asciilifeform: !w poll
watchglass: Polling 16 nodes...
watchglass: 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.091s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648935
watchglass: 205.134.172.26:8333 : Alive: (0.087s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648935
watchglass: 205.134.172.27:8333 : Alive: (0.090s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648935 (Operator: asciilifeform)
watchglass: 108.31.170.3:8333 : (pool-108-31-170-3.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.157s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648935 (Operator: asciilifeform)
watchglass: 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.144s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648935
watchglass: 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.177s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648935
watchglass: 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.165s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648935
watchglass: 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.298s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648935
watchglass: 185.85.38.54:8333 : (tlapnet-38-54.cust.tlapnet.cz) Alive: (0.283s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648935
watchglass: 84.16.46.130:8333 : (182518.pk.3pp.slovanet.sk) Alive: (0.384s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=413748
watchglass: 213.109.238.156:8333 : Alive: (0.396s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=648935
watchglass: 205.134.172.28:8333 : Violated BTC Protocol: Bad header length! (Operator: whaack)
watchglass: 185.163.46.29:8333 : Violated BTC Protocol: Bad header length!
asciilifeform: $vwap
asciilifeform: shinohai: bot asleep ?
shinohai: yup bot went to sleep for Friday updates, will bbiab
adlai: mats: I have actually gotten stupidly close to a barfight over having pnoje flash in my direction. apparently instagram can tell you whether there's roofies in your beer, or something, so suddenly it is polite and responsible for the drinking-aged kids to pay more attention to their phone than their dates
adlai did a quick snatch, glance, and slid phone across bar back to photographer, who was fortunately calm enough to just put phone down and go back to talking with his friends like a human being
adlai: ironically enough, using the flash leads to the camera+firmware not revealing much other than the outer surface of the glass, and maybe the reflectives of the drink inside, although who knows what the chips are doing before the flash
adlai: in plague news: Israel escalated the recent curfew to a repeat of the nationwide quarantine. cop cars do nighttime cruises, blaring recorded encouragements to avoid all travel beyond few hundred metres from home. so far, this has been ~quietest friday evening in the past four years.
adlai finds it slightly amusing that the announcements only say "for your safety", and elide whether the risk is aerosolized biologicals, IEDs, thirdhand antitank missiles, etc. just shelter in place!
trinque: adlai: yep, this is just what's done now.
feedbot: http://mvdstandard.net/2020/09/ussa-vacancy-on-supreme-court-after-ruth-bader-ginsburg-dies/ << The Montevideo Standard -- USSA: Vacancy On Supreme Court After Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies
BingoBoingo: Still haven't had actual lockdown here. Just people slowly rediscovering outside and getting over their panic at their own speed ever since mid-May
BingoBoingo: Meanwhile to the North: Bolsonaro dice que quedarse en casa durante la pandemia es "para los débiles" - Nevermind this thing exposed the Brazilian Presidency only very indirectly offers access to the levers of power due to federalism
BingoBoingo: While the other neighbor locked down on March 22nd and never lifted it despite everyone assuming it would expire without renewal in mid-July
adlai: the main mechanism of the Israeli curfew is uncertainty; there are plenty of loopholes that allow most businesses to continue working, although at greater expense; and individuals to wander around, although all will need plausible excuses.
shinohai: Happy New Year adlai
BingoBoingo: Here even when the panic was acute and the Rambla was filled with police... they were never allowed to do anything other than say "Please"
adlai: ty, shinohai; the calendar is the same although I guess the year is now 'hatashpoh'. (dialect coaching available at your local sinagogue!)
shinohai: Only 220 years ago until the Messiah, if mp lives that long.
shinohai: s /ago/to go/
shinohai sings in falsetto "IN THE YEAR 6000!!!!!!"
adlai: nah dude, 'messiah' is the forgetful reincarnation theology's compatibility layer, necessary due to H.sapiens lacking a standardized call/cc; in other words, all you have to do in order to be the messiah, is to believe you are the messiah, and start studying
adlai: at least that is what some dude from one of the messianic sects told me.
adlai added the bit about call/cc, since that dude seemed to have been studying the old testament instead of stalin and x3j13
adlai: my brief foray into establishing diplomatic relations with the local messianic folks was detailed enough to realize that they actually disagree with eachother about ideas as fundamental as reincarnation and telepathy. at least they are not afraid to say so!
shinohai: "I believe I am messiah and am impervious to the stones you hurl at me!"
adlai: well there are always delusional interpretations, that often only strengthen a preexisting delusion; a sane interpretation is "ideas outlive people, similarly to how people outlive cells, provided that a process retains the structure"