asciilifeform: the tricky bit is that ru can't even make kalash at scale without 'pentium' now. much less tmsr multiplying primes without all-seeing eye of hitler in the mix.
asciilifeform: you left out 'watering the horses in the rhine'
asciilifeform: what exactly is done after 'intel is so dead' ?
asciilifeform: at some point it will be 'unless violet purple signs this kernel, pc you bought at the store won't boot it'
asciilifeform: it wedges out linux. to be replaced with - ubuntu et al.
asciilifeform: guess what - NO LONGER releases specs.
asciilifeform: e.g., the traditional standby of 'this vga card WILL work' is... intel's cheapo thing, as in mircea_popescu's thinkpads.
asciilifeform: and the items which work, or appear to, are hanging on by a thread
asciilifeform: it is already quite difficult, bordering on impossible, to run 'vanilla' kernel on anything like consumer hardware.
asciilifeform: so, as with the fall of the original byzantium, it will be an implosion of an already rotten husk
asciilifeform: and just about every time i try to plug in a piece of hardware too young for the white plastic to have turned a deep spittoon yellow, i encounter them.
asciilifeform: for reasons that no one was ever bothered to discover.
asciilifeform: it isn't a linux drv. it's a closed blob. and works ONLY with ubuntu kernels.
asciilifeform: turned out, they ~~ALL~~ use the same chip. and the vendor 'finally knuckled under and released linux drv!!!' to 'great rejoicing of the proletariat.' EXCEPT...
asciilifeform: example. some months ago, i tried one of those 'usb 3.0 to flatpanel' gizmos.☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yours is the $64-quadrillion-bezzollar question - what weapon
asciilifeform: 'dbus', 'kernel systemd', and other filth will be insta-merged in (or rather, usg's pre-readied fork becomes 'blessed')
asciilifeform: but i imagine they'll install some 'sjw' chick in 'his' place
asciilifeform: i must confess that i do not know about re: the modus operandi, to say precisely
asciilifeform: befouling 'node js' and other things which i've never even heard of until their mention in here
asciilifeform: presently the comments people are yet outside of the walls
asciilifeform: will be interesting to see the 'fall of constantinopol' moment when linus t. is finally purged
asciilifeform: even (especially) if the addition is of his own shit
asciilifeform: 'featuritis' is an inevitable outgrowth of this particular flavour of insanity, where the sufferer believes that adding anything whatsoever, so long as his 'intentions were pure' or whatnot, is a 'contribution'
asciilifeform: yes but there was a particular exposition
asciilifeform: where was that mircea_popescu (?) article re: how a child learns that 'i can create!!1111!!' when he takes his first self-aware shit, and that many people wedge at this blockheight ?
asciilifeform: 'we do what we must, because we can' ?
asciilifeform: this salvage op is not raising a fishing trawler that went down last business quarter. it is not raising 'kursk' submarine. it is not raising 'titanic', even. it is raising the empty treasure chest on a spanish galleon that sank in 1600s and colonized by little fish.
asciilifeform: oh and, phun phakt of the day, gpg 1.4.10 will link in 'gettext' if it finds it
asciilifeform: rs there is never a minute's silence...'
asciilifeform: boy begs his mother not to beat him because in his sleep he wet the bunk he shares with her. She does and he squeals. A former night-club dancer tells dirty stories about her ex-colleagues to the refined Orthodox language teacher, who does not know whether to block her ears or to laugh. A spoilt rich wife has hung her clothes on all available nails, leaving no room for anybody else. The passage ends with: "In 24 out of 24 hou
asciilifeform: 'The rabbi's wife tries in vain to stop her children, aged four and eight, fighting in her bunk. Her neighbours, kept awake by the din, swear at them. A woman screams because a mouse has run over her face. Bedbugs drop from the higher bunks onto the lower. Another woman screams because the little boy in the bunk above her has spilled the jam jar he uses as a chamber pot all over her. Somebody has whooping cough. Another little
asciilifeform: 'theymos and whoever else opposes the upgrade to make a last-ditch effort to destroy bitcoin by taking 33% of XT pools offline so that 50% would be running the old code. I wouldn't be surprised to see the largest DDoS attacks in the history of the Internet when the network commits to the upgrade two weeks later.' << wut
asciilifeform: 'f I had to guess which coin would become the world reserve currency in this scenario, I would go with dogecoin.' << tr0l0l0l ?
asciilifeform: nsa is also the only (afaik) shop ~outside of the threadbare academia tournamentmarket~ that hires b. of s. in maths straight out of school
asciilifeform: they think 'ooh a job opening, i can pay rentz'
asciilifeform: how people think, i can also say. given that i actually tried to sign up some years ago.
