@dj I need to be able to depress one of three buttons while dragging and a scroll wheel is nice to have.
(This is my only issue with the default firmware for the DevTerm keyboard, it doesn't let you drag with the middle button depressed, it uses that for scrolling. I had to revert to the old one.)
@sendpaws Ah, I used to burn through keyboards a lot but I got the HHKB (Sun keyboards got rare after Oracle bought them and I really strongly prefer the Unix layout to the DOS layout) and I have never had one of those fail.
@p i always like to buy spares too. been burned too many times when something went out of stock or stopped being manufactured: yet the new models all sucked.
@p@sendpaws@JoshuaSlocum I'm using a very filthy light grey HHKB Pro with "Type S" keys that are mechanical but I guess quieter, with grey and orange accent keys. It works great, but I miss the Lite 2's arrow keys
@Whitewall_Blasphemy@ins0mniak@p@ryan I KNEW that crap would be expensive one day. I used to raid that shit from work all the time, my sister threw it all away when she "helped" me move. I had the cool banned stuff too, like Vioxx trinkets
@ins0mniak@dj@lanodan@ryan I would go look at this video before I had usable ytdl situatinos and I started getting annoyed because they started putting the condescending "OH THE NEW WORLD ORDER ISN'T REAL" box under the hilarious meme song I wanted to listen to and eventually started requiring you to sign in to view it. alex_jones_new_world_order_remix.mp4
@ins0mniak@pernia@dj@ryan When I throw out mail, I always dump food that has gone off or moldy tea (apparently tea can mold on a hot enough day) or other stuff like that in the same bag, specifically because of guys that go through the garbage.
@ins0mniak@dj@pernia@ryan If it's wet enough to soak into the pages, but if the cat deuced it into industrial poopsand, it might not be enough of a deterrent.
> Did you see how they were laughing about taking people's stuff way?
Cops are fucking cops.
> HateAid is a non-profit organisation that promotes human rights in digital space and stands up against digital violence and its consequences at both social and political levels.
> The Berlin District Court has dismissed the antisemitism lawsuit against X filed by HateAid and the European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS) with reference to lack of jurisdiction. The plaintiffs are not entitled to sue the platform in Berlin. The ruling has implications for the future of strategic litigation in Germany.
"Strategic litigation", meaning "Using wedge lawsuits to control the entire internet".
Time to launch "Operation Bent Paperclip". :genghis:
They went to war with not getting a cut, after concluding that they'd lost the tech battle to Americans. That was a different deal than the current attempt at controlling the earth under the guise of a mandate to "stop the spread of fascism". (They don't seem interested in toppling dictators in Africa or Southeast Asia, though, they just seem interested in fucking with the US.)
Google was dumping people's wifi traffic, it was probably a CIA thing.
Samy Kamkar (an :liberty: American :eagle911:) demonstrated this by making a website that used Google's APIs to geolocate routers by their MAC addresses, until Google locked down that API (which was intended for Android devices, to allow more precise tracking by using visible wifi routers to triangulate the phone, and then using that data to triangulate new routers). This was before PRISM was leaked, so you can imagine how much of that data was fed directly to the Three-Letter Agencies.
Travis Brown is a name that you might remember, and if you do then you probably know exactly why Germany would be pissed if he has trouble going about business as usual.
After the BND's surveillance of foreign journalists was ruled illegal in Germany ( https://rsf.org/en/worldwide-mass-surveillance-germany-s-intelligence-service-declared-unconstitutional-landmark ), the BND started just laundering the activity: "It's not surveillance, it's research, and we're not doing it, just paying someone else to do it!" Travis Brown, the guy that provided the libsoftiktok dox to Lorenz, is one of the people that is cashing checks directly from the BMBF,
@p@dj@ryan@lanodan JD Vance was over there the other day and he(pretty diplomaticly) rapped their knuckles over their insane censorship and such and you'd think he threatened to nuke them or something.
They're saying stuff like "this was a direct assault on our democracy" and shit.
I don't see much hope for them and honestly I hope we start bullying them more.
