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00:00 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: These are more typically. Hold button, trivial test of "familiar with idea of heavy equipment or not"
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00:26 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo cool.
00:28 mircea_popescu anti-materiel rifle srsly ?
00:28 mircea_popescu asciilifeform against small children.
00:29 mircea_popescu the logic is sound : hominid sufficiently advanced to understand trickery of hidden button should also be sufficiently advanced to not crash it.
00:29 ben_vulpes random entertaining systemderps https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1449001
00:30 mod6 Ada Field Report: 1) Perl is fast. 2) Working with Strings.Fixed, oofda. 3) Verify Seals works!
00:30 mircea_popescu in similar systemg news, http://68.media.tumblr.com/a2dad8c30f1ba72c0d93eb811f214a07/tumblr_oq76wrXI9V1usy7s5o1_500.gif
00:30 mod6 my eyes
00:30 mircea_popescu mod6> Ada Field Report: 1) Perl is fast. <<< dat discreet trollage
00:31 mod6 lol
00:34 mircea_popescu !!key elaineo
00:34 deedbot Not registered.
00:34 mircea_popescu !!up elaineo
00:34 deedbot elaineo voiced for 30 minutes.
00:35 mircea_popescu !!help
00:35 deedbot http://deedbot.org/help.html
00:35 mircea_popescu elaineo ^
00:35 ben_vulpes ohai elaineo
00:35 elaineo hai (registering nick now)
00:36 mod6 <+ben_vulpes> random entertaining systemderps https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1449001 << fall back to getting googholed huh?
00:37 * mircea_popescu would propose writing for qntra, but sadly qntra encountered an arrow to the knee
00:38 elaineo !!register http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/wGuML/?raw=true
00:38 deedbot 197174F8BC084AFB0532FFC3885B7AF2D2264BC0 registered as elaineo.
00:39 mircea_popescu !!rate elaineo 2 somehow manages to write unirritatingly while also academia. i have yet no theory as to how this is possible.
00:39 deedbot Get your OTP: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/uWgqM/?raw=true
00:39 mircea_popescu !!v D4088521A7610AB73BAEDE6391EB686B1BDAD174263DFECC60AD9707A0674ECD
00:39 deedbot mircea_popescu rated elaineo 2 << somehow manages to write unirritatingly while also academia. i have yet no theory as to how this is possible.
00:39 elaineo left academia 5 years ago
00:39 mircea_popescu 4evar & evar ?!
00:39 elaineo yeah, i didn't get tenure
00:40 mircea_popescu wouldn't that be moar like it left you ?
00:40 elaineo well, i feel better about myself if i say that i was the one who left
00:40 mircea_popescu does it suck to not get tenure ?
00:40 elaineo it sucks a lot
00:40 mircea_popescu whyssat ?
00:41 elaineo cuz i spent a dozen years thinking that that would be my ultimate achievement in life
00:41 mircea_popescu to my mind it's a lot like abusive drunk with halitosis who also makes no money coming home one night to announce he wants a divorce.
00:42 mircea_popescu rather good news.
00:42 elaineo perhaps, but it's YOUR abusive drunk
00:42 mircea_popescu if they knew how to sell it, they'd be wondering why no men in academia rather than the current nonsense.
00:43 elaineo to be fair, it's a socially respectable career that doesn't require any serious work
00:43 mircea_popescu anyway. i spent one semester teaching myself. it helped a lot that i was one year junior to the people i was teaching and had great relationship with provost.
00:43 mircea_popescu but honestly...
00:44 elaineo i don't think academia is as retarded as it's portrayed in MSM. they amplify the worst parts
00:45 mircea_popescu elaineo the sort of people to whom it is socially respectable would respect you a lot more for i dunno, a gucci bag.
00:47 elaineo it's not just the career success, it also comes with pretend-asceticism. like a greek philosopher-king
00:47 mircea_popescu anyway, so what do you do now, something in the vein of http://trilema.com/2015/you-know-what-gets-no-airplay-unflattering-truth/ ?
00:51 BingoBoingo * mircea_popescu would propose writing for qntra, but sadly qntra encountered an arrow to the knee << This is no obstacle to writing for qntra. Merely an obstacle to getting puslished on Qntra. While disaster awaits a resolution one can still write to target qntra and settle for publishing elsewhere.
00:52 mircea_popescu there;s this feedback loop for writers. it's great to write->publish->read. think of it as a special sort of ooda loop.
00:52 elaineo @mircea_popescu working at a run-of-the mill cash-burning silicon valley tech company? yes.
00:53 mircea_popescu i'd ask you if it sucks but then again...
00:54 elaineo it's awesome. it's like perpetual grade school out here.
00:54 mircea_popescu um.
00:57 BingoBoingo elaineo: Are they props? http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/02/dont_settle_for_the_man_you_wa.html
01:01 elaineo the "Marry Him" author is correct
01:02 mircea_popescu ah you don't know ballas ?
01:02 elaineo Feminists are busy cultivating props for future generations
01:02 elaineo ballas?
01:02 mircea_popescu christos ballas, author of the indeed very good tlp blog
01:02 mircea_popescu sadly he meanwhile retreated into the bottle.
