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00:00 mircea_popescu for a while i used to say it (back when i was dealing with romanians). it did... exactly zero difference.
00:00 cazalla hate to say it but.. qntra? ddos?
00:00 mircea_popescu and it's vastly pervasive. average us politician will not understand that his voting record is a matter of... record!
00:00 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: note also my observation last week, that i intensely suspect 'google usenet archive' was zapped not on account of any accident
00:00 asciilifeform but precisely because attributability.
00:01 asciilifeform and the devils who fear.
00:01 undata cazalla: looks down here
00:01 joecool it's been up and down for past day
00:02 asciilifeform but anyone who thought that a 'library of alexandria' was safe in the hands of the likes of 'google' - was a fool from the start.
00:02 joecool asciilifeform: what's up with google's archive?
00:02 asciilifeform joecool: of 'usenet.' no longer searchable.
00:03 asciilifeform try it.
00:03 asciilifeform is it really possible that i'm the only one who noticed ?
00:05 mircea_popescu asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2010/politica-adevarata/ << just consider that.
00:06 mircea_popescu coburn actually has to TELL people, that attribution is a thing.
00:06 mircea_popescu and they're like, you know, a buncha barbarians confronting microorganisms.
00:06 mircea_popescu "if you don't wash your hands you get dysentery" "really ? .... hmm.... maybe, but i tihnk it's the will of god... i have my amulets with me..."
00:06 asciilifeform lol!
00:06 mircea_popescu cazalla as per usual.... i see it jus' fine.
00:07 undata mircea_popescu: I can't pull up trilema here either
00:09 mircea_popescu undata somehow im still getting spam comments tho
00:10 joecool asciilifeform: seems to work for me?
00:10 asciilifeform works
00:10 asciilifeform or, hm, now - no
00:11 joecool i just went to groups.google.com and ran a search and it popped up a few usenet newsgroups and some results mostly from usenet
00:11 asciilifeform try something '90s
00:11 asciilifeform but not '80s
00:12 asciilifeform ('early usenet archive' is separate gizmo there)
00:12 joecool are you talking about the dejanews archive?
00:12 asciilifeform aha.
00:14 asciilifeform https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forumsearch/psmith9626
00:15 asciilifeform ^ example
00:15 asciilifeform should be ~30,000 posts
00:15 asciilifeform zero.
00:15 * mircea_popescu wasn't there, doesn't care anymore about this primitive tribe than about any other primitive tribe that was swallowed b y history.
00:15 * mircea_popescu thinks if it didn;'t suck it'd have left artefacts.
00:15 asciilifeform it left artifacts.
00:15 asciilifeform mainly on various people's disks.
00:15 mircea_popescu tough.
00:15 mircea_popescu civilisations are judged by what remains, not by what they once were.
00:16 asciilifeform well yes.
00:16 asciilifeform http://yarchive.net
00:17 asciilifeform ^ example of what remains.
00:17 asciilifeform easily worth ten thousand of today's internets put together.
00:17 asciilifeform and that's just one man's archive.
00:17 asciilifeform going right back to 'attribution' point - these libraries - did not burn.
00:17 asciilifeform they will come out.
00:18 asciilifeform and the destroyers - will pay. one day.
00:18 decimation re: gavin's 40 hr week << I was merely pointing out that if ascii's formula is (freedom hrs)/(work hrs), then gavin might have a good score
00:18 asciilifeform his score is nil
00:18 asciilifeform because he is never free.
00:19 * asciilifeform thought he explained this
00:19 decimation his 'free hours' are an illusion, agreed
00:19 asciilifeform hence zip.
00:19 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> and the destroyers - will pay. one day. << aite!
00:19 mircea_popescu i was mostly giving you a hard time :D
00:20 decimation I note that our volunteer testers seem to have left whatever routing tables they were messing with alone
00:20 decimation I wrote too soon, qntra and trilema are both down for me now right now
00:21 mircea_popescu lmao this stuff...
00:22 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: decimation: possibly even fewer. <<< he likes a short thing lol.
00:25 asciilifeform re: ilkka: >> http://isteve.blogspot.com/2006/09/16-volts-silenced-by-his-university.html << the demise of his first site
00:26 asciilifeform (discussion thereof)
00:26 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: this is a standard usg 'lie detector.' << the funny thing is, i dunno if the scientologists copied the ohmmeter after the usg "lie detector", or vice-versa, the fbi is tring to find yout tethans
00:26 decimation mircea_popescu: maybe if they are short polygraphers usg asks some local scientologists to sub in
00:26 asciilifeform late 19th c. physiologists discovered skin conductance meter (as sanctified by 'scientology')
00:26 joecool asciilifeform: heh yeah i ran some other searches I knew worked before (like linus's first linux announcement on comp.os.minix), it's gone
00:26 asciilifeform the 'polygraph', as the name implies, combines several instruments (eeg, ekg, conductometer)
00:26 decimation to be fair, there is some science in the sense that it detects parasympathetic activation
00:26 asciilifeform that is the apparatus pictured in the photo
00:26 decimation but the problem is this has nothing to do with truthsaying
00:27 asciilifeform about the same thing that hot coals ordeal has to do with 'truth.'
00:27 mircea_popescu joecool funny how that goes, right ?
00:27 decimation as asciilifeform mentioned in the past the operative effect is to filter for 'cold' psychopaths
00:27 decimation or at least very meek and compliant folks
00:27 asciilifeform and in general for folks who don't give a flying fuck
00:27 mircea_popescu ;)
00:27 asciilifeform or those with naturally 'immobile' vital signs
00:27 asciilifeform etc.
00:28 joecool mircea_popescu: i'm just surprised nobody else wrote about it, i doubt they get huge volume searching for things, but still, nothing mentioned about it
00:28 mircea_popescu news at 11 : good pokerface is good pokerface.
00:28 asciilifeform incidentally, you don't need the jailed quack to 'study lie detector'
00:28 mircea_popescu joecool this is my broader point. a stupid language deserves its own stupidity.
00:28 asciilifeform fiddybucks buys you all the components, in a manageable pocket size.
00:28 mircea_popescu english is in this sense quite stupid.
00:28 asciilifeform ask 'biofeedback' aficionados.
00:29 decimation there is probably some amusement to be had in experimenting with such things
00:29 asciilifeform decimation: there are folks who do it for a hobby.
00:29 asciilifeform http://hardwick.fi/ilkka/16v0830.htm
00:30 asciilifeform ^ ancient backup of 'sixteen volts', kokkarinen's first site.
00:30 decimation from the senior usg 'stendartendfurher's
00:30 asciilifeform nm, borked
00:30 mircea_popescu ddos ?
00:30 asciilifeform nah, just incomplete
00:30 asciilifeform there is a mostly full one. somewhere.
00:31 decimation from the senior usg Standartenführer's point of view, the polygraph is an ideal device to filter the workforce into compliant sheep and stone cold thugs
00:31 mircea_popescu The brilliant Finnish-Canadian computer science professor / blogger Ilkka Kokkarinen has taken down his popular blog, presumably to keep his job after his campus newspaper noticed his heterodox views. His skepticism about the intellectual consistency of lesbian-feminist theory and practice would appear to have been his biggest crime.
00:31 mircea_popescu lmao
00:32 mircea_popescu "After being alerted by The Ryersonian, computer science chair, Alireza Sadeghian said the department neither accepts nor condones Kokkarinen’s views."
00:32 decimation right, we need to get him here
00:32 mircea_popescu wait. how does a computing dept accept or not accept views in other fields ?
00:32 decimation maybe he can port bitcoind to forth
00:32 mircea_popescu like... does the geography department accept grammar ?
00:32 mircea_popescu what sort of ignarous barbarity is this!
00:33 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: was taken to политотдел.
00:33 mircea_popescu !up nacci
00:33 asciilifeform loper-os.org/pub/ilkka.zip
00:33 asciilifeform afaik the only copy on the net.
00:33 nacci hey
00:33 asciilifeform (presently)
00:34 asciilifeform (note, this is 'sixteen volts,' his early site. not 'fourth checkraise')
00:35 mircea_popescu Clearly, Professor Kokkarinen was naive to use his own name when he switched his blog from Finnish to English <<< mp considers just how great his power is.
00:35 mircea_popescu i switched from romanian to english jus' fine.
00:35 mircea_popescu ello nacci. who're you ?
00:35 nacci just another bloke
00:36 decimation mircea_popescu: to be fair, you didn't have a tenured position in a nato colony
00:36 mircea_popescu but... wait. i make more than whatever tenured prof makes.
00:36 mircea_popescu and i can read, just like him.
00:36 mircea_popescu how is this comparison against me ?
00:36 decimation heh yeah that's why he needs to be here
00:36 decimation you see, he has 'loyalty'
00:36 decimation I guess
00:37 mircea_popescu and i dare think if he had a tenured position this would have been a non issue
00:37 decimation well that's a good point, he probably didn't
00:37 mircea_popescu since that's what tenure is. "o you don't like me ? fuck you and get lost."
00:37 asciilifeform tenure doesn't actually exist in angloworld now.
00:37 asciilifeform any more than property.
00:37 decimation tenure exists if you are willing to push the multicult
00:37 asciilifeform (it being a kind of property right, traditionally - fat surprise.)
00:37 nacci nepotism trumps tenure
00:38 mircea_popescu decimation for the record, as one coming from an actually multicultural world, i am both offended at the misuse of the term and would pray you don't discard an actually superior mode of human life
00:38 decimation heh
00:38 mircea_popescu just because some fucktarded barbarians in a colony think that cowboys in sheets = latins.
00:38 asciilifeform 'Physicist Steven Jones, who first pointed to the use of thermite in the destruction of the two towers had to agree to having his university buy out his tenure or his university was faced with losing all federal financing.' << example from herr orlov. ( http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/09/911-after-13-years.html )
00:39 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i tell you, if i was the provost i wouldn't have made the offer.
00:39 mircea_popescu let the fucking feds cut off financing.
00:39 mircea_popescu this is like, russian orthodox church vs tsarate already.
00:39 asciilifeform and recall how that went.
00:39 mircea_popescu so what if it did ?
00:39 asciilifeform obligatory:
00:39 asciilifeform !s solzhenitsyn axe
00:39 assbot 4 results for 'solzhenitsyn axe' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=solzhenitsyn+axe
00:40 mircea_popescu fuck that. the freedom you like is built on a certain kind of disinterest in effects.
00:40 asciilifeform except everyone, i think, knows this
00:40 asciilifeform swinging the axe - another matter altogether.
00:40 mircea_popescu i guess.
00:41 mircea_popescu i dun see it.
00:41 mircea_popescu nothing easier in the world than "fuck you and get lost."
00:41 mircea_popescu srsly.
00:41 asciilifeform notable historical case study is treblinka uprising
00:41 asciilifeform notable for being the only major one inside the barbed wire
00:41 asciilifeform (unless counting warsaw ghetto)
00:41 mircea_popescu or in the cinematic version, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r-vu-l8mLE
00:42 asciilifeform iirc, the magic ingredient - no women
00:42 mircea_popescu funny how that goes huh ?
00:42 asciilifeform aha.
00:42 mircea_popescu so now... tell me. did it matter how fucking pretty the women were ?
00:43 asciilifeform nein. only that they were already dead.
00:43 mircea_popescu whether young or old ? slutty or annyoing ? big tits or small ? pert or loose ?
00:43 mircea_popescu did not. exactly.
00:43 mircea_popescu in some circumstances, listening to the women is a bad idea.
00:43 asciilifeform the way historians seem to present it, it was less 'listening' and more 'no hostages'
00:44 asciilifeform when 'they'll xxx my mother, sister, wife' - folks hesitate to swing axe
00:44 mircea_popescu hostages ? someone has to first care
00:44 asciilifeform when mother, sister, wife - buried - they swing axe with the grace of ballet dancer.
