asciilifeform: complete with hole!
asciilifeform: because the one i live one is a bit different. the orcs compete to swallow max saheeb cock, while feigning 'rebellion.'
asciilifeform: 'I got a reply from Lenovo on my Best Buy review about why the BIOS on my Yoga 900 ISK2 UltraBook has been set to stop people from using Linux. This system has a Signature Edition of Windows 10 Home installed. It is locked per our agreement with Microsoft. ... The Lenovo employee posted about locking the thread. Basically, he called me disruptive and then said that if they had to, they would turn on pre-approval so that nobody can co
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-21#1546310 << rk is a very special d00d, used to write me letters of 100+kB nearly-incomprehensible ???. lives in canada, on an insanity pension, in some garret.
asciilifeform: you won't find conlangers attempting to speak klingon to strangers on the street, nor to force elvish into school curriculum. afaik.
asciilifeform: historically folks tried to deal with the problem via elaborate impalements etc. but it was never satisfactory solution.
asciilifeform: this owing, it is not comparable to schmuck owing on his car loan.
asciilifeform: (and, evidently, rms employs one...)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-21#1546195 << it even has a name, in their camp, 'nonattributable'. sometimes backfires - e.g., the mandatory use of rc5/6 in usg trojans, is now quite 'attributable'
asciilifeform: adversary is real, is is simply that his weapon of choice appears to cause death by boredom.
asciilifeform: it isn't even entirely clear what anyone might hope to accomplish, beyond the merely annoying, by screwing with phuctor
asciilifeform: in case it wasn't clear, they were dumping'em in phuctor's hopper
asciilifeform: the copy protection used a serial number embedded in the sage box's cpu (stellaris arm-compatible)
asciilifeform: serfdom is the simple, low-tech employment - minus the (expensive in overall terms) hiring and firing
asciilifeform: 'renovations' is a chumpatron second only to the real estate scam, in usa
asciilifeform: cardboard house is built to last ~exactly as long as the chump's mortgage.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: with the former, you're feeding crapola from strangers into a turing-complete latextron.
asciilifeform: latex comments are a dodgy thing imho. it's turing complete...
asciilifeform: amd made its own debugger for its boards, i even have one here, but it has never been satisfactorily reverse-engineered, isn't gdb compatible. i have a brand-new one here, in its crate, waiting for its day.
asciilifeform: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160920/#52 << be aware that if you find a sage box, you will need to solder the connector (it is a simple job, but the header is a ~metric~ one, see the pcengines schematics)
asciilifeform: 'What there's need for is people to sit down with a cup of coffee and a (preferably printed) copy of the code and just read it through. This can be done in bits as long as the bits aren't arbitrarily segmented (it's ok to summarize a procedure, it's not ok to summarize between lines 520 and 545). Once we have a few of these completed we're already very far down the road.' << mpoepr
asciilifeform: n in fiascoes like this one. Specification is the way out of it, and most importantly specification is the way out of having you idiots create fiascoes like this one randomly, one at a time, for the unforeseeable future. ' -- mpoepr
asciilifeform: it isn't even about 'attack surfaces', but for getting maximally compact description. i.e. fits-in-head.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it helps to remember that the blockchain is ~not~ in actuality a simple linear sequence
asciilifeform: at no point is the notion that 'irrelevant' foobar will dissolve the bottle, the desk, the floor, the house, your mother, and you, and the town - contemplated.
asciilifeform: there ~isn't a pro computing market.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: they trivially, six time before breakfast, make it ~impossible to reproduce your comp
asciilifeform: programmers have a mindboggling lack of grasp of basic ecology even compared to illiterate afghani goat herders.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider emplacing the thing into the #t subjline
asciilifeform: lel, the victi^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers complain when you don't patch, and when you do...
