ben_vulpes: couldn't tell ya, only remotely familiar with it from cultural bushwhacking
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Comment no longer in Limbo
BingoBoingo: Anyways the saga of Elliot and James is still not over.
mircea_popescu: lmao dis shit is epic. "I also noticed that there was truly exquisite food on one side of the room: there was ham and salami and even sausages that looked as exceptional as I had ever seen."
BingoBoingo: The legally mandated disclaimer on Cisco reads: "This is not a wine cooler 8 servings"
BingoBoingo still unsure how many parts the fanfic has. At least two more are plotted out
BingoBoingo: The question of the day: Will will have wheels when they are needed?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> lol diana light a fire under bingo's butt << a butt of a fire
BingoBoingo: Anyways after so much Qntra'ing fiction is taking some practice to warm up
BingoBoingo will wait before posting next part which updates James' state of being
BingoBoingo: You know I haven't wondered about pete_dushenski yet. pete_dushenski writes about everything. Where's his fanfic?
☟︎ BingoBoingo: !~later tell thestringpuller You oughtta fanfic too.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
ben_vulpes: "Postfix uses file locking to avoid access conflicts while updating Berkeley DB or other local database files. This used to be safe, but as Berkeley DB has evolved to use more aggressive caching, file locking may no longer be sufficient." << oh ffs
diana_coman: BingoBoingo> lol diana_coman OMG that is wonderful <- cheers!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes evolved! more efficient! here, now it's broken.
mircea_popescu: summary : facebook gave everyone @facebook.com address back in 2012 (and forced everyone to download a meanwhile failed "facebook messenger", before buying some thing meanwhile forgotten for more play money than ever seen before in any game of monopoly). the user was simply the facebook user. then they axed this service... and started forwarding all mail to the user's personal inbox. because yes, they're THAT important. but n
mircea_popescu: ot without safeguards (because yes, they're THAT dedicated to security) : first email received didn't get delivered, instead they just sent a notification from facebook explaining... how to opt out. after which they sent all further emails straight up. consequently emailing the entire facebook userbase was ~trivial.
mircea_popescu: all this because opt-out is perfectly ok, even in 2014, if you're facebook. hurr.
shinohai: Latest trilema made me .... hungry.
mircea_popescu: a figure which strangely mimics the way publishign works otherwise. what % of the sale value of books ends up with the authors ? what % of cd sales end up with the studios, let alone the artists ?
mircea_popescu: they should just s/united states of america/the country of 5%/ and be done with it
shinohai wonders if Preeeeet is muttering to himself this morning because he didn't get it.
shinohai: Maybe he was the admin of Hell, which explains why still no creds this morning.
mircea_popescu: i suppose this is maybe worthy of a future news xtend ?
shinohai: My first time on tor in months, immediately scammed mod6
mod6: dang, is there any way to msg these guys?
mircea_popescu: "challenges teams to leverage technology to empower communities with a transformative solution that ensures women’s safety" is basically "find a way to extract magical energy from the ether to power a machine that'll make men give a shit about how women prefer to be fucked" ?
shinohai:
http://archive.is/e3oME "We welcome the progressive position taken by the Argentinian government and regulators on Bitcoin." (Warning, link in tweet is to CoinTelegraph article)
mircea_popescu: "Avoid easy selections, such as qwerty or password. If you want to pick an easy-to-remember but somewhat unique password, consider a variation of a word, such as a1rPl4nE for airplane."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: these and other tips and tricks brought to you by red hat entreprise security department.
trinque: McAfee killing criminals is supposed to make me not like him?
trinque: OH WAIT THEY THREW RAEP IN THERE TOO
adlai: thestringpuller: if your net worth's center of gravity lies close to the printolade axis, it's negative on hard currency scales
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller nah it was discussed in the logs, whle back.
scriba: Something went wrong while attempting to read the log.
scriba: Exception: ['utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x92 in position 5594: invalid start byte]
hanbot: <mircea_popescu> these and other tips and tricks brought to you by red hat entreprise security department. <that.
mircea_popescu: hanbot what if someone touches someone else inappropriately|!
ben_vulpes: in other news, my mp01 arrived and it is perfect.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: to wind 'user experience' experts up.
mircea_popescu: "Pre-order the MP 01 in white or brown to beat the rush – and receive a copy of Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkle, a pack of Punkt. postcards, and a stylish tote bag."
