phf: we had a foot of snow on my side of the mountain, and i'm south of mason dixon!
PeterL[asciilifeform]: We got about 8 inches over the weekend where I live, but I heard they had 48 inches up in the UP.
PeterL[asciilifeform]: My daughter is going to school near Traverse City, a bunch of her classmates got stuck in airports trying to get back to school after Thanksgiving, had to sit around in airports for days.
phf: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2025-11-21#1035692 << after fucking around with myers diffing and kahn topological priority sorting i went back to "realtime" pest. with 2-3 peers it's basically enough to get messages more or less as they are being sent, and for everything else there's log
dulapbot: Logged on 2025-11-21 17:18:14 s1gnp0st[asciilifeform]: backed off the autistic bot's urge to conform the world to an impl that stitches what it gets together at best effort.
phf: but multipart would be cool, because it'll also force clients to not break on new line. one would finally be able to post tldr republican proclamations in latin to log, verbatim
phf: foo
phf: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2025-12-03#1035750 << i procrastinated too long to put winter tires, i'm sitting drinking my tea and wondering if i'll be able to make it up the driveway without sliding into a ditch on either side
dulapbot: Logged on 2025-12-03 09:44:55 PeterL[asciilifeform]: My daughter is going to school near Traverse City, a bunch of her classmates got stuck in airports trying to get back to school after Thanksgiving, had to sit around in airports for days.
asciilifeform: wb phf
asciilifeform: re: 'realtime pest' , '2-3 peers' -- asciilifeform has the nagging feeling that we've been using it 'in bayonet mode' strictly, and have nfi whether actually 'shoots'
asciilifeform: i.e. performs under the kinda conditions asciilifeform was contemplating when baking the protocol (sumthing at least as bandwidth-heavy and hooligan-infested as #t during the auto-ddos era, say)
asciilifeform: arguably, the 'does it shoot?' scenario is the archaetypical 'partizan brigade of 3 with 1 traitor', lol
PeterL[asciilifeform]: Would it survive being used to plan hostile takeover of Caribean island? https://www.statesman.com/news/crime/article/north-texas-men-haiti-island-invasion-plot-21206072.php
lobbes[asciilifeform]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2025-12-02#1035747 << welcome to jolly old new england!
dulapbot: Logged on 2025-12-02 16:15:12 signpost[asciilifeform]: over here enjoying first proper new england snow.
lobbes[asciilifeform] currently sitting in rhode island ; only got rain yesterday, and rather nice and sunny today
lobbes[asciilifeform]: I've been working on barking into an LLM as well to see if I can get an experimental "JavaPest" working on a test net. I'm hoping that having the well-thought-out specification to guide the shannonizers will make things less hallucinatory, but we'll see
dulapbot: Logged on 2025-11-21 09:53:20 s1gnp0st[asciilifeform]: this session making tempest was pretty interesting. only a couple of days to get to this point. first time I've enjoyed barking a nontrivial program into an LLM. gpt-5.1-codex-max. I jammed asciilifeform's 0xFA spec directly into the system prompt via AGENTS.md. had the thing write an enormous test suite from the spec.
dulapbot: Logged on 2025-12-03 11:28:55 asciilifeform: re: 'realtime pest' , '2-3 peers' -- asciilifeform has the nagging feeling that we've been using it 'in bayonet mode' strictly, and have nfi whether actually 'shoots'
phf: we briefly touched on it previously, e.g. http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2022-09-07#1012555
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-09-07 16:20:14 phf[asciilifeform]: i wrote some SIMULATION CODE
asciilifeform: re bots, asciilifeform managed to get mostly correct linux kernel driverola outta ($$$, 'arcade token'-powered) bot with ~reasonable effort, to the point where +ev
asciilifeform: (it not 'replaces brain', lol, but if you notice e.g. race conditions & similar lulz with eyes, the bot can save time, esp. the kinda time spent digging in docs)
asciilifeform: for instance, needed a 1-bit-per-pixel rotator with simd massage where avail. bot shat out reasonable algo, benchmarks for same, and tests, incl. where one can feed in arbitrary bitmaps. and w/out bloat.
asciilifeform: notable because this animal not afaik existed anywhere on the net, in the shape it was needed in (plain monochrome bmaps)
asciilifeform: worx w/ e.g. arm 'neon', to the point where does the job in 100usec or so per frame on the iron in question and not needs any further massage even if one could
asciilifeform: one can tell the bot such things as 'hey we want to process x's w/out blocking y, how about a kfifo' and will shit out a working kfifo and move things etc. correctly about 90% of the time
asciilifeform: (ftr this was 'opus 4.5')
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: My latest "bot" experiment has been to hook claude code up to shopify, gemini imagen, business checking account, and meta ads via mcp servers to automate market testing a product.
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: asciilifeform: can't figure out from your above description what you are making
asciilifeform: awt_akris: deliberately omitted what was making, it isn't of general interest, almost certainly
asciilifeform: it's a driver for a very ancient piece of iron, and a piece of fpgatronics to drive same
asciilifeform: ( pictured here )
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: Ahh yes I remember this post
asciilifeform: it's a long-standing capricious whim of asciilifeform's that he wants a way to program (on rk or similar) outdoors, in sun
asciilifeform: that museum piece, believe or not, is ~still~ the best tool for the job, even tho build in... 1989
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: Are you trying to mount two of them together?
asciilifeform: (nao if only had... 2 of'em. but they're even rarer than lispms, afaik asciilifeform may have the last preserved working unit on planet3 )
asciilifeform: only have 1, lol
asciilifeform: none of the moar recent similar devices are worth 2 shits, and i've bought a whole pile
asciilifeform: ( the various oled 'glasses' in particular , are egregious rubbish, 'tv'-style triangular pixels, dither flickers, and total visual obstruction )
asciilifeform: before anyone asks, yes, tried eink as general-purpose display. garbage. i aint aboutta wait for chars to draw.
asciilifeform: this thing otoh has, shit thee not, an actual vibrating mirror in it, and column of microscopic leds (fabbed specially for the long-defunkt maker) behind some lenses. as if in 1910s and nipkow disk 'tv'.
asciilifeform: yet it worx...
asciilifeform: there are precisely 280 leds in the column, so vertical res is limited to that. (vendor claimed 'unlimited' horiz. res, but seems to be locked to 720, even tho the onboard buffer ram would theoretically allow ~900...)
asciilifeform absolutely guarantees that this will never be relevant to anyone else, hence wai not described earlier
asciilifeform: 720x280 -- msdos text mode (but pixel-addressable.)
asciilifeform pictures an imaginary critic, 'd00d, you could be baking irons that other people want!' 'hey, would, if anyone actually did ! '
dulapbot: Logged on 2025-11-08 18:05:00 asciilifeform: fwiw mp was earnestly convinced that there were folx like himself walking around somewhere, 'serious btc people' who want to buy dedicated, auditable irons, commercial support for same, etc
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: Why build something other people want if you don't need to?
asciilifeform: wouldn't be opposed, tho
asciilifeform: just not for <=5figs of taxusd
asciilifeform: (even 6, kinda meh)