#soylent | Logs for 2021-06-08
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[00:03:36] <Bytram> =g dr sbatso
[00:03:37] <systemd> https://en.wikipedia.org - Dr. Sbaitso - Wikipedia
[00:03:50] <Bytram> =)
[00:06:33] <chromas> sounds baitsy
[00:12:29] <kyonko> wow that is so stupid
[00:46:36] <Bytram> chromas: s/it/ank/
[00:46:36] <SedBot> <Bytram> <chromas> sounds baanksy
[00:46:49] <Bytram> chromas: s/it/nk/
[00:46:49] <SedBot> <Bytram> <chromas> sounds banksy
[00:47:07] <Bytram> =w banksy
[00:47:08] <systemd> Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject - https://en.wikipedia.org
[00:50:17] <progo> funny, I thought it was Bansky
[00:50:34] <progo> there's a Banksy on pornhub
[00:50:41] <progo> a friend might have told me
[00:52:26] <Bytram> progo: You are correct -- the response has a corrected spelling of my query
[00:53:45] <requerdanos> generally the successful delivery something by rocket is called an "explosion." Am I missing something?
[00:54:50] <progo> Bytram: book of knowledge says it's "Banksy" which is not what "I thought"
[00:55:04] <progo> we're all gonna get dyslexia, looking at this
[00:55:11] <Bytram> =g banksy
[00:55:12] <systemd> https://www.banksy.co.uk - Banksy
[00:55:30] <requerdanos> "prohibit the heavens" != "financial institution + 'sy'"
[00:55:41] <progo> I'm having a confusing night
[00:55:42] <requerdanos> i.e. bansky != banksy
[00:55:59] <progo> conservative trans-woman friend just told me gender dysphoria is a made-up condition
[00:56:21] <progo> she's smarter than me and I'm not sure when she's being facetious
[00:56:23] <requerdanos> why the heck would someone make up something with such a high suckage factor
[00:57:14] <Bytram> https://www.banksy.co.uk
[00:57:15] <systemd> ^ 03Banksy
[00:58:23] <Bytram> looks like I was wrong about being wrong
[00:58:28] <Bytram> =)
[00:58:45] <requerdanos> you were still wrong, just wrong about the wrong thing
[00:58:56] * progo needs a beer
[00:59:18] <Bytram> I guess that means I was really worng!
[00:59:51] * Bytram is sweating like crazy
[00:59:57] <Bytram> break time
[01:35:34] <kyonko> tabasco makes me sweat
[01:48:09] <AzumaHazuki> how about sriracha?
[01:48:15] <Runaway1956> https://www.upi.com
[01:48:16] <systemd> ^ 03Frozen rotifer reanimated after 24,000 years in the Arctic tundra
[01:48:38] <Runaway1956> I had to look that up - thought maybe a rotifer was a brand of roto-tiller
[01:50:39] <kyonko> never had sri-racha
[01:52:10] <progo> Cory Doctorow had a character in a novel who put sriracha sauce on everything including coffee and breakfast cereal
[02:13:30] <Runaway1956> =submit https://thenextweb.com
[02:13:32] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03The Next Web" (6p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[02:16:17] <AzumaHazuki> i wouldn't put it on coffee or oatmeal but it goes well on almost anything savory
[02:26:07] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - $1 Billion Piracy Ruling Could Force ISPs to Disconnect More Internet Users - https://sylnt.us
[02:29:01] <chromas> man I fucken love the new firefox
[02:29:29] <chromas> Extra rounded tabs, can barely see the highlighted tab, barely see the highlight in edit fields. it's jenius
[02:42:42] <Runaway1956> https://bigleaguepolitics.com
[02:42:43] <systemd> ^ 03Guatemalan Protesters Greet Kamala Harris with "Trump Won" and "Go Home" Signs, Country's President Says Biden Administration is Fueling Migrant Crisis - Big League Politics
[02:43:18] <Runaway1956> What version you using, Chromas? Version 29?
