kakobrekla: note i do not have a bothering problem now, for my setup it is solved
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: everything drifts. that's what the colorimeter is for.
asciilifeform: 'barco' also makes proper lcd. my brother has one.
asciilifeform: it is interesting how in just about every tech sector, there is ONE (perhaps two) vendors who make nice thing, optionally a few 'passable', and everybody else sells garbage.
pete_dushenski: https://luminous-landscape.com/eizo-coloredge-cg301w-vs-the-apple-30/ << "And I cannot emphasize enough what a difference it makes to be able to sit in front of a display for many hours without experiencing the typical eye strain and user fatigue." << hm. photographer/phd physicist who switched from acd to eizo.
mircea_popescu: do the deeds!
mircea_popescu: quick everyone, before the next one!
mircea_popescu: "yo tits, why's her tits turn green on the upstroke ?" "she's too excited to contain her inner greens"
kakobrekla: because white is green on one screen, yellow on the other, green on the third and red on the fourth
mircea_popescu: ok there we go.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: and last i checked, there is precisely one maker of usable (solid-state light source) large dlp machines, also.
kakobrekla: well if you have more than 1 screen and colors are off, its annoying and it gets progressively more annoying with the screen count
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: it is strictly for watching films
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: got one in the bedroom. a nice one, too. but wouldn't dream of using it for actual work.
kakobrekla: im happy with my dells. as for the button, its so dim i cant tell if its painted or lit
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 14:06:07; kakobrekla: i have a color calibrator and i couldnt get these to sync color no matter what i did
asciilifeform: the old ones were terrible also.
pete_dushenski: glossy ? oh that's only the new ones.
mircea_popescu: the ONLY reason leds ever got to be popular is that they had DISCREET light originally. ie, you couldn't really tell with a proper light on.
mircea_popescu: wtf must be going on in these people's heads, "5 lumen, ok led, 165 lumen, BEST LED!11"
kakobrekla: let somebody else bother with it.
mircea_popescu: i do not believe in cosmetic interventions to remedy defects. i'd much rather take out a bad led like that with a red hot poker
mircea_popescu: they got those things to where they came right off a tanning bed by now, i gotta run around with ductape and put TWELVE LAYERS on everything
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276260 << don't those stupid ass power leds bother you ?
mircea_popescu: svg gotta work that's all there is to it. ima see what i can possibly do.
mircea_popescu: nah, dun bother.
asciilifeform: sorta why i liked the ascii art one
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 13:53:26; mod6: asciilifeform, mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes, et. al: check it out, I also now have added who has signed which vpatch on-mouseover to http://thebitcoin.foundation/misc/vpatch-nodes.html
asciilifeform: with lcd panels, as everything else, nobody cancelled the old adage 'tanstaafl'
asciilifeform: actually that korean piece of shit is ~the~ implementation of 'respeto por el trabajador'
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276223 << in argentina the same 500 (in their estimation) gets you 15" 1.4k.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: and a bit sooner than expected.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: the annoying thing is that this will need to happen, apparently, at the packet level.
mircea_popescu: well you know, you wanna im with derps, you get what they got. if you didn't want any, talk to someone else.
thestringpuller: ah. i recall on trilema (which i can't access right now due to DDOS or something), the bitcoiner's press guide: "Ignore them, they don't matter." Guess this applies to the garbage as well.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: you once said bitcoin will get rid of the stupid by pushing the 99% of garbage and waste so far underground we don't have to deal with it. Can this happen sooner plz?
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 13:29:47; punkman: "very interested to see what details (if any) emerge from @cryptomeorg regarding its supposed key compromise." Answer: "Suspects: Truecrypt, SCS in DC, PGP flaw, all the other usuals."
