asciilifeform: orwell more or less spot on - nothing happened in the 20th c. except as nominally decreed in some mega-empire or other

asciilifeform: (also can talk about att being every bit as 'usg' as any ministry, at the time of being a national telecom megamonopoly)

asciilifeform: earlier usg

asciilifeform joins

asciilifeform: i can already picture 'teh phyootur' where the ada-on-bare-metal meta-foundation(tm) is laughing at us

asciilifeform: ^l0l

asciilifeform: bitmule

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: might be one of those 'requires fortress' things

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: that was precisely why i wanted the sata feature, yes

asciilifeform: what even was it...

asciilifeform: i've never had problems getting items from ca

asciilifeform: or killer postage cost

asciilifeform: nubbins`: can't order from usian 'amazon' ?

asciilifeform: nubbins`: sata-less

asciilifeform: nubbins`: and which one was that

asciilifeform: and would any of you care to do this instead

asciilifeform: how did i fall into such a life.

asciilifeform: bad enough that i'm apparently chasing a low-level bit diddling bug in a sata driver for a godforsaken chip on a godforsaken os

asciilifeform: ripping - easy

asciilifeform: aha, requires sewing not only ripping

asciilifeform: because having it there - it is just unforgivable idiocy

asciilifeform: just like the memory leak

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo et al: the way i'm thinking now, the 'sync from one node at a time' thing will have to be killed with fire before 0.5.3/pogo (or otherwise) is given to civilians

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: have you tried restricting it to one known-good node on the lan to sync from ?

asciilifeform: hmm

asciilifeform: *built

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: if i had build that thing properly static, it would not be an issue

asciilifeform: is it connecting preferentially to nodes in afghanistan, ip over dead goat ?

asciilifeform: on the wire

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what's the actual transfer rate ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what machine ?

asciilifeform: post plz

asciilifeform: ^ on the pitfalls of reconnecting that which has been yanked

asciilifeform: !s the lifeboat mutiny

asciilifeform: but see also:

asciilifeform: i'd like to learn why

asciilifeform: incidentally, seems like all the bsd folks disable the cpu cache on pogo

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: use mod6's recipe for building -properly- static ones

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: those were -wrong-

asciilifeform presently investigating why netbsd does not correctly initialize sata or sd controllers

asciilifeform: nubbins`: yes, i think it was linked here a while ago

asciilifeform: nubbins`: hm?

asciilifeform: usg billionaire

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: wealthy politicians << u.s. folks perhaps remember perot ? interesting fella

asciilifeform: the joke's on naive node counters

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: pseudonode works as printed on the tin

asciilifeform observes that it is not necessary to drink the punch to enjoy the company

asciilifeform: and did anyone ever come up with a logical explanation for his rage ?

asciilifeform: speaking of, anyone know what became of herr pankkake ?

asciilifeform: is it having any sizeable listing older than pseudonode ?

asciilifeform: pseudonode.

asciilifeform: also didn't that thing appear around the same time as 'fakenode' (?) was published ?

asciilifeform: may as well run one node and give it 10,000 spam ip addrs

asciilifeform: also wtf with calling a vps fakecomputer 'full node'

asciilifeform: (TM)

asciilifeform: fullnode.co << who is not with us, is against us.

asciilifeform: aha it

asciilifeform: endogenous - from the rookeries

asciilifeform: so not even 1700 state of the art

asciilifeform: comes from south of border, actually

asciilifeform: official story was 'budget overrun'

asciilifeform: http://lenta.ru/articles/2015/02/20/fskn << ru closes their equivalent of u.s. DEA on mar 1.

asciilifeform: lighter payload.

asciilifeform: (smaller but same range, claimed.)

asciilifeform: http://lenta.ru/news/2014/12/26/barguzin << the new model is claimed to use a smaller rocket and be externally identical to a passenger car

asciilifeform: mixed freely with usual trains

asciilifeform: open for usg to roam freely << the rocket train was disguised (thinly) as a cargo train and went on ordinary rail

asciilifeform: there is a legend, based on released usg docs of reasonable plausibility, that usg knew where the trains were at various times by sneaking neutron counters into passenger/cargo rail

asciilifeform: '93-98

asciilifeform: so instead they went to ru after the ussr croaked and ordered these things sawed apart on camera

asciilifeform: decimation: they didn't. usa spent $maxint trying to copy, but then changed their mind when realized they have scarcely any railroads

asciilifeform: still would've bent the rails if there were not a clever system of springs to spread weight to adjacent cars

asciilifeform: 135t.

asciilifeform: ^ can't see in this shot, but the middle car has eight axles instead of the usual four

asciilifeform: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81_%D0%91%D0%96%D0%A0%D0%9A_15%D0%9F961_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%86_(2)_-_edited.jpg << the classic

asciilifeform: (railroad-based nuke-thrower)

asciilifeform: in one of these, it was recently claimed that БЖРК is back

asciilifeform: jurov: those have own publications, normally, full of meticulously chromed rockets of various shapes

asciilifeform: jurov's facebook full of dyspeptic middle aged ru folks ?

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: jurov taken to reading ru tabloids regularly ?

asciilifeform: or equiv.

asciilifeform: same timing here. herr spitzer was defrocked, out come the rape stories

asciilifeform: with juicy tabloid-grade legends told via official microphones

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually, disgraced soviet bureaucrats (usually posthumous - see hruschev's speech re: l. beria) had 'rapacious daily rapist' tags nailed on ☟︎

asciilifeform: from the other side of the pond, it is known with some certainty that brezhnev had not only all of the racing cars he could wish for, but gurlz whenever he could still get it up

asciilifeform: and fuck dolls

asciilifeform: and yes, everyone knows that below each spitzer there are 100,000 faceless shmucks who go home to cry in beer

asciilifeform: spitzer et al probably account for lion's share of my mental picture of usg elite

asciilifeform wasn't there, didn't see him fuck

asciilifeform: ^ supposed

asciilifeform: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/photos-eliot-spitzers-hooker

asciilifeform: herr spitzer's whore.

asciilifeform: there we go.

asciilifeform: (do whores now forgo old men? who even goes to whores now?)

asciilifeform: they aren't all old men

asciilifeform: as in, let it be known that you have $maxint

asciilifeform: without having to bid

asciilifeform: of whatever octane grade

asciilifeform: correct if i'm thick, but $maxint will buy a whore or two ?