asciilifeform: given an account on a linux box, e.g. asciilifeform ( who is not in particularly top shape re subj ) can get root, in a few days or few wks (max) of sweat
asciilifeform spent week in the company of BingoBoingo , and confirms that the most serious problem currently is morale , d00d needs some light in his pillbox
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i also have open problems that you could probably help with. for instance, i am in search of a http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-17#1814828 , and of 32 ( or at worst , 2 x 16 ) port GB/s ~bare pcb~ ethernet switches that don't come with 'minumal order 1000' chinesium insult☝︎
asciilifeform: really i advise ben_vulpes to get that chalkboard. quite srsly, i do not say this to make ben_vulpes cry, but because it is genuinely a win
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: recall, lobbes offered to work sales on commission
asciilifeform: at least initially , until population settles in
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo will , i suspect , have all 8 hands full when the full-scale rockchiptron is brought online and tentants come/go regularly
asciilifeform: all 'otp roms' sold today are actually eproms with the write leg tied to ground.
asciilifeform: not for love or money can you get'em, other than laughably tiny old-stock things (1kB and below)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wasn't even thinking of asking for true antifuse sd card , considering that antifuse roms have been unavailable since early 1990s ( see prev thread re subj )
asciilifeform: but not brought out, apparently ever, Because Reasons (tm)(r)
asciilifeform: inside there is a commercial flash ic. it has a WR leg.
asciilifeform: i was speaking of the ~back~ end of the thing. not front.
asciilifeform: ave1: even if by all appearances it's a truly perma-settable bit, i'd still muchly prefer a card where i can actually toggle the WR leg of the eeprom
asciilifeform: i distinctly recall reading of a means to reset said flag. unfortunately, cannot now find, grrr
asciilifeform: i know, for a fact, that the software-settable flag, is software-clearable.
asciilifeform: ave1: is the meaning of 'true hardware write protect' unclear ?!!
asciilifeform: 'idjit gringos come here, to be eaten'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i suspect that english material is a leper's bell
asciilifeform: possibly the 2 are connected -- no serious commerce, ergo no specialists
asciilifeform: ( with parts, the fact that they have to arrive in the country with either 300% tax , or in submarine, or up an arse, at least partly explains. but why there are ~no sane accounting folx , remains puzzler )
asciilifeform: iirc BingoBoingo found what looked like one, turned out to be expensive nuisance
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: at the very least, need a 680mm ( or at worst, 650mm ) 2u ( most economical bang/buck variant ) chassis with NO welded-in internal partitions☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6 : currently occupied with component search for rockchiptron
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: my item should be regarded as spare/auxiliary , nobody should hold breath for it
asciilifeform: fwiw plenty of ru folx doing biznis in cn
asciilifeform: it doesn't seem to be even in outer reaches of l3
asciilifeform has wondered for long time, why china is so (apparently) impenetrable
asciilifeform: at any rate, if anyone has something like a clue that these items exist, and not merely advertised for vapour-sale by chinese hucksters, asciilifeform would like to hear about it.
asciilifeform: it isn't a 'consumable' as such; doesn't wear out on read, and lasts for as long as the machine it is installed into
asciilifeform recalls (but can't seem to unearth) at least 1 thread where we discussed the increasing rarity of otp roms, on acct of 'upgradeism' and progressing software rot
asciilifeform: rrright, but an otp rom is not reusable, unlike most surplusolade
asciilifeform: afaik they are used in heavy industrial equipment strictly. ( but yes, someone, somewhere, buys; just not for retail , it is an item of 0 conceivable use to konsoomer )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't clear to me how such a problem gets solved without ~someone, somewhere~ buying at least 1 whole container. but i am not expert in subj.
asciilifeform: ( and, lulzily, classical sd card ~does not support write protect~, it has the same usg.nonsensical 'software read writeprotect tab' as old floppies )☟︎
asciilifeform: right but if i can find the item. thus far it only seems to be offered in china and in container-sized min order.
asciilifeform: ideally these things will boot from readonly cards, and the usb can be brought out to jacks in front panel. so box dun have to be pulled and opened when repopulating .
asciilifeform: ( one gnarly headache with the rockchip board, is that it can ~only~ boot from microsd, and there is no way to keep tentant from overwriting it. so it gotta be painfully pulled, reimaged, when box is repopulated )
asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform found that otp microsd cards exist!! should substantially lower the labour cost of maintaining rockchip cluster. IF i can actually find a vendor !☟︎
asciilifeform: pretty sure that all the actually intelligent folx who sank on that titanic, are dead nao
asciilifeform: ( iirc this was laid out in pedantic detail in the log )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: rms hating noftsker has 0 to do with the death of bolix, but with the ~birth~
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is known to have contributed to the bolixocalypse -- famously they built an entire factory -- based on faulty logic ; it hastened the bankruptcy
asciilifeform: i suspect that soon they will vanish'em
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: seems like it might be high time to walk it for pgp keys, for refresh, if it is not already too late
asciilifeform never was able to bring himself to make acct on 'keybase' even for entomological work
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has a point tho, we should not be stuck sitting and guessing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: oh hah i assumed he wanted the 'cedula' scan for the same purpose BingoBoingo sent me his old americedula scan ( so as to send crates his way )
asciilifeform: fact of the matter is that shared unix tenant can create problems for the others ( without necessarily revealing himself as the source of said problem ) quite trivially . ( vps is moar 'nobus' in this respect, generally the 'escapes' are not public )☟︎
asciilifeform: ( replaced with 'i can't believe it's not server' vpsolade )
asciilifeform: sorta why it went ~extinct in heathendom
asciilifeform: the only serious weakness of shared-unix is what happens when you start populating it with randos, rather than the l1/tight-l2 currently living there☟︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-17#1814661 << per ben_vulpes's published numberz, mircea_popescu is elementarily correct -- even if we do an astoundingly princely rockchiptron buildout, will still have a good half yr of runway ( at present exch rate ) remaining ( but , more importantly , something to sell ! right nao we've nuffin to sell aside from the shared unix and the 1 remaining rc )☝︎
asciilifeform: ( ^ this permits decoupling of the front- and back- ends, theoretically 'anyone' can offer a valid factor for a particular modulus, and the db will Do The Right Thing . but currently only used in-house )
asciilifeform: ( the other change, is not interesting to anyone but asciilifeform , but i will put it on the record : the thing has a 'json' api nao )
