asciilifeform: 'We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better...stronger...faster.' - 'the six million dollar man'

asciilifeform: it's the andi-flood noobs pill << before long, we'll be hooking up elizas to mask decoys from the enemy. and then folks will start... talking to them

asciilifeform: so gotta take turns.

asciilifeform: cheapo least effort << think this way: there are not many chumpnets that can be sliced into N slices (one for each of us, 24/7) and still be of any use.

asciilifeform reluctant to show it to modern folks on account of 'so you must like winblows then, aha'

asciilifeform a fan of the 'handbook'

asciilifeform: 'The X-Windows Disaster: How to make a 50-MIPS Workstation Run Like a 4.77MHz IBM PC'

asciilifeform: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html << good vintage h4t3f3st

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: loper-os.org/pub/flood.txt.gz << in case you missed

asciilifeform: http://blog.nexusguard.com/ssdp-ddos-attacks << intro to the type of idiot vulnerability used by mr. flood.

asciilifeform: logs alive here.

asciilifeform: 'or come back under' ?

asciilifeform: i no longer give a damn if it was 'reddit', 'hacker news', or whatever.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: naturally. that's why i no longer even bother to check at most times.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: aha

asciilifeform: 'we have mice'

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: perhaps add to channel message-line ?

asciilifeform: quite a few paired 'joined/quit' in today's log.

asciilifeform: lol mr. flood is still in business?

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: how'd you do that

asciilifeform: e.g. 'reddit'

asciilifeform: and they're all from some moron reservation

asciilifeform: except that qntra is not as forsaken, in that i get 100-200/day except for 1-2 days in a month, where it's 10-30k

asciilifeform: qntra << lol, it's almost at the level of my own obscure site now.

asciilifeform: no one who hears it, will forget the equations.

asciilifeform: ^ for all students

asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igcr5uPt5Hg << on topic

asciilifeform: (yes - magnetic transients exist)

asciilifeform: and with mu-metal for magnetics.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform knows this well.

asciilifeform: sticks and straw for cargo cult - amazing business.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: at one point i needed some conductive cloth (the kind with silver strands) for an experiment. to my great surprise, i discovered that there is a large manufacturer in usa, and they do brisk business with folks suffering from precisely the kind of phobia described in decimation's link. ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: !s placebocin

asciilifeform: and how to open them without setting off the mine.

asciilifeform: all they'd need to do is tip off the right folks re: where the caches are.

asciilifeform: if moscow has a lick of sense - this is being worked on, there.

asciilifeform: afaik no one has yet seen it fit to supply the pr0t3st3rs with heavier arms

asciilifeform: don't need elaborate armour against civilian small arms.

asciilifeform: no worries, the coming national gendarmerie will have 'apache'.

asciilifeform: (i once spoke with a police chopper man during a local 'show & tell', asked about armour. he answered 'you gotta be kidding')

asciilifeform: usg choppers were supposedly fired upon during 'katrina'

asciilifeform: fire zone.

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: at any rate, anyone who isn't an active participant in the events, and expects to hear some 'interesting' secret over radio - will be disappointed.

asciilifeform: this behaviour is achievable on digital using error codes (e.g., trellis) but this - afaik - is not done in p25.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: graceful degradation, yes.

asciilifeform: that is, grunt blocking off a street in dc, typically is telling the truth when says he doesn't know why

asciilifeform: police, incidentally, are the accomplished masters of 'need to know'

asciilifeform: unless you're actively engaged

asciilifeform: what i'm saying is that even if one could decrypt the whole lot, it is rarely of interest

asciilifeform: e.g., #x-yy at quadrant q.

asciilifeform: mostly 'robot' commands.

asciilifeform: not even.

asciilifeform: don't expect to find 'juicy' conversation.

asciilifeform: re: radio: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=25-11-2014#933930 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-11-2014#933935 ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: why a tax revolt hasn't happened yet: usg has old, reliable, well-oiled mechanisms for dealing with folks who didn't pay.

asciilifeform: of interest, that is

asciilifeform: even if you could decode - what do you expect to find?

asciilifeform: real question is whether mr o actually drinks the 'kool aid' re: riots being 'popular anger', or merely pretends to.

asciilifeform: guest article.

asciilifeform: scratch that.

asciilifeform: not even a down's syndrome case would post this from u.s. soil.

asciilifeform: imho this clinches the moscow hypothesis.

asciilifeform: ^ mr. o actually calling for 'tax revolt'

asciilifeform: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-only-way-to-stop-empire.html << does not disappoint loltron

asciilifeform: oh noez, a wrecker!

asciilifeform: '"Hands up, don't shoot" #OccupyStamp ” the one girl on her phone at the table, different beliefs?'

asciilifeform: 'This is what being apart of something bigger than yourself looks and feels like' << mega-lol!

asciilifeform: 'People continued to sit and eat. So we took away their seats.'

asciilifeform: 'While we're hurting, we want to be very visible.'

asciilifeform: at umd, 'student union' (large bldg full of restaurants) is full of pr0t3st3rs

asciilifeform: https://twitter.com/search?v=stream&q=%23OCCUPYSTAMP&src=hash&mode=photos

asciilifeform: where's that mircea_popescu article re: how the average plebe has no business pretending to run a computer.

asciilifeform: that in that world, we might all be doing (horror!) honest work (e.g., http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/141698.jpg ) - such is life.

asciilifeform: decimation: the ultimate, inescapable fact is that most of the products don't need to exist at all.

asciilifeform: this is why the only extant computerized gadgets that aren't total crud were built from, or virtually from, the ground up.

asciilifeform: (i.e. those who built the layers of crud tortoises on which the elephants stand)

asciilifeform: the layers workarounds happen regardless - because how could there possibly be coordination with previous programmers

asciilifeform: or 'flightless' people.

asciilifeform: eventually - somehow - the hunter makes his way to the island of delicious flightless birds.

asciilifeform: but must not forget - things which cannot defend themselves - die.

asciilifeform: ^ these.

asciilifeform: !s monsanto

asciilifeform: (re: plants)

asciilifeform: we did this one here.

asciilifeform: 'As long as genetic modification is being done primarily by big agribusiness, plants will be altered to make them more compatible with central control of the food supply.'

asciilifeform: it was a good book.

asciilifeform: i have, for instance, 'programmer's guide to CLOS [common lisp object system]' on my shelf, by one sonya keene.

asciilifeform: not even talking about academiwank

asciilifeform: (not a misprint! there were once intelligent, educated woman programmers in usa. but when the profession became 'blue collar' - akin to, e.g., cement mixer operator - they mostly disappeared.)

asciilifeform: many good essays in there, too.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: decimation: yes. sold it many years ago though. terrible keyboard.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://djbnetbsd.drivehq.com/PC/NetBSD/Z50/index.html << netbsd on that machine.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~ayase/tp/wpz50.htm << rom on 3rd photo from bottom

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: also notable for the option of running on 'aa' batteries.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ~1kg weight, iirc. no built-in networking.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: odd little bugger. the usual nice 'thinkpad' keyboard, but inside - a 'mips' cpu. normally ran embedded winblows (yes, for mips!) from 16m rom. but easily hackable to use netbsd or linux.