asciilifeform: ticipated, like making a thermometer or payment system or 3D scanner. Someone who hasn’t paid for a license to attach that thing to their phone.' ( https://archive.is/WLf7L )

asciilifeform: there is also the 'accessory license' thing, 'The 3.5mm jack is robust, familiar, secure, well-documented, and so on — we’ve seen the argument play out over the last year. You know why it’s good: because it works, reliably, worldwide, with millions of devices. Without Apple’s permission. See, it’s that last part that must bother them. The idea that someone, somewhere, is doing something with an iPhone that they haven’t an

asciilifeform: Closing The Analogue Hole!11111 (tm) (r)

asciilifeform: coming soon to a pnoje near yoo: 'ЕГГОГ: UNAUTHORIZED EAR'

asciilifeform: 'AirPods will use Infrared sensors to detect when they’re in your ears, playing only when they’re in your ears. The setup process is super easy — connect the AirPods once to your iPhone, and the AirPods instantly sync over iCloud to your other devices. From there, you never worry about them again.' >> oblig. >> http://www.loper-os.org/?p=752 ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: the toilet thing is, iirc, an actually common failure mode.

asciilifeform: in lulz elsewhere, 'The new iPhones will be more durable than any that have come before, at least when it comes to serious corruption from water and dust. The next-gen models meet the IP67 protection standard, which is good enough to briefly drop it in a pool (or, more likely, a toilet) but not good enough to shower with regularly.'

asciilifeform: hm, isn't that 'harry potter' logo trademarked in usa ?

asciilifeform: it is literally cheaper, even in qty==1 (!) than using own printer.

asciilifeform: eh, 'print on demand' is ultra-cheap, i once-off code and other materials to take to the beach.

asciilifeform: meanwhile, 'orcs want to be #trilema', https://archive.is/dHnYS

asciilifeform: on 1960s-era sov. tape deck.

asciilifeform: i had this mike, and a modern one, as a boy, and compared.

asciilifeform: we had thread.

asciilifeform: which is why the logitech mouse proprietary-radio thing still sells so well

asciilifeform: bluetooth sucked from the 'pairing' thing.

asciilifeform: just a 'let's make proprietary jack' thing.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ever since koreans came out with the watertight pnoje , demonstratively shipped in a jar of water, crapple threatened same

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: largely by familiarity with the process. i personally grew up doing it. and this is 3rd example i run into publicly to date (others being mr mold and terry davis.)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the massive stash in the git, of 'this program is written in 'vrelta', which is written in 'ukuku, resting in all its pride and glory' is not shannonized. i am satisfied that it is the multi-year product of genuine madness.

asciilifeform: (per the 'orc symbols' and 'cheap sybils' threads!111)

asciilifeform: ftr, the ζ thing almost led me to wonder if 'alice' wasn't an educational experiment created by mircea_popescu .

asciilifeform: (there was a ru translation! and no one had any fucking notion that there ever existed the candy, much less that it preceded that children's cartoon.)

asciilifeform: who were originally a plastic toy, and the maker commissioned a 'toyetic' (actual term of art) tv show to market it with.

asciilifeform: which is lulzy because the thing at its root is some american cartoon about (all-female!) unicorns.

asciilifeform: i ended up, to my woe, looking up the 'pony' thing trinque mentioned, there are ~0 actual females there btw.

asciilifeform: and i reflexively mailed it back phuctor 'contact' link (~all of my 'fan mail' is phuctor-related these days)

asciilifeform: it wrote to me (reddit has a pm thing)

asciilifeform: 'Bitcoin's marketing is predicated on poor "third world country" people adopting it for remittances. A high transaction fee network will come across as a betrayal. It is not something the powers that be will risk.' << didjaknow.

asciilifeform: 'His attitude towards Andresen, the public, the poor and the residents of Mali is despicable. ... Because most of us likely have hosted wallets somewhere, the decision will be largely out of the general public's hands, though.' << gold. how did i miss this.

asciilifeform: these are folk who got bored with the usual retardation (because it is deadly boring, even to practitioners) and tried to invent 'new' types.

asciilifeform: and there are millions now walking who ought to have drowned in tub.

asciilifeform: killing per se is a normal and healthy thing.