#asciilifeform | 2021-01-20

btcinfobot: Current BTC price in USD: $34649.52

watchglass: Polling 15 nodes...

watchglass: 185.85.38.54:8333 : Could not connect!

watchglass: 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.053s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=666875

watchglass: 71.114.46.209:8333 : (pool-71-114-46-209.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.159s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=666875 (Operator: asciilifeform)

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shinohai: asciilifeform: Seal link broken here: http://www.loper-os.org/#selection-247.0-247.58

asciilifeform: shinohai: where ? your link broken also

shinohai: err sorry it's http://www.loper-os.org/?p=3838 <<< the seal for ch21-A

asciilifeform: will take a look, ty

shinohai: np was in process of updating mirror and came across.

asciilifeform: shinohai: fixed! ty

shinohai: tyvm as well

asciilifeform: ~this~ is imho much better metric of 'how many people read' than whatever mechanical counts.

snsabot: Logged on 2021-01-18 14:52:25 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: loper-os does ~1G/day on avg. (nfi how many exactly 'hits', difficult to count) . was speaking of the log www however.

asciilifeform: shinohai may very well currently be the 1 reader.

shinohai: Well it appears you *do* have readers, but those that write in are very sporadic.

asciilifeform: shinohai: point being that someone who actually downloads the patches, would've noticed and perhaps said sumthing.

shinohai: Kinda makes me wonder if there are peeps not using vtron to press, and instead just downloading vpatches and manually patching.

asciilifeform: shinohai: nobody's admitted to it, but it is obvious possibility for the lazy

shinohai: "You buy 'em books, you send 'em to school ... and the idiots eat the books."

asciilifeform: more or less.

asciilifeform: adlai: re projectors -- i recently decommissioned a XJ-A240. interested to buy ? it's pretty compact, laser-pumped illuminator etc. and i expect would survive shipping.

asciilifeform: adlai: weighs < 3kg. and still as bright as when orig. bought it in 2010.

feedbot: http://btc.info.gf/blog/mirror-updates-for-ffa.html << btcinfo -- Mirror updates for FFA

asciilifeform: shinohai: ^ a++, ty

shinohai: gah for some reason missed the link to the vpatches/seals, will fix.

verisimilitude: My comment system is somewhat akin to this, asciilifeform. Bothering to send an email means more than just filling in a text field and pressing a button.

verisimilitude: I've noticed Gopher users contact me more, and I also tended to contact them more.

asciilifeform: verisimilitude: fwiw i'd actually rather get 0 comments, than mp-style 'ohai, i luvved yer www, ENLARGE PENIS NOW' etc

snsabot: Logged on 2021-01-04 14:11:40 asciilifeform: 'match made in heaven', fella who luvvs spamola enuff to BUY it, and spammers.

verisimilitude: That's as any decent man would, asciilifeform.

asciilifeform: for that matter, imho 99%+ of the comments to date, were ~not~ a boost to the snr of my www. ( i let'em through the mod queue, as normally do when item does not appears obviously spamological, out of respect to the sender. )

verisimilitude: My most extreme dislike about commentators are when they mention other websites.

verisimilitude: I post them anyway, but if I had wanted to note some trash website, I'd have done so myself.

verisimilitude: Our websites are different in this respect.

asciilifeform learned, from the 'extreme popularity' of the ffa articles, 100% of everything he ever wanted to know about the 'cryptography community'

verisimilitude: Most of the ``cryptography community'' would rather have insurance than working software, right?

asciilifeform: verisimilitude: 'insurance' is very much the wrong word, it aint as if anyone ponied up millions to compensate 'heartbleed' victims

verisimilitude: Perhaps company, then.

asciilifeform: verisimilitude: what they want in fact is to conform.

shinohai: I always believed they are conditioned to love them upboats, ala https://imgur.com/gallery/Ogbkto0

asciilifeform: verisimilitude: good # of'em want to 'look' 'clever' to 'make tenure' etc

snsabot: (trilema) 2017-08-07 asciilifeform: because 'you can't get tenure by saying let's-use-rsa' and you won't get $trillion if you ~do~ dig up the old blueprint

snsabot: (trilema) 2017-03-02 asciilifeform: the 'let's use anything, ANYTHING but rsa' thing really grates on me.

snsabot: (trilema) 2017-03-22 asciilifeform: aaaaanything-but-rsa!!!1111

verisimilitude: I dislike that website. An image hoster fails at simply hosting images.

asciilifeform: shinohai: doesn't load here

shinohai: ah will upload chikun to www when I'm back @ desk.

asciilifeform: shinohai: i wasn't even talking about the redditus; literally don't give rat's arse what they do or 'think'

shinohai doesn't see much difference between HN and reddit tbh. Same lemmings, different banner.

asciilifeform: shinohai: wasn't alleging that there's a diff., or that redditus is only found in the orig. reddit

asciilifeform: the biomass in question is unfortunately nao found just about errywhere.

verisimilitude: That's also mine experience, shinohai.

verisimilitude: They like to think themselves so very clever, yet fail to understand how that stupid voting system is abused.

verisimilitude: A term which has arisen for this is ``bugmen'', asciilifeform.

asciilifeform: verisimilitude: familiar w/ 'credo quia absurdum' ?

verisimilitude: I'll hazard a guess at translation.

verisimilitude: Be it ``rules with regards to the absurd''?

asciilifeform: mno

verisimilitude: I've not yet resumed my studies. In any case, what then?

asciilifeform: verisimilitude: 'i believe because it is absurd'. attributed to the early christians.

verisimilitude: Ah, so similar to ``You are insane because you are not like us.''.

asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the history is contested, but concept 100% applies. you can't found a religion on '1+1==2' or 'fire is hot'. but on idiocies -- can, makes simple to distinguish 'believers'. in current-day game-theoretical parlance, 'expensive signal'.

asciilifeform: verisimilitude: no relation at all

verisimilitude: I saw one, but alright.

asciilifeform bbl

verisimilitude: I'm reminded of Moldbug's writings.

verisimilitude: He wrote of how anyone can believe in the truth, of how lies are uniforms, and with uniforms there are armies.

asciilifeform: verisimilitude: the idea is at least 2k y.o.

verisimilitude: Yes.

shinohai: Sorry asciilifeform gonna hafta stop studying ffa, imma get a REAL education: http://btc.info.gf/uploads/ACTNOW.jpg

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform: notbad

asciilifeform: oblig.

verisimilitude: I've a joke about this.

verisimilitude: Colleges are quick to create degrees related to ``cyber'' topics. There would be ``cyber nursing'' degrees if they thought they could get away with it.

asciilifeform: 'sucker born erry minute, and 2 to take him'(tm)(r)(barnum)