asciilifeform: '... Marbley has held Thompson in contempt of court since December 2015 for violating terms of a plea deal by refusing to respond to questions about the coins' locations.'
asciilifeform: for the 'property rights in usa' and 'goldbuggery' files, https://archive.is/aK1aC >> 'COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal judge is giving a former deep-sea treasure hunter another chance to reveal information about the location of 500 missing gold coins.'
asciilifeform: https://www.rt.com/viral/377259-limpopo-elections-hacking-prank/ << rt seems to have the 1st round translated
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't think the content of the rt link may have happened in angloverse.
mircea_popescu: (depending how capable one is re bitcoin network, you might be able to see they tried to relay it starting ~26 hours ago, but plenty of places didn't even hear about it until ~6 hours ago).
mircea_popescu: re bitpay earlier. and generally speaking, expecting the y-shitonator bitcoin "infrastructure" simply going away by the end of the year isn't exactly misplaced.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, check out blockchain.info failing to get its txn included now : http://archive.is/N7xxz
asciilifeform: https://russian.rt.com/world/news/359770-pranker-vovan-makkein << details of the hoax (victims have not, afaik, yet denied that they were owned)
Reuel: Hey guys, how come deedbot spits out article urls every know and then? Is it like an ownership registration?
asciilifeform: it is quite plain however that the lizards do not wish it to be remembered that other types of people than the current bonsaikittens, once existed.
asciilifeform: btw i'm not certain if the old films are being burned for commercial reasons, or very specific cultural cleansing: you can see the faces of now-extinct types of civilization-builders, their works, in old film, in a way that is not so accessible (at least to the simple folx) from viewing static photo
mircea_popescu: prolly. hence the email lulz.
asciilifeform: probably will survive indefinitely the way pawn shops survived in many countries -- as honeypot
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, apparently bitpay will not show you the bitcoin address unless you provide them with an email address.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wouldn't be surprised if it came out that the old celluloids were properly burned.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect you're right. of course, a nation that deliberately destroys the memory of competence in the hopes of making life more comfortable for itself merely succeeds in making death that much closer. but that's another tale.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes it's well known by people in the know. nobody else, becauyse hey, nytimes has a lifestyle section.
asciilifeform: and erase cultural memory in the general case.
asciilifeform: they are being deliberately rotted, to delete competition for modern shitfilm
mircea_popescu: thousands of films pre technicolor are alread yloist ; the few remaining kinda going that way.
mircea_popescu: ~nobody knows because hey, "trade secret", but the shape of the old celuloid vaults is beyond sad.
mircea_popescu: but of what. i had "high res" scan of andalou dog in my hands, the real mccoy. 99% compressed it looked exactly the same the original's just that bad.
mircea_popescu: yes i'll get archival copy of stuff i like. amusingly, 99% of which doesn't exist in better resolution anyway. wtf am i going to do with an archival copy of cat on the hot tin roof, watch the original artefacts in preference of the modern ones ?
asciilifeform: as for the 7gb films, they are not entirely an abuse, 650MB warez gives compression artifacts the size of a palm when watched on projector screen. the fact that nobody's made a film worth watching in ages, is separate issue.
mircea_popescu: then again, diablo 2 notably got to keep its cutscenes. so i think it was very much an aesthetic decision.
mircea_popescu: i for first time saw mm7 cutscenes recently. they're pretty idiotic.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeat they don't quite live to expectation huh.
mircea_popescu: fucking 7gb monstrosities they do nowadays. like i really have to see the unwatchable crap in high definition.
asciilifeform: many years later i saw the uncut versions and meh
mircea_popescu: phf no cutscenes and no cd audio tracks was the standard for my gaming experience. tbh i liked it.
mircea_popescu: toast almonds. straight out of the oven, nice and HOT put them in old style glass, pour cognac on top.
phf: i think there was this famous doom-like, that came out before doom, but otherwise it seems like all were either ports from dos, or else ported to dos
asciilifeform: these were ~nonexistent on warez, and i never had the machine. so it was complete mystery.
