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a111: Logged on 2017-05-30 17:07 asciilifeform: the preponderance of 0xff 0xfd etc is screaming hint
mod6: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-30#1663325 << so I should *not* be seeing a reoccurance of 'ff fd' throughout my entropy output files right? ☝︎
BingoBoingo disqualified vape thing in planning latest run because still preserves active nicotine addiction
asciilifeform: trinque: they dun have a wall plug ?!
trinque: switched to a vape briefly, decided I didn't want a hot battery in my mouth.
BingoBoingo: In other news, appear to have successfully quit smoking. Last nicotine was Saturday at 1:15 PM. Turns out it works better if you wait until afterwards to announce to the world
asciilifeform: also the 'nsa not involved, shuddupterrorists' lulz.
mircea_popescu: i see they're sticking to the whole "silk road did something" lulz.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: !~later tell mircea_popescu http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/3x8Or/?raw=true
mod6: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Republic: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2017-June/000265.html
asciilifeform: ^ check out the photo of judge !
shinohai: For a less terse SoBA, participate and build your own. The voices in thy head will fill in the blanks
mod6: pretty terse SoBA this month...
shinohai: Buenas tardes mod6
mircea_popescu: i suppose when he was alive they weren't letting her get close enough ?
mircea_popescu: there is that.
asciilifeform: whether lenin, saddam, whoever. nothing pissant, esp in a crowd, loves more than to throw down symbol of ~his~ utter insignificance
asciilifeform generally barfs at photos of 'pulled down statue' given as they figure prominently in orangerevolutionary material, of pissants kicking dead lions
mircea_popescu: there weren't any during the 1k years either.
mircea_popescu: not that many hitlers either. some evil empires are more figurative than others.
asciilifeform: other than the gigantic monster one in the capital
mircea_popescu: ~what the common libertard thinks hitler is, basically.
asciilifeform: just as i will find turning over washington statues satisfying, if i live to partake of it
mircea_popescu: i confess i find toppling lenin statues quite satisfying myself.
trinque: kids can't stand up straight; objects that can't but otherwise, naturally offensive
asciilifeform: so much easier to turn over a statue than to actually accomplish something other than being piece of shit
asciilifeform: hey, the ukrs TO THIS DAY haven't run out of lenins to topple
mircea_popescu: ~statues seem to be problematic to the ambulant children these days
mircea_popescu: i don't think they go by what could be described as criteria.
BingoBoingo: So in other local lulz, Marxist aggitators want to remove Confederate memorial from park in StL city. Same aggitators love/ignore local "farmer's" market that used to hold "Pick-a-Nigger Sunday" sales.
mircea_popescu: the parking lot is for the people who came to eat!
BingoBoingo: But how many 1 in 100 doing the time also were Preetlings appointed by Hussein Bahamas?
asciilifeform: recall, this is the country where every pub has a PARKING LOT
asciilifeform: and maybe 1 in 100 does the time
asciilifeform: what, 1 in 10 adult d00dz in usa did this crime.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i may be thick, but : what is interesting about this one ?
BingoBoingo: n Courtney Cox, who was appointed to the position in 2007.
BingoBoingo: Wigginton refused to take a Breathalyzer, according to the report. He posted $100 bail and was released. Wigginton resigned as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Illinois on Nov. 24, 2015, to work for a private law firm. Wigginton became U.S. attorney in August 2010 after former U.S. President Barack Obama nominated him to serve as the top prosecutor in the state’s southern 38 counties. Wigginton, a Democrat, replaced Republica
BingoBoingo: The driver left the scene of a property damage accident where his vehicle left the roadway. The driver smelled strongly of an alcoholic beverage and his eyes were red and glassy in appearance. The driver admitted to drinking an alcoholic beverage. The driver was unable to complete the field sobriety testing.
asciilifeform: ( pci etc would make moar sense for 'atomic' trng, as described in older thread, with the scintillator, because there your entropy extraction is limited more or less only by the clock speed of the take-off/debiaser and the dead time of the scintillator (1-5ns) )
mircea_popescu: just pent-up domain to save the environment by publishing more pointless papers.
