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mircea_popescu: so it's not ACTUALLY a big deal in any sense. you're not supposed
to run experiments in production.
punkman: where is
the open source shame list
mircea_popescu: what's left is essentially, "IP holders, and companies aspiring
to be one day bought by ip holders"
mircea_popescu: considering another 2 in 5 exist on paper only, as some sort of scheme defrauding
the public
treasury,
mircea_popescu: "1 in 5 pieces of software in
the US are unlicensed. Be part of
the solution." holy shit,
that bad ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not a problem of
technology asa much as ideology, you realise. currently, if you ask consumer why X item exists, it's because "that's what
the factory makes". "and it has
to be sold^H^H^H^H marketed
to me". as opposed
to, you know, because
this is what I WANT.
mircea_popescu: in
this sense your senator's also your representative.
mircea_popescu: the
traditional paradigm was artesanal - objects exists because someone willed
them into existence.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the industrial paradigm is not any one particular
thing, but
the idea
that
the production of material artefacts is
the result of a process not of a will.
ben_vulpes: now, i beg pardon for my ignorance, but could not
this model be adapted
to
the cd rw?
ben_vulpes: as
the chains moved
through
the boxes,
the boxes flipped bits on each link
ben_vulpes: i recall a story from a stephenson book, about a machine
that computed with chains run
through computing boxes
mircea_popescu: <assbot> 0 results for 'resistor dac' << you know
this came
to 0 because you had
to ruin steming ? hm ?
mircea_popescu: well here's
the
thing :
there's no way
to expunge part of it.
mircea_popescu: in any case, strategically speaking, it will be a lot easier, cheaper and blood-economical
to unseat
the fiat atrocity supporting
the welfare state by destroying
the "industrial" paradigm.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the item in question, as kako points out, is still
the shit. not because it plays
the ghz&poettering game.
mircea_popescu: start it from something
that's derpy but works, i say, rather
than something
that's clever, but doesn't.
mircea_popescu: for
that matter ... recall
the discussions even here about
the purely resisitive musicbox ?
mircea_popescu: basically, I want
to play music ? i can now get a 5 x 6 sheet of polyester, glue cds on it printed with
this
thing, and plug it in.
mircea_popescu: as in, build it from garbage up, exactly how
the current stack was built.
mircea_popescu: you can
then make an item
that looks sort-of like an 1990s "art" installation, except it does logic ?
mircea_popescu: is
there some way
to make
this actually BE junk ? like, for instance, make an item
that prints logic gates on cds, old abandoned cds ?
mircea_popescu: ironically, it may actually have a lot in common with
the cd-r burner.
mircea_popescu: basically
this is quickly becoming a problem of logjammed. "we need a decent-er system design,
to make oses on". "yes, for which we nbeed a new chip paradigm". "yes, which really needs better systems design for oses and such". "yes, which..."
PeterL: need
to reinvent it at a smaller, cheaper scale?
ben_vulpes: also, depends on
the degree of cleanliness required.
mircea_popescu: the problem with clean is largely a matter of size. it's easier
to keep a large space clean.
Lycerion: PeterL
things are well, hooby is hoobin, life is good
lobbes: lol,
there ought
to be a '!up all' function
PeterL: hello Lycerion, how are
things?
ben_vulpes: perhaps next
time i
take a whack at my bush i'll sculpt it into a cockbrow
mircea_popescu: all
these fucking hysterical jokes
that are only funny
to me
ben_vulpes: nah man
this goes back
to why a btc
torrent
thinger isn't worthwhile
ben_vulpes: i have no context or anything
to judge music against.
ben_vulpes: 'tisn't as
though i ever had good
taste in music beat into me.
ben_vulpes: from
the piracy lulzmine: Patton's /Peeping
Tom/ is nowhere
to be found on
the public
trackers, yet
trivially available on UToob
mircea_popescu: i guess. but
this is a definite meritous future
thing for s.nsa
to pursue.
ben_vulpes: this is ridiculous on
the face of it, but young american men are more interested in solving simple nonexistent problems with
tech
than solving big complex hairy ones.
ben_vulpes: just
the USian bias - herr presidente sez no guns, ergo it's impossible
to get guns
mircea_popescu: for one
thing, i was never short of guns when it actually came
to guns
to defend freedom.
mircea_popescu: i am certainly more interested in a "print your own chips" road
to freedom
than in
the "print your own guns" approach.
mircea_popescu: jurov:
they say bluray has pit size 150 nm,
track pitch 320 nm.. allows for quite a density << easier
to do on
the disk
than on
the ic, but you have a good point
there.
mircea_popescu: "This position can be in house or freelance. Must be local
to
the area
to discuss projects. " "we never heard of pgp, what is it, italian shoes ???"
mircea_popescu: "Must multi
task by helping answering phones, excel data upkeep etc.."