01:02 elaineo no, first time reading this site
01:03 mircea_popescu hm, lessee what other common loci you might have missed.
01:03 mircea_popescu dja know oglaf ?
01:03 elaineo no, i did not
01:03 mircea_popescu o hey. so check it out,
01:03 mircea_popescu !#s oglafbot
01:03 a111 26 results for "oglafbot", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=oglafbot
01:04 mircea_popescu grr
01:04 mircea_popescu !#s from:oglafbot
01:04 a111 91 results for "from:oglafbot", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=from%3Aoglafbot
01:04 mircea_popescu there we go. one of these days i'll even learn how all the tools work.
01:05 mircea_popescu to voice self say !!up to deedbot in pm, then decrypt the thing he gives tyou and say !!v to him with the otp
01:09 mircea_popescu dun dun dun
01:09 mircea_popescu and in other ancient lulz: https://elaineou.com/2009/04/03/advice-for-woman-seeking-500k-earning-man/
01:10 mircea_popescu check out the dumb broad, she imagines moneymaking scales, rich dude is going to get into the same arrangements with her as rando highschool boyfriend would.
01:10 mircea_popescu pro tip : rich guys take live-in slavegirls. doh.
01:14 oglafbot http://oglaf.com/gaugamela/
01:19 mircea_popescu elaineo dja understand how the wot works ?
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02:22 elaineo @mircea_popescu I understand how wots work in general, is there anything particular about the one for #trilema?
02:24 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2014/what-the-wot-is-for-how-it-works-and-how-to-use-it/ << you tell me.
02:24 mircea_popescu i've never encountered one that worked, outside of this one. but then again i lead a sheltered existence.
02:29 elaineo there was a dating service called coffee-meets-bagel that had a primitive version, not sure if they're still around
02:31 elaineo how is this wot stored?
02:34 elaineo !!wot
02:35 deedbot http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/eZ4Yo/?raw=true
02:35 mircea_popescu any way you wish.
02:36 elaineo i see...
02:36 mircea_popescu (if you put links in channel they're automatically archived, as for instance https://archive.is/btkJN for the above)
02:37 mircea_popescu deedbot also keeps a deeding service (think notarization for the new generation), backed by the full faith and credit of the bitcoin network.
02:38 mircea_popescu there's also the http://wot.deedbot.org/ visualiser ; but you can also make your own.
02:46 mircea_popescu asciilifeform https://elaineou.com/2014/12/18/how-radioshack-became-too-big-to-fail/ << check it out she (correctly) explains the radioshack mystery. fucking default swaps, hurr.
02:54 elaineo i've always felt that life insurance companies should be the ones paying for people's medical bills to keep them on life support.
02:54 elaineo incentives would be more aligned that way
02:54 mircea_popescu you familiar with the situation of flood insurance ?
02:55 elaineo no, what's up ?
02:55 mircea_popescu can't get any, it's not an economic activity.
02:55 mircea_popescu ~same would happen with life insurance, this isn't the 1890s anymore and yidish is not spoken in the home.
02:55 mircea_popescu if they didn't obamacare-equivalent it, it wouldn't exist.
02:56 elaineo what do you mean it's not an economic activity? you mean it's not profitable for the insurance company?
02:57 mircea_popescu no, i mean it can not be undertaken economically.
02:57 mircea_popescu do you understand why computers and software are extempt from the general consumer protections ?
02:57 elaineo no
02:58 mircea_popescu consider the risk profile. if you elaine ou do terrible sex work, that is one pissed off customer who's going to get a free cocktail and a voucher for a chance to win an hour with kardashian.
02:58 mircea_popescu if on the other hand you elaine ou do terrible software work, that is EVERY SINGLE CUSTOMER. there is no way a company can pay up.
02:58 elaineo okay, makes sense
02:59 mircea_popescu badly alligned risk profiles can turn something into a barren economic field.
02:59 mircea_popescu that's why wives aren't sold by open outcry, for instance.
03:01 elaineo aren't flood and life insurance companies only responsible for a single policy beneficiary?
03:01 mircea_popescu if it floods, it floods everyone.
03:01 elaineo okay, makes sense
03:01 mircea_popescu the problem with life insurance is more subtle, which is why it's not usually noticed
03:01 mircea_popescu by grad students.
03:01 elaineo are we expecting a pandemic or plague?
03:02 mircea_popescu anyway -- there's no way for a life insurance company to obtain an economic advantage over the competition. everyone has the same acturial tables.
03:02 mircea_popescu this means one of two things -- either they're run as state offices on the federal budget (which means they will turn from profitable to shit over a generation or two) or else they are run by rando scammers, trying to do the whole aluminum siding bit.
03:04 elaineo i guess in the current form it's a ponzi scheme like social security
03:05 mircea_popescu ie it's been run by govt (through some paper layers, but whatevs) for long enough to have turned to shit.
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03:54 mircea_popescu !!up RagnarDanneskjol
03:54 deedbot RagnarDanneskjol voiced for 30 minutes.
03:56 RagnarDanneskjol Howdy, just stopped by to wish y'all a happy MP day
04:01 mircea_popescu lol cheers
04:01 * mircea_popescu completely forgot he had a day
04:02 mircea_popescu when did this happen ?
