asciilifeform: now i have not read the book herr woit is reviewing, but the review imho is not his finest moment.

asciilifeform: could it be time to lay off the 'кто был никем тот станет всем!1111' knob..?

asciilifeform: the 'designated' losers are designated FOR REASONS maybe?!

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-20#1546102 << dunno, the equalista whining, e.g., 'The effects of automated algorithms sorting and rejecting job applications, with indirect consequences of discrimination against classes of people. ... The effects of algorithms that score credit, determine access to mortgages and to insurance, often with the effect of making sure that those deemed losers stay that way.' is offputting. ☝︎

asciilifeform: '"We" made no such public statement, YOU did, Leah! As a major CODE contributor to the libreboot project and having been banned from the IRC channel after posting the following (mainly factual) article, I no longer will be contributing patches to Leah's personal "libreboot" pet project, but I will be pushing upstream to coreboot as usual.' -- zammit

asciilifeform: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-09/msg00067.html << in other lulz.

asciilifeform: (an 8ball of this size would indeed phuctor every modulus ever submitted, in polynomial time, supposing that you could somehow arithmetize on it)

asciilifeform: and an ~earth-sized unit of planet.

asciilifeform: assuming a magical 1 bit per atom storage density.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for some lulz, calculate how many planets would be needed to hold the 8ball that you briefly thought we had.

asciilifeform: my rss page does not, http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/rss , see for yourself.

asciilifeform: and ftr i still have nfi why the bot dupes

asciilifeform: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/C29EA6B1F7D6AD77DEBA08E41C7C04C88A9C80A2BBDA661383959A4DABAC776E <<<>>> http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/9BBDEB5651AD779357CC0300D7EBA2B94508BD233C3EFCE605A33732A425A607

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-20#1546092 << nope ☝︎

asciilifeform: or did he lose his

asciilifeform: i always assumed that was BingoBoingo

asciilifeform: lolwat

asciilifeform: ( for some reason my client displays replies from jhvh1 in #t tab )

asciilifeform: nm

asciilifeform: or hm

asciilifeform: jhvh1 <

asciilifeform: thing shits here when pm'd?!

asciilifeform: argh

asciilifeform: but there is no external reason to suppose that it is.

asciilifeform: ok, let's rephrase, the map to finding captain kidd's buried gigatonne of gold may or may not be concealed in phuctor src.

asciilifeform: there are 0 secrets there

asciilifeform: it isn't even entirely clear what anyone might hope to accomplish, beyond the merely annoying, by screwing with phuctor

asciilifeform: the ones which don't, ring the bell, and i look

asciilifeform: normally the scanbots are a snore because they go straight to looking for the (absent) wordpress

asciilifeform: i have monumentally nfi

asciilifeform: ( this, in case it wasn't obvious, doesn't do anything interesting )

asciilifeform: hoping that.... ?????

asciilifeform: raw

asciilifeform: in case it wasn't clear, they were dumping'em in phuctor's hopper

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lulzy.

asciilifeform: via same mechanism.

asciilifeform: boring old corps are getting the same 'politruks' installed.

asciilifeform: and subj is not limited to open sores, tor hacktiwhateverrism, etc.

asciilifeform: point was that if 1) you cannot expel-with-framethrower 2) THEY know that you cannot expel-with-flamethrower -- they will come.

asciilifeform changes petrol tank on flamethrower

asciilifeform: eh that's what happens when you have an fsf, which insists on being a usgtronic 'charity', instead of a 313333337 t3rr0r111st org. the former get to live with leahs and alices, the latter - expel with flamethrower.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we had this thread. either 'hand' or the most elaborately slow bot in existence.

asciilifeform: ( permission, evidently, did NOT come )

asciilifeform: https://notabug.org/vimuser/libreboot-website/commit/18c0a561c44a447d558f66df5a680e162f44a58d << also lulzy.

asciilifeform: https://twitter.com/markhkim/status/777489862270263296 << what passes for the logz in heathendom.

asciilifeform: ^ mine was a litttle longer.

asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/2vxr4/?raw=true

asciilifeform: lel how'd you expect that to go.

asciilifeform: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160920/#253 <

asciilifeform: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-09/msg00059.html << one poor bastard 'doesn't know how world now worx'

asciilifeform: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-09/msg00060.html << now pushing usg.debian along for the ride.

asciilifeform: the (promised) thing in libreboot was 'just same as coreboot but without any magic strings from chip vendors'

asciilifeform: the concept of a non-blobbed bios for x86

asciilifeform: i.e. cover in scar tissue, so that nothing grows

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: idea, as far as i can see, is to appelbaum the whole thing

asciilifeform: (based on what the plugged-in unit says)

asciilifeform: pill takes the last published fw from vendor and heals it so it finds exactly the serial it wants to find.

asciilifeform: the copy protection used a serial number embedded in the sage box's cpu (stellaris arm-compatible)

asciilifeform: (if you can source the parts, they are all end-of-life, including the weird fpga)

asciilifeform: and incidentally the pill allows the board to be cloned.

asciilifeform: at any rate, i trotted out the probe thing for a reason, you can't really effectively work on bios without one (or similar.)

asciilifeform: lol-lol.

asciilifeform: it only needs to boeck-work.

asciilifeform: such that when, e.g., we publish one, they can boeck it.

asciilifeform: it was to steal the LAND on which it sits, so to speak.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the point of this escapade was not to steal the dud bios.

asciilifeform: to my shame, i read the whole thing.

asciilifeform: could've bothered to steal a piece of ~working~ tech, you'd think.

asciilifeform: something of the kind.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: (the argentine pickpocket i expect also had breakdown, when he powered the thing up later)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for a long time he had a mips thing. which was pinched by an argentine and he, recall, publicly had nervous breakdown

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-02-29#1418199 << see also. ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'have JUST LIKE RMS!1111'

asciilifeform: they take coreboot, snip out the non-gpl pieces, burn it into old lappys, and sell to idiots

asciilifeform: it's the rms-laptop thing.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: y'know what 'libreboot' was/is, right ?

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: it's at the level where the cancer cells attack the other cancer cells.

asciilifeform: and just when i thought that the heathens had equilibrated at the bottom of their pit

asciilifeform offers mircea_popescu the necessary barf bag

asciilifeform: serfdom is the simple, low-tech employment - minus the (expensive in overall terms) hiring and firing

asciilifeform: eh serfdom was here in 1600 and will be here in 2600.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is more or less on par with labour cost in re 'why china'.

asciilifeform: all that changed since it was built is a couplea paint jobs.

asciilifeform: i was recently in a house built in 1620s. still has motherfucking original brick walls.

asciilifeform: there's 'requires maintenance' and then there's 'the walls come off after 10y.'

asciilifeform: pay 400% markup for the aluminum plates etc.

asciilifeform: 'renovations' is a chumpatron second only to the real estate scam, in usa

asciilifeform: i.e. replace, at tremendous expense, the parts.

asciilifeform: they stand, where they stand, because folks 'grandfather's axe' them

asciilifeform: in 2 decades - springs leaks

asciilifeform: the thing shows obvious, to naked eye, signs of self-disassembly after a decade or so

asciilifeform: the suburban cardboard-and-aluminum box kind

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: even then! ever ~see~ an american house ?

asciilifeform: these - quite certainly are not.

asciilifeform: cardboard house is built to last ~exactly as long as the chump's mortgage.

asciilifeform: as far as houses go.

asciilifeform: can mean various things, of which 'mud hut' is not any.

asciilifeform: here on my planet, words have meaningz!111

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: well you did say 'enduring'