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BingoBoingo: Right, the ESL marketing victims
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there's prolly a population of 'aspirational' wankers who 'i want same proggy as used to make 'time magazine' 'you, person of the year' pic' etc
asciilifeform: only with adobeolade, apparently, can the mcd 'freedom fried' be painted the just-so shade of yellow.
asciilifeform: as it is, asciilifeform's snailmailbox has to be emptied daily of superbly colour-calibrated spamola liquishit.
BingoBoingo: I suspect most of their customers are marketers or the sortof ESL marketing victim who imagines he has to pay Adobe to be "creative" despite anti-producing
asciilifeform: near as i can tell, adobe et al sustained by advert 'industry'. if errybody involved contracted mysterious virus and keeled over tonight, wouldn't be soon enuff imho.
asciilifeform: like number of other dead things, it's zombiein' along, nobody put stake in its heart just yet
asciilifeform: also supposedly monopoly on proggy that eats 'raw' inputs from various heavy (40+mpixel) industrial camera
asciilifeform: at one time i tried to find out who. apparently in world of printing (i.e. where 'colour calibrations' etc) it is monopoly, the presses for last decade or so demand adobism ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-12-05 16:47 asciilifeform: in other lulz, very far away, 'Autodesk will stop the sale of perpetual licences of all its software on January 31st, 2017. The purchase of new licences by both new and existing customers will only be available by subscription after that date. ... Why is Autodesk transitioning to subscription licences? Subscription licences offer customers a lower entry price, greater choice of tools and the ability to pay-as-you-go. With its shift a
asciilifeform: ^ lulzily, for coupla yrs nao, they dun even ~sell~ the proggies, but moved to 'subscription' chumpatron ☝︎
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/05/adobe-threatens-users-of-old-software-versions-with-litigation-potential/ << Qntra -- Adobe Threatens Users Of Old Software Versions With Litigation Potential
asciilifeform: in other noose, loox like ben_vulpes fixed his logbot (e.g. http://logs.bvulpes.com/asciilifeform worx ) . ty ben_vulpes .
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform's serv log fwiw loox ~exactly like this.
mp_en_viaje: and then there's inept bullshit from redditswikisfacebooks etc, 0 effort nonsense of the most superficial sort possible. and so the fuck on.
mp_en_viaje: bitcoinrabbithole.org/writings/ok-so-what-is-bitcoin-disrupting/ imagine that shit, and then http://archive.is/IqhDe#selection-605.1-607.13 (fancy that wonder, i'm the #1 author, with 6 "works" to nic carter's 5.) ☟︎
mp_en_viaje: how does one end up with 9757647 loglines in half a month ? like fuckingthis, 99% of the web is pure vomit.
mp_en_viaje: this is potentially interesting ; goes to check... first matching line in the log is
mp_en_viaje: so, /me notices referrals from something called 7ooo.ru/forums to ye olde http://trilema.com/2015/on-how-the-factored-4096-rsa-keys-story-was-handled-and-what-it-means-to-you/
mp_en_viaje: credible enough, what's radiation to do to magnetics
asciilifeform: 'magnetic ram' also claimed to have serious radiation resistance ( unlike conventional sram ) , but i have not verified . physically sound claim tho.
asciilifeform: principal competition is of course 'ordinary sram + battery'. but batteries gotta be kept fresh, and misbehave at temperature extremes, occupy space, catch fire, etc
asciilifeform: ( last i looked, coupla month ago, their flagship product was a 35nsec nonvolatile ram, 256mbit , guaranteed for ~infinite write cycles )
asciilifeform: ^ in related noose, reportedly 'everspin', the 'magnetic ram' people , is tanking. which on one hand is sad, 'eeprom that dun wear out' is imho neat and moar or less required for sane computer . but on other hand, perhaps usg.patentholder co. gotta die for the thing to become economically viable
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/05/semiconductor-market-headed-towards-downturn-as-more-intel-data-leak-flaws-emerge/ << Qntra -- Semiconductor Market Headed Towards Downturn As More Intel Data Leak Flaws Emerge
mp_en_viaje: well yeah, gotta give hanbot something to suffer throught
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: are you thinking of planting cuntoo ?
asciilifeform: (just like the 'g-series' in 'apu1' etc)
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: thing absolutely is bootable clean. is from prior to the madness.
mp_en_viaje doesn't have so much time to fuck with this right now, but i wanted to get the above out early.
