asciilifeform: the reason i even bothered to respond to the trezor thing is to share the hypothesis that all of the available products are dumb because the problem they are 'solving' - is dumb.
asciilifeform: a dicelist is a list of folks who are to be diced.
asciilifeform: apologies to w. blake, but 'some are born to sweet delight,' and some are born to biodiesel pot.
asciilifeform: just like the folks who can't do written language - fell by the wayside
asciilifeform: if these are not available, we shall be needing a new 'homo cryptographicus' who can
asciilifeform: the beautifully dark cream-your-pants future of 'shall be delivered' is not attainable until folks learn to remember serious keys (yes, remember. with head.)
asciilifeform: that just means luser won't upgrade on his own free will.
asciilifeform: or rather - it is a joke. but on the chumps.
asciilifeform: (published pcb prints of that product show a microcontroller reprogrammable in-band - that is, via usb.)
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: those will be going to people who run winblows and possibly a webwallet << if these are dear friends, think again before helping to culture a dangerous sense of false security.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: and i still stand by the statement.
asciilifeform: where there are 'duress signatures' that are not mathematically distinguishable from genuine spends until broadcast and diffused through network
asciilifeform: (the ultimate logical conclusion of this idea would be the hypothetical thing that is so far the only serious improvement on 'bitcoin fundamentals' i've been able to come up with. that is, 'rectothermcoin')
asciilifeform: so far bitcoin is the only coin that can live -entirely- in a brain, and failure to use this property is a kind of fundamental waste.
asciilifeform: if you are pwned while using 'brainwallets', simply shows that your brain is defective
asciilifeform: (all the scorn for brainwallets - i say - is enemy disinfo. storing private key in brain is ultimately inescapable, whatever other forms of storage are in use. hard disk? key is - where it is kept, plus decryption keys.)
asciilifeform: that is, a dedicated box for signing tx is useful, but why does it need to store keys?
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: use the python tools to do anything with the Trezor << one of these days, someone should explain to me why a gadget like 'trezor' is necessary
asciilifeform: but it will not run again from the paint.
asciilifeform: one can paint the ww2 tank dredged up from the swamp all kinds of nice colours
asciilifeform: the devilish thing is, solving the small turdlets is pleasurable
asciilifeform: i also like to call it 'chair-stacking space program'
asciilifeform: this is a tremendously annoying mental glitch that i see just about everywhere - from '3d printer' enthusiasts to man-in-space aficionados. it being, the notion that solving myriad 'small, solvable' problems somehow brings us closer to solving the 'big ones' for which we have no angle of approach
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, whoever else: after some hours and a restart the thing jumped << if it needs hand-holding for normal operation (including blockchain sync) it isn't a usable gizmo.
asciilifeform: in the latter case, enough lead that it appears nearly black in the aggregate.
asciilifeform: lead crystal << simply a less-leaded version of the (formerly) ubiquitous glass from which crt is made.
asciilifeform: the folks who signed up voluntarily - are, to use the inescapable usaism, 'not the brightest light bulbs at Home Depot' (hardware shop)
asciilifeform: can't think of a more perfect list of folks for the politruks to shoot come day X.
asciilifeform: 'oath keepers' << if it isn't a honeypot, it (from usg's perspective) ought to be.
asciilifeform: (luddite girl gets doused with liquid he hose by programmer in self-defense)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: frost mage, at your fingertips. all you need is a compressor << notably, as depicted in the liquid helium scene in 'stand on zanzibar'
asciilifeform: (what's 'dbus' ? a somewhat clunky message-passing mechanism. for... folks who don't like unix domain sockets? idk)
asciilifeform: the undoing of C.. due to its memory unsafety they must decide to either bloat the kernel or suffer the overhead << entirely spurious argument advanced by the poettering folks. 'dbus' is not (to date) used for any application where the context switch overhead would approach detectability, much less really mattering
asciilifeform: dbus in kernel << mega-lol! afaik the (by now universally-known) 'dbus' exploit is still a reliable 'local root escalation' on any and all boxes where the abomination is installed
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i never understood the 'happy hacking keyboard' and imitators. being as i live and die by function keys, the more the merrier. why voluntarily have fewer?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: atreus keyboard << from what i can see here - a turd.
asciilifeform: decimation: how on earth would i know? elect him president, 400k usd.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: 3d studio max r2 << 3d studio for msdos, last release - was the last really good proggy of that kind. i still use it now and again.
asciilifeform: whether this counts as 'engineering' - matter of taste.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what he did was snip out most of the amp. at the time, most tv owners lived in or very near cities, with powerful transmitters. hence - worked. mostly.
asciilifeform: 'Federal technology transfer exists, in part, to provide a return on investment for tax payers.' << lol
asciilifeform: variant on the ancient 'things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler'
asciilifeform: 'Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction — from which, by induction, it is evident that every program can be reduced to one instruction that does not work.'
asciilifeform: i'm no great fan of what he did. but the basic act (if not the result) deserves remembering.
asciilifeform: but one could argue that it should be readily apparent why kills.
asciilifeform: in that removal of anything whatsoever - kills.
asciilifeform: though i must say, a correctly-designed system (minimal) is likewise unmuntzable.
asciilifeform: went most of my life 'muntzing' without knowing it had any name.
asciilifeform: i learned of the man from locklin, incidentally
