
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: one of these things is not like the other, i think
mircea_popescu: and that was a year of fucking work.
ascii_field: phoundation has no day job
ascii_field: they ought to have gone 100x faster.
mircea_popescu: o it doesn't ? why not ?
chetty: fisrt version of eulora was fast :)
mircea_popescu: o look at those kulaks over there... THEY have to do things right.
mircea_popescu: julia. not us.
ascii_field: gavin or whoever - isn't he a full-time dev for turdation ?
danielpbarron: http://danielpbarron.com/pogo-config.txt
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1BL8nP1 )
mircea_popescu: yes and he's doing his job to the best of his abilities.
mod6: Our goal is to get this resolved, but I think it seriously is going to take some effort. Part of going forward from this release is going to be breaking down goals and getting them lined up. I have high hopes to discuss much of this at the Cnof.
mircea_popescu: except he's currently rated F for failure.
mod6: *Conf
mircea_popescu: mod6 speaking of which, you never answered email.
mod6: Sorry! I'll get you something tonight :)
BingoBoingo: http://qntra.net/2015/03/thermal-sidechannel-carries-8-bits-per-hour-in-proof-of-concept/
assbot: Thermal Sidechannel Carries 8 Bits Per Hour in Proof of Concept | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1BL8t9o )
mircea_popescu: just making sure you got it.
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: we just did that one
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: I'd already started on it
mircea_popescu: he writes for qntra!
mod6: Yes, Sir. Should have responded lastnight, just got distracted hacking together my obsd lappy.
ascii_field: mod6, mircea_popescu: depending on what it means to fix the leak (total replacement for block sync mechanism and a mathematical proof for it? or something more like my patch ?) it could take anywhere from a weekend to maxint days
mod6: yeah, im talking about an all encompassing approach .. many small steps, the former.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i meant, how are they different.
mod6: Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.
danielpbarron: refresh, i just added the other
danielpbarron: oh you mean parts?
danielpbarron: different hard drives
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the way system engineering is done, is either do not fix a problem, or else fix the problem. adding a problem++ to the list at the cost of a weekend is not on this list.
danielpbarron: one is solid state; other is 5400 rpm
mircea_popescu: that it ?
danielpbarron: ya
mircea_popescu: aha cool.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: adding a problem++ to the list at the cost of a weekend is not on this list << astute observation, which is why my patch was specifically labeled as a proof to nail down the locus of the problem, and not an item to be used on the battlefield.
mircea_popescu: cool. so then, these things are pretty much ready to launch are they ?
danielpbarron: i also had one going that was using a USB3 stick -- stopped it after a week or so when it was clearly way too slow
danielpbarron: they are not up to the defined spec
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron link me to your last version of "how to" again plox ?
ascii_field: http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/03/woman-held-in-psych-ward-for-saying-obama-follows-her-on-twitter-even-though-he-actually-does
assbot: Database Error ... ( http://bit.ly/1BL8MRu )
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron what's the shortcoming again ?
danielpbarron: http://danielpbarron.com/pogo/howto.txt
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1BL8NFe )
danielpbarron: this howto is more for developers
nubbins`: woo
nubbins`: i have pogo x2 on the way, i'm gonna dig into this
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron hoply shit, this thing... dude...
mircea_popescu: what do you work irl ?
mircea_popescu: i haven't seen asciiart technical drawings in documents since the 90s.
mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field
danielpbarron: the shortcoming is it's using ArchLinux, doesn't boot from eeprom, requires a great deal of user setup to get working
trinque: all danielpbarron's docs rule
mircea_popescu: cool beans nubbins`
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danielpbarron: would have to be shipped with SD card already configured if the end user is to just plug in a hard drive and forget about it
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron what's your job offline ?
danielpbarron: it's a seasonal warehouse thing
mircea_popescu: shut up.
danielpbarron: LTL
mircea_popescu: you're a tchnical / manual writer.
mircea_popescu: stop wasting your time with whatever. you have any idea what shortage is for these ?
mircea_popescu: or, for that matter, what it pays ?
nubbins`: ^ truth sauce, almost took this up as a career
mircea_popescu: no but this nut's fucking talented, look at this thing.
nubbins`: <+danielpbarron> would have to be shipped with SD card already configured if the end user is to just plug in a hard drive and forget about it <<< that is actually preferable for almost everyone who would buy this
danielpbarron: it's not complete btw
mircea_popescu: you have any idea how fucking ~rare~ an actual talent for technical writing is ?
nubbins`: very
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron srsly. look into it.
