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BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel_p> asciilifeform: if only I had amphetamines I'd have a place to sleep... << You know... There's GIRLS at NA meetings
a111: Logged on 2017-03-24 02:54 gabriel_laddel_p: tbh I would have thought phf would have seen the masamune video & flown out here to get his free install the next day, but apparently the rest of you are less excited about this than I am
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: did it work ?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: do you recall the death ray thread ?
deedbot: gabriel_laddel_p voiced for 30 minutes.
asciilifeform: !!up gabriel_laddel_p
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ianal, but iirc it is postulated by statute
asciilifeform: lol just when i thought mircea_popescu had linked to every possible type of tmblr
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: ~all dope turns, 'magically', into 100% purity, when busted in usa. it is a peculiarity of the prosecutorial system, moar pure --> moar sentence
gabriel_laddel_p: mircea_popescu: I don't like the regular stuff (adderall).
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p when was the last time you had a full night's sleep ? or a proper meal ?
trinque: gabriel_laddel_p: perhaps read the email when I bother to write you back
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: this type of life has worked for programmers (e.g., rms, though he did eventually turn into a human mushroom, and i do not think it was pure chance)
trinque: gabriel_laddel_p: I proposed something to you, did I not?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: do you have a place to live yet ?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: get a copy of, e.g., hennessey & patterson. and read.
trinque: gabriel_laddel_p: what happened to that www archiver you talked about for a minute?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: he's fabless
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: greenarrays is neato. do you have one ?
gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform: I'm thinking of the document ben_vulpes dropped in the logs, which iirc runs on the greenarrays chip.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: if you're thinking of nic-on-xilinx, every single one (with the exception of the 10BaseT half-duplex that's floated around since 1990s) relies on a xilinx-proprietary fabric turd
trinque: mircea_popescu: downtown's great, welcomed me back last night with watching somebody drive wrong way up a one way road on the sidewalk to get to the burger joint I was at
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: what means 'less braindamaged'
asciilifeform: what, approximately, do you have in mind, gabriel_laddel_p ?
gabriel_laddel_p: Now that the "UX" is in some sense complete, I'm studying so the hardware can be swapped out from under it, exactly in the manner described by mircea_popescu earlier today.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: do tell
deedbot: gabriel_laddel_p voiced for 30 minutes.
asciilifeform: !!up gabriel_laddel_p
asciilifeform: ( https://wikileaks.org/vault7/darkmatter/document/FDOS_1_0_FINAL_B57udiag/ )
asciilifeform: understand, i very much wish to live to see mircea_popescu's prediction come alive
asciilifeform: dun become tru simply by mircea_popescu saying it.
asciilifeform: how does mircea_popescu go about collecting ?
asciilifeform: ( maybe mircea_popescu was thinking of sega's 'saturn' ? )
asciilifeform: unrelatedly, asciilifeform has been greatly enjoying a truly hilarious biography of kim il-sung : http://militera.lib.ru/bio/balkansky_a01/index.html
asciilifeform: ( twist: 'fyootoor tech', mircea_popescu will reveal, is gurls with abacus )
asciilifeform: and -- for completeness -- Fyootoor Tech that mircea_popescu knows about, and asciilifeform -- does not.
asciilifeform: the gabriel_laddel approach -- 'oh hey i'll just pave over the swamp, nothing will ever fall through the pavement' -- also does not work, and is quite destructive to the sanity of folks who attempt it
asciilifeform: 'is mircea_popescu referring to some concrete approach, or just a generic prof.brin-style 'THINK!YOUMAGGOTS''
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 16:41 mircea_popescu: there's many possible approaches to this ford we're not at yet.
asciilifeform: btw mircea_popescu baking a pc-style mobo is not expensive, our existing pcb people could quite readily do it. the problem is 'out of what'. the necessary docs are not available, never leaked, nor the firmware signing keys (still not phuctored!1111 damn)
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: If I Were A Rich Man Lyrics - Fiddler on the Roof - Soundtrack Lyrics: <https://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/bestofbroadway-americanmusical/ifiwerearichman.htm>; If I Were a Rich Man Lyrics - Fiddler on the Roof Cast - Soundtrack ...: <https://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/fiddlerontheroof/ifiwerearichman.htm>; If I Were a Rich Man (song) - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Were_a_R
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 00:45 mircea_popescu: it is much worse to have a town of 1000 populated by 500 idiots with idiots' tastes and 20 bucks to spend each
a111: Logged on 2017-03-20 20:46 mircea_popescu: in other lulz, the state of casual gaming is completely fucked up. so other than utter throwaways, stuff that looks like someone's undegrad project, the ~entire market of ipad-likes (stuff that works in the browser, or else via a "light" client for windows/mac, or else as a ipad/android etc app) is wholly like this :
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: like bolix!111
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: laugh, but it's the ONE interface that's ~actually~ standard
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope. the existing chips all rely on the various craptree buses.
