assbot: FBI's "Suicide Letter" to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation ... ( http://bit.ly/1ImOTKV )
ascii_field: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance << lulzy usgism
ascii_field: trinque: microshit, and the few and feeble weapons which have been built to put up some sort of fight against it, entirely demolished the 'healthy commercial software' thing
trinque: whether we live in walmartia or not
trinque: but I'm not going to base the definition of that on "microshit does X"
assbot: Logged on 30-11-2015 15:39:58; mircea_popescu: so : the new proxy list is http://mpex.biz/ ; http://mpex.co/ ; http://mpex.re/ ; http://mpex.site/
ascii_field: but i don't live there.
ascii_field: at any rate, i would not mind living in the 1980s world where serious folks bought support contracts for serious os, etc
trinque: that the software field was overrun by communists notwithstanding
trinque: blackberry bought them to have something that *makes money*
ascii_field: for the linux ransom ?
ascii_field: wai wut i missed the memo, we're paying inventors for things now ?
trinque: nobody invented the fucking air
trinque: how were they doing before
ascii_field: for motherfucking sunlight.
trinque: aside from the WoT aspect this is exactly what I proposed
phf: franz and lispworks both do source disclosure. i'm pretty sure the only way franz survives is by having ridiculously low overheads, combined with aggressive licensing policy about their technology, some of which doesn't have any equivalents in the open market.
ascii_field: trinque: my understanding is that qnx license includes (for a serious bag of dough) the source.
phf: note that ccl is used internally by google now, after they acquired ITA. only way to get money out of goog is presumably acquihire
ascii_field: even microshit gives away their compiler today
trinque: this is not a problem that can be solved on the end of a lispworks
phf: re "sell services give away code", clozure associates (ccl people) recently laid off a bunch of their devs. including such heavyweights as rme and gbyers. presumably because like ascii said, nobody's buying
trinque: if lispworks was in such a weak position that one client could purchase them in this manner, good for both parties.
ascii_field: the concept of ~paying for~ a programming system is - like it or not - unpalatable to most folks, incl. what remains of 'serious business'
ascii_field: and decided to simply devour the tool vendor
ascii_field: who, likely, were simply tired of paying royalties on the runtime (yes!)
ascii_field: incidentally, afaik the last lisp co. to actually offer the source code this way was lispworks,
ascii_field: trinque: the serious commitment thing existed when there was a population of serious people doing serious things with one another, supported by an actual economy with serious money circulating
ascii_field: rather than biodiesel candidate
trinque: sounds like these things can't exist outside a WoT.
assbot: These beans is shit.
ascii_field: with serious commitment on both sides of the signing table.
ascii_field: and they did not 'sell the product', this is a mistaken perception, they sold ~support contracts~
ascii_field: evidently the set of folks 'happy with the pony trick' does not include anybody with spare change.
ascii_field: 'These days the CD revenue is about what a cashier at a store makes. It seems to keep shrinking, but I will try to keep doing it unless it nears zero; at which point the artwork will stop also.'
BingoBoingo: <assbot> 'Re: A branded USB stick as an alternative to the CD set?' - MARC ... ( http://bit.ly/1ImK18m ) << I put in lawgs last night
assbot: 'Re: A branded USB stick as an alternative to the CD set?' - MARC ... ( http://bit.ly/1ImK18m )
ascii_field: meanwhile, far from the well-fed world of academitardia,
ascii_field: very lulzy paper, poor academitard has half a brain, more than most of his colleagues certainly; understands that he and the rest are PAID TO SPAM - but doesn't see whatever could be the reason why his field is largely dross...
ascii_field: '...there is now a mountain of work on secure-messaging, but it's unclear what most of it actually ~does.~'
ascii_field: trinque: typical bureaucrat folk seek only the holy trinity of mortgage, 'health,' and 'dental.
ascii_field: 'Dan Bernstein speaks of interesting crypto and boring crypto. Interesting crypto is crypto that supports plenty of academic papers. Boring crypto is crypto that simply works, solidly resists attacks, [and] never needs any upgrades." Dan asks, in his typically flippant way, 'What will happen if the crypto users convince some crypto researchers to actually create boring crypto? No more
ascii_field: suspicious. But if people knew everything about me, they'd see they had nothing to fear. This is the attitude I have brought to SIGINT work since then.''
