Day changed to 2023-01-02
[00:58] jfw: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2022/jwrd-logs-for-Dec-2022/#5697 - finished this process, with 15 patches all told; it just remains to sign and publish.
[00:58] sourcerer: 2022-12-25 00:17:32 (#jwrd) jfw: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2022/jwrd-logs-for-Dec-2022/#5644 - this is still going to happen; it's been a bit of a pain reducing the history from fine-grained commits down to cohesive readability-oriented patches but I've got halfway through by count, possibly more by substance.
[21:32] dorion: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5728 -- nice !!
[21:32] sourcerer: 2023-01-02 00:58:48 (#jwrd) jfw: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2022/jwrd-logs-for-Dec-2022/#5697 - finished this process, with 15 patches all told; it just remains to sign and publish.
Day changed to 2023-01-10
[20:51] jwm: Hi JFW and dorion
[20:51] jwm: just testing the ol hexchat - seems to be working
[21:38] dorion: hey jwm, how goes ?
[22:28] jfw: heya jwm. checking in here from the not-so-sunny Ciudad de Panama (it's been getting unseasonable daily downpours, all week I gather)
[22:34] jfw: been getting set up one step at a time; scored a pretty decent used desk for the office, $70 on the local market. not solid wood sadly, but 180cm long and nicely heavy
[22:40] jwm: nice! sounds like a win
[22:40] jwm: monsoon season is upon you
[22:41] jwm: cant complain, going shooting hopefully tonight or tomorrow with my new lead.
[22:41] jwm: sadly was a week too late for jacob =(
[22:44] dorion: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5738 -- but it's not supposed to be though !! Putin's probably behind this...
[22:44] sourcerer: 2023-01-10 22:40:41 (#jwrd) jwm: monsoon season is upon you
[22:45] dorion: jwm, shooting sounds fun.
[23:00] jwm: yes - just got a sig sauer p320 very excited to try it
[23:03] dorion: looks pretty cool.
Day changed to 2023-01-11
[21:58] jfw: dorion: reclaiming my old phone number via the Tigo service center was unsuccessful but only because it had been reassigned to someone, i.e. they looked it up and it was a known procedure. to buy a new SIM they wanted photo ID, so I passed since I can perfectly well get one without giving that.
[22:01] jfw: "doit center" might be better called "don't center" given the holes in the product selection. picked up a couple things but more were left unfilled. planning to hit novey next then perhaps pemco for a drill
[22:02] jfw: the usual 20 different flavors of teflon skillet but zero cast iron
[22:04] jfw: $70 for the cheapest cordless drill, no torx drivers except as part of a $40 kit which didn't even include a good range of twist drill bit sizes. the former might be reasonable, but since the latter isn't, I might as well shop that around too.
[22:06] jfw: (torx head is the only head worth buying, at least as far as the mechanical sort of screwing goes, I'm quite satisfied by now)
[22:08] jfw: I learned they refer to phillips head as 'estrella' despite 'star' being the generic name for torx in my book.
[22:11] jfw: dorion: have you explored 'elite pc gaming' just up the block from soho? don't think I'd seen it before
[22:13] jfw: 'inDrive' magically worked today despite my refusal to give a mugshot on its demand last night. meh, I guess it can stay around as one of the multiple options to try
[22:14] jfw: (cash bidding based cab hailing pnoje app that's popular around here and thus gets results quite fast indeed when it works)
[22:20] dorion: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5746 -- right, they'll probably want the photo ID too if you ever want to change the photo/nameless one from the chino to your name/a monthly contract rather than pay as you go.
[22:20] sourcerer: 2023-01-11 21:58:36 (#jwrd) jfw: dorion: reclaiming my old phone number via the Tigo service center was unsuccessful but only because it had been reassigned to someone, i.e. they looked it up and it was a known procedure. to buy a new SIM they wanted photo ID, so I passed since I can perfectly well get one without giving that.
[22:20] dorion: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5748 -- I pick up cast iron from novey on calle 50.
[22:20] sourcerer: 2023-01-11 22:02:37 (#jwrd) jfw: the usual 20 different flavors of teflon skillet but zero cast iron
[22:21] dorion: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5752 -- no, hadn't heard of it.
[22:21] sourcerer: 2023-01-11 22:11:12 (#jwrd) jfw: dorion: have you explored 'elite pc gaming' just up the block from soho? don't think I'd seen it before
[22:22] dorion: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5753-- notbad.jpg
[22:22] sourcerer: 2023-01-11 22:13:04 (#jwrd) jfw: 'inDrive' magically worked today despite my refusal to give a mugshot on its demand last night. meh, I guess it can stay around as one of the multiple options to try
[22:23] jfw: ah, the other data point re doit center was a wall full of lightbulbs yet the max brightness was '75W equivalent'.
