asciilifeform: 'A man killed by a train in The Dalles in mid-August had a Youtube following and was a “minor celebrity” in the computer world for doing the Herculean task of writing his own operating system, a fan said...'
asciilifeform: idjit peasant cannot invent devils that 'can only see through microscope', he has never laid hands on microscope. so they will inevitably be devils that you 'can see' by rubbing chicken shit in yer eyes.
asciilifeform: see also the 'elders of zion' mega-bestseller.
asciilifeform: i'm not even convinced that billing's 'britain run by fags' thing were untrue. but the part where it is 'from german wreckers' is pretty rich
asciilifeform: loox like a moar erudite ver of the pizza folx, yes
asciilifeform: 'In Lesbian ecstasy the most sacred secrets of the state were threatened' << lol!!
asciilifeform: paulgraham -- before turning into the infamous huckster -- had a piece where 'which biznis should you get into if you LUVV gardening?' '...recovering data from damaged hard disks!'☟︎
asciilifeform: orwell was ~nearly~ cured, but german sniper aimed a bit low
asciilifeform: ( then again , spain did not cure orwell )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i find it interesting that ww1 didn't cure him
asciilifeform: i suspect you can get moar 'big break' selling wine to winos, than the written word, in whatever form
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hah, pretty interesting : the dram turds differ by... 3 bytes☟︎
asciilifeform: sometimes ~entirely identical -- i recall reading of one physics d00d who was convinced that he will 'get rich' in nyc, selling... poetry
asciilifeform: interestingly, the dram init turd differs from the stock rk3399. and doesn't seem to be published in their repo. i'd like to try ripping theirs, but so far not even able to determine where it ends and their booter begins
asciilifeform: it's a ~completely diff codebase from stock uboot
asciilifeform: been digging through it all summer, on an' off
asciilifeform: initially i assumed that stock rk3399 uboot will do ~something~ detectable, even tho it lacks support for the lcd or the oddball kbd chip, given as i have uart
asciilifeform: all i really need from the bootrom is to do what uboot on pogo did, i.e. see the disks ( internal ssd, usb, sd ) , read some classic partitions ( e.g. ext3 ), load kernels ( in human, not google, format ) and present pogo-style uboot cmdline for these.
asciilifeform: some of which aint in the demo rk3399
asciilifeform: it isn't so much a 'clever' but that there's a whole pile of iron drivers
asciilifeform: one possible path could be to start with google's crapola 'depthcharge' booter src, but it won't build (tried) with standard tooling, and currently i haven't a box where to put their horror show☟︎
asciilifeform: writing the rom per se takes ~15min, with the snake.
asciilifeform: uboot on c101pa promises to be a long and painful dig.
asciilifeform: the reason for this, i do not know, could be the gcc6 idjicy (my uboot , once i nixed the check for gcc6, builds without eggogs, but who's to say re output), or could be wrong magic turd, or who the fuck knows
asciilifeform: in other noose, not only reading but writing the c101pa's boot rom worx. however, a build of rk3399 demo uboot does ~not~ bring up anyffing that produces debug uart output.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: at your earliest chance plz pull mod6's stick from dulap, re-emplace into his unit, and power up
asciilifeform: mod6: i enabled root login on the thing with temporary pw, lessee if it comes up
asciilifeform: mod6: i tested you rk drive blockwise: it has no physical defects
asciilifeform: 'eat stone soup, contributing the stone' or how did mircea_popescu formulate it.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what i dun get , is what all of these folx are hoping to find here. outside of the flies model, i got nuffin.☟︎
asciilifeform: prolly is all there is to be said on subj.
asciilifeform: ( hey pests! perhaps some of you can read ? guess wat, 'delish food smell' + 'inexplicably none of my kind in there' means 5000 volts! )
asciilifeform: notably, larger pests, e.g. racooons, seem to be smarter, they've mostly stopped showing up.
asciilifeform: it is simply how flies are, they move ~randomly
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: my house dun have an airlock, so sometimes flies go in. they neither know or care that the only thing waiting for flies inside is 5000 volts.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm willing to talk to 'hey i read ffa and in ch4 you missed this-here obvious optimization, here's proof'. but 'hi i am reddit, hear me roar' can go the fuck perma-away.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in rf amps , also, if antenna mis-impedance'd (and 'run without antenna' is merely special case of same) energy reflected back into amp and it, likewise, smoulders, soon begins to exhale its magic smoke
asciilifeform: evidently not errybody noticed mircea_popescu's new subjline for #t.☟︎
asciilifeform: hey, street punks with ak's, caterpillars that bind cholinesterase on contact, zika, what's not to like!111
asciilifeform: asciilifeform is specifically curious, re why brazil, afaik the 1 serious country in the whole landmass, is also half dour shithole ( asciilifeform's extended wot includes at least 1 d00d who went to brazil for physics conf and came back as 'cargo 200' , so i suspect the reputation aint entirely mythical )
