pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: (really bitch, it's "win-win" ?) << this, as it happens, it what specifically set off my bullshit alarm. i don't disagree that technology means doing more with less, nor with the place of religion in filling the materialistic voids created by modernity.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-10 22:33 phf: one guy was convinced we'll let him open a uk department (he's ~support~, answers tickets, but has a degree in business something or other), wouldn't let the thought go even after told no multiple times. he would schedule meetings on behalf of company with various uk foundations, etc. he had a meeting with richard branson as part of handful "young entrepreneurs", to talk about, yes, moving the company to uk.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-10 23:24 mircea_popescu: phf> there's some kind of massive delusion going with these people << they were never humiliated. it rots the brain. idiot literally imagines that just because he doesn't understand how the ocmpany is run, then therefore it's not run at all and there';s room for him to pretend it's like washington state cca 1916 and one gets to be mayor just for showing up, population 1 town.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-10 23:03 pete_dushenski just learned in the most untimely way possible, in the midst of an unexpected rainshower apparently on his building and his building alone, that his lexus (jay) has 'feature' whereby remote unlock button is held and all windows incl. sunroof open simultaneously. and ofc, he'd sat on the button or something jit. quelle experiment!
ben_vulpes: shinohai: do *you* have comments working?
shinohai: they were working for me before ben_vulpes , lemme check
shinohai: What fun, my whole site is down
phf: "With an Internet-wide scan we identified 184 HTTPS servers repeating nonces, which fully breaks the authenticity of the connections." "Furthermore we discovered over 70,000 HTTPS servers using random nonces, which puts them at risk of nonce reuse if a large amount of data is sent over the same connection." from mr. bock
mircea_popescu: somehow the "184 servers were probably planted by you on the interwebs" line forgot to be mentioned in response, i assume ?
mircea_popescu: da fuck, you can probably find 100 servers that fedex you banana peels.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, in more "truly the internet is fucking tiny and broadly irrelevant" news : largest twitch-influencer (syndicate) serves about... 1k views/day. meanwhile at hallucination farms (eg
https://archive.is/jQxr9 ) : "Twitch and the global economy" ; "Twitch Talent Agents" "David Goldberg, of New York and Hong Kong-based agency Flood Gaming said that Amazon buying Twitch made him realize there was real money to be made her
mircea_popescu: e. He believed Flood Gaming was ideally placed to broker deals between Twitch stars and corporate brands."
mircea_popescu: saying it makes it true to an outstanding level, not even reached by most altcoins.
mircea_popescu: "The line was for TwitchCon merchandise. T-shirts were $22 – $25. The next day they were $150 on eBay." right, right "were". how many fucking sold ? "I CAN DO ANYTHING! I'VE NEVER BEEN PUNCHED!"
mircea_popescu: "Lindsay is candid about how she makes her career choice work. It’s about grafting, and having a heavy social media presence. She runs a busy Facebook, Twitter and instagram page, and has held a Reddit AMA that received 796 comments."
mircea_popescu: 796, you realise. almost enough to be the 3rd elected alderman in shitown stickville.
mircea_popescu: by now these idiots are so infatuated with their own "SOCIAL MEDIA!!! HUGE!!!" gargle they don't even comprehend numbers. "it's a number, so it's huge, righht ?"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i suspect they meant the grift not the graft.
mircea_popescu: "Most cosplayers are shy about revealing their exact numbers, so we sourced some from industry experts. Cosplay Photographer Don McCaskill said that a low day rate is $75 to $300 for a cosplayer."
ben_vulpes did not realize that griftering was a noble calling these days!
mircea_popescu: jesus fuck. a set is an hour and a half, and while not the multi-k figures, it still pays 4-500 ish.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's an actual professional calling, unlike all this shit. respectable if done well.
ben_vulpes: phf: i will kick your bot over while you're at the burn if nobody else has/will step forward
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the grift works towards a specified target. scamzoring is just low effort whaling, trying to eat the copepods that socialist state redistribution produces.