asciilifeform: crapple box is quite comparable to a stainless steel prison toilet - it resists whatever attempt at modification, either by user or whatever shitware he syphilitically encounters
asciilifeform: hat the PEGASUS surveillance malware was using completely new kernel vulnerabilities to takeover iOS devices and that Apple heard about these problems for the first time mid August 2016. Unfortunately after having reversed what kernel vulnerability has been used by the PEGASUS surveillance malware a completely different picture emerges: The kernel vulnerability known as CVE-2016-4656 was only still in the code because Apple patched C
asciilifeform: in other lulz, 'In the last two weeks many security professionals have praised Apple for reacting lightning fast to the PEGASUS threat that has been actively exploited in the wild. This praise was given because the parties involved kept samples from independent 3rd party researchers and did not reveal any detailed information about the kernel vulnerabilities involved to the public. Without this information the public simply assumed t
asciilifeform: phf (and any other interested folk) if you have a bit of spare change, buy yourself a 'pcengines api2', either 2 or 4gb model, it's this comp that comes with schematics. then we can play.
asciilifeform: phf: jmp but strictly in the interp's state machine.
asciilifeform: it lives in l0 and no jmp ever goes out of l0 .
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-18#1544569 << i've been toying with the notion of 0 compiler
asciilifeform: ahahaha lamport is idiot and i'm d'artagnan lolk.
asciilifeform: objection was, fundamentally, 'os that prompts for pw is promisetronic, can retain pw if it wants'
asciilifeform: to which there was a counter, 'cipher with hardware interposer between disk and comp'
asciilifeform: so at the time, the logical objection was 'pwned comp will merrily present the familiar pw prompt and decrypt for enemy'
asciilifeform: it isn't impossible, there were various experiments, e.g., https://github.com/dym/movitz/blob/master/losp/x86-pc/dp8390.lisp
asciilifeform: well let's work the example phf
asciilifeform: at any rate, i would have implemented a 10baseT nic driver, IF ANYONE COULD SOURCE THE FUCKING CHIP
asciilifeform: nope. describing the various uses of a comp
asciilifeform: ^ does not successfully run any example of the actual chip i was able to get my hands on.
asciilifeform: oh did i mention that i surveyed other folks' attempts, e.g., https://github.com/ReturnInfinity/BareMetal-OS/blob/master/os/drivers/net/rtl8169.asm
asciilifeform: there ISN'T a 'simple' nic.
asciilifeform: everybody simply took vendor's magic routines.
asciilifeform: i actually sat for 6 months or so and reimplemented this thing in asm
asciilifeform: i hunted for years and found what imho is the simplest GB/s-capable nic, the rt8168. here is the linux driver, https://github.com/mtorromeo/r8168/tree/master/src
asciilifeform: let's do what mircea_popescu asked and work a concrete example.
asciilifeform: there is not, and will not ever be, a 10 page useful compression of it.
asciilifeform: no, it was a ~reasonable~ point, but when you go and try to actually implement it, on actual iron, it drives you to nuttery. because the thing is encrusted with unfathomable layer of undocumented turdolade and 'no this doesn't actually work, because fuckyou'
asciilifeform: pointing out that the intrinsic complexity far exceeds linux, bsd, whichever c os, kernel.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the two are really not comparable.
asciilifeform: much simpler animal than common lisp, or for that matter than any type of compiler. but imho it is the correct way to bootstrap.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the equivalence, in practice, is a null - different structures take vastly disproportionate effort and moving parts to implement, depending on machine design.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: getting 10,001 pyramid slaves to hand-compile the compiler into asm with ~guaranteed same semantics~ as the original, isn't even a financial problem, it is problem with 'planet hasn't this number of people who can meaningfully participate'
asciilifeform: thing's got a compiler.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: americanism for 'uv-b lamp'
asciilifeform: but gotta reproduce the bug. or we're doing the mpb thing.
asciilifeform: phf: aha. when i get back to actual comp, i'll dig
asciilifeform: ( lol, i'm not the only one who was ever tempted to eat'em ?!! )
asciilifeform: complete with the obligatory weary dr. brin face.
asciilifeform: big morgues, where they parked the lamports.
asciilifeform: adlai: you do know what happened to lamport, right ?
