asciilifeform: bonus if the photo slide is ~composable~

asciilifeform: 100 y.o. tech.

asciilifeform: microdot is trivial to reproduce reliably

asciilifeform: phf et al: to continue the eprom thread, i was never satisfied with the lights box answer to 'how to keep rom burner from lying'. what i really want is a photographic rom, where the storage die is something like 'microdot' and the reader is generic (in chip package) & separable.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0ltr0nic

asciilifeform: and lamps - to read.

asciilifeform: to input each word.

asciilifeform: as in, toggle buttons.

asciilifeform: in the old dayz, you could actually buy eprom burners that were not, in the ordinary sense, computerized

asciilifeform: (for whatever your nuke is. pgp, bitcoin, whatevers)

asciilifeform: i've thought for many years about such tools. decomputerize, if you will, as much of the critical 'nuke launch' loop as possible.

asciilifeform: message better be short.

asciilifeform: so read at leisure.

asciilifeform: well no, it shifts'em in

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: you get the basic idea tho

asciilifeform: i can't be arsed to figure out presently whether this eats start/stop-bits correctly.

asciilifeform: not to build.

asciilifeform: to read output!

asciilifeform: kakobrekla ^ one step beyond mere 'data diode' !

asciilifeform: http://www.elweb.cz/fotky/400.jpg << interesting serendipitous find. a cpu-less rs232 viewer (some brain required!111) i thought about this very thing some years ago, and laughed it off mentally, but someone - built.

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://dpaste.com/3RR5F37.txt << have another lul

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ==

asciilifeform: funkenstein_: and of subj of countries-not-on-the-map-no-moar overall

asciilifeform: funkenstein_: rhodesiana aficionado

asciilifeform: but he is very ready to 'you know nothing' aha.

asciilifeform: train stations still closed !

asciilifeform: '92 - present

asciilifeform: funkenstein_: the great zimbabwe of usistan

asciilifeform: and at any rate none of these folks work in 'justice' business, they work in 'societal security' aka hitler's service.

asciilifeform: that'd be ~all of this here zimbabwestan aha.

asciilifeform: bbbbbbut s333333kr1tz!11111

asciilifeform: the usg-gets-paper-masterkey one

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: pg 80 iirc

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cryptome link, scan

asciilifeform: worthy of freisler

asciilifeform: the court transcript is pure circus

asciilifeform: https://cryptome.org/2016/03/usg-lavabit-unsealed.pdf << mega-turd

asciilifeform: (unrelated)

asciilifeform: l0l lavabit case unsealed

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1434864 <<< obligatory >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqT2uOa1-d0 ☝︎

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the one which nobody ended up dumping massive qty of, the price of - not tanked, etc

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: neh, the other btc

asciilifeform misreads as 'wordstar hiphop'

asciilifeform reads logz to see wtf this even was

asciilifeform: ^^^

asciilifeform: which

asciilifeform: cause who else lives on 2btc!

asciilifeform: except they aren't people but catz

asciilifeform: eating from plastic bowl

asciilifeform: they are in my yard

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1434782 << l0l i know where ☝︎

asciilifeform: (warning: massive scan)

asciilifeform: http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/20030701/nth-country.pdf << historic lulz (unrelated.)

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: life - or what passes for life - in usaschwitz - happens on the coasts.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: where do i get the correct lsd to digest that article.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: correct

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: nfi

asciilifeform: neato

asciilifeform: (things incl this)

asciilifeform: i would do 10,001 things if had time but i do not,sadly.

asciilifeform: i have nothing.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as usual, take it

asciilifeform: shooter's brothers film whole thing.

asciilifeform: cops then open up, killing at least one among selves

asciilifeform: schmuck walks into police station, spins round and round For Piglet

asciilifeform: etc

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-take-third-brother-into-custody-in-shooting-of-police-officer/2016/03/14/74b97f36-e9e6-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html

asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo where is the qntra on the police station mega-postal ?

asciilifeform: logic being, if it burns down and takes 30 f-whateverthefuck planes to the bottom of the sea, so much the better! buy moar!

asciilifeform: but to move inventory

asciilifeform: one look at the boats and it is pretty obvious that their purpose is ~not~ to fight in battles

asciilifeform: it officially Unexists for the purpose of the comical 'war games' the pentagon conducts.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pretty sure everybody knows about the surface torpedo etc

asciilifeform: (it was 100% fraudulent, as you might expect)

asciilifeform: they're pre-fucked, the notion was to slightly unfuck'em

asciilifeform: typically.

asciilifeform: they have no working sleep mode, recall.

asciilifeform: laptop folk

asciilifeform: not servers.

asciilifeform: that takes up the boot time

asciilifeform: no one (tm) would ever, say, remove the idiot sea of crud

asciilifeform: via plugging wrong end of funnel, naturally

asciilifeform: anyway prelink was supposed to solve problem of 'why linux box takes multiple minutes to boot'

asciilifeform: changimized.

asciilifeform: hopetimized.

asciilifeform: that must be victi^H^H^Hoptimized

asciilifeform: WHAT IF YOU HAVE NEW BINARY!111111

asciilifeform: and then again, and again...

asciilifeform: it does.

asciilifeform: hence why i put it on the dissection table here.

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: it is quite far from whatever actual purpose it was conceived for.

asciilifeform: as if it were an actual animal

asciilifeform: discussing an item like this is almost like anatomizing a teratoma

asciilifeform: and creates a number of other interesting difficulties

asciilifeform: also demolishes aslr

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it gives excuse to munge every single executable on the box

asciilifeform: today it exists at all only in the most direly diseased pseudolinuxen

asciilifeform: or claims to be.