asciilifeform: for the 68k, or ppc macs.
asciilifeform: for years had no idea that such a thing as voice tracks ever existed in, e.g., the sierra games.
asciilifeform: though i did play these same rips from warez leeched via 9600baud modem.
asciilifeform: aah the cd equiv. of those white vhs tapes.
phf: nah, full blown games, not shovelware. typically rar'ed and gotten through the most brutal of scene strips, so no cutscenes, no cd audio tracks, typically pre-cracked
asciilifeform: actually met these, but in usa.
asciilifeform: aha i left when 'mystery disk' was a 5inch floppy that elder brother would bring home from chum's house.
phf: hehe, you left too early. those cds were like a boy's treasure trove box. you never knew what you're going to get, but every one of them promissed mystery ~and delivered!!!~
asciilifeform: and incidentally this may very well include usa in not too distant future, and these disks -- will come back
asciilifeform: but can picture that in orclands with poor net pipe they might circulate on disks to this very day
asciilifeform: lulzily, i never held in my hands a physical cd with any of these
phf: i suspect the cds predate the "here kid". they would also contain current issues of phrack. the thinking is probably "i'm going to pad it with every single thing i could find on my upstream BBS"
asciilifeform: (at one point u.s. mint ~did~ have a service where you could order dollar coins via the post, paying with cc. it led to a mass chumping of cc banks that offered 'x% back!', until the hole was plugged.)
mircea_popescu: i thought there's a service where you send them your mangled/burned/whatever bills and they credit it to your account.
asciilifeform: (my first encounter with this, was many years, as a boy, i went on a tour of the u.s. mint, back when they gave tours, and they had a souvenir shop where you could buy shredded benjies by the kilogram)
phf: well it's like with fpgas. once you have complete documentation, it means there's no possible way to get the thing
asciilifeform: for the original
asciilifeform: (the 68k, in particular, is ~only~ sold by freescale, and at screamingly usgistic price)
asciilifeform: because -- elementarily -- the original components are no longer available.
asciilifeform: (the one where there is a GHz arm, running shitlinux, and inside it, emulator of the original 68k calc)
asciilifeform: i'd bet that the 'reprinted' nokia will resemble that ti calculator
a111: Logged on 2017-02-16 14:24 mircea_popescu: that phone is the palpable (it has to be! hipsters don;'t have souls), certain mark of apartenence. they are people too, because of that phone, you see ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. the point being, for the anglos, that the axe is the tool you use to chop down forest, and the axe handle is made of wood.
asciilifeform: for the axe
phf: multitran has gotten completely useless, it gives grip, shank and tang, though the last two are the metal parts (at least in case of knives)
asciilifeform: '...the software, available for iOS and Android, basically uses the OpenPGP standard to perform public-private cryptography, uses AES for ephemeral per-message encryption, and exchanges public keys between users via TLS connections with certificate pinning.'
asciilifeform: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/15/white_house_drama_and_confide_app << another lulzie from same rag, re a fauxpgp supposedly used by 'white house staffers'
asciilifeform: (ru has the word, en -- not)
mircea_popescu: dork. who the fuck asked anyone anything.
asciilifeform: 'Security expert and doomsayer Bruce Schneier – speaking by video owing to RSA Conference commitments in San Francisco and perhaps prescience with regard to seasonal travel challenges – predicted that the government is coming to handcuff coders. "We all had this special right to code the world as we saw fit," said Schneier. "My guess is we're going to lose that right, because it's too dangerous
asciilifeform: in other lulzies,
mircea_popescu: do you see the difference between trying to use transformer as capacitor and trying to use transformer as father ?
asciilifeform: like eating mud in the culturalrevolution
mircea_popescu: ie, chicken CAN be fucked in the manner described ; but chicken CAN NOT be your companion.
mircea_popescu: mkay. 1. animals don't matter. ducttaping around a chicken and fucking it for fun is not animal abuse ; 2. people are at the center. imagining the chicken is your companion IS animal abuse, in that you abuse the animal.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the cats dun enter into it.