danielpbarron: well i'm also really good at LTL, heh
nubbins` did well enough at this in uni to get pulled into strange prof's office for praise once
danielpbarron: "logistics" or w/e they call it
nubbins`: and i wouldn't call myself, y'know, outstanding
danielpbarron: i move millions of dollars worth of stuff over the course of a month or two
mircea_popescu: is ltl where you load trucks all day ?
danielpbarron: ya, and schedule them
danielpbarron: and get the orders ready for them
mircea_popescu: aha. well... your lyf, your calls.
mircea_popescu: i wish upon my enemies to be here with me
mircea_popescu: and enjoy the fucking TONEDEAF PARADE
mircea_popescu: thousands of people!
danielpbarron: good to know there are other options; i woudln't mind supplementing my income
danielpbarron: especially with food costing what it does these days
mircea_popescu: o.O
danielpbarron: i'm getting slaughtered at the supermarket
mircea_popescu: "dude, get into this thing you're great for it pays excellent" "oh, i do ok... and i know what food costs." "listen to me... you're not supposed to know what food costs."
nubbins`: if you did, you'd not eat it
mircea_popescu: anyway. so archlinux ? what happened to netbsd or w/e ?!
mircea_popescu: shit im behind.
BingoBoingo: There's concurrent pogo threads
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo im gonna unwind this thing cause i think it ran into a problem.
mircea_popescu: soo where them threads lead.
mircea_popescu: see*
nubbins`: if we're talking about a "pogo node" as a kit that one can purchase, i think, it's fine to start with w/e distro, booting from SD, skull-and-crossbones patches, w/e
BingoBoingo: Well, the pogo hardware was never marketed with multithreading
nubbins`: all else aside, owning one of these pogos is an opportunity
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron so what exactly is it, how did it end up on arch ?
nubbins`: if it's got a real version of bitcoind that works enough to use, all the better
nubbins`: nobody who can't follow some simple instructions to flash nand down the road and reclaim their SD card is gonna buy one anyway
nubbins`: find any forum thread anywhere about pogoplugs being sold at these prices, most of the responses are "!!!!!!!!!"
mircea_popescu: lol
danielpbarron: there was already a guide written for getting it to work on arch
danielpbarron: and then later i found a guide for debian, but the bitcoind was still dynamic and wouldn't work on it
mircea_popescu: ah so because easier ?
mircea_popescu: is the current arch thing static ?
danielpbarron: no
danielpbarron: it's from ascii's portatronic instructions
danielpbarron: easier yes, in that i don't know any alternatives that work yet
danielpbarron: i think another unsolved problem is that we don't know how to compile a linux kernel that works
danielpbarron: or else maybe gentoo would work on it
mircea_popescu: so basically, you put archlinux according to ascii_field's brew on the pogo, and then compiled a static foundation bitcoind and loaded that up, and that's what we have now ?
trinque: danielpbarron: you can use localmodconfig for that ☟︎
trinque: make localmodconfig
danielpbarron: no, i compiled the dynamic foundation bitcoind
trinque: build it on a working linux, and you'll get a kernel config
trinque: with all current mods
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron because static didn't work because ?
danielpbarron: it didn't exist at the time
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27200 @ 0.00022806 = 6.2032 BTC [-] {3}
thestringpuller: !t m s.qntr
assbot: [MPEX:S.QNTR] 1D: 0.00020808 / 0.00020865 / 0.00021 (10000 shares, 2.09 BTC), 7D: 0.00020808 / 0.00020865 / 0.00021 (10000 shares, 2.09 BTC), 30D: 0.00020808 / 0.00024954 / 0.000301 (46659 shares, 11.64 BTC)
mircea_popescu: mod6 do we have it yet ?
danielpbarron: yeah the current release is static
nubbins`: bbl supper but quite interested in getting this sorted
thestringpuller: !t m s.mpoe
assbot: [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.00019609 / 0.00022358 / 0.00025613 (1502516 shares, 335.94 BTC), 7D: 0.00019609 / 0.00028609 / 0.00033536 (17959206 shares, 5,138.11 BTC), 30D: 0.00019609 / 0.00034985 / 0.0004493 (81624050 shares, 28,556.94 BTC)
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron can you try it ? on a like... 3rd pogo ?
danielpbarron: sure
mircea_popescu: cool.
mircea_popescu: so then the master here becomes, arch as per ascii, static as per current foundation release.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7869 @ 0.00022558 = 1.7751 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: any questions ? any laments ?
danielpbarron: i tried to build it for my gentoo laptop and it errored out
danielpbarron: it's for 64 bit systems atm
danielpbarron: and mine is 32
danielpbarron: idk if this also means it won't work on pogo or what
mircea_popescu: wait, gentoo stopped supporting 32 bit ?