@ins0mniak@p@dj@ryan@lanodan Notice how they all laugh about taking away people's phones. They remind me of the line in Pink Floyd's song The Happiest Days of Our Lives...
"But in the town it was well known When they got home at night, their fat and Psychopathic wives would thrash them within inches of their lives."
@ins0mniak@magicalthinking@DrFell@dj@lanodan@ryan The thing you want to do usually is just not do business with a company that sells info like that, and not give the info to anyone if you can avoid it. (Nice thing about running your own mail server: infinite aliases, and you can turn them off.)
But you don't get to pick a different DMV, so the solution would normally be to get the government to stop selling data. The government is not going to do that, though, and they are not going to listen or care.
@magicalthinking@dj@ryan@DrFell@p@lanodan Oh man, evry app on your phone is soaking up that and everything else. There are about 50 tracking vectors on Uber. Battery usage, screen size you name it. Fuckin Duo Lingo or whatever is doing the same thing.
Enough info to create a picture of your life with serious accuracy.
I guess they learned a lot from the Stazi. Of course NSA was doing the same shit and they raised holy hell about that (even tho they were certainly sharing information)
True story: Hitler joined the Nazi Party while on assignment working for the German Ministry of Education, which had a division dedicated to combating political extremism. He was initially sent to spy on them.
> Of course NSA was doing the same shit and they raised holy hell about that (even tho they were certainly sharing information)
Completely fucked, yes.
> That walking stack of shit
Well, just a shill, a face and a name that can be discarded. Next time they do something like that, it'll be the same people cutting checks but there will be a different shill. Not worth spending any time on her.
They sell it directly and you can find this out because they publish the contracts and the minutes of the meetings where they entertained bids. Taxes and fees do not go down.
Agreed man. You know whats fucked up tho, if the cops are ever looking at you for whatever reason and you don't have a social media trail they think it's a red flag. Like they assume you're doing some deeply shady shit.
Yeah, it's rediculous. Whatever idiot decided that was ok out to be hung from a street lamp.
> if the cops are ever looking at you for whatever reason and you don't have a social media trail they think it's a red flag. Like they assume you're doing some deeply shady shit.
And employers and fucking everyone. I've never had a Facebook account (with the exception of fake name accounts used to get dev tokens for dollarmoney purposes) and this blows people's minds.
> Motherfuckers want to turn the world into a hellscape.
Man, they just want everyone dead, starting with people that don't like them, so that they don't have to ever be afraid of getting Mangioni'd. If drenching the earth with the blood of the nonbelievers sounds like a "hellscape" to you, then I guess you could call it that. goodguychicken.jpg
I will tell you a secret that the dead told me: Within each displacement is but a facsimile, and exist entirely therein, for we are all empty in-and-of ourselves. Hahaha, we are empty and dead.
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I tried to go through the form but they want a screenshot of the dick pic: "We need the date, platform, and image to process your request."
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@fluffy "We used to have these things...computers...In the wake of the Neo-Luddite Revolution, which started to get rid of Google, all Thinkpads and Macbooks were destroyed. Here's my TRS-80 Model 100." francis_e._dec_vs._pendulum--frankenstein_showdown.mp3
@p my toughbook survives the junk press post neo-luddite raiders with spears, slaves running on giant hamster wheels to power scavenged power station capacitors so that CF-31 mk5 code name "THE PROPHET" can tell them why the crops failed (cpu inference knowledge engine) image.png
>Buy or subvert news organizations and other authoritative sources of information that people trust. >Betray peoples trust in them (that often took decades to build). >W3 4r3 l337 S0c141 H4x0rS
@di@dj@ins0mniak@lanodan@moth_ball@ryan Oh, the "hackable human" speech Harari gave was a step up from that, it was the "Human Instrumentation Project But We Wanna Really Do It".
@p@dj@ryan@ins0mniak@lanodan > I tried to go through the form but they want a screenshot of the dick pic: "We need the date, platform, and image to process your request."