trinque: nah you let people be inane by themselves too long, they get self-important and will return to foist it upon you
asciilifeform: waiwat they actually put'em on?
mircea_popescu: it is neither endearing nor harmless. it is animal abuse.
asciilifeform: i'd much rather see retarded folx make hats for cats, endearingly harmless , than to shit into the net, imho
mircea_popescu: totally unaware. jawdrop of the year.
mircea_popescu: and AT FIRST i thought she's the tits, because hey, seemed like she's aware of a by now 20 yo mockery of the exact genre.
trinque: not out of cat, mind, but for them
mircea_popescu: oh, THAT'S what you do. how about when you're not being 5, what do you do then ?
mircea_popescu: trinque they're hysterical with the self-identifying, too. "i do x-with-y dorkitude". you know, like "i'm a doctor". "i paint seashells with nail polish"
mircea_popescu: just about. 20yos too lame to fuck being kept busy so nobody has to notice they're actually too lame to fuck.
trinque: nah they're baristas that teach yoga and but really someday my (obscure pointless hobby) will be discovered on etsygogo
mircea_popescu: mostly "students". recall the chick being educated over phone ?
asciilifeform: always assumed that they are slaves in some phb office, redditing when boss not looking
asciilifeform: actually i have almost nfi re who these are or how
mircea_popescu: ever wondered why people who literally do nothing online, spend all day on quora or wikipedia or whatever, get so irate if their signal dies ? "omaigawd no internet" "bitch, this is good for youcoin."
mircea_popescu: "for as lord as i hear the voice of google and all the websaints, i am not properly alone in teh valley of where mp rapes my buttonhole daily."|
mircea_popescu: the notion that meryl streep is in any way different from bruce lee of bucharest's sewers, or for that matter you-name-her-nameless-activist-du-jour is possibly contemporaneity's best lol.
mircea_popescu: same thing with the ads.
mircea_popescu: that phone is the palpable (it has to be! hipsters don;'t have souls), certain mark of apartenence. they are people too, because of that phone, you see ?
mircea_popescu: tell you what : those people are the quintessential hipsters. that's what a hipster is, exactly that : a bum. like orwell, like all the ironic waitresses / actresses of the west coast. bums. tramps. PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT AT HIME HERE.
asciilifeform: they did have mains current, neh
mircea_popescu: you assumed they had a tty somewhgere, also ?
asciilifeform: i assumed they had cut into a line...
mircea_popescu: yes but did you notice the old phone kept as a statuette ? and the rest of the hipster dumbassery ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did you notice anything in the interiors of the sewage system dwellers asciilifeform ?
asciilifeform: that somebody, somewhere, endures the ads, is brain-melting
a111: Logged on 2017-02-16 07:20 ben_vulpes: i know a gent who is cursed with one of the later, more expensive models and he keeps it in a piece of leather to hide the ads.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-16#1614456 << you patch it, like literate people; or pay the extra 10bux, like chump
mircea_popescu: yeah they're abhorrently bad at allocating real estate.
ben_vulpes: upstairs of the cafe where asciilifeform and i had coffees with chetty was hugely bathroom, and the space that wasn't bathroom unused
mircea_popescu: well... that'd be the problem, yes ?
mircea_popescu: i ask the maitre d' "so what happened to your bathroom ?" "uh... it's always been like that."
ben_vulpes: if the shutters are up
mircea_popescu: you can also step into hole in the wall nothingery, ask for toilet, discover that it's immaculate, and slightly larger than the dining hall.
mircea_popescu: it;s something else with the toilets. in any other place, you can guess : cheapo place, dubious shitter ; expensive restaurant, nice shitter.
ben_vulpes: and the most amusing 'fixes'
ben_vulpes: you just can't trust these people
mircea_popescu: because they're still broken.
ben_vulpes: i ever tell you about how i took sport in fixing toilets in ars my first trip there?
mircea_popescu: eh, cheap chino item. i set it on the windowsill. stepped inside for a moment. wind rolled it into the gap. when i came back, 5 mins later... gone.
