asciilifeform: in other noose from asciilifeform's chamber of horrors : zoolag continues to astonish -- at tip of the spear continuously since reaching sync

asciilifeform: in other noose, ben_vulpes , trinque , ircbot on sbcl 1.0.38-3.el6 : http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/aojeZ/?raw=true

asciilifeform: in other noose : zoolag still on tip-of-the-spear, working pretty great.

asciilifeform: in other noose, zoolag has 21 peers, and has been at the bleeding tip of the spear continuously ( at least through the lens of asciilifeform's hand-cranked observatory gear) since getting there.

asciilifeform: in mostly but not wholly-unrelated noose, asciilifeform searched the market for little lcd thing one could plug into usb jack, to have trbtron display height at all times while it sits on the shelf. but TO THIS DAY none exist that cost less than THE FUCKING MACHINE lol

asciilifeform: in related noose, zoolag covered ~20k blox in 4days. and looks set to fully sync by tomorrow morning.

asciilifeform: in other noose, zoolag with 'aggression' : walked from 484621 to 495973 in ~60 hrs.

asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform discovered that it is impossible to use trinque's bot on fleanode if connecting from a shitazon session:

asciilifeform: in other noose, 'aggression' patch is apparently ~the~ pill against what ailed zoolag; 482253 -> 484621 in ~12hr , previously that was 3-4 day's worth

asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform wrote a sane commandline-getter for gnat

asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform found it impossible to rebuild http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-20#1755200 under gcc 4.9 ☝︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, trinque's pill worked, but the gcc5.x item was not needed

asciilifeform: in other noose, raid cards work.

asciilifeform: in other noose, congrats to ben_vulpes , http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1913&cpage=1#comment-18420 << 2nd ffa ch1 graduate

asciilifeform: in other noose, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1913&cpage=1#comment-18418 << congrats to PeterL, the first (self-proclaimed, but there ain't gonna be any other kind, i dun run a usg-style school, 'diploma' is a matter of yer own conscience) ffa ch1 graduate .

asciilifeform: old noose neh

asciilifeform: but meanwhile-er, in not-at-all-noose, asciilifeform briefly looked into the question of what-would-it-take to make a pci-e FG . found ( e.g. https://archive.is/dGtBI and elsewhere, for the curious ) that it is quite impossible to do with lattice 'ice' or any other small fpga; the complexity is bookcase-length ( supposing one could even ~get~ the req'd docs, many are not only payware but protected via disinfo-flooding )

asciilifeform: meanwhile in 'The Internet of the Future' ( as pictured in http://www.loper-os.org/?p=208 ) noose : https://www.meo.pt/internet/internet-movel/telemovel/pacotes-com-telemovel << and also it lies to archive.is , so screenshit : http://www.loper-os.org/pub/plebenet.jpg

asciilifeform: in other noose, turned up that the pilot opterons in asciilifeform's torture room have a disappointing onboard raid that supports only sata2 (3Gb/s). upgrading'em with sata3 raidtrons (6Gb/s)

asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform found the seekrit of realtek nic init

asciilifeform: in other noose, ALL of the 'livedvd' on gentoo's ftp appear to contain poetteringolade ( boots into gui horror, with systemd, 'networkmanager'-at-boot, etc. )

asciilifeform: in other not really noose, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-26#1743205 sparked pretty lively ( if inconclusive ) comment thread. ☝︎

asciilifeform: in other not-yet-noose, asciilifeform considered the q of : can show a lower bound for how quickly (i.e. bits leaked per bit of ciphertext sent ) any n-bit-keyed symmetriccipher leaks its key , from purely informationtheoretical grounds ? or not.

asciilifeform: in other noose, sci-hub.cc dun resolve nomoar. ☟︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, chaum ( see also http://btcbase.org/log/2016-01-10#1365552 ) peddles promisetronic shitcoin, https://archive.is/DQPVe , as if he had any reputation left to burn ☝︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, ffa elf on x86-64 with no inlinings and stripped .a , is ~50kB ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: in other noose HOLYMOTHEROFFUCK does gcc backend shit out liquishit , e.g., http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/bP9jt/?raw=true ☟︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, far away, 'Bitbet is shutting down as the admin team is no longer in a position to manage the site. All contracts that could be resolved have been resolved, and winnings have been paid out...'

asciilifeform: lobbes: wget will fail on ~all major enemy www ( noose sites etc ) on account of the dynamic loading idiocy

asciilifeform: in other noose, http://romdict.sourceforge.net/index.eng.php << the sad sad state of the art of opensores ro dictionaries

asciilifeform: in other noose, https://archive.is/NI40u >> 'US Navy: Penis in sky drawn by jet trail was 'unacceptable''

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in психушка noose, https://archive.is/5aOSp >> 'The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a pill Monday that has a digital ingestion tracking system which can tell if medication was ingested by a patient. ... to allow easier treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and some depression'

asciilifeform: in sadder noose, cheapest bolix ivory microscopy quote, chinese, that covers all the layers ( metal and passivation ) is ~30,000 usd. ☟︎

asciilifeform: i must say even sadder noose, i dun have an rsatron that fits in irc line either...

asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform's timis photoset is nao toobig for just 1 ps0t, will prolly turn into N-part series

asciilifeform: in other noose, http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/p5TKr/?raw=true

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in very other noose, http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/hIp2p/?raw=true

asciilifeform: now, good noose is that it in fact worx... ☟︎

asciilifeform: primes >2 are odd, noose at 11

asciilifeform: in vehehehehery other noose, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-02#1719744 >>> the 16s is now 2s, and with room for obvious 8x speedup further on ☝︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform derived a simple constant-time variant of barrett. short enough to put in the l0gz:

asciilifeform: then good noose -- both of the example boxes, contain strictly classic nics

asciilifeform: in other noose, https://urbit.org/blog/2017.9-eth ( cocksucker serves empty page to archive.is, and so http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/k9AVu/?raw=true << plain txt ) urbit drops pretense of independent existence, merges with... ethertardium ☟︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, ACHTUNG, panzers, http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/BAjEK/?raw=true << 27.2 sec (4096b modexp) ☟︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform found that 1) knuthian division can be sped up by ANOTHER factor of 2, by walking the bits of the quotient instead of shifting'em 2) barrett reduction in constant time is almost certainly possible ☟︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, 2nd continuous day of aerial combat drills over dc

asciilifeform: in other non-noose, asciilifeform still searching for a http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-10#1696834 . ☝︎

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: can haz sores of the noose plz ?

asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform tested various proggies purporting to extract utxoset. each and every one, shite. e.g. 'bitcoin-abe' works in geological speed, and promises to produce multi-TB sql turd

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in moar interesting ( qntrable? BingoBoingo ? ) noose, https://archive.is/ZaKft << >> http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/4MhHz/?raw=true >> 'great wall of eurostan' ☟︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, the kanzure d00d works and works to transcribe audio for prb 'conferences', e.g. http://diyhpl.us/diyhpluswiki/transcripts/scalingbitcoin/milan/schnorr-signatures , for apparently years nao. ☟︎

asciilifeform: in very very other noose : the vendor's vga and ps/2 kbd demo verilog for ice40 builds and WORX ☟︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity17/sec17-tang.pdf >> http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/Gw8Sr/?raw=true << ever wonder what 'power management' controller is actually for ? ( answer: fault injection, so nsa can help your, e.g., chineseremaindertheorem-using rsatron, shit out privkey ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform found that there WAS a standard for sram simms -- http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Projects/DSP_Expansion_Ram/JEDEC_64_Pin_SIMM.pdf -- and that vintage examples survive

asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform experimented recently with various prb ( after couplae year pause ) and reports that they never in any way cured the 'happy to sit for hours waiting for block rain to fall into mouth' sync behaviour.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: afaik the discussion of the physical evidence, is noose

asciilifeform: in other quasi-noose, here's a simple electric rng suitable for very low bit-rate application ( e.g. walletrons for sig nonce ) : small mercury tilt switch, gates clock signal to counter, and a flipflop. when the latter toggles, the counter value is forwarded to a register; every 2 shots end up vonneumanned and xor'd into the output reg.

asciilifeform: in other non-noose, 10ns ecc sram is ~15 usd / megabit today. ☟︎

asciilifeform: in not wholly unrelated noose, paypal joins airbnb etc in excommunication frenzy of various 'alt' redditus

asciilifeform: in other noose, how come nobody noticed that we can accumulate the carry in Karatsuba_Term, and ripple it out once instead of 3 times per firing ...

asciilifeform: in other noose, mod6 , phf , et al : http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-10#1681208 nao 1.5s . ( this with karasbuba-squaring used in exp, and comba-squaring used as base case in the former. ) ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: in possibly more interesting noose, ice40 toolchain seems to build and work ok even on crapple.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-05#1694208 << in other noose, this worked. ☝︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform took the chance made by the death of ssd in 'zoolag' to attempt netbsd. result : no boot. ( with or without 'no acpi' ) option, hangs at usb init. ☟︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform built 'icestorm', 'arachne-pnr', with plain gcc 4.9 ( the only concession to idiocy on the test machine was python3 ) . and even MOST of 'yosys' ( the last step in the ice40 open sores fpga toolchain ) built. in fact, whole thing built, but linker barfs

asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform recently and for the THIRD time tried to get http://www.clifford.at/icestorm going . has the iron ready, etc. BUT the only prog utils are in a) python3 b ) haskell

asciilifeform: in other noose, lotta frustrated fpga aficionados live in #bolix.

asciilifeform: in other noose!, a samsung ssd lasts about 2y in a high-traffic trb node.

asciilifeform: in other noose, zoolag is back in service

asciilifeform: and unsurprisingly 0 'mainstream' noose re subj

asciilifeform: in other noose, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-26#1607654 passed. ☝︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, kako finally retromonkeying with his log

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bad noose : 9G

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: good noose : list of factorials 0..65536 is here.

asciilifeform: in other noose, 'Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2807 @ 1.58GHz' >>>> 840m49.075s

asciilifeform: in other noose, achtung mod6 et al:

asciilifeform: in other noose, the 'china must be colonized for 300 years to become civilized' solzhederp finally croaked ☟︎☟︎