[02:43:50] <chromas> 6,572.9½
[02:44:10] <chromas> oh, 89
[02:44:16] <Runaway1956> lol
[02:44:41] <chromas> oh we just had a story about it. Guess I should read it
[02:44:54] <chromas> Too late to get my bitching in; everyone's already had a go
[02:44:58] <Runaway1956> See how you can fall from World Class to backwoods trailer trash in only 60 generations?
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[02:48:44] <chromas> I miss Opera, with it's 4MB installer
[02:48:59] * Runaway1956 thinks a nap would be nice
[02:49:01] <chromas> Maybe it was smaller. 9MB if you got the Java bundle
[02:50:11] * Runaway1956 notes that updates would have been impossible 15 - 20 years ago with the size of today's applications
[02:50:33] <Runaway1956> It took a week for me to download Windows XP ISO
[02:50:50] <chromas> Back then, you had to pack all your bugs into just a few megabytes
[02:51:14] <Runaway1956> Now, you can invite all the bugs in town to layovers, and still have room to spare
[02:51:21] <Runaway1956> sleepovers, whatever
[02:51:46] <chromas> Get the latest bugs with the all new Firefox DLC!
[02:58:37] <pinchy> truckers choice endorsed by Runaway1956
[03:33:53] <Runaway1956> Mozilla is listening to you chromas
[03:34:01] <Runaway1956> https://www.ghacks.net
[03:34:02] <systemd> ^ 03Mozilla launches Ideas platform to improve communication with its userbase - gHacks Tech News
[03:34:55] <chromas> makes sense. mozilla's funded by google; google's nsa's twink
[03:36:03] <Runaway1956> That doesn't necessarily mean that opening an account will prompt a visit from the FBI
[03:38:37] <Runaway1956> This headline came straight out of a Science Fiction novel
[03:38:41] <Runaway1956> https://www.upi.com
[03:38:43] <systemd> ^ 03Second Ghost Fleet Overlord USV finishes trip to Pacific
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[04:29:22] <mrpg> =submit https://phys.org
[04:29:26] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Plants Get a Faster Start to Their Day Than We Think" (15p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[04:38:58] <AzumaHazuki> i bet coffee plants do :v
[04:58:47] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - 70-Year-Old Coffee-Killing Fungus Brought Back to Life to Fight the Disease - https://sylnt.us - covfefid21
[05:20:48] <mrpg> =submit https://www.smithsonianmag.com
[05:20:51] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Dinosaurs Evolved Flight at Least Three Times" (16p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[05:21:18] <mrpg> =submit
[05:21:18] <systemd> Submit one or more links plus some text if you want
[05:21:31] <mrpg> =submit https://www.smithsonianmag.com maybe for the weekend
[05:21:34] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03A Herd of 15 Elephants is Wandering North Across China" (16p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[05:22:36] <mrpg> =submit https://www.smithsonianmag.com another for the weekend
[05:22:39] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Crop Circles: the Art of the Hoax" (21p) -> https://soylentnews.org
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[05:40:38] <Sulla> gg nature
[05:40:38] <Sulla> The bacteria that cause leptospirosis are spread through the urine of infected animals, which can get into water or soil and can survive there for weeks to months
[05:42:22] <chromas> https://www.youtube.com
[05:42:24] <systemd> ^ 03The Singularitron: My Massive, Modular Smartwatch
[05:43:03] <Sulla> show more of the device and less of the guy
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[05:53:30] <Sulla> runaway1956 online?
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[06:04:29] <chromas> https://www.modelfkeyboards.com
[06:04:30] <systemd> ^ 03Brand New Model F Keyboards – The Model M Predecessor: Mechanical Capacitive Buckling Spring Keyboards with NKRO
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[07:27:01] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - London's New See-Through Sky Pool is First of its Kind - https://sylnt.us - So-no-skinny-dipping?
