asciilifeform: indexing ain't actually so hard, but it dun scale to 1e12 nonpaying lolcats
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: observe that i was able to index 9.3 mil pgp comment strings somehao, on 1 iron, and with <1s lookup
asciilifeform: the lolcatnet and the thinkingpeoplenet, living in same fabric, is a historic accident, rather like sov communal flats where physics prof lived with a furnace stoker . it's to be corrected.
asciilifeform: ( inject known bitstring into smbus, and e.g. write to arbitrary ram, etc )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if the fishwraps are to be believed, they sat this one down on the BMC bus. so really extra spice on top of the usual bmc lulz.
asciilifeform: i suspect the cap was the 'easy' bug. y'know how when educated folx bug people, they give'em 2-3 'easies', a 'medium' to make the diggers feel 'accomplished' when the find, and the 'actual' bug somewhere entirely else.
asciilifeform: somebody oughta have told'em that they oughta bug a ~diode~ instead ; it is not difficult to detect a capacitor that semiconducts inside somewhere ( it'll rectify rf ) .
asciilifeform: mod6: already submitted as qntra lulzcandidate. but whole story lulzy, the chinese folx built a vlsi-bugged filter cap and slipped it into ~errything some time around '14
asciilifeform: mod6 plox to clarify when you wake up
asciilifeform: i'ma leave the margin to mircea_popescu .
asciilifeform: they're man-sized, but made of lappy cells
asciilifeform does not know the conversion ratio, if it even makes sense to ask for one, how do ya convert metres to litres...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'hypatias' deal in turkeybux ( or , whatever the little termites, 'students', eat in place of turkey ), so perhaps not comparable with the imagibux traded on laughsdaq
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but of course. and ( at least at my local shithole ) that forest fire has only just begun -- the 'sciences' still get sumthing like 20x moar payola than the mamies
asciilifeform: i aint particularly surprised, really, errything reversemidas touches turns to shit, not merely some
asciilifeform: i.e. unreplicable crapola where one'd have to catch the authors and connect'em to 220v to get the orig data, supposing it existed☟︎
asciilifeform: incidentally, the 'transgender transracial studies' etc people are the easy marks for laughter, but i see ~0 diff b/w them and what's been coming out of the 'sciences' rags for past 20y
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had a piece re termites.
asciilifeform: ( no prizes for guessing , subscriptions to what. )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i found out recently that uni lib's budget is nao something like 70-80% for 'electronic subscriptions'. meanwhile, 3 of 8 floors emptied of boox, and carrying on
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i meant, as result of $noose
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they're at the 'only can be sold for meat' level, i suspect
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: waiwat?! they actually closed shop ?!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is entirely consistent with my observed picture ( the same lost souls auto-enter 'grad school' because otherwise... 'starbucks' + loans called in )
asciilifeform: i recently got hold of local uni's 'student newspaper', it apparently consists ~100% by weight nao of 'police report : someone wrote 'nigger' on a whiteboard' .☟︎
asciilifeform: these folx live in hermetically sealed parallel universe, that i suspect can only be pierced with bullet and oven
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i suspect that it won't 'kill credibility' , it is impossible to kill what's been dead since orig sokal (at the very least!) -- but still lulzy
asciilifeform: mod6: i dun think it will be a terrible thing if it has to wait a day, so long as we do it shortly
asciilifeform: mod6: i've been eating, breathing, sweating, microshit, for past 14hrs. and this is 2nd week...
asciilifeform: mod6: is above enuff to start from, or need help to expand
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what do you think of this angle
asciilifeform: ng), and is offered with pgp-verified record of changes [phf's patch viewer], .... etc '
asciilifeform: mod6: example: 'dear herr editor at volkischer beobachter: you have been misinformed by your sources re the subject of bitcoin. the client maintained by gavin et al, known as 'core', currently offered at version x.x, and infamous for lethally compromising bugs, most recently [qntra link] , is not the definitive client but a work of malicious impostors ; the actual bitcoin client can be found at [tbf] , consists of x LOC (and decreasi
asciilifeform: mod6: mircea_popescu is right, gotta write'em, or else cannot say 'they dun know'
asciilifeform: i dun have an oracle re 'everyone', only the mouthpiece fishwraps, and even these i'll admit i read irregularly
asciilifeform: Mocky: i was speaking of heavy (i.e. fraggable) packets
asciilifeform: Officially(tm) opium den, and the attendant preparation tech (the raw vegetable had to be processed in a particular way) are extinct. but betcha mircea_popescu , who traveled in the near east, knows the troof...
asciilifeform: re opiumists, as i understand the procedure was fiddly enuff that it in fact required a second set of hands -- for rich d00d, servant; for poor -- den flunkie
asciilifeform: orcs are doomed to 'discover' simple techs again & again, 4evah
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ancient persia got there 1st
asciilifeform: i recall reading once about an american 'sinologist' type who started by collecting the pipes ( they were often quite ornate, ivory, rhino, exotic woods ) and ended up... reconstructing actual opium den, somewhere
asciilifeform: so not the same, in important aspect, as today's 'injection sites'
