asciilifeform: not, at any rate, this one.

asciilifeform can't be arsed to listen to tape

asciilifeform: 'We discuss how Steve Jobs was on the worst run of his life, with a series of hardware failures (Mac, Lisa, Next, Pixar) and had been recently thrown out of Apple (1994).' << next was 'hardware failure' ??

asciilifeform: (and take bets on how long until itself hand-banned from all known search engines)

asciilifeform: might be interesting to set up a www catalogue of these 'holes'.

asciilifeform: pretty lulzy, that we turn up 2 of these in 1 day.

asciilifeform: http://www.legalengineering.com << apparently still up. but invisible to google !!

asciilifeform: (did it ~ever~ have a www? is there some public record of said co existing, besides the d00d's say-so ?)

asciilifeform: in other, possibly moar interesting lulz, perens is ceo of 'legal engineering' co., which appears to have... no www site.

asciilifeform: but hm, possibly we had this thread.

asciilifeform: ^ this is much spiffier than the box i typically sit in front of, ftr.

asciilifeform: so in the end mircea_popescu may well turn out to be right about 'we can ~literally~ use 1980s devices.'

asciilifeform: to possibly squeeze something useful from thread: as i understand, a lamport-based 'trb-i' ~could~ run on z80. ☟︎

asciilifeform: which part << 'a workstation is, minimally, something that can build trb and keep up with blocks'

asciilifeform: (there ~is~ a certain bottom floor to 'workstation', defined imho by ability to build&run trb. but it is lower than '4GHz')

asciilifeform: the reich works in this case not by denying the parts to would-be builders, but in pushing the notion that, e.g., 'workstation' HAS to be a 4GHz wintel thing

asciilifeform: (and surprising other variety of konsoomer tech. vcr, for instance.)

asciilifeform: you can get them from most 1980s car.

asciilifeform: this is in re earlier thread re cpu, also. and the luser-friendly world. they want 'radio' to mean 'box with 1000MHz cpu and 1G of ram and shituntu linux' and not 'spark gap'.

asciilifeform: on the scenario.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as with many other 'not hards', it takes, mostly, knowing ~why you oughta~

asciilifeform: or with mirror, to airplane.

asciilifeform: if you know morse, you can send 1000km message with the pieces of ruined truck.

asciilifeform: morse, incidentally, is a skill that the 4th reich would quite like to see die out entirely. ohnoez, can't have folx communicating with low-tech radios, flash-lamps, through prison toilets.

asciilifeform: 'Mr. Perens was founder of No-Code International, which helped to convince the International Telecommunications Union, FCC and the telecommunications regulators of many nations to drop the Morse code requirement for Amateur Radio licensing. With the possible exception of Russia, all nations have now dropped that requirement. ' << lel

asciilifeform: not that it ever was.

asciilifeform: 'As the frequency rises, saturation is less of a problem. So, modern power supplies use a high frequency (above 20 KHz, so you won’t hear it) instead of 60 Hz, which allows them to use a small toroid core transformer made of ferrite...' << entirely factual except for the 'won't hear it' part. it is maddening.

asciilifeform: (nm, found in the l0gz)

asciilifeform: (they ~do~ have a serious problem with the notion of removing things, because one of the things that most desperately needs removal is ~themselves~)

asciilifeform: if removing the liquishit is somehow 'off the table' -- what remains: parfumery

asciilifeform: leaving entirely aside the question of whether ice40 can in fact be made to do anything useful with the 'open' toolchain discussed earlier, or whether a toolchain that required clang, llvm, and ten other poetteringesque abortions is 'open' ☟︎

asciilifeform: (is it the lattice ice40? then why not SAY IT motherfucker)

asciilifeform: where do i buy this magical thing.

asciilifeform: interestingly the thing mentions 'open toolchain fpga' dozens of times but NOT ONCE says WHICH

asciilifeform: this degree of 'softwarization' of hardware, i have never before seen -- the ubuntized crockofshit approach to seekoority, finally applied down on the iron. yes, let's retrofit crossbar switching on ten layers of liquishit!

