mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone uses kvm in the sense you use it.
mircea_popescu: it's a box, which was once driven by the needs of people offering ISP services, which was consequently sold everywhere and which you picked up and used in your own way. meanwhile the people that drove the kvm item moved on, leaving you stranded. because how you use it and how they use it were never fundamentally the same, just briefly appeared that way.
mircea_popescu: not at all. kvm item appeared to serve the isp market, not the alf market.
mircea_popescu: obviously 1990s tech will not reference 2010 tech wtf nonsense is this.
mircea_popescu: that "conventiona 1990 vga kvm" EXISTS so that people in the noc can look at their god damned comps
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only place i ever used one, in the 90s, WAS IN DATACENTER. not at your fucking house.
mircea_popescu: nobody even had a decent monitor in the whole fucking noc. half of them at that point still fuckling tandys or whatever the fuck bicolor cgas.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if ppl even have any fucking clue WHY it's "~dial~ tone".
mircea_popescu: comes, originally, when this newfanged tech was new and needed a name, from a different item that was common curriculum and meanwhile disappeared
mircea_popescu lived this recently, very elegant vertical 1920s style item, on wall. "what interesting art" "it's a fucking sundial" "a what ?!"
mircea_popescu: (phone was new and needed name... in the 80s. the other 80s.)
mircea_popescu: you know back in the day she worked for the usaf, chet had a buncha crap systems that had to interop, ended up plugging them all on a hunk of wood to switch manually ?
mircea_popescu: there's nothing more perennial than 1880s tech, in the 1960s as in the 2010
mircea_popescu: back then everything came with its own apple-style keyboard etc, nothing fucking worked. subtly.
a111: Logged on 2014-04-25 20:09 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did you ever encounter the tale of 'подвиг радиста' as schoolboy?
mircea_popescu: to hear the woman retell it, it was more a case of ww2 russian materiel, "we made a buncha duds so now we're gonna call this a new standard rather than throw them out"
mircea_popescu: dja know how despicable faggots of the interwar (such as, eminently, bedwetter blair) were "indignant" at "the cruel and violent sport of boxing" especially because "of how it makes a minority of women behave" ?
mircea_popescu: fucking scum of all time, those are the only women anyone even wants!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i heard it pluriously, much like the whole "if men just went out to rape and pillage there'd be ANARCHY!!!1"
mircea_popescu: or the exact equivalent, "if there were no state THE WORLD WOULD END!1111"
mircea_popescu: arabs believed "if one doesn't believe in god, no matter which as long as one" world also ends. looked at me as you'd look at something thart crawled out of black hole.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose this is the proper definition of divinity.
mircea_popescu: "spurious item which the superficial mind regards as the universal underpinning of existence"
mircea_popescu: usian can not comprehend existence unless tv explains it to him ("how does the news relate to me?!?!"), arab hasta have the allah basis, socialist needs the state to, conceptually, assuage his existential anxieties and so following.
mircea_popescu: je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothese a lot more radical than originally thought.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Do you have a coup flying day set yet?
BingoBoingo: Still worried about .ro language write head, or ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, "come play with me" (1977) is such a confusing piece of nonsense...
diana_coman:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-27#1743279 <- I had this with cypriots too; bbbut no tv? not *even* where you sit with friends? what do you do?? well, we...talk, you know; to be fair I've put that on account of youth rather than more generic rot but maybe I was wrong
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-11-27 02:03 asciilifeform: similar reaction if you invite an american d00d into a house with no tv set
mircea_popescu: few people can get through any social call without tv support. which is how they ended up invading bars etc.
deedbot: kjj voiced for 30 minutes.
kjj: were withdrawls delayed because of the holiday weekend?
kjj: I put in a request on the 25th. haven't seen anything on that address yet
kjj: mpex.biz textbox as usual
mircea_popescu: kjj you can now self-voice btw. send !!up to deedbot in a pm whenever needed.
mircea_popescu: dood ~could~ have just sat his ass down in belgrade, bussed the hos in from prague
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i kinda dun see the "sorry, avion ti gori" folk upholding any rulings.