00:45 mircea_popescu caring has its place. that place is not "everywhere all the time"
00:45 * asciilifeform was not in treblinka, knows only what the contemporaries saw fit to write down
00:46 asciilifeform the folks blessed with the talent of 'not care' on-demand - probably tended to not end up behind the wire in the first place.
00:46 mircea_popescu myeah.
00:47 mircea_popescu and the folk that muck a hand the moment it can't win don't tend to end up in the bottom half of the poker tourney either.
00:48 asciilifeform see also http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2008/09/survival-of-nicest.html (solely for the quote from seagrave's 'castaways')
00:49 asciilifeform esp. last paragraph.
00:49 * asciilifeform has the book, it is lovely
00:49 asciilifeform recommends especially to BingoBoingo
00:49 asciilifeform and other aspiring 'mad maxes'
00:50 asciilifeform err, e. leslie
00:50 asciilifeform (seagrave wrote only foreword)
00:57 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: bitcoind stop detatch?
00:57 ben_vulpes i'm digging, but hints would be lovely
00:57 asciilifeform www.mediafire.com/download/df86bg0f9lbxx2n/wingnut_musings.pdf
00:57 cazalla http://qntra.net/2014/11/coinbase-seeking-a-risk-investigator/
00:57 assbot Coinbase Seeking A Risk Investigator | Qntra.net
00:57 asciilifeform ^ ilkka's book. mutilated but readable.
01:01 ben_vulpes cloudflare now preventing me from getting at en.bitcoin.it
01:02 ben_vulpes watch it come back without any reference to detachdb...
01:02 ben_vulpes is there an en.bitcoin.it mirror anywhere?
01:05 RagnarDanneskjol http://dump.bitcoin.it/
01:05 assbot Index of /
01:06 ben_vulpes (just paranoia i suppose)
01:10 mircea_popescu cazalla BingoBoingo others : ok, i *think* the bad routing thing may be fixed.
01:10 mircea_popescu pls to let me know furiously if more further problems later on.
01:10 cazalla mircea_popescu, working again here
01:12 ben_vulpes http://94i30.net/wp-content/bitcoin-p2sh/bitcoin-detachdb.php << for lulz
01:12 assbot Bitcoin Detachdb | Bitcoin P2sh
01:15 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes : "Explanation of -detachdb (and the new “stop true” RPC command): The Berkeley DB database library stores data in both “.dat” and “log” files, so the database is always in a consistent state, even in case of power failure or other sudden shutdown. The format of the “.dat” files is portable between different versions of Berkeley DB, but the “log” files are not– even minor version differ
01:15 mircea_popescu ences may have incompatible “log” files. The -detachdb option moves any pending changes from the “log” files to the “blkindex.dat” file for maximum compatibility, but makes shutdown much slower. Note that the “wallet.dat” file is always detached, and versions prior to 0.6.0 detached all databases at shutdown."
01:15 mircea_popescu turns out this is a moot consideration in your case.
01:16 ben_vulpes yeeeeeah.
01:16 ben_vulpes 's what i suspected at least.
01:16 asciilifeform http://www.loper-os.org/pub/ilkka.txt << herr kokkarinen's 'musings', deturdified.
01:16 mircea_popescu asciilifeform ty for that.
01:17 ben_vulpes lovely asciilifeform
01:17 asciilifeform this is the book, which was a 'best of' (in his view) of his last site, 'fourth checkraise.'
01:17 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: ever considered releasing asylum as a pay-per-dl?
01:17 mircea_popescu to compete with the current, "free" ?
01:18 asciilifeform l0l
01:18 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/i-wrote-a-book/ << click 1st link.
01:18 assbot I wrote a book… pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
01:18 ben_vulpes trilema credits are free nao?
01:18 asciilifeform i think they want the cover & the turkish bubblegum smell.
01:18 * ben_vulpes shrugs
01:18 mircea_popescu "free" yo. not free.
01:18 ben_vulpes if the author endorsed approach is to copy the damn thing off his website...
01:19 mircea_popescu anyway, your pay-per-dl comes to like 2k satoshi if you do it in one go, or else free if you take what was it, 5 weeks.
01:19 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes what are you trying to accomplish ?
01:20 RagnarDanneskjol its actually being circulated among some hollyweird people at present fyi
01:20 ben_vulpes i'm actually thinking about bitcoin databases so nothing w/r/t asylum
01:20 ben_vulpes honestly i'd just rather have it on my kindle than flip through whatever's in the mail
01:21 mircea_popescu meh, i dun wanna support x or y's closed platform.
01:21 ben_vulpes "versions prior to 0.6.0 detached all databases at shutdown." << explains hilariously slow shutdowns
01:22 asciilifeform how often does a sane person shut down 'bitcoind' anyway?
01:22 asciilifeform next, what, want fast reactor shutdowns?
01:22 mircea_popescu "shut down"
01:22 mircea_popescu didn't you shut yours down a number of times ?
01:22 asciilifeform for debuggery - aye
01:22 mircea_popescu /alias shutdown kill -9
01:23 asciilifeform incidentally this is why a correctly-implemented blockchain db is isomorphic to a 'journalling' file system.
01:23 mircea_popescu im not sure why bdb is trying to be both
01:23 asciilifeform so that 'kill -9'-style death is always the correct behaviour.
01:24 asciilifeform and in no case can result in inconsistent state
01:24 ben_vulpes in any event i've gotten the thing to 240000
01:24 ben_vulpes i'll be quite amused if i fail to wedge it
01:24 asciilifeform what's it running on?
01:24 ben_vulpes mod6 is perusing the tens of thousands of lines of excised code
01:25 ben_vulpes debian on some virtualization layer
01:25 asciilifeform ah, wai, wat
01:25 asciilifeform excised what?
01:25 asciilifeform tens thousands lines?
01:25 ben_vulpes i exaggerate
01:25 ben_vulpes :P
01:26 mircea_popescu "The only thing women clearly do better without men is raise the next generation of criminals."
01:27 mircea_popescu bwahhha ok not bad.
01:27 asciilifeform herr kokkarinen made a point never to write an essay more than 1 paragraph or so in length.
01:27 asciilifeform whole thing can be 'eaten' in an evening.
01:28 * mircea_popescu is apparently of the opposing school.
01:28 mircea_popescu i remember the times i could say an article in five pages
01:28 mircea_popescu vaguely.
01:28 asciilifeform why ilkka did this - i do not know. some necromancer here can perhaps resurrect him and ask.
01:29 mircea_popescu if you take the 94 million kulaks, capitalists, dissidents and other groups of people that socialists murdered in the twentieth century, and punch the numbers into a calculator, the average number of victims per hour equals almost exactly the one-hour kill count of Anders Breivik. Just imagine how absurd it would be if, instead of being captured and neutralized, Anders were simply allowed to keep killing people day and
01:29 mircea_popescu night until the twenty-second century dawns. And yet such an absurdity practically defined the twentieth century.
01:29 mircea_popescu "socialism doesn't kill people" :D
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01:47 mats_cd03 !t m s.mpoe
01:47 assbot [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.00042212 / 0.00043058 / 0.00044033 (585026 shares, 251.91 BTC), 7D: 0.00036402 / 0.0005235 / 0.00065245 (7865451 shares, 4,117.57 BTC), 30D: 0.00036402 / 0.00066873 / 0.00081111 (23548921 shares, 15,748.02 BTC)
01:49 BingoBoingo http://qntra.net/2014/11/this-onion-it-smells-inherent-hazards-of-the-tor-network/
01:49 assbot This Onion, It Smells: Inherent Hazards of the Tor Network | Qntra.net
01:51 ben_vulpes have 0.5.3 blockchains at 240001; interested researchers may request links.
01:52 ben_vulpes next checkpoint 245000
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02:18 BingoBoingo http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=submission&id=3986911
02:18 assbot Tor: This Onion Smells - Slashdot
02:23 * fluffypony stretches
02:23 BingoBoingo How's Rhodesia?
02:23 fluffypony still in the USA
02:24 fluffypony flying to LA tomorrow, sleep over one night, then back to SA on Monday via Dubai
02:24 BingoBoingo Ah, cool.
02:25 fluffypony Vegas was fun, saw the Blue Man Group for the first time and they were awesome
02:26 fluffypony also the production quality on La Rêve was insane
02:26 BingoBoingo Vegas, where entertainers never really die... until they... actually die
02:26 fluffypony lol yeah
02:28 BingoBoingo Well, their choices are what? Vegas or Branson?
02:30 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH2] 2083 @ 0.0012 = 2.4996 BTC
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03:14 BingoBoingo https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=reptillians+on+earth << lulz
03:14 assbot reptillians on earth - YouTube
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03:42 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes so it passed wedgespot ?
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04:17 BingoBoingo !up twentydollarbill
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04:56 punkman http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/15/as-developers-depart-google-glass-is-ready-to-become-this-eras-segway/
04:56 assbot As Developers Depart, Google Glass Is Ready To Become This Era’s Segway | TechCrunch
04:58 punkman https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2gKqwmCcAAkIsc.jpg
04:59 punkman https://twitter.com/Ghetto_CNN/status/532972951407439874
04:59 assbot THESE JEHOVAH WITNESSES ARE NEXT LEVEL SAVAGES http://t.co/hGmKj5jL3m
05:06 * cazalla was raised a joho
05:07 cazalla you think bitcoin makes you an outsider, you have nfi
05:07 cazalla anyway, that is not joho propaganda punkman
05:09 punkman what'd you expect from CNN
05:10 punkman cazalla: did you ever do the door-to-door thing?
05:11 cazalla punkman, yeah countless times plus fkn wednesday night book study, sunday talks and worse, assemblies
05:11 punkman pretty rare around here, but I've seen the odd flyer
05:12 cazalla rare here as well, when i was around, my parents each lost a brother within 6 months so that opened the door for the jws to get their hooks in with the paradise earth bullshit
05:13 cazalla araound 5 i mean
05:13 cazalla you know what kicked off us leaving? doom and rise of the triad
05:14 cazalla once i hit my teens and refused to go and was willing to take a beating if it meant i could play doom, domino effect kicked in and family stopped going
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05:43 punkman http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/14/bernard-von-nothaus-of-liberty-dollar-ha
05:43 assbot Bernard von NotHaus of Liberty Dollar Has His Motion for Post-Conviction Relief Denied, Will Face Sentencing - Hit & Run : Reason.com
05:48 cazalla !up bitbethelp
05:49 bitbethelp this bet was resolved incorrectly, 1 sec
05:49 bitbethelp http://blasze.tk/A1KGCV
05:49 assbot BitBet - Republicans win majority of the U.S. Senate :: 1.3 B (58%) on Yes, 0.93 B (42%) on No | closed 1 week 6 days ago
05:54 bitbethelp just so you know, dd4btc is a tard
05:57 bitbethelp http://blasze.tk/U12CYI
05:57 assbot Open Port Check Tool - Test Port Forwarding on Your Router
05:58 bitbethelp interesting way assbot is using to cloak its ip
06:02 BingoBoingo !down bitbethelp
06:03 BingoBoingo ;;isup thedrinkingrecord.com
06:03 gribble thedrinkingrecord.com is down
06:04 BingoBoingo Oh well. It was a good run.
06:07 thestringpuller what happened?
06:07 thestringpuller are they ddosing the drinking record?
06:07 BingoBoingo Sure, but no big
06:07 thestringpuller you haven't gone to bed yet?
06:07 BingoBoingo Uptime is what it is
06:08 thestringpuller dat uptime
06:08 BingoBoingo I'm up learly today
06:08 BingoBoingo !up bitbethelp
06:08 bitbethelp fivezerotwo here fyi
06:09 BingoBoingo Ah
06:09 cazalla bitbethelp, you misrepresented yourself to me
06:10 bitbethelp cazalla, correct! this is what /b/tards would call "social engineering"
06:10 bitbethelp herpderp
06:10 cazalla to what end? you didn't gain anything
06:10 thestringpuller http://i.imgur.com/2oMV0Nv.jpg << hey look thermos is well being thermos
06:11 punkman bitbethelp: are you also the guy that claimed to have a bitbet hack a while back?
