Forum logs for 31 Jul 2016

Monday, 16 March, Year 12 d.Tr. | Author:
deedbot: [Qntra] Qubes Hit By Xen Privilege Escalation - http://qntra.net/2016/07/qubes-hit-by-xen-privilege-escalation/ [00:22]
BingoBoingo: http://exploreplasticsurgery.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/pubic-lift-monsplasty-indianapolis-dr-barry-eppley.jpg [00:58]
BingoBoingo: ^ guess the gender? [01:02]
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: solid thinking. wallet dysfunctionality is part of what's driving my sql project. [01:21]
mircea_popescu: aha! [01:24]
ben_vulpes: every time i crack the cpp my will to load it into my head just drains away... [01:28]
ben_vulpes: plus hey there are interesting questions to be answered about the chain. [01:29]
mircea_popescu: possibly coolest bitcoin address yet : 1111111111111111111114oLvT2 [01:29]
ben_vulpes: whoa is that real life? [01:29]
mircea_popescu: quite. a block's worth in there too. [01:29]
mircea_popescu: (compute its hash!) [01:29]
* ben_vulpes busy with gentoo quest again [01:31]
ben_vulpes: must poluctantly decline [01:31]
ben_vulpes: there's a pollack joke in there i'm too otherwise occupied to dig out, too [01:32]
mircea_popescu: lol [01:32]
Framedragger: very nice short scifi story: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-long-chase/ (discovered via HN, but no matter) [07:43]
Framedragger: (gun look at logz later) [07:46]
Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log 404's i assume it's 'cause of the awaited rewrite deployment or somesuch :) [07:47]
shinohai: http://www.satoshibin.com/ <<< because gotta charge a few satoshi for a paste like a nigger [09:44]
thestringpuller: You can't use that word! [10:33]
thestringpuller: lol. what do i care. [10:33]
shinohai: Sure I can. [10:37]
thestringpuller: depends. I judge street credit based on who can use that work among a large group of negros. [10:38]
thestringpuller: without getting beat up. [10:38]
shinohai: I was thinking more along the lines of: http://trilema.com/2012/the-nigger-homeowners-and-other-niggers/ [10:40]
thestringpuller: It lacks references the Egypt. ) [10:47]
shinohai: >.< [10:49]
mircea_popescu: "i feel like a fart" "stinky ?" "no, inspired." [11:41]
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/forum-logs-for-31-jul-2016#2138460 << say moar? [12:09]
a111: Logged on 2016-07-31 05:31 ben_vulpes busy with gentoo quest again [12:09]
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-31#1511886 << run moar open sores 'seeekooority-focused' shitware!111 [12:11]
a111: Logged on 2016-07-31 04:22 deedbot: [Qntra] Qubes Hit By Xen Privilege Escalation - http://qntra.net/2016/07/qubes-hit-by-xen-privilege-escalation/ [12:11]
mircea_popescu: fiatola "security-oriented/minded/focused/blabla" === "varmint with cheese preference". all it does is it tells the exterminator what to bait the traps with. [12:30]
jurov: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602025/how-vector-space-mathematics-reveals-the-hidden-sexism-in-language [12:57]
jurov: lol "shehe::whore:coward" [12:58]
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: yesterdays lolz involved formatting the boot partition with reiserfs [13:59]
BingoBoingo: bc,stats [17:29]
gribble: Current Blocks: 423073 | Current Difficulty: 2.1349250110751337E11 | Next Difficulty At Block: 423359 | Next Difficulty In: 286 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 day, 22 hours, 4 minutes, and 1 second | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None [17:29]
BingoBoingo: ticker --market all [17:29]
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 631.68, vol: 4003.86038772 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 624.577, vol: 4766.91731 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 632.97, vol: 26297.5094752 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 632.0682, vol: 145034.92630000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 631.0, vol: 1125.08647143 | Volume-weighted last average: 631.986805688 [17:29]
mod6: %p trb 29 [17:29]
tb0t: Project: trb, ID: 29, Type: F, Subject: Redesign Wallet, Antecedents: 30, Notes: The original Reference Implementation wallet needs a redesign. [17:29]
