Forum logs for 17 Aug 2018

Monday, 16 March, Year 12 d.Tr. | Author:
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in other shoelace-and-gum copies of tmsr artifacts, http://edgecase.net/pages/how_to_buy_edgecase_credits << d00d with a kinda blog, tried to copy mircea_popescu's old paid-articles scheme (spoiler : dunwork) -- ( http://edgecase.net has coupla possibly-interesting items, compiler-wranglings, translations of old lit, btc tx likbez of sorts, etc ) [09:53]
asciilifeform: curious whether anybody knows him. or is 'wolf man'. [09:54]
asciilifeform: dredged up d00d via script that digs for refs to trb in heathendom. turns out, he hosts mirror of trb patches ( they dun seem to be discussed in articles tho, near as i can see ) [09:56]
* mod6 looks [10:29]
mod6: !!reputation stjohn_piano [10:37]
deedbot: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/Yq9X1/?raw=true [10:37]
mod6: warez the mirror at? agree, didn't see the links to it in articles. bunch of MP & trilema quotes tho. [10:40]
asciilifeform: mod6: http://edgecase.net/articles/2017-11-25_edgecase_datafeed_article_21_2017-11-25_stjohn_piano_compiling_bitcoind_trb_054_on_debian_711/rotor.tar.gz.asc , http://edgecase.net/articles/2017-11-25_edgecase_datafeed_article_21_2017-11-25_stjohn_piano_compiling_bitcoind_trb_054_on_debian_711/programmable-versionstring.vpatch , buncha others [10:55]
mod6: ah thx asciilifeform [10:56]
asciilifeform: mod6: d00d doesn't seem to have anything of substance written re subj tho. [10:57]
* asciilifeform bbl--meat [11:03]
mod6: ok sooo he did get a trb built from the guide and get it running. not sure why he never stopped in here. and ya, looks like he just grabbed everything and mirrored it on his site. [11:08]
mod6: guy did an "OFFLINE" build, took some pretty decent notes too. nb. [11:14]
mircea_popescu: to continue for no apparent reasons the http://trilema.com/forum-logs-for-29-jun-2018#2455390 discussion : romanian has a conjunctive pluperfect with role of imperative ("de dimineata ne-au dat omleta dar eu am citit ziarul si acum mi-e foame" "~sa fi mincat~ atunci." ie in the morning they put out omelette but i was reading the newspaper and now im hungry -- you should have eaten then [11:52]
a111: Logged on 2018-06-29 18:26 mircea_popescu: ma dusei la mindra-n sura si-i copsei o tochitura ? [11:52]
mircea_popescu: AS WELL AS a ~homonymous~ conjunctive pluperfect with conditional-optative role, "sa fi stiut de dimineata, mincam" ie had i known then, i would have. [11:53]
mircea_popescu: in fact, it's not clear to me the verbal tensions of romanian were ~EVER~ ennumerated. [11:54]
mircea_popescu: language was hastily (and ineptly) codified late 19th century with union, then there were two major wars (and two minor ones romania was a major actor in) and then 50 years of stalinist freeze during which no serious scholarship was produced. and hence they're too stupid and too lazy to even make a proper dictionary. so actually, romanian grammar still awaits its hero. [11:55]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform afaik wolfman [11:55]
mircea_popescu: how managed "bunch of MP & trilema quotes tho" with no pingbacks is anyone's guess. [12:06]
mod6: yeah, you'd think someone would have run into it before now. [12:09]
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-17#1842477 << i gotta invoke mircea_popescu's oxcart here -- http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-17#1835417 [12:12]
a111: Logged on 2018-08-17 15:08 mod6: ok sooo he did get a trb built from the guide and get it running. not sure why he never stopped in here. and ya, looks like he just grabbed everything and mirrored it on his site. [12:12]
a111: Logged on 2018-07-17 02:42 asciilifeform: 'they cloink a coupla with the sledgehammer so as to break down the find into shards the size they can fit in a pocket, after which they stick it on their oxcart' [12:12]
mircea_popescu: can't believe it's a 2018 quote, that, seeing how it actually traces to a 2011 article ( http://trilema.com/2011/romanul-si-marea/#selection-67.418-67.537 ) [12:14]
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pretty sure it got replayed coupla times b/w '11 and nao [12:15]
mircea_popescu: tru [12:15]
mod6: asciilifeform: ah, yea, oxcart [12:16]
mod6: anyway, that stuff is stale now he has posted since I've now update the vtree. would have been good if he'd have only linked thebitcoin.foundation, instead of making heathen copies of his own. he even renamed the 'V' files. [12:17]
mircea_popescu: mod6 in which vein, http://trilema.com/2014/the-serious-ipo-a-moment-in-the-life-and-times-of-forum-investing/ "would have been good if retard had a gf" [12:22]