danielpbarron: no, 0.5.3.1 did
mircea_popescu: oh right.
mircea_popescu: shit. don't tell me the pogos are 32bit ?!
trinque: it would appear to be 32bit arm
mircea_popescu: o fucking hell check out the gross mismanagement i managed to bless the world with.
thestringpuller: !up assbot
thestringpuller: r
thestringpuller: !up ascii_field
mircea_popescu: mod6 so the emerging problem here is that while i said "ok" to 64 bit only foundation bitcoind, it turns out when need 32 bit support for our own fucking projects, which notably is the pogo.
mircea_popescu: now, can we has static etc 32 bit ?
thestringpuller: is netbsd still going to be the pogo "base"?
danielpbarron: thestringpuller, no way!
danielpbarron: is it being 32 bit a problem beyond getting bitcoind working?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron which bitcoind ?
danielpbarron: our version
mircea_popescu: seems that's 64 bit only now o.O
danielpbarron: i was lead to believe that getting it to work on 32 bit wasn't that big of a deal, just low priority
danielpbarron: i mean, is the pogo being 32 bit a bigger problem? like is 32 bit becoming obsolete or something?
danielpbarron: http://www.openbsd.org/images/poster31.jpg << theme for 5.5 was "back to the future" -- something about how 32 bit is a problem for unix time
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1HySUqb )
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron everything's becoming obsolete eventually. but no, this isn't that.
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2015#1055407 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 17-03-2015 15:07:01; mod6: anyway, it certainly is a goal to support x32. it'll just be in the next release. this has been dragging out too long.
nubbins`: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/3324
assbot: Bitcoin is running 32 bit systems out of virtual memory · Issue #3324 · bitcoin/bitcoin · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1FTPPSZ )
nubbins`: <+danielpbarron> i also had one going that was using a USB3 stick -- stopped it after a week or so when it was clearly way too slow <<< how far'd you get?
danielpbarron: well i didn't start it from scratch; I copied .bitcoin from the sata one
danielpbarron: http://s.b-a.link/?q=from%3Adanielpbarron+vs
assbot: 40 results for 'from:danielpbarron vs' - #bitcoin-assets search
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that doesn;t apply : this is pre leveldb
nubbins`: ah look at that
mircea_popescu: they think "it may be fixed" because "anectodally" it doesn't seem to have displayed the behaviour.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31600 @ 0.00022541 = 7.123 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: basically, this would be prima facie evidence that the code the power rangers sign has very little to do with them.
mircea_popescu: they get it from a dead drop or something, and well, whatever. go to conferences.
nubbins`: the avionics systems haven't failed since last time, so we're pretty sure it may be fixed
nubbins`: seeya in the sky
mircea_popescu: "on this one plane i tried"
mircea_popescu: "which happened to run on a magically garbage collected computor that doens't exist anymore"
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 306 @ 0.0034 = 1.0404 BTC [-]
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> now, can we has static etc 32 bit ? << yeah. we'll put that at the top of the list.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15900 @ 0.0002288 = 3.6379 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: mod6 danke.
mircea_popescu: ok, so : pogo = arch as per ascii, static new bitcoind 32 bit as soon as foundation can bang it out.
mircea_popescu: moar comments ?
danielpbarron: it could be debian
danielpbarron: debian works well on pogo, i'm ircing from it right now
danielpbarron: the static bitcoind might work on that
mircea_popescu: it can't, it has no 32 bit support.
mircea_popescu: but iirc, a lot of valuable effort went into selecting and pepraring the os. what do you mean "it could be debian" ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25167 @ 0.0002288 = 5.7582 BTC [+]
danielpbarron: so far i've gotton both debian and archlinux to work on a pogo
danielpbarron: gotten* / and debian is preferable because no systemd
mircea_popescu: o.O
danielpbarron: but the dynamic bitcoind wouldn't work on it; this may be resolved with the "new bitcoind 32 bit"
mircea_popescu: dude this "let's try pluging things see what happens" approach only works if you actually test, and you're not tooled for the mindboggling thing this testing would be.
mircea_popescu: gotta go with an os brewed by someone with some experience so as to have at least a fighting chance the whole thing works.
danielpbarron: ascii did not brew the OS i'm using
mircea_popescu: what happened there ?
danielpbarron: his instructions were strictly for building bitcoind for pogo
mircea_popescu: wasn't the bulk of that "how to load the os on it" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you there ?
danielpbarron: i was holding out for the thing that gets installed in the eeprom
mircea_popescu: ie, the os ?
danielpbarron: yeah
mircea_popescu: so what happened ?
danielpbarron: ascii was looking at netbsd for a time; there was some bug where it couldn't see the nand, plus we discovered nasty things about netbsd in general
mircea_popescu: i see.
