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mircea_popescu: i expect. it'd be just like bond, right ? haime bond ?
a111: Logged on 2018-06-09 22:26 loper_os_cr50: Mircea_popescu: I establish identity temporarily and then move on. But I don’t see how anonymity necessitates solitude
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#1821794 << i briefly dug for detail, found nuffin... what is it ? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: loper_os_cr50, http://trilema.com/2016/what-is-the-leyla-black/#selection-147.29-151.0 and also ascii where the fuck is the convo ? converted roman porticulis, the problem of thick walls ? did i hallucinate all this ?
loper_os_cr50: I never read that
mircea_popescu: hanbot, i think they already have those
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).
loper_os_cr50: Mircea_popescu: I establish identity temporarily and then move on. But I don’t see how anonymity necessitates solitude ☟︎
newcastleslut: How do I use this
mircea_popescu: i can't believe how succesfful tivo has been at technocastrating the youth.
loper_os_cr50: I shed my aliases to keep projects and what not unrelated
loper_os_cr50: Yep, I’ve done pacemakers and what not before. I have the source code of just about every pacemaker on the market with exception of Biotronic but I have their firmware. I’d connect from irssi but I let my bouncer server expire and on my phone
mircea_popescu: loper_os_cr50, oh i believe it.
loper_os_cr50: I downloaded the firmware yesterday
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 ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i suppose you could say that, why not.
asciilifeform: i'ma brb: meat
mircea_popescu: i'm mostly training a new class of slavegirls. it's epic fun.
BingoBoingo: I assume it is only quiet today because we are all excited to see what developments asciilifeform brings when he wakes from his well earned Odinsleep
a111: Logged on 2018-06-08 17:08 phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-08#1821658 << they could also bring back 701c butterfly keyboard design, but i guess that's too gimicky.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-08#1821694 << i actually had that box. the mechanism is clever but i suspect that it wears out ( my unit, to be fair, did not last long enuff for the kbd clockwork to wear out, mobo died 1st ) ☝︎
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.
phf: i used to get comments about ibook in the early 2000s, like old boomer types asking me about y2k or whatever. get the same reaction with x60 now, some guy on amtrak wanted to talk about bitcoin
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-08#1821658 << they could also bring back 701c butterfly keyboard design, but i guess that's too gimicky. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: (ftr, i am not proposing this agreement as some kind of proof.)
asciilifeform: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/ec/+/master/chip/g/rdd.c#20 << as i suspected, thing drives the receiving end of the debug snake ( the http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2415 item )
asciilifeform: in other noose, i found the vendor binary for my particular box's cr50 (all ver strings match) : https://gsdview.appspot.com/chromeos-localmirror/distfiles/cr50.r0.0.10.w0.3.0.tbz2
asciilifeform: hell, i'd buy a lappy with a spring kbd. but can only dream of this.
mircea_popescu: this is what i'm saying.
asciilifeform: i did most of the early trb on that thing
mircea_popescu: "but mp, who are you to define humanity" shut it. i said, shut it.
asciilifeform: i have one with full width and numpad. believe or not
mircea_popescu: kbd... well... yeah. though i loathe laptop kbds equally anyway. nonstandard shape
mircea_popescu: i honestly dunno what diff it makes for what's intended as a cheap throwaway anyway
mircea_popescu: so "it's utter rubbish" / "i suspect the os dyi may be sprinkling of holy water, but never checked this. let me know if you establish one way or the other" ?
asciilifeform: re upstack -- i do not currently have an 'allwinner', cannot comment re its uboot definitively. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't properly damn it, not having suffered with it with own skin
asciilifeform: i sat down to do this some yrs ago, then decided that life is too short
asciilifeform: i was actually in line to buy the box myself, for something like a year, turn finally came but by that time i got to see the photos / reviews
asciilifeform: spyked: i could be wrong re the blobs, but iirc there is no fully open loader for a53
spyked: asciilifeform, could please expand re. "blobulent arm"? it's allwinner a53 afaik? I have no comments re. all other points other than: judging from what I hear, only alternative seems "bake own case/kbd/other parts or reuse ones from x60/whatever".
asciilifeform: don't encourage the 'i can peddle liquishit parts that would've been spat on in china street markets decade ago , if i stamp Open on the box!' hucksters.
spyked: re. nsa laptop thread: olimex ppl (huh, it seems I keep mentioning these folks) have a "diy laptop kit" whose specs are very similar to the c101pa (for comparison: http://archive.is/4cp8W vs. https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/KITS/TERES-A64-WHITE/open-source-hardware , the latter doesn't seem to archive for some reason). it's a candidate for my (by now long) hw-to-buy list, the "open sores diy" aspect is otoh the biggest
asciilifeform: i used to work with a roughly similar fella, so yes, agree
mircea_popescu: honestly, i don't expect either elegance or smoothness come out of the haphazard antidesign style of google et all.
asciilifeform: so far i did find how to disable #wp signal on the h1 ( it tracks the battery-triggered #wp ). the way updater works, it permits flashing in any old turd, and it goes in a temp slot, which only on next boot gets ecc-sigchecked
mircea_popescu: honesrtly i'd still rather get this than "go to store buy intel chip"
asciilifeform: this is currently best picture i have ( wish i had the schem... )
asciilifeform: this is to count only the onboard (i.e. excluding usb)
mircea_popescu: no but these are arms. i thought this is what arm mostly is, bridge-wise.
