asciilifeform: in fact, we had thread a while back re: how certain industrial equipment is now also 'subscription-only', has satellite dish and gets fresh firmware from mothership each day etc.
asciilifeform: incidentally 'subscription license' also means 'forget airgap' in case it wasn't obvious
asciilifeform: sorta like what i picture, e.g., eulora, looking like, if mircea_popescu sold it for money
asciilifeform: just happened to ship a linux binary, was all.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cadsoft was a 1990s-style traditional software co., nothing open about it
asciilifeform: (in case anyone 'missed the memo' : open sores cad is a sad, sad joke. and no, i dun care if this does not sit well with somebody. it is -- a fact.)
asciilifeform: e.g., they bought (probably to annihilate) cadsoft, the maker of the ONE usable electronic cad proggy for linux
asciilifeform: in other lulz, very far away, 'Autodesk will stop the sale of perpetual licences of all its software on January 31st, 2017. The purchase of new licences by both new and existing customers will only be available by subscription after that date. ... Why is Autodesk transitioning to subscription licences? Subscription licences offer customers a lower entry price, greater choice of tools and the ability to pay-as-you-go. With its shift a☟︎
asciilifeform: and unfailingly produce 'OVERUNITY!!111' lulz
asciilifeform: they measure with analogue amperemeter, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'engine crackpots' such as they are found today, typically have not even heard of such a thing as calorimeter, because it is not sold in 'home despot'
asciilifeform: i collect stories like this, incidentally, because it is the #1 occupational hazard of inventing -- to 'fall in love with idea' and end up a sad basketcase, pons&fleischmanning your way into the bottle
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what means 'localized' ? it's the usual nsa core on cpu die
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have that one in the room where i am now, it actually has the working cpu
asciilifeform: apu2 also theoretically boots with coreboot (there is no, incidentally, any other kind of bios available for it ) but it has a fritz chip and you cannot switch it off
asciilifeform: anyway there were two and afaik exactly two makers of pc-compatible boards with the last, magical, amd g-series, and shipped full schematics.
asciilifeform: it is theoretically still in production, but every vendor i know of will attempt to bait-and-switch and spuriously substitute the 2015-and-post revision that will NOT.
asciilifeform: walter: afaik the last chip that worked 100% correctly on 'coreboot' was amd G-series 'APU'.
asciilifeform: walter: what is your kitchen sink minus last night's coffee grounds ? is it identical to mine ?
asciilifeform: (can't sell before x years, can't resell for > 1.something * what you bought for, can't build >1 story, etc)
asciilifeform: you can find surprising things even today by scanning for ftp
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, like the old finnish ftp search
asciilifeform: coreboot, last i saw, largely consists of some sad folks sitting and being sad, because it works on 0 cpus presently sold, and on account of quite deliberate sabotage by intel and amd.
asciilifeform: walter: 'libreboot' was/is a fork where some parasite stole and rebranded the thing
asciilifeform: walter: it is known as 'coreboot' today
asciilifeform: it is not, for example, the fault of gentoo authors, that rms became a living mushroom and lifted not one finger to keep emacs from demanding dbus
asciilifeform: if you remove 'portage', you have, magic!111, working gentoo. but it is then ~same as just generic linux a la my pogo build.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-05#1577762 << gentoo is in the sad place where it is because of 'portage' (the thing that attempts to automagically download tarballs of source and build deps in the correct order) , and the decay of the entire ecosystem of buildables, which isn't strictly to do with gentoo per se☝︎