mod6: lol [12:24]
mircea_popescu: ikr. [12:25]
BingoBoingo: !!pay mod6 0.1 [12:26]
deedbot: Get your OTP: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/Y8Olp/?raw=true [12:26]
BingoBoingo: !!v 5BF6A87AE582D0B8C13E2BEAF64F72D661FA914EA2A1226725B36A30CCC9E3DF [12:26]
deedbot: BingoBoingo paid mod6 0.1 [12:26]
mod6: o7 [12:27]
mod6: Thank you, Sir! [12:27]
mod6: !!ledger [12:27]
deedbot: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/ft51Q/?raw=true [12:27]
asciilifeform: mod6: hey, at least wolf d00d didn't go to whatevercon in vegas and present trb as own phd work or whatnot [12:45]
asciilifeform: ( i expect at some point, even this ) [12:46]
mircea_popescu: this is a distinction with a difference ? [12:47]
mircea_popescu: nobody reads obscure blog or listens in obscure con. [12:47]
asciilifeform: 'defcon' is approx as 'obscure' as nyt [12:50]
asciilifeform: it's the 'mecca' of the more or less entire techlamer planet [12:51]
mircea_popescu: i never went but based on my limited experience with the few cons i ever went to, years ago in a different life, literally nobody listens in. [12:52]
mircea_popescu: i ended up on the main floor a total of maybe twice, but in general you just meet people privately and in this particular context the teenaged bimbos desperate to "get started" were in the vast majority too ugly to meet the bar (which, back then, still existed, nobody paid uglies to fuck) [12:53]
mircea_popescu: and in the minority were picked up by the scouts anyway. [12:53]
asciilifeform: ~30k lamers, with, what, $5k tickets, and the entire 'journalism' set then spends next month printing nuffin but summaries of the talks [12:53]
mircea_popescu: which nobody ever read. [12:54]
mircea_popescu: and yes, i'd make the same exact argument if fellow "wrote book" which was then "new york times best seller list" [12:54]
asciilifeform: e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-13#1841227 [12:54]
a111: Logged on 2018-08-13 16:54 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-13#1841194 << oh ye olde c3s huh. lulzy. [12:54]
mircea_popescu: because, also nobody ever cared. [12:54]
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/08/arrogance-and-shit-comms-system-kill-us-spies-in-china/ << Qntra - Arrogance And Shit Comms System Kill US Spies In China [12:55]
asciilifeform: hey i dun go to mecca either, given as not being in the umma. but 'nobody goes to mecca' is a stretch imho [12:56]
mircea_popescu: omigerd, us had spies in china ?! ahahaha. [12:56]
BingoBoingo: HAD [12:56]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i guess. dun seem like any difference to me, write on blogspot, slideshow at conference, whatever. then again, entomology. [12:57]
BingoBoingo: Back in the stretch of history that spanned 10k BTC Pizza to Satoshi Dice IPO [12:57]
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: s/manufactering/manufacturing [12:57]
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo they're so fucking hysterical, these tards. [12:57]
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: ty fxd [12:57]
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lulzy -- apparently cia forgot how to shortwave ?! [12:58]
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and do you see kerry registering a key and begging us to help ? [12:58]
mircea_popescu: idiots die dumb i guess. [12:58]
BingoBoingo: I see kerry getting old and dying impotent with his ketchup ho [12:58]
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: No, see. This comms system was GREAT... against the pashtuns and maybe Baathists [12:59]
asciilifeform: i can picture, 'we're sending 100 spies to beijing, wake up the rot13 squad' [13:00]
mircea_popescu: you mean the people with the http://trilema.com/2013/the-danger-of-homebrew-crypto/ ? [13:00]
BingoBoingo: Anyways, Learning a lot about national govt values from seeing embassies. US has bleak river fort. Britain has country club. Romania has modest row house. Dominican Rupublic goes months without fixing their flag's attachment to pole. [13:01]
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: brazil had best one [13:01]
BingoBoingo: Lebanon has proud flagpole far from Jew embassy. Jews have office in WTC. [13:01]
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Spain is rather impressive as well [13:02]
asciilifeform: brazilian embassy in BingoBoingostan, miniature gulag, three rolls of concertina wire, turrets, whole hog [13:02]
BingoBoingo: With parts on two blocks [13:02]
BingoBoingo: Spain is big like Brazil, but cleaner [13:02]
