asciilifeform: and then you go and buy 25 different gizmos to see if even one does not meet this pattern

asciilifeform: a gizmo, ships with a linux variant

asciilifeform: - or rather, a minimum of what to expect. the main purpose of the report appears to be usg bashing itself for hiring incompetent torturers on 'favourite son' contracts. implication is, 'we need to recruit real pros' - and every reason to expect that it will be tried, at the very least. out with the amateur finger-choppers, in with the transcranial pain centre stimulators and 'fMRI' gizmos, etc.

asciilifeform: less-than-perfect wire wrapping was the doom of many an amateur digital gizmo

asciilifeform: but want gizmo that fucking works as printed on the box

asciilifeform: metal case on wireless access gizmo? lol

asciilifeform: this is more of a shortwavecoin apocalypse gizmo.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the gizmos in question were 'sx2462w'.

asciilifeform: i'll repeat - dedicated gizmo wherein to crunch the bignums - useful. store keys - no thanks.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, whoever else: after some hours and a restart the thing jumped << if it needs hand-holding for normal operation (including blockchain sync) it isn't a usable gizmo.

asciilifeform: then rebranded as a u.s. dept. of state 'dissidents need to plan their glorious democratic multi-coloured revolutions without interference from cruel orcish gestapos' gizmo.

asciilifeform: it was (originally - and semi-publicly) spun as a 'our spies need to do their thing under the cloak of a river of shit traffic so here's this free service' gizmo

asciilifeform: anyone who creates a gizmo which depends on shitstemd - has asked to share the fate.

asciilifeform: sometimes, however, the gizmo cares how implemented. (consider the case of the airplane, which stubbornly resisted being powered by steam engine on account of the latter's poor power-to-mass ratio. etc)

asciilifeform: http://gizmodo.com/5895555/i-have-a-magnet-implant-in-my-finger << only genuinely interesting example i can recall

asciilifeform: ('early usenet archive' is separate gizmo there)

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, the one fellow who is really still working on this gizmo, is

asciilifeform: but it is only a tool that some people prefer to use. a 'git' or other similar gizmo will not be the authoritative representation of bitcoind.

asciilifeform: it even, iirc, comes with a gpg signing gizmo

asciilifeform: (open-source statistical gizmo, vaguely reminiscent of 'octave')

asciilifeform: if a usefully-directional satellite receiver and associated gizmos could fit in pocket, camel convoys would be attacked using winged grenades on toy airplanes

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: bip-0065 << classic 'relevance farming.' the phoundation will take any excuse to add cruft to the gizmo. in their fantasy, folks will use it, and those who have resisted their turds will be forced to merge in. ☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tarsnap isn't really a public access gizmo

asciilifeform: the ru version was a very simple stapler-shaped gizmo that punched holes in old 35mm film

asciilifeform: no one will even think to mention 'wot-based' gizmo in the future, just as when you buy a pc now - the crate does not bother to say 'semiconductor-based'

asciilifeform: in fact, 'reddit' gizmos can be seen as a specially broken case of wot - having the same relationship to wot as baited rat poison has to food

asciilifeform fell into sin; for the first time in half a decade, cracked a copy protection gizmo

asciilifeform: and wot isn't even the only gizmo here that uses keys

asciilifeform: i did write a gizmo that outputs graphical render for the pages, but realized that the bandwidth and disk cache costs would break my back, and then let the domain go to the vultures.

asciilifeform: and each pissant gizmo under the control of a separate human pissant, naturally

asciilifeform: at any rate, i doubt mr o entertains delusions of his gizmo being imposed from above

asciilifeform: in fact, my main objection to orlov's gizmo is that it isn't huffman optimal.

asciilifeform: (intel tried shipping a gizmo without it, now it is known affectionately as 'the itanic')

asciilifeform: quite a few folks have wireless gizmos for fallback

asciilifeform: bt is actually useful in that, with a certain gizmo, lets you use 'real' phone

asciilifeform: no one knows of a cpp to html-concordance gizmo that isn't a steaming turd ?

