phf: asciilifeform: couple of weeks ago a gentleman sat down at my table at a capitol hill cafe and after a rather brief and unremarkable small talk started asking me, why "you", which shortly turned to mean the cia, are following me.
phf: following him that is
phf: i started humoring him, "that's what we do", "the hunter must hunt" etc. but that might've been a mistake, because he got progressively more agitated, and i had to depart out of fear of him getting violent
mircea_popescu: i'd be surprised if not a full half of the aspirational 14% is firmly convinced there's MORE THAN ONE man hour / hour spent by me/usg/god/aliens/whoever specifically on their case.
phf: i think it's a common caricature of late stage bureaucracy though, one bureau watching another, which in turn watches the third, etc.
mircea_popescu: yeah but it doesn't strike me at all like soviet groupshenanigans.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, hey, can i get a shared acct for hosting minigame's files etc ?
☟︎ ckang: someone did some testing of performance on the same hardware for wireguard vs openvpn on a consumer router:
ckang: tl;dr - it was ~200Mbit/s faster (430 vs 240Mbit)
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: sure thing, will set that up for you this afternoon
BingoBoingo: One of the corner bums asked me not for una moneda para comer algo, but for clothing
mircea_popescu: ty ben_vulpes ; ckang : prolly by tomorrow you can have it.
ckang: 1:16 PM <TerryInPortland> anyone in portland? meet me in pioneer square?
ckang: 1:17 PM <TerryInPortland> laptop, cool.
ckang: less than 10 mins ago
ben_vulpes: hmk i emailed him but i'll get in there
ckang: he only gets 15 mins a day of computer
ckang: terry would post off somewhere with wifi before while homeless
ckang: and stay there for days
ckang: hopefully the portland bums are nicer than the SD bums and wont steal his stuff
mircea_popescu: and whatelse, the portland women are proper-er than the sf women and don't want the sausage ?
ckang: wishful thinking on my part i suppose ;p
ckang: the last bits he put up before getting his phone taken
ckang: haha, pouring his own 2L in a restaurant
a111: Logged on 2018-04-13 19:58 zx2c4: wondering - how might i achieve great wealth and donations for wireguard from you/trilema?
ckang: i think all terry needs to be happy is a room, bed, internet, diet shasta, beer and cigarettes
a111: Logged on 2018-04-12 02:38 ckang: Like he will owe something
mircea_popescu: ckang, no, actually, all he needs is an alternate reality where solipsism works.
ckang: when he lost that is when things became a lot worse for his mental state
mircea_popescu: just like everyone else on github. except more... purely so.
mircea_popescu: the other terries actually aquiesce to unprincipled exceptions, which makes them precisely just as fucking insane but entirely less remarkable.
ckang: did you catch the video of him talking about befriending a prostitute ?
mircea_popescu: ckang, no, it's when his entirely deranged mental state became a lot more difficult to "hide", in the sense usual usg.zek "hides" his being raped daily, from himself.
mircea_popescu: you can't go around pretending like he's ok. he's not ok, nor ever was, nor can ever be, but this is not so much a problem to whosoever is willing to apply formal tests only.
ckang: oh no hes not okay by any means
ckang: but hes not talent-less
ckang: let me find it, 1 minute
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, but i can imagine, you know, lenghty string of ustards trying to help, where their help was of the form "we'll expend x resources if you're willing to jump through y hoops" and he refusing and them going umm... why doesn't the form thing work!!1
mircea_popescu: that's the substance of "costs more than gf" -- resources, spent ; hoops, not jumped. "irrational" behaviour in the imperial contractual sense.
mircea_popescu: so amusingly enough, THEIR understanding of his mental issue is built entirely of his sanity. his problem is exactly the rest of what they identify. quite interesting marginal case in being so neatly split. usually there's some overlap.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i'm starting to understand a lot of things about why the maga can never be, consider the gritted, unyielding, sheer determination of
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-20#1803769 ; and i've noticed my us-born slavegirls CAN NOT QUIT. even when hopeless, even when wasteful, their specific identifiable mark in whatever harem social games is they're the ones that can not fucking say uncle.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-04-20 17:44 mircea_popescu: finally coming out of the massive bender at t2, the dude WOULD STILL LIKE TO EAT. how would you eat if you were him ? would you give up, do something else with your time ? he doesn't give up. he's fucking dedicated.
