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asciilifeform: more commonly it is simply to deny modern tech to the vanquished

asciilifeform: phf: diddling is not the only or even the most traditional exertion of control by the crown

asciilifeform: and is only alive because civilized man has not computed a +roi for neutron-bombing him

asciilifeform: there is, after all, a reason why civilized men drive ferrari while the pashtun lives and dies in own shit and fucks goats

asciilifeform: try making so much as something like a reasonable diesel engine 'pashtun-style'

asciilifeform: this is also an illusion

asciilifeform: they would have had to build own electronics industry then.

asciilifeform: one time, out of idle curiosity, i looked into what it would have taken .ir to run natanz u refinery on not-winblowz

asciilifeform: and this is just one particular kind of factory, note.

asciilifeform: and - even aside from the winblowz, this actually matters. none of it will do general-purpose asynchronous logic, for instance.

asciilifeform: there is no sign of the slightest threat of this changing.

asciilifeform: (at a few $mil a pop)

asciilifeform: with the same 3 american vendors supplying it

asciilifeform: so far, EVERY SINGLE SI FAB ON THE PLANET and ALL THE DESIGN TOOLING (with the exception of chuck moore's...) runs on winblowz ☟︎

asciilifeform: this is a perpetual 'will tomorrow'

asciilifeform: and even their cheap 'arm' cores are direct-licensed now, from britain.

asciilifeform: nope.

asciilifeform: they would, in fact, make exact copies of intel's crud (complete with nsa) -- if they could. (ever wonder why they do not?)

asciilifeform: they are not interested in it any more than usg is.

asciilifeform: re: 'nintendoized' cpu: folks who are counting on the chinese to 'carry the torch' of real computer, are fooling themselves

asciilifeform: in real world, 'telescreen' is not in every room but in every toilet stall, and people not only do not hide from it but pose for it, and complain about not enough resolution on the ccd. ☟︎

asciilifeform: on account of how you can't really write an engaging yarn about inhabitants of the real thing, as we have it ☟︎

asciilifeform: this is because rms likely grew up on the usual 20th c. dystopian fictions where there is always folks struggling to escape, etc

asciilifeform: phf: except, in ways no one afaik particularly expected to be possible, ~more~ direly than rms predicted.

asciilifeform: unless mircea_popescu pulls a cpu fab out of his shirt pocket, there is nothing preventing this disease from progressing.

asciilifeform: complete with systemd-in-silicon

asciilifeform: that you can run on the nintendoized cpu.

asciilifeform: no one is banning linux. instead there is a 'linux foundation' (see log) which will sign 'legit, non-terrorist' kernels for you ☟︎

asciilifeform: it was naive of rms & co. to predict 'microshit will ban linux' in '01 or whenever the 'palladium' thing started going

asciilifeform: this trend carries on.

asciilifeform: or that 'remote update' was not yet a thing

asciilifeform: young people already make a face of disbelief if you tell'em that when you were a boy it was routine to modify the asm routines of your os directly, or bypass them entirely

asciilifeform: general-purpose programmable computer is far more feared by usg than the most powerful dynamite.

asciilifeform: see thread, e.g., http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-08-2015#1257284 ☝︎

asciilifeform: this, just as was predicted ~15 years ago, is to be applied to electronics as well as chemistry.

asciilifeform: 'slave has no business doing what is not on the menu'

asciilifeform: all the same basic theme.

asciilifeform: and prolly six other common pharmacy items i can't recall immediately.

asciilifeform: ditto loperamide (antidiarrheal common in usa)

asciilifeform: phf: aha. dxm, for instance, is just codeine-with-less-bloodbrainbarrier-penetration

asciilifeform: from sneeze meds that are less meth-worthy to floor cleaners lacking acids ☟︎

asciilifeform: much of the 'progress' in common household chem in the past few decades focused on making things less... repurposable

asciilifeform: heavy on the perfumes and dyes, light on items-which-actually-dissolve-things

asciilifeform: punkman: usually it is either ammonia, or enzymatic detergent crud

asciilifeform: punkman: uncommon in modern usa

asciilifeform: punkman: point being that boy finds vinegar in mother's kitchen

asciilifeform: phf: american kids make same jar with vinegar and soda, iirc

asciilifeform: 'possession of terrorist weapon'

asciilifeform: good for 20years-to-life (tm) in good old usa

asciilifeform also

asciilifeform: phf: related: http://yarchive.net/med/social_osteoporosis.html

asciilifeform once heard allegation that virtually all major product names, esp. in usa, are purchased from one particular firm specializing in names... ☟︎

asciilifeform: take the ol' 'nissan doody' and 'volkswagen woodpony' to the scrapyard.

asciilifeform: who wouldn't want a 'toyota cervixxx' !

asciilifeform: http://xkcd.com/1571 << l337 m4rk3t1ng

asciilifeform: mod6: neato. try 'pressing', get a feel for how it works.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dulap ~still~ trailing by 35 blx ☟︎

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu you might want to put 'vdiff' in the footnotes on your article, as 'v' doesn't work without it; see http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-08-2015#1255918 for signed copy of 'vdiff'. ☝︎

asciilifeform: shinohai: http://trilema.com/2015/a-new-software-licensing-paradigm

asciilifeform: shinohai: mircea_popescu dreamed it up

asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-August/000161.html << reposted here.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, et al ^^^

asciilifeform: http://dpaste.com/2D3SRQF#wrap

asciilifeform: achtung, panzers!

asciilifeform: also there is no selectability of wot or patch subsets, other than by specifying --wot customdir or same for patches, containing desired subset ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-08-2015#1257088 << i don't know why mircea_popescu snipped out the comment with the 'todo' list, but one of the items in it was handling of broken chains. and of errors in general. ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: there aren't too many scripting languages that everybody already has on their box.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-08-2015#1257082 << i loathe python per se. but the only realistic alternative was perl. (my original attempts at 'v' were in awk/sed, and did not work very well) ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: ;;later tell funkenstein_ if you have 'gnupg', and your system has 'pip', 'pip uninstall gnupg; pip install python-gnupg' ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-08-2015#1257128 << i expect a number of people will have this issue! turns out there are TWO gnupg call-out libs for python: 'gnupg' and 'python-gnupg'. i uses the latter. one of these was written by a human, and another is the same, taken by an imbecile who decided to carve his initials into it by changing field names. i do not know still which is which. ☝︎

asciilifeform to bed.

asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-August/000160.html

asciilifeform: achtung, panzers!

asciilifeform: ;;later tell jurov what happened to the beautiful idea of NOT FUCKING MUTILATING FILENAMES ?!!!

asciilifeform: lel

asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-August/000159.html

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, et al:

asciilifeform: achtung, panzers!

asciilifeform: aaaaand....

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: except for my spew

asciilifeform: hardly anybody's anything made it in