assbot: The failure modes of "democracy", from people who actually know what they're talking about. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/19X3dsV )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm not entirely sure this is to go on the head of Andreas Jaeger.
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mircea_popescu: anyway asciilifeform no you're not the first to notice. you're the first to notice who is actually connected and thus powerful.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> in other words, it only applies to code that the user himself has compiled << in other words, it is by its very definition dekulakization. run the fucking code usg & dept of friend computer say you run, terrorist!
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> -somebody- saw it fit to break static linking on gnu platform in the traditional microshit way - suddenly, silently, and 'for your own good' (TM) << and the fact that silently worked tells mike_c why qntra market cap would reasonably exceed the sum of the market cap of all computing publications available.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation once we settle in uclibc, uclibc gets killed.
mircea_popescu: much easier than to try and you know, buy all pogos, as alf was discussing.
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mats: ^Parameters of the nuclear deal with Iran
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mircea_popescu: mats anything above and beyond the "they succeeded making their own nuke, further sanctions superfluous" ?
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mircea_popescu: 300ish ships somehow sounds unimpressive. like a minor chinese port.
mats: “What they are doing with patrols is just the tip of the iceberg. It is not just the number of the ships, but within five to eight years they will have about 82 submarines in the Asia Pacific area and we will have about 32 to 34"
mircea_popescu: "all of which will be running on chinese made ic anyway"
mats: mircea_popescu: no, just the usual implicit 'fear the chinese' byline
mircea_popescu: yeah well... it seems reasonably obvious that the usg's very uppity policy is insanity on the mid term. they need us a lot more than we could ever need them. obviously a bit of humility today will save a lot of abject humiliation in 2025, but in any case
mats: only the first third is worth reading
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mircea_popescu: no idea why anyone'd entertain mildred gillars posing as a "comedian", but hey.
mircea_popescu: in any case : that particular leak, and the much less publicised but much ampler leaks since, are not important because "people on the street"
mircea_popescu: you can by and large identify disinfo by this very idiotic "person on street" bent.
mircea_popescu: the ordinary streetwalker couldn't explain how a car engine works, either. that doesn't make car engines unimportant.
mircea_popescu: if this were how the world worked everyone'd be john oliver.
mircea_popescu: but the pretense that his thinly veiled propaganda is "real journalism" is indicative of the state of the usg propaganda machine, be it daily beast or wapo.
mircea_popescu: ie, they really abandoned any attempt to communicate at all, and satisfy themselves with browbeat. supposedly this works on the stupidest of the working class.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Applied a patch, cazalla's one this though.
BingoBoingo: It's alright. I was only just working on a sandwich of ham... because no jew to be seen behind this IRC nick.
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cazalla: <mircea_popescu> there wa sa buttercoin ?! <<< been around a while actually but done the pivot thing a few times or something
mircea_popescu: well luckily ver invested the money he doesn't have into a new way to butter the coin!
fluffypony: I commented on the Hackpad where we were shooting ideas around
fluffypony: (afair it was for a decentralised exchange)
fluffypony: no, not beyond commenting on the hackpad
fluffypony: after that they seemed to veer off and create a "buttercoin team" and "productise" it
fluffypony: instead of building it out as an open-source effort
mircea_popescu: which hackpad thing reminds me : re the earlier hacker news piece - i find it hysterical the agitprop is seriously pushing the "and they got on skype" angle.
mircea_popescu: here's a clue : no decision of any import was ever taken on skype.
mircea_popescu: the people who take decisions aren't on skype. the people who are on skype don't take decisions.
mircea_popescu: "We're having trouble talking to the Hackpad synchronization server. You may be connecting through an incompatible firewall or proxy server.
mircea_popescu: We were unable to connect to the Hackpad synchronization server. This may be due to an incompatibility with your web browser or internet connection."
mircea_popescu: yeah totally. i have incompatible internet. incompatible TO STUPID
cazalla: i was on skype no less than 1 hour ago lol :\
mircea_popescu: fluffypony kinda funny how the "decentralised exchange" is the webwallet of 2015.