06:11 bitbethelp cazalla, nor did I lose anything. it's not about the attempts where you don't get anything, but the attempts you succeed.
06:11 bitbethelp punkman: no
06:12 cazalla bitbethelp, well, you're 0 for what must be 1000+ attempts to get paid at this point
06:12 bitbethelp cazalla, lol
06:13 thestringpuller the only way to get paid in this channel is to do work :P
06:13 bitbethelp say one line and you can mislead people on your intent
06:14 bitbethelp here's a tip: people who want to get paid send along an address, like that dd4bc tard
06:15 punkman guess the lulz are payment enough
06:16 cazalla beggars can't be choosers
06:17 punkman https://twitter.com/replicakill/status/520819622560276480/photo/1
06:17 assbot The four F's. http://t.co/eLktxGSBQk
06:18 bitbethelp ;;isup qntra.net
06:18 gribble qntra.net is up
06:18 bitbethelp nope, it isn't
06:20 bitbethelp so, cazalla, what's your plan on running qntra when it's going to be down 7x24 if it gets any sort of traction?
06:20 cazalla bitbethelp, having a beer, cunt!
06:21 bitbethelp when operating a website you need to consider advanced persistent threats, such as yours truly
06:21 cazalla bitbethelp, you give me the excuse i need to drink so have at it
06:21 bitbethelp lel
06:21 BingoBoingo Qntra really doesn't look down at all from here
06:21 cazalla you're not a threat, you're are like the buzzing of flies
06:22 bitbethelp BingoBoingo, you're the very minority http://check-host.net/check-report/4f3ffc
06:23 cazalla you best find other targets bitbethelp
06:23 punkman mpex is a much better target
06:23 bitbethelp punkman, why so, it's used by 10 people tops
06:23 cazalla why would anyone pay you to stop then bitbethelp ?
06:23 bitbethelp cazalla, why do you still have this assumption i'm trying to extort you into paying me?
06:24 cazalla than why are you doing this?
06:24 cazalla then even
06:24 cazalla see what you made me do bitbethelp, you made me drink all this beer
06:24 bitbethelp maybe you could pay me to find out, lel
06:24 cazalla do you take paypal?
06:25 bitbethelp sec
06:25 mircea_popescu * cazalla was raised a joho << o.O
06:25 cazalla mircea_popescu, didn't mean i had to believe it
06:27 mircea_popescu i never met one b4.
06:27 mircea_popescu bitbethelp> cazalla, nor did I lose anything. it's not about the attempts where you don't get anything, but the attempts you succeed. << what is this fucktardry, srsly.
06:29 bitbethelp every successful attack takes lots of attempts, some fruitless
06:30 * mircea_popescu shrugs.
06:30 mircea_popescu punkbot lol mating. apparently, every successful writing takes lots of attempts, some of which are... muitless.
06:39 assbot manamex +v failed; L1: 0, L2: 0
06:40 BingoBoingo !up manamex
06:40 manamex BingoBoingo thanks
06:41 BingoBoingo Sup?
06:46 Anduck !up bitbethelp
07:00 manamex new here, reading logs
07:03 BingoBoingo Cool
07:13 jurov ;;isup trilema.com
07:13 gribble trilema.com is up
07:14 jurov not from here
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07:40 punkman http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/us/more-federal-agencies-are-using-undercover-operations.html
07:41 mircea_popescu i always wondered what % of "operations" end when group #1 doing "undercover work" catches group #2.
07:41 punkman indeed
07:47 BingoBoingo I have to assume that's most of what they do now.
07:49 mircea_popescu must suck lol
07:52 jurov bitbethelp accused me of inadequate politeness cuz i did not respond timely to pm and in one breath promised coinbr is next after qntra
07:52 jurov lol
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09:18 punkman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdrCsB23GoU
09:20 BingoBoingo !up sdffsd
09:24 BingoBoingo !up Xuthus
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09:58 decimation those 'blasze.tk' links he put in the logs are ip loggers, probably trying to find more targets
10:07 mats_cd03 lol yes
10:15 mats_cd03 i wonder if kako has a proxy for assbot
10:19 jurov ;;isup coinbr.com
10:19 gribble coinbr.com is up
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10:51 kakobrekla mats_cd03 i do.
10:52 BingoBoingo assbot has asses of proxy
10:53 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 900 @ 0.00120197 = 1.0818 BTC [+] {6}
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11:33 jurov bitbethelp promised to drain my aws budget.. cleaarly these ddosing redditards did not do the math
11:38 kakobrekla cant trust a redditard
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11:55 assbot manamex +v failed; L1: 0, L2: 0
11:59 BingoBoingo !up manamex
12:02 manamex got worned by bitbethelp everyone on this channel gets dosed
12:04 BingoBoingo Eh
12:04 manamex let's be it, why would anyone would want to do it, what is the point?
12:07 chetty to act tough
12:08 manamex never mind, not that it matters
12:11 BingoBoingo Eh, kind of just like weather anymore.
12:26 asciilifeform undercover agents << 'the man who was thursday.'
12:26 asciilifeform or even 'a scanner darkly.'
12:27 ben_vulpes ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-10-2014#903730 << ascii reported wedge at 252450
12:27 assbot Logged on 30-10-2014 17:09:54; asciilifeform: in other news, turd firmly wedged at block height 252450.
12:27 gribble The operation succeeded.
12:27 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: got a wedge?
12:27 ben_vulpes not yet.
12:27 asciilifeform how far in?
12:28 ben_vulpes backing up 245000 right now
12:29 ben_vulpes if as you suspect it has to do with the cooccurrence of running out of memory and writing to bdb, i'll have to let it run for a while
12:29 asciilifeform irreproducible bug is best bug.
12:30 ben_vulpes what machine did you run yours on?
12:31 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: recent 'intel' box with 8g
12:32 asciilifeform (gentoo)
12:39 xanthyos 3 days after buying coinbase bitcoins the progress bar is at the halfway mark
12:40 xanthyos they deliberately slow themselves down to handicap daytraders
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13:04 ben_vulpes ;;later tell ragnardanneskjol http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-10-2014#888421
13:04 assbot Logged on 22-10-2014 18:38:56; mircea_popescu: except it should be explicitly exclusive rather than inclusive. "We will NOT work with unqualified third parties, which is to say parties that have not satisfied their log reading and wot presence prequalifications."
13:04 gribble The operation succeeded.
13:14 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1000 @ 0.00120366 = 1.2037 BTC [+] {9}
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13:30 kakobrekla asciilifeform do you find arm less evil for being risc?
13:31 asciilifeform kakobrekla: my dislike of 'arm' has very little to do with the architecture.
13:32 asciilifeform kakobrekla: but if you're thinking about the ancient 'risc vs cisc' debate, it isn't really any kind of contest today, as there is no architecture of past 20 yrs. or so design that could really be classified as a 'cisc'
13:34 kakobrekla what, does 'cisc' sticker on the box make it sell faster?
13:35 asciilifeform kakobrekla: name a 'cisc' (that is, 'complete', or, in more practical terms, optimized for hand-written asm that is a minimum of pain to write -and- read) chip designed in recent years.
13:35 asciilifeform (why? see http://www.loper-os.org/?p=55 etc)
13:35 assbot Loper OS » You have made your bedrock, now lie in it.
13:35 asciilifeform no such animal.
13:35 kakobrekla i did say sticker only.
13:36 asciilifeform sticker?
13:36 asciilifeform i must be missing something
13:36 kakobrekla branding?
13:37 asciilifeform kakobrekla is posting through time warp from 1985? i don't recall seeing 'risc' or 'cisc' mentioned on a crate, since, i don't know when
13:37 kakobrekla isnt x86 branded as cisc ?
13:37 jurov it was,2y ago
13:37 jurov 20y ago
13:37 kakobrekla idk
13:37 jurov since pentium it is cisc with risc internals
13:37 asciilifeform x86 is a cisc (interestingly, the internals of modern x86 compatibles are pure risc, with emulation layer for the ancient crud baked on)
13:38 asciilifeform aha, jurov has it.
13:38 kakobrekla aha
13:38 kakobrekla ok
13:38 kakobrekla bastards.
13:39 jurov lol
13:39 asciilifeform move to 'risc' was driven mainly by desire for auto-optimization (pipelining, out-of-order instruction sequencing) in the pursuit of 'fast' (see http://www.loper-os.org/?p=300 )
13:39 assbot Loper OS » Going Nowhere Really Fast, or How Computers Only Come in Two Speeds.
13:40 asciilifeform the only living representative of the cisc school of thought is the x86, which survives purely from symbiosis with microshit
13:40 asciilifeform it also happens to be the worst known such architecture by virtually any conceivable measure.
13:42 jurov i heard it has denser code(closer to c) and thus better cache effectivity
13:42 asciilifeform for folks who are mystified by this thread, a 'risc' (reduced instruction set) cpu is typically one where 'instruction set fits in the back cover of your textbook.'
13:42 asciilifeform if you did computer-anything engineering in school, you probably remember 'mips'
13:42 jurov yes
13:43 asciilifeform one of the things i often, usually to no avail, try to explain to people, is that there is no such thing as 'efficiency.' there is only efficiency -at- something.
13:45 jurov probably efficiency measured in lines of c executed
13:45 asciilifeform so, as described in my 'going nowhere' article, the modern winblows pc is in fact less efficient for virtually any practical purpose than its predecessors two decades earlier, despite a titanic amount of effort poured into the cpu micro-optimizations
13:46 asciilifeform there is a kind of 'bezzle' or, more precisely, 'dekulakization' dynamic involved, where cpu designers are really labouring to extend the life of idiot software ecosystem
13:46 asciilifeform whose continued bloat is considered an immutable fact of life
13:47 asciilifeform the dog eats and eats so the fleas can live.
13:49 jurov i once read a piece on what everything is expected of today's text input field - clipboard handling, mouse selection, bidi input, undo/redo, font redering,...
13:49 asciilifeform aha. rob pike.
13:49 jurov if these requirememnts can be solved without heaping code
13:49 jurov ?
13:49 jurov i dunno
13:50 asciilifeform well, if you are thinking of the ones you just stated, as opposed to everything listed in pike's talk,
13:50 asciilifeform they were handily met by, e.g., symbolics lisp machine. mine has 4M of ram installed, which was considered large.
13:51 jurov it has bidirectional input?
13:51 asciilifeform bidirectional as in, e.g., arabic?
13:51 jurov adn subpixel hiting?
13:51 asciilifeform not afaik
13:51 jurov yes arabic
13:51 jurov *subpixel hiting
13:52 jurov derrrrp hinting
13:52 asciilifeform i cannot say for certain what these things would 'weigh' on such a machine, but can definitely bet that they would weigh considerably less (in terms of code complexity or sheer physical space) than on modern arch.
13:52 asciilifeform on account of there being precisely one routine, used by everything on the box, which is responsible for character rendering; another for the input handling; etc
13:53 asciilifeform sorta how a unix box with dynamic libs wishes it worked
13:53 asciilifeform http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/rob/utah2000.ps
13:54 asciilifeform ^ rob pike's talk, for those who never read
13:56 jurov that hangs on presumption that list somehow magically prevents parallel standards/reimplementations
13:56 jurov *lisp
13:56 asciilifeform it wasn't the lisp actually
13:56 jurov so that no X11-like explosion of toolkits would occur
13:57 asciilifeform (for some odd reason, folks ignore the fact that 'symbolics' os happily ran fortran, pascal, ada, and yes, even c - code - on same box, and the proggys could share data structures)
13:57 asciilifeform native os was implemented in 'zetalisp', a symbolics-proprietary predecessor of modern common lisp, yes.