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/02prx/?raw=true << whole lamport thing , as found in http://www.loper-os.org/?p=41, de-pdfulated
asciilifeform: 'When people who can’t think logically design large systems, those systems become incomprehensible. And we start thinking of them as biological systems.' -- from lamport's 'The Future of Computing: Logic or Biology' (2003)
asciilifeform: the empty sheet of paper + the standard is a good alternative.
asciilifeform: trinque: also it isn't a given that tinyscheme is necessarily the best starting point for implementing a civilized scheme
asciilifeform: ## Recompiling CMUCL is not an exact science... ##
asciilifeform: ( for n00bz/readers - yes, the compiler of sbcl was in fact called 'python'... quite a bit prior to the scripting language )
asciilifeform: (the compiler in sbcl)
asciilifeform: or does it simply ring a bell.
asciilifeform: whether scalpl or mpb.
asciilifeform: it takes, what, all of 10 or so hrs, pumping via a direct link
asciilifeform: and not just the 'gore', but complete kit, with chix 'butterflying' themselves while they spray it out, etc
asciilifeform: (and though the algo is infinitely parallelizable, it has 0 parallelism as implemented by the idiot)
asciilifeform: no, it is symptomatic of block verifying
asciilifeform: there was another instrumenter that compiled in, and worked in real time, see june/july '15 ml
asciilifeform: 'The long-planned participatory (shall we say) sculpture by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan — a fully functional, solid 18-karat-gold copy of a Kohler toilet, an over-the-top apotheosis of wealth — was installed in the humble restroom on the fifth-floor ramp of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum late last week and will be open for business to anyone with the urge on Friday...'
asciilifeform: none that i can tolerate the company of for >10min or so
asciilifeform: anyway this is one of the few pc compats ever made that could run on 4 'aa'.
asciilifeform: eh i bet he at least emptied it.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes if you're the sort of fella who buys houses and builds compartments for the dogs and sons and etc. (and you are), buy a fishing set, you won't regret.
asciilifeform: it's why the americans made hollow walls to begin with! simple place to shove the wires.
asciilifeform: and there is ample room for it.
asciilifeform: anyway mircea_popescu is mistaken: http://www.first-hand.info/image/fig(1.1-9).png << 2stroke diesel motor does not use the crankcase for compression.
asciilifeform: largely forced compromise in small petrol 2cycles
asciilifeform: bitcoin is moved between holders by issuing a tx. attempting any other method, under the guise of 'transacting in bitcoin', is fraudulent of the sender, and idiotic of the receiver.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: understand, 'physical btc' is dumb because it makes promises that are physically impossible to keep. if you simply shove sheet of paper with privkey at someone, you at least have no illusions about possible pitfalls of doing it.
asciilifeform: eh this here's a high-class latrine, with imperial human pigwimminz
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when, e.g., mod6 goes into the forest to teach woman how to shoot a turkey, he presumably does not do it because the individual turkey was important.
asciilifeform: emble or convert into human readable form any part of the Product or Software or create derivative works based on, or any competitive or emulating software, service or solution using, any Product or Software; ' << moar lel
asciilifeform: 'Restrictions. You shall not: (a) except as expressly permitted herein, reproduce, duplicate, copy, disclose, sell, resell, sublicense, distribute, assign, transfer, give away, loan, lend, lease, publish, pledge or create a security interest in the Software or use the Software other than in connection with the Product on which it is included; (b) modify, port, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, unbundle, repackage, decompile, disass
asciilifeform: it is not especially hard to make physically-indistinguishable device where i know privkey in advance before giving the 'uncopyable' item to a chump.
asciilifeform: gotta love the neverending attempt to make water non-wet.
asciilifeform: i even offered to dks to make formal commercial partnership to build clone, and he gave impression that he was interested but unfree to agree
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: lulzy pinoy campaign. appears to promote the idea that there is such a thing as being successfully double-spent against as a user of actual bitcoin.
asciilifeform: mod6: i simply followed trinque's recipes verbatim, one after the other.
asciilifeform: mod6: i'm thick. point finger to the important bit plox
asciilifeform: rather than my attempt to summarize.