@phnt@dj@ryan@p@lanodan My school had a bunch of white kids that sudden;y started talking in Eubonics and wanting to start fights after MTV started playing gangsta rap.
I've made that argument myself man, that whole thing seems to have died down, the blaming everything on games, but it pops up now and again.
I remember everyone wanted to ban things back then. Games, music, internet.
Clinton wanted to put a freaking spy chip in everyone's computer.
@ins0mniak@dj@ryan@p@lanodan "metal music promote violence". Meanwhile every metalhead I've talked to was calmer than every hip-hop fan.
Remember when the original Doom angered Christians, because it had demonic imagery. Meanwhile what you do in Doom is literally kill demons. One might say it's a christian game.
@phnt@dj@ryan@p@lanodan these people remind of the out of touch school staff that would say stuff like "black t-shirts indicate suicide" or "video games and rock music promote devil worship"
@p@dj@ryan@ins0mniak@lanodan It's an analogy. In this analogy the dipshit authoritarians are the teachers in the Pink Floyd song who take pleasure in torturing their students but go home to their fat, psychopathic wifes who beat them within inches of their lives. I'll dig out my kid's crayons later if that explanation wasn't clear enough.
@p I made the mistake of reading one of Harari's books and it was like a compilation of the dumbest things Ray Kurzweil ever said as applause lines during TED talks and some even dumber shit on top.
@judgedread I could already tell what was in his books by the breathless descriptions in wikkypeeja pages; I suspect that comparing him to Kurzweil may be giving Harari too much credit.
@adiz@fluffy Anywhere I don't use CRUX, I just use Slackware. In the extremely unlikely event that I can't use either, I'll take Devuan over Debian. distros.png
@p@dj@ryan@ins0mniak@lanodan >Travis Brown Ordinarilly this kind of thing doesn't "click" in my mind, but worth noting that Zman had looked into the "Big Balls" dox and found that Travis Brown was more than likely the one behind that one too.
@ins0mniak@di@dj@lanodan@moth_ball@ryan Ha, man. I probably should read these guys but I feel like I'd be alternating between "bored out of my skull" and "dangerously high blood pressure" if I had to look at all their sentences.
@ins0mniak@phnt@dj@lanodan@ryan I remember when they all freaked out that the pro-democracy (i.e., CIA) protests in Hong Kong were using Pepe. (I also remember that, when the PRC just shot the local ringleaders and dumped them in the bay, all the lefties forgot about it and moved onto being outraged about something else.) hkpepe.jpg
@ins0mniak@phnt@dj@lanodan@ryan True story, I lived in the same city as Jack Chick for a couple of years (Alhambra), though I didn't know who he was when I lived there.
>looks like every laptop can now ship with RHEL?? Very likely only a subscription loicense. I don't think they even have perpertual licenses now.
>I hate Ubuntu and I think probably it's better to stick with Ubuntu than RedHELL. If it weren't for my never ending hate for Debian and the junk Canonical put on top of it, I would agree. It sucks as a desktop OS (GNOME-only). And every fucking utility that makes RHEL sysadmin-friendly is a pile of slow python. Package manager frontend. Python. iptables frontend. Python. SELinux utilities. Coded in Molasses (probably Python).
> Meanwhile every metalhead I've talked to was calmer than every hip-hop fan.
I GOT NO CHILL
> Remember when the original Doom angered Christians, because it had demonic imagery. Meanwhile what you do in Doom is literally kill demons. One might say it's a christian game.
> I've made that argument myself man, that whole thing seems to have died down, the blaming everything on games, but it pops up now and again.
Video related.
> Clinton wanted to put a freaking spy chip in everyone's computer.
They still wanna do that. Every time they start talking about licensing programmers or pushing unions, they're coming at the same shit from the other side. deedeedoodoo.webm
@p@dj@ryan@phnt@ins0mniak@lanodan We know that every law used in regulation of computers is just another way of getting closer to total computer control. Now them are doing it through the corporations (wayshit is a great example of such a project) but on the hardware side stuff like needing tpm2 to use windoze 11 is just the start. take_me_home.webm
> We know that every law used in regulation of computers is just another way of getting closer to total computer control.