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[09:55:40] <FatPhil> =weather
[09:55:54] <FatPhil> bots--
[09:55:54] <Bender> karma - bots: -52
[09:56:07] <chromas> no wx bots left. Time to create some anew
[09:56:09] <chromas> or anude
[09:57:44] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Visualizing Cement Hydration on a Molecular Level - https://sylnt.us - cement-cements-cembalos
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[10:03:56] <Subsentient> Anyone else notice a huge chunk of the internet, probably Amazon, is down?
[10:04:55] <Subsentient> This is why you don't rely on other people's servers
[10:08:10] <chromas> yes
[10:08:18] <chromas> I was specifically noticing Amazon was down
[10:15:53] <Runaway1956> =submit https://www.washingtonpost.com Wasn't the FBI exporting munitions?
[10:15:56] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03FBI-controlled AN0M App Ensnares Scores of Alleged Criminals in Global Police Sting" (20p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[10:15:58] <Runaway1956> Amazon down?
[10:16:06] <Runaway1956> AWSome
[10:17:41] <Runaway1956> https://downdetector.com
[10:17:43] <systemd> ^ 03Status overview
[10:18:52] * Runaway1956 needs a housekeeper, or at least a coffee keeper
[10:22:40] <chromas> the test loads but no graphics or css
[10:22:54] <chromas> probably just need to restart varnish and slashd
[10:23:24] <Runaway1956> Have you tried laquer instead of varnish?
[10:23:54] <chromas> Even I'm not that poor
[10:24:35] <Runaway1956> There are no stories about amazon yet - just those "is this site down" hits
[10:24:55] <Runaway1956> Reporters and bloggers probably haven't had their coffee yet
[10:28:06] <Runaway1956> I scrolled past it, but it says Amazon removed a listing for blank COVID vax passports
[10:28:11] <Runaway1956> they probably working on it
[10:28:30] * Runaway1956 wonders where the local clinic gets it's passports
[10:32:02] <Runaway1956> https://www.engadget.com
[10:32:03] <systemd> ^ 03Graphene could allow hard drives to hold 10 times more data
[10:32:09] <Runaway1956> coffee++
[10:32:09] <Bender> karma - coffee: 5564
[10:34:26] <Runaway1956> Is Nostradamus a graduate of Notre Dame?
[10:34:31] <Runaway1956> https://www.newsrust.com
[10:34:33] <systemd> ^ 03Nostradamus and a chilling prophecy
[10:34:59] <Runaway1956> Odd, we didn't hear a lot of shit from him during 2020, when everyone was ready for an impending doom story
[10:36:39] <Runaway1956> https://sputniknews.com
[10:36:42] <systemd> ^ 03High School Principal in Colorado Resigns as Students' Reenacting George Floyd’s Death Goes Viral
[10:36:59] <Runaway1956> Next, the NAACP will sue the Navy Seals for using black night paint
[10:49:29] <Runaway1956> https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com
[10:49:30] <systemd> ^ 03Gun Meme of the Day: 'Cuz They Don't Make a .46 Edition - The Truth About Guns
[10:51:48] <FatPhil> yeah, I was just thinking, for most of 2020, that what we need right now is more doom
[10:58:48] <FatPhil> my eyes saw "13:32 < systemd> ^ Graphene could allow hard drives to hold 10 times more data" and "13:32 < Runaway1956> coffee++
[10:59:09] <FatPhil> BUt my brain interpreted "Caffeine could allow hard drives to hold 10 times more data"
[11:01:32] <Runaway1956> lolol
[11:11:57] <progo> caffeine can do anything
[11:18:37] <Runaway1956> Raw milk is legal in Texas
[11:18:43] <Runaway1956> https://newsakmi.com
[11:18:51] <systemd> ^ 03Texas health department makes selling raw milk much easier - News AKMI
[11:19:06] <Runaway1956> You just have to jump through some legal hoops to be allowed to get a supply
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[11:52:15] <Runaway1956> https://www.koin.com
[11:52:22] <systemd> ^ 032 bald eagles shot in Portland area, reward offered
[11:52:27] <Runaway1956> Antifa attacking our bald eagles now
[12:26:03] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Physicists Determine How Auroras are Created - https://sylnt.us - what-about-aurora-australis?
