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danielpbarron: wow that thing went for 400 ?? that's probably what it cost to ship them
danielpbarron: oh only 100 units, that's hardly a pallet
nubbins`: nope
nubbins`: those were open-box too
asciilifeform: srsly this is a mighty long thread about a dead'n'gone item
nubbins`: people are still talking about the ussr 8)
asciilifeform: that's different - lenin lives forever (TM) l0l
nubbins`: i just sent the liquidators a message, we'll see
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9300 @ 0.00022568 = 2.0988 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform its more about sorting out logistics imo
asciilifeform: aha then
asciilifeform still trying to build a kernel without wdt
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24450 @ 0.00023592 = 5.7682 BTC [+] {2}
asciilifeform: (not as simple as merely disabling it in config, 'buildroot' is very particular re: how it reads layers of configs)
asciilifeform: ticktocktick...
asciilifeform: not dead yet..
mircea_popescu: poor africa.
asciilifeform: methinks i nailed it.
nubbins`: woo!
asciilifeform: (see thread for wtf a watchdog timer is and how i knew to look for it)
asciilifeform: i do so wonder what kinda joker initialized it AND LEFT IT ON
nubbins`: who let the watchdog out ;/
asciilifeform: 6813dfeaa3b1412501acd64c06042cdf9854a44296b529a226c624455085943e1f0ab15580f764abede77b07a4fd162227fc7a9095d21673a078f11a000c0e7e turdel-with-rootfs.gz
asciilifeform: ^ this can be booted into for lulz
asciilifeform: root pw is ''
asciilifeform: no rootfs partition is needed as i crammed it in
asciilifeform: contains basic utils
mircea_popescu: who! wohwho
assbot: RadioShack Puts Customer Data Up For Sale In Bankruptcy Auction - Slashdot ... ( http://bit.ly/1GpL4kr )
asciilifeform: i forgot to include sata
asciilifeform: will do that tomorrow
mod6: danielpbarron: ^^^
asciilifeform: after turdel/kernel is nailed down, i will post deterministic build for it
asciilifeform: starting with a particular checkout of 'buildroot'
asciilifeform: and buncha diffs
asciilifeform: same as i did for, well, the rest
nubbins`: rad, i'll be trying this
nubbins`: so this all fits in nand?
asciilifeform: the idea in my mind is to eventually have the whole shebang build from buildroot
asciilifeform: nubbins`: <5MB total
nubbins` claps
asciilifeform: nubbins`: this is kernel and all userland
nubbins`: amazing
assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
asciilifeform: obviously no bitcoind in there, yet
asciilifeform: nothing esp. astonishing here
nubbins`: step at a time
asciilifeform: this is about how big a non-developer's linux ought to be
danielpbarron: Welcome to Buildroot
danielpbarron: buildroot login: root
asciilifeform: try dmesg
asciilifeform: and top
asciilifeform: most of the comforts of home, are there.
asciilifeform: i'ma leave it running overnight
danielpbarron: i can do that too if it helps
mod6: cool!
asciilifeform: in case there are other clock surprises
danielpbarron: i should unplug the serial connector though right?
danielpbarron: you said it overheats?
asciilifeform: wai wat ?!!
mod6: danielpbarron: and yah, im pulling blocks, need -nodnsseed though
asciilifeform: never said any such thing
asciilifeform: if heatsink is removed - yes, overheats
asciilifeform: but why remove it
asciilifeform: my serial cable goes right through the closed case
asciilifeform: i didn't even drill the latter
asciilifeform: just sorta crushed it in there
danielpbarron: you meant the pogo board
mod6: ok im gonna shutdown this aws instance.
danielpbarron: yeah i reclosed my unit
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: feel free to screw the box shut
asciilifeform: so no reason to unplug the serial cable, ever
asciilifeform: i have no idea how anyone could have gotten the notion that this causes overheating
danielpbarron: overheating of the serial adapter, not the pogo
danielpbarron: but clearly i misunderstood you
asciilifeform: wat?!?!!
asciilifeform: can't even imagine how chinese that adapter would have to be
asciilifeform: to ever begin to overheat
assbot: Last 5 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/1TKX3SN.txt )
danielpbarron: just had this show up:
danielpbarron: # random: nonblocking pool is initialized
nubbins`: heh.
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: i must remind you - and everyone else here - that pogo has no rng.
asciilifeform: none at all
asciilifeform: not even a very bad one.
nubbins`: ok, sorry, this turdel, what am i doing with it once gunzipped?
asciilifeform: nubbins`: it's a kernel
asciilifeform: you can boot a pogo with it
danielpbarron: can it be used with net console?
asciilifeform: doesn't dhcp by default, so no
asciilifeform: i just tested the nic
danielpbarron: i don't think mine does dhcp and still works
asciilifeform: nic works
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: odd
danielpbarron: i don't mean now that it's booted
danielpbarron: imean in uboot
asciilifeform: i didn't change the uboot
danielpbarron: setenv serverip 192...
asciilifeform: dear glub
danielpbarron: yeah i know, i mean whatever thing i put on it
asciilifeform: uboot is in a separate nand partition
asciilifeform: i didn't touch it
asciilifeform: what i put up just now as turdel-with-rootfs is just a kernel
asciilifeform: i don't even flash these in, booting from lan
asciilifeform: or probably would've worn out my nand already
danielpbarron: i mean that i had previously flashed in a different uboot
asciilifeform: and booting arch every time i do a build would be retarded
danielpbarron: one that lets me set a serverip
asciilifeform: but that normally doesn't get you past the kernel jump-in
danielpbarron: as it boots it says "so and so is alive'
asciilifeform: after that it goes straight out ttyS0
asciilifeform: so danielpbarron's 'works' does not mean logging in through netconsole ?
asciilifeform: as in, to the shell
danielpbarron: i have not tried with the thing you just made
asciilifeform: ok more logical
asciilifeform: don't expect that to work
asciilifeform: this turdel is strictly for folks with serial ports
asciilifeform: barring any other peculiar surprises, we have a linux kernel that builds for pogo, and runs there
asciilifeform: and an elementary userland to go with it
asciilifeform: ('busybox'-based)
asciilifeform: weights slightly under 5MB but can be cut a bit
asciilifeform: *weighs
danielpbarron: trying now
danielpbarron: oh i see what you mean
danielpbarron: i remember why this didn't work with the netbsd one
danielpbarron: what is the point of netcat then?
asciilifeform: which 'this'
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: the point of the console-over-netcat was strictly to be able to screw with u-boot (adjust boot device, etc.) without having the serial port
danielpbarron: ok nevermind, nubbins` learn to solder
asciilifeform: this won't be an issue for much longer
asciilifeform: i'ma fix it so it grabs a dhcp addr. tomorrow.
danielpbarron: i feel a lot more confident to write documentation on that now
asciilifeform: btw this is not what the proper kernel will look like
danielpbarron: i was really confused about netcat to be honest
asciilifeform: because linux supports the nand just fine
asciilifeform: and there is no reason to clutter up the precious ram
asciilifeform: with crap
asciilifeform: userland (incl. bitcoind) will live in nand
asciilifeform: right now they're stuffed in the kernel proper
asciilifeform: when all of this makes sense - i'll post the diff.
danielpbarron: well i'll also leave mine on overnight
danielpbarron: oh btw, what color is the light on yours?
danielpbarron: i was gonna call it orange
asciilifeform: this simply means the bicolor is on
asciilifeform: as in, both bits set
danielpbarron: it's not green and not red
asciilifeform: laugh, but this also must be fixed
asciilifeform: it'll be most people's only interface to their nodes...
danielpbarron: my arch pogos have working lights
danielpbarron: they are green 24/7
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: do you remember how to toggle them ?
danielpbarron: i think it's in the debian instructions nubbins` found
danielpbarron: #set archNumber and machid (for LED)
danielpbarron: /tmp/fw_setenv arcNumber 3960
danielpbarron: /tmp/fw_setenv machid F78
asciilifeform: ^ this doesn't do anything unless your kernel looks for these numbers
felipelalli: Hi! I'd like to update this page: http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/irc_bots to add assbot and deedbot- how can I create an user in this wiki? Thank you.
assbot: irc_bots [bitcoin assets wiki] ... ( http://bit.ly/1EGTQ9f )
danielpbarron: ;;later tell kakobrekla ^ and me too plz
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22300 @ 0.00022578 = 5.0349 BTC [-] {3}
felipelalli: Let me ask: about Bitcoin OTC WoT or Assbot, there is a public API where I can navigate in all database? Or just trough the irc commands? I want to make a "rank" similar to this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/PageRanks-Example.svg
nubbins`: prolly should have tested tftp before setting it first in the boot order on the pogo
nubbins`: i guess this is as good a time as any to call it a night
BingoBoingo: !up Vexual
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24832 @ 0.00022652 = 5.6249 BTC [+] {3}
Vexual: ohimjust here for the plonk data
Vexual: i heard cork, bordeaux 2 euro,
Vexual: might have to buy this pogo thing too
mircea_popescu: dude asciilifeform talking to danielpbarron is breaking my stack. same length names!
Vexual: hey popescue, two bottle of wine, one better than the other, which do you drink first?
mircea_popescu: the other.
Vexual: same
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072204 << it has just as good a one as normal pc : ethernet board
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 04:33:21; asciilifeform: not even a very bad one.
mircea_popescu: felipelalli yes you can query it with curl. it spits out json if you append json to any dir
assbot: irc_bots:assbot [bitcoin assets wiki] ... ( http://bit.ly/1J2qvKF )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16384 @ 0.00022509 = 3.6879 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: !up Vexual
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10000 @ 0.00021915 = 2.1915 BTC [-] {2}
Vexual: portlands changed
Vexual: i guess that what parole is
Vexual: ;;lasercats
gribble: Error: "lasercats" is not a valid command.
Vexual: my eyes!
Vexual: fuck if you cant bankruot without a name change tho
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4571 @ 0.00022453 = 1.0263 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 48000 @ 0.00021695 = 10.4136 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: fluffyponyza comments on Almost 10% more full nodes since this morning connected to the network. Over 400 more in US. Is there some sort of competition I don't know of ? ... ( http://bit.ly/1xAZ4GA )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7462 @ 0.0002159 = 1.611 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17714 @ 0.0001694 = 3.0008 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31600 @ 0.00017002 = 5.3726 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12109 @ 0.00016632 = 2.014 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11000 @ 0.00016632 = 1.8295 BTC [-]
mats: ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu
assbot: Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network ... ( http://bit.ly/1EH849Y )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6805 @ 0.00016581 = 1.1283 BTC [-] {2}
jurov: hi mats
davout: mats: this seems to be supporting mp's thing "bitcoin can only work over gossipd"
mats: hi friends
assbot: Bitcoin Floundation Moves To Dilute The Bitcoin Brand : Buttcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/19TCzSE )
davout: jurov: buttcoin is best coin
davout: gotta make fun of the neckbeard pesos
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20953 @ 0.00014884 = 3.1186 BTC [-]
davout: wow
davout: S.MPOE freefall
davout: ;;later tell mircea_popescu looks like someone has locked S.MPOE's cockpit from the inside!
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mike_c: still at 36 pe. it's getting into "value" range now with 3% divs.
danielpbarron: height=298597 vs height=216895
jurov: !t m s.mpoe
assbot: [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.00014884 / 0.00022246 / 0.00025392 (937851 shares, 208.63 BTC), 7D: 0.00014884 / 0.00026871 / 0.00030622 (11824171 shares, 3,177.35 BTC), 30D: 0.00014884 / 0.00034565 / 0.0004493 (80690536 shares, 27,891.42 BTC)
jurov: !t m s.qntr
assbot: [MPEX:S.QNTR] 1D: 0 / 0 / 0 (0 shares, 0 BTC), 7D: 0.00020808 / 0.00020865 / 0.00021 (10000 shares, 2.09 BTC), 30D: 0.00020808 / 0.00024954 / 0.000301 (46659 shares, 11.64 BTC)
jurov: 30d still won't budge
jurov: davout no cockpit, we just uncovered the fraud with kako
davout: lolwass
jurov: supposedly everyone got their own deposit addy and nobody except me comes here to pester mircea for deposits/withdrawals
jurov: i'm very curious what aill come out of this
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23300 @ 0.00014884 = 3.468 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18000 @ 0.00014884 = 2.6791 BTC [-]
jurov: but i hope that if mp was scammer, he'd have arranged the situation to not look so forlorn :D
mike_c: jurov: wouldn't you expect most people to not ask for deposits/withdrawals in channel?
mike_c: i mean, i don't think i've ever seen anyone ever except you ask in channel.
jurov: why is everyone so utterly secretive?
mike_c: it's not secretive, it's just, why shout it?
mike_c: also, the 'announcement' was recent and the slide started some time ago. my guess is it has more to do with the drop in revenue than anything else, but mp and I have argued that before :)
jurov: i know, being half serious.. but really, i remember from s.dice times half of the chan bragging(or mourning) about trades they did
jurov: i don't remember any such thing for a long time recentyl
mike_c: heh, yeah. but that said more about s.dice than anything else
mike_c: people didn't brag/mourn about options trades either, and those were brutal
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28947 @ 0.00014884 = 4.3085 BTC [-]
jurov: but small investors that were caught there, talked about it
mike_c: !t m s.bbet
assbot: [MPEX:S.BBET] 1D: 0 / 0 / 0 (0 shares, 0 BTC), 7D: / / ( shares, BTC), 30D: 0.000065 / 0.00009669 / 0.00025 (100399 shares, 9.71 BTC)
jurov: ^ large part of this was me, buying for upcoming divs
mike_c: ^ 1% of bitbet has turned over in the last month. that seems "right" to me. s.mg is untradeable because it has so much coin.
davout: mike_c: howso?
mike_c: how do you trade in a company with no revenue and 10k bitcoin on the books?
davout: i'd naively say you'd base a valuation on the cash assets?
mike_c: heh, well, it's currently trading below book value
mike_c: but, point being, these stocks are generally held by serious investors and aren't going to have huge turnover.
davout: i see
mike_c: so without the options, where does mpex get revenue? it's an issue, and one that may be being reflected now in the stock price
mike_c: of course, the options exchange was hardly closed without reason (including some that remained unspoken), so it's tough to bring it back.
mike_c: davout: re s.mg. I think the problem there is that it is speculative whether they will be able to generate enough revenue to move the needle on the share price. so you might have your capital frozen in a stock that is basically valued as a pile of cash.
mike_c: which is why some people who would rather have the cash themselves are willing to dump it at 90% of book value.
mike_c: and I think it's too bad because it's an exciting company. if they're never going to spend the money, maybe just special dividend it back to the shareholders.
jurov: they will find a way to circulate them into ingame economy, that is not so big problem
mike_c: people have to pay to play, what do they need seed money for the game for?
jurov: not a q for me
jurov: i should not have vented here, perhaps am just disillusioned how shabbily it works, deposits, dividends
mike_c: around the edges it is rough, but the important parts are rock solid.
jurov: i fucked too intimately with said parts to put myself behind such statement
mike_c: you think the trading engine isn't solid? or security?
jurov: security is good. but i won't repeat myself about the other stuff
mike_c: i've heard you talk about stuff like 'eventually consistent' and the statements missing some useful tracking features.
mike_c: but i've never heard about problems like 'my bid didn't match the best offer'
mike_c: except one time where something got fucked with a proxy i think :)
mike_c: but once in x years isn't bad
jurov: yes, if that's all you expect from an exchange...
mike_c: hm. yeah, it pretty much is :)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16100 @ 0.00014698 = 2.3664 BTC [-]
mike_c: but i can see you wanting more give you run a brokerage
jurov: i can see even non-broker client wanting to avoid hairy state machine to accurately track the account for daytrading
mike_c: who wants fucking daytraders?
mike_c: let the brokers deal with them :)
mike_c: and i mean that from a business perspective, i'm sure some of them are perfectly pleasant people who just happen to think they are going to daytrade their way to stardom.
