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asciilifeform: ( well, not asciilifeform in person, but a 10 x 5 in. pcb )
asciilifeform: asciilifeform needs a bit of xrayin'
mircea_popescu: also, wouldn't you tihnk a girl kinda retarded, if it came out she lost it at 16 ?!
mircea_popescu: the whole fucking species has a thing for teenage girls ; that's the prime directive of sexuate reproduction : defloration.
BingoBoingo: And in the Latest Brasilero quirks, Apparently 28C/82F is the appropriate night time temperature for the heatpump. Because of course during the winter everyone should be adapted to sleep at a summer daytime temperature.
trinque: https://archive.is/kun1Z/2905364d6ab37678fbb6e32c2b116435a76d878f.png << shock and outrage that this artist has a thing for teenaged girls!
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the entomological pit : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFritz-chip >> 'I've deleted most of the article. The information here is already presented in a more up-to-date fashion at Trusted Computing, which is the correct title for the technology. "Fritz-chip" was never more than a moniker used by critics of the technology put forth by Sen. Hollings. The article now represents this fact. Warrens 23:24, 29 April 2006 ( ☟︎
asciilifeform: ( $nooseitem is not a gcrypt 0day, but gpg particular )
asciilifeform: right but eucrypt is not a gpg-riding proggy.
asciilifeform: status messages are parsed by programs to get information from gpg about the validity of a signature and an other parameters. Status messages are created with the option "--status-fd N" where N is a file descriptor. Now if N is 2 the status messages and the regular diagnostic messages share the stderr output channel. By using a made up file name in the message it is possible to fake status messages.'
asciilifeform: 'The OpenPGP protocol allows to include the file name of the original input file into a signed or encrypted message. During decryption and verification the GPG tool can display a notice with that file name. The displayed file name is not sanitized and as such may include line feeds or other control characters. This can be used inject terminal control sequences into the out and, worse, to fake the so-called status messages. These
mircea_popescu: "usg sucks" "i don't like how you used the word suck" | "usg is dumb" "i don't approve of the usage of verbs" | "the goat is dead" "i don't like the syllable count and this has nothing to do with my suspicion the goat may be a veiled reference to usg".
mircea_popescu: anyway. in the end, i suppose it's pretty amusing to notice that a) indifferent of form b) the reaction will be to substance c) and negative because the substance's not usg-friendly but nevertheless d) claim to be a reaction to form.
asciilifeform: re 'professionals', i can also picture 'you wrote it like a vuln reveal, but this is not a vuln, this is our masters getting jus primae noctis with our raw starfishes like god intended' irritation
asciilifeform: 'it's just a tpm, what's yer problem'.
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, so if there's been a famine going for 20 years meatballs are "soo 1997" ?
mircea_popescu: so basically he can't show "his superiors" that he reads doubleplusungood folk who don't insert a "traiasca tovarasul" sentence twice per paragraph, is the idea ?
asciilifeform: wat's a fruit machine
mircea_popescu: and this, from a race that is enthralled by fruit machines.
mircea_popescu: not anymore than anyone over at alphabet gives a shit about the misadventures of amstan ; or anyone at redhat about the new hole in boeck's ass, or etc.
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine the chinese actually give a shit about the withc hunts in that obscure european colony.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, afaik that ali watkins chick is a libertard stalwart. the whole thing is "how dares state challenge the politruks"
mircea_popescu: wait, it's a ~therapy~ ?!
asciilifeform: https://archive.li/x3A3f << subj: >> '...his practice of drinking a glass of his own urine every day, and as veteran journalist M.V.Kamath, reporting for ToI, noted rather despairingly, the problem wasn’t just that Desai did this, but he was very eager to talk at length about it: “in a 15-minute appearance on a very popular Sunday TV show called ’60 Minutes’, Mr.Desai was seen taking practically half the time to commend urine
mircea_popescu: hey, nothing beats a self-administered pregnancy test.
mircea_popescu: henceforth a new "piss on the bitch" cocktail is defined, for public consumption, as piss, vodka and a splash of fruit juice.
mircea_popescu: hey, it's a crapshoot. if you have 1bn decerebrated muppets reproducing, you get some simona haleps. if you have 1k, you don't.