mircea_popescu: so basically, i surmise, we'd have liked a clean "os in eeprom, data on disk" arrangement, but it seems we're not actually capable to do this, and so as a backstop you tried a few oses to go on disk
mircea_popescu: that basically it ?
danielpbarron: yeah
danielpbarron: ascii is probably capable, but he's also very busy
danielpbarron: i'm not so busy, but not so capable
mircea_popescu: i see.
nubbins`: arch, fwiw, has the most available documentation re: installing on pogoplug
nubbins`: but afaik there's no reason, say, gentoo wouldn't fly
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the 128mb is the reason none of this flies. they all crawl so far.
nubbins`: consider the statement suitably modified
mircea_popescu: anyway, if anyone listening would like to try his hand at "make your fave os 128mb in eeprom"...
jurov: i can do C/system programming fine but gotta pay bills... stepped aside from this for now
mircea_popescu: there is that.
danielpbarron: oh, i guess the reason no gentoo was the kernel and userland are bigger; but if it's not going into the eeprom gentoo should work
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8300 @ 0.00023581 = 1.9572 BTC [+] {2}
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-02-2015#1015395 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 23:14:45; danielpbarron: asciilifeform, what about gentoo on the pogo?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron we want os on the disk like we want wallets on windows.
mircea_popescu: it's a horribru solution.
danielpbarron: right, but i'm just offering alternatives to ArchLinux (which is also on disk)
mircea_popescu: right.
trinque: danielpbarron: busybox is made for tight spaces
trinque: gentoo can do that
nubbins`: potential for wasted effort if the chosen os won't fit into eeprom down the road
trinque: I'm going to just buy one of these fuckers and pitch in
trinque: as if I don't have enough going on :p
nubbins`: trinque they're a treat
mircea_popescu: nubbins` all effort in linux' is wasted effort!
trinque: pogo 4?
nubbins`: you should get a few
mircea_popescu: because the community is assholes etc.
nubbins`: we're assholes, yet here we are trying
mircea_popescu: trinque you seriously should buy a box.
danielpbarron: trinque, yeah "Pogoplug Series 4" the one with purple logo
trinque: alright
mircea_popescu: i bought hundreds.
nubbins`: blue logo if you want to store blockchain on usb stick ;p
nubbins`: i'm prob'ly gonna grab 50 or so once i'm satisfied i can make it work
danielpbarron: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006I5MKZY/
assbot: Amazon.com : Pogoplug Series 4 Backup Device : Networked Attached Storage : Camera & Photo ... ( http://bit.ly/1HBgiGQ )
trinque: nubbins`: eh? what's the difference in logo color?
nubbins`: blue logo has no USB3 or SATA
nubbins`: just USB2 and SD
nubbins`: http://www.henrys.com/67130-POGOPLUG-MOBILE-CLOUD-DEVICE.aspx
assbot: POGOPLUG MOBILE CLOUD DEVICE POGO-V4-A1-01 ... ( http://bit.ly/1HBgshv )
trinque: k
trinque: so I want red/pink/whatever
danielpbarron: also, the blue one cannot boot from usb
nubbins`: boots from SD tho!
danielpbarron: the purple has a usb2 port on the top next to sata port
mircea_popescu: <trinque> as if I don't have enough going on :p << hey, in my spare time i'm designing a fucking game. up to my neck in, of all things, mysql!
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5533 @ 0.000232 = 1.2837 BTC [-]
trinque: mircea_popescu: heh I don't mind; am merely setting expectations
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: nm, that's not a flute << bwahaha
nubbins`: XD
mircea_popescu: http://bturn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Soviet-sex-12.jpg << notice the male sex bits are crowned
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1y2ZeRC )
mircea_popescu: and the woman's butt has been spanked.
mircea_popescu: "Japanese society can be notoriously conservative when it comes to gender roles. While there is a lot of talk about the negative effects of imposing traditional roles on women, their restrictiveness and destructiveness for well-being are rarely mentioned in regard to men."
mircea_popescu: prime fucking nonsense.
mircea_popescu: "traditional" gender roles not only happen to be correct, but the costs of getting rid of them are, simply put, societal collapse.
mircea_popescu: the notion taht they are "destructive" for either men or women is so idiotic as to wrap over the ridiculous threshold multiple times.
mircea_popescu: pro tip : not everything that's inconvenient is bad. on the fucking contrary.
