asciilifeform: punkman: gpg isn't really built for use as raw block device
asciilifeform: truecrypt was always a strange beast (very peculiar distribution license, etc)
asciilifeform: say, 'attention dear users: we now fuck goats. have a pleasant day.'
asciilifeform: that'd be an interesting way to 'kill canary'
asciilifeform: 'Another possibility - the author was required by a court order to provide a backdoor for unfettered access to truecrypt disk, and to not disclose the existence of the order.'
asciilifeform: 'There's a new binary that recommends moving to BitLocker during install, and the signature matches.'
asciilifeform: re: mpoe-pr - i'll confess, for the record, that i had lingering suspicions of 'mp is a bourbaki organized by mpoe-pr' right until getting off the plane at tsr
asciilifeform: and once you learn to do it once, it is never forgotten.
asciilifeform: incidentally, you can view 3d images from stereo-pairs without /any/ equipment but your eyes. 'cross-eye stereo.' used to be that every chemist knew how.
asciilifeform: i did paying work once that actually required a 3d visor. it was physically demanding.
asciilifeform: witness the reintroduction of the vertical touch screen heresy in consumer pc. like the '80s and their 'gorilla arm syndrome' never happened.
asciilifeform: it's a programmable gizmo, not a miner's pick.
asciilifeform: aside from a few (fortunately) uncommon industrial cases, i can't think of any reason why a computer user ought to perform genuinely repetitive motions of any kind.
asciilifeform: 'Emacs actually comes with a builting Emacs Aptitude Test. Do you remap your keyboard or the Emacs keybindings before the chords and sequences it comes with by default have wreaked havoc with your hands? If you do not do anything to make Emacs more convenient for yourself, you may not have the prerequisite aptitude to use it productive.'
asciilifeform: re: carpal tunnel: generally, if a programmer (vs. data entry clerk or similar brute labourer) contracts this disease, it is suggestive of a poor choice of programming system
asciilifeform: afaik urbit achieved its actual goal (refill mr. yarvin's money bag)
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03, mircea_popescu: found myself with classic carpal symptoms at... 14. cured myself by: going off computer for a month.
asciilifeform: urbit is the ultimate example of a tentacle of a problem masquerading as solution to said problem.
asciilifeform: re: urbit: people still putter about on the mailing list; occasional giblets get checked into the repo; can't bring myself to give a damn re: the details.
asciilifeform: same hearn who tried to slip heartbleed into bitcoind ?☟︎
asciilifeform: (no such feature on blockchain alone)
asciilifeform: to be fair, i can theoretically conceive of a point - say, a fellow who guesses three wrong keys in front of the bunker is fed to crocodiles.
asciilifeform: likewise, one gets hard identities, automagically
asciilifeform: yes. but snippets of ascii sent via coded transactions would map perfectly to the intended use case (want to 'twit' 'at' someone? gotta send them a little coin in the process)
asciilifeform: incidentally, 'twitter' is a perfect candidate for demolition using blockchain-encoded text (as discussed in the past.)
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: faster, yes. but it is a misconception that the purpose of smbx boxes was to 'run lisp fast'
asciilifeform: the amount which the latter sucked helped to destroy the market for lisp systems in general
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: by the time symbolics co. figured out how to manufacture such a machine at reasonable cost, it was too late. lisp systems on cheap crapboxes, despite being nothing comparable to the 'turtles all the way down' stack from smbx, were firmly entrenched.
asciilifeform: designed for 'cost is no object' people. sold for roughly the price of a small airplane.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the 3620 is actually very atypical for the tech of those days. not a 'microcomputer' in any real sense. for instance, there's a motorola '68k' in there - just to direct the boot process and for nothing else!