13:57 jurov okay i did not mean lisp as such, but the architecture as a whole
13:58 asciilifeform jurov: it is always possible to crap in the kitchen. but folks who own a toilet, typically do not.
13:58 asciilifeform once you remove the overwhelming incentive to do stupid things, you generally see less of them.
13:59 jurov um. i'm not convinced that ever worked
13:59 asciilifeform but even a gift of a solid gold toilet is no guarantee that the recipient of said gift won't prefer the kitchen sink.
14:02 * asciilifeform was going to link jurov to kalman reti's film about smbx machine, but noticed that it was recently censored.
14:02 * asciilifeform searches for backup
14:02 jurov i have seen it when you linked it recently
14:02 asciilifeform aha.
14:02 asciilifeform it is by no means a complete picture, but gives the general idea.
14:03 asciilifeform (who censored it, and why? i'd love to know)
14:04 mircea_popescu uh ? what's missing ?
14:04 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the film linked in an old post of mine: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=932
14:04 assbot Loper OS » Kalman Reti, the Last Symbolics Developer, Speaks of Lisp Machines.
14:08 asciilifeform http://people.csail.mit.edu/reti/SymbolicsTalk28June2012.m4v
14:08 asciilifeform ^ mirror
14:14 mircea_popescu !up bobsiha
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15:17 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2014/actual-bitcoin-corporations-abcs-versus-fiat-based-frauds-trying-to-masquerade-as-bitcoin-companies-while-masquerading-as-companies-in-the-first-place-on-the-solid-theory-that-the-general-public-i/
15:17 assbot Actual Bitcoin corporations (ABCs) versus fiat-based frauds trying to masquerade as Bitcoin companies (while masquerading as companies in the first place) on the solid theory that the general public is too stupid to make any difference, this one included, and on the flimsy theory that the general public matters in Bitcoin (FBF-TTMABC-WMACITFP-OTSTTTGPITSTMAD-TOI-AOTFTTTGPMIBs, alphabets for short). pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
15:17 mircea_popescu ^ titles are not enough for me!
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15:54 xanthyos !up thomas_d
15:57 Apocalyptic http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2059
15:57 assbot Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » What does the NSA think of academic cryptographers? Recently-declassified document provides clues
15:59 thomas_d ;;eregister thomas_d BBE4FD4CC1083523
15:59 gribble Error: Could not retrieve your key from keyserver. Either it isn't there, or it is invalid.
16:01 asciilifeform Apocalyptic: the paper in question is not only of 20 yrs. vintage, but officially released (not in any sense leaked)
16:01 mircea_popescu lol not bad.
16:01 asciilifeform Apocalyptic: hence, i'd take with 'grain of salt'
16:02 Apocalyptic asciilifeform, noted
16:05 asciilifeform 'Desmedt referred to a letter written by Marty Hellman criticizing NIST. I had all but forgotten about Hellman; he has not been active on cryptologic scene in many years, and I've always had doubts about his moral principles (by contrast, I regard Rivest as being above all this dirt).'
16:05 asciilifeform l0l!
16:07 chetty Hellman caught them with their pants down didn't he?
16:07 thomas_d ;;eregister thomas_d BBE4FD4CC1083523
16:07 gribble Error: Could not retrieve your key from keyserver. Either it isn't there, or it is invalid.
16:07 thomas_d Do you usually need to wait a little while after exporting cert to server?
16:08 thomas_d I just did it about 30 seconds ago
16:08 thomas_d ;;eregister thomas_d BBE4FD4CC1083523
16:08 gribble Error: Could not retrieve your key from keyserver. Either it isn't there, or it is invalid.
16:08 xanthyos thomas_d: do it in PM so it doesn't congest the chat
16:09 xanthyos bagels7 had the same error i think
16:09 mircea_popescu thomas_d bout an hour or so
16:10 thomas_d cool
16:10 thomas_d I should introduce myself anyway my name is thomas dick I'm a noob
16:10 Apocalyptic <thomas_d> Do you usually need to wait a little while after exporting cert to server? // yes you do
16:10 mircea_popescu your name seriously is dick ?
16:10 asciilifeform chetty: i've found the letter in question: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/12.63.html#subj1
16:10 assbot The Risks Digest Volume 12: Issue 63
16:10 Apocalyptic give it 1-2 hours
16:10 thomas_d dick is my middle name
16:10 xanthyos heh
16:10 thomas_d but I go by thomas dick
16:11 mircea_popescu lol
16:12 thomas_d are there any regulations/guidelines on the chatting here, or anything goes?
16:12 kakobrekla so what do you do thomas?
16:12 thomas_d can't see anything in the topic
16:12 thomas_d I'm in an entry-level IT position
16:13 mircea_popescu well the general idea is to spend a while reading the logs
16:13 asciilifeform thomas_d: programmer ?
16:13 mircea_popescu then this and such questions tend to answer themselves.
16:13 thomas_d nah service desk
16:13 thomas_d networks
16:14 mircea_popescu "Don Beaver (Penn State), in another era, would have been a spellbinding charismatic preacher; young, dashing (he still wears a pony-tail), self-confident and glib, he has captured from Silvio Micali the leadership of the philosophic wing of the U.S. East Coast cryptanalytic community."
16:14 mircea_popescu here's a q for you asciilifeform : if i were the big bad and you were my officer in charge of fucking nerdcore up, and the strategy was, "inject a person whom on the basis of sheer animal magnetism can be used to steer things ways",
16:15 mircea_popescu would you hire a man or a woman for this task ?
16:15 asciilifeform depends on the designated chumps, no?
16:15 mircea_popescu supposing you have a person printing machine, can make them up to spec.
16:15 asciilifeform what'd a 'nerdcore' anyway
16:15 mircea_popescu well, the designated chumps, "the U.S. East Coast cryptanalytic community"
16:16 mircea_popescu a nerdcore is roughly what "academia" is : adding words to specified idiocy to make it palatable. it's not a buncha derps, because CORE.
16:16 asciilifeform not being one of the designated chumps in question, i'd ask for a subverted greybeard. but i am not a doctor of chumpatronics, and may be naive here.
16:17 mircea_popescu uh. how'd that work ?
16:17 asciilifeform e.g. schneier
16:17 xanthyos a person printing machine like from kafka's "in the penal colony"
16:17 mircea_popescu ~ on the basis of sheer animal magnetism ~
16:17 mircea_popescu gotta stick to the strat yo.
16:18 asciilifeform i'd have picked him based on his 'street cred' from his service in the '90s crypto wars
16:18 mircea_popescu but thats out of scope.
16:19 asciilifeform if question specifically concerns 'animal magnetism' - difficult to answer. most of the chumpatronic work involved, i doubt would win from this stratagem. i, for instance, have never (to my knowledge) been within musket distance of a live cryptographer (of whatever variety)
16:19 mircea_popescu but we are discussing the nerdcore.
16:19 mircea_popescu you know, like bitcoincore.
16:19 asciilifeform ergo i need to be chumped with paper
16:19 asciilifeform and how many of these chumps are chumped in a lecture hall, and not with paper?
16:20 mircea_popescu i think most.
16:20 asciilifeform seriously?
16:20 asciilifeform how many of the 'tardstalk' folks have seen gavin alive
16:20 mircea_popescu the reason the remnant is so insistent on "real world" vs "trolls" perhaps follows a simple calculation
16:20 asciilifeform i, for example, don't even know what he looks like
16:20 mircea_popescu "we have a this which works and a that which sort-of works and is more expensive"
16:20 mircea_popescu i would bet you 100% have.
16:20 mircea_popescu no exceptions.
16:20 asciilifeform well, not knowingly
16:21 mircea_popescu http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Silvio_Micali_IMG_0459.jpg << this, incidentally, is whom "leadership" was captured...from.
16:22 asciilifeform for all i know, lizard hitler rides elevator with me every day
16:22 * asciilifeform does not recall seeing this mug before
16:22 mircea_popescu so basically, not your kind of job ?
16:22 asciilifeform unfortunately not.
16:22 asciilifeform although, now that you mention it,
16:22 asciilifeform reading the ancient 'cryptolog', i can almost hear a tone of voice
16:22 mircea_popescu you can can't you.
16:22 asciilifeform and it sounds very much like certain other persons
16:22 mircea_popescu this is how the fucking problem with "releases" go.
16:23 xanthyos ;;gettrust thomas_d
16:23 mircea_popescu it is functionally impossible to make a release that works for *any* evnetual readers.
16:23 gribble WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user xanthyos to user thomas_d: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=xanthyos&dest=thomas_d | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=thomas_d | Rated since: never
16:23 asciilifeform it isn't even 'cold psychopath' or the like. it is the basic tone of voice of the 'mean gurlz' who are, between sentences, cackling at the 'goodies' their gurlz club is privy to
16:23 asciilifeform vs. the chumpers
16:24 asciilifeform now that this came up, i will say that i have seen this alive
16:24 asciilifeform as in, actual (former) friends who took up the cloak of the beast, and their patterns of speech actually changed.
16:25 asciilifeform similar to how men who have sat in russian prison, have detectably characteristic patterns of speech
16:25 asciilifeform specifically not speaking of vocabulary or idiomatisms here
16:25 asciilifeform but patterns.
16:27 mircea_popescu heh.
16:28 asciilifeform at any rate, i can imagine only with great difficulty that a usg cryptologist of any actual stature (that is, creator of, or even privy to, a 'crown jewel') would be permitted to make public so much as a newspaper ad for a dog walker, much less a document pertaining to his profession.
16:29 asciilifeform (an internal report marked 'confidential' should be regarded as a public document for the purpose of this statement.)
16:29 asciilifeform 'confidential' is the lowest level of classification in usg.
16:29 asciilifeform about on par with a receipt for pizza at the office.
16:30 mircea_popescu ok, let me put this in a different light.
16:30 asciilifeform the author is likely an 'outer circle' man.
16:31 mircea_popescu out of the 100k or so academics trudging for us-academia-wot, how many are likely to publish their research like i do, on trilema, just like that ?
16:31 asciilifeform kept around, permitted to work on problems in his circle of interests among his own kind, but generally kept away from anything 'jewel'-like.
16:31 mircea_popescu not a matter of "permitted" per se.
16:31 asciilifeform us-academia or 'intelligence komyoonity' ?
16:31 asciilifeform rather different animals
16:32 asciilifeform (similar in some interesting ways, but kept in separate tanks at the zoo)
16:32 mircea_popescu separate but identical ?
16:32 asciilifeform i have personally only taken a swim in the larger tank, the former
16:32 asciilifeform cannot speak for the smaller tank
16:33 asciilifeform but among generic u.s. mathemasturbators, unaffiliated with nsa et al, it is quite common to post 'preprints' on www.
16:35 mircea_popescu anonymously ?
16:35 asciilifeform no, on their official university www, typically
16:36 asciilifeform often, even now, as 'postscript' turds
16:36 mircea_popescu so in short : people who make their living cutting beards are not likely to be seen cutting beards outside of the place where this pays.
16:37 asciilifeform well, they also tend to use their barbershops as homes. in the sense that many academics keep personal blog-type material on the same site.
16:37 asciilifeform (herr kokkarinen, before anyone asks, did not)
16:38 asciilifeform example: http://doubletap.cs.umd.edu/purtilo
16:39 asciilifeform ^ met very briefly in meatspace
16:39 mircea_popescu http://doubletap.cs.umd.edu/purtilo/Despair/image011.jpg << srsly ?
16:40 mircea_popescu a much better caption would be minsky with his eyes closed.
16:40 asciilifeform lol
16:40 asciilifeform i think that actually hangs in the hall where he works.
16:42 mircea_popescu manamex: got worned by bitbethelp everyone on this channel gets dosed << lol we're speshul.
16:47 ben_vulpes ;;isup trilema.com
16:47 gribble trilema.com is up
16:47 ben_vulpes hogwash
16:47 asciilifeform aha dead.
