asciilifeform: he's a very clever maths d00d. logs in every other week or so, nitpicks re fine points of ffa.
asciilifeform: phf also from ru; and iirc so is apeloyee; asciilifeform from old su but marooned in usa; mircea_popescu speaks (more than he is willing to admit, lol) ru; possibly other folx, tuned in but still lurking, also.
asciilifeform: 'John Mallery @jcmallery_cyber 25 Dec 2017 Declinism is a psyop of adversaries...it was spread before during the Vietnam war.' << ahahahaha gold☟︎
asciilifeform: why not also nag the statueofliberty, or washington monument.
asciilifeform: 'Cyber space is an increasingly risky discourse and therefore will inevitably be securitised.' << exactly what i said: usg stuffed shirt.☟︎
asciilifeform: d00d dun look so old. expect another 30-40 yrs of the dog sitting in the manger.
asciilifeform: what he is being paid for TODAY, is not known afaik.
asciilifeform: 'This project ran from October 1, 1993 to October 1, 1997.'
asciilifeform: what little clue there is, points to his having been an nsa asset since youth.
asciilifeform: but i'll admit that i know very, very little about mallery ( almost nothing is publicly known about him, he is an academic but not many publications in his name )
asciilifeform: fromloper: if he gave it out, potentially someone else could bid on the support contract ( under american law, all contracts are theoretically publicly biddable . lockheed et al simply contrive to set up situation where no one else ~can~ perform a given contract )
asciilifeform: right, why would he. why give away yacht.
asciilifeform: and when he dies they will pay for his sons' yachts. etc
asciilifeform: i suspect that there is no plan, the nsa cheques pay for his yachts and that's it.
asciilifeform: i asked this q here years ago, and to this day have no answer of any kind.
asciilifeform: there will be no second coming of commercial bolix.
asciilifeform: the ones who hoard secrets because they imagine that they have a ticket to being part of some future commercial revival of bolix, however -- those are idiots.
asciilifeform: some people spent $10k's on their collections of bolixiana. and imagine that these will become worthless if an accurate fpgalogical emulator appears. and for all i know , this is true. i simply don't care.
asciilifeform: this is a hypothesis. so far my best one.
asciilifeform: i -- want. and this is why by and large they do not talk to me. they know about my www, they knew where to find me. they also know that i will publicly and immediately leak any bolixologial document that i am given. and want to make emulator. and for this, i suspect, they do not talk to me.
asciilifeform: fromloper: currently i suspect that many, possibly majority, of serious bolix collectors, ~do not want~ there to be an accurate emulator.
asciilifeform: ( last i knew, phf did not publish his changes )
asciilifeform: fromloper: i actually do not know anything re who, if anyone, maintains. aside from phf's admission to having a private fork, linked above.
asciilifeform: for all i know, the one and only path to e.g. a room-temperature supercon, was found at one of the reagan scamola firms, and died with it, also. i simply do not know about it.
asciilifeform: ( where i know for a fact that they Had Something )
asciilifeform: there is an entire graveyard of these; it simply so happens that i am only interested in the lispm-flavoured ones
asciilifeform: thinkingmachines co was another such. died same way.
asciilifeform: to be fair the company was not really a honest commercial co, moar like one of those unofficial usg research institutes, they proliferated under reagan and died with him☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: whole buncha upper crust parasites gotta be buttered, apparently.
asciilifeform: funnily enuff a Dave Moon ran for election to some city dogcatcher post , not far from where i live. but on examination seems to be different d00d.