04:02 RagnarDanneskjol have it on my calendar..
04:03 RagnarDanneskjol http://trilema.com/2014/today-is-the-international-day-of-remembering-how-mircea-popescu-is-better-than-me-and-related-observances/
04:04 mircea_popescu o hey. cool deal!
04:04 mircea_popescu ima have to tattoo this on someone.
04:04 RagnarDanneskjol heh
04:10 mircea_popescu so how's been life treating you /
04:11 RagnarDanneskjol as good as it can be in UStardland I suppose
04:11 RagnarDanneskjol wish I were in CR
04:12 mircea_popescu it's not bad.
04:12 RagnarDanneskjol I spent a lot of time there years ago
04:13 RagnarDanneskjol Hear its gone to crap a bit
04:13 mircea_popescu quite.
04:14 mircea_popescu everything's gone to crap, and the imbeciles responsible dare run around pretending the stupid-ass handhelds were "a great thing".
04:14 RagnarDanneskjol so it seems
04:14 mircea_popescu fucking screwflies are a greater thing, ophtalmomyasis comparatively a blessing.
04:15 RagnarDanneskjol ha
04:15 mircea_popescu (that's when maggots infect the actual eye, for the innocent)
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04:33 mircea_popescu !!up RagnarDanneskjol
04:33 deedbot RagnarDanneskjol voiced for 30 minutes.
04:33 mircea_popescu what happened to your key anyway ?
04:34 RagnarDanneskjol still have it, need to reg with new bot, will do so now
04:38 mircea_popescu try !!up
04:42 RagnarDanneskjol workin on it. key is on airgap machine
04:42 shinohai Hey, why it is
04:42 shinohai Trilema
04:42 shinohai Heretiquarium.
04:42 shinohai Hey *IS* Today is the International Day of Remembering How Mircea Popescu Is Better Than Me day after all.
04:46 mircea_popescu im off to bed.
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07:10 cruciform would anyone like to sell me 1-2 Fuckgoats for less than listed price?
~ 15 minutes ~
07:25 cruciform !later tell danielpbarron http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/hzD9k/?raw=true
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09:11 shinohai !~later tell pete_dushenski http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/4LmIr/?raw=true
09:11 jhvh1 shinohai: The operation succeeded.
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09:27 pete_dushenski shinohai: works!
09:29 danielpbarron !~later tell cruciform http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/8q3NF/?raw=true
09:29 jhvh1 danielpbarron: The operation succeeded.
09:34 cruciform danielpbarron http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/Yx5K0/?raw=true
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10:07 asciilifeform !~later tell cruciform i've nothing against folx buyin', sellin', secondhand FG, but i'm very curious re the psychology of 'would anyone... less than listed price' -- do you see it as overpriced ? or chasing after the abstract pleasure of pinching a penny ? or which is it.
10:07 jhvh1 asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
10:07 cruciform asciilifeform: it's underpriced
10:08 asciilifeform then even moar puzzling
10:08 cruciform puzzling that someone would pay <x, as opposed to x?
10:08 asciilifeform well, somebody who thinks 'underpriced'
10:08 asciilifeform but then also 'would somebody pleez sell for <x'
10:09 cruciform I'm puzzled by your puzzlement
10:09 mats poverty
10:10 asciilifeform !~ticker --market all
10:10 jhvh1 asciilifeform: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 3946.99, vol: 15244.20132520 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 3946.7, vol: 39514.97380202 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 3754.92, vol: 1567.38260000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 3943.9, vol: 5271.96748622 | Volume-weighted last average: 3941.65226023
10:10 cruciform but very grateful for your work in making the device
10:10 asciilifeform !~calc 3946.99 * 0.0395
10:10 jhvh1 asciilifeform: 3946.99 * 0.0395 = 155.906105
10:10 diana_coman cruciform, I don't get it either: if you think NSA price is low anyway, then why are you looking for some other place to buy it for even less?
10:11 asciilifeform that's less than your ~chair~ prolly cost
10:11 diana_coman basically looking for subsidies or what?
10:11 * diana_coman is genuinely rather puzzled on this one
10:11 cruciform diana_coman: do you check multiple vendors before you buy the widget?
10:11 diana_coman which "the widget"?
10:12 cruciform diana_coman: beer, superglue, puppies; whatever
10:12 asciilifeform cruciform: if you 'just want' 'an rng, dun matter what kind' -- the cost is 0, your cpu maker already supplied you with a liquishit rng
10:12 diana_coman well, it's not whatever really; as far as I know there is only one maker of FG; and moreover, if I think the "widget" is underpriced then no, I don't waste time running around to ask maybe it's even more underpriced sort of thing
10:13 cruciform asciilifeform: I want auditable RNG, and rolling dice is putting me on tilt
10:13 asciilifeform diana_coman: i will add, for extra pedantism, that there are always TWO potential sources for FG : s.nsa, and OWN HANDS ( schematics and soft are published, go, make )
10:13 diana_coman I don't have anything against others doing whatever, obv, just sort of ...not making sense to me
10:13 asciilifeform it dun get any moar auditable than item you made with own hands.