asciilifeform: it simply will not necessarily line up with anyone else's.
asciilifeform: it is quite untrue that logging is impossible in a gossipnet
asciilifeform: 'Recently, some of the major companies that provide the basic infrastructure that makes the Internet work have seen an increase in DDoS attacks against them.' << taking this at face value would mean what ? how does one ddos a backbone router ? or lemme guess, he paints dns as 'essential infrastructure'.
asciilifeform: a slightly clever mpbot would be guided by what is actually said to it (grep the from:mircea_popescu lines for words or even fragments of the query and return shannonization of immediately subsequent from: s)
asciilifeform: ^ example that is probably on your machine already.
asciilifeform: 'German chemicals giant Bayer has confirmed its record-breaking $66bn takeover of GM seeds business Monsanto - a deal that would create the world's biggest seeds and pesticides company.'
asciilifeform: mptron!
asciilifeform: hell knows i fight the temptation to also go every day.
asciilifeform: perhaps it's just the usual rc6'd control packet from ftmeade for the implant in my left arsecheek. etc
asciilifeform: what, some dude fucking a ??? behind a dumpster ?
asciilifeform: 31333333337 terrorist even though broke no written law? now explain this comp full of cp.
asciilifeform: however a rocket is a considerably simpler device than a recoilless rifle, with the vortex tube, and is the correct solution to 'fire from a floating turd'
asciilifeform: synchronicity is incompatible with long-term sanity.
asciilifeform: aha. and so it looks like this is a replay of the iq thread - it is quite impossible to specify 'smart', but trivial to specify stupid; impossible - good fuck, easy to describe a useless one; the list of horrible food is easy to make (start with, say, asphalt) but not so of tasties; etc
asciilifeform: which presumption ?
asciilifeform: the only computer program that qualifies to be thought of as an ideal object is one which fitsinhead.
asciilifeform: the fundamental mistake of 'spec by gcc' is to consider a large computer program as an ideal object.
asciilifeform: if it turns out that it is impractical for one man to wrap his head around a cpp compiler, it is cpp that will have to vanish
asciilifeform: ( you do not, in point of fact, even need a digital computer; there were ODE solvers before the computer, and before the transistor. )
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i know 0 about it, it was simply mentioned in thread.
asciilifeform: rather than from same impracticality as 'the 10-34 thread is this here screw in washington'
asciilifeform: the impracticality of 'code as specification' is wholly from the nonexistence of sane programming systems
asciilifeform: k into that voting booth and out of spite pull the trigger for Trump. '
asciilifeform: 'One thing I've observed which is interesting which is that a lot of people will not admit that they're going to vote for Trump but you see it in their eyes. ... they're just keeping mum about it because their own family members will turn on them if they announced the fact that they're about to vote for Trump. There's going to be a huge number of men, specifically, angry ones who keep their anger hidden most of the time, who will wal
asciilifeform: in other orlols, 'In terms of where the Soviet Union stood beside the United States for instance, in the '70s during the oil embargo and all of the troubles that the US was going through, the economic troubles at the time, the Soviet Union was looking pretty good. In fact, that's when we left the Soviet Union thinking we were going to this dreamy place. We got there and it's a dump. It was just an unbelievably sad sight.'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: aha, anything! but impaling thieves.
asciilifeform: and i have reason to suspect that mpb is catastrophically defective and fails to pass tx to trb (which, recall, is a reference, one does not get to say that it is broken in vs the unpublished mpb) under certain circumstances.
asciilifeform: half the time i do not even know if he is speaking of a trb -- or mpb! node.
asciilifeform: at any rate, aside from the 300byte/block index, the rest of the load depends on mempool , and in particular mempool fragging.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-13#1540897 << sounds like a ~complete spec right here where it stands
asciilifeform: well given as ben_vulpes was likely connecting to my boxes, he is seeing a quite similar mempool landscape to mine.
