asciilifeform: they weigh what, 50 gram, and don't vibrate

asciilifeform: but here's a seekrit: that case is prolly for folks using ssd. which are often attached with ordinary stickytape, to whatever surface

asciilifeform: anybody remember 'quantum bigfoot' ?

asciilifeform: and i bet somebody still makes 5 in. hdd

asciilifeform: the current situation is pretty much 'fish in a barrel' for usgtronics

asciilifeform: need moar boxen

asciilifeform: ye olde blackhole also back

asciilifeform: pretty much all of the nodes under a torrential shitflood.

asciilifeform: loads of spurious blocks incoming...

asciilifeform: *respeto

asciilifeform: they don't have those in un-minimo-respoto-babwe ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think that box wanted a 5 inch rail adapter for 2.5 hdd

asciilifeform finally home. and apparently the vomitron really worx, i was able to group theory on the train even

asciilifeform: https://twitter.com/krislc/status/687943177005838336 << related.

asciilifeform: without disks or power supply, iirc.

asciilifeform: 55 kg.

asciilifeform: https://jreypo.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/d330_view.jpg << one quite like this

asciilifeform: wasn't 'officially support', no.

asciilifeform: oddest beast i ever had gentoo on was a hp pa-risc.

asciilifeform: neato

asciilifeform: !s from:BingoBoingo mac bsd

asciilifeform: or was it netbsd

asciilifeform: iirc BingoBoingo once had something of the sort

asciilifeform: is this the openbsd-on-old-mac thing ?

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: well you said 'actual metal', so i wondered about the meaning

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: where was it before? emulated in your brain ?

asciilifeform: #6619 4862708 depends: bump miniupnpc and ccache << apparently upnp is still in the mix

asciilifeform: own crackpot bignum ?

asciilifeform: #6210 0e4f2a0 build: disable optional use of gmp in internal secp256k1 build << what's it use instead of gmp ?!!??

asciilifeform: #6508 61457c2 Switch to a constant-space Merkle root/branch algorithm. << anybody have the time/energy to look? i don't...

asciilifeform: #6954 e54ebbf Switch to libsecp256k1-based ECDSA validation << as mentioned earlier by BingoBoingo ?

asciilifeform: #6351 2a1090d CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (BIP65) IsSuperMajority() soft-fork << lulz

asciilifeform: i saw a .sh, assumed pre-v

asciilifeform: hm

asciilifeform: #6650 4fac576 Obfuscate chainstate << wut.

asciilifeform: #5677 9aa9099 libevent-based http server << let's add mega-dependency crud !1111

asciilifeform: or the modern v-tronic build

asciilifeform: but iirc even therealbitcoin.org doesn't mention 'v'

asciilifeform: holy shit, year-old instructions ?!!1

asciilifeform: guruvan: what was this ?

asciilifeform: 'Previously, every wallet transaction stored a Merkle branch to prove its presence in blocks. This wasn't being used for more than an expensive sanity check. Since 0.12, these are no longer stored.'

asciilifeform: to other .onion nodes if the control socket can be successfully opened. This will positively affect the number of available .onion nodes and their usage. This new feature is enabled by default if Bitcoin Core is listening, and a connection to Tor can be made.' << l0l!!

asciilifeform: 'Starting with Tor version 0.2.7.1 it is possible, through Tor's control socket API, to create and destroy 'ephemeral' hidden services programmatically. Bitcoin Core has been updated to make use of this. This means that if Tor is running (and proper authorization is available), Bitcoin Core automatically creates a hidden service to listen on, without manual configuration. Bitcoin Core will also use Tor automatically to connect

asciilifeform: awk, rather

asciilifeform: but it suggests that your sed is broken

asciilifeform: mod6: i have no idea what is happening here

asciilifeform: (in re: the corralling of the cattle)

asciilifeform: my tentative conclusion is that the phoundation folk are making things explicit

asciilifeform: it very much is moar of the same.

asciilifeform: i went over the crud

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i once knew two fellas who unknowingly shared a toothbrush for most of a year.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha. though it is not unheard-of to subdivide a warehouse

asciilifeform: mod6: was it the the LC_ALL=C thing?

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-01-2016#1374767 << i do not recall this. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2016/this-is-how-you-fail-and-why-and-wherefore << it

asciilifeform: in light of it it makes sense.

asciilifeform: aha, just did

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-01-2016#1374790 << ok 1 in 10 - is sane. the thing that melted my brain was the contention that five barons could have handmade silicon etc. ☝︎

asciilifeform: i drooled over it on 'google earth'

asciilifeform: with the blue roof ?

asciilifeform: oh l0l! was this the thing by the graveyard ?!

asciilifeform: corrugated steel walls is a palace to me.

asciilifeform: the one with the broken bottles

asciilifeform: remember how i wanted to buy the dump ?

asciilifeform: it was mouthwateringly glorious, aha.

asciilifeform: take me to your planet.

asciilifeform: but admittedly the subject is of very little interest to people who aren't me.

asciilifeform: did this eventually, for the laser.

asciilifeform: i drill/mill/lathe things etc. there.

asciilifeform: was built for keeping shovels, etc.

asciilifeform: wasn't meant for life

asciilifeform: it's a shed

asciilifeform: hey i have a full set of carbide cutters and lathe in there, l0l

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-01-2016#1374796 << because wooden shed with no provisions for proper stove. ☝︎

asciilifeform: who the everliving fuck uses mawk, and for what ??

asciilifeform: ;;later tell punindented what was the point of your http://dpaste.com/0CRQ2PJ ?

asciilifeform: and street.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if you try hard, and violate instructions sufficiently liberally, you can probably rm -rf your ENTIRE HOUSE

asciilifeform: the whole reason i did rotor was to thermonuke whatever dependencies there were on the crud on various people's boxes

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-01-2016#1374593 << mega-recommended approach. guaranteed to work unless something is SERIOUSLY broken with the WHOLE rotor. ☝︎

asciilifeform: (unless you also station a platoon of orc-hunters therein)

asciilifeform: and anything you leave there is liable to be carted away or smashed.

asciilifeform: 10,000 sq. ft. for a dollar/mo. each? sure. 1000 ? go away. etc ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: at least not in human-sized pieces

asciilifeform: phf: not cheap there either

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-01-2016#1374583 << what am i looking at, mircea_popescu ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: because the no-vermin thing comes FIRST

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: sleep is actually far too expensive for me to afford

asciilifeform: it beats, say, bare permafrost

asciilifeform: wooden floor, in this context, is actually a great deal

asciilifeform: as in, no extraneous bodies within ~50 metre in any direction

asciilifeform: vermin-free area

asciilifeform: :

asciilifeform: anywhere in the world

asciilifeform: the key thing is that the one non-negotiable thing i use, is VERY expensive

asciilifeform: elementarily ?

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: money ?

asciilifeform: punkman: on wooden floor?!!

asciilifeform: i entirely would if could.