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asciilifeform: but yes, if the disks 'know' (somehow) that you have a raid-5 of n disks, using a particular controller, they could, e.g., 'agree' to return a patched boot sector.

asciilifeform: which is why i said 'when used correctly'

asciilifeform: let's say there are 4 of'em.

asciilifeform: if each holds a reed-solomon stripe

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and how is one to conspire with the others ?

asciilifeform: this is AT RUNTIME

asciilifeform: incidentally - there is a very convenient 1-byte flag, that, if 'poked', will instantly cause gpg to use ordinary (paged) memory.

asciilifeform: someone worked astonishingly hard to make this thing a nearly-incomprehensible morass.

asciilifeform: i cannot help but be surprised when i encounter, in the old words of ben_vulpes, 'clown cars glued to a spinning ceiling' ☟︎

asciilifeform: and the answer turns out to be 'precious little'

asciilifeform: i'm trying to salvage what is salvageable.

asciilifeform: how easy it would have been to bitwalk it (like the braindead 'secmem' thing in gpg insists on doing PER SEGMENT !!?!!!)

asciilifeform: how hard would it have been to allot a static buffer at warmup ?!!!!!

asciilifeform: as a kind of reimplementation of malloc that... uses malloc internally for the segments !

asciilifeform: and (and i could go on and on) the thing is implemented in a profoundly braindamaged way

asciilifeform: supposing it were ever tested

asciilifeform: ergo the last time anyone could have easily tested the allocator is - at the very latest - 1997

asciilifeform collected five versions of gpg, not in one is the thing actually implemented

asciilifeform: unsurprise.

asciilifeform: hm. from my ip it ends in on log.b-a

asciilifeform: ;;google m_debug gpg never worked

asciilifeform: let's try a phun experiment:

asciilifeform: (just don't be found with it at traffic stop)

asciilifeform: spend a whole sack.

asciilifeform: no id for cash.

asciilifeform: turns out usa is 'land of ze phreeedom'

asciilifeform: l0l!!

asciilifeform: in ar ?

asciilifeform: where?!

asciilifeform: wai wat

asciilifeform: i fully expect to.

asciilifeform: no shortage of this, mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: http://qntra.net/2014/12/judge-rejects-florida-mans-bid-to-dismiss-case << this one, i think

asciilifeform: what was that one's name...

asciilifeform: confused the florida fool for shrem

asciilifeform: i think i realized what i did here

asciilifeform goes and reads.

asciilifeform: iirc it went something like 'shrem sold a candybar to dpr while knowing what dpr did'

asciilifeform: sometimes it tries to do me, however.

asciilifeform: because i have 36 hands and they're all full ?

asciilifeform will admit that he did not closely follow the case

asciilifeform: just skip straight to dead.

asciilifeform: most don't get to stage 3 though.

asciilifeform: i could carry on, but why.

asciilifeform: let's not forget galois corporation

asciilifeform: and there was even an 'nvidia tesla' gpu card.

asciilifeform: there is, i regret to say, also an 'intel edison' (small pc thing)

asciilifeform has a very special loathing for 'tesla' car, solely on account of the name abuse

asciilifeform: sop.

asciilifeform: you could just up and walk out.

asciilifeform: in all fairness, the prison lenin sat in was a joke compared to present-day

asciilifeform: which i suppose is d)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you forgot: the broomstick.

asciilifeform: none, realized the correct answer at the end.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this was in reference to the carder episode

asciilifeform: shinohai: all of us has legal euthanasia. just point a pen knife at a cop.

asciilifeform: l0l do they help finish ya off

asciilifeform will have to study hard for this one

asciilifeform: and i had already mentioned it.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i realized this when it was too late.

asciilifeform sure as fuck won't be

asciilifeform ^ ought to have an abbreviation for the above.

asciilifeform: but unfortunately i have not the time and energy to flesh this out into a working mechanism

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1316243 << at one point (see old logz) i came very close to solving this. basic idea is to set up a dynamic equilibrium situation where anyone who deviates from correct wallclock time becomes prey in proportion to this deviation. ☝︎

asciilifeform: still gotta park the whos somewhere.

asciilifeform to the extent he is good for anything, isn't really a product of usa either

asciilifeform: but they did their thing there, because cheap moneyz.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tricky bit. the folks who mattered (nick t., o. lilienfeld - semiconductor, the lot) weren't u.s. bred

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: very briefly, 1870-1970 or so.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ick

asciilifeform: as in, the whole field pretty much died - at least on this side of the atlantic

asciilifeform: elsewhere i noted the example of hobby chemistry - where also it seemed that 'how could it possibly matter what derpy kids dare or don't dare to do, and whether they can get ingredients' but it turned out to.

asciilifeform: but i happen to be inside.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they don't matter outside of the leprosorium, no

asciilifeform: and marie antoinette lived in a peasant hutch, aha.

asciilifeform powerless in the face of this magic

asciilifeform: ^ can't accept incoming sockets if you -connect

asciilifeform: shinohai: how could any of it be done without tea

asciilifeform spent more or less his entire free time in the past 2 wks reverse-engineering and auditing gpg, incl. compiled binaries. this has a certain effect on the soul.

asciilifeform: short ver: prolly my overactive imagination

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see thread