In the 80s and early 90s, kids were constantly getting arrested for breaking in because the computers available at home were all dinky and the only way to get access to a real system to play with was to card a shell. They make it hard to actually compute and we'll be back to that shit again.
@dcc@dj@ins0mniak@lanodan@phnt@ryan I wish it were possible to be totally insulated from this shit, but it always means that you have to do a bunch of idiot workarounds to get a real OS to boot on the box again.
on a totally unrelated note: it sure would be nice to own a gpu farm right now
people are paying hand over fist for some awful api calls (e.g. firebaseai R1) and it's only going to get crazier. well, it might be too late but ever since i saw the guy skateboarding in hackers i wanted to have a huge data center like that.
@phnt@p >distros now that i think about it, i have never actually met anyone who used redhat. i set it up once when i first started learning about this ""linucks" thing, in between mandrake and slackware. actually i quite liked slackware with fluxbox but gave it up because it didn't have support for my laptop's keyboard, and i couldn't afford a machine it worked on. i just installed ubuntu and never looked back. gnome is....fine, i guess. you have image previews in the file picker now.
i want to say i never got into arch but i own a steam deck so technically i use arch btw
if macs with the M4 chip can do huge memory ai fast due to their ""Unified Memory""™️ (think: 200GB+ models) then i will probably buy a mac. but their laptops pretty much suck.
i need a laptop that i can leave open, then push off my bed while i'm sleeping. and be 100% confident it's fine. so needs to survive a 2ft fall while open, but macbooks are made of aluminum, even if they survive one drop they woudl totally deform after fifteen. it wouldn't survive a year. peopel sell """rugged""" cases for macbooks but it feels like lipstick on a pig
>but @fluffy why don't you just hackintosh it yeah i mean i could. or i could actually do useful and productive things in my time.
@fluffy@phnt Yeah, I will probably end up doing something like "box of 18650s and Chinese screen and homemade case and a hole to screw a pico-ITX board into" at some point but the DevTerm is fine now. It's light enough that I have dropped it without consequence (sometimes it reboots) but I wouldn't recommend doing that.
> but their laptops pretty much suck.
Seconded. Nice screens, complete shit keyboard/mouse, and I hate the cases.
@ins0mniak@dj@ryan@p@lanodan >Clinton wanted to put a freaking spy chip in everyone's computer. If they at least weren't so boring about it. pic related image.png
@dcc@dj@ryan@p@ins0mniak@lanodan btw one of the reasons MS wants you to have TPM is because they by default enable a dumbed down version of BitLocker when you create an online account when setting up Windows. That's also why it's barely possible to create a local account on W11.
In typical MS fashion, it's just security snake oil as most of the physical TPMs in consumer and even business oriented computers don't use encryption on the bus and thus can be trivially sniffed. It's one of those scenarios where even a firmware TPM is safer, because you can't easily sniff data happening inside the CPU. us-robotics-3com-total-control.jpg
@p The CIA astroturf Hong Kong protests featuring Pepe provided the 'inspiring ending' to the system propaganda 'documentary' 'Feels Good Man' to try and get the bad taste of the ADL destroying Matt Furie's business out of your mouth.
@p@dj@ryan@phnt@ins0mniak@lanodan >Clinton wanted to put a freaking spy chip in everyone's computer. >They still wanna do that. It's already done.
What do you think one functionality IME or PSP or ARM Trustzone is for?
Most people also carry around demon rectangles that could operate as a computer if not heavily restricted and every single one of them contains a spy chip (mobile chipset running proprietary software).
@phnt@dj@dcc@ryan@p@ins0mniak@lanodan >where even a firmware TPM is safer, because you can't easily sniff data happening inside the CPU. >Look at "firmware TPM" >Nothing firm, just malicious hardware that runs malicious proprietary software. Electrical leakage detector enjoyers will be happy to get sniffing.