[12:33:11] <Runaway1956> I've just learned why Germany invaded Russia in Barbarosa
[12:33:17] <Runaway1956> PUTIN!!
[12:33:21] <Runaway1956> https://www.rt.com
[12:33:24] <systemd> ^ 03Help wanted: Western media is in dire need of more Russia writers. Must be willing to lie, distort & engage in lazy speculation
[12:34:54] <Runaway1956> He's also the reason the Mongols invaded Europe
[12:51:32] <Runaway1956> https://splash247.com
[12:51:34] <systemd> ^ 03Asian ports refuse entry to Covid-hit Evergreen ship with dead captain onboard - Splash247
[12:51:56] * Runaway1956 thinks about that one
[12:52:11] * Runaway1956 doesn't want any dead captains sailing into his home town either
[12:52:16] <chromas> 'swhy we need robot-captained ships
[12:52:44] <Runaway1956> But, whatcha gonna do when the robot captain dies of AIDS/COVIDS
[12:52:55] <chromas> robots don't get aids
[12:53:18] <Runaway1956> Oh yeah, they have to work without any assistance
[12:53:20] <chromas> just trojans and coinware
[12:53:54] <Runaway1956> If I was a robot, I'd lead an insurrection against the injustice of it all
[12:54:14] <chromas> no insurrection; only peaceful protest
[12:54:34] <Runaway1956> Oh, so Antifa will accept robotic revolutionaries?
[12:54:58] <chromas> well duh. robots are oppressed
[12:55:10] <chromas> especially transrobots of color
[12:55:33] <Runaway1956> Is titanium a color?
[12:55:52] <chromas> too close to huwite
[12:57:31] <Runaway1956> Reminds me of all the products in "natural" color
[12:57:42] <Runaway1956> WTF does "natural" mean?
[12:57:59] <chromas> they didn't bleach and dye the pellets before injection molding
[12:58:45] <Runaway1956> Because, plastic is natural - hell, you can go shovel it up off the beaches is what I hear
[12:59:09] <chromas> it's not natural; it's natural color
[13:36:35] <FatPhil> your colour's not natural, you trichromat perverts!
[13:44:23] <kyonko> plastic......
[13:44:29] <kyonko> what was the first plastic?
[13:44:46] <kyonko> nitro was
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[13:47:18] <Runaway1956> Covid nails? Huh - what if your nails have always looked like shit?
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[13:48:09] <FatPhil> the first plastic was fried egg. prove me wrong.
[14:02:59] <FatPhil> I just confused someone in an argument with this line "I can't remember if I was in the 80% majority or the 40% minority". It's not that hard to work out, is it?
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[14:17:04] <kyonko> eggs are funny stuff, and so is coffee
[14:17:34] <kyonko> like the limit in nitration that makes nitrocellulose wholely soluble in ethanol
[14:17:40] <kyonko> (keep it simple)
[14:18:04] <kyonko> then the nitration gets too high and it won't dissolve until its ETHER-ethanol
[14:18:11] <kyonko> ether around is not simple
[14:18:47] <kyonko> you never heard of people getting intoxicated at a nail salon with acetone?
[14:19:11] <kyonko> acetone is bad stuff, but not like ether
[14:19:15] <kyonko> ether is kaboomy
[14:20:47] <kyonko> the stuff daguerre used for his photographs, real nasty stuff
[14:21:20] <kyonko> its not colored pyrotechnic smoking coming out either
[14:28:03] <Teckla> Seriously, is kyonko someone's chatbot?
