ascii_field: and you can't somehow beat microshit and crapple by competing on an imaginary playing field
ascii_field: i am deliberately not even mentioning gpu, because it is possible to have a useful computer with no vga board (e.g., you can speak x11 over tcp)
ascii_field: i picked this example out of a tall hat with many others, to demonstrate the impedance mismatch between the lisp way of doing things and pc iron
ascii_field: i'ma do a worked example for PeterL
ascii_field: phf: THE SIMPLEST malloc() is 10x more complicated than, e.g, the gc engine in 'tinyscheme'
ascii_field: poor old j.c.maxwell gets no rest when this comes up, but i'ma have to use him as example again. he didn't even bother ~trying~ to build a radio...
ascii_field: the 17th floor of empire state bldg is not a fundament.
ascii_field: or room temp supercon.
asciilifeform cannot compete with coolies either in cost or in enthusiasm
asciilifeform: when you desperately need speed / compactness, you use 'cdr coding' which is a cheat whereby you set a bit in the former word which signifies 'next is not an address but actually the next word.'
asciilifeform: which could handily compile itself in a few mSec on boot.
asciilifeform: because then it's a complete and almost usable os.
asciilifeform: i wonder if anybody's ported fabrice bellard's tinycc compiler to this.
asciilifeform: https://github.com/ahorn/xv6/blob/master/kill.c << example of why lions book was a thing
asciilifeform: all-process table. Similarly, theres no malloc() in the kernel, but rather just a page allocator. The pipe implementation copies one byte at a time. Amazingly, even the bootloader is a pleasure to read. Another nice thing about Xv6 is that it comes with a short textbook that explains OS concepts in terms of their implementations in Xv6.'
asciilifeform: 'Xv6 is a rewrite of v6 UNIX in modern C that runs on multicore x86 chips. It compiles in a couple of seconds and is trivial to boot up in QEMU. It took me a while to see the genius of Xv6, which is that it is simpler than I would have thought a working multicore OS with shell and filesystem could be. For example, it lacks wait queues and ready queues in Xv6, both wakeup and scheduling are accomplished by looping over the
asciilifeform: in other 'news', malloc is very very complicated.
asciilifeform: we threw it out, because it is really a harmful thing, but later ended up with an impression that it will have to be - in a separate process, yes - put back, if pogo is to be deployed to civilian households
asciilifeform: this kind of thing can only be implemented as a global thing.
asciilifeform: and at the end of the day, 'v' is a unix proggy and isn't even a compiled thing, and utterly depends on 1,000,001 things that no one has examined since 1991.
asciilifeform: 'v' doesn't deal in secrets, ergo the actual location is unimportant.
asciilifeform: mod6: see if perl doesn't have a built-in notion of temp dirs
asciilifeform: today 'steam' appears to be doing the temporary 'having' of that thing
asciilifeform: when i wrote that piece, there was a very temporary phenomenon where the small-time independent programmer appeared to be a thing again
asciilifeform: someone worked astonishingly hard to make this thing a nearly-incomprehensible morass.
asciilifeform: as a kind of reimplementation of malloc that... uses malloc internally for the segments !
asciilifeform: and (and i could go on and on) the thing is implemented in a profoundly braindamaged way
asciilifeform collected five versions of gpg, not in one is the thing actually implemented
asciilifeform: in all fairness, the prison lenin sat in was a joke compared to present-day
asciilifeform: elsewhere i noted the example of hobby chemistry - where also it seemed that 'how could it possibly matter what derpy kids dare or don't dare to do, and whether they can get ingredients' but it turned out to.
asciilifeform spent more or less his entire free time in the past 2 wks reverse-engineering and auditing gpg, incl. compiled binaries. this has a certain effect on the soul.
asciilifeform: !down imposter
asciilifeform: !up imposter
asciilifeform: and i don't own an impregnable castle where i can leave a machine going.
asciilifeform: the very examples of the 'disposable males overdue for the meatgrinder' as portrayed in mircea_popescu's articles.
asciilifeform sadly contemplates unplugging the thing entirely
asciilifeform: 'What we have to question ourselves is, as a society, do we really want to criminalise 13, 14 and 15 year-olds? Or do we want to understand their behaviour, engage with their incredible skillsets, mentor them and try to point them in the right direction? she said.' << aha, a course of neuroleptics followed by lifetime indenture at junior www dev work in usg sharashka, is the implication.
