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jurov: but was afk, only now i got gpg to refresh keys so that i can resubmit alf's email
jurov: i know, explained in the morning
mod6: which is another major problem for ben & i
mod6: asciilifeform: i havent. no clue how to ... 'specially since your email got eaten. and beyond that now all of our testing environments are kaput
BingoBoingo: Ah, k. I just hoped to see the trigger mentioned.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'll patch it as soon as i get a working patcher (see last night's thread)
nubbins`: i actually semi-regularly purchase sub-$1/gb sticks as a matter of principle
danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, here's a rough draft of the blackphone thing http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=4q9wt0yr
mircea_popescu: i hear he has a magic tool to make the usb sticks half price every year or something,
nubbins`: i uh.
davout: it's ok, whatever usb stick i buy self-replicates every year
mircea_popescu: i was here in an earlier time, a happier time
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you can even buy them anymore
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've seen hobos with laptop. not uncommon.
davout: ok, if its performance is storage-speed bound i should get a disk with it
asciilifeform: davout: the unit presently churning on my desk was booted from sd card - which i was using for testing (final firmware will be a read-only squashfs)
asciilifeform: davout: i'm testing a replacement firmware (for the internal eeprom) that sees if sata disk is present, and, if not already containing a blockchain, formats it and starts from nil
davout: asciilifeform: i'm up to date logwise, but it's not really clear to me if i should get some sort of chord, or provision separate sd card/storage
nubbins`: i don't have room for a big ol' box
asciilifeform: they take usb (usb3 even.) and at one point in the beginning i almost suggested baking in a miner. but 1) who makes miners reputably 2) it has no rng (see log)
nubbins`: oh, i missed that as well.
fluffypony: I thought I had someone, he bailed
davout: asciilifeform: i didn't get that part, it's pretty fucking cool
mircea_popescu: nubbins` yeah lol. i recall fluffypony was lookjing for someone to do that. hard work, tough bread.
nubbins`: k, i know there was some talk of flashing router firmware as well
mircea_popescu: omfg, i saw half a movie!!1
mircea_popescu: so... i go to watch a film with netflix, pay in btc. they see the tx and let me watch
assbot: Logged on 28-01-2015 19:33:44; asciilifeform: idk what you folks had in mind, but what i was making was that one of these can plug with crossover cable into a virginal unit and deflower it.
mircea_popescu: well, i was ready to pronounce it victorious if it did more than 10k blocks / 24 hours, so.
davout: so i'm not very clear how this gets distributed either, folks order their hardware directly and follow asciilifeform's guide? nothing's really decided yet if i understand correctly
mod6: i had 1 CPU/128Mb ram
mircea_popescu: davout i'd say more like 3ish % but yeah
asciilifeform: 135461; (running from zero on new disk since first i logged in today. see log.) 2 oomkills so far
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> or should someone aspiring to qntra publishing do it instead ? << leaning towards this, but if interest isn't expressed soon I'll take a break from current writing to do it quickly.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: hanbot: Kind of what I was thinking. There just doesn't seem to be much left of it. << bitpay silently deleting the dramas ?
nubbins`: incidentally, those Teenage Engineering things i linked to re: packaging earlier? They don't even come with a fucking /case/, and people bought them in the tens of thousands when they were announced
asciilifeform: i also admit i have a netbsd variant (experimental) for this machine
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform speaking of which, i wonder for how many noobs this will eb the first practical contact with a nix machine
trinque: phillipsjk: I didn't but yes, they did.
phillipsjk: trinque, because that is the only thing MIcrosoft supports. Therefore every USB stick is pre-formatted with it. I understand you removed Microsoft compatibility from your code anyway.
mircea_popescu: dude i like talking things through in here, it's like a mental lens.
phillipsjk: Yes, I understand the appeal of a "set it and forget it" box. Sometimes, upgrades are kind of forced on users though. My former ISP mailed out a VSDL Modem when the local monopoy stopped supporting the older ADSL modem.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk i don't think anyone'll be able to beat the "spend a coupla hours having fun with real deal code, then forget about it" deal.
mircea_popescu: i don't want to be shipping these out by hand if i can help it.
nubbins`: asciilifeform that's what i pictured too
phillipsjk: asciilifeform, I was thinking, simply modify your code to handle a larger block-size.
asciilifeform: idk what you folks had in mind, but what i was making was that one of these can plug with crossover cable into a virginal unit and deflower it. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: l;et people buy individually, i dont want to ship out a stock of special-diddled machines
mircea_popescu: i specifically do not wish the purchase tobe identifiable.
phillipsjk: I am sure you all know about the block-size controversy. How harw will it be for the end-user to change the block-size on these units?
nubbins`: i wholeheartedly encourage you to ship the devices as you see fit
nubbins`: i'm rich, why the fuck do you think i can sit around here all day?