mod6: %e trb 29 F "Redesign Wallet" "The original Reference Implementation wallet needs a redesign. http://trilema.com/2016/the-ideal-bitcoin-wallet/" 30 [17:31]
mod6: %p trb 29 [17:31]
tb0t: Project: trb, ID: 29, Type: F, Subject: Redesign Wallet, Antecedents: 30, Notes: The original Reference Implementation wallet needs a redesign. http://trilema.com/2016/the-ideal-bitcoin-wallet/ [17:31]
shinohai: \o/ [17:31]
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-seeks-recover-more-1-billion-obtained-corruption-involving-malaysian-sovereign [17:32]
asciilifeform: 'Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced today the filing of civil forfeiture complaints seeking the forfeiture and recovery of more than $1 billion in assets associated with an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund. Today’s complaints represent the largest single action ever brought under the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.' [17:32]
mod6: i dunno what happened last time. i looked at the code, everything looked ok. i retested with the same code in a different channel... might have been a timing thing? have to keep an eye on that one. [17:32]
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: pretty amusing. [20:17]
ben_vulpes: not even filing on behalf of anyone, just "your money touched US shores, so we're taking it because <reason>." [20:18]
ben_vulpes: "to forfeit the proceeds of foreign official corruption and, where appropriate, to use those recovered asset to benefit the people harmed by these acts of corruption and abuse of office" << oh teh doublesp34k [20:19]
ben_vulpes: lol and it looks like they want to confiscate proceeds from wolf of wall street [20:24]
ben_vulpes: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/426af74f-d278-4b41-8265-061659fb722b/?raw=true << ghetto transcript [20:30]
ben_vulpes: interestingly, veers off into a discussion of the open season on LEOs. [20:36]
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-31#1511929 << win. [20:41]
a111: Logged on 2016-07-31 21:31 mod6: %p trb 29 [20:41]
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-31#1511933 << ie, usg stealing assets owned by malaysian govt ? [20:42]
a111: Logged on 2016-07-31 21:32 asciilifeform: 'Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced today the filing of civil forfeiture complaints seeking the forfeiture and recovery of more than $1 billion in assets associated with an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund. Today’s complaints represent the largest single action ever brought under the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.' [20:42]
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-01#1511937 << oh, "color revolutions" dun work ? tell you what, we'll steal your country's exports and with the proceeds finance an alt-country we'll pretend is realy your country. ha-ha! [20:44]
a111: Logged on 2016-08-01 00:19 ben_vulpes: "to forfeit the proceeds of foreign official corruption and, where appropriate, to use those recovered asset to benefit the people harmed by these acts of corruption and abuse of office" << oh teh doublesp34k [20:44]
mircea_popescu: making it rrrreally easy for china to take over there. [20:46]
mircea_popescu: in other ~lulz, http://trilema.com/2015/sooo-fetlife-is-butthurt/#comment-118337 [20:52]
shinohai: #trilemaleaks xD [20:53]
asciilifeform: 'Tricia L. Davis and James L. Huesmann, "Conversion to Automated Serials Control Systems: From the Drawing Board to the Front Lines” presented at North American Serials Interest Group, Inc. (NASIG) 6th Conference, June 14-17, 1991, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.' << lel [21:17]
asciilifeform: 'Joe Accardi and James Huesmann, "Getting ANSI: Using ANSI.SYS to Customize Defaults for 350s", OCLC Micro, Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp 11-20 (1990)' [21:18]
* asciilifeform falls down [21:18]
mircea_popescu: no wai. [21:19]
asciilifeform: fella's a career librarian. [21:19]
asciilifeform: (sorta like BingoBoingo narrowly avoided becoming ?) [21:19]
BingoBoingo: lol [21:19]
BingoBoingo: That would have been an awful fate [21:24]