jurov: davout isn't even daytrading... and took him fkn long time to get the bot right
jurov: not going to argue with you
mike_c: i'm not trying to argue, was just trying to flesh out the issues. but i think we covered it.
jurov: !s every movement from:jurov
assbot: 0 results for 'every movement from:jurov' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=every+movement++from%3Ajurov
jurov: !s every balance from:jurov
assbot: 1 results for 'every balance from:jurov' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=every+balance++from%3Ajurov
jurov: only filthy daytraders would need such, i guess
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30050 @ 0.00014554 = 4.3735 BTC [-] {2}
mike_c: i'm trying to think of one, what balance change wouldn't have a reason?
jurov: deposits/withdrawals/pushes aren't shown in stat
mike_c: ah, right
jurov: and there were misc options.futures expirations
mike_c: yes, that was suboptimal :)
mike_c: but actually i thought we got that fixed
jurov: except for x.eur balances vanishing in the middle of month (at least it's at known time) and reappearing any time later
jurov: and dunno if you remember, there were daily interest payments in the beginning. without stat mention and at random times
mike_c: this is part of the reason though too. products come and go, with different features.
mike_c: x.eur hasn't been around that long. if it sticks around long enough, i'm sure it will work better.
jurov: what reason?
mike_c: part of the reason there are rough edges is that there are a lot of different products on mpex
mike_c: with differing needs
mike_c: path 1: engineer each product perfectly and ship 20 months late (sorry s.nsa). path 2: push it out, make sure it works as advertised, if it gets popular and sticks around, smooth out rough edges.
jurov: well, if mpex isn't now structurally able to issue information like "BalanceChange":[{"Date:": "blabla","MPSIC": "X.EUR", "Change": "-100", "Reason" :"Future expiration"}]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10750 @ 0.00014527 = 1.5617 BTC [-]
jurov: adding it later will only be harder
jurov: !up Vexual
jurov: anyway, having errands, brb
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21000 @ 0.0001443 = 3.0303 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 55492 @ 0.00014985 = 8.3155 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8398 @ 0.00015364 = 1.2903 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8616 @ 0.00015364 = 1.3238 BTC [+]
nubbins`: bricked the pogo, guess i'll need serial cable after all ;/
fluffypony: how'd ya do that?
nubbins`: changed the boot order to check the NAND first, and then stuffed a bunch of garbage into it
nubbins`: ^ pronounced like "bitte coin"
nubbins`: any deutsch in here? 8)
nubbins`: (also note the smaller characters above: two syllables, "suh"
nubbins`: and "ool"
nubbins`: or as westy likes to pronounce, "sole"
nubbins`: "With 1 Bitcoin and 650+ alternative coins each with their own symbol this new currency needs its symbol"
nubbins`: my sides
nubbins`: with 1 hot dog and 200 brands of frozen pizza, this new food needs a name.
assbot: Flash in 2015 « Threat Research | FireEye Inc ... ( http://bit.ly/1CrJEUZ )
nubbins`: "That's odd: all 600+ new nodes came online with the user agent "/Satoshi:0.10.99/Gangnam Style:v4.01""
nubbins`: !up Vexual
Vexual: 10.99, what happened to 1.0?
Vexual: almmost elen\venty, cmon
assbot: Dow tumbles 292 points as economy shows cracks - Mar. 25, 2015 ... ( http://bit.ly/1CrK6m0 )
Vexual: yemens blowing up
Vexual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS-WPTmaXvs saaab stories, but seriously, shit ron
Vexual: *shits orn
nubbins`: my other saab is a car
Vexual: lol,
Vexual: vine leaf porches
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23686 @ 0.00015425 = 3.6536 BTC [+] {2}
thestringpuller: !ticker m s.mpoe
assbot: [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.0001443 / 0.00020611 / 0.00025392 (1144012 shares, 235.80 BTC), 7D: 0.0001443 / 0.00026565 / 0.00030622 (11796040 shares, 3,133.70 BTC), 30D: 0.0001443 / 0.00034497 / 0.0004493 (80838287 shares, 27,887.00 BTC)
Vexual: seriously these yemenese will eat you
thestringpuller: !t m s.qntr
assbot: [MPEX:S.QNTR] 1D: 0 / 0 / 0 (0 shares, 0 BTC), 7D: 0.00020808 / 0.00020865 / 0.00021 (10000 shares, 2.09 BTC), 30D: 0.00020808 / 0.00024954 / 0.000301 (46659 shares, 11.64 BTC)
Vexual: and yo horse
Vexual: if its moist, its food
Vexual: you cant just bomb em'
Vexual: ;;seen dub
gribble: dub was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 10 weeks, 0 days, 17 hours, 53 minutes, and 55 seconds ago: <dub> thats an interesting one for france given cambodia
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu << http://homment.com/3K3xdsYD7a << reads like nuttery at first, but all of the factual claims as far as i could verify are - factual... if you can't bring yourself to grind it, have someone do it
assbot: Russia gov report Snowden Greenwald are CIA frauds pt1 ... ( http://bit.ly/1Bs7jzM )
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: 'NSA 'revelations' of liar-poseur Snowden, were chosen because (a) not really new (b) superficially fascinating, adding lustre to CIA media (c) mass-media exposure does not inhibit surveillance, and adds terror to those aware of it, adding to CIA-NSA success...'
asciilifeform: 'CIA-Wikipedia ("Every dumbf-ck in the world believes Wikipedia") - artificially pumped by CIA Google to top of search results, a 'Trojan horse' for inserting CIA lies and rubbish - see the EU police report on Wikipedia fundraising fraud...'
Vexual: waambulance
asciilifeform: 'Helping identify and destroy genuine US / UK / Nato leakers, duping them into trusting fake 'brave reporters' for Snowden (CIA-backed Greenwald, Guardian, NYT), then these media help CIA to silence, destroy, extort, kill any real whistleblowers - leakers - dissidents.'
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 60000 @ 0.00003998 = 2.3988 BTC [-] {18}
asciilifeform: 'Advance CIA side of old CIA-NSA territory dispute in US government, in favour of CIA more traditionally allied with US wealthy ruling families; achieving goal of limiting NSA powers, which had become felt as a general threat (blackmail) and even financial threat (insider trading) to US leading families.'
asciilifeform: 'Carmen Ortiz is reminded that two other female prosecutors, Thelma Colbert and Shannon Ross, were both found dead after opposing Bush family interests. Ortiz is asked if she would like to be the 3rd dead female prosecutor.'
asciilifeform: many other stimulating tidbits.
asciilifeform: 'The American cult of judicial corruption - central tool of America's 'Deep State' government mafia - is not well known, because experts on it - like myself - are 'erased' from internet searches, with US judges directly 'ordering' Google to censor evidence and journalism about their crimes. The world is instead deceived and fooled by the image of US courts in Hollywood movies and on Google search results - hiding the grim real
asciilifeform: ity. The central role of the US judge-lawyer mafia, is the reason over 1 million Americans have become lawyers in what is the developed world's most abusive, corrupt legal system. Though many American lawyers are now unemployed or low-income, they often became lawyers in the first place, because they hoped for at least a junior role in the US courtroom mafia, with a licence to steal the wealth of others.'
Vexual: pretty sure brazillians are de rigieur and we wont see another bush'
asciilifeform: 'The two richest men in America, my Harvard classmate Bill Gates whom I met as a boy, and Warren Buffett, were both quite threatened when they were acting too independently of America's ruling consensus. Legal action - by America's bribed, extorted judges and regulators - menaced them both. As each backed down and became more submissive to US policies, the threatened legal and regulatory actions against them evaporated.'
asciilifeform: anyway this should be enough lure for everybody. mega-lulzy tirade. if chumpatronic, it is of top quality and i take off my hat to the chumpatronicist.
thestringpuller: !up Vexual
asciilifeform: 'In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page.'
Vexual: lol thats how i find content
asciilifeform: but the notification itself was removed.
asciilifeform: fella linked to a page full of 'removed' instead of search results, for his name
Vexual: thats unusual
asciilifeform: seems like somebody worked overtime to replace most of these with a set of 'benign' 'he's a nutter' results
asciilifeform: https://www.indymedia.nl/en/2011/07/77181.shtml << more or less the only other mention i was able to find of him.
assbot: Indymedia NL (The Netherlands) - EU Report, Google Inc. Anti-Competition Crimes & Deception ... ( http://bit.ly/1Bs8rDx )
Vexual: good one,, funny
Vexual: google rports crimes now?
Vexual: or what?
Vexual: you see the latest hip hop moving to spotify only
asciilifeform: Vexual: i also did not see the latest gas vortex on jupiter.
Vexual: hmm, that sounds like something i might have said
Vexual: oh levels are high
Vexual: did i have aplan for some moon or other?
assbot: Яндекс ... ( http://bit.ly/1HLnccF )
asciilifeform: almost enough to nail down the thesis that yandex lifts results straight from google
assbot: The murder of US journalist David Rosenbaum, as he investigated corrupt US judges - questions remain ... ( http://bit.ly/1HLnD6W )
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: 11:03:18 up 11:03, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.04
asciilifeform: can we get mr Sachs in here ?
asciilifeform: what would it take ?
nubbins`: chumpatronicist
Vexual: can we get mcafee?
Vexual: he dont write asm anymore
nubbins`: asciilifeform must i gunzip turdel then tftp 0x800000 filename.gz?
nubbins`: er wat.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: yes
nubbins`: consider the above q modified to make sense
nubbins`: did so. obv smth was incorrect
nubbins`: nod, the ".ub" confused as the gunzip'd file had no ext
nubbins`: PROTIP to self: put tftp /after/ mmc in boot order next time
asciilifeform: 'The CIA-Snowden fraud was, to a degree, a semi-brilliant scam, even though it is now falling apart. On the surface, it seems anyone talking about these awful NSA activities 'must be genuine' - Few people considered what else Snowden was saying. When he moves out of an extremely narrow channel of CIA-scripted 'NSA revelations', Snowden's agenda is to be a slimy, sleazy salesman...'
asciilifeform: was i the only one here who actually read (for a time) mr s's (purported) www output (e.g., 'twitter', etc) ?
asciilifeform: it was full of outright garbage
nubbins`: i missed it, but his "how to use tor" video was painful
asciilifeform: and if 'the real snowden' ever stood up to refute the 'fake' - i never heard of such.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-03-2015#1043648 << thread where mircea_popescu illuminates the war between cia and nsa
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 00:52:42; mircea_popescu: if you decide to fuck whomint, where the fuck is harry poter fanfic boy going to find money to pay for his groceries ?
asciilifeform: though 'war' is very much the wrong term, just as 'fight' is not a correct word for what happens between the corresponding two types of kid in the playground
nubbins`: struggle
asciilifeform: clobbering.
asciilifeform: it's only a 'struggle' if they're both still moving.
nubbins`: Hello. Thanks for your email. We were selling these consistently at $30-$35. The price seems to fluctuate on these overtime.I know that many people are modifying them for other things so I know there is a very strong market for them. We have about 3000 of these left at this point.I would be willing to sell a minimum of 1000 units but would be more interested in selling all 3000 that I have left. Can you tell me what you're wanting to do
nubbins`: with them? Are you just wanting to resell them or modify them or something else? Please feel free to make me an offer on a minimum of 1000 units or an offer for all 3000 units if that would interest you. I look forward to hearing from you soon!
hexual: skylarking?
nubbins`: asciilifeform mircea_popescu etc ^^
nubbins`: pogov4
asciilifeform: which type
nubbins`: purple, like yrs
hexual: price landed
nubbins`: current list price is 18usdea
asciilifeform: i wonder how many one could get at the list price
nubbins`: not sure what the guy's sweet spot is
asciilifeform: i was half-expecting that my 10 would exhaust the supply
asciilifeform: (it didn't, of course)
asciilifeform: nubbins`: where was this ?
asciilifeform: the manufacturer ?
nubbins`: amazon seller
nubbins`: !up Vexual
Vexual: yall should have someone sesible liek do da emails
nubbins` is sensibul biznis ownur
Vexual is on the good wine
danielpbarron: so like 18k to 50k worth?
Vexual: 2 euro
asciilifeform: 'The laughable CIA story we are asked to swallow, is that the US regime is doing zero against Omidyar, despite his being the 'owner' of 'tens of thousands' of 'Snowden stolen espionage documents'. When of course if 'Snowden' was not a CIA operation, all American hell would be loose against Omidyar, Greenwald and the rest, targeting their assets and persons on US territory.'
asciilifeform: 'After making public revelations critical of US policies, former CIA director William Colby was himself found dead in 1996 from a laughably improbable 'canoe accident'. US Congressman Wayne Owens was found dead in Israel in 2002 while investigating US corruption connections.' << 'best news is the history you didn't know' (mircea_popescu?)
mod6: !t m s.mpoe
assbot: [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.0001443 / 0.00020445 / 0.00025392 (1031337 shares, 210.86 BTC), 7D: 0.0001443 / 0.00026506 / 0.00030622 (11517071 shares, 3,052.80 BTC), 30D: 0.0001443 / 0.00034496 / 0.0004493 (80824654 shares, 27,881.74 BTC)
Vexual: tahiti is a long way in a canoe
mod6: fuckin 'a right
Vexual: the journey prefers stout gents
nubbins`: the stout prefers gent journeys
nubbins`: ok, reply sent. let's see where this goes.
Vexual: dont they tho
nubbins`: "But Wi-Fi hotspots can't deliver wireless connection speeds any faster than the incoming wired connection from your cable or other ISP (Internet service provider); top theoretical AC router speeds are only available in a direct computer-to-computer wireless connections, which you'll never do."
nubbins`: so much fail
nubbins`: you're right, i'd never want to transfer data within my network
asciilifeform: nubbins`: whatever it was, was probably referring to 'ad hoc mode'
Vexual: the bettong with the scroll on its ankle is the bottleneck here
asciilifeform: nubbins`: you use ad-hoc mode often ?
nubbins`: in fact, i don't, but i kinda think that's not what the guy meant to say
asciilifeform: what even was this
nubbins`: who cares what the router speed is if you're going ad-hoc?
nubbins`: just some random huffpo article about how yr router is lying to you
nubbins`: because the pipe coming into your house is slower
nubbins`: (o.O)
Vexual: not in japan its not
asciilifeform: not here, either
Vexual: they have optic fibre to the eyeball
Vexual: yeah but youd have it anyway ascii
asciilifeform: i have a few wifi devices. the radio is definitely the bottleneck.
Vexual: nubbins shoos bears off his wifi'
nubbins`: i think this was written for USians with slow pipes
nubbins`: fiber to the door here, i dare the wifi to keep up
thestringpuller: wifi is for people who don't like living in a house akin to Kowloon Walled City
Vexual: i wrote this next week
Vexual: yes, comin atchya on a 1.4
asciilifeform: 'As they say, 'you cannot make these things up', the Americans are so ridiculously obvious as they conduct criminal deceptions. The CIA's 'Watergate' scheme to destroy Richard Nixon 40 years ago, was so successfully with the fake 'brave reporter' Woodward, that the CIA even decided to use Woodward's junior partner as a fake 'brave reporter' along with Greenwald in 'Operation Fake Dissident Snowden'.'
