asciilifeform: $ticker btc usd
btcinfobot: Current BTC price in USD: $54922.14
asciilifeform: !w poll
watchglass: Polling 15 nodes...
watchglass: 185.85.38.54:8333 : Could not connect!
watchglass: 185.163.46.29:8333 : Could not connect!
watchglass: 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.112s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=675033
watchglass: 205.134.172.28:8333 : Alive: (0.034s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=675033 (Operator: whaack)
watchglass: 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.114s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=675033
watchglass: 205.134.172.26:8333 : Alive: (0.107s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=675033
watchglass: 192.151.158.26:8333 : Alive: (0.146s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=675033
watchglass: 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.236s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=675033
watchglass: 213.109.238.156:8333 : Alive: (0.268s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=675033
watchglass: 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.283s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=675033
watchglass: 176.9.59.199:8333 : (static.199.59.9.176.clients.your-server.de) Alive: (0.274s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=412024 (Operator: jurov)
watchglass: 108.31.170.100:8333 : (pool-108-31-170-100.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.919s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=675033 (Operator: asciilifeform)
watchglass: 103.36.92.112:8333 : (terebe.ns01.net) Alive: (0.773s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=675033
watchglass: 84.16.46.130:8333 : Violated BTC Protocol: Bad header length!
watchglass: 205.134.172.6:8333 : Busy? (No answer in 100 sec.)
adlai: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-03-15#1033281 << maybe? all I recall is 'toughbook', and how the thing looked, not which corp owned the OEM
snsabot: Logged on 2021-03-15 13:23:56 asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-03-13#1033210 << toshiba ? i recall a u.s. army grunt reminiscing re: playing 'call of duty: iraq' in... iraq, on such a box
adlai: was a laptop+touchscreen chimera that was usable (with stylus) thru mm of dusty mist
adlai: ofc, had no clitmouse, and the trackpad made officers sad and angry and then call in some enlisted shmuck to drive the laptop instead of them
adlai: touchscreen was a nice gimmick although nobody used it much after they realised how useless touchscreens are
adlai: at least, when the software behind it is braindead enough that you can't tandem the touchscreen and trackpad as coarse+fine location, because any touchscreen stimulus causes e.g. panning of the map
adlai has never used non-braindead military software, can't attest re: those kinds!
adlai: don't get me started on the kitchens, though
adlai: if there is one thing the IDF knows how to build, it is a bitchin kitchin
adlai: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-03-15#1033277 << SOP in guitar world, and they then get paid by the manufacturers to have their name associated with the published design
snsabot: Logged on 2021-03-15 11:58:35 asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-03-13#1033193 << i rec to recall that at one time, serious violinists often had the instruments made to order
adlai: trouble with "violin" is that virtuoso musical instruments are a fixed form-factor, and the world of performing composed music would recoil in horror at the idea of the Nth-century Theremin, no matter how beautiful it sounds compared to the screeching of the previous one
snsabot: Logged on 2021-03-15 11:58:35 snsabot: Logged on 2021-03-13 02:19:14 adlai: fwiw, the more I mull over the parallels between the various strengths and shortcomings of the different input methods, and those of prototypes that have had less commercialised progeny, the less I find the name "Engelbart's Violin" appropriate.
adlai has no idea what a better name is, yet; few if any kinds of technology that existed before the yet-unrealised possibility of 'computronium' were designed with the possibility of such ever existing
adlai: tbh the closest might be programmable looms.