asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i recall reading that you had it too - the one with the racecar photos
asciilifeform: apparently incredibly loved in the harems << amplified the lulz from remembering that the first (and until moving to usa, only) gum i ever chewed on was turkish
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought that was benedictine, lol
asciilifeform: will it be sold as 'methyl luserate' ?
asciilifeform: when biodiesel is finally boiled from lusers,
asciilifeform: the actual selection criteria for u.s. weapons systems funding are not a secret...
asciilifeform: PeterL: different animal, really - rocket vs shell
asciilifeform: ^ afaik those haven't really changed since ww2
asciilifeform: (still have it, and the camera option. mostly gathers dust.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i kinda followed the whole thing; even bought - back when it was not clear what it was - the device (1st ed. 'raspberry')
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: broadcom. but also the apologists (many of whom, i gather, weren't even -paid- shills, but merely fools)
asciilifeform: nubbins`: their chip isn't quite fast enough for guaranteed real-time high-res video without the hardware accel.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: and the vendor is an known, egregious, and unrepentant liar, intent on giving an impression of 'open' for some strange reason☟︎
asciilifeform: nubbins`: they are contractually obligated to never fully deblob it on account of mpeg 'license' crapolade
asciilifeform wonders what the rate would have to be to cut off the chump flow
asciilifeform wishes he could name someone other than himself who is working on this problem, but cannot
asciilifeform: now, i happen to have a large collection of hard (and soft) ware that i consider questionable. but it is kept around specifically for abusive experimentation rather than 'use' in the usual sense.
asciilifeform: folks ask me questions like this in meatspace and i end up explaining that no, i do not necessarily know of a specific sin for that specific part number
asciilifeform: 'from cause rather than from principle'
asciilifeform: in, for example, the fact that the 'blob' does not merely initialize the hardware, but actually runs at all times on its own coprocessor
asciilifeform: 'raspberry' is egregious and famously so even among the other horrors
asciilifeform: regarding your intentions to compute rsa funktion
asciilifeform: to borrow mircea_popescu's terminology, buying a dedicated, e.g., rsa silicon, communicates information to enemy which he has no business learning
asciilifeform: if fella's any good he'll snap that head back on & rejoin
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've no idea who he is, but he fit my expected pattern for the inevitably next mr yetmoarspam far too well
asciilifeform: i seriously didn't imagine this being such a hard concept for folks to grasp
asciilifeform: decimation: the manufacturer can claim to harden against attack. can even do so, to an extent. you - buyer - have no way to distinguish; not to learn what else is - or is not - inside
asciilifeform: has anyone here managed to get adacore's 'gps' to run on anything other than winblows ?
asciilifeform: if two dukedoms over someone makes clitoris stu, expect nobody to care << the whole notion that someone must care, is a bizarre creation of the patients in usg asylum
asciilifeform: but the folks with actual mil training (plus shoulder-launched antitank rockets, real-time satellite view, other goodies) will have a 'fair' fight with the others over it.
asciilifeform: usg doesn't need 'the land' (again ru-1917 thinking pattern) for much. only the gas wells, etc., industry, fields, slaves
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the short-term picture? sure
asciilifeform: (most likely whatever the largest and nearest usg fragment is)
asciilifeform: trinque: the gas makes the spot a strategic objective for anyone with pretensions of keeping some basic tech going and any kind of army whatsoever
asciilifeform: my understanding (by no means perfect) is that the 'can produce and feed selves with 1850 tech' and 'armed for civil war' crowds are disjoint sets in usa
asciilifeform: trinque: the place even has its own natural gas well << realize that it turns the place into a non-negotiable military objective - read: target - rather than survival haven
asciilifeform: there are a few places with 'living fossils' yes
asciilifeform: or perhaps where the amish are found ?