mircea_popescu: now, 50, 100 years ago this was a great characteristic of that maybe-one-day-a-nation conglomeration in our colonies.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile it's become a fixation in the children ; now merge it with the church of self esteem and its holy youcandoanything, and the REASON
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-16#1800094 ie "smart kids" always being found with their pants down acting the "man alone" part and never learning anything from the experience is pretty fucking clear.
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-04-16 16:19 mircea_popescu: man acting alone is stuck with these "oh, a conclave of idiots bent on self preservation and avoiding the lowly station their idiocy warrants them holds all the power, and i'll act as man alone confronted by governemnt".
mircea_popescu: larping, yes, but not merely for fun nor profit. larping as a life philosophy.
mircea_popescu: now go ahead and make it great again. HOW ? they lack the instruments with which they'd agree upon a great in the first place. collection of terries, give them coffee or not give them coffee, they'll move about like an algae bloom.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-22 17:46 asciilifeform: d00d spends his days having 2way convos with his rng.
mircea_popescu: and i'm pretty sure you're exactly right, he could be into fiat again if he started filling in the magic form again.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is kinda what i was unknowingly reaching for, with the
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-20#1803880 : more data to extract the understanding out of what looked like a promising vein. but in the meanwhile sleep reorganized observation for me and now it's quite fucking plain.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-04-20 18:55 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, well, buy him a steak.
ckang: cant find the archive.org copy, it was called FirstMate.mp4
ckang: but an interesting story, this was shortly after he got kicked out
a111: Logged on 2017-08-02 01:17 mircea_popescu: phf reminds me of fucktard murdock "oh, we were first apple store"
mircea_popescu: before being terminated, ALSO gainfully employed (writing nsa crapolade for "docker" -- remember, if they're not dockers, they're just pants!)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, or rather, knew how. see, murdock has "brand" or however you call the fool's gold they're only preoccupied with. they know how to steal that.
mircea_popescu: they don't look, they work. wtf can you do with something that works!
a111: Logged on 2018-04-20 19:31 ckang: weev is an actual cuck btw, the true definition
ckang: i think the last thing i heard weev say he was working on, was some python code to detect if a person in a photo is black or white
ckang: tensorflow i imagine
ben_vulpes: ckang: i actually think that'd be a hilarious statistics project; just clustering on skeleton segment lengths would probably be enough to assplode the leftists heads
ckang: heh yea ive been trying to come up with a good use for tensorflow
ben_vulpes: "but the code of conduct says that the software cannot be allowed to say things about race etc!"
ben_vulpes: ckang: "from causes, not towards purposes"
trinque: > Terry needs like, clear evidence that there's a point to this fucking
ckang: lol you listening to his story?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i mean consider the lengthy list of shit. sent "academician" into retirement ? raped bank new arsehole ? raped govt ministry new arsehole, and as a community project no less ? raped... mit's "media lab" new arsehole ? exposed assets, exposed toolchains, i can do whatever the fuck i please and ~NOT~ be famous.
mircea_popescu: do one iota of things that work, get iota^? worth of things that brand free!
mircea_popescu: somehow at all junctures it was always "a better choice" in imperial logic to "blame bad luck", maybe execute a scapegoat or other, than identify the goldstein.
mircea_popescu: you know how "alt right" picked "soros" to be "the evil billionaire behind everything" ? do you suppose THAT is what prevents the "mainstream left" from identifying the evil billionaire behind their precious cuntlet losing the precious election and everything else ?
mircea_popescu: maybe i owe some thanks to these folk i don't even realise...
trinque: I won't spend too much time on this, but it's interesting that he transitions from third person self-reference to first person when he gets angry.
ckang: yea seems to depend if hes in a manic state or not
trinque: eh I don't buy the political terms for all this; that appears to be when his brain *is* working, instead of farting around in neurotic loops
mircea_popescu: trinque, let me tell you a story. so during napoleon era, for the first time "general army" was introduced, before that it was all profesisonal soldiery. huge humongous legions of draft dodgers, because really now, draft ? and napoleon standing for the "reasoning" "humanism" thingee of course introduced doctors to check whether medical claims were factual (most common amongst which, blindness).
