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lobbes: http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1943810 << I think I get this now, and it fits with the theme of today's logs of the republic *taking ownership of a space* before the orcs do their thing. In this instance, it is the blogification of irc, and if it takes until 2020 than we've already lost the plot of the job in the first place
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-09 19:13:37 mp_en_viaje: obv if i wanted to pay less i'd have made the award less. i don't, not because "it's what it's worth" (which very eminently isn't, true market value of the item's prolly in the $70-$150 range, depending where you buy it) but because tryina prime the pump, so people can go "hey, we made something out of crumpled wad!", why not.
lobbes: So I agree now that 2020 delivery is, in fact, utterly insane. Fire has been lit under arse; I will kick this into higher gear
mp_en_viaje: well it'll be key infrastructure in any case, if it eventually permits irc-isation of "login" web idiocy.
lobbes: interesting, so like, instead of posting via a web login, just submit a post via bot?
mp_en_viaje: no, instead of interfacing with whatever idiotic pantsuit outfit via their website, you just do it through their bot they don't even have enough sense to have written themselves.
lobbes: aha, I see. Has applications way beyond blogging alone
mp_en_viaje: nothing keeps you from having a simple !f nc f <25 bot for public usage except for your not having thought about it and me talking in a vacuum on trilema and in general. but the "system" was long ago raped wide open, all it needs is proper interfacing
ossabot: Logged on 2018-03-07 19:20:48 mircea_popescu: sooo... big deal, 1 sent girl to buy a bagful of phone numbers. they cost, no joke, $2.5 here. EXCEPT, of course, they want your "cedula", you know, "por activacion".
mp_en_viaje: which obviously will happen when i breadcrumb, 5+years after, whatever. what can i do.
mp_en_viaje: but ultimately, the bot's supposed to count for a small to medium sized corp all by itself, do the job of 500 or so of the useless fuckheads calling themselves "employees" in pantsuitistan
mp_en_viaje: think about it, if clucker can "make website account", why exactly can't lobbesbot ? outside of "because lobbes hasn't written that part yet"
lobbes: this makes a lot of sense
mp_en_viaje: all the needful things that were supposed to have well been done by hand by now so we know how to code them by the sort of self-sufficient cocksuckers who won't do things for love or money still need to be done, and then once done automated, and so following.
mp_en_viaje: sure, at the rate we're so far going we'll have nothing never, but i'm not married to the crew, i'm married to performance.
lobbes: well, then I need to make sure I'm on the performance end of the stick
mp_en_viaje: regardless, http://trilema.com/2014/spamming-reddit-an-experiment/ still stands : by the time we're done, empire won't be able to distinguish its meatsacks from bots. end of story, let it send lobbesbot get-out-the-vote cards.
mp_en_viaje: each 5mn "profiles" of it.
BingoBoingo returned from overdue grocery run. Peaked at headlines and feels incredibly handicapped with current Turkey/US/NATO/Trump lolz happening and Qntra dark. Going to the basement to check pipe. Sky and forecast are hinting rain so any extraction further extraction tonight is going to be limited to rails and cables/whatever fits under raincover
BingoBoingo: Peeked, though headlines seem to be peaking. Trump ordered US to stop human shielding Kurds, informing minimum of personel in doing so before announcement. Now Turkey is doing their long desired Syria ops freely.
mp_en_viaje: the "global superpower" days well over.
BingoBoingo: Predictably the usual congress critters are calling for Turkey's NATO expulsion despite NATO fiatpapers not having any provisions for expulsion
mp_en_viaje: lol, if they expel turkey they disintegrate, it can just about counter them alone.
mp_en_viaje: turkey evidently doesn't want to outright quit but wouldn't mind being expelled, then it can pretty much sell europe to the russians like a common whore, by the night or by the hour, by the hole or by the pair.
BingoBoingo: Right. I wouldn't be surprised if Turkey/Russia end up sharing Europe.
mp_en_viaje: will force germany to rearm.
mp_en_viaje: should be lulzy to see the anglo-franco-italian lulzchorus once that happens, as they couldn't possibly.
BingoBoingo: But rearm who? The German folk from your description seem to require some rapid hardening.
BingoBoingo: !q asciilifeform Were you going to pick up an "anyserver" to get the blogs back online or should I do it when I get back from basement mission?
mp_en_viaje: well... i guess we see.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, Muscovite/Ottman Europe may or may not be the anti-Mandarin language retardation counter the world needs.
mp_en_viaje: who knows
mp_en_viaje: apparently this only works half the time, didn't see it before.
BingoBoingo: lolAlemania
BingoBoingo: Back massaged, brb from the rack when I get there if IPs were indeed released
mp_en_viaje: such lulz
asciilifeform: grr apparently asciilifeform is sclerotic , because :
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i missed a crate when inventoried x86 boxen.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: contains, fwiw, a 'xeon' (intelism) 2x cpu. 2 5in. bays, some form of raid (will have to boot up if interested.)
mp_en_viaje: lol, as common of paupers, to mislay their absent wealth by the crateful.
asciilifeform: so, this was lie, and i apologize.
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-09 20:21:21 asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: the only rackable i have in stock here is the rktron.
asciilifeform: nao, does anyone want such a thing racked !
mp_en_viaje: s'okay, i take the main thrust of the thing.
asciilifeform nao gettin' spamola from orcs, 'pleez dear sir rack sumthing?'
asciilifeform: i suspect they're ~empty like Bingo's people
asciilifeform: http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944144 << ftr i actually agree with mp_en_viaje , it's, wat, a 100ln proggy?!
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-09 23:00:49 lobbes: So I agree now that 2020 delivery is, in fact, utterly insane. Fire has been lit under arse; I will kick this into higher gear
mp_en_viaje: it's mostly needlework, like the old 1990s computing olympiad problems, "do all these many things".
asciilifeform: ~all programming's needlwurk, mp_en_viaje
mp_en_viaje: but not heavy nor subtantial.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, well no, phuctor-likes are claw work, very different thing.
asciilifeform: even 'heavy' isjust heavy needlework.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: but ya didnt ask him to bake a phuctor.
mp_en_viaje: did not.
mp_en_viaje: and finally, billy's thing is more scrape work, also different.
mp_en_viaje: there's different kinds, not all programming's needlework.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i cleaned the intel box in case end up asking for it if not turks.
asciilifeform: ( since was asked for inventory : there are 3 'apu1' amd machines, w/out ears. an' a set of ears. )
mp_en_viaje to bed.
asciilifeform: goodnight mp_en_viaje
lobbes: http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944047 << if this were to be done I'd say trinque probably better fit for the role. While I am always hungry for BTC, my orcbux stash took a hit while jettisoning dependopotamus. I'm currently regrouping financially speaking, and while my monthly cashflow should be increasing by ~ $1k in the coming months, I'll still be at 'pauper' level in real terms. Consumption continues to be slashed, howe
lobbes: ver, which is very nice
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-09 20:55:15 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It may be worth working with lobbes/trinque to see if a BTC/Dubloo circuit in the zone can be established. The one thing the US has is cables everywhere. Argentina hangs off of the "Tannat" cable still further from Fortaleza than Uruguay
asciilifeform: lobbes: mp dun want that one, tho, cuz ' you can't do x, can't do y, you're anti-useful ' etc, who am i to argue
asciilifeform: lobbes: it could be revved up in day or 2 but all i got here on desk to fill with is the listed items atm.
asciilifeform: lobbes: why, do ~you~ want it ?
asciilifeform: i.e. for own purposes ?
asciilifeform: just cuz mp dun want to inhabit it dun mean it could not be inhabited. he did not say 'i'ma excommunicate anyone who lives there' just yet.
asciilifeform: http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944153 << this is a point -- why couldn't bot control www standups.