mircea_popescu: "And a lot of income comes from merchandise sales. McCaskill estimates that “top tier” cosplayers might make around $70-125,000 a year. Breaking this down, if a cosplayer attends 26 conventions a year and sells 100 prints (a low number) per weekend for $20, that’s $52,000 a year. Minus costs (makeup, equipment, photography shoots) that sounds pretty sweet. And this is North America. The Asian market is much larger and s
mircea_popescu: ome of its stars – like Alodia Gosiengfiao (5 million plus facebook fans) might easily pull in a high six-figure income." << THIS.
mircea_popescu: the definitive statement ; "and this is romania - in moscow they must be having it better!"
mircea_popescu: "tell you what, pack of cards counts 52, so call it 52 THOUSAND. and this is america."
mircea_popescu: somehow they don't even notice this. "why aren't you in asian then ???" "oh, from ohio to la was long enough a trip for me!"
mircea_popescu: if that ever existed outside of local popular imagination, it's long gone.
mircea_popescu: "Lindsay’s costs are mostly for costumes. Prices vary, depending on complexity. Her favorite costume, Game of Thrones Cersei Lannister cost $200 (and didn’t sell many prints). For this she used upholstery fabric at $30 a yard." << im trying to recall when it was i bought a woman an outfit for less than $200. wtf.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is going on in this america, they dress out of an hour's work ?
mircea_popescu: wtf, someone somewhere actually believes someone could conceivably want this ?!
mircea_popescu: is she on tour or some shit ? no fucking rock band made their own costumes out of $200 to go on tour. ffs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have nfi, i'm trying to make sense of nonsense over here and it spills.
mircea_popescu: all i see so far - is that softening the grip on IP is actually more harmful to human life than keeping it tight. this entire cosplay thing exists essentially because the various "ip holders" aren't nearly as vigorous as they were in the 70s (good fucking luck doing "your own version of mickey mouse/donald duck" because "you think you look like them" and then - horror of horrors!!11!!1 - selling fucking tschotchkes)
ben_vulpes: bwahaha teh naivte really asciilifeform ?
ben_vulpes: anyways notion of IP outside of wot and outside of "i will negrate you if you rip me off" is fundamentally broken.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes how about "your parents will lose the house"
mircea_popescu: course with the current derps ... "haha they already lost it - i went to college"
ben_vulpes: in context of fiat enforcement regime or wot?
mircea_popescu: in context of "why there weren't a buncha derpy 20yo chicks running around dressed as minnie in 1976"
ben_vulpes: that's so far removed from sensible contextualization to be a worthless question
ben_vulpes: i lack the context to understand the link
mircea_popescu: let's just say the internet didn't invent the fandom. it moreover killed it.
mircea_popescu: (samantha fox was this chick posing for the sun "page 3 girl" as a 15yo, built a huge following. perhaps the last of a lengthy tradition of fetish/pin-up idols starting with... < fill in)
mircea_popescu: marylin monroe ? no, earlier! bettie page ? EVEN EARLIER! mata hari ? EARLIER STILL!
mircea_popescu: they had it in revolutionary france. it's been around for a while.
ben_vulpes: what, samantha fox enforced her ip 'rights' and the other girls didn't?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes we're discussing two things. one is the idol, such as the girl herself, corporeal. the other's the ip, such as "princess leila".
mircea_popescu: because of a weakening of corporate grip on ip, the two are mixing, to the detriment of everyone involved
ben_vulpes: no more slutty mcsluttersons then because they're all being coy while seeking fame prancing around as fiction characters?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes not even that ; i see nothing here but george costanza's retort to the observation he did no work : "but consider, i am in the smaller office". the chick's not hot, she's average at best. her face's all weird etc. BUT! she makes her own costumes! out of construction paper!
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: just the geniuses who accepted payment via natobank
mircea_popescu: she's ~the chick that gives sorry excuses of teethy blowjobs and buys you beer
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: there is still 2 or three years of these wunkderkids for the mpaa to chew through before cockboxmaster or ($seen) Framedragger get their butts off the couch and make a wot-blessed tracker
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes as to the other point - fetishism is still unhealthy. samatha fox was, sex toy or no, still samatha fox. and if someone cornered her in a dark alley and stuck it in her, the rape happened to samantha.
ben_vulpes: leila's rape being the ip infringement?