asciilifeform: 'The Libtiff library, which has been a reference implementation of TIFF for many years, has disappeared from the Internet. It was located at remotesensing.org, a domain whose owner apparently was willing to host it without having any close connection to the project. The domain fell into someone else’s hands, and the content changed completely, breaking all links to Libtiff material.'
asciilifeform: so simple cunt harvest ?
asciilifeform: phf: it was a mindfuck a year or two ago reading about burningman's internal usg camp.
asciilifeform: desolder the old one with copper wick, do NOT simply cut it off !
asciilifeform: (the fw is not complicated either.)
asciilifeform: you can also make own, if you like, it is not complicated.
asciilifeform: i know of no example with anything but plastic props, incidentally.
asciilifeform: that's the other thing - impedance mismatch between weapon and airframe.
asciilifeform: very simple to manufacture, also.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you cannot compensate for dynamic instability (roll, spin) 'over time'
asciilifeform: the motors are too small to adequately compensate for the 'jerk'.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu : more 'bang for the buck' if parasitically ovipositing on rooftop chimneys, lights, street lamps, similar.
asciilifeform: (he had - and afaik still has - a 'drop sealed champaigne bottles from airplanes, with messages, track currents' project)
asciilifeform: trinque: no especially good reason. plane with well-programmed comp can probably just as well keep station.
asciilifeform: it would significantly complicate enemy triangulation, if you had a great many.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this presupposes a 100% landing rate, and a time 0 to encipher and fill the stick, and then to empty it
asciilifeform: all emphasis re wings is on ~not falling off~.
asciilifeform: but yes, it is 'freeform' in the sense where no algebraicism (as in rivest's, or the popular OAEP) is imposed, and the output can be as long and entropic as one likes.
asciilifeform: it is a brain-meltingly simple algo, somewhat like 'v'; and inverting the transform with partial info is provably equivalent to halting problem.
asciilifeform: -- an 'all or nothing transform' (term of art) that, unlike, e.g., rivest's, does not rely on the strength of any hash, nor symmetric cipher, nor imposes algebraic structure.
asciilifeform: i will add that, despite the ~total impasse, this has been the most enjoyable public dialogue i've partaken in, in quite some time.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i drop this here in attempt to coax the lazy folk to join us on your www.
asciilifeform: for anyone who, like phf, has been 'waiting for dust to settle', here's (imho) ~impartial summary: mircea_popescu demands one particular aspect of correct gossiptron: repudiability; and is willing to newjersyize ('best-effort') everything else. asciilifeform demands that the entire thing have strength on par with the basis crypto. mircea_popescu points out that this building demands an escherian, if you will, brick. asciilifeform - d
asciilifeform: as with my 5btc leesedol bet a while back, and 1,000,001 folks' other examples.
asciilifeform: researchers. But it also represents an approach that bypasses the sort of legal maneuverings and threats, suppression of information, and inaction that have been experienced by researchers who have discovered vulnerabilities in other products. Researchers who discovered a vulnerability in Volkswagen electronic engine locks, for example, were forced to withhold a paper for two years through a court injunction filed by the automaker in
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/faRIr << and somehow we missed this gem. 'Trading in the stock of medical device manufacturer St. Jude Medical was halted Friday afternoon after a dramatic drop in its value. That drop was triggered by news of alleged vulnerabilities in the company's cardiac care devices. The vulnerability was disclosed not in a report by the company, but by security researchers partnered with Muddy Waters Capital, an investment fi
asciilifeform: vs modern american engineer who gets 28 flavours of ice cream in company cafe.
asciilifeform: why do folks force compression into bignumatron ?
asciilifeform: even THERE ordinary run-length compressor would solve same problem
asciilifeform: i dun get it. what would be the use of a tx timestamp
asciilifeform: 'I do not know why Satoshi did not decide to include a transaction time stamp. It's only 4 bytes, and it is a valuable piece of information that people really need access to. For now, all you can do is use the timestamp of the block and hope that's close enough for government work. And by government work, I mean close enough for tax and accounting purposes. Since the value of bitcoin is very volatile and can go up and down by mas
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes gives a marvelous example of binary-types usage in subj link.
