asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that'd easily fit half a dozen of, e.g., these, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-06-2015#1162727 ☝︎

asciilifeform: methinks we're speaking of a 'chinese backyard steel mill' situation here.

asciilifeform: what, again, would you pay actual money to host in such a place ?

asciilifeform: i will have no part in it. and i can't picture any sane person wanting a part in it.

asciilifeform: but still largely empty, because in bezzleworld 'cheap' is a relative thing.

asciilifeform: incidentally, just about every american town of any size has a version of this: the hollowed-out fortified walls of the old strowger-switch telco exchanges

asciilifeform: usa is a shit-internet country. this won't change because there is no good reason for it to change

asciilifeform: brings back to a fundamental point from one of mircea_popescu's articles - shuffling things around is not going to increase 'number of turkeys available'

asciilifeform: this is not to be found in a residential unit, and certainly not in usa

asciilifeform: i have a few boxes like this myself

asciilifeform: rent a cage at data center

asciilifeform: what, other than bitcoind, would you even consider putting on such a thing

asciilifeform: as it is, there is a lower bound for what is worth bothering with at all.

asciilifeform: if the past 40 years of computer retardation hadn't happened, and we used a stack with support for seamless process migration, 'voting circuit' computation, etc. it would be practical to use '1024 chickens' arrays of arbitrarily garbage hardware

asciilifeform: btw, my local telco quasimonopoly - 'verizon' - had a hilarious tamer version of this for some years, where you pay a few hundy for a box that opens a vpn to their end and gives you cell signal in your house, via your own net pipe. and they had the audacity to still charge for the 'minutes' and per MB of data.

asciilifeform: or your kitchen, as a place for bums to cook roadkill in

asciilifeform: this has all the appeal of renting out the toilet in your house as a public latrine

asciilifeform: (if i wanted a box in some schmuck's house, i'd put it right here in mine)

asciilifeform: whole point would be the physical security of a few metres of cement

asciilifeform: but in such a way that the box lives out its remaining life, rather than being lifted by the first idiot copper scavenger who comes along.

asciilifeform: you will need to seal to keep out moisture, but if repair is not a concern (machine is disposable, replacement gets new burial plot) this is relatively simple matter

asciilifeform: (a surprising number had corpse-gas exhaust pipes!)

asciilifeform: but in no case a corpse

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-06-2015#1171397 << mno. if it's in the channel, it is a live pre-gavin node (OR crafted impostor...) ☝︎

asciilifeform: btw, one of the (not so) secrets is that mining does not select for 'the brightest bulbs at home depot [u.s. household goods shop]' - nor for political acumen, nor for really much else other than the peculiar countereconomic wormholes which make it sound like a reasonable proposition

asciilifeform: shitgang is trying to push a 'for miners' version of turdcoin ?

asciilifeform: (very confusingly, there was also a 'franz lisp')

asciilifeform: closed-source toolchains can go die in a fire

asciilifeform: a #pragma in glibc ?

asciilifeform: as in, is this a hardcoded idiocy in gcc proper ? its linker ? where ?

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-06-2015#1170972 << btw, anybody got a handy link to what precisely generates the message seen here ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i see in the logs where you had a node fail to snarf seed from the old irc