mircea_popescu: no, not exactly. when the exploratory boom was at its peak.
asciilifeform: when the sahib-rajah-coolie relationship was going strong
mircea_popescu: anyway, this entire "send kids to oxbridge" meme is very novel, and it comes off the same trunk that made the "buy uk football teams".
mircea_popescu: except russia doesn't want imf credit, for one ; and the gentleman can have a lot of sons.
asciilifeform: from their pov - aha
mircea_popescu: much like the arabs.
asciilifeform: the thing is, usg had roughly same relation with ru elite as brits had with india
mircea_popescu: then again, i don't know that many ru kids, and so... might just be my narrow viewpoint
mircea_popescu: so it's kind-of natural and meaningless that they'd go for it.
mircea_popescu: the only ru kids i know that actually go for the entire western fucktardation are kids who got overeducated by mistake, but definitely have no chance in hell of ever sitting at the table.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what is the 'actual elite' in question ?
funkenstein_: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-aide-harris-accused-rogue-police-force-20150505-story.html <-- seems to be making the rounds in the disinfo sphere
Flerb_: Whatever happened to ASICminer, they were around when I last looked at bitcoin stuff.
mircea_popescu: aspie [ short for aspirational ] would roughly be what they called "burgeois intellectuals" a century ago.
asciilifeform: and walk through the traditional western idiocies, and attempt to import
asciilifeform: it looks precisely like the imported feedstock. just, no mass uptake
asciilifeform: (is dignork still around? perhaps he'd do the deed)
gribble: The operation succeeded.
prince_nbingo: Dear Sir, can you please tell me where to acquire the bitcoin asses? I have a business proposal for you. I will present you as the beneficiary, and i will prepare all the legal documents and present to the bank on your behalf and the bank will then release and transfer the funds to your designated account. Please to be telling about where are the bitcoin asses, I need bitcoin asses.
asciilifeform: 'Delusional boot provides a full set of devices with complete functionality to the OS only during the boot process. Later on, it disables the non-critical devices and it replaces the critical ones with a set of barebones virtual devices that only offer common case functionality.'
asciilifeform: 'who would bother to check' is sop.
mircea_popescu: it's very sound, strategically. "who would bother to check"
Naphex: sorry, forgot the quotes
Naphex: For many of the affected virtualization products, a virtual floppy drive is added to new virtual machines by default. And on Xen and QEMU, even if the administrator explicitly disables the virtual floppy drive, an unrelated bug causes the vulnerable FDC code to remain active and exploitable by attackers.
mircea_popescu: "In my opinion, the main reason why Windows is still faster on the desktop is that most of their current GUI framework was built back in the days of Windows 95, and the framework is so fragile that it has stopped them from adding too many new features to bloat it further. Back in 1995, Microsoft was way more performance-conscious than the open source world in 2007, simply because the hardware was orders of magnitude sl
mircea_popescu: "Anonymous (not verified) OpenBSD still exists? Too bad. The world would be better without security fanboys in general. There is more to the world than security."
mircea_popescu: ahahaha asciilifeform you read the comments ?
mircea_popescu: he also has the social skills of a rabid dog.
mircea_popescu: there's no requisite for a dram cell to know what it is holding in order for it to be holding it.
mircea_popescu: individual ants act in a blind fashion, but the ant layer acts systematically.
asciilifeform: anal holes, to these folks, happen purely by chance, misfortune. even contemplating the alternative is unbearable cognitive dissonance to them.
mircea_popescu: anyway, a good rule of thumb is, when the anon derps start talking about "security benefits", you know what it is.
asciilifeform: al schwartz taught it to me as 'the a-students hire the b-students who hire the f-students'
mircea_popescu: by far the most notable point of utility of the wot to brilliant individuals is exactly this : breaks the traditional methods of anthill building.
asciilifeform: 'fits in head' and 'developers count on fingers on one hand' are good thermonukes against this
mircea_popescu: keeping the ants at bay is any serious beetle's full time job.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the thing is, theo gets it, but is so well fettered with "well meaning" yet "unrelated" idiots he can barely move.
asciilifeform: ^ theo de raadt
mircea_popescu: cazalla: you'd think some people would learn their lesson having dealth with garza in the past but no << understand the rotinculo syndrome. they DO understand, but what exact alternatives they got ? it's either this or go home. they dun wanna go home, apparently there's a famine in hungary.