asciilifeform: ith the associated PCB traces located in central layers of the system board.'

asciilifeform: on read directly from LPC out of band to an attacker, e.g. over Bluetooth... In a nutshell, LPC Guard™ converts the traditional monolithic shared LPC bus topology into a pseudo-star topology, then masks sensitive data transmissions involving a single peripheral from all remaining peripherals on the bus. The bus control device central to this technology is securely connected to the LPC master onboard the CPU or southbridge device, w

asciilifeform: ' The LPC bus is a shared, bidirectional bus that often handles highly sensitive traffic such as TPM transaction cycles, password entry via PS/2 keyboard, and low level firmware read / write cycles. All existing systems using LPC for these functions share a single, fatal flaw. Since the LPC bus is shared, a malicious peripheral can be surreptitiously attached to the LPC interface without detection, then transmit interesting informati

asciilifeform: https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-secure-workstation/updates/talos-fpga-functions-and-responsibilities-part-1 << the sheer lunacy of the epicycles, omfg!111!

asciilifeform actually read the entire talos turd, and the links, and as is quite typical the 'libreboot' idiot pitches 'use linux on chromebook c201' -- but if you actually read, then will learn that 'so long as you don't need wireless nic or video to work!'

asciilifeform: the folks ~buying~ old american launchers, to convert to house, do look for (gaseous) radon. but that's more of chronic exposure hazard.

asciilifeform: (50+ metres of water is typical)

asciilifeform: quite a few 'speleologists' drowned in these.

asciilifeform: poisons -- on the other hand, yes.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is very rarely anything radiating in these

asciilifeform: gotta love the 'you OWN bitcoin! just not the privkey' thing.

asciilifeform: (possibly there was a market in 1988. not today.

asciilifeform: no moar in cpudom than in moon launches.

asciilifeform: entirely tru.

asciilifeform: ect, profitable branch, and the market is unable to converge on an optimal solution. We are already seeing this with RISC-V and some of its most puzzling design decisions and strangely missing features (e.g., the lack of an IOMMU and L3 cache in all current implementations...'

asciilifeform: '...hardware development has a sparse talent pool with widely varying skill levels, extremely high barriers to entry, very high iteration costs, slow time to market, and testing a new idea often requires a combination of both the barrier to entry and iteration costs to be paid up front. As a result, hardware development often falls back to a centrally planned model, with stronger individuals selecting what they think will be the corr

asciilifeform: the 1 interesting gibblet imho in the talos faq:

asciilifeform: worth also thinking why the talos folks linked to the sewer.

asciilifeform: then they can say 'ah it was always on reddit'

asciilifeform: btw i'm not wholly convinced that it is properly speaking random spew. quite possibly hedging for the time when the keyz finally ~do~ leak.

asciilifeform: ah that was re the redditards.

asciilifeform: in re the 'let's make an OPEN!11! workstation'.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was speaking of upstack link, the talos thing.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: anybody who claims to have a privkey for $whatever needs to only do one thing!!!

asciilifeform: so anybody claiming to 'make OPEN!11!!!! workstation!' who is not planning to make 1M+gate fpga by the megatonne, is a) subverted b) stupid or c) both.

asciilifeform: at the risk of creating 'wall of text', i'ma spell out for the l0gz readerz: if you sell properly open cpu, folx then have a cpu. if you sell properly open fpga, they then have cpu, ram controller, video card, nic, etc, etc.

asciilifeform: it. I have access to version 8's signing keys myself, being in that scene, but all my computers use version 11 so I haven't cared to mess with it. It's certainly not common but it is absolutely something that FVEY and related contractors (Raytheon, Leidos, half the people you'll see at ISS, etc) will be able to get their hands on, if they haven't already.'

asciilifeform: 'This post has a lot of misunderstandings behind it. First off, the Intelligence Community does not need to force Intel to give up Manageability Engine keys (or AMD's PSP keys for that matter). Both the keys and the toolchain, as well as the source code are traded underground. I know that at least up to firmware version 8 is traded underground, and version 11 (the latest) is available without difficulty to people who know how to find