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(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://online.wsj.com/articles/counterterrorism-official-says-homegrown-lone-wolf-is-greatest-airport-terror-threat-1407533128 << sounds like the homeland surveillance system is gearing up to talk americans into putting themselves under rigorous surveillance
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i wouldn't even know. all i actually know is bearings and deflections and universal joints. this web shit is all new territory to me.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: airbnb/9flats
(trilema) ben_vulpes: who even knows
(trilema) ben_vulpes: you probably don't use consumer-grade services period.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: greatest your browser/whatever experience is going to be ultra lame
(trilema) ben_vulpes: <BingoBoingo> Basically they can't escape their consumer programming to have the newest, the shiniest, the most prestigious embadgened << for macos users, the programming is in the machine, in the user, and in people writing software for the thing. the people writing the software write for the latest platform, 'cause "80% uptake rate in 24 hours! why not!?", which makes a vicious spiral where unless you're running the latest and
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "property of poorly managed systems that increase in resources lowers productivity" << related also to amounts of free energy in the system?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it *really* wants httpd up, for instance
(trilema) ben_vulpes: wow cpanel does some insane shit to machines
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the whole point is to make people actually come talk to one
(trilema) ben_vulpes: <decimation> I want to move to an emacs-based chat client but I need to configure a cloud-host like ben_vulpes << lowendbox
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pankkake: want
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !s libreboot
(trilema) ben_vulpes: (but does it ==== php?)
(trilema) ben_vulpes: to the dylan song, and re centos: "everything must run as root!"
(trilema) ben_vulpes goes back to work
(trilema) ben_vulpes: is that a function of having borne young or not feeling hawt?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: in that picture you said you could tell who was wifed, as they weren't displaying lordosis
(trilema) ben_vulpes: well, wife status was the word.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what's the deal with lordosis?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: everyone's getting 18% returns in the fiat market, and looking at me like the crazy one when i shake my head at the ridiculousness of it all.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> no heartbleed, no pagerank. << search engines. next frontier of bitcoin.
(trilema) ben_vulpes is a happy camper
(trilema) ben_vulpes: (plus 8 whole cores! oodles of memory!)
(trilema) ben_vulpes: well, teeth.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: great thing about new server is that i can run it as hot as i want without some virtualization layer going "mmmm, that's a little bit too hot. let's bork your input and ouput for a bit."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: followed by MOAR SERVER
(trilema) ben_vulpes: am only waiting for babe to enface-ify then it's bike to breastfast sammich time
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it is now loaded into the tablist
(trilema) ben_vulpes: <pete_dushenski> if not by me, then by my, what shall we call them... colleagues? << it's the peerage ;)
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ultimately, obscurity is your last line of defense.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: or any million of other tricks
(trilema) ben_vulpes: or dust for oil
(trilema) ben_vulpes: RebeccaBitcoin: you gotta get a real client, for starters.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: don't hurt yourself now
(trilema) ben_vulpes: RebeccaBitcoin: <ben_vulpes> i wonder if its trivially bruteforceable
(trilema) ben_vulpes: treat your satoshis well and your integer btc will treat you well.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "anything worth doing is worth doing well".
(trilema) ben_vulpes: there's a saying
(trilema) ben_vulpes: RebeccaBitcoin: mind you, that amount can change rapidly based on their fiat denomination, and your lazy self might decline to move them until it's too late.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: cazalla: bad genes
(trilema) ben_vulpes: who are you again?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: we're trying to tell you that it ain't secure at all., honey.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no. it's a meaningless distinction.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: meaningless distinction.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: for the bruteforcers...
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;8ball will the coins get stolen?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;8ball RebeccaBitcoin ^^
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;8ball RebeccaBitcoin ^^
(trilema) ben_vulpes: thou shalt not etc
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but is it ====== random?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: up up down down right a b bitcoin!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: tengo mucho sospechosa
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i mean it said "okay!" after a hilariously short period of time.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: RebeccaBitcoin: thou shalt not mix js and crypto, much less js and entropy.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i wonder if its trivially bruteforceable
(trilema) ben_vulpes: these are always fun
(trilema) ben_vulpes: or take vacations?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: so on the topic of the btc tech mgr, how does one ameliorate the bus factor?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;google why is it crashing
(trilema) ben_vulpes: everything straight to /dev/null
(trilema) ben_vulpes: !s wordpress random
(trilema) ben_vulpes: gah fuck this flaky wifi
(trilema) ben_vulpes: <TheNewDeal> I failed a class called Design of Machine Elements. Fucking horridly boring class << applied statics and dynamics are fascinating topics, wrapped in problem sets designed to condition the student for a life in the mines.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: noted.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i follow in the footsteps of giants: kakobrekla, mike_c, mircea_popescu, jurov
(trilema) ben_vulpes: okay gents, i'm out for the night. please submit further bug reports to benkay@gmail.com
(trilema) ben_vulpes: use your short keyid
(trilema) ben_vulpes: full keyid login is not live yet, gents.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "chiggidey check yourself before you wreck yourself...big dicks in your ass is bad for your health"?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what's that line?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: bb i just blasted a gut chuckle
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but i'm focused on standing it up on some actual metal.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: there's also a change in the works that will only debit your account for days the ad's actually run.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ads start at midnight, go through midnight.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: thing runs UTC.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i'm in the midst of moving the thing to a server that can actually run it.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: d'you recall the dates you used?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: not yet, nope.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mike_c: ohyou.png
(trilema) ben_vulpes: dear god why is the first google result for `gpg homedir` a windows problem
(trilema) ben_vulpes touches the globe
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what is "soon", asciilifeform ?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;rate asciilifeform 2 fucking hilarious
(trilema) ben_vulpes: divination haw
(trilema) ben_vulpes: he says he's wearing impressive pants
(trilema) ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: tat's curious about running ads
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what are you wearing?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: <decimation> the other alternative would be to understand the structure of the bdb file
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;later tell bitcodernoob <decimation> make copies, put in bit/altcoin profile directory and see which one is vaild after running the client?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: <bitcodernoob> Can anyone help me with a problem. I have two wallet.dat's that I accidentally mixed up. Is there a way that I can findout which wallet.dat goes to which coin?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: sure but when the 16 oz can becomes a 12 oz can with a strongly concave bottom, coca cola charging the same amount...
