asciilifeform has a radio scanner running for unrelated reasons, picked up the well-known alex jones, quoth 'soros funded ferguson...' - then disappears in jamming noise
asciilifeform: as described in subsequent documents - poetteringized
asciilifeform: 'racket' << iirc it was the thing formerly 'plt scheme'
asciilifeform: vms is very interesting from historic perspective and any serious reader of 'the unix hater's handbook' should give it a spin out of purely that
asciilifeform: i do a great bit of cross-compilation.
asciilifeform likes various gentoo-specific things like automagic cross-compiler toolchain builder
asciilifeform was never eager to run other folks' binaries if there was a way of avoiding it, purely because it never seems to work reasonably well on linux (i always got 'lucky' and libc mismatched)
asciilifeform this being whole of what he ever used on pc arch
asciilifeform went straight from msdos to freebsd, then gentoo
asciilifeform: which is to say, they are actually controllable
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gentoo is afaik the last remaining bastion of sanity re: dependencies
asciilifeform is curious whether anyone here 1) does gentoo 2) did not know above recipe
asciilifeform: do this -before- emerging world, or any individual package likely to pull in systemd-isms for that matter.
asciilifeform: and mask systemd and udev in package.mask.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: gentoo doesn't have systemd? << complicated. if you follow the install described in the Handbook, you will almost certainly end up with systemd
asciilifeform: "the costs of systemd" << wai wat was this
asciilifeform: the only reason they even pretend to do this ritual is the dream, i'd guess, of repeat business
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not sure if that would encourage or discourage the poor buggers
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: perhaps my (1980s) multimeter lies. or i'm simply retarded. or, or, or.
asciilifeform: though there might live somewhere a nitwit so astonoshingly stupid that he might imagine that rng might be screwed into a live battlefield system without test of any kind.
asciilifeform: if enemy action - straight sabotage, rather than subversion
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the mail did get in later that day.
asciilifeform: from macrofab: 'We received your boards today, we expect to have review complete and the boards working as expected tomorrow, I will keep you posted!'
asciilifeform: 100% inverter-power here (the mains current in this town is, well, soviet-grade)
asciilifeform: pages of the Washington Post and the New York Times.'
asciilifeform: 'The Victoria Nuland clone army, like a cruel, evil, insidious high school rumor, like the reflection of a witch’s face in a polluted river, spread and flew into every crevice and corner of this land, high and low, far and wide. We encounter her avatars and lookalikes everywhere—in Hollywood, in the publishing houses, universities, school boards, kindergartens, in elevators on the way to our offices, and of course, on the
asciilifeform: imes they don't even bother trying to compile it, much less test it. I wish I was making this up; I wish more that I had made these people go away a long time ago.'
asciilifeform: 'We honestly had (and have) developers who think that changing all the line-ending whitespace was really important. Or that whether there are some "legacy" K&R-style prototypes actually matters. These people go around committing non-functional changes, which makes source management (and specifically patching and merging) really painful, and which, unfortunately, also often breaks things accidentally. What's worse is that somet
asciilifeform: iirc it was short & simple, something like 'yeah i'm an anarchist lawyer. you don't have to like disease to be a doctor, either'
asciilifeform: attempts - yes. but ticket wasn't punched yet.
asciilifeform: decimation: no, merely that everything once published under gpl is still distributable, no one has yet come up with, in usa, with 'we retroactively own this'
asciilifeform: critics of rms are always very quick to remember the snot-eating or fits of frothing madness, or whateverthephuck but rarely address the actual arguments in anything like a direct and intelligent way