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 234882 @ 0.00015768 = 37.0362 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34900 @ 0.00015753 = 5.4978 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22700 @ 0.00015753 = 3.5759 BTC [-]
assbot: CIA fraud Julian Assange abusing Ecuador London embassy - Pastebin.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1ydCNsV )
asciilifeform: 'Assange and Snowden are cold or actively insulting and hostile to real dissidents. For example, Assange grossly insults anyone who does not believe the absurd US gov story about 11 Sep 2001 - which no serious person believes. Assange insults the thousands of architects, engineers, US military and intelligence veterans, who continually describe how the 'official story' is a fraud. '
nubbins`: "I am a Harvard classmate of top US leaders" the wankery is strong with this one
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i don't give a damn if he claims to be a martian
asciilifeform: the story, to the extent it can be checked out, checks out.
nubbins`: how about if he claims to be a martian in every communique? 8)
asciilifeform: and fits the known facts more tightly than anything else i've encountered
asciilifeform: that is, why not a single one of the 'leaks' actually damaged any tangible lizard interest
asciilifeform: recall that the nsa devices catalogue was -not- a snowden leak
asciilifeform: but came from the other fella
asciilifeform: now (almost certainly) dead
asciilifeform: it shuffled in and was permitted to spread, to lend credibility to the rest of the pile.
nubbins`: yfw 0.5.3 has a hidden backdoor and both satoshi and mp are complicit!
asciilifeform: nubbins`: that's your 'incredulity immune system' healthily working
nubbins`: and me without a general checkup in years
nubbins`: anyway, you're correct in that nothing leaked was particularly damaging to the lizards
nubbins`: which in itself is mildly curious
asciilifeform: and that details of -specific- compromises, clearly apparent from context in some of the docs, were scrubbed
nubbins`: i bet assange is such a fucking dirtbag
nubbins`: he probably eats potato chips for breakfast
asciilifeform: sachs also lists names, times, places of folks 'suicided' by usg, with reasons.
asciilifeform: no one has, afaik, seen it fit to refute any of it.
asciilifeform: at any rate, i'll summarize for the impatient. according to sachs, snowden heap was lifted. but under cia (his original and actual employer) direction. and then carefully selected.
asciilifeform: mainly to create a usg-controlled 'muppet hero' who will lead actual leakers to their deaths
asciilifeform: but also to drum up a feeling of 'everyone is surveilled'
asciilifeform: sachs does -not- mention it, but the folks in #b-a know well, that it also created a vast and thriving market of faux 'security' paraphernalia.
nubbins`: i wonder how many btc people sent snowden
asciilifeform: ('redphone', 'blackphone', and 1001 other pieces of rubbish)
nubbins`: ah, blackphone, i recall
nubbins`: turns out it was in fact clearphone?
asciilifeform: long ago proven fact.
nubbins`: rite
asciilifeform: and countless other 'schneierisms.'
felipelalli: mircea_popescu: thank you so much. But I guess this is not true on OTC WoT? Only in assbot, right?
danielpbarron: otc sucks anyway
mod6: well, it didn't used to suck.
mod6: speaking of... i kinda miss trading otc
danielpbarron: do miners even sell in there? or is it all people acting as coinbase pass-throughs?
mod6: I dunno anymore. It used to be different.
mod6: is there a way to visually see the ratings for a given nick with assbot?
mircea_popescu: o wow check that out, 15s!
mircea_popescu: iamsopoor.jpg
mod6: !gettrust mod6 assbot
assbot: Trust relationship from user mod6 to user assbot: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 8 via 4 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/mod6/assbot | http://w.b-a.link/user/assbot
mike_c: mod6: soon. it'll be public after conference.
mod6: krad
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 125550 @ 0.00016085 = 20.1947 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 199550 @ 0.00016085 = 32.0976 BTC [+]
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10100 @ 0.00019321 = 1.9514 BTC [+]
mod6: !t m s.mpoe
assbot: [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.0001443 / 0.00017661 / 0.00025392 (3033844 shares, 535.82 BTC), 7D: 0.0001443 / 0.00024898 / 0.00030622 (13265892 shares, 3,303.03 BTC), 30D: 0.0001443 / 0.00034046 / 0.0004493 (82819096 shares, 28,197.34 BTC)
mod6: !gettrust assbot nubbins`
assbot: Trust relationship from user assbot to user nubbins`: Level 1: 1, Level 2: 12 via 12 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/assbot/nubbins%60 | http://w.b-a.link/user/nubbins%60
mod6: Hey nubbins`: if you're not signed up to the btc-dev list, now is not a horrible time. You wouldn't mind sending your OSX steps there (in a clearsigned message) would you?
nubbins`: oh, sure. here's the thing tho
mod6: ok
nubbins`: i'mma have to set up a new pgp key
mod6: ah, ok. best day to do that is today.
mod6: well, so the saying goes :]
mod6: anyway, thanks in advance.
nubbins`: heh, np.
mod6: It'd be nice to have it in there anyway, signed by yourself. And then I can mention it in this months address as well.
nubbins`: anyone got a guide for assbot wot handy?
mod6: !help
nubbins`: i'm gonna need to rate my key but i guess i hafta register it with assbot first
nubbins`: wait, i can just !changekey, right?
mod6: i don't think you can rate yourself.
nubbins`: mod6 i use separate pgp keys for various things
mod6: yeah, changekey should do it. but don't listen to me. i r dumb. ask kako to make sure.
nubbins`: the one i use here is, uh, not the one i should be signing foundation releases with
mod6: ah, no worries, this can wait until later, days or weeks if needed.
nubbins`: nah, i'll get it done
mod6: i was just hoping for before 31st of march. :]
nubsy searches for gpg cheat sheet
nubbins`: !rate nubsy 10 top kek
assbot: Request successful, get your OTP: http://w.b-a.link/otp/39eaf513bb3f09f9
nubbins`: o right
asciilifeform: <nubbins`> the one i use here is, uh, not the one i should be signing foundation releases with << care to explain why ?
asciilifeform: (not that there is anything necessarily wrong with this)
nubbins`: note email address attached to 3C84 4002
nubbins`: (pinkeyeprints@gmail.com)
nubbins`: while ostensibly pink eye has business using a gpg key around these parts, it's hard for me to justify "signing foundation code releases" as a relevant business activity
nubbins`: now, where was i
nubbins`: mod6 i can just dump clearsigned text into the body, yes?
mod6: Yes, Sir.
nubbins`: ok, sent
nubbins`: like i said earlier, these steps should be relatively impervious to future code changes
mod6: I don't see it in there, but the mailatronic has been known to snarf messages at will.
nubbins`: i *just* registered the key with assbot
mod6: Maybe we can get jurov to take a peek. If not, post your clearsigned message to pastebin and maybe I can clearsign your clearsigned message and send it myself.
nubbins`: maybe it hasn't refreshed yet
mod6: aight, we'll give it a day.
nubbins`: !gettrust assbot nubsy
assbot: Trust relationship from user assbot to user nubsy: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 1 via 1 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/assbot/nubsy | http://w.b-a.link/user/nubsy
mod6: no problem. thanks for putting the work in there and getting that going!
nubbins`: hey, np
nubbins`: ^ set to expire in 1 week
nubbins`: just in case
mod6: ok sweet.
mod6: ;;later tell jurov did you see any weirdness from Mailman regarding nubbins`'s OSX clearsigned message on 2015.03.26?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
nubbins`: haha fuck.
nubbins`: i sent it from the wrong account
mod6: haha
mod6: ok
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39882 @ 0.00019551 = 7.7973 BTC [+]
nubbins`: ok, sent
nubbins`: if *that* doesn't show up, either we gotta wait for key list to refresh or there's some other strange
nubbins` would not be surprised if ML doesn't poll assbot wot very frequently
jurov: haven't you just created the key?
jurov: no it does not poll it at all, i refresh i manually *blushes*
nubbins`: the key itself is old, i just reg'd it with assbot 15 mins ago
nubbins`: oh you! :D
nubbins`: nickname "nubsy"
nubbins`: 7C77 9724
nubbins`: FWIW it's not the sort of thing that needs to poll just yet
mod6: yeah, agree. it doesn't need that functionallity yet.
mod6: thanks jurov
nubbins`: yeah tyvm, let me know when updated and i'll resend
nubbins`: height=206724
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nubbins` cries
mod6: jeeze
nubbins`: "hai guise where my maniez? i email"
nubbins`: Very respectfully yours, Dr Les (Leslie - Leszek) Sachs - Scholar of the history of law and religion, with 7 earned academic degrees from 3 universities, the first two from Harvard University, alongside many US leaders;
nubbins`: Dr Les (went to school w/ important people) Sachs
asciilifeform: again he can be a martian if he wants
nubbins`: but if martian is a synonym for obvious attention-seeker...
nubbins`: (what's up with the CV as a footnote?)
asciilifeform: nubbins`: there are far more tedious and less apparently factual 'seekers' who get considerably more attention
asciilifeform: and sachs gives testable hypotheses
nubbins`: granted
asciilifeform: which is why i don't give a damn what he is
asciilifeform: the most testable hypothesis is that google systematically blackholes him
asciilifeform: this is testable right from where you're sitting.
nubbins`: "Former USA resident who risked being tortured to death, attempting defence of human and Constitutional rights inside the United States, facing down terrorist gangster lawyers in a US courtroom, alone because US lawyers cower in fear before bribed US judges;"
nubbins`: Major Accomplishments:
nubbins`: Faced down terrorist gangster lawyers in a US courtroom, alone
nubbins`: Formerly lived in a glass-bottomed boat with oars made of flame
asciilifeform: i get it, pattern-matches 'nuttery'
nubbins`: anyway, i'm just poking fun of the chrome here
nubbins`: not addressing the content of the thing 8)
nubbins`: which, on the face, is no more or less plausible than the understanding anyone else is operating under
asciilifeform: the bells and gongs sticking out of that thing make it considerably less palatable, yes, which i suspect is the only reason sachs is still alive
asciilifeform: note that there is no public communique from harvart 'this fella never went here' (whether factual or not)
asciilifeform: *harvard
nubbins`: guy's websites are a fuckin pain to read
nubbins`: maybe there's truth in here?
nubbins`: i couldn't be fucked to read another page of it
asciilifeform: i pasted in some of the highlights.
asciilifeform: (earlier today)
asciilifeform: he is not a master of the english language.
nubbins`: nor a master of not encasing the entire page in <strong>
asciilifeform: but despite the superficial flavour, i don't get the usual 'schizo' vibe from it.
nubbins`: how the fuck is someone supposed to parse this
nubbins`: i dunno man, the one page about cromwell i read was nutted out
asciilifeform: wai wat
nubbins`: cornwell, w/e
asciilifeform: this is where?
assbot: New US Federal Court lawsuit involving Patricia Cornwell -Cornwell renews threats to murder Dr Les Sachs ... ( http://bit.ly/1EHB5SY )
nubbins`: here's a snippet
nubbins`: Cornwell quickly denounces the "dirty Jews", the "filthy Jews". Indeed, attacking Jews is a real passion for the neo-Nazi Cornwell, while at the same time engaging in the 'Pleasures of Adolf Eichmann', Cornwell's hiring of dishonest Jews to do dirty jobs for her, a 'pet Jew' whom Cornwell can dominate.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/sachs.txt << minus the css. just for you.
asciilifeform: ^ mirror
asciilifeform: at any rate, herr sachs has not posited any martian armies taking over earth. instead, he connected a number of dots which are plain as daylight
asciilifeform: and are there for anyone who wants to see them.
asciilifeform: snowden (or whatever bourbaki is responsible for writing his public-facing garbage) insulted the intelligence of the entire planet a thousand times
asciilifeform: and somehow it all washed.
asciilifeform: from his pushing tor, to promising to reveal 'who plugged jfk', to countless other distractions
asciilifeform: and the multicoloured 'phones'
nubbins`: Cornwell's lawyers know this, that attacking and murdering Jews is Cornwell's ultimate fetish and fantasy, to herself become a lesbian Adolf Hitler. Cornwell's longtime lawyers Shumadine and Rudell, mentioned above, took advantage of this back in 2000, when they threatened someone of Jewish heritage with a Jew-baiting extortion letter.
nubbins`: after clicking 5 links through various pages of gibberish, i find the "jew-baiting" extortion letter
nubbins`: reminds me of the woman who claimed JK Rowling stole her book "Larry Botter" or w/e
nubbins`: anyway
nubbins`: for all i know, this guy is preaching the true word
asciilifeform: nubbins`: mind you, i cannot vouch for his sanity
nubbins`: obv barely hanging on.
asciilifeform: but i am not his shrink and this is not my job.
asciilifeform: not sure how 'sane' you and i would appear, after a few decades in his position.
asciilifeform: whatever that may be
nubbins`: at the risk of being blithe, he's a nutter who harasses people he thinks are out to get him
nubbins`: but what do i know.
mike_c: how much are they paying you nubbins`?
asciilifeform: how would you distinguish this animal from the other, very different, species with similar markings ?
nubbins`: mike_c my purpose of being here has been discussed in the past
nubbins`: my salary has not
assbot: chipsec/chipsec · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1EHBULw )
nubbins`: asciilifeform problem is, if the "similar markings" are verbal diarrhoea, i just wouldn't be able to.
nubbins`: everyone with this type of crazy has the same website
asciilifeform: punkman: requires patching winblows to put kernel in 'dev mode' and removing signature checks. which is readily visible to any decend crapware
nubbins`: endless, endless pages
nubbins`: each with endless, endless paragraphs of text
asciilifeform: punkman: hence no stealth in the analysis
nubbins`: full of hyperbole and exaggeration
nubbins`: the only difference between this guy and a "SHTF" type prepper is the style of the gibberish
asciilifeform: nubbins`: my hypothesis is that this kind of thing is -caused by- rather than -a cause of- the futility of 'shouting in the wilderness'
asciilifeform: nubbins`: the pertinent difference is the testability of the claims and how perfectly they square, imho, with the publicly-available facts.
asciilifeform: none of the other shit ultimately matters.
nubbins`: mine is that it's a piece of breat with nut butter on both sides
nubbins`: but again. i'm not evaluating his claims (how can i? 100% not reading any more), just the way in which he presents himself and his theories
nubbins`: these rambling essays to me are like rounded corners to mp
asciilifeform: nubbins`: the actual facts about usg are sufficiently monstrous that they will trigger -any- reasonable person's immune system the way they triggered yours, if encountered raw in one gigantic torrent
punkman: asciilifeform: doesn't have to run in windows though
asciilifeform: nubbins`: picture how a 'civilian' would view #b-a log if he were to read 'the choice bits'
nubbins`: sure. overwhelming.
asciilifeform: punkman: the uefi variant runs from... within bios?
asciilifeform: punkman: which is one of the objects under test
asciilifeform: how's that supposed to work
nubbins`: woo, got a contact for bulk orders from that other place
nubbins`: "We currently have plenty of them in stock"
asciilifeform: punkman: at any rate, check out the vendor - intel.
nubbins`: OH ALSO
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asciilifeform: intel is interested in 'platform security' in much the same way that monsanto is interested in your healthy diet.
punkman: asciilifeform: aha, smells like PR
asciilifeform: from what i can tell, the thing reads fw images, tests if smm register is properly locked, etc.
asciilifeform: perfectly pedestrian things.
asciilifeform: but don't be surprised if it makes headlines in the mouthpiece press as a mega-s333k00r1ty-gotterdammerung
nubbins` lives on monsanto-free island (for now)
nubbins`: phun phact, newfoundland was england's first overseas colony
nubbins`: may have a job printing posters for big-name punk band :0
asciilifeform: nubbins`: "We currently have plenty of them in stock" << may be pessimistic, but i strongly suspect that the $20 stock will evaporate very quickly once the manufacturer realizes what these are being used for.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: not unlike the 'playstation' supercomputing clusters and sony's response
danielpbarron: !up Bagels7
nubbins`: first guy is already "!!!!"ing me
nubbins`: i suspect he did a google
mod6: <+nubbins`> may have a job printing posters for big-name punk band :0 << anyone i'd know?
BingoBoingo: If the bad has a big name it can't be very punk
mod6: what about Fugazi. Or the Melvins? Everyone knows them, they're still punk(tm)
BingoBoingo: Were punk, they were punk, emphasis on the past tense
mod6: Do you consider Strung Out to be a punk band?
