asciilifeform: ( recently it came out, incidentally, that many nato reich 'universities' can no longer afford to feed the paywalls they themselves throw crapola behind )
asciilifeform: his 'terminal', running with the analogy, is a winblowz shell. no grep.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: didja turn up somebody claiming to do it ?
asciilifeform: (i.e. they're blue-usg, live on 'oh we are so censored'-by-redusg , more so than on bread )
asciilifeform: re shithub-hosted 'dox' -- asciilifeform suspects that it is same dynamic as the oh-so-'oppressed' sov poet types who sent their megaworx straight to союз писателей , to be reliably oh-so-censored , rather than samizdat, for the obvious reason
asciilifeform: 'The honours were created in 1917 by King George V during the First World War as a way of rewarding civilians and servicemen in support positions for their contribution to the war effort. Now they are used to recognise an achievement or service to the community in any area, such as the arts, charity or education. According to the Cabinet Office, an MBE is given for an "outstanding achievement or service to the community.'
asciilifeform: the Pantsuit Iron Cross, or sumthing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i procured, for this reason, identical raid cards for all
asciilifeform: or do i misunderstand 'kernel now dunwork'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if disk failure is the concern
asciilifeform: ( or off-site, via net, like errybody )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can backup to the larger box, neh
asciilifeform: mod6, mircea_popescu : it was my understanding that mircea_popescu & diana_coman wanted a test bed, and will eventually swap back to orig s.mg box; so not clear if the spare needs a full adult raid
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's pet is working through learning ru, and periodically succumbs to temptation of google translate as 'learning tool', with predictably lulzy result☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: google translator is pretty much same 1970s lultron as produced 'the vodka is tasty but the meat -- rotten' from 'spirit is willing but flesh is weak', famously
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: translates ok, as i currently see it , even to jp ( but asciilifeform would not yet undertake such a thing )
asciilifeform: spyked: were you able to get hold of the french d00d's 'lisp in small pieces' ?
asciilifeform: iirc asciilifeform described exactly how to cure pointerolade in adascheme ( use array of cells, and ordinary ranged integer for addressing )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: elisp is a roughly microshit-quality product.
asciilifeform recently had lengthy emacs convo with asciilifeform's brother, greybeard incurable emacsist , re 'yes we will ditch the autoinstallable packets' . initially horrified, then it dawned on him
asciilifeform: the pov where 'line of coad is asset!11' inescapably leads to this.
asciilifeform: ( tbf, not limited to open sores, e.g. microshit world is just such a katamari )
asciilifeform: with the 1 twist that in the nintendo game at least sometimes objects come loose and fall from the ball
asciilifeform: 'foss' 'development' follows the pattern illustrated in the old jp game 'katamari damacy' , where ball rolls around and picks up rusty nails, rubbish, people, dogs, trees, candy bars, etc
asciilifeform: modules make sense to have on a box where you're developing custom iron, and driver is fiddled with actively, and that's about it
asciilifeform: and overall trinque's approach to kernels is The Right Thing (i.e. nail down the iron, and switch off modules)
asciilifeform: trinque: really, i can't think of any genuine reason to keep initramfs; if box needs e.g. raid card driver, it oughta be compiled in kernel
asciilifeform: the one where 'what would you have in your house, if all you had to do is think of it'
asciilifeform: trinque: luckily asciilifeform already baked kernel config for the type of machine diana_coman has ( tho it potentially can be further trimmed )
asciilifeform: ipadism really replacement for televism, rather than anything else.
asciilifeform: i've yet to meet in the flesh a zek who actually thinks he's touched real money.