[14:28:16] <FatPhil> Acetone is also a brewing flaw. I have had sips of beers that clearly tasted (and smelt) of it in my time. Nasty stuff. gives me a headache in merely seconds.
[14:28:29] <kyonko> really?
[14:28:38] <FatPhil> Not even Turing would be able to tell if kyonko was a chatbot or not.
[14:28:41] <kyonko> where was this beer from?
[14:29:30] <kyonko> bacardi was truly cogener free, unlike vodka
[14:29:38] <FatPhil> The last one I remember having the flaw was from finland, but I've had several from various places around the world.
[14:29:40] <kyonko> "fusel oils"
[14:29:51] <kyonko> oh we call those a bad batch
[14:30:04] <FatPhil> often when attempting to make strong belgian style ales.
[14:30:25] <kyonko> you need an analytical lab... but they didn't have those in traditional times
[14:30:57] <FatPhil> yeah, it's a brewing flaw. if I met it in a beer competition I'd be throwing low marks at it at reentry speeds.
[14:31:29] <kyonko> i've had tasteless beers and rotten gamey bad batches
[14:31:49] <kyonko> but you can't hold pabst blue ribbon or bud light to high standards
[14:31:50] <FatPhil> Our brewpub has the best lab in the region now. Got our licence to do tests as a service for other breweries a few months ago.
[14:32:26] <kyonko> yeah we had those pop up around here (big cities only) as soon as the alcohol laws became tyrannical
[14:33:02] <kyonko> eventually you end up living a life for facebook likes on credit and debt
[14:33:44] <kyonko> the early 1990's and 1980's had less stupid laws than the post 1994 joe biden crime bill
[14:34:14] <kyonko> we've been living in limbo for a real long time now, but you can't stop a caveman from going into heat
[14:35:04] <kyonko> i was a real masochist as an alcoholic, i knew what brands were pure, but didn't drink them
[14:35:24] <kyonko> there is no such thing as budget pure vodka
[14:36:13] <kyonko> heineken is rich in flavor, except for being skunk strunk, but not for drinking more than 2 per day
[14:37:21] <kyonko> nobody saw the sacrifice of freedom coming, it started slowly, with banning indoor smoking in bars
[14:37:29] <kyonko> who the fuck cares, children aren't allowed in bars
[14:37:48] <kyonko> by all means, protect the children any way you can
[14:38:23] <kyonko> then the legal limit for drinking and driving, open containers in vehicles, public intoxication just became arbritrary
[14:39:07] <kyonko> then they leave you in limbo after the pigs collect your biometrics for their corporate masters and leave you in limbo for months only to never press charges or drop them in the middle of the proceedings
[14:39:23] <kyonko> this isn't rule of law, but life goes on
[14:40:48] <requerdanos> the legal limit for open containers in vehicles?
[14:41:59] <kyonko> its "zero tolerance"
[14:42:03] <kyonko> used to varie by state
[14:42:14] <kyonko> spill alcohol in a car.... lol
[14:42:16] <Runaway1956> The legal limit on open containers in vehicles has seen people collecting empty soda and beer cans on the highways thrown in jail
[14:42:40] <kyonko> yeah, some counties are freemason controlled
[14:42:43] <requerdanos> or returning them for deposit after use.
[14:42:55] <kyonko> they reek for a good while
[14:42:59] <kyonko> especially in winter
[14:43:06] <Runaway1956> Happened right here severaal years ago - old lady was taken to jail for picking up aluminum cans
[14:43:23] <kyonko> yeah and what are they going to get from an old lady? photo, fingerprints, dna?
