asciilifeform: ^ or to program in cl without a button that evaluates the current set of parens your cursor is in
asciilifeform: (asking folks to, e.g., match parens or indent by hand is ~retarded~)
asciilifeform: i suspect that 99% of folks who think they 'hate lisp!111!!111' were created by the harmful delusion that any meaningful work can be done without emacs+slime or the exact equivalent
asciilifeform: 'you walked, anybody can walk' 'fine. go and walk back. through the same minefield'
asciilifeform: i try to explain this point to folks and nearly always fail
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... upside of a sane approach is never "where it gets you", but always "where it didn't take you" << aha. precisely this.
asciilifeform: (rides on ghostscript. any box you run it on, you may as well use a traditional displayer)
asciilifeform: there is 'pdf2html' but it shits out a massive dir with html index and gif pages
asciilifeform: e to wait for my physical jailbreak from usaschwitz..
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-08-2015#1237481 << this is more difficult than mircea_popescu might appreciate. for one thing, i do hardware, where merely the ~fact of~ a usable hole existing is half the secret - once you say, credibly, folks know precisely where to look; the other half of it is that i am in the wot neither of folks buying nor of folks brokering; and the third 'half' is that any attempt at this will hav☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: 3) you can insert an arbitrary binary as payload. the most traditional payload is another item called 'seabios', which emulates typical pc bios and can even boot winblowz
asciilifeform: 2) the job of the thing is to init the box as quickly as possible and get the fuck out of the way
asciilifeform: 1) their www has a list of boards known to work (and ones that don't, with brief statements of ~why~)
asciilifeform: just about everything there is to say about it would fit in a paragraph... let's see:
asciilifeform: aaaaand i'm still a loonie for calling for, among other things, a cpu with hardware bounds checking.
asciilifeform: call to the new operator will truncate that value down to fit into a 32-bit integer, thus allocating an undersized buffer. Subsequently, chunk_size worth of data is read into this undersized buffer. Even if the value is truncated to 32-bits, the function will still read 0xFFFFFFFF bytes into the buffer, leading to a heap overflow...'
asciilifeform: 'For example, if a malicious MP4 is crafted with a chunk_size of 0x1ffffffff (notice this is larger than a 32-bit value) the faulty overflow check will be bypassed because chunk_size > SIZE_MAX. Next, chunk_size is added to size. If size is any value greater than 0, an integer overflow will occur. If, for instance, size is 1, the addition will result in a value of 0x200000000, which is larger than a 32-bit value. The following
asciilifeform: 'Despite our notification (and their confirmation), Google is still currently distributing the faulty patch to Android devices via OTA updates.'
asciilifeform: 'In summary, the Stagefright disclosure process was an interesting one to observe. The (un)surprising outcome being that given all the exposure this vulnerability received combined with essentially infinite resources on the vendor side, effective security mitigations were still not deployed.'
asciilifeform: instead emulator (and, more often, its optimized sibling, virtualizator) is used to host ten thousand instances of lolcat server on one poor intel box
asciilifeform: but no such thing, of course, ever happened.
asciilifeform: imagine, i thought, what an advance, you can finally emulate a proper pc on itself
asciilifeform: when i was, decade later, we had proper emulator
asciilifeform: for instance, when my brother was a uni student and took 'operating systems', they were stuck testing on actual 486 and reboot, reboot, 500 times a day with precious little meaningful output
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> well, specifically what triggered me was the proposition that "this man that is doing a bad job would do a better job weith better tools" << now, if it were simply a matter of strength and weakness, one could argue that 'more folks could dig well with bulldozer than with spade'
asciilifeform did all but two grades in the land of mordor
asciilifeform was always envious of his elder brother, who did all ten grades in the proper school.
asciilifeform: cn, like ru, has plenty of experience (which arguably neither ever fully recovered from!) of being ruled by foreign yoke
asciilifeform: usg tried to 'orange revolution', failed. tries again every day since.
asciilifeform: ag3nt_zer0: it matters to cn only in the sense that your body killing a particular bacterium you ate last night matters to you.
asciilifeform: (if you are specifically interested in cn matters, mandarin. if you just want to unplug from the idiot anglo cultural matrix, ru.)