ben_vulpes: the mind boggles at the conspiracy of circumstance that would let a someone near your tools
mircea_popescu: part of the facade.
mircea_popescu: well, it's about the size of a medium sized mall's parking lot.
ben_vulpes: nah, on the list though
mircea_popescu: buenos aires HAS NO DIRECT FLIGHTS. you understand this ? they're like omaha, nebraska, you can fly to flordia or madrid. that's it.
mircea_popescu: let me make a point here. buenos aires and instanbul are about the same thing, 10mn+ towns, largest in their area etc.
ben_vulpes: wait they have 'light rail' in arse?
mircea_popescu: if a car doesn't go offrail there one of these days, argentina is outside normal physics.
mircea_popescu: ah, those. i went on the light rail here, it was a spicy adventure. i don't think they EVER maintain the tracks. solid 10 minutes of screeching.
ben_vulpes: hey i found a slut on the train to pycon one year!
mircea_popescu: in retrospect i guess shoulda brought the adspad.
mircea_popescu: last time i was actually on a train-train i bought out the sleeping car and had the girls naked and rubbing before it rolled out of the station.
mircea_popescu: otherwise wtf... so you get hard and... oh shit i didn't plan this far ahead... uhmmm... i guess fuck this here keyhole.
mircea_popescu: there is that.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes why would you want erotica on the train ?
ben_vulpes: excellent little device for erotica on the train "or so i hear"
mircea_popescu: and people actually carry these around ?!
ben_vulpes: every release past the first if i recall correctly. second you could buy an ad-free version, but...
ben_vulpes: i know a gent who is cursed with one of the later, more expensive models and he keeps it in a piece of leather to hide the ads.
mircea_popescu: they pump ads now ?
ben_vulpes: i am fond of the device. it has a slow, but acceptable resolution screen for reading old texts of middling ocr quality, fits in jeans pocket. most importantly and differentiating it from later models, it shows no ads.
ben_vulpes: and in yet other "you don't own this device" news, my v1 kindle does this amazing trick when i email it .mobi files where it briefly displays them and then immediately removes them
ben_vulpes: at least we finally routed around the procurement process...
ben_vulpes: in other radiation damage, $client calls up, "hey latest chrome doesn't work with $app from inside the muni vpn" "...can you swing a vpn or shall i get on a plane?"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why not guess the same but the other way ? "i never made a budget in a public institution, but if i had i'd know you always overprovision so the '''watchdogs''' can cut something and feel useful. i guess flynn was that."
trinque: no shit huh? now they know how to meathooks
mircea_popescu: us president stated on the record that us federal judge is inept and not to be taken seriously.
mircea_popescu: all of them, +/-.
mircea_popescu: and if you're going to count flynn, then "some judge" is worth about what, 72 points and three superbowl nipples ?
mircea_popescu: get out of here with this dumb shit, you're the equivalent of the prison bitch who "prison bitch : 1 ; prison system : 0" because asshole already loose anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude that is like the most inept scoring i ever saw. for one thing, trump scored like 500 touchdowns. for the other, srsly flynn is half a point.
asciilifeform: trinque: the correct response would be top 500 of cia org chart found hanging on meat hooks. and afaik no report of this.
BingoBoingo: This year's superbowl was rare good game, and Trump/Brady won in the end
asciilifeform: the last d00d who has this problem, AND solved it 100% -- was stalin. in '37.
mircea_popescu: anyway. certainly not "next". they've been whining about him since day one, he'd have been 1st, 2nd and 100th, if only could. but the noise is soundly muted out of apparent desperation.
asciilifeform: '“This is not about who won the election. This is about concerns about institutional integrity,” said Mark Lowenthal, a former senior intelligence official.'
mircea_popescu: beats the superbowl at any rate.
asciilifeform: i'd picture that he is next 'ru stooge' then.
mircea_popescu: let's not overstate flynn lel. bannon's teh vizier. so far he outranks cia on the nsc.