asciilifeform: 'A humanistic, cognitive psychology approach to hacking would be to consider an emotion such as revenge
But my favourite explanation for the academic literature is a Freudian psychoanalytic approach to hacking, which actually conceptualises hacking in Freudian terms as a cyber-sexual urge to penetrate. And there are castration complex overtones in terms of being cut off from the network as well
'
asciilifeform: i mean, we can infer that kakobrekla's barrel contained a computer and also whatever was required to keep his brain alive and in reasonably well-oiled condition
asciilifeform: ...building a sane computer.
asciilifeform: speaking of this, secmem.c is getting cut and replaced with a stub. because this crud does not belong in mpi, needs to be a quite separate library.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1315773 << have you (or anyone else) considered writing a simple tcp proxy for this ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1315736 << the way to do it is gpg --homedir /tmp/dirthatyoumadefortheoccasion
asciilifeform: likewise, any keys imported outside of 'v' will be applied by 'v'
asciilifeform: ^ this means that attempts to run with smaller subsets of a wot that was ~ever once~ used on the box - will fail !
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mod6 in your 'v', gpg doesn't seem to be confined to a temporary state dir !!!?
asciilifeform: as i understand, cn is only involved in the sense that it is impervious to the usg orc-pushing current
asciilifeform: zfx: i must agree with mircea_popescu. thus far we have only the foggiest notion of what it is you'd like to accomplish
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu posits usa city blacks as examples of 'functional' ?!!
ascii_field: competition is places where 'brain drain' MOVES TO
ascii_field: china is not competition.
ascii_field: the orcs are welcome because they spread chaos and destroy the competition of usg
ascii_field: drowned != publicly impaled on camera
ascii_field: ~who~ wrote mpi, i wonder
ascii_field when reading code where each important algo quotes a knuth aop chapter and verse, the soul fucking sings
ascii_field meanwhile cut another ~100kB of crud off mpi
asciilifeform: concurrently. The defendant is ordered to pay a special assessment in the amount of $300, which shall be due immediately. The defendant shall pay Restitution in the amount of $340,000. The court did not impose a fine.'
asciilifeform: 'I have heard from several people connected to European security circles that the illegal weapons market is completely sold out, with many dealers holding on to their weapons for their own personal use. This is a rumour, but since we have been forced to depend on hearsay for any real information right now, I tend to believe it.'
asciilifeform: but in no case anything pc-compat.
asciilifeform: (when immunocompromised.)
asciilifeform: but otherwise - yes. the latent carriers will develop symptoms as the virus moves from the nerve to the skin.
asciilifeform: ditto compaq.
asciilifeform: ... as a thin veil for usg's 'strategic supercomputing' pig trough
asciilifeform: 'Defense attorneys, for example, had previously said they might seek to point the finger at another suspect Nancy Dunnings late husband, former Alexandria sheriff James Dunning, who had a tumultuous relationship with his wife. Perhaps laying the groundwork in the case, Severances parents and sister disputed Wednesday that Severance was the man caught on surveillance video possibly following Nancy Dunning at a Target
asciilifeform once owned a massive 'tempest'-shielded pa-risc monstrosity
asciilifeform: (paging emperor norton!)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-11-2015#1314362 << something in the mpi pile of shit breaks the regex
ascii_field: have to go find a real computer, yes
ascii_field: and http://www.loper-os.org/pub/mpi/mpi-genesis.tar DOWNLOADS MOTHERFUCKING PARTIALLY
ascii_field: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/mpi/mpi-genesis.tar.gz.sig doesn't load in any version of 'chrome' or 'chromium' also.
ascii_field: does anyone else find that http://www.loper-os.org/pub/mpi/mpi.tar.gz.sig will NOT download in any ver of firefox ?
ascii_field: http://business.asiaone.com/news/woman-badly-injured-exploding-computer-chair << not this one, but apparently ~another~ similar breakage
ascii_field: he assumes that (what he passes off as - i cannot compare it with any objective reality that i can access) usa 'pop culture' is a thing
ascii_field: and even 'Versions 0.2.5 – 0.3.x saved the decryption key (with other data) in their own service file, key.dat. The area containing the key was zeroed out in the file only after completing encryption, making it possible to save the key by interrupting the encryptor’s operation (e.g., by turning off the computer). After this, the key could be extracted from key.dat and used to decrypt all files.'
