asciilifeform: and arsebooking

asciilifeform: the rest - warming chair

asciilifeform: with .1 doing anything describable even charitably as work

asciilifeform: yeah, factory, office, etc. still 'employs' the 10

asciilifeform: now this - surely.

asciilifeform: the former, afaik - not

asciilifeform: the latter proposition - documentedly happened

asciilifeform: well the way i read the thread, it was about hypothetical 'if these 3 folks stay home, the trains stop' vs classic sov 'i'ma be a furnace stoker instead of engineer because fuckyou'

asciilifeform: presumably you and i would notice if they decided to vodka instead of work one day

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: well the thread was about hypothetical 'three good men' who keep the lights on

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: plox wake me up when this

asciilifeform: i love it when mircea_popescu takes 'my' traditional side in argument - e.g., as seen here, argument ad metacocksucknsa ☟︎

asciilifeform: e.g., determine ACTUAL % of derelict houses

asciilifeform: i can think of 1,001 illicit uses

asciilifeform: (not that such shielding is esp. feasible in the general case)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lulzily, somehow usg has not caught up with the profusion of cheap thermovisors that it itself (via massive subsidies) caused, and they've no meaningful shielding

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: a cultured man will eat pistol before living in porchmonkeyland

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you too see l0gz

asciilifeform: seel0gz

asciilifeform can't wait for mircea_popescu to wake up and comment 'you are imbecile, and reason like a slave!1111 REAL MEN can, MUST subsist on the bone marrow of their enemies! what filthy coin'

asciilifeform: on what coin

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: well no shit. also helps that in real life there is not a 'gulch' for them to escape to.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-14#1466537 << for some peculiar reason, 'atlas' never seems to 'shrugged' in real life. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-14#1466523 << or even 1980 ☝︎

asciilifeform: and yes, it is the harness which reddit et al are powered by, just like horse harness works because the animal likes going forward

asciilifeform: there is this notion that writing can turn meaningless waste of life into some sort of condensed meaning

asciilifeform: it is a frequent pasttime of the dying, the quasi-dead, and the living dead, at least those among them who are even semi-literate

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-14#1466517 << prisoners, when they can get hold of a pen, also do it ☝︎

asciilifeform: (incidentally why should usg be doing ~all~ of the thermo-journalism!? time for free men to do their share..?)

asciilifeform: but it would do the trick.

asciilifeform: i dun have a thermovisor atm so can't tell for 100%.

asciilifeform: esp. popular in cities

asciilifeform: most of'em ~are~ substations

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-14#1466510 << there is a house, in a washington suburb, next to a certain restaurant that i sometimes take pet to, it has iron door and 'high voltage sign', and claims to be an electric co substation, but has normal utility wire going to it, and sometimes lights (and curtains) in the windows. i always say, 'this is cia safehouse, perhaps i can apply to be dismembered here' ☝︎

asciilifeform: davout: evidently!

asciilifeform: no spy recruit booth, i am mega-disappoint!11111

asciilifeform: and holy shit, 3blox of queue for ro

asciilifeform: i dun get it, why leech from my site vs sks

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-14#1466491 << notrly ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it had the biggest discone antenna i've ever seen on a roof

asciilifeform waves at 217.70.197.244

asciilifeform: somebody really caaaaarez!11111

asciilifeform: somebody's snarfing all of the /download/-able keyz off phuctor

asciilifeform: in other lulz,

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm about to see expo at ro embassy. anything specifically lulzy there to watch for ?

asciilifeform: turducken?! the man is a coprophag ?!@

asciilifeform sweeps desk at rupturefarmz

asciilifeform: i read hanbot's articles way back when and that was it.

asciilifeform: after n yearz

asciilifeform: lel i still can't bring myself to read it

asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo http://www.techworm.net/2016/05/chinese-shame-data-pla-officials-jack-ma-tycoons-leaked-twitter.html << from same rag.

asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo http://www.techworm.net/2016/05/philadelphia-police-spying-citizens-using-spy-truck.html << qntra ?

asciilifeform: the other boojum is that factoring a ~typical~, vs. 'ideally' generated 1024-bit key, is quite likely much cheaper yet.

asciilifeform: waiwut

asciilifeform: 'oh you oughtn't want long keyz because only terrorists want >1024bit and fuckyou the STANDARD says...'

asciilifeform: every time i dig into some pile of 'standardized' shit, i turn up 1,001 items like this

asciilifeform: davout: sure

asciilifeform: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/335 << moar lelz

asciilifeform brb

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: litres

asciilifeform just now finished drinking with the rupturefarmz folk wishing him a merry neverneverland

asciilifeform: http://natashenka.ca/posters

asciilifeform: wake me up when princeton leaks even 1 page.

asciilifeform: my point was, they use aryans now.

asciilifeform: was stuck using foreign specialists.

asciilifeform: usa of the period was a culturally impoverished zimbabwe

asciilifeform: so it did.

asciilifeform: but so is manhattan project.

asciilifeform: toilet cleaning schedule is classified

asciilifeform: talizing pause: no.'

asciilifeform: 'For instance, Diffie quizzed an MIT colleague named Dan Edwards, who would join the NSA after graduating. "He was extremely unhelpful," Diffie later reported, "failing to reveal things which were certainly not classified and which I later saw in the bibliography of his thesis." And when a colleague at Mitre went to work at IDA, Diffie asked him if he could share anything about his work. After a tan

asciilifeform: from the bureau of vintage lulz: http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/levy-crypto.html

asciilifeform: normally folks going hard-forking have some specific idea of why...

asciilifeform: well nobody can answer this mega-question until the concretes are given, neh ?

asciilifeform: luke-jr: what's in your hardfork ?

asciilifeform: what brings you here luke-jr ?

asciilifeform: $up luke-jr ☟︎

asciilifeform: at one point i considered buying one, but was not able to swing the access to the needed microscopy

asciilifeform: (and the 'macivory' product that sat in a 68k mac, was simply a card with the smbx cpu in it... no cables at all)

asciilifeform: the last true smbx box, xl1200, actually had standard scsi in it.

asciilifeform: dc power supply (a monster, iron box in the machine) was made by 3rd party and has labeled screw terminals

asciilifeform: (disk is on a st-506 cable but the pinout is public and you can buy the cable on, e.g., ebay)

asciilifeform: the internals are mostly on the backplane.

asciilifeform: i will note that there are no unusual cables (other than the long triax console cable) in my lispm

asciilifeform: (ti sold what was mostly a straight miniature clone of the original mit lispm)

asciilifeform: the largest competitor, aha

asciilifeform: fwiw.

asciilifeform: it might be possible to recreate the last 2 from the schematics.

asciilifeform: the lispm itself, the 'fep' (which did disk/tape/etc. i/o, and was its own m68k machine) plus another m68k in the console

asciilifeform: a smbx box actually contained not 1 but ~3~ computers

asciilifeform: (smbx had this, apparently, before ~anybody else, though today it is sop)

asciilifeform: ditto the synthesis system

asciilifeform: it existed almost entirely as src text

asciilifeform: phf: the vlsi falls squarely in the software side afaik

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: or rather, he admitted that they were sold, but did not say to whom, i discovered through other informants

asciilifeform: phf: last thing dks said to me was that the rights to the whole shebang were bought at auction by prof j mallery of mit/nsa.

asciilifeform: (either that or the 'snap4' emulator source code) ☟︎

asciilifeform: and they are what is needed to replicate the thing on fpga.

asciilifeform: i'll be quite surprised if these are to be found in the papers david s releases to machine owners