#asciilifeform | 2020-05-31

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adlai: in other shitware entomology, a github repo authored by someone other than me has appeared in my account

adlai: http://github.com/adlai/agorint <-- 'expert entomologists only' ~4k lines of "Rust", which according to what I was taught as a child, causes tetanus if you are not inoculated

adlai wonders how to adjust the kyristor in response to this discovery!

adlai: commits appear authored by a pseudonymous 'pro' account, i.e. someone who pays microsoft for extra features

thimbronion: spyked: is feedbot down?

asciilifeform: thimbronion: appears to be

spyked: danke schon for the ping, thimbronion

feedbot: http://thimbron.com/2020/05/lekythion-search-update-additional-blogs-and-other-things/ << Thimbron -- Lekythion search update: additional blogs and other things

feedbot: http://mvdstandard.net/2020/05/argentine-terrorist-wanted-since-2017-mortar-attack-captured-in-chuy/ << The Montevideo Standard -- Argentine Terrorist Wanted Since 2017 Mortar Attack Captured In Chuy

asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-05-31#1013890 << if you push 'fork' button, then this. i thought adlai were a habitual shithub user, oughta know this

snsabot: Logged on 2020-05-31 05:40:59 adlai: in other shitware entomology, a github repo authored by someone other than me has appeared in my account

asciilifeform did not try to read 'mega-ai in cobol' or whatthefuck was it. missed anything ?

shinohai: I saw the adlai rust thing, but appears that it twasn't forked ... (Usually says so @ top "forked from <user>/<repo>")

asciilifeform: for all i know, thing randomly logs $user1 in as $user2 , like ye olde 'livejournal' & similar

asciilifeform: it's microshit after all

shinohai: yup yup

asciilifeform: !w poll

watchglass: Polling 11 nodes...

watchglass: 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.022s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=632502

watchglass: 205.134.172.26:8333 : Alive: (0.082s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=632502

watchglass: 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.093s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=632502

watchglass: 205.134.172.27:8333 : Alive: (0.143s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=632502 (Operator: asciilifeform)

watchglass: 108.31.170.3:8333 : (pool-108-31-170-3.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.150s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=632502 (Operator: asciilifeform)

watchglass: 192.151.158.26:8333 : Alive: (0.147s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=632502

watchglass: 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.173s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=632502

watchglass: 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.236s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=632502

watchglass: 213.109.238.156:8333 : Alive: (0.342s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=632502

watchglass: 188.121.168.69:8333 : (rev-188-121-168-69.radiolan.sk) Alive: (0.522s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=632502

watchglass: 103.36.92.112:8333 : (terebe.ns01.net) Alive: (0.564s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=632502

adlai: asciilifeform: it is quite the boojum! not a forked repo, as shinohai observed. appears to be a 'mirror' of some other drunkard's masamunic urbit. I didn't try reading the src yet, although the human-readable markdown seems to have been written by g_l or perhaps some brotha-fromanutha-mutha.

adlai: now, it could just be that I was too drunk to remember mirroring that; and it could be that some shitware is sufficiently devious to mirror itself in random github accounts; maybe, both.

adlai: bizarrely enough, the original author still has their github account... yet does not host the repo. the mirror under my user appears to be the only extant copy.

adlai wonders whether this is how somnambulists feel, upon discovering that 'someone' did the laundry and dishes during the night

adlai: although, beats me why mysterion doesn't, e.g., slip an API key exfiltrator into the tradebot, or empty my account on an exchange, or any number of less unprofitable shenanigans

asciilifeform: adlai: it aint for me to say whether yer kitchen has mice , but imho subscribing crackpot shithubs aint typically top of the list for what folx do when guessed someone's pw etc

adlai: much more likely that I trolled myself when Vexual-level drunk

asciilifeform: adlai: if you genuinely took in enuff vodka that have nfi what did to yer terminal last night, i rec to... drink less

adlai: 'prank' appears to have occurred years, not days, ago

asciilifeform: lol and only nao noticed ? that's a hellavalot of vodka

adlai: someone gave it a 'star' on github ~2 weeks ago, I don't review my github popularity every five minutes!