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-09 23:14:23 mp_en_viaje: think about it, if clucker can "make website account", why exactly can't lobbesbot ? outside of "because lobbes hasn't written that part yet"
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-09 23:27:23 mp_en_viaje: will force germany to rearm.
asciilifeform: http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944170 << he did say 'do it tomorrow if i dun find a proper' neh.
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-09 23:29:00 BingoBoingo: !q asciilifeform Were you going to pick up an "anyserver" to get the blogs back online or should I do it when I get back from basement mission?
asciilifeform: wb BingoBoingo
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I am presently inside the rack. It appears once everything went dark they decided to unblock the IPs as reported. Or the did it when they saw I was wheeling out the last 1U servers and warned them I'd be back to check
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: we discussed this, neh. they'll 'fix' and it'll go until again breaks.
BingoBoingo: Well last eta to restore something resembling a service was 1 month
BingoBoingo: And Imma do a test
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the subscribers who are jettisoning their iron may want it plugged in until last day, let'em say.
asciilifeform: oughta keep in mind that live disks could fall into hands of enemy then.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: With the 1Us out I am not inclined to plug anything back in unless explicitly requested by the customer
asciilifeform: i dun expect that anyone'll request, but see no reason to refuse if specifically requested.
asciilifeform: so long as $subscriber understands what he's getting into.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you can try plugging qntra in, if you dare.
asciilifeform: ( iirc lived on BingoBoingo's personal iron )
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It came out in duffel run. Was on tiny box I flew in that held first pizarro www and dns server along with first pizarro trb node
asciilifeform: aha i recall
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: can plug it in, just be prepared to lose the box if the orcs lock you out
asciilifeform: it's a , wat, 100bux box ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: They seemed very disinclined to lock out seeing as I wheeled out the last 1Us today, stated my intention to empty cabinet, etc
asciilifeform: well it's paidup through end of oct neh.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: All in it came under 500 USD. One of the AMD mobile processors on ITX board in iirc 10-ish inch deep rackmount case
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you wanna plug it in, it's b/w you and odin.
asciilifeform: whothefuckknows, maybe somehow latech obtained, from martians, proper net pipe in last 2d.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'd only plug it in to see if it draws the aggro, and no. They simply unblocked the IPs per Oscar's report. Oscar is candid when the salesorcs aren't around. But... He's in a position where he's the telecom manager by title and has not the telecom to manage
asciilifeform: so they simply recocked the 'if ddos, unplug'em' pistol, eh.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that thing's prolly destined for the scrapyard, so wainot, plug in, see for own curiosity what happens to it.
asciilifeform: it's yer box.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It's portable enough it could make fine desktop machine.
asciilifeform: then not. as you like.
asciilifeform: ( 500 seems steep for such a thing, btw, imho. )
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I assembled it from parts. RAM, SSD, etc add up. Did not come from a surplus pile.
asciilifeform: even then.
asciilifeform: where didja buy them parts, BingoBoingo , at airport ??
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Newegg. SSD and a power supply in the right form factor for the case were iirc the big expenses
BingoBoingo: It didn't seem to make sense to scrimp on the power supply or disk.
asciilifeform: all them folx who think ' asciilifeform's machines expensive, why need angela when can monica ' oughta try buyin' from 'folx who do x, who do y', see how they sing.
asciilifeform: equiv. of e.g. uy1 'new, on newegg' easily 25k usd.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: observe that in 2y of piz, not 1 'ew, he buys old irons' component failed.
asciilifeform: why ? cuz asciilifeform tested'em. incl. ps, with meters. an' scrubbed, etc.
asciilifeform: an' 'burn-in' .
asciilifeform: but! asciilifeform apparently charlatan. rent, why not, some piece of even older junk in turkey, wainot.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Power for dollar, you do seem to have a knack for buying machines. As I'm digesting the day's conversation the objection from mp seems to be the mindset which produces this frugality is handicapping when extended to other areas.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: am i wrong btw ? did even 1 fail ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Not one of them failed, and I can very much see why you are inclined to rehome them.
asciilifeform: bbut, BingoBoingo ! 'who needs fucktarded angela when..'! wainot, go, pay 25k for box that asciilifeform sews for 1k.
ericbot: Logged on 2017-02-18 22:54:14 asciilifeform: (iirc we had a thread where i described how corporate ameritards, if given a problem like phuctor, would happily soak up a few $mil and megawatt of iron)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: maybe FG also just a fashion accessory. whocares whether installed, aha.
asciilifeform: it's a wonder, BingoBoingo , that anyone came to piz. did they just take pity on us rubes or wat.
lobbes liked dealing with humans, of course
lobbes: In related leased server news, turns out the singapore hoster was more trouble than worth; communication impossible (all emails met by automated "ticket" creation followed by 5+ scripted spam responses) and they wanted scanned driver's license + credit card. Told 'em noty
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-08 22:39:54 lobbes: http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1942833 << btw, I've snagged another leased server from some singapore heathen hoster. Once they provision the thing and give login info then auctionbot will live again. However, if it is desperately needed in the meantime I can slap it up on the usg hoster as a stop-gap measure
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-09 00:05:43 asciilifeform: i suppose oughta proper auction.
lobbes: Ended up just calling my current usg hoster I use for the logs; they said no problem and would get a second server leased and provisioned 'today' (albeit I was told this 12 hours ago) . I'll say one thing, at least this particular usg hoster is responsive.
asciilifeform: lobbes: the usa hosters that deal w/ humans, are pretty starved for biz & eagertoplease. they're dying under lulazon and other 'i can't believe it ain't hosting!'
asciilifeform: the people who 'Just Want'(tm)(r) 'a box, 24/7, dun want to swap raid disks, or keep a greasy asciilifeform around to voltage test ps' etc. are all nao in 'cloud'.
asciilifeform: it's the logical conclusion of JustWantage.
lobbes: Dreamin' in the Clouds
lobbes: http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-10#1944215 << not really, tbh. Would rather not be chained to the zone for any longterm. Medium term plans include sitting tight while I save up a sizable wad of fiatola (now that I *can* actually save) and sort through the crap I've accumulated; sending unessentials to /dev/null
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-10 00:07:08 asciilifeform: lobbes: why, do ~you~ want it ?
asciilifeform: an' it's sold by the pound. interchangeable, predictable, exactly like 'serious biz' folx luvv so Much.
asciilifeform: lobbes: 100% of dc in asciilifeform's immediate 50km radius, nao host ~just~ lulazon.
asciilifeform: it's squeezed out the actual-people rack-a-box biz.
lobbes: I believe it. Most big corps also bought into "cloud" marketing
asciilifeform: even usg.cia nao on lulazon.
asciilifeform: they have an entire shitfarm not far from here. aint even seekrit anymoar where.
