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asciilifeform: signed up the way d00d who steps off cliff, signs up to splat
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as "signed up". greeks signed up for repaying debts when they took money, lol.
asciilifeform: they signed up for this when swallowed the usg occupation cock in '45.
mircea_popescu: p the "valuable" resorts.
mircea_popescu: hey, the euros are retarded. they end up footing the bill for usg red pseudomilitary adventures in the middle east via hosting refugees (hey, when's the last time anyone sent 10 mn syrians to live in new fucking york, instead of germany, france etc ?) and for usg blue pseudodiplomatic misadventure in the shape of paying more for gas, selling less machinery and total real estate collapse because no more russki suckers to buy u
asciilifeform: and what does d00d have to do to get Officially banned from eu ?
mircea_popescu: so an exaggeration, but not that substantial. like saying "nobody in the us uses yahoo mail"
mircea_popescu: afaik didn't get too far.
mircea_popescu: well... the 20something hos tried in the early 2010s, which is how i ended up sucked in.
asciilifeform: 'nobody in Romania uses Twitter' << srsly?!
mircea_popescu: but the relation is apt, the whole drum bun is quite it, "may you make it back out" sorta thing.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-19 16:16 shinohai: Anyone here know if this might be a useful box? https://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/sys/d/mac-prox28ghz-8-cores-10gb/6352402994.html
asciilifeform: shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726851 << that thing is worth 200buxorz max ( and that's if in museum condition ) ☝︎
asciilifeform: mega-song, there's even a ru
asciilifeform: apparently still marched to in modern bundeswehr...
mircea_popescu: if there is i dunno it.
mircea_popescu: now this i don;t know.
asciilifeform: but is there a ro ?
asciilifeform: oh hey is there a ro incarnation of the ubiqutous ww2 'song of the devil' ?
asciilifeform: american occupation soldiers in jp were taught, Officially, to say 'don't touch the moustache' <-> どういたしまして (dou itashimashite) - 'you're welcome'
mircea_popescu: ftr, i never liked that one march, wtf bs it is.
asciilifeform: that's almost as good as 'bread of the sieve cable' <-> 'бред сивой кобылы'
mircea_popescu: in similar lulz, the badea cirtan market in timisoara was officially known as "bad curtain".
mircea_popescu: "If you speak English and see the expression drum bun your mind conjures up a musical instrument for striking out rhythms combined with some kind of light bread style pastry and it makes NO SENSE." << bwahahaha
mircea_popescu: i always thoiught his "still more romanian than you" byline was lulzy.
asciilifeform: he had a page about the 'drum bun' army march
mircea_popescu: btw asciilifeform re http://trilema.com/2011/un-defect-romanesc/ didja in your journey trhough romanian learnings run into that dude's blog ?
shinohai: Good to see females that have control of the mic
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/the-job-board/ << Trilema - The Job Board
phf: shinohai: i suspect you're paying a bit of premium for various audio junk on that mac box and the whole "production ready"
shinohai likes the high-tech boxfan cooling system
shinohai: owner offered Btc discount, I may try to scrape up if so
shinohai: Anyone here know if this might be a useful box? https://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/sys/d/mac-prox28ghz-8-cores-10gb/6352402994.html ☟︎
phf: "TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'window.crypto.subtle.generateKey')" well there's that..
asciilifeform: dun have to be an rsa key for this, neh
mircea_popescu: lol. that's an easy enough site to make, only need one branch implemented. "yes."
asciilifeform: same people as insert their bank acct # to 'check if stolen'
mircea_popescu: depends. would it have been featured on the atlantic ?
asciilifeform: betcha a phuctor-flavoured www that invites idjit to 'insert privkey for inspection for weak' would get ~something~ in the basket at the end of the day
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the french have this communist issue. nato or no nato, during the 70s it had gotten so bad they were not even included in intel briefing.
shinohai: https://send.firefox.com/ <<< we promise to never, ever, EVER look at your private keys. Probably.
asciilifeform: in other reichlulz, 'Marlène Schiappa, France’s gender equality minister (yes, that’s a thing), has proposed putting forward a bill in parliament that would fine people for engaging in street harassment — including aggressive catcalls.'
mircea_popescu: actually, it does, yes. that's what the republic is : the construction of the guarantee that if enemy exists, he is dumb.
phf: fight the enemy you have, not the enemy you want :)
asciilifeform: universe came with afaik no guarantee that enemy is dumb.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-13 17:47 mircea_popescu: but anyway, apparently taking a few heads here and there creates exactly no conception of own vulnerability in the rest of the heads.
mircea_popescu: "enemy" is too dumb to stop shitting in its own mouth.
asciilifeform: idea is not 'magical camera, catches everything' but to turn the enemy's own psychosis against himself : now ~any~ ventilation hole, in any side of any iron, could theoretically be pinhole cam.
asciilifeform: it'd be part of any design where asciilifeform fills a cabinet with own hands and locks the door.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what is this, are you being an alien. the eyes in your own box don't see your mouth in your own box do they ?
mircea_popescu: what i'm saying is that i don;t know this being part of the design.
asciilifeform: no particular reason for it to look adhoc or in any way unusual.
mircea_popescu: and pray for a transparent cabinet door and available fixed location and nobody placing a sticker in front of it ?
mircea_popescu: ianae, maybe there's places where they'll mount your camera opposite if you ask. i wouldn't really add it to the disqualifier list.
