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ben_vulpes: brilliant ideas from the let's-build-careers-and-fingertraps-for-the-unwary-by-running-javascript-on-the-server crowd: http://tldr.sh/
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/11/26/specs-and-designs-for-the-first-ever-bugatti-comps/ << Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - Specs and designs for the first ever Bugatti-Comps.
trinque: aaand automatic wallet creation when n00bs register with deedbot
ben_vulpes: aaand patient died on the operating table.
ben_vulpes: no idea why resizing sda3 would kill my poor gentoo, but lo, i killed her jim.
trinque plays taps
BingoBoingo: Poor mr vulpes
ben_vulpes: i have backups, including my usual obsessive notes from the run that brought the frankenbox up in the first place, ain't the end of the world, just the realization of some deferred losses.
mircea_popescu: in other naked truths, ttps://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/nintchdbpict000319251588.jpg
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in "sudden & overnight moral panics / signalling fashions at Kink High usually spend a coupla years in the making", http://trilema.com/2015/the-squares-and-the-holes/
mircea_popescu: whole fucking #metoo bullshit was ongoing in 2015 ; outside of http://trilema.com/2016/stfu-attention-whore-culture/ nobody said anything (and sure as fuck nobody roundkicked around the house any of the mousey whinebags involved). #surprised?
mircea_popescu: "why doesn't trilema publish something about #random-idiocy-of-today ???" "because it did years ago, back when you should have been paying attention".
mircea_popescu: and speaking of history, here's a well forgotten bit (finally wikipedia can be useful, recent pop culture topic!) :
mircea_popescu: "RonAndFez.com : New York's WNEW-FM was converted from a long-respected rock station to all-talk in 1999, with afternoon drive show Opie and Anthony as the focal point. Ron and Fez signed on to host an overnight talk show named Ron and Fez Dot Com, beginning February 21, 2000 and broadcast from 11pm–3am. Ron and Fez eventually moved to evenings (7:00–11:00 pm), then to early afternoon (12:00–3:00pm) and later back to th
mircea_popescu: e evening timeslot. Buoyed by Opie and Anthony's lead-in ratings, the duo began to enjoy success. During this period, several memorable characters joined their on-air team, including taciturn producer Hawk, Dumpy, Tasteless Ginny, and the call-in prankster Joe Poo. The show's web-based premise inspired the founding of several websites devoted to the show, including RFBabies.com (once a haven for the show's cadre of young fema
mircea_popescu: le fans), and the unofficial site for the show. Though "Dot Com" was soon dropped from the show's title, Ron and Fez have garnered an admirable online following due to RonFez.net."
mircea_popescu: needless to say that all those websites are dead ; and that the "cadre" of young female fans is long rotten away, the 16 to 21 yo female crowd is all over what even these days ? etsy/patreon/facebook/what ? FUCKTARDS FUCKING RUINED THE GROUPIE! 2010s are a regression to fucking 1950, holy hell, gotta have elvis come back to shake his hips once more ?
mircea_popescu: WNEW-FM didn't suck in the 90s. where is it. what happened. questions!
cruciform: http://trilema.com/2015/the-squares-and-the-holes/#footnote_5_63723 <- wonderful! cannot wait for the end of the fiat-enabled welfare/warfare state, with all its attendant pervsersions
mircea_popescu: cruciform did you notice the cartoon with the baby turtles ?
cruciform: mircea_popescu: haven't got to that section yet :)
ag3nt_zer0: re: bitfinex tether usdt - mtgox 2.0? https://medium.com/@bitfinexed
asciilifeform: ag3nt_zer0: participation in goxes, of any and all forms, is OPTIONAL
ag3nt_zer0: good morning asciilifeform... thx! looking for reliable info...
asciilifeform: lol 'reliable info' on what
asciilifeform: lemme guess, on 'the right time to get out of this particular gox' ??