mircea_popescu: do you perceive the difference between "im raping you because i think you're fucking hot" and "i'm raping you because i'm fixated on a character i've decided you represent" ?
mircea_popescu: pro tip : the former don't usually figure in serial killing files. the latter rarely don't figure in serial killing profiles.
ben_vulpes: maybe the latter is more likely to actually get knifed at the end?
mircea_popescu: for one thing. but even without that...insanity is never a good thing in the mix.
mircea_popescu: i posit a good comparison is "tb patient spit in your mouth. does it make a difference if you have aids ?"
ben_vulpes: what same, few girls conniseurs of the act.
ben_vulpes: "you got raped. does it make a difference that you were dressed in your leila costume?"?
mircea_popescu: take one single point of reference, i think it works pars pro toto : "She says that entrepreneurs need to have a thick skin. “Just don’t care” is her advice. She says you need to just keep going – remember, the internet is a cruel and malicious place for a girl in a bikini top and elf ears."
mircea_popescu: the previous set were all about "love and open up to the world and blablabla"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes but she's not merely DRESSED in the costume.
mircea_popescu: nothing. that's the problem. "but the vast majority who have aligned their psychology with this vector will pursue an impossible fantasy at the expense of their labor and their lives." is the ballas quote.
mircea_popescu: there's no difference between girl who's not hot squeaking her way into modelling job because she's willing to make her own costumes, and that misfortunate math assistant professor i mentioned yonder long ago in the logs and alf prolly still remembers.
a111: Logged on 2014-07-19 03:15 mircea_popescu: now among this dozen, there was a mentally retarded girl. she wasn't badly touched, maybe 80 or so. definitely enough to take care of herself. definitely not enough for high level math. her parents however were i dun recall what academic country gentry, and so they insisted she go.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't say elevating. it's an elevator shaft, it ... you know what ? it's mcdevil quickfaust, is what it is.
mircea_popescu: if you're gonna sell it, at least sell it in a ditch, fighting to exterminate the jews or to not exterminate the jews or something.
BingoBoingo: OMG you stole the name I was gonna give woodchipper when I pick one up
BingoBoingo: Put sign on chipper "Insert Hand for Wish Evaluation"
mircea_popescu: lulzy thing with him. "why did they draw a hitler moustache on him ??" "nono, he ~wore~ that. it was a fashion at the time. like bell bottoms." "ooh"
ben_vulpes: eeeeeentirely unrelatedly, mircea_popescu is there a way to set post slugs in mp-wp?
ben_vulpes: you know, in case one might want to preserve previous urls
mircea_popescu: look for any time i typoed a title. the old url still works.
mircea_popescu: a yes, you can name the url anything you wish, just click on it under the title when editing an article
ben_vulpes: cool permalink shows up in source but not on the page
ben_vulpes: hm so would it be possible to keep the year/month/ for most post titles but override it on a per-post basis
mircea_popescu: likely, but as i've never needed to i don't have it at the ready.
ben_vulpes: so here's a dumblarious notion: move all the old html into the webserver root to preserve links, and then make a dummy post for each page that redirects to the correct flat html file
ben_vulpes: part a is trivial, and works, but oh man part b
mircea_popescu: eh just put a htaccess rule from old to new name scheme
a111: Logged on 2016-08-11 04:07 asciilifeform: does it make substantial difference to the rapee?
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trinque: ty mircea_popescu for the blogotron.
☟︎ trinque: I have a backlog of ~/src that'll get me through at least a coupla days :p
☟︎ thestringpuller: until he made that tweet danielpbarron archived "gpg needs to die cause grandma can't use it"
thestringpuller: i've never used opengpg.js but most of those things have some kind of "demo" version so you don't have to touch the code yourself without gloves
phf: i never grok why some of these javascript libraries don't just provide a demo console. "everything you need is loaded on this page, feel free to run your browser's dev console"
☟︎ phf: i don't think it's the same beast as openpgpjs, since the later does seem to support keys
phf: how do i convert a binary key to its armorerd counterpart, without importing into keyring?