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: was in a meeting, l0l
mircea_popescu: ok, so tell me about osen.
ascii_field: ok 30sec version
ascii_field: i've a http://buildroot.uclibc.org for pogov4
assbot: Buildroot: making embedded Linux easy ... ( http://bit.ly/1HBisX8 )
jurov: i guess these roles were fit for manually working males, "inconvenient" for office rats
mircea_popescu: jurov i dun see there's a difference.
ascii_field: but kernel dies during boot and have not so far had the time to determine why
ascii_field: since everyone seems to be 'axe time sword time coooming clooser' i guess it's time for me to actually fix it
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well, i can see a 32 brew of bitcoind coming soonish, is this tacklable to go with it ?
ascii_field: i built for 32!
ascii_field: no one remembers? posted bins too
ascii_field: for armv5 (pogo)
ascii_field: on listserv
mircea_popescu: hm ?
mircea_popescu: unrelated. foundation release.
mircea_popescu: i guess that'll be useful for mod6 as a reminder, tho i think he knows.
ascii_field: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-February/000039.html
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1HBiQ7T )
ascii_field: no reason why the latest recipe can't build on my cross-chain
ascii_field: for armv5
mircea_popescu: "PLEASE REMEMBER - these are for research use only.
mircea_popescu: DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT firing these in anger. You may lose limbs." << recall that ?
mircea_popescu: it'll have to come off.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: not directly related
ascii_field: though it was used in the bin
mircea_popescu: anyway, wouldja focus here ?
ascii_field: the build recipe for the cross to armv5 was called 'portatronic'
ascii_field: yes, trying to describe from beginning
mircea_popescu: forget the 32 bit issue, mod6 is working on that.
ascii_field: unless some bug was -introduced- since i last played with bitcoind, it should work ok on 32
mircea_popescu: ascii_field so back to os topic.
ascii_field: aha?
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> no one remembers? posted bins too <<< i remember!
nubbins`: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-February/000039.html
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1zKPVvv )
mircea_popescu: well, how soon can we have it ? ☟︎
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: basic idea is that we mustn't ship with a kernel built by some random bozo
ascii_field: (but by known bozo!)
nubbins`: oh fuck, why don't i read
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you get all excited :D
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i said that above eh.
nubbins`: heh
trinque: any reason not to use pogo with an sd card for the blockchain?
trinque: or should I get this usm thing
nubbins`: much of today will be useful in the future, i'm putting a pin in it
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: how soon can we have it << i personally will dust it off tonight and say where it's at before i turn in for the night
mircea_popescu: danke.
mircea_popescu: trinque you should try the sd if you're doing research.
mircea_popescu: we've not tried it much.
trinque: k
danielpbarron: store blockchain on SD card? that will take forever to sync
ascii_field: i tried this
ascii_field: not so hot.
mircea_popescu: maybe he has good sd cards.
ascii_field: sd is a few 100 kB/sec in practice
danielpbarron: the 5400 rpm sata drive takes long enough
ascii_field: serial protocol, ~33MHz iirc
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron you gotta appreciate the following point : people have diff items hanging around ther house
mircea_popescu: and time is not much of a constraint here.
ascii_field: sd card isn't typically built for 100% duty cycle either
mircea_popescu: so it takes 6 months to sync instead of 4. oookay ?
ascii_field: (normal application is more something liek a camera)
mircea_popescu: if it runs for55 years ?
danielpbarron: might be interesting to see if an already synced .bitcoin directory is copied over to SD card and see if it can simply keep up
trinque: I am fine with doing the tortoise test
ascii_field: neh more like 2yrs vs 6mo
ascii_field: but -no one- must take my word for it
ascii_field: always - measure.
trinque: mostly interested in helping with the OS
nubbins`: cough
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you on the other hand have to appreciate the ricochet benefit.
mircea_popescu: let the man fucking play with things already
nubbins`: danielpbarron i'm wondering same but re: usb thumb
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's tested and sucks.
nubbins`: ok but what's sucks
trinque: http://www.amazon.com/PNY-Elite-Performance-Speed-Class/dp/B00HIKBW1G/ref=sr_1_4?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1427236380&sr=1-4&keywords=sd+card
assbot: Amazon.com: PNY Elite Performance 64GB High Speed SDXC Class 10 UHS-1 Up to 90MB/sec Flash Card - P-SDX64U1H-GE: Computers & Accessories ... ( http://bit.ly/1HBkgiU )
mircea_popescu: very low speed
trinque: claims 10mb/sec
trinque: write
nubbins`: like 11 minutes to digest each new block sort of low speed?
mircea_popescu: more like 20
nubbins`: f off, srs?
mircea_popescu: it was atrocious.
nubbins`: o.O
danielpbarron: maybe i did it wrong or something; USB3 theoretically should be very fast
mircea_popescu: usbs have never been seriously optimised for FILMING TO THEM
mircea_popescu: some sds were.