trinque: mircea_popescu: aha, and in my head there was this ACPI table you could ask the BIOS for or w/e
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this already happened in heathendom, long ago, was called 'microkernel' heresy
asciilifeform: 'Exploiting the flaw in the vulnerable module n_hdlc does not require Microgate or SyncLink hardware. The module is automatically loaded if an unprivileged user opens a pseudoterminal and calls TIOCSETD ioctl for it setting N_HDLC line discipline.'
asciilifeform: in other recent lulz , https://archive.is/xXW9T >> '...race condition in the n_hdlc Linux kernel driver (drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c). It can be exploited to gain a local privilege escalation. ... This driver provides HDLC serial line discipline and comes as a kernel module in many Linux distributions, which have CONFIG_N_HDLC=m in the kernel config. ...introduced on 22 June 2009'
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: 'Every service is in a dedicated VM container' << i'm not clear on difference between vm and vps, but i have at least one trb box on vm it seems.
pete_dushenski: EXCEPTION: St9bad_alloc \nstd::bad_alloc \nbitcoin in ProcessMessage() \n
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 04:46 pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-22#1631221 << define 'possible'. >x connections ? doesn't crash ? because i've been running trb on vps since it came out and have no particular complaints other than semi-regular st9 errors.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-23#1631587 << wait pete_dushenski , what error ☝︎
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: that's a point eh.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: moar analogous to ac current. which very nearly went to same place as symbolics.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski that dun sound like a vps. sounds like a proc spec ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not apart from the amex fraud sensor thing, afaik.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: also 4gb ram and 1tb raid that processes tx way the hell faster than dulap on mech hdd
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is difficult to compress decade of archaeology into 1 persuasive paragraph. esp. to persuade a fella who in his panglossism has determined not to be persuadable.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski holy shit it didn't freeze ?!
a111: Logged on 2017-03-22 23:34 mircea_popescu: tbh i have nfi how you could run trb in a vps. i don't think it's possible, not really. would be certainly quite the medal of merit on any software that can handle such.
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu is in the position where he spent many years applying serious, scientific methods to the problem of knowledge classification.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is in the position of the greeks who pissed on heron's turbine.
asciilifeform: well i can't very well by force of magic will, teleport mircea_popescu into a pre-airbrake train so he can feel he diff on own skin.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski works.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the basic tech of internal combustion -- was not lost.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: girl (rather cute, i might add) said she just wants to lurk to start. read logs etc. i've pointed her towards registering her key with deedbot and said she can ask q's via pm or pgpgram. we'll see what comes of the endeavour i guess.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: arguably, in the sense where sikorsky's chopper is interesting, while davinci's -- much less .
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski so why so quiet ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is free to be as 'unpersuaded' as he wants. fact: his machine -- can overrun an array; bolix -- could not; his box -- crashes, cannot be examined or uncrashed (yes) -- bolix -- could; and various other aspects, well covered in teh logz. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-03-22 20:47 ben_vulpes: !!up eo
asciilifeform: hey somebody gotta fall on the grenade, mircea_popescu .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tru
asciilifeform: can haz few mm^2 of die space, mircea_popescu ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mircea_popescu already has.
asciilifeform: what's to keep mircea_popescu from building one in his cellar ( supposing he felt like it )
asciilifeform: i thought mircea_popescu was of the notion that you don't need economy of mass to do si fab.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tru! but won't be pin-compatible with traditional roms
asciilifeform: but nope. it went the way of mircea_popescu's top hat.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: on examination it turns out the box is a 'wallstreet'
a111: Logged on 2016-03-20 13:54 mircea_popescu: phf> ok, not sure if anybody tried yet, but asciilifeform's gentoo chicken works as prescribed << it does, yes, and it IS a very good and useful thing. almost makes me feel bad when mocking linuxen.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-11 18:45 asciilifeform: phf: http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/4_1_15_stas.txt
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc/powerbook << not listed.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i don't even see any mention of g3 lappy on the vendor's www
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: not that particular one, no.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: have you tried https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_Legacy_Pro with the lombard ? 'ide/ata design'
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: yea, them
asciilifeform: btw maybe pete_dushenski can tell me the seekrit of how to get 'lombard' to eat an ssd. ☟︎
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: lolwhy
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, pete_dushenski , trinque , et al : here's a top from asciilifeform's house of horrors : don't bother selective-booting the things. just yank the drive and put what you want on it ~directly~, then put back.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: what kind of box was this
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: i've spent the last couple evenings since ppc thread re-emerged trying to run openbsd 6 on macppc. can't get the bloody machine to recognise cdrom OR usb. open firmware, boot screen, etc nada zilch zip.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-22 20:54 ben_vulpes: "has nick joined and parted within the past week without saying anything after receiving voice?"
a111: Logged on 2017-03-22 20:52 phf: ben_vulpes: i was thinking of wiring in an auto-upper for never seen accounts, but given the quality of ups.. i do wonder, if were to up them "faster" maybe they'll talk better
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> in entirely others topics, gentoo quest ppc edition has stumbled on step boot-from-usb << entirely typical of my experience of this wonder.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: iirc we had this thread
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it wasn't the quad ?
asciilifeform: http://s3.postimg.org/qonfcus43/G5_Dual_LCU.jpg << subj.