BingoBoingo: Maybe they did? Anyways what I read this afternoon was MP opening up the chance to start deploying S.NSA funds to rent and give pipe to a rack, that while in hostile lands is near-ish to asciilifeform who seems married to the same lands. When faced with this offer the reflexive response was to terminally stall on the fiat/BTC conversion problem. You did not propose investigating or collaborating with other folks still stuck inside the
BingoBoingo: wire on solving the fiat/BTC conversion problem. From there things went downhill.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i dun force-feed people , it dun work.
asciilifeform: also, BingoBoingo , even if he had asked for the rack, we cannot teleport the boxen, it wouldnot satisfy the 'omfg want uy1 NAO!!' req.
asciilifeform: right-NAO! can only be done via diana_coman's method .
lobbes: I mean, wasn't the UY1 nao problem already solved earlier in the convo with stop-gap measures
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-09 19:04:12 mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, tomorrow if nothing yields by then, yes.
asciilifeform: lobbes: that'd be (see thread) lulazon.
lobbes: right, temporary solution. I.e. didn't seem germane to 'can't teleport boxen' point re: the rack convo
asciilifeform: btw just as mp_en_viaje said 'orc dc is at least just as terrible, turns out, as usa dc' i'm quite convinced that 'lease rando box from turks' aint any 'cleaner' than 'ask asciilifeform for lulazon aws in 15min'
asciilifeform: lulazon , for all that i spit on it, worx. like a well-cleaned airport toilet in munich .
asciilifeform: if one dun give a damn whether to live in a public toilet, it's ~the~ public toilet.
asciilifeform: iirc it even knows how to eat btc ( tho ftr i never once considered to try )
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well it'd take ARIN a week or so to get your IPs which would make for a tight schedule even FedEx'ing or couriering boxes, but the lockup on fiat/BTC interfacing so early and definitively...
asciilifeform: i've had a certain piece of shit running there for 5y, lobbes . and it stayed up 24/7/365.
asciilifeform: 'the customer', BingoBoingo , 'is always right'(tm)(r) .
asciilifeform: you oughta know that.
BingoBoingo: lobbes: Part of the UY1 problem is solved. Backups are on a machine awaiting trinque making them available. Other part of UY1 problem is standing up an "anyserver" to get some blogs up and running again.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I can't help it if no one finds the US safe and rich enough to do bicycle cash deliveries
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: mp asked for x. upfront i told that can only produce y. he said 'no ty' and i respect.
asciilifeform: if i had x up my sleeve, i swear, would not lie, would pull it out.
asciilifeform: i aint about to try to convince that x == y when it != . or that i can bake an x outta toothpicks in 3days.or whichever.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: cash delivery would do 0.
BingoBoingo: Aite, I'm going to stop sitting on the DC floor, put some cables in the bag and hope it isn't raining when I reach the surface world
asciilifeform: goodnight BingoBoingo .
asciilifeform: i'ma have to liedown soon.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Bike guy also does bank wires
asciilifeform: except for the day he doesn't.
asciilifeform: or the day is fbi stoolie.
BingoBoingo: Well, that's what less eager fellow who wants BTC is for
asciilifeform: and on top of it all, that rack aint doin' anyone any good when asciilifeform gassed.
asciilifeform: which i suspect is at least part of the reason mp didnt want it.
asciilifeform: and is fair.
asciilifeform: wb trinque .
BingoBoingo: wb trinque
BingoBoingo to return to surface world
lobbes: In unrelated news, I turned 32 today (yesterday?). Death clock keeps ticking.
lobbes: On that note, I'm off to sew mp-wp bot before we all die of old age
asciilifeform: happy bd lobbes
lobbes: ty
asciilifeform: lobbes you might be the youngest among us ship o'fools.
trinque: evening all
lobbesbot: trinque: Sent 3 hours and 52 minutes ago: <BingoBoingo> Backups have finished uploading to the deedbot server.
asciilifeform: goodevening trinque
trinque: BingoBoingo thanks, saw, now getting ssh access set up for them.
asciilifeform: trinque is my memory playin' tricks or do you in fact run a dc in texasistan ?
trinque: nah, I don't
asciilifeform: trinque: ever wanted to ?
trinque: can't say that I do.
asciilifeform: trinque: all you'd have to do, is convert arbitrary tonnage of btc to usd, pick an' lease a rack, fill it with irons, y'know, replace asciilifeform and the other charlatans who previously did this.
asciilifeform: oh and of course visit it erry coupla days, clean it, put in os for people, etc.
trinque: no startup is an every couple days affair. it's an every waking moment affair, and it redefines waking without your asking too.
asciilifeform: i'm not even making a joke against mp , perhaps he's right that somewhere there lives the hero with 8 hands who can do all of this on spec.
asciilifeform: trinque: indeed it does.
asciilifeform: trinque: i had dulap scroll to a physical screen 24/7, for instance.
asciilifeform: and even in other rooms of house ditto.
asciilifeform: when uy1 was suspected of overheat, had its thermometer displayed also where could see it, even when eating.
asciilifeform very tired, goes to horizontal pos.
trinque: recall I offered to redo your website (as a first step into your having any marketing effort whatsoever)
trinque: I don't know if the soviets invented some kind of circumcision that removes the "and then you persuade people to give you their money for the thing you have"
trinque: or what
trinque: anyhow that copy I wrote for your wacky larping index page never went up. I don't beg my way into other people's struggling businesses.
trinque: at any rate, I don't take pleasure in pissing on failure. it's a weakness I have, so lets leave it at that.
trinque: lobbes: you around to confirm ssh access to the box with uy1 backups?
lobbes: trinque, sure I can test.
trinque: should be same ssh key they had.
lobbes: kk, testing nao
lobbes: trinque: hmm port 50022 still?
BingoBoingo: trinque: Thank you for helping with the cleanup.
lobbes: trinque: ah okay, worx. I am in
BingoBoingo: lobbes: no, at least not when I uploaded
lobbes goes to grab tarball
lobbes: ty for backup BingoBoingo, and for hosting it trinque
trinque: glad it worked
BingoBoingo: lobbes: Did you want your Rockchip drive backed up as well?
BingoBoingo: Or did you want it mailed
lobbes: BingoBoingo: I have (I think) recent backups of that already, but I would love it mailed if that is being offered. I can pay for postage ofc
BingoBoingo: lobbes: Please check and let me know
lobbes goes to confirm
lobbes: BingoBoingo: confirmed. I have both recent blog dump and auctionbot postgres dumps. I should be good to go for the time-being
BingoBoingo: lobbes: ty
trinque: bvt, cruciform, danielpbarron, hanbot, lobbes, mats, mocky, mod6, nicoleci, peterl, thimbronion, whaack : http://paste.deedbot.org/?id=LxFh
BingoBoingo has pulled the trigger on a heathenbox. Hopefully will get to setting it up soon.
BingoBoingo: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944320 << Death comes for everyone. Your micro/macro risk calculation organs are calibrated in a way that all to frequently weighs in favor of the perfect at the expense of the possible and at times the necessary as well. I am trying to take Señor Popescu's lessons and if he thinks I ought to apprentice as a datacenter tech in an actual employement role... I'm going put myself out there
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 22:23:04 asciilifeform: and on top of it all, that rack aint doin' anyone any good when asciilifeform gassed.
BingoBoingo: and not limit the search to Vienna, Warsaw, and Anatolia simply because more civilization survives there than apparently anywhere else.
BingoBoingo: With respect to keeping anything powered on in the rack serving anything, it damages the case that "we might have a stable connection in a month" is unacceptable.
trinque: speaking of larping, what's this "gassed" thing?
trinque: "daddy pls hurt me" ?
trinque: BingoBoingo: man I hardly think perfect's the word here. it literally means complete!
trinque: the honest assessment is y'all didn't have a man onboard that wanted to do the business part of the business.
BingoBoingo: trinque: Well that's kind what the loper-os vision of computing is. Compare to MP's I'll buy it but it better work or I'll break it.
