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mircea_popescu: speaking of both artillery and teh anglo-jewishness, i find it funny there's so much hay about agincourt etc, but hardly ever mentioned teh equally lulzy battle of castillion.
asciilifeform: erry time i read about 'faberge' era tech, astonished re what was possible
asciilifeform: ( btw modern air rifle, not the break-open type but the refinement of the austrian 1700s concept, where you pump for hour to fill the bottle, is mighty impressive item, i have one here for pest control, readily punches hole in several wooden planks laid together )
Mocky: mircea_popescu, it's not new just sitting unused. I'll use blog, yes. If I find a use for the alternate, will be ready to go
mircea_popescu: i even saw ancient "invention", was pretty entertaining : barrel has holes cut, through which walls can fall in. as the projectile moves through barrel it clicks the supports walls fall behind it, leaving a chamber. low pressure (ordinary 50kg air compressor) resulting in common bullet shooting at supersonic speeds.
mircea_popescu: Mocky need to identify with nickserv, they prolly put +r on ; why new domain i don't get it ?!
Mocky: I'm getting "#pizarro :Cannot send to nick/channel" so will just drop this here: I created a dir named 'wwwhabeeb' in my shared hosting account. can you set me up to have domain mockyhabeeb.com be fed from that?
asciilifeform: i recall a thread where mircea_popescu contracted a foundry to make a whipping fixture or what was it, because argentines can't make anyffing
mircea_popescu: this being the difference between us. i -- have tried. errything.
asciilifeform: ( tho, whoknows, perhaps grummann & lockheed make 50k usd titanium cocks... madeinusa!111 . i have not tried to buy. )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-02#1846913 << why wouldja send emissaries to usa to buy chinese plastic cocks. ( even i knew -- nothing else is sold there ) ☝︎
hanbot: mircea_popescu hanbot also had a good chuckle when diana_coman's kiddo found the backseat stash: "i've found a thing!"
Mocky: I is
a111: Logged on 2018-09-02 16:24 diana_coman: to me apple stuff is still essentially a fashion item and yes, usually that comes with insanity as far as I can tell
mircea_popescu: um i mean, http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-02#1846882 << bwahaha. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-09-02 16:25 diana_coman: in principle yes; in practice, I'm not sure anymore where does scrubbing end essentially
mircea_popescu: the argentinization of the united states is so far progressed, i literally can not distinguish between the two by now. they make the same 0 sales.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-02 15:50 asciilifeform: diana_coman: on one hand, it makes for straight recipe for cuntoo lappy; but on other, it would still be slightly syphilitic , i.e. not wholly scrubbed of googlism
mircea_popescu: and yes, i find it adds to lets make lappy.
asciilifeform: aanyway i'm off to unwind for a spell in the room where it's 1982 , bbl.
asciilifeform: hey, i suspect the caterpillar battery is inevitable : 'ecological!111'
asciilifeform: ( since mircea_popescu is asleep, i'ma have to put in placeholder for the oblig thread, [ m: 'you deserve this for working for a living, idjit' a: '...' ] )
asciilifeform: i can already picture it : 2y from nao, asciilifeform will be posting re crapple box where there's tank of poisonous brazilian caterpillars in place of battery, and they broke loose, and gotta stand in queue to have'em replaced, and meanwhile crawling up sleeves
asciilifeform: ( i would say 'catches fire' is next, but then recalled that this is already not uncommon, and not merely in crapple machines )
diana_coman: I suppose that's also not that uncommon "productivity improvement" via "latest tech"
diana_coman: in principle yes; in practice, I'm not sure anymore where does scrubbing end essentially ☟︎
diana_coman: to me apple stuff is still essentially a fashion item and yes, usually that comes with insanity as far as I can tell ☟︎
diana_coman: asciilifeform, re "not wholly scrubbed" - I've been cleaning eulora code for years and it's still not fully scrubbed of ps shit, so..
asciilifeform: diana_coman: on one hand, it makes for straight recipe for cuntoo lappy; but on other, it would still be slightly syphilitic , i.e. not wholly scrubbed of googlism ☟︎
asciilifeform: i'ma let mircea_popescu make the call re whether these finds add up to a 'let's make lappys' or not yet.
