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asciilifeform: not that many vendors to choose from - if you want a fanless non-x86, non-arm box with >256M ram.
asciilifeform: nm
asciilifeform: not seeing it
asciilifeform: that's an x86 box
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ty
asciilifeform: link?
asciilifeform: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/obama-wants-congress-to-increase-prison-sentences-for-hackers << further lulz
asciilifeform: 'charger' was just the furniture used as mask.
asciilifeform: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/01/meet-keysweeper-the-10-usb-charger-that-steals-ms-keyboard-strokes << microshit wireless kbd crypts with xor.
asciilifeform: (who typically succumbs to the temptation of using hw-accelerates, e.g., aes? - folks setting up vpn or otherwise bridging nets with serious traffic. aka delicious targets for usg.)
asciilifeform: or - someone would like to see these put to use.
asciilifeform: better than an entirely fake one, sure.
asciilifeform: no prizes for guessing why.
asciilifeform: this is mildly suggestive of vendor having encouraged this
asciilifeform: last bit re: this gadget: seems like the open source folks were somehow clued in regarding, and dared to put to use, the aes acceleration.
asciilifeform: curiously, it even has a hardware galois field multiplier. to tempt folks using elliptic curves.
asciilifeform: i'd avoid the built-in aes, etc. instructions. if i were hitler and ordering a 'magic packet' back-door for this device, i would almost certainly ask that it spit back recently-used operands for these on the wire.
asciilifeform: (what rng? ring oscillator jitter, with sha1 whitening.) ☟︎
asciilifeform: pp. 658-9. in case someone was actually following this thread.
asciilifeform: (it is not an especially good one)
asciilifeform: interestingly, thing has an rng, and manual actually provides a schematic supposedly for it.
asciilifeform: the key to exploring the solar system is escaping the earth's gravity, yes. but easy to say!
asciilifeform: ( for gentoo enthusiasts - http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MIPS/ERLite-3 )
asciilifeform: though there is an elaborate dance where folks implement xxxx and then pretend it wasn't using leaked/nda docs
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: right now it is elementary fear of usg that keeps the leaked docs scarce and largely unused
asciilifeform: (so many to choose from)
asciilifeform: which idiocy
asciilifeform: supplied, afaik exclusively, by satan's loyal imps.
asciilifeform: they're stuck using weird turdware.
asciilifeform: and it doesn't happen on a pc.
asciilifeform: i mention all of this because, while academic for the lot of us, there are folks who actually need to diddle 1M+ packets/sec. in some intelligent way.
asciilifeform: and That Would Be Wrong (tm)
asciilifeform: because, naturally, one would have to read the leaked ds
asciilifeform: interestingly, there is, afaik, no support for any of the spiffy bells & whistles (hardware tcp/ip, queueing, packet inspection, etc.) in any civilized os.
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: (see pp. 254.)
asciilifeform: woah, hardware memory management.
asciilifeform: mind-blowingly detailed datashit, however.
asciilifeform: (afaik)
asciilifeform: hactive.googlecode.com/files/CN50XX-HRM-V0.99E.pdf << leaked data sheet for the soc in gadget mentioned earlier. you can't actually get this from the vendor.
asciilifeform reminds readers who may come across this device not to use vendor's turd - a fairly standard linux but with a closed kernel module, apparently
asciilifeform: metal chassis, rs232 port. very unusual in that respect. almost like something made 20 yrs. ago. hence the mention of it here.
asciilifeform: this here gadget is a ~100 usd piece that handily runs, say, a btc node. with good performance.
asciilifeform assumes his isp is the mitm vector of choice, and hence does not regard router as a serious hardened component. but has many problems with reliability and programmability of the usual consumer turdware.
asciilifeform: it has the cpu (really a soc), four drams, and a bunch of passives.
asciilifeform: it does come with a vendor turd os
asciilifeform: in the electron microscope sense? nein
asciilifeform: getting fairly good performance on one of these with freebsd 10.
asciilifeform: useful-things-announcement: a fairly civilized router, turns out, is one 'edgerouter lite' - 3 gigabit ports. mips64 processor with fairly good docs. nuke the vendor's turdware and install *bsd of your choice. the interesting thing about this gadget is that the firmware lives on an (internal) removable usb stick. can pull, examine, modify on standard comp, even theoretically install read-only unit.
asciilifeform: obligatory naggum: 'I don't _want_ Joe Blows' Homemade Microwave Oven, OK?' ( http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3065132899827911@naggum.no.html )
asciilifeform: 'level up skills' at home, under a blanket.
asciilifeform: 'would open up development to a lot of coders' << why would anyone wish this to happen ?
asciilifeform: not a titanic work of literature, but relevant. fella goes mad on account of getting locked up for a while with naught but a chess book.
asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Game << pediwik, for n00bz
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ever read 'Schachnovelle' ?
asciilifeform: or wait, i think that one's out already
asciilifeform: then i can finally write 'mein kampf.'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: there are other, i think, similar proggies
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as (i think) i told jurov & co., it is my intention to eventually write this book. if live long enough.
asciilifeform: http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: specifically in the style of the 'lions book'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for example, it will become possible to write a book about how the damn thing works.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ever tried http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/ebrowse.html ?
asciilifeform: and was already an accomplished hater of the language.
asciilifeform once fed 'lippman' to pet. it turned out that she had been fed it already as a child
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: you probably already own b. stroustrup, but for n00bs i like to give s. lippman's 'primer'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes is new to cpp ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: in cpp, 'this' points to current object.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: aha
asciilifeform: polyadic functions?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: polymorphism? so you can use 'plus' on quaternions, bignum ints, and smallints, and it remains called 'plus' - etc.
asciilifeform: i may have linked to the current turd instead of 0.5.3
asciilifeform: as far as cppisms go, this is nothing at all.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/f914f1a746d7f91951c1da262a4a749dd3ebfa71/src/script/sign.h#L17
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: cpp. declared with 5. last is default.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'solver' can fail
asciilifeform: well yes.
asciilifeform: wat
asciilifeform long awaits 'suckstarter', successor to 'kickstarter'
asciilifeform tests barf bag
asciilifeform confesses that he has never written, or used, an extension for a terminal
asciilifeform: not mentioned for the same reason sky being blue is rarely mentioned - abundantly clear that an atrocity like perl had to offer a mega-win to catch on (and it did genuinely, organically catch on)
asciilifeform: ;;google guru meditation error
asciilifeform: wolframator claims: ~300km
asciilifeform: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=constanta+romania+to+odessa+ukraine
asciilifeform also built castles, around same era, within ~900km of mircea_popescu, same latitude, no burns
asciilifeform: assumed - ozone.
asciilifeform: no such thing in childhood.
asciilifeform: i bought a uv dosimeter as learning such a thing existed. because burns after 40 min. or so.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, same! i assumed it was on account of moving to north a.
asciilifeform: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA03520.jpg << the bright suns of argentina ?
asciilifeform: same as the buterin thing
asciilifeform: Alina-malina: who might you be ?
asciilifeform: !up Alina-malina
asciilifeform: hitler.
asciilifeform: !b 3 ✂︎
asciilifeform: ah.
asciilifeform: does mircea_popescu have marksmanship standards for the gurlz ?
asciilifeform: 'Her: If violence conquers all, even argument, why are you training me in logic instead of shooting? Me: You gotta be willing and able to stand for what you believe in. If you're not, you might as well be a rabbit. And if you recall I have on numerous occasions indicated that you must meet minimal standards of violence.' << interesting! :
asciilifeform still doesn't grasp the excitement the livestock butchery thing caused