ascii_field: (or, at least, palpably ~less~ retarded than earlier example)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: https://securelist.com/analysis/publications/72087/the-shade-encryptor-a-double-threat << example of ransomware written by folks who aren't retarded
ascii_field: since when was this even considered acceptable by anybody with two braincells - for version n of a compiler to refuse to build something which n-epsilon did happily build ??!
asciilifeform: whole thing is a trivial example of 'can operate entirely as a small patch on a bitcoind'
asciilifeform: 'To this day I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night. It reached down and cupped me in Its hands, lifting me up from my hole. As I sank to the ground clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked. You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinker's Anonymous poster.'
asciilifeform: and the-ONLY-MOTHERFUCKING-PORTABLE-COMPS-THAT-WORK
ascii_field: (deliberately not released with the mpi, because imho they are separate concerns)
ascii_field: it by itself was a pretty fast 16bit comp with multiple cpu !
asciilifeform is a 2-pass compiler apparently
asciilifeform: every time you stick in the knife, somebody says 'NOOOOOO! this is NECESSARY complexity...!'
asciilifeform: jurov: a good chunk of that complexity is on account of O(N) operations on strings made necessary by variads
asciilifeform: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffutils.git/tree/src/util.c << a good chunk of the complexity IS THERE BECAUSE characters are EVER variadic
asciilifeform: it is a severe impedance mismatch with the unix philosophy.
asciilifeform: because it is inevitably a clusterfuck of complexity
asciilifeform: it is what civilized people use when they program a computer.
asciilifeform: where do i meet all of these mythical people who own a computer, use gpg, but do not know enough english to operate it without this garbage ?
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu didja know that it is impossible to produce a v-genesis for gnupg-1.4.10 ? it contains unprintable turds, yes ! e.g., the idiot 'localizators', po/*.gmo
asciilifeform wonders how far along usa collapse needs to be for this assumption to fade away
asciilifeform: (typical u.s. state uni employs largely 'lecturers', who occupy approx. same place in the org chart as an air conditioner mechanic)
asciilifeform could not help but take off his hat to, e.g., the fella who put off +ev employment until he was 40 and subsisted on chickenshit wage just so that he could teach asciilifeform and other scum algorithms, number theory, etc
asciilifeform: went to school, professoring is just a (poorly-paying) job, and the folks who did it showed no symptoms of conceiving of it as anything else
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: microshit demanded that drivers act as stoolies and search for signs that box is instrumented/tampered
ascii_field: 'Microsoft recommends that drivers be continually suspicious. Is that video decompressor taking longer than you think it should? Did the voltage just drop unexpectedly on the PCI bus? Vista has a concept it calls "tilt bits", as in the "tilt" mechanism on a pinball machine. When a driver sees something suspicious, it bumps the "tilt bits"; if too many suspicious activities happen close to each other, Vista degrades the
ascii_field: https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-pdb << lulzy. microshit publishes spec of their debug dump format (similar to unix 'dwarf') and,
asciilifeform: 'novena' is almost a textbook case of slimeball delusionist attempts to nudge the definition of 'open'
asciilifeform: (hilariously, it was translated to ru on the die - WITH A DICTIONARY - to the point of being nearly incomprehensible)
asciilifeform: emphatically not. copying a (1980s) die is a photographer's work.
asciilifeform: 'The problem is that as long as he completed the worksheet, you wouldn't know there was a problem with doing math until it was way too late. If the kid is clever in other ways-- say, fast at finger counting-- he could easily convey the impression that he understands how to add 2 digit numbers, and what that means, and so everyone thinks he's progressing just fine; only to reach a later point when his clever shortcut is too pr
asciilifeform: after - i find it quite impossible.
asciilifeform: pet: 'like many systematicists, campbell overstates the universality of his patterns'
asciilifeform: at any rate, in practice the thing never shows up unless there's a gang of chimps making a public mess.
