asciilifeform: nope

asciilifeform: just . don't. fucking. swap. to. them. and don't winblowz/crapple/whatever shituntus insist on constantly massaging the drive for no reason.

asciilifeform: 24/7

asciilifeform: ckang: i have nfi what you've been buying; over here i have boxen that've been running off usb drives for 4+ yrs

asciilifeform: i will not be buying any fauxraids. or dells.

asciilifeform: with red hot arse poker.

asciilifeform: and FUCK 'most are going'

asciilifeform: because fauxraid and again idiot buyers

asciilifeform: and fail at same moment

asciilifeform: in raid1

asciilifeform: ckang: idiocy; they will wear at same rate

asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform never enables swap at all, period. it is an anachronism. )

asciilifeform: *built

asciilifeform: and observe that the pizarro rockboxen are build without swapism.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-21#1804273 << nope. you're invited to buy the same drive and test. fwiw, and unlike cheaper ones, it has wear leveling. ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: right, not unless it is monetizable somehow. and afaik it aint

asciilifeform: it's a poverty artifact

asciilifeform: a trabantoid is not 'investment' tho, anymoar than pair of wooden shoes

asciilifeform: and not 1 or 2 either

asciilifeform: funnily enuff, those were on the road in timis

asciilifeform: 'spend bil to make mil'

asciilifeform: frg scrapyard'

asciilifeform: 'worth at.

asciilifeform: i have nfi what this is used for, i still labour under impression that spam is -ev and a cargo cult

asciilifeform: but listing it as a physical possibility.

asciilifeform: i have nfi whether worth anything.

asciilifeform: old noose, too.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: diff power anal.

asciilifeform: 128b iirc

asciilifeform: ( details on www, not seekrit )

asciilifeform: buncha randomola, which it hashes on demand with challenge string

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: hides a privkey

asciilifeform: predates rfidism

asciilifeform: nah, contactful chip

asciilifeform: for instance, sim card is supposed to resist 'reading', has elaborate fritzology. but usually quite susceptible to elementary diddle ( dpa mainly )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's multiple lulz layers in this subj :

asciilifeform: right nao 'sms auth' is typically enuff problem for typical orc

asciilifeform: i expect they'll want arseprints or sumthing, next

asciilifeform: is what i was thinking

asciilifeform: this is doable

asciilifeform: )

asciilifeform: ( also fakes base station.

asciilifeform: the simulated gsm thing for 'hackrf' universal radiotron

asciilifeform: exists

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: correct. tho it is possible in principle to locate the sim elsewhere

asciilifeform: and no it is not distinguishable on telco end or dialee end from a pnoje.

asciilifeform: gadget in question is ~= to the 'business end' of typical pnoje, 'baseband'. little bugger that takes a sim, and exposes a usb socket, from which one can dial, pickup/hangup, and pump pcm voice in/out. is all.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: possibly i oughta elaborate

asciilifeform: BingoBoingostan appears to have cheap sims also

asciilifeform: you get pcm in/out, and dtmf encode,decode also

asciilifeform: and operate as 'phone'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, they take standard voice sims

asciilifeform: i wrote a linux thingie that drives'em

asciilifeform: not broadband sort. 100% voice.

asciilifeform: the sunday flea market, of all places, had ~infinite supply of that very particular huawei gsm modem that is used for this.

asciilifeform: ( iirc mircea_popescu at least once had an experiment that needed numerous sms receivers. could set this up in iron nao, in principle. )

asciilifeform: btw i found that the dc, contrary to expectation, has ok radio reception. which means that we could make gsm modem bank etc

asciilifeform: theoretically should make for princely mpwp etc, also.

asciilifeform: try some torture tests ( serve up warez etc )

asciilifeform: how's the box ?

asciilifeform: mod6: got your login ?

asciilifeform currently can't think of any use for such a thing

asciilifeform: btw can mircea_popescu et al think of a good reason to set up a public fg fountain? ( given how it is easy to do nao )

asciilifeform: ( iirc mircea_popescu one time tried getting heathen hosters to install fg, and found none who would attempt it )

asciilifeform: the other thing we do, is custom iron; currently typified by ' x + n x FG' . but can be whatever customer likes, potentially.

asciilifeform: ( entirely mechanical job )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, was the easy pit

asciilifeform: ( so far only 2 takers, so i'ma hold off on building the supergiant farm of these )

asciilifeform: lessee if demand for these

asciilifeform: the 1 possible exception is oddball 22nm and smaller chinesium, rockbox, allwinner, etc

asciilifeform: moar recent boxen simply carry moar fritz in'em...

asciilifeform: rly there is precious little point buying iron ( other than disposables like ssd ) made after death of moor's law

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: ( with exception of ssd naturally )

asciilifeform: i'll add that ~all the gear we installed, is of roughly similar vintage.

asciilifeform: ditto ram

asciilifeform: in theory yes. in practice i have yet to see certain items age detectably. my cockpit cpus for instance, will soon score 10yr of uptime

asciilifeform: or didja mean that it will rot from overload, or disorganization, or etc

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's spares for all the iron

asciilifeform: both $item and -$item , lulzy reads

asciilifeform: with convincing filament etc

asciilifeform: speaking of these, in BingoBoingostan i saw for 1st time in public ( tho i knew of their existence) those oddball diode bulbs made to look ~exactly like edisonian ones

asciilifeform: ( what do you call in eng , the iron part of grenade ? )

asciilifeform: just hisses, pops, breaks the 'turtle'

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: this actually happens, if live fuse but no filling

asciilifeform: f--, instead of 5s fuse had 2s, face fulla frag, chinesium , wouldnotbuyagain!!1

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-20#1804102 << wassat ☝︎

asciilifeform: or even rockchip

asciilifeform bbl

asciilifeform: !~later tell BingoBoingo http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/Ka6ZE/?raw=true

asciilifeform can't be arsed to boot up box with sound card for this rubbish

asciilifeform: i asked for this ??

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-20#1804073 << wassat ?? ☝︎

asciilifeform bbl in a bit

asciilifeform: trinque got a more barbaric emplacement, he has no slack space in his chassis, his ended up in the pci slots

asciilifeform: smg got same type

asciilifeform: ^ dulap-III fg emplacement

asciilifeform: >> http://www.loper-os.org/pub/fg_typical.jpg << last ( for nao, i'ma bbl ) but not least

asciilifeform: dulap II rather