asciilifeform: i not only miss'em, but act on the impulse and... install'em
asciilifeform: the days when amateurs wrote linux device drvrs on weekends, are long gone.
asciilifeform: to briefly revisit upstack, linux as we have it now is a direly and fatally centralized, in the worst possible sense, item: to the extent it runs on in-production iron at all, it is because some stingy but present support exists from the vendors, and from the megaconglomerates (rathead et al). if withdrawn, linux turns into openbsd overnight.
asciilifeform: trinque: it is in fact its only defense.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only the malodorous phoundations, but the very architecture of linux, with the massive #include interdependencies, and the lack of demand for HUMAN-READABLE specs when device drivers are submitted
asciilifeform: 'but oh noez, if i make the acorns MOVABLE, little squirrels will come and take'em in all directions'
asciilifeform: and to deliberately centralize around own arse.
asciilifeform: they are quite happy to glue with broken glass.
asciilifeform: it was never anything other than obvious that -- in practice, in the field -- the open sores folx don't think much of this 'free sharing' thing.
asciilifeform: (how?? -- they aren't self-contained, but relay on a titanic rat's nest of #include functionality, e.g., interrupt stack)
asciilifeform: often ~more~ difficult than working from data sheet / leaked specs !
asciilifeform: btw anyone who has tried to port a linux device driver (from recent years) to an un-linuxlike os, will know what i am talking about: they are 'glued with broken glass', and it is not in any sense trivial.
asciilifeform: (consider why, e.g., netbsd, has not displaced it, even for our applications)
asciilifeform: linux is actually a direly centralized thing, because of the device racket
asciilifeform: what would that look like, in, say, linus's case ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is not mega-mystery. they... let in the vermin you've been keeping out. and project turns into, e.g., firefox.
asciilifeform: a great many of the seemingly purposeless atrocities of the left could make sense as 'dog-kicking'.
asciilifeform: the point, to the extent there is one, is not even to specifically mutilate the childrenz (it is only one of many dr.mengele projects in the works) but to shoot the dogs that cannot resist biting
asciilifeform has never heard of any of the folx in this piece, save for c. yarvin aka mr mold
asciilifeform: 'In June 2015, the hacker Elia Shito publicly tweeted skepticism about transgenderism in children. Although Elia tweeted from his own personal account, Ehmke tried to get Elia Shito ejected from the open source community he participated in.'
asciilifeform: lulzy comments, also, e.g., 'While I don’t think he’s a “white supremacist” as such “off-line” in his essays under the pseudonym Moldbug, the travails of Curtis Yarvin as a pure hacker are illuminating, to the point I’m pretty sure they’ve killed any chance his Urbit might have in the so called marketplace of ideas.'
asciilifeform: (esr, mega-specialist in 'half-grasping' concepts, does not disappoint)
asciilifeform: 'President Obama talks on the phone with president Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine about the Malaysia Airlines plane crash in eastern Ukraine, July 17, 2014. Here we see the new phone in gray, and as Obama's finger is covering the red light, and the green light is off, it seems a secure call.'
asciilifeform: 'Even in March 2016, when a full IT modernization had already started (see below), Obama said that the pop-culture depiction of presidential-grade technology and the real world are far apart: movies and TV shows "make it appear as if I’m in the [Situation] room and moving things. [We] have half a finger print and a half an hour later I’m tracking a guy on streets of Istanbul. Doesn’t work that way, no. Sometimes I’m just tryi
asciilifeform: 'For security reasons, the wireless connections of the president's iPad are disabled.'
asciilifeform: also lulzy is the visible to naked eye disjunction between the 'sv world' (the cisco phones) and ye olde Golden Toilets That Worked (the raytheon thing)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: quite obviously i do not know bernstein as a human, but can only conjecture, that he felt like a proper rube , ripe for fleecing in orc land.
asciilifeform: (while we're on subj, mircea_popesculandia was interesting in re whores, they had ads for'em pasted on every surface, dumpsters, light poles, bus stations, as if they were plumbers in usa)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: phf is quite right, the place was astonishingly physically segregated
asciilifeform: to the cow -- yes, farm exists to supply tasty snacks and warm place to moo.
asciilifeform: i am looking at this farm through the lens of the farmer, rather than the cow.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they fall into the 3rd category -- they exist so that male chumper has TWO sets of nondischargeable loan to service, vs 1.
asciilifeform: where i went, they were mostly in first category.
asciilifeform: 3 types of meatstock are bred for the college racket in usa: the slum bunnies ('diversity admit', they bring in usg payola), the eloi (actual future mandarins, small numbers, they zuckerberg around, you will find'em on rowboats, yachts), and the peasants (most of the chumpers. their purpose is to service nondischargeable debt for the rest of their natural lives.)
asciilifeform: then -- fixed, because nobody gave any longer half a shit about exams.
asciilifeform: so the exams had 'magic tricks' built in, like this.
asciilifeform: in the old dayz, there was a somewhat more 'turkish' system in usa, when the snake had not yet shed its vestigial legs, and 'merit' still had to be faked into existence for the children of the anointed.
asciilifeform: this was done for the old entrance exam ('sat') in 1990s, and turned into a 'THEY dun want YOU to KNOW!!111' b00k, and fixed.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at one point they tried to abolish the obviously-comical 'multiple choice', in favour of... worse thing, can you picture:
asciilifeform: and real estate racket in the now-so 'valuable' exclusion zones.
asciilifeform: with ~50% violently illiterate halfwits, etc.
asciilifeform: europe was (theoretical) threat, so now it will be converted into exact copy of usa.
asciilifeform: recall the old observation about how 'communism must expand and destroy healthy tissue, or die' ?
asciilifeform: notion is that it 'could not possibly matter' whether half of usa can or cannot read, because it isn't as if chimpanzees will learn to make jets.
asciilifeform: this btw is very low bar. it means: they cannot read even street sign.
asciilifeform: this led to cries of 'oh noez, racists retaking their historic motherland from diversefolx' etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bureaucrat caste swelled under obummer, while the train system declined. so a decision was made to clear out some 'habitable' zones for'em in dc.
asciilifeform: (there are ads everywhere re 'we will help you get to the polls!' etc)
asciilifeform: fwiw the practice is conspicuous enough to be visible to the naked eye.
asciilifeform: y'know, just like in 1860s with irish.
