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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It's what inspired
taking
the piece
this direction
BingoBoingo just pines for
the day breech will be
the correct version more often on qntra.
mircea_popescu: dude i really like
this qntra
thing. about 1/3 of what i hated about
the obsolete press were mistakes. being able
to go hey x, Y! makes me all fucking warm and fuzzy inside.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yeah
they run out of stock, not looking like
they want
to replenish it either.
kakobrekla: prolly nobody cares but i just checked for fun whats
the pogo cost in europe; its 55 dorra.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, yes, it seems
the alsa | pulseaudio difference was in fact bitterly preserved. one of
those underground wars people like me
tend
to embarass
themselves by not noticing.
mircea_popescu: don't even realise squeezing necks is what gets
things done.
mircea_popescu: also not entirely unconnected with open source peace and love nitwits who far from knowing which necks
to squeeze,
mircea_popescu: people
tried
to get games going on
the platform, 2007-8ish
to about 2012. it failed.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is a major point.
the death of
the linux is not exactly unrelated
toi
the major disappointment of
the money makers.
mircea_popescu: "Even in 2014, you cannot use PulseAudio for competetive gaming on Linux. Not
that it matters anyway. Even Valve abandoned Linux."
mircea_popescu: stuff
that almost works for its lifetime is worse
than no stuff.
mircea_popescu: this is even skipping
the "ambitious nobody proponent with a history of failure up
to
that point"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform indulge me :
tries
to
take over everything ? check. crashes all
the
time ? check.
two matches, good enough.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what was
the curtis yarvin brand of systemd called ? i forget ?
danielpbarron: i don't care how fast it boot since it shouldn't have
to do
that more
than once (depending on
the stability of your electric)
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding
that a) not really and b) a machine's not really supposed
to boot anyway
mircea_popescu: how is poettering
to sell a shitty re-implementation of yarvin's pile of crap ? PROCLAIM LOUDLY
THAT IT BOOTS FASTLY.
the_scourge: asciilifeform: if you're implying it's not lightweight, only systemd and
the kernel are installed off
the bat. and some guys have done work on a systemdless setup
danielpbarron: i've noticed
that it needs constant supervision, yes
mircea_popescu: in any case purge
that systemd atrocity , as a matter of principle if not necessarily practicality.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> danielpbarron: eventual goal, i dare say, is a fully-automated reflasher
that drops in something sane. << quite
danielpbarron: i get
the feeling
they intentionally leave
things out of
their guides
to force
the user
to figure it out
the_scourge: danielpbarron: nixos has a pretty good balance of minimal and predictable (even for noobs), have you considered
that?
danielpbarron: yeah
the instructions at
this point are only for advanced users :/
danielpbarron: yeh i'd like
to use something other
than arch but
that's what i've figured out for now
the_scourge: although a few
things came up when i started looking into it
that
turned me off haskell
the_scourge: i'll have
to look at
the haskell implementation
the_scourge learned nix over christmas and
thought about learning haskell
the_scourge: did you do a writeup? i've grepped for such
to no avail :(
the_scourge: anywhere i can go
to get some honest opinions on his work
then?
the_scourge: asciilifeform: you know
that mark
tarver guy you linked
to, are you familiar with his Qi and Chen languages?
the_scourge: the
team working for me has maybe a dozen and
then a massive
team in manila
that another contractor manages. it's ... depressing
the_scourge has been desperately
trying
to avoid learning scheme/Qi for years, fearing never being able
to hold a 'productive' contract again
mircea_popescu: just
talk around
the math involved, hire
the people out of work once gavin gets forgotten about.
the_scourge: thats and acceptable
threat model considering
there are HUMANS involved
that can fuck up and give away
the keys
to
te kingdom
mircea_popescu: i wonder if one could kickstart an experimental vehicle for space vacuum filtration
to extract gold and other rare metals.
the_scourge: um if we had no way
to secure comms on
the wild internet, where layers 1-4 can be listened
to by demotists (i wouldn't mind if it was a monarch),
the_scourge: asciilifeform++
thanks, very interesting bit of kit
the_scourge: >wireless cards could in principle be used for forming local meshes, etc. but
this is for other folks
to study < as long as cryptography is secure,
then it's not urgent. but very interesting
the_scourge: uh
that's a wireless chip? i
thought we're
talking about cpu. i.e. mips
the_scourge: asciilifeform:
that vocore was just crowdfunded recently. i
think
they fullfilled initial orders sometime in
the past year. i didn't know
they were mips!!
mircea_popescu: exactly
that. a pointed disdain of any rule and regulation not gpg signed as so much crud.
mircea_popescu: writing a proper wifi
thing for
the new world is not on
this year's plate.
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform not
thrilled with
the wireless
thing, but it seems
to be inescapable in small embedded crapatrons <<
There's probably a role somewhere for a kind of node with it. Plugged in at "Free Wifi" coffee shop or library. connects
to open network, changes MAC address when booted from network. Has script
to handled shrink wrap license pages when encountered.