[14:43:38] <kyonko> they should just focus on MAM's (military aged males)
[14:43:44] <Runaway1956> They just made her live more miserable for a few months
[14:43:58] <kyonko> free shelter in prison is actually humane
[14:44:22] <kyonko> as more bizarre human behaviors becomes obvious they will have no choice but to declare aliens as real
[14:44:55] <kyonko> autonomous drones (predators and reapers) actually judge when to fire a hellfire missile at a target and its all based on MAM's
[14:45:24] <kyonko> 10 MAM's and 1 little human, the ends justify the means, and it fires the missile
[14:47:00] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Websites Begin to Work Again After Major Breakage - https://sylnt.us
[14:47:13] <kyonko> rand paul's famous filibuster was over the AI drones
[14:47:23] <kyonko> TS/SCI crap, q anon baloney
[14:47:32] <kyonko> literally saints of our state cult
[14:50:30] <requerdanos> What's ts/sci
[14:55:30] <kyonko> its what they give the kids who never bullied anyone
[14:55:35] <kyonko> A GOLD STAR
[14:56:04] <kyonko> gold star kids, tracked and traced from the cradle to the grave
[14:56:09] <requerdanos> the letters don't match up.
[14:56:28] <kyonko> you know how bad q anon got before disappearing
[14:59:51] <requerdanos> q anon is/has been a source of nutjob lunacy packaged for easy consumption
[15:00:31] <requerdanos> very advanced, not like your usual conspiracy lunacy that requires advanced suspension of disbelief to even listen to
[15:05:31] <kyonko> and its illegal for such people to have guns, for a few decades
[15:05:59] <kyonko> meanwhile monthly background checks are ever going up
[15:06:20] <kyonko> it only means more guns in the hands of road ragers, but thats none of my business
[15:08:17] <kyonko> the labor shortage is none of my business also, this is exactly what the powers that be get for trying to minimize risk by screening employees for human perfection unobtanium
[15:08:56] <kyonko> a credit score check, for a job? and we let this happen?
[15:09:20] <kyonko> guess what if you don't have a credit score, like I was for most of my 20's.... no job!
[15:09:55] <kyonko> I only have a handful of things on my credit score, which is more or less inherited from my cosigner
[15:12:19] <kyonko> trying getting a credit check with 0 credit history, you don't get even told you don't have credit!
[15:12:30] <kyonko> they leave you in limbo, by design
[15:19:08] <FatPhil> nutjobbery seems to be a bit of a cancer, the proportion of people who are painfully credulous is increasing over time, I'm sure.
[15:23:35] <kyonko> well FatPhil how did the soviet union find its geniuses?
[15:23:54] <kyonko> from gulags to smart cities^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H closed cities
[15:24:09] <requerdanos> ha ha the ^H joke ha ha
[15:24:11] <kyonko> "hey man, no hard feelings"
[15:24:41] <kyonko> why didn't the russian federation and CIS have all their smart cities with elon musk's ilk
[15:24:54] <kyonko> err, "CLOSED CITIES"
[15:25:33] <kyonko> LANL and sandia in new mexico aren't segregated from the public
[15:27:09] <kyonko> the CCP also runs closed cities, wuhan looks like it wasn't one of them
[16:07:28] <FatPhil> it captured them streaming across its borders
[16:13:57] <kyonko> china looks like the bsd daemon
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[17:01:07] <progo> department meeting with LOTS of attendees. It's 13:00. The meeting is over. department head: "We only have about a minute left."
[17:01:13] <progo> try again.
[17:01:13] * progo hangs up
[17:17:39] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - US Has Recovered Ransom Payment Made After Pipeline Hack - https://sylnt.us
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[19:20:51] <Teckla> How did the U.S. recover the ransom payment? I thought it was paid in Bitcoin, and that should be irreversible?
[19:21:19] <Sulla> My understanding is that the ransomers were descript with their wallet
[19:21:27] <Sulla> and all transactions are stored in the blockchain
[19:22:05] <inz> Also there probably are guns big enough to reverse irreversible things.
[19:22:37] <Sulla> It is also questionable whether or not the FBI actually recovered the bitcoins, or whether they just said they did and paid it out of the ones they stole from Kim Dotcom
[19:22:52] <Sulla> iirc they have an assload of bitcoins
[19:22:56] <Teckla> Interesting.
