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00:00 ben_vulpes chinese arm of this project is taking much longer, but at least i have at least one translatorwannabe in my pipeline
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00:23 asciilifeform at the risk of repeating earlier q - what exactly does hypothetical boobytrapped switch, do ?
00:23 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: ^
00:24 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Generates and hammers magic packets
00:24 davout "ring the doorbell and run away giggling"
00:25 BingoBoingo Or munge frames
00:25 davout you're going to have the same issues upstream anyway neh?
00:25 asciilifeform to what end ?
00:26 BingoBoingo To what end does pantsuit do what pantsuit does?
00:26 asciilifeform as davout said. as if it could be other than immediately obvious , if shitflood originates inside the house
00:26 BingoBoingo And despite being immediately obvious, does that not still annoy?
00:27 asciilifeform what a laugh it’d be - yank the thing and put in another, exhibit the boobytrapped piece publicly
00:27 asciilifeform if only every ddos were this simple to vanish away
00:28 BingoBoingo AHA, and hence camp out reasonable walk from rack!
00:28 davout BingoBoingo: i guess the point is that it's going to end up being extremely costly to preemptively weed out every single annoyance you can think of
00:29 davout kinda resonates with http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-18#1726334
00:29 a111 Logged on 2017-10-18 19:08 asciilifeform: the implication also is that there is a particular kind of mistake, exemplified imho by the zeroasset corp thing in bbet, that is easy to make -- to insist that the energy be conserved at all times
00:31 asciilifeform it is actually how usg does business , the anticipate-supposedly-all thing
00:31 asciilifeform worx about as well as you might expect.
00:31 ben_vulpes mind numbing waste of time and energy
00:34 BingoBoingo Point is not "weed out all annoyances", point is make the one finite mitigation (own switch) which is less mitigation and more practice for scaling later.
00:34 asciilifeform again -- which own
00:36 asciilifeform i don't manufacture switches, BingoBoingo , and i have no intention of starting, it isn't a device that handles seekrits, and very literally either works or does not -- like mains cord.
00:37 asciilifeform i'll mass produce switches some time after doing same for ordinary dc power supplies, they rank ahead in seekritude
00:37 BingoBoingo Own in the sense I manage the settings on the appliance instead of trusting DC to not assign the task to their jolo. And at desired connection speeds switch handles the routing, unless you wanna go Cisco.
00:38 asciilifeform what settings ?
00:38 BingoBoingo What port gets what IP range
00:39 BingoBoingo Maybe customer wants super anal static routing BBQ for their box?
00:41 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: this is generally set once. and out of band.
00:41 asciilifeform ( box has serial port )
00:42 BingoBoingo Options for that are either have a hardware on the rack that aggregates ISP links to the DC and handles this shit, OR beat a jolo into sense.
00:42 BingoBoingo Urethra is generally an exit, but some people are into sounding
00:43 asciilifeform ideally dc supplies mains current and physical space, net pipe consists of leased fiber from unrelated co.
00:44 asciilifeform running straight from street into out iron.
00:44 asciilifeform *our
00:45 asciilifeform this is how it was in the olden days, in the boxes asciilifeform BOFH'd over long ago.
00:46 BingoBoingo And today fiber runs to "meet me" room or other nonesuch, then to street or sewer ditch or wherever
00:47 BingoBoingo Or meet me room is skipped
00:47 BingoBoingo and to street as in old days
00:50 asciilifeform !!up ssth1
00:50 deedbot ssth1 voiced for 30 minutes.
00:51 BingoBoingo But when exploring datacenter options, biggest obstacle is encountering Jolo the Pinoy in all nationalities. From "10 mbps to rack" to "Try this managed colo where we buy you boxes and do everything, it's just like getting 7Kva of dedicated servers but with more upsells"
00:52 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: i got one like that, it wanted 30bux/mo per amp (220v)
00:53 asciilifeform i.e. space station electric price
00:53 BingoBoingo AHA
00:53 mod6 <+BingoBoingo> <ben_vulpes> mhm; estimated as 42*.3kW << Of those 42U, 1 or 2 go to switch. Then you gotta keep a sane heat envelope lest some alf-weird cook everything and piss off the neighbors. 42U ends up turning into something like 20 servers apparently. << minus space for UPSs
00:53 asciilifeform mod6: a civilized dc has massive central ups
00:53 asciilifeform + gens outdoors
00:54 mod6 gens, sure. do you want to share power conditioning equip?
00:54 asciilifeform nobody's about to fly out to swap little batteries.
00:54 mod6 would figure that would be something you would want in-cage.
00:54 asciilifeform don't leak cpu to the mains.
00:55 mod6 switch-flippers
00:55 asciilifeform not as if having power for extra 10min past dc losing it, does you any good
00:56 asciilifeform ( and that's if you were to put in 2u of ups per every 1u of serverolade ! )
00:56 mod6 ok
00:57 asciilifeform in even small corporate dc there are several ups that take up small room
00:58 asciilifeform and outdoors -- diesels.
00:59 asciilifeform now ! mains quality ~logger~, with independent power source -- imho deserves a 1u in any tmsr cabinet.
01:00 asciilifeform front-facing camera, too, why not
01:00 asciilifeform helps to keep the landlord honest.
01:00 mod6 and rear-facing, why not, right
01:01 asciilifeform this is not unreasonable request, btw, and will filter out bozos
01:02 * asciilifeform bbl
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01:21 ben_vulpes !!up Raven
01:21 deedbot Raven voiced for 30 minutes.
01:21 ben_vulpes ohai
01:21 Guest29647 hi..
01:22 ben_vulpes lol yeah that name has good odds of already being in use
01:23 Guest29647 Uh huh..so...what shall I do now?
01:23 Guest29647 maybe check the instructions in the mail?
01:23 ben_vulpes pick a different name? perhaps a phonetic version of your name?
01:24 ben_vulpes mod6: kinda interesting that your `ent` chi-squared "randomly would exceed this value XX percent of the time" always comes out to something nice and round like 25.00 or 50.00
01:24 ben_vulpes Guest29647: start by registering a nickname with nickserv
01:25 ben_vulpes Guest29647: type /msg nickserv help for details on that
01:25 Guest29647 let me try that..
01:26 mod6 ben_vulpes: ah, i seem to remember reading about the X^2 percentiles in knuth. mine in particular came out pretty round ya. or do you mean "your" in the general sense?
01:27 ben_vulpes no, yours in particular
01:27 Guest29647 REGISTER Zero
01:27 ben_vulpes pete_dushenski 's are also round
01:27 ben_vulpes Guest29647: prepend with a slash, like /register zero
01:27 mod6 i'd have to look at other's results, can't recall off the top of my head.
01:27 ben_vulpes but that one's also going to be taken, freenode is a very busy place
01:28 ben_vulpes heck, try raven_zero
01:28 Guest29647 Test.
01:28 ben_vulpes mod6: for contrast this first run just came out with 80.89%
01:29 ben_vulpes Guest29647: once you register the nick, you gotta also set it as your nick like /nick raven_zero
01:29 Guest29647 test.
01:30 Guest29647 from my viewpoint, I'm stll Guest29647.
01:30 ben_vulpes mine too; what did nickserv tell you when you typed exactly /nick raven_zero
01:30 BingoBoingo Guest29647 maybe go with CorvusCorone
01:31 mod6 ben_vulpes: seems fine. iirc, and i don't have the book in hand at the moment, but knuth outside certain boundaries is suspect.