asciilifeform: but he decided, for some chumpatronic reason, to pretend that it is a 'leaking fiber'
ascii_field: so idea is, mircea_popescu pays to have the koh-i-noor dug up, the fact of this matter is chronicled in the logz, and anyone who's anyone is to simply believe ?
ascii_field: in the same way as he has the intel dept, mircea_popescucoin squad (whoever maintains that 0.6-compat. thing), etc.
ascii_field: but merely compressed - with an unknown dictionary (the latter, in mask rom)
ascii_field: and yes, this is a kindergarten summary, and yes, if somebody pays for it, i can go and teach 'theory of computation' where we do 'symbol', 'language', 'formal automaton', etc. as rigorously as we want
ascii_field: and what better example can there be of illustration of the concept of 'program' than a music box ?
ascii_field: so we can go there if we like. or to van kempelen's musical boxes if we must.
ascii_field: though telex existed in the 30s, there are nazi examples preserved
ascii_field: we are still emulating the vt100, which in turn emulated this simple machine, telex.
ascii_field: simply that is is a program for a certain kind of apparatus, where the instructions correspond to throwing glyphs on a display
ascii_field: can describe 'text' as a program as well. simply with much larger valid phase space.
ascii_field: 'text' doesn't need to satisfy a compiler.
ascii_field: why share the things that compress so well with prior art.
ascii_field: ;;later tell BingoBoingo https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/95069240?trk=vsrp_jobs_cluster_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A168653501446058347732%2CVSRPtargetId%3A95069240%2CVSRPcmpt%3Ajobs_cluster << add to the balloon story
asciilifeform: e.g., to walk the blockchain, verify a raid array 24/7 in a loop, handle six parallel compiles; store and play the correct bach fugue depending on what emacs modeline is set; etc.
asciilifeform: though perhaps this is a good time to remind people that a sane computer would look quite like an msdos box in some ways
asciilifeform: how much of his life does mircea_popescu spend waiting for compiles? for numbers to crunch? and i specifically mean WAITING FOR A MACHINE not for a human operator to get his shit together
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310480 << substitute 'human compiler' for 'programmer' and suddenly it all makes sense...
ascii_field: or if, i suppose, significant temperature move
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i have 4, of 3 different types. can comment on the characteristics of the particular samples.
ascii_field: and will report you, terrorist, if you tamper.
ascii_field: see also http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/federal-workplace/bs-md-blimps-20150924-story.html
ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea_popescu the fucking blimp broke loose. https://twitter.com/jmvfc8/status/659415973699670016/photo/1
ascii_field: the important thing is that v (at least my version) has no notion of 'current checkout' or whatnot.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-10-2015#1309899 << i originally wanted to build vdiff into v proper, but decided against it, for simplicity.
asciilifeform: it needs two compilers to build ?!!
asciilifeform: i must have missed it: what was the motivation for attempting these chimeras ?
asciilifeform: mats: you do not see complexity per se as a bug ?
asciilifeform: iirc it was compatible with 0.6.something.
asciilifeform: 'A friend of mine who is a quite successful doctor complains constantly about her job. When people applying to medical school ask her for advice, she wants to shake them and yell "Don't do it!" (But she never does.) How did she get into this fix? In high school she already wanted to be a doctor. And she is so ambitious and determined that she overcame every obstacle along the way-- including, unfortunately, not liking it.'
asciilifeform: there is such a thing as having an internal compass, if you will
asciilifeform: this was an attempt to set up an ACTUAL WORKSTATION on top of musl.
asciilifeform: ' Why would Bitcoin XT be subject to censorship? Simply put, this fork proposal calls for something that does not suit the agendas of the people in charge of /r/Bitcoin.' << still this?!!!
asciilifeform: ah i recall earlier attempts at this
asciilifeform: they understood that if they were to simply draw the banner and say fuckit, it would devolve into soup
asciilifeform: at the very least, these people didn't buy into 'the implementation is the spec'
asciilifeform: but it is true, circus trainers have accomplished some amazing things
asciilifeform: thing is, the existence of rampaging pseudointellectuals does not invalidate actual life-of-the-mind as a thing.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2015#1308996 << not the same. 'know how fridge works' is still in the keeping of a life of the mind. whereas 'be impervious to ambush in dark alley' is (barring very few exceptions, philosopher-soldierieng-mircea_popescus of various strips) ~not~.