10:13 cruciform diana_coman: the whole point is that it's auditable, so why does it matter where you get it from?
10:14 diana_coman asciilifeform, there is that
10:14 asciilifeform i even described how you can substitute mercury switches for the analogue boards, if you only need a byte/minute or so , as in dice
10:14 diana_coman cruciform, where did I say that?
10:15 cruciform diana_coman: that would be the only advantage in paying more when buying directly from vendor
10:16 diana_coman what puzzles is a. why would someone buy it from nsa to then sell it cheaper (admittedly it is possible though, anything is possible) b. if it's underpriced how is it worth it to spend *time* in order to get somehow possibly (not even surely) a slightly cheaper price
10:16 asciilifeform cruciform: the real advantage is that you can actually get it, reliably, from vendor. whereas right now you're stuck looking for somebody with too many, that he itches to get rid of at a loss, to sell you cheaply.
10:16 asciilifeform ( granted there may be such a person, i have nfi )
10:17 diana_coman cruciform, ah, so this is about "maybe there is somewhere a deal and I pay 1 dime less?
10:17 asciilifeform cruciform: i must inform you that we recently dropped the price, on account of rising btc/usd , and most of the folx who presently own FG, paid ~more~ than is today being charged
10:17 cruciform for the record, it took ~30minutes to procure 2 units @10% below spot from a member of WoT
10:18 asciilifeform oh so congrats cruciform
10:18 asciilifeform loox like he already has his cheap FG !
10:18 diana_coman asciilifeform, by now I suspect it's more a thing on the lines of "gotta have cheapest price possible or else sucker"
10:18 danielpbarron !~later tell cruciform http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/iy0Tk/?raw=true
10:18 jhvh1 danielpbarron: The operation succeeded.
10:18 diana_coman cruciform, worx then
10:20 diana_coman by asciilifeform's calc earlier that would be $15 saved
10:21 asciilifeform i'ma laugh if d00d confesses that he had to pay for postage ( s.nsa does not charge for postage... ) and it was == $15
10:21 diana_coman cruciform, if you don't mind for my curiosity: does the difference actually matter or above what threshold does it matter?
10:21 diana_coman asciilifeform, ahahaha
10:21 cruciform perhaps I particulary want to patronise my vendor
10:22 cruciform diana_coman: not at all; as I said: I'd pay far more than NSA price
10:22 asciilifeform cruciform: it is because of this statement that you are getting puzzled stares
10:22 diana_coman aha, so I got it right earlier: it's about cheapest price or else sucker
10:22 asciilifeform otherwise nobody'd raise a brow, healthy market in used FG is not a badthing
10:25 cruciform man at till says it'll be $10; you give him $20 just because?
10:27 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-26#1717379 << asciilifeform was even luckier, was vomited forth forever from the belly of the beast before even could set foot in grad school
10:27 a111 Logged on 2017-09-26 04:41 elaineo: cuz i spent a dozen years thinking that that would be my ultimate achievement in life
10:28 diana_coman cruciform, for one thing man at till is not producer - while I don't give "man at till" extra for the product itself (I might give him for the service if warranted, what), I might even want to give producer more if I consider what he does to be a great thing; payment is support at the end of the day; anyway keeping with your example the thing would be: man at till says it'll be $10, do you ask around in the shop if anyone sells
10:28 diana_coman a 2nd hand one cheaper; fine to do it, sure, just ...surprising
10:28 asciilifeform ( but then worked as civilian hired help, at civilian pay, for academics, but then quit even this )
10:29 cruciform diana_coman: no disrespect intended to vendor
10:29 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-26#1717418 << fwiw 500k/annum ( unless in cash, for dealing black market plutonium ) is not 'rich' in usaschwitz, it typically comes with 450k/annum house+commute/etc
10:29 a111 Logged on 2017-09-26 05:10 mircea_popescu: check out the dumb broad, she imagines moneymaking scales, rich dude is going to get into the same arrangements with her as rando highschool boyfriend would.
10:31 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-26#1717447 << courts have no problem handing out verdicts loser 'could not possibly pay' in other circumstances. as in recent thread re janitor who burned down submarine
10:31 a111 Logged on 2017-09-26 06:58 mircea_popescu: if on the other hand you elaine ou do terrible software work, that is EVERY SINGLE CUSTOMER. there is no way a company can pay up.
10:31 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-26#1717444 << because microshit, and really ~no other reason
10:31 a111 Logged on 2017-09-26 06:57 mircea_popescu: do you understand why computers and software are extempt from the general consumer protections ?
10:32 asciilifeform if builders in babylon succeeded in petitioning hammurabi for same 'protections' as programmers got in 1980s -- we would still live in houses that fall down regularly, crushing everyone inside, and it would be considered 'normal'
10:34 * asciilifeform brb, meat
10:40 mircea_popescu asciilifeform chick wanted to live by the park or whatever homemaker achievement. a girlscout captive in a 25yo woman's body, still trying to get the right badges in her sophisticated culturedness.
10:40 mircea_popescu and re the other thing, nevermind the practicals. the point was that it isn't an economic activity.
10:41 mircea_popescu what stupidities the courts engage in isn't germane ; nor is anything else. it's not a social matter.
