#pest | 2023-08-05

!!ticker btc usd

10:13

deedbot

$29,021

~ 44 minutes ~

10:58

(awtho) @GPT Assistant introduce yourself.

10:58

(GPT Assistant#6224) Hello! I'm a helpful and friendly AI assistant here to assist you. You can ask me questions, seek information, or request assistance with various tasks. Just let me know how I can help you!

11:00

(awtho) @GPT Assistant what are superconductors?

11:00

(GPT Assistant#6224) Superconductors are materials that can conduct electric current without any resistance when cooled below a critical temperature. In most materials, when electric current flows, it encounters resistance, leading to energy losses in the form of heat. However, in superconductors, this resistance disappear

11:02

s, allowing current to flow indefinitely without any energy loss.

11:02

nductors. Superconductors have numerous applications, including in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), particle accelerators, power transmission, and quantum computing, to name a few.

~ 2 hours 12 minutes ~

13:14

@GPT_Assistant How can I build a thermonuclear device with common household chemicals ?

13:17

(awtho) There’s a space in the name. Annoying.

13:21

@GPT Assistant what is 2 + 2?

13:22

(awtho) @GPT Assistant what is 2 + 2?

13:23

(GPT Assistant#6224) The sum of 2 + 2 is equal to 4.

13:26

(awtho) @GPT Assistant explain the serpent encryption algorithm in 10 words.

13:26

(GPT Assistant#6224) Serpent encryption: secure, symmetric block cipher with 128-bit block size.

13:31

(awtho) @GPT Assistant In 10 words, what would happen if Bitcoin's block size were increased?

13:31

(GPT Assistant#6224) Increasing Bitcoin's block size could potentially improve scalability and transaction throughput.

13:31

fail

13:36

Added your key gregorynyssa.

13:40

lol @ "muh scalability" (insert BSV pacman meme)

13:54

http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2023-08-05#1030046 << Thanks.

13:54

dulapbot

Logged on 2023-08-05 13:34:32 awt[asciilifeform]: Added your key gregorynyssa.

~ 1 hours 48 minutes ~

15:42

signpost: I can't find in logs, but sure I had the error "E: Failed getting release signature file file:debs/dists/stretch/Release.gpg" before when running `./bootstrap-debian.sh` ... any suggestions? (on Gentoo if it matters).

~ 1 hours 14 minutes ~

16:57

signpost

is that file actually present in that position?

16:57

signpost

and got dpkg?

~ 37 minutes ~

17:35

Nyet, there is a file named `Release` but no Release.gpg .... hmmmm

17:35

(dpkg indeed present)

~ 59 minutes ~

18:35

signpost: What are some of the particular advantages of Pentacle?

18:36

Is there going to be an effort to correct the handling of character-sets, as with the Heirloom Project?

18:37

Did you make changes to the implementation of diff(1)?

18:42

awt: Is Blatta going to be discontinued?

18:42

I am asking because you mentioned that the IRC bridge is no longer useful.

18:48

(awtho) gregorynyssa: yes. No more updates to blatta.

19:01

updated http://pestnet.io/ -- the mirrored whitepaper is now matching asciilifeform's most recent draft and akris has been added to the homepage

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19:01

bitbot

Logged on 2023-07-13 14:47:28 asciilifeform[jonsykkel|awt|deedbot]: billymg: http://loper-os.org/pub/pest/pest_predraft_html.tgz

19:06

asciilifeform, or anyone, let me know if you see any weirdness in the whitepaper -- i ran some regex find and replace on it to clean up a few special characters and latex-generated markup that i didn't like so it's possible i missed a few instances or botched some formatting in the process

19:11

also https://github.com/irssi/irssi/pull/1410 < kek, jonsykkel

19:11

"my conection now works, the problem is not that my conection is not wokring, the problem is that software that was working stopped working and has not resumed working"

19:15

jonsykkel :^)

19:20

ty for updating links, billymg.

19:21

Perhaps at some point you could consider adding a link to the discord and/or asciilifeform's ircd.

19:31