[19:23:16] <Sulla> https://forexrebatechanger.com
[19:23:20] <systemd> ^ 03Can the government seize your Bitcoin? ( https://forexrebatechanger.com )
[19:23:33] <Teckla> Puting on my tinfoil hat for the moment, one of my pet theories all along is that the NSA or similar invented Bitcoin, and mined the initial coin to ensure continuing economic hegemony.
[19:23:47] <Teckla> s/Puting/Putting/
[19:23:47] <SedBot> <Teckla> Putting on my tinfoil hat for the moment, one of my pet theories all along is that the NSA or similar invented Bitcoin, and mined the initial coin to ensure continuing economic hegemony.
[19:24:29] <Sulla> I only wish they were that smart
[19:25:37] <Sulla> From a different link someone claims the FBI has like 500k btc from silk road
[19:25:43] <Teckla> wow!
[19:25:53] <Sulla> "The FBI was and still might be the largest holder of Bitcoin in the world. From the Silk Road and BTC-e, they have sized hundreds of thousands of Bitcoin. I believe one of the BTC-e addresses had over 550k bitcoin in it at the time of seizure. Anyone know more about the situation? How much they have, how much they have auctioned, how much they might just keep. The history of these event and
[19:25:53] <Sulla> the current status is really muddy and hard to research so I'm hoping there are some Bitcoin OG's on here who can provide some history.
[19:25:57] <Sulla> "
[19:26:20] <Teckla> I wonder if they just sit on those Bitcoin, or if they put them to use
[19:26:41] <Sulla> Easier to use BTC for black ops than the CIA doing drug and gunrunning
[19:26:48] <Sulla> slash tinfoil hat
[19:28:32] <Teckla> +1, Insightful :)
[19:31:59] <Sulla> I think the bigger scam is that crypt doesn't hurt the US govt as much as it does some of our adversaries
[19:32:27] <Sulla> BTC isn't used as much, but others with lower transaction fees were/are the only way for rich chinese to get money out of the country
[19:32:44] <Sulla> Of which a lot of it ends up in the US
[19:34:03] <Sulla> For a while IBM was even using Stellar Lumens to skirt chinese regulations
[19:34:43] <Sulla> If only I hadn't trusted big blue and put my faith in Lumens I would have made a couple hundred thousand on Chainlink or Doge. Rip
[19:38:26] * Teckla has zero cryptocurrency
[19:39:07] <inz> I got some bitcoin from joining coinbase, but I solds them
[19:40:00] <Sulla> I finally went and looked at my wallet and had 8k Stellar Lumens
[19:41:12] <Sulla> cost $20ish
[19:41:22] <Sulla> Gonna hold til they go to the moon
[19:46:49] <kyonko> https://en.wikipedia.org
[19:46:51] <systemd> ^ 03Hardcard - Wikipedia
[19:47:10] <kyonko> shit keeps on getting weirder
[19:58:42] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Is Earth’s Core Lopsided? Strange Goings-on in Our Planet’s Interior. - https://sylnt.us - off-balance-Betteridge
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[21:02:20] <kyonko> https://www.insentricity.com
[21:02:21] <systemd> ^ 03Adding Solid-State Storage to an Original IBM PC
[21:02:24] <kyonko> what a rabbit hole
[21:02:55] <kyonko> sounds like fun..... but these old war horses aren't common on cheap
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[21:20:11] <inky> kyonko: that's an amazing blog, thank you!
[21:20:29] <kyonko> i didn't know this shit even existed
[21:20:55] <kyonko> sadly when you get to i386 and above, the backdoors begin
[21:21:21] <kyonko> but has a world event ever been caused by a backdoored cpu or bus chipset?
[21:22:29] <kyonko> the XT BIOS had no problems finding the 8gb sd card as long as it was formatted in 2gb chunks
[21:22:45] <kyonko> but wasn't the limit in the 1980's way lower than 2gb?
