asciilifeform: it is not difficult to do runtime coverage. every routine starts by setting a flag. ones who never set their flag, get listed as dead code.
asciilifeform: my point was that there is no actual practical reason why a kernel ought to contain so much as one instruction pertaining to devices that i don't have and will never have on my box.
asciilifeform: nah somebody accidentally tripped over a cosmic ray in the bath
asciilifeform: stopped reading at 'The kernel needs to have been built with the Keyring service enabled'
asciilifeform: and a standard, immutable, guaranteed set of devices, which do not try anything 'clever' and cannot communicate with one another except in ways defined by os.
asciilifeform: trinque: the conversation here is not about headless servers
asciilifeform: trinque: we still have nfi what happened to the gentoo mircea_popescu tried
asciilifeform: (they are few, and getting fewer, unsurprisingly)
asciilifeform: and i had to hunt for ~3 months to get a working example of the x60, also
asciilifeform: even supposedly well-documented and 'linuxbiosable' items like the x60 apparently come in undocumented variations that barf
asciilifeform: that is, there is nothing whatsoever that i can rely on other people having, hardware-wise, that can be guaranteed to work
asciilifeform: every time i come near the temptation to try to produce a 'tmsr linux' affair, i get my face rubbed into the fact that there is no hardware.
asciilifeform: much plantation, but conspicuously absent is the massa's house.
asciilifeform pictures mircea_popescu posting from inside the ring of world championship chessbox match
asciilifeform: the 2nd half is perhaps take on 'rambo'
asciilifeform: and doubtless mircea_popescu knows that they aren't spending tax receipts, but printolade.
asciilifeform: 'mr engineer? we heard that you're not paying your whole salary for rent yet ? here, have some diverse neighbours'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is how they double the rents.
asciilifeform: d into houses owned by the city housing authority in prosperous county communities; 110 more will soon move to houses in strong city neighborhoods.'
asciilifeform: 'There are two main components to Baltimore’s “mobility” campaign, which aims to relocate public housing residents to better neighborhoods. Nearly 3,100 participating families, headed almost entirely by single black mothers, have relocated with special subsidies that are designed for high suburban rents; about 1,300 other families will join them over the next three years. Nearly 50 families, including Hill’s, have move
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'aim at Bridges' --> aimed
asciilifeform: '"The All Writs Act also requires that the govt prove to the Court that the 3rd party's efforts are *required* -- i.e., that the govt has *exhausted* all other means to achieve the desired result. In particular, that *all* departments of the govt have been consulted, and *none* of them has the required capabilities.'