asciilifeform: 'CoinTelegraph author Rebecca Campbell asked "If Bitcoin Had Sex, Could It Be Female?"' << wat
asciilifeform: so all else equal, they want chump to pay N times, vs 1.
asciilifeform: attempting to bill the gym per-minute, with a 0.1 fee tx every minute, would be braindamaged though.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-10#1539002 << i must point out that this is a strictly temporary situation. miners have ZERO incentive to mine 'old coinbase tx' for 0fee.
asciilifeform: trinque, ben_vulpes : the first tipoff that one can immunologically zap own spermatozoids came not from alzheimer's patients, but from folks attempting to have vasectomy reversed
asciilifeform: or do these, also, do something exciting and unexpected in the land of the pampas cat.
asciilifeform: begs the question, why not simply communicate over this magical submarine cable to begin with ?
asciilifeform: just like the idiot 'tamper seals' that are trivially broken every day, not only by usg but by turd world pissant secret services, merely by penetrating the ENVELOPE.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: there is nothing simple about it.
asciilifeform: what i've referred to as 'station key' is simply a nonspoofable substitute for the ip address.
asciilifeform: simply because something was said in the castle of mod6 , does not mean that it was he who said it.
asciilifeform: dunno, when folks post pr0nz i generally picture that it exemplifies what gets them going. or at least isnt wholly unappetizing. then again we also have BingoBoingo's material.
asciilifeform: 'Lastly, it must be noted that there hasn't been any significant amount of these specimens on the market in approximately 25 years, and they are often only found in old collections. Recently I was informed that a Korean mining company has started a large commercial operation at Corocoro, specifically mining for Copper, leaving little possibility that more of these specimens will available in the future, or at least until the mining op
asciilifeform: evidently there was something more to it than cranking the pump.
asciilifeform: reimplement in what sense ?
asciilifeform: deedbot and mircea_popescu in this example.
asciilifeform: i fully grasp what mircea_popescu wants to accomplish here, but it does not work with his stated mechanism.
asciilifeform: is that a 100amp mains cable feeding into the cow skull ?
asciilifeform: >> http://trilema.com/2013/a-simple-example-as-to-why-fiat-institutions-cant-stand <<
asciilifeform: said to weigh between 10 and 30 kilograms and be able to “spray radioactive material”, possibly uranium, on the enemy. It was impossible to verify the account given to Radio Free Asia, which is funded by the US government.'
asciilifeform: epidemiology is not canceled simply on account of inability to point finger to a physical agent.
asciilifeform: trinque: there was no 'merit' implied in 'anointed poodle'
asciilifeform: and resist any attempt at a cure.
asciilifeform: we have here an arguable case of 'что русскому хорошо, то немцу — смерть' -- they cannot risk to import sanity.
asciilifeform: and also: 'The beauty of the headphone cable is just like the beauty of a tampon string: it is there to help you keep track of a very important item, and help you fish it out of whatever nook and cranny it might have fallen into.'
asciilifeform: heads, leucrota, manticores, vultures, paranders, weasels, dragons, hoopoes, owls, basilisks, hypnales, presters, spectafici, scorpions, saurians, whales, scitales, amphisbenae, iaculi, dipsases, green lizards, pilot fish, octopi, morays, and sea turtles.' -- eco's 'name of the rose'
asciilifeform: c (but more importantly, the c ~machine~, with its single hardware stack) encourages, and just about mandates the 'crashing is acceptable because there is NO practical way to handle ALL error conditions sanely' idiocy.
asciilifeform: i'd simply colour brazil brown on the big map in the map room and move on...
asciilifeform: and so even a simple c proggy by a competent pair of hands is a MASSIVE ball of check-and-fail-as-such-or-such-or-such...
asciilifeform: complicated mechanisms breed cockroaches.
asciilifeform: the old cryptolib, by this token, was gmp. as seen here, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1533
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-08#1537040 << you don't need automatics. separate v trees are simply kept in separate dirs, etc.
asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-June/000104.html << dumpblock with illustration.