BingoBoingo: <trinque> the honest assessment is y'all didn't have a man onboard that wanted to do the business part of the business. << This seems very accurate.
BingoBoingo: "Server for sale, in Uruguay" seems like the Pizarro version of "Baby shoes, never worn"
asciilifeform: http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-10#1944352 << this is actuallly good q, BingoBoingo why didntcha put it in
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-10 02:01:18 trinque: anyhow that copy I wrote for your wacky larping index page never went up. I don't beg my way into other people's struggling businesses.
BingoBoingo: When the Bitcoin declaration of independence went around gathering signatures in 2014, it was enough to dislike the USG and want to see the USG done. Now, for the failures of marketing outside of the MP household... much of the language about the Republic seems larpish, except when he says it because... He's been a battleship before Bitcoin.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It went in late, which in retrospect is as good as never.
asciilifeform: http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-10#1944353 << just think, how much couldve pissed, if we went down with 40 riders instead of 7 !
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-10 02:02:18 trinque: at any rate, I don't take pleasure in pissing on failure. it's a weakness I have, so lets leave it at that.
asciilifeform: http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-10#1944379 << 'gas' is a 'when', not 'if', it aint a 'ohai i'ma coward'. refs to well-known hazards of living in totalitarian shithole.
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-10 02:51:40 trinque: speaking of larping, what's this "gassed" thing?
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-10 03:01:45 BingoBoingo: "Server for sale, in Uruguay" seems like the Pizarro version of "Baby shoes, never worn"
BingoBoingo to take unwinding unloaded walk and then bed.
asciilifeform to genuine bed.
BingoBoingo: Sleep well
trinque: it's not coward; it's narcissism
trinque: *cowardice
trinque: they don't know who the fuck you are
lobbes: in other news, I have knocked out all items in week 4 mp-wp work plan. Next on list is: the search blog portion, and the sending pingbacks from irc portion
lobbes: turns out, btw, that the whole "detect permalinks structure" thing wasn't even needed... the "guid" field does not represent, as I erroneously thought prior, the absolute path to the post. mp-wp just puts the absolute path in there "by default" as the guid. Saved a lot of time by realizing that
lobbes: mp_en_viaje: I meant to ask earlier, do you want the logged lines on the blog to be linkable ala the standard logger?
lobbes to bed
lobbes: I mean to say above: do you want the links appearing in the log lines to be enclosed in <a href> tags
diana_coman: in early morning crop, only 4 replies: 1 is "please hold on, will enquire"; 2 is "invoicing is a problem because local laws bla" (I've replied to them with simple solution aka their person comes and interfaces); 3 is can't do + we are obnoxious and you do as we say (south koreans too!) 4. is again "help, please hold, will ask boss"
diana_coman: there should be more coming as I've contacted yest ~30 new providers.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944210 << nobody's talking to you as some sort of established pile of wonder, where what you ~have~ is interesting. i'm sure it's not. the idea is whether what you ~do~ can be interesting. if you're leaving for thailand, it's one thing,
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 21:04:31 lobbes: http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944047 << if this were to be done I'd say trinque probably better fit for the role. While I am always hungry for BTC, my orcbux stash took a hit while jettisoning dependopotamus. I'm currently regrouping financially speaking, and while my monthly cashflow should be increasing by ~ $1k in the coming months, I'll still be at 'pauper' level in real terms. Consumption continues to be slashed, howe
mp_en_viaje: but if you're staying put, can you at least master the btc to dubaloo interfacing in your area ? can you be a useful someone, rather than alf-style loud someone ?
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-09 20:55:15 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It may be worth working with lobbes/trinque to see if a BTC/Dubloo circuit in the zone can be established. The one thing the US has is cables everywhere. Argentina hangs off of the "Tannat" cable still further from Fortaleza than Uruguay
mp_en_viaje: if i reside in a location (which i do, multiple) i can answer a number of questions. "where's the best restaurant", i can answer, and if i like you it'll even be "i'll take you there". "are there any hot whores ?" i can answer, and if i like you i can even send you some. "do you know a lawyer ?" i can answer, and so following.
mp_en_viaje: when i returned to timisoara i moved into a place my left-behind man on the ground got for me, when phf showed up in minsk i took him to places my advance team either researched or actually scouted, these are things.
mp_en_viaje: ownership of a place is a thing.
mp_en_viaje: so the question actually was, "any chance you'd extend your presumed ownership of georgia-carolina-tenesee" into the tri-state area such as to cover this inept schmuck, who can't apparently get out of the house, and help him out do basic self-support tasks ?
mp_en_viaje: because this is what you're supposed to fucking do, being our man in amsterdam means you can answer questions about amsterdam.
mp_en_viaje: that's what BingoBoingo_ was to do in uruguay, and did as-best-he-could which didn't get accepted as acceptable, let alone very well, this is what mocky went to do in qatar -- figure out if it's worth doing at all, this is what life is.
mp_en_viaje: and that's the expectation, whoever;s resident answers questions. "i need a car" here you go. "seems this deal's going south" "i know this lawyer", "we want to X" "you'll have to p q and r, ima send guy over to talk to you about p, no problem, q you do thus and following, r is iffy, becayse s and t considerations, ima see what can be done".
mp_en_viaje: that's the format, and that's even the fucking reason of existing. if this isn't what you do, in what sense are you even a person, what the fuck, you're somebody's maid, ploughssharer, tavern wench, whatever it is you think you appear or attempt to say you're at no risk of being taken for a gentleman.
mp_en_viaje: in any case, if you want to sell one or ten or a hundred bitcoin in budapest i can tell you where ; or in kiev, or in munich, or in i dunno if i make myself clear here, but this vegetative state where you can do nothing, you know no one etcetera is not fit for independent living. if you're going to live like that you must live in the household of another, as a servant.
mp_en_viaje: to live independently you must master your environment sufficiently so as to warrant it.
mp_en_viaje: the very fucking point of structure speaks directly here. to be in the republic ~you must not be in pantsuit~. living the life of the atomized powerless pantsuit ~necessarily~ means you can't be in the republic.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 14:30:18 mp_en_viaje: there exist good cheeses now because (mostly french) many anon farmers produced the structure to protect them.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 21:41:08 asciilifeform: where didja buy them parts, BingoBoingo , at airport ??
mp_en_viaje: he;s gonna fill up the channel with idiotic old woman wailing now, on top of ten thousand lines of being hysterically useless.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944264 << every heuristic is potentially useful while gripped firmly in your hand, and damaging if it takes over the head.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 21:50:00 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Power for dollar, you do seem to have a knack for buying machines. As I'm digesting the day's conversation the objection from mp seems to be the mindset which produces this frugality is handicapping when extended to other areas.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944283 << if you continue in this vein of stupid, stroking your hurt ego by knocking down straw dollies you imagined, ima simply devoice you.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 22:05:05 asciilifeform: an' it's sold by the pound. interchangeable, predictable, exactly like 'serious biz' folx luvv so Much.
mp_en_viaje: you're not fucking useful. learn to be useful or get the fuck lost, it can't be any plainer than that.
mp_en_viaje: your self-permitted "oh, i can't do x, but that's ok" went as far as it did, ~tolerated~, not accepted.
mp_en_viaje: it'll never be accepted, because stupid is stupid, and "i can't do x" is never anything but stupid.
mp_en_viaje: BingoBoingo_, is in on the carpet over not managing to magic over workable orcs in the south american outback over a coupla years ? he got there he didn't even speak the fucking language.
mp_en_viaje: meanwhile you've been sitting on your dumb ass for fucking decades, telling me you can't handle half a coin like you're fucking proud of it ?
mp_en_viaje: i'd rather deal with amazon than with red stapler idiot bullshit each day of the week, who the fuck do you think gives a shit about your elaborate list of can't do's ?!