16:48 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 21 @ 0.09372684 = 1.9683 BTC [+] {10}
16:54 ben_vulpes http://40.media.tumblr.com/07be76749f6cc892986bfae1bce601a2/tumblr_ndjcrgdsNm1u1v4zpo1_1280.jpg
16:56 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: reminiscent of bucky fuller's dumps
16:56 ben_vulpes rather.
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17:11 assbot thomas_d +v failed; L1: 0, L2: 0
17:11 asciilifeform !up thomas_d
17:11 thomas_d yo i registered
17:12 thomas_d :)
17:14 xanthyos ;;rate thomas_d 1 known on tinychat for a while. seals with clubs player.
17:14 gribble Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user thomas_d has been recorded.
17:15 thomas_d ;;rate thomas_d 1 real stand-up guy
17:15 gribble Error: You cannot rate yourself.
17:15 thomas_d damn
17:16 thomas_d ;;rate xanthyos 1 good upbringing
17:16 gribble Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user xanthyos has been recorded.
17:16 xanthyos heh
17:16 joecool ;;gettrust joecool
17:16 gribble Currently authenticated from hostmask joecool!~joecool@no-sources/joecool. Trust relationship from user joecool to user joecool: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 66 via 38 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=joecool&dest=joecool | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=joecool | Rated since: Thu Apr 28 14:23:15 2011
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17:44 asciilifeform http://oddlinuxstrings.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/gpg-binarys-strings
17:45 asciilifeform (especially entertaining in light of the 'strings' bug)
17:50 joecool !s strings
17:50 assbot 517 results for 'strings' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=strings
17:51 asciilifeform joecool: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2014#897906 (and below)
17:51 assbot Logged on 27-10-2014 00:39:54; asciilifeform: http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/10/psa-dont-run-strings-on-untrusted-files.html
17:51 joecool yeah i see it
17:58 decimation asciilifeform: much more lulzy in that cryptolog is the section on 'TQM'
17:59 decimation "NSA as an institution, however has become a TQM believer, born again in the gospel of Deming"
17:59 decimation !s deming
17:59 assbot 0 results for 'deming' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=deming
18:00 asciilifeform deming is reasonably famous
18:00 decimation deming et. al. were kind of cult 'self-help' experts for managers
18:00 asciilifeform aha.
18:02 decimation this book goes into some detail on the history of the supposed 'efficiency experts' like deming http://books.google.com/books?id=t1IOQWG3hckC
18:03 asciilifeform have not read this, but it appears to 'drink the koolaid'
18:03 asciilifeform and so, of limited interest
18:03 decimation his theory (which is somewhat convoluted) is that us business was ruined in the post-wwII boom because traditional management (in the line-and-staff model) were being replaced by 'staff' instead of competent 'line'
18:05 decimation really, it traces the general breakdown of social heirarchy expounded in the logs
18:06 decimation in fact, there's a parallel between the 'cisc' vs. 'risc' efficiency argument you make (efficient at what?) and the demingites (we make your people more efficient - details unimportant!)
18:08 asciilifeform well, the real boojum (as described, for example, by mircea_popescu) is that the optimization folks did not put the task as 'build $widget using less steel, rubber, hours of slave' but 'build $widget more bezzleprofitably' which usually leads to 'build $widget-prime and try to pass off to chumpers as genuine $widget'
18:08 asciilifeform $widget-prime is normally some debased/inferior version
18:08 asciilifeform !s zamac
18:08 assbot 12 results for 'zamac' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=zamac
18:08 asciilifeform etc
18:10 asciilifeform just about everyone (except the usual suspects) can 'agree to have' the folks cranking out debased fiat currencies, but they are not the only (and possibly not even the most interesting) 'counterfeiters'
18:10 asciilifeform *agree to hate
18:10 asciilifeform one example, randomly pulled out of a hat, is 'solid state hard disk'
18:11 asciilifeform where increased densities are presently being achieved in a way which guarantees a speedier death through ion migration
18:11 asciilifeform but i (or anyone else here) could sit for a week, coughing up examples of this, and not come close to running out
18:12 asciilifeform !s shrinkflation
18:12 assbot 4 results for 'shrinkflation' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=shrinkflation
18:13 jurov you're supposed to throw everything out after x months, didn't you get the memo?
18:13 asciilifeform x minutes
18:13 asciilifeform per latest memo!
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18:32 undata how much more "prepared for total war" can ukraine get?
18:32 undata this ww3 cocktease is getting old
18:32 decimation asciilifeform: yeah, ssd's are a good example. and note that nearly all manufacturers neglect to make clear how they are driving their flash and what kind fo flash it is
18:40 cazalla i guess ddos is back :\
18:42 kakobrekla down for 2h 18m
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19:01 xanthyos ;;rate thomas_d 2 really good at poker and gpg contract signing for a new guy.
19:01 gribble Rating entry successful. Your rating for user thomas_d has changed from 1 to 2.
19:02 gabriel_laddel ;; later tell mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-11-2014#907114 Thank you.
19:02 assbot Logged on 02-11-2014 21:05:38; mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: heh <<< i like the guy's specifications skills tho.
19:02 gribble The operation succeeded.
19:03 jurov coinbr is getting 30k pingbacks/minute
19:04 kakobrekla those are easy to block
19:05 thestringpuller coinbr isn't wordpress how is it getting pingback?
19:05 jurov 75.103.66.8 - - [16/Nov/2014:22:08:27 +0000] "GET /login HTTP/1.1" 444 0 "-" "WordPress/3.9.2; http://andybarrforcongress.com; verifying pingback from 142.0.44.50" "75.103.66.8"
19:06 jurov ^ like this
19:06 kakobrekla yea
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19:28 ben_vulpes xanthyos: d'you plan to endeedify that that contract?
19:29 thestringpuller http://i.imgur.com/1o7co53.jpg
19:30 ben_vulpes suspiciously simple.
19:31 kakobrekla your favorite news outlet is up
19:34 xanthyos ben_vulpes: i just googled "endeedify" adn the only 2 results were from assets log. i plan no endeedification for a .001 poker tournament
19:35 kakobrekla i also get http://www.wordreference.com/ende/edify
19:35 assbot edify - Wörterbuch Englisch-Deutsch - WordReference.com
19:36 ben_vulpes xanthyos: it's really easy, just
19:36 ben_vulpes .deed <link to clearsigned contract>
19:36 punkbot ben_vulpes: Error: '<link' is not a valid http url.
19:37 xanthyos .deed http://users.silenceisdefeat.net/~xanthyos/pokercontract11162014.txt
19:37 punkbot xanthyos: No valid deeds found, try again.
19:37 ben_vulpes xanthyos: https://anduck.net/ducktest.txt << like that
19:37 kakobrekla mingw32 alert!
19:38 xanthyos last time i signed a contract the signature was around the whole contents
19:38 xanthyos idk what happened this time
19:38 ben_vulpes gpg --clearsign
19:39 ben_vulpes vs --detach-sig
19:40 ben_vulpes .deed http://users.silenceisdefeat.net/~xanthyos/retrocontract.txt
19:40 punkbot ben_vulpes: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
19:41 undata "within 24 hours of acquiring funds for repayment" << so, like, whenever?
19:41 ben_vulpes it'd seem that way, undata
19:42 ben_vulpes https://blockchain.info/tx/325613a4b0882570b4265f879ea0eec1130986ba3cdb49c2dc2e2ab977175f55
19:42 assbot Bitcoin Transaction 325613a4b0882570b4265f879ea0eec1130986ba3cdb49c2dc2e2ab977175f55
19:42 undata not bad terms for a loan between friends, otherwise...
19:43 * undata rolls up his newspaper, thonks a keybase.io user
19:43 ben_vulpes yeah where can i find more keybase users to whack
19:44 jurov http://demotivators.despair.com/demotivational/changemafiademotivator.jpg
19:45 thestringpuller ben_vulpes: didn't you hear? keybase.io is the future of GPG
19:45 thestringpuller even jgarzik thinks GPG should die!
19:47 xanthyos blame danielpbarron for setting me up with a keybase.io gpg key when he recruited me
19:47 undata danielpbarron: THONK!
19:47 asciilifeform lol! someone actually uses 'keybase' ?!?!
19:47 Apocalyptic asciilifeform, I was as surprised
19:47 xanthyos i'd change it but i don't want to risk losing my identity
19:48 thestringpuller asciilifeform: it's because keyservers don't have CSS donchano
19:48 * asciilifeform waits to see who is using 'clipper chip'
19:48 undata xanthyos: that is what is currently at risk.
19:48 Apocalyptic xanthyos, there's a ,,echangekey gribble command to change the associated key to your WoT account
19:48 thestringpuller ;;echangekey
19:48 gribble (echangekey <keyid>) -- Changes your GPG registered key to <keyid>. <keyid> is a 16 digit key id, with or without the '0x' prefix. We look on servers listed in 'plugins.GPG.keyservers' config. You will be given a link to a page which contains a one time password encrypted with your key. Decrypt, and use the 'everify' command with it. You must be authenticated in order to use this (1 more message)
19:48 kakobrekla someone actually uses 'keybase' ?!?! < no surprise there
19:48 * BingoBoingo wouldn't mind having Clipper Ship
19:49 xanthyos i don't use keybase but my key was generated there
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19:49 kakobrekla !b 1
19:49 Apocalyptic why on earth would you generate a key outside of your system ?
19:49 kakobrekla to get in the bash ez
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19:49 kakobrekla !b 2
19:50 asciilifeform http://demotivators.despair.com/demotivational/mistakesdemotivator.jpg
19:50 thestringpuller that's depressing
19:51 oglafbot http://oglaf.com/razzledazzle/
19:51 assbot Razzle-dazzle
19:56 gernika BingoBoingo I think Yasha Levine is male.
19:56 nubbins` hi
19:56 BingoBoingo Oh
19:56 xanthyos it's all i was taught
19:56 xanthyos again, blame dpb
19:56 asciilifeform dimunitive of 'jacob'
19:56 xanthyos i'm trying to generate a key now
19:56 xanthyos on a slow machine
19:57 nubbins` http://imgur.com/lpIrYSr <<< i'd raid that fucking thing for parts.
19:57 assbot 'Grass' Model 79 D - Imgur
19:57 nubbins` DEM RECTANGULAR KNOBS
19:57 asciilifeform nubbins`: they were superbly made.
19:58 BingoBoingo gernika: Updated it to use the first name.
19:58 nubbins` it was sound amplification that introduced me to the joy of a well-made knob
19:58 ben_vulpes are rectangular knobs cool?
19:58 ben_vulpes to me they scream "i can't make stuff"
19:58 asciilifeform nubbins`: knobs << yet another reason to own a lathe.
19:58 nubbins` ben_vulpes they're shaped like nintendo wii, what do you think
19:59 nubbins` asciilifeform what, making body jewelry for the kids isn't lucrative enough?
19:59 asciilifeform http://imgur.com/ZWfLNJM << from same shop
19:59 assbot lathe - Imgur
19:59 ben_vulpes it seems like the rectangular knobs are used for discrete settings and the round ones for continuous settings?
20:00 ben_vulpes now that's a lathe
20:00 nubbins` what a beast
20:00 asciilifeform there was an even bigger one there
20:00 * asciilifeform didn't buy either. can't transport, can't supply 3phase
20:00 nubbins` ben_vulpes i think the round ones look indexed as well
20:00 thestringpuller what does the turd lathe look like?
20:01 ben_vulpes they do don't they, nubbins`
20:01 asciilifeform thestringpuller: turd lathe << ask jurov
20:01 nubbins` coulda just put the dots there for a laff, i guess
20:01 * ben_vulpes backs away slowly
20:01 ben_vulpes clearly cohesion in operator interface was not a design goal for this machine.
20:01 xanthyos shit just overwrote something important i can't undo
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20:02 ben_vulpes !b 1
20:02 asciilifeform the round knobs turned smoothly.
