asciilifeform: spyked: i found 1st gen raspi (entirely aside the q of closed shitware) to be ~unusable -- it shared a usb bus between nic (already slow) and disk
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu : i learned today, that even shitazon ~will~ ship to BingoBoingoistan, BUT demands about 1 $ to every $ of item ordered , in 'import duty prepay'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: s/meet/meat/g in footnote ii in yer latest article
asciilifeform: ( also comes with audio and video but i do not need these and have not tried'em )
asciilifeform: the other interesting pheature of this board is that it has no onboard flash. so nothing to sanitize aside from sdcard.
asciilifeform: chipset is a 'rockchip', i ported trb to it in 2015 iirc.
asciilifeform: and (unlike e.g. 'raspberry') the full datashits and schems are published.
asciilifeform: the interesting bit is that these boxen draw ~2 - 5 watt. and are of the physical dimensions of a pack of cards.
asciilifeform: then will simply clone the gentoo for each new user ( or he can transmit a SD image , signed , and BingoBoingo will pump it in, plug in a board, and up an' running )
asciilifeform: first things first, gotta terraform it.
asciilifeform: faster, in principle, even than zoolag
asciilifeform: hdd is a highspeed SD card , and can be of any size ; there is also a usb3 jack, 480MB/s; and a 1G/s nic.
asciilifeform: the unit i am testing ( will buy a few moar once i'm satisfied that it is usable ) came with 2G. there is a 4G supposedly also in production, but i was not able to obtain it
asciilifeform: chinese thing, they publish schematic , even.
asciilifeform: ROC-RK3328-CC ( currently building a kernel for it, without the 'evil' periphs )☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: the arm gentoo i am cooking up as we speak.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if all he needs is standard unix userland, no reason he couldn't arm.☟︎
asciilifeform: hey maybe he will be the test patient for the new arm boxen.
asciilifeform: y'know it's still 'read' if you put it through meatgrinder☟︎
asciilifeform: ... but in this case, wasn't mine. and, interestingly, apparently not trinque either
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's observation was that every idjit crapartist probing an asciilifeform-tended box , ever, without exception thought 'ooh, my wget ran' when asciilifeform reads log , and then , on specially-designated box, manually probes back & grabs payload
asciilifeform: nobody seems to know who or what ran the wget
asciilifeform: hey BingoBoingo , possibly i already asked this a while back and then lost -- but plox to gpg me a postage addr where you can get mail. i want to try experiment.
asciilifeform: shinohai: ben_vulpes made the reason for his neg quite unmysterious, imho
asciilifeform: tho the moar likely explanation is that trinque read the machine log, and, laughing, went to look at what was in yer intended payload url
asciilifeform: douchebag: ok, so carry on, put up a goatse on deedbot.org or whatever you normally do
asciilifeform inevitably recalls the parable with the drunkard, who searched for the lost coin 'where the light is', rather than where he had dropped it
asciilifeform: this is why work with 'web applications before' is catastrophically terrible for yer health, douchebag . it is like building a wrestling career against kindergarteners.
asciilifeform: the folx who Never Suspected minus sign exists -- live elsewhere
asciilifeform: fwiw my format will actually eat bins without problem. ( you would still need a tool to 'human-display' them. and a differ other than unix diff. but the 'crystal' format holds arbitrary bytes, noprob )
asciilifeform: phf: this is curable by not using unix diff. the only lines ~produced~ by dir2txt ab initio are the decorative ones and the 1234 @ filepath . all other bytes are copies as-they-are and line-agnostically.
asciilifeform: aha, asking for 'different solution' would be rather like asking for 'different pythagor's theorem'