(trilema) ben_vulpes: coca cola, pfizer, budweiser, royal dutch shell?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: well hang on if the company prices goods in inflating usd they can adjust pricing to match inflation. bonds, as the revered B sez, are a bad bad thing in inflationary situations 'cause paying a price now for money in the future that will be worth less. so confus.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: who's the baron of buenos aires?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "upmost urgency"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i say "student of power" when people ask.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i just want to read the reports about the derpage.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: (mpoe annualized p/e)
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;calc 0.00089192 / 0.00001921
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;calc 0.00089192 / 0.00000015
(trilema) ben_vulpes: (<Pilate> .hiv pre-registration up this morning... apparently i reserved spread.hiv, spreads.hiv, super.hiv, and selling.hiv)
(trilema) ben_vulpes: (topical: .hiv pre-registration went up today)
(trilema) ben_vulpes: guess the biologists are useful after all
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and here i was hoping for a new global pandemic
(trilema) ben_vulpes: man that typeface is just horrid
(trilema) ben_vulpes: van going down for deploy
(trilema) ben_vulpes: oh oh plaintext
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what, pipe it into your os clipboard and call it a day
(trilema) ben_vulpes: whatchu want in it?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: blame imagemagick
(trilema) ben_vulpes: SOUNDS GREAT
(trilema) ben_vulpes: compliments on technical excellence should be delivered to yours truly
(trilema) ben_vulpes: blame mircea_popescu the rules are his fault
(trilema) ben_vulpes: survant james'd be happy to do it for 1 BTC
(trilema) ben_vulpes: can we get log.bitcoin-assets.com styled for mobile too?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: "instances of malpidity"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: <ThickAsThieves> "How many ATC do you have?" "One million bajillion!" << hue
(trilema) ben_vulpes: <ThickAsThieves> <+Vexual> incidetally, whats a satoshi called in atc? a tat? /// altoshi << quit being so modest
(trilema) ben_vulpes: <ThickAsThieves> <+ben_vulpes> what does "cryptocurrency" mean? "Protocol for issuing, storing, and transacting units of itself cryptographically" how bout that? << nicely recursive
(trilema) ben_vulpes: man, the spread on atc's pretty steep.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: bitcoin too.
(trilema) ben_vulpes is pouring magic smoke from his ears
(trilema) ben_vulpes: no but no but no
(trilema) ben_vulpes: *mind blown*
(trilema) ben_vulpes: or ethereum for that matter.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: one can run a ripple client. it's not a bitcoin fork.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but consider ripple
(trilema) ben_vulpes: s/more/money
(trilema) ben_vulpes: still a cool thing to hack on for anyone who wants to write hard software but not make any more.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "a cryptographically-secured transaction ledger"?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what the fuck is bitcoin then
(trilema) ben_vulpes: bitcoin is defined by implementation
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "transaction ledger"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "a cryptographically-secured distributed record of transactions"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the best i've come up with isn't even complete
(trilema) ben_vulpes: what does "cryptocurrency" mean?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: can't tell if strategy or what
(trilema) ben_vulpes: dang. so was last december an intentional red herring?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "Eliminated /all/ dependencyii on our microcontroller manufacturer’s (Microchip Inc.) build chain and libraries"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: quite the investors you've got.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;yivkrtticker
(trilema) ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> s.van? why not s.wagen << nice.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: The20YearIRCloud: how'd the con call go?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: trollface.png
(trilema) ben_vulpes: okay so i guess move to somalia then
(trilema) ben_vulpes: this leads to an interesting problem for the btc-denominated tech company manager: how do i spend as little as possible on ongoing development while still keeping things up and moving forwards?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: so return on capital is like zero in btc?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and why stop there for that matter? do it to everyone, and blow the whole system apart. similar to the autogriefing of twitter and facebook.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: should probably start spamming every public person's gmail with images off the cp list.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "Police say Google detected explicit images of a young girl in an email that John Henry Skillern was sending to a friend, the company then alerted authorities."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but that's what the world is supposed to look like. as in middle school, so in high school, college and so on and so forth.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;isitdown blockchain.info
(trilema) ben_vulpes: s/p down 3% over the month, MPOE flat.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;ud smorgasbord
(trilema) ben_vulpes: smorgasbord of cultural touchpoints is the best some people can do!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: he's an american - what do you want?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: probably not as many as you
(trilema) ben_vulpes: much self-contradiction. it's the lot of the nearly-enlightened under the USG.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and srs - why the move?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: how've you been, thestringpuller ?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: kinda proximate
