awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: Logged on to pay CCSS this morning only to find the payment option disaparecido. Account manager says there's some problem with CCSS's system and will inform me when it's fixed. Then I see this: https://qcostarica.com/hacking-of-the-ccss-hospitals-cant-turn-on-computers/
awt[billymg|asciilifeform]: CCSS is CR's obummercare fyi
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: attack "exceptionally violent"!!!
shinohai[asciilifeform]: LMAO, a++ lulz awt
u0_a280[asciilifeform]: testing blatta 9977
shinohai[asciilifeform]: Nice work awt, nick shows up perfect now!
u0_a280[asciilifeform]: $ticker btc usd
busybot[asciilifeform]: Current BTC price in USD: $30139.97
u0_a280[asciilifeform]: Well *that* is strange though - I see bot's response from deskyop but not here.
u0_a280[asciilifeform]: *desktop
signpost[asciilifeform] anticipates the weeping and gnashing of teeth in BTC soon.
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: signpost: summer/fall of pain incoming
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: shinohai: cool good to hear
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: pestbot: ping
u0_a280[asciilifeform]: $uptime
busybot[asciilifeform]: The bot has been up for: 40 days 2 hours 15 minutes and 20 seconds
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: Interesting fed response to Russia and China being cut off from the US.
u0_a280[asciilifeform]: Nice to see that a shitty lil arm processor handles blatta just fine ^_^
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: Real estate perhaps starting to turn. We shall see.
asciilifeform: signpost: cheapcoinz when!
bitbot: Logged on 2022-06-01 18:38:17 awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: Interesting fed response to Russia and China being cut off from the US.
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: billymg: No recent news. But not clear raising interest rates will help with inflation caused by deglobalization.
billymg: awt: right, what does raising interest rates do in the face of russia and china dumping dollars
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: Also - more expensive to make antibiotics in North/South America, Cars, Electronics, etc.
billymg: this is anecdotal, but those new macbook pros are unobtainium right now
billymg: they first came out october last year
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: billymg: 2500 for the 16" on apple's site
billymg: with shipping times into august already, for the non-customized version
awt[asciilifeform|billymg] went through episode in which old mbpro battery swelled - "repair" took a month, mbpro with sufficient horsepower unavailable for weeks.
billymg: an excerpt from a recent dmitry orlov article
billymg: "So sorry, problem at container port, must wait for product!"
billymg: i wonder if when CPI is calculated they use MSRP or the price you pay scalpers to actually get the thing you want
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: It's hard to believe they even released the fake 8.5% number
asciilifeform: billymg: after 2 'official' batteries, started doing'em w/ own hands, turns out only takes hr or so
asciilifeform: chinesium spares are ~fiddybux
asciilifeform: ( need eye dropper & a few ml of 99+% ethyl , and new battery naturally )
asciilifeform: + plastic spudger.
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: asciilifeform: neat. may give it a shot next time. currently only use one for music production.
asciilifeform: awt: you gotta do it before it balloons to the pt where keyboard bends/breaks tho (crapple's repair depot included the latter , but afaik there's nowhere you can readily buy that part)
billymg: asciilifeform: i did an iphone battery replacement myself once, wasn't bad. believe it or not my current 10yr old macbook pro battery not yet dead
shinohai[asciilifeform]: My previous lappy was an HP, battery swelled in little over a year of use. Simply tossed it since for around a hundy more than the battery cost I could simply buy new lappy.
awt[billymg|asciilifeform]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-employee-nft-marketplace-charged-first-ever-digital-asset-insider-trading-scheme
shinohai[asciilifeform]: Color me shocked.
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: I AM a bit shocked
awt[asciilifeform|billymg]: Not that insider trading was happening, obv.