WTF?!?

[maradydd]

If you're not watching the live CodeCon stream, you just missed zooko hack a laptop to pieces with yoctohedron's axe.

Yes, really. It was a little bit hard to tell exactly what happened in the 320x240 window, and the sound was off, but apparently zooko now owes yoctohedron a new axe.

I think this might actually beat out "isolating DNA with common household items" as most surprising CodeCon demo ever. I note also that yoctohedron had a support role in both...

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[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

I'm slightly acquainted with Zooko. At last week's Boulder LUG he announced he was going to destroy a laptop to demonstrate the Tahoe file system.

http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Whoa ... Extreme hacking !! Literally.

[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

I couldn't help thinking... Oh I hope it wasn't a mac :-)

zooko the performance artist

[(Anonymous)]

interesting demo with an axe. The axe fails and is not redundant, but the failure mode is a graceful degradation, as the handle may still be used for destruction using the same api. The data was recoverable.

some of the laptop parts escaped the stage. But it's safer than plastic explosive, i guess...

I hope the video is posted later!

[gpshead.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Because I didn't have the stream up at the time.

I hear the first swing missed the laptop and left the axe head embedded in the stage off of the handle. ;)

[kragen.livejournal.com]

So the stream works for you? I wonder why it doesn’t work for me or node. What software are you using?

[mutiny.livejournal.com]

You can't top a presentation that starts out with "Those of you in the first three rows might get wet" and really mean it.