asciilifeform: from weird spring, to titanium (brittle!) firing pin, to iphoniferous sight running ios
asciilifeform: phun phakt: for every conceivable heresy re kalash, american 'ricers' will happily sell you an aftermarket kit , to idiotate to yer heart's delight
asciilifeform: 'YOU NOTICE AND AVOID BARREL IF HAS POCKMARKS LIKE ASS OF FAT GIRL.'
asciilifeform: relatedly, 'SURE, IS ONLY YUGOSLAV COPY TYPE BUT IS STILL PROUD DESIGN OF SERGEI SIMONOV. THIS IS LIKE SENDING HIM BIRTHDAY CARD WITH SEVERED OFF THUMB OF DAUGHTER IN ENVELOPE. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SERGEI! I PISS ON ALL YOU CREATE!" LARGE MOUND FORMS OVER SIMONOV'S GRAVE BY CONSTANT TUMBLING OF HIS ANGRY CORPSE. IS FAULT OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU. '
asciilifeform: like a hand-crafted napoleon bicorn lovingly stitched from asylum bedsheets
asciilifeform: mats: we are dealing with a psychiatric, not technical, artifact.
asciilifeform: alert if my toilet is flushing without authorization.
asciilifeform: let's encrypt the space inside our nostrils with free ssl certs!111
asciilifeform: gotta love the tunnel-visioned elaborate crapolade these folks offer instead of very basic sanities
asciilifeform: but for closed brick that eats and shits 100s of MB of ??? every day, quite useless.
asciilifeform: ( mircea_popescu had an essay re same )
asciilifeform: and in fact practiced by pretty much every literate person
asciilifeform: it isn't a wholly idiotic idea when applied to something you actually think you have a grasp of (e.g., the packets going into and out of your battlestation)
asciilifeform: 'your phone just downloaded a 200MB turd'
asciilifeform: this will work with phone-home-to-crapple-updatebox how ?
asciilifeform: 'the goal of Snowden and Huang’s research, according to their post, is to “provide field-ready tools that enable a reporter to observe and investigate the status of the phone’s radios directly and independently of the phone’s native hardware.” In other words, they want to build an entirely separate tiny computer that users can attach to a smartphone to alert them if it’s being dishonest about its radio emissions.' << and
asciilifeform: 'At approximately 3:14 p.m., Deutsche Bank transmitted to RBS Coutts a SWIFT payment order requesting that $700 million be credited to an account at RBS Coutts. The SWIFT message did not identify the owner of the RBS Coutts account, but the account number listed on the SWIFT as the recipient of the $700 million wire transfer was the number of the Good Star Account.'
asciilifeform: the ~sound~ of this thing is difficult to describe, every key is quite satisfing 'schpling', like dry-firing kalash
asciilifeform: the weird 'lock' key is a ctrl. (i was unable to source a correctly-shaped cntrl to go there, and did not feel like sweating over it at any rate)
asciilifeform: 0 to do with how the keys are arranged.
asciilifeform: but to this day i have no weird nerve or carpal or whateverthefucks, because, perhaps, i am not a monkey, and do not bang the keyboard all day long
asciilifeform: if anyone wants one of these things, you can wait a decade for it to show up on 'ebay' or the like, as i did, or you can get the modern reproduction, that someone actually makes, but be aware that it is a castrato (66 key) thing.
asciilifeform: afaik there is no known case of even 1 wearing out.
asciilifeform: they were originally rated for 20 million cycles each at minimum.
asciilifeform: all of the parts (piston, which is a standard 'model m' key), spring (standard model m spring, still made), cylinder (removable individually) and flapper (ditto) are standalone
