asciilifeform: (supposedly for 1 qrt. but lul!)

asciilifeform: aha, and, incidentally, i got 'volunteered' for 1.5 shift .

asciilifeform: see old threadz, etc.

asciilifeform: but the down side is that, it being rare, there is ~0 demand, most places, most of the time.

asciilifeform: this is - surprisingly - a rare enough thing that i can live from it.

asciilifeform: and working with what remains.

asciilifeform: it is done, elementarily, by removing the weevils.

asciilifeform: as showcased in, e.g., rotor, etc.

asciilifeform: anyway i specialize in making some selected subset of it actually WORK.

asciilifeform: iirc it still runs on a backbone of crackwhores..

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: virtually nothing to do with computing, works.

asciilifeform: this is not work ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i deal in boards that spontaneously turn into radioactive weevils.

asciilifeform: semi-skilled, if you insist.

asciilifeform: of labour

asciilifeform: *kind

asciilifeform: repetitive, trainable elbow movements is the other hind.

asciilifeform: taming bursting pipes which gush forth nonsense is - skilled labour.

asciilifeform: welcome to planet 3.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the situation you described is called 'skilled labour' and it is how i eat.

asciilifeform: trinque: tcpdump plox.

asciilifeform: trinque: the fella on the left hand side is you, i recall. right hand - i think might be mircea_popescu ?

asciilifeform: i thought mircea_popescu taught us that odin will smite those who hire hirelings

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is hiring a what ?

asciilifeform: wai wut

asciilifeform: out of curiosity, what failures has mircea_popescu observed that can be reliably attributed to shit hardware ?

asciilifeform: which tower of shit ?

asciilifeform: (whatever you ask for sits in a queue behind 10,001 pieces of shit)

asciilifeform: the failure rate is, elementarily, a queue thing

asciilifeform: elaborate ?

asciilifeform: discrete production processes ??

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2016#1419361 < left: 'for yourself' right: 'for guests' ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tx tends to be slow nowadays due to crapolade flood

asciilifeform looks forward to pounding in the 'g' knife into the ssl idiocy

asciilifeform: notice how every time the 'branded' bug burn ends with 'and now you must install openssl x.y.n+1 ' ???

asciilifeform: all i know is that she's 'house slave' and i'm 'field nigger.'

asciilifeform: anyway i have profoundly nfi re: heninger.

asciilifeform: (do they have modern turbine yet in tibet, to turn prayer mill?)

asciilifeform: or tibetan.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is clearly not an aztec.

asciilifeform: or at least 'chose parents carefully'

asciilifeform: possibly she sucked the right pud ?

asciilifeform: and in fact i'm in a fish store, in the bait tank.

asciilifeform: hey, i'm also a fish, but in smaller tank with cruddier food and more cat.

asciilifeform: this much is obvious though.

asciilifeform: was given.

asciilifeform: fine.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=18-05-2015#1136562 ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'it doesn't matter and we had it first!11111'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^

asciilifeform: the original ssl-'phuctor'-no-we-won't-publish-the-data folks, incidentally.

asciilifeform: i thought this was old ?

asciilifeform: '...a new form of cross-protocol Bleichenbacher padding oracle attack. It allows an attacker to decrypt intercepted TLS connections by making specially crafted connections to an SSLv2 server that uses the same private key.' << l0l

asciilifeform: shiva was originally part of an attempt to write a debugger to shine some light at this crud

asciilifeform: (prior to it entering a block)

asciilifeform: there are also lesser blackholes, from the tx-ddos-crapola itself being received and verified

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2016#1418801 << 9 times out of 10, it is simply that a new block appears, and has tx-dddos-crapola ☝︎

asciilifeform: *park

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2016#1419044 << where i live, you can just about part a motorcycle for 30/day. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2016#1419040 << woah this is only slightly larger than my old 'nazi submarine' ☝︎

asciilifeform: (what, it costs usg to print more 0s after decimal point ?)

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2016#1419128 << i won't be surprised if a few trillions end up sunk into propping it up ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2016#1419182 << what, exactly, is a 'lovedog' ? new word for skinny asian chick kept as pet ?? ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2016#1419204 << wai wut ?! ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2016#1418977 << what specifically ~was~ this ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2016#1418972 << isn't there a 'don't feed the animals' sign hanging somewhere above them ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: either that or mircea_popescu is using a 486...

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2016#1418940 << this must include buildroot/gcc, the deps, etc. ☝︎

asciilifeform: meeeeting...

asciilifeform: the systemd of emacs.

asciilifeform: !s flycheck

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2016#1418936 << why are you using flycheck??! ☝︎

asciilifeform: (no-turd firmware, full schematics)

asciilifeform: ^ these are prolly the only 100% open x86 box presently made

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: prototyped on one of these, https://rhomberg.org/images/apu-oberseite.jpg

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's sorta how it is meant to work.

asciilifeform: (at least, not after it leaves isp)

asciilifeform: in whatever way.

asciilifeform: it means that the crud doesn't affect the valid payloads.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's what 'line speed' means.

asciilifeform: not much in terms of moving parts, ought to handily fit in a nic boot rom.

asciilifeform: the idea is very simple, anybody who really wants to can pick his favourite nic chipset and implement.

asciilifeform: i will pick this back up again when there is reason to.

asciilifeform: but doesn't work as well as i'd like, not line speed (uses dumb bignum)

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: if so much as 1 packet per billion is valid.

asciilifeform: mats: the idea is, a kind of line-speed (GB ethernet) wall, where crud goes in, and valid in-wot gossipd out. ☟︎

asciilifeform: asm, it's good for you.

asciilifeform: on ordinary (well, 'pcengines' pancake) computer.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i have a (unpublished, for good reasons) prototype that doesn't have 'kernel' or 'userland' at all, but just this bare metal thing that sets up the nic ring buffer (coreboot payload) and loops, checks rsa, retransmits on other nic...

asciilifeform: mega-muppet-warz

asciilifeform: https://cryptome.org/2016/02/usg-apple-edny-029.pdf << lulz! apple 'wins'

asciilifeform: met in the flesh ?

asciilifeform: now i gotta ask, how does mircea_popescu know that it was 'actual woman'

asciilifeform: first, afaik.

asciilifeform: had an almost-useful x86 decompiler before 'hexray'.

asciilifeform: ^ thesis

asciilifeform: http://zyloid.com/recomposer/files/decompilation_thesis.pdf << aha

asciilifeform: probably

asciilifeform: was just a name.