asciilifeform: incidentally, that thing contains the ubiquitous RTL8111 (ethernet) chip
asciilifeform: 'Purism Installs TOR by Default' << l0l! cherry on the cake!
asciilifeform: (for those unfamiliar with the subject, 'microcode' is best imagined as a kind of 'piano roll' of toggles which get flipped when a particular instruction is encountered by cpu. this in turn actually cranks the ALUs, pipeline stages, all the other familiar components.)
asciilifeform: 'So, sure, it's pure to build without the microcode blob, which means in reality that you're deciding to use the microcode blob *already embedded in the CPU*. And, on many new CPUs, the one that comes with the CPU has issues that mean you won't get past DRAM init. And, if you do get past DRAM init and boot, you've got a CPU that may have subtle errors and corrupt memory.' << this is an interesting and little-known fact
asciilifeform: who wants to buy this? down's syndrome cases ?
asciilifeform: 'the Management Engine... is a separate microcontroller embedded in the PCH and has a full network stack, has access to DMA and other nasty things. The firmware is signed by Intel and verified at each boot by the microcontroller, and if the firmware signature fails to verify correctly, the x86 cpu will not be allowed to boot... We must get that freed by Intel' << lol!!!
asciilifeform: can't resist pointing out that 'mostly open' machine is not unlike mostly-turd-free dinner
asciilifeform: 1) they don't build 2) you need winblows even to try, and the entire build scheme consists of winblows 'bat' files.
asciilifeform: anyone here ever try actually building any of the supposedly 'open' sources ever put out by intel ?
asciilifeform: 'We are working with Intel to allow us to scrub, release, and maintain the source for this, but haven’t finalized that yet. We are devoted to freeing this binary.' << pigs will fly.
asciilifeform: 'the BIOS does use coreboot, which includes a binary from Intel, called FSP.' << ahahahaha lol
asciilifeform: mats: in sk, it is a jailable offense to so much as utter something vaguely positive about nk
asciilifeform: decimation: in much the same sense as ww2 was the fault of that derp who lamented his failure to shoot hitler
asciilifeform doesn't automatically dislike would-be conquerors, but isn't fond of liars
asciilifeform: also because sk (usg muppet) was the aggressor.
asciilifeform: afaik every word of the history of the two koreas available in the english language, since the first days leading up to the war, is a cheap fabrication.
asciilifeform: decimation: believe literally nothing usg (or sk) sources ever said, since day 1, re: 'best korea.'
asciilifeform: when microshit is held liable for crapware, i will begin commuting to werk on flying pig.
asciilifeform: 'For they're done with Danny Deever, you can 'ear the dubstep play / The regiment's in column, an' they're marchin' us away; / Ho! the young recruits are shakin', an' they'll want their beer to-day, / After hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.'
asciilifeform: decimation: he means, i think, generic tcp stream (vs. store-and-forward, which is more or less the only way to even begin resisting elementary traffic analysis)
asciilifeform: there'll be a new! improved! honeypot (almost certainly consisting of a tor 'altcoin' - original with a few knobs turned)
asciilifeform: decimation: there's a saying, 'свято место пусто не бывает' - 'the holy place is never long empty'
asciilifeform: tor << snake will begin to swallow its tail, at last ?
asciilifeform: lose 300k, 1k at a time. works great.
asciilifeform: 'I've been sentenced to 2 years, to self surrender in 90 days. Considering I was facing 30 years, justice has been served.' << lol!!! >> 'i've been sentenced to the guillotine, to self-surrender in 90 days. considering that i was facing boiling in oil, justice has been served.'
asciilifeform: what kind of 'the holiday' without tanks (in the streets)
asciilifeform: 'Turner's office did not respond to several requests for comment on why Congress went against the recommendation of Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, to suspend tank production.' << ahhahahaha lol
