asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: someone decided to use a microcontroller. quite possibly because 29 cents instead of 30 for a '555'.☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to be fair, it was a flashlight with some basic state - was the kind that is to switch itself on when mains socket it is kept charging in fails
asciilifeform: decimation: visit an electronics store and prepare to have brain come out of ears. i've had flashlights that -crashed.- i drive a car with a -buggy- thermostat controller. (made 12 yrs ago, too. the rot began long ago.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: probably set my expectations of machines in fields like responsivity for instance... << very tellingly, children in usa are now being issued with pocket calculators that have -palpable boot times- and delays on all basic ops
asciilifeform came from orcish lands where lcd was considered exotic tech
asciilifeform: there are at least as many idiocies as there idiots to conceive of them
asciilifeform: decimation: to some of these folks, the beige and black that pc chassis traditionally come in is the conspiracy
asciilifeform: decimation: the realization that software and computing in general as it exists is deeply and profoundly retarded, dawned on many people
asciilifeform: they have more of a 'bad is privilege' thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's bayesian antispamatron must be a real hoot
asciilifeform: tenacious critter, has been going at it for decades, it seems.
asciilifeform: (summary: science is broken because, among other things, no one will give green a tenured mega-sinecure to study telepathy)
asciilifeform: www.celiagreen.com << rare female version of this animal
asciilifeform: basic pattern, as in linked thread, folks see a problem. (typically, one that requires a certain amount of societal programming failing to anchor in the brain, or having been dislodged in one way or another) but do not have the constructive abilities to see anything but 'remove the cia microwave horn from the neighbour's balcony' as solution space
asciilifeform: i used to have a whole butterfly collection of links to folks 'like my site but with schizo'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and when you do the invoice in this one, plz also convert the pesos i left behind, supposing those still were worth something.
asciilifeform: from my point of view - yes, tested. from mike_c's www - they are wot data
asciilifeform: but as a matter of general principle - 'act from cause' (TM) - we oughta have self-contained infrastructure whenever practical.
asciilifeform: not that it matters, really, if sks lies about some random derp's key. it is a typical 'shakespeare's works were not written by shakespeare but by another man of the same name' non-problem.
asciilifeform: decimation: i specifically have a problem with hardcoded url, etc. dependency on some random street animal.
asciilifeform: because there is no physically possible way to determine what subkey ought to be asked from sks et al, for that particular pubkeyblock hash
asciilifeform: it can't curl the keyserver from a nosuchlabs.com/gpgfp/somethingorother 404
asciilifeform: but it is important to remember that 'keys' (in the customary sense) are indexed by the (garbage) hash of the -whole key- rather than fp - because it is actually subkeys that have fp's, rather than 'keys' (as in, what folks typically paste in)
asciilifeform: and yes we can do something spiffy with not-founds
asciilifeform: mike_c: here's my problem... mircea_popescu: mike_c i can see it... << working on it. or rather, will be, as soon as i finish writing my broadcast for april
asciilifeform: decimation: nah. the federal gendarmerie
asciilifeform: we will know when usg falls, when this magical barrier disappears.
asciilifeform: the folks currently preventing them from acting on this desire - are the actual rulers.
asciilifeform: ^ betcha many of these cops would -love- to close a perimeter around these snakepits and shoot everything that moves, for sport.
asciilifeform: 'A former Baltimore cop explains things: ... The same idiots who burned shit down Monday, they’re gonna be there today and tomorrow. The cops are always dealing with them, whether they’re burning things down or not. They’re always there.'
asciilifeform: 'in a bad neighbourhood, what specifically is bad? is it the concrete, glass, steel?' -- ilkka kokkarinen☟︎
asciilifeform: decimation: paranoia is not really the magic here, in most cases - more like standard narcissism as painted by tlp
asciilifeform: t. dalrymple (see logs) had many wonderful stories of his patients (he was a prison shrink for some years) who saw police, judges, etc. as malevolent martians persecuting them 'for no reason at all'