asciilifeform: vizier -- thrown to the vultures.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Navy SEALs caught flying Trump flag on Humvee - The San Diego ...: <http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/the-intel/sd-me-seals-flag-20170203-story.html>; Navy SEAL convoy spotted flying 'unauthorized' Trump flag: <http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/navy-seal-convoy-spotted-flying-unauthorized-trump-flag/>; A special warfare unit was spotted flying a Trump flag in public. Now ...: (1 more message)
asciilifeform: theoretically.
asciilifeform: in other lelz, https://archive.is/TanpJ >> 'U.S. intelligence officials have withheld sensitive intelligence from President Donald Trump because they are concerned it could be leaked or compromised, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.'
mircea_popescu: not the end of teh worlds.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they run enough nodes to be palpably annoying.
mircea_popescu: eh, not like they run any nodes anyway.
jhvh1: 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
BingoBoingo: Seriously fucking cultural marxism was THE soviet wunderwaffen. Putin is doing the world a service by trying to disarm it.
BingoBoingo enjoys the plot of every Tom Clancy novel playing out in role reversed fashion. Brave russians help patriotic Americans save nation from decades old KGB plot.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> also note that if you built with malleus patch, you will be kickbanning prb peers as soon as they disgorge a prbism of any kind (e.g., 'bloom filter' command) << Bloom isn't what disconnects most PRB nowadays. It is "BIP 151 compact blocks".
asciilifeform: also note that if you built with malleus patch, you will be kickbanning prb peers as soon as they disgorge a prbism of any kind (e.g., 'bloom filter' command)
mod6: my test node gets bh'd all the time, still responds to rpc commands. i typically do the samething, stop. wait a bit, restart.
asciilifeform: hanbot: first apply the basic litmus: does the thing eat rpc commands while blackholed ?
hanbot: i assumed that entailed eventual unblackholing. granted i haven't had the patience to wait more than a day to see.
hanbot: what's the proper name to ascribe to this super fun phenomenon wherein trb node happily catches up on blocks until 99.x% and then drops connections and stops seeing new blocks after <10mins?
ben_vulpes: in other amazings interpellating me on the way to the train: https://www.sites.google.com/site/superhappypoliticalparty/
mircea_popescu: hence the hatred.
mircea_popescu: "it was supposed to be my pie in the sky and now you're eating it!"
mircea_popescu: the same dynamic repeats, yes, the dorky kids who took programming class hate the jocky kids who took fast and furious on tv.
mircea_popescu: in between sucking their cock for coke bumps, there's nothing the ironic cumrags from wellesley agree more heartedly about than how lame business majors are.
mircea_popescu: so yes, it's a class warfare thing. two heads of the aspirational hydra - one that aspires through "stem" and the other that aspires through "business".
mircea_popescu: similarily, the "invading mexican" is the son of a woman who moved there in the 50s barefoot and married the police chief.
mircea_popescu: this is entirely correct, "black thug" is generally the neglected son of a respectable black accountant with an earned college degree.
asciilifeform: from the humblest retail monkey to the dourest engineer, folx paid in irstronium can agree to hate the paperless d00d who has nfi that tax even exists.
mircea_popescu: lafond makes a great point at some point, that "violence" in the millitant style the us represents it as is principally a product of the second sons of a favoured class.
asciilifeform: btw i suspect this is where the real bile re 'invading mexican' comes out of.
mircea_popescu: i would offer it as a fact that there's more people within the contiguous 51 states (bahamas addedone, what!) on whom the irs dun work than there's webdevelopers.
asciilifeform: there are plenty of interesting folx i never met, trinque . but meeting them does not magically turn anyone into them.
mircea_popescu: yes but fewer of these.
trinque: asciilifeform: there are people you've never seen in your life
trinque: "irs didn't work" there
trinque: I recall having a neighbor from $southernshithole a while back
mircea_popescu: "there's nothing we can do but we realloy really wanna do something so we'll accidentallty shoot one".
mircea_popescu: one died the rest walked iirc.
trinque: didn't the oregon militia people get off anyway?