nubbins`: hahah
ascii_field: i got pretty good results with usb3
nubbins`: yeah, fine
ascii_field: (samsung)
trinque: seems the above sd is intended for yeah, filming
danielpbarron: maybe it's a bad thumb drive i have
mircea_popescu: but as the guys say, maybe you find the magic stick.
trinque: buying it
nubbins`: so you're saying a synced .bitcoin/ copied to a usb2 thumb drive
nubbins`: and put into a pogo
nubbins`: will not pull down another block?
danielpbarron: nono, usb3
danielpbarron: and no, i haven't tried that
nubbins`: i said usb2 on purpose 8)
trinque: I like how they put 90mb/sec with a fucking asterisk on the thing's sticker
nubbins`: pogoplug mobile = usb2
mircea_popescu: nubbins` more like, it'll never catch up.
trinque: that will someday be the contracted form of "isn't"
mircea_popescu: lol trinque
mircea_popescu: quite
mircea_popescu: "here's a large unrelated number *"
trinque: bullshit everywhere!
trinque bought
danielpbarron: would my .bitcoin/ data dir from 0.7.2 be compatible with 0.5.3.1 ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, the situaton is : usb not usable for storage for our purposes, sd maybe usable. if one wants guidance, that's guidance, if one wants to do testing, that's your falsifiable hypothesis.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron it should be yes.
danielpbarron: hm, that's my most up-to-date copy
nubbins`: same version of db?
danielpbarron: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/05/02/building-bitcoin-0-7-2-on-openbsd/
assbot: Building Bitcoin 0.7.2 on OpenBSD | Bingo Blog ... ( http://bit.ly/1y33fp8 )
ascii_field: anyways i'ma do another buildroot tonight.
danielpbarron: curl -O http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.NC.zip
nubbins`: danielpbarron assuming same bdb, i'd say they're interchangeable
nubbins`: we'd want, class 10 sd?
nubbins` admittedly knows zilch about sd
mircea_popescu: class sexually adult, if it existed. 18+
nubbins`: so uhs 3
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1067542 << for the record, moving is easy, but a year later and with tons and tons of support and roots and whatnot i still throw almost-daily tantrums
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 13:06:50; asciilifeform: the 'pathology' was that these people imagined they wanted to move to japan, but what they -actually- wanted was: -to have always lived there-
nubbins`: http://www.amazon.ca/Transcend-TS128GSDU3-Speed-UHS-3-Memory/dp/B00J3KA8JG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427237075&sr=8-1&keywords=sd+card+128gb+uhs+3
assbot: Transcend TS128GSDU3 128 GB High Speed 10 UHS-3 Flash Memory Card 95/60 MB/s: Amazon.ca: Computers & Tablets ... ( http://bit.ly/1HBmnmL )
nubbins`: 30MB/s writes if it's up to spec
mircea_popescu: it usually goes like "omfg, argentines are fucking retarded" "unlike who, romanians ?" "but look at X!" "myeah..." "you got a point. fucking people."
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1067551 << which is why japan even still exists anymore. they made it to california, that imploded, now they're moving to texas and places. i was kinda snickering at trinque's explosion yest, bexause well... texas won't survive the idiots either.
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 13:08:20; nubbins`: a lot of them don't make it to japan
mircea_popescu: it doesn't have a policy to take out libtards and shoot them. so it's doomed.
trinque: austin's being infested with californians, yep
nubbins`: callafornee
mircea_popescu: i loved texas in 2004ish. san antonio esp.
mircea_popescu: but i wouldn't revisit.
trinque: time to time I regress to the delusion that somewhere within the state's there's still actual entrepreneurship
trinque: *states
mircea_popescu: you know, like the american beauty notion that somewhere in the obnoxious bitch that's anette benning there's still the girl that flashed helicopters.
mircea_popescu: "just gotta find the right zit to pop, and out she goes"
trinque: lol
BingoBoingo: https://twitter.com/jerod23/status/580443354934210560 << more PHPain
assbot: Bug in forum software let people on while set offline DEFEATING THE PURPOSE OF GOING OFFLINE TO SPEED REBUILD! Now my IP only hence 403 msg
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i see you got the boards delivert ?
nubbins`: re: bitseed node, are they using refurb HDDs or something?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i somehow doubt that guy has a problem with traffic.
nubbins`: SBC and 160GB hdd for $149, how they makin money!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently he popped a RAID earlier this week and started his rebuild with the site still up
nubbins`: bahaha
nubbins`: <his disks> :(
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo guy runs a blogspot blog and has 50 followers. what difference does it make if its publicly visible or not.
mircea_popescu: public's not looking.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's his othersite with woes http://www.crazymeds.us/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
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mircea_popescu: o look, 403 didn't work either.
trinque: http://www.cafepress.com/crazymeds/10704145 << insanity is a lifestyle
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mircea_popescu: im sure it's the damned forum bug.
