asciilifeform: it's a consequence of how the markov chain works

asciilifeform: the magic string is at this point known to everyone, some wag posted it on reddit

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/bad-at-entropy/manmach.html

asciilifeform: the game in question, for anyone on whom it has not been inflicted:

asciilifeform: the fob lost.

asciilifeform: mike_c: someone actually did this with an rsa keyfob!

asciilifeform: mike_c: i wrote that. (or actually, johnny von neumann did.)

asciilifeform: not unlike, if i'm not mistaken, what is happening with mpex.

asciilifeform: (and insist, through their misfortunes, on providing free marketing for the real deal.)

asciilifeform: what will be interesting is: once the idiot imitators show up.

asciilifeform: nsa did write me a letter once: 'dear mr. s, we regret to inform you that we have no openings matching your..... '

asciilifeform: 3.5 if they can run a reflow line.

asciilifeform: 'execs can also have problems. and here, have $10m.' is rather more humane than 'execs can also have problems. get down on yer knees, ready to please.'

asciilifeform: to be fair, we see the carrot, but not the stick.

asciilifeform: the only real news here is the actual cash value of one particular bribe.

asciilifeform: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220

asciilifeform: tontine <- 16th c.?

asciilifeform: 'ponzi retirement' had ample precedent: 'Tontine.'

asciilifeform: 'only shit what you are willing to then eat.'

asciilifeform: in this case,

asciilifeform: no

asciilifeform: children - like playing with matches. news at 11...

asciilifeform: (i still can't read 'dwolla' without thinking of nigerian spam. must be the consonant cluster.)

asciilifeform: same universe that 'dwolla' existed in?

asciilifeform: u.s.ian analogue 'man cave' ?

asciilifeform: i might be the 'submarine' champ here. 32 sq. m.

asciilifeform: i did both...

asciilifeform: (as described here - http://www.loper-os.org/?p=388)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the startup of steam! will have to come first.

asciilifeform: nothing terribly exciting, esp. since the thing is a paperweight pending a new stepper IC

asciilifeform: squat little box on the bottom left is a chiller.

asciilifeform: it only cuts plastics (and various other materials with relatively poor heat conductivity, such as glass.)

asciilifeform: once again, machine in question is essentially an expensive saw. though a very precise saw.

asciilifeform: the end.

asciilifeform: the end (for now.) until the new a3983 comes in from hong kong and i can lift the turd off the board and put new one in.

asciilifeform: magic smoke released.

asciilifeform: because: https://unsee.cc/woduge/

asciilifeform: why removed?

asciilifeform: controller removed. https://unsee.cc/wadizu/

asciilifeform: next, the reason the latter machine has become a drill:

asciilifeform: (why unsee? because betcha there's a plasma panel at nsa that shows these in real time...)

asciilifeform: https://unsee.cc/zedumo/

asciilifeform: laser cutter. quite ordinary. currently, unfortunately, has become a 'drill'.

asciilifeform: warning: quite boring

asciilifeform: ok photos:

asciilifeform: anyone actually wants to see this?

asciilifeform: dead component in question is the motor driver board

asciilifeform: photo.

asciilifeform: thx, kakobrekla

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu '2013-12-19 09:12:30: CAM Review Complete; Order In Production'

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu '2013-12-19 09:12:30: CAM Review Complete; Order In Production'

asciilifeform: this is no revelation of any kind.

asciilifeform: audio, rf, optical (ir!), etc.

asciilifeform: anything which oscillates rapidly between 'draws plenty of power' and 'draws little' is: a transmitter.

asciilifeform: that statement, even if true - i can almost see the censor's red ink slipping that in.

asciilifeform: age, in terms of calendar time and usage, and the cryptanalytic usefulness of their acoustic emanations.'

asciilifeform: 'More generally, we observed strong positive correlation between machine

asciilifeform: the bit about leaking electrolytic caps 'buzzing' is unsurprising.

asciilifeform: (as noted in the paper)

asciilifeform: this is a variation on the old theme of cache probe attack

asciilifeform: from which one can deduce execution path.

asciilifeform: zz_: it's picking up 'idle' vs 'halted'

asciilifeform: nor is the 'low power state' feature of the microcontroller made use of; nor is there an operating system, in the usual sense, or a scheduler...

asciilifeform: there are no inductors (switching power supply or otherwise) in cardano...

asciilifeform: virtually any device containing a switched power supply 'hisses' this way

asciilifeform: idle loop in modern os scheduler sits the cpu in 'halt'

asciilifeform: and typically exists in one of two states - 'halt', with reduced power draw, and 'run' (interrupt throws cpu out of halt state.)

asciilifeform: this is really from the fact that a pc cpu is a monster hog

asciilifeform: the sound is coming from the power supply inductor

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this attack is simply a variant of the traditional 'Differential Power Analysis' ☟︎

asciilifeform: (tldr: diplomat arse-searched)

asciilifeform: paging mp: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/12/18/india-diplomat-us-immunity/4108553/

asciilifeform: reminds me of a 'chicken recipe' sometimes attributed to the gypsies. '1) first, steal a chicken...'

asciilifeform: stoppped there.

asciilifeform: '...verifying that the hash of the code running on the Cloud Machine matches the hash of the code given at the time of the IPO...'

asciilifeform: dexX7: did you actually read that thing? 'cloud machine'??!?

asciilifeform: but i digress.

asciilifeform: what they won't teach you is that all of this crap can be made to vanish.

asciilifeform: amidvidy: this fact is not 'sexy', but it takes quite a bit of work to go from algo to usable software. (why this happens to be so, is largely the subject of my blog)

asciilifeform: thought 'this sounds like kademlia', then read to the end.

asciilifeform: just as not every vehicle needs Chobham armour.

asciilifeform: that piece was long ago, i'm no longer convinced that everything absolutely must be blockchain-based.

asciilifeform: but it would have to be written by something other than muppets.

asciilifeform: and i stand by my hypothesis, that a p2p whatever might be interesting and useful, if not a replacement for any currently-existing widget as such

asciilifeform: well, to be fair, the thing i declared to suck - the lamers - continue to suck mightily.

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=939

asciilifeform: amidvidy, you would probably like my old crackpot commentary on btc systems:

asciilifeform: disagree with: that barrister prince paul adeola is a solicitor at law?

asciilifeform: at any rate you set the flag once in antifuse & forget about it.

asciilifeform: but otherwise great.

asciilifeform: it's a headache if you intend to use an operating system

asciilifeform: .

asciilifeform: this is actually useful/

asciilifeform: 'mips'

asciilifeform: never used it, can't comment.

asciilifeform: cpu in what

asciilifeform: 'gentoo'

asciilifeform: for everyday use, ordinary linux

asciilifeform: library sticker reads '1988'.

asciilifeform: here next to me sits a paperback book, on the instruction set used by the cpu in 'cardano'