mircea_popescu: not necessarily a bad idea, but afaik nobody put it into the floor design.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-19 13:23 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726688 < it costs next-to-nothing and trigger when sees motion, which in a locking cage it should never by surprise
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726728 << i know of no place which offers proper mounts for this. because understand, there's no ad-hoc anything on dc floor. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: too hard to use.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: every once in a while, they beg/buy/borrow/steal something authored by actual people
a111: Logged on 2017-10-19 13:18 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726675 << 'filter out the strange' is the naive usg av 'industry' nonsense. a half decent diddletron neither produces nor consumes any 'strange', and 'magic packet' will consist of , e.g., lubyization of 10,000 ordinary packets' timing
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726724 << as far as i know (and what i don't know in this town ain't worth knowing) there's not at present any lubby deployed in usgistan internet "intelligence". ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform maybe. tho pinky toe nails are tiny anyway.
mircea_popescu: ikr ? esp cause it takes all the half-whites and shit. and besides, where do geeks look when trying to think of something to say to girl ? yep, you've guessed it, toes!
asciilifeform: maybe the extra 2 fingers, threw'em off, lol
phf: it's such a toxic color scheme, you'd think somebody will notice.
mircea_popescu: "what was at that hacker club thing ?" "a bunch of idiots ?" "whence can you tell ?" "i painted my toenails utp style. everyone wanted to talk of me, nobody thought ot mention it."
asciilifeform pictures this !
mircea_popescu: (one amusing result was one girl painted her toenails thusly. NOBODY noticed.)
asciilifeform: you dun even need literacy : the strands are helpfully coloured
mircea_popescu: well that's what i'm saying, there's even teenaged sluts doing it nowadays. perhaps for the first time in internet history, at that!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most elderly folx like asciilifeform cut their own cablez aha
asciilifeform: asciilifeform met a fella who claimed to have designed the nsa-usbjack boobytrap ( i did not believe him )
mircea_popescu: i teach teh slavegirls, it's part of the basic curriculum.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform simple pill for the ethernet, cut and crimp.
asciilifeform: aha, theremin-style rf tap
asciilifeform: any object supplied by randos can theoretically be 'alive'.
asciilifeform: while we're on subj, the infamous 'ont catalogue' featured not only boobytrapped routers etc but... ethernet jacks with 'intelligence', boobied cables
mircea_popescu: anyway, maybe all is an overstatement, but you get the idea i think.
mircea_popescu: ok, but by now they're all "intelligent".
mircea_popescu: i suspect the pure switch you have in mind is a 1980s period item
asciilifeform: no this makes sense, but seems to describe a diddled router/fw, rather than switch
mircea_popescu: need I now do the S' case ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-19 13:11 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726673 << that was what i didn't and still don't grasp : what exactly can enemy exfiltrate from a boobytrapped ~switch~ ( it ain't a firewall, it's a dumb switch) that he cannot get from his upstream tap ??
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726719 << here's model : intel box B behind cisco switch S. NSA N sends magic packet M. S notices packet it received does not match rules operator O set ; S notices M matches rules N baked in and so S lets packet M pass in spite of this breaking its submission to O. B receives packet M, acts accordingly, breaking its submission to O. perhaps B also responds, with packet M'. S notices M' does ☝︎
asciilifeform: btw phf your logtron mangles these, because variablewidthfont. readers should paste above item into a civilized terminal to read.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-18 18:54 ben_vulpes: what would the terms be?
mircea_popescu: incidentally re http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-18#1726309 : i suppose it's obvious that teh republic, between wot, forum and the new deedbot beats silicon valley way the fuck out of the water. what angel list, what y combinator, why would i, or any thinking man, bother. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-19 08:10 ben_vulpes: vegetarians have terrible internal flora, can confirm
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726715 << we were also making a lot of cow/herbivore jokes at the time. ☝︎
asciilifeform: thing is 'self-clocking', which is why you gotta set a baud rate, and they are standard )
asciilifeform: i'ma put a likbez in the l0gz, for fyootor folx : here's ordinary rs232, at ttl signal level, (noninverted), transmitting a 10000010 :
asciilifeform: parallel port was adequate. but no recent boxes have'em and the usb paralleldongles never worked ( they were specific to printers, those have buffers, usb doesn't really give you realtime synchronism )
asciilifeform: relatedly, i very much wish that pc had a simple ( no stateful usb liquishit) ~synchronous~ port
asciilifeform: ( from , say, misconfigured serial port -- guaranteed to show these symptoms )
asciilifeform: ( a shit rng that fools ent is much easier to build, even by accident, than same vs dieharder )
a111: Logged on 2017-10-19 06:30 mod6: ok, just ran 2 quick tests on different box. results are very similar. different # of samples on new ones, however old|new: 25%|27.42%, 50%|53.57% respectively
mod6: <+asciilifeform> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726670 << looks typical << aha. i think im going to re-run them all with the newer `ent` and post those results as well. unless, people think it's redundant or not required. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-19 06:30 mod6: ok, just ran 2 quick tests on different box. results are very similar. different # of samples on new ones, however old|new: 25%|27.42%, 50%|53.57% respectively
asciilifeform finally eaten the l0gz
a111: Logged on 2017-10-19 07:14 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726602 << 19 cents to the KWh is not really space station price, considering a) electricity is 5 to 10 cents to the KWh pretty much everywhere and b) this price includes HVAC, which is for obvious reasons just about half of the cost of power.