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276218 << i am still "very interested" to hear the details that emerge from the "thorough investigation" Freenode promised back the first time imbecile usg tried to disrupt b-a.
mircea_popescu: fortunately nobody uses them.
mircea_popescu: i have little doubt this is exactly what they'd do
asciilifeform: 11:15 < Aquentin> and the users support bip101, some 80%... so saying bitpay or coinbase is a shortcut for saying users would...
asciilifeform: 11:15 < thestringpuller> Users didn't sign up to have their coins sold on the open market to finance a war...
mircea_popescu: these schmucks doing "op security" like it is a sort of literotica novella, you know, "transgressable WoT". what, is it not a word ?
mircea_popescu: you know, this "fiction as reality/reality as fiction" approach fits the usian behaviour remarkably well. they "feel bad for animals" because they think the superset of "animals" is in a disnety cartoon / the guy in a suit at disney world. as above, the lost XT imbecile imagines he has identified in a putative script of an imaginary film of reality the chekov gun, and so therefore, economy of means, bip 101 necessarily
thestringpuller: person claims Coinbase et. al will use consumer deposits to finance their side of the hard fork war
mircea_popescu: maybe he meant his mother's half price till xmas.
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 13:22:37; punkman: "Cryptome and JY use a slew of PKs and IDs other than those compromised. Many one-time. For mutual protection, to expire, isolate, expunge." "Few of Cryptome and JY PKs are on manipulable key servers. And none via transgressable WoT or cryptoparty. More signs cloak imposters."
asciilifeform: as described by orlov, even; the reason why the car is sold last of all is that without it, no money.
mircea_popescu: are these men so utterly sexed they "live" where they sleep, because they always sleep "at home" ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it means that a fella who went flat broke will sell his house, his clothes, and only lastly the car.
mircea_popescu: where's the kitchen, in your car.
mircea_popescu: like, where's the shower, in your car.
asciilifeform: while the traditional path to bumhood nearly always involves a stage of 'live in your car'
asciilifeform: u.s. folk tend to spend astonishing amounts of time in their cars, and they begin to resemble their usual dwellings
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the funny part is that i know folks who are not in any usual sense poor (as in, lacking for money) with car like that.
mircea_popescu: the issue is, poverty is always earned.
mircea_popescu: people keep going on about how riches aren't, at least some of the time, earned. big fucking whoop.
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 15:10:00; mircea_popescu: but it occurs to me mebbe i should get a box with the dudes hosting this guy.
mircea_popescu: after all, that's what they've been doing throughout your life so far! you ask something dumb in the box, it pretends like it's a question and it pretrends like it has answers.
mircea_popescu: cinderella gotta win because she was indicated by the scriptwriter as the good thing. he has this mental ability, to watch reality like it were hollywood fiction, and identify what the script writer means
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 08:45:48; shinohai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276137 <<< reading this, it so smacks of desperation yet the author still has the delusion that bip101 is going to do a 360 and become standard.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276142 << it's the ONLY retarded soup they got fed in school.
mircea_popescu: "If the reward isn't earned by 2016-02-11 00:00:00 UTC, it will be split evenly between NoiseTor and OpenBazaar."
mircea_popescu: but it occurs to me mebbe i should get a box with the dudes hosting this guy.
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 07:27:54; copypaste: i guess maybe if Mircea unset the A record to try to stop the attack, but if the attacker already knows the target IP that won't help.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276129 << i wasn't giving a shit then, either, for one thing. for the other ;; ANSWER SECTION: qntra.net.0INA188.68.240.165 so i dunno, maybe dns sucked then ? no idea.
mod6: asciilifeform: anyway, the last edge isn't cooperating hehe. I'll have to mess around with this later, I'll let you all know when there is another update.
mircea_popescu: wtf is google, the employer of syria and you're their parents and let's make an employee roth ira ?!
mircea_popescu: yes yes they are numbered.
asciilifeform: the way it oughta work is, knock on one of 10,001 doors with signed packet, then get to talk. not before, and not otherwise.
asciilifeform: which is why the days of items hosted on just one box and handed out to the beoble just for the asking, are numbered.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: idk, let's see the chart ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276103 << they can, therefore they must.
asciilifeform: mod6: i only see one filename in the arrow mouseovers
mircea_popescu: heh. lemme guess, that fiorina chick did such an amazing woman job the company's fucked now.