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cazalla: "Cobb allegedly uploaded images of child pornography to the social networking site, Tumblr."
mircea_popescu: "In this article I am going to show you how to create an executable that runs arbitrary code if it's examined by `ldd`. I have also written a social engineering scenario on how you can get your sysadmin to unknowingly hand you his privileges."
punkman: "1985 called, they want their exploit back."
punkman: so, don't ldd as root n' stuff, in case you didn't know
mircea_popescu: of course, in the converse view, a sysadmin that actually fucks with your binary on a valuable box...
mircea_popescu: i had to do a dbl take see if he actually put html cruft in his poc.
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nubbins`: so i'm still not able to reproduce the portartronic pogotronic static build
nubbins`: totally have the static binary here, just... can't replicate the build.
nubbins`: and my patience has limits so this is on the back burner for the next week or so, at least.
nubbins`: fwiw it's just a matter of ripping out the chunks of boost that don't belong
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ascii_field: 'If you believe "static linking" to mean something else from what I
ascii_field: described above, please enlighten us all!'
ascii_field: ^ examples from folks noticing The Boojum and grasping at air while trying to understand why they are being lied to
ascii_field: essentially, 'this -is- the new static linking. forget about the old one'
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ascii_field: '"I suppose the idea is that everything will be in the downloaded file, so nothing depends on the local libraries on the target system. Unfortunately with Linux, and I think anything else using GLIBC, this still isn't quite true. There's this "libnss" (name service switch, some people seem to call it network security system) which provides functions for accessing various databases for authentication, network information,
ascii_field: and other things. It's supposed to make application programs independent of the separately configured actual network environment of the machine. A nice idea, but changes to GLIBC can lead to problems loading it. And you can't statically link "libnss", since it is configured for each machine individually. The problem comes, I think, mainly from statically linking other GLIBC libraries, notably "libpthread", "libm", and
ascii_field: "libc", from which come incompatible calls to "libnss" functions."'
mircea_popescu: in the wake of my "who shat the libnss" investigation tptb have agreed something must be done about this.
mircea_popescu: what's now needed is an expert computer engineer willing and able to take over maintenance of libnss, starting with fixing it so it allows proper static linking.
mircea_popescu: you will be helped by the glibc team but you.absolutely.must.know.what.you're.doing.
ascii_field: why not shoot it in the head and maintain uclibc's ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, if one's interested feel free to contact me and i'll either say gtfo or tell you what you have to do. if you'd rather avoid the record of the gtfo feel free to discuss privately.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i began reading the glibc source last night
ascii_field: must say that 'fix' is not the appropriate word
mircea_popescu: you being one of the perhaps five people that did it this year,
ascii_field: can you 'fix' a roadkill baking in the sun ?
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mircea_popescu: but, regardless. every journey begins with a frenzied fuck and a sad kiss goodbye.
ascii_field: dns is pure gold as a pwnhole vector, incidentally
mircea_popescu: at least from what i've pieced together from what people have been reciting to me as bedstories since my involvement in bitcoin
ascii_field: (solidly usg-controlled and no one other than us appears to smell the stink of the beast!)
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mircea_popescu: yes. "and what happens if letter server sends you crafted package ?" "huh ?!"
mircea_popescu: "no that doesn't happen" "right" "you don't understand how the world works!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, it was good enough for the webpage + guestbook era, which is back when it shone. everything goes away eventually, and the duct tape and chewed gum contraptions holding togethere the everyman's arpanet especially so.
ascii_field: when i did a tour of duty as a perversely purposeless employee of university, the cellar below my office, one flight of steps down, was a dns root serv. peculiarly well-guarded and fortified for something so low-traffic (root dns servs get used hardly ever)
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ascii_field: it was the one part of the grounds where one could not wander at will
ascii_field: multiple doors, each opened with fancy electric keys, etc.
mircea_popescu: this is a business now. derps actually hope to make money out of this. someone might care about domain names still, because they did pre 2001, because dotcom people were idiots
ascii_field: these schmucks bought up hundreds of thousands of 'valuable' domains. naturally they will try to monetize before fellating their pistols
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mircea_popescu: the part i like best is the scamconferences they organise where they go to spend a coupla days in alt.universe where HUGE DEALS happen and stupidity is "an industry"
trinque: godaddy is now valued at what, 4 billion "dollars"?