BingoBoingo: Ecuador has a sad hole across from the parrilla that used steak magic on ben_vulpes [13:04]
BingoBoingo: Japan has hilltop art project [13:04]
BingoBoingo: China's embassy is way out in Carrasco near the airport [13:07]
mircea_popescu: heh [13:09]
mircea_popescu: romania had a close relation with latam countries, uruguay, columbia, w/e, 30-50 years ago. [13:09]
mircea_popescu: these days, no trade, musty abandoned library scent everywhere [13:09]
asciilifeform: elsewhere in heathendom, https://archive.is/owcBE >> '10 users were responsible for 85 per cent of the links that the Coinhive service uses to mine' shitcoins etc [13:11]
BingoBoingo: Next time alf's over if he has time we might have to venture to the bookstores of abandoned library scent [13:11]
BingoBoingo: And the cemetary [13:11]
BingoBoingo: But not the ghetto cemetary, the big one [13:12]
BingoBoingo: Or Mocky whenever he makes the trip [13:14]
Mocky: what's interesting at the big cemetery? [13:15]
BingoBoingo: The things the do with the rocks [13:16]
BingoBoingo: Little houses, obelisks, etc [13:16]
Mocky: when I die, def want stone obelisk [13:17]
BingoBoingo: Right now I'm leaning towards just leaving a nice shipwreck [13:18]
mircea_popescu: Mocky latin america cemetery utterly worth visiting. very elegant, makes the inept puritan bs from the us shine in all its ridiculousness. [13:23]
Mocky: hmm, interesting [13:23]
asciilifeform: i've yet to see one that could top recoleta ( buenos aires ) and i dun expect to [13:23]
mircea_popescu: cr is the original "omfg check out this wonder" though. smaller, but imo better. [13:26]
BingoBoingo: The churches with the cartoon saviors also interesting [13:28]
BingoBoingo: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/P1000248-e1518218404440-768x1024.jpg [13:30]
mircea_popescu: lol tru [13:30]
BingoBoingo: I imagine the process begins with classical style painting which are "restored" by coloring book graduates [13:32]
mircea_popescu: also local talent etc. [13:32]
BingoBoingo: The local talent is very time oriented thing. In the early 1900's Argentina and Uruguay seemed to have enough of it and then regression to the mean happened. [13:33]
asciilifeform: i'll admit to being still somewhat puzzled re ~why~ precisely argentina went 'from hero to zero' ( mircea_popescu described in some detail , the ~how~, but the 'why' remains puzzler ) [13:35]
BingoBoingo: Then there's the wonder material cardboard [13:35]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2017/the-practical-costs-of-hallucinated-freedom/ [13:35]
mircea_popescu: because they hallucinated freedoms they didn't have, therefore they went from hero to zero. [13:35]
BingoBoingo: That and the Admirald Graf Spee probably pulled into the wrong port on the Rio de la Plata [13:36]
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if we were having thread 300 y ago, could just as easily link to the fall of lucifer. it's a how, not a why [13:36]
mircea_popescu: what'd meet your definition of it being a "why" ? [13:36]
asciilifeform: ( very parallel legend, lucifer also , could say, 'thought he had choice' ) [13:36]
mircea_popescu: ayup. it is very much the ur-story. [13:37]
asciilifeform: one possibly 'why', i suppose, is '1940s, critical mass of italian undermenschen, impossible to carry on functioning country', say [13:38]
asciilifeform: *unter [13:38]
mircea_popescu: how is this a why and the other a how ? [13:40]
asciilifeform: possibly my q is illposed, i'ma have to withdraw it and think moar. [13:40]
BingoBoingo: Joining WWII before Brasil picked a side would have given them a stressor of the sort they had been lacking [13:41]
BingoBoingo: Or they could hve beat up on Paraguay again [13:42]
mircea_popescu: insanely enough, they tried. [13:43]
mircea_popescu: in 1970s, buncha army officers rounded up all the adlais, beat the shit out of them, then shot anyone who complained. [13:43]
mircea_popescu: was 100% correct move, yet it went nowehere. perhaps lending credence to alf's theory re poor genetic stock perhaps rather related to how spanish original this movement copied (franco) ALSO went nowhere, principally because illiterate though here enters http://trilema.com/2013/a-very-unfair-perspective/#selection-193.0-193.406 ie, rhodesia wasn't as illiterate [13:44]
BingoBoingo: Uruguay tried as well, but they really needed a stressor from outside [13:44]
mircea_popescu: (not far behind tho, flat earth and all that). [13:44]
mircea_popescu: it's a complex problem, "why do peripheries fail to thrive". "why was hispania not gaul" etc [13:45]