ascii_field: 'The NSA's newsletter in which this report appears would never again mention that academic cryptographic community. Nor did any released Snowden-derived document discuss anything of our community. It's as though we progressed from a band of philosophers worth a few pages of snarky commentary to an assemblage too insignificant even for that.'
ascii_field: 'Of course it hasn't escaped the notice of intelligence agencies that the vast majority of the academic cryptographic community is unthreateningly engaged. In a declassified trip-report about Eurocrypt 1992, the NSA author opines, for example: 'There were no proposals of cryptosystems, no novel cryptanalysis of old designs, even very little on hardware design. I really don't see how things could have
ascii_field: students at my university, I have observed that a wish for right livelihood almost never figures into the employment decisions of undergraduate computer science students. And this isn't unique to computer scientists: of the five most highly ranked websites I found on a Google search of deciding among job offers, not one suggests considering the institutional goals of the employer or the social worth of what they
ascii_field: 'Never during the cold war, nor in any of the subsequent US wars, did US companies have difficulty recruiting or retaining the hundreds of thousands of scientists and engineers engaged in building weapons systems. Universities like my own were happy to add their support; the University of California would, for decades, run the USA's nuclear weapons design laboratories. In nearly 20 years advising
ascii_field: 'All antiquities, moved statues and unprocessed gold bullions are to be confiscated in the event that they are being passed through the border areas towards Turkey. And the confiscated goods are to be referred to the Diwan al-Rikaz office in the wilaya.... In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful ... The bearer of this document is permitted to procure equipment to search for gold and register it in the Diwan
ascii_field: ^ were they signed with isis pgp key ?
assbot: The Archivist: Unseen Documents from the Islamic State’s Diwan al-Rikaz | JIHADOLOGY ... ( http://bit.ly/1N1YhQH )
ben_vulpes: http://jihadology.net/2015/10/12/the-archivist-unseen-documents-from-the-islamic-states-diwan-al-rikaz/ << relevant
ascii_field: from the l0ltr0ns: http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf >>>>> http://dpaste.com/02AW7SH.txt
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 17:01:57; pete_dushenski: "In Raqqa, the Syrian city that is now the de facto capital of the Islamic State, a department called Diwan al-Khadamat, or the Office of Services, sends officials through the city markets to collect a cleaning tax — 2,500 to 5,000 Syrian pounds, or about $7 to $14, per month depending on the size of the shop. Residents go to collection points to pay their monthly electricity and water bills, 800 S
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-12-2015#1334599 << my (admittedly limited) understanding is that it runs on looted petro sold to turks, rather than taxes
pete_dushenski: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/fashion/the-2016-pirelli-calendar-may-signal-a-cultural-shift.html << sadface.
assbot: Logged on 22-11-2015 23:43:08; mircea_popescu: here's a primer on airstrike efficiency : the brits did 7 (SEVEN!) mid-air refuellings for one of their rustbuckets to manage to drop ONE bomb on the one runway in the faulklands, "disabling" it
pete_dushenski: "But in the long run, according to American officials, the surest way to significantly restrict the group’s finances will be to retake territory it controls, something that has been painstakingly slow so far, despite thousands of airstrikes." << waitwut airstrikes are hugely ineffective ?
pete_dushenski: "Officials of the so-called caliphate dislike the term “tax,” preferring the Islamic term “zakat,” which refers to the alms Muslims are required to pay." << eerie similarity, neh.
pete_dushenski: "The Islamic State also demands a cut of the revenues earned by small businesses. “We either pay in olive oil or cash, it depends on the production,”" << altcoins accepted for taxes too !!!1
pete_dushenski: terrorists are the future, i've been tellin ya
mircea_popescu: hey, check it out, isis charges about the same tax tmsr charges.
pete_dushenski: "In Raqqa, the Syrian city that is now the de facto capital of the Islamic State, a department called Diwan al-Khadamat, or the Office of Services, sends officials through the city markets to collect a cleaning tax — 2,500 to 5,000 Syrian pounds, or about $7 to $14, per month depending on the size of the shop. Residents go to collection points to pay their monthly electricity and water bills, 800 Syrian pounds
pete_dushenski: "“They fight in the morning and they tax in the afternoon,” said Louise Shelley, the director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center at George Mason University." << this is apparently incomprehensible to the american mind. "whaddya mean there's a time of day when they don't tax ?"