asciilifeform: and we had this entire test where my node ate a total dumpblock of mircea_popescu's
asciilifeform: $s dumpblock
ascii_zimbabwe: BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/patches/asciilifeform_and_now_we_have_block_dumper_corrected
ascii_zimbabwe: 'dumpblock' it.
asciilifeform: about same % as in, e.g., mining camp ?
asciilifeform: (i ~wish~ i were making this up... but: the 'rationalists' have this... sacrament? where they sit around in infinitely recursive stupour, contemplating 'future self')
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/9BsSX << in other lulz. 'A classified U.S. document, dated from 2005, cautioned spy agency employees against revealing the truth. “It is important to know the established cover story for MHS [Menwith Hill Station] and to protect the fact that MHS is an intelligence collection facility,” the document stated. “Any reference to satellites being operated or any connection to intelligence gathering is strictly pro
asciilifeform: n00bz are slowly disassembled into component atoms and - on occasion - reassemble themselves into something that is interesting to have conversation with.
asciilifeform: alice_: think of it as a kind of boot camp.
asciilifeform: 'Yegge accidentally made an internal Google memo public on Google+ in October 2011. His 3,700-word comment garnered major media and blogger attention for Yegge's pointed commentary criticizing the leanings of the company's technological culture (such as labeling Google+'s minimalist and, in his view, lackluster public platform "a pathetic afterthought") as well as for his comments about his former employer, Amazon (such as calling Am
asciilifeform: i had this mike, and a modern one, as a boy, and compared.
asciilifeform: ah so no ampoule phone yet.
asciilifeform: $s ampoule phone
asciilifeform: !!s ampoule phone
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: largely by familiarity with the process. i personally grew up doing it. and this is 3rd example i run into publicly to date (others being mr mold and terry davis.)
asciilifeform: trinque: 'nothing for showing up' is quite physically impossible with tcp.
asciilifeform: 'GB-OS has standard UTM features which can be augmented with subscription options that enhance the firewall capabilities. ' << can chump buy a working rng??
asciilifeform: i can picture some nut in a jail cell, to whom they gave a computer. for 20 years. and we get this.
asciilifeform: quite like what, elsewhere, a well-written compressor does.
asciilifeform: http://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Ecological_Building/A_Pattern_Language.pdf << 1333337 w4r3z. but my impression is - claptrap.
asciilifeform: 'Christopher Alexander is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for his seminal works on architecture including A Pattern Language, Notes on the Synthesis of Form, and The Nature of Order, Volumes I-IV. He is the father of the Pattern Language movement in computer science, and A Pattern Language was perhaps the first complete book ever written in hypertext fashion.'
asciilifeform: 'Really, I think it’s too late for mainstream “Linux”. It’s gone. It’s done. Geeks of the world were easily fooled by a shiny new toy and a corporate propaganda campaign to match, without considering the engineering implications. You can still use a real (systemd-free) version of Linux, or move toward the BSDs, but if you stay with the easy-to-use, polished distros, you’re no longer really using Linux. You’re just fooli
asciilifeform: hoose to use corporate-maintained tools like OpenSSL, which are deeply compromised. Do you think the people responsible for HeartBleed were held accountable, and fundamental changes were made? Guess again. It’s simply ignored by most of Linux. (You’ll notice real UNIXes like OpenBSD did not ignore it and have begun serious changes. Yet even there, it took such a serious, obvious exploit for them to see the engineering problem.)'
asciilifeform: 'Remember Heartbleed? Don’t let that example escape your attention. OpenSSL is open, yet it is so large and poorly designed that it’s a dark mystery. Heartbleed was easily shown to be a deliberate hack, and was even deliberately coded to hide itself from tools that would otherwise have shown the leak. And it was sitting there in ‘open’ sight. Instead of using small, well-reviewed crypto libraries, corporate Linux developers c
asciilifeform: litism, simply put. The 1%. ... It’s much like politics – one wants to throw out the lot of them and start from scratch with real people. I know for a fact I don’t want either of these people working on security-related code in MY OS. Get lost, permanently!'
