asciilifeform: 'With respect to Defendant’s inquiry during the January 16, 2015 sentencing hearing regarding the return of his copy of the Declaration of Independence, Defendant’s counsel acknowledged that this is one of the items that Defendant agreed to forfeit as part of his Plea Agreement. Upon further reflection, however, the court can think of no reason why Defendant should have to forfeit his copy of the Declaration of Independenc
asciilifeform: reveals that only 20 of his 56 'sentence points' came from the youtube thing.
asciilifeform: mats: and given that authentication happens on receipt of first packet - with antireplay nonce - unscannable for (you can't tell if a machine is a brick, a live box refusing to relay ping, or a gossip-udp node)☟︎
asciilifeform: mats: point is, proposed protocol is not a circuit at all, but an arbitrarily delay-tolerant 'mailboxer.'
asciilifeform: mats: forgive me if i don't get the point of this (secrecy and deniability?). traffic can be correlated if the circuit is long-term, you tunnel a two way protocol, disruption causes retransmits, and there's noise << there were several points. i recommend reading that entire thread, well worth the time
asciilifeform: mod6: might have to patch by hand for now.
asciilifeform: nubbins: deliberately did not pick unit with wifi because now that needs to be configured - and did not plan to give it a ui of any kind (other than the built-in bicolor led)
asciilifeform: nubbins: use the usb3 jacks. sd simply sucks.
asciilifeform: fella who has no bed, no postbox, one shirt, eats occasional leftovers, sits in restaurants and finishes other folks' drinks - what do you call him?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from speaking with some, learned that actual hobos, traditional. but with laptop, because why not? none were born hobo
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've seen hobos with laptop. not uncommon.
asciilifeform: the sd will croak reasonably quickly.
asciilifeform: at this point, even most 'civilians' have the bag. just with the disks still in their shells (laptops, that is..)
asciilifeform: who doesn't have a bag of old laptop drives lying around ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was about 35x slower than the sata presently running
asciilifeform: davout: the unit presently churning on my desk was booted from sd card - which i was using for testing (final firmware will be a read-only squashfs)
asciilifeform: davout: i'm testing a replacement firmware (for the internal eeprom) that sees if sata disk is present, and, if not already containing a blockchain, formats it and starts from nil
asciilifeform: they take usb (usb3 even.) and at one point in the beginning i almost suggested baking in a miner. but 1) who makes miners reputably 2) it has no rng (see log)
asciilifeform: usb miner was quite another thing from the item here. it promised mega-riches to chumps, and attracted a certain kind of crowd.
asciilifeform: actually it could make sense if someone were to negotiate a massive bulk discount on the crate of boxes
asciilifeform: cheap (qty. 1, ~12 usd sans sata, 18 - with) box sold originally for nas and some 'cloud' bullshit
asciilifeform: nubbins: it is (was originally sold as) a nas box. runs bitcoind now. idea was that it can also jailbreak and reflash a virginal unit of the same type, if plugged into it rather than the net
asciilifeform: not necessary that the amoebas are playing characters, however. they are not running the show, did not write script.
asciilifeform: 'As such, the funds will automatically be sent back to the user at some point in the future, unless both parties overwrite the transaction before that time.' >>>> obligatory >>>> http://bash.bitcoin-assets.com/?quote=314
asciilifeform: for the record: 3rd oomkill, 136006 blocks, 25 second restart
asciilifeform: appears to be wedged there. and has been for some time. but this is a build without the db lock patch. (ought to have wedged later, though ?)
asciilifeform: 135461; (running from zero on new disk since first i logged in today. see log.) 2 oomkills so far
asciilifeform: i also admit i have a netbsd variant (experimental) for this machine
asciilifeform: hell knows. incidentally, who's for putting root pw (unique) on a scratch-off stickey on bottom. or, alternatively, send to requester by gpg
asciilifeform: and wtf, if we're talking about fat16/32, that's in the kernel. mounts trivially
asciilifeform: why are we discussing weird microshit-proprietary filesystems ?
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: what's wrong with connecting to the node properly on 8333 and spraying your tx in ?
asciilifeform: phillipsjk: one of the motivations for this particular project is so that no bitcoin user can ever again have an 'upgrade' foisted on him by a phoundation shitgnome.
asciilifeform: if one of you wants to print glossy stickers to cover the oem case, with dire warnings re: drive will be formatted, etc. whatever, cardboard boxes, - why not. but this is a luxury
asciilifeform: no need to buy exotic ssd either. old laptop hdd 64G and above ought to do for a while
asciilifeform: why ship them? so many folks already selling them. just need defloration.
asciilifeform: first unit - use pc, yes, or borrow from phriend.
asciilifeform: idea being, unless you actually want to perform the deterministic build (want pedigreed sources, etc.) you don't need a pc.
asciilifeform: idk what you folks had in mind, but what i was making was that one of these can plug with crossover cable into a virginal unit and deflower it.☟︎
asciilifeform: a determined luser could, in principle, rebuild the entire thing with phoundation's turd in place of ours, sure
asciilifeform: conjecture is that there is a set of folks who want to do this, but aren't now because 'i haven't a second pc' or 'fan too loud' ?
asciilifeform: i for one do not have an earth-shatteringly clever answer to the conundrum of how to persuade maxint people to buy & plug these in
asciilifeform: some idiot will buy, redeem the reward, and turn in for scrap
asciilifeform: but if you wanted to have any 'wallet' functionality, the thing would have to take rpc commands or equivalent on the lan, but more direly, would need either rng or an embedded one-time pad
asciilifeform: ip is already screaming 'node!!!' into the night