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mod6: I heard they're gonna be playing up here. gotta try to catch 'em.
nubbins`: mod6 you'd definitely know em, the name starts with P and it's not pennywise
nubbins`: but can't say much else til the contract is signed :D
nubbins`: BingoBoingo any punk band you've heard of is by definition not punk
nubbins`: but the trappings of punk
nubbins`: mod6 melvins was a good guess tho, they get silkscreened posters done locally for all their slows
nubbins`: *shows
mod6: ah, cool
BingoBoingo: <nubbins`> BingoBoingo any punk band you've heard of is by definition not punk << Of course by the time I've heard of them they've lapsed.
assbot: Melvins - Live at Amoeba Music ... ( http://bit.ly/19nRcMR )
nubbins`: 10/10 have watched maybe 15 times
mod6: oh startswith P. i know who it is. that's awesome!
nubbins`: BingoBoingo you want real punk, check local flyers for bands called "cider squad" and shit like that
nubbins`: mod6 :D
nubbins`: & watch some crust kid barf on a drum kit
gribble: Error: "watch" is not a valid command.
nubbins`: yeah yeah
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Cider Squad can't be punk anymore. You have to understand that my herueistic for this is that if I've heard of something it can no longer be punk, underground, or whatever
nubbins`: natch
nubbins`: i recall being at one of these shows once
nubbins`: guy comes up "hey, wanna go in on a case of beer?"
nubbins`: me: "...dude, we're at a bar"
nubbins`: "...oh yeah" then guy wanders in and takes stage w/ band
asciilifeform: mod6, ben_vulpes, nubbins`, mircea_popescu, et al:
asciilifeform: observation: sshd on a box with no rng may as well be replaced by telnetd
asciilifeform: saves 1MB
asciilifeform: activated, naturally, (if present in the battlefield version at all) by holding down button on boot
asciilifeform: to be used only by devs or by folks who want to turn a knob (e.g., set a static ip instead of dhcp)
asciilifeform: i wouldn't even bother with it at all if it weren't for folks here who don't feel like soldering the serial plug
nubbins`: a ha ha, you've got a point.
asciilifeform: no one should ever be connecting to these things except on his own lan during setup
asciilifeform: (for shell, i mean)
nubbins`: i'm gonna be /making/ a serial cable anyway
nubbins`: but if you don't mind the indulgence, short term...
asciilifeform: something like this will be necessary if there is to be any possibility of changing, say, the ip bringup
asciilifeform: (i don't like dhcp myself, for example)
assbot: A hole in telnetd [LWN.net] ... ( http://bit.ly/19nSqHP )
mod6: ok, maybe i don't understand. but im gonna ask anyway. but what you're saying is that the pogo embedded os wont have a rng?
asciilifeform: mod6: it has -no- source of entropy other than i/o
asciilifeform: not even a battery-backed clock
mod6: so what is bitcoind supposed to do?
asciilifeform: bitcoind does not need entropy for anything
asciilifeform: unless abused
asciilifeform: in ways which we do not intend to abuse it
asciilifeform: (i.e. use as a wallet)
mod6: ok. so we won't sign transactions then
asciilifeform: mod6: not on a pogo!
asciilifeform: POGO IS NOT A WALLET
mod6: ah, ok. derp.
asciilifeform: for anyone who did not know
mod6: gotcha.
mod6: see, just thought i'd ask.
mod6: haha
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asciilifeform: (do not read this to take that a battery-backed clock is any kind of source of entropy, also.)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17263 @ 0.00026256 = 4.5326 BTC [-]
nubbins`: i had to double check the pcb last night when your rtc0 init failed
asciilifeform: i did warn.
asciilifeform: the rtc is actually there, and worked under arch iirc
asciilifeform: but it has no battery power
nubbins`: wa.. oh, yes
nubbins`: put another way, do not solder a battery holder into your pogo and use it as a wallet, either 8)
assbot: Logged on 24-01-2015 05:51:18; mircea_popescu: holy hell a sane engineer.
nubbins`: hm, good info, pin
nubbins`: try !s <that word> from:nubbins` some time
Adlai: !s pin from:nubbins`
assbot: 12 results for 'pin from:nubbins`' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=pin+from%3Anubbins%60
assbot: Logged on 26-11-2013 16:54:13; nubbins`: floor. vast communities of bulky orderlies. rowhouses of nurses. all rooms are hospitals now. the firmament, a massive inferno of blue-black gods. judges pouring time as the piss of Dionysus. insects dripping honey and pulling wax upon my ears. says, 'All the angels can dance on the tip of a pin. all thoughts can jig upon the point of a pen'
nubbins`: natch!
nubbins`: alf just triggered one of my snowcrash zone-outs
Adlai watches a snail crawl across the edge of a razor
asciilifeform: 'Note that telnetd won't auto-start on boot because of securilty concerns
asciilifeform: - until user manually starts telnetd while connected via serial console
asciilifeform: there's no chance for unexpected root access to the target (this is
asciilifeform: especially true if root has no password set - which is by defult).'
asciilifeform: ^ shitgnomery disguised as 'seeek000rity'
asciilifeform: 'we'll tie your hands for your own good'
jurov: don't see a problem there. once telnet starts, root access is no longer unexpected.
asciilifeform: jurov: how do you propose to log in to the box ?
assbot: St. Louis man threatened to kill police, rigged home with booby traps, court documents say : News ... ( http://bit.ly/19nUD62 )
asciilifeform: all the above means is that buildroot deliberately fucked up the build system to make it extremely inconvenient to add it to the default init
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: robot with shotgun
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: afaik a first in official media photo ?
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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It just might be the first
asciilifeform: qntra ?
asciilifeform: and cache plz
asciilifeform: esp. of the photo.
asciilifeform: linked video has the thing roll about
asciilifeform: good shots of bot with different smalls arms mounted
asciilifeform: nothing in the text about this, naturally
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu guess what usg's response to 'solzhenitsyn's axe' is, aha.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: ICOR EOD/SWAT Robot - Firing Shotgun - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/19nVbsH )
asciilifeform: looks similar, but not quite same, yes
asciilifeform: 'The informant said he had known Hagler for more than 30 years. Hagler had a seething hatred for his ex-wife and was becoming more agitated after events in Ferguson and because he believed he would lose his homes in St. Louis for not paying taxes, according to court documents. A second informant said the tone of his views against government....'
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 93650 @ 0.00025968 = 24.319 BTC [+]
asciilifeform: expect this kind of policing to become sop
asciilifeform: that is, heavily-armoured box shows up with puppeteer, who controls (via radio or fiber) several deathbots
asciilifeform: one to break doors, gates; one to threaten bystanders, if any, with 'accidental' fire; one to shoot; and perhaps one with a cage that arrestee -might- be permitted to surrender into, if the bot's voice-recognition system works and if orders included a possible live capture
asciilifeform: still think 'usg as high-tech north kr is impossible', ?
BingoBoingo: Imma watch the video and try to screencap the variety of arms
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BingoBoingo: !up nubbins`
BingoBoingo: !up jordandotdev
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 115157 @ 0.00024502 = 28.2158 BTC [-]
assbot: FIDOR Bank and Bitcoin.de launch Bitcoin Express trading system | BitcoinBlog.de - das Blog für Bitcoin und andere virtuelle Währungen ... ( http://bit.ly/1NkclVF )
jurov: " is set to become the world’s first trading platform with a direct connection to the classic banking system" davout perhaps you may something to say about that?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 54150 @ 0.00025621 = 13.8738 BTC [+]
assbot: Local Police Arming Robots | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1xCSPSI )
BingoBoingo: ^ Picture in article is larger than when displayed with the text
asciilifeform: 084ace0c578a4920a4cad59e426165b180fd8b1e170e9da406772bf1546208abc63d8b101fa63b9152d2003a816b4309203bbd391e434302830a3de3eab2dddc turdel_with_telnet.gz
asciilifeform: achtung, panzers!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` not a bad deal, but meh, spend 35k on this thing ?
asciilifeform: this turdel will 1) boot and dhcp 2) start a suicidal telnet that goes straight into a root shell
asciilifeform: still no sata support - but this is enough to begin testing
asciilifeform: of bitcoind, for example.
mircea_popescu: "Police report at EU national police agencies, extensively discussing CIA-Wikipedia-Google media control crimes, of which the CIA-Snowden fraud is part."
mircea_popescu: can you retro-translate this via your russian dictionary to actual english ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was just about to!
asciilifeform: he meant 'report to police'
asciilifeform: written by himself
mircea_popescu: himself = snowden ?
mircea_popescu: so some guy wrote some things on a piece of paper about what he heard on the news and submitted this to his local police station ?
asciilifeform: 'police report at' == 'report written to police'
asciilifeform: and word 'police' here meant very loosely
asciilifeform: anyway, document in question is a piece of nuttery containing, if you put it through a juice extractor, some very sensible hypotheses
asciilifeform: i'd squeeze them out myself, but no time at present
asciilifeform: did paste in some of the highlights.
mircea_popescu: aha ima look in logs then
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, punkman, nubbins`, anyone else with a non-serialport pogov4 - new kernel that you can try.
asciilifeform: (see earlier)
asciilifeform: it is able to use usb storage and sd
asciilifeform: not yet sata, though i am still unable to figure out why (CONFIG_SATA_MV is set)
nubbins`: mircea_popescu there's also then the issue of where to stash them etc
nubbins`: anyway, now ya know how much that many of em costs 8)
mircea_popescu: afaik danielpbarron resolved that, but srsly, 3k seems at this point excessive. bitcoin hasn't had that many nodes since i dunno, 2012.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if parachuting, must take into account yield
asciilifeform: that is, how many will actually reach good home
asciilifeform: once deployed
mircea_popescu: so far i think we're well supplied for that.
mircea_popescu: but it does put your 101 or 202 to actually 3001+
asciilifeform: minus however many usg buys now that we said this.
asciilifeform: to sink into the sea
mircea_popescu: an usg that *cares*. wouldn't that be a sight.
asciilifeform: brb meatspace excursion
mircea_popescu: fluffypony lol has that derp actually sold any o'reilly tomes ? or we not talking about how product fails at the one fucking job product had ?
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 10:48:35; jurov: http://cs-people.bu.edu/heilman/eclipse/
mircea_popescu: for one thing, the "node identified by ip" thing we discussed yesterday.
fluffypony: Andreas Spake and Thus it Was
mircea_popescu: to complement what i said then, not only i know of no infrastructure nodes that are reliably identifiable by ip, but i know of no infrastructure nodes that have no vpn access to other nodes.
mircea_popescu: the idea you are going to "monopolize" connections to a node is laughable, as they are all implemented to have hardwired connections you don't get to touch, in a pedestrian, difficult and unwieldy reimplementation of a wot system.
mircea_popescu: moreover, "n confirmation doublespends" still needs you to produce mined blocks of a proper difficulty, which is just as hard as on the main net.
mircea_popescu: in short - this is why academic wankery is called academic wankery. it has all the characteristics of useful work save a few.
mircea_popescu: davout yeah seems it's going for the other moon.
mircea_popescu: http://qntra.net/2015/03/bitcoin-floundation-moves-to-dilute-the-bitcoin-brand/ << scam foundation couldn't do more to ruin its own claim to relevancy in the space if it deliberately tried.
assbot: Bitcoin Floundation Moves To Dilute The Bitcoin Brand | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1xCX00L )
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 12:43:53; jurov: but i hope that if mp was scammer, he'd have arranged the situation to not look so forlorn :D
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072370 << yeah, mats was bitching about it like twenty lines up o.O
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 12:50:04; jurov: but small investors that were caught there, talked about it
assbot: Duck Stampede - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1xCXpA9 )
mircea_popescu: dude, ducks rule for stampedes.
mircea_popescu: at least large herbivores lookl like they were basically built for it
mircea_popescu: but... DUCKS ?!
mircea_popescu: omfg millions od fucks!
mircea_popescu: check out the berth thery give cars too.
mircea_popescu: duck computing.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 13:02:41; mike_c: people have to pay to play, what do they need seed money for the game for?
mircea_popescu: what's casino need bankrolls ?!
nubbins`: store sells goods, why you need to start the day with a full register?
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 14:32:24; nubbins`: with 1 hot dog and 200 brands of frozen pizza, this new food needs a name.
mircea_popescu: first, trying to attack bitcoin with the nonsensical "oh, nothing notable except blockchain technologee"
mircea_popescu: then, once that worked as well as you'd expect, moving on to "oh, nothing notable, many things just like it" ?
mircea_popescu: who comes up with these strats i wonder.
mircea_popescu: alf's lizard hitler seems pretty similar to the original hitler cca 1944.
mircea_popescu: "das war ein befehl!"
mircea_popescu: "Ihr Saurianitet, nichts bedeutet..."
mircea_popescu: "BEFEHL!!1!1"
mircea_popescu: must be crowdsourced.
jurov: sorry, i just had some slanderous moments
jurov: feeling better now. and later today i got an email someone wants to haul considerable amount of stuff from havelol to coinbr.
mircea_popescu: had enough lols ?
mircea_popescu: ayway, i don't mind. questioning is the core of progress!
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assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 14:56:44; asciilifeform: 'CIA-Wikipedia ("Every dumbf-ck in the world believes Wikipedia") - artificially pumped by CIA Google to top of search results, a 'Trojan horse' for inserting CIA lies and rubbish - see the EU police report on Wikipedia fundraising fraud...'
mircea_popescu: heck, i said it in the logs too.
mircea_popescu: the only thing is, i do not believe the degradation of google's model from algorithmic to "algorithmic" to "whatever, we'll just do it by hand" is in any sense cia's work.
mircea_popescu: it's just simple thermodynamics.
mircea_popescu: note the exact same fate of the only similar thing to date : imperial chinese examination.
mircea_popescu: also, originally, an attempt to resolve the "find sites" problem by iteration over the graph.
mircea_popescu: a while later (about the same while later) it was exactly the same thing : "wikipedia at top of all search results because wikipedia at top of all search results".
mircea_popescu: that guardian is an intel asset, and greenwald in particular just gavin in a different color scheme is again uncontroversial.
mircea_popescu: leakers that actually trust the entire press-to-public model are idiots in the first place.
asciilifeform: anybody try 'turdel_with_telnet' ?