mircea_popescu: if it's got brownstone, irs dun work there.
mircea_popescu: go to bucharest, talk to the guy depicted. no irs in those gutters.
mircea_popescu: in the end... the stupid side of the planet ended up dragging them to its own level.
trinque: asciilifeform: you need to go travel the parts of the country you consider "fly over" before we continue the thread
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's funny how "winning" works out. white man went to new world to make the local idiots stop sucking. much like iraq today.
asciilifeform: trinque: recall the oregon uprising thread ?
mircea_popescu: "is there such a thing as a white man left in the new world ? or did the redskins totally eat the colonists"
ben_vulpes: anyways, asciilifeform is there a particular thing you're citing or just "moi moi, uber alles"?
mircea_popescu: trinque yeah, i wouldn't particulartly mind seeing the answer to that riddle play out
asciilifeform: win in the concrete sense of obummery continuing ad infinitum
trinque: it'll piss the people who voted him in off quite a bit.
mircea_popescu: ikr ? pretty cool loophole he found there.
mircea_popescu: well, he likes to play the roll-up. win one, get to have been right all along :D
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: there is no time bound on 'clitler wins'
asciilifeform: in other 'news' -- 'modern watergate' etc. 'woman state' will remove mr.t, seems quite clear. even as a figurehead, too much of an irritant
mircea_popescu: decade ago or so. anyway, it's a subculture, inconsequential as it may be. in certain ways infinitely more authentic than the alternative interpretations.
mircea_popescu: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2632858/The-ultimate-living-How-poor-carve-living-SEWERS-Eastern-European-city.html << there
asciilifeform: the witnesses write?
mircea_popescu: well yes but sniffing solvent and writing on paper are rather mutually exclusive.
mircea_popescu: that's my point. post ww2 there's very marked silence-post-centralisation.
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was a thing in the sense gayness was a thing. before the boring lametards got their grubby culturally appropriative hands on it, meausred in ppm but present.
mircea_popescu: quite the world.
asciilifeform: i've found 0 mentions in print dated prior ~1970, in any language. but then again i did not dedicate life to searching for this atlantis.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile workforce became you know, "in charge of its own destiny", consequently sniffs the hazards voluntarilt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sniffing technological solvents is never going to be fashionable in the ipad sense for obvious reasons.
mircea_popescu: there's that picture of the naked kid sniffing from a bag in bucharest cca 2000 that gave it iconic status
mircea_popescu: i'm pretty sure it's toluene because of the tell-tale parasympathetic lesions leading to loss of ability to regulate body heat in abusers.
mircea_popescu: side question : do you get to sniff the plan ?
mircea_popescu: they actually call it that ?
ben_vulpes: if it were "small businesses! young people!" the clamor for universal college debt jubilee would be deafening
mircea_popescu: "service economy" aka "we'll prosper through doing each other's laundry, babysitting each other's kids and drawing things on each other's napkins" to be replaced by "maga economy" aka "we'll prosper through hipsters in haliburton hard hats" or wtf.
asciilifeform: the penalty, that is.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, the utter dearth of "small businesses! young people!" verbiage in the tower of maga is perhaps the lulziest part of all this.
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> "Obamacare's markets are nearing failure as premiums climb and healthier individuals drop out" << did someone cancel the penalty for rolling uninsured or am i missing something here << "Rolling uninsured" penalty is trivial compared to Obamacare subscription
mircea_popescu: meanwhile i'm sitting here looking at fy 2016 during which it seems i paid approximately 2.47%, and this is before figuring in the easements from the women i own.
mircea_popescu: and it principally homes in the exact sort of middle class boy cleverness you discuss.
mircea_popescu: understand that the system isn't there to fuck bahamas the imbecile nigger ; nor buffett the uberrich whiteboy.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes that's also a rather dubious strategy.
ben_vulpes: "what income? this other business showed a perfectly-offsetting loss."
ben_vulpes: no getting rich here, just clawing back my pennies from the commies
asciilifeform: there was a mircea_popescu thread ! and possibly whole article also