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Vexual: regulations changed in australia, now we have more unlicensed guns
than
the bad parts of la
Mats_cd03: some regulations about a 10 round magazine and mag release fuckery ain't gonna stop
that
Mats_cd03: if i'm going
to shoot up a mall i'm going
to find
the biggest magazine i can find, prob 40 rounds, and
then i'm going
to get a weapon
that
takes less
than 5 seconds
to reload
decimation: I
think
the new
thing is
that
the next magazine has a key
to pop off
the last one
Mats_cd03: so you end up using a fucking pen
to pop your 10 round mag out
Mats_cd03: theres
this regulation
that assault weapons have
to be sold with
this special magazine release
Mats_cd03: i live in
the union so
theres lots of regs everywhere
Vexual: flingin crts with one hand workls
too
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you do have a good point
there in principle, but im not so sure
the laptop resolves
the movement problem.
nubbins`: i'm not so sure
that "computing" is a battlefield
Mats_cd03: no need
to register it if you leave it at home
Mats_cd03: i want
to
tell all of you
that live in murica
to buy an antique handgun
Mats_cd03: now
that we're
talking about firearms
Mats_cd03: only if you
turn both pistols sideways
mircea_popescu: there is an absolute limit
to
the smallest firearm usable on a battlefield. so in computing.
the laptop is below
that limit.
nubbins`: so
they can drunkenly stagger
towards enemy snipers firing shots
nubbins`: afaik
they give pistols
to suspected heroes
Mats_cd03: i used
to own a S&W revolver what about it
nubbins`: hm,
this
tadpole used openvms?
decimation: I donno, qualcomm is probably more scummy
than intel
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform>
to say
that laptop is unnecessary is like supposing
that nothing smaller
than a squad machine gun is of any use in war <<
this is facually
true
nubbins`: and ask
them
to do a bespoke one for ya
nubbins`: just call up
that company whose laptops RMS uses
decimation: well it was probably meant for phones/tablets
to run
the RF stuff
Mats_cd03: im sure it exists but i havent seen malware
that
targets both armv6
decimation: although
that doesn't detect chip fiddling
Mats_cd03: if i'm really, really worried about getting pwned i guess i could use a raspi with a usb drive
to bridge
the air gap
decimation: well, if you want
to DIY laptop you might as well join up with bunnie, at least he is going with open/auditable firmware
Vexual: build
the rest with arundio
Mats_cd03: so having a chromebook
to do
things
that might be sensitive is great
Vexual: i
thought
thats what all
the kids had now
Mats_cd03: im at
the stage where i know a lot about netsec but very little about practical mitigation of
threats
nubbins`: Mats_cd03, chromebooks are essentially dumb
terminals
nubbins`: i'm not so sure
this "unix laptop"
thing ever existed, aside from a few isolated instances
Mats_cd03: chromebooks are about as good as its going
to get imo
nubbins`: did
they EVER have a "unix laptop"?
decimation: HP was killed by idiots who were drunk at
the party in
the 90's MP mentions
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform>
this isn't really an issue with full-scale machines, where you can mix&match hw <<< shit, laptops just got killed.
decimation: it seems
there would be a market for a "rhel laptop" like
the
tadpole was for sun
though
decimation: yeah, laptops are going
to require some level of hardware/firmware/driver integration
decimation: well ascii, part of
the problem with your lack of unix laptop is
that
there aren't any unix hardware manufacturers anymore
gribble: sturles was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 37 weeks, 4 days, 18 hours, 38 minutes, and 36 seconds ago: <sturles> I've upgraded my clients
to latest git. Not forwarding or mining silly dust spam any more.
nubbins`: did i
tell you guys about
the coworker i had who used
time machine for version control?
KRS-: Anyone going
to
the Berlin Bitcoin conference, PM me for 20% discount code.
decimation: well,
that's fine if you want
to ensure your system isn't modifying files while you write
the clone?
Vexual: reasonable meaning
that we are here and can see about 100 meteres across
the shere of earth if it were
the universe
mircea_popescu: Vexual actually, on earth iron and nickel are, not
tin.
decimation: ascii I want something
that has a reasonable off-line backup system
that will restore from an external drive, like
time machine
mircea_popescu: i vaguely remember
that earth is actually "reasonably" representative of
the actual unviersal distribution of elements.
mircea_popescu: decimation planet earth is not really far off
the universal average is it ?
decimation: that's why
the democrats wanted
to adopt
the silver standard - it would be extremely beneficial
to
the "little people" - debtors all over
the midwest
Mats_cd03: is
there more silver or gold in existence
Vexual: maybemoreso
than 110 y later
decimation: I mean,
the election of 1886 was about whether
there should be a silver or gold standard - and
the gold won!
mircea_popescu: course... you're quite healthy "yet"
the day after you've fucked all
the girls at
the pit stop
too.
decimation: Indeed, what is interesting is
that how little of
the communism
that had
taken over Europe in
the late 1800's had actually affected America
mircea_popescu: it'd have blossomed again, im sure, but europe bleed it
twice in 50 years
mircea_popescu: yeah, well.
the people whose retarded children followed lincoln in his nazi adventure.
decimation: I was a little confused. In
the us,
this is a forgotten part of our history in
the popular mind
decimation: Perhaps
the 1960's-90's will be regarded as
the peak of "us civilization"
mircea_popescu: party's over, but yeah,
that one chick with nice
tits
that
took her
top off... what a hoot.
mircea_popescu: you can feel it, in retrospect. all
this govt money everyone had... greatest party of all
time.
mircea_popescu: the 1990 us (lots of people with lots of welfare money
to
throw around) is not coming back. ever.