asciilifeform: the answer is... there is no right time to be IN it to begin with
asciilifeform: and having been 'in' it to begin with at ANY point is symptomatic of severe problems ~on your end~
asciilifeform: whole. fucking. point. of. bitcoin. is that you dun need a gox. never, for nothing, at no point.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-26#1743153 << fwiw i never heard of either of these
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-26#1743136 << lulzily, observe that this is coming out just about immediately when crapple PHASED OUT the chip ( it got replaced with the face mugshot idiocy )
a111: Logged on 2017-11-26 06:24 trinque: https://hackaday.com/2017/08/18/apples-secure-enclave-processor-sep-firmware-decyrpted/ << in other prying open of black boxes
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-26#1743132 << didja resize ~down~ ?? afaik resizing down never, at any point, worked ~anywhere.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-26 06:22 ben_vulpes: no idea why resizing sda3 would kill my poor gentoo, but lo, i killed her jim.
trinque: neh, thought the faceID thing used the "secure enclave" too
asciilifeform: hm, does it ? i'll admit, i did not follow in real time.
trinque: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208108 << aha, state of the art!!11!
asciilifeform: 'Even if you don’t enroll in Face ID, the TrueDepth camera intelligently activates to support attention aware features, like dimming the display if you aren't looking at your iPhone or lowering the volume of alerts if you're looking at your device. For example, when using Safari, your device will check to determine if you're looking at your device and turns the screen off if you aren’t.' << ahahahhawut
asciilifeform: hey recall that patent, 'test if plebemeat is actually looking at the ads, if not -> no jam for supper' ?
asciilifeform: apparently live nao.
asciilifeform: 'Users with physical limitations can select “Accessibility Options” during enrollment that doesn't require the full range of head motion to capture different angles' << but at least one can register Officially as a tard !111 and cheat.
asciilifeform: for now.
hanbot: sounds like compulsory buttplug is right around the corner
asciilifeform: verily.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-26#1743129 << is asciilifeform the only one who had some hope that this was a serious post ?
a111: Logged on 2017-11-26 06:15 deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/11/26/specs-and-designs-for-the-first-ever-bugatti-comps/ << Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - Specs and designs for the first ever Bugatti-Comps.
ag3nt_zer0: asciilifeform reliable info just meaning a look at the situation from an area of the btc world that isn't full of shit - HERE being the only place I trust... and re: "no right time to be in it" I am assuming you mean having control of private keys at all times and that if I am really interested in trading in a "reliable" way that I should be doing it here?, via WOT channels? or am I in outerspace herE?
asciilifeform: !~ticker --market all
jhvh1: asciilifeform: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 9100.02, vol: 10602.28780808 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 9240.2, vol: 61199.18993364 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 9085.7, vol: 3027.16298779 | Volume-weighted last average: 9214.08800107
asciilifeform: ag3nt_zer0: correct, control of private keys.
asciilifeform: but at the very least, if yer gonna put someone else at your reactor controls, have it be somebody you can actually rate.
asciilifeform: ag3nt_zer0: see also http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-23#1742484 thread, and elsewhere.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-23 16:17 mircea_popescu: also that ballas quote re giving up the capital.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i was hoping for eg trinary circuits, dataflow fabric, but quickly disappoint.
ben_vulpes: also did manage to resurrect box by regenerating mbr with lilo
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: was hoping for something, anything, other than monkey noises. but disappoint.
ben_vulpes: gotta recalibrate yr expectations, i guess
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/lets-de-ballas-a-ballas-piece-on-rape-well-on-rape-anyway-but-its-with-sexing-genders-and-interns-so-you-know/ << Trilema - Let's de-Ballas a Ballas piece. On rape. Well... on "rape", anyway. But it's with sexing genders and interns so you know...
a111: Logged on 2017-11-26 19:42 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-26#1743139 << or of this. wtf is that ?
mircea_popescu: (surprisingly to no one but the sort that get surprised by such things, kim kardashians' us pics are heavily edited.)
mircea_popescu: the previous item are radio hosts, a major underpinning of us counterculture throughout the 70s and 80s. not really much left by the 90s, and totally gone now.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-26#1743180 << honestly this isn't even such a bad idea.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-26 19:47 hanbot: sounds like compulsory buttplug is right around the corner
mircea_popescu: (for the harem, obviously, not so much for harem-wannabes, but that's aside )
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-26#1743184 << consider at some point switching from this situation where you keep trying to entice us to look at shit to where you actually contribute something yourself. it'll be a lot better for you.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-26 19:53 ag3nt_zer0: asciilifeform reliable info just meaning a look at the situation from an area of the btc world that isn't full of shit - HERE being the only place I trust... and re: "no right time to be in it" I am assuming you mean having control of private keys at all times and that if I am really interested in trading in a "reliable" way that I should be doing it here?, via WOT channels? or am I in outerspace herE?