mircea_popescu: actually... let me know when there is an isis irs.
mircea_popescu: let me know when there's "those it rules" so desperate at the wringing of money they fly planes into isis irs headquarters
mircea_popescu: hahah predatory right ? unlike what,... the us ?
pete_dushenski: http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf << and the latest psychology research confirms what we all knew : shannonisers more readily fool the less intelligent/more religious minds.
asciilifeform: today reversing a xilinx chip is largely a waste of time, a good chunk of the functionality is in quite un-fpgaish special-purpose chunks which get reshuffled with each new model
asciilifeform: (they had not yet, then, hit upon the strategy of simply moving things around on the die to make this kind of effort meaningless)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-12-2015#1334537 << famous among aficionados. 'neocad' actually reversed the time's xilinx fpga line. 'had to die.'
mircea_popescu: "Oklahoma Wesleyan is not a safe place, but rather, a place to learn: to learn that life isnt about you, but about others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything thats wrong with you rather than blame others for everything thats wrong with them. This is a place where you will quickly learn that you need to grow up.
mircea_popescu: i dunno baybee.... maybe the pill embarassed you!
mircea_popescu: and from the lulz dept, "Tome un blokium flex, pero se me corto de golpe el periodo, cosa no común, dado que nunca tube problemas cn mi periodo que me puede haber ocurrido??"
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mircea_popescu: "our critique of structurally established, historically stable hierarchies is to replace them with a half baked, ad hoc, buggy, half-reimplementation" "why ?" "because it's easier to write than to read."
mircea_popescu: who exactly told random nobody that he's to be "slap wrists" ? "the beoble" ?
mircea_popescu: in all psychosis, the interesting parts are always "what the psychotic subject fails to notice"
ben_vulpes: goes back to the moldbuggian "no authority *or* responsiblity in uni!" routine
mircea_popescu: maybe i meet one of these schmucks some day.
ben_vulpes: "when nothing more than a (privately administered) slap on the wrist was ever done to let everyone in the department know" << oh now they want public humiliation
adlai: twas worth venturing thru the esr turd to emerge on the other side with "“Social Justice” has reached a sort of Poe’s Law singularity at which the behavior of trolls and true believers becomes indistinguishable even to each other"
adlai: from a sufficiently detached cis-privileged cynicism, this reads as "the only thing you have to fear is fear itself"
ben_vulpes: "Many women are never raped, most women who are raped experience it only a handful of times, but in a sense it doesn't matter because the threats are constant, and women are trained to live in a state of hypervigilance of these threats"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the shit you read.
ben_vulpes: don't ruin the surprise, stan!
asciilifeform: 'When people criticise meritocracy, they're not criticising the concept of treating contributions based on their merit. They're criticising the idea that humans are sufficiently self-aware that they will be able to identify and reject every subconscious prejudice that will affect their treatment of others. ' << why in satan's green earth am i reading this ??
ben_vulpes: but this is another undiscoverable entry in the great "mircea_popescu discovers how the kids are doing things today" saga
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 04:34:00; punkman: "Blockchain, blockchain, blockchain! It’s not the bitcoin anymore, right? Right (probably.) Join me at Disrupt London where I’ll be talking to Steve Waterhouse of Pantera Capital, Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum, and Austin Hill of BlockSteam. If anyone can make sense of the blockchain vs. bitcoin argument, it’s these guys."
punkman: arew those the uv-erasable eproms?
ben_vulpes: another hilarious thing is that apparently that medium author doesn't know how to make a hyperlink
ben_vulpes: that this is too much trouble for anyone but a vanishingly tiny fraction of people is totally lost on the outside world.
ben_vulpes: "no listen, we're super inclusive. get yourself a gpg key, get in the wot, read the logs, submit a patch, and we'll talk about it."
kakobrekla: i admit i havent bothered checking it myself.