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asciilifeform: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-15/why-hewlett-packard-just-fired-another-30000 << usg burns a bit of furniture
mod6: <+asciilifeform> files-changed could just as well go in the arrow's mouseover << ok, i just got this working. pretty much the same layout as it is when you check descendents explicitly.
kakobrekla: asciilifeform correct, so i guess the bent thing isnt really why you buy 'eizo' only :)
asciilifeform: files-changed could just as well go in the arrow's mouseover
mod6: so as far as the signed by.. i felt like it made more since to go along with the text in the node. instead of the edge, but maybe im wrong there.
kakobrekla: the screen being shit (and electronics in it) is.
kakobrekla: the screen being bent is not a common problem
asciilifeform: (asciilifeform_maxint_locks_corrected.vpatch for instance is buried in the middle, but it is a leaf)
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 13:53:26; mod6: asciilifeform, mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes, et. al: check it out, I also now have added who has signed which vpatch on-mouseover to http://thebitcoin.foundation/misc/vpatch-nodes.html
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276234 << here's an idea: why not make the 'signed by' mouseover appear over the ~arrows~, while files-changed appears when mousing over the nodes.
asciilifeform: the only two makers of lcd that i ever saw making anything other than disposable garbage are eizo and barco.
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 13:55:14; kakobrekla: meanwhile one of the korean screens came bent
asciilifeform: and the proof is an impossibility.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276193 << *scam until proven otherwise.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276193 << scan until proven otherwise.
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 10:26:36; shinohai: ;;later tell asciilifeform are there any realbtc nodes up? (assuming i don't resolve before you respond)
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 13:22:37; punkman: "Cryptome and JY use a slew of PKs and IDs other than those compromised. Many one-time. For mutual protection, to expire, isolate, expunge." "Few of Cryptome and JY PKs are on manipulable key servers. And none via transgressable WoT or cryptoparty. More signs cloak imposters."
Azelphur: so much so I think there will be a bidding war, haven't even posted it on eBay but I have 3 people wanting to buy a total of 6 monitors >.<
kakobrekla: i hooked up 5 dells, they were all same.
Azelphur: kakobrekla: amusingly I actually have 4 of the Matrix (Very similar to the QNIX) right now
kakobrekla: i have a color calibrator and i couldnt get these to sync color no matter what i did
kakobrekla: people were 'thrilled' about qnix back then too
Azelphur: kakobrekla: these monitors are nuts quality wise, you know tek syndicate?
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punkman: http://www.infowars.com/germany-austria-close-borders-schengen-agreement-under-pressure-will-war-emerge/ << some friends were passing through germany yesterday, had to spend like 5 hours near the border
kakobrekla: not really the back light was all fucked
punkman: if you can put a single character label on the edges, that'd work out
mod6: <+punkman> maybe it could appear when you mouse over an edge, the files a patch "inherits" from a previous patch << exactly this
mod6: hmm. i'll think on it a bit. if i can make it happen with a mouse over that'd be ideal. i just don't want a static label though, because then it'd be too hard to read.
punkman: maybe it could appear when you mouse over an edge, the files a patch "inherits" from a previous patch
mod6: right, but you mean the actual changed filenames.
punkman: mod6, yeah but they don't need to be separate nodes
mod6: or is that not what you mean? i wanna keep the vpatch-nodes as uncluttered as possible.
mod6: OH. i think what you're looking for is this: http://thebitcoin.foundation/misc/v-tree-svg.html
kakobrekla: meanwhile one of the korean screens came bent
punkman: mod6: filenames from the patches
mod6: punkman: what file names? for the sigs?
kakobrekla: punkman also later on i mange to fuck up two screens somehow (suspekt faulty dp cable) and i called in support, they delivered new ones without questions.
kakobrekla: and the difference is night and day, incomparable.
mod6: asciilifeform, mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes, et. al: check it out, I also now have added who has signed which vpatch on-mouseover to http://thebitcoin.foundation/misc/vpatch-nodes.html
punkman: Dell is not slightly more expensive though, was double the price last time I checked
kakobrekla: gave them away and bought five dells
punkman: kakobrekla: I'd have bought some of the cheap 27" korean monitors but I'd get fucked at customs, so not yet
punkman: Azelphur: what does $500 get you from korea these days?