asciilifeform: ( in so far as i can tell, those boxes are identical, aside from older rockchip (4 core, vs 6) , smaller ram, and cylindrical dc power supply connector instead of usb-c )
asciilifeform: i did get the unlock to persist across reboots, last night.
asciilifeform: ( for those who did not follow the orig c101pa threads : the box has ~three~ firmware turds: 1) main (8MB) bootloader 2) EC (little arm thingie, has own console , controls all of kbd but the power and reset lines, as well as various voltages, and battery charger) 3) cr50 -- controls power/reset lines, inits the charging brick, and 'god mode' debug over the other 2 chips, i.e. cpu and EC )
asciilifeform: there also appears to be a knob that switches off the usb console entirely, but i have not tried it yet, will test when i'm about to throw out the current mobo i have in there (with the damaged mouse connector) and put in new one (i have replacements)
asciilifeform: fwiw i can also nao control 'pinmux' ( the built-in gadget that connects arbitrary lines on the pcb to arbitrary others ) and various other vendor knobs
asciilifeform: what i have not found a way to do, is to neuter cr50 in the sense originally wanted , where it turns into simply battery controller and nobody can rewrite from snake.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: to be very specific, i did not properly break cr50. what i found instead was an apparently-Official (albeit undocumented) knob in the most recent fw release, which does equiv of rma unlock ( sets all of the permission bits for console ) and enables spi bus access, through which can r/w the main and ec fw turds.
mircea_popescu: could macha it or w/e i guess. but yeah.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: how's that work, i thought uy 'legalized'
mircea_popescu: i rather doubt there's those folks with 20 mil, at least at the level here discussed. a dime bag costs ~same here as in florida. actually, maybe slightly more expensiuve here. same as with hdds or w/e else, idiocy tax, everything costs the orcs more.
BingoBoingo: Similarly I see nothing about the police busting folks trafficking "pasta base (cocaine chaw)" but they do occasionally bust folks taking cheap marihuana paraguaya to Punta Del Este
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-01#1846672 << I'll give this some more love tomorrow and the next, and should be good to go. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: which points to some mindblowingly inept "gangsters" ; or i guess to some strangely inept yet very corrupt police.
mircea_popescu: in fact, i've yet to see a piece where teh police breaking up these truly dangerous drug rings found more than ~week's pay in cash.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'ma guess they saw a reportage from gaza strip once, where this 'worked' so well
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don't get it, so washington pereyra informs that they demolished 10 houses including one of a woman that ambiguously either (ran a non-pantsuit-sanctioned soup kitchen) or (headed a criminal gang) because it was discovered that repeatedly gangsters asked locals "not involved in ilicit activity" to sell them their houses ?!
mircea_popescu: as i was saying : pantsuit gotta learn that if it doesn't bend over and squirt ~OODLES~ of money when it has the chance, it'll be bent over and fucked with farming implements later on.
asciilifeform: i actually have nfi wtf is a lindseykuper
asciilifeform: i think i get the idea tho
mircea_popescu: i dunno dood, they'll sell free ubuntu lappy.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not sure if i get it -- what, google will sell cuntoo lappy ?!
BingoBoingo: At least I dun have to worry about them running down here. The price of vasoline in Uruguay is its own rape.
mircea_popescu: cocksuckers somehow managed to conjure up imaginary millions for donations to try and drown out http://trilema.com/2014/the-public-burning-of-bob-beck/ ; i don't recall the mns in donations post phuctor, for instance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno that i'd publish that much of the thing. what's that buy, usual amstan tards doing the republic-with-serials-filed-off innovation ?
asciilifeform: what all of this means, is that i can try payloads for the main fw, without needing to buy a train car full of mobos
asciilifeform: google's published flashrom util dunwork, i have one patched by hand, that worx via my http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2415 snake . will eventually publish the whole shebang, once i have working payload.
asciilifeform: nao i need a payload (i.e. substitute for that 8MB turd the thing comes with.) lessee what phf meanwhile came up with.
