asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: t. dalrymple once wrote about a beach in liberia, where the locals would not even bother to build a latrine, just shat in the sand
asciilifeform: hanbot: no wonder the cats are thin, if they eat sludgefish
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my last summer near the black sea, there was ~no beach, closed, sewage.
asciilifeform: that water looked like bmore's, mostly sludge
asciilifeform: there are fishermen in buenos aires ?!
asciilifeform: but i still have the fleas. so i suppose i could open flea circus.
asciilifeform: ( was ~6 wks. old beast, and already very sickly when found. fed antibiotic, liquid food, etc. but no dice. asciilifeform will not be changing professions and running a zoo, nor a circus. )
asciilifeform: unrelatedly, and BingoBoingo might find this interesting, i finally tamed one of the wildcats, but she died four days later. i dug grave at midnight, and wondered if neighbours would call police. but nobody did.
asciilifeform: and also that there is a ~monument of steve jobs~
asciilifeform: relatedly, i found that streets of odessa are all on 'google street', and discovered that ~every single cafe there is a mcdonalds now.
asciilifeform: trinque has it. all that's left is your own hands. 'if not you, then who' etc.
asciilifeform: and quite possibly the real people died long, long ago.
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had an article about this.
asciilifeform: there are indeed folx who quietly and decorously eat pistol, like gentlemen, without any reddit component. but because no reddit, there is no trivial telescope to see them through, and they do not leave 'good example' to those who must learn.
asciilifeform: 'We discuss how Steve Jobs was on the worst run of his life, with a series of hardware failures (Mac, Lisa, Next, Pixar) and had been recently thrown out of Apple (1994).' << next was 'hardware failure' ??
asciilifeform: (there ~is~ a certain bottom floor to 'workstation', defined imho by ability to build&run trb. but it is lower than '4GHz')
asciilifeform: the reich works in this case not by denying the parts to would-be builders, but in pushing the notion that, e.g., 'workstation' HAS to be a 4GHz wintel thing
asciilifeform: (and surprising other variety of konsoomer tech. vcr, for instance.)
asciilifeform: you can get them from most 1980s car.
asciilifeform: you can also make z80 comp over weekend.
asciilifeform: this is in re earlier thread re cpu, also. and the luser-friendly world. they want 'radio' to mean 'box with 1000MHz cpu and 1G of ram and shituntu linux' and not 'spark gap'.
asciilifeform: if you know morse, you can send 1000km message with the pieces of ruined truck.
asciilifeform: morse, incidentally, is a skill that the 4th reich would quite like to see die out entirely. ohnoez, can't have folx communicating with low-tech radios, flash-lamps, through prison toilets.
asciilifeform: 'Mr. Perens was founder of No-Code International, which helped to convince the International Telecommunications Union, FCC and the telecommunications regulators of many nations to drop the Morse code requirement for Amateur Radio licensing. With the possible exception of Russia, all nations have now dropped that requirement. ' << lel
asciilifeform: there is nothing 'friendly' about poetteringola.
asciilifeform: 'As the frequency rises, saturation is less of a problem. So, modern power supplies use a high frequency (above 20 KHz, so you won’t hear it) instead of 60 Hz, which allows them to use a small toroid core transformer made of ferrite...' << entirely factual except for the 'won't hear it' part. it is maddening.
asciilifeform: (they ~do~ have a serious problem with the notion of removing things, because one of the things that most desperately needs removal is ~themselves~)
asciilifeform: if removing the liquishit is somehow 'off the table' -- what remains: parfumery
asciilifeform: leaving entirely aside the question of whether ice40 can in fact be made to do anything useful with the 'open' toolchain discussed earlier, or whether a toolchain that required clang, llvm, and ten other poetteringesque abortions is 'open'☟︎
asciilifeform: (is it the lattice ice40? then why not SAY IT motherfucker)
asciilifeform: this degree of 'softwarization' of hardware, i have never before seen -- the ubuntized crockofshit approach to seekoority, finally applied down on the iron. yes, let's retrofit crossbar switching on ten layers of liquishit!
asciilifeform: (for n00bz: lpc is what replaced ye olde isa in early 2000s.)
asciilifeform: ith the associated PCB traces located in central layers of the system board.'
asciilifeform: on read directly from LPC out of band to an attacker, e.g. over Bluetooth... In a nutshell, LPC Guard™ converts the traditional monolithic shared LPC bus topology into a pseudo-star topology, then masks sensitive data transmissions involving a single peripheral from all remaining peripherals on the bus. The bus control device central to this technology is securely connected to the LPC master onboard the CPU or southbridge device, w
asciilifeform: ' The LPC bus is a shared, bidirectional bus that often handles highly sensitive traffic such as TPM transaction cycles, password entry via PS/2 keyboard, and low level firmware read / write cycles. All existing systems using LPC for these functions share a single, fatal flaw. Since the LPC bus is shared, a malicious peripheral can be surreptitiously attached to the LPC interface without detection, then transmit interesting informati
asciilifeform actually read the entire talos turd, and the links, and as is quite typical the 'libreboot' idiot pitches 'use linux on chromebook c201' -- but if you actually read, then will learn that 'so long as you don't need wireless nic or video to work!'
asciilifeform: the folks ~buying~ old american launchers, to convert to house, do look for (gaseous) radon. but that's more of chronic exposure hazard.
