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asciilifeform: ive on the subject of money, and cultivate a posh country set atmosphere, even if they are just one generation out of the coal mines. Ask them to solve a technical problem — and they will politely demur, often taking the opportunity to flash their wit with a self-deprecating joke or two. ... The natives at the top always try to standardize the job descriptions and lower the pay scale of the immigrants at the bottom, playing
asciilifeform: 'I have had a chance to observe quite a few companies in the U.S. from the inside, and have spotted a certain constancy in the staffing profile. At the top, there is a group of highly compensated senior lunch-eaters. They tend to spend all of their time pleasing each other in various ways, big and small. They often hold advanced degrees in disciplines such as Technical Schmoozing and Relativistic Bean-counting. They are obsess
mircea_popescu: probably a few, including videofraud . but tell ?
mircea_popescu: it really is a great montage that, what with the bovine derping about how "we ARE" etc.
asciilifeform: Chillum: stock pogo comes with 'dropbear', a miniature sshd
assbot: 32 results for 'flashlight' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=flashlight
asciilifeform: 30 years later in this process the fucking mit grads can't make a flashlight << aha
nubbins`: <+Chillum> you can open ports on a lot of routers by using ajax to make a http post that looks like IRC commands <<< this is actually how you root the pogo without attaching a serial cable
Adlai: doesn't sound like a Patron of the Arts to me
mircea_popescu: ie, rich guy back east, went west to start a farm, sucked at it.
mircea_popescu: dude farmer is a term of art from back in the day the us mattered.
mircea_popescu: and i mean... the fact that us young adults score worse than anyone else is not a direct product. they worked to get there : the school's so dumb, why learn ; the kids aren't learning anyway why not make it dumber... 30 years later in this process the fucking mit grads can't make a flashlight
mircea_popescu: this should be a term of art.
mircea_popescu: i participated in a bdsm chan for a few days, it was painful.
Chillum: a scrap of permanence in an impermanent universe
asciilifeform: Chillum: we routinely 'argue with recordings' of one another. this is how #b-a folk handle the fact that not everyone lives at his computer
Chillum: are you arguing with a recording of me?
gribble: BTCChina | This order would exceed the size of the order book. You would buy 9299.7167 bitcoins, for a total of 648197043008.7280 USD and take the price to 16100000000000.0000. | Data vintage: 0.0283 seconds
gribble: Bitstamp | This order would exceed the size of the order book. You would buy 10726.054 bitcoins, for a total of 12929272.3986 USD and take the price to 99999.0000. | Data vintage: 0.0557 seconds
gribble: Bitfinex | A market order to buy 15000 bitcoins right now would take 4130303.4623 USD and would take the last price up to 344.9000 USD, resulting in an average price of 275.3536 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 0.0044 seconds
asciilifeform: the config thing lives at a certain offset (forget where) in mtd0
asciilifeform: if you copy the uboot tools to a writable external disk
mircea_popescu: a cognate of any claim to authority on any matter not deriving from la serenissima is both fraudulent and actionable.
assbot: Logged on 29-03-2015 16:49:24; Chillum: most protocols have had a vulnerability at some point. Heartbleed was a bug in openssl, not a bug in ssl
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-03-2015#1078817 << heartbleed was a bug in PKI. outright.
mircea_popescu: it occurs to me... don't these dating speshulists sound very much like the classical shaman ? "you are under a terrible dark curse kind sir" "i will fix it".
mircea_popescu: what you do is, you look for zombies. all it takes is a good archive of vulns and a working grep. then you take your chances.
mircea_popescu: you don't have to be a genius and read machine code to find new holes. that's for alfs.
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-03-2015#1078784 << this is actually exactly how a living is earned in this space.
Chillum: auto port-forwarding is almost always a bad idea
mircea_popescu: Chillum ah yes, that. but this wouldn't really be a browser anyway.
Chillum: javascript can induce a browser to send a post that tricks the router into thinking it is that
asciilifeform: Chillum is speaking of a 'pheature' found on particularly imbecilic consumer routers
Chillum: some routers automatically open a port when they see a DCC command on sent from an internal computer on an IRC port
asciilifeform: the traditional bitcoind (see code) asked a peer to attempt connect-back on 8333
Chillum: its a feature!
Chillum: you can open ports on a lot of routers by using ajax to make a http post that looks like IRC commands
asciilifeform: thing is, this is a little more complicated than appears
mircea_popescu: make a unpnp user ? sorta like apache's, "nobody" ? :D
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-03-2015#1078762 << i dun recall it ever being a debate, vast consensus against it.
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-03-2015#1078726 << til jurov has a favourite... chainsaw ?!
Chillum: it would be a way to go
chetty: <Chillum> the whole hierarchy of trust used to issue certs is of course bunk// for some reason when I read that I wondered if anyone would trust a cert issued by Obama? If not why would you accept one from any 'lesser' authority in the same chain?
asciilifeform: adult router is configured over a dedicated serial port
asciilifeform: Chillum: if it has a www configurator of any kind, it's consumer garbage
Chillum: a lot of routers don't even use SSL
asciilifeform: the actual crypto is buried at the far bottom of a deep, deep tank of liquid shit.
assbot: Trust relationship from user mats to user Chillum: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/mats/Chillum | http://w.b-a.link/user/Chillum
asciilifeform: it is rather like pointing to a grain of sand in a turd, and advocating shit as a construction material because 'that grain is solid'
Chillum: until quantum computers are a thing
asciilifeform: Chillum: i'm not certain that any of the #b-a regulars believe it to have been a bug.