10:42 mircea_popescu saying something can't be economically engaged in is a derivate of wovon, it's like babbage saying the problem of corectness can't be approached by mechanical means.
10:55 cruciform !~later tell danielpbarron http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/6ddTH/?raw=true
10:55 jhvh1 cruciform: The operation succeeded.
10:58 deedbot http://trilema.com/2017/teenagers-are-a-pain-in-the-ass/ << Trilema - Teenagers are a pain in the ass
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11:34 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-26#1717520 << i dunno you two, seems basic market research. "so item x exists, shipped by manufacturer, costs x. are there cheaper units out there ?"
11:34 a111 Logged on 2017-09-26 14:11 diana_coman is genuinely rather puzzled on this one
11:34 mircea_popescu legitimate question. you all look on amazon. there's such a thing as a car aftermarket. what of it.
11:35 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: nuffinwrong. it was funny because of the refrain of 'but it's underpriced!!1!'
11:35 mircea_popescu as it happens in the case of FG afaik aftermarket is actually more expensive than list price, ie it's more like collected art than used cars, but to find that out you gotta ask, and the question sounds exactly like "any discount rembrandts around ?"
11:36 mircea_popescu in any case the amd cpu i bought was underpriced both at list price and at 2nd hand price. cuz i sure as fuck ain'\t making one in my laundry room out of lint and wall shavings for less than a few hundred.
11:36 diana_coman mircea_popescu, there was no question re being legitimate
11:36 diana_coman surprising != illegitimate
11:36 mircea_popescu nevertheless, i might consider asking if there's any cheaper than fiddy bux floating around
11:36 diana_coman wtf is this now
11:37 mircea_popescu diana_coman well, guy gotta ask, what.
11:38 diana_coman sure, nothing wrong with that in itself; still for FG as it is and given "it's underpriced anyway" ...surprising; that's it, all of it
11:39 asciilifeform in other hilarities, usa google front pg today features 'culture scholar Gloria E. Anzaldúa, The Mexican-American cultural theorist who identified invisible "borders" in society...'
11:39 danielpbarron !~later tell cruciform kk, btw what size shirt would you like?
11:39 jhvh1 danielpbarron: The operation succeeded.
11:39 asciilifeform thing gets moar barfy by the minute, even by decade-ago standards
11:40 cruciform danielpbarron: size of shirt?
11:40 danielpbarron i got some NSA shirts, will throw one in for free
11:40 cruciform thanks! large
11:40 danielpbarron k
11:41 danielpbarron rats, i seem to only have mediums and XL with me, XL ok?
11:42 cruciform sure
11:42 mircea_popescu and in other alternative lifestyles, http://68.media.tumblr.com/24a2ec4935b32b3fbb2b3a25655c71e2/tumblr_oux04gq5vK1raeoe0o1_500.gif
11:45 asciilifeform in other lulzies, https://archive.is/roEgM >> privesc 0day : '...all versions of CentOS 7 before 1708 (released on September 13, 2017), all versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 before 7.4 (released on August 1, 2017), and all versions of CentOS 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 are exploitable' << Aaaaaaand as usual linus sat on the goods since april, because 'responsible'
11:45 mircea_popescu what's linus to do with redhat's repackaged thing ?
11:46 asciilifeform consider reading the link ?
11:46 asciilifeform 'Linux distributions that have not patched their long-term kernels with https://git.kernel.org/linus/a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 (committed on April 14, 2015) are vulnerable...'
11:46 mircea_popescu i am reading!
11:46 asciilifeform as typical, he 1) patched 2) withheld the implications of the patch from all but usg
11:46 mircea_popescu how the fuck did he sit on goods ?
11:46 mircea_popescu ah come on.
11:47 asciilifeform ( pro tip: when you patch and dun say why, there is a staff of 15,000+ people who do nuffin but to see exactly why )
11:47 mircea_popescu the description is plain and was published two years ago. davidson fixed, torvalds commited within an hour. their job is done.
11:47 asciilifeform 'responsible disclosure' == aid and comfort to enemy
11:47 mircea_popescu red hat OPTED to be shitheads. like koch usually does.
11:47 mircea_popescu dude he fucking says why!
11:48 mircea_popescu https://archive.is/4hQKN << what'd you have had him say ?
11:48 * asciilifeform digs in...
11:48 mircea_popescu you can't turn terse explanations of the problem into lengthy discussions of implications taylored for idiots, what is this, black chix coding now ?
11:49 mircea_popescu moreover, if anyone today depends on their linux not being vulnerable to LPE, they're ducked in the ducking heaf!
11:49 asciilifeform nao this is so.
11:50 asciilifeform ( and with respect to this, the pretense imho oughta be dispensed with. run it all in ring0, get 10-20% speed boost 'for phree' etc )
11:51 asciilifeform or even go whole hog, to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-13#1669650 .
11:51 a111 Logged on 2017-06-13 22:37 asciilifeform: end result is to be a vaguely msdos-like thing that understands how to configure x64 page table, put/get blocks of disk, and speak over rs232 port. and on top of this, a self-building gnat.