01:31 mod6 might be in the logs
01:31 * mod6 digs
01:32 ben_vulpes mod6: this is from "the art of computer programming" or... ?
01:33 mod6 yah, i'll go grab the book, standby.
01:41 ben_vulpes !up raven_zero
01:42 mod6 "If V is less than the 1% entry or greater than the 99% entry, we reject the numbers as no sufficiently random. If V lies between the 1% and 5% entries or between the 95% and 99% entries, the numbers are ``suspect'';
01:42 ben_vulpes raven_zero: http://www.eulorum.org/Account_Setup
01:44 mod6 if (by interpolation in the table) V lies between the 5% and 10% entries, or the 90% and 95% entries, the numbers might be ``almost suspect.''" -- Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming Vol. 2, Seminumerical Algorithms pp. 46,47
01:44 ben_vulpes mod6: yeah i think i'll just have to read this myself
01:45 mod6 There's a bunch of in-depth information in this book, I highly suggest if examining these results.
01:46 ben_vulpes leaning on intuition here; feels odd to me that the "randomly would exceed" value is so round on so many of your test runs, but it's gotta be weakness in my statistics intuition
01:47 ben_vulpes statistics being the thing that hoses intuition every time.
01:48 mod6 yeah, not too sure. i've also never looked at the `ent` code.
01:52 ben_vulpes raven_zero: figuring it out?
02:01 BingoBoingo !~ticker --market all
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02:13 mod6 ima try using an ent on a different box against some of the runs that I did previously...
02:16 mod6 (just to see if I get a different value, or non-round value for X^2)
02:30 mod6 ok, just ran 2 quick tests on different box. results are very similar. different # of samples on new ones, however old|new: 25%|27.42%, 50%|53.57% respectively
02:32 mod6 originals were taken with a much older version of ent than the new.
02:33 mod6 anyway, have a good night :]
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03:03 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726558 << the expectation is that it will allow nsa comms, such as exfiltration in response to magic packets and the very magic packets in question.
03:03 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 03:56 davout: what's an evil switch gonna do? DoS?
03:07 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726566 << nope. all it takes is for one hop to filter out the strange, and the whole usg sigint collapses in a pile of magic dust.
03:07 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 04:25 davout: you're going to have the same issues upstream anyway neh?
03:09 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726582 << a) this is not factual. you manufacture power chord that only works or doesn't work, through eg http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-12#1724529 ; b) if your power chord came with special rsa analysis and also had a special "flash power when pgp is being used" switch, you'd get into manufacturing your own power chords in very short order.
03:09 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 04:36 asciilifeform: i don't manufacture switches, BingoBoingo , and i have no intention of starting, it isn't a device that handles seekrits, and very literally either works or does not -- like mains cord.
03:09 a111 Logged on 2017-10-12 21:35 asciilifeform: trinque: will need, laugh if you must, 2nd inverter
03:10 mircea_popescu proper (ie, like power chord, either works or doesn't) switch very much on the republican slate. no extant item satisfy this requirement.,
03:12 mircea_popescu !~calc 30 / (220 * 24 * 30 / 1000)
03:13 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: 30 / (220 * 24 * 30 / 1000) = 0.1893939393939394
03:14 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726602 << 19 cents to the KWh is not really space station price, considering a) electricity is 5 to 10 cents to the KWh pretty much everywhere and b) this price includes HVAC, which is for obvious reasons just about half of the cost of power.
03:14 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 04:52 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i got one like that, it wanted 30bux/mo per amp (220v)
03:15 mircea_popescu what math did you do when you decided you don't like it ?
03:17 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726608 << yes. it's not practical to put the gen gear next to the box.
03:17 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 04:54 mod6: gens, sure. do you want to share power conditioning equip?
03:18 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726622 << cameras ? what is this, some yahoo's long island pizzeria ?
03:18 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 05:01 asciilifeform: this is not unreasonable request, btw, and will filter out bozos
03:19 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726638 << this is liek, the most creative person i ever encountered. "raven" and "Zero", really ? what's next, "hacker" ? "internet" ?
03:19 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 05:27 Guest29647: REGISTER Zero
03:26 ben_vulpes i think we've had a few threads in re creativity in the eastern empire
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03:43 mircea_popescu :p
03:44 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726670 << clearly you're getting rounded somewhere
03:44 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 06:30 mod6: ok, just ran 2 quick tests on different box. results are very similar. different # of samples on new ones, however old|new: 25%|27.42%, 50%|53.57% respectively
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03:59 * ben_vulpes just had an exciting; apparently closed the flue a bit too soon/didn't give the fireplace enough time to self-extinguish and the co detectors went off
04:00 ben_vulpes however new residence has a "whole house fan", and so exhausting all interior gasses was a trivial exercise
04:02 mircea_popescu did i recount that event when nude girly at the stove farted and the gas detector immediately blew a fuse ?
04:03 ben_vulpes bwah no
04:03 ben_vulpes figurative fuse?
04:03 ben_vulpes !!key ssth1
04:03 deedbot Not registered.
04:03 mircea_popescu mortified noob had to endure the humiliation of me having to actually go outside reset the gas line
04:04 ben_vulpes !!key raven_zero
04:04 deedbot Not registered.
04:04 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes no, see, the super-safe way is to have a detector by the burners that cuts the gas line if stimulated.
04:04 mircea_popescu this had the stove and the heater close together and so it made sense, if you got a leak it's there.
04:04 ben_vulpes ah i see; i was thinking about little glass amp-rated tubes
04:04 ben_vulpes or figuratively, "blew a gasket"
04:05 ben_vulpes why not make her reset gas line?
04:05 mircea_popescu yeah. same principle, but for gas rather than electricity. there's a special button by the main derivation that resets the flow
04:05 mircea_popescu well for one thing she had no idea how/where, i never saw the item installed anywhere else in that country.
04:06 mircea_popescu anyway, it was the lulz of all time
04:06 mircea_popescu "but i'm not even a vegetarian!"
04:10 ben_vulpes vegetarians have terrible internal flora, can confirm
~ 2 hours 30 minutes ~
06:41 jurov shinohai: ack
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09:09 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726670 << looks typical
09:09 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 06:30 mod6: ok, just ran 2 quick tests on different box. results are very similar. different # of samples on new ones, however old|new: 25%|27.42%, 50%|53.57% respectively
09:11 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726673 << that was what i didn't and still don't grasp : what exactly can enemy exfiltrate from a boobytrapped ~switch~ ( it ain't a firewall, it's a dumb switch) that he cannot get from his upstream tap ??
09:11 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 07:03 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726558 << the expectation is that it will allow nsa comms, such as exfiltration in response to magic packets and the very magic packets in question.
09:13 asciilifeform if you have a pair of racked boxes that gotta talk seeekritly to ~one another~, don't connect them via the switch, connect directly with crossover cable ( this is what the spare nics quality boxen ship with, are for )
09:15 asciilifeform or alternatively asciilifeform's philosophy -- i.e. packets that leave your nics, are to be considered public
09:16 asciilifeform ( want non public? is what crypto is for, switch is not a trusted piece of equip )
09:18 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726675 << 'filter out the strange' is the naive usg av 'industry' nonsense. a half decent diddletron neither produces nor consumes any 'strange', and 'magic packet' will consist of , e.g., lubyization of 10,000 ordinary packets' timing
09:18 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 07:07 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726566 << nope. all it takes is for one hop to filter out the strange, and the whole usg sigint collapses in a pile of magic dust.