@p@dj@ryan@phnt@ins0mniak@lanodan >No protection against CISCO backdoors. >No protection against Huwei backdoors. >No protection against Juniper backdoors. >No protection against Checkpoint backdoors. Someone can come along and exploit every single backdoor regardless, as if a backdoor exists, it can be exploited by more than its authors.
The only solution against backdoors is to use a free software firewall that is free of any backdoors by installing GNU/Linux-libre and configuring netfilter.
That's what the other three firewalls are for. You'd need four backdoors!
> The only solution against backdoors is to use a free software firewall that is free of any backdoors by installing GNU/Linux-libre and configuring netfilter.
@p@dj@ryan@phnt@ins0mniak@lanodan >That's what the other three firewalls are for. You'd need four backdoors! Yes, the attacker just exploits each of the 4 backdoors in sequence.
>No protection against IME backdoors. I forgot to mention installing GNUboot and once that done there is no IME backdoor, as such proprietary software is not included in the images (on GNUbootable intel computers that came with an IME, the IME is an extra processor added to the NIC and can be disabled by simply not loading anything onto it).
You'd really want to use an KGPE-D16 GNUbooted systemd, as the Opteron 62XX processors appear to not even come with a backdoor processor.
> Yes, the attacker just exploits each of the 4 backdoors in sequence.
The joke is that the nation-states involved have compelled the manufacturer to put backdoors into the software and that the architect of that network is relying on adversaries not sharing secrets with each other.
That is, the joke is that proprietary software is assumed to be compromised by state actors and he hopes to work around this by relying on the state actors' adversarial relationships.
> You'd really want to use an KGPE-D16 GNUbooted systemd, as the Opteron 62XX processors appear to not even come with a backdoor processor.
I don't think they make GNUboot for ARM SOCs/SOMs.
@p@dj@ryan@phnt@ins0mniak@lanodan >the joke is that proprietary software is assumed to be compromised by state actors and he hopes to work around this by relying on the state actors' adversarial relationships. Yes, I saw that immediately, but a good joke doesn't rely on false premises that cause the security to totally fall apart, which is what I was pointing out.
>I don't think they make GNUboot for ARM SOCs/SOMs. Those are future targets, but for ARM stuff coreboot is not relevant, you need a free version of u-boot instead.
@phnt@dj@ryan@p@ins0mniak@lanodan >Then you are left with a CPU vulnerable to almost all sidechannel attacks which are a bigger threat than an IME backdoor. You are immune to all sidechannel attacks if you simply don't run proprietary malware on your computer.
Every week or month a new sidechannel attack is found and only the latest CPUs are updated to "fix" those and I'm not running out every year to buy new hardware.
Throwing more proprietary software at a problem caused by proprietary software is an incredible folly, as you are doomed to fail.
>I don't run untrusted code on my computers and block JS. What happens when there's a JS block bypass for your browser? So far there has been not a single bypass found for javascript.disabled=false and really you will notice if proprietary malware JavaScript is being loaded over tor and you'll be able to kill the process before it manages to leak anything.
I can also just use netsurf with JavaScript compiled out or Emacs Web Wowser.
>GNUBoot won't save you from an exploitable CPU. Proprietary software won't save you from the inherently vulnerable concept of speculative execution either.
>installing GNUBoot Then you are left with a CPU vulnerable to almost all sidechannel attacks which are a bigger threat than an IME backdoor. Literally the only way to not be vulnerable to known vulns and backdoors is to make the CPU yourself from public die designs. Only then you can be sure that nobody played with it. Or use TTL hardware from the 70's. It's too much cost for barely any benefit. Modern hardware for the past several decades is untrusted by default and nothing can make it trusted.
And before you go, I don't run untrusted code on my computers and block JS. What happens when there's a JS block bypass for your browser? GNUBoot won't save you from an exploitable CPU. But a browser with JS not even implemented might (links/lynx/...)
>I don't think they make GNUboot for ARM SOCs/SOMs. ARM booting is such a mess that it's very likely not worth the effort. Every SOC manufacturer does their own thing without publicly publishing the specs for it. For example even the reset scheme and vector are implementation specific. At least when you get out of hardware bootstrap, things are somewhat normal, but at that point it's already the bootloader's job to boot the system, the firmware has mostly done it's thing.