mircea_popescu: BECAUSE THEY SAI IT IS!
asciilifeform: 'shot himself in the head twice'
asciilifeform: the 'unrelated bug causes vulnerable code to remain active' thing very much smacks of 'he fell onto the knife ten times'
asciilifeform: and there is a bottomless mine of cruft where this came from
asciilifeform: and 'For many of the affected virtualization products, a virtual floppy drive is added to new virtual machines by default. And on Xen and QEMU, even if the administrator explicitly disables the virtual floppy drive, an unrelated bug causes the vulnerable FDC code to remain active and exploitable by attackers.'
copypaste: He puts "What is bitcion?" and "What is blockchain?" separately, as if they're different
asciilifeform: plenty of wank in the thread re: 'amazon' et al. having been told of the hole long before public
copypaste: And then you put your about page as "about-"
copypaste: I'm supposed to trust these twerps with anything?
copypaste: What's with the -?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: code in question concerned an emulated traditional floppy controller (the kind you gave sectors, tracks, etc)
assbot: Logged on 13-05-2015 08:56:30; copypaste: Don't have much faith in it but it's the only one that's even remotely promising
asciilifeform: mats: from the 'hackernews' thread, 'Why indeed. In fact we tried to remove the FDC, but Windows needs it in order to do certain operations like installing some drivers, so there was resistance there.'
asciilifeform: mats: the interesting part is that floppy controller in qemu and derived proggies is enabled -even if you don't use floppy option.-
cazalla: http://bitcoinist.net/million-dollar-bitcoin-domain-name-btc-com-launches-bitcoin-digital-currency-industry-portal/ you'd think some people would learn their lesson having dealth with garza in the past but no
cazalla: copypaste, have you written about moving and living in the phillipines?
copypaste: They're fighting against nature.
copypaste: Wealth always goes to the top in any system
fluffypony: the dude from BBR was trying to make one
fluffypony: not sure it'll ever be much in the way of buy-and-hold-investment-worthy, but it's fun nonetheless
copypaste: Don't have much faith in it but it's the only one that's even remotely promising
cazalla: tbh i only lurk 8ch besides the occasional shit post so if you've answered AMA type shit before, i'll go have a google
copypaste: i know of a lot of old people with the same condition from a Faecesbook group
BingoBoingo: Who honestly couldn't use another vice
cazalla: BingoBoingo, as much as i hate ciggs, the drinking is prob worse
cazalla: and the new team mode is useless as people don't want to team up to face other teams, they're all asian and want to gang up on 1 person
copypaste: The Asia servers still suck ass though.
copypaste: The new teams mode makes it sort of bearable amusingly. Because you can't pick your team, Voz has no power.
copypaste: It sucks even more that we have terrible lag to all the good servers.
BingoBoingo: Gotta preak the metacarpals a bit to get them to heal stronger. Pole seems like an ideal target. As long as I don't break any bones all the way.
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Yeah, Iron pole in the backyard that at one point in history held the clothesline
mircea_popescu: ahh ghadafi was such a master of the lulz.
mircea_popescu: "To our son, his excellency, Mr Barack Hussein Obama. I have said to you before, that even if Libya and the United States of America enter into a war, god forbid, you will always remain a son. Your picture will not be changed."
mircea_popescu: i usually just tell them to show up here.
mircea_popescu: by the way, 2011 article re the fiat world wot. http://trilema.com/2011/cine-conduce-lumea/
BingoBoingo: copypaste: You know... in your next Conde Naste interview you have to mention this place as the center of Bitcoin and blacklist them when they leave that part out.
cazalla: you're like the new moot, the luke skywalker of chans who hopefully won't join the dark side like darth moot and get cucked same time
cazalla: yeah same, i pitched it to these goys here but no interest
BingoBoingo: I mean he signed with O'Reilly, not the huns
mircea_popescu: what happeend to his hot o'reilly deal to become the blockchain technology's steve jobbs ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: He runs a startup nao called "Third Key Solutions" that serves other startups who wish to take on all the counterparty risk
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: He has his own startup nao and every press release I get that feeling like I need to run to the hospital and get an ultrasound on my scrotum again (to bee fair it feels good man https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Feels_good_man)
mircea_popescu: (a suka, of course, is one of the criminals that took stalin's deal and went into the army)
BingoBoingo: Thing is around these here parts we prefer /r/rbuttcoin to /r/bitcoin by miles
mircea_popescu: except buttcoin is like the only readable reddit thing.