09:21 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726680 << i'd like a republican chair to sit in too!111 switch, however, if you want GB or above -- does require making own silicon if you want it to meaningfully differ from the extant items . fpga won't cut it clockwise.
09:21 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 07:10 mircea_popescu: proper (ie, like power chord, either works or doesn't) switch very much on the republican slate. no extant item satisfy this requirement.,
09:23 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726688 < it costs next-to-nothing and trigger when sees motion, which in a locking cage it should never by surprise
09:23 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 07:18 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726622 << cameras ? what is this, some yahoo's long island pizzeria ?
09:24 asciilifeform i see it as worth something, to be able to immediately distinguish , e.g., a dead hdd, from a stolen hdd .
09:25 asciilifeform and to know if uninvited guests have been inside the cage.
09:28 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726711 << this is unknown in usa: too much high tech! instead, and only in earthquake states, and only in ~some~ towns, they issue... wrenches, with which one is expected to close the valve outside the ruins of your house, as you climb from the rubble
09:28 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 08:05 mircea_popescu: yeah. same principle, but for gas rather than electricity. there's a special button by the main derivation that resets the flow
09:30 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726677 << >> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726583
09:30 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 07:09 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726582 << a) this is not factual. you manufacture power chord that only works or doesn't work, through eg http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-12#1724529 ; b) if your power chord came with special rsa analysis and also had a special "flash power when pgp is being used" switch, you'd get into manufacturing your own power chords in very short order.
09:30 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 04:37 asciilifeform: i'll mass produce switches some time after doing same for ordinary dc power supplies, they rank ahead in seekritude
09:31 asciilifeform isolating ps for rackmounts, could easily be a product
09:33 asciilifeform this functionality belongs ~in~ the box, where more difficult for 'guests' to monkey with, not in cords and bottoms of cabinets.
09:36 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726683 << this figure is correct, but on the high end of the typical price range.
09:36 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 07:14 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726602 << 19 cents to the KWh is not really space station price, considering a) electricity is 5 to 10 cents to the KWh pretty much everywhere and b) this price includes HVAC, which is for obvious reasons just about half of the cost of power.
09:38 * asciilifeform finally eaten the l0gz
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10:11 mod6 mornin
10:12 mod6 <+mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726670 << clearly you're getting rounded somewhere << yeah.
10:12 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 06:30 mod6: ok, just ran 2 quick tests on different box. results are very similar. different # of samples on new ones, however old|new: 25%|27.42%, 50%|53.57% respectively
10:13 mod6 <+asciilifeform> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726670 << looks typical << aha. i think im going to re-run them all with the newer `ent` and post those results as well. unless, people think it's redundant or not required.
10:13 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 06:30 mod6: ok, just ran 2 quick tests on different box. results are very similar. different # of samples on new ones, however old|new: 25%|27.42%, 50%|53.57% respectively
10:24 asciilifeform mod6: 'ent' has only 1 virtue vs dieharder -- it's quick
10:25 asciilifeform really it is good for finding catastrophically broken rng, and no moar
10:25 mod6 makes sense.
10:25 asciilifeform ( a shit rng that fools ent is much easier to build, even by accident, than same vs dieharder )
10:27 asciilifeform ent will show if you have, say, stuck bits, or repeating bytes, or even all zeroes etc.
10:27 asciilifeform ( from , say, misconfigured serial port -- guaranteed to show these symptoms )
10:28 asciilifeform relatedly, i very much wish that pc had a simple ( no stateful usb liquishit) ~synchronous~ port
10:29 asciilifeform but it does not.
10:31 asciilifeform parallel port was adequate. but no recent boxes have'em and the usb paralleldongles never worked ( they were specific to printers, those have buffers, usb doesn't really give you realtime synchronism )
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11:12 asciilifeform ( nitpicker could reply : 'but what about isosynchronous usb mode ?' -- it's liquishit, unsupported by most interface ics you can get, and specifically disclaims any guarantee of packet delivery. used for, e.g., usb soundcard. )
11:23 asciilifeform i'ma put a likbez in the l0gz, for fyootor folx : here's ordinary rs232, at ttl signal level, (noninverted), transmitting a 10000010 :
11:23 asciilifeform ```\_/`\_________/`\_/```
11:24 asciilifeform ....s 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 s
11:24 asciilifeform ( first s is start bit, which is always 0; second s is stop bit, always 1 )
11:24 asciilifeform thing is 'self-clocking', which is why you gotta set a baud rate, and they are standard )
11:27 asciilifeform now let's do same byte, synchronous :
11:28 asciilifeform ```\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\ <-- clock
11:28 asciilifeform _____/`\_____________________/`\________ <-- data
11:28 asciilifeform ......1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
11:28 asciilifeform ~fin~
11:29 asciilifeform needs 2 wires, but no longer matters at what rate, within physical limits, you clock it.
11:29 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726715 << we were also making a lot of cow/herbivore jokes at the time.
11:29 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 08:10 ben_vulpes: vegetarians have terrible internal flora, can confirm
11:30 mircea_popescu incidentally re http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-18#1726309 : i suppose it's obvious that teh republic, between wot, forum and the new deedbot beats silicon valley way the fuck out of the water. what angel list, what y combinator, why would i, or any thinking man, bother.
11:30 a111 Logged on 2017-10-18 18:54 ben_vulpes: what would the terms be?
11:30 asciilifeform btw phf your logtron mangles these, because variablewidthfont. readers should paste above item into a civilized terminal to read.
11:30 asciilifeform ( or read phf's log on lynx etc )
11:31 asciilifeform ohai mircea_popescu
11:32 mircea_popescu hola!
11:33 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726719 << here's model : intel box B behind cisco switch S. NSA N sends magic packet M. S notices packet it received does not match rules operator O set ; S notices M matches rules N baked in and so S lets packet M pass in spite of this breaking its submission to O. B receives packet M, acts accordingly, breaking its submission to O. perhaps B also responds, with packet M'. S notices M' does
11:33 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 13:11 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726673 << that was what i didn't and still don't grasp : what exactly can enemy exfiltrate from a boobytrapped ~switch~ ( it ain't a firewall, it's a dumb switch) that he cannot get from his upstream tap ??
11:33 mircea_popescu not match rules operator O set ; S notices M' matches rules N baked in and so S lets packet M' pass.
11:33 mircea_popescu need I now do the S' case ?
11:35 asciilifeform no this makes sense, but seems to describe a diddled router/fw, rather than switch
11:35 mircea_popescu i suspect the pure switch you have in mind is a 1980s period item
11:35 asciilifeform i have one here, lol!
11:35 asciilifeform a GB/s no less
11:35 mircea_popescu ok, but by now they're all "intelligent".
11:35 asciilifeform separate iron box from router
11:35 mircea_popescu think like a phone.
11:35 asciilifeform ugh
11:35 mircea_popescu anyway, maybe all is an overstatement, but you get the idea i think.