ben_vulpes: oh god the rounded corners and brand endorsement segment
ben_vulpes: love love love the not taken together at all in a million years set of headshots and bios scrolling by at lightspeed
ben_vulpes: "we develop at the source code level"
kakobrekla: speaking of con(f)s, at the 'Finance Magnates London Summit 2015' there was a single talk canceled due to 'unforeseen circumstances'; RECODING FINANCE – BLOCKCHAIN with Peter Randal, CEO of SETL
punkman: "This code of conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is representing the project or its community."
punkman: mircea_popescu: except there's no argument and who the fuck are these schmucks again ? << my caption for the gif
ben_vulpes: "just write the way you speak!"
ben_vulpes: terminal periods outside of parentheses please
punkman: "Blockchain, blockchain, blockchain! It’s not the bitcoin anymore, right? Right (probably.) Join me at Disrupt London where I’ll be talking to Steve Waterhouse of Pantera Capital, Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum, and Austin Hill of BlockSteam. If anyone can make sense of the blockchain vs. bitcoin argument, it’s these guys."
mircea_popescu: (depicted centrally, the main stream)
mircea_popescu: in other news, mainstream media. http://49.media.tumblr.com/53f69186fe013329936ddb1ed04007be/tumblr_n1gsp8adHb1sxrdofo1_400.gif
BingoBoingo: Didn't YIFY sign their papers and settle with MPAA?
punkman: " the safe deposits which pay 3-5% APY are not enough to cover the basic costs of the business. Thus, they must be investing in 10-20% higher yielding "Wealth Management Products""
punkman: from the wild-mass-guessing department http://www.bitcoinfuturesguide.com/bitcoin-blog/arthur-hayes-of-bitmex-chinese-exchanges-are-operating-as-shadow-banks
punkman: so the ersatz EZTV guys now also working on ersatz YIFY
ben_vulpes: "The neutralitie o this airticle is disputit."
assbot: Recent "SigOp" "Attack" On The Blockchain Or Advanced Power Rangering : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1Th3Sq7 )
BingoBoingo: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3uwpva/recent_sigop_attack_on_the_blockchain_or_advanced/
BingoBoingo: Update: "I was wrong. the CD revenue is far less. The cashier makes more." - Theo de Raadt
pete_dushenski: and with that, i'm gone with the wind ! ciao !
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: " The vulnerability relies on the fact that a direct route exists between the VPN client and server. If the client accesses a forwarded port on the VPN server that is maliciously set up by an attacker, the client will use the direct route using the user's default route, bypassing the VPN entirely."
pete_dushenski: e-mail from private internet access : ""Dear Valued Customer, On November 17, we were privately notified of an IP address leak vulnerability affecting the port forwarding feature of our service. Essentially, anyone connecting to a forwarded port on any of our VPN gateways could have their real IP address leaked to an attacker specifically targeting a PIA user."
assbot: 'Re: A branded USB stick as an alternative to the CD set?' - MARC ... ( http://bit.ly/1NZ7sRM )
assbot: 'Re: A branded USB stick as an alternative to the CD set?' - MARC ... ( http://bit.ly/1l3DJRa )
pete_dushenski: speaking of which, deedbot- missed this yesterday in all the ddosage : http://www.contravex.com/2015/11/29/a-decade-ago/
pete_dushenski: diana_coman: dun worry, folks with families (you, me, davout, ben_vulpes) aren't held to the same publishing frequency standards :P
trinque: been a few complaints; I like it as an intro to the feed
deedbot-: [Ossasepia] The Unbearably Unknown Value of Things in Eulora - http://www.dianacoman.com/2015/10/22/the-unbearably-unknown-value-of-things-in-eulora/
deedbot-: [Ossasepia] Hic Sunt Flotsams on Eulora (Or the Brand New Foxymaps) - http://www.dianacoman.com/2015/10/13/hic-sunt-flotsams-on-eulora-or-the-brand-new-foxymaps/
pete_dushenski: a little more familiarity with diana_coman's writings should help to clarify and solidify the abstractions rolling around in my noodle.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: ...to someone in the wot ;/
pete_dushenski: who, being unattached and not in my wot, are just vaguely ~out there~
pete_dushenski: well, there's hanbot, who's easy to identify because she's with mp, and there's apparently ALL THE REST
mircea_popescu: alternatively, all women are the same woman, eh pete_dushenski ?
