asciilifeform: they will say: literally ~anywhere else please~

asciilifeform: sane people understand enough to wish for their rsa modular exponentiations to NOT HAPPEN UNDER WINBLOWZ

asciilifeform: and chumps beg for moar.

asciilifeform: this keeps in perfect fitting with the 'computing industry'-as-a-protection racket business model of the last 20+ yrs, where it 'solves' exclusively those problems which it, itself, creates. ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: the other is the entirely sane hunger of pretty much everyone with half a brain to escape from winblowz, or, failing that, at least not have his private keys touched by winblowz.

asciilifeform: one is the microshit/palladium/fritzchip/treacherous computing (see rms essay by same name) totalitarian batshit

asciilifeform: there are at least two independent political pressures for the 'trusted' separate cpu-in-a-cpu thingies

asciilifeform: but i suppose this is when i say a bit about WHY we have these idiocies.

asciilifeform: (deprive it of firmware, switch it off.)

asciilifeform: you can ignore it. ☟︎

asciilifeform: this is not untrue, but there is a key difference - FOR FUCKS SAKE AMD DOESN'T FORCE IT TO BE ON !

asciilifeform: 'But is the situation much different on AMD-based x86 platforms? It doesn’t seem so! The problems related to boot security seem to be similar to those we discussed in this paper. And it seems AMD has an equivalent of Intel ME also, just disguised as Platform Security Processor (PSP)'

asciilifeform: there is literally 1 paragraph devoted to amd: ☟︎

asciilifeform: and gotta love the crock of shit where x86 == intel

asciilifeform: otherwise the fw is rsa-signed (2048b iirc)

asciilifeform: (to prevent you from cutting it out of the bios image)

asciilifeform: punkman: phun phakt: intel's recent (few yrs) cpus have a countdown which cuts power in 30 min. if the me firmware doesn't execute

asciilifeform: exam-taking (tm)

asciilifeform: sorta like how $ 100M can 'make money' but $1 won't, not even at 100M slower rate.

asciilifeform: by the time you can talk about 'fuck a girl's friends' you are no longer marginal nobody

asciilifeform: but there is a minimal takeoff velocity below which the magic is powerless.

asciilifeform: this is 'collect wallets' for sex, no ?

asciilifeform: nono the 'flashers'

asciilifeform: i thought it was more of a 'sympathetic magic' (term of art re: shamanology) item

asciilifeform: l0ltronic

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/magazine/the-strange-case-of-anna-stubblefield.html

asciilifeform: i cannot recommend them (or any other intel box) for 'airgapped crypto', missile control, reactor, etc.

asciilifeform: they also work ok for running lab instruments (laser, cnc, etc) while taking minimal desk space.

asciilifeform: ('need a computer, that is lightweight, but for taking to a place where it is likely to grow legs, e.g., airport)

asciilifeform: but use case is pretty narrow.

asciilifeform: anyway 1st step to using one of these boxes as something like a computer is reformat, naturally.

asciilifeform: it isn't a hardware co.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: google just makes the firmware for these, as i understand.

asciilifeform: (google uses the gpl as a urinal and has, for years. this is not, i think, a secret.)

asciilifeform: to add insult to injury, gentoo-based!

asciilifeform: aha! how'd you guess.

asciilifeform: what, if anything, in your household calls for one of these things, i cannot say.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the dell is a normal intel box inside, just with weird bios.

asciilifeform: the jumper in the samsung is a circular sticker of conductive rubber in the upper edge of the mb

asciilifeform: i have the early samsung arm box, and a few others

asciilifeform: also typically there is a write-protect jumper on the eeprom in the box, that has to be removed.

asciilifeform: Zuardi: depending on whether you have the patience, you can use 'buildroot' or similar to cook one.

asciilifeform: Zuardi: generally you gotta use crouton to reflash the rom in. after that, proper linux.

asciilifeform: (e.g., i had a vivisected arm chromebook with me in romania, as disposable comp.)

asciilifeform: with variable success.

asciilifeform: for some years i have experiment, on and off, with transforming them into something like a computer

asciilifeform: these have the distinction of being riotously cheap - no microshit tax in the price.

asciilifeform: (for those who remember 1990s)

asciilifeform: out of the box they are quite useless, a kind of 'webtv'

asciilifeform: (the chrome-widgets come in two varieties, arm and intel)

asciilifeform: this one's an intel box.

asciilifeform: and has rubber all over it.

asciilifeform: dell's 'chromebook 11'. but keep in mind 1) it requires heavy-duty massage to transform into something like a civilized pc and 2) 'mil-std' is not 'stops rifle bullet' but simply means it passed some degree of traditional vibration, dust, water tortures.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: of what?

asciilifeform l0lz at the fact that one can get a usg mil-std portable for < 300 usd new

asciilifeform: why - ask it, not me.

asciilifeform: at any rate, prolactin appears to be reused in the male as 'off switch.'

asciilifeform: how many per minute.

asciilifeform: chemistry has an answer for 'i want a female orgasm damnit and fuck the consequences'

asciilifeform: but apparently (i have not verified this personally, nor do i intend to),

asciilifeform: and in the other one, whose name escapes me, which ~doesn't~ also slowly atrophy your heart

asciilifeform: there ~is~ apparently an underground market in the drug

asciilifeform: winner.

asciilifeform: dingdingding

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: the riddle concerned what it does in males.

asciilifeform: notice 'alactogenesis'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is re: females

asciilifeform: aka 'salute the uniform, not the man.'

asciilifeform: makes sense.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: then - yes.

asciilifeform: ^ hm. looks like this one isn't in the logz!

asciilifeform: !s cabergoline

asciilifeform: nope.

asciilifeform: speaking only of the particular pet, it is innocent of makeup, and has purse solely because pockets are not consistently implemented in woman's clothing

asciilifeform: i won't spoil it, will let folks drop their jaws when they look up precisely what.

asciilifeform: ~inhibitors~

asciilifeform: nonono

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the theory was, iirc, 'audience won't notice because mask'

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1308238 << did he also offer a deflowering service ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1308259 << pet sayeth: 'how does mircea_popescu square his masked-superhero-for-fungibility theory with the fact that the actors appear maskless for long stretches of any one of these films ?' ☝︎

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, gabriel_laddel ^

asciilifeform: *look up

asciilifeform: phun exercise: loop up what prolactin ~inhibitors~ do in human male.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l re: the prolactin

asciilifeform bbl, off to do some maths

asciilifeform: it was when some schmuck made a page on mircea_popescu at pediwikia

asciilifeform: i suppose even this gets 'meta'-d

asciilifeform: (perhaps tlp could ascertain exactly why)

asciilifeform: bunchaplaces. but it was always 'we oughta ban' vs. proper ban

asciilifeform: lolwat

asciilifeform: i can already picture the reaction folks will have to my sha512 that takes 10,001 times longer than the customary one

asciilifeform: anyway it is inevitable that there will be multiple generations of this. it is a very thick mental cock that folks will have to slowly and methodically dilate for before it can fully park.

asciilifeform: my understanding was that mircea_popescu is asking for a virtual version of something that could later be siliconized.

asciilifeform: simply that we're encoding constants as ternaries ?