#asciilifeform | 2020-08-01

watchglass: Polling 12 nodes...

watchglass: 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.023s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=641773

watchglass: 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.082s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=641773

watchglass: 205.134.172.27:8333 : Alive: (0.146s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=641773 (Operator: asciilifeform)

watchglass: 192.151.158.26:8333 : Alive: (0.209s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=641773

watchglass: 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.233s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=641773

watchglass: 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.221s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=641773

watchglass: 213.109.238.156:8333 : Alive: (0.328s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=641773

watchglass: 188.121.168.69:8333 : (rev-188-121-168-69.radiolan.sk) Alive: (0.354s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=641773

watchglass: 103.36.92.112:8333 : (terebe.ns01.net) Alive: (0.586s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=641773

watchglass: 108.31.170.3:8333 : (pool-108-31-170-3.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.997s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=641773 (Operator: asciilifeform)

watchglass: 205.134.172.26:8333 : Busy? (No answer in 20 sec.)

watchglass: 176.9.59.199:8333 : Busy? (No answer in 20 sec.) (Operator: jurov)

asciilifeform: ACHTUNG readers! logotron updated w/ paged search result display. plox to report bugs.

asciilifeform: ... logotron www updated w/ vpatch !!

asciilifeform: example.

asciilifeform: meanwhile also regenned db indices for faster search.

shinohai: In today's topkeks: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/red-hat-and-centos-systems-arent-booting-due-to-boothole-patches/

asciilifeform: shinohai: see earlier thread.

snsabot: Logged on 2020-07-30 00:35:57 asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: how the hell is this a vuln ? 'secure boot' is elementary fritzchip (i.e. 'secure against owner')

shinohai: bwahaha, so rich

asciilifeform: shinohai: past ~decade had steady 'camel's nose into the tent' progression where microshit agreed to sign a grub bloatware bootloader, w/ the expectation that eventually the latter will be 'improved' to only load rathead-signed kernels etc. tivoization.

shinohai: I wish I had documented my experience getting the HP lappy I bought to even boot Gentoo, required "Microshit signed key" or something to even allow it to boot from USB

asciilifeform: shinohai: most of these can be cured by flashing patched bios. but rarely worth the effort.

shinohai: I bought this one because it was 1) cheap and 2) needed something that at least had HD grafix for games.

shinohai: (Still managed to avoid systemd AND uses alsa)

asciilifeform: lol what games in gentoo, outta curiosity ? 'xpenguin' ?

shinohai: Girls love to play SuperTuxCart and I have libretro working on it, for all teh classics

asciilifeform: a

shinohai: simply added xboxdrv for generic controllers, had long used that when I was playing Eulora

shinohai: We play quake3 and DOOM a lot too

asciilifeform: doom worx a++ under 'dosbox' neh

asciilifeform: no gpu req'd

asciilifeform: meanwhile, 1 moar vpatch w/ errata .

shinohai: Haven't tried with dosbox, is in repos under games-fps/quake3

asciilifeform: shinohai: i was speaking of the classical 1990s doom

shinohai: Ah kk.

shinohai: Though sure classic would run fine under libretro as well

asciilifeform not tried 'libretro'. prefers msdosisms nowadays on physical box.

shinohai: I started using it because easy to manage many platforms in one place. Even runs all my odyessey2 ROM dumps.

asciilifeform: meanwhile in vintage misc., nao browsable chronologically.

shinohai: No word from poor gl since 2018, did heart finally explode from overuse of meth?

asciilifeform: shinohai: sank into mariana trench for all i know

asciilifeform: all can see w/ naked eye is that not touched his shithub in yrs. tho may simply mean that he was cured of shithub.

asciilifeform: on that www where he slaved for pennies to order also last seen in '18 apparently.

asciilifeform: RIP.

shinohai: sad masamune might have been great thing

asciilifeform: shinohai: near as i could tell, it was simply a heathen linux + sbcl glued on.

asciilifeform: fella at one pt promised a cltronic 'portage' replacement of some kind, but afaik never showed.

asciilifeform: he admitted to taking dope regularly, and of the kind that exacerbates 'delusion of grandeur', was genuinely convinced that he had 'rebuilt lispm'...

shinohai: Must be whatever mp started using

asciilifeform: shinohai: iirc mp also w/ dope, but insisted 'had quit'

shinohai: I'm not convinced, because up until about mid-2017, had relatively sane guy that suddenly became unrecognizable.

asciilifeform: it aint impossible, in principle, s. freud did, famously, quit.

shinohai: I suppose this ties in with the burden of money thing you had mentioned previously

asciilifeform: shinohai: dunno, g_l apparently managed it w/ ~0 money somehow

asciilifeform: ( how -- remains mystery. but dope aficionados do seem to develop the talent of 'getting' w/ seemingly 0 )

shinohai: I imagine temptation is higher when one actually has resources to buy said substances.

asciilifeform: possibly

asciilifeform cannot comment in detail, unfortunately (.. or fortunately)

asciilifeform: it is however my understanding that no dope can cause the eater to develop wholly new character flaws. can only magnify existing ones.