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mircea_popescu: ). uefi-1 however is just
this jumble of works-with-or-without, maybe-so-maybe-not, up
to indeed about 2015 or so.
mircea_popescu: there;s at least one major separation in
the uefi latrine (plenty others, of course,
the
thing's fractally broken), which fortunately occured just about
that moment in
time when intel chips became
thoroughly useless. so not supporting uefi-2, "must have
to work" is relatively a small loss, as it goes with
the shitty spycore intel chips anyways, which nobody wants (though might be
tolerated in some roles for cheapness' sake
hanbot: diana_coman i'm getting
that fun ol' "please fill
the required fields (name, email)" error on attempting
to comment on your latest. did something change since lastcomment?
jfw opens up
the spec PDF he had lying on HDD, is reminded it's 2500 pages
mircea_popescu: in any case, my point being,
this whole uefi
thing needs some serious mapping.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i'd rather
this didn't end up with a
tmsr motherboard.
jfw: But what do you put in its place? Reversing boards was
tough enough as I gather even before
the standard fritz chips
mircea_popescu: but in any case,
the item's probably
the most contundent impediment
to sanity in computong
mircea_popescu: jfw,
the ideal solution here'd be a de-uefi-izing dongle.
mircea_popescu: the nsa is firmly entrenched in controlling
that sweet, sweet path
to diff power analysis,
they've glued it
thoroughly with all
the broken glass of "energy efficiency" faux ourdemocracy preoccupations, it strikes me as one of
the
things
that'll only dislodge once
the
emperor himself is rapemeat.
jfw: myeah. if Intel decides
the PC architecture is no longer
the PC architecture, OS maker has
to bear
the burden ?
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the efi/uefi problem is actually looming
the largest here.
dorion_road: I can see it, I
think I read about lilo in
the logs,
then have stuck with since following
the gentoo handbook a few years back, apart from one public
toilet efi laptop where I went with grub.
mircea_popescu: afaik everyone who uses lilo loves lilo and everyone who uses grub loves grub. allegedly
the former's more fully featured while
the later's more narrowly construed.
dorion_road: mircea_popescu grub may be required if EFI systems are supported. I don't know if lilo is worth saving or if grub for everything is
the better choice.
dorion_road: I am working on a work plan for myself for
the next week(s). I will publish as an article
this week when ready.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-29 14:49:29 mircea_popescu: dorion, it'd prolly be a good idea
to
take your own
trackbacks out of
the (independently --VERY SHORT) recent comments
toolbar. i can't
tell what's going on
ossabot: Logged on 2019-12-01 16:57:17 bvt: dorion_road: i have discovered some WTF??? sort of bug in
the kernel
that manifests only outside of
the VM. i will continue debugging it
tomorrow, but
this means
that
the writeup will appear only after it is fixed; sorry for
this delay.
dorion_road: diana_coman, mircea_popescu I replied
to your comments on my
tmsr-os article. Apologies for
the latency, atypical meat space festivities
took more of my weekend
than normal.
dorion_road: I don't yet know exactly how
they're
to be beat,
that's for
the owner
to investigate, report back on
the cost/benefits of various decisions and publish his vpatches.
dorion_road: The starting point is for
the bios and bootloader code
to be owned by someone under V. Coreboot, LILO and GRUB (for EFI support) come under V
to be beat into human use.
dorion_road: Did my
reply to your comment clarify
the requirements for owning
the boot process ?
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-29 03:51:10 spyked: dorion_road: so I'm sort of a "master of none", I guess. but in general, I'm interested in doing any infrastructure work required
to get a
tmsr-os up, I
think I can handle it, with probably some ramp-up
time
to learn
the code. imho needs figuring out what's really needed
tho, e.g. from
your list, what work is required for bootloaders/biosen and wh
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-29 03:43:59 spyked:
http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-11-27#1953704 <-- not sure what'd be
the best fit,
tbh. I'm an odd one, spent years studying
the
theory re os and systems in general. but as far as actual work goes, other
than my
public work, I've been doing mostly maintenance (bugfixing, a bit of feature development) for linux kernels driving custom hardware/schedulers/netwo
BingoBoingo: It is a small sadness
that it looks like I'll be leaving Uruguay just as it starts
to get interesting, but...
the local vandals don't seem
to have discovered how
to make "ninja rocks" outta ceramic insulators.
BingoBoingo: North American Walmarteers own
Tienda Inglesa. Euro equivalents own Disco, Devoto, and Geant.
BingoBoingo: Lol,
this country doesn't have an actual walmart. It has small chains of "hypermercados" run by board members of Walmart and Walmart-likes
that
they use
to play around and learn more about
this sorta cattle
troughing.
BingoBoingo: In other joys of
the 4 month
transition until
the new government comes in March 1st...
The outgoing government is declining
to do
their annual inflation based adjustments
to
the various rates charged by
the state monopolies... after
the price of beef at
the carnicerías climbed ~70% for "asado de
tira"
this year. Backdoor welfare as only dollar economies pretending
to be
their own peso economies can manage.
BingoBoingo: Last I looked into it
they brought at a minimum an additional ~GB of RAM consumption and ~2-50% of CPU utilization as a "Don't copy
this floppy" deterrent
that forces everyone
to download
the version with
that shit cut out.
mircea_popescu: you can imagine what joys
these "trusted platforms" bring
to binary distribution.
