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nubbins`: but i have no interest in dismantling buildroot from the top down
nubbins`: individual packages, i don't mind kludging
nubbins`: this is how i learned the tar ecosystem is actually a fucking nightmare
trinque: I worked in a hotel once; this would not be the worst thing to encounter
mircea_popescu: "hello concierge ? yes i need a new room please, this one is full of shit."
nubbins`: I LET IT SIT FOR THREE HOURS TO SOFTEN
nubbins`: DUDE I HAD NO OTHER CHOICE
mircea_popescu: i hate to break it to you nubbins` but this is really not normal.
mircea_popescu: this is possibly the weirdest thing i ever heard
mircea_popescu: it's a halfway world, right ? i hope you survive the indignity :)
mircea_popescu: ima have to cart bricks of cash to the hotel nao. and i will.
mircea_popescu: "i don't use cc, and this will be paid in cash"
mircea_popescu: i made hotel reservations for you lot, right ?
mircea_popescu: (i save the "but provably ?" for later)
asciilifeform: nubbins`: 'luxury' isn't quite the concept i had in mind, but 'if this cpu flips a bit, kingdoms fall'
asciilifeform: i think there are some fascinating surprises waiting for buyers of surplus 'boeing', 'lockheed', etc.
mircea_popescu: no, i intended it.
mircea_popescu: Chillum i paid $100 for a bottle of knowledge.
Chillum: I guess it would be a box at that size
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: let's put it this way. if i built a wallet, and put my x btc in it, no one would say 'this fella really means business'
mircea_popescu: "and if i find a ten foot tall transparent (not translucent!!!) woman, i might stick my penis into her
asciilifeform: anything less, i don't have any interest in signing my name on.
Chillum: so I _think_ it is not an issue.
Chillum: but I think that would invalidate the contract
asciilifeform: anyway there is a reason i don't work on wallets
Chillum: I wonder if that would work on an address
mircea_popescu: no other consideration can beat the advantages of commonality i dun think.
asciilifeform: esp. the '90s collectibles you and i are fond of
asciilifeform: i actually don't much like the rf-loudness of pc
mircea_popescu: i don't imagine the wallet can ever be anything but pc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where do i spend 500 and get ecc systemonchip?
asciilifeform: i consider it a 'this thing is made of bubblegum because fuck you, you're consumer meat' vector
asciilifeform: by executing code on your machine, or by knowing something about mapping of external world i/o to your ram
asciilifeform: and i actually don't know of any system-on-chip that includes one
asciilifeform: i don't even see 'rowhammer' as a security item, as such. just an indicator of 'this system is built on snot and bubblegum'
asciilifeform: see, when i use memory, and put bits in, i expect to get them out later.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope and not sure that i would ask for ddr3
asciilifeform: most of the ones i've purchased and cut open thus far have very similar 8 to 16-bit wide sdram (ddr2 typically) - almost always 'hynix' or samsung
assbot: Logged on 28-03-2015 15:10:24; thestringpuller: I'm thinking of making a bot to determine uptime of other bots ;)
mircea_popescu: i suspect on the score of electronics you actually beat my ppls.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've been looking since before i mentioned pogo in b-a
asciilifeform: perhaps by this time next year - i'll have a part number
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i had been looking at this too.
mircea_popescu: i'd much rather see honest sexual slavery than this bs "random bad ideas" exploitation.
Chillum: frankly if I told my clients that they need to use an air-gap they would tell that it does not fit their business model. They would be right
mircea_popescu: i can see that.
Chillum: freedom is the freedom to make mistakes. If people want to pay for something I will give it to them. I give free advice, it is rarely taken
nubbins`: it's not like i don't contact Franmar when i want to find out where to buy bean-e-doo
Chillum: I have created some truly stupid shit for people
Chillum: I do alright
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i am not interested in vendors who need a sexual relationship just to source parts for prototype.
Chillum: I could refuse on principal, someone else will make it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as you can probably guess, i won't be making it just yet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can see the case for this not being that commodified just yet. but imo unavoidable, with the trend towards it of which raspberry is just a reflection.
asciilifeform: and i fucking hate bga
mircea_popescu: i could go on.
asciilifeform: the other day i checked out what other system-on-chips might be cut-tapeable and have integrates sata, found nothing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would suspect octo is just badly supplied.
Chillum: I used to work for an Amazon company
mircea_popescu: o wait i forgot, 20mb won't be used, it just needs to be there to not be used. right right.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron yeah, which is why i said.
Chillum: I have a lot of Pi 2s to setup right now. I will look into the pogos though
danielpbarron: i think 18 fit nicely in a crate
Chillum: I will either want 0 or 10+, I rarely get 1 of any small computer
danielpbarron: it's unlikely i can ship it cheaper than amazon
Chillum: I am going to read up on them first. Thanks
trinque: I'll just get both going, probably just some eselect thing in gentoo right?
mircea_popescu: Chillum if you absolutely can't find one i'll ok you to get one from our warehouse at dpb
trinque: asciilifeform: ah ok, other than this I have pis
danielpbarron: i need to reformat my laptop.. AGAIN
trinque: asciilifeform: I've got enough arm turdboards lying around to justify it
danielpbarron: i don't have a doc for 0.5.3.1 unless it counts to have one for the pre-release patching of 0.5.3
asciilifeform: trinque: by all means build cross-compiler for your system, but when i put the buildroot thing up it will carry its own
trinque: meanwhile I'll get cross compiling tooling going
asciilifeform: i meant, in the machines
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno anyone that doesn't have a "dead" old sata laying around.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron if you're specifically making an experiment about it (which means, you've modeled it, doing things deliberately to observe effects etc) i can see it.
trinque: ben_vulpes | now i want a directory! << here comes the #b-a gopher site
danielpbarron: i keep adding to those files
danielpbarron: Chillum, i've been getting them from amazon
Chillum: danielpbarron: so where do I get one?
nubbins`: i'll be back in 6 months with this wired into a home automation system
asciilifeform: <nubbins`> wouldja believe this is the first piece of kit i've modded that /isn't/ a synthesizer? << notice the unpopulated row of pins at bottom end of pcb? those are gpio's and you can attach random strange to them
nubbins`: i actually just mistakenly wiped the bootcmd env variable
nubbins`: yeah, i'm being loose w/ words
assbot: Logged on 28-03-2015 14:50:26; Chillum: I just need to make a $100 node
asciilifeform: (i.e. internal flash totally b0rked including uboot)
mircea_popescu: I KNEW nubbins` is trying to stuff the weed ballot.
Chillum: I smoke weed for breakfast!
Chillum: I used to pick up pager signals with my scanner and decode them through my sound card.
mircea_popescu: i would, yes.
nubbins`: wouldja believe this is the first piece of kit i've modded that /isn't/ a synthesizer?
Chillum: I rocked the vic20
Chillum: I remember when my apple IIgs was pretty neato
fluffypony: Chillum: I remember ripping CDs to MP3s at real time speed
Chillum: I remember when people first started making mp3s
fluffypony: felipelalli: I can arrange an OTC buy if you need, else Poloniex / Bittrex
nubbins`: oh, and guess who just un-bricked their pogo? http://imgur.com/dR3tx16 http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=dmveVt3N
Chillum: lol I remember how bad trading files with IRC and FTP was, then I how bad bittorrent was
mircea_popescu: felipelalli prolly ask fluffypony i think he's the only one here keeping an eye on monero.