asciilifeform: ( pharmacologically also interesting : old-school opium 'smokers' ( wasn't actually smoked, it was sublimated in a device resembling today's 'crack pipe', and pretty 'high tech' procedure, look at photo of the kit some time ) -- the moar active components of the vegetable -- morphine & relateds -- didn't make it out of the pipe bowl, broke down, so theoretically the chinese were actually doing a somewhat different dope than today's j☟︎
asciilifeform: afaik it was just short of perfect for this spec.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm almost surprised, at this point, that they haven't yet reintroduced opium den
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: conceivably whole lizard.purpose of organized sport-gladiatorism is to get the derps to throw lit petrol in stadium, at one another, instead of at pantsuit.
asciilifeform: i could ask 'why into stadium, and not us embassy' but prolly there is no answer to be had.
asciilifeform: i'm quite reluctant to sink substantial moneys into heathen isps, for obv. reason. in that thread was thinking of 'cash and carry' modest item, strictly for moar-trb.
asciilifeform: ( possibly he even has it nao, i recall seeing a trb noad running from ru not too long ago )
asciilifeform: diana_coman: iirc at one time mircea_popescu actually had a ru box ; but i dun recall him sharing how he bought it, possibly it was a mircea_popescutronic transaction and not repeatable on demand, i have nfi presently
asciilifeform: and yea, perhaps very soon qatar noad!
asciilifeform: here is also where i must note that , while i'd like moar / moar-dispersed trb nodez, my time budget for trying to talk sense into remote orcs is quite limited atm
asciilifeform: my reading of ru law suggested this hypothesis re ru
asciilifeform: 1 commonplace gotcha in orcistans is where they demand a 'physical presence' locally so they have a neck to squeeze if $box 'found to be' serving up naked pics of nazarbaev or whoever equiv.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: item will need some tuning to work as pizarro main switch, presently i only ever used it as a nat ( large-ish lan to 1 external ip ) thing
asciilifeform: but fwiw has been running asciilifeform's torture room for nearly 4y without a single burp
asciilifeform: $subj is not , of course, custom silicon, but is a heathenware switch where asciilifeform ripped out the internal ssd and emplaced hand-sewn kernel + 'pf'
asciilifeform: it was in fact supposed to go in the 1st , but ended up sadly left behind , rk plant ranked higher , and mass -- limited
asciilifeform adds ' asciilifeform-recipe switch ' to next cargo manifest☟︎
asciilifeform: thing oughta move packets, and that's all, and not sit with open mouth to net
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: wai does the switch have a public www face ? afaik this is optional toggle, and really oughta be off☟︎
asciilifeform: if mod6 is overloaded, i can give it a shot myself later this wk, but imho this is suboptimal, asciilifeform does not represent tbf☟︎
asciilifeform: possibly idea for hanbot, who was considering taking up tbf , and is in fact experienced hand in subj☟︎
asciilifeform: ( i expect same result as my phuctor propaganda, but imho mircea_popescu is right in that it oughta be tried, repeatedly , before can say 'it all goes to /dev/null' )
asciilifeform: hey mod6... consider writing to that one
asciilifeform: the bigger riddle is wherethefuck the thinking folx are. there oughta be some uranium in 1000 litres of sea, where is it.
asciilifeform: observe how quickly they evaporate when the find that we dun have tgdyk.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for long time i repeatedly 'hi omfg-rsa-xyz-of-the-day people, here's phuctor, i speak for...' etc. 0 result. but possibly was doingitwrong
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-03#1857575 << imho it would be difficult to find a worse example of 'if only could have lived, if not linux!' than beos ( at one point i was quite into archaeology of 'anyffing nonmicroshit', eagerly dug up vintage/'resurrected' pc os, but once actually got close to the things typically found that 'ugh, ~same shit, different bottle' )☝︎
asciilifeform: aaand i'ma skip this morning's 'in trb observatory...' , it's a straight line of 'ACCEPTED' from known trb people☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i think this is all for today in the bilge
asciilifeform: diana_coman , lobbes : your old drives are currently in dulap, lemme know when you're ready to have'em reformatted ( so your boxen dun try an' boot from'em instead of the primary ) and reissued to you as secondary disks.☟︎
asciilifeform: !Q later tell diana_coman your rk is redisked! and running; you may want to stand up yer www server (iirc it doesn't run on boot)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ping me in #p when ready.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: when you get to the dc, feel free to pull lobbes's drive from dulap ( label it ) and insert 1) first, diana_coman's 2) 30sec later, the new
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'ma meatspace for ~20min, should give you enuff time for leg