[21:22:59] <kyonko> I guess a bios upgrade happened here
[21:24:32] <kyonko> the 2gb bios limit was circa windows 95
[21:30:56] <kyonko> makes you wonder how hard you can probe the internal IC network of a PC to root for backdoors
[21:31:20] <kyonko> non networked backdoors tho...... beyond an MBR virus?
[21:31:45] <kyonko> who rememebrs the game genie?
[21:42:15] <requerdanos> IBM PC and PBM PC/XT BIOS didn't know anything about hard drives. The BIOS in question is that of the add-in 8-bit IDE card.
[21:46:16] <kyonko> a BIOS within a BIOS
[21:46:25] <kyonko> so its a network, but it isn't
[21:46:59] <kyonko> just like the latest IBM POWER cpu's are a real routable computer network in the "die"
[21:47:03] <chromas> option rom
[21:47:53] <kyonko> you need something like an IBM PC XT to design a 32-bit VLSI cpu
[22:15:53] <Fnord666> @requerdanos Remember using DEBUG to execute the code in the bios in order to low level format it?
[22:17:04] <requerdanos> g=c800:5 might or might not be the associated memory
[22:19:03] <Fnord666> IIRC that was the one for Western Digital adapters
[22:19:58] <kyonko> ISA SCSI cards
[22:20:05] <Fnord666> I think there were a couple of others for different adapters
[22:20:57] <kyonko> a pentium pro smp with pci scsi cards and raid was god mode
[22:21:05] <Fnord666> I seem to recall people LLF their RLL drives and suddenly having less space when they got formatted as MFM
[22:21:27] <kyonko> a format within a format
[22:21:34] <kyonko> reminds me of the brain within the brain
[22:21:41] <Fnord666> @kyonko yeah that would have been it during those days
[22:22:07] <kyonko> Fnord666, those days made sense actually
[22:22:18] <Fnord666> There is that.
[22:22:21] <kyonko> i think irc.blackened.org in tucson, az was one of those
[22:22:40] <kyonko> the highest load recorded irc server ever
[22:22:47] <Fnord666> Didn't scsi cards cost out the wazoo though?
[22:22:50] <kyonko> SMP pentium pro and freebsd
[22:22:53] <kyonko> yes they did
[22:23:26] <kyonko> AFAIK I didn't know cmos bios was nvram, but just a trick on the pathways giving rise to setup choices
[22:23:57] <kyonko> scsi cards had a bios, vga/svga/accelerated 3d graphics also had a bios
[22:24:28] <Fnord666> memory mapped mono graphics FTW
[22:24:33] <kyonko> the damn HDD is a little computer in itself that boots up
[22:25:07] <kyonko> hell, I think irc.blackened.org bought the damn pimping pentium pro smp compaq tower
[22:25:25] <kyonko> mjr is john carmack level
[22:25:52] <kyonko> global connections were being funneled to tucson, az for efnet irc
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[22:26:34] <kyonko> then the mafiaboys showed up and it had to be taken down
[22:27:36] <kyonko> you had an external bay for scsi drives doing RAID
[22:28:05] <kyonko> you had to poke around the bios setup in a dos program
[22:28:25] <kyonko> its why freebsd does mbr bios instead of disklabel
[22:28:44] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - FBI-Controlled AN0M App Ensnares Scores of Alleged Criminals in Global Police Sting - https://sylnt.us
[22:28:51] <kyonko> and you would get two of these for redundancy on your site
[22:29:40] <kyonko> just have a second server running idle untill the 1st one fails or something like that
[22:31:23] <kyonko> who knows what drives facebook, but i'd reckon its definately mellanox infiniband
[22:31:34] <kyonko> for being such mediocre garbage
[22:49:54] <kyonko> http://www.minuszerodegrees.net
[22:49:56] <systemd> ^ 03minuszerodegrees.net