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trinque hits the hay
trinque: rough approximation of the hypertext dht thing I'm going to conjure, really.
trinque: isn't like the thing has a phuctor-sized database to haul around
trinque: mircea_popescu: incompetence or malice, what the fuck is this 6am to 9am as a service window shit?
trinque: this is why logbot was written such that services don't have to live anywhere near the server providing the IRC connection.
trinque: DCs that cause me server migrations before launch of a new product can get pissed on.
trinque: actual !!deed processing shall return tomorrow.
trinque: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/akPqa/?raw=true << The IP address for deedbot.org and wot.deedbot.org shall be 45.32.123.240 from block 487154 until further notice. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what was the soviet term for the "moment of realisation" that sovietism is actually a lie ? i forget ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> anyone molests box, or magnetometer detects that it moved racks, etc, -- overwrites key with rngolade. << Overwrites key and misleading places that look like could also be key, gives cold analysers more places to miswank over potential "Is key?" "Is encrypted key?" "What does enzyme equation solver make of this when ported to DNA array"
asciilifeform: these are 2 basic ways to 'reincarnate' on remote box.
asciilifeform: but i already described this, earlier.
asciilifeform: jump into ring0, let nic fill ~ram~ as described above for disk, then jump into ~that~
asciilifeform: the obvious variation on the theme, is to omit the disk
asciilifeform: this is 'birth'. 'death' of a box, is similar process, but in reverse gear, sends backup of block 0...N to operator, replacing each with null as it goes.
asciilifeform: after that, reboots.
asciilifeform: when trigger is pulled, the sole possible operation of th cpu becomes : listening to nic for a sequence of (signed...) blocks, to fill hdd with, from lba 0 to N.
asciilifeform: it has to be victimproof
trinque: hm, totally possible, just enumerating the reasonable thing's I'd considered on the subj
asciilifeform: you'd be surprised how many heathen linuxen this would crash
trinque: swapoff all the swaps too
trinque: and then bzcat > /dev/sda
asciilifeform: the k mod , now, will do the rest of the work.
asciilifeform: process prolly would have to begin by copying over a little c proggy, compiling, then insmod'ing it ( so to stop multitaskism and disk fandango on victim end )
asciilifeform: might be interesting to make a rawblocks version of this
trinque: pretty cool. the guy wrote over here does same with remote shell.
asciilifeform: pumps binaries, and dir listings, transparently back an' forth via crafted shellbarf
asciilifeform: it's a thingie that 'mounts' a wholly uncooperative, other than login, remote fs, using nothing more than perl on other end, via standard ssh ( not sftp )
trinque: alrighty, that works again.
asciilifeform: ( boxes you dun physically build and boobytrap, cannot have identity, because homomorphic voodoo is just that, it sums to nil )
mircea_popescu: how was the original without crypto lol
mircea_popescu: want it or not want it, it's what you're getting in the end.
asciilifeform: not esp. difficult to build.
trinque: constant stream of new soldiers to go die.
trinque: seems to be the only way to use these pieces of shit.
asciilifeform: anyone molests box, or magnetometer detects that it moved racks, etc, -- overwrites key with rngolade.
mircea_popescu: seems to be slowly going there.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-27 02:42 trinque: got great deploy scripts for these things, don't need anything but an ssh hole to fire them at
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-27#1717726 << this reminded me of an ancient crackpotteriferous idea of mine: diskless, welded-shut box that boots into minimal sshiferous thing, privkey in boobytrapped sram etc. you fill it up remotely with os etc. and thereafter if power cut. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: anyway, that aside, by comparing my description to his you can readily see a summary of all the inept idiocy that bothered me in the original.
mircea_popescu: seems to me a matter of strict necessity, in context.
asciilifeform: i like the twist end.
mircea_popescu: any good, whatcha think
asciilifeform: 'we gotta change the fire extinguisher, box will be out for 3h'
asciilifeform: neato trinque
trinque: got great deploy scripts for these things, don't need anything but an ssh hole to fire them at ☟︎
trinque: I operate under the assumption that I'm going to lose every box that isn't in my house, and probably also those
trinque: old DC said they were fixing their battery backups; who knows what's actually happening
trinque: new digs are in singapore; lets see how that goes
trinque: I don't expect that I'm moving back
mircea_popescu: trinque you know a three hour knockout in order to check the fuse box is somewhat suspicious in a dc.
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/resplenduminous/ << Trilema - Resplenduminous
trinque: attention all : there'll be electrical maintenance on the DC which houses deedbot tomorrow from 6AM to 9AM. deedbot itself will be up, and operating elsewhere starting this evening until after the end of the maintenance. deeds, other side services (RSS), and my node shall be offline starting at 5AM tomorrow.