mp_en_viaje: i suspect this will also boot blobless (though probably not in dual vidcard support)
asciilifeform: ( in turn, this was the last combo made where could boot 'blobless' 'coreboot' (aka 'linuxbios') etc )
asciilifeform: there's the famous 'KFN4-D16' asus, afaik the very last to support the very last amd-sans-fritzchip. but that was 'opteron' , rather than 'fx' (and quite rare.)
mp_en_viaje: but right off i dun recall. i think there may be an assus.
mp_en_viaje: this one is a mega-video board. has TWO agp slots and THREE of the mini-power feeder things.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: any idea if these people made a multi-socket board ?
asciilifeform: imho -- significant find, ty mp_en_viaje
asciilifeform: ( the vendors had annoying habit of not routing the pins. why, cannot say )
mp_en_viaje: also a buncha assus boards also support it. but i don't want to have all the boards from same manuf.
asciilifeform: neato -- i.e. there's a 'switch on ecc' in bios ?
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, confirmed to work. the board in question (GA-970A-D3 rev 2.0) supports unbuffered ecc trivially, and everything else with some bios tweaking. this is contrary to the manual, but factual nevertheless.
feedbot: http://thewhet.net/2019/05/%d0%ba%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%b5%d0%bc%d0%b5%d0%b3%d0%b4%d0%b0%d0%bdo%d1%86%d0%be%d1%80%d0%b2%d0%b8%d0%b4/ << The Whet -- o
asciilifeform: supports, imho, mp_en_viaje's thesis where 'tallest wall is in head'
a111: Logged on 2019-05-14 20:00 mp_en_viaje: future-as-a-scam, what. which is why they're orcs in the first place -- they buy this sort of shit.
asciilifeform: briefly upstack to http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-14#1913412 : i find it interesting that the 'vhs' cultural programming is apparently needed, to lubricate the chumpatron. in e.g. 1950s, it was considerably easier to walk out of sovok than '60-70s ( e.g. unguarded border with iran, buncha places ) and for instance in '56 a company of tank men traded their tanks to the hungarians for a map to 'which way is austria', and walked. but ~o ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2014-02-15 20:33 asciilifeform: betcha if you plucked the quasi-mythical Pill Against RSA from its Indiana Jones subterranean vault, perhaps six people alive would understand what they are looking at were it shown to them.
asciilifeform: only worth to the people to whom worth.
asciilifeform: not much in the way of naked docs is worth 'immediately' anything ( as mp_en_viaje often pointed out ), 'no scripts are new'(tm)(r)
mp_en_viaje: nsa malware srcs are worth ~nothing. for one thing, they mostly buy them anyway.
asciilifeform: if find out, plox to post
asciilifeform: ( afaik the 'fx' desktop mobos -- did not )
mp_en_viaje: afaik this one does, but i haven't gotten to it yet.
asciilifeform: oughta include the detail that not all mobo route the ecc pins -- entirely correct
mp_en_viaje: so then, can't say "oh, defective, ddr3". the hole's fine -- if you don't want shit ram don't buy shit ram.
a111: Logged on 2019-05-14 19:08 asciilifeform: i have 5 samples of 'ivory' (incl. the 1 installed in working machine) , still not enuff to throw around without thinking
a111: Logged on 2019-05-14 19:58 mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, if a piece of hardware doesn't work in the manner it's expected to, the common word used to describe the situation is "defective". there's no dispute here : nobody has to buy hardware that works in a way that they do not condone. it is not the ddr slot's fault that such hardware can be had, is it.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-14#1913409 << meant, is ~design~ defect, rather than ~manufacture~ (i.e. you can't get a nonhammerable ddr4 stick by buying 100 samples and filtering) ☝︎
diana_coman: oh boy, this I didn't know but I can't say I'm surprised; because yes, there is no limit to it either.
mp_en_viaje: diana_coman, the most eminent example of this was obese woman who "was doing it for the kids" : ate 5-6-7 servings of shawarma / day "because kid can't eat it has to have her chew it for them". LITERAL "REASON".
a111: Logged on 2019-05-14 19:07 PeterL: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-14#1913285 << heathen exchange rate moved significantly since auction happened, when the auction finished it was pretty close to heathen rate
mp_en_viaje: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-14#1913340 << yeah, moving back to 10k ☝︎
diana_coman: hence my not focusing on this specifically because it's nothing to do with it even
diana_coman: I think the "for the kids" is the usual "parent" cop-out i.e. everything they do is all of a sudden "for the kids" don't you know; the emigration is just one thing, not specific
asciilifeform: and incidentally asciilifeform is not even 'worst case', at least '1 legged'. typical child emigres i meet, are entirely 'legless', many even 'esltarded'
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, quite. the chicklet in question's ~your parents. not exactly, but as a cultural item.
