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asciilifeform: ~as if~ the most damaging thing to be lifted by attacker were picture of your face or arse !
asciilifeform: for the record, web cam shutters are lame
asciilifeform: pretty useless, most afflicted laptops won't properly close with the thing in
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: at a comp sec convention 'shmoocon' they handed out, among other souvenirs, little plastic sliding shutters for webcams
asciilifeform: if we turn up a bucket of cheap crays somewhere, i will port it to cray..
asciilifeform: and yes, i ported trb to arm. as wartime wunderwaffen (which went nowhere.)
asciilifeform: and i do not believe this to be in any reasonable sense a work of chance.
BingoBoingo: Well, idiot arch encourages you to tape over your webcam as an act of resignation.
asciilifeform: srsly the idiot archs always seem to win.
asciilifeform: (it is heavily unoptimized for human consumption and arm asm is a bitch to audit)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-10#1449684 << finally read this. i suppose this is not a bad time to remind folks of the 'arm' cpu being a lothesome piece of shit that i have 0 desire to use for anything if it can be avoided ☝︎
asciilifeform: ('last' oughta be 'magic' and point ALWAYS to the last line at any given moment)
asciilifeform: ;;later tell phf can haz bookmarkable url that points to tip of the logz plox ? ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Well there's that.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you're playing physical camo games, why not hide the thing in old vase. in garden. up arse. etc
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2016/calidad-de-vida-or-my-days-among-the-cargo-cult/#comment-116959
BingoBoingo: <jurov> they explicitly point out it's overcomplicated and has thus big attack surface. so, no sane walletotron that way. << I really don't mean keeping much in the way of hardware. Just a plastic case that arouses a wildly different kind of suspicion.
asciilifeform: and why is the plastic case useful, i dun get it
jurov: and it might actually bolster up creating good tmsr jargon
jurov: phf just an idea: if someone comes up with a completely new (or very rare) word like the w-tron above, use it to link to previous convo?
jurov: they explicitly point out it's overcomplicated and has thus big attack surface. so, no sane walletotron that way.
jurov: BingoBoingo: did you read tfa?
deedbot-: [Qntra] FBI Director Comey Admits To Taping Over Webcam After Speech - http://qntra.net/2016/04/fbi-director-comey-admits-to-taping-over-webcam-after-speech/
shinohai would love to put trb on a gameboy one day ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Nintendotron might be interesting to cannabalize for hardware walletotron, if only for its incredibly common plastic case. ☟︎
asciilifeform: but i never had the slightest desire to own one , esp. to use for intended purpose
adlai: phf, trinque: either/both of y'all may be interested in https://github.com/adlai/scalpl/commit/019c10d (specific patch, rest of repo is relevant only to archaeologists)
asciilifeform: admittedly i find some of he '80s-'90s game machines interesting from a systems perspective, they had minimalistic iron and ran 'os-less' long into the era when x86 languished under microshit
asciilifeform: srsly the original drm chumpers, buying, believe, ~whole computer~ built solely to make copying the gamez harder!
asciilifeform: jurov: ty for summary, now i can snore again, i never did and never will give a flying fuck re game consoles
adlai: ;;later tell mircea_popescu submission for trilema movie reviews: Inside Man ☟︎
adlai: asciilifeform: "I'm gonna walk right out the front door" (tm)
adlai: fun fact: if you 'hack' off your location broadcasting wristband, you're gonna forget it in your pocket when you leave, and have a Bad Time.
asciilifeform: adlai: finally out, i take it? escaped?
adlai: asciilifeform: 'asylum' of some sort, yes. it's quite a story! too long for logs, saving for the blog.
asciilifeform: what the linked item was
asciilifeform: why did american army in vietnam, which had thermobaric bomb in abundance (invented it, in practice) continue to use legions of grunts with ordinary rifles?
asciilifeform: does mircea_popescu dig his garden with shovel, or with trotyl?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-10#1449672 << of ferfuxxsake, 'First - you pillage, Then - you burn!' - didn't they teach this in your viking school!? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: might consider implementing something like that trinque just in case gribble dies one day or something.
mircea_popescu: in which the later tell service beats email.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell diana_coman http://dpaste.com/1M6CPT3
punkman: "The armour is a composite sandwich, with boron carbide on the front face (a hard ceramic), followed by the metal foam, and either aluminium or kevlar on the rear face. The metal foam is made of 2mm-diameter hollow steel spheres in a stainless steel matrix." sounds expensive
mircea_popescu: hence the thermobaric weapon
mircea_popescu: and there's no structural defense to that.
mircea_popescu: basically the problem is, that structured armor will resist 100kj in kinetic attack and melt like chocolate under 5kj of thermic attack.
punkman: mircea_popescu: you mean the ones that ignite the oxygen around the target?
mircea_popescu: punkman yeah ; too bad weaponry is moving from kinetic to fuel bomb. ☟︎
deedbot-: [Trilema] Calidad de Vida, or My Days Among The Cargo Cult. - http://trilema.com/2016/calidad-de-vida-or-my-days-among-the-cargo-cult/
mircea_popescu: who the fuck could have predicted.
