asciilifeform: and gagged, choked on them,

asciilifeform: but ordered cigars.

asciilifeform: they not only went to restaurant,

asciilifeform: i recall my father recently told a tale, when he met with several phriendz some time in '70s who were reunited after long dispersal in army

asciilifeform: ~what you would be served~ is another matter!

asciilifeform: if you had the dough, you could go in

asciilifeform: nah

asciilifeform: i.e. something typical folks could afford to do once in a spell, but usually would do 'when occasion merits'

asciilifeform: roughly analogous to renting a limo in usa

asciilifeform: i prolly ought to point out for pete_dushenski's enlightenment that going to restaurant was a quite uncommon thing in su

asciilifeform: possibly i fail to understand the thesis of the article

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: yeah i saw

asciilifeform: 'this is the only place where you can use cc without giving # to spammers'

asciilifeform: recall, until recently they were under 1 roof.

asciilifeform: i.e. maintain schellingatronic monopoly on the concept

asciilifeform: it only ever did one thing

asciilifeform: ebay is 100% mechanical.

asciilifeform: with massive network of warehouses

asciilifeform: amazon is an actual store.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: just like linkedin etc.

asciilifeform: ebay moves nothing, incidentally, it is 100% mechanical broker

asciilifeform: just pointing out that it is the current 'official toilet'

asciilifeform: well yes

asciilifeform: it exists purely as a sort of ebay, in the sense of 'this is the official pile of shit'

asciilifeform: i actually found several gigs using it

asciilifeform: linkedin is a kind of arsebook for wurk

asciilifeform: and list of everyone who drank coke is worth == to market cap of cocacola ?!

asciilifeform: typically.

asciilifeform: chump lists are valued at ~epsilon.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hilarious instructions from seller: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/tube_lulz.jpg

asciilifeform: very modest green light.

asciilifeform: glass ampoule, coated in ZnS inside

asciilifeform: in other nyooz, the (interestingly - perfectly street-legal here) tube of tritium is here.

asciilifeform: or is it also waiting for me

asciilifeform: do we have the sr dump churned ? (who was doing this?)

asciilifeform: 1 is pretty close to launchable.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'will not work' means that sks gossip protocol requires blessing on both ends of the line, so i'd have to make friends with an existing user

asciilifeform: and stoke phuctor

asciilifeform: that would pull from sks in real time

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wanted a leechatron

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu soooo i went through the epic headache of setting up sks server on dulap, only to learn that the thing will not work without blessing from existing sks operators.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log is the 'somewhere'.

asciilifeform: in the logz.

asciilifeform: noted here.

asciilifeform: which is that the ~kind of people~ who produce the rubbish, are always the same

asciilifeform: but recently i understood the ~reason~ why it is a waste of time

asciilifeform: at one point - in fact, until very recently - i would compulsively dig in and, weeks later, would, e.g., 'yet another google turd'

asciilifeform: Framedragger: until you understand why it is the precise opposite of 'just stupid', you will have nothing to do here.

asciilifeform: this is not negotiable.

asciilifeform: Framedragger: anything that uses google's crypto libs is shitware.

asciilifeform: and gossipd is considerably more general than a chat, it is to be a complete replacement for tcp/ip and packet switching as ordinarily understood.

asciilifeform: i found that it is a 100% perfect litmus for shitware.

asciilifeform: Framedragger: because golang.

asciilifeform: Framedragger: yes, shitware.

asciilifeform: where two sides exchange, a:'i have x,y,z' b:'i have p,q,y' ..... and a sends b 'x,z', b sends a 'p,q'

asciilifeform: Framedragger: more generally, 'gossip protocol' is a standard term for a particular type of synchronization, as used in, e.g., sks

asciilifeform: Framedragger: absolutely not.

asciilifeform: 'Lovecruft, speaking from Berlin by phone on an encrypted app, still sounds worried....' << gold.

asciilifeform: to 'truly prove'

asciilifeform: it will be truly comedic if it turns out that the performance of the clowns starring in the 'tor is genuine obstacle to usg, really, believe' circus ends up extending to hanging ☟︎

asciilifeform: but it is interesting to me, how little the two have in common.

asciilifeform: (there is, hilariously, another fantasy planet on which su soon-to-be-emigres lived, the one in the '80s vhs tapes. as described in l0gz)

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski, by all appearances, seems to live in a peculiar reaganite fantasy planet where su refugees cream their pants upon tasting delicious american mickeydee, and wax ecstatic while kissing bald eagle in the beak without having to watch out for kgb and no longer having to feed the bear or adjust the vodka level in the house reactor. ☟︎

asciilifeform: i wish i knew what he's smoking.

asciilifeform: ;;later tell pete_dushenski http://www.contravex.com/2016/05/18/not-all-soviet-food-is-created-equal/#comment-46477

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: point. strictly stainless in my slaughterhouse plox.

asciilifeform: and it boggles my mind that mircea_popescu had to have this item of furniture machined

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: transportable in sections

asciilifeform: now i would like to see a picture of how this thing is used

asciilifeform: and why would trapezoid with smooth corners injure ?

asciilifeform: what'd be the reason ?

asciilifeform: and whole thing can be transported by 1man

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so it can be made from pipes which screw in

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: steel

asciilifeform: it is trapezoidal rather than curved tho

asciilifeform: i bought it in an ordinary plebe shop

asciilifeform: there is a hammock on it

asciilifeform: i think i have this item here even

asciilifeform: buy off the shelf ?

asciilifeform: at any rate, the device mircea_popescu is describing seems to resemble a standard hammock stand

asciilifeform: cut, thread ?

asciilifeform: bending pipe is a bitch

asciilifeform: i wouldn't bend pipe. cut, weld.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu never bent sheet metal ?

asciilifeform: but buncha sheet metal.

asciilifeform: i mean, we aren't thinking of submarine propeller here

asciilifeform: why ever not ?

asciilifeform: (traditional)

asciilifeform: the backplane is, i think, unibus

asciilifeform: and at any rate case is optional.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have proper machine toolz here.

asciilifeform: (1201 used standard scsi disks, note, the owner of that one substituted a modern simulator)

asciilifeform: if i had just the 2 boards depicted in the link i'd have the box.

asciilifeform: vs the massive steel chest and dc ps

asciilifeform: eh i'm only counting the irreplaceable bits

asciilifeform: which can be even a penny

asciilifeform: the number you saw was ~start bid~

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these climb routinely into 5fig