mircea_popescu: their yearly total gross attained 1% of yearly expenditure in no year since 2001.
mircea_popescu: unlike pretty much anyone, including google and facebook/ godaddy is like apple.
trinque: huge revenue, pretty slim profit; I'm looking it up
trinque: dunno how you burn that much cash selling an imaginary product
trinque: this I guess is how usg creates jobs
mircea_popescu: was discussed here. that ho being their "image" what's her name ?
ascii_field: trinque: easy. they're the only registrar with tv ads
mircea_popescu: right. the bitpay "method", except they're doing out of their own money.
ascii_field: their business model is unabashedly populistic-chumpatronic
mircea_popescu: trying to be fucking aol over here, huge corp with by far shittiest product.
mircea_popescu: luckily, the 80s are long gone, and this strat simply does not work.
mircea_popescu: kinda not bodes well for government, either, this state of affairs.
trinque: ascii_field: yep, you too can have your very own 'website'!
ascii_field: works great. sell joe the alcoholic bomzh 'joethealcoholicbomzh.com' for ten bux
trinque: post-dot-com business in a box
mircea_popescu: ascii_field except the last perso who bought was later indicted for terrorist bombmaking.
trinque has trouble seeing the value in something that continues to lose money, but then, he's a simpleton
mircea_popescu: "i make a loss on every sale but hope to make it up on volume"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it's the other thing people use other than uclibc
ascii_field: if weighs less - worth at least considering only on that merit alone
ascii_field: (but so far does not appear to be the case)
mircea_popescu: give or take, but i'm not really crazy about the difference between 5% and 3% either way
ascii_field: was speaking of brain mass, rather than bytewise.
ascii_field: aha. but must remind readers that they are not one and the same.
ascii_field: (for pathologically degenerate case, see my fpga tale from conf-II)
nubbins`: " The problem comes, I think, mainly from statically linking other GLIBC libraries, notably "libpthread"" <<< we're using that one
mircea_popescu: im kinda surprised "spvs" didn't get banned last time tbh.
mircea_popescu: OUR GREAT LEADER WAS SLAIN BY SOMETHING IN A ROUND BOX THINGEE! ROUNDBOX THINGEES ARE NOW BANNED!11
mircea_popescu: "Pinterest board observer raised $200 million in three days to buy more shareswith startups blessing" << almost exactly different from how a ponzi is run,
Pierre_Rochard: my favorite was “Data analytics provider Palantir Technologies Inc., which was valued at $15 billion last September, turned to an SPV arranged by Founders Fund, a San Francisco firm headed by billionaire investors Peter Thiel, according to people familiar with the deal.”
mircea_popescu: aaanyways. it's a safe enough model for as long as inflation holds, because it's based on nominal figures. known as the hyperinflation debenture frenzy.
Pierre_Rochard: Peter Thiel is a co-founder of Palantir, convenient for him to arrange a deal!
ascii_field: ^ for anyone who was living in a sealed bunker for the past few yrs, 'palantir' is one of the direct subcontractors to nsa panopticon wares
ascii_field: it is also perhaps the most comically named of them all
ascii_field: 'we serve the ultimate evil' loudly bragging, right in the name.
ascii_field: sorta like the skull on the ss uniform, but more so.
mircea_popescu: dude for all the pretense they put forth ... they've been gone for a month and i've not yet run into a mourning woman ?
mircea_popescu: wtf is this world where such great things can go out and not even a billion people show for the burial.
mircea_popescu: generally, illness in humans is manifested as a contraction of the "presence bubble". you may sit in your bed thinking of things as far away as a continent, but the man in pain sees nothing past his nose. and the man in love, past HER nose.
mircea_popescu: mental disease is no different, diseased states are always narrower than sanity.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: except that diseased state happily contracts the megalomania out to a hundred various 'mengeles' each of whom focuses on the insides of a particular variety of designated untermensch
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mircea_popescu: it also doesn't work, necessarily. if it did, we wouldn't actually need bitcoin to solve the specific problems it solves.
mircea_popescu: in which we find out that openssh does not wish to bestatic linked, and this by design.
mircea_popescu: this, of course, was pre HB. now they might be more amenable. lol.
ascii_field: if anything, the muppets are emboldened by the gotterdammerung which did not come
mircea_popescu: of course, the original was a fucking cycle of operas.
