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gabriel_laddel: but I need a stable platform from which to redesign computing from the ground up
gabriel_laddel: there is no meaningful way to interrogate the X server about its state, so when it crashes (and it does from time to time), it really gets in the way of the whole lispm experience
gabriel_laddel: phf: that's not what I'm saying. truetype is in CL. McCLIM is 100% CL. But it /communicates/ with X, which has cario and all this other nonsense integrated with it, and it's causing problems.
gabriel_laddel: phf: sorry, what exactly is unclear about what I'm saying?
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: you're going to be waiting a while in any case, so I wouldn't get to worked up about it.
gabriel_laddel: all of the business that I do inbetween now and then is simply churn to get there
gabriel_laddel: am installing masamune for a client (by hand) right now
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I am already paid to make money with it
gabriel_laddel: on my dead harddrive there is a bunch of half-implemented useful things like clim-spec-in-clim, the "navigator" which is a reflective search apropos, I've taken climacs and made it usable for day-to-day work...
gabriel_laddel: The fonts look like shit without truetype and that makes it impossible for me to make money using CLIM.
gabriel_laddel: talking directly to the monitor / whatever and implementing CLIM on that.
gabriel_laddel: No. Cutting X/cario/opengl/truetype out of the picture completely.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: redid the website, removed all the crap backends, gas2serra fixed a threading bug that caused irritating visual artifacts, I went through the whole of the CLIM archives and pulled out all the useful info, the codebase has been totally re-ordered, truetype is now the default, bugfixes relating to not pulling in the correct X keyboard
gabriel_laddel: there have been discussions of re-implementing it on top of the web, ncurses etc
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: that's one perspective. another is that I'm extrodinarily lucky that they're doing anything useful on mcclim at all
gabriel_laddel: were I in charge of fundraising, I'd not be doing it as an anon anyways but rather calling syscog, ravenspack etc and trying to get donations in the 10ks rather than pocket change, but w/e
gabriel_laddel: also, jackdaniel is a pleb / etherhuffer (at least politically, and I really appreciate his work on mcclim)
gabriel_laddel: I'm not in charge of fundraising, talk to beach re this.
gabriel_laddel: he is currently paying jackdaniel several thousand out of pocket to help
gabriel_laddel: ben_vulpes: if so, have him drop into #clim and talk to beach, who is handling fundraising / distributing funds atm
gabriel_laddel: ben_vulpes: do you have an intern who wants to make a couple hundred bucks here and there writing CL for McCLIM?
gabriel_laddel: phf: there is no search right now and it makes the whole development cycle hellish
gabriel_laddel: phf: is your logging engine open source / can it be so that we can have less shit logs on #clim?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: also, you'll be pleased to note that a flash drive of the appropriate size is being shipped to me on thursday
gabriel_laddel: Message to future noobs. I spent, on several occasions, multiple days (3-5) doing nothing but reading trilema.com, logs & loper-os to catch up - there is no "hack" to get up to speed.
gabriel_laddel: but must be willing to put up with having your stuff taken from time to time / "the knockout game"
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: it's mod6's garden, and not a garden, a basement
gabriel_laddel is currently shopping around for a USB drive that will hold all the masamune sources, as the current one is too small
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: because wtf, it isn't that difficult and somehow I manage to be fed + sleep indoors shave and whatnont?
gabriel_laddel: Look, I don't have your personal ledger in front of me, but wouldn't paying ZERO in rent save you a lot, even if you only do it for a year and your pet has to go live with her mother?
gabriel_laddel: $s People generally wish to be rich for all sorts of reasons and mental constructions that scarcely survive the transformative process which becoming rich entails
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: if I buy you a shed like the one in timasora, and mod6 installs it on his property, will you please just go live there and save money?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: sorry, you want to live in/near ganglang why exactly?
gabriel_laddel: "did i tell you about the one time when i took over management of a grocery store for 10 minutes ?" < do tell
gabriel_laddel: physically I am a twink, anyone trying to rob me with a gun is a threat
gabriel_laddel: ^ anyways, if that occurs I'd like to be able to stuff a backpack full of explosives, let the guy run off with it and then detonate without being bothered by the feds
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I've been reading the reports.. hence my interest.
gabriel_laddel: the video of a motorbike robbery from reddit a year or two ago
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I don't really want to gas anyone, but must be able to respond to threats in a reasonable manner
gabriel_laddel would like to live in Kr, but it is an ethnostate in which non-koreans cannot own anything.
gabriel_laddel: Oh oh, my point is more along the lines of - you can't cook mustard gas, use it on the hoodrats and then make use of the large industrial zone near oakland.
gabriel_laddel: I've already sold 'stuff' here in the states, and don't see how it could possibly be different in SA?
gabriel_laddel: (am assuming I'd be able to ship in parts to BA, assemble them into machines and then take a ferry and sell in MTV)
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: Speaking of which, why is it so difficult to get 'stuff' into BA? If I wanted to ship in a bunch of computer parts and undercut the Uruguay competition (computers reportedly cost 2x what they do in the states because ??) the issues would be what exactly?
gabriel_laddel: What I had intended to say was: I'm on the hunt for products that are difficult to create in the ussa because of the supergay laws, or the interactions between the supergay laws and the situation in the field (ie, why one cannot make automated turrets to defend one's $100/month flat in the hood == the feds).
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: I for one would like to be able to buy pyrex, and not the re-branded crap either.
gabriel_laddel: Not especially, but was brainstorming products to sell in SA (south america) that are a PITA to get into / create here in the USSA
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: have you ever considered becoming a glass blower?
gabriel_laddel: ftr, if you have funtoo / gentoo questions, angry_vincent on #funtoo is quite well versed in the idioms.
gabriel_laddel: it just hands you geometry + some basic ways of abstracting it - what could possibly stink?