asciilifeform: use one of the legs, or power supply, or whole bus, as antenna.
asciilifeform: reasonably it wouldn't be bluetooth but one of the 'shitmonkey' or what was it called, from snowden-II document, simple short-range radio thing
asciilifeform: incidentally, even supposing the great satan knew how to fit an entire battalion of snitches and three whole atomic bombs into an optocoupler, the fun part re: using standard analogue parts is that YOU CAN GET THEM FROM ANCIENT MACHINES
asciilifeform: also wtf phf, every place i've ever worked will let you take whatever weeks of ~unpaid~ leave
asciilifeform: and yes, when mircea_popescu wakes up he will no doubt supply us with the mega-insight that if i have no money it is because i have no competence at anything and oughta be boiled for soap asap
asciilifeform: otherwise 'take what you're given, churl, and shuddup'
asciilifeform: re: thread with phf et al: it helps to not be totally broke when negotiating
asciilifeform: (answer, for the thick, is that your rng, if it works correctly, is EXACTLY as likely to shit out a string that xors yours to 'kill stalin at midnight with table leg' as an equivalent length string of zeros, or any other.)
asciilifeform: but for some reason mircea_popescu understood why this is lunacy, ~then~, but not now?
asciilifeform: funnily enough, last year there was some derp who shat into mircea_popescu's comment section with 'otp doesn't work because rng might burp out N zeros and then what'
asciilifeform: i realize that it cries against every mathematical intuition, but with correctly functioning otp, it makes not a whit of difference what your plaintext is.
asciilifeform: this is elementary, and if mircea_popescu comes back and tells us that he had been drinking, i will believe him, and happily forget the whole thing.
asciilifeform: i invite the curious log reader to play the game mircea_popescu proposed with single bits, with a friend
asciilifeform: (and that they were, hence, not crafted specifically to bulldoze whatever magical pattern he put in his strings)
asciilifeform: incidentally, the main reason i'd like a referee, is so that everybody knows that my random 'pads' were generated independently of mircea_popescu's challenge strings.
asciilifeform: this is then exactly isomorphic to my original.
asciilifeform: (this bias, somehow, against xor lemma, surivives xoring.)
asciilifeform: it has to be with mircea_popescu generating the magic strings, because this is how he said he will carry out the telepathy - by selecting specially-crafted biased input.
asciilifeform: see earlier recipe ('variant of game')
asciilifeform: does mircea_popescu want a free 10b or not.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the output bits - the lot of them - is necessarily as entropic as my key.
asciilifeform: (i will happily collect the win in its stead, like that fool wanted to collect nobel for satoshi!11)
asciilifeform: you are still playing against the xor lemma.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you can use whatever alchemy you like...
asciilifeform: so, for this variant of game, algo would be 1) mircea_popescu generates his string set, signs, deedbots; 2) i xor'em, sign, deedbot at first only the signature; 3) i post one of the xor'ed strings 4) he telepathies which one 5) i reveal my hand, which is the tarball in step 2 6) if he wins, i lose 10b, or vice-versa
asciilifeform: and i'm lazy, he will have to pad'em himself.
asciilifeform: punkman: this reduces to 'same length'
asciilifeform: but in practice longer, because they must be N ~distinct~ strings
asciilifeform: (and L, trivially, is 7 bits or more.)