Azelphur: Gotta love Korean Engrish eBay sellers "Hello, I'd like to buy 4 of your monitors, give me a discount" "Ok, I'll do them for $530.90" *Submits offer of $530.90* *eBay seller submits counter offer of $575*
punkman: "very interested to see what details (if any) emerge from @cryptomeorg regarding its supposed key compromise." Answer: "Suspects: Truecrypt, SCS in DC, PGP flaw, all the other usuals."
punkman: "Cryptome and JY use a slew of PKs and IDs other than those compromised. Many one-time. For mutual protection, to expire, isolate, expunge." "Few of Cryptome and JY PKs are on manipulable key servers. And none via transgressable WoT or cryptoparty. More signs cloak imposters."
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gribble: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: ;;later tell asciilifeform are there any realbtc nodes up? (assuming i don't resolve before you respond)
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: honestly, how fucking smart and alert do you have to be to drive a car ? << I have always had sleep problems. As a kid would always fall asleep on car rides. And as an adult I seem to regularly fall asleep at the wheel and still get home. But this is super dangerous. I really need to just pull over and nap for a second or red bull it up like a trucker would do...
shinohai: I often wonder if it is evolution's way of pulling life-forms back in to the primordial soup from whence it came for recycling.
shinohai: Somewhere in the Bible it must say "Thou shalt not empty the trash from thy vehicle or thy living space. Thus saith the Lord."
shinohai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276070 <<< Ppl that do this are just nasty, it is quite common here yes. Usually the owner of said vehicle is obese, and a Evangelical Christian.
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 08:22:52; thestringpuller: LO FUCKING L https://www.bigblockbounty.com/
shinohai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276137 <<< reading this, it so smacks of desperation yet the author still has the delusion that bip101 is going to do a 360 and become standard.
punkman: "Now that I’ve seen the Internet’s deception marketplace, it’s going to haunt me. When I see a review online, unless it’s written by someone I know and trust, I’m always going to be wondering whether I’m looking at a review from a satisfied customer or an undercover paid promoter."
copypaste: i guess maybe if Mircea unset the A record to try to stop the attack, but if the attacker already knows the target IP that won't help.
punkman: copypaste: there was a ddos going on
pete_dushenski: if you can't think about the meeting you're driving to AND merge lanes, you're too dumb to be on the road.
pete_dushenski: and really, if your jag can tell that you're thinking about little boys, what's it gonna do, load up fresh gps coordinates and aim you at the nearest bible school to cleanse you of your sins ? (or provide a means of satisfying your earthly urges?)
pete_dushenski: fuck, your coffee maker could do the same. wouldn't that be ironic.
pete_dushenski: "Jaguar is installing brainwave sensors adapted from NASA into the steering wheel of an XJ sedan, along with medical-grade heart and respiratory sensors in the seat. Together, the sensors would determine if the driver is focused on the road, dozing off, merely thinking about something else, or if the driver's stress level suddenly peaks."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that is like... and obama will order the atmosphere to lie and pretend it's global cooling.
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/IcLH6dl.jpg << dja know what the scariest thing about this pic is ?
asciilifeform: i thought the 'meta' version was where hearn ordered the nodes to lie and pretend to be ordinary phoundation machines
mircea_popescu: but i lolled at the davout / stolfi exchange.
mircea_popescu: ". I would expect the big Chinese miner operations to already be compatible with big blocks."
mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3kya1n/bitcoinxt_firmly_rejected_by_miners_as_0_xt_mined/ << lol @ the derpage.
assbot: Logged on 22-08-2015 21:20:54; mircea_popescu: now suppose i "own" the same, "in the family", but my family is a bunch of poor peasants from honduras.
mircea_popescu: cuz they're always fucking far, and always contentious etc. otherwise you blow a day.
mod6: on my default phone browser too, the text in the nodes seems to bleed over the boundry. but it's ok with FF on my phone, and FF on my notebook
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6: laugh if you will, but that graph doesn't fit on my display << it kinda doesn't on my default width on my notebook either. i have to zoom out a bit to see the full thing. :/
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 03:16:48; pete_dushenski: The worst part? She was stuck with a $13,000 hospital bill for the pleasure."