asciilifeform: for n00bz, i will point out that is is possible to build a computer where, e.g., buffer overruns, is PHYSICALLY impossible
asciilifeform: what's left is 'you open the box and there is a mess of 16nm tamper-resistant undocumented silicon, have fun'
asciilifeform: as for the batshit element, there is a stable of folks, working (publicly known since at the earliest 2001, but likely earlier) to 'undo the mistake' of the general-purpose computer
asciilifeform: and chumps beg for moar.
asciilifeform: this keeps in perfect fitting with the 'computing industry'-as-a-protection racket business model of the last 20+ yrs, where it 'solves' exclusively those problems which it, itself, creates.
asciilifeform: one is the microshit/palladium/fritzchip/treacherous computing (see rms essay by same name) totalitarian batshit
asciilifeform: i thought it was more of a 'sympathetic magic' (term of art re: shamanology) item
asciilifeform: ('need a computer, that is lightweight, but for taking to a place where it is likely to grow legs, e.g., airport)
asciilifeform: anyway 1st step to using one of these boxes as something like a computer is reformat, naturally.
asciilifeform: the jumper in the samsung is a circular sticker of conductive rubber in the upper edge of the mb
asciilifeform: also typically there is a write-protect jumper on the eeprom in the box, that has to be removed.
asciilifeform: (e.g., i had a vivisected arm chromebook with me in romania, as disposable comp.)
asciilifeform: for some years i have experiment, on and off, with transforming them into something like a computer
asciilifeform: dell's 'chromebook 11'. but keep in mind 1) it requires heavy-duty massage to transform into something like a civilized pc and 2) 'mil-std' is not 'stops rifle bullet' but simply means it passed some degree of traditional vibration, dust, water tortures.
asciilifeform: speaking only of the particular pet, it is innocent of makeup, and has purse solely because pockets are not consistently implemented in woman's clothing
asciilifeform: simply that we're encoding constants as ternaries ?
asciilifeform admits that he was very tempted to do precisely this. but went in for 'absolute minimum of moving parts' for the current experimental item, for reasons which are not difficult to understand
asciilifeform: to be clear, i was speaking of emulated computer, not a physical one
asciilifeform: but you would actually have to buy the same computer he had
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: sbcl is an interesting beast. there are really two compilers (and before anyone asks, their semantic idempotence is neither proven nor provable) - a bootstrapper, in c, and a battlefield variant, in itself.
asciilifeform: ;;google treacherous computing
asciilifeform: or microshit's 'trusted computing.'
asciilifeform: also - as mats knows - or ought to know - 'trusted' is a usg shibboleth for 'resists attempts at understanding or modification by putative owner'
asciilifeform: the result FROM MY CHAIR is that the code is MORE COMPLEX
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in 1950s usa, 'benzo' meant benzoamphetamine.
asciilifeform: gentoo simply appears to be the worst-looking horse in the glue factory on account of not having a protective coating of bullshit
asciilifeform: complicated. most aren't 100% dead
asciilifeform: it is relatively simple if you are mircea_popescu and the only thing that needs to run is lynx and gpg 1.4
asciilifeform: a year or so ago i chronicled (see logz!) my attempts to get a toshiba 'libretto 100ct' vintage ultraportable going with something like a reasonable unix
asciilifeform: simple explanation
asciilifeform: but the basic lesson, which is for some reason hidden behind a thick veil of shitsmoke, is that c is not built to be reasoned about mechanically, ergo relying on the compiler to save you from yourself is retarded.
asciilifeform: (has others, which appear when you pull this jumper off. but not this one)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-10-2015#1306752 << seems like a very basic thing: the 'hersheyization' of sex ('everybody gets a wife') inevitably leads to 'If you think it looks stupid when a 40 year old man buys a convertible or has to go find himself or chases a 20 year old intern' and a caste of priests tasked with convincing chumps that ~this~ is - somehow - sanity.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: there were a bunch of important things which did not work.
ascii_field: so it is not simply a matter of highlighting text on a www page.
ascii_field: anyway it remains simple to get actual chocolate, at least near major urban centers in usa (where ru immigrants live.) but as an ~ingredient~ it has become very scarce. i've largely given up on ice cream, for instance.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1305946 << a good chunk of what he owned was nearly-worthless swampland. which he pawned off on the new government, and it became... modern washington, d.c.