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nubbins`: "Guess we all know why theymos has been hanging out in the transvestite hangouts now. He's embezeld the forum donations to turn Bad Bears P into a V so he could be his B and he gave him admin privalges so you could come here to take out his frustrations after he rams it up his ass until he bleeds. "
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ascii_field: '...sliced off his GPS ankle monitor and affixed it to a crudely built contraption in his rural New York residence "in order to give the appearance that he was still present and moving within his home."'
ascii_field always assumed these have tamper traps like the neck-bombs from the film 'deadlock'
BingoBoingo: Maybe the assumption of a tamper trap is normally enough?
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: doesn't hold against competent victim
ascii_field: perhaps it is best to be thought a complete idiot, in this specific scenario.
BingoBoingo: Right, but if the designer of the trap isn't competent...
ascii_field: judge: 'I want Mr. Ceglia -- sir, you need to understand something about me. I have no compunction about taking people's parents' homes away and heaving them homeless on the street -- none whatsoever.'
ascii_field: 'THE COURT: As I said I am perfectly happy to bankrupt them. I am perfectly happy to take their real estate and to sell it, if that is what they choose. '
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mats: .engineer domains can nao be rented for the low low cost of just $50,000
mats: reverse.engineer can be had for $48,000
mats: watta 'premium domain'
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assbot: Logged on 02-04-2015 21:17:32; mircea_popescu: might as well make your strategy "to get really really fat"
lobbes: Or is it simply: "Don't make yourself a target for usg" ?
lobbes: Surely wealth alone is not enough, but it does allow some 'power' does it not? Either way, I'm just some schmuck aspiring to wealth. Not sure how much I'm qualified to speak on such things.
lobbes: Anyway, I got some reading to catch up on. As you were, logs
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mod6: is there one specific site that you pay the .ar reciprocity fee?
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mod6: do i need to make a login id?
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assbot: Logged on 06-04-2015 21:16:42; ascii_field: -- but evidently not ?
mircea_popescu: it just sort-of works provided a) lemmings and b) some very basic nonsensical assumptions.
mircea_popescu: but yes, ductape it on one of those robo vacuum cleanners... "nobody could have foreseen"
assbot: Logged on 06-04-2015 22:30:17; mats: reverse.engineer can be had for $48,000
mircea_popescu: i don't think there was ever someone unemployed in that field, ever.
mircea_popescu: even fucking air traffic controllers have slumps, once or twice a century one's unemployed. maybe two if it's real bad.
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assbot: Logged on 06-04-2015 23:06:50; lobbes: Surely wealth alone is not enough, but it does allow some 'power' does it not? Either way, I'm just some schmuck aspiring to wealth. Not sure how much I'm qualified to speak on such things.
mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
mod6: ok all set on the reciprocity fee. sorry for the bother.
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mircea_popescu: "There is no total figure available for the total cost inflicted by the multi agency investigation though $19,604 was paid to Delphi Technology Solutions, the firm which handled the ransom payment for Tewksbury. "
mircea_popescu: this pretty much explains how the thing work. "in order to pay 500 bux to terrorists we must first pay 20k to our own people!"
funkenstein_: cyberlocker not only helped their security but also boosted GDP
Vexual: 20k guys must have had negotiation privilege
mircea_popescu: i suppose as the dea goes bankrupt the ex-dea agents move on to helping local police "fight terrorism" at the rate of 20k for every .5k paid out
funkenstein_: now that they've seen a real one they can start faking them
BingoBoingo: I wonder how many petty traffic, weed, and misdemeanor tickets would have been unprosecutable if they didn't pay the people to pay the turroristas
mircea_popescu: something they couldn't even legally do, which is why they had to bring in delphi for 20k.
mircea_popescu: more on point : i wonder how many people didn't have to pay their tickets because had intelligent lawyer who disputed chain of custody claims of police.