[22:25] jfw: I'm resigned to using LED bulbs; their light isn't AS ugly as fluorescents and in this climate they certainly put out less unwanted heat than edison's finest.
[22:25] jfw: (and unlike yesterday's darling fluorescents they don't leak mercury when broken.)
[22:30] jfw: I think I figured out why I don't like the local "butter" products: despite being labeled "mantequilla" they can still be "recombined butter" made from assorted dairy extracts. tastes like movie theater popcorn chemicals, and isn't stiff even out of the fridge like real butter is
[22:32] jfw: I guess it's for people raised on margarine who want to feel like they're moving up in the world but still have it taste the way they're used to.
[22:33] dorion: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5764 -- as far as I've found, super99 is the only place to get incandescents, win for martinelli.
[22:33] sourcerer: 2023-01-11 22:25:08 (#jwrd) jfw: I'm resigned to using LED bulbs; their light isn't AS ugly as fluorescents and in this climate they certainly put out less unwanted heat than edison's finest.
Day changed to 2023-01-12
[16:38] jfw: dorion: good to hear they still carry them at least. the Novey visit was productive; found the same drill for $4 less but still went with a hand driver (insufficient need to justify the cordless and then which type and capacity etc). still, I cleaned out the last item on the shelf in several categories; and finding a complete and matching set of towels could only be done to a rough approximation.
[16:53] dorion: I reckon towel variety never hurt anyone.
[17:05] jfw: dorion: I wouldn't be so sure, indeed I expect mix-and-not-quite-match styles can absolutely hurt business at sufficiently upscale establishments. my point there though was that if you want a place where you can rely on the supposedly carried product lines to be consistently stocked, you won't find it there at least in the current year.
[17:07] dorion: yeah, that's a point. maybe you have to go to more than one novey, lol. I meant for one's home though. plus, I'd be surprised if upscale establishments are buying from novey anyways.
[17:11] jfw: I'm sure it's good enough for the peasants indeed.
[19:12] jwm: have either of you ever converted a .json file to .csv from command line?
[19:15] jwm: looks like there are various tools to use but just curious if you have ever done it and if there is a preferred method through command line (unsure if i have the skills to do it but wanted to try).
[22:12] jfw: jwm: if it's very simple, like each record is already on one line and there's no nesting or anything, some sed/awk might do for a quick hack; for more serious data I've used python's json module for the intake side; it also has a csv module for the output if it's complex enough not to just use simple printing (eg if there's strings needing quoting)
[22:17] jfw: jwm: there isn't as simple a converter as you're looking for perhaps because the formats are fundamentally different structure - csv is a plain table with number or string valued cells while json is hierarchical (individual values are combined using key-value mappings aka objects which can themselves be combined into further objects)
[22:17] jfw: so in practice it'll depend on how the json you're working with is shaped.
[22:19] jwm: interesting, ill look into both options
[22:20] jwm: deloitte ended up solving it for us - who knows how much it cost the hospital!
[22:20] jwm: i am convinvced there is money to be made simply from downloading and reformatting some of these hospital data files
[22:20] jwm: new regulation states that hospitals and health plans need to post machine readable format files of all their pricing
[22:20] jwm: so there is now a cottage industry around that
[22:21] jwm: most are JSON
[22:21] jfw: and they even specified that excel doesn't count as machine-readable? heh
[22:25] jfw: going json sounds pretty reasonable actually; keeps simple things simple while being flexible enough for more complex things, and much more readable (by human or machine!) than XML which was all the rage a while back
[22:26] jwm: re-read the ruling - by law must be json
[22:27] jwm: we are paying deloitte at least 100k a year to download a few of these files and reformat them and maybe combine with some other datasets
[22:27] jwm: truly amazing
[22:27] jwm: i offered to take the project on to fix it and my boss told me to stand down
[22:27] jwm: o well
[22:28] jfw: deloitte has snazzier suits I guess?
[22:28] jwm: this was however before i modeled my work with the hospital after the charachter milton from office space
[22:28] jfw: haha
[22:28] jwm: no - my boss didnt want to be responsible for it
[22:28] jwm: so why not take an extra 100k out of the non profit budget and blame someone else if it isnt done!