asciilifeform: ' Anyone who doesn’t know what he knows or who doesn’t behave/speak in the conventional way these developers speak is merely a troll, not worthy to partake in a discussion among the priests. And in his view Henson is simply too big to fail, too big to be held accountable for his actions, in this or any case, because he is part of the crypto establishment. We see these same patterns in politics and banking for example – it’s e
asciilifeform rereading vintage golden lulzies, http://trilema.com/2014/a-complete-theory-of-economics/#comment-107389
asciilifeform: 'While the Data Protection Commissioner was examining the BND in Bad Aibling, the secret service ramped up its equipment for 300 million Euros. And while the Commissioner waited for an answer to her report from the Chancellery, the government drafted a reform bill for the BND that not only legalizes the organization’s actions, but even increases its powers. This legislative package is scheduled to be adopted this year and will pres
asciilifeform: 'The Data Protection Commissioner is convinced, her supervision authority also extends „to SUSLAG and its staff members“. Therefore, she wanted to inspect this core area of BND-NSA collaboration. But the BND also blocked these attempts. The Commissioner and her staff are not allowed to enter the building and not even allowed to know how many people work there...'
asciilifeform: example of an actual dead end that i had to explore the hard way.
asciilifeform: it was example.
asciilifeform: etwork router product line. By impersonating the device, an attacker can obtain the credentials of administrative users and perform a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack. Tropos has validated the vulnerability and produced an embedded operating software update that mitigates the reported vulnerability. According to Tropos, products are deployed across several sectors including the transportation, energy, water, emergency services, and cr
asciilifeform: 'This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability that impacts Tropos Wireless Mesh Routers. An independent research group composed of Nadia Heninger (University of California at San Diego), Zakir Durumeric (University of Michigan), Eric Wustrow (University of Michigan), and J. Alex Halderman (University of Michigan) identified an insufficient entropy vulnerabilitya in SSH key generation in Tropos Networks’s wireless n
asciilifeform: tropos is part of the 'vertical and horizontal' thing, in the sense where it is one of two dozen or so 'partners' for making sure that usg knows daily output, in millilitres, of oil well in venezuela, or that if texas breaks away from the ussa, it will not have working sewage pumps, etc.
asciilifeform: these are transformer farms, water pumps, security cams, etc.
asciilifeform: 'Memphis, Tennessee is known for rock ‘n roll and slow-cooked barbeque, but those aren’t the only good things coming out of Bluff City. Soon, residents will enjoy the perks of a successful smart grid rollout, too. In an effort to modernize the grid and enhance internal operations and customer service, Memphis Light, Gas and Water is deploying 1 million smart meters within its 784 square mile service area. ABB has been selected to
asciilifeform: trinque: the compiler thing deserves its own thread.
asciilifeform: and not simply a matter of 'no one tried hard enough to piss in our particular soup'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i don't grasp the need for a global 'humanity filter.' working wotronics implies that folks will assortively peer by degree of muppetry, and this imho suffices.
asciilifeform: incidentally, less time than it takes to tell man from muppet by playing go (how many folks even play above 1995 computer level ? does mircea_popescu ? )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now there is a 'complicated' 'let's talk for five minutes'.
asciilifeform: i have nfi, trinque , but 'read and understood the complete c stack' is a proposition on the scale of 'built undersea cities and no one noticed.'
asciilifeform: and if you have not read and understood every single page on it, you are unfit to even contemplate subj.
asciilifeform: trinque: c machine is physically incompatible with understood software stack.
asciilifeform: there is also the fact that making wholly new arch , on new model of computation, is lunacy, of the precise kind that no respectable confucian would contemplate.
asciilifeform: the last thread had a quite complete summary of the history.
asciilifeform: i have 0 interest in using or improving facebook, either.
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2016/there-is-no-difference-between-the-byzantine-generals-problem-and-the-prisoner-dilemma/#comment-118811 << thing has 0 to do with socialists, communists, fascists, americans, the great zimbabwe, etc. it is wholly about hard limits on gluing ~reliable machine from unreliable components.