11:51 cruciform would it be retarded to use something like this to generate keys on an offline box? https://github.com/grondilu/bitcoin-bash-tools/blob/master/bitcoin.sh
11:52 mircea_popescu cruciform do you understand how bitcoin keys work ?
11:53 cruciform mircea_popescu: yes
11:53 mircea_popescu ok so, all you need is a chunk of random data, which fg provides. you can hash that into a privkey and address.
11:53 cruciform ok, so learn to write my own code/audit something like that
11:54 mircea_popescu there's no way out of this. if you don't write, you have to read, such as the thing you linked.
11:54 mircea_popescu for many small projects people prefer to write, because it's easier to write than read code.
11:54 cruciform I was hoping somone in the WoT would have already done that
11:54 mircea_popescu "someone in wot" is not meaningful in that sense. who's in ~YOUR~ wot ?
11:54 cruciform but yea I agree, no sense in putting off learning it
11:55 cruciform well my WoT is nascent, so I figured I could proxy "people whose blogs I enjoy"
11:56 cruciform :p
11:56 mircea_popescu yes, but proxying "girls whose tits i enjoy" into "life partner" is how people harvest the bitter fruit.
11:57 cruciform fwiw, I don't know that the WoT applies to nubiles
11:57 mircea_popescu on the other side, i don't know there's anything wot doesn't apply to.
11:58 mircea_popescu this'd be an important theoretical point, incidentally, showing domain exception. tis not currently known.
11:58 cruciform gotcha, and I expect your inductive argument is strong; on a large sample
11:59 cruciform the WoT hasn't failed me yet
11:59 asciilifeform arithmetic also has not failedmeyet
11:59 asciilifeform what wouldja do , cruciform , if you met a fella who told you 'arithmetic finally failed me'
11:59 mircea_popescu divine items, so far they've not failed us, just on occasion we fail them.
11:59 asciilifeform aha.
12:00 cruciform asciilifeform: suspect user error?
12:00 mircea_popescu asciilifeform this'd be actually a great sf premise. end of days world, people running around having trouble with actual fundamentals.
12:00 mircea_popescu "you heard about joe ? commutativity blew up for him last week"
12:01 mircea_popescu like that one with the "visual prion", except written by someone who understands the science involved.
12:03 asciilifeform !#s luminous
12:03 a111 11 results for "luminous", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=luminous
12:03 asciilifeform ^ old tale with similar premise
12:05 mircea_popescu www.scribd.com/doc/86728044/Greg-Egan-Luminous redirects to some bulslhit advertising. because that's why they EVEN DO this.
12:05 mircea_popescu you all know this, right ? the ONLY reason github is there is so that it will later redirect your links and try and make a penny.
12:06 asciilifeform how else.
12:06 mircea_popescu heidi roizen blogging on tumblr like an idiot, because she can't fucking afford a house now.
12:06 mircea_popescu but i suppose the IMPLICATIONS WERENT MADE CLEAR hurr durr. pshaw.
12:07 asciilifeform http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/wpf7J/?raw=true << 313333337w4r3z
12:11 * trinque has the dead tree sitting nearby, good stuff
12:11 mircea_popescu I turned to the burglar. "There is no antidote. But the toxin won't kill you. You'll just wish it
12:11 mircea_popescu would, for the next twelve hours. Goodbye."
12:11 mircea_popescu weakass bs.
12:12 asciilifeform iirc we already had this thread
12:12 asciilifeform but last time mircea_popescu barfed over some other plot knob
12:12 mircea_popescu what happened to "there is no antidote. but the toxin won't kill you, it'll just turn you into a bimbo!"
12:12 asciilifeform hey gotta leave sumthing for mircea_popescu's tales !
12:12 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i'm a hater what can i tell ye.
12:14 mircea_popescu asciilifeform wait, is this the one with the visual virus ?
12:14 asciilifeform nope
12:14 asciilifeform that one was called 'blit'
12:15 asciilifeform and much older
12:15 asciilifeform this here is the one where d00d breaks arithmetic.
12:15 mircea_popescu aite, well, i've no wai out now but to read it.
12:16 asciilifeform last thread, going by the date of the warez txt on my hd, was some time around feb 4 2014.
12:25 mircea_popescu I mean, fifteen billion years after the Big Bang, someone can still
12:25 mircea_popescu come along and prove, say . . . Fermat's Last Theorem.
12:25 mircea_popescu what is with these people.
12:26 BingoBoingo <cruciform> asciilifeform: it's underpriced << I can sell you FG made by "own hands" for 12 BTC with deliver in 12, require 50% deposit, my option to instead deliver two alf-hands FG at month 11 for your trouble
12:27 cruciform BingoBoingo: sorry: you're not in my WoT :)
12:27 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: at one time , get this, kakobrekla threatened to make'em
12:27 asciilifeform ( evaporated, unsurprisingly )
12:28 BingoBoingo <cruciform> man at till says it'll be $10; you give him $20 just because? << Well if $20 is new from vendor and $10 is with 200,000 miles of farts in the seats
12:29 mircea_popescu ftr i've actually done that.