asciilifeform: i was skeptic of 'italian theory' until went to BingoBoingostan and saw the zombies [13:45]
asciilifeform: then again could be red herring, perhaps drink made'em [13:45]
mircea_popescu: drink makes no one nothing. notice, bears. [13:46]
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: q re peripheries is 'why didntcha folx build own paris' [13:46]
asciilifeform: what makes periphery shithole, stay shithole [13:46]
mircea_popescu: not for lack of trying, right ? barcelona has better cathedral than paris. [13:47]
asciilifeform: yea, seemingly even simpler but still unexplained puzzler, what nailed spain ? [13:48]
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/08/nebraska-government-overdoses-man-on-fentanyl/ << Qntra - Nebraska Government Overdoses Man On Fentanyl [13:49]
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> yea, seemingly even simpler but still unexplained puzzler, what nailed spain ? << I suspect post-empire hangover played a role [13:50]
BingoBoingo: They got fat and feminized like the Brits are going through now [13:51]
mircea_popescu: spain was ever fucked in the head. how did they manage to get the whole new world and end up the laughingstock they are... [13:51]
BingoBoingo: Like the Brits... [13:51]
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: gotta admit, i've nfi wtf was wrong with good old sparky [13:51]
mircea_popescu: the brits "had" india&china in much less of a sense than spain had el dorado. [13:51]
BingoBoingo: Sure, the subcontinent doesn't really have a strong mestizo equivalent [13:53]
BingoBoingo: But it could have gotten to their heads just the same [13:56]
mircea_popescu: possibru. [13:58]
BingoBoingo: The victory bit in the brain flips and then the legions stop carrying their own shit, etc [13:59]
mircea_popescu: this may very well be it : there's a single bit in the bios, and the flip state of it decides. [14:00]
mircea_popescu: diana's notion of the locals was "whoa, they remind me a lot of romanians 10-15 yrars ago, when they had a little money and slowly getting a clue" [14:00]
mircea_popescu: it's true, but the locals have been this exact thing 15 y ago too , and 50, and will be in 50. [14:00]
mircea_popescu: romanians had this overpowering "we're the total shitheel losers of all time" going 1990 - 2005ish, and it helped them immensely. [14:01]
mircea_popescu: then they joined nato, which is no kind of victory, but the bit fucking flipped. and well... [14:01]
BingoBoingo: Well, NATO is a club for the terminally bit flipped [14:03]
mircea_popescu: just about yes. [14:04]
mircea_popescu: it is EXACTLY what it is, "the divine order of people who imagine they're too cool for assrape to happen to them". [14:04]
asciilifeform: hence 'nato reich' [14:07]
asciilifeform: 'thousand years!' [14:07]
asciilifeform: gott mit uns (tm)(r) [14:08]
mircea_popescu: "humility" as the xtian virtue, right, "love" as the harem slave's virtue, "do not fucking flip that bit" [14:09]
asciilifeform: 'bought house so big, finally i will never have to clean' or how did mircea_popescu put it in the old piece [14:09]
mircea_popescu: quite so. [14:09]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, the explanation for spain per BingoBoingo 's bit would be... reconquista. [14:22]
mircea_popescu: they WON. and welll.... [14:22]
asciilifeform: winning, apparently, pretty bad for one's health [14:24]
BingoBoingo: Sometimes you gotta eat a bit more Moorish dick before you can stop eating Moorish dick [14:24]
mircea_popescu: some winnings, at any rate. lottery winning god-given victories, etc. all poison. [14:25]
asciilifeform: history offers very few 'deserved' victories tho [14:50]
mircea_popescu: not even deserved being the key i don'\t think. [14:51]
mircea_popescu: despised, rather. [14:51]
asciilifeform: where was 'despised victory' ? [14:52]
mircea_popescu: there's two kinds of i won : the "i won because you're fucking stupid" and the "omfg i'm so cool i won". the latter never works out. [14:52]
mircea_popescu: lottery winner is made famous by the after effects of "whatever i might've been, now i'm the sort of guy that wins lottery" [14:53]
mircea_popescu: otherwise, defeat is instructive through the mechanism of "whatever your ugly mother & stupid father told you, and you like the idiot you are believed, http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-19#1826859 " [14:54]
a111: Logged on 2018-06-19 16:55 mircea_popescu: douchebag looky, the place's not for you. you're not smart enough to be here. what's so hard to grok about this ? some people are smart, some people aren't smart, you're not smart. what, you have to be dragged out, your legs don't work, what is it ? [14:54]
