asciilifeform: it'll be quite like a real drive, but slower, cheaper

asciilifeform: shinohai et al: i keep waiting for that magical day when these fakes become something like the real thing in the sense of having an embedded wireless nic, silently storing blocks in 'cloud' somewhere

asciilifeform: iirc the shop boss claimed that 'someone returned the package with this fake re-shrinkwrapped into it'

asciilifeform: and no, you will not read about it in the birdcage liner or the fishwrap, because It Never Happened

asciilifeform: e.g., 'best buy'

asciilifeform: even from american retail shops

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1269003 << even here we have the fake cn drives, in all form factors even, from doctored thumb drive to hollow laptop ssd containing lead weights and sd reader, etc ☝︎☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: neato

asciilifeform: lemme guess, mircea_popescu's node drifting in space

asciilifeform: plenty

asciilifeform: no route to host ?

asciilifeform: l0l embrace & extinguish of xanadu !

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: cheaper, cleaner than hanging people upside-down and beating coins out of'em

asciilifeform: ergo paper gold is not market-separable, as it is, from actual gold; and usg silently prints it

asciilifeform: ~nobody but crackpots~ actually takes delivery, as per http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=17-08-2015#1240741 ☝︎

asciilifeform: (the latter works best when there is ~something to take~)

asciilifeform: shinohai: aha. though 'usg 2.0' thus far gets considerably better mileage with paper diddling rather than classical confiscation

asciilifeform: in the sense that contracts which specify payment in it, are still officially void

asciilifeform: incidentally, gold was never entirely re-legalized in usa

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: (ask a circuit board house, where they get their au. is it the mint? l0l)

asciilifeform: considering the markup

asciilifeform: you would have to be an idiot

asciilifeform: or your flat

asciilifeform: such as a u.s. bank box

asciilifeform: shinohai: aha. so long as you store it in a properly-search-and-confiscation-enabled container

asciilifeform: the conflation of 'owning gold' and 'using xyz vault' is also reminiscent of the mtgox mediatronic idiocies ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1268026 << am i the only one getting a surreal usg flavour from eating this? it has a distinct feel of 'see, this is what you get for using something usg can't magic into existence to make you whole' ☝︎

asciilifeform: not really a solution.

asciilifeform: funkenstein_: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-08-2014#816402 ☝︎

asciilifeform: funkenstein_: see the canonical buried treasure thread.

asciilifeform: except that gold requires a fortress. if you 'have' gold it isn't yours unless you also have nukes.

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform never had a ru passport, nor is entitled to one, for EXACTLY same reason. where does he sign up to be 'victim'

asciilifeform: ahahahahahahaha

asciilifeform: in what consisted the victimization ?

asciilifeform: i mean, how does this work? they were in comparty and now have nothing to do ?

asciilifeform: victim ?!

asciilifeform: funkenstein_: in urban setting it is difficult to keep a sty of pigs to feed corpse to

asciilifeform: burglar anally expands you daily, until years later possibly judge adjudicates that he shouldn't ?

asciilifeform: what does 'worse' look like ?!

asciilifeform: but there, he can also evict you immediately

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: in britain likewise. (famous gypsy case)

asciilifeform: (not only this, but the famous 'circular saw' case, recall)

asciilifeform: in usa, if you trip a thief or murderer who is running from police, he can sue and win

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267990 >> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1266953 ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: ty punkman

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267180 >> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=19-02-2015#1024948 ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: only thing that ever gets mirrored is the beheadings, and even those not every time.

asciilifeform: 'youtube' is more or less a censor's wet dream. just about NOBODY ever mirrors these.

asciilifeform: anyone got a mirror ?

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267220 << censored ☝︎

asciilifeform: l0lwut

asciilifeform: (get a cheap chinese cable)

asciilifeform: programmable in asm, yes.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you like mc68k cpu, you will enjoy 89/92 series.

asciilifeform had, at various times, 85, 86, 89, grey-89

asciilifeform: (89 is essentially the same machine but sans keyboard)

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267171 << they are cheap because they were, almost from the day they came out, forbidden to u.s. schoolchildren on account of the qwerty keyboard ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267190 << not using classical gpg, no. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267191 << i see no such restriction in therealbitcoin... ☝︎

asciilifeform: can't 'i'll just take one sip'

asciilifeform: the spittoon ~is~ in one strand.

asciilifeform: and what, we use libjpeg ? which one ?

asciilifeform: e.g., should it display jpegs ?

asciilifeform: even something as mundane as 'show pictures' is VASTLY nontrivial from the sanity perspective

asciilifeform: if you try to implement 'sane subset' (and which would that be?) you end up able to view sites that work fine in lynx anyway - and not much else

asciilifeform: because www as we have it is ~intrinsically~ retarded.

asciilifeform: punkman: must render HTML+CSS, with pictures << if you think this results in a proggy that views 'modern www' usably, go and try, e.g., 'dillo' or 'arachne' - the result is disappointing.

asciilifeform: voodoo with a minus sign in front of it is STILL VOODOO.

asciilifeform: need grasp of the ACTUAL mechanism of contagion.

asciilifeform: but if you want to have, e.g., an operating room, it is important that it does not ~end~ there.

asciilifeform: hygiene does not consist merely in the ritualistic and unthinking avoidance of things that stink. though it begins there.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267539 << again with the miasma theory. ~yes~ the swamp sucks to live in. yes, you get malaria and die. but it is not because of the swamp gas. ☝︎

asciilifeform: punkman: text compresses well.

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mod6 please consider updating therealbitcoin www to include the actually usable version thereof ?

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267531 << 'would you like to eat this cake or inject it' ☝︎

asciilifeform: vaguely factual, yes, but fundamentally and disastrously misattributes causation

asciilifeform: exactly it.

asciilifeform: the whole mentality of 'secure' is EXACTLY the miasma theory of disease transmission

asciilifeform: eliminate buffer overflows, use-after-free, type mismatch, by SHOOTING MOTHERFUCKING C MACHINE IN THE HEAD and the whole concept sorta goes away

asciilifeform: and i fucking hate the word 'secure'

asciilifeform: see also, http://xml.coverpages.org/greenspu.html

asciilifeform: and this seeps into browsers, and not - as commonly supposed - only the reverse.

asciilifeform: there is also the other side of the problem, which is that WWW ITSELF is fundamentally retarded.

asciilifeform: lynx is right there. go, use.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267769 << in what way is this hypothetical item distinct from 'lynx' ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: ergo there is nothing to do re: browsers at this time.

asciilifeform: b) want graphics. WE DON'T HAVE A SANE GRAPHICS STACK ☟︎

asciilifeform: a) don't need graphics? use lynx. or curl, even. EXISTS.

asciilifeform: let's work it out

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267767 << this is a CATASTROPHICALLY bad idea, because any attempt is simply asking for self-delusionary masamunification (sorry gabriel_laddel, but you know precisely what i mean.) -- this being, 'aha this is a turd, but WE made it and therefore doesn't stink and is somehow edible' ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: re: gauss & co.

asciilifeform: see also canonical thread, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-03-2014#548272 ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267699 << this is an excellent point, and the standard narrative of 'progress, science' is very much reminiscent of the old claptrap re: 'building communism together!!11!!!11' ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267682 >> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=26-11-2014#934786 ☝︎☝︎