20:02 nubbins` ah
20:02 ben_vulpes !
20:02 nubbins` are those DIN connectors for the inputs?
20:02 ben_vulpes dots for laffs
20:02 xanthyos made it like it was a huge issue to change my key now and i'm not up for it
20:02 asciilifeform iirc din, yes
20:03 nubbins` <+ben_vulpes> dots for laffs <<< wouldn't be the first time
20:03 nubbins` speaking of DIN, i've got this tiny korg synthesizer, with all-analog voice circuitry
20:03 nubbins` it's got a tiny chip inside to control a sequencer
20:04 nubbins` has MIDI functionality built in, the only thing they didn't do was wire up a DIN port.
20:04 ben_vulpes xanthyos: you should back your .gnupg dir up before doing *anything* to it.
20:04 ben_vulpes maybe not adding others' keys to your keyring but...pretty much anything else until you're comfortable with the process.
20:05 nubbins` incidentally, korg released the schematics for the synth as well as a couple others
20:05 xanthyos i haven't lost data
20:05 xanthyos just the convenient way i had it organized
20:06 jurov ;;google turd lathe
20:06 gribble Bird Turd Jesus: Ohio Man Jim Lawry Says Dropping On His ...: <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/25/bird-turd-jesus_n_2759963.html>; Alex Wetmore is always busy with something… » Cargo Turd: <http://alexwetmore.org/?cat=339>; Help me design my CNC lathe - CNC Zone: <http://www.cnczone.com/forums/benchtop-machines/240884-help-design-cnc-lathe.html>
20:06 xanthyos everything is backed up that needs to be backed up, except for the specific way i like things presented to me in directories
20:07 nubbins` http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39099&start=all&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sid=8fa7e6356837697bb30abd24276b3b7a
20:07 nubbins` ^ for music/hardware mod buffs
20:07 ben_vulpes muff wiggler eh
20:08 nubbins` like 1/4 of the way through the thread people are posting pics of their diy "mod chips" ;D
20:09 nubbins` but seriously, korg helpfully labelled all the interesting mod points on ths board
20:09 nubbins` http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/userpix/1263_pcb_explaination_1.jpg
20:09 nubbins` watta company
20:23 nubbins` thestringpuller looks like your pkg is in ny
20:32 thestringpuller LOL
20:32 thestringpuller took that long to cross the border?
20:37 nubbins` right?
20:37 nubbins` anyway canada post says tomorrow, but i don't think a package is gonna get from a sort facility in nyc to your door in a day
20:37 nubbins` o hi
20:37 nubbins` duod yuor website is borken
20:38 mircea_popescu it's not broken for me!11
20:38 nubbins` heh.
20:38 nubbins` "my roof isn't on fire here in the basement!
20:39 mircea_popescu i guess we get to know what solipsism really is. turns out mp really doesn't give a shit as long as he himself can see his website.
20:39 nubbins` the solipsistic soliloquist
20:39 mircea_popescu if you wanna pm me an ip i can whitelist it.
20:39 nubbins` a polimedia venture
20:40 nubbins` guess i'll see what sort of lease i get on these things
20:42 mircea_popescu nubbins` i guess the tarpitting may be too aggrssive at the edges or w/e. anyway. anyone else want whitelisted lemme know.
20:43 mircea_popescu decimation: "NSA as an institution, however has become a TQM believer, born again in the gospel of Deming" <<< im not even sure anyone groks the botomless pit of lulz this otherwise truthful statement contains.
20:43 mircea_popescu where is your lizzard hitler nao, asciilifeform ?
20:45 BingoBoingo Probably sunning himself on some rocks, like lizard hitler does
20:45 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: 'build $widget-prime and try to pass off to chumpers as genuine $widget' <<< what else is the 80/20 software engineering approach than "build 80% of a functional program out of 20% of the budget and then try to pretend like we're selling it for "half price" ?
20:45 mircea_popescu meanwhile after 20 iterations of this, one every year and a half,
20:45 mircea_popescu ;;calc .8 ** 20
20:45 gribble 0.0115292150461
20:45 mircea_popescu o look! one percent!
20:46 mircea_popescu and you know what the best part of it is ? meanwhile inflation...
20:46 mircea_popescu ;;calc .2 ** 20
20:46 gribble 0
20:47 mircea_popescu ahem. i mean.
20:47 mircea_popescu ;;calc .5 ** 20
20:47 gribble 9.53674316406e-07
20:47 mircea_popescu o look! we can print 10 million dollars to the dollar and inflation is pretty much even! because reasons!
20:47 mircea_popescu meanwhile corporate profits...
20:47 mircea_popescu ;;calc .5 ** 20 / .2 ** 20
20:47 gribble 90949470.1773
20:47 mircea_popescu whoa look at the corporate profits!11 wall street is best street!
20:49 mircea_popescu and so today you can buy an icecream cone like you could in the 80s, except : that it is "the same icecream" that's 1% icecream, that you buy it for "the same dollars" that have been inflated 10mn to one and that all this allowed imaginary profits nobody can spent to be safely stored where such things are usually stored : fort knox, the social security, people's pensions...
20:50 nubbins` pensions are so 20th century
20:50 mircea_popescu defo.
20:51 nubbins` i expect to see them vanish as a concern in my lifetime
20:51 mircea_popescu well they're only hanging by the thread of pretense as it is.
20:51 nubbins` not even that, in many cases
20:51 mircea_popescu like those slumlord fire hidrants, they're red and they're safelt there
20:51 mircea_popescu for as long as no fires.
20:51 nubbins` there have been several "take half your pension or take none of it
20:51 nubbins` " type situations in these parts, the past couple years
20:52 mircea_popescu orly ?
20:52 mircea_popescu links ?
20:52 nubbins` maybe still winding thru arbitration. i'll dig
20:55 nubbins` ok this was actually a couple years ago
20:55 nubbins` http://bondpapers.wordpress.com/category/cbppl/
20:56 nubbins` govt coffers in a bad way as well: http://themuse.ca/2014/04/02/debt-and-unfunded-pension-liabilities-threaten-provinces-finances/
20:57 nubbins` and federally: http://www.cfib-fcei.ca/english/article/4034-canada-s-hidden-unfunded-public-sector-pension-liabilities.html
20:58 mircea_popescu o.O
20:58 mircea_popescu interesting.
20:58 mircea_popescu i didn't know it actually got THIS bad.
20:58 nubbins` same outlook as social insurance (social security for yanqis), but from a different angle
20:58 nubbins` "well if my old-age pension won't be there, at least i'll have my... uh.."
20:58 mircea_popescu reddit account.
20:58 mircea_popescu full of reddit gld.
20:59 nubbins` heh
20:59 nubbins` at least we've got our natural resourc...OH FUCK
21:02 thestringpuller mircea_popescu: where is your announcement that happened in nov - dec 2012 saying you were selling more shares of MPOE on MPEx?
21:02 thestringpuller it was slightly before the "MPOE is likely monetizing itself" article
21:02 nubbins` "Provincial budgeting has been off by an average of $800 million a year over the past seven years, largely due to inaccurate oil projections."
21:02 mircea_popescu just read the mpex category neh ?
21:03 thestringpuller i will when butthurt ddoser decides to stop ruining the nice things for us
21:03 nubbins` he's outta credits
21:03 nubbins` incidentally, my trilema cookie was the one thing i didn't save when i wiped this machine
21:04 thestringpuller i backed my trilema cookie up via gpg on a bunch of sites like dropbox
21:04 thestringpuller since I lost it twice in 2012
21:08 asciilifeform pension << 'the last bullet health'n'life-insurance-and-pension co.'
21:09 asciilifeform lizard hitler << at 'meta-nsa' naturally, where else
21:10 asciilifeform (for folks who want a more 'upbeat' figure as an example for a leaf of living matter inside bureaucratic garbage compactor - try korolev.)
21:11 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: incidentally, how does korolev fit in your analysis of 'how much would satan have to pay to be loved' ?
21:12 asciilifeform or lev theremin, for that matter
21:12 mircea_popescu i thought it was "evil governmen t" not stan ?
21:12 asciilifeform satan
21:12 asciilifeform fact is, we have numerous historic examples of folks who did first-class creative work while prisoners.
21:13 mircea_popescu thestringpuller try nao ?
21:14 mircea_popescu asciilifeform myeah. it doesn't fit.
21:14 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: so it would follow that usg has a model recipe to follow.
21:15 asciilifeform all it has to do is 'supply the chicken'
21:15 mircea_popescu yes. the man who wants to make woman cheese has a recipe to follow : https://shanachan.org/fetish/res/11776.html
21:16 mircea_popescu whether this is workable or not is in the end their problem.
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21:16 asciilifeform !b 2
21:16 xanthyos woah wtf
21:16 thestringpuller oh boy stuff is loading!
21:18 mircea_popescu in the end the whole discussion neatly reduces to whether men are more like cows or more like mice.
21:19 mircea_popescu xanthyos if you ever want to get a militant feminist rabid, tell her to stop bitching about dairy farm conditions, it's just patriarchy's dry run for her and her kind.
21:19 mircea_popescu that usually keeps them for a good half hour.
21:21 hanbot mircea_popescu: hanbot mail the man would you. << so emailed.
21:25 decimation excellent!
21:26 decimation https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_quarterly/the_parable_of_the_tail_with_no_teeth.pdf << another amusing gem
21:29 decimation asciilifeform: "supply chicken" << I get the general impression that the 'chicken' volunteers
21:29 decimation I'm not really sure usg even knows how to 'supply'
21:30 decimation as a gradually larger portion of the 'sane class' in the us begins to perceive usg as more of an enemy than a friend, I suspect the quality of 'chicken' will degrade further.
21:31 xanthyos mircea_popescu: it's a shame you're not on twitter anymore with that content
21:31 mircea_popescu decimation it is usually how it works in practice.
21:32 mircea_popescu mind that the fact that it so works in practice is no actual proof.
21:32 mircea_popescu for all we know, it is *possible* it dun happen this time. wink wink.
21:33 decimation http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3565869.shtml
21:34 assbot Video shows two men's confrontation with NSA recruiter at UNM | KOB.com
21:34 decimation I suspect that pre-snowden, this kind of thing rarely happened
21:37 asciilifeform decimation: lol!!
21:38 asciilifeform where is my nsa beating!?
21:38 decimation another lol http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/17/how-the-nsa-recruits-in-a-post-snowden-world.html << "“We need to recruit from Snowden’s generation,” admitted former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden last July. “The challenge is how to recruit this talent while also protecting ourselves from the small fraction of the population that has this romantic attachment to absolute transparency at all costs.”"
21:38 assbot How the NSA Recruits in a Post-Snowden World - The Daily Beast
21:39 * asciilifeform watched, disappointed, no beating
21:39 undata tut tut, hapless romantics
21:39 decimation yeah the actual video is pretty lame
21:39 decimation annoy the shit out of some gov't clerk, he lashes out, news at 11
21:39 asciilifeform 'why did you choose to come and heckle a government agency, which is honestly trying to recruit?!'
21:40 decimation asciilifeform: can you imagine a similar conversation at a soviet university at the kgb recruiting desk?
21:40 asciilifeform decimation: can you picture a kgb recruiting desk?
21:40 asciilifeform decimation: this is not how things worked.
21:40 decimation exactly. Thus, the quality of chicken
21:41 mircea_popescu "from the small fraction of the population that has this romantic attachment to absolute transparency at all costs." < < the sweetest sugar of etatism,
21:41 decimation mircea_popescu: he doesn't even realize either
21:41 mircea_popescu "that people who hate us, in principle, exactly for what we are, are a REALLY small fraction"
21:41 mircea_popescu well, fatlogic.
21:42 asciilifeform magic combo of hate + ability + balls, note. small fraction.
21:42 undata "
21:42 mircea_popescu asciilifeform not what the man said.