11:36 asciilifeform while we're on subj, the infamous 'ont catalogue' featured not only boobytrapped routers etc but... ethernet jacks with 'intelligence', boobied cables
11:36 mircea_popescu and video cables iirc.
11:36 asciilifeform any object supplied by randos can theoretically be 'alive'.
11:37 asciilifeform aha, theremin-style rf tap
11:37 mircea_popescu asciilifeform simple pill for the ethernet, cut and crimp.
11:37 mircea_popescu i teach teh slavegirls, it's part of the basic curriculum.
11:37 asciilifeform asciilifeform met a fella who claimed to have designed the nsa-usbjack boobytrap ( i did not believe him )
11:38 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: most elderly folx like asciilifeform cut their own cablez aha
11:38 asciilifeform ( buy bobbin, buy plugs etc )
11:38 mircea_popescu well that's what i'm saying, there's even teenaged sluts doing it nowadays. perhaps for the first time in internet history, at that!
11:38 mircea_popescu terrorism prevails.
11:38 asciilifeform you dun even need literacy : the strands are helpfully coloured
11:39 mircea_popescu yup.
11:39 mircea_popescu (one amusing result was one girl painted her toenails thusly. NOBODY noticed.)
11:39 * asciilifeform pictures this !
11:39 mod6 haha
11:40 mircea_popescu "what was at that hacker club thing ?" "a bunch of idiots ?" "whence can you tell ?" "i painted my toenails utp style. everyone wanted to talk of me, nobody thought ot mention it."
11:41 phf it's such a toxic color scheme, you'd think somebody will notice.
11:42 asciilifeform maybe the extra 2 fingers, threw'em off, lol
11:42 mircea_popescu ikr ? esp cause it takes all the half-whites and shit. and besides, where do geeks look when trying to think of something to say to girl ? yep, you've guessed it, toes!
11:42 mircea_popescu asciilifeform maybe. tho pinky toe nails are tiny anyway.
11:43 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726724 << as far as i know (and what i don't know in this town ain't worth knowing) there's not at present any lubby deployed in usgistan internet "intelligence".
11:43 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 13:18 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726675 << 'filter out the strange' is the naive usg av 'industry' nonsense. a half decent diddletron neither produces nor consumes any 'strange', and 'magic packet' will consist of , e.g., lubyization of 10,000 ordinary packets' timing
11:44 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: every once in a while, they beg/buy/borrow/steal something authored by actual people
11:44 asciilifeform like chukcha and his geologist's flashlight
11:44 mircea_popescu too hard to use.
11:46 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726728 << i know of no place which offers proper mounts for this. because understand, there's no ad-hoc anything on dc floor.
11:46 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 13:23 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726688 < it costs next-to-nothing and trigger when sees motion, which in a locking cage it should never by surprise
11:46 mircea_popescu not necessarily a bad idea, but afaik nobody put it into the floor design.
11:47 mircea_popescu ianae, maybe there's places where they'll mount your camera opposite if you ask. i wouldn't really add it to the disqualifier list.
11:49 asciilifeform you put it in a standard 1u box, wat.
11:50 mircea_popescu and pray for a transparent cabinet door and available fixed location and nobody placing a sticker in front of it ?
11:50 asciilifeform no particular reason for it to look adhoc or in any way unusual.
11:50 asciilifeform if it's ~your~ cabinet, you know its geometry and where box sits, neh.
11:50 mircea_popescu what i'm saying is that i don;t know this being part of the design.
11:51 mircea_popescu asciilifeform what is this, are you being an alien. the eyes in your own box don't see your mouth in your own box do they ?
11:51 asciilifeform it'd be part of any design where asciilifeform fills a cabinet with own hands and locks the door.
11:53 asciilifeform idea is not 'magical camera, catches everything' but to turn the enemy's own psychosis against himself : now ~any~ ventilation hole, in any side of any iron, could theoretically be pinhole cam.
11:53 mircea_popescu eh get out.
11:53 asciilifeform they're what, a $1.
11:53 mircea_popescu "enemy" is too dumb to stop shitting in its own mouth.
11:54 mircea_popescu see also http://trilema.com/2016/and-they-wont-fucking-yield/ or http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-13#1725084 etc
11:54 a111 Logged on 2017-10-13 17:47 mircea_popescu: but anyway, apparently taking a few heads here and there creates exactly no conception of own vulnerability in the rest of the heads.
11:55 asciilifeform build for smart enemy.
11:56 asciilifeform universe came with afaik no guarantee that enemy is dumb.
11:57 phf fight the enemy you have, not the enemy you want :)
11:57 mircea_popescu actually, it does, yes. that's what the republic is : the construction of the guarantee that if enemy exists, he is dumb.
12:01 asciilifeform in other reichlulz, 'Marlène Schiappa, France’s gender equality minister (yes, that’s a thing), has proposed putting forward a bill in parliament that would fine people for engaging in street harassment — including aggressive catcalls.'
12:02 shinohai https://send.firefox.com/ <<< we promise to never, ever, EVER look at your private keys. Probably.
12:02 mircea_popescu heh
12:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the french have this communist issue. nato or no nato, during the 70s it had gotten so bad they were not even included in intel briefing.
12:03 asciilifeform betcha a phuctor-flavoured www that invites idjit to 'insert privkey for inspection for weak' would get ~something~ in the basket at the end of the day
12:04 mircea_popescu depends. would it have been featured on the atlantic ?
12:04 asciilifeform if in beobachter, million keys
12:04 asciilifeform if in sturmer, prolly still handful
12:05 asciilifeform same people as insert their bank acct # to 'check if stolen'
12:06 mircea_popescu lol. that's an easy enough site to make, only need one branch implemented. "yes."
12:07 mircea_popescu anyway. ~nobody has a rsa key.
12:07 asciilifeform dun have to be an rsa key for this, neh
12:07 asciilifeform funnel happily eats whatever key.
12:09 mircea_popescu fax me a hallibut!
12:13 phf "TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'window.crypto.subtle.generateKey')" well there's that..
12:16 shinohai Anyone here know if this might be a useful box? https://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/sys/d/mac-prox28ghz-8-cores-10gb/6352402994.html
12:16 shinohai owner offered Btc discount, I may try to scrape up if so
12:17 trinque just a couple generations back intel mac
12:17 shinohai https://atlanta.craigslist.org/eat/sys/d/150-mh-rx-470-ethereum-mining/6352367772.html <<< lulzy post from same
12:18 * shinohai likes the high-tech boxfan cooling system
12:19 phf shinohai: i suspect you're paying a bit of premium for various audio junk on that mac box and the whole "production ready"
12:19 mircea_popescu !!gettrust madeline
12:19 deedbot L1: 0, L2: 0 by 0 connections.
12:23 shinohai Thanks for advice. Fellow also has a Optiplex 3050 for sale.
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13:06 shinohai !~ticker --market all
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13:09 mircea_popescu and in other wowz, check out felipelalli : https://yeppudaproductions.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/a-importancia-do-bitcoin-otc-wot/
13:11 deedbot http://trilema.com/2017/the-job-board/ << Trilema - The Job Board
13:25 mircea_popescu aaand in other public speaking, http://78.media.tumblr.com/fd52e61509cb29720d1dc1f550c49997/tumblr_nmnvgglu9v1tatbbfo1_500.gif
13:30 shinohai Good to see females that have control of the mic
13:35 mircea_popescu in a manner of slurping.