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: uncontroversial << in #b-a. where else ?
mircea_popescu: that usg courts are a sad joke, again uncontroversial.
mircea_popescu: everywhere i go.
mircea_popescu: "where three thinking people gather" or w/e the soviet expression was
asciilifeform: i would like to visit such a place
asciilifeform: other than #b-a, i mean
mircea_popescu: date more sluts ?
mircea_popescu: the clever sort, i mean.
asciilifeform: 100% solid believers in the fishwrap XOR reddit everywhere i've physically set foot in usa.
mircea_popescu: what is the intersection of this everywhere and prefab furniture ?
asciilifeform: prefab ?
mircea_popescu: yes. as in not made of wood.
asciilifeform: ah meant pressboard
asciilifeform: solid pressboard.
mircea_popescu: well then if it's the whole set maybe not a good set.
asciilifeform: where in usa, outside of antique shop, do you find anything else.
mircea_popescu: in the houses of thinking people.
asciilifeform: in the houses of elderly.
asciilifeform: (of thinking and other kinds)
mircea_popescu: thinking people are rarely under 30.
mircea_popescu: not my fault puritans tend to spawn late bloomers.
asciilifeform owns some furniture of actual wood, university surplus
asciilifeform and of steel
mircea_popescu will underscore there's nothing wrong with cheap ikea stuff. what was at stake above was the expectation that a sample with weird homologies may be representative for "the world"
asciilifeform makes no claim of 'the world' except as 'world he is able to access'
mircea_popescu: ie, if "all the women you've talked to" spit, and also are not wearing skirts, maybe sample is no good.
mircea_popescu: rather than "women spit"
assbot: The SOPS, or what might you expect from government clerks pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1CeYlJA )
asciilifeform: aha ... ?
mircea_popescu: whilke it's arguable if it makes the point more or less persuasively than that thing, nevertheless, it does make it, and who exactly argued with it ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: usg appears to have a very strict 'do not engage mircea_popescu on open terrain' rule
mircea_popescu: chomsky actually said that the joe stack grievances are legitimate, and will take over if not tackled.
mircea_popescu: just... none of this is controversial.
asciilifeform: makes specific claims re: who/why of snowden, for instance
mircea_popescu: i mean, sure, it's not watercooler conversation, among 10-20 an hour derps.
mircea_popescu: why would it be ?
asciilifeform: these are 'noncontroversial' ?
mircea_popescu: i thought those were the nutteries we were digging aside.
asciilifeform: unrelated: if we can get bitcoind under 27M, whole orchestra fits into the 32M eeprom found in the 'tripmate'
asciilifeform: and i can do a 'tripmate' port
asciilifeform: !s tripmate
assbot: 0 results for 'tripmate' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=tripmate
mircea_popescu: that'd be interesting.
asciilifeform: !s hootoo
assbot: 0 results for 'hootoo' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=hootoo
mircea_popescu: mod6 ben_vulpes think a <27mb bitcoin could be ?
asciilifeform: --- and after we kill the orphans thing
asciilifeform: tripmate comes with 32M ram
assbot: Hootoo HT-TM02 Tripmate Nano ... ( http://bit.ly/1OByGRW )
asciilifeform: i have one here
asciilifeform: with serial port soldered in
asciilifeform: costs approx. same as pogo, for much poorer specs
asciilifeform: but actively produced
asciilifeform: and there are at least 3 chinese clones, roughly similar.
asciilifeform: 100M/s ethernet, usb2 for storage, powered by yet another usb jack
mircea_popescu: yeah, it's a step in the right direction
asciilifeform: wireless soldered in though
asciilifeform: and can't be killed
asciilifeform: (part of cpu)
mircea_popescu: not sure this is a drawback.
asciilifeform: it was the single cheapest such box that i was able to locate
mircea_popescu: write your own wireless driver.
asciilifeform: if we must have the radio, let's ad-hoc to neighbors
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has the right idea.
mircea_popescu: you were looking for horrible jobs... this is one.
asciilifeform: actually this is pretty easy
mircea_popescu: oh shutup
asciilifeform first paying reverse-engineering job was of a wifi chipset
mircea_popescu: i've not yet seen a good wifi driver. ever.
asciilifeform: 'good' means what ?
nubbins`: i was looking at these hooto things the other day
asciilifeform: doesn't go down ? or 'can be proven not to fandango over arbitrary ram with magic packet incoming'
nubbins`: asciilifeform will try turdel tonite/tmrw, meatspace commitments
asciilifeform: nubbins`: gotcha
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform little of this, little of that...
asciilifeform: danielpbarron perhaps can try
nubbins`: you said it'll run from sd, ya?
asciilifeform: nubbins`: it ought to run from anywhere
asciilifeform: nubbins`: because has baked in rootfs
nubbins` has one unbricked pogo left
asciilifeform: this is why i built it that way
asciilifeform: (this is -not- what we want in the field ver.)
asciilifeform: it wastes ram
nubbins`: one available, anyway
nubbins`: field ver, rootfs on ext storage
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nubbins`: whatever that may be
asciilifeform: to try it, spin it up, then see what ip the box got, then telnet there
asciilifeform: drops straight into root shell...
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072493 << again, same deal. yes buffett came into the fold. this is uncontroversial, and i've said it too.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 15:04:08; asciilifeform: anyway this should be enough lure for everybody. mega-lulzy tirade. if chumpatronic, it is of top quality and i take off my hat to the chumpatronicist.
mircea_popescu: but the jumps the guy makes... ?
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072495 << ftr, i get these on my name as well, tho i sure as hell never sent anyone that sort of bs legal request.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 15:08:26; asciilifeform: 'In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page.'
mircea_popescu: this is a purely eu piece of nonsense, however.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 136700 @ 0.00024502 = 33.4942 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072535 << no. i, for instance, was the one that forced the publication of the cables, which they were going to withhold, by publishing the hot archive of romanian-related ones.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 15:32:26; asciilifeform: was i the only one here who actually read (for a time) mr s's (purported) www output (e.g., 'twitter', etc) ?
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2011/primul/ << that's the discussion at the time, for the curious.
assbot: Primul! pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1OBAAC6 )
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> no one should ever be connecting to these things except on his own lan during setup << myes, realized this in the shower this am. also question of usernames, keys...
ben_vulpes: KISS, as they say.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 112900 @ 0.00025621 = 28.9261 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: (protip : "onlyallfours" is a very bad idea, especially on hard floors. bursitis is at thing, if you give a horse shoes to protect hooves from hard pavement, might as well give the slavegirls kneepads.)
trinque goes for the tatted up look
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 95450 @ 0.00025621 = 24.4552 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: "Can you tell me what you're wanting to do with them? " ?<< lol nubbins` got teh usms curious nao
mircea_popescu: "you mean to tell me we could use these to run bitcoin nodes ourselves ?!?! FU NOT SELLING THEM NAO"
assbot: Tone It Down. In the Pipeline: ... ( http://bit.ly/1Cf3XDV )
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: aha. hence telnet without any authentication at all.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lol anyone told him he's poor yet ?
BingoBoingo: He's well aware of it he seems
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072569 << the intrinsic problem with "look at all these people killed by tb, clearly tb can not be cured, if those people really had tb they wouldn't be walking around" is that well... tb is in fact a curable disease.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 15:54:27; asciilifeform: 'After making public revelations critical of US policies, former CIA director William Colby was himself found dead in 1996 from a laughably improbable 'canoe accident'. US Congressman Wayne Owens was found dead in Israel in 2002 while investigating US corruption connections.' << 'best news is the history you didn't know' (mircea_popescu?)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cables << what do those have to do with snowden ?
mircea_popescu: to imagine the usg, or for that matter any bureaucracy like a PERSON rather than like a disease is imo to be very, very wrong
mircea_popescu: and in a fundamental way.
asciilifeform: i mean, sachs thinks they're part of the same chumpatron, yes
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from what i understand the theory we're discussing, they'd be all the same thing ?
asciilifeform: "you mean to tell me we could use these to run bitcoin nodes ourselves ?!?!... << they easily could. not with the 20MB blocks, no, but with the 20MB (and whatever the hell else satanic strange) -enabled- and waiting to get flooded
asciilifeform: yes, they could.
mircea_popescu: back to the usg-tb thing : people like a congressman or an ex ciadirector are very poor examples, because a key part of the cure is maintaining very hard counter-terrorism measures on the ground. no colby, owens, petreus etc ever said "you will have to shoot me, and expect to fail unless you bring armored units, and to lose a score of operatives in any case."
asciilifeform: and they will have every living thing that reads reddit convinced that they invented it, too.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 ben_vulpes think a <27mb bitcoin could be ? << the current statically linked bitcoind is 5.6mb is that what you mean?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they will, to ~their detriment~. i'm not sure this is getting through, or that im doing a good job of explaining it, but in fact such victories are more expensive than the respective defeats they supposedly keep one from.
mircea_popescu: mod6 that's what i mean.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i must confess that it is rather unclear to me where the detriment is coming from.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ok, prepare for a lengthy explanation then.
asciilifeform: if tomorrow a white van picks up the remaining 5000 (?) pogos, how do 'we win' ?
asciilifeform prepared
mircea_popescu: suppose you are in a room, with women. there's 100 of them.
mircea_popescu: they're all naked and dripping. suppose that someone for whatever stupid reason does not want you to fuck, because they imagine this is how you don't get to kill them.
mircea_popescu: now, the reason this is stupid, on multiple planes, we won't dsiscuss here, for space.
mircea_popescu: BUT! if the solution they come up with is to make an artefact which convinces 99% of the women sorted by stupidity that they shouldn't fuck you,
mircea_popescu: while also providing sufficient proof for 1% that in fact someone's trying to interfere
mircea_popescu: this artefact is actually your best bet.
mircea_popescu: that make sense ?
asciilifeform: it almost begins to
mod6: huh, the statically linked binary is between 5.6 and 5.2mb. On my x86_64 builds it was often around 5.6mb. i just pulled up my paste from the debian x86_32 bit build (http://dpaste.com/1YQR1W7), here's 5.2mb. and yesterday on gentoo x86_32 it was 5.6mb.
mircea_popescu: so, filling reddit with apparently correct but actually provably falsifiable nonsense is not something that concerns me.
asciilifeform: but as i understand, it resolves to 'they have lost the mandate of heaven, will be defeated eventually'
mircea_popescu: it HELPS me.
mircea_popescu: one direction, yes.
mircea_popescu: the other direction being that you DO NOT WISH the attenntion of most of those women.
mircea_popescu: some smell bad.
mircea_popescu: some are ugly.
mircea_popescu: NOT having to turn them down personally is empowering for you.
asciilifeform: the nonsense on reddit does nothing - granted
asciilifeform: but let's address the van.
mircea_popescu: imagine a device that kept paul atreides from having to fight all the idiot freemen.
mircea_popescu: WORTH GOLD
mircea_popescu: and there's more directions.
mircea_popescu: as to van : people like a congressman or an ex ciadirector are very poor examples, because a key part of the cure is maintaining very hard counter-terrorism measures on the ground. no colby, owens, petreus etc ever said "you will have to shoot me, and expect to fail unless you bring armored units, and to lose a score of operatives in any case."
asciilifeform: say van picks'em up. this gives us no useful 'smoking gun' beyond 'sorry chaps, they all sold out last night. no, can't tell ya who bought'
mircea_popescu: people who go "sure, whatever. make sure you have good AP and check the vests" are not the target of this sort of bs.
mircea_popescu: the weird thing about the situaiton of usg particularly, and of usg-likes (ie, most cancer) is that "everything is only intended to be used in the situations it wasn't designed to be used".
mircea_popescu: air superiority not useful in air engagement, but in political engagement sort of bs.
mircea_popescu: if air superiority comes to air engagement, walks away with so many broken arms it's not worth thinking about.
mircea_popescu: this is why all the ridiculous military failures of the us since vietnam : it built an army which is only useful as an army if NOT fighting.
asciilifeform: it is also, apparently, quite useful for rocketing unarmed men in their sleep
asciilifeform: and occupation of own cities (see boston)
asciilifeform: and many other interesting things which have yet to be demoed
mircea_popescu: sorta like a parade army. exactly what the italians had, right before the risorgimento.
mircea_popescu: right, but none of which are what an army is actually for.
mircea_popescu: the us army makes excellent police and screwdrivers. bully for it.
asciilifeform: the equipment (and selected men) steadily gets transfered to police (soon to be unified gendarmerie) forces
asciilifeform: who are actually trained for the kind of thing that it's all ultimately for
mircea_popescu: if your crazy genius lab consisted of shitty hot tweezers that made good sandwiches and very bad vacuum pumps that sang a capella i'd think you're uniquely ineffectual.
asciilifeform: see BingoBoingo's link
mircea_popescu: and if THAT were your lab, i wouldn't particularly be persuaded by "no tb cure could exist" type of arguments.
mircea_popescu: because what, if it did exist you'd lunge at it with your waffle making hot tweezers ?
asciilifeform: so, running with this line of thought, what might we expect 'the cure' to look like?
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is ALSO not controversial - virtually half of all material prepared by the bureaucracy states in one form or another that they're "not prepared for this type of challenge"
mircea_popescu: it's true : they haven't yet made a thing for something else to use for this.
mircea_popescu: the cure looks very much like you'd imagine : strong encryption, strong (mental especially) discipline, minimal fortification along the riverline.
mircea_popescu: as long as it's clear to the da that a court showdown will end his career, you're practically unprosecutable, no matter what you do. as long as it's clear to "special ops" that there will be deaths, you're un-opable, no matter what you do. etc etc.
mircea_popescu: the entire construction has very speciffic dead points, and they're anything but secret.
mircea_popescu: swedish military doctrine, notably, is constructed around the core concept that they do not aim to defend the country, they aim to make invasion economically unfeasible. that is all.
asciilifeform: as long as it's clear to "special ops" that there will be deaths << this is possible if living in a bunker
mircea_popescu: this does not work against ideologically motivated adversaries, but it works against bureaucracies something splendid. there's always another fire to put out.
asciilifeform: if ambling about the terrain going to/from day jobs, etc. - they just quietly pick you up
asciilifeform: what is one to do, wear trotyl vest ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, this is possible if maintaining decent op security.
mircea_popescu: yes, if you must do that, wear vest might work.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: make invasion economically unfeasible << you may be thinking of the swiss
mircea_popescu: but for as long as the "how do they know it's not really an ambush ?" question has an obvious and correct answer, you already failed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform afaik swiss defend themselves by "neutrality"
asciilifeform: not exactly.
mircea_popescu: they installed a bunch of autobatteries and shitnow ? /me's not been keeping up.
asciilifeform: spent quite a bit during cold war
asciilifeform: not sure about now
asciilifeform: and trained decently.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> if ambling about the terrain going to/from day jobs, etc. - they just quietly pick you up << a ro guy famously caught a coupla "secret agents" tailing him in traffic, beat them up (romanian tradition) took them to police station.
mircea_popescu: huge scandal ensued.
asciilifeform: on .ch army org
asciilifeform: ^ pretty good
mircea_popescu: cost teh ro govt millions to try and wash it up, eventually was more or less forgotten. but finding agents willing to tail that guy was difficult for years after.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that'd work about as well here as it would in peak nazi de
mircea_popescu: it would work splendidly.
asciilifeform: they'd demolish the street where you stood.
mircea_popescu: there's going to be a demolished street bearing your name.
asciilifeform: we in fact saw this play out
asciilifeform: in boston
mircea_popescu: exactly.
asciilifeform: and what result ?
mircea_popescu: major losses for teh usg.
asciilifeform: i dun see it.
mircea_popescu: maybe our optics differ.
asciilifeform: they evidently must
mircea_popescu: maybe it's because you're trying to use some sort of subjective scoring it occurs to me
mircea_popescu: ie, "what the participant thinks happens matters".
asciilifeform: not exactly
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, a junkie managing to score a hit is in fact +ev.
mircea_popescu: he will act as if he is, yes. but... he's not.
asciilifeform: say i'm a generic schmuck living in berlin in march, this day in '43
trinque: isn't the demolished street only helpful if there are onlookers who care?
asciilifeform: it looks mostly normal
mircea_popescu: trinque no. the street was in fact demolished.
asciilifeform: but stalingrad happened
asciilifeform: show me the stalingrad
trinque: mircea_popescu: right, but I recall joe stack day
trinque: and the ratio of people reacting sanely to not
mircea_popescu: trinque good for you. not particularly relevant to him.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dun follow.
trinque: maybe the ratio's irrelevant
asciilifeform: where are the -real- cracks in the reich
mircea_popescu: they had to demolish a street ?
asciilifeform: and what, they are to go broke from paving a street?
mircea_popescu: i can trivially send pizza to the "secret" subsecretary of state for whatever, and he's stuck wondering how i know ?
mircea_popescu: yes, actually.
asciilifeform: the damage from tsarnavev & tsarnaev was roughly comparable to a small 'pile up' wreck on the highway.
asciilifeform: not even rounding error.
mircea_popescu: there is no undertaking more expensive than that pavement job.
asciilifeform: so perhaps 'demolished a street' is exaggerated
mircea_popescu: i disagree.
mircea_popescu: let's take the cheapest way out. familiar wit hthe guy whose name history has lost (:P) that set fire to the whatever so his name may be remembered ?
asciilifeform: herostratus aha
asciilifeform: that worked once.
asciilifeform: (exactly once)
mircea_popescu: familiar with the (afaik also uncontroversial) theory that the us is a nation of narcisists ?
mircea_popescu: does it seem to you a reasonable plan to demolish streets in this atmosphere ?
asciilifeform: sure, when you're working with -cowardly- and -imbecilic- narcissists
mircea_popescu: you think that matters ?
trinque: seems easy to convince the narcissist it's "not him"
trinque: would never be him
trinque: because he's not one of "those people"
asciilifeform: who take three steps and (fail to) blow (themselves) up with a (fake) rocket sold to them by usg.
