asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: spandrell's 'we should stop and think what makes bold people bold, and what patterns are common to people who can fight back' is reasonable observation ☟︎

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: that they were men is no surprise of any kind. but the detail i recall was that they were men who either had no wife, no sister, in the camp (or knew that these were safely dead)

asciilifeform: does it mention the interesting detail re: the women ?

asciilifeform: destroy the extermination area; and, then help the remaining prisoners escape to the forest. Many were killed during the rebellion, including all the resistance leaders, as the flames and reports of the revolt brought German reinforcements from all directions. But as many as 200 prisoners escaped to the neighboring forest, and perhaps twenty of those men survived German efforts to recapture them.'

asciilifeform: 'At Treblinka, an underground organization plotted an armed rebellion and mass escape. Learning about the Warsaw ghetto revolt from the last transports of Jews brought to Treblinka from Warsaw, the organizers decided the moment for revolt had arrived. On August 2, 1943, the underground fighters put their plan into action: to steal arms from the warehouse; eliminate the German and Ukrainian guards on duty; set the camp on fire;

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: my recollection (ru sources) is that treblinka was the site of one of the very few uprisings on account of the participants in said uprising having already lost their women

asciilifeform: ^ this re: the quoted thread with spandrell

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski ought to write a piece on the uprising at treblinka.

asciilifeform will catch up on dope when he is finally confined to the психушка

asciilifeform is very much out of date on dope trivia

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: 'Sorry, hun, doesn’t work like that. That was the Ambien you took.' << is this the new substitute for lsd ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm just at a serious loss to picture how this wins.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that'd easily fit half a dozen of, e.g., these, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-06-2015#1162727 ☝︎

asciilifeform: and how does it beat the 20-30bux/mo an old pentium3 in data center costs?

asciilifeform: what, again, would you pay actual money to host in such a place ?

asciilifeform: but at no point does it make sense to emplace anything of any value whatsoever in mr. randomschmuck's house.

asciilifeform: but still largely empty, because in bezzleworld 'cheap' is a relative thing.

asciilifeform: they are being filled up with 'dc on the cheap'

asciilifeform: incidentally, just about every american town of any size has a version of this: the hollowed-out fortified walls of the old strowger-switch telco exchanges

asciilifeform: (hell, possibly whole usa is candidate for this)

asciilifeform: desovietization will leave those folks where they belong - with highest tech level available being the hog harness

asciilifeform: places which only even have telephones because usg imposed it

asciilifeform: laying cable to nowhere-duelingbajos-fucktown is not an economically +ev proposition.

asciilifeform: usa is a shit-internet country. this won't change because there is no good reason for it to change

asciilifeform: brings back to a fundamental point from one of mircea_popescu's articles - shuffling things around is not going to increase 'number of turkeys available'

asciilifeform: this is not to be found in a residential unit, and certainly not in usa

asciilifeform: thing is, what you're actually paying for is proximity to respectable pipe

asciilifeform: i have a few boxes like this myself

asciilifeform: fractional rack space with terrible hardware already exists

asciilifeform: (typically they go by full rack)

asciilifeform: this costs money, so find 40 friends to split it with

asciilifeform: what, other than bitcoind, would you even consider putting on such a thing

asciilifeform: as it is, there is a lower bound for what is worth bothering with at all.

asciilifeform: if the past 40 years of computer retardation hadn't happened, and we used a stack with support for seamless process migration, 'voting circuit' computation, etc. it would be practical to use '1024 chickens' arrays of arbitrarily garbage hardware

asciilifeform: i'm told there are equivalents for other american carriers

asciilifeform: vendor very much did not like (2) and they closed the hole which made reflashing the rom trivial. now you have to actually open the plastic box, oh noez.

asciilifeform: as result, the only folks who bought were 1) chumps 2) people who wanted to make own 'stingray'

asciilifeform: btw, my local telco quasimonopoly - 'verizon' - had a hilarious tamer version of this for some years, where you pay a few hundy for a box that opens a vpn to their end and gives you cell signal in your house, via your own net pipe. and they had the audacity to still charge for the 'minutes' and per MB of data.

asciilifeform: or your kitchen, as a place for bums to cook roadkill in

asciilifeform: this has all the appeal of renting out the toilet in your house as a public latrine

asciilifeform: but five metres of cement - or 500m of salt water - that would be something.

asciilifeform: snorefest because this has literally no serious advantage over normal hosting

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: schmucks in, iirc, germany, doing this already. see logs

asciilifeform: (machine includes vibration, ph, sensors, clinometer, magnetometer, etc. if readings deviate from 'pylon is happily alone in the earth' memory gets zeroed and walked over, continuously)

asciilifeform: see the literature.

asciilifeform: (it is possible to break up cement, but not without anyone noticing. this is the basic principle for the nuke test-ban compliance gadget used on both sides of the ocean) ☟︎

asciilifeform: whole point would be the physical security of a few metres of cement

asciilifeform: if box is easily accessible, 'skin not worth the tanning'

asciilifeform: (not because valuable, but because copper scavengers need to be publicly flayed rather than encouraged) ☟︎