ben_vulpes: nothing says "you are useless and your career wasted" than a conversation with a man who spent three hundred dollars on a device that precludes your 'lifes work'.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes somehow i suspect all the junk is still in there, under the plastic.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: the unboxing experience is strongly reminiscent of early apple
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: c'est possible. likely runs android under the hood even.
ben_vulpes: but: no way to install apps, no 'apps', even, max of 1000 text messages and some 200 address book entries.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: buys cheapest possible shoes as well?
mircea_popescu: well, some things you buy by quality an' some by quantity.
mircea_popescu: generally the later are the sort of thing where quality is directed towards the state rather than you. like phones.
mircea_popescu: until/unless they import the republican license, there's no market for "good" phones. because a phone that's not predicated on breaking the law can't be good.
mircea_popescu: now shoes on the other hand, they're different. there's certainly the "i'll buy you this 30 dollar pair of red stilettos, which you then forget in the cab and nobody cares". there's also the fine italian leather shoes which are worth whatever they cost. so dunno.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: i suppose what i'm most pleased about is prying one sucker of one tentacle off my forearm.
ben_vulpes: but the internet terminal living in the backpack and not my pocket is an improvement.
ben_vulpes: no devices are allowed in the war room.
shinohai: AT least one person is going to look at you and wonder why you are speaking into a calculator ben_vulpes
ben_vulpes: great thing about keeping a decent fidelity scale in the office is impromptu coffee tasting experiments
ben_vulpes: "just how bad does coffee go in a week?" and other mysteries
BingoBoingo: "There are also mentions of McAfee’s propensity for coprophilia—not that it’s a crime, of course." << lol
mircea_popescu: hey, if you fuck like rabbit, you gotta eat like rabbit.
shinohai: Jewish? Hate fat fucks climbing down your chimney every December? Get the chimneyballoon TODAY! $19.95 + S&H
adlai: "The DP 01 has a visual answering machine which sorts recorded messages by date and time... messages are accessible from any other paired DP 01 handset." < looks like a decent landline, probably a more resilient niche than dumbphone given the holeyness visible in
https://opensignal.com/ mircea_popescu: what dude, it's hard enough to get a girl's phone, you want her to write down her fucking otp for you ? while drunk at 3am ?
mircea_popescu: if you ever talk to 1 other box calling this a telephone is nothing short of idiotic.
mircea_popescu: this scheme is so evidently inept, no explanation as to why nobody tried to implement it is required.
a111: Logged on 2013-12-12 17:34 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall the lolphonograph they had on a ship during ww2 ?
mircea_popescu: dude... i dunno who this dumb shit works on, but you should probably eschew their company, it makes you stupid.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you wanted to know why nobody made crypto telephone. the reason is - there's no market. the reason there's no market, you explained yourself.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and wtf is this, no more trump news, no more mosul news, what is this gross failure of the united entertainment machine!
mircea_popescu: somehow the fall of rutba failed to make it through the usg blocade, too.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-24 23:00 mircea_popescu: dude... i dunno who this dumb shit works on, but you should probably eschew their company, it makes you stupid.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-24 23:00 mircea_popescu: you wanted to know why nobody made crypto telephone. the reason is - there's no market. the reason there's no market, you explained yourself.
mircea_popescu: the fundamental problem is that the phone isn't this tool whereby you maintain one to one permanent links with aforeknown parties. the phone is this tool whereby you make new links with random new parties.
mircea_popescu: which is why the usecase for the phone is, "i met this chick last night at the rave"
mircea_popescu: especially in the wired variety. who the everloving fuck is going to maintain landlines for you when you aim to use them like battle comms lines ?
mircea_popescu: the royal corps of engineers, that's who. not at&t, that's for sure.
mircea_popescu: moreover, all this was before internet. nowadays, i can scarcely comprehend how it'd work that i'd degrade a text link into a dumb voice link with someone who is intelligent enough to safely maintain and use otp.
mircea_popescu: well, it has its place. but its an emotional thing, you call the bitchez up. granny, maybe.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck has the patience to ~talk~. like, vocally. one on one. wtf.
mircea_popescu: i use plenty of it. but almost never with people i don't fuck.
phf: that's a good place to be
mircea_popescu: technology, as always to the detriment of the naturally gifted
shinohai: I will investigate thoroughly, I assure you, and report back.