deedbot: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1927 << Loper OS - The Peculiarly Quiet Decline and Fall of the KVM
a111: Logged on 2017-11-26 23:55 deedbot: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1927 << Loper OS - The Peculiarly Quiet Decline and Fall of the KVM
asciilifeform: for 4k?!?!!
mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone uses kvm in the sense you use it.
asciilifeform: it's a box, that at one time was sold everywhere, and worked with the gear of the time
asciilifeform: 1 display <-> n comps
asciilifeform: with hand toggle
mircea_popescu: it's a box, which was once driven by the needs of people offering ISP services, which was consequently sold everywhere and which you picked up and used in your own way. meanwhile the people that drove the kvm item moved on, leaving you stranded. because how you use it and how they use it were never fundamentally the same, just briefly appeared that way.
asciilifeform: 0 to do with the isp item (ipkvm) -- wholly different gadget that suffers from misfortunately collided name.
asciilifeform: used to operate moar comps in a room than there is room for consoles.
mircea_popescu: not at all. kvm item appeared to serve the isp market, not the alf market.
asciilifeform: http://content.us.dlink.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DKVM4Ksidesitecore.png << conventional 1990s (vga) kvm, for reference. 0 connection to isp remote kvm
mircea_popescu: obviously 1990s tech will not reference 2010 tech wtf nonsense is this.
mircea_popescu: that "conventiona 1990 vga kvm" EXISTS so that people in the noc can look at their god damned comps
mircea_popescu: not so you can do pcb layouting
asciilifeform: kvm apparently even deader than asciilifeform thought, if mircea_popescu managed to entirely forget that it existed.
mircea_popescu: jesus christ.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only place i ever used one, in the 90s, WAS IN DATACENTER. not at your fucking house.
asciilifeform: and yes i had massive one when i was a bofh. 32 holes. and yes these still sold.
asciilifeform: ( 32 vga hole. )
asciilifeform: i suspect that mircea_popescu is right in re why the hand-cranked items sold today are still vga-only -- they are for use of gnomes, in the mines.
asciilifeform: ( why remote-controlled box is vga-only is not a mystery )
mircea_popescu: nobody even had a decent monitor in the whole fucking noc. half of them at that point still fuckling tandys or whatever the fuck bicolor cgas.
asciilifeform: today you'll see folx use rack mount lcd, slides out sorta like an oven door
mircea_popescu: yes, but not ideal (gotta go over to the box).
asciilifeform: ( if you ever wonder where surplus 1990s tft panels go -- they went to make these. )
asciilifeform: right, they're used for per-rack hand-cranked sweat -- sorta like those rack-mount rotary phones one sees in photos of old pbxen
mircea_popescu: i wonder if ppl even have any fucking clue WHY it's "~dial~ tone".
asciilifeform: folx who never pulsedialed -- likely not
mircea_popescu: comes, originally, when this newfanged tech was new and needed a name, from a different item that was common curriculum and meanwhile disappeared
mircea_popescu: the SUNDIAL.
asciilifeform: sundial still lives, wat
asciilifeform: there's one not far from asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: see if anyone can read it.
mircea_popescu lived this recently, very elegant vertical 1920s style item, on wall. "what interesting art" "it's a fucking sundial" "a what ?!"
asciilifeform: next mircea_popescu will say that modern anglo kidz dun laugh at the wrist-sundials in 'flintstone' cartoon.
mircea_popescu: (phone was new and needed name... in the 80s. the other 80s.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i say.
asciilifeform: but indeed goes back to subj of thread, asciilifeform is stuck with 1880s state of the art, i.e. plugboard, for switching console b/w boxen, in a room where there is simply nomoar wall to hang moar lcd onto.
asciilifeform: ( why not over ip ? well for starters not all of the boxes have nics. or run an os that knows what is a nic ! )
mircea_popescu: you know back in the day she worked for the usaf, chet had a buncha crap systems that had to interop, ended up plugging them all on a hunk of wood to switch manually ?
asciilifeform: i can picture.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing more perennial than 1880s tech, in the 1960s as in the 2010
mircea_popescu: back then everything came with its own apple-style keyboard etc, nothing fucking worked. subtly.