mircea_popescu: trinque understand something : if one million people becomes 1% more likely to lie on their taxes,
mircea_popescu: the government has lost 3-4% of its revenue.
asciilifeform: because 'friend of 30 years' vouched for the broker
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're neglecting the only important thing here, which is the actual fine points of the relationship between the abused wife and her husband.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: eh no. they take it out of the captive tax cows - sales, shrinkflation, outright moneyprinter
mircea_popescu: that does not work.
mircea_popescu: for a government to survive, it must actually have support.
asciilifeform: rock solid support from the cattle
trinque: mircea_popescu: there are militia groups around calling themselves "three percenters"
mircea_popescu: the fake shows of support (you are charlie, really ?) do not help.
trinque: that kind of thing?
mircea_popescu: trinque no particular kind of thing.
asciilifeform: trinque: the 'militia' thing is solid usg provocateurism from day one
asciilifeform: trinque: judging by the results
mircea_popescu: if anyone is curious enough, please to read the gorbachev diaries after his 87 visit in romania.
mircea_popescu: very short story here : ceausescu made old style, stalinist-like show of how supported he is
mircea_popescu: trying to finesse himself into a senior adviser role for gorby
mircea_popescu: this amused the russian to no end.
mircea_popescu: but that aside, it all boils down to the ancient (here and iirc on trilema too) "what's the devil have to pay you to love him" thing.
asciilifeform: the sovblok fell down with nato holding a seemingly soft (in reality not so much) cushion under its arse as it fell
asciilifeform: nobody is playing that role for usg
asciilifeform: the buggers know that 'it'll be their necks'
asciilifeform: in the way that gorby didn't
mircea_popescu: what does their knowledge matter ?
mircea_popescu: they know they suck, now.
mircea_popescu: what can they do ?
mircea_popescu: take a simple thing : they all know ms is shit.
mircea_popescu: what can any one do to fix this ?
mircea_popescu: still using it.
mircea_popescu: still shit.
mircea_popescu: and i can send them pizza, and they have to wonder how i know.
mircea_popescu: and they go to work... and there it is. MICROSOFT BOOTING NAO.
mircea_popescu: and yet... what can they do ?
asciilifeform: it 'works' for them in the sense that no nsa-crypto directorate leaks. no meaningful cia leaks. perhaps they use 'underwood' typewriters instead of microshit ?
mircea_popescu: part of a system is part of a system is part of a system.
asciilifeform: damned if i know. but it 'works'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it didn't how'd you know ?
mircea_popescu: the german public didn't know about the enigma leaks.
asciilifeform: if it didn't in the same sense of 'didn't' as elsewhere in usg, i would know
asciilifeform: or at least suspect
mircea_popescu: the fact that you don't is perhaps one of the most perplexing characteristics of your otherwise amply perplexing persona.
mircea_popescu: at least in my head.
asciilifeform: that don't what
asciilifeform even more confused
mircea_popescu: at least suspect.
asciilifeform: well admittedly, i suspect many things
mircea_popescu: but not this ?
asciilifeform: but some with better grounding than others
asciilifeform: let's say herr buffet's winblows machine, where he keeps tabs with his lizard commander, was owned.
mircea_popescu: but this strawman is in no case how it'd work is it.
asciilifeform: there is not a public display of this. ergo 'pwner' did not see it fit to do this.
mircea_popescu: let's have a better model.
nubbins`: re: field pogos
asciilifeform: nubbins`: aha?
nubbins`: what's the LED gonna do for two weeks while the thing downloads and indexes blocks? 8)
asciilifeform: nubbins`: blink.
trinque: not trying to derail what's an excellent convo without me; is for example the ease with which us politicians are bought by *any* paying interest relevant here?
nubbins`: but that's what a bricked pogo does as well
asciilifeform: nubbins`: that's because u-boot sets it a'blinking by default
asciilifeform: nubbins`: easily fixed
nubbins`: a-haa
trinque: seems the whole military side can't be considered in absence of the side which can't form one coherent thought
nubbins`: i'm just musing about indications of progress
nubbins`: a blink isn't communicating much
trinque: what admittedly worries me is an event where the military side detaches from the braindead side entirely
trinque: not sure what happens after that
mircea_popescu: so, i am a famously grandiose master of women. and a junior girl aspiring one day to the grandiose status of being my slave goes with me and some of the girls to the opera. lights go off, the girls take off their tops all matter-of-course like. she follows suit. why ? and then, afterwards, we discuss it over coffee and cookies. they are enamoured with it. so is she. why ? her "tabs" haven't been leaked, right ? what if
mircea_popescu: the stripping is something we agreed aforehand to do just to see what her reaction is ?
mircea_popescu: better model ^
mircea_popescu: trinque honestly, this is why i believe the arming of police units with military stock is even done. it makes sense from a "after the end" perspective : you want two mostly balanced forces, because that's your best chance at more or less peaceful stability.
trinque: yes exactly that
mircea_popescu: note how it follows quite exactly the cure blueprint discussed above.
jurov: ;;later tell nubbins` key added
gribble: The operation succeeded.
nubbins`: tyvm!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: really it is done to make the idea of meaningful (as opposed to merely suicidal; so they hose off the pavement & everybody goes back to work) resistance less and less thinkable
asciilifeform: that robot was publicly displayed for a reason
mircea_popescu: i have mydoubts.
nubbins` sends mail, crosses digits
mircea_popescu: the notion that "sucidal resistence" is deterring anyone has had so much debunking recently...
nubbins`: ehh they used the robot because enough of the cops were scared enough
mircea_popescu: it sends exactly the opposite message.
nubbins`: there's this famous guy here, leo crockwell. put a gun to his sister's head a few years ago
mircea_popescu: we discussed some time ago the problem with decimation, re shot cops.
nubbins`: cops, having dealt with (and been embarassed by) the guy in the past, descend
nubbins`: he barricades self, cops bring out robot.
asciilifeform: the robot is a logical step to the escalation of usg police practice
asciilifeform: used to be they'd politely ask you to come to the station
asciilifeform: today, breaking down door at 3am and barrel in your mouth is NORMAL
mircea_popescu: just like the cataphract is a logical step to the escalation of ... THE END OF FEUDALISM!
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35725 @ 0.00025621 = 9.1531 BTC [+]
jurov: nubbins`: gpg: invalid dash escaped line: -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wformat $(DEBUGFLAGS) $(DEFS) $(INCLUDEPATHS)\n
jurov: gpg: BAD signature from "Jonathan E. Keefe <jonkeefe@gmail.com>" [unknown]
nubbins`: he shoots at robot, cops try smoke bombs, then thousands of gallons of water from fire hoses (!!!)
nubbins`: guy escapes out window during a shift change and hitchhikes back to town undetected.
mircea_popescu: ahahahaha
nubbins`: picked up buying smokes 3 hours later.
mircea_popescu: shift changes :D
jurov: looks like outlook wordwrapped or otherwise mutilated it
nubbins`: jurov gmail but same fate regardless. sec
nubbins`: there you go
nubbins`: anyway the guy then fires like 5 public defenders, goes on to represent himself
nubbins`: makes the province spend countless tens of thousands
nubbins`: i think they're making a movie about him now.
jurov: same error.
nubbins`: wat! "plain text mode"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's approach this in perhaps a more comprehensible set of terms. end of the world situation, you're behind a wall of sand sacks, enemy behind another. you got two guys left with you, was a full regiment at some point. enemy, unknown.
mircea_popescu: that the enemy starts suddenly firing like mad is not indicative of his strength. for one thing, bullets are scarce. for the other thing, fear is the end of this game.
jurov: nubbins`: a) send to yourself, check. b) leave text aempty and attach known good clearsigned stuff as .txt
asciilifeform: i don't see the fear component here
mircea_popescu: or in another approach, "asciilifeform:'The laughable CIA story we are asked to swallow, is that the US regime is doing zero against Omidyar, " << we are similarly asked to believe the cia story that the us is doing zero against saudi arabia, which... you know ? or whoever else off a long list. they're not doing zero, they're doing "their best", which is what it is.
mircea_popescu: oft evaluates to zero.
nubbins`: ooo bad sig, looky loo. sec.
asciilifeform: they aren't rolling out the robots because they fear. but to save cost of a few stormtroopers' life insurance
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't see the fear component ? recall teh discussion re buses and the fate of war in afghanistan ?
asciilifeform: and because robot maker (i know exactly who makes it) has an ear in congress
mircea_popescu: these all are the why in the exact sense girl you picked up in a club stiff drunk is havin sex with you because she liked your record collection and loves your hair
nubbins`: yeah gmail is mangling it, even in plain text
mircea_popescu: not because she went to a club and got herself stiff drunk to be fucked.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` check it out, google can't computer!
asciilifeform: and wai wat, omidyar - or at least his money - could be magicked away in a single hour if usg willed it.
mircea_popescu: at what cost ?
asciilifeform: big fat deal, flip some bits
mircea_popescu: not how this works.
asciilifeform: they do it to russians all the time
nubbins`: jurov sent
mircea_popescu: not quite.
jurov: nubbins`: yup, there
nubbins`: my first contrib
jurov: no shares for ya, sadly
asciilifeform: congrats nubbins`
nubbins`: lel oops no subject
mircea_popescu: jurov notice the very heavy bias for she-stuff in b-a ? womanly job gets shares, manly job gets bupkiss
nubbins`: w/e, it'll get picked up in the monthly roundup :D
mircea_popescu: !ban nubbins` monsanto shill
nubbins`: noway dude, do you even log? no monsanto in twodogland
mircea_popescu: twodog is such a great name.
mircea_popescu: who invented it, herbi ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony ?
mircea_popescu: or was it dub ?
nubbins`: i thought it was you!
nubbins`: !s twodogland
assbot: 4 results for 'twodogland' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=twodogland
nubbins`: wow i really ran with that hey
nubbins`: it stays with me
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2014 13:22:53; mircea_popescu: you mean Two Dogs isn't originally populated by dogs ?
mircea_popescu: but it's such a great name.
assbot: Logged on 04-02-2014 20:36:16; dub: why is part of canukistan named after two dogs?
nubbins`: ahahaha
nubbins`: "why is this bird made out of KFC?"
mircea_popescu: we dub it The Infringer
mircea_popescu: because it naturally infringes the kfc ip.
nubbins`: mcdonald's sues the humble potato after it is revealed it's just a bunch of goddamn fries all stuck together
nubbins`: why are all these people spamming the blockchain with bitcoin transactions?
jurov: myeah nubs did the book too "dogs of newfoundland and labrador" or such
mircea_popescu: also coca-cola sues diageo over patent-infringing side effects.
nubbins`: boids, not dogs!
nubbins`: two dogs is a pamphlet at best
mircea_popescu: "it's called CHRISTMAS CHEER GOD DAMNED IT!"
jurov: ;;ud boid
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boid | Boid is an anagram for the phrase "blacked out in a ditch." The last two letters can be substituted for any number of different things, such as boib or boor (blacked ...
mircea_popescu: jurov it's east side "bird"
nubbins`: wtf urban dict
nubbins`: birds!
jurov: ;;ud boidage
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boidage | boibian · boible · BOIBO · boi boi · Boibrucer · Boibs · boic · Boice · boicee · boich · boichat · boichie · Boichika · Boichuk · boid · boidage · boidar · boid/boyd ...
mircea_popescu: you know that accent mobsters / kids in poor neighbourhood have in 30s, 40s and some 50s movies ?
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072601 << i am especially suspicious of this sort of claim. it's essentially a stereotype and an appeal to ignorance rolled into a mcdonald nugget.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 16:14:42; asciilifeform: 'As they say, 'you cannot make these things up', the Americans are so ridiculously obvious as they conduct criminal deceptions. The CIA's 'Watergate' scheme to destroy Richard Nixon 40 years ago, was so successfully with the fake 'brave reporter' Woodward, that the CIA even decided to use Woodward's junior partner as a fake 'brave reporter' along with Greenwald in 'Operation Fake Dissident Snowden'.'
mircea_popescu: "those jews are so obvious! after killing christ, they're now blabla"
asciilifeform: author's style, yes
asciilifeform: but claim - testable
mircea_popescu: only if restated.
mircea_popescu: a claim that's tested in a restated from should be divorced from the original.
asciilifeform: he's talking about carl bernstein
mircea_popescu: no matter.
assbot: Carl Bernstein ... ( http://bit.ly/1FOesBX )
mircea_popescu: "asciilifeform: 'Assange and Snowden are cold or actively insulting and hostile << mp has insulted women, gays, black people and social workers. clearly he's a fake cia mp pretending to be the real mp.
mircea_popescu: logic wtf.
asciilifeform: i think he means 'he led the nsa device catalogue leaker to his anthill death'
mircea_popescu: maybe the real snowden is actually idiosyncratic. ya think this is possible ? "nobody did this, except this one guy, but he couldn't have done it because his behaviour is inconsistent"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at some point a decent argument will be constructable that you "led" some idiot to his death, too. because you know, used cardano after toasting it in pizza oven.
asciilifeform: it probably will be said, yes
asciilifeform: but if it appears to happen to every user, then it will be quite analogous to mr s
mircea_popescu: heck, kakobrekla heard a mouthful over his "leading derps into trying to steal from other bettors" or what was it, the bitbet scam thing.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i think he means 'he led the nsa device catalogue leaker to his anthill death' << The part of citizenfour filmed in Russia seems to support this hypothesis
mircea_popescu: i dunno...
nubbins`: "doc, you can't write everything in bold. bold is for important st..." "GOD DAMMIT IT'S ALL IMPORTANT"
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072613 << anyway, this only works if one's willing to arrange the definition of tangible and interest after the fact.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 17:21:02; asciilifeform: that is, why not a single one of the 'leaks' actually damaged any tangible lizard interest
mircea_popescu: "this bomb did nothing, inasmuch as it didn't bring down any of the currently standing buildings"
mircea_popescu: by this standard, the wtc bombing also did nothing.
asciilifeform: something like ted turner turning tricks in a bangkok gay bar to buy a bowl of rice every other day - would count
asciilifeform: or a glassed davos
mircea_popescu: sure, we could even argue the collapse was inevitable, and while the particular incident gives it flavour, the us was going to soviet union all over itself anyway.
mircea_popescu: an old man is not going to be a subsistence prostitute. ever.
mircea_popescu: that's a twelve year old trick.
asciilifeform: then begging
mircea_popescu: this by definition : the same thing that'd make you buy hisass (ie, his "personal brand") ensures he has an alternative, however minimal.
mircea_popescu: like you know, sitting bull in that circus act.
mircea_popescu: ;;ud yfw
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yfw | yfw you realize every one of the previous definitions are wrong ... "Hey YFW, been trying to call you all day" (A substitute for the friendly form of 'bitch'.) Or..
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072618 << oddly enough, mp has been doing very little code writing o.O
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 17:22:12; nubbins`: yfw 0.5.3 has a hidden backdoor and both satoshi and mp are complicit!