BingoBoingo: Educated Venezuelans just might be
the most helpful people in
the Americas.
BingoBoingo: So, apparently every datacenter in Vzla is fully staffed. For being fully staffed just about every datacenter in Vzla is happy
to offer contact information for
the folks who make hiring decisions at datacenters in other countries, mostly Colombia.
mircea_popescu: ima
try putting
the first few in and we see (i hope for eg you do
the sed 's%"%\\"%g' | sed 's%*%\*%g' escapings, yes ?)
mircea_popescu: so instead : hey lobbes, please fix
these and give me a one-line-per-post dump, formatted like "INSERT INTO
tril_posts(id, post_author, post_status, post_type, post_name, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_title, post_content); INSERT INTO
tril_term_relationships (object_id,
term_taxonomy_id) VALUES ("articleid-1", 44);", wheren
the ids start with 90800 and
the
time is now+3 hours whenever you start doing it.
mircea_popescu: seems maybe for
the sake of simplicity i could just process
the source logs ; but
then i'll end up with a broken bot when deployed huh.
mircea_popescu: then i was going
to say something like : lobbes, can you get me
the result of <? ?> and give out php code
to dump directly, but I notice
things such as "<br><table>" as article headings, instead of
the correct <table style="font-size:1em;width:580px;">" and so i assume
the middle <td> doesn't carry
the required class="breakup" either.
mircea_popescu: in other news, we find lobbes 's sql format is not great, seeing how it's just
the plain mysql dump ; whereas obviously enough
the ID column will conflict so it has
to be dropped.
BingoBoingo to resume crawling
tomorrow.
Today I've got
to reply
to
the folks who replied
to my weekend solicitations
this morning.
billymg: i've been following along as much as possible, still keeping
the same
timeline for
the actual
transition
BingoBoingo back
to
the crawl, reply, crawl some more loop. Had
to get
this mega-Qntricle published before
the Pinko-Color revolution media machine does its
thing.
mircea_popescu: on
the positive side,
this is how
truly cool shit is found.
bvt: dorion_road: i have discovered some WTF??? sort of bug in
the kernel
that manifests only outside of
the VM. i will continue debugging it
tomorrow, but
this means
that
the writeup will appear only after it is fixed; sorry for
this delay.
BingoBoingo met some local journos, placed some business cards with folks in
the neighborhood. Kids last night made it farther and spread more widely
than
the local press is giving
them credit for.
BingoBoingo: The morning of
the 24th
they made it
to
the area around
the British embassy.
This morning
they made it
to Montevideo Shopping.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, small sample size, but it seems
the Navy and
the Chorros are entering something
that could be an extended conflict. Especially in light of
the fact
the chorros can escape Navy jurisidction by crossing
the street.
diana_coman: uhm, so possibly it's just
that I'm
the weird one around here for which
the
tech part
takes longer
than
the writing, ha!
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-30 13:30:48 diana_coman: at any rate,
the hour was spent: ~10 minutes figuring out
the change and making it directly on my blog so
that
the results were clear; ~30 minutes for full vpatch process: retrieve+press current v-tree
to head; make code + manifest file changes;
test press of result & check + final sign; ~20 minutes for write-up + upload + overall final check.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-30 20:26:57 mircea_popescu: spyked, one annoying part about your blog's implementation of footnotes is
that
they don't
tooltip
the content. which sucks.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I don't yet speak Korean. Some cases
take more digging
than others, but places
to shove my solicitation are being found.
BingoBoingo: 2017-2019 More
than half of identifiable Korean datacenters still
try
to force inital contact
through
the
telephone. 3/4 still obviously Microsoft shops. Remainder
target foreigners.
mircea_popescu: spyked, one annoying part about your blog's implementation of footnotes is
that
they don't
tooltip
the content. which sucks.
mircea_popescu: !!rate danielpbarron 1 used
to hang around here, meanwhile found greener pastures.
mircea_popescu: also
thinking
things
through, now
that pizarro's no more
there's prolly no real point
to
that.
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated danielpbarron -10 at 2019/06/22 14:46:41 << used
to hang around here, meanwhile found greener pastures.
mircea_popescu: in other news,
this was
trilema's biggest month
this year, readership-wise. so was october, back
then, and september... it's been crawling monotonically all year.
diana_coman: and more
to
the point:
trackbacks *are* conversation namely via articles so I'd rather see also
trackbacks
to other blogs
that I follow, hm.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-01 22:46:01 mircea_popescu: anyways -- i dun
think a blog should list pingbacks either in
the comment rss or in
the "new comments" navbar.
diana_coman: because
they are sufferable only in small doses really and even
then I'm not sure it's not just ..for contrast.
diana_coman: maybe it's just
that I remembered why I had
taken a break from computers, can be.
mircea_popescu: or in broader words : maybe we deeply misunderstand HOW
to score what we do with computers. when
to feel good, when not
to, what
to be happy or sad about
mircea_popescu: im
thinking... maybe
the best kind of patch available is
the one
that
takes
the maker
ten minutes
to make.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-30 14:10:35 diana_coman: code changes
that
took 30 minutes, lol; not sure how can one define it more precisely in
the general like
that, it depends on a lot of
things after all.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-11-30 14:16:26 diana_coman: no, it's not about
the loc and I specifically did not mention loc.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
this is
then a mpwp guffaw, should evidently stick
to one convention.
diana_coman: this sort of shit is what I spent
those 10 minutes on.