copypaste: The crossover is real.
copypaste: r/buttcoin will probably flip. I've noticed that the same trolls on r/GamerGhazi are on r/buttcoin.
gribble: O hai let me wanna-be! pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/o-hai-let-me-wanna-be.php?id=simonrton.blog.com>; OCD: Moosh & Twist - Back To The Basement Mixtape - Stream ...: <http://www.datpiff.com/OCD-Moosh-Twist-Back-To-The-Basement-mixtape.454057.html>; Back to the Basement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: (1 more message)
cazalla: actually was vamp and gays, right? marriage was another article from memory to show it's a bit of bullshit this conservative idea and all
BingoBoingo: ;;google trilema back to the basement
cazalla: but anything on topic of feminism, socialism, money, jews, hitler, conservative values (vamp and marriage one would be a bit of an eye opener for some of em) would do well with the pol crowd
cazalla: well, here are some http://dpaste.com/1F4XHT2.txt select some just for the quotes (such as the last) a pol loves em some quotes like that
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah, Tyrone takes it and cashes it at the Persian liquor store
copypaste: I know. I've read a lot of your blog the past week. I wasn't around for that but that chat log, man. I could feel it.
mircea_popescu: ahh the glbse was such lolz.
copypaste: he then locked evreyone's balances
copypaste: "oh no, i need to do AML! the state is coming!"
copypaste: You can read my Twitter TL for how. One call to FinCEN and the CEO went full GLBSE
copypaste: I don't care enough to do the same to Flattr though.
copypaste: After Gratipay fucked with me I put them out of business, or close to it.
copypaste: Service is abysmal. They're probably going under soon.
copypaste: Shitty Swedish corporation. They take 10% anyway.
mircea_popescu: nly employee @bonq is ignoring all communication from me via their ticket system and Twitter. The icing on the cake is that they blocked me and three others for asking where the fuck 46.74 EUR went."
mircea_popescu: "If you donated to the Infinity Dev. Group over Flattr, it seems that they have turned into a scam and you should charge these conmen back immediately by contacting your financial institution. (I realize this includes my support key. I don't give a shit, flood their insecure bullshit report ticket in my name. I see no other way to prove it.) Reports are that they lost their PayPal account recently, and Flattr CEO and o
copypaste: Since unlike 4chan users create the boards
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFW | That Feel When Followed by some feel you should be able to relate to. TFW you smoke the day's first cigarette. by feelsrapeman October 30, 2011. 2138 307.
BingoBoingo: Well, as long as he can step away from the webs for a while
copypaste: They also sometimes post on /b/ for attention.
gribble: I'll pay for your tits on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2014/ill-pay-for-your-tits/>; They really are Buttcoins nao on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/they-really-are-buttcoins-nao>; June 2014 on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2014/06>
copypaste: There is a /fem/ board.
gribble: They really are Buttcoins nao on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/they-really-are-buttcoins-nao>; Perfect money corrupts absolutely on Trilema - A blog by Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/perfect-money-corrupts-absolutely>; February 2013 on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2013/02>
BingoBoingo: ;;google they really are buttcoins nao
copypaste: Thanks mircea_popescu. Ping me with the ad code when it's ready
mircea_popescu: http://8ch.net/cuteboys/res/94850.html << dude check out all the fuckable adolescent bois.
BingoBoingo: <cazalla> we do and they run sting operations in alley ways to catch pissers << Not a thing here yet
BingoBoingo: No, the CCtv perv was a pr0nographist
cazalla: we do and they run sting operations in alley ways to catch pissers
mircea_popescu: you got no bars there i take it.
cazalla: they'll arrest you for pissing in public
cazalla: pissing and fucking at the same time on video or providing it for others to watch is illegal
copypaste: I guess videotaping the pissing is illegal.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: They think it is pissing
copypaste: "While we understand your commitment to free speech, we will not allow 8chan to continue using Patreon, as several boards facilitate the distribution of harmful content and activity, such as illustrated child exploitation imagery."