mircea_popescu: the damndest thing, the people who play it aren't noobs, and the noobs don't play it :D
phf: i don't have a eulora build on this machine
mircea_popescu: hey phf, can i get you to log into eulora for an hour ? i need a noob to do a bouq click to see what comes out.
joecool: I see, thank you
mircea_popescu: yeah, pm it $up and then $v the otp
asciilifeform: he was supposed to have had ~moar tail~ !111
mircea_popescu: kinda weird tho, as wolf has tail.
asciilifeform: 'freeze, freeze, wolf's tail!111'
asciilifeform: ^ iconic phrase known to every kid
asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5rMKHLV6Hk << variation on this theme. with ~wolf~ instead of bear, and a number of other tweaks.
mircea_popescu: so how do you say the "pull, pull" bit ?
asciilifeform: we definitely had this tale.
mircea_popescu: si asa a ramas ursul pacalit de vulpe [and so the bear was left tricked by the fox]
mircea_popescu: whenever he catches on root, fox goes "o noes, stop with the pulling you're killing me"
mircea_popescu: seeks out fox in a rage, fox runs into a tree hole. bear can't get in, grabs a hooked branch, tries to get fox
mircea_popescu: bear believes, proceeds. overnight the lake freezes, with his tail inside, as he pulls he thinks there's lots of fishes. breaks tail off.
asciilifeform: ah yes i recall this!
mircea_popescu: fox explains that you go to lake, put tail in water, pull out full of fishes.
mircea_popescu: on way home, bear, who at the time had splendid tail, nicer than fox', asks where she got all the fishes.
mircea_popescu: fox wakes up to the sound of peasant driving very heavy cart full of fishes from the lake. climbs in quietly, and while on its back pushes fishes off the cart with feet. then collects it up and goes home.
asciilifeform: ah i was thinking of aesop's
mircea_popescu: ie how the bear lost its tail.
mircea_popescu: ah so then dunno it ? this one : http://www.neamt.ro/cmj/Creanga/Ursul_pacalit.html
mircea_popescu: how'd they say in russian, "trage, trage ca de radacina tragi"
mircea_popescu: i don't let the enemy inform my decisions by his behaviour this explicitly. you ever read the fox and bear fable ?
mircea_popescu: depends who owns the safe.
asciilifeform: while it is ~conceivable~ that any particular heavy safe is filled to the brim with used condoms,
asciilifeform: (a reason that was in place as early as '97)
asciilifeform: the intel turds are ciphered and signed for a reason.
asciilifeform: re the microcode thing, i can picture mircea_popescu going on a bank heist, and, coming up against a massive safe, 'let's not bother with the dynamite, fellas, this thing surely is full of used condoms'
asciilifeform: and in all cases the most similar creatures are the ones that must fight
mircea_popescu: and in any case, scheming against an enemy modelled on the basis of yourself is rather silly, seeing how if you are so similar you shouldn't be enemies in the first place.
asciilifeform: so the correct thing to do is to picture enemy who has thought of ~at least~ everything you can think of.
asciilifeform: and i see this as proper, because scheming against a ~stupid~ enemy is largely a waste of time, because how to know ~exactly how stupid~ he is ?
asciilifeform: iirc i once did explain that my mental model of the enemy is myself with a negative sign.
mircea_popescu: you use engineering valuator, which defaults to 0 and respectively maxint in certain edge cases. this comes into conflict with known floors and ceilings established through political, generally, but occasionally economical valuations.
mircea_popescu: basically, i've by now distilled the unifying, common principle of all our disagreements to date. it is as follows :
mircea_popescu: "isfahan could host the mother of the red heifer"
asciilifeform: not only on the obvious basis of 'can add magic instruction' but 'will reveal magic instructions that have been added in 20 yrs of nsa-supplied patches'
mircea_popescu: but it says exactly nothing about the item being strong, it's all about the item being worthless.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure that'll do something for the future.
asciilifeform: (key exists, legendarily, in 1 copy, in the castle of doom, etc.)
asciilifeform: in 20 yrs of signed microcode patches, NOTHING leaked out, not only keys, but even the format of the payload.
mircea_popescu: the bar it poses is exactly that, ~100 bucks, ie fifteen minute's labour or w/e.
asciilifeform: re earlier thread, here is an interesting example of strong cage - intel microcode
mircea_popescu: so yes, "walled garden". except it's not so walled as to prevent INEPT third worlder to "we are accept only bitcoin".
mircea_popescu: what, and if 15 yo girlie "mocks" some dude in her english class that means she's not interested ?
asciilifeform: but i definitely see how it handily encompasses the varied crimes of the egalitarian cult.
asciilifeform: incidentally, and perhaps mircea_popescu does not know this, but even here in the heart of mordor this phrase is a comical byword for idiocy, like nixon's plumbers
mircea_popescu: if it abandons that, it no longer substantively exists.