13:35 mircea_popescu btw asciilifeform re http://trilema.com/2011/un-defect-romanesc/ didja in your journey trhough romanian learnings run into that dude's blog ?
13:36 asciilifeform yes !
13:36 mircea_popescu ha.
13:36 asciilifeform he had a page about the 'drum bun' army march
13:36 asciilifeform which i ran across on a ww2 ro kick
13:36 mircea_popescu i always thoiught his "still more romanian than you" byline was lulzy.
13:37 asciilifeform >> https://kingofromania.com/2010/04/22/expression-of-the-day-drum-bun << subj
13:38 mircea_popescu "If you speak English and see the expression drum bun your mind conjures up a musical instrument for striking out rhythms combined with some kind of light bread style pastry and it makes NO SENSE." << bwahahaha
13:38 asciilifeform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whLVaIisZP0 << subj x2
13:39 mircea_popescu in similar lulz, the badea cirtan market in timisoara was officially known as "bad curtain".
13:39 asciilifeform and yes i pictured, unavoidably , a drum
13:39 asciilifeform lol!!
13:39 asciilifeform that's almost as good as 'bread of the sieve cable' <-> 'бред сивой кобылы'
13:39 mircea_popescu aqhahaha
13:40 mircea_popescu ftr, i never liked that one march, wtf bs it is.
13:41 mircea_popescu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i87mk0Uzivo << moar properly german stuffs.
13:41 asciilifeform american occupation soldiers in jp were taught, Officially, to say 'don't touch the moustache' <-> どういたしまして (dou itashimashite) - 'you're welcome'
13:43 asciilifeform oh hey is there a ro incarnation of the ubiqutous ww2 'song of the devil' ?
13:43 asciilifeform i know of version in fr, sp, portuguese, italian, even english
13:43 asciilifeform but is there a ro ?
13:43 mircea_popescu now this i don;t know.
13:44 mircea_popescu marschiert in feindesland ?
13:44 asciilifeform aha it
13:45 mircea_popescu if there is i dunno it.
13:45 asciilifeform apparently still marched to in modern bundeswehr...
13:45 mircea_popescu well fiend just means enemy.
13:45 asciilifeform well yes
13:45 asciilifeform mega-song, there's even a ru
13:46 asciilifeform shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726851 << that thing is worth 200buxorz max ( and that's if in museum condition )
13:46 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 16:16 shinohai: Anyone here know if this might be a useful box? https://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/sys/d/mac-prox28ghz-8-cores-10gb/6352402994.html
13:47 mircea_popescu but the relation is apt, the whole drum bun is quite it, "may you make it back out" sorta thing.
13:50 mircea_popescu in other "independence" lulz, https://kingofromania.com/2017/08/02/rogozin-vs-romania/
13:52 asciilifeform 'nobody in Romania uses Twitter' << srsly?!
13:53 mircea_popescu well... the 20something hos tried in the early 2010s, which is how i ended up sucked in.
13:53 mircea_popescu afaik didn't get too far.
13:53 mircea_popescu so an exaggeration, but not that substantial. like saying "nobody in the us uses yahoo mail"
13:54 asciilifeform and what does d00d have to do to get Officially banned from eu ?
13:54 mircea_popescu be part of ru govt, afaik.
13:55 asciilifeform lol!
13:56 mircea_popescu hey, the euros are retarded. they end up footing the bill for usg red pseudomilitary adventures in the middle east via hosting refugees (hey, when's the last time anyone sent 10 mn syrians to live in new fucking york, instead of germany, france etc ?) and for usg blue pseudodiplomatic misadventure in the shape of paying more for gas, selling less machinery and total real estate collapse because no more russki suckers to buy u
13:56 mircea_popescu p the "valuable" resorts.
13:57 asciilifeform they signed up for this when swallowed the usg occupation cock in '45.
13:57 mircea_popescu there is no such thing as "signed up". greeks signed up for repaying debts when they took money, lol.
13:57 mircea_popescu euros are retarded is all.
13:57 asciilifeform signed up the way d00d who steps off cliff, signs up to splat
13:57 mircea_popescu not in the slightest.
13:58 mircea_popescu signed up in the way afghan signed up to use us provided weapons to defend "us interests".
13:59 asciilifeform when you ~disband own army and instead invite in million austrogot^H^H^H^H^american d00dz instead...
13:59 mircea_popescu yes ?
13:59 mircea_popescu venice had no standing army. charles came and as he came he went.
14:00 asciilifeform standing armies in today's sense did not exist in time of venice
14:00 mircea_popescu of course they did.
14:00 asciilifeform where ?
14:00 mircea_popescu turks had them, for instance.
14:01 asciilifeform hm possibly
14:01 asciilifeform afaik nobody else tho ?
14:01 mircea_popescu it's complicated with a matter of relative sizes and holy roman provinces, but anyway.
14:02 mircea_popescu there was such a thing as a professional solider, let's put it this way. as a class.
14:02 asciilifeform these yes, landsknecht et al
14:07 mircea_popescu "Therefore, it’s pretty obvious that a handful of Moldovan avitation enthusiasts were better informed and had a better grasp of the strategic situation than the entire Romanian government."
14:07 mircea_popescu heh.
14:07 asciilifeform https://kingofromania.com/2017/08/09/why-do-romanians-hate-and-fear-russia/ << in other lulz from link
14:07 mircea_popescu come to think i actually like this guy. asciilifeform see if he wants to join ? does he have a contact ?
14:08 asciilifeform i suspect mircea_popescu might have much better result if he, famous ro d00d, writes
14:08 mircea_popescu but mircea_popescu also doesn't have an email.
14:09 asciilifeform hmm
14:10 asciilifeform https://kingofromania.com/2015/11/22/the-odessa-tales-pt-2/ << asciilifeform found interesting.
14:12 asciilifeform in other lollamatics, https://kingofromania.com/2014/02/08/with-friends-like-these-who-needs-enemies/ >> 'With Basescu’s personal and enthusiastic blessing, the FBI operates a field office in Bucharest with dozens of agents' etc
14:12 mircea_popescu aha.
14:14 asciilifeform also cluj was for a time hungarian, i had nfi
14:14 mircea_popescu https://kingofromania.com/2014/02/06/lethal-ignorance/ << lulz of all fucking time, romanian emergency airflight authority can't convert decimal to traditional lng/lat notation.
14:14 asciilifeform oh hey mircea_popescu had an article !
14:14 asciilifeform about this incident
14:15 mircea_popescu asciilifeform transylvania, all of it, is the largest part of both the kingdom of hungary and the kingdom of romania. it was part of both for about equal intervals, and also independent for a while
14:15 asciilifeform or was that another avoidable crash
14:15 mircea_popescu i think it was a different one.
14:15 asciilifeform 'STS = roughly equivalent to a combination of the American NSA and NRO, the STS also manages the emergency number (112) dispatch centers' >> waiwat
14:15 mircea_popescu serviciul de telecomunicatii speciale.
14:15 asciilifeform nsa certainly does not such thing tho
14:15 mircea_popescu he's correct, it's just about it.
14:16 mircea_popescu asciilifeform of course it does ?
14:16 asciilifeform nsa + fire department ?!
14:16 mircea_popescu well...