BingoBoingo: Congrats, I am wrestling with humble wp migrations
asciilifeform: i.e. enuff for 'unbrickable' encuntooation.
asciilifeform: bahahaha i have spi rom read/write on c101pa.
lobbes: and the vdiff.sh I used >> http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/3hf8i/?raw=true
lobbes: Is there something I'm missing? I pressed using mod6's V and created the vpatch using the "classic" vdiff described in http://cascadianhacker.com/07_v-tronics-101-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-most-serene-republic-of-bitcoins-cryptographically-backed-version-control-system
lobbes: odd thing is, everything seems to have pressed fine. And when I manually run sha512sum on the problem file the hash matches what V was expecting >> http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/SnHoK/?raw=true
lobbes: question for the V experts out there: I was test pressing a vpatch genesis I created and ran into an odd barf ('Pressed file hash did not match expected!') >> http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/A5d1u/?raw=true
asciilifeform: i gotta actually see that it writes 'mis-signed' fw, next
asciilifeform: but theoretically i have 'testlab mode' going
asciilifeform: i mean, replacement payload for the fritz
asciilifeform: and i'ma need a payload...
asciilifeform: in other noose, i have what appears to be a cured c101pa.
mircea_popescu: ah. i guess im slow.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i saw, was announced to great pantsuit mooing
kristof: Neat. I'm reading your "Most Serene Republic" quasi-manifesto now.
kristof: I won't even bother because I have no faith in those people at all.
kristof: Oh, actually, while I have your attention, I thought I would mention that I did check out Urbit twice; the first was a few years ago back when they were still "ship", the second was maybe a year ago and that time I actually chatted a bit with those folks
kristof: The only reason I was in #asciilifeform today was that I finally read all the phuctor phun in its entirety (yes, I was being a bonehad and didn't read the stats, sorry MP), thought "wait, that happened?" and dropped by.
kristof: I don't intend to be chatty, but I might in the future. Hopefully that doesn't sound like squatting to you.
kristof: I like logs, I might browse them.
kristof: Actually, as I mentioned before, I've been a long time reader of your polemics.
kristof: I'm not worth knowing. Just an inquisitive dilettante.
mircea_popescu: well yes, i thought it wise.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and as irony has it, i supported serbia, also (though entirely for "selfish" reasons, at least if you asked 90s me)
kristof: I'm busy at the moment
asciilifeform: kristof: if you register with deedbot, can self-voice, i'll rate you
asciilifeform: i can entirely see the 'pocket of sanity besieged by pantsuit t-cells' angle
mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2018-09-01 17:24 kristof: am I wrong to think that, you know, a responsible journalistic community would pick up on this, and the security community would henceforth start a widespread auditing effort of existing toolchains, right?
asciilifeform: i have nfi. evidently
mircea_popescu: ~ottoman lemonade, i'd guess. certainly the driver of the anglo habit.
asciilifeform: i think i get it
mircea_popescu: the direct cause is literally that i perceive i owe rhodesia something.
mircea_popescu: sell lemonade, for all i care, as long as it turns a profit and he feels like doing it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i expect qatar is deeply starved of world class talent. what specifically will it do i don't know, but i expect something along the lines historical experience. what did the germans do in russia, the spanish in tenochtitlan, the british in india and so on.
mircea_popescu: if anyone wants to buy in the 10% btw, i'll consider a minority partner. (note however that you will be assessed whatever we end up spending. which won't be a fortune, at least by the looks of it so far, but also not http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-31#1846193 ) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i'll expect reports!
Mocky: I don't know of any but I will find out for sure
mircea_popescu: Mocky do you have any fambly however remote in or about that could be re-connected ? a local will prove invaluable, and somehow i suspect the traditional "go to local uni, pick up young filly" isn't comfortable either for you or for the place.
diana_coman: now I wonder if Mocky will keep eating waffles in Qatar
mircea_popescu: i figure... you get what 2 ? 3 ? months there until the first save point, see if it can be done or can't be done ? ☟︎
Mocky: holy shit, an hour ago i was eating waffles and now i'm going to qatar ☟︎
mircea_popescu: Mocky im not going to hold against you that you gotta pay alimony, you're not going to hold against me that i'm getting a larger share of our partnership! you get 40% of the thing (but work as if you had gotten 50%!!!) and alimony, i get 60% and there you go.
Mocky: I think that i can pull together enough to get me thru January