Forum logs for 21 Aug 2019

Monday, 16 March, Year 12 d.Tr. | Author:
asciilifeform: ( often enuff there's a concealed -- if not always well-concealed -- roundtrip to london / washington, sitting in 'between austria and switzerland' etc ) [00:00]
asciilifeform: clitler's magick wand, see, cannot alter phys. constants... [00:01]
asciilifeform: ( can't even make their shitware snoop in ~realtime, moreover ) [00:02]
asciilifeform: in olden times, when they at least had shame, would tape deck in the very undersea capsule and retrieve with sub. today -- this , instead. [00:03]
asciilifeform: imho would be interesting to formally map out these 'mystery' delays. [00:59]
asciilifeform: draw -- map. 'why is vienna <-> zurich , apparently as far as moon' etc [01:00]
spyked: asciilifeform, re curl timings: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/3N0nO/?raw=true from bucharest, rcs-rds [03:48]
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-20 18:31:09 asciilifeform: diana_coman, mp_en_viaje , spyked , et al : http://18.195.64.227/log << copy of 'rubbish mirror', identical (same 'dollar store' pseudo-isp) but this one in frankfurt. try the same timing w/ it. [03:48]
asciilifeform: ty spyked [11:17]
asciilifeform: similarly to 'vianna <-> zurich', this also imho slightly laggier than ordinary globe would suggest [11:18]
diana_alt: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-08-21#1929962 - yesterday I ran a traceroute on both (nosuchlabs and btcbase) and it was going via stockholm+london for btcbase but not for nosuchlabs (iirc it was riga and then s.america) [11:33]
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-21 00:00:24 asciilifeform: ( often enuff there's a concealed -- if not always well-concealed -- roundtrip to london / washington, sitting in 'between austria and switzerland' etc ) [11:33]
asciilifeform: hrm mebbe my globe is upside-down, but i can't easily picture how cable can run from riga to south a. direct.. [12:07]
asciilifeform: i suppose theoretically -- could. but wai. [12:08]
asciilifeform: last i knew there were 0 direct lines from south a. to europistan, at all. [12:09]
asciilifeform: one heathen source (by no less than 'huawei'!1) claims -- that indeed are. [12:11]
asciilifeform: tho, quite unsurprisingly, does not claim that any intercontinental makes landfall in riga (cuz wtf) [12:12]
asciilifeform: 'traceroute' is of pretty limited use for this sorta thing, it will only reveal hops which behave as traditional ip switch [12:14]
asciilifeform: ( i.e. rather than silently forwarding packets over atm or whatever antediluvian horror ) [12:16]
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: http://ella.link/ [13:06]
BingoBoingo: There's also the older "Atlantis 2" which goes Fortaleza Brasil, Senega, the splits to land in Spain and Portugal [13:08]
asciilifeform: a. [13:16]
asciilifeform: spain, portugal tho. rather than riga. [13:16]
BingoBoingo: Also a couple newer one that go from Fortaleza to different places in Africa [13:26]
BingoBoingo: Angola and Cameroon [13:27]
asciilifeform: maybe i'm thick, but what the fuck do angola and cameroon need net connections for ?! [14:22]
asciilifeform: why not also run fiber to the penguins in south p. i suspect they can just as easily pay. [14:23]
BingoBoingo: Well, they need to be oppressed through something [14:25]
asciilifeform: they can watch miami-vision via sat dish like erry other sad orc. [14:25]
asciilifeform: betcha there's some convoluted reason asciilifeform would never in 9000 yrs guess at, for fiber-to-africa [14:27]
asciilifeform: maybe some living fossil, french colonial fort. [14:27]
asciilifeform: or usg drone base, etc. [14:28]
BingoBoingo: Well, Chinese colonial efforts in Africa are ongoing. [15:17]
BingoBoingo: And as far as I can tell, USG to USG drones is the only actual satellite internet [15:21]
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: they like to fiber most of the way to destination (for obv. reason) [15:22]
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/08/italian-left-right-coalition-government-collapses/ << Qntra -- Italian Left-Right Coalition Government Collapses [17:22]
asciilifeform: meanwhile... 'random log button' yields a historic lulzthread . [17:32]
snsabot: Logged on 2016-12-28 16:44:23 Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-28#1592214 << entirely possible folx weren't aware of phuctor, it's not exactly advertised much. (then again, cue mp's "they don't have a right/privilege not to be aware"..) [17:32]
asciilifeform: ... and moar lul [17:41]
snsabot: Logged on 2016-12-30 13:34:00 phf: true, but alf also "won't touch the web" [17:41]
BingoBoingo: In local weather, Mujica's wife will be acting president tomorrow for some hours while doctors poke current president's lungs with scopes and radiation [18:47]
feedbot: http://bvt-trace.net/2019/08/bits-and-pieces-of-linux-rng/ << bvt's backtrace -- Bits and pieces of Linux RNG [18:53]
asciilifeform: oh hey [18:53]
asciilifeform: holyFUCK the sheer fecal mass. [18:57]
BingoBoingo: re: fonix http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-08-20#1929903 I finally discovered that down here "sour cream" is "Queso Crema: Talercrem" [20:29]
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-20 21:07:20 asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: relatedly, the trad ru 'ethno-slur' for poles, 'пшеки', is quite a bit like 'пшик', what nominally spray can says. [20:29]
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/08/us-army-officer-found-not-builty-by-reason-of-insanity-in-joyriding-case/ << Qntra -- US Army Officer Found Not Builty By Reason Of Insanity In JOYRIDING Case [21:17]
mircea_popescu: ahhh [23:22]
* mircea_popescu is back to civilisation, somewhat. [23:23]
mircea_popescu: lemme retrospectively confirm mp_en_viaje was actually indeed me, an' carry on. [23:23]
mircea_popescu: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-08-20#1929937 << keks. [23:40]
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-20 21:33:49 trinque: motherinthemiddle [23:40]
mircea_popescu: i'm starting to suspect the actual market for gangbang porn is really ~diane keaton [23:40]
* asciilifeform waves to mircea_popescu  [23:42]
asciilifeform: can't resist to ask, what counts as 'civilization' [23:42]
mircea_popescu: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-08-20#1929950 < it helps immensely if the woman can actually respect you, though. [23:42]
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-20 22:39:42 snsabot: Logged on 2016-09-16 22:54:18 trinque: BingoBoingo: aha, in fact there was a thread where mircea_popescu explained that y'know, you teach the women things [23:42]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, well, place with moar infrastructure so i can sit as mircea_popescu and not have http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-08-08#1926259 problem [23:43]
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-08 16:13:35 mircea_popescu: do you realise every time i do a keyop it's ~half hour of slavegirl time going blind on asciisoup ? [23:43]
asciilifeform: a. [23:43]
mircea_popescu: this is in fact the definition, jungle as above, camp as in, <1minute. [23:43]
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