14:16 asciilifeform nsa dun have a 'we need urgent gasenwagen!111' phone hotline afaik
14:16 * asciilifeform pictures this
14:16 mircea_popescu they "create" the "environment" for "Government digital communications". ie, like nsa issues trump a smarthphone, sms issued my mother an email or w/e.
14:17 mircea_popescu relevant, http://trilema.com/2010/reverse-dns/#selection-155.1-152.3
14:21 mircea_popescu but yes, back to it, by the time tmsr has its own isp it will have become more of an actual country than say romania. the eu member.
14:26 asciilifeform 'Romania fucked up literally everything in World War 2. They lost Transylvania to their allies. The Romanian government hated Jews, tried to exterminate them, but then realized that their economy couldn’t survive without them. '
14:26 asciilifeform how did that last part work
14:27 mircea_popescu dja know that ancient joke that if you hear a hungarian speaking foreign languages you know he's a jew ?
14:27 asciilifeform aha?
14:27 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2010/romanul-si-comertul/#selection-25.0-25.256 topic
14:28 mircea_popescu i have never met in my entire life an ethnic romanian who was a competent merchant. not once, not one, not ever.
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14:43 mircea_popescu and in other lulz of all time, a terribly bad test "for fascism" gives me 43%, ie fellow-traveller status.
14:44 mircea_popescu apparently if you're a free market individualist without any regard for "the state", you're suspekt. news at 11 i guess.
14:45 ben_vulpes you wanna hear about fascism; fuckin irs wants spousal consent for electing to treat a certain corporation a certain way
14:45 mircea_popescu o.O
14:46 ben_vulpes DON'T SIGN THE PAPERS
14:46 mircea_popescu im kinda hoping they reintroduce the "village community". want you to buy a car, ask first the мир for permission.
14:46 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: elaborate ?
14:46 ben_vulpes "baby, it is moments like this that i sincerely regret not just signing a declaration and broadcasting it to the republic"
14:48 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes at least name it Preemptive Asset Hiding Corporation For Use In Later Divorce Proceedings To Circumvent Governmental Attempts At Nationalization And Assorted Activist Judge Idiocy And Also To Make Sure The Dumb Fucking Whore And Her Repugnant Spawn Fucking Starve, Inc.
14:48 ben_vulpes fuckin lol
14:49 ben_vulpes i need a fiatcorp to make that happen like i need an uncooled 42u cabinet
14:50 mircea_popescu yes, but let the empire of Named Things carry its own struggles.
14:50 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: "in some circumstances", when electing to treat an llc as s-corp, irs demands spousal consent
14:51 mircea_popescu those circumstances being that they are so fucking touchy about woman not getting all that she possibly could alloted her by divorce court.
14:56 asciilifeform https://kingofromania.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/royalewithcheese.jpg << lol
14:57 mircea_popescu ew
14:57 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: ianal but i was under the impression that anything within nato reich with yer name on it somewhere, is Officially confiscatable
14:57 asciilifeform corps or no corps
14:58 ben_vulpes well duh, but wife's signature to change tax status?
14:58 asciilifeform aha hilarious in light of above. why would it matter what type of corp.
14:59 ben_vulpes next they'll want wife's signature to lease hookers
14:59 trinque pretty sure it's state by state, that
14:59 asciilifeform but, horrors, what if you haven't got a wife! whatthen!
14:59 ben_vulpes in tangential lulz, one of the "children rescused in fbi child trafficking sting", touted as an "18 month old, rescued from sex trafficking!" was in fact hooker's baby and is now a state ward
14:59 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes from experience i find the girls pick much better hookers than i do.
15:00 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: no doubt, but statal mandate that wife picks hookers?!
15:00 mircea_popescu hey, turkey had it.
15:00 mircea_popescu or wait, actually, was ... previous guy's wife.
15:00 mircea_popescu with any luck, your own mother.
15:01 asciilifeform if you're a sultan
15:01 trinque ah son of a bitch, texas is a "community property" state too
15:01 mircea_popescu trinque loller.
15:01 asciilifeform trinque: wassat ?
15:02 mircea_popescu the whole fucking point of marriage is community property. whadda ya want
15:02 trinque says your frou owns half of what you earn over the course of marriage
15:02 asciilifeform only half?!
15:03 mircea_popescu actually it says that a) marriage is a corporation in which b) each spouse owns 50% and c) unless specifically excepted prior, all income of either party is assigned to it.
15:03 mircea_popescu this should be taught in "civil class" or w/e they call it in hs. but in any case -- don['t mary below your station, what.
15:03 asciilifeform i knew a d00d who ended up in this typical meat grinder : he supplied 100% of the income, she -- 100% of the debt
15:03 asciilifeform guess which number had moar zeros in front.
15:04 * ben_vulpes still extracting ongoing dowry payments
15:05 mircea_popescu hey, a slim minority of the girls actually market their own produce to the point of obtaining cash for it. i see no serious problems with this situation.
15:05 ben_vulpes buy 'em, own 'em, fuck 'em, put 'em to work.
15:05 mircea_popescu i don't credit the "oh, marketing is the only employee with ROI, everyone else just contributes to costs, marketing contributes to revenue". somebody's gotta make the shit you package and sell.
15:06 mircea_popescu similarily, http://btcbase.org/log/2015-02-21#1026639
15:06 a111 Logged on 2015-02-21 01:19 mircea_popescu: "she's been going through 6-7k each month since autumn, but i get to go visit p diddy whenever i feel like it. it's a wash"
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16:02 asciilifeform sooooo recently asciilifeform bought a 1990s-style electrodictionary for a language . and like any 1990s gadget, it also 'is a phone book, and organizer' and other misc rubbish , and this rubbish functionality required a DIFFERENT calibre of watch battery from the 2 main 3v cells. and would whine that 'memory batt low' etc, while draining main cells in MINUTES after insertion:
16:02 asciilifeform took thing apart, found that the main cells DRAIN THROUGH THE BACKUP
16:02 asciilifeform and removal of the latter turns it, suddenly, into a usable item...
16:02 asciilifeform chinese design ftw.
16:02 mircea_popescu lol
16:03 asciilifeform it was a serious wtf moment
16:03 asciilifeform this was actual mass-market product
16:03 asciilifeform with schoolboy-level bug
16:03 asciilifeform in pcb , no less
16:04 asciilifeform i pawed through the manual , looking for a 'do not install backup mem batt, we put that hole in while drunk' but found nope.
16:04 mircea_popescu maybe it was added while drunk
16:04 asciilifeform i can't think of any explanation that doesn't involve substances.
16:05 asciilifeform funnily enough it does NOT complain 'batt low' when REMOVED
16:10 mircea_popescu https://kingofromania.com/2014/12/03/the-curious-case-of-the-100-thousand/ << this is a delicious exercise in ignorance (from the same guy that's very carefully angered by the notion of beating women, o golly!).
16:11 mircea_popescu tl;dr dood who knows when automobile was invented "can not see" how 100k people could have travelled "in the cold" of early december over "long distances" and "what they would have eaten".
16:12 mircea_popescu notwithstanding that this is the 1900s, whereas peopel routinely travelled large distances in the cold and ate just five five centuries prior, and before that. because a) the cart of the time was intended as and functioned as a whole-family-mover, which is exactly how oregon trail happened ; and because the grain->bread and corn->mamaliga cycle permit something to the tune of 2mn calories per ton, ie enough to feed a family o
16:12 mircea_popescu f 10 for most of a year.