BingoBoingo: ;;ticker
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mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1067616 << would not this problem be adequately solved with a huge slab of steel / al / we ?
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 13:21:38; nubbins`: the $300 one has... a domestic oven element. http://imgur.com/KJqDivg
trinque: http://www.ibtimes.co.in/turkey-guilt-ridden-japanese-engineer-kills-self-harakiri-style-over-bridge-collapse-627096 << not harakiri as I understand it, but still
assbot: Turkey: 'Guilt-Ridden' Japanese Engineer Kills Self Harakiri-Style over Bridge Collapse ... ( http://bit.ly/1HBr0wZ )
mircea_popescu: more points scored for japan than everything the us state dept did past decade put together.
trinque: I doubt I have the culture to even talk about honor but that seems in the ballpark
mircea_popescu: actually americans used to be pretty honorable as far as these things go.
mircea_popescu: then they became reasonable instead, sometime around ww1/ww2. by now...
nubbins`: mircea_popescu huge slab of steel = unreasonable heat-up times, plus the thing'd fall over frontwards
mircea_popescu: i thought this was used on a feeder, not 1 shirt at a time
Pierre_Rochard: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/apple-acquires-durable-database-company-foundationdb/ < NoSQL just became NoDB. Everyone who jumped on that bandwagon got their comuppance
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mircea_popescu: if you do 1k of the things, metal is actualy very reasonable. just the right sort of q inertia
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard heh.
nubbins`: this is a "Flash dryer" for semi-drying inks on-press between colors of ink
trinque: Pierre_Rochard: oh codd
nubbins`: i lay down a print, swing the arm 90deg to the left
nubbins`: dwell 10s while i print the next one, rotate again etc
nubbins`: THAT SAID, people can and do use the huge-coil ones
nubbins`: philippines in particular has a massive amount of small-industry silkscreen and almost all of them are using dismantled ovens for curing
jurov: actually that is what i meant, office rats can't really have honor. and without honor, also no role
mircea_popescu: jurov why couldn't they ?
nubbins`: which everyone thought was odd, until one guy from there explained how many ovens an actual flash cure would cost
mircea_popescu: see, to propose honor is somehow in the job ie external rather than i nthe person seems nonsense.
mircea_popescu: besides, historically, every new job was deemed to be "devoid of the possibility of honor"
nubbins`: you see some wild setups. like shirts being hung on a clothesline and wheeled across a 30 foot bank of hung oven elements
nubbins`: etc
jurov: honorable person would refuse such job
mircea_popescu: i dunno about that.
jurov: know any counterexample?
mircea_popescu: now, you're right in saying that gender is not really an attribute of lower life forms, and if one becomes a part of some sort of machine the gender's useless to them, which is how we got bees and ants in the first place.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, i dunno that there's something magical about the office automatically requiring this.
mircea_popescu: the uk ran offices of perfectly respectable folk for all of the 1800s.
mircea_popescu: for that matter - being A DOCTOR is becoming more like this, and wasn't like this before at all - it was the very pinnacle of liberal profession.
mircea_popescu: so i agree that punishing the plebs for being "bicurious" or "metrosexual" or "gender confused" or "Transsexual" or w/e is really silly, they're simply sexless.
mircea_popescu: but this does not flow from "office job" imo.
jurov: both cases were primarily defined tby going out and talking/doing something to people, not pushing papers and filling forms
nubbins`: hey, some people in office jobs have sharp teeth
mircea_popescu: jurov not sure socialisation is the key here. for instance, navigators perfectly honorable, except if not.
jurov: um, i can't put the finger exactly there
mircea_popescu: then again, pirates invented the "honor among thieves" thing which is what we're fundamentally continuating here. "how could there be rule of law otuside of usg ?!?!" "same way there was rule of law in the fucking bahamas"
trinque: jurov: are you equating office with cube-hell?
mircea_popescu: and this is where it comes out that mp sees only very moderate problems with "honor killings", for instance, as atrociously intoilerable they may seem to the libertard set. meanwhile mp sees some problem with say "hospital deaths", as totally benign and normal and expected they seem to the same set.
mircea_popescu: but not subscribing to that particular silly manicheism allows one to see that really, the modern story of "libertard society driving out honor society (aka, amusingly, honorata societa)" has everything to do with a happenstance :
mircea_popescu: that scientists happened to prefer working with one of the available ideologies rather than the other. there's nothing ~fundamental~ about the "well being" of democracy.
mircea_popescu: it all flows from packaging and selling other people's added value, and those other people are pointedly not part of the democracy, nor is their donation necessary in absolutely any sense.
mircea_popescu: so, on the score of "what is bitcoin disrupting" : getting scientists to donate to a honor-based system rather than to a socialism-based system will utterly restructure society.
mircea_popescu: /end rant
trinque: hm yeah, and the thing has inertia. places with scientists are better places for scientists, that sort of thing?