phf: phuctor seems to be producing "armored files" of keys, where's openpgpjs expectes it to be in "public key block" format
phf: well, i can read the key with proton's opengpg implementation, can't generate one though
a111: Logged on 2016-08-01 19:47 deedbot: [Recent Phuctorings.] Phuctored: 126044733741731328742413066718552314382419228167112456334027928884317367999330241024168451126326383475145520025295451544372438227070210798265767098934250820341305937931860061514790268968891523470454082874208728274680634763462042122485524526243688604432591998753006364684812749745538152702859571396997177876337 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '<>&%"\${}`'deadbeef1; ' -
http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/617706D7A6FC1817D01 a111: Logged on 2015-08-26 14:42 asciilifeform: gcd==115689563593438224355064235381090056755163859480449174433830003975037467950966309481394007709292222401673721911305757070903002186880134248491556817065874097861521564574240083326343937488908899708599174992366919884328839153192482261044065875685676447097938344009705169081015113163350134173402351902967563106577
mircea_popescu: ftr it was 5.5 in 2004. so this would be 250% inflation over a little more than a decade.
PeterL: on top of US inflation
mircea_popescu: let it be noted that in a deeply conservative (this means things other than you think - it mostly means stupid, lazy males), mostly rural society inflation is actually a good thing
mircea_popescu: as it dislodges the meat robots from their comforts and forces them into towns.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: also how france beat germany in 1800s : inflation was actually a useful governance tool.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-05 14:26 asciilifeform: tape speed knob did not make the beatles, nor dope made erdos.
covertress wishes she had more time to join in such discussions. ^ fascinating.
covertress: good day, mircea_popescu. excuse me please, I'm merely passing through.
covertress: mircea_popescu, by chance might there be an opportunity for us to meet, either in Toronto (17-18 Aug) or in Shanghai (18-25 Sept)?
covertress: perhaps then, as I travel through Europe next year.
covertress: lulz all you like, asciilifeform, just implied that it would be in closer proximity
mircea_popescu: though it'd appear i'd have liked it better back when it was buenos ayres.
covertress: thank you, mircea_popescu. my apologies. did not know the reference. :O
mircea_popescu: you're lucky with me ; the locals call it "caba". because see, ciudad autonoma!
PeterL: BA and Europe both touch Atlantic, therefore they must be nearby each other
shinohai should make a white supremacy group and call it "Buenas Aryans"
covertress: I'll be in touch, mircea_popescu. Perhaps I can alter my return plans from Shanghai.
mircea_popescu: (ftr, they'd better do IT better, god knows they suck at everything else)
a111: Logged on 2016-08-11 14:32 trinque: ty mircea_popescu for the blogotron.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-11 14:37 trinque: I have a backlog of ~/src that'll get me through at least a coupla days :p
a111: Logged on 2016-08-11 15:11 phf: i never grok why some of these javascript libraries don't just provide a demo console. "everything you need is loaded on this page, feel free to run your browser's dev console"
covertress: no particular rush, mircea_pepescu, at least from your perspective.
mircea_popescu: hey, you said you gotta run. i gather you aim to be a sort of project manager for some eth fork whatever - bear in mind that nobody ever respects the rushed. you want people to look up to you, never run.
covertress: apologies again but, I have many logistics to rush towards completion prior to my travels. I do not have a secretary yet.
covertress: I must indeed go now. Appointments await.
thestringpuller: secretaries are so corporate. what you need is a chief of staff.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha wtf - censored "screw" ? really ? what's next, do bolt and nail also, be done with it ?
mircea_popescu: joining things together is so oppressive and antilibertarian! all parts must float free into the sunset!
mircea_popescu: "How does the bitter black fungus keep out the tasty lactic bacteria ? Certainly not directly ; it's a terraforming process you see. Which is why you can't "just want to" : either you permit it or you don't permit it. There's no third option available."
mircea_popescu: obviously, the managerial imbecile didn't specifically aim to make life hard for engineers. nevertheless - it's either one or the other, and if you're not actively oppressing people who know how things should be, you're then therefore actively oppressing people who are curious as to how things actually are.
shinohai: Speaking of "Why is irc so hard" you have another incoming Colombian slut mircea_popescu
deedbot: melissasexy voiced for 30 minutes.
mircea_popescu: melissasexy yeah that's not right. look at the other girls, do the same thing.