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 22:09:37 asciilifeform: also, BingoBoingo , even if he had asked for the rack, we cannot teleport the boxen, it wouldnot satisfy the 'omfg want uy1 NAO!!' req.
mp_en_viaje: you make a big noise, oh, "i like this, oh i do that", people end up imagining inside the noisecloud there's some substance.
mp_en_viaje: yes, on the basis of the pompous bullshit you keep spitting into the logs i had formed the impression that you're sitting on a large stash of assorted hardware, which is a major factor of your manifest refusal to leave the washington swamp.
mp_en_viaje: and yes i had thought that offering you the opportunity to at least rack some of that, thereby liquidating it without losing ownership, would be exactly the pill to resolve the cash flow woes of an otherwise useful and intelligent gent.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-08 06:39:33 mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-07#1942062 << the uy nonsense caught you just right huh!
mp_en_viaje: because that was the structure of THAT conversation, actually, irrespective what the shit between your ears may have misrepresented it as : i noted you got your fingers caught, and then i pointed out WHY you got your fingers caught, and then took the first opportunity to offer some slack to extract yourself.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-08 12:12:42 asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: not disputing the general principle. but finding it difficult to see how would have made a diff re the latech thing.
mp_en_viaje: which you promptly took and hung self with, which is fucking fine.
mp_en_viaje: not even half year ago you were here making a big noise about your x-ray machine and how to adapt microscopes and shoot nonpareils out of your asshole.
mp_en_viaje: not even a week ago you were grumbling about how you want whatever opterons "you sealed" back, as if you're some kind of fucking actor, maybe you own 10% of the remaining stock of opterons, who the fuck knows.
mp_en_viaje: then it turns out you've been talking out of your ass.
mp_en_viaje: i can't even be arsed to distinguish whether it's the case that some weirdo is in fact SO weird as to actually have an xray machine, microscopes etcetera but 0 boxes, or rather the case some fifteen yo is just talking along with the crowd, a sort of [][zelig], becoming overweight when talking to overweight people about their obexsity and growing a beard when hanging out with rabbis.
mp_en_viaje: cuz that's what i fucking needed, you know, not -- god forbid -- a working isp, oh no, not that. i wanted some fucking kitchen xray shots of some long dead gramophone. THAT is what was needed, it'll make the apotropaion of alf, when the darkness comes we just show it that and it walks away.
mp_en_viaje: fucking idiot.
mp_en_viaje: you're poor because you're stupid. and you'll stay poor for as long as you stay stupid. that's the whole fucking story.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944321 << yes, sure, in some complexly contorted re-interpretation it could be said that i don't want it because someone inept enough to have a problem with the bitcoin is probably just as inept in other places and will do something stupid enough to be a danger of life and limb.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 22:23:12 asciilifeform: which i suspect is at least part of the reason mp didnt want it.
mp_en_viaje: similarily, if i was hiring and this engineer dude showed up, passed the quals, and then explained that he must have limo service from company, because he can't drive and is affraid of trams and the bus driver is mean to him, i'd hve similarly said no thanks. because, again, some dude too inept to have mastered transportation is not qualified to play the engineer, irrespective of what the paperwork girlies say.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 22:24:30 lobbes: In unrelated news, I turned 32 today (yesterday?). Death clock keeps ticking.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944350 << actually that was the whole idea. the entire concept of a socialist economy is that market communication is spurious because somehow everyone inherits the perfect knowledge of the planners.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 22:59:18 trinque: I don't know if the soviets invented some kind of circumcision that removes the "and then you persuade people to give you their money for the thing you have"
mp_en_viaje: this is ~precisely~ the economic proposition of classical socialism, that by saving all the money "wasted" on marketing, packaging, advertising etcetera, it can pass those savings on to the customer, ~and they'll amount to something meaningful~.
mp_en_viaje: thus they indeed built a drab gray world, with no instagram sluts vying for a chance at being the next "avon ambassador", no twerking girlies tryna "make it in dis biz" of "rap" which consists of dudes vying for a chance of being the nike ideal salesman, whose paper icon is in every nike shop so the actual shoe salesman can hide after this nike jesus and sell from behind the mask
mp_en_viaje: and for that matter no cosmetics -- if girl at home ain't tryna immitate the girl selling news on tv, what need for rouge ?
mp_en_viaje: and similarily military/penitentiary underwear universally, and the yearning for something, ANYTHING else that goes with it.
mp_en_viaje: and then "inexplicably" they just fucking ended. because, apparently, meaning is not independent of the means to meaning, and if you don't manage to produce meaning you don't manage to produce anything.
mp_en_viaje: notwithstanding objectively the milk was better, and the only chocolare available better than the mode, and the mean, let alone average chocolate available in "democracy", and in general yes, an "objective dollar" / pound of silver DID, indisputably, buy more in socialism than "capitalism".
mp_en_viaje: except, of course, nobody fucking wanted it. but other than that -- yes.
mp_en_viaje: precisely and exactly and the problem is, most people don't understand anything therefore the rake's still there to step on. over, and over, and over again.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944352 << well, in socialism you universally end up having to, because there's going to be a pompous whiny idiot there who's spent all the time fucking everything up.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 23:02:01 trinque: anyhow that copy I wrote for your wacky larping index page never went up. I don't beg my way into other people's struggling businesses.
mp_en_viaje: through the holy trifecta of http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1943242 ; and who wants to be friends ; and who wants you to certify his self-given immunities, oh he doesn't suck cock and that's ok. "how the fuck could it be okay, the cock's right there. suck it, bitch" "oh, noes..."
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 09:19:28 mp_en_viaje: stop confusing cause and effect, stop looking up the wrong name server roots, stop minimaxing randomly about, it's the stuff of insanity.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944347 << dude, the problem's not your doing of the things you do. the problem's your not doing of the things you do not do.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 22:42:09 asciilifeform: when uy1 was suspected of overheat, had its thermometer displayed also where could see it, even when eating.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944353 << nobody fucking does, but what the fuck can you do, if nobody says anything the chitlins will die stupid.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 23:03:00 trinque: at any rate, I don't take pleasure in pissing on failure. it's a weakness I have, so lets leave it at that.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 23:48:44 BingoBoingo: has pulled the trigger on a heathenbox. Hopefully will get to setting it up soon.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944377 << best of luck, and don't forget to describe it in detail! that's what the blog is for after all.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 23:49:24 BingoBoingo: and not limit the search to Vienna, Warsaw, and Anatolia simply because more civilization survives there than apparently anywhere else.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944379 << the counterwright for his mechanism of nonsense. in practice it works as a scummy attachment strategy, in that it readily passes filters as "playful talk", the man's making a joke, see, it's double-entendre, like a clever use of language, oh, exaggeration, we get it.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 23:52:22 trinque: speaking of larping, what's this "gassed" thing?
mp_en_viaje: then after it passed it becomes this perpetual self-reference basis, and who knows, maybe everyone's dumb enough to actually start taking it seriously seeing how it got repeated over and over again after having not been laughed out of court outright.