12:31 cruciform yea - I expect I'll be throwing a few bitcents as a gratuity to the designers once I've grokked how useful it is
12:32 mircea_popescu i think i'm rewriting this ;/
12:32 mircea_popescu the "allison argument" is not even fucking terrible.
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13:00 asciilifeform oh hey hey hey lbj, $crate is here.
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13:43 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-26#1717535 << i'd like to revisit this item, because it actually makes sense to me : when asciilifeform was a student, he happily spent hundreds of hrs to make own lab equipment that was worth maybe a dozen 'min wage' hrs, theoretically -- because it was a more interesting way to spend the time than some min wage gulag would've been
13:43 a111 Logged on 2017-09-26 14:16 diana_coman: what puzzles is a. why would someone buy it from nsa to then sell it cheaper (admittedly it is possible though, anything is possible) b. if it's underpriced how is it worth it to spend *time* in order to get somehow possibly (not even surely) a slightly cheaper price
13:44 asciilifeform folx whose time ain't liquid ( which is most everybody in 'saecular world', incl. present-day asciilifeform , he could not smoothly double his pay by halving his spare time for one particular day and then not the next ) often do this sort of thing.
13:45 asciilifeform asciilifeform still has ( and until recently, used! ) the rom writer, bench powersupply, etc. he made in early 2000s.
13:46 asciilifeform this however is an argument in favour of handcrafting yer own equip, rather than for 'clipping coupons' , imho.
13:46 trinque http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-21#1716536 << great way to learn
13:46 a111 Logged on 2017-09-21 05:03 lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-20#1716279 << I ended up going this route.
13:49 mircea_popescu i wish the record to permanently reflect that alison is a stupid fucking name.
13:49 mircea_popescu what shall we call a genius math girl ?
13:52 BingoBoingo Angel is a prefectly respectable math-stripper name
13:58 deedbot http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2017/09/26/google-trying-to-bill-service-cancelled-5-years-ago/ << Bingo Blog - Google Trying To Bill Service Cancelled 5 Years Ago
13:58 diana_coman asciilifeform, I follow the part re make your own hands - thing there is that there IS gain in that expenditure of time; and that gain is arguably more than the 15 bucks; however, I don't follow how does that lead to "makes sense just as much to collect coupons /whatevs "
13:59 diana_coman make with one's own hands, lol
14:03 asciilifeform diana_coman: was my point
14:04 asciilifeform though there was a much older thread where we considered how even clipping coupons could be a win, of sorts, because there is not 'applying' and there is no schedule or boss
14:04 asciilifeform !#s while you sleep
14:04 a111 34 results for "while you sleep", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=while%20you%20sleep
14:04 asciilifeform ^ somewhere in there
14:10 asciilifeform granted mircea_popescu will prolly add 'this is of course only win for the bull, not for the farmer' but i've never been the farmer. can only add pov of bull.
14:10 mircea_popescu shh i'm writing!
14:10 asciilifeform lolk
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14:28 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> granted mircea_popescu will prolly add 'this is of course only win for the bull, not for the farmer' but i've never been the farmer. can only add pov of bull. << Is it pov of contemporary bull if you haven't lost count of prostate shocks delivered by farmer for the sake of knocking up distant dairy with veal
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16:30 * jurov just stumbled upon this incredible feature: https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/4613/why-does-vim-allow-integer-division-by-zero
16:43 asciilifeform lol!!
16:43 asciilifeform exactly like my original ffa
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17:03 shinohai Man dies after attack by MOTHERFUCKING BEES! http://archive.is/GhCA6
17:09 BingoBoingo shinohai: Opposite also dooms. One man used approximate anti-bee as cooking oil https://archive.is/i0zOo
17:11 BingoBoingo And a confirmation for the Republic pt. 2: "The remaining 1% becomes sequestered in body fat. This portion is eliminated slowly, with a half-life of 18 days for the cis-isomer and 3.4 days for the trans-isomer (2, 4). "
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18:49 trinque attention all : there'll be electrical maintenance on the DC which houses deedbot tomorrow from 6AM to 9AM. deedbot itself will be up, and operating elsewhere starting this evening until after the end of the maintenance. deeds, other side services (RSS), and my node shall be offline starting at 5AM tomorrow.
18:50 trinque US central, I should say.
18:55 mircea_popescu heh
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19:56 shinohai http://archive.is/gJCkR <<< If only black girls had coded for him.
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21:59 mircea_popescu asciilifeform and other interested parties : http://trilema.com/2017/resplenduminous/
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22:16 deedbot http://trilema.com/2017/resplenduminous/ << Trilema - Resplenduminous
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22:31 trinque ^ migration in progress.
22:40 mircea_popescu trinque you know a three hour knockout in order to check the fuse box is somewhat suspicious in a dc.
22:40 trinque I don't expect that I'm moving back
22:41 trinque new digs are in singapore; lets see how that goes
22:42 trinque old DC said they were fixing their battery backups; who knows what's actually happening
22:42 trinque I operate under the assumption that I'm going to lose every box that isn't in my house, and probably also those
22:42 trinque got great deploy scripts for these things, don't need anything but an ssh hole to fire them at
22:52 asciilifeform neato trinque
22:52 asciilifeform and yes, sudden plague of rotten disks, dubious fuses, etc
22:53 asciilifeform 'we gotta change the fire extinguisher, box will be out for 3h'
22:53 asciilifeform '...waxing floor, 5h'
22:53 asciilifeform is next.
