asciilifeform: ( followed by discussion of particulars, but imho this suffices for thread )
asciilifeform: , prepared her sons for officer duty from early childhood' etc
asciilifeform: he report. from the age of five, i knew what is 'last round' -- the little shining key that opens in your skull (or heart, tastes vary) the door to soviet Valhalla. the pistol always seems to me not simply a personal, but an intimate weapon, a tuning fork by which one measured resolve: put its barrel to your noggin, and think, will you be able to pull the trigger when the right time comes ? the warring motherland , surrounded by foes
asciilifeform: 'i remember all of my pistols. there wasn't a single one that i hadn't blown out my brains with at least once. we used to shoot ourselves often in those days. pistols and revolvers were indispensable toybox inventory, all kinds : on batteries, with buzzing motors inside, of tin, stinking of burned popgun ribbon, ones that merely snapped, emitted at least a clanking sound, and silent ones, where the throat was called upon to imitate t
asciilifeform: the only folx for whom 'mystery' and 'requires' 50,000 ln of overflowlang -- are koch et al
asciilifeform: i've actually found decent (not constant time, but didn't need, it only checked sigs) rsatrons in malware samples -- kB or so of asm. it aint exactly mystery, how to bake
asciilifeform: on top of these, 4 or 5 iron 'libs' ('smartcards', etc), where even sadder algos in use
asciilifeform: there's 4 or 5 'libs' in common use (depending on whether count microshit's)
asciilifeform: ( the punchline is that koch, ssl, etc are ~in this set~ )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re 'homebrew crypto', there actually was a 1990s plague of commercial shitware folx who flunked arithmetic and then went to 'implement rsa', with exponent = 1 and so on
asciilifeform: imho it's pretty hilarious, that the heathens think they have 'crypto libs' that 'work'
asciilifeform: ( tldr : gmp not only relies on 'assert's to barf on various 'prohibited' conditions like even moduli, but barfs coredump ~with seekritz~ and ~cannot be switched off~ )
asciilifeform: iirc he even gets specially-issued leather couch for this
asciilifeform: for asciilifeform , hollywood began (and mostly ended) with those bootleg vhs cassettes in 1990.
asciilifeform: atm it's some (unknown to me) % chetty's gen.
asciilifeform: granted, scythe of 'father time' does impose an asymptotic bound on the whole thing. eventually usg will be 100% resemble staff of arsebook, google, etc, then curtain call.
asciilifeform: it also seems to coexist with a cohort of folx hired in '60,70s,80s, greybeards, who actually built some working stuff
asciilifeform: we're still talkin' of same thing, neh ? brit-style military bureaucracy. 9000 titles, chains of command, rigour 'to point of rigour mortis' ... neh ?
asciilifeform: ok i cannot resist to bite; how does this work
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bureaucracy very much has concept of hierarchy tho.
asciilifeform: imho e.g. diddled pgp rng, is moar interesting than firefucks buffer overrun, the latter is used 9000/d but for whom is used the former i have nfi, it hasn't publicly leaked.
asciilifeform: eh the notion there from start was 'goodstuff is used sparingly'. but i've nfi where used.
asciilifeform: these, apparently, counted as 'evidence'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-02#1883888 << the sores of the boobytrap leaked same yr, it was mightily disappointing ( no fancy trojan, but instead a little thing that sent back victim's external ip / winblowz ver / nic addr / etc, sorta like what microshit itself sends out when winblowz crash )☝︎
asciilifeform: at some point i'ma do the bernsteinizer in straight asm. ( but this is ~9000th on the list of things-to-do atm )
asciilifeform: the 'uncut' gmp is not afaik used anywhere in our mechanisms, with the exception of phuctor, where a (patched) variant is used for bernsteinization
asciilifeform: at some point if i can be arsed to read their sores, will find out what, specifically.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i didnt try patching out the test ( given as it's got montgomery, the answer will be soup ) but did try for odd exp, got ~same~ as for the nonconstanttime gmp knob ( which is pretty hilarious, means that they dun do anything differently for 'constant time' variant, evidently )
asciilifeform: how they enforce this, is apparently like this
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: montgomery demands that mod an' exp be ~coprime~
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that's the usual heathen hypothesis (aka 'hormesis'). mircea_popescu seems to favour the other one (and seems moar plausible to asciilifeform) , where straight 'burn-in test'
asciilifeform: ( the gulag folx chalked it up to 'lack of vodka' for the most part tho )☟︎
asciilifeform: to the point that some folx used expression 'so-and-so was mothballed' (i.e. 'in conservation')
asciilifeform: in other noose, earlier this wk , asciilifeform tried to repeat http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2906 test , but using 'gmp', the 'uncut' version of koch's thing, with asmism etc. but lo and behold, it is apparently impossible to repeat the full test battery, because :
asciilifeform: (for instance, not only 'buy in china, sell to france, while using reich bank' counts as 'export', but usg subjects physically getting up off arse and moving to wherever and working on 'controlled tech' also counts, etc)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the 'export ban' list is a hilarious read. ~nothing is ever removed from it, most of the thing was written in '80s-90s, and contains such items as fpga (afaik none are made in usa or have ever been, but somehow this dun stop the clowns) , and in practice seems to be used as 'lettre de cachet' against undesirables.
asciilifeform: if one absolutely insists on that feature, prolly Right Thing would be to patch bot so can hang off a znc ( i tried this with own hands, but failed, the existing item is apparently tailored to fleanode-direct connection )
asciilifeform: trinque: hm, apparently i was wrong about this, it only demands sslism if yer using cloaks
asciilifeform: ( plox to correct if i'm mistaken here )
asciilifeform: trinque: iirc the tls crapola is only there because fleanode went full tard coupla yrs back and demands it for nick auth☟︎
asciilifeform: mats: i haven't built anyffing useful from ice40 with own hands yet. but, interestingly, when bought a 'scsi2sd' device for replacing disk in bolix box, found that author in fact used ice40 for the job☟︎
asciilifeform: mats: neat overview, in the style of 'why ada'
asciilifeform: 3ware/lsi (vendor) used an oddball japanese cpp compiler, also
asciilifeform: nvidia's, for instance, is 64-128kB of c/asm, typically
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'best sads' yes, but cppism is unusual in roms (1st case out of asciilifeform's considerable run)
asciilifeform: ( presumably there's a pair of contacts that gets an uart, haven't found it yet tho, it's a low-priority thread )
asciilifeform: thing has not only debugger, but 'kermit'-compat 'xmodem' shell, in there.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, asciilifeform recently disasmed a raid card fw turd ( of the type found in dulap, s.mg, and several other boxes asciilifeform built ) ; turned out that it's ~little-endian ppc~, which i had nfi even existed; and on top of this, built in ~cpp~, which is also a 1st on my watch in re fwturds
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what do you suppose keeps the jungle from reclaiming that clearing ? ( do folx with machetes show up erry week, or wat )