mircea_popescu: wait. what's the problem with squirting ?
copypaste: That's why there's no web services running out of Aus.
copypaste: Indeed. That was their official reason. It even got in a video game blog: http://www.destructoid.com/8chan-removed-from-patreon-becomes-cat-sanctuary-285272.phtml
copypaste: They didn't cite any specific posts, PayPal at least.
mircea_popescu: well ok, so what did the posts say
copypaste: That's the problem.
copypaste: mircea_popescu: It's not what I say. These peopole hold me accountable for what anonymous users do.
mircea_popescu: lol what is the issue again ?
copypaste: Indeed. Not just them.
copypaste: I've gotten some of them interested.
cazalla: not sure qntra has any specific to pol, they'd need an interest in bitcoin to begin with.. as for trilema, i'll have a hunt
copypaste: Will do. It'll be the 117th channel I'm idling in :)
copypaste: I can implement it as soon as you're ready by adding /pol/, /v/ and /i/ to the banned_boards thing and then changing the ad code.
mircea_popescu: aite, effective in a coupla days once i get the rotator in place ?
mircea_popescu: ll pay the btc and after a month we see.
copypaste: Indeed. Since I'm the main email ( admin@8chan.co ) I get most ad inquiries anyway
copypaste: And I can remove the Coinbase/localbitcoins thing as well
copypaste: So in reality I'll pay them most of what you give me, but you still get your ad.
copypaste: I can do that. They told me that if people email me about ads on boards they have ads on (/pol/, /v/) I should accept it and tell them.
mircea_popescu: course, since they seem to just be burning the americas market... maybe ask them if they'd be willing to split it like that ?
copypaste: Indeed. And if you want any of the a-ads boards I can do that too.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you're getting 7 servers including expensive raid arrangements for the ads you should prolly stick to that deal. i doubt the advertising value of what seems like 15 maybe 20k uniques past 72 hours could support that.
copypaste: And they can't be assed to fix it until end of May, apparently.
copypaste: As I said, they're incompetent so it doesn't work over HTTPS.
BingoBoingo: I see no banner on /pol/ either, but...
copypaste: Also most of the ads are in Japanese.
copypaste: If you visit it on non-https it will work. Like I said, they are hard to deal with. They told me "new ad code by the end of May".
copypaste: Indeed, that's the problem
copypaste: Or, the derps (sorry to steal your word) in charge still have ignored me and haven't added SSL support
copypaste: /cuteboys/ is also in the top 25. Rank 10 I think.
mircea_popescu: so basically host gets all teh good ones is the idea ?
mircea_popescu: so your host gets the listed ones ?
copypaste: They are...every board except:
copypaste: I can put it on all the a-ads boards, but if I made it exclusive for you for the whole site, I'd need to find a new host.
mircea_popescu: which boards are these ?
copypaste: mircea_popescu: Some boards don't have a-ads. The agreement with the hosting company is that for some boards, they put their own ads, but I don't know how much those make. In turn they don't send me a bill.
assbot: » TRADITIONALIST YOUTH NETWORK ATTACKED MINUTES BEFORE THEIR DEMONSTRATION ... ( http://bit.ly/1zZqbw1 )
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> so are mine. http://antiracistaction.org/?p=275 << derping about how they beat up on some dudes.<< WHat the everloving fuck.
mircea_popescu: i''ll payt you 1 btc upfront for the first month and you give it to me, exclusive. no other ads on 8chan
copypaste: Oh. I've always used the nick "copypaste" in IRC ( as well as on Github: http://github.com/ctrlcctrlv ). Hotwheels is a meme.
cazalla: wasn't sure if you call yourself hotwheels or just others
copypaste: Ad banners are above the post form
mircea_popescu: o, wait, cause there's this jews imageboard meme, rite.
cazalla: pretty sure they posted on 4chan but prob not near as much as claimed
mircea_popescu: very adolescentine altogether.
assbot: » TRADITIONALIST YOUTH NETWORK ATTACKED MINUTES BEFORE THEIR DEMONSTRATION ... ( http://bit.ly/1zZpN0P )
mircea_popescu: so are mine. http://antiracistaction.org/?p=275 << derping about how they beat up on some dudes.
copypaste: But it's not known if they actually post on 4/8chan.