asciilifeform: i suppose the only thing remaining after 1880s plugboard is the final rock bottom : http://btcbase.org/log/2014-04-25#643498
a111: Logged on 2014-04-25 20:09 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did you ever encounter the tale of 'подвиг радиста' as schoolboy?
a111: Logged on 2014-04-25 20:09 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.stalingrad-battle.ru/images/stories/ris42.jpg
mircea_popescu: !#s ecaterina teodoroiu
a111: 0 results for "ecaterina teodoroiu", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=ecaterina%20teodoroiu
mircea_popescu: ^ ww1 machinegunner woman.
asciilifeform: ( and i gotta disagree re 'nothing fucking worked, subtly' -- things fucking didn'twork ~honestly~ and in plain daylight. it's today that they dysfunction subtly.)
mircea_popescu: to hear the woman retell it, it was more a case of ww2 russian materiel, "we made a buncha duds so now we're gonna call this a new standard rather than throw them out"
mircea_popescu: i thought youy'd like!
asciilifeform: 'Inainte baieti, nu va lasati, sunteti cu mine! Inainte! Razbunati-ma!'
mircea_popescu: dja know how despicable faggots of the interwar (such as, eminently, bedwetter blair) were "indignant" at "the cruel and violent sport of boxing" especially because "of how it makes a minority of women behave" ?
mircea_popescu: fucking scum of all time, those are the only women anyone even wants!
asciilifeform: afaik just him, i know of no other source for the item
mircea_popescu: "not when anyone's three year old" "yes, well."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i heard it pluriously, much like the whole "if men just went out to rape and pillage there'd be ANARCHY!!!1"
mircea_popescu: "and other bad things!!! all the bad things!!!"
mircea_popescu: or the exact equivalent, "if there were no state THE WORLD WOULD END!1111"
mircea_popescu: it's this diffuse mula-dom.
asciilifeform: i suspect some mentally weak folx have problems with abstraction. i.e. ~his~ 'world will end' and thereby somehow 'world will end'
mircea_popescu: you don't say.
mircea_popescu: arabs believed "if one doesn't believe in god, no matter which as long as one" world also ends. looked at me as you'd look at something thart crawled out of black hole.
mircea_popescu: "BUT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE!! I USED THE JUICE!!!"
asciilifeform: similar reaction if you invite an american d00d into a house with no tv set
asciilifeform: 'but where is it!'
mircea_popescu: for srs.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose this is the proper definition of divinity.
mircea_popescu: "spurious item which the superficial mind regards as the universal underpinning of existence"
mircea_popescu: usian can not comprehend existence unless tv explains it to him ("how does the news relate to me?!?!"), arab hasta have the allah basis, socialist needs the state to, conceptually, assuage his existential anxieties and so following.
asciilifeform suspects that sufficiently advanced cases of 'homo americanus' don't actually require existence to have, in their heads, an underpinning at all. but asciilifeform has not sufficient entomological field experience, to say if this is a thing yet.
mircea_popescu: je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothese a lot more radical than originally thought.
asciilifeform: wai wasn't that herr newton
asciilifeform: or did it happen that he actually said it in fr
mircea_popescu: laplace.
asciilifeform: that'd explain.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, he was "french newton"
mircea_popescu: you're too hard on the general public.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-20 19:29 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-20#1727313 << you'd be fucking surprised how often this is the case. "hello sir, this is bank, it just doesn't do any banking, problem ?"
asciilifeform: 'we're all out of prime rib, but wouldntcha like some maggot by the pound ? we have all the maggots you could use!'
asciilifeform: 'how is it not the same thing!'
BingoBoingo counting down the days left of winter
asciilifeform: for BingoBoingo not so much left of this winter!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Do you have a coup flying day set yet?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: nope.
BingoBoingo: Still worried about .ro language write head, or ?
asciilifeform: it, and that ticker need to go some moar up.
BingoBoingo forgets alf has to care/feed/bed the pet
asciilifeform: pet is by far the easiest part.
asciilifeform: pet is a second pair of hands and in fact eats not so much.
mircea_popescu: in other news, "come play with me" (1977) is such a confusing piece of nonsense...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wassat 4u box thing in the back..?
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