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Thu Mar 17 17:23:05 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> if one in 100 shorts you get a 1% increase, which they don't care anyway.
Thu Mar 17 17:22:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> eh, so you fuse it, big whoop.
Thu Mar 17 17:22:38 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> how do you call it, add voltage, same current ?
Thu Mar 17 17:22:23 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yes ?
Thu Mar 17 17:16:01 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> 320V DC out of wall socket is a electronics 101 project ever since the times of hte b&w photo clubs.
Thu Mar 17 17:13:10 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> (by a high voltage rectifier thingee i mean that iirc pogos draw 4.5 V dc. a > kv rectifier diode is twenty bucks or something, you can make yourself an item you plug into the wall and it feeds 100 pogos arranged in series out of maybe a hundy.)
Thu Mar 17 17:08:52 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> if it can run an obscure wp blog, it certainly can run a bnc or whatever other such thing. much better security model than "i pay 20 dollars to dc hosted blabla-freedom.net"
Thu Mar 17 17:07:59 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and since you have the wot at your disposal most of the costs involved in low end hosting (ie, keeping the scum out) you're insulated from.
Thu Mar 17 17:06:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> people would prolly be willing to pay a few dollars /mo to rent an ACTUAL physical box, which means you can take a few hundred in exchange for a not-unreasonable upfront expenditure.
Thu Mar 17 17:06:03 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> see if your isp is willing to give you a c block / upgrade your connection. buy a coupla bridges of 32 or 64, make a high voltage rectifier thingee, and power a bunch of boxes
Thu Mar 17 17:05:23 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> see if you manage to apply alf's thing and if it runs well. if it does, a next step you can take is :
Thu Mar 17 17:05:08 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> danielpbarron you know, it occurs to me your idea to run a webserver on pogo may actually be very valuable.
Thu Mar 17 16:50:15 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> seems to be how it goes lol.
Thu Mar 17 16:45:20 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ah it made it through ? cool.
Thu Mar 17 16:44:59 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> apache really dun work for this purpose.
Thu Mar 17 16:44:42 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> nah, nginx.
Thu Mar 17 16:42:51 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and call it good.
Thu Mar 17 16:42:39 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> well, since alf doesn't want to engage the failure modes of "we know what stupidity is", let's just leave reference to perhaps the best folkloric work of all time, https://archive.org/stream/operecompletedig301pitr/operecompletedig301pitr_djvu.txt
Thu Mar 17 16:27:42 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> danielpbarron you know i think comments are somehow broken ? i push teh button, nothing happens.
Thu Mar 17 16:20:40 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> mod6 ^ ?