asciilifeform: mircea_popescu likes visible ribs, or what
asciilifeform: decimation: there are only so many cabs in new york to drive.
asciilifeform: hence, the enthusiastic suckers of usg cock are faced with waging war on everything that distinguishes their country from african pisshole
asciilifeform: in latvia, estonia, situation is somewhat 'ukraininan' in that the industrial/scientific productive folks are solidly ru-speaking (if not actual ru)
asciilifeform: interesting example of latvia, where, iirc, the greater share of adult men are on 'european tour' (sweeping floors in germany for hourly wage)
asciilifeform: decimation: they would have to confront the fact that %xx of the adult men are pro-soviet
asciilifeform: the baltic nazis were rather miffed when they learned what their role in nato would be (human shields, corpse-carriers) on account of lacking actual armies
asciilifeform: decimation: the two habitual mac users i work with just threw out their unicomps (i think they were..) and bought actual 'model m' each.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: 'alt' is, iirc, called 'option' on apple box.
asciilifeform: this is the thing that always blew my mind about serious apple aficionados - they will pay, 20-100 usd, for a proggy that ought to be a 3-line perl script
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: apple's config thing has built-in key mapper
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: what i utterly fail to grasp is why the 'unicomp' is even a thing, when actual 'model m' can be had for 20-50 usd. in working condition (if perhaps in need of a bath)
asciilifeform: and so far resists incursions of poetteringism, afaik.
asciilifeform: 'Barrett Brown was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Dallas to 63 months in prison and ordered to pay about $900,000 in restitution Thursday on charges stemming from the incident, in which he posted a hyperlink in his reporting to information obtained by the Anonymous collective in a 2011 hack of intelligence contractor Stratfor.'
asciilifeform: '“The government asserts that I am not a journalist and thus unable to claim the First Amendment protections guaranteed to those engaged in information-gathering activities,” Brown wrote in a prepared statement he planned to deliver before the judge at his sentencing.'
asciilifeform: he linked to, irrc, the 'stratfor' papers.
asciilifeform: same hardware, incidentally, with different silkscreen on chassis and, naturally, different rom image (it's on their site, i won't bother linking to it, who the fuck cares)
asciilifeform: this is riotously funny once you recall what their other product was
asciilifeform: most curiously. (there is almost always a garbage rng, on such a chip)
asciilifeform: there is, however, no rng of any kind whatsoever.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: data sheet reveals that there is, in fact, 64 bits of antifuse eprom in there. but it appears that 'pogo' was lazy, did not use these for anything.
asciilifeform: generic, with several necessary patches from the cpu maker.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, jurov, mircea_popescu: bsd not fully optimal on the little machine; presently i have it with a linux 2.6.31 kernel, lightly patched
asciilifeform: decimation: this is not the cheapest (~$12) but second-cheapest (~$18) 'pogo.'
asciilifeform: decimation: under top cover, usb port (usb2?) and sata (2.5 inch laptop drive.) on rear end, two usb3 ports and 1 Gbit ethernet, and dc in (12 volt.)
asciilifeform: well, what if trivial malfunction (frayed cable, or he forgot to forward port 8333 or whatnot)
asciilifeform: and how is he to know that the machine is working ?
asciilifeform: i.e. is user expecting an interface of some kind? or just running a node for the warm emotions
asciilifeform: it still remains to be answered, what these are for.
asciilifeform: presently backing up the original contents, to restore later (why? so can test auto-diddler that pumps in everything in one go.)
asciilifeform: object on right hand side of photograph is plastic lid (why??? ask them, not me. with it on, the device looks precisely like the non-sata version.)
