asciilifeform: it is not an ~economical~ way to make (almost) anything.☟︎
asciilifeform: put an arc through the raw materials, if there is any thermodynamically-plausible path to the end product, you will find some in the tube.
asciilifeform: PeterL et al : did we ever do the brute-force synthesis thread ?
asciilifeform: but this is good time to note that postindustrial junkyard wars chemistry, as every other craft, differs substantially from the 'you can get any starting material you like by drawing it on paper' schoolbook chem.
asciilifeform: but it is not worthless, school book does not discuss how to refine postindustrial rubbish from shops, utilize junkyard metal for the synthesis pots, etc.
asciilifeform: phf: there is enough deadtree-era 'underground' pseudoscientific literature on 'dope cooking' to fill book case. most of it of dubious quality, approaching 'anarchist's cookbook', rather than what normal people think of as chemistry
asciilifeform: and using commonplace equipment, a la meth.
asciilifeform: and q is not even whether complicated, but whether feasible from commonplace materials.
asciilifeform: PeterL: dope world, of both sexes, seems to care not a whit whether garage or not.
asciilifeform: (incidentally, everybody in kindergarten makes fun of the italian tanks with 4 reverse gears, but for some reason nobody discusses american ejection seat developed for $maxint, but never deployed, in vietnam, with its own built-in little airplane wings, so as to skedaddle out of enemy lines when escaping!)
asciilifeform: general's been in 'strategic' retreat for so long that his arse is wet in pacific ocean.
asciilifeform: but, as i gather, decided that it would pointlessly hasten his dekulakization, or some such.
asciilifeform: he oughta have yanked its trademark use permission immediately.
asciilifeform: its continued existence is the greatest afaik known shame of torvalds.
asciilifeform: shinohai: it started life as 'full phoundation'
asciilifeform: like the archetypical dope-addicted whore.
asciilifeform: these folks are quite ideal from pov of new owners.
asciilifeform: the money - gone, the expensive tastes - remain.
asciilifeform: afaik mcafee long ago lost ~all of his money. hence operating in esr mode now.
asciilifeform: (the entire racket has 0 to do with defense of the crown in the traditional kgb sense, but rather with 'terrorist creation' , a la the proverbial death ray case.)
asciilifeform: aha. he is kept around as a tame priest specifically for use on them.
asciilifeform: a reputation for '133337 d00d'ness among the types of folx who bite that particular variety of hook.
asciilifeform: his principal value to his new owner is his 'tor cred' or whatever one might call it.
asciilifeform: in other noose, j. mcafee opens a mining pool for usg. (probably in exchange for non-prosecution for pyramidal flimflammery and/or non-extradition to the orc shithole of his past decade)
asciilifeform: trb absolutely gives no fuck if it cannot find the network.
asciilifeform: and letting it 'eatblock' via shell script.
asciilifeform: incidentally you can make this out of CURRENT trb simply by putting it on a box without a nic
asciilifeform: (it dun care via what to 'eatblock', can be rs232)
asciilifeform: after slicing apart mempool-node from blockchain-node, building 'dioded node' becomes trivial exercise.☟︎
asciilifeform: if a node behind a diode, and an otherwise-identical one outside of the diode, diverge in any respect whatsoever...
asciilifeform: incidentally, a more general observation re 'serial diodes', is that, quite like 'archive.is' and similar, they are a valuable detector of folks attempting to monkey with history.
asciilifeform: i argue that a properly-designed wallet will not leak coins even then.
asciilifeform: let's take 'pessimal' case, where overflow or whatever is found such that all satoshi-derived nodes 'chain-react' and can be manipulated arbitrarily by the enemy.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: with what would you be speaking to nosuchlabs box ? with wire in teeth ?
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: how do you propose to 'check against multiple trb nodes' on an airgapped signing box ?
asciilifeform: and as phf points out, it leaves you open to attack where the craftmachine is pwned and gives you a wallet-emptier to happily carry to the bunker and sign..☟︎
asciilifeform: but it leaves open the question of where and how to craft the tx.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: at least 2 people here already do some variant of this.
asciilifeform: (this type of cut is a very necessary thing, imho, per 'specificity of diddling', nothing beats the ability to mix&match parts, run queries in parallel on redundant subsystems on heterogeneous iron, etc)
asciilifeform: which imho really ought to be made, those are quite separable concerns.
asciilifeform: also include the possible cut between mempool and 'blockpool'