And from what I know about RISC V, they haven't learned from this.
@phnt@dj@ryan@p@ins0mniak@lanodan >ARM booting is such a mess that it's very likely not worth the effort. ARM booting is bad, but certainly isn't as bad as booting AMD64.
>Every SOC manufacturer does their own thing without publicly publishing the specs for it. The 2 AMD64 CPU manufacturers also do that and it seems that reverse engineering an Aarch64 SoC and writing free init would be easier than reverse engineering a AMD64 CPU and chipset.
>distros I view distros as tools that get me somewhere where I want and I rate them based on how much they get in my way and how many things they patched from upstream with zero added value. Redhat has stupidly small repos, installing ffmpeg requires enabling multiple repos for "patent" reasons and paranoid SELinux, but at the same time Debian changes default config locations and behavior for zero benefit, created the multiarch hell and ships non-standard scripts to fix the problems they themselves created with their "features".
>laptops I have a work 16" Macbook Pro and it's "fine". The software drives me crazy sometimes and the hardware looks nice and makes the impression that it's sturdy, but in the end it's made for the Starbucks cofe crowd. We are at the point where all business class laptops are good enough (consumer ones are complete garbage) and the thing that drove me to a Macbook was the battery life and that was basically it. However I wouldn't buy one as a personal laptop. I had a work ChinkPad X1 before this and the battery life was awful. Not to mention Leninovo's awful management and config software.
Overall modern laptops sucks. Including the "repairable" Framework.
>but @fluffy why don't you just hackintosh it You won't have support for non Apple ARM architectures in a few years, so it's waste of time. It always was a novelty thing and a fun project with minimal actual work potential.
@amerika@dj@ins0mniak@lanodan@ryan William Seward Burroughs, late 19th-century inventor of the adding machine? (I forget what his grandson did; I think he shot his wife or something when his ticket blew up.)
@amerika@dj@ryan@phnt@p@ins0mniak@lanodan Democracy is to project the incompetence of government (and the masses) onto an outside enemy. See Flint Michigan water crisis.
@amerika@polarisera@dj@ins0mniak@lanodan@phnt@ryan If you get mired in the left/right split like this, you will forget that even if we were to suddenly stop being a democracy and get a king like you're suggesting (and if I don't manage to shoot the king, because I'm a goddamn American), the entire point of the UN, World Bank, IMF, WTO, WIPO, etc., was to gain extra-territorial security for the people that are driving the shit that you hate, the project succeeded, and it produced entire "leadership schools", and people that went to these are still running most European countries, the other countries in North America, etc. You cut off a tentacle and you've still got the rest of the giant squid.
This was the line of thinking Rothschild used after he got his money: he sent his sons to different continents. The Rockefellers and Carnegies and the other families just formalized it and crammed in bureaucracy and you're so focused on the lefties sucking those guys' dicks that you forgot all about the guy that owns the dick that is getting sucked.
@ins0mniak@dj@ryan@p@lanodan The lawsuit in Ireland " The subject of the lawsuit are six antisemitic and illegal comments that X had initially not deleted even though they had been reported." Six! I tell you! of all the twits on twitter, they found 6! And it was thrown out, I'm sure the judge didn't want to make a point of that, so they talked about "consumers" Where are we going!
@Silefigs@ins0mniak@dj@ryan@p@lanodan >The subject of the lawsuit are six antisemitic and illegal comments that X had initially not deleted even though they had been reported. Typical EU DSA witch hunt. Big social media companies have to take down content reported by law enforcemeent and "independent fact checkers" in 24 hours, or they face hefty fines for not complying.
The gangster computer god AI drawing software does a pretty good job of illustrating the moon brains in the brain bank city on the far side of the moon we can never see.