21:42 undata grrr... bad paste
21:42 decimation although to be fair, I'm sure in his world as long as he has some poll that implies that 50% of usian support whatever he is planning to do, he would consider it 'legitimate'
21:43 undata "Potter says he is still deciding if he will press charges for assault." << this is weak
21:43 asciilifeform usg is an 'oderint, dum metuant' kinda thing.
21:43 mircea_popescu decimation indeed, up until that point where i make a poll where 200mn vote for him to surgically attach a cow vagina on his forehead
21:43 mircea_popescu sudenly the entire polling thing won't be as legitimate.
21:44 mircea_popescu asciilifeform that's nonsense. nobody fears it.
21:44 mircea_popescu and nobody hates it, either. the usg is widely despised, and in some quarters reviled.
21:45 decimation http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/united-states-of-secrets/transcript-61/ << hayden 'in the moment' << "And Michael Hayden goes home after briefing the president and the vice president about his ideas for expanding surveillance and takes a walk with his wife. ... "And when it gets public, it’s going to be very controversial. And the people doing it are going to be swept into this thing.” And
21:45 assbot Transcript | United States of Secrets | FRONTLINE | PBS
21:45 decimation she said, “Uh-huh. Is it the right thing to do?” “Yeah, I think so.” She said, “OK, we’ll deal with that when it comes.”"
21:45 mircea_popescu what'd you want the woman to say.
21:46 decimation I guess my point is, if you are looking for 'lizard hitler', here he is - a couple of high level derps decide they can 'get away with X' and convince themselves that 'it's the right thing'
21:47 mircea_popescu this is not what would fill that costume.
21:47 mircea_popescu in that it's neither a lizard nor hitler.
21:49 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2014#922788
21:49 assbot Logged on 15-11-2014 00:54:02; assbot: Logged on 14-11-2014 22:24:42; asciilifeform: (for n00bs only: who is 'lizard hitler' ? a character approximately as real as magnetic field lines were to michael faraday. don't look for magnetic field lines, they aren't there. physically. or as far as we can tell, anyway.)
21:50 thestringpuller mircea_popescu: so anyone know this Khalahan Henkh fellow ? << anyone respond to this?
21:50 mircea_popescu nope.
21:50 thestringpuller i think i can get an inquiry with him
21:50 mircea_popescu that's ok.
21:51 mircea_popescu asciilifeform ok, but they still have to be... you know, NOT wet pasta.
21:51 asciilifeform tenure revokes itself, car bombs plant themselves, nailguns - fire themselves, of course. and single-engine airplanes go down regularly for no particular reason.
21:51 thestringpuller ah. what did you want with the namecoin guy?
21:51 mircea_popescu thestringpuller i wanted to see if anyone knows him. "can get an inquiry with" is the opposite of that.
21:52 thestringpuller he's in wot you kno?
21:52 decimation asciilifeform: if 'lizard hitler' is a physical entity, he's probably not working for usg
21:52 thestringpuller ;;gettrust khal
21:52 gribble WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user thestringpuller to user khal: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=thestringpuller&dest=khal | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=khal | Rated since: Tue May 10 13:27:55 2011
21:52 decimation at least not as an employee
21:52 asciilifeform employer.
21:53 mircea_popescu decimation it'd be the big bad, by definition. it only exists conceptually to accomodate asciilifeform's rampant pareidolia :D
21:53 asciilifeform at any rate, physical 'hitlers' are not a necessary hypothesis. ussr was perfectly capable of plugging a poor sod on a london bridge with poison umbrella, without competent leadership
21:54 asciilifeform empire can commit any kind of elaborate crimes without leader. only thing it can't do without leader is - survive in long term
21:54 asciilifeform but that's a separate puzzle
21:54 decimation asciilifeform: the best explanation for that kind of thing would be some low-level derp with a hard-on for a particular agenda, who initiates - and the rest of the bureaucracy 'leads from behind'
21:54 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you could say teh plugging with ricin episode was the result of competent kgb leadership neh ?
21:54 decimation or the polonium?
21:54 mircea_popescu o hey, beat at it again...
21:55 asciilifeform competent leadership in one particular lab - yes
21:55 mircea_popescu xanthyos what's tinychat ?
21:56 mircea_popescu jurov: coinbr is getting 30k pingbacks/minute << did it do anything ?
21:58 mircea_popescu xanthyos: i don't use keybase but my key was generated there <<< "your".
22:00 decimation at any rate nailguns, cars, polonium, ricin, these smack of a weak sovereign, not a strong one. who asked anyone in the 'chinese government' before they did something in Shanghai circa 1920?
22:01 mircea_popescu ;;google "can nobody rid me of this insolent priest"
22:01 gribble Will No One Rid Me Of This Modified Noun-Phrase? | Josh Millard ...: <http://www.joshmillard.com/2010/05/12/will-no-one-rid-me-of-this-modified-noun-phrase/>; Pageant Post Cards: <http://www.auelib.aichi-edu.ac.jp/lib/postcards/pagent.html>; Our Anglican Roots: St. Thomas Becket - Free Republic: <http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1456082/posts>
22:01 decimation 'becket' was actually a decent movie
22:01 asciilifeform public wetwork, chattering newspapers - weak king; private discreet beheading now and again - strong.
22:01 mircea_popescu it's a much better play.
22:02 decimation mircea_popescu: which play, the private beheading?
22:03 mircea_popescu it's a joke i was hoping to get in the bash.
22:03 mircea_popescu cause samuel, see.
22:03 asciilifeform this is much like judging restaurant quality by inverse of count of mousetraps.
22:03 asciilifeform at best, a one-way measure
22:04 mircea_popescu asciilifeform more like, judging dentist by inverse count of loud screams on the premises ; plastic surgeon by inverse count of lawsuits.
22:04 mircea_popescu knew a chick that did both, she had superb tits and splendid teeth.
22:04 asciilifeform or let's try a degenerate case - hassan i sabbah
22:05 asciilifeform governed entirely by dagger-in-the-night
22:05 asciilifeform worked well enough.
22:06 asciilifeform every little boy wants to be an intelligence chief; but every intelligence chief - wants to be hassan.
22:07 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i think you may be conflating things. guy a) lived on a mountain ; b) among an ethnically opressed majority that he supported ; c) against a technologically advanced foreign power.
22:07 mircea_popescu the rest's just icing, much like saying "robin hood governed Sherwood County by arrow."
22:07 mircea_popescu first off, sherwood was a ... wood.
22:07 asciilifeform ^ yes
22:08 xanthyos mircea_popescu: tinychat is a badly coded insecure site where degenerates go on webcam to be codependent alcoholics and prey on underage girls
22:09 mircea_popescu so basically social media
22:09 xanthyos if you didn't want to play chess against birdman with that gui i doubt you'd want to load tinychat
22:09 xanthyos yes
22:11 asciilifeform that film of the recruiter monkey parroting nsa verbiage was memorably pathetic
22:12 asciilifeform what must it be like to be, literally, employed as human tape deck ?
22:13 mircea_popescu asciilifeform ask diana what's her name, the sec senior counsel chick.
22:14 mircea_popescu heck, ask obama.
22:14 decimation asciilifeform: all powers to say things are reserved to the top tier of usg
22:14 decimation obama has to ask valarie jarret
22:14 mircea_popescu lol
22:15 mircea_popescu decimation admire this funny : early frankish kings were physically weak in a world that had but contempt for weaklings. they saw a way out in hiring bodyguards, which was convenient. for charlemagne.
22:15 mircea_popescu early us kings were intellectually weak, in world that had but contempt for weaklings. they saw a way out in hiring "pr", people to protect them from the deep waters of speech and thought.
22:15 mircea_popescu which was convenient. for...
22:16 assbot Last 3 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/31ZFBVT.txt )
22:16 asciilifeform !b 3
22:16 decimation hehe yeah
22:16 decimation we await our caesar
22:17 decimation http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/fire-valerie-jarrett-112659.html << " If her role in this administration reflected reality, Jarrett would be called “First Big Sister” to both Michelle and Barack. "
22:17 assbot Fire Valerie Jarrett - Carol Felsenthal - POLITICO Magazine
22:18 decimation I'm pretty sure obama just signs what he is told to sign and reads what he is told to read off the appropriate prompter
22:18 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-10-2014#892643
22:18 assbot Logged on 24-10-2014 04:44:03; asciilifeform: 'At the 1980 Olympics, Brezhnev begins his speech. "O!"—applause. "O!"—an ovation. "O!!!"—the whole audience stands up and applauds. An aide comes running to the podium and whispers, "Leonid Ilyich, those are the Olympic logo rings, you don't need to read all of them!"'
22:19 decimation http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100248221/bill-ayers-confesses-to-writing-obamas-memoir-he-didnt-but-his-tease-tells-us-a-lot-about-america/
22:19 assbot Bill Ayers 'confesses' to writing Obama's memoir. He didn't, but his tease tells us a lot about America – Telegraph Blogs
22:20 decimation the lady doth protest too much
22:21 asciilifeform i once saw this man alive.
22:21 asciilifeform was more or less exactly as i imagined.
22:21 decimation who Ayers?
22:21 asciilifeform aha
22:21 decimation crazy hippie bomber?
22:21 asciilifeform no
22:21 asciilifeform 'resistance through culture' as described in mircea_popescu's articles
22:22 decimation yeah Obama is pretty much the peak achievement of that 'movement', I don't see much more upside for them
22:22 * mircea_popescu is confused.
22:23 decimation mircea_popescu: perhaps I'm wrong, but in the us there is a context of the 'hippie boomer' generation who are all 'retiring' now
22:24 mircea_popescu ah
22:24 decimation obama is their wet dream, in the sense that they have finally overturned (superficiality) "the man's" institutions
22:24 asciilifeform actually they all entered 'public life' long ago, as the most loathesomely loyal cocksuckers imaginable.
22:25 decimation in 'public life', they were immediately schooled by fdr's sycophants who were exiting power at the time
22:27 decimation this is one reason why usg is still fdr's usg (that and the fact that they and their friends razed the world in wwii)
22:28 thestringpuller fdr's usg, but a lot more bankrupt.
22:28 mircea_popescu well, not this, that.
22:29 asciilifeform decimation: in wwii << after invention of nuke, they realized that much as they would love to repeat the performance again and again as necessary, might put their own arses in peril. so - settled for a slow and continuous version of this.
22:29 mircea_popescu decimation let's be fair here : you're a freshman, there's 12 kids in senior year. eleven strip naked, pour gasoline over each other and set themselves ablaze. the 12th puts them out by running into them backwards then continues to run backwards into things for a week or so, until he's finally comatose and just spazzes quietly on the ground.
22:29 mircea_popescu if those are your two choices, who do you vote most likely to succeed ?
22:30 decimation good point
22:31 mircea_popescu by practical standards, the us did really well in the 20th century.
22:31 decimation sure, in terms of trade, production, etc
22:32 mircea_popescu even in terms of... not... pouring gasoline on own head and lighting it. twice.
22:45 decimation https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00133.html << lol, this kind of bellyaching over.. systemd?
22:52 thestringpuller doesn't surprise me after discussions here...
22:52 decimation "Everyone is conservative about what he knows best. " << Conquest's first law of politics
22:57 mircea_popescu decimation one of the most interesting aspects of systemd is the irrationality of the proponents. it's almost as if you're discussing theology with the flat earth society or geophysics with the global warming cult of washington dc.
22:58 mircea_popescu technologically it's about as notable as windows notepad, but sociologically... wow, ze goldmine.
22:59 mircea_popescu "Today, now, before the results are announced, we have an opportunity to extend compassion and empathy and remind ourselves of the spirit in which we'd like to work together." << lmao fuck that.
22:59 mircea_popescu who wants to work in an environment of "compassion" ? what are these people, retards ?
23:00 decimation yeah, if anything this is a loud bell ringing to anyone 'sane': "these people are crazy, now's the time to exit!"
