asciilifeform: but it is worth remembering that rms began his thing in a time when hardware was rare and precious

asciilifeform: yeah well. the time to review the priors is before you box yourself in

asciilifeform: folks who paint themselves into a logical corner tend to do this.

asciilifeform: (but possibly not)

asciilifeform: and i think i frothed about it here even.

asciilifeform: it struck me as pure 'delusionist'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: very pointedly not

asciilifeform: most ru wunderwaffen happen in individually numbered prototypes.

asciilifeform: yeah i suspect that none were sold to humans.

asciilifeform: ah

asciilifeform: well they only made, iirc, 200 'elbrus-2' (which were cray-2 sized and shaped)

asciilifeform: circa '77.

asciilifeform: reportedly thing is plugged into a real live 'elbrus-2'.

asciilifeform: (linked primarily for the console photo)

asciilifeform: in other 'nyooz', guess who ~doesn't~ run winblowz: https://russiamil.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/valdai-club-3-touring-the-don-2n-radar-facility

asciilifeform: i can picture the symptoms though.

asciilifeform: (other than by pwning him personally)

asciilifeform: how does one know that a fella has compromised key ?

asciilifeform: did the banned fella kick up a stink ?

asciilifeform: interesting - this was in dark age pre-l0gz ?

asciilifeform: and, afaik, first to publicly have this 'honour'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu tellin' me that kako betrayed ze motherland ?!

asciilifeform: which plan

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ever been phriends with both pieces of a divorce ?

asciilifeform: which i find interesting.

asciilifeform: and apparently we can infer that mircea_popescu hates kako more than he hates the dpr confiscators.

asciilifeform: at any rate, i'm not in the business of demanding explanations from folks, but i do make inferences.

asciilifeform aficionado, reads memoirs, etc

asciilifeform: inside his circle.

asciilifeform: stalin, on the contrary, had pretty good explanations.

asciilifeform: i have monumentally nfi

asciilifeform: and now we learn... he's not ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: which was liquidated.

asciilifeform: well dude was also known as bona fide shareholder in bbet.

asciilifeform: why not dekulakize them ?

asciilifeform: iirc in the l0gz we learned that even straight usg has mpex account(s), and parked coin stolen from its prisoners (e.g., dpr) there.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo ^ qntra ?

asciilifeform: i can't speak for others, but a fella being drummed out of mpex with dekulakization is a newsworthy thing imho.

asciilifeform: so possibly then

asciilifeform: well mircea_popescu has a habit of punishing folx in public

asciilifeform: did mircea_popescu formally sentence kako to dekulakization? i must've slept through this.

asciilifeform: or how did it wurk

asciilifeform: ?

asciilifeform: waiwut, i thought he was a bbet shareholder >

asciilifeform: nor arson

asciilifeform: i dun think they've tried outright bribery yet

asciilifeform: the new, 'desperate timez' measures will be thrust at the minerz.

asciilifeform: tru

asciilifeform: dignork: welcome back

asciilifeform: related, http://btcbase.org/log/2015-12-20#1348086 ☝︎

asciilifeform: old one was long in the tooth.

asciilifeform: have patience, they're making a new one

asciilifeform: (linked earlier)

asciilifeform: ^ from the 'quora' thing.

asciilifeform: block size, instead committing the space to expressing his dislike for Gavin, the Bitcoin foundation...'

asciilifeform: 'Gavin will "win" because most people won't even realize there was a debate, let alone a "war". Gavin has the network alert key, so when he says "please upgrade to avoid being left on a fork", most people will upgrade. Hard to get away from that. Mircea Popescu isn't likely to persuade anyone that he's right because in all of the three blog posts on this subject I found, nowhere does he bother to explain why he's opposed to a larger

asciilifeform: oh this is lethally lulzy,

asciilifeform: noshit.jpg

asciilifeform: and guess who it is built around.

asciilifeform: yeah they have

asciilifeform: at one point asciilifeform attempted to contribute to pediwikia, even. was quickly cured of the notion that this was a worthwhile use of time.

asciilifeform: all wotless soup goes the same way.

asciilifeform noticed

asciilifeform: when the only thing to cut is skull, for ashtray

asciilifeform: there is such a thing as a corpse.

asciilifeform: so long as i dun have to people.

asciilifeform: i will build for nintendo.

asciilifeform: but at least i dun have to SEE PEOPLE!11111111111111

asciilifeform: not first time, either.

asciilifeform: i'm building ?????? for motherfucking microshit.

asciilifeform: workplace hell my shiny metal arse.

asciilifeform: no moar wwwtron warehouse with piss tanks ?

asciilifeform: what did i miss

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes in a kibbutz ?!

asciilifeform: waiwut

asciilifeform: too few..?

asciilifeform: too many housewives ?

asciilifeform: what's a housewife problem

asciilifeform: also, i presume, for a baker, so we can hand out phreee caeks?

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-20#1469732 << because i am not a wwwtronicist. the thing does not intelligently generate the web crapolade from the db in any way, it manually and agonizingly 'if phuctored then display this-here colours' etc. ☝︎

asciilifeform: not purging, but further entumouring, there isn't a way to do it cleanly

asciilifeform: it is already replete with rat's nest of case logic crud

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the most complicated piece is the www crud

asciilifeform: prolly i am doomed to rewrite whole thing again...

asciilifeform: noshit.jpg

asciilifeform: the thing is pretty solidly congealed around pgp.

asciilifeform: (2 is what you see in phuctor urls)

asciilifeform: 2) hash of moduli AS THEY APPEAR IN PGP FORMAT

asciilifeform: 1) pgp fp (64bit)

asciilifeform: for instance, db is currently indexable ONLY 2 ways:

asciilifeform: and downloadable, etc

asciilifeform: no it is also a pgp key turd, that is re-parsable to obtain all of these

asciilifeform: try to understand how special cases make complexity of a proggy explode. ☟︎

asciilifeform: as per the structure of the db

asciilifeform: this is not even a thing.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes. but when a key is phuctored, it expects to find the fields associated with a pgp key in the requisite db table.

asciilifeform: phuctor is hard-built in 1,01 ways around pgp format.

asciilifeform: not the least.

asciilifeform: wai these are converted already ?

asciilifeform: neato