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1275960 << why the fuck would you go in person to pick up your stolen bmw.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> otherwise... a-10 goes pop just as well as the space station. << Pops, but into survivable, repariable pieces normally with pilot intact
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 02:58:13; BingoBoingo: Who'da thunk armor beats stealth in the air
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1275943 << this only WAS the case, briefly, a) because it enjoyed the niche created by "Steath" buzzstream, and b) pre missiles.
mircea_popescu: nah. ironically enough it's actually being overinvested. they don't mind.
asciilifeform: the interesting tidbit in that one was kaliningrad
mircea_popescu: aka, intel's back, if we send bombers we lose the bombers ; if we send carriers we lose the carriers.
mircea_popescu: "A U.S. Air Force general on Monday cited what he called "alarming" moves by the Russian military to beef up its air forces in the years since the invasion of Georgia in 2008 and to establish firm defenses around areas like Crimea."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, hanbot, anyone else manually working through the patch history, don't miss http://thebitcoin.foundation/misc/vpatch-nodes.html
asciilifeform: sorta like the springs field artillery have
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 01:40:34; BingoBoingo: Not that the average 'Murican hamplanet could actually use a firearm in conflict with effectiveness
mircea_popescu: "do we wash it or make another ?"
mircea_popescu: or, as in that epic ro joke, gypsy woman comes before her husband holding by the arm an incredibly dirty kid
mircea_popescu: in losing THE POTENTIAL of those magical 3 btc the guy lost more than a medieval man losing his soul.
mircea_popescu: poor guy tho. it must suck to lock yourself out of what must in context be a fortune, have nothing but yourself to blame, and live among idiots dedicated to upholding the proposition you must find a scapegoat.
BingoBoingo: <danielpbarron> mircea_popescu, he goes on to agree with BingoBoingo, that the sender is not the "long party" << I never talked on who is what party. I just was on people with keys are parties. Without keys STFU.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron well that much is right. the sender don't enter into it, the long party is whoever can sign with that sig.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The fights not in the event title. This event's title is Mayweather-Berto. And yet fights serving as the prelude much better.
mircea_popescu: but mostly the former.
mircea_popescu: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CO9_ZjcWgAAMGXT.png:large << the only thing this graph shows is the loss of relevancy of the measurements, and perhaps the infiltration of internet discourse by astroturf.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6: and ought to be on the www << cool, added it under the links section for the time being. when I get the v documentation complete, etc, i'll create a section for V itself.
assbot: Logged on 26-08-2014 23:24:06; antonosika: BingoBoingo: the problem is that it is possible to argue that the deposit was not from the long party
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 20:25:14; anton_osika: mircea_popescu: you wrote the contract - the "long party" is the payer of the invoice". Nowhere does it state that the "long party" will need a PGP signature for payment. This is solely interpretation - and you are NOT paying for a future delivery contract. Do you have any rationale for this?
pete_dushenski: probably not a terrible use of the yellow bricks, really
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1275760 << afaik this is known as "doing their research for free".
asciilifeform: it is being spammed far and wide. between the lines.
pete_dushenski: or is it in the 'do not share' stash with 0days ?
asciilifeform: this here is that rare bird, the 'five-year plan' that might actually get met.
pete_dushenski: ah yes, the famous schedule.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 04:15:38; asciilifeform: the discreditation of local police apparatus, for its eventual demolition and replacement by unified fed gendarmerie, is going on schedule.
asciilifeform: mod6: and ought to be on the www
pete_dushenski: "Doctors believed she was suffering from bipolar disorder, she claims, and tried for days to get Brock to admit she didn't own the luxury car. They also tried to convince Brock that she wasn't really a banker and President Obama didn't really follow her on Twitter, though both facts are true.