16:12 mircea_popescu and so following.
16:13 asciilifeform ww1 features 100s'k of folx happily moving ~on foot~
16:13 asciilifeform so what's the mystery here
16:13 mircea_popescu but whatever, "i can't see how people travelled before they had electric cars or why would a wife benefit from the occasional beating"
16:13 mircea_popescu asciilifeform nfi.
16:13 asciilifeform most of ww2 red army moved also on foot
16:14 asciilifeform and on both sides many moar horses than truck
16:14 asciilifeform and everybody ate, and it is not mega-mystery what they ate and how...
16:15 mircea_popescu i suppose it's a case of "i came up with this theory which is mine".
16:16 asciilifeform theories generally oughta pass laugh test imho
16:16 mircea_popescu what pantsuit theory passes laugh test ?
16:16 mircea_popescu they're a humourless lot.
16:20 shinohai http://archive.is/ICNd9 <<< I'd almost bet 1 BTC some redditard suggests they put this on "The Ethereum blockchain!!!" and it wouldn't happen.
16:21 mircea_popescu loller
16:25 diana_coman mircea_popescu, ugh, that guy always stank to me of americanism of the most annoying sort; and this "how could they have travelled" is precisely of that sort; "oh noes, how can one WALK a MILE???"
16:25 mircea_popescu he has the original well researched revisionist piece.
16:26 mircea_popescu basically, every time he doesn't use his own gut feelings, he's tolerably in the vicinty of truth.
16:26 mircea_popescu has the occasional* not original i mean.
16:27 mircea_popescu anyway. the arguments he presents don't work -- travel is much more likely in a country devastated by war than in one stable. in the latter case people feed themselves by tending to their crops ; but if no crops, they feed themselves by... GOING TO THE MARKET.
16:27 mircea_popescu and 1910 romanian market is NOT fucking walmart, but "that place where we have reason to suspect more other people will come".
16:28 diana_coman that might be I guess; he certainly does write at least more than the 100 words thrown at the blank page half-randomly, certainly; not so sure if there is anything more than that
16:28 mircea_popescu this is how pre-modern commerce works.
16:30 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> and 1910 romanian market is NOT fucking walmart, but "that place where we have reason to suspect more other people will come". << Well, that's sorta what walmart is in a more retarded fashion
16:30 diana_coman maybe he suggests he would sit and starve because... no car?
16:30 mircea_popescu i suppose, yeah.
16:30 mircea_popescu diana_coman well for his good fortune he's married to some local chick, so i expect he'd just you know.
16:31 mircea_popescu do what she fucking tells him to.
16:32 asciilifeform wait d00d is american?!
16:32 mircea_popescu yes.
16:33 asciilifeform that'd explain buncha things
16:33 mircea_popescu indeed.
16:33 asciilifeform so he's the... ro version of 'otaku' ?!
16:33 mircea_popescu well, it's a large country. richer than the us per capita, and certainly culturally stronger. so...
16:33 mircea_popescu yeah, i suppose so.
16:34 asciilifeform nuts
16:34 asciilifeform rotaku
16:34 phf i think i heard it called a "cultural honkey"
16:34 diana_coman mircea_popescu, guess so, huh; he'd find out quickly "how is it possible" lol
16:34 phf i.e. wigger, otaku, etc
16:34 asciilifeform roaboo
16:35 asciilifeform ( or see generic 'xenopatriot' pg on dramatica or was it the ru one )
16:39 hanbot Untill and unless I / Until
16:39 hanbot ^ in latest trilema, i mean, mircea_popescu
16:40 BingoBoingo I thought thos were synonyms
16:40 hanbot they're syllollyms
16:41 BingoBoingo AeohAOH!
16:41 mircea_popescu aty\
16:42 hanbot anyway having spent a few years fulfilling copywriting specs i'll admit a fair amount of the work was absorbed in weighing whether a given spec-producer seemed likely to pull the penny-revision stuff
16:42 mircea_popescu heh
16:48 diana_coman asciilifeform I guess I can vouch now for FG being "safe for kids" - 5 yo spotted one on my desk and asked the usual ton of questions BUT he figured out by himself that "it has a manual too, look!"
16:48 mircea_popescu lol!
16:49 shinohai "I am disappoint Mom, took this out to pasture and it did not fuck goat"
16:49 diana_coman aha, try explaining to a 5 yo what that is and what it does...
16:49 diana_coman ahaha shinohai
16:50 mod6 haha
16:50 shinohai o hai mod6
16:50 mod6 how goes shinohai!
16:51 shinohai Toiling away in Eulora here, u?
16:51 phf diana_coman: did you also explain the logo?
16:52 mod6 shinohai: werd. about to log back in actually & checkout the mining today
16:52 shinohai sweet
16:52 diana_coman phf, neah, he ignored the logo entirely
16:53 phf asciilifeform: i wanted to add your mpi to btcbase patches, but realized that it's not a valid vpatch, since it doesn't have a genesis. i'll add an exception to mechanisms (right now it just 404's and all kinds of broken, basically), but!
16:54 phf fwiw current patches convention is that genesis-less vpatch is rendered as a purple box with an arrow coming in, e.g. http://btcbase.org/patches?patchset=deprecated but when it's only one it's not working
16:57 phf diana_coman: right, i guess it doesn't have any symbolic value, when there's no underlying concept associated with it
17:00 diana_coman phf, quite; basically "white squiggles" from his point of view atm really; he noticed the letters, yes, because those he recognises as symbols but otherwise in any case, screws and cables way more interesting
17:07 BingoBoingo diana_coman: Do you routinely take hime to the good playgorund (i.e. the hardware store)?
17:09 BingoBoingo In other joys found http://www.buildablade.com/bb-itx96.htm
17:10 diana_coman BingoBoingo, not yet hardware store as such, no; he does get to see though anything that is going on (computers being operated on included), he does get to help with anything that he is able to atm and he does get to assemble his own stuff (the most recent of which is a fully functional water pump model thing that kept him busy for days as per http://www.dianacoman.com/blog/2017/10/08/lictis-plictis-ori-boala-copilariei/ (poor
17:10 diana_coman q picture in there)
17:10 diana_coman but he is still only 5 so a lot to figure out yet
17:11 diana_coman to take apart his own stuff too, lol; important this one
17:12 BingoBoingo Very cool.
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17:59 mircea_popescu phf don't add fucking exceptions wtf.
18:03 shinohai lol in otc - 16:19 +joecool or fork the wot and start a weird little cult like mp did
18:04 mircea_popescu that weird little thing everyone's stuck fixing their watches by.
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18:39 asciilifeform waaaaitasec phf , whaddayamean no genesis ?!
18:40 asciilifeform >> http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1533 << subj
18:41 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1727091 << this is useful ! can be filled with, e.g., N pcengines boards ( they by default sell without the iron case )
18:41 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 21:09 BingoBoingo: In other joys found http://www.buildablade.com/bb-itx96.htm
18:42 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1727076 << 'throws imaginary coin very, very quickly'
18:42 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 20:49 diana_coman: aha, try explaining to a 5 yo what that is and what it does...