deedbot: [Qntra] Qntra (S.QNTR) July 2016 Report - http://qntra.net/2016/08/qntra-s-qntr-july-2016-report/ [21:27]
shinohai: NO BingoBoingo I have ONE MORE ARTICLE to send [21:28]
shinohai: j/k [21:28]
BingoBoingo: shinohai: Still wouldn't have counted for July. Wordcount stops at 0:00 UCT [21:30]
* shinohai checks clock, discovers it is later than he imagined. [21:30]
mircea_popescu: oh nm, this is the officious intermeddler beta. [21:33]
mircea_popescu: i was thinking of the head scammer for some reason. [21:33]
BingoBoingo: It's always the intermeddler beta who gets doxxed [21:42]
mircea_popescu: innit. [21:42]
mircea_popescu: btw jesus fuck what a stupid piece of shit ansi.sys wasd. [21:42]
BingoBoingo: Reasons I didn't seek brain eating cataloging jobs [21:44]
BingoBoingo: Olds at OCLC making things that should be easy hard, and taking the things that ARE hard and farting over them as though they don't exist. [21:45]
BingoBoingo: Buterin would be a great fit at OCLC if this MIT thing falls through [21:47]
mircea_popescu: how do you suppose everyone else ended up there. [21:47]
BingoBoingo: inertia [21:47]
mircea_popescu: quite. [21:48]
BingoBoingo: But how they stay there is insanity [21:48]
mircea_popescu: the two really aren't all that distinct. [21:51]
BingoBoingo: Nah, distinct but the overlap and the moo cows they inhere in creates room for confusion [21:53]
BingoBoingo: http://oglaf.com/banthram/ [21:56]
BingoBoingo: ^ Related [21:56]
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-01#1511945 << usg sop, taiwan, korea, vietnam, ukrs, et al [22:15]
a111: Logged on 2016-08-01 00:44 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-01#1511937 << oh, "color revolutions" dun work ? tell you what, we'll steal your country's exports and with the proceeds finance an alt-country we'll pretend is realy your country. ha-ha! [22:15]
mircea_popescu: korea possibly only example that worked. [22:16]
asciilifeform: only because the 'international komyooooniti' successfully nailed nk [22:17]
asciilifeform: (it was, for a generation, a massive heavy industrial exporter, quite profitably) [22:17]
BingoBoingo: Which only worked because Russia didn't have enough nukes yet to provide balance [22:17]
mircea_popescu: come to think of it, where was that imbecile/nobel laureate's quote [22:18]
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-11#1500956 [22:20]
a111: Logged on 2016-07-11 12:27 mircea_popescu: "If you are white, no positive, active role is left to you. Either you accommodate yourself to the unreasonable, or you play out your life in some futile back alley. You are doomed to this by the disgraceful history of your kind. Maybe it's fair, maybe it's not, but it is the way things are." << from another schmuck with a nobel prize. [22:20]
mircea_popescu: the boer's country is now forked, the bailout chain being called zimbabwe and the classic chain being unknown anymore. [22:21]
asciilifeform: there was a spiffy mircea_popescutronic piece on rhodesia iirc. [22:21]
mircea_popescu: i can scarcely imagine how much it must burn teh lizards, that the shit stopped working. [22:21]
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/a-very-unfair-perspective/ [22:21]
asciilifeform: ^ it ! [22:22]
mircea_popescu: apparently "unfair" cuts both ways. what's more, one of them is entirely ridoinculous. [22:22]
BingoBoingo: ASS https://archive.is/uKhRw [22:34]
asciilifeform: holy mother-of-fuck, why did i read this. [22:42]
mircea_popescu: $up dvsdude [22:44]
deedbot: dvsdude voiced for 30 minutes. [22:44]
dvsdude: so on bitcoin talk. MP is and I quot " He is one of the most feared men in bitcoin." ....congrats I guess [22:45]
asciilifeform: odiant dum metuant (tm) (r) lel [22:46]
mircea_popescu: there's worse fates. [22:49]
dvsdude: this is true [22:49]
dvsdude: faber est suae quisque fortunae [22:56]
BingoBoingo: More fates with fates worse than https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4vgw8t/coinbase_raises_credit_card_fees_to_399_in/ [23:18]
BingoBoingo: And https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CornIj7VMAAJBUh.jpg [23:20]
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