23:00 mircea_popescu "I'm hoping that we can all take a few minutes to gain empathy for those who disagree with us." << derping about "empathy" -> straight to the uranium mines.
23:00 mircea_popescu "Then I'm hoping we can use that understanding to
23:00 mircea_popescu reassure them that they are valued and respected and their concerns
23:00 mircea_popescu considered even when we end up strongly disagreeing with them or valuing
23:00 mircea_popescu different things."
23:00 mircea_popescu i mewan look at that hollow, empty bullshit.
23:00 mircea_popescu "oh, so you want to wear pants ? fuck you, you're wearing a skirt.
23:00 mircea_popescu aaaaaaaaaaaaand, you're valued and respected. bitch."
23:01 mircea_popescu this is the ultimate theft, these people are trying to introduce into the world. they wish to steal not merely the farmer's cow,
23:01 mircea_popescu but to also steal the farmer's "having being stolen from"
23:01 mircea_popescu to steal a concept, what a riotous approach.
23:02 decimation I don't think any future historian will fail to notice the parallels between this and usg's way of doing business
23:02 mircea_popescu who is this fuckface ayway ?
23:03 mircea_popescu the kerberos guy ? uh.
23:04 mircea_popescu i dunno if i'm the only one privy to the history of that protocol ?
23:05 mircea_popescu perhaps an instructive case study as to how usg protocol confiscation works in the field.
23:06 decimation I think kerberos came from mit right?
23:06 decimation sam hartman is some developer I guess, but somehow has 'influence'
23:07 mircea_popescu decimation kerberos was developed by mit in the 80s. a gutted export version was created. as the usg was going to (again) change its export restriction in 2000,
23:07 mircea_popescu the gutted thing was reimplemented by some nordic country university
23:08 mircea_popescu then a few years later windows migrated to "kerberos" as its primary security protocol
23:08 decimation it's still a nightmare to deploy to this day, for sure
23:08 decimation indeed it did
23:08 mircea_popescu sam hartman is a 30something nobody, roughly speaking a debian gmaxwell
23:08 mircea_popescu except he's not fat, he's blind.
23:08 decimation in fact one of the supposed prime 'benefits' of redhat enterprise is that it can 'hook up to' a windows active directory server which acts as an ldap/krb ticket server
23:09 mircea_popescu myeah.
23:09 mircea_popescu im completely unclear as to why the fuck usg wants the "one computer system" so badly anyway.
23:09 thestringpuller ;;isup qntra.net
23:10 gribble qntra.net is down
23:10 thestringpuller ;;isup trilema.com
23:10 gribble trilema.com is down
23:10 decimation mircea_popescu: the simplest answer is probably because usg is full of hartmans and gmaxwells
23:11 thestringpuller decimation: what about jgarzik's?
23:12 mircea_popescu thestringpuller myeah. bbs.
23:15 decimation well, considering usg employs 4 million people, I suspect there is at least one of each http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-documentation/federal-employment-reports/historical-tables/total-government-employment-since-1962/
23:16 mircea_popescu fuckign to-feeling arguments in THE MOTHERFUCKING DEBIAN LISTS.
23:16 mircea_popescu there's nothing to save here. just burn the entire stack where it stands an' that's that.
23:17 joecool apt-get purge feelings
23:17 mircea_popescu no but srsly, that letter is an exact summary of everything that's wrong with the english language space.
23:18 mircea_popescu There isn't a right answer. As Russ has explained a number of times in the TC, on debian-vote and on his blog, this is about tradeoffs. I'm sure some people will be happy if the project's values are aligned with theirs. When they take that as far as saying the project made the "right decision" or rejected "bad options," they are not valuing the contributions of those who disagreed with them.
23:18 mircea_popescu i mean check it out. "there's no wrong thing" now.
23:18 mircea_popescu the point of discussion is not to discover the wrong alternatives, or the right alternatives.
23:18 mircea_popescu the point of discussion is to suck each other off
23:18 mircea_popescu and then driveby's have the unmitigated audacity to discuss #b-a cult-ness. how do you like that!
23:19 mircea_popescu five fucking centuries of european intellectual heritate, which is the exactly ONLY reason the US even exists in the first place, down the drain. "We wanna be africans now. Hold hands."
23:19 mircea_popescu let's fucking "value each other's" banana peels and sing koombaya.
23:20 * mats_cd03 sings softly
23:21 * thestringpuller joins in singing
23:21 mircea_popescu anyway, seems to me clear teh usg-debian believes it got the votes
23:21 mircea_popescu someone should make a bitbet about it, i'd throw a few cents.
23:22 asciilifeform insult to perfectly adequate monkeys, who fight and occasionally settle matters in their monkey bands
23:22 mats_cd03 !up Vexual
23:22 mircea_popescu asciilifeform yeah well, at some point im gotta have to insult some unfortunate bystanding trashbag or something, or else collapse into A = A circularity.
23:22 mats_cd03 poor guy. cut outta the fold after bein' a regular for... what was it, a year plus?
23:22 mircea_popescu "boy that sam h sounds just like a sam h"
23:22 asciilifeform lol
23:22 mats_cd03 gotta loosen up on the mad ravings my good man
23:24 asciilifeform debian compassion << cthonian horrors of the eldritch depths.
23:24 thestringpuller sometimes the ravings of a madman is wisdom, other times just noise.
23:24 mircea_popescu asciilifeform have you ever seen something this idiotic ?
23:25 decimation it is a neat little experiment in 'infinite democracy'
23:25 mircea_popescu i mean, the "other speeds more important to us" thing is nowhere near.
23:25 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: only mr. spam comes close
23:25 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: actually this connects to the thread from earlier today re: patterns of speech.
23:27 thestringpuller ;;seen cazalla
23:27 gribble cazalla was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 hours, 46 minutes, and 55 seconds ago: <cazalla> i guess ddos is back :\
23:28 asciilifeform kerberos << among the many deliberately complex edifices of the u.s. department of wintel.
23:28 asciilifeform a 'mouse farm' (in the sense of my article 'don't blame the mice')
23:30 asciilifeform of course, anyone with even a spitting familiarity with software crud world knows that lizard hitler does not need to order these into existence - they happen naturally
23:30 asciilifeform if you simply gather enough filth in one place
23:30 asciilifeform and let it go
23:31 thestringpuller My University uses Kerberos everywhere for logging in.
23:32 asciilifeform compare with, e.g., 'gribble auth'
23:33 asciilifeform a sausage and a turd are rather different, even if both cylindrical and both given shape by a piece of gut
23:34 mircea_popescu lol nice one.
23:35 mircea_popescu but anyway, it's not just "gather enough filth in one place"
23:35 mircea_popescu it's moreover "make cleanning illegal"
23:35 asciilifeform well yes, how else will it stay gathered.
23:35 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: they wish to steal not merely the farmer's cow, but to also steal the farmer's "having being stolen from" << usg (and the 'enlightenment') in one sentence.
23:36 mircea_popescu pretty much
23:36 mircea_popescu they figure they thus improved on the soviets,
23:36 asciilifeform 'we rape you but wait we didn't because you are not a you, one cannot rape furniture'
23:36 mircea_popescu which merely took the cow, and the voice under duress
23:37 mircea_popescu asciilifeform think about how the cock felt!11
23:37 asciilifeform l0l!
23:37 mircea_popescu if you were a cock - which you obviously are not bwahhhaha i need a minute here lmao - if you were a cock
23:37 mircea_popescu wouldn't you want some tight ass too ? so then ?
23:37 decimation 'we voted and this is the best course of action'
23:38 mircea_popescu "have some empathy for the people who want to take a shit on the collected effort of the people you happen to respect! they're people too!"
23:38 mircea_popescu except this'd be th every definition of not being people. if they were people they'd do something else for a living.
23:38 asciilifeform we may not like the cancer cell, but it 'works'. debian - dead.
23:38 asciilifeform resquiat in pace.
23:39 decimation do something else < which is why debian is now dead, as ascii wrote
23:39 decimation redhat is going down the same tube, in the long run
23:40 asciilifeform the cancer will spread to wherever it can
23:40 asciilifeform doesn't need an objective, or a plan
23:40 mircea_popescu THEM. not fucking me jesus christ.
23:41 mircea_popescu when some kid is annoying you don't pick up and leave, you punch him in the nose.
23:42 asciilifeform obligatory: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-07-2014#774690
23:42 assbot Logged on 28-07-2014 19:19:31; asciilifeform: 'Learn not to participate - to the point of utter impossibility of meeting the enemy 'half-way' - and you will see that inside there lay a very useful mindfuck: in learning to 'nonparticipate,' in fact you drew out your *will* from its scabbard - to which it seemed so securely riveted by your upbringing. The appearance of *your will* changes everything and forever. With your own will slipped into your
23:42 nubbins` but with debian dead, where do i turn
23:43 mircea_popescu i propose in this case "not participation" is punching some blind twerp right in the face.
23:43 asciilifeform if folks understood 'do not meet the enemy halfway' we would never have even heard of systemd.
23:44 asciilifeform as such, you have to surgically remove its metastases even from a fresh 'gentoo'
23:44 asciilifeform and if you forget to flip a switch - there it will be, staring right in your face
23:45 nubbins` o.O osx comes with a python script that merges pdf files
23:45 decimation lol I thought 'preview' did that
23:46 nubbins` yeah, but you gotta do it one at a time that way
23:46 nubbins` here i say join.py -o merged.pdf *.pdf
23:47 asciilifeform !s teaching the controversy
23:47 assbot 1 results for 'teaching the controversy' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=teaching+the+controversy
23:47 nubbins` and by the time i explain why this is better, i've got an 800mb merged.pdf waiting for me
23:48 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2014#827667 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2014#827668
23:48 assbot Logged on 12-09-2014 16:47:05; asciilifeform: once you've been 'taught the controversy' - that is, convincing that there -even is- reasonable debate among informed people, on a particular subject - the lie becomes a kind of half-truth, automagically
23:48 assbot Logged on 12-09-2014 16:47:19; asciilifeform: because suddenly, there is (or you think there is) a debate. with 'sides.'
23:48 asciilifeform ^ re: how the cancer rolls.
23:48 asciilifeform what's more, this follows inescapably from any situation, anywhere, where someone gets to 'score nonzero points' merely for showing up.
23:49 asciilifeform all you have to do, then, is to pile on the meat puppets, until suddenly there is a 'controversy', and there are 'points of view', and eventually - a 'consensus.'
23:51 mircea_popescu top - 23:51:11 up 15 min, 2 users, load average: 5153.36, 3287.44, 1431.04
23:51 mircea_popescu lel.
23:51 mircea_popescu anyone ever seen better ?
23:51 nubbins` dat load
23:53 mircea_popescu asciilifeform in fairness, there's a lot of value to teaching the controversy.
23:53 mircea_popescu it just has to be a controversy between actual people.
23:54 asciilifeform the phrase is a term of art from u.s. propaganda schools.
23:54 asciilifeform being the first step of a recipe for convincing folks of something that would otherwise be readily apparent as lunacy
23:54 mircea_popescu it is, true.
23:55 asciilifeform see also, related, 'fear, uncertainty, and doubt.'
23:55 mircea_popescu i have this baby in bathwater obsession, myself. "teaching the controversy" is just americanized, which is to say, "cut into bits and rubbed in shit" hegelian dialectics.
23:55 asciilifeform well yes.
23:55 decimation proto-marxism?
23:57 mircea_popescu ymmv, but to my eyes it's perfectly good science.
23:57 mircea_popescu (hegel's, that is)
23:58 thestringpuller ;;isup qntra.net
23:58 gribble qntra.net is down
23:58 nubbins` ooo i shouldn't have used the wifi connection to send this print job
23:58 asciilifeform at the very least, perfectly good chumpatronic engineering.
23:58 nubbins` ;/
23:58 nubbins` why!
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