a111: Logged on 2015-10-17 17:42 asciilifeform: the point i was trying to make then, as now, is that mri - like fingerprints - is a confession-inducer and evidence-planter apparatus, let's say 'guiltwashing', rather than necessarily a fact-finder.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-10#1822087 << see also. i'd be surprised if there isn't already a boeck-style 'rebuttal' (perhaps from herr boeck himself) in the works. ☝︎
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in choice redditisms : 'I used to work as a security researcher - if I thought this subject was interesting I'd have to look for another source talking about the same thing because there's no way in hell it'd be acceptable to reference this level of unprofessionalism in a conference or to my superiors.'
asciilifeform: plebe wants to checksum the ec fw ? gotta solder a dozen probes under microscope.
asciilifeform: it is probably impossible to educate the willingly thick, however, who ~actually~ see a box with NOBUS master keys as 'moar secure than with no keys'. these, will only wake up when they're sitting in kangaroo court , and confessing to 'child porn'
asciilifeform: prolly at some point i gotta write a 'NOBUS likbez' re the fundamental motivations ( they are not difficult to discern , but apparently entirely opaque to the herd , even when you exclude the willingly blind )
a111: Logged on 2018-06-10 18:26 mircea_popescu: the practical problem, though, is that depending of how generous you are with the notion of user, a world without such an interface may not even be possible.
asciilifeform: while we're on the subj, i find it interesting how both google and intel ( and by extension, all new mb makers ) finessed the problem of 'terrorists will epoxy usb ports closed' -- nao usg can get 'airport quickie' root through a hole that you cannot cement, because the box charges ~only~ from it
esthlos: i haven't opened that one yet, good to know. have you ever checked out john alan's book? It's kinda a denser sicp, and predates it
asciilifeform: esthlos: in re the b00kz -- i have okasaki, and must note, he is a mathematically interesting read, but 100% useless in actual practice, unless you use 'lazy-evaluated' prog langs
asciilifeform: and if i had a bitcent for every 'use this lappy we carved from old refrigerator panels and raspberry pi..' etc
deedbot: http://blog.esthlos.com/towards-a-computer-science-education/ << esthlos - Towards a Computer Science Education
mircea_popescu: apt-get, tmsr is a multi-billion entity.
apt-get: convenience isn't limited to the device itself, it also encompasses a large ecosystem of both social and technical incentives to enter a firm's walled garden.
mircea_popescu: otherwise they wouldn't go about pretending like they believe google is in any way different from groupon, a purely imaginary, 100% paper construction.
apt-get: I suppose such conditions could be theoretically enforced in a democratic system... but it would imply making the general populace to both be aware and feel threatened by these issues, which isn't going to happen anytime soon, practically speaking.
mircea_popescu: if the priors are anything like a) "anyone should have access to computers" and b) "to use as they see fit", you'll be back to some kind of nsa fritz chip in very short order, especially if you're committed to equalitarian socialism (or, "democracy", to use the in-universe names)
mircea_popescu: the practical problem, though, is that depending of how generous you are with the notion of user, a world without such an interface may not even be possible. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: so is it rather a political investment, something in the vein of http://trilema.com/2014/the-problem-of-enforcement/ , "i wish to touch the bars of my cage with mine own hands" ?
apt-get: stumbled upon the loper blog by luck and I found it to be a cool project
mircea_popescu: but, amusingly enough, the conversation with the chick who thought herself a domme controls here! imagine that, you know, sex determining matters scientific, how unfair and improper and in breach of implicit promises made by the "civilisation" of tedious old women.
mircea_popescu: gotta be explained "what this means to them", which is what the nigger brigade is for, from http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=anil+dash to http://trilema.com/2016/psa-hanno-bock-still-a-deceitful-shitbag/ to what have you.
asciilifeform: elsewhere in heathendom, https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8pyaec/the_google_h1_fritz_chip/ << usg brigade out in force, 'this is just a tpm, cannot reflash fw' etc 'say it 3 times, it'll be true'isms
mircea_popescu: there is such a thing as overwhelmed.
mircea_popescu: are you kidding me, intel has a tiny thing here even.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did see a microshit cubefarm in bucharest. so this makes sense.
asciilifeform: ( they have a googlarium in ro?! )
mircea_popescu: Mocky, would it be a good time to try out your foxybot nao ?
mircea_popescu: lol phf you should start a hiking club with mocky >D
mircea_popescu: you mean like that one time we took over a bunch of electricity generators for lulz ? or what secrets.