[22:29] jfw: ah indeed, the "can't be blamed".
[22:29] jwm: Consulting is only good for management to justify what they are already doing
[22:29] jwm: or blame someone if it doesnt work
[22:29] jwm: rarely any real insight is produced
[22:29] jwm: from my limited experience as a "consultant"
[22:31] jfw: and when insight is produced, it's rarely acted on I'd expect
[22:31] jwm: not unless it can be done by the consultant at limited manpower and professional risk for the manager
[22:34] jfw: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5788 << I'm sure someone will figure out how to encode an excel file into a json string.
[22:34] sourcerer: 2023-01-12 22:26:14 (#jwrd) jwm: re-read the ruling - by law must be json
Day changed to 2023-01-15
[20:46] jfw: a refresh of some fundamentals of cryptography as expressed in 1883, for any students of hte field who may be reading.
Day changed to 2023-01-19
[16:33] jwm: JFW - is there a path you normally store the TAR file of wallets (i believe it is still just named by the address)? i cant find where my file is stored and am running out of ideas with my limited ability to search.
[16:35] jwm: forgot what you used as PATH using the gbw-init
[16:35] jfw: jwm: that path was specified when we did the gbw-init; iirc it was ~/wallet.tar.gpg or similar
[16:36] jfw: just look at a listing in the home dir
[16:37] jfw: I guess the "hardware wallet appliance" version would not have such luxuries as multiple wallets stored at chosen paths.
[16:37] jwm: all i see is lost and found at home
[16:38] jwm: i dont remember us moving it, i never used the machine after we made it
[16:40] jwm: i tried find / -name "19" from the home directory since i knew the first two characters but didn't find anything
[16:41] jfw: jwm, perhaps you're looking at / or /home, I refer to the home directory (abbreviated ~), which here is probably /root.
[16:42] jfw: the wallet can't have been named based on the address because it had to be named before the address was generated
[16:43] jwm: yea it is not in the /root either
[16:43] jwm: weird
[16:44] jwm: ah ls -a
[16:44] jwm: the old hidden files
[16:44] jfw: you're sure you're looking at the "cold" machine?
[16:45] jfw: looking at your "find" command, it would need to be: find / -name '19*'
[16:46] jwm: i found it and decrypted it
[16:47] jwm: i see wallet/change wallet /fee and wallet/keys
[16:47] jfw: it was really a hidden file? I don't usually create those when not required
[16:47] jwm: standard ls did not show it
[16:47] jfw: that sounds like the right structure though
[16:47] jwm: ls -a did
[16:50] jwm: cool, crisis averted thanks
[16:50] jwm: i am going to play with it a bit and see if i can figure out how to cat the individual files within the tar
[18:14] jfw: sounds good jwm; my hint would be to use that gbw-open tool to handle the decryption & extraction and then you can cat the files directly.
[18:17] jfw: just (re)learned that 'el aviso' is not spanish for advice but rather for notice or warning, while advice is 'el consejo'.
[23:04] jwm: ah
[23:04] jwm: i was thinking of doing some sort of tar -xO then grep the individual files but ill try that
[23:04] jwm: bueno consejo
[23:09] jwm: cat not grep
[23:15] jwm: gbw-open was rather simple
[23:16] jwm: 19AwKrnW1bAcqsnmapHLF7H3wt4Qa99J3j
[23:17] jwm: I think you had "watched" the address in your machine, let me know if that matches.
[23:38] jfw: jwm: it matches indeed, at least to the rough eyeball comparison level!
Day changed to 2023-01-24
[21:02] jfw: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/yrc-95k-release-with-patch-pile/
[21:07] jfw: dorion: also redeployed on server for that last digits fix.
[21:07] sourcerer: 2022-12-15 23:38:25 (#jwrd) jfw: found & fixed another annoyance: digits not counting as "word" for the purpose of finding word boundaries. not redeploying quite yet, in case more comes up.
[00:58] jfw: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2022/jwrd-logs-for-Dec-2022/#5697 - finished this process, with 15 patches all told; it just remains to sign and publish.
[00:58] sourcerer: 2022-12-25 00:17:32 (#jwrd) jfw: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2022/jwrd-logs-for-Dec-2022/#5644 - this is still going to happen; it's been a bit of a pain reducing the history from fine-grained commits down to cohesive readability-oriented patches but I've got halfway through by count, possibly more by substance.
[21:32] dorion: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5728 -- nice !!