mircea_popescu: this'd be why the ceaseless verbiage of "winners" (as displayed in say http://trilema.com/2017/little-miss-sunshine/ as Greg Kinnear's role ) stinks so profusely to the intimate nose of civilised people. [14:57]
asciilifeform: sorta why i can't stomach e.g. taleb [15:00]
asciilifeform: stinks to high heaven, 'i won lottery, hear me roar' [15:00]
mircea_popescu: kinda also why teh usgistan is so utterly unthreatening. "we never got beaten" "aaaa...ok :)" [15:01]
mircea_popescu: way to rob yourself of your own , hard earned benefit, usg.fetlife, usg.blue, usg.* [15:02]
asciilifeform: extra lulzy, e.g., how usg mil brass sees vietnam: 'almost-victory'+dolchstoss [15:04]
Mocky: re: earlier cia lulz, homepage of glassdoor.com today has (seemingly fresh) cia job ad in rotation, "Morale is great despite of the changing leadership" http://imgur.com/UE7J72H [15:07]
mircea_popescu: in the sense morale was never great since http://trilema.com/2017/when-did-america-end/ in any branch of us military, we could fairly say "morale is roughly as great as it ever was" [15:08]
Mocky: "look at our uber-drab office building with not a single person willing to get in the photo, it's awesome here I SWEAR!" [15:12]
mircea_popescu: the problem with this scoring approach is that google or w/e "exciting" "tech" bs is just as drab, but optimizes for "getting people in the picture". [15:14]
asciilifeform: the whole lure proposition of cia etc is the seekrit masonic wankage, the legend of cocaine trays and screams in the cork-padded cellar etc [15:16]
asciilifeform: it was built not even for actual work but to play similar role to the church in old europistan, as a sinkhole for noninheriting sons of the brahmins [15:17]
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/08/gamer-made-to-post-cryptocurrency-for-milder-pre-trial-detention-in-us-doj-blackmail-scheme/ << Qntra - Gamer Made To Post "Cryptocurrency" For Milder Pre-Trial Detention In US DOJ Blackmail Scheme [15:19]
BingoBoingo: ^ Magistrates strike again [15:19]
asciilifeform: lol cokemachine [15:23]
mircea_popescu: ahaha [15:23]
mircea_popescu: this is just about it, plain extortion. alf's coke machine realised. [15:23]
asciilifeform: dunno that it's a first, who was it, ulbricht, sitting for half decade nao in the cork cellar, coughing up coin [15:24]
BingoBoingo: Ulbricht lets their hamsters plea "drug war" [15:26]
BingoBoingo: This dude though wasn't even racis [15:27]
asciilifeform: terrorist(tm)(r) [15:27]
asciilifeform: big fat diff [15:27]
ben_vulpes: lol hey check it out this guy gets a haul of 300kusd+ for not responsibledisclosuring and douchebags of the world wank themselves raw over 5K and a spot on the altavista hall of fame [15:30]
BingoBoingo: I don't see how the allegations are any different from using a "Game shark" on a Nintendo [15:35]
BingoBoingo: Or wall clipping, etc [15:35]
asciilifeform: well, 'haul' followed by pointed stick up arse [15:35]
BingoBoingo: And not even an actual release on bail if he posts the blackmail [15:35]
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/b2pd6 << fishwrap with fewer detail censored [15:42]
Mocky: "accessing a protected computer" [15:44]
asciilifeform: via same fishwrap, unrelated pantsuit lulz, https://archive.is/EWcta >> 'because of possible abuse of children' [15:45]
mircea_popescu: "public outcry" my foot. [16:17]
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why the serbs permit a us diplomatic mission. [16:17]
mircea_popescu: iirc they never paid up for their war crimes. [16:17]
mircea_popescu: "you want diplomatic relations, first you pay 10x what we think you broke should be valued at, then maybe" [16:17]
asciilifeform: i thought the serbs got 'democratized', are sorta like ro nao [16:24]
asciilifeform: possibly missed the flip of the bit back [16:24]
mircea_popescu: nfi [16:24]
mircea_popescu: haven\'t really been paying any attention, but as a matter of principle. [16:24]
asciilifeform: last i knew, after they were trashed, usg.euro.figurehead installed, and so forth [16:27]
BingoBoingo: But there's still the unfinished Kosovo thing that'll be good for keeping anti-USG resentment up for another couple generations [18:54]
BingoBoingo: Not just the bombing but US nuturing a blighted shitpit [18:55]
mircea_popescu: i can see it. [19:36]
BingoBoingo: It is one thing to wound. It is another to hold the wounded and ensure the injury festers, which... is what USG has been doing everywhere [21:06]
mircea_popescu: pretty much. [23:57]
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