|\n: i'm just a dude
loper_os_cr50_: Took me a while to read and get it
asciilifeform: when you make a key and register with deedbot, you become a person, until then just a spirit
asciilifeform: esp if you want a laptop
asciilifeform: riscv is a turd
loper_os_cr50_: There must be a way for a clean solution!
mircea_popescu: that's not a crime.
mircea_popescu: lol. mkay, it goes back many years and there's a lot of material. generally it's recommended noobs spend 6 months reading through it.
loper_os_cr50_: Not working yet that would be pretentious. Sick of dirty chip and code. Search for pure trust and control over the machine. Have yet to learn a lot before starting to work. For now I read.
mircea_popescu: ah ok, may be it. though, different A blocks ?!
mircea_popescu: back then you were on a diff host too.
asciilifeform: veeery little on the current-day net is worth coming back to, cultivating a relation with, etc
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-09#1821831 << i gotta wonder, when meeting people in meatspace, does he also make up gensym names each time he shakes a hand.. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-06-09 22:08 loper_os_cr50: I should probably make a blog, maybe I’ll do that. The point of it is to bypass their pay per chip scam and release it eventually
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-09#1821861 << d00d managed to pick a box even moar boobytrapped than cbook ☝︎
BingoBoingo: Only a few years late, but she beat Sloane Stevens. The black tennis player not named Williams.
mircea_popescu: ahaha. no, that's a translation, old ro article
mircea_popescu: get on a sane system this is ridiculous.
hanbot: suggested chromebook add-on for asciilifeform: a mircea_popescu key that, when pressed, deploys a retractable sledgehammer that smacks operator on the nosebridge (or i guess alternatively, comes alive at night and fucks yer wife).
mircea_popescu: newcastleslut, do you see a little red tab saying "mircea_popescu" ?
mircea_popescu: listen, why not get yourself a rsa key, a proper irc set-up, choose a name that's not retarded and start a blog, publish the respective bits...
loper_os_cr50: They use a silicon labs C8051F340 in their programmer
loper_os_cr50: I should probably make a blog, maybe I’ll do that. The point of it is to bypass their pay per chip scam and release it eventually ☟︎
loper_os_cr50: Is this a John Galt type movement?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Will drop it in a few punchbowls
asciilifeform: (possibly , whoknows, we get a google defector...)
mod6: 'URL was... a a Gmail' -> 'URL was... a Gmail' (perhaps)
mircea_popescu: i'm mostly training a new class of slavegirls. it's epic fun.
asciilifeform: btw the #linux-rockchip d00d is definitely caught nao in telling a fib : 1) yes there is not one, but two magic keys (1 for flash updates, other for factory unlocker routine) and yes all deployed units can be popped via either
asciilifeform: https://archive.li/ZtbxL << clue re origin of 'h1'. seems like they took a 'metallization mask' fpga, a la early asicminer crapola, and run licensed cortex-m3 core .
asciilifeform: how the fuck is this a vuln tho
asciilifeform: it's a deedbot-style challenge/response thing
phf: ah, so it's a "we'll unlock but not for you"
asciilifeform: the vendor's 'we'll unlock' pg (to be fair, mentioned in no docs anywhere, only in the python proggy in the src repo) is only a taunt.
asciilifeform: i was able to flash in the https://gsdview.appspot.com/chromeos-localmirror/distfiles/cr50.r0.0.10.w0.3.4.tbz2 image ; it supports a few moar commands, including 'rma open' returned-to-factory unlocker thing. but result was , unsurprisingly, 'with notes from hitler only' : http://www.loper-os.org/pub/c101pa/c101pa_unlock_nodice.txt ☟︎
phf: oh those are a special category. my iranians also get distressed because i use old hardware.
BingoBoingo: Watching this laptop get molested in channel in near real time is a complete joy.
asciilifeform: this is useful because there is not, apparently, any means for getting a locked h1 to disgorge its fw
asciilifeform: hell, i'd buy a lappy with a spring kbd. but can only dream of this.
asciilifeform: there's a 450mm lappy?
asciilifeform: ( massive tank of a box, 32G, 8core thing, multiple drive slots, kg power brick, etc . but still sad and shallow, vs x60, not even speaking of troo desktop, kbd )
asciilifeform: yea there is not and afaik has never been such a thing as a truly pleasant laptop kbd
mircea_popescu: i honestly dunno what diff it makes for what's intended as a cheap throwaway anyway