ascii_field: what? your computer is from 2007 and you expect to use it a decade from now? terrorist!
asciilifeform: i must admit, i was tempted
asciilifeform: d not waived the governments sovereign immunity from such suits, it lacked jurisdiction to entertain Waltons complaint, which it therefore dismissed.'
asciilifeform: 'In a thirty-four-page opinion, the Court of Federal Claims dismissed Waltons complaint for lack of jurisdiction. The court held that the suit could not be maintained because the statutory provisions governing copyright infringement suits against the United States (28 U.S.C. § 1498(b), discussed in Part II infra), do not permit such suits by prisoners in Waltons situation. The court further held that because Congress ha
ascii_field: (if there were a recovery prompt, as in normal sys5-style init, it would be fixable. as it is, whole thing - os lives on nand flash for which i haven't the emergency reflash clips - is a writeoff)
ascii_field: from the lulzatron: http://freebeacon.com/national-security/jimmy-carter-offers-help-for-russias-bombing-campaign-in-syria
ascii_field: https://tpbonion.com/torrent/3769989/Symbolics_Open_Genera_2.0_for_Alpha_-_complete_package_with_Lisp << afaik the 1st comment on this mega-t0rr3nt was the only thing dks ever said in public
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: from my distant perch i cannot say whether the butugychag school of thought has given amazon any advantage vs the other great halls'o'humancompilers.
ascii_field: 'Bezos runs a company, not a playground for millenials. He runs it to make a profit...' << the last bit is technically a mistake...
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: complete with 'ударники', firings of 'bottom x%', etc.
ascii_field: there are a few of my attempts in the logz.
ascii_field: gabrielradio, mircea_popescu: lulzy piece. ought to be accompanied with a drawing of 'man of the future' - a two-metre cock with small legs (like caterpillar's)
ascii_field recalls scene from 'silicon valley' where a rich fella (fictionalized steve jobs) compares his troubles to that of jews in germany
ascii_field: attempted maidfuck
asciilifeform: my attempted point was precisely that, not being escobar, many more places are uninhabitable from my pov, because i cannot afford to terraform them.
asciilifeform: (it is not a mere display monitor, but actually its own - 16-bit! computer.)
asciilifeform: which 1) uses incompatible, unreadable on any modern system whatsoever, electrical interface
asciilifeform: problem is not simply that it is oversized.
ascii_field: BingoBoingo, ben_vulpes, other aficionados: http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-VINTAGE-COMPUTER-SYMBOLICS-XL1201-LISP-MACHINE-/221915599560
ascii_field: 'Another, even better, way that can be executed pre-authentication was found later. In fact, when looking deeper into the firmware code we noticed every time the status VSC is called, the raw RNG bytes are masked with a static value. This static 4-byte value, 0x271828af, is xored with the 4-byte RNG output. Further this value is xored with the last 4-byte SY N value before sending the value to the host computer. Using the
ascii_field: (although limonov is prolly not the metric here, as he was almost entirely the same animal as orwell - complete with 'ritual' visit to a war, even got to fire a rifle, yes! cummed in his pants)
ascii_field: d the detail of our lives is just as sordid and degrading as it could be in prison, let alone in a bourgeois army.’ Many other things reinforced this impression later; for instance, the boredom and animal hunger of trench life, the squalid intrigues over scraps of food, the mean, nagging quarrels which people exhausted by lack of sleep indulge in.'
ascii_field: thing is, a situation like this is impossible without barbed wire & guards (in one form or another)
ascii_field: 'Comparing this plot to 10000 4-byte values retrieved from /dev/urandom ( Figure 6 ), gives us a strong
ascii_field: 'i need to compute the volume of hydrogen in this bottle' 'compute volume, take the pressure....' 'i've never seen the bottle!'
ascii_field: no. i do have a secret pasttime of reading just about anything written by prisoners, in all times and places, with emphasis on modern americans. but i cannot pretend to be an expert.
asciilifeform: not entirely relatedly, there is apparently a broadway musical about alexander hamilton. (for non-u.s. folks, a contemporary of george washington, famously killed in a duel.) so the inevitable, sacramental question: when do we get an equally duel-romanticized play about galois ?