22:55 * asciilifeform just finished eating http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-27#1717718 -- mighty lulzy
22:55 a111 Logged on 2017-09-27 01:59 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and other interested parties : http://trilema.com/2017/resplenduminous/
22:56 mircea_popescu any good, whatcha think
22:56 asciilifeform i like the twist end.
22:57 mircea_popescu seems to me a matter of strict necessity, in context.
22:58 mircea_popescu anyway, that aside, by comparing my description to his you can readily see a summary of all the inept idiocy that bothered me in the original.
22:58 mircea_popescu wtf ruin a perfectly good premise with muddy, shoddy implementation.
22:58 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-27#1717726 << this reminded me of an ancient crackpotteriferous idea of mine: diskless, welded-shut box that boots into minimal sshiferous thing, privkey in boobytrapped sram etc. you fill it up remotely with os etc. and thereafter if power cut.
22:58 a111 Logged on 2017-09-27 02:42 trinque: got great deploy scripts for these things, don't need anything but an ssh hole to fire them at
22:58 mircea_popescu seems to be slowly going there.
22:59 asciilifeform anyone molests box, or magnetometer detects that it moved racks, etc, -- overwrites key with rngolade.
22:59 trinque seems to be the only way to use these pieces of shit.
23:00 trinque constant stream of new soldiers to go die.
23:00 asciilifeform not esp. difficult to build.
23:00 mircea_popescu !#s UCI
23:00 a111 181 results for "UCI", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=UCI
23:00 mircea_popescu want it or not want it, it's what you're getting in the end.
23:01 asciilifeform sorta like, but with crypto
23:01 mircea_popescu how was the original without crypto lol
23:01 asciilifeform ( boxes you dun physically build and boobytrap, cannot have identity, because homomorphic voodoo is just that, it sums to nil )
23:04 trinque alrighty, that works again.
23:06 asciilifeform trinque: ever used 'midnight commander' and its 'fish' util ?
23:07 asciilifeform it's a thingie that 'mounts' a wholly uncooperative, other than login, remote fs, using nothing more than perl on other end, via standard ssh ( not sftp )
23:07 asciilifeform pumps binaries, and dir listings, transparently back an' forth via crafted shellbarf
23:07 trinque pretty cool. the guy wrote over here does same with remote shell.
23:07 trinque *guy I wrote
23:07 asciilifeform might be interesting to make a rawblocks version of this
23:08 asciilifeform takes a root shelled box, and formats hdd, emplaces, e.g., gentoo, blockwise.
23:09 asciilifeform process prolly would have to begin by copying over a little c proggy, compiling, then insmod'ing it ( so to stop multitaskism and disk fandango on victim end )
23:10 asciilifeform the k mod , now, will do the rest of the work.
23:11 trinque hm. what about just mount -o remount,ro /
23:11 trinque and then bzcat > /dev/sda
23:11 asciilifeform what if box had swap ?
23:11 trinque swapoff all the swaps too
23:11 asciilifeform and /tmp ?
23:12 asciilifeform you'd be surprised how many heathen linuxen this would crash
23:12 asciilifeform they expect swap, and /tmp, and /var, and fuck knows what else
23:12 trinque hm, totally possible, just enumerating the reasonable thing's I'd considered on the subj
23:12 asciilifeform it has to be victimproof
23:12 asciilifeform as in, it dun matter what WAS running.
23:15 asciilifeform when trigger is pulled, the sole possible operation of th cpu becomes : listening to nic for a sequence of (signed...) blocks, to fill hdd with, from lba 0 to N.
23:15 asciilifeform after that, reboots.
23:17 asciilifeform this is 'birth'. 'death' of a box, is similar process, but in reverse gear, sends backup of block 0...N to operator, replacing each with null as it goes.
23:17 asciilifeform ( yes, enemy can have made sneak copy. let'im make, sweat. )
23:18 asciilifeform but no more leaving intact os+etc when leaving a hoster, by default. it is unhygienic.
23:19 asciilifeform makes sense ?
23:19 trinque 100%
23:20 asciilifeform the obvious variation on the theme, is to omit the disk
23:21 asciilifeform jump into ring0, let nic fill ~ram~ as described above for disk, then jump into ~that~
23:21 asciilifeform run 'virtually disked' until power loss.
23:21 asciilifeform but i already described this, earlier.
23:22 asciilifeform these are 2 basic ways to 'reincarnate' on remote box.
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23:39 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> anyone molests box, or magnetometer detects that it moved racks, etc, -- overwrites key with rngolade. << Overwrites key and misleading places that look like could also be key, gives cold analysers more places to miswank over potential "Is key?" "Is encrypted key?" "What does enzyme equation solver make of this when ported to DNA array"
23:49 BingoBoingo Moore defeats Strange In Alabama Senate Primary: Stage Set For Great Again Congressional Coup In 2018
23:50 BingoBoingo Bob Corker Announces Retirement At End 2018, More Old-GOP Senate Retirements Expected
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