asciilifeform: decimation: except that not everything is even equipped to take cash.
asciilifeform: (my town recently installed cc readers even there.)
asciilifeform: every penny i spend is recorded. even at parking meters.
asciilifeform: able that they watched everybody all the time. but at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You have to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.'
asciilifeform: 'Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plate commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceiv
asciilifeform: melatonin at night: for what it's worth, i usually tune the gamma to be heavy on the red
asciilifeform: decimation: and aha, these aren't piss-ant led lights either. ccfl tubes - which means they can't be cranked down all the much (and stay lit)
asciilifeform plugged in the two 'eizo' panels spoken of earlier, can actually -feel- the heat now
asciilifeform: decimation: aha, the 'anonymous monkeys submit, poettering signs' model
asciilifeform: thing is, these are $1.5k machines that sold together for 300. what, ask for refund for one?
asciilifeform: so here's a poor man's mega-lol. i buy two 'eizo' sx2462w monsters. both show up, were packed in new, m0d3rn expanding chemical foam. one - properly. other - with all the foam on one side of crate. naturally, frame cracked, 'bullet hole' of dead blue pixel on crystal.
asciilifeform: i almost fell down. someone showed me a new intel cpu, and it had the inscription 'vietnam.'
asciilifeform: i was actually disappointed to learn that the linked piece was not about us.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: legs weren't made for ballet either. what of it.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: seems to me like he was of the 'brainwallet can be guessed' school of thought. i disagree. if yours can be guessed, you are either lazy or stupid
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all brains are defective, is the thing << elaborate plz
asciilifeform: serious technical question. how exactly might one improve on a 1890s rifle in the given application (almost never fired; when fired - typically, at large land animals (hence, want full sized cartridge); extreme cold; etc
asciilifeform: decimation: i don't get it. with what 'modern' thing would you have them replace the 'enfields', and why ?
asciilifeform: (why? the caps on the alphabetic rows are not identically shaped)
asciilifeform: it also doesn't help that most non-'model m' keyboards are not readily (visually) dvorakizable
asciilifeform experimented with dvorak a few times over the years, found that he doesn't enter enough human language text to make the effort worthwhile☟︎
asciilifeform: also helps to have f-keys in 'godly' position (to the left of 'ctrl' rather than on top of kbd)
asciilifeform: my ctrl key is where the gods intended it to be (to the left of 'a') likewise.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have not actually pressed any F key in... uh. months ? << 'midnight commander' naturally. and i have f1-f12 mapped to useful things in 'emacs' as well. unlike (apparently) many emacs users, i don't treat my hands as an object of religious sacrifice.
asciilifeform: a living thing - would not tolerate this.
asciilifeform: whichever one of you said 'linux is a corpse, and systemd is a fungus growing on it' was correct.
asciilifeform: so the chaps 'building their own' distro are likewise stuck with it.
asciilifeform: not enough to bake their crap into mainstream linux distos. needs to be in mainstream kernel.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, other users of 'opera' - which one do you use? the 1990s close-source turd? or the 'new, impr0v3d' idiocy that uses 'webkit' (chrome) rendering engine ?
asciilifeform: (not sure why he turned that thread into an article, but there it is)