BingoBoingo: !t m s.mpoe
assbot: [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.00019609 / 0.00022267 / 0.00025613 (1540463 shares, 343.03 BTC), 7D: 0.00019609 / 0.00028556 / 0.00033536 (17997385 shares, 5,139.37 BTC), 30D: 0.00019609 / 0.00034935 / 0.0004493 (81056609 shares, 28,317.29 BTC)
mircea_popescu: truth is scientists can't really be anything but scientists.
mircea_popescu: if they buy into the entire "socialist nice" thing, as exemplified by say the original dispute that created this place, or whatever recent quiote from some linus criticism of poettering's or w/e, you get one sort of failure mode of science.
mircea_popescu: if they buy into the entire honor thing, you get a different failure mode.
mircea_popescu: in principle whichever ideology (ie, principle of societal organisation) offers best insulation from failure modes will prevail.
mircea_popescu: since somehow "tradition" was for a while cognate with "don't need to read or write or even know history, tradition is what i say it is", there was a major, multi-secular migration towards "liberalism"
mircea_popescu: as that shit's coming to hit the fan with its "equality" and whatnot, the whole tectonic plaque's going to come this way again.
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mircea_popescu: and so on. it's not just the dusk of "america", it's the end of "democracy" and liberalism etc.
trinque: this way being hierarchial power structures, wealth defining governance?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11550 @ 0.00022532 = 2.6024 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: this way being hard to pinpoint yet, but mostly a wot based, loose and half anon, gpg empowered, bitcoin measured thing.
mircea_popescu: we're getting a new body, it's wot-innervated and bitcoin-perfused and im starting to guess the musculature etc.
trinque: mhm
mircea_popescu: most things too early to tell really.
mircea_popescu: for lolz, contrast this with the entire "we don't understand bitcoin but are excited at the blockchain technology" thingee.
jurov: these scientists need to be funded, and somehow despite mpex, this isn't happening
mircea_popescu: gossip networks and fault tolerant pow. stuff that was there for decades. "we don't understand what matters but we'll stick to clutching at the straws we recognise"
jurov: alf's everyday ramblings are case in point
mircea_popescu: suddenly the "don't need to read or write" shoe is on the other, liberal foot.
trinque: jurov: seems like it's early days
mircea_popescu: jurov yeah, most infants have dayjobs too, the feed themselves o.O
mircea_popescu: read the case in point in say henry millers' books. the guy DROVE the sexual revolution,
mircea_popescu: he'smore a part of it than max fucking hardcore.
mircea_popescu: he also starved.
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mircea_popescu: money comes after the glory.
trinque: good documentary about the band Death that invented punk rock
trinque: bunch of black dudes from Detroit
trinque: the leader there died of alcoholism or something along those lines
trinque: mircea_popescu: the permanent social memory thing; that's what interested me in deedbot
trinque: whatever's said there lasts at least as long as the currency
trinque: hell of a mark of cain
jurov: fuck the starvation
jurov: goodnight
mircea_popescu: jurov i couldn't agree more.
trinque: I have to admire someone who dies with a finger pointed at someplace better.
trinque: though I admire more the man who creates the better place
mircea_popescu: in the end, different people.
mircea_popescu: trinque people always wanted to fight forgetfulness huh.
trinque: I don't follow
mircea_popescu: lemme find you the quote
mircea_popescu: Pedalavo come se fuggissi, e in realtà fuggivo. Da lei, da quelle emozioni, dai sogni, dai ricordi, da tutto e pensavo che dovevo dimenticare. Ero certo che sarei riuscito a dimenticare, ma oggi che sono vecchio, che ho consumato banalmente la vita, che ho conosciuto tante donne che mi hanno detto: “Ricordati di me” e io le ho scordate tutte, ancora oggi e’ lei l’unica che non ho mai dimenticato. Malena!
mircea_popescu: you seen that movie ?
trinque: I haven't
mircea_popescu: ah, check it out sometime
trinque: k
trinque: should I be able to parse the quotation without the film?
trinque: comment on obsession?
mircea_popescu: well... on memory.
mircea_popescu: but no, i dun think its meaningful without the film
nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/memorial-university-students-give-rotten-cafeteria-food-a-failing-grade-1.3007569
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