asciilifeform: i've held off attempting to do anything about this because 'usg can diddle packets arbitrarily, we need gossipd' but there is no particular logic to this.
asciilifeform: 'strictly' means that door-knockers get serviced ONLY when friends are idle.
asciilifeform: i am contemplating a strictly 2-tiered hierarchy here.
asciilifeform: they rank STRICTLY below hand-picked peers.
asciilifeform: the second mode is what all of my trb boxen are set to, and it results in a comedy where the thing routinely drops friends on the floor and dallies about attempting to connect to randomly-selected derp ips
asciilifeform: the first mode can be disregarded as it does not result in a public node. it is useful for running hotwallets on your own lan, for running mircea_popescu-style 'dark' nodes over ad hoc vpn with kim jong il, etc.
asciilifeform: or '-addnode' where it takes a list of peers but 'as mere suggestions' and will happily drop'em, and connect to random derps
asciilifeform: it can run in one of two modes, '-connect' where it services a fixed list of peers, AND NOBODY ELSE (no incoming tcp)
asciilifeform: presently trb does not have this sane behaviour☟︎
asciilifeform: so i will review, for the benefit of non-panzers, the current state☟︎
asciilifeform: why do we need the motherfucking middleman ?!!!!!
asciilifeform: punkman: the g-series coreboot i have here has 'blobs' per the strictest definition, they are - iirc - modify but don't redistribute - licensed by amd
asciilifeform: fwiw the pcengines boards and the 'gizmo' series don't even ship with proprietary bios at all
asciilifeform: iirc it is a 'stable' fork of coreboot
asciilifeform: these also appeared in some low-end notebooks
asciilifeform: punkman: the pcengines box (at least the ones i have)
asciilifeform: (their 'coreboot' aka linuxbios is distributed with binary turds, BUT the source for them is also included, you just need to set up their weird toolchain)
asciilifeform: fwiw, AMD's G-series chipset will run without blobs.
asciilifeform: the thing is a mega-rarity, 'collectible' perhaps at this point, if you come across one, leave it in the crate, sell for $$$$
asciilifeform: as for rms, his lemote was stolen, in buenos aires, and - afaik - he was never able to purchase another.
asciilifeform: which is when i lost what remaining interest i had.
asciilifeform: also it switched to using licensed chip masks from the west, a few years back
asciilifeform: it makes ~something~ but it is unobtainable outside cn
asciilifeform: (not that it was remotely conceivable that they would have listened, aha)
asciilifeform: y'know, if folks had listened to rms, we might still have actual computers.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the basic problem is that there are no miracles, semiconductors have a temperature ceiling, the heat has to leave as quickly as it appears, or meltdown
