asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ?

asciilifeform: but what are they talking about ?

asciilifeform: the prb folks never fail to disgorge this line

asciilifeform: what, precisely ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: every time trb is mentioned on reddit, i see this crud re: 'important fixes.'

asciilifeform: i don't think i'll bother posting there again.

asciilifeform: mega-unsurprise.

asciilifeform: l0l!

asciilifeform: PaulCapestany: which places ?

asciilifeform: score based on absence of web20isms.

asciilifeform: this is reasonably machine-calculable.

asciilifeform: odd.

asciilifeform: works...

asciilifeform: but the real thing - not.

asciilifeform: and 2-3 word examples mircea_popescu posts, work

asciilifeform: because we had this thread before

asciilifeform: i suspect multiline doesn't work.

asciilifeform: 'ReutersEmily Huh'

asciilifeform: displays.

asciilifeform: nfi!

asciilifeform: reload did not fix.

asciilifeform: in, e.g., http://trilema.com/2016/the-womans-fault/#selection-89.0-89.179 - still does not

asciilifeform: in last link - worked

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the blackout re: trb is more or less total, don't expect miracles

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: give'em time, it's lunch hour at ft meade now

asciilifeform: but... why ?

asciilifeform: works

asciilifeform: (also box with 'chrome')

asciilifeform: still nothing.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this link - works

asciilifeform: (to 'collect')

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: needs seat at network chokepoints.

asciilifeform: *simply

asciilifeform: why should the folks who ran glibc still have coin?

asciilifeform: imho the enemy simple isn't bleeding enough.

asciilifeform: (rather than what is normally presented as 'coding ability' in idiot industry, this being - quickly and accurately solving the non-problems posed by non-people)

asciilifeform: the interesting variable here is the ability to ~select problems~

asciilifeform: but elementarily, 'coding ability' as a concept is a lie

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: who needs engine, when you have wheels!

asciilifeform: or, perhaps, owner

asciilifeform: only an idiot

asciilifeform: just a 'roach motel.'

asciilifeform: and not the swankiest possible hotel, either.

asciilifeform: i've lived in usa since '92. it remains, to me, a hotel.

asciilifeform: 'where is the man who will die for a hotel?'

asciilifeform: it is... a hotel.

asciilifeform: it is not only that 'office drone' has no knife and never swung a fist in his life and etc. as mircea_popescu probably imagines. though all of this is true. it is ALSO that the street is NOT HIS

asciilifeform: maybe in 1900.

asciilifeform: can hardly picture this.

asciilifeform: loess?

asciilifeform did not know this.

asciilifeform: yeah but is he ?

asciilifeform: esL?

asciilifeform: waitasec i thought he was from za ?!!

asciilifeform: where do i even begin

asciilifeform: what in this case means patriotism ? who are the bois ?

asciilifeform: but i still don't get (am i thick?) the point about 'the patriotism' of 'the bois'

asciilifeform: re: what browser etc.

asciilifeform: possibly the folks for whom it works, should chime in ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: *excavate

asciilifeform: what do i need, to excatate ie6 ?!

asciilifeform: not even crapple!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unfortunately the highlight thing displays ~nowhere~ i've tried it on.

asciilifeform: only got as far as dbus.

asciilifeform: trinque: i have nfi what ~else~ is systematically broken

asciilifeform: though the systemd folks are working day and night, for this.

asciilifeform: but there is not ~yet~ a linux kernel equivalent of dbus cancer

asciilifeform: trinque: certainly

asciilifeform: this is key.

asciilifeform: trinque: they are removable

asciilifeform: and the answer likely involves him having been surrounded by quislings for ~years~

asciilifeform: the more interesting question is how they managed to steal it without buying theo

asciilifeform: this is abundantly clear

asciilifeform: and the one who presides over the 'hackathon' vermin while theo (who is afflicted with some peculiar stockholm syndrome) starves in a garret

asciilifeform: the one who approved spitting in mircea_popescu's face after the donation.

asciilifeform: now the other thing about openbsd is the incident with theo and that microshit flunkie ☟︎

asciilifeform: because dbus.

asciilifeform: i was unable even to build most logging demons from ports

asciilifeform: understand, this is NOT negotiable.

asciilifeform: trinque: linux (at least a reasonably well-cultivated linux) is ispo facto 'fitter' on account of having the ability to build emacs sans dbus.

asciilifeform: right on my plate.

asciilifeform: it is a rat-sized cockroach in a fine restaurant.

asciilifeform: and in fact its mere inclusion of dbus spoils the entire nominal flavour of 'sane and security-oriented'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it is flagrantly unfit for battleship

asciilifeform: in the case of openbsd, it is that virtually all of the major ports pull in dbus.

asciilifeform: because whatever prevents a sane emacs build, is likely to interfere with other work

asciilifeform: and quite likely not even this

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: understand, if i can't build and run emacs and its dependencies, the os is fit for 'bury in concrete' only - e.g., router

asciilifeform: and i imagine most folks here have - same.

asciilifeform: and each took some days of manual sewing, to produce

asciilifeform: that are quite entirely different

asciilifeform: i have a number of kernels painfully prepared for different boxes

asciilifeform: trinque: vintage is not the right word

asciilifeform: and normally used as such.

asciilifeform: the thing is an ensemble, like gentoo

asciilifeform: a torn out kernel is not 'openbsd', it is bsd.

asciilifeform: as have i.

asciilifeform: there is no openbsd sans the ports.

asciilifeform: trinque: SO THE MOTHERFUCKING OS IS UNUSABLE