BingoBoingo: And a confirmation for the Republic pt. 2: "The remaining 1% becomes sequestered in body fat. This portion is eliminated slowly, with a half-life of 18 days for the cis-isomer and 3.4 days for the trans-isomer (2, 4). "
jurov just stumbled upon this incredible feature: https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/4613/why-does-vim-allow-integer-division-by-zero
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> granted mircea_popescu will prolly add 'this is of course only win for the bull, not for the farmer' but i've never been the farmer. can only add pov of bull. << Is it pov of contemporary bull if you haven't lost count of prostate shocks delivered by farmer for the sake of knocking up distant dairy with veal
asciilifeform: granted mircea_popescu will prolly add 'this is of course only win for the bull, not for the farmer' but i've never been the farmer. can only add pov of bull.
asciilifeform: ^ somewhere in there
asciilifeform: though there was a much older thread where we considered how even clipping coupons could be a win, of sorts, because there is not 'applying' and there is no schedule or boss
diana_coman: asciilifeform, I follow the part re make your own hands - thing there is that there IS gain in that expenditure of time; and that gain is arguably more than the 15 bucks; however, I don't follow how does that lead to "makes sense just as much to collect coupons /whatevs "
deedbot: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2017/09/26/google-trying-to-bill-service-cancelled-5-years-ago/ << Bingo Blog - Google Trying To Bill Service Cancelled 5 Years Ago
mircea_popescu: i wish the record to permanently reflect that alison is a stupid fucking name.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-21 05:03 lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-20#1716279 << I ended up going this route.
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-21#1716536 << great way to learn ☝︎
asciilifeform: this however is an argument in favour of handcrafting yer own equip, rather than for 'clipping coupons' , imho.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform still has ( and until recently, used! ) the rom writer, bench powersupply, etc. he made in early 2000s.
asciilifeform: folx whose time ain't liquid ( which is most everybody in 'saecular world', incl. present-day asciilifeform , he could not smoothly double his pay by halving his spare time for one particular day and then not the next ) often do this sort of thing.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-26 14:16 diana_coman: what puzzles is a. why would someone buy it from nsa to then sell it cheaper (admittedly it is possible though, anything is possible) b. if it's underpriced how is it worth it to spend *time* in order to get somehow possibly (not even surely) a slightly cheaper price
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-26#1717535 << i'd like to revisit this item, because it actually makes sense to me : when asciilifeform was a student, he happily spent hundreds of hrs to make own lab equipment that was worth maybe a dozen 'min wage' hrs, theoretically -- because it was a more interesting way to spend the time than some min wage gulag would've been ☝︎
mircea_popescu: the "allison argument" is not even fucking terrible.
mircea_popescu: i think i'm rewriting this ;/
cruciform: yea - I expect I'll be throwing a few bitcents as a gratuity to the designers once I've grokked how useful it is
mircea_popescu: ftr i've actually done that.
BingoBoingo: <cruciform> man at till says it'll be $10; you give him $20 just because? << Well if $20 is new from vendor and $10 is with 200,000 miles of farts in the seats
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: at one time , get this, kakobrekla threatened to make'em
BingoBoingo: <cruciform> asciilifeform: it's underpriced << I can sell you FG made by "own hands" for 12 BTC with deliver in 12, require 50% deposit, my option to instead deliver two alf-hands FG at month 11 for your trouble
mircea_popescu: what is with these people.
mircea_popescu: come along and prove, say . . . Fermat's Last Theorem.
mircea_popescu: I mean, fifteen billion years after the Big Bang, someone can still
asciilifeform: last thread, going by the date of the warez txt on my hd, was some time around feb 4 2014.
mircea_popescu: aite, well, i've no wai out now but to read it.
asciilifeform: this here is the one where d00d breaks arithmetic.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wait, is this the one with the visual virus ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm a hater what can i tell ye.
asciilifeform: hey gotta leave sumthing for mircea_popescu's tales !
mircea_popescu: what happened to "there is no antidote. but the toxin won't kill you, it'll just turn you into a bimbo!"
asciilifeform: but last time mircea_popescu barfed over some other plot knob
asciilifeform: iirc we already had this thread
mircea_popescu: would, for the next twelve hours. Goodbye."
mircea_popescu: I turned to the burglar. "There is no antidote. But the toxin won't kill you. You'll just wish it
trinque has the dead tree sitting nearby, good stuff
mircea_popescu: but i suppose the IMPLICATIONS WERENT MADE CLEAR hurr durr. pshaw.
mircea_popescu: heidi roizen blogging on tumblr like an idiot, because she can't fucking afford a house now.
mircea_popescu: you all know this, right ? the ONLY reason github is there is so that it will later redirect your links and try and make a penny.
mircea_popescu: www.scribd.com/doc/86728044/Greg-Egan-Luminous redirects to some bulslhit advertising. because that's why they EVEN DO this.
asciilifeform: ^ old tale with similar premise
mircea_popescu: like that one with the "visual prion", except written by someone who understands the science involved.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this'd be actually a great sf premise. end of days world, people running around having trouble with actual fundamentals.
mircea_popescu: divine items, so far they've not failed us, just on occasion we fail them.
asciilifeform: what wouldja do , cruciform , if you met a fella who told you 'arithmetic finally failed me'