BingoBoingo: Give it 36 months for TMSR weather service S.CLIMAx to need ruinously high bitrate for "forecasting"
asciilifeform: if there were pent-up demand for ruinously high bit rate, we could do pci version with N analogue boards; but so far i dun see it
BingoBoingo: It's pretty clear that without scintillator'd FUCKGOATS that NoSuchlAbs needs to produce PASHTUN to herd FUCKGOATS
asciilifeform: rs232 has been around for loooooooong time
asciilifeform: you can get ones that do 32, even.
asciilifeform: alternatively you can use a 'rs232 card', as formerly used to run dumb terminals, bbs modems, similar -- i have one here, happily does 9 ports
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: linux seems to have a problem with >7 usb-tty devices -- but this ain't asciilifeform's fault
mircea_popescu: that's the thing with superior technology, the fact that you need 10 tons carried rather than 10kgs is not an argument in favour of oxcarts and against trucks. on the contrary -- the more needs carried, the more you want the trucks to carry it.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-31 19:23 phf: indeed. i'd like for one of these fucks to go "oh, we've tried this solution in 87 and there's reason A and B for why it's not applicable at industrial scale" or "oh we need 10000KB/s which means that blah blah blah"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-31#1663994 << 10mbps is still cheaper to make with fuckgoats than through whatever alternative they have. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: problem is, when we wake up tomorrow, the dumb cunts will still be dumb cunts ; while fuckgoats will still work.
mircea_popescu: if only we agreed to agree the dumb cunts are important they'd gladly agree fuckgoats works!
a111: Logged on 2017-05-31 19:16 phf: i wonder what they mean by "large amounts", could they just run a handful of FUCKGOATS in parallel? is there some hidden flaw in FUCKGOATS approach that makes the solution non-viable? so many questions!
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-31#1663991 << yes, there is. it's not hidden, either : it dispenses with any role for or need of the stupid fat old women in "the Commission of the European Communities" not to mention " the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research " and etcetera. ☝︎
phf: indeed. i'd like for one of these fucks to go "oh, we've tried this solution in 87 and there's reason A and B for why it's not applicable at industrial scale" or "oh we need 10000KB/s which means that blah blah blah" ☟︎
asciilifeform: i'd luvvv to know..
phf: why is there a need for a "quantum random number generator" (from yesterday's thread)?
phf: i wonder what they mean by "large amounts", could they just run a handful of FUCKGOATS in parallel? is there some hidden flaw in FUCKGOATS approach that makes the solution non-viable? so many questions! ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/oa8cj/?raw=true << whole text, for the truly dedicated entomologist.
asciilifeform: 'Generating large amounts of truly random data is expensive. Fortunately, truly random data can be simulated by pseudorandom data produced by a stream cipher from a much smaller key. (Even better, slight deficiencies in the randomness of the cipher key do not compromise security.) The literature contains several scalable ciphers....' -- djb et al ☟︎
asciilifeform: d 1513671; and by a gift from Cisco. P. Lou was supported by the Rachleff Scholars program at the University of Pennsylvania. We are grateful to Cisco for donating much of the hardware used for our experiments.'
asciilifeform: 'This work was supported by the Commission of the European Communities through the Horizon 2020 program under project number 645622 (PQCRYPTO) and project number 645421 (ECRYPT-CSA); by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) under grant 639.073.005; by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology under grant 60NANB10D263; by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grants 1314919, 1408734, 1505799, an
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: !~later tell erlehmann http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-31#1663810 << this is neat, and yes, exactly same idea. ☝︎
phf: would be handy if a111 tracked parts..
asciilifeform: !~later tell erlehmann http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-31#1663810 << this is neat, and yes, exactly same idea. ☝︎
asciilifeform: it is solely an excuse for pissing the bed, and never anything else.
