asciilifeform: the whole snowden thing seems to have been quietly multiplied by 0, and nobody noticed.

asciilifeform: speaking of 'cryptome',

asciilifeform: 'solidarity'

asciilifeform: new york

asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2015-info/nyc-police/nyc-police.htm << mega-l0l

asciilifeform: but i think this is, at this point, known to virtually everyone.

asciilifeform: the whole shit soup.

asciilifeform: ditto nics, gpu, etc.

asciilifeform: (go put one through disasm, if you can figure out the architecture. it's a morass of magical values being written to magical registers for magical reasons)

asciilifeform: nor is any raid chipset, afaik, documented to anything like the necessary level.

asciilifeform: not afaik. ☟︎

asciilifeform: and then happily pop back in

asciilifeform: quite visible when they drop out of a raid for no discernible reason

asciilifeform: (not even speaking of satanic influence here)

asciilifeform: there are known bugs in hdd firmware

asciilifeform: hard disk is running turdware since when, '04 ?

asciilifeform: (or scams, of course. no shortage of this)

asciilifeform: all such techniques are fundamentally and provably variations on same theme

asciilifeform: hards, rather

asciilifeform: (if -any- failure could be reliably pinned on softs)

asciilifeform: 'tandem' voting circuits, etc. would probably be SOP

asciilifeform: re: servers: it is interesting to consider what kind of reliability mechanics would be standard (like ecc is) if microshit and unix did not exist to make a gigantic software shitter in which to hide hardware flukes

asciilifeform: magicked away.

asciilifeform: decimation: where did the 'breathalyzer' lawsuit go?

asciilifeform: and has nothing whatsoever to do with physical internals

asciilifeform: it is a function of the expected net worth of the purchaser

asciilifeform: go price a 'medical grade' power supply. just ac-dc brick, any voltage.

asciilifeform: golden toilet.

asciilifeform: i consider a box without ecc and some level of redundant storage - a toy, not computer

asciilifeform: there is probably a tank of mortal baby seal tears in an f-22. etc

asciilifeform: for machines that matter - usg jet fighters, etc. - not only pb but enviro-whiner 'atrocities' like halon are permitted.

asciilifeform: again, because 'the result doesn't matter' is the secret thought.

asciilifeform: (now we get tin whiskers, joy)

asciilifeform: also note that pb was forbidden

asciilifeform: you can take this to the bank.

asciilifeform: it 'doesn't matter' because the 'people' sitting on the machines don't matter.

asciilifeform: almost without exception.

asciilifeform: mention of xilinx is especially on the point because a bit-flip in fpga routing fabric is catastrophic

asciilifeform: re: how, famously, semiconductor folks used to buy up medieval lead roofs from cathedrals, etc. to get low-rad material ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://www.electronics-related.com/showthread/sci.electronics.design/426906-2.php << related (2nd post from end)

asciilifeform: rather than cosmic-anything

asciilifeform: decimation: it's far more often radioactive decay in the materials of which the machine itself is made ☟︎

asciilifeform: and/or that defects therein are successfully buried in the microshit sewers

asciilifeform: the fact that so many folks appear to get away with using non-ecc ram is proof that almost nothing that is presently done using pc, actually matters

asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> Moduli Waiting for Test: 0 / me likes << read werker.c to see how works.

asciilifeform also brb

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is right about this - i invite readers to look into the basic types of aphasia

asciilifeform: (earliest surviving)

asciilifeform: probably the mega-winner of 'earliest' is chinese i-ching.

asciilifeform: hm now that mircea_popescu mentions astrology,

asciilifeform: presently i think it to be kircher.

asciilifeform: re: this question i am interested in learning who was the first 'sailor' and what was his 'boat'.

asciilifeform: any more than an expert swimmer is by implication a boat.

asciilifeform: (a schizo gibbering idiocy is not a shannonizer)

asciilifeform: shannonizer necessarily includes some element of automation.

asciilifeform: no mechanization, even of the 'napier's bones' variety, required.

asciilifeform: sure, but that's a trivial example

asciilifeform: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/issue-055/athanasius-kircher-arca-musarithmica-and-many-sound-devices

asciilifeform: sure. nothing directly analogous in there iirc

asciilifeform: currently i believe it to be athanasius kircher's 'arca musarithmica'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for some time, i've wondered about earliest surviving example of shannonizer

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all of it being merely - early manually-cranked shannonizers.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: scrolling!

asciilifeform: !s borges encyclopaedia

asciilifeform: the elephant three people found in a dark room << except that it isn't a whole elephant, but just head, minus tusks, left by poachers

asciilifeform: 'voluntary-compulsory', to borrow a sovietism

asciilifeform: it is also missing the reddit category

asciilifeform: l0l what even.

asciilifeform: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCHRQTVUoAAFnSw.png:large << missing element 'atomic dirigible'

asciilifeform: but afaik most veblenism comes from misguided attempts to sate #1-4.

asciilifeform: #5 aka 'the gods smile'

asciilifeform: !s brown note

asciilifeform: bwwwwtzzz. (7Hz 'brown note' speaker on any decent atomic dirigible.)

asciilifeform: submacopter.

asciilifeform: !b 2 ✂︎

asciilifeform on narrow streets often wonders how much fuel enviro-bicyclists waste by slowing down columns of motor

asciilifeform: what i wonder is whether there are any 'krauts' left there or merely their gear.

asciilifeform: at the flea market

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: seems like everyone i've spoken to thinks i oughta have bought the bayonet, luger, helmet, etc.

asciilifeform: (more detail in coming broadcast)

asciilifeform: incidentally i ordered a tray baked today.

asciilifeform: (were it made in the usual way)

asciilifeform: l0l essentially a dollar-store part

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes built his adapter ?

asciilifeform: 'tell mistress you're with wife, tell wife you're with mistress, go to lab, get some werk done' (tm) ?

asciilifeform: rather than at home where there are chicks

asciilifeform: why ben_vulpes is sitting in an empty shop ?

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes is volunteering for this chore ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-04-2015#1117153 << see also ☝︎

asciilifeform: two tastes that go great together (TM) (R)

asciilifeform: now that - must.

asciilifeform: doesn't mean they're entirely useless

asciilifeform: i don't need 200 worth of caltrops either

asciilifeform: just not me

asciilifeform: i can imagine that -someone- wants

asciilifeform: ... or their factors.

asciilifeform: or if individual moduli have been

asciilifeform: (it will tell you if key has been seen before, also)

asciilifeform: trinque: but otherwise, any