18:44 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1727094 << 5 is when they started asciilifeform on englishism
18:44 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 21:10 diana_coman: but he is still only 5 so a lot to figure out yet
18:44 * asciilifeform remembers the copybook : 'a wolf sits under a tree and sings a long song' etc
18:44 diana_coman asciilifeform, good idea actually; I suspect he needs more play with the whole point of throwing coin as it is ; part of what was difficult was precisely the "but why do you want to do that?"
18:44 asciilifeform diana_coman: imho otp is actually simple enough to teach a kid
18:45 asciilifeform can show with pennies on a table
18:45 asciilifeform ' if these pair are opposite -- this is a 1 ' etc
18:45 * asciilifeform not pro pedagogue
18:45 diana_coman it is, yes; it just did not make it to the top of the pile really
18:46 asciilifeform this is how asciilifeform's brother taught him, with various household detritus
18:47 diana_coman I think there'll be some crypto play in this house, lol; tbh as a child this part of "secret" messages was terribly fun even as idea only
18:47 diana_coman but for some reason it's still my father's oscilloscope I remember better from that age (5), lol
18:47 asciilifeform i have perelman's 'Живая математика', ended up making the cardano grille , making & breaking the usual caesar cipher, etc
18:48 asciilifeform was riotously fun
18:48 diana_coman hah, I can pass it on to his father then !!
18:49 mircea_popescu teaching the kid to otp will surely give him something to blow schoolmates out of water.
18:49 mircea_popescu secrets are big at that age ; and especially for girlz.
18:49 BingoBoingo http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1727102 << I am still looking for both higher density pcengines apartments as well as beefier AMD boards
18:49 a111 Logged on 2017-10-19 22:41 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1727091 << this is useful ! can be filled with, e.g., N pcengines boards ( they by default sell without the iron case )
18:50 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: you don't ~want~ them in too high density
18:50 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: That is what fans are for
18:50 asciilifeform the other problem with those is that they have no heat sink from vendor other than a little aluminum shim that depends on the stock iron case being there
18:51 BingoBoingo Hence beefy fans with lots of gang noise
18:51 asciilifeform when you bolt'em to an iron sheet, it gets pressed, so can still use it, but need the iron sheet
18:51 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: fans do jack w/out heatspreader
18:51 BingoBoingo Plenty of places to get little aluminum heatsinks
18:51 asciilifeform no mounting holes
18:51 asciilifeform it has to be pressed by whole board bolted to sumthing, on that one.
18:51 BingoBoingo conductive epoxy
18:52 asciilifeform potentially.
18:54 BingoBoingo One cannot simply assume a world in 2017 without jbweld, much as one cannot assume a world in 1800 without procelain tile
18:55 asciilifeform heavy heatsink held with conductive epoxy is in asciilifeform's experience more often than not a recipe for ripping the chip from the board, balls, tracks, and all
18:56 asciilifeform you gotta mechanically decouple the thing from the board somehow
18:56 asciilifeform ( ever wonder why even cheapest shit cpu for pc never used heatsink held with epoxy ? )
18:57 asciilifeform certainly not since cyrix 486 at any rate
19:00 BingoBoingo Why not light heatsink to case? Not like it's a fucking opteron
19:01 asciilifeform lol it's a small opteron
19:01 BingoBoingo Of dubious up to date node running ability
19:02 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo use hot&spicy fucklube.
19:02 asciilifeform it's approx same as 'zoolag'
19:03 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: It's same generation as my mainbox E350 but slower. E350 vulnerable to high block processing times even with 31337 SSD attached
19:04 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: and so was dulap, a recent intel with 256G ram and 32core
19:04 asciilifeform it's ~entirely i/o-bound
19:06 deedbot http://trilema.com/2017/the-story-of-the-little-shit/ << Trilema - The story of the little shit
19:06 BingoBoingo Except for those mega signature stuffed blocks
19:08 asciilifeform still i/o-bound
19:08 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: see my measurements patch, and output, on the ml.
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19:27 asciilifeform !!up ascii_in_orcland
19:27 deedbot ascii_in_orcland voiced for 30 minutes.
19:27 ascii_in_orcland !!register http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/bIUbA/?raw=true
19:27 deedbot 76F814216BE3CF14AC31E0993B73837D67163DBA registered as ascii_in_orcland.
19:28 asciilifeform !!rate ascii_in_orcland 1 a voyagekey of asciilifeform, inquire within
19:28 deedbot Get your OTP: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/zGyUM/?raw=true
19:29 asciilifeform !!v 33D562770A1D875C86DEF14AB67A890D9A0DF335D383E3F3F5C0173FE1F36327
19:29 deedbot asciilifeform rated ascii_in_orcland 1 << a voyagekey of asciilifeform, inquire within
19:30 asciilifeform !!down ascii_in_orcland
19:31 ascii_in_orcland apologies for the l0gznoise. this box will not speak again unless my bouncer fails. but all gpggrams to end of the month should be addressed to this key, or reply will have to wait until nov 1.
19:34 asciilifeform thaaat was surprisingly painless. kudos to trinque .
19:36 mod6 thanks for the update
19:37 asciilifeform i go tomorrow, but did not want to save this for last hour.
19:38 shinohai Bon voyage asciilifeform !
19:39 asciilifeform ty shinohai .
19:39 mod6 happy travels, Sir.
19:42 asciilifeform will be interesting.
19:49 ben_vulpes business or pleasure, asciilifeform ?
19:50 asciilifeform bizeasure
19:50 ben_vulpes interesting indeed
19:58 mod6 !!59B97C36043CE68DB990BA3072AEF706BADA373D8415893B89718CC1A39DAEB6
19:58 mod6 !!v 59B97C36043CE68DB990BA3072AEF706BADA373D8415893B89718CC1A39DAEB6
19:58 deedbot mod6 rated wyatt06 1 << Eulora
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20:30 mircea_popescu and here's a bit of an evolutionary biology mindbomb : since the ability to distinguish one's own sons from other's sons is positively selected in males, it is altogether probable males have developed the ability to recognize their own spawn as such.
20:30 mircea_popescu soo... does the new baby LOOK TO YOU like it's yours ?
20:32 mircea_popescu shinohai you around ?
20:33 shinohai mircea_popescu: present
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20:54 mircea_popescu and in early rail locomotion, http://www.tikiwebgroup.com/fingeredorfucked/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/tumblr_ksrlkrr6uQ1qzaz2ro1_12801.jpg
21:00 shinohai "What, 1435mm is all you got son?"
21:01 mircea_popescu kek
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21:22 shinohai In other "Nobody could have predicted" http://archive.is/wTi4C
21:24 mircea_popescu awww
21:25 mircea_popescu "here's a list of a half dozen tards who paid some scammers way too much money to be named in an inept piece in random fiat fake news outlet"
21:26 mircea_popescu "*A substantial profit. Our ageing editor needed the phrase translating." outsourced writing, too.
21:30 shinohai The Dogecoin consideration was pretty lulzy though.
21:31 BingoBoingo In other lols, there is a place in Brazil that has datacenters and it is lulzily enough named Uberlandia
21:31 * shinohai searches for `Lyftlandia` ....
21:42 BingoBoingo In other news Portuges feels more more Italian than Spanish on deeper digging
21:44 shinohai Dem romance languages
21:44 * BingoBoingo learns a lot reading ad copy
21:50 BingoBoingo And power tool manuals
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