asciilifeform: because the alternative is 'oh, shuddup that winblowz is porous, because godel, nyahahaha'
asciilifeform: and if someone wants to mention godel etc -- ethical engineer MAY NOT cite godel, EVER, just as a police detective MAY NOT cite the supernatural and admit a hypothesis of miraculous theft from a safe ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: funny bit re metastability -- i did not realize that it was the one and only possible culprit until i confirmed that the logic analyzer in fact saw, on multiple occasions (at least 1 ppm) a variant logic state from what the rest of the circuit saw.
asciilifeform: ( everything and everybody one day reverts to 'physical object' behaviour... )
asciilifeform: read the fuckingsource folx!111
asciilifeform: how i solved this -- is exercise for the reader ( i did solve it )
asciilifeform: the practical consequence of this is that when it was connected to TWO of'em, they could easily end up with different impressions of what they saw, breaking 'yokeability')
asciilifeform: (problem was , analogue rng's waveform, while meeting the signal voltage constraint, and even the rise/fall time constraints, sometimes does not meet the hold time constraint! and results in metastable state in digital chip it is connected to
asciilifeform: see old thread re subj
asciilifeform: and wanted the thing to be repeatable ('yoke test' per the docs)
asciilifeform: now in all fairness, the coveted 'information processer' is not found in nature, only the lowly 'physical object' is found there; and to make the former out of the latter is not at all easy,
asciilifeform: ( and leads to terminate-with-epitaph, a perfectly valid state, rather than exploitability )
asciilifeform: where the only 'world ends' operation is div0
asciilifeform: the generalization of the principle is ffa
asciilifeform: which in fact can be built to validly transition from every possible state to another valid possible state ( see the adder example earlier. )
a111: Logged on 2017-05-31 15:36 mircea_popescu: this i suspect is generally the case, if an item doesn't contain deadly possible states it is more properly a toy than a tool.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-31#1663921 << overall it is not a useful line of thought re physical objects, all of which have 'potential deadly state', say of being launched through my head in a tornado. it is only interesting re information-processors. ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-31#1663925 << the direct equiv of unwashedcock is the winblowz box plugged directly into public net ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-05-31 15:37 mircea_popescu: in any case, the problem of the 110/220 swich is not, to this day, solved.
asciilifeform: ( transformerless conversion )
a111: Logged on 2017-05-31 15:36 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-31#1663763 << this i'm affraid is wishful thinking. consider the simple case of the 110/220 volt switch on most desktop power supplies. it... does contain such a state, as part and parcel of why it even exists in the first place.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-31#1663919 << screamingly bad example -- all current ps lack the switch, and in fact designed to make use of 90-300volt, wherever in the world ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i spent a while having to subdue my fridge which had become embroiled along with my washing machine and its allies in an air-and-sea war over some misunderstandings, and i decided no more of that! no fridge, no washing machine, no spy etc needs its own armored divisions!
a111: Logged on 2017-05-31 14:44 erlehmann: my answer would be: spy whips out recognizer, nukes everything from orbit if language of patchset does not match language that is expected.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-31#1663778 << that is a badly designed spy. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-05-31 14:41 erlehmann: asciilifeform by that standard, everything is insane (i might even agree). LANGSEC is not planet-wide asepsis, it is washing hands before walking to the operating table.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-31 14:41 phf: validating input is the security community mantra that i remember since i joined it in 99 or so
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-31#1663768 << let me tell you what it does, because i recently ran a browser games check. a) won't allow email from domains with >3 char tlds. because VALIDATING INPUT, yes. b) won't allow your password. it's too long (yes), it has special characters (o ya), it whatever on a stick. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: in any case, the problem of the 110/220 swich is not, to this day, solved. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: this i suspect is generally the case, if an item doesn't contain deadly possible states it is more properly a toy than a tool. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-05-31 14:39 asciilifeform: erlehmann: 'validating input' is idiotic - a sanely designed system simply contains no physically possible perdition state to be led into.