Forum logs for 15 May 2019

Monday, 16 March, Year 12 d.Tr. | Author:
mp_en_viaje: credible enough, what's radiation to do to magnetics [01:45]
mp_en_viaje: so, /me notices referrals from something called 7ooo.ru/forums to ye olde http://trilema.com/2015/on-how-the-factored-4096-rsa-keys-story-was-handled-and-what-it-means-to-you/ [02:24]
mp_en_viaje: this is potentially interesting goes to check... first matching line in the log is [02:29]
mp_en_viaje: 185.154.72.12 - - [04/May/2019:20:59:39 -0400] "GET /o-hai-let-me-wanna-be.php?id=www.billporter.info/2013/11/20/last-minute-haunted-house-automation-with-arduino/ HTTP/1.1" 200 58866 "https://7ooo.ru/forum/" "Re-re Studio (+http://re-re.ru/)" [02:36]
mp_en_viaje: how does one end up with 9757647 loglines in half a month ? like fuckingthis, 99% of the web is pure vomit. [02:37]
mp_en_viaje: bitcoinrabbithole.org/writings/ok-so-what-is-bitcoin-disrupting/ imagine that shit, and then http://archive.is/IqhDe#selection-605.1-607.13 (fancy that wonder, i'm the #1 author, with 6 "works" to nic carter's 5.) [02:38]
mp_en_viaje: and then there's inept bullshit from redditswikisfacebooks etc, 0 effort nonsense of the most superficial sort possible. and so the fuck on. [02:39]
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform's serv log fwiw loox ~exactly like this. [10:20]
asciilifeform: in other noose, loox like ben_vulpes fixed his logbot (e.g. http://logs.bvulpes.com/asciilifeform worx ) . ty ben_vulpes . [10:32]
mp_en_viaje: win. [12:10]
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/05/adobe-threatens-users-of-old-software-versions-with-litigation-potential/ << Qntra -- Adobe Threatens Users Of Old Software Versions With Litigation Potential [12:14]
asciilifeform: ^ lulzily, for coupla yrs nao, they dun even ~sell~ the proggies, but moved to 'subscription' chumpatron [12:25]
a111: Logged on 2016-12-05 16:47 asciilifeform: in other lulz, very far away, 'Autodesk will stop the sale of perpetual licences of all its software on January 31st, 2017. The purchase of new licences by both new and existing customers will only be available by subscription after that date. ... Why is Autodesk transitioning to subscription licences? Subscription licences offer customers a lower entry price, greater choice of tools and the ability to pay-as-you-go. With its shift a [12:25]
mp_en_viaje: someone srsly uses adobe ? [12:34]
asciilifeform: at one time i tried to find out who. apparently in world of printing (i.e. where 'colour calibrations' etc) it is monopoly, the presses for last decade or so demand adobism [12:35]
asciilifeform: also supposedly monopoly on proggy that eats 'raw' inputs from various heavy (40+mpixel) industrial camera [12:37]
asciilifeform: classic microshit-style format lock-in. [12:37]
mp_en_viaje: that world of printing was ~dead cca 2000. [12:38]
mp_en_viaje: twenty years ago [12:38]
asciilifeform: like number of other dead things, it's zombiein' along, nobody put stake in its heart just yet [12:39]
asciilifeform: near as i can tell, adobe et al sustained by advert 'industry'. if errybody involved contracted mysterious virus and keeled over tonight, wouldn't be soon enuff imho. [12:40]
BingoBoingo: I suspect most of their customers are marketers or the sortof ESL marketing victim who imagines he has to pay Adobe to be "creative" despite anti-producing [12:42]
asciilifeform: as it is, asciilifeform's snailmailbox has to be emptied daily of superbly colour-calibrated spamola liquishit. [12:42]
asciilifeform: only with adobeolade, apparently, can the mcd 'freedom fried' be painted the just-so shade of yellow. [12:43]
asciilifeform: *fries [12:44]
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there's prolly a population of 'aspirational' wankers who 'i want same proggy as used to make 'time magazine' 'you, person of the year' pic' etc [12:45]
BingoBoingo: Right, the ESL marketing victims [12:46]
BingoBoingo: "creatives" [12:46]
asciilifeform: entirely even possible that they add up to moar dough than the advercrap etc [12:46]
BingoBoingo: Puede ser [12:47]
asciilifeform: iirc adobe also 'market leader' in the 'retouch undesirable people out of photos / put obama in' , aka 'news' , tooling. [12:55]
mp_en_viaje: i guess. [12:58]
mp_en_viaje: i tell you i don't see it. [12:58]
mp_en_viaje: but anyways. [12:58]
lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-15#1913507 << baked into the universities as well. I remember when I was in school they had entire multi-semester courses in the "Graphic Design" track for adobeolade "Adobe Photoshop Intro", "Adobe Photoshop Advanced" etc.. [12:59]
a111: Logged on 2019-05-15 16:35 asciilifeform: at one time i tried to find out who. apparently in world of printing (i.e. where 'colour calibrations' etc) it is monopoly, the presses for last decade or so demand adobism [12:59]
lobbes: they'd also, of course, offer "student discounts" on the "educational versions" [13:00]
lobbes: lulzy indeed [13:00]
mp_en_viaje: a, now that may be it. [13:05]
mp_en_viaje: various community colleges "tech" dept etc. [13:05]
mp_en_viaje: meanwhile in she-hounds, https://x.imagefapusercontent.com/u/Backpacker18/8105991/1373193543/1.jpg [13:10]
asciilifeform: lobbes: at local uni here, 'book' shop was always full of 'student ver.' shitware, incl. adobeism lineup [13:27]
asciilifeform: related lul from last time i was there : http://www.loper-os.org/pub/umd_book_lulz.jpg [13:30]
lobbes: lol [14:26]
mp_en_viaje: meanwhile in really bad shorts, https://x.imagefapusercontent.com/u/gifusfan/8103715/2063172578/4-23.gif [14:31]
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in archaeology, apparently possible to enable eccism-with-amd-fx on certain board which route the pins but have retarded bios. [14:49]
mp_en_viaje: aha. [15:08]
* asciilifeform finally got recursive bracket regexing to work in the motherfucking geshi pile o'shit [16:02]
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