copypaste: Yeah. Most people just bookmark their favorite board or whatever.
copypaste: forever, haha. what would the text be?
copypaste: Also, I recommend putting ads on the boards (or the boards page https://8ch.net/boards.html ) and not the homepage for the most people to see it.
mircea_popescu: ok, so now : what would you want to push the "Welcome to 8chan," text to the right on 8chan, and sell me the center there.
copypaste: So that's the wrong key
mircea_popescu: you're registered alright, what's the problem
copypaste: I don't see any other way to verify though
cazalla: copypaste, you should BingoBoingo about all the hottie pinos you're banging
copypaste: you said that no one is anyone in bitcoin if they aren't in the WoT so I came around to attempt to become someone
copypaste: yes i was here to do that after reading some of your blogs. i really like the recent one about argentina
copypaste: yes, that's the name people have given me ;)
decimation: I bet the majority of argintina's 'raw materials' exports are extracted by foreign corporations
assbot: File:Romania Export Treemap.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1JGuMmO )
mircea_popescu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Romania_Export_Treemap.png << meanwhile this is what they THINK they're doing.
mircea_popescu: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Tree_map_export_2009_Argentina.jpeg < there you go.
decimation: it's amusing that the supposed flower of germany's exiles haven't seem to have underped argentina
mircea_popescu: they used to export meat, but failed to meet the quotas, lost the contracts, are now exporting soy.
decimation: usians have mostly forgotten about it, even though it apparently is on the seal of the us senate
mircea_popescu: argentinians are really into the cap.
decimation: heh there are amusing layers here > "In 1854, when sculptor Thomas Crawford was preparing models for sculpture for the United States Capitol, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis (later to be the President of the Confederate States of America) insisted that a Phrygian cap not be included on a Statue of Freedom, on the grounds that "American liberty is original and not the liberty of the freed slave". "
decimation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap#/media/File:Manif_pour_tous_Paris_2013-01-13_n11.jpg < continues even to this day, the derpitude
decimation: donno why the candles
decimation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution#/media/File:Cruikshank_-_The_Radical%27s_Arms.png
mircea_popescu: no, because they had spent their lives with the "you are inferior because versailles" mantra
decimation: because when the san qulot saw the fancy paintings they knew in their hindbrain that they were inferior?
mircea_popescu: and why the "golden toilets" propaganda bits of contemporaneity.
decimation: cities pretend they have culture, schools pretend to education. all because some derp scribble some shit on a canvas
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the purpose of art is much simpler : the mob is illiterate, and art is the single letter alphabet catering to all its needs : "THIS IS WHY YOU ARE SCUM". that's the only sentence that needs to be expressed.
mircea_popescu: a trope as old as the greeks.
decimation: rich folk pretend they have taste, 'art people' pretend they are somebodies, hedge fund managers pretend they are 'investing'
mircea_popescu: there is this very ridiculous animism at work, whereby somehow "art" is objectively beautiful, and beauty is somehow objectively good, which makes it you know, turn lions to lambs.
decimation: heh. well if you zoom out to the big picture - there is no 'optimal' distribution of art if you define 'optimal' as 'turns peasants into people'
mircea_popescu: they've "engaged" with literature, and it was to everyone's detriment.
mircea_popescu: it seems to me the height of stupidity. "people" have specifically no business "engaging" with art.
decimation: note the difference between merely possessing and engaging - "Yeah I have a chunk of that roman temple, it's my birdbath"
decimation: from the earlier podcast "Again, if you accept my proposition that the object of the museum enterprise is for people to be engaging with art rather than for museums to be possessing art, then I think all of these questions come to the surface, and that they are real possibilities once we understand how much enormous wealth has been accumulated and isn't being put to use."
decimation: "Referring to the Dogarus, Mr. Oberlander-Tarnoveanu said, "It seems they were not very honest, because apparently a lot of members of the family had a long judicial history."
mircea_popescu: with experts such as these, we hardly need brutish peasants anymore.
decimation: heh that's lulzy - it is the 'windows fax and media viewer'
mircea_popescu: and his display i think is the basic image viewer
decimation: because that's what their fancy machines use
mircea_popescu: decimation mostly quoted for the "A Romanian forensic expert at work in a laboratory at the National History Museum in Bucharest." running... windows.