pete_dushenski: "When she arrived at the impound lot and told officials she was looking for her car - a 2003 BMW 325Cl, she knew there was something wrong as soon as she requested her vehicle. "I just felt like from the moment I said I owned a BMW, I was looked at as a liar," Brock told PIX 11. "They put me in handcuffs and said they just need to put me in handcuffs to take me to my car. And I said OK, whatever it's gonna take
mod6: asciilifeform: ok, added the link colorization and a graph label
BingoBoingo: Who'da thunk armor beats stealth in the air
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Still scary that the A-10 is a superior air-to-air combatant to more expensive newer dedicated platforms
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'predator' is mainly an intimidation tool, rather than a weapons system in the usual sense
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ... << l0l, 'predators' will fly in usg's latvia. <<< But A-10's stationed in Romania. If only the US upgraded its highest performing Air-to-Air platform... the A-10
pete_dushenski: other issues are surmountable, but that usian thing's a prickly thorn
assbot: Logged on 14-08-2015 01:29:19; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-08-2015#1237481 << this is more difficult than mircea_popescu might appreciate. for one thing, i do hardware, where merely the ~fact of~ a usable hole existing is half the secret - once you say, credibly, folks know precisely where to look; the other half of it is that i am in the wot neither of folks buying nor of folks brokering; and the third 'half' is that an
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: even if this schmuck had used bitcoin, and done so correctly, he still could not establish credibility to the buyer without revealing who he was.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Consider we are the bass who swallowed the crankbait. Adversary assumes it is playing us on the line.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> it is abundantly clear who and why << Clear to whom? To the uninitiated it seems qntra posted this on /r/netsec and new audience sees site down assumes small and new qntra
asciilifeform: another thing i'm a bit confused about is why a usg-sponsored ddos should ever let up
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Ah, plug pulling was especially useful against phuctor. Qntra and Trilema though have the pipe saturation weakness.
asciilifeform: i suppose there is delay. perhaps i will be shot a decade from now and will have forgotten why !!
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> why would they shoot him now, rather than when he was posting raw snowden2isms ...? << Phuctor is down and they have idle udp to piss somewhere
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i wonder if this is because i made a comment on cryptome article explaining how one's not to discount the poissibility that the real guy was kidnapped << Would make a lot of sense. I was suspecting because we were mocking Lopp kid in chan again.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if this is because i made a comment on cryptome article explaining how one's not to discount the poissibility that the real guy was kidnapped
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asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: phun phakt: you can natively do 1024-bit rsa on the '92.
asciilifeform: (every so often, some american 'activism' chick travels to an orc pit and gets drilled out several #s, and it makes the nyooz)
mircea_popescu: even there.
asciilifeform: only when they travel to tahrir square and ask nicely.
BingoBoingo: My god, hwo the fuck could Mayweather's old ass justify making himself the main even in this thing. Rough two of the Gonzales-Oquendo undercard fight was spectacular.
mircea_popescu: this "we've released many open source tools" is the new "would you like to read my poetry"
BingoBoingo thinks namecoin would still be the best torrent tracker
asciilifeform: What To Do When a Miner Controls Over 51% of Your Blockchain << reminds me of the canonical ww1 joke
mircea_popescu: http://blog.onename.com/namecoin-to-bitcoin/ << check it out trinque, lots and lots and LOTS of people wanna be in the deedbot- business now.
mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3kzsk3/subscriptions_up_400_in_a_certain_censored/ << stolfi stumbles on "reddit makes up random numbers, displays them throughout the site", infers something about some dude he doesn't like.
asciilifeform vaguely recalls mircea_popescu once expressed interest in the notion of a multi-pgp'd blog
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: but i was hoping to hear some principle, as in 'we oughtn't give away morsels to strangers except when f(x)=y' << Embrace the machine when y(x)=
mircea_popescu: the stable historical solution seems to be, "ignore them unless one in particular makes you horny. fuck that one."
mircea_popescu: i do not think strangers are worth anything anyway, and i don't think trying to find out how much they're worth is a sane use of resources.
BingoBoingo: 2, 2 keys to get to the gold functions
BingoBoingo: Seriously asciilifeform I am overwhelmed with the awesome. Also how goddamned many 2nd keys???
mircea_popescu: understand, the "public is worthless" argument isn't there to be wielded against me. it's just there for ME exclusively to wield against anyone else.
asciilifeform: (but the way i see it, there is some amount of 'us' remaining to be extracted from 'public'. so there is a point.)
asciilifeform: because 'fuck the public' ?
BingoBoingo: Popular sentiment here was how does the colored with a terrorist name with the Senate primary
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 23:56:44; asciilifeform: he was trotted out during a commentary broadcast re: the 2004 election
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-09-2015#1275649 << i saw that (after the fact).