asciilifeform: 'There are a few simple seeming functions in libc which turn out to be quite complicated under the hood. You call a function expecting a simple result, but then libc runs off and opens a bunch of sockets to remote servers and chats them up. This makes setting up a robust sandbox difficult and error prone. (Wait, what? Why is ls creating sockets???)' << lulz
asciilifeform: how 'lawful personal users' are to get their dope without contact with 'lawless impersonal' dope-dealing caste, remains undefined (because whole shebang is a joke)
asciilifeform: it is merely the introduction of a new layer of chumps, 'lawful personal users' - who do not even need to physically exist to support new layers of 'moar studiez needed' mandarins, enforcer thugs, etc
ascii_field: http://www.terranimpact.com/site/projects/x-ray/x-raydetect.php << buy tube, build.
ascii_field: (in his 'computing power and human reason')
ascii_field: 'Surprisingly, Dropcam’s privacy policy doesn’t warn customers that the government could seize the cloud-based video from their cameras or tap into their live-streams, and doesn’t state under which circumstances the company would comply with such a request. (Update: And law enforcement has come calling with warrants.)' << ahahaha
ascii_field: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=18996 << for aficionados of '23andme' and related chumpatrons
ascii_field: aha, so they can start the 40% interest chumpatron going early in life
ascii_field: originally had a meaning: shops with $maxint funding and complete vertical integration for virii production (pipeline of 0day mining, proof of concept, weaponization, deployment) etc.
ascii_field: 'A perfect example of the perils faced by researchers was provided in a separate talk at Virus Bulletin by Costin Raiu, director of Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team. Raiu revealed that when he was involved in the analysis of Stuxnet a few years ago, someone broke into his house and left a rubber cube with the message “take a break” written on it.'
asciilifeform: then what does it mean? work through the example with the old woman, for my education
asciilifeform: not precisely. more that ~redemptive humiliation~ only exists for young woman.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: work this example. so schmuck sat down on this broomstick. now what happens ?
asciilifeform: but what would 'stop' look like? let's have a worked example ?
asciilifeform: since mircea_popescu unearthed tlp again... http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/02/the_rage_of_the_average_joe.html << exemplifies my least favourite aspects.
asciilifeform: yes, it is. the example i am sitting on right now weights perhaps half a tonne, occupies most of a small room...
asciilifeform: mod6: phun phakt: google has reviews for, e.g.: nsa campus. federal prisons. 'a+++, would rot again!' etc.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'This working stiff is required to use all sorts of radioactive waste in the pursuit of his daily work. HTML, CSS, JS
functional programming languages that incomprehensibly compile from one AST to another in a vain attempt to keep my mind safe from the radiation of the underlying
' << could be worse. you could do all of this and also be poor.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: not even. implicit in this hypothesis is some kind of bargain - that there will be eating.
asciilifeform: but you did! trompi !
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-10-2015#1301140 << kogge had an entire encyclopaedic work on the subject, with dozens of examples from 1980s-90s >> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=21-03-2015#1063060
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: 0.6 didn't have importprivkey...
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-10-2015#1300865 << interestingly, they are ~not~ in the mpi seen in gpg 1.4.10... hence the 'where??'
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu for whom does gnu-mpi have the jacobi, legendre, kronecker, lucas knobs?! i have failed to turn up any instance of anyone ever having used them. or even tested.
asciilifeform: 'malleability' vector - any idiot can, presently, flip it, and both variants compute as valid sig.
ascii_field: yes but imposed.
ascii_field: 'This 1 Simple Trick "Fixes" Your Erectile Dysfunction.'
ascii_field: anyway in usa it is a very simple matter, as described by herr orlov: near-everybody there is 2 or 3 missed paycheques away from hobo-dom.
ascii_field: hobo trump.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: this is as interesting as computing the odds of being chinese.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-10-2015#1299791 << who the hell ever heard of an employed ammonia-atmosphere-breathing dragon
ascii_field: ianal, but the implication is 'no jail if you come home, but don't expect supplies or rescue if you're in a bind, or good pr'
ascii_field: camera is expensive, compared to doing nothing. cheap compared to sending men on airplanes.
ascii_field: and, to the extent it is used as popularly imagined ('two parties with no prior relation') easily mitmable and impossible to use as intended even in principle.