asciilifeform: mats: chinese dun colonize, they 'demolition farm', and it has already begun long ago, see the soy article on trilema.
asciilifeform: incidentally, what, if anything, was the chinese reply to clinton blowing up the cn embassy in belgrade where the wreckage of the 'stealth' was hidden ?
asciilifeform: when has the monkey dance ever failed to entertain them ?
asciilifeform: every exploded trunk in that depo gets replaced and each replacement bought some wanker in north virginia a house.
asciilifeform: and incidentally, this goes for everybody, i'm collecting dd if=/dev/random of=shitball.bin bs=1 count=8388608 && dieharder -a -g 201 -f shitball.bin && ent shitball.bin outputs from anyone who can be bothered
asciilifeform: phf, ben_vulpes , et al : can any of you describe to me how /dev/random works on crapple's os ?
asciilifeform: modding 'flashrom' so that it would use a pci bus hanging from a sage instead of the local one would be fairly simple. unfortunately i do not have time presently, being deep into something quite else.
asciilifeform: kmalkki: i reversed it, the spi is written the same way it would be if you were running, e.g., 'flashrom', on the board - by issuing pci writes