adlai: ok, mystery half-solved: I send a patch fixing a broken link, that is why I have a mirror. why author nuked original copy, is author's business.

asciilifeform: then snoar.

asciilifeform: adlai: if yer genuinely concerned re 'slip xyz into whateverbot', consider to use civilized vtronics instead of microshit phree-wwwsite kolhoz

asciilifeform bbl in ~hr

adlai: hah, author did dox himself in the git metadata

adlai: well, not quite 'dox'... just, contact info

adlai always finds it puzzling when someone writes a manifesto, especially one this ambitious, and even starts writing code, published in version control for easy collaboration... and then nukes all copies and reduces net footprint to ~0

adlai: perhaps he "took the brown acid" and is now on the run from Roko's Basilisk

asciilifeform: adlai: or 'saw the light' and got the hell off shithub

asciilifeform: soon will be decade since asciilifeform cured 100% of 'put coad on coadhosting sites'

asciilifeform: trinque: interestingly, found that 'pine' box can still be had, from same vendor, if with orc kbd .

snsabot: Logged on 2020-05-29 20:07:54 trinque: Sorry, we do not have enough "14″ PINEBOOK Pro LINUX LAPTOP (ANSI, US Keyboard)" in stock to fulfill your order right now. Please try again in 4320 minutes or edit your cart and try again. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

asciilifeform: ( they sell 2 variants, ascii & eureich )

trinque: cool, going to snag one?

trinque: I'm still awaiting a DHL tracking # on mine

adlai: asciilifeform: that's the thing, dude still not only has an account there, but even 'pro', i.e. paid; for all i know, kept the skynet repo, only made it private to go full-urbit

adlai always had a slight dislike for github, even pre-microsoft, for this very reason: instead of offering paid services for e.g. execution of custom scripts, the main premium feature was private repositories

Vexual: trinque: HK should be waking up soon, I think pinebook flies direct from there

Vexual: they're powerful cheap, the `no profit' thing is believable.

asciilifeform: trinque: aha, was considering. if forum fauna are to be believed tho, it's a bit of 'lotto', some units w/ odd power controller bugs (random failure to charge, screen light flicker, etc)

asciilifeform: prolly need 2-3 to make 1 100% working box, if so

asciilifeform: adlai: afaik they have 'free private' for 1GB nao, or sumthing. i still dun see the appeal of shithub tho. ( i put some garbage there ~decade ago, back when thought 'opensores! folx will contribute patches!' etc )

adlai: as for why do I use git for scalpl, and not V - firstly, V did not exist when I began writing scalpl!

adlai: secondly, and perhaps a less terrible reason, is that using V, a system predicated around the idea of signing the code, would make more sense when I have a customer or collaborator who is receiving code and verifying that it's from me

adlai: the few cases where I've had any sort of partnership, so far, have been of the "just make money" variety, where the other side didn't particularly seem to care whether I was trading by hand, or using any specific program

adlai: perhaps that's not the correct phrasing; the precise one is that the signed contract did not say that I deliver working code, but rather, results, incidentally achieved through the workings of a program

Vexual: asciilifeform: it might (prolly) be worth obtaining any reqd chinesium by the boatload as soon as you can; feels like tarrif approaching

Vexual: testnet barley cost 2x in cn now

Vexual: desktops ex tw might be unobtanium in 10 years.

asciilifeform: Vexual: i have moar problem w/ avoiding disappearing beneath an ocean of scrap iron / time sinks than 'save penny', historically

Vexual: did you ever buy the 11 inch one?

Vexual: ;from pinebook

Vexual: I haven't seen a pinebook chassis

Vexual: will the pro stuff fit in the 11 case?

Vexual: apple mills an al chassis right?

Vexual: unsure if pinebook is plastic or metal

Vexual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTjvG4WJD_A when a mats got your tongue

Vexual: so much gets lost in text