asciilifeform: i always wondered why there isn't just a gizmo that eats a source tree and craps out html where any keyword that appears more than once is hyperlinked

asciilifeform: jurov: let me try again with another gizmo

asciilifeform: onerng.info << this gizmo is interesting to me because it uses exactly one sane design decision (rf shield); resembles mine from a distance. but inside - uses every single design mistake which i rejected. to avoid 'empty words,' i will name a few.

asciilifeform: ... email gizmo, bidet.

asciilifeform has a collection of apple gizmos for similar purposes

asciilifeform: incidentally, there's a larger lesson here. folks have been using 'version control' gizmos for so long, that approximately no one even notices that 'diff' is broken.

asciilifeform: ;;later tell jurov was it you who was making the mailing list gizmo ?

asciilifeform: re: bitcoind liposuction: who's for nixing the 'alert' gizmo?

asciilifeform: also easier to do this with non-apple gizmos, where there is not an elaborate boobytrap chipset in there, to try to keep you from 'jailbreaking'

asciilifeform: if as a 'touch' gizmo - check first.

asciilifeform: the somewhere, incidentally, is a stable satoshi-based gizmo worth using as a base for rewrite (idk about other folks, i shall rewrite for my own pleasure if no one wants, once finished with current affairs) - and perhaps worth printing!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: care to drop even a small hint of what you're using? gizmo of own authorship? it isn't like you keep it hotwalleted, anyway

asciilifeform: x10 << heavily-spamvertized and hyped system of 'home automation' gizmos

asciilifeform: k was supposed to ride on a demo vehicle gizmo, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-09-2014#845595 ☝︎

asciilifeform: not the molded laptop gizmos, usually

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: assuming you were thinking of paul graham's gizmo

asciilifeform: more of a forum gizmo

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: he was probably talking about a gizmo i was considering building long ago - an esdi hard disk emulator (for use in ancient 'symbolics' lisp machine.)

asciilifeform: (his gizmo comes with a 'talk with god' proggy)

asciilifeform: (what kind of device? a 2d plane digitizer that sits on usb, meant to be used as 'touch' gizmo. and it pisses GBs of usb disconnect garbage into log -if and only if you don't use it-.)

asciilifeform: bounce: only really an issue on laptops, where you can't install a civilized replacement for $gizmo

asciilifeform never grokked point of preorders. selling gizmos you don't have in stock ~= sc4mz0r1ng

asciilifeform doesn't like dedicated 'user is entering passwords' api gizmos - demarcated target.

asciilifeform: (if you let arbitrary gizmos enumerate on arbitrary ports, triggering load of kernel mods written in '98, you deserve what you get)

asciilifeform not sure how item in question could have been confused for 'arduino' - other than in both being small electrical gizmos

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ever own the old 'koolance' freon cpu gizmo ?

asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjCWdsrVcBM << herr wolfram renamed his best-selling gizmo for some reason.

asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: as if the vendors of the hated gizmos really had to include, e.g, 'google' in the hello packet.

asciilifeform: at any rate, w&l pedantically list every basic gyrostabilization gizmo, including the magnetic one, but nothing bussard-esque.

asciilifeform: decimation: ground-based gizmo obsoleted by orbital spybots

asciilifeform: decimation: afaik you still do if you want to actually run your code on (uncracked) apple portable gizmos

asciilifeform owns one of virtually every basic type of portable tablet/reader gizmo, they each have some use

asciilifeform: hell, doesn't have to be below-board - sell next iPnohe with the understanding that $1 off monthly charge but gizmo mines for the fuhrer while plugged into mains for battery charge.

asciilifeform: RebeccaBitcoin: seems like two separate questions in your original question. 1) mouse movement as method of generating key and 2) particular web-based gizmo for doing so

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: her stretcher dildo << it's a 'lava lamp' (decorative gizmo, small electric lamp heats a vessel of wax mixed in such a way that colourful shapes float about inside)

asciilifeform: chetty: the notion was, evil keyboard disguised as whatever usb gizmo you normally buy (flash drive, mouse, etc.)

asciilifeform: decimation: if you buy a gizmo like this, get the roll screen, walls aren't nearly as reflective.

asciilifeform: it's a 'dlp' gizmo