Chillum: most protocols have had a vulnerability at some point. Heartbleed was a bug in openssl, not a bug in ssl
asciilifeform: <Chillum> Routers are a sad state of affair. Something like 70% of consumer wifi routers in the wild are vulnerable to heartbleed << and a fella who knows this, is still fond of ssl ? amazing
Chillum: gotta fail in a safe mode after all
Chillum: I sort of want to make a portable rasp-pi that automatically roots and then secures wifi routers, as a public service
mats: buy an edgerouter lite and tell your isp to send you a plain ol modem
Chillum: Routers are a sad state of affair. Something like 70% of consumer wifi routers in the wild are vulnerable to heartbleed
punkman: I looked into something that'd replace my modem/router but it seems I'll have to build a mini-itx or something
Chillum designs a router that fights back!
Chillum: regression is a bitch
Chillum: I have a live cd and a laptop with no other storage I use for such things
asciilifeform: Chillum: if you own a machine used specifically for executing malware, very convenient for this purpose.
asciilifeform: rather than a mega-turd each, if diffing from a virginal buildroot
asciilifeform: found a few other minor omissions in the build
nubbins`: gonna cave and set up a gentoo install on usb stick here later today
nubbins`: "The various tarballs that are downloaded by Buildroot are all stored in BR2_DL_DIR, which by default is the dl directory. If you want to keep a complete version of Buildroot which is known to be working with the associated tarballs, you can make a copy of this directory. This will allow you to regenerate the toolchain and the target filesystem with exactly the same versions."
assbot: 1 results for 'ada examples' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=ada+examples
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell indiancandy1 talk to naphex, he's launching a new site. http://xotika.tv
Naphex: yeah fixed. was a failed attempt to try to get a staging env faster
Naphex: so i just stopped the contract and moved to a normal DC
Naphex: i tried out some BTC provider and they had a stupid rule of cutting the upstream when you get more then 65k packets/s
Naphex: fluffypony: people can be total retards especially on reddit. And btcxchange.ro wasn't hacked! It was closed down by its bussiness owner like a retard.
mircea_popescu: so here's an idle thought : one could import apple into the pogo, create an autovote application for 20 dollars a device
assbot: Logged on 29-03-2015 04:01:26; decimation: apparently Arduino is self-destructing in a trademark lawsuit drama
decimation: the lesson perhaps being: don't use a microcontroller you can't find the vhdl for
decimation: basically a group of 5 italians disagree about who should profit on the whole affair
decimation: "The other “Arduino” used to be called Smart Projects and was the manufacturing arm of the project founded and run by [Gianluca Martino]. Smart Projects changed their name to Arduino SRL in November 2014. (A “Società a responsabilità limitata” is one form of Italian limited-liability company.) They have been a major producer of Arduino boards from the very beginning and recently registered the domain arduino.org."
decimation: hehe yeah it's kind of a dumb name
decimation: apparently Arduino is self-destructing in a trademark lawsuit drama
asciilifeform: busybox, to those new to it, is a unix util userland in more or less 1 executable.
mircea_popescu: he lives in a civilised part of teh country.
decimation: seems like I am missing a kernel header
decimation: asciilifeform: ok a legit build error "./scripts/Makefile.headersinst:55: *** Missing UAPI file ./include/uapi/linux/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.h. Stop."
asciilifeform: for a year.
asciilifeform: there was a time when folks would have -killed- for 128M.
trinque: because I'm a lazy fuck and copied the thing over that filename instead of updating uboot
asciilifeform: this is almost linux as it was when it was a joy
assbot: 58 results for 'see log' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=see+log
asciilifeform: (great for eating as part of a balanced diet with linuxbios)
asciilifeform: incidentally no reason not to do a rom-able x86 build at some point
mod6: iirc i had to put my pubkey in a dpaste and then do something like `deedbot-: import <dpaste-url>`
asciilifeform: if it has a package, it won't load again
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: buildroot builds and uses own toolchain, in a kind of jail. so it is very convenient to have the whole thing build inside it
nubbins`: <+cazalla> while i await danielpbarron's response, anyone want to suggest why the pogo flashes green after following his guide after a reboot? <<< i fucked up setting some of the fw_setenv parameters. you'll prolly need to serial into it, next time use fw_printenv to double check all your boot cmds before you commit
asciilifeform: decimation: because this is a buildrootism and has nothing to do with me
trinque: asciilifeform: chewing through a gcc build atm, looks good so far
asciilifeform: # uname -a
asciilifeform: if i make it to the middle - i do it. otherwise, trying to leave enough of a record here for the next fella.
asciilifeform: could very easily be a bitcoind-optimized cpu arch.
asciilifeform: as in, a box that isn't used for anything else.