[21:32] sourcerer: 2023-01-02 00:58:48 (#jwrd) jfw: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2022/jwrd-logs-for-Dec-2022/#5697 - finished this process, with 15 patches all told; it just remains to sign and publish.
Day changed to 2023-01-10
[20:51] jwm: Hi JFW and dorion
[20:51] jwm: just testing the ol hexchat - seems to be working
[21:38] dorion: hey jwm, how goes ?
[22:28] jfw: heya jwm. checking in here from the not-so-sunny Ciudad de Panama (it's been getting unseasonable daily downpours, all week I gather)
[22:34] jfw: been getting set up one step at a time; scored a pretty decent used desk for the office, $70 on the local market. not solid wood sadly, but 180cm long and nicely heavy
[22:40] jwm: nice! sounds like a win
[22:40] jwm: monsoon season is upon you
[22:41] jwm: cant complain, going shooting hopefully tonight or tomorrow with my new lead.
[22:41] jwm: sadly was a week too late for jacob =(
[22:44] dorion: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5738 -- but it's not supposed to be though !! Putin's probably behind this...
[22:44] sourcerer: 2023-01-10 22:40:41 (#jwrd) jwm: monsoon season is upon you
[22:45] dorion: jwm, shooting sounds fun.
[23:00] jwm: yes - just got a sig sauer p320 very excited to try it
[23:03] dorion: looks pretty cool.
Day changed to 2023-01-11
[21:58] jfw: dorion: reclaiming my old phone number via the Tigo service center was unsuccessful but only because it had been reassigned to someone, i.e. they looked it up and it was a known procedure. to buy a new SIM they wanted photo ID, so I passed since I can perfectly well get one without giving that.
[22:01] jfw: "doit center" might be better called "don't center" given the holes in the product selection. picked up a couple things but more were left unfilled. planning to hit novey next then perhaps pemco for a drill
[22:02] jfw: the usual 20 different flavors of teflon skillet but zero cast iron
[22:04] jfw: $70 for the cheapest cordless drill, no torx drivers except as part of a $40 kit which didn't even include a good range of twist drill bit sizes. the former might be reasonable, but since the latter isn't, I might as well shop that around too.
[22:06] jfw: (torx head is the only head worth buying, at least as far as the mechanical sort of screwing goes, I'm quite satisfied by now)
[22:08] jfw: I learned they refer to phillips head as 'estrella' despite 'star' being the generic name for torx in my book.
[22:11] jfw: dorion: have you explored 'elite pc gaming' just up the block from soho? don't think I'd seen it before
[22:13] jfw: 'inDrive' magically worked today despite my refusal to give a mugshot on its demand last night. meh, I guess it can stay around as one of the multiple options to try
[22:14] jfw: (cash bidding based cab hailing pnoje app that's popular around here and thus gets results quite fast indeed when it works)
[22:20] dorion: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5746 -- right, they'll probably want the photo ID too if you ever want to change the photo/nameless one from the chino to your name/a monthly contract rather than pay as you go.
[22:20] sourcerer: 2023-01-11 21:58:36 (#jwrd) jfw: dorion: reclaiming my old phone number via the Tigo service center was unsuccessful but only because it had been reassigned to someone, i.e. they looked it up and it was a known procedure. to buy a new SIM they wanted photo ID, so I passed since I can perfectly well get one without giving that.
[22:20] dorion: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5748 -- I pick up cast iron from novey on calle 50.
[22:20] sourcerer: 2023-01-11 22:02:37 (#jwrd) jfw: the usual 20 different flavors of teflon skillet but zero cast iron
[22:21] dorion: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5752 -- no, hadn't heard of it.
[22:21] sourcerer: 2023-01-11 22:11:12 (#jwrd) jfw: dorion: have you explored 'elite pc gaming' just up the block from soho? don't think I'd seen it before
[22:22] dorion: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5753-- notbad.jpg
[22:22] sourcerer: 2023-01-11 22:13:04 (#jwrd) jfw: 'inDrive' magically worked today despite my refusal to give a mugshot on its demand last night. meh, I guess it can stay around as one of the multiple options to try
[22:23] jfw: ah, the other data point re doit center was a wall full of lightbulbs yet the max brightness was '75W equivalent'.
[22:25] jfw: I'm resigned to using LED bulbs; their light isn't AS ugly as fluorescents and in this climate they certainly put out less unwanted heat than edison's finest.
[22:25] jfw: (and unlike yesterday's darling fluorescents they don't leak mercury when broken.)