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45950 @ 0.00025483 = 11.7094 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072621 << i disagree with this, ftr. it was atrocious.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 17:23:52; nubbins`: anyway, you're correct in that nothing leaked was particularly damaging to the lizards
mircea_popescu: i've not seen anything this damaging to the us foreign interests in the history of the us.
mircea_popescu: and for all the "no lizard interest" high horse : take the cisco collapse.
mircea_popescu: there's numerous examples of very similar things.
nubbins`: urbandict fail again
mircea_popescu: the us has no friends today, principally, because of snowden.
nubbins`: yfw you realize what yfw means
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i got it from context, "your face when
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072626 << yes, but nothing he couldn't (and in all likelyhood didn't) obtain by wikipedia trolling.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 17:25:05; asciilifeform: sachs also lists names, times, places of folks 'suicided' by usg, with reasons.
asciilifeform: is why i said 'connected dots' not 'new leak'
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072639 << using the word "this" in your sentence exposes you to this situation where your line is burried in a different discussion and evaluated while im in the middle of a yet another different discussion, producing a "wut ?" as sole output.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 17:31:31; felipelalli: mircea_popescu: thank you so much. But I guess this is not true on OTC WoT? Only in assbot, right?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let me put it this way : given a collection of dots, why would anyone care on the graphs built upon them by anyone not in their wot ? you know this guy ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope, he fell from mars. but echoed certain trains of thought that i heretofore encountered only in own head. hence linked.
asciilifeform: also fella has a net presence vastly smaller than what one expects even a very modest crackpot
TomServo: ey folks, got my shipment today http://i.imgur.com/13p8tXK.jpg :D
mircea_popescu: to my head, the phrase aptly describes that piece which goes "contains ad admixture of true and trite, but what isn't trite also isn't true"
mircea_popescu: nice TomServo
TomServo: unfortunately due to poor ebay skills my cp2102 arrive... 'sometime' in april
TomServo: there's been so many links flying around. What's the quickest way to defile one of these after cracking it open?
asciilifeform: !up tris
asciilifeform: TomServo: you don't have to solder the serial port if you're careful
mircea_popescu: TomServo sorta in the middle here, we're just about to have danielpbarron write a noobs manual
mircea_popescu: but the thing stil lin flux
mircea_popescu: prolly stuff in his manual as is closest to what you want
decimation: re: snowden etc. < I think it's hilarious that folks see conspiracy when redditard volunteer would do
asciilifeform: decimation: the state-controlled media fellates him 24/7
mircea_popescu: decimation if nothing else, he has done A LOT to measure the power of the entire "crowd source" "power of the people" etc thing.
jurov: mod6 ben_vulpes where will the manual go? i can put a wiki somewhere
mircea_popescu: THIS is the best angle for him being a conspiraci, a sort of mike hearn of the cia.
mircea_popescu: jurov not best just re-use b-a wiki ?
mircea_popescu: too many wikis...
asciilifeform: and every time he opens mouth, what comes out? 'brave journalists', 'use tor!', etc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he actually says use gpg.
jurov: kk mircea
mircea_popescu: he very guardedly recomends tor.
mircea_popescu: and most of that is guardian rewriting what he actually said.
decimation: re: greewald being on usg payroll < is also hilarious
asciilifeform: does s ever -mention- pgp?
mircea_popescu: (now, that guardian has all through had a very strong "dope it" agenda is true, and quite visible
decimation: the man has the operational acumen of a wet noodle
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. pretty much every single speech.
asciilifeform: or merely the fact that one of the documents (not necessarily his) did so
mircea_popescu: pretty.much.every.single.speech.
mircea_popescu: decimation one being inept is almost a requirement for usg payroll.
decimation: mircea_popescu: snowden does discredit 'crowdsourcing'
mircea_popescu: decimation not sure if discredit per se, but it does illustrate its (long suspected) limitations.
mircea_popescu: maddox's "dancing party" thing much more adequate for the demo.
decimation: usg has a small number of non-inept employees
assbot: CIA official who directed hunt for bin Laden is being removed from post - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1FOkH8O )
mircea_popescu: yeah, because everyone likes to say "present company excluded".
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 314392 @ 0.0002502 = 78.6609 BTC [-] {2}
asciilifeform: l0l, this is prelude to death
mircea_popescu: decimation let me guess, he tried to wreck by having the trains overloaded so they will run the tracks down faster ?
asciilifeform: just as they 'training accidented' the -whole fucking crew-
decimation: heh he didn't die
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you see the costs for THAT yet alf ?
mircea_popescu: perhaps in the "we can't send anyone to tikrit" ?
decimation: he was 'promoted' to a 'non-in-charge-of-life-and-death decisions' post
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 93000 @ 0.00024486 = 22.772 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: is that a cost you look for and quantify ?
decimation: re: costs < yes, usg is cost constrained, but note that nearly all of it is 'self-imposed damage'
mircea_popescu: well sure, in the sense someone raping himself with a cactus is "self-imposedly damaging his anus"
mircea_popescu: cactus is still spiked.
decimation: usg could fire 90% of its staff, rationalize its tax system, and start colonizing the world
decimation: but the cactus seemed like a better option
decimation: note that snowden saw himself as far less inept than his colleages, and he was probably right
mircea_popescu: wife could stop being a fat bitch and husband could stop ejaculating early and watching the game.
mircea_popescu: us sec could register its wot key with mpex, us fed could announce plans for bitcoin-convertibility of usg,
mircea_popescu: so many coulds so little brainz.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> does s ever -mention- pgp? << Snowden mentions GPG all of the time, Greenwald mentions tor all of the time
decimation: The effects on most other child outcomes, which include drug consumption, scholastic performance, and skills, can usually be bounded to a tight interval around zero. ^ http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-null-hypothesis-for-income-and-wealth/
assbot: The Null Hypothesis for Income and Wealth | askblog ... ( http://bit.ly/1EI3icz )
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> <asciilifeform> does s ever -mention- pgp? << Snowden mentions GPG all of the time, Greenwald mentions tor all of the time << exactly apt description.
asciilifeform out of date then
decimation: ^ writing about winning the swedish lottery
decimation: someone who wins the swedish lottery could be a better person
mircea_popescu: lottery has nothing to do with either income or wealth.
decimation: "Overall, our findings suggest that correlations observed in affluent, developed countries between (i) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children’s outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth."
decimation: it turns out that a poor bum who wins alot of money is still just a poor bum
asciilifeform: decimation: ^ known around the world
asciilifeform: however, note that maths phd etc. never win lotteries
asciilifeform: (they don't play)
asciilifeform: lottery selects for idiocy
mircea_popescu: lottery is just a very bad model for this sort of research
mircea_popescu: but in general, given the choice between "a flawed study few can recognise as flawed" and "no study", pseudo-scientists readily (and understandably, from a gt perspective) go for the former.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If your shiva eyes/hands have the time the citizenfour thing doesn't actually promote the innocence of any parties features, but clearly illustrates Greenwald's shitgnommery
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: believe or not, i haven't the time
mircea_popescu: this bias is, incidentally, why "stifling science" is such a suspect cry de guerre. one never nows if it's genuine science being supressed,
BingoBoingo: I believe it
mircea_popescu: or just some of these clock punchers didn't get money for their mortgage.
decimation: possibly, perhaps fat bitches, husbands, secs really can be otherwise
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 100 to 1 it's 'clock punchers'
asciilifeform: the genuine article doesn't have time or microphone to whine
mircea_popescu: decimation and who's paying for the divergence from thermodynamics ?
decimation: well, apparently not the lottery
mircea_popescu: of course not! lottery is an entropic result! thinkaboutit!!11
mircea_popescu: NOTEVEN DOOM MUSIC! in the shape of government handouts
decimation: at least the lottery is voluntary wealth distribution
nubbins`: asciilifeform iirc s tried to teach greenwald gpg and he couldnt figure it out
nubbins`: s had to make a video etc
mircea_popescu: it boggles the mind to try and imagine what this thing that pays for the divergence would look like,
nubbins`: all kidnappy-voiced
mircea_popescu: but i suspect it comes with three different types of cherenkov effect
mircea_popescu: nubbins` btw, i am VERY suspect of people who claim to "not be able to figure it out".
mircea_popescu: either indiancandies or else, assets.
mircea_popescu: in either case...
asciilifeform: usually if someone has the basic nervous system needed to operate the machine at all, he -can-
nubbins`: mircea_popescu email the smartest journalist in .ar and tell em youve got a bombshell, but they need pgp
decimation: note she won the 0.1 btc lottery and apparently thought that nothing else would come of it
nubbins`: $5 says they get someone else to install it for em
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that'd be... brendafdez ?
nubbins`: ahh \o/
asciilifeform: nubbins`: or generated key at imamoronmakemeakey.com
mircea_popescu: what do i get now ? hm ? :D
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 80550 @ 0.00025542 = 20.5741 BTC [+] {2}
nubbins`: an invoice for a thousand pogos?
mircea_popescu: waitwut!
mircea_popescu: i just sunk your theory! i want a candy! omfg EVERYONE TURNING INTO MP
mircea_popescu: WHY SO MEAN
nubbins`: asciilifeform i'm not normally this slow on the uptake but generally unfamiliar w/ replacing kernels
nubbins`: i've got a, uh. turdel and a pogo
mircea_popescu: shoulda done fewer whippets!
asciilifeform: nubbins`: easiest way to test is to reconfigure it to boot from tftp
asciilifeform: !s tftp
assbot: 12 results for 'tftp' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=tftp
asciilifeform: this is some extra effort vs. stuffing it on usb or sd, but will pay off later
asciilifeform: as it shortens the test loop when you start screwing with it in earnest
asciilifeform: (i'm in the process of making the build replicable)
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072728 << ahahaha o bring me thy log lines! i got one cornered!
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 18:19:18; jurov: no it does not poll it at all, i refresh i manually *blushes*
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072743 << i wish they'd start publishing these as gpg signed statemewnts.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 18:40:56; nubbins`: Very respectfully yours, Dr Les (Leslie - Leszek) Sachs - Scholar of the history of law and religion, with 7 earned academic degrees from 3 universities, the first two from Harvard University, alongside many US leaders;
mircea_popescu: so you know, one can check these claims
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072753 << you know, this is something a (reasonably unknown) derp can do for himself - just spam a lot.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 18:43:11; asciilifeform: the most testable hypothesis is that google systematically blackholes him
mircea_popescu: i know because angry/stupid .ro folk with delusions of self importance tried this sort of thing (on like 3 different occasions) against me
mircea_popescu: didn't take, but was informative
asciilifeform: which thing, out of curiosity
mircea_popescu: like the qntra ddos stuff was informative re wp etc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "let's get google convinced this guy is a spammer"
asciilifeform: whatever it was - worked.
mircea_popescu: it'd trivially work, again, if the target is anon with a wp account or w/e.
mircea_popescu: notice the recent lulzy failure of fetlife to "throw its weight around".
mircea_popescu: it "always works", they thought, so why not.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of this going on the intertubes.
decimation: re: sachs < he fails to assert why the cia benefits from anything assange or snowden are doing, while the media gets moar clicks
mircea_popescu: heck, all the reddit brigading is essentially this, "you can blackball nobodies by banging on a lot of pots and pans!"
asciilifeform: decimation: sure he does. in his picture, snowden (but especially the greenwald gang) lead genuine defectors to perdition 2) lead public to use 'blackphones', 'redphones', and misc. garbage 3) drum up a general sense of dread and 'the walls have ears'
mircea_popescu: im not sure i'd hang any man for either of these.
asciilifeform: admittedly #2 is more my conjecture than sachs text
decimation: all of which happen with or without their help
mircea_popescu: for one, they could trivially be stated about you. for the other, srsly ? this is a claim now ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they could trivially be stated about you << just about anything could be. and folks would believe it, too.
mircea_popescu: i don't think that text works without the necessary "bouncing wall" effect a properly conspiratorial mindset provides.
mircea_popescu: too much "obviously..." jumping
trinque: I joked just last night that #b-a RPG was a meta-NSA recruitment program
asciilifeform: congrats danielpbarron!
mircea_popescu: trinque you think this is funny ?
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mircea_popescu: danielpbarron that useful for TomServo's q above ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ahaha qntra!
trinque: mircea_popescu: the context was a point about being able to frame any situation in ever more paranoid terms
decimation: lol the 10 viewers of german basketball will be disappoint
mircea_popescu: trinque no dude, you just blew the whole shebang wide open.
trinque: ah fuck
mircea_popescu: now ima have to make another thing!
trinque: LOL
asciilifeform: 'with blackjack! and hookers'
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Gotta check the German story first
mircea_popescu: sorry folks. eulora project ended.
trinque: my mother will be so proud
assbot: Pocan & Massie Introduce Legislation to Repeal PATRIOT Act | Congressman Mark Pocan ... ( http://bit.ly/1EI4ufZ )
mircea_popescu: so i want to announce this... umm... florist stand that s.mg will be producing.
mircea_popescu: brick and mortar store and TOTALLY not a recruitment front.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 18:52:58; asciilifeform: he is not a master of the english language.
asciilifeform: nah sotomayor harvard
asciilifeform: or perhaps gwb harvard
asciilifeform did not say he bought sachs's creds wholesale
mircea_popescu: i don't get it. your thesis is that he's like obama, there for "extracurricular" reasons ?
mircea_popescu: what, his dad built the clocktower ?
asciilifeform: actually they keep a certain number of such characters around
mircea_popescu: iirc there's no jew quota at harvard.
asciilifeform: tendrils of usg in the turd world
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072793 << i am not aware he made such a promise ?!
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 18:59:01; asciilifeform: from his pushing tor, to promising to reveal 'who plugged jfk', to countless other distractions
asciilifeform: they go home, and become pliant administrators, dreaming of sending the childrenz to usa
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well, the 'snowden twitter' did
asciilifeform: some time sept. or oct., iirc
assbot: Did Snowden grep the NSA docs for JFK yet? Just wondering since I'm in Dallas today :-)
asciilifeform: 'On November 22, in cooperation with journalists from around the world, I will reveal who really killed President John F. Kennedy.'
mircea_popescu: dude srlsy.
mircea_popescu: it was a parody acct.
mircea_popescu: (The Snowden on the fake Twitter account is offering even more sensational revelations: “I can confirm that Barack Obama worked for the CIA in the ‘80s, helping to stage a coup against the Fiji government.”
mircea_popescu: An even more apocalyptic promise says: “On November 22, in cooperation with journalists from around the world, I will reveal who really killed President John F. Kennedy.”)
asciilifeform: that was on the actual account.
asciilifeform: well, as 'actual' as any of him
TomServo: danielpbarron: aye, thanks - i'm disecting now
TomServo: asciilifeform: also thanks
mircea_popescu: is that the exact quote you meant or different ?
asciilifeform: exact quote from own notes
asciilifeform: trying to find some corroboration of it to link to
decimation: asciilifeform: the oddest thing about snowden is the reddit-esque faith he had in the media to 'start a conversation'
mircea_popescu: srsly, i suspect you ended up intoxicated from 2nd hand material.
mircea_popescu: the guy is not actually pushing tor and that promise was a fake acct.
asciilifeform: to be fair, it isn't like his other communiques are pgp-signed.
mircea_popescu: the claim here isn'tthat the cow flies.
decimation: asciilifeform: another good point, why didn't he use pgp to verify his information?
mircea_popescu: the claim is that the cow actually gives milk.
mircea_popescu: (which, also, not signed)
asciilifeform: decimation: and afaik he never followed any analogue of 'ascii_field can talk and i will say if it was an impostor yesterday' principle
asciilifeform: never disavowed the garbage
mircea_popescu: imo that is the correct strategy.
mircea_popescu: if he universally ignores th egarbage, the garbage has to stand on its own
mircea_popescu: if he disavows any, the rest can now stand on your "didn't disavow me!!1"
mircea_popescu: why should HE discuss what other people say ?
asciilifeform: granted
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decimation: actually related
mircea_popescu: srsly, i am so disappoint the french are not like, being invaded.
mircea_popescu: such perfect italian opportunity to conquer galia again.
mircea_popescu: IT WAS HISTORICALLY THEIRS
decimation: some derpy youth takes matters beyond him into his own hands, fails to do much of use
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lol win.
mircea_popescu: guy defo has his buttons.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 19:02:33; asciilifeform: not sure how 'sane' you and i would appear, after a few decades in his position.
asciilifeform: radiation damage.
asciilifeform: if any of his biographical material is to be believed, he's been at the futile soapbox thing for decades.
mircea_popescu: like me ?
mircea_popescu: or how you distinguish ?
asciilifeform: the 'futile' part
mircea_popescu: how is it anything but futile ?
mircea_popescu: like... ppl still investing on forum, right ?
asciilifeform: sachs, i meant
mircea_popescu: what, specifically, is not futile ?