mircea_popescu: shinohai with all this herding experience you're accumulating, you'll be ready to start your own brothel in no time.
shinohai: Sent me an email asking if id help xD
mircea_popescu: check out that wall behind her ; somewhere in colombia there is this multi-layered cam-whoring building, fo sho.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like an indian call center except the girls are naked and instead of chair there's a ~mat.
shinohai: Ah so she was the last luck girl to get 0.1?
trinque: asciilifeform: phf contributed some code that was modified a bit and placed in ircbot
trinque: logbot's something other than a111
phf: though a111 now looks pretty much the same, since i copy pasted a bunch of code
trinque: asciilifeform: isn't, but I can package it up later. I hand-applied phf's patch to a custom skin mangled from the "classic" skin.
phf: originally i was trying to tame the complexity of all the auth/ghost/join blah by having a state machine, but it got unmanageable, so i unded up dropping back to same approach as in logbot
trinque: I channeled my inner php shitlord and got it to work
☟︎ trinque: imagine my wonder going the other direction :p
trinque: this is why I went ahead and installed wp-mp instead of finishing the lispy thing I was hacking together.
trinque: web needs to die, not be fixed
trinque: to be replaced by gossiptronic "hey does anyone have the doc with hash X" say
ben_vulpes: anyways, i am *still* looking for the comment-fixin patch
ben_vulpes: but have a mountain of shit to move, and it's not like it's a blocker in any regard
mats: it's a Catholic prep school iirc so probably
trinque: asciilifeform │ trinque: 'get doc from dht' is right and proper, but says nothing about the format of said doc << indeed
mats: iirc bellarmine is also an all male school, so i hope you enjoy butt stuff
mats: i grew up in sv, can confirm it was weird
trinque: I just want to know who beat Harry's ass a while back.
trinque: his face is still fucked up from it.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Related In Gawker Media's final week before Ziff Davis takes over opened a "men's magazine" called "the cuck"
shinohai: In honour of Nick Denton I presume?
mats: i wonder how much meth you can dissolve into 240ml of water
☟︎ PeterL: LD50 about 50 mg/kg, only need 5 g for a 100 kg person, seems reasonable
mats: but how much product was he carrying if it was two 240ml containers?
BingoBoingo: small town "police sergeant" so figure 125-375 kg
ben_vulpes saw tactical suspenders on his ride in the other day
PeterL: about .9 mg/mL, so 216 mg each? seems kinda low
☟︎ BingoBoingo wonders where the fabled guide to motorized wheelchair combat is
a111: Logged on 2016-08-11 20:21 PeterL: about .9 mg/mL, so 216 mg each? seems kinda low
PeterL: but it should be more soluble in acidic solution, so depending on how it was prepared it might be more concentrated than that
PeterL: who is going to claim a powder is apple juice? but yes, would not nescesarily all be dissolved
PeterL: actually, I wouldn't be suprised if meth would dissolve better in apple juice than plain water, so maybe he was telling the truth?
PeterL: right? I guess he didn't realize that it was poisonous in large quantities
PeterL: 6.25 gallons of coffee would do it
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a111: 2016-03-14 <polarbeard> sheep must be managed in large groups
mats: is mp admitting he reads the reddit?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-11 18:41 trinque: I channeled my inner php shitlord and got it to work
a111: Logged on 2016-08-11 18:55 asciilifeform: '"[Trump] is an enabler of Putin, former head of the KGB, and of course is leading all these hacks," Reid said. "It should be a message to America that you can't hold hands with Putin."'
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-11#1518539 << 2aminopropane is water miscible ; amphetamine is very slightly soluble. moreover is competitively-soluble with all the sugar crap, so i'd be rather surprised if you can get 5g to stay unprecipitated in a bottle of off the shelf soda/juice/whatever.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-08-11 20:16 mats: i wonder how much meth you can dissolve into 240ml of water
hanbot: mircea_popescu: hence "omfg omfg o pula roz din fier cu luminite"?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-11 20:36 asciilifeform: it would be quite fitting if the cartel caught a dea guy, tied him to a pole, and forced to drink whole barrel of whisky
a111: Logged on 2014-08-08 08:23 mircea_popescu: "oh, no, he came out for olives six or seven times"