[22:30] jfw: I think I figured out why I don't like the local "butter" products: despite being labeled "mantequilla" they can still be "recombined butter" made from assorted dairy extracts. tastes like movie theater popcorn chemicals, and isn't stiff even out of the fridge like real butter is
[22:32] jfw: I guess it's for people raised on margarine who want to feel like they're moving up in the world but still have it taste the way they're used to.
[22:33] dorion: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5764 -- as far as I've found, super99 is the only place to get incandescents, win for martinelli.
[22:33] sourcerer: 2023-01-11 22:25:08 (#jwrd) jfw: I'm resigned to using LED bulbs; their light isn't AS ugly as fluorescents and in this climate they certainly put out less unwanted heat than edison's finest.
Day changed to 2023-01-12
[16:38] jfw: dorion: good to hear they still carry them at least. the Novey visit was productive; found the same drill for $4 less but still went with a hand driver (insufficient need to justify the cordless and then which type and capacity etc). still, I cleaned out the last item on the shelf in several categories; and finding a complete and matching set of towels could only be done to a rough approximation.
[16:53] dorion: I reckon towel variety never hurt anyone.
[17:05] jfw: dorion: I wouldn't be so sure, indeed I expect mix-and-not-quite-match styles can absolutely hurt business at sufficiently upscale establishments. my point there though was that if you want a place where you can rely on the supposedly carried product lines to be consistently stocked, you won't find it there at least in the current year.
[17:07] dorion: yeah, that's a point. maybe you have to go to more than one novey, lol. I meant for one's home though. plus, I'd be surprised if upscale establishments are buying from novey anyways.
[17:11] jfw: I'm sure it's good enough for the peasants indeed.
[19:12] jwm: have either of you ever converted a .json file to .csv from command line?
[19:15] jwm: looks like there are various tools to use but just curious if you have ever done it and if there is a preferred method through command line (unsure if i have the skills to do it but wanted to try).
[22:12] jfw: jwm: if it's very simple, like each record is already on one line and there's no nesting or anything, some sed/awk might do for a quick hack; for more serious data I've used python's json module for the intake side; it also has a csv module for the output if it's complex enough not to just use simple printing (eg if there's strings needing quoting)
[22:17] jfw: jwm: there isn't as simple a converter as you're looking for perhaps because the formats are fundamentally different structure - csv is a plain table with number or string valued cells while json is hierarchical (individual values are combined using key-value mappings aka objects which can themselves be combined into further objects)
[22:17] jfw: so in practice it'll depend on how the json you're working with is shaped.
[22:19] jwm: interesting, ill look into both options
[22:20] jwm: deloitte ended up solving it for us - who knows how much it cost the hospital!
[22:20] jwm: i am convinvced there is money to be made simply from downloading and reformatting some of these hospital data files
[22:20] jwm: new regulation states that hospitals and health plans need to post machine readable format files of all their pricing
[22:20] jwm: so there is now a cottage industry around that
[22:21] jwm: most are JSON
[22:21] jfw: and they even specified that excel doesn't count as machine-readable? heh
[22:25] jfw: going json sounds pretty reasonable actually; keeps simple things simple while being flexible enough for more complex things, and much more readable (by human or machine!) than XML which was all the rage a while back
[22:26] jwm: re-read the ruling - by law must be json
[22:27] jwm: we are paying deloitte at least 100k a year to download a few of these files and reformat them and maybe combine with some other datasets
[22:27] jwm: truly amazing
[22:27] jwm: i offered to take the project on to fix it and my boss told me to stand down
[22:27] jwm: o well
[22:28] jfw: deloitte has snazzier suits I guess?
[22:28] jwm: this was however before i modeled my work with the hospital after the charachter milton from office space
[22:28] jfw: haha
[22:28] jwm: no - my boss didnt want to be responsible for it
[22:28] jwm: so why not take an extra 100k out of the non profit budget and blame someone else if it isnt done!
[22:29] jfw: ah indeed, the "can't be blamed".
[22:29] jwm: Consulting is only good for management to justify what they are already doing
[22:29] jwm: or blame someone if it doesnt work
[22:29] jwm: rarely any real insight is produced
[22:29] jwm: from my limited experience as a "consultant"
[22:31] jfw: and when insight is produced, it's rarely acted on I'd expect
[22:31] jwm: not unless it can be done by the consultant at limited manpower and professional risk for the manager
[22:34] jfw: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/jwrd-logs-for-Jan-2023/#5788 << I'm sure someone will figure out how to encode an excel file into a json string.