mircea_popescu: human fucking condition.
asciilifeform: time for 'zoom to fit image' here
mircea_popescu: holy shit, i don't even fuck without a condom!
asciilifeform: (vs 'zoom to fit human condition')
mircea_popescu: so you're saying this particular zoom quantity has a quality all of its own ?
asciilifeform: was trying to say, that sachs is successfully censored, for the most part
asciilifeform: even 'yandex' returns somewhere between 1 and 3 hits for him (depending on luck of the draw)
mircea_popescu: well... my twitter account got abandoned once and banned once.
mircea_popescu: reddit thinks it a great success (the 2nd, not the 1st)
asciilifeform: where is the sachs version of #b-a ?
asciilifeform: or of castle mircea_popescustein ?
mircea_popescu: absence of proof = proof of absence ?
asciilifeform: granted
mircea_popescu: same could be argued by rpietilla.
asciilifeform: but wherever it is - well-hidden.
asciilifeform: as in, airtight.
mircea_popescu: he's not insane, he's just been angry for too long. except im pretty sure he has both these.
asciilifeform: note the date of the linked piece
asciilifeform: quite a while ago
mircea_popescu: the jew baiting letter was 2000 iirc
asciilifeform: and i would have never seen it had he not written a letter to cryptome (see other link)
asciilifeform: speaking of the snowden thing here
mircea_popescu: but wouldn't you say that describing that legalese boilerplate as "jew baiting" in 2000 would offer sufficient explanation of why he can't get his shit published in 2012 or w/e ?
asciilifeform: published by new yorker - sure
asciilifeform: indexed by google?
asciilifeform: yandex?!
mircea_popescu: maybe they pursued a defamation suit, sent c&ds around ?
asciilifeform: that'd be the one time it worked
mircea_popescu: understand, it does not take MUCH for an inept derp on the margin of his sanity to lose internet access.
mircea_popescu: i could do it, generally, for pretty much anyone.
asciilifeform: incidentally they normally publish the letter
asciilifeform: but in his case made exception.
mircea_popescu: afaik they do not any longer
mircea_popescu: used to, but became too much hassle
asciilifeform: did for warez, as of a few wks ago when i last saw.
mircea_popescu: link or something ?
assbot: Chilling Effects - 404 Error ... ( http://bit.ly/1EI5oco )
mircea_popescu: one that doesnt 404 ?
mircea_popescu: check it out, alf is a tachyon. has read the future.
asciilifeform: search for 'leszek sachs'
asciilifeform: then follow link
mircea_popescu: Cerca de 343.000 resultados
mircea_popescu: includes > dozen pics of the same bespectacled fellow
asciilifeform: incidentally #b-a is not at the top of the page like usual.
mircea_popescu: and is no such link
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: might be geolocatronic shenanigans
asciilifeform: of the kind google is famous for
mircea_popescu: it is, which is what i said.
mircea_popescu: do you wish to see the html ?
asciilifeform: but yes, did see the pics
assbot: dpaste: 25VM435 ... ( http://bit.ly/1EI5ArT )
asciilifeform: notably, did not see the document linked on cryptome
mircea_popescu: the cryptome piece itself is indexed (if one looks by "last week" results)
decimation: the cryptome 'letter' is also lulzy
asciilifeform: i suppose we'll see if there is a gnome with a hand-edited 'google blackhole' chart, soon enough
decimation: one is confused why the cia would bother to find such a complex excuse to be embarassed and embarass others
nubbins`: root@debian:/# tftp 0x800000 turdel_with_telnet
nubbins`: 0x800000: unknown host
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asciilifeform: decimation: the historic, self-admitted 'national character' of cia (as described in their authorized histories, note) is as a gang of 'younger sons' of old-money lords in usa. on account of the elementary fact that these were the only possible recruits because no one else was cultured or spoke languages.
asciilifeform: (ww2 period)
decimation: asciilifeform: perhaps, but I can't imagine that the employees look much different than the post office today
asciilifeform: decimation: depends what is meant by 'employees'
asciilifeform: the paper-pushers - undoubtedly.
mircea_popescu: oh, meta-cia as well ?
mircea_popescu: that i might almost credit.
asciilifeform: meta-cia i can't even take credit for
decimation: it seems from the wapo article about the anti-al-quaeda chap that he ran the 'meta-cia'
asciilifeform: worked great in su.
mircea_popescu: so alf, guy was in zh two years ago. it never caught. also supression ?
asciilifeform: i can't insist on it. but can't rule out.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 74300 @ 0.00024431 = 18.1522 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072854 << i suspect you're confused as to the meaning of at least one word in there :D
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 19:31:49; nubbins`: may have a job printing posters for big-name punk band :0
decimation: how could anyone inside usg accomplish anything at all without creating a meta-something
mircea_popescu: i hear this is how they get laid, too.
asciilifeform: can't say the sachs thing is a living animal. but a bone, with just enough meat on it to be worth picking up.
decimation: as if including the diversity-based hiring quotees could enhance the outcome?
asciilifeform: decimation: the basic 'meta' picture in my head is the small group inside virtually any gigantic and ossified organization that actually gets things done
decimation: which is what happens in any large organization
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so the skunkworks without the management ?
asciilifeform: or with own management, which largely functions to insulate it from the nominal management.
mircea_popescu: this is a very important difference here.
mircea_popescu: afaik the way this works is, there's someone in management who's not retarded, cultivates these.
mircea_popescu: as a self-organised thing i never saw it exist
asciilifeform: almost certainly ww2 vintage.
mircea_popescu: save in very narrow conditions (say, the it dept)
asciilifeform: the men, i mean
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072895 << wait. and this is unlike normal openssh how again ?
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 19:55:07; asciilifeform: observation: sshd on a box with no rng may as well be replaced by telnetd
asciilifeform: normal box has at least the entropic component of cpu vs real time clock frequency drift.
asciilifeform: not to mention user i/o
asciilifeform: (very scant, but real, 'meat entropy' from human devices, etc)
mircea_popescu: my poor stab at poor openssh securitah.
decimation: asciilifeform: I thought it didn't have an rtc
asciilifeform: anyway that thing under no conceivable circumstances ought to be remotely shellable and sitting on public net at same time
asciilifeform: decimation: it has a useless rtc
mircea_popescu: fun fact : you can acutally hand-load the entropy pool.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sure can.
decimation: why not an init with the auto-kill while loop
asciilifeform: decimation: init of what
decimation: I mean init is literally just a while loop
decimation: no shell
asciilifeform: decimation: this will make, e.g., setting static ip, impossible
decimation: could dhcp
asciilifeform: i don't like dhcp in my house.
asciilifeform: and can't imagine i'm the only one
asciilifeform: dhcp also means we have to bring back upnp
asciilifeform: think about it!
asciilifeform: the demo turdel dhcp's, yes
decimation: not with a well configured dhcp/firewall
decimation: but it would be more complex, I agree
asciilifeform: decimation: how many in target audience will have well-configured anythign?
asciilifeform: we're probably stuck bringing back upnp regardless
mircea_popescu: what fire wall anyway ?
asciilifeform: (as a separate demon, i suggest)
mircea_popescu: this plugs into router.
decimation: the router that runs nat and has a firewall you mean?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform whai ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because how is anyone to connect to this thing!
mircea_popescu: decimation that's unused, yes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ugh
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: think about it for a minute
decimation: gulz at your party gonna configure their services
decimation: this is why half the 'cloud' shit even exists
asciilifeform: jurov made this observation in october
asciilifeform: that upnp will have to be grudgingly brought back, if only as a separate process
decimation: because nat fucks up everything
asciilifeform: (outside of bitcoind)
asciilifeform: if the thing is to be given to 'civilians'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'mossberg'
asciilifeform: three-round '12 ga' mag
asciilifeform: the other two barrels, no idea
decimation: is that the bot they sent after the boston bombers
asciilifeform: (speaking of the black barrel)
asciilifeform: decimation: nope
asciilifeform: decimation: from earlier newpiece today re: a tax guy
decimation: it has some kind of other gun on its left 'arm'
decimation: maybe paintball?
asciilifeform: i count 3 barrels
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 20:44:33; asciilifeform: still think 'usg as high-tech north kr is impossible', ?
decimation: one of them might be a laser
decimation: although it is a large barrel for a laser
mircea_popescu: i'd expect smoke launchers etc.
decimation: usians have been brainwashed too long to be turned into north kr-ites
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072986 << everyone's going to be the first guy to stick a finger in teenaged pussy. FOREVER.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 21:28:26; jurov: " is set to become the world’s first trading platform with a direct connection to the classic banking system" davout perhaps you may something to say about that?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 166947 @ 0.00024425 = 40.7768 BTC [-] {2}
decimation: weirdly the dec 19 SPY put option with the most open interest is 135
decimation: current 'money' is at 205
nubbins`: asciilifeform danielpbarron etc http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=QHGEWZdn
mircea_popescu: decimation bear in mind that this sort of thing is seen often enough.
mircea_popescu: it always seems remarkable when the sec comes out with "oh, clearly they had insider info, held 90% of this improbable strike". but if you go combing over the market, you'll see lots of similar situations all the time.
decimation: mircea_popescu: apparently so. I'm trying to find a way to hedge my mostly long position on us equities
mircea_popescu: options are rarely the way to go for something like that.
decimation: well these days bonds and stocks trade as one
decimation: because the whole thing is predicated on 'usg prints money true/false'
asciilifeform: nubbins`: congrats
nubbins`: still working on cross-compile toolchain for darwin->arm
asciilifeform: nubbins`: 'buildroot' builds cross-chain
asciilifeform: on just about any reasonable unix
asciilifeform: and i mean all of it
nubbins`: hm, i'll cheggidout
asciilifeform: nubbins`: it's what i'm building the whole shebang (as seen in turdel) with
asciilifeform: nubbins`: my plan is to fit bitcoind & its deps in there
asciilifeform: as just another 'package'
decimation: asciilifeform: ideally the thing would have a small lcd terminal for programming ips, keys, etc
asciilifeform: the output is a kernel and a rootfs (in 'turdel', deliberately baked into one binary to simplify testing)
asciilifeform: decimation: ideally i would be designing it full time in b-a or whatnot
decimation: not that this would be of any use to the target audience
asciilifeform: decimation: and it would be baking in my personal fab
asciilifeform: but we're on 'junkyard wars' not 'who wants to be a quadrillionaire'
decimation: wait do you mean argentina or #b-a
asciilifeform: the former
asciilifeform: (just as example)
asciilifeform doesn't know for a fact whether he could tolerate it long-term
nubbins`: spent much time in a foreign country?
asciilifeform: nubbins`: yes, 22 years.
decimation: asciilifeform: well if I win the swedish lottery I'll fund your fab
asciilifeform: decimation: i don't think any lottery on the planet pays a tenth of what it'd cost.
decimation: oh a full chip fab?
asciilifeform: chip fab and army
asciilifeform: and pet economy to feed the two.
decimation: asciilifeform: so you basically want singapore
asciilifeform: sumthinglikethat
asciilifeform: but this is rather like asking about that kind of martial colony would feel best
decimation: well, I would pick an island in the middle of the pacific for definisibility
asciilifeform: not enough info from my perch to even say something reasonable beyond 'it ain't happening'
decimation: defensibility
nubbins`: dat off-brand battery
asciilifeform: island only works if you have thermonukes ready to pop in every major enemy population centre and they know it.
decimation: eh, kinda
decimation: the island is good because if you can operate a reasonable air and sea defense system, you are pretty well protected
decimation: if people wanna use icbm's they are gonna have to be committed
asciilifeform: 'tomahawk'
asciilifeform: much cheaper
nubbins`: asciilifeform:nubbins`: yes, 22 years. <<< lel @ me
decimation: cruise missiles are just as vulnerable as other aircraft
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2014 00:14:28; asciilifeform: imagine you possess a death ray that magically zaps a rocket, from any distance.
asciilifeform: (summary: defence doesn't work)
decimation: asciilifeform: yes, and on an island you can be the one lobbing rockets at whatever ship/aircraft is lobbing rockets at you
decimation: the whole problem of air defense becomes much simpler once you can enumerate goodness
mircea_popescu: entire fucking building reeks of pot. these people...
mircea_popescu: it's like being in a campus
mircea_popescu: decimation options have a very strong time correlation. unless you have a very clear date in mind, they're not usually the right tool
decimation: aye, you have to 'leap' from one ex date to the next
mircea_popescu: if you do that you will lose money.
mircea_popescu: who was the guy with the "short" fund, had some of the horrid0est results ever. i recall discussed here maybe cca 2013
decimation: well, the problem I have is picking the stirke price and quantity that is appropriate
decimation: there are plenty of short funds avialable, but they all have extremely high costs
mircea_popescu: if you wish to be equity neutral the more common strategy is "buy the equities short the index" or vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: this is very time-invariant.
decimation: yeah that's a fair point
mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: yes, and on an island you can be the one lobbing rockets at whatever ship/aircraft is lobbing rockets at you << no you can't. why do you think "international waters" are so important.
decimation: well, presumably if they are firing on you from every steradian you have your rights
mircea_popescu: you have to sink the ship befroe it fires.
mircea_popescu: after, what's it gonna do.
decimation: declare the surrounding 2000 miles of sea to be territorial
mircea_popescu: this is a nude declaration of war.
nubbins`: 2000!
nubbins`: my sides
mircea_popescu: and what happens once some schmoe makes the 2100 mile tomahawk ? you redeclare ?
decimation: no, you shoot it down once it hits your 2000 mile border without ident
mircea_popescu: it doesn't. sits at 2050 miles and waves.
decimation: can do until it runs out of fuel
mircea_popescu: what, plutonium ?
decimation: the point is, at 2000 miles it would be infeasible to 'fire on all sides'
asciilifeform: decimation: lobbing rockets, etc. is a contest of who has the largest pet economy to milk
nubbins`: this is hypothetical to the point of absurdity
asciilifeform: decimation: or do you imagine that even something as basic as 'v1' can be built from dirt
asciilifeform: nubbins`: what a cosmographer does is even less tangible, but we owe a good chunk of early physics to them.
decimation: it's a fair point, one would have to have a large chunk of wealth
asciilifeform: decimation: wealth as in functioning tame economy and natural resources.
asciilifeform: not as in 'numbers in account'
asciilifeform: esp. not if said account lives among the folks you intend to blow up
mircea_popescu: this entire "i'd get an island" thing is not unlike the strange idea of the british troops to wear red.
mircea_popescu: yeah... that'll work...
decimation: it did 'work' for a few hundred years
asciilifeform: pre-aircraft
mircea_popescu: right. but you're in the wrong hundred.
mircea_popescu: see, if i had the magical stone that lets you turn time back FOR THE OTHERS
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't bother with the island.
decimation: okay, if not an island? where ?
nubbins`: ಠ_ಠ
decimation: hawala works fine for finance but not for real estate
asciilifeform: it also, very notably, does not work especially well for physical objects as a class.
asciilifeform: last i checked, there were no teleporters.
mircea_popescu: i dun get it.
mircea_popescu: what is this objection ?
decimation: where's ascii gonna locate his fab, to be specific
asciilifeform: objection to a hypothetical 'locale doesn't matter'
mircea_popescu: why does locale matter ?
mircea_popescu: decimation the best solution to his problem would seem to me, bribing someone to defraud an existing fab
mircea_popescu: rather than "build his own"
asciilifeform: and trust the product from fraud ?
asciilifeform: and have item fabbed on winblows tools ?
mircea_popescu: the price for trying to be "supergovernment" is that you lose your claim to title for anything you might "own"
mircea_popescu: much like un declared tyrants lose their bank accounts.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform have it secretly dualboot for all i care.
asciilifeform very confused
mircea_popescu: have them upgrade to archlinux "for their own interest".
asciilifeform: how does this 'solve'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: try to recall the thread where we illustrate that the entire extant ic fab ecosystem sits on two or three winblows-only turdwares that's easily 10,000 man-years each
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