mp_en_viaje: in this alt-world he's a moron-hero who can't as much as leave the house but is besieged by armed hordes nevertheless. so you can't say that he's wasting his time watching a termometer instead of eating, because there's snipers on every roof! and you can't laugh at him fucking with xra
ossabot: Logged on 2016-12-01 15:37:35 mircea_popescu: A student told his friend, "My teacher has amazing powers. He moves a pen in the air and characters appear on a piece of paper held on the other side of the river. What does your master do?" His friend replied "My great master follows Zen. When he is hungry, he eats and when he is tired he sleeps."
mp_en_viaje: ys of his toe jam instead of getting his business of the ground, because, you see, THEY GAS PEOPLE!!!
mp_en_viaje: "they" do.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 23:59:43 trinque: BingoBoingo: man I hardly think perfect's the word here. it literally means complete!
mp_en_viaje: whioch isn't even universally a bad approach, most tools are to be made to the flawless standard. which is why when he's in there gunsmithing his gun, he turns out very good work.
mp_en_viaje: the problem is that most of life consists of dealing with born, not made systems and structures. selected not designed. and in dealing with that, he is TERRIBLE. he's not even at the level of a 3yo, which'd be complete martian naivite. he's in fact numerously and profoundly counter-trained, he does things that specifically ensure failure.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-08-14 03:52:49 mp_en_viaje: it's not there because it was designed ; it's there because it was selected, which is a different thing. selection produces things that work, definitionally, that's what it is. not well or correctly or properly but AT ALL.
mp_en_viaje: perhaps because failing early is how he managed to get away from it and move back to the other lobe as a child, or for any other reason.
mp_en_viaje: the fundamental problem is that polishing a lens until it's flawless is hard but attainable ; but polishing a fishery until the water's perfectly flat is NOT attainable.
mp_en_viaje: people fish with the water not being flat, notwithstanding bumpy lens surface is hardly worth using.
diana_coman: o.O meanwhile london-based director "looked up who I am" and thinks it might be possible
diana_coman: and I was just finishing the bashing-email, now need to tweak a bit; because he still has funny ideas.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-10#1944385 << were worn, in all fairness, but certainly see the flavour.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-10 00:02:27 BingoBoingo: "Server for sale, in Uruguay" seems like the Pizarro version of "Baby shoes, never worn"
mp_en_viaje: diana_coman, report on blog later too i imagine ?
mp_en_viaje: excellent inaugural of new host, "my shit got fucked here's what i did about it", come to thinl of it.
diana_coman: mp_en_viaje: I'm amassing here a long list of stuff to report, myeah
diana_coman: but let's see if this works out because so far he's still deluded on some aspects
mp_en_viaje: and who isn't.
diana_coman: and I think he took me for some swiss coman shmidt diana academic, lol
mp_en_viaje: i discover aspects i was deluded on pretty much weekly.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-10 00:09:24 asciilifeform: http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-10#1944353 << just think, how much couldve pissed, if we went down with 40 riders instead of 7 !
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-10 02:02:18 trinque: at any rate, I don't take pleasure in pissing on failure. it's a weakness I have, so lets leave it at that.
diana_coman: there are some guys from the netherlands too who were very humbly apologizing that they can't do it; at least not obnoxious like south koreans I suppose; but anyway, this is better on a blog for sure.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-10 01:41:28 lobbes: mp_en_viaje: I meant to ask earlier, do you want the logged lines on the blog to be linkable ala the standard logger?
mp_en_viaje: i don't need it, seeing how selection mechanism, but i certainly won't make you rip it out. besides, perhaps more convenient for peeps used to it.
mp_en_viaje: this logging in the car business kicks ass.
diana_coman: apparently it occasionally kicks the can too, lolz.
mp_en_viaje: a derp it died
mp_en_viaje: well, it's easy enough to bounce back in, but yes, spessart forest kicks butt as a forest, but not the greatest for signl
diana_coman: well, I'm still trying here to get on top of the logs but between emails/isps/ixps lists & all that, it's not going that fast and I'm not even in the forest.
mp_en_viaje: well, it's easy enough to bounce back in, but yes, spessart forest kicks butt as a forest, but not the greatest for signl
mp_en_viaje: aand multi-km worth of trucks traffic jam, ftw. i betcha someone crashed.
mp_en_viaje: in any case, it turns out radio links don't work so well throyugh major traffic jams .meanwhile satlinks don't work so great in thick cloud cover such as can be had in autumnal fulda gap.
diana_coman: apparently the london guy is asking for a rider too, pretty much.
mp_en_viaje: who knows how the fuck do go about anything ;/
diana_coman: how was it? "flawless" - that thing that never works that well irl
mp_en_viaje: uh huh!
mp_en_viaje: in fairness, zee germans are a pleasure to be stuck in a stau with, such as it is. literally 1k semis orderly to the side of the road so light traffic can make it through, these folk are fuckien dsciplined.
mp_en_viaje: but also, LOTS of fucking crashing on the autobahn, this'd be the 3 major in a piddly 500 mile stretch we did so far. i'd guess half a dozen dead total, too.
mp_en_viaje: i mean wtf, it's a little rich,
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-10#1944406 << ah, i thought you meant the clickable timestamp. uh, tbh the answer stays the same : whichever works easiest.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-10 01:46:59 lobbes: I mean to say above: do you want the links appearing in the log lines to be enclosed in <a href> tags
diana_coman: and after all the time-wasting, london-guy fails; at least it's consistent with expectations.
diana_coman: they claim they accept payment via bitcoin to direct address though so if anyone wants their details, let me know; their datacentre is in London but I won't have anything further to do with them.
diana_coman: !!key crowncloud
deedbot: Not registered.
diana_coman: !!key Metronix
deedbot: Not registered.
asciilifeform: !Qlater tell mp_en_viaje if you think asciilifeform is liar, then per the mp's operating instruction you have wrong sign bit on asciilifeform's rating. i'ma take that -9 nao.
lobbesbot: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-10 08:29:13 mp_en_viaje: i can't even be arsed to distinguish whether it's the case that some weirdo is in fact SO weird as to actually have an xray machine, microscopes etcetera but 0 boxes, or rather the case some fifteen yo is just talking along with the crowd, a sort of [][zelig], becoming overweight when talking to overweight people about their obexsity and growing a beard when hanging out with rabbis.
asciilifeform: this goes for errybody else. whythefuq are you keeping a http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-10#1944432 around.
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-10 08:11:09 mp_en_viaje: you're not fucking useful. learn to be useful or get the fuck lost, it can't be any plainer than that.
diana_coman: asciilifeform: mind answering in #o for a bit; there's an indonesian isp guy that might do some work.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i'ma answer, 1s
asciilifeform: diana_coman et al : all further q's for asciilifeform , in castles plox. here i'ma answer if invoked by mp and not otherwise.
diana_coman: asciilifeform: as you wish.
diana_coman: !!key Metronix
diana_coman: mp_en_viaje: oh, hi
diana_coman: I got an australian-with-dc-partner-in-US to register with deedbot
lobbesbot: mp_en_viaje: Sent 58 minutes ago: <asciilifeform> if you think [http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-10#1944450] [asciilifeform is liar] , then per the [http://trilema.com/2014/what-the-wot-is-for-how-it-works-and-how-to-use-it/] [mp's operating instruction] you have wrong sign bit on asciilifeform's rating. i'ma take that -9 nao.