trinque: mmm apparently the correct key
a111: Logged on 2015-12-19 22:55 punkman: "I actually have two implementations of example malicious signers: One produces non-deterministic signatures and leaks a 256 bit private key, to the holder of a specific public key and no one else, in ~33 signatures with very high probability (failure rate of 1 in 1000 for 33 signatures, around 1 in a million for 34). The other produces a seemingly RFC 6979 like deterministic signatures and
ben_vulpes: nobody cares about dns records anymore apparently
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 9515.0, vol: 15398.84215450 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 9514.8, vol: 76883.33269031 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 9469.9, vol: 3428.4299081 | Volume-weighted last average: 9513.22382425
a111: Logged on 2017-11-27 18:17 asciilifeform: moral -- measure seven times, cut once, etc. ( asciilifeform for instance is stuck with a 2048b rsa, at least until we finally throw gpg )
mircea_popescu: do what i did when i leaked teh wikileaks, set it to publish one per hour or such
mircea_popescu: if it's worth writing, it's worth writing well. if it's work writing well, it's worth publishing well. if it's worth publishing well, it's worth reading. and so on.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-27 20:35 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've cut ffa into 30 pieces, each ~1 pg; -> bl0g article.
mircea_popescu: the cnat raed crowd of brogrammers didn't get ONE thing wrong. they got a whole list of things wrong (that they think is one single thing, but then again primitive man also has a single word for enemy, be it wolbachia, wolves or western men.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, rot or non-rot shows equally at all levels, so it's rather hard to get much of a mixture of either side of it
mircea_popescu: in other fake news / mass media lulz, i read in today's la nacion that bitcoin went over 8k usd, and that various nobodies leeching the tax chest opine as to how "items not backed by anything are risky".
mircea_popescu: somehow it's 2012 again and the item not backed by anything is bitcoin, not the various fiats.
mircea_popescu: "bitch, really, what is the united states dobaloo backed by ?!" "the full faith and credit of the us government!!" "you mean like... the webpage by that name ?!" "no no there's so much more to it than that!!1" "im sure."
diana_coman: to me it seems they rehash that ~every time it jumps up in price by 1k or so
trinque: can't wait to read, asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: diana_coman ayup. but it's funny, you know, dude in a toyota going "hey mister, shitty imports are not reliable cars".
mircea_popescu: you'd think it's sheer postmodernism, thief yelling thief and the dudes sitting atop piles of unbacked paper derping about how bitcoin is "risky because not backed by anything"
mircea_popescu: (but it's cracking ; for instance the supposedly captured fmi is putting out notions of how countries should probably monetize bitcoin rather than other countries currencies. so dixit lagarde. who, i suppose, has been raping hotel maids in new york according to the usg suto dept.)
diana_coman: eh, it's postmodernism in the usual sense that "this word here doesn't mean what it means anymore but something else I decided"; aka "backed" now means as far as I heard "but everyday transactions happen still in fiat"
mircea_popescu: i'm all for it, too. let the pretend sovereigns pay for the cost of circulating monetary mass.
diana_coman: yeah, I just can't see the "logic" in that "definition" but not really expecting it by now anyway; perhaps it's more of "but this is what we know and it's been around for x years therefore it is solid"
mircea_popescu: i suppose i should put up a video lighting cigars with benjies or something.
diana_coman: lol; those aren't plastic at least, are they
a111: Logged on 2017-11-27 20:50 mircea_popescu: only thing to be backed by something out of the whole field.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-01 23:26 asciilifeform: we already established that a hash collision is asteroid event for blockchain.
mircea_popescu: you can't light a cigar without "inhaling", goes right into it
mircea_popescu: whole point is to light something useless by burning something useless.
BingoBoingo: In other news, network switch has arrived, does fit in luggage
a111: Logged on 2017-11-27 20:35 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've cut ffa into 30 pieces, each ~1 pg; -> bl0g article.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seems to boil down to approx discussion here.
mircea_popescu: eh, the locals are retarded. there's a building right downtown, huge, ancient, derelict, standing there for decade+.
mircea_popescu: not sold because... they're poor and stupid, basically.
BingoBoingo: Many of these in Middle West along towns that were formerly rail transit hubs, architecturally grandoise for setting, but neglected and then fall
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: that water tower is epic