If I want to see the synthetic stairway to the stars and inside-out planets what better way than to have the computer god directly show me what it is making.
mkdir uboot cd uboot https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot.git cd u-boot git checkout v2025.07 ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make rpi_arm64_defconfig ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make
@ins0mniak@Suiseiseki@dj@lanodan@phnt@ryan Yeah, plus enough ARM devices around here that I don't need to cross-compile. gcc cross-compiling is fucked up anyway, so I don't do it.
@p@dj@amerika@ryan@lanodan He did herion and a bunch of gay stuff then wrote a book about it, then he made a jibberish record with Kurt Cobain (now deceased) in Kansas.
@ins0mniak@amerika@dj@lanodan@ryan Yeah, I was joking; I didn't realize that the Burroughs Corporation was created by his grandfather. Happy coincidence. He mentioned "Burroughs" and I went looking for the guy that started that company for the sake of the joke.
@ins0mniak@Suiseiseki@dj@lanodan@phnt@ryan Yeah, I'm basically all ARM except my desktop and the big server, and the big server is gonna move to the ARM cluster eventually.
@p@dj@ryan@phnt@Suiseiseki@lanodan Yeah that's prob my next thing. I've got that Jetson orin and the nano and several stray dev boards so I'm going to consolidate all of those into a cluster, hopefully finding some kind of enclosure that will work for me.
@ins0mniak@Suiseiseki@dj@lanodan@phnt@ryan Well, worst-case, you just get one of those empty rackmount cases and then just screw them into it and throw in a switch, but it's a little easier to get a TuringPi board or like, there's a RISC-V one now.
@Suiseiseki@dj@ins0mniak@lanodan@phnt@ryan I've never used one so I don't know if they suck or not. I can say that FSE has been rock-solid stable on the RK1 module on the TPi2.
> The thing is all my stuff is in differing configurations and differing cases etc.
Yeah, same here. That is kinda why the TPi2 was nice.
> Basically I need a box of some kind.
Yeah, that's what I was saying: just get some screws and possibly a drill and put them into an empty rackmount case.
I think you could also get away with, like, you know those pegboards that people use in their garages? I have been thinking about using one of those for this kind of thing.
(Or just that Lichee cluster comes with a case that is lunchbox-sized and has a handle. Hilarious. Portable Gibson.)
The thing is all my stuff is in differing configurations and differing cases etc.
Basically I need a box of some kind. Like...idk how to explain what I'm thinking of but I think it's doable. Like, if I can line them up and secure them from moving I can then plu everything into the switch.
or even put the router and switch into the same setup right?
@p@dj@ryan@phnt@Suiseiseki@lanodan I'm well aware of the utility of legos bro, but that puts me back to square one in terms of organizing all this shit.
Which is why all human governments are terrible, including social groups and corporations, despite being necessary... hence the theory of #Crowdism: people in groups choose illusions and self-destruct unless guided by those with more ability.
@amerika@dj@ins0mniak@lanodan@phnt@polarisera@ryan "Why do the wrong guys keep getting their hands on the steering wheel?" At some point you figure out that you shouldn't build a steering wheel that steers all of civilization. A monarch is *worse* than democracy for precisely this reason. You know how many US politicians you have to bribe versus bribing a king?
This is exactly why the German feds are so upset about fedi. When it was Twitter and Facebook, they had a guy at a desk and they could call that guy and that guy would remove the thing that embarrassed them. They can't do that here because there is no steering wheel that steers all of fedi.
You hear "anarchy" and think "Oh, exactly regular society but sudden power vacuum. Everyone would be murdered." but I say "anarchy" and the thing I intend to convey is "Appalachia". keynesandmisescrashlesson.jpg
Taxes are going to be part of any government that does not come up with another way to raise revenue, but society thrived under the kings and died under democracy.
@ins0mniak@amerika@dj@lanodan@phnt@polarisera@ryan I mean, if you read about the people he ran with and then you just write down all the names and then you read about the founding of the UN and the CIA and you cross out names you have seen already, the only names that will remain on the list are people that died before Roosevelt took office.