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-10 08:29:13 mp_en_viaje: i can't even be arsed to distinguish whether it's the case that some weirdo is in fact SO weird as to actually have an xray machine, microscopes etcetera but 0 boxes, or rather the case some fifteen yo is just talking along with the crowd, a sort of [][zelig], becoming overweight when talking to overweight people about their obexsity and growing a beard when hanging out with rabbis.
diana_coman: he has intel machines only but at least can invoice via deedbot apparently
diana_coman: so tbh I think I'll get one to get my blog online already
diana_coman: wtf else can I do
mp_en_viaje: nice. here ?
diana_coman: lemme bring him over
mp_en_viaje cuts through thick wall of latertold drama to emerge on to business.
mp_en_viaje: BingoBoingo_, did you get a thing going for shared clone yet ? or should i just get this guy to provide a box ?
diana_coman: !!up crowncloud_
deedbot: crowncloud_ voiced for 30 minutes.
mp_en_viaje: hi crowncloud_
crowncloud_: hey
diana_coman hasn't yet got around to rate crowncloud_ ; will do
mp_en_viaje: ok, so our uruguay dc just imploded, and there's some stuff to relocate asap seeing how whatever, people's blogs are offline
diana_coman: crowncloud_: answered my email by coming and registering with deedbot ; he's from crowncloud.net
mp_en_viaje: what do you recommend for basicaly a buncha personal sites / blogs and so on ?
mp_en_viaje: in terms of dedicated machines
crowncloud_: what was the configuration of the previous server?
mp_en_viaje: dang. good q, lessee if i can fish it out
crowncloud_: sure
diana_coman: !!rate crowncloud_ 2 Australian ISP with US dc-partner; can invoice via deedbot.
BingoBoingo: mp_en_viaje: You can have him go ahead. I pulled the trigger on the purchase, but haven't done setup yet. It's one of those fast delivery CentOS things, hard to tell if actual physical box or virtualized cheat box. It's an "any" box. If this service has a guy to show up, its a better option
mp_en_viaje: BingoBoingo, aite. ill cover w/e you paid, lump it with the drive incinerations and w/e else such odds and ends.
BingoBoingo: mp_en_viaje: I'll just throw a BTC node on it and maybe keep it if it doesn't suck.
mp_en_viaje: meanwhile in trips down memory lane, http://archive.is/S2GEb
crowncloud_: This site can’t be reached / archive.is refused to connect.
diana_coman: !!rate Metronix 2 Indonesian ISP with 10 years close connection to local ISP; can invoice via deedbot; currently out of capacity for colo.
mp_en_viaje: crowncloud_, that's weird. ok, lemme see here
mp_en_viaje: UY1: » 128 GB ECC RAM » 2x 16-core AMD Opteron 6376 (2.3 GHz) (32 Cores) » Reserved Space, Just for you on a 1.7 TB RAID 10 Array composed of Samsung Solid State Drives » Apache, MySQL, PHP 5.6 » Located in safe and politically stable Montevideo, Uruguay outside of NATO or other belligerent states
mp_en_viaje: obviously the last point is a bridge too far for england, but the rest :D
crowncloud_: Hmm, let me check what can come close to that config
crowncloud_: any idea how much RAM was used of that 128G ?
mp_en_viaje: fwiw it was iirc <10% used anyway, so not the end of the world.
mp_en_viaje: luxurious old boys club sorta setup, wat can i say.
mp_en_viaje: speaking of which, man this penthouse apt is nice. best view of frankfurt, i had forgotten how pleasant these superlative views from on top of the city are.
mp_en_viaje: makes one feel pretty good just like that.
BingoBoingo: Most of the boxe's power ended up simply being a sort of "fleet in being" reserve.
mp_en_viaje: i wonder why archive doesn't load for him, incidentally. it loads for you hmmm wtf happened to diana coman
mp_en_viaje: o there she is. Guest23498 ^
BingoBoingo: Maybe Centurylink cut off England now?
mp_en_viaje: nah, item's in russia.
diana_coman: !!v A1B52FE1392A081098D1D1863E47DC17C27FA62EB883E12045F84165C3625703
deedbot: diana_coman rated crowncloud_ 2 << Australian ISP with US dc-partner; can invoice via deedbot.
diana_coman: !!v 8C614463FB2BF748EA00DA9E0ACBB7D18CF0C6DC7CC551D783379E4DA0964112
deedbot: diana_coman rated Metronix 2 << Indonesian ISP with 10 years close connection to local ISP; can invoice via deedbot; currently out of capacity for colo.
diana_coman: done; and drat re lost conn.
diana_coman: was there anyone close to either LA or Atlanta? apparently that's where crowncloud_ has datacenter space for colo.
mp_en_viaje: so i log into trilema after a coupla days of walking through forests etc, and i find... 58 comments in queue. so im like wtf, fucking hell, the spam thing finally croaked.
mp_en_viaje: as it turns out, no, just spyked sent a buncha trackbacks
diana_coman: ahahaha
mp_en_viaje: diana_coman, i thought he's from london
diana_coman: trackbacks while walking through the forest
mp_en_viaje: but that don't mean my eyes will soon be turning red...
mp_en_viaje: trackbacks are falling on my head...
diana_coman: mp_en_viaje: no; the london guy failed as per http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-10#1944531
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-10 09:41:58 diana_coman: and after all the time-wasting, london-guy fails; at least it's consistent with expectations.
mp_en_viaje: a ok. seems i got confuseled.
diana_coman: mp_en_viaje: well, in the end the london guy wasted my morning; after which I have 2 people actually showing up; what can I say.
diana_coman: speaking of which: crowncloud_ I'll take that intel in atlanta whatevers, I need my blog up; put centos 6 on it and invoice me via deedbot.
diana_coman: this is how ossasepia is moving to the US, pfft.
crowncloud_: sec sorry had got disconnected off znc
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-10 14:34:11 mp_en_viaje: UY1: » 128 GB ECC RAM » 2x 16-core AMD Opteron 6376 (2.3 GHz) (32 Cores) » Reserved Space, Just for you on a 1.7 TB RAID 10 Array composed of Samsung Solid State Drives » Apache, MySQL, PHP 5.6 » Located in safe and politically stable Montevideo, Uruguay outside of NATO or other belligerent states
diana_coman: crowncloud_: the chan is logged at http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema if you missed anything
diana_coman: or that, lol.
crowncloud_: just checking into invoicing via deedbot -- we usually handle support/invoicing etc all via our client area (helps keep track of invoices/updates the customer on any network maintanence etc)
diana_coman: crowncloud_: via deedbot please.
mp_en_viaje: !!up crowncloud_
deedbot: crowncloud_ voiced for 30 minutes.
crowncloud_: let me see -- i mean, for support etc as well, it would be very useful if via the client area, because we have different staff on rotating shifts, so someone or the other would be available to help you out rather than waiting for me to come online :P
diana_coman: crowncloud_: they can come online too, no? have them reg a key each and leave a znc on, what
crowncloud_: hmm issue is, not all staff have access to the datacenter stuff (for security reasons) so there's a internal escilation for such tasks via support tickets
diana_coman: so they can escalate it internally in any way; the point is: one contact here and then that contact can escalate and do whatever in your system
mp_en_viaje: it's not really gonna work to try and get the republic on website.
diana_coman: that is not going to work at all.
crowncloud_: hmm
BingoBoingo: crowncloud_: In my experience serving these clients they practicly support themselves most of the time. Very tech literate. The few things they ask however, they need.
crowncloud_: Yup -- just trying to see how to make it best possible, because I don't want to leave anyone hanging for support and at the same time, for billing as well. I don't usually want staff to interact with customers as it leads to a very "mixed" of experience
BingoBoingo: crowncloud_: I understand that. Last datacenter had much of their staff disappear sometime after 8 September this year.
crowncloud_: oh
crowncloud_: hmm would support/invoicing etc work via EMail ?
crowncloud_: the same ID to/from which you sent us an email earlier today ?