BingoBoingo: I wonder if the cheiftain did math on fines they's collect on vs. Delphi's bill
BingoBoingo: It doesn't even really take an intelligent lawyer.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anything's possible. in this case tho, the discussion is whether it's possible without the subject's will.
ben_vulpes: turns out the argentines want *translated* court documents demonstrating name change, *and* they want the translations *notarized* and they want the *notarized shit* bearing a apostille, which today i learned to be a thing.
ben_vulpes: this, i suppose, is what i get for being a us subject
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It just sounds so much like the Pogo linux situation
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: yeah i uh changed my passport to my new name
ben_vulpes: but the entry fee is registered to the *old* passport.
ben_vulpes: i know how to pay the reciprocity fee, jackholes
mircea_popescu: yes. well. visiting argentina will turn out to have been the largest expense of your namechange.
ben_vulpes: i take some solace in the confusion it'll bring to my poor lizard obama agents.
mircea_popescu: "That's why I decided to make a "deblobbed" version of OpenBSD."
BingoBoingo: Thing seems to be mega crankbait impersonating legit crank
mod6: <+asciilifeform> shits out a barcode to print << yup. $160.00 USD for U.S. citizen
gribble: thestringpuller was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 days, 15 hours, 7 minutes, and 19 seconds ago: <thestringpuller> ^- close the bet
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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu when reading older trilema articles, i notice the odd trackback to contravex, but not so much on the newer articles. are these getting stuck in your spam filter of late ?
pete_dushenski: come to think of it, the "bitcoinpete" links had a much higher success rate than contravex
pete_dushenski: as we know, wp sucks a donkey's cock, but it still seems odd that none are getting through these days
pete_dushenski: but if it's just the filter then i thought i'd give you a heads up
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu that's what brings this up, but to be honest, your instructions are over my head!
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu what, i've never traversed a database before
pete_dushenski: i was all excited when i first read the article, then soon realised that i had miles to go
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform trompi is a very common name for a cute small toy elephant. romanians have names for everything - for instance azorel is what a cartoon dog should be called ideally.
mircea_popescu: this was elevated to divinity, a sort of fsm, by the people making the robotzi cartoons
mircea_popescu: and i received their revelation in my heart and have converted to the cult of the most reverable trompi, the divine.
pete_dushenski: "Nobody can move into bitcoin, take it over, change the protocol or do whatever nefarious thing you can imagine, and force everybody to continue using it. Why not? Because altcoin." << um. might need to check those premises again, funkenstein_
mircea_popescu: (the incantation literally is, "Trompi squeeze your balls and make it rain")
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski it may be the filter, i dunno. kinda impossibru to debug from my side.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu aite, if it's not in your filter, it's not there. i guess we'll just have to blog platforms to the list of 'internet pillars to rebuild'
mircea_popescu: it's not like the entire cookbook isn't actually given there eh ? ready for copy paste.
mircea_popescu: how are you going to play eulora at this rate ? beg jews to binarize it for you ?
assbot: O hai. I was justing doing a penetration test of your site. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1aErKnM )
mircea_popescu: today ... "For some reason or another, I can't see all of this content, it keeps disappearing? Are you taking advantage of java?"
mircea_popescu: spam masquerading error reports nao, the world simply can't exist w/o wots.
mircea_popescu: this strange idea that people would discuss things with script robots.
mircea_popescu: "if you conceivably have to forward my stuff to anyone, get off the line, i'm important."
mircea_popescu: certainly. most of gdp in the "service economy" is exactly akin to running a bunch of elizas at each other.
mircea_popescu: theatlantic spamsite adds exactly nothing, hinders plenty.
decimation: asciilifeform: heh, I'm not sure if I'm running 'airos' on my edgerouter
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure. but it is the historical repository.
decimation: asciilifeform: ah so does it only tftp on boot?