It's practically a law of human nature: every time someone looks like an idiot but has a position that precludes the possibility that he's an idiot, he's playing a different game than the one he claims to be playing, and if he doesn't get fired/executed/whatever, then he's doing a good job, meaning that whoever is above him wants him playing that game.
If you read politics around the turn of the 20th century, there was this feeling that we'd reached the End of Science and we'd figured it all out and anything we learned was just filling in the blanks, and that the next step was to reform society "scientifically". Even Marx sold communism as a "scientific" means of social organization. Post-modernism gets a lot of shit for the "there is no such thing as truth" proposition, but it was modernism that introduced the idea that society run much better if it was planned from the top. The thing is that "better" is subjective: it goes much better for anyone at the top when the people at the top direct society, but does not go much better for society. That is, post-modern philosophy rejected the wrong premise.
Yeah, I'm sick of looking at Elixir for now and I'm typing slowly anyway because it's cold as hell and I keep getting up to get more caffeine and forgetting to grab hoodie.
@p@dj@ryan@phnt@ins0mniak@lanodan RISC-V is merely an instruction set reference with some sample hardware designs, which really need to be shoved into a SoC and then manufactured if you want to use them.
Just because an instruction set is documented doesn't mean that the init required for the SoC won't be absolutely proprietary and require reverse engineering.
All fast RISC-V SoC's I've looked at (i.e. with DDR4) use proprietary software for RAMinit.
The crawler now behaves correctly even in stupid new network topology and ships shit to Revolver and fetches it on demand so I just gotta get the crawlers deployed and then shuffle the DNS around (that's the easy part) and make a couple of other tweaks (which I have to make anyway for other stuff) and then the LetsEncrypt stuff (and probably crank out a script so that the crawlers start updating themselves once I've got it all HTTPS'd so I don't have to remember which machines are doing what, link the crawler's source from the About page and then clean up the frontend code so that I can just link all of the source and then if I go offline for a while someone else can just roll it out). I also wanna do something about the snac2-snacN.samedomain thing that one kid's doin' (trivially, like, "All of the new instances this one is listing in its peers point to the same IP" but that feels less than clean so I've been trying to come up with something that feels better); the big problem is still the domain squatting pages but that's throughput, not user-facing. (It would be fun to have the interactive-ish stuff available over the web, like the apotheosis stuff; the job scheduler spits out a lot of pretty fun information but only I get to see it at present.) I might roll out one or two crawlers in a couple of hours anyway so that it when I turn the site back on it's not *completely* outdated information.
I don't know, I haven't sliced up the day yet. It seems like an hour or two to do the stuff that gets it back up and running, maybe an hour or two more to get the well-defined tasks knocked out, getting fedilist rezzed seems like as good a use of my time as anything else. 1.09--shinra_corporation.mp3
@p@dj@amerika@ryan@phnt@ins0mniak@lanodan@toiletpaper@polarisera I used to listen to this guy's podcast thing. he would insist that everyone should wear shoes that had velcro because it's more efficient. then he would get stuck on ideas like "what if a man wants to wear women's underwear?" my friends would joke about him fucking roxanne meadows.
@p@dj@ryan@ins0mniak@lanodan > Did you see how they were laughing about taking people's stuff way? >Cops are fucking cops.
I thought some drunk traffic cops laughing about parking tickets and shit was bad but this is next level tbh. As for the thing about it being illegal to offend politicians ond other public officials and shit, I wonder ho they'd react to how we call our politicians lmao, if you're not familliar, president is pičkousti (pussy lips), prime minister is kurcoglavi (dick head but in way more literal meaning than in english), healthcare minister is dr smrt (dr death), some others include slina (snot), bizon etc
@ins0mniak@amerika@dj@lanodan@phnt@polarisera@ryan I put "The Tangle" on after that, just in the background. I like that movie but I can see why people hate it, it's a really weird movie and a fat man says poems to a computer.
@Suiseiseki@dj@ins0mniak@lanodan@phnt@ryan Really depends. I have this RISC-V chip in my DevTerm and it's one core, 1GHz. But it lasts for 8 hours in a device I can hold with one hand.