asciilifeform: volunteer gasenwagen. is it free if it takes > 1/2 hour, like pizza in the old days?

asciilifeform: but no - the morons love to be 'protected' (from self)

asciilifeform: in a sane world, the rat would be found hanging from an overpass, every time.

asciilifeform: that is, works, until the peanut gallery catches on, someone rats it out.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: or the root easter eggs in apple's ios turdware

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: same idea as the famous 'inca gold' tea of the '80s.

asciilifeform: 'mouseschwitz' (allegedly, actual name used by employees off the record)

asciilifeform waits for black buswagen to disneyland

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: afaik that one's still voluntary.

asciilifeform: last i checked, even the poorest piss-ant city in the world is full of u.s. folks, taking pictures, and much of the time their greatest worry is pick-pocket - and mosquito.

asciilifeform: and how did the idea come about that venturing abroad is a suicidally courageous thing to do for americans ?

asciilifeform: (the machines are sometimes called 'donorcycles' here. drivers routinely end up crunching under oncoming garbage trucks, etc.)

asciilifeform: i'd bet that, paradoxically, riding motorbike is safer in the darien gap than on american streets.

asciilifeform still seems to be permitted on airplanes. but remembers road, for the 'dark future of hello kitty.'

asciilifeform: and that the mud stretches of the road are only passable in dry season.

asciilifeform: chetty: if i recall, there is a gap in the road, somewhere in central america, that cannot be crossed by ordinary 4-wheeled motor

asciilifeform: lives somewhere in the 'martian wasteland' central part of country.

asciilifeform: buy kalash on the way, sell prior to checkpoint?

asciilifeform: so, promised to be an exciting hike.

asciilifeform: last i recall, path from us to ar goes through at least one live fire zone

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik iridium works fine down there

asciilifeform: but that's all post-collapse.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on the wash. d.c. trains, there are now spammy ads for all kinds of exotic diploma - in 'homeland seekoority!' even.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'll post a pgp turdlet as comment, soon as i'm done destroying some battery holders here (mechanical strength test)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aye. unless i've gone broke & starved by then.

asciilifeform: i really can't fathom the purpose of buying a mystery meat hardware rng. if you're willing to eat mystery meat, why not use the vlsi turd found in current cpu? ☟︎

asciilifeform: as if it took actual thinking to build a simple analogue rng.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: he also has an emu for texas instruments lisp machine (one of the handful of firms who licensed the original cadr)

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: parker wrote the cadr emu.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the code is intimately tied to the hardware (published recently as hand-drawn schematics, then converted to verilog by a mr. brad parker)

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: main discomfort is the very narrow bus (32 bit, incl. type tags)

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the system internals turned out to be an obscene morass of hacks, partly from being the product of drunken undergrads, but mainly because the machine itself was a very baroque edifice (a mountain of hand-wired ttl, with all the engineering compromises one might expect from such a thing)

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: at one point, i wanted to build something modern based on the (recently) bsd-licensed cadr - but quickly learned that it is a fool's errand

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: keep in mind that CADR lacks 80% of the good stuff (vs. smbx version)