[22:34] sourcerer: 2023-01-12 22:26:14 (#jwrd) jwm: re-read the ruling - by law must be json
Day changed to 2023-01-15
[20:46] jfw: a refresh of some fundamentals of cryptography as expressed in 1883, for any students of hte field who may be reading.
Day changed to 2023-01-19
[16:33] jwm: JFW - is there a path you normally store the TAR file of wallets (i believe it is still just named by the address)? i cant find where my file is stored and am running out of ideas with my limited ability to search.
[16:35] jwm: forgot what you used as PATH using the gbw-init
[16:35] jfw: jwm: that path was specified when we did the gbw-init; iirc it was ~/wallet.tar.gpg or similar
[16:36] jfw: just look at a listing in the home dir
[16:37] jfw: I guess the "hardware wallet appliance" version would not have such luxuries as multiple wallets stored at chosen paths.
[16:37] jwm: all i see is lost and found at home
[16:38] jwm: i dont remember us moving it, i never used the machine after we made it
[16:40] jwm: i tried find / -name "19" from the home directory since i knew the first two characters but didn't find anything
[16:41] jfw: jwm, perhaps you're looking at / or /home, I refer to the home directory (abbreviated ~), which here is probably /root.
[16:42] jfw: the wallet can't have been named based on the address because it had to be named before the address was generated
[16:43] jwm: yea it is not in the /root either
[16:43] jwm: weird
[16:44] jwm: ah ls -a
[16:44] jwm: the old hidden files
[16:44] jfw: you're sure you're looking at the "cold" machine?
[16:45] jfw: looking at your "find" command, it would need to be: find / -name '19*'
[16:46] jwm: i found it and decrypted it
[16:47] jwm: i see wallet/change wallet /fee and wallet/keys
[16:47] jfw: it was really a hidden file? I don't usually create those when not required
[16:47] jwm: standard ls did not show it
[16:47] jfw: that sounds like the right structure though
[16:47] jwm: ls -a did
[16:50] jwm: cool, crisis averted thanks
[16:50] jwm: i am going to play with it a bit and see if i can figure out how to cat the individual files within the tar
[18:14] jfw: sounds good jwm; my hint would be to use that gbw-open tool to handle the decryption & extraction and then you can cat the files directly.
[18:17] jfw: just (re)learned that 'el aviso' is not spanish for advice but rather for notice or warning, while advice is 'el consejo'.
[23:04] jwm: ah
[23:04] jwm: i was thinking of doing some sort of tar -xO then grep the individual files but ill try that
[23:04] jwm: bueno consejo
[23:09] jwm: cat not grep
[23:15] jwm: gbw-open was rather simple
[23:16] jwm: 19AwKrnW1bAcqsnmapHLF7H3wt4Qa99J3j
[23:17] jwm: I think you had "watched" the address in your machine, let me know if that matches.
[23:38] jfw: jwm: it matches indeed, at least to the rough eyeball comparison level!
Day changed to 2023-01-24
[21:02] jfw: http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2023/yrc-95k-release-with-patch-pile/
[21:07] jfw: dorion: also redeployed on server for that last digits fix.
[21:07] sourcerer: 2022-12-15 23:38:25 (#jwrd) jfw: found & fixed another annoyance: digits not counting as "word" for the purpose of finding word boundaries. not redeploying quite yet, in case more comes up.
Heya, how are you? I'm going to be in Panama Feb 2 - Feb 5. I'd love to grab z drink/coffee with you and/or RD if you're available one of those days. Cheers!
PS
I don't have secure comms on hand , and won't have them when I go to Panama either. I left you a way to contact me through USG.FB's mobile messaging platform in one of the fields of this form. If you prefer I contact you another way, let me know. Also, feel free to leave this comment published or unpublished - as you wish.
Comment by whaack — 2023-01-17 @ 16:49
I'm keepin' on. Sure, why not; perhaps an evening out Fri Feb 3.
I'm still holding the line on the bugged bunny comms, for one thing because I can't see a workable way to contain it even using a dedicated phone. Since its "identity" is built in the absolutely worst conceivable way, namely on the phone number, you'd need a dedicated SIM too with all its recurring care & feeding expenses, or else your plain-GSM number gets tainted and the locals conclude you're a goat just like them and next thing you know you need to be carrying that toilet phone and data connection everywhere too.
I don't suppose there's any such wonder as an sms-to-whatsapp gateway service? The thing seems purposely built to prevent any such interfacing, "walled garden" and whatnot.
Comment by Jacob Welsh — 2023-01-22 @ 19:04