Vexual: you know, when i saw it first, i thought it was meant to be glenn stevens
mircea_popescu: you think there exists anyone competent working in argentina, for instance ?
assbot: #243 – An interview with Macrofab – Macro Manufacturing Mechanization | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast ... (
http://bit.ly/1C8zMMq )
mircea_popescu: yeah, right. do you know what the fat feminist said to the other fat feminist ?
mircea_popescu: no, it's, "because if we did or if we didn't, we still don't get any"
Vexual: despite the botox, still very expressive
mircea_popescu: because, there's like eight of them, and none of them have time for our stupid shit.
mircea_popescu: such as you know, apostiles, or whatever. allah on a stick.
mircea_popescu: just like tewkwhatever, mass can't get security experts.
decimation: ^ why? because you don't want to ship your strange
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform understand, nobody's denying men will go to the end of the earths. they will. but only with fredericus.
decimation: asciilifeform: ugh, the ubquiti os has hardly any tools
decimation: but then I would need a mips64 build host
ben_vulpes: perhaps i am behind the times, but is there a buildroot config that's been passed around?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4383 @ 0.00028522 = 1.2501 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16567 @ 0.00029012 = 4.8064 BTC [+]
decimation: interesting here's the partition layout
decimation: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
decimation: /dev/sda1 2048 292863 145408 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
decimation: /dev/sda2 292864 3710975 1709056 83 Linux
decimation: and it starts at 2048, so that's probably the bootloader?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28550 @ 0.00028012 = 7.9974 BTC [-] {2}
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I have/had plans to acquire one
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which is why the patches have to stay unpublished.
decimation: asciilifeform: they have weird stuff mounted for storing configs:
decimation: none on /opt/vyatta/config type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,nr_inodes=300000,mode=775)
mircea_popescu: It was the first, and being first, was best, but now we lay it down to ever rest. Now pause with me a moment, shed some tears.
mircea_popescu: For auld lang syne, for love, for years and years of faithful service, duty done, I weep. Lay down thy packet, now, O friend, and sleep.
mircea_popescu: it is possible he never had any through no fault of his own.
decimation: ^ascii, one wonders if you can replace the 'failsafe'
mircea_popescu: like if i behead you i might not get any pancreas tissue on the blade.
decimation: admin@ubnt:/dev$ cat /dev/mtdblock0 | hexdump -C | head
decimation: 00000000 10 00 01 3f 00 00 00 00 42 4f 4f 54 bf 6a 14 53 |...?....BOOT.j.S|
decimation: 00000010 00 c0 00 01 00 02 4e 22 00 06 70 20 67 0c 5e e5 |......N"..p g.^.|
decimation: 00000020 ff ff ff ff c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 |................|
decimation: 00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
decimation: 00000200 10 00 02 08 24 1a 02 00 10 00 02 04 00 00 00 00 |....$...........|
decimation: 00000210 10 00 02 02 00 00 00 00 10 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
decimation: 00000220 10 00 01 fe 00 00 00 00 10 00 01 fc 00 00 00 00 |................|
decimation: 00000230 10 00 01 fa 00 00 00 00 10 00 01 f8 00 00 00 00 |................|
decimation: 00000240 10 00 01 f6 00 00 00 00 10 00 01 f4 00 00 00 00 |................|
decimation: asciilifeform: would you be interested in a dump of that?
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9617 @ 0.00029242 = 2.8122 BTC [+]
decimation: I think you can download the 'open source' turds from ubquiti
decimation: mtd2 appears to be a configuation area, it starts with a hex string that equals my h/w serial number
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 03:14:49; asciilifeform: 'There are actually two copies of the bootloader in the NOR flash: the first one is failsafe, and doing bootloaderupdate will replace the second image. Basically after the CPU comes out of reset, it boots the failsafe bootloader image (the first one) in the NOR flash. The failsafe finds and boots the actual bootloader image (the second one) in the NOR flash. This bootloader then loads the kernel from
decimation: asciilifeform: do you think that jtag will show something that these mtd turds don't
decimation: possibly. it would probably require considerably detailed examination to watch the thing boot
decimation: ^ to be clear, I have edgerouter, not 'airmax'
decimation: no he said that they would have to wait awhile and fill out usg forms
mircea_popescu: decimation from what i've seen, the deal with iran is exactly like the deal with cuba and every other deal conquered US has entered into :
mircea_popescu: they agree to everything the op demands, and pay for the paper memorializing it.
decimation: yeah but usg ensures that they have a press op where they say the opposite
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