(trilema) ben_vulpes: close. whore for the great satan at the v. least.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;ud waterhead
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "In an ideal world, Kim Kardashian would have spent her life getting sport-fucked anonymously by hip-hop stars in some Bel Air mansion, ran a salon, and either died of a coke overdose or Botox poisoning."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "But the world changed again. And kept changing. So now you’ve got this degree that’s worth fuck-all, a house that’s worth more as scrap lumber than as a substantial investment, and you’re either going to lose your job or have to do the work of two people, because there’s a recession on. Except they keep saying the recession ended, so why are you still working twice as hard for the same amount of money?"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: don’t even bother. They just compartmentalize."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "Gen X talked a lot about the revolution, and then went and got themselves some venture capital and started laying into place the oversaturated, paranoid world we live in now. A lot of them tried to tell themselves they were still punk as fuck, but it’s hard to morally reconcile the thing where you listen to Fugazi on the way to your job where you help find new ways to trick people into giving up their data to advertisers. Most people
(trilema) ben_vulpes: dolar blue actually fell last week?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ThickAsThieves: baller
(trilema) ben_vulpes: lol mike zing and logoff
(trilema) ben_vulpes: *sigh* okay apache ain't gon configure itself
(trilema) ben_vulpes: honey if the rest of the world disagrees, who the fuck are you again?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: this whole article is an exercise in convincing the writer that her lifestyle is right and good and that the rest of the world is Doing It Incorrectly.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: sounds apt to me, asciilifeform
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "Other older men simply admit they can’t get it off with their own saggy, wrinkly peers. (This, by the way, is simply nature's way of telling them that it's time to stop breeding)."
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "Where in the world (outside of Taliban-controlled parts of Afghanistan) do fifty-year old men routinely get to mate with twenty-year-old women? " oh gosh
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/08/laughter-can-heal.html "borderline pedophilic academics...sleeping with their students" << oh i see sub .8*$YOUR_AGE is now pedophilic. mhm.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: spycraft's included putting a laser beam against a window and backing sound waves out of that for a while now.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: http://www.muddywatersresearch.com/track-record/ << bitcoin scams don't even register. NASDAQ $23 -> $1.7
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i had no idea.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: that's what all the ETFs are about as well, aren't they.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: this is the man who's trying to leverage himself into the role of canadian bitcoin regulator, after all.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: somehow i suspect david joseph thinks that money is his and he'll be extremely reluctant to let any of it slip his grasp.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: <ThickAsThieves> i saw this picture of a bunch of Canadian red/white maple leaf ATMs form Cavirtex, I wonder if maybe those stockholders from Havelock might get something something outta things in the end... << a) cavirtex is desperate for profit b) doubtful havelock holders are going to get anything as they've been delisted, right?
(trilema) ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski <pete_dushenski> but we're losing our voices over here << leave it to the professionals :D :D :D :D
(trilema) ben_vulpes: and yet my parents house is appraised at 850k.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> nfi why it should be such a big deal, but it undeniably is. << theatre hue
(trilema) ben_vulpes: or yum. whatever. don't care.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: the point is sudo apt-get install redis
(trilema) ben_vulpes: but either the clojure api for s3 or the java lib underneath it have a bug in their pre-signed url implementations.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: well, clojure.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: i burned days DAYS DAYSSSSSSS trying to get pre-signed URLs to work from java last month before giving up and hard coding AWS credentials into the deploy scripts
(trilema) ben_vulpes: now i have to have a conversation with some people who are really sold on virtualization about how either i'm a retard or these layers of indirection are not worth the fucking cost.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: well nothing, duh. they have the stick here.
(trilema) ben_vulpes: sorry. clearly something importnat was going on and i'm interrupting
(trilema) ben_vulpes: "sorry, you can't log to a bucket in a different region"
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it's fucking awesome!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it's just SO GREAT to not actually have to manage your own hardware! look! we even have a k/v store you can post shit to!
(trilema) ben_vulpes: yeah i'm clearly the retarded one here
(trilema) ben_vulpes: rarragrhargh cheapskate clients
(trilema) ben_vulpes: if your shit can't pay for a server beefy enough to serve itself and its assets get the fuck right out of my face
(trilema) ben_vulpes: once again i find myself confronted with stupid shit that shouldn't be a problem if the industry hadn't standardized on virtualized machines too small to host and serve their own images
(trilema) ben_vulpes: it's gone full-bore cancer since then methinks
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