asciilifeform: conjecture is that there is a set of folks who want to do this, but aren't now because 'i haven't a second pc' or 'fan too loud' ?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: okay, then i'm talking about "nubbins orders 10k units, pre-loads the code, does what he just described, makes $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, donates 10% to .foundation, moves to dutch antilles"
asciilifeform: i for one do not have an earth-shatteringly clever answer to the conundrum of how to persuade maxint people to buy & plug these in
mircea_popescu: i somehow doubt it, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: mebbe i misunderstand what's being proposed here /
nubbins`: this is why i'm having trouble making the leap
nubbins`: i guess we could include instructions on stripping exif data ;p
mircea_popescu: i dunno unit can create txn
mircea_popescu: way i was planning to do this was an equivalent of "show me your tits", ie, buy a router, install it, show proof, get your money back.
TomServo: I wonder, would there be any interest in developing a companion to the junior woodchuck node?
nubbins`: once i get dimensions & info i'll design packaging, instructions, whole deal
trinque: I should be wrapped up with irl work earlier today than usual so I think I have some cycles to throw at it.
trinque: Apocalyptic | trinque, by the way how's deedbot coming along ? << I have been tied up with work the past few days, but not much more to be done. a tweak on the hashing bit to re-hash when an invalid privkey is generated, then the check-confirmations-and-upload cron job.
TomServo: mike_c: 36PrZ1KHYMpqSyAQXSG8VwbUiq2EogxLo2 - I believe.
BingoBoingo: hanbot: Kind of what I was thinking. There just doesn't seem to be much left of it.
danielpbarron: hah, i love that app
TomServo: danielpbarron: I'm guessing you'd need to provide your own power for a 3.5", but don't see why that wouldn't work.
mod6: no clue. when i ran it on my vm with 128mb of ram, it flew and ran for 12-14 hours before it blew up
mod6: <+jurov> mod6: you did not include clearsigned text. but i consider this a bug,it should allow for text + detached sig only << ah, ok.
thestringpuller: i never new jurov smoked
adlai: the nerve of this one!: "i can't come to tel aviv for personal reasons, so please meet me in <shithole> and bring cash" at least they're offering a discount but comeon.
nubbins`: "man, i don't care if this shit is solved or not!"
nubbins`: unrelated, i just discovered a large marijuana cigarette in a seldom-used inside pocket of my winter jacket
nubbins`: diana_coman i had the same issue, just had my password in the wrong box in my client
jurov: adlai: i can admit mpex interface having some elements of turing test
diana_coman: thanks for pointing it out, I'll check that
diana_coman: hi jurov, did it? I had set up the cloak stuff, but possibly it fails to put it on before joining the channel in some situations (such as recovering from a connection drop), hmmm
jurov: mod6: you did not include clearsigned text. but i consider this a bug,it should allow for text + detached sig only
nubbins`: "but i don't know how to smoke" "well, i bet you can suck a smokey milkshake through a marijuana straw!"
nubbins`: "but i don't know electronics" "who cares? here are some jumer cables and a bunch of toys with voice chips"
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:nubbins`: you actually don't need any to have fun :D << this is how nubs got into silkscreening, too :D <<< this is actually how i got into most things
Vexual: i dont suppose you have a holiday for greeks invading greece?
Vexual: i had a gew whiskeys after noon
Vexual: yjrn i hit it with a hammer
Vexual: i tried to remeber that name of that usefull leightweight bitcoin client
Vexual: I thought about Israel
Vexual: i do ;ike a train
pete_dushenski: and with that, i bid adieu!
pete_dushenski: Oleg Andreev: i thought people reuse passwords because bright and capable engineers haven't come up with a better way yet.
mats: there i was, thinking TSLA was seriously overvalued at 95 bux a share
mats: i learned not to short heirs to the bezzlar throne some time ago
mircea_popescu: mats i might have to resurect my trading accounts just for this.
mircea_popescu: unches), the less frequently their water balloon worldview is tested by people with pins, the more they will cling to the premise that "facts" are what's important. In this way the one personal issue serves as a reference point which the propaganda exploits: "hey, gun advocates, did you know you like low corporate taxes?" I do? "Yes, because the people you hate are for raising them." Consequently, raising corporate
mircea_popescu: The "independent" demo actually has all the textbook characteristics of a group most susceptible to propaganda, more correctly "pre-propaganda", and by textbook I mean literally Propaganda.
mircea_popescu: I totally don't know, Boardwalk Empire only goes up to 1924 and Mad Men starts 1960.
mircea_popescu: "But that book was written in 1908. Based on what I've seen on Downton Abbey, things were a lot different then."
mircea_popescu: wait, your " all self-identifying feminists whom i know irl " == "my mom" ?!
pete_dushenski: i kinda hope adlai isn't even kidding