gribble: 2009 shootings of Oakland police officers - Wikipedia, the free ...: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_shootings_of_Oakland_police_officers>; Lovelle Mixon | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers: <http://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mixon-lovelle.htm>; 4 Oakland Police officers shot Suspect Lovelle Mixon killed Breaking ...: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJzag20LIws>
pete_dushenski: and how goes the back injury recovery process ?
diana_coman: or rather: talking more in #eulora I suppose
gribble: Burn, Bed Bugs, Burn!!! - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwmaJavyPQo>; BURN a bed bug !! - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eeyhis-zHQA>; Bed Bug Bites, Rashes & Symptoms - Orkin: <http://www.orkin.com/other/bed-bugs/bedbug-bites/>
BingoBoingo: BashCo: Maybe register with assbot and submit a piece on the reddit tire fire?
BashCo: sorry, I haven't taken the time to set that stuff up yet.
BingoBoingo: Reddit tends to bring out the social engineers and spammers for sure
pete_dushenski feels sorry for the conpherence attendees who will be subjected to many more such 'jokes' in next decade of bahamas' wooden-tongued speeking toor.
pete_dushenski: ya, it was actually the flying thing.
mircea_popescu: someone explain the joke to me ?
pete_dushenski: the president of somalia's daughters are better groomed
assbot: You rated user CoraCrist on 30-Nov-2015, with a rating of 3, and supplied these additional notes: XOtika.tv CEO - Handles bussiness side, press, recruiting, marketing, hr, pr.
assbot: Did...did obama just drop the dad joke of 2015? - Album on Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/21pDWyA )
pete_dushenski: http://imgur.com/gallery/uBPCR << and i thought ~for sure~ that this was the 'turkey' in question.
pete_dushenski: " They were probably my happiest years ever, as the hotel was THE place to be back before the nouveau riche scum from the Middle East and the old Soviet Union polluted the place beyond repair or redemption. Visit it and weep." ~taki
mircea_popescu: but in other news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/5fb1344e33cadb35ef7891b5de5d1d99/tumblr_mgy0t2uxXP1s25aalo1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: iirc taki theodoracopulos of "of fucking course you can't rape a 16 yo MALE" fame got booted from whatever sharecropping outfit he was working for prior and struck out on his own.
BingoBoingo: I also dunno if there is a single taki? Seems to be a variety of bylines
mircea_popescu: adding Ruben Navarrette to the record on http://takimag.com/article/old_white_guys_and_the_chuck_norris_rule_david_cole/
BingoBoingo: Pretty sure she's written there.
BingoBoingo: Mebbe princessnell can drop a line next time she comes around these parts?
mircea_popescu likes the last few qntra days.
pete_dushenski: looks like 'someone claiming to be ceo claims that xxx will be supported on such and such a date. maybe. if we/they/someone gets around to it"
pete_dushenski: ""I think it's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen, or perhaps most naïve," Trump said. "He actually is somewhat naïve, if you want to know the truth, beyond the incompetent part.""
pete_dushenski: "Trump was taking Obama to task for his past remarks that global climate change is one of the greatest threats facing the United States and the world. "I think one of the dumbest statements I've ever heard in politics -- in the history of politics as I know it, which is pretty good, was Obama's statement that our No. 1 problem is global warming,""
BingoBoingo: Update: "Police say a man, 60, confronted the boy and two other juveniles in a rear alley..." "Police sought charges against the man Sunday" http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/boy-fatally-shot-in-st-louis-while-stealing-from-car/article_252388c0-9390-5b72-8a27-aab5c3249055.html
mircea_popescu: but this is also typical of terminal empires, so in my view the whole experience of the united states can be simply >/dev/null
mircea_popescu: this onlyt happens because the old farts feel safe, and they feel safe because the kids aren't alright, not by a damn sight.
mircea_popescu: it's true that young kids in the us aren't qualified to be toddlers, and it's true that as a result they sheepishly accept salaries that are a decaying joke.
mircea_popescu: anyway, not so sure the brief post ww2 experience of the us bovines has or should have much place in this conversation.
pete_dushenski: "Now that my fellow executives and I are goddamn beverage conquistadors, we’re going to enjoy this cocaine-fueled rocket ride for as long as it lasts. I’m blasting off to fucking Mars, dicksuckers, and I’m headed straight through the belly of the goddamn sun!" << obligatory, if indeed it's the case that 30 years is the best case (or ideal case) scenario for the time alloted us.