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> you know how "alt right" picked "soros" to be "the evil billionaire behind everything" ? do you suppose THAT is what prevents the "mainstream left" from identifying the evil billionaire behind their precious cuntlet losing the precious election and everything else ? << "mainstream" left has as an anchor that "individual people can
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, but what individual ? what, it seems to you #trilema is individual ?
trinque: mircea_popescu: aimed musket at their heads?
mircea_popescu: no, but built special walkway with sudden low ceiling, saw if they ducked.
mircea_popescu: blind or no blind, french peasant isn't taking one to the head.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The single typing fuckgoat they imagine is doing all the talking because... unfair. Shannonizer blindeness is internalized.
mircea_popescu: when lawyer wants to test for truth, he offers guy obvious easy explanation, sees if guy takes it. if he does... he's looking for an out, isn't he!
mircea_popescu: and so yes, when he's angry his pretense fails to keep up.
BingoBoingo: To pantsuit all of #trilema has to read as vexual as vexual reads to us
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i can't call it ; but would be no worse strategy than what's the ru guy's name
mircea_popescu: yes, that's the nail. the ru guy did take what was it, some sort of something.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> you think ? << Probably. Nothing else explains Sweden's continued doubling down other than handicapping themselves because "dat signal's racist"
lobbes: <BingoBoingo> [...] "dat signal's racist" << ayup. Pantsuit trains "autoimmune response" to specific signals, and causes all kinds of broken thinking. I posit that this is the root cause of things such as >>
http://btcbase.org/log/2014-08-06#784482 ☝︎ a111: Logged on 2014-08-06 00:42 mike_c: i have been in the newspaper multiple times, and i have been in trilema posts multiple times. one of these means more than the other, but I can only show my mother the newspaper clippings :)
a111: Logged on 2018-02-09 20:57 mircea_popescu: drivers/char/random.c is what needs changing. wipe the calls to "add_disk_randomness" and bullshit, replace with your fg feeder.
mod6: I was going through my mom's stuff yesterday, she kept all kinds of trilema clippings.
mod6: Hehe, she printed them off, three-hole punched 'em, and put em in a binder, no less.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-13 16:11 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc we had a thread even here where somebody whined that FG doesn't work as a 'totem' where you 'plug in and forget and it just becomes your /dev/random' and that it has to be actively ~used~
diana_coman: asciilifeform, in short: bridge gap until eulora's server migrates to eucrypt; not a solution to anything, nor a desired anything
a111: Logged on 2017-02-24 02:05 asciilifeform: which is why /dev/random was a terrifyingly bad idea from day 1./
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, in practical terms, how do you want s.mg to use fgs until rewritten ?
☟︎ danielpbarron: diana_coman, a package called sys-apps/rng-tools has a thing called 'rngd'
mod6: mircea_popescu: Yeah! Kinda neat. Bunch of Qntra articles too.
mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2018-04-13 01:48 mod6: Looks like maybe we need to do the latter -- write our own. Did anyone notice that Jeff Garzik is one of the authors of this thing?
mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2018-04-13 12:46 mod6: you know what else in interesting, when i breezed super fast through the code last night (I need to review it more), i noticed that this thing has it's own copy of "ent" embedded inside.
danielpbarron: yeah it's way slower than getting the random from FG directly
mod6: The main thing that I wanted to do was come up with a TMSR~ blessed methodology for Pizarro clients to use to fruitfully use their in-chassis FG.
mod6: Then post it somewhere for all to see. And if they want to make their own / can make their own, then that's fine. But we should work towards this.