BingoBoingo: And by "much of their staff" I mean my point man with a good head.
mp_en_viaje: what do you have against irc anyway
crowncloud_: nothing against IRC
diana_coman: crowncloud_: that was my email, lol; it won't really work for everyone anyway; and really, what's against irc? it's ok, we don't bite the unexperienced.
diana_coman: crowncloud_: and I get what you say re mixed, not like I didn't talk to...ahem, quite a lot of isp employees those days.
diana_coman: crowncloud_: basically establish a presence on irc too, they'll probably even train up while at it, if anything.
crowncloud_: na nothing against IRC really, its just that the panel handles it all for us, bills are auto-generated on the due date, support alerts go to all members so everyone on-shift is alerted of whatever issue etc so they can all provide you updates as we get them from the datacenter side
mp_en_viaje: so basically he needs an irc bridge for his backend
diana_coman: ahahaha; quite
mp_en_viaje: you know ?
mp_en_viaje: not like pizarro wrote itself one, for all the aferations of intensive care etc.
mp_en_viaje: the pizarro irc isp suite'd have been quite useful right now, "here, use this"
diana_coman: crowncloud_: as mp_en_viaje says, in time you could bridge this over with custom software too but for the moment just a person to do the bridging (or 2-3 on shifts, whatever); you know what'd work
diana_coman: mp_en_viaje: now you released the trackbacks and feedbot is foaming with them, lolz
mp_en_viaje: lol siz
diana_coman: mp_en_viaje: and yes, irc isp suite would have been great; I'm quite sure it would have made my search way more fruitful too really.
mp_en_viaje: i wonder why it never occured.
crowncloud_: let me see, I'll have a chat with my boss and see how it goes, I'll drop a reply to the email ? or ?
crowncloud_: sure
mp_en_viaje: you can voice yourself now,
crowncloud_: aha ty :)
mp_en_viaje: just say !!up to deedbot in pm and then !!v the otp it gives you
mp_en_viaje: since diana_coman rated you
mp_en_viaje: hanbot_abroad nicoleci https://archive.org/details/RoBalaicaGRimm/page/n5 << the sisters marrying bear story.
BingoBoingo: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-10#1944498 << Servers worn yes. Was counting on "in Uruguay" to convey the sadness.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-10 07:03:11 mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-10#1944385 << were worn, in all fairness, but certainly see the flavour.
deedbot: accepted: 1
asciilifeform: ^ on request of diana_coman .
BingoBoingo: ATTN ALL: Latecho has silently disabled my access to the datacenter. All that remains in the rack per my last survey are 1. Switch for the incoming connection 2. less sophisticated switch serving RK plant 3. RK plant (minus drives) 4. Rails 5. A small mountain of network and power cables 6. Many Racknuts, mostly unsused 7. One platic tote box, empty
mp_en_viaje: ahahaah they actually stoled it ? good thing you got the shit out
BingoBoingo: Seriously. Glad I didn't warn then before wheeling out the last 1Us. Still between then and this afternoon's visit to SWEEP AND CLEAN while packing... I was still able to get in last night. WTF sort of delay is that.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, they've captured 1. weird switch any prospective or current customers are going to "brand fag" about being offered 2. Commodity switch already plentiful on local market 3. some single board computers 4. rails, cables, and other shit it would have been nice for them to have Jan/Feb 2018!!!
BingoBoingo: Anyways, after taking care of some other things Imma draft a "Let's get this liability of a contract off both of our books and cleanly and inexpensively as possible" letter. Will not fire off without getting some reads here of the draft.
mp_en_viaje: nah, just complain your key don't work.
mp_en_viaje: play dumb, what do you care.
BingoBoingo: Aite. Will play dumb and let them accumulate breaches.
BingoBoingo: Also visited the commercial shippers today. Going to have to get my own boxes and will probably be headed to the networking hardware store tomorrow to see what they got.
BingoBoingo: mp_en_viaje: Aite, dumb played.
BingoBoingo: The sutures holding my scrotum to this horse feel substantially less tight than they did even this morning.
mp_en_viaje: cool deal
BingoBoingo: Anyways, I'm pretty sure even though I wheeled out servers with a hand truck earlier, doing so yesterday while someone was paying attention... was probably a shock. Especially in light of the pseudo-classism thing that goes in in this part of the world.
BingoBoingo: "Colocates servers, why wouldn't he hire a 'fletes' to do the manual labor?"
BingoBoingo: Anyways, despite the signs of unwellness, it would still be surprising if I don't have access because they don't have access either.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-10#1944537 << i don't think you're a liar. i think you're a https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QO6WLGB4RBU/maxresdefault.jpg ; and as your misfortune would have it very few interesting or important things in this world can be done single handedly.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-10 10:26:06 asciilifeform: !Qlater tell mp_en_viaje if you think asciilifeform is liar, then per the mp's operating instruction you have wrong sign bit on asciilifeform's rating. i'ma take that -9 nao.
ericbot: Logged on 2019-10-10 08:29:13 mp_en_viaje: i can't even be arsed to distinguish whether it's the case that some weirdo is in fact SO weird as to actually have an xray machine, microscopes etcetera but 0 boxes, or rather the case some fifteen yo is just talking along with the crowd, a sort of [][zelig], becoming overweight when talking to overweight people about their obexsity and growing a beard when hanging out with rabbis.
mp_en_viaje: BingoBoingo, would also be lulzy.
BingoBoingo: mp_en_viaje: Not outside the realm of possibility, but yes. Would be surprising. Then again there was no one in the glass humans box yesterday at an hour 1. Well after local lunch hour and a half concludes 2. Well before local workday concludes. Fellow who walked me out had to come from one of the two other datacenters (the other two are under different S.A. corp for Freezone purposes, maybe more solvent?)
mp_en_viaje: wait, walked you out ? i thought the keycard thingee just quit
BingoBoingo: mp_en_viaje: Yesterday I had to use the service enterance because wheels.
BingoBoingo: Keycard did just quit
mp_en_viaje: and you figure that gave it away ?
BingoBoingo: But never worked for the honest wheels door
BingoBoingo: mp_en_viaje: I would have thought first batch of wheeling would have, but apparently neither receptionist cared that day nor does anyone appear to mid the security cameras at the enterance.
BingoBoingo: But during the conversation never said anything definitive as to my future operations rather than my clients'operations, but did emphasize the difficulty of continuing as is. This may have baited the keycard.
BingoBoingo: And yet I was in the rack last night many hours after the wheeling out.
BingoBoingo: But the lack of anyone in the humans box seems to be a strong "less than skeleton/prize crew at the helm" situation
BingoBoingo: Empty humans box during business hours has been the exception in the past. Consistently seeing it when never seeing it before...
BingoBoingo: not at this frequency
mp_en_viaje: a well
BingoBoingo: Anyways. Having everything but the one switch powered down when the network doesn't work seems like the only sane response to walking into the Monday Air conditioner disaster.
BingoBoingo: Also not a necessary leaving tell when people other than HVAC folk were seen trying to fix HVAC crisis. It's a natural equipment preservation move.
BingoBoingo: "Yes, despite paying for powered rack... Running machines that may become surprise uncooled when they don't even network access is a great risk/reward calculation.
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