asciilifeform: ( i.e. 'h1' does not sit , as far as i can tell, between cpu and bootrom , but rather sits on the bus )
mircea_popescu: i dunno, have the boot flash a pink pixel, put a number on screen, whatever. replacement boot sequence won't know to do it, will it.
asciilifeform: i'ma carry on with curing the bootloader then. and when 'h1' pops, it pops, we get clean box
mircea_popescu: or so i deem.
mircea_popescu: so in a sense it's up to you. if you've lost the love of labour because of the cp50 issue, i guess it dies. but if not, i do not see it's a waste of time. make it boot cleanly, try see what happens if you remove the item, try see what happens if you fuzz the item, maybe more stuff occurs -- this is a productive line of research.
asciilifeform: i suspect the thing exists mainly to 1) help 'law enforce' folx pry passwords from unwilling patient's box 2) persistence nest for assorted usgologies installed via pwned userland
asciilifeform: but i've not found a remote trigger for it. (dun mean there isn't one)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it can rewrite the boot rom, is what i know for certain so far
asciilifeform: upstack, before i start to fall asleep -- what do we wanna do in re the c101 ? march on with curing the 'ordinary' boot rom, and then sit on the thing pending a successful break of the cr50 booby ? shelf whole thing ? which'll it be
asciilifeform: i suppose anyffin that dun xray properly, is insta-suspicious to the derps
mircea_popescu: and btw, the idiot airport guards keep slicing the weights. cuz it's by now so rare an item i guess, "gotta see what's inside".
mircea_popescu: "but mp, why does girl need to wear 5kgs of ankle weight for hours on end ?" "so when i fuck her, her knees are straight"
asciilifeform: or perhaps i dreamed this.
mircea_popescu: anyway ; i thought that point comes through, but maybe not as well as i'd have wanted.
mircea_popescu: but i also don't like to hear that buzzing sound.
mircea_popescu: right. so you know, my allergy "to the short ooda loop" is all the flies going "o man, this is great! yay!". it's not to the fucking meat, i eat steak tartare every so often
mircea_popescu: and i was sitting there in disbelief, "dude, it's two milf lamers in a tub, what the fuck".
mircea_popescu: you know i recently googled a pic, and google helpfully informed me who the, and i quote, "reality television personality, model, entrepreneur, socialite, and social media personality" involved were ?
mircea_popescu: i saw a terrible film recently, with doris day. something something bla bla bla. she spends the whole time in an ugly looking deerskin.
mircea_popescu: "but mp... i ~copuld~ take better pics today than in 1970. point in case -- i didn't even TAKE pics back then"
asciilifeform: ok this is where i admit that i have not read the orig idjicy..
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i am at no point in there hating on short ooda loop. i am hating on the idiocy he surrounds it with.
mircea_popescu: then they wonder why they don't ever have any gfs, these people. "i tried to evaluate whether she's my gf in a second or less, came out negative" "maybe give it i dunoo... FIVE DAYS ?" "omfg what ? i don't like... live that long"
mircea_popescu: sprucing up the dummkopf article ; apparently i hadn't put enough links in there, counterintuitively.
mircea_popescu: i forgot you're polynymic.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-01 17:43 asciilifeform: 'aes is hard to break' 'says who' 'says me, i haven't broken it yet'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, that sentiment, but different words. 2015ish vintage i tihnk
mircea_popescu: esthlos, there's some discussion, after which i pick something and start asking people nicely / kicking them in the head about it.
esthlos: trinque: I added a manifest to my v_genesis vpatch. I'm curious, though, how these items (vtron, manifest) become declared "standard", if ever
mircea_popescu: i've not thought a line in my life!
mircea_popescu: there's this vicious slander going about according to which i actually use some sort of thought process. i wish to deny such rumours right now.
asciilifeform: i'm still curious re mircea_popescu's logic re the older box
asciilifeform: i could use some eagle eyes on the coad, also
asciilifeform: i'm at that magical 'should i throw it out or buy 6'(tm)(r) stage
mircea_popescu: the worst case being what, a pile of useless data ? big woop, i have some of that myself, isn't killing me.
mircea_popescu: i'm telling you, building a fuzzing harness for a bunch of these may not be a bad way to lock down a machine (driving the fuzzing) for a week or two.
asciilifeform: however still gives eggog '127' when attempting 'usb_updater -U' i.e. 'start unlock sequence'
mircea_popescu: i'd love nothing more than qntra running a "google's ecc crypto defeated in field"
asciilifeform: in so far as i can tell, the thing implements plain old 'p256' ecctron
asciilifeform: if i can do this, i think i'll skip the small change and take home satoshi's coinz
asciilifeform: i'm actually ~persuaded that the posted code actually runs
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'd luuvvvvv a properly photographed bolix...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i'd still like to get some actual working something out of whatever kanzureism "zeptobar" currently is.
mircea_popescu: i imagine phf
mircea_popescu: quantum computing something something, i kinda tuned out past that point.
mircea_popescu: i mean, doodn's not even had the common decency to reg up, however many months later.
mircea_popescu: odds are it'll result in it leaving, i'm guessing.