a111: Logged on 2019-05-14 19:00 diana_coman: eh, they will live among emigrated friends of same type, basically re-making the local village, what
mp_en_viaje: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-14#1913319 << yes, first generation. then the kids grow up, and etc. we know how it goes, of course, having been watching it from the other end for lo these many centuries. ☝︎
amberglint: asciilifeform: it was great to talk to you, I'm going back to the logs until next time
mp_en_viaje: future-as-a-scam, what. which is why they're orcs in the first place -- they buy this sort of shit. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2019-05-14 18:50 diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-14#1913262 -> for one thing you'd be surprised what people actually eat without complaint and for the other it's not even the sausages they are moving for; usually it is more about the "comfort" aka the environment that *least* magnifies their own particular problems (in other words that lies best to them).
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, if a piece of hardware doesn't work in the manner it's expected to, the common word used to describe the situation is "defective". there's no dispute here : nobody has to buy hardware that works in a way that they do not condone. it is not the ddr slot's fault that such hardware can be had, is it. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2019-05-14 18:43 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you can't resist to 'pump' the heat gradient, i'd even prefer if you bid on auction yerself and milked 'bicyclist' w/ own steam.
asciilifeform: ( it relies on fact that ddr3+ doesn't actually give the caps enuff time to charge/discharge fully )
mp_en_viaje: nobody forces you to put bad ram in the slots. and as long as the cpu ain't intel...
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i have ddr3 boxen at piz, BUT they're ecctronic.
a111: Logged on 2019-05-14 15:58 asciilifeform: apparently the ant trap still worx...
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: not 'officially' iirc. but the boojum is well-documented, erryone can decide for himself
mp_en_viaje: anyway, did we ALSO cap ram at ddr2 and i missed the memo ?!
mp_en_viaje: lol. it's all about the middle.
asciilifeform: defective!111 there's a clothed one!
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i dislike ddr3 (3, 4, +) for safety-critical applications -- 'rowhammer' . but i have nfi for what mp_en_viaje uses these, then again.
a111: Logged on 2019-05-10 10:44 mp_en_viaje: in other news, i bought a buncha fx amds, 9590s, 9370s, 8370/8350 ; plus their respective a3+ boards, gigabyte, assus, w/e.
a111: Logged on 2019-05-14 15:11 asciilifeform: pretty recent mobo, loox like, tho. (ddr3..)
mp_en_viaje: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-14#1913257 << the http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-10#1912285 items are all dd3. ☝︎☝︎
a111: Logged on 2014-04-22 11:41 mircea_popescu: one of the best examples is a fellow known as varanul, ie dan voiculescu
asciilifeform: ownership changed at least 4 times, and each time was given to a minor-league 'oligarch' who could be relied on to 1) not manufacture 2) not release to public 3) not sell to anyone suspected of manufacturing anything ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-12-18 23:03 asciilifeform: usg used a fleet of bolix boxen for gulf war I logistics, and fuck knows what else, so in some dusty beetleman's desk it is 'coloured' as 'strategic', and so it gets passed from mallery to mallery.
asciilifeform: there's a grain of truth at least in that the bolix docs are held much tighter than, e.g., nsa's malware srcs. quite likely a http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-18#1881634 dynamic is in play, to this day. ☝︎
asciilifeform: evidently this one went to valhalla before he could write much detail.
asciilifeform: somehow i missed this one tho; i thought i had 100% of lisp-flavoured davises catalogued.
amberglint: asciilifeform: seems to be a Terry Davis case
amberglint: I could try to probe the uploader of that video, but chances aren't great
amberglint: it was apparently designed in the west coast part of bolix, which is the graphics division afaik
asciilifeform: 'ivory' + os, on other hand, was extremely polished product (unequaled dev environ, multi-year uptime, etc) , so my interest is specifically there.
asciilifeform: there is not even enough public info to say exactly what it was.
asciilifeform: amberglint: it was mentioned in the shrobe paper iirc
asciilifeform: 10y ago i was at the 'what were the designers thinking' stage. but today -- concrete questions.
amberglint: the one that was supposed to be a RISC thing, Sunstone
amberglint: by the way, there was a bit of info about the last Symbolics CPU in the 2004 AI Memo by Shrobe
asciilifeform: will watch it, just in case, when i have some time. but i dun expect much , from these.