mircea_popescu: so heck, maybe a new bitcoin every ~30 years is actually the correct state.
ben_vulpes: well i know that i own m/n of the monetary supply today, and m/n+whatever at t sub whatever in the future
mircea_popescu: and, notably, we don't even know generational re-bitcoin is actually such a bad idea. it's true that some, few and far between, old people have relevancy for young people, and that a minority of teens will gladly spread for a VERY thin minority of "come see my new movie. with catherine zeta jones. raaa!"
ben_vulpes: yes the monetary base is changing in size, but we all know to what degree.
ben_vulpes: if the market can algorithmically price inflation in though, does the notion of inflation even make sense?
mircea_popescu: which kinda is why the discussion was about a time far, far away. four to five halvings into the future this matter becomes important.
pete_dushenski: who invited all the economists !
pete_dushenski: ha one man's model vs. the market
mircea_popescu: the key advantage of fiction is that it's not required to tell any part of the story it doesn't want to.
mircea_popescu: note, i did not for a second propose these are good, or even above 0 solutions. they are not.
mircea_popescu: absent this, the society cycles, with old schmucks masskilled periodically.
mircea_popescu: inflation is a transfer of wealth from old to young, to mirror the transfer of relevancy.
mircea_popescu: you understand that the bitcoin (holder, miner) set is an exact translation of the irl (old fart, young cock) set yes ?
ascii_field: they get moar coin, yes, continuing reward, but of a ~fundamentally shittier~ coin
ascii_field: fingers have will of their own, eh
mircea_popescu: neither of these seems to work well even theoretically, let alone the practical mess they entail. it is probable an alternative interpretation of reality through the bitcoin twisted mirror actually exists, but i'm not where i can see it.
mircea_popescu: the other obvious approach is probably at the root of the "proof of stake" retardedness.
mircea_popescu: (inflation has important implications in dampening the generational conflict, see http://trilema.com/2015/the-rainmaker/#footnote_1_63948 etc)
mircea_popescu: seeing how historically, inflation between .5 and 1% a year seems to correlate with a maximum on the wealth creation graph.
mircea_popescu: alright, so each block reward is say 17/100000000 of the total monetary base.
gribble: Error: Something in there wasn't a valid number.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes one obvious approach is, fixed rate inflation, rather than decaying inflation. each block reward is say 1/10k the current monetary base.
pete_dushenski: the great glorious excellent nation of bahamas : the world leader in yeswecan to an extent and degree unmatched by that 2008 u.s. campaigner who illegally infringed upon that great glorious excellent nation's copyright.
ben_vulpes: sink or swim together
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: how would you have designed the "securing of bitcoin-gold" differently from the current mining scheme?
mircea_popescu: except the name and photo is blurred
assbot: Racist trolls are being shamed with billboards showing their messages ... ( http://bit.ly/1LIUGFo )
shinohai: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2015/11/30/racist-trolls-are-being-shamed-with-billboards-showing-their-abusive-messages-near-their-homes/ <<< keks ?
mircea_popescu: those people retired, their kids grew up with this "if i don't look uner the bed there's no bugaboo there" outlook on life and everything.
mircea_popescu: trinque there's films from the late 70s and all through the 80s going "hey, us better shape up or we're fucked"
trinque: substituting the dot-com bubble in industry's place was the loudest admission of "we have nothing left to say" we could've made
shinohai sheds a tear for the 90's anyway.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that such a thing matters anymore. that was more of a consideration in the 90s, back when there existed some sort of school discipline.
shinohai: Why all the hate on freenode suddenly?
mircea_popescu: anyone see namecheap on the qntra.net whois for my curiosity ?
mircea_popescu: and speaking of alternate reality perceptions : both namecheap and internet.bs THINK they hold the registration of qntra.net currently.
mircea_popescu: yeah there's some turmoil.
ascii_field: danke mircea_popescu. mega-ddos on this side of the sea
mircea_popescu: so : the new proxy list is http://mpex.biz/ ; http://mpex.co/ ; http://mpex.re/ ; http://mpex.site/
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