asciilifeform: my current understanding is that the 'rma unlock' thing is used during factory refurb, so asus et al prolly have it

asciilifeform: ( unlike, say, certain pnoje makers, where you ~can~ ransom the unlock )

asciilifeform: afaik they dun sell rma codes for money

asciilifeform: got insider in the belly of the beast?

asciilifeform: phf: out of curiosity, what didja mean re 'corporate channels' ?

asciilifeform: phf: fixed, ty

asciilifeform: ( e.g. certain 'android' pnojes )

asciilifeform: pretty much every machine with usb-c, afaik, will respond to it.

asciilifeform: iirc i pointed this out in recent past, same snake can be used to tickle recent intel boxes also. ( but i have not explored this. )

asciilifeform: l2, even.

asciilifeform: any folx in l1 who would like to saw away at c101pa but lack the snake ? plox to write in .

asciilifeform: possibly

asciilifeform: phf: i was thinking of producing a coupla dozen snakes, to hand out to people, but per yesterday's mircea_popescu thread it seems not to be worth it

asciilifeform: ( per the http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-11#1822402 discussion ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: and i'm still curious what an elephant-killing dose of gamma would do to the cr50. ☟︎

asciilifeform: it's still conceivable that we find overflow in tty or spi slave etc handlers, or the like

asciilifeform: phf: didja build the snake ?

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in intelisms, 'the content of FP registers owned by another process can be speculatively detected...' etc

asciilifeform: seems like the approach has limitations

asciilifeform: *noticeably

asciilifeform: and asciilifeform in his old flat killed vermin with poison, traps, in the end with own hands and crowbar, didn't reduce population of mice and rats in the city noticeable.

asciilifeform: today the tumour is the size of a beagle, and the patient is almost nowhere to be seen

asciilifeform: the time was 1995 or so.

asciilifeform: fritz chip, when senator fritz first demanded it, was seen as ~equally sad joke. but nao life.

asciilifeform: i'm almost surprised that it didn't take off commercially.

asciilifeform: 2001.

asciilifeform: http://wearcam.org/seatsale/ << oh here it is.

asciilifeform: there was an earlier version of this lul, where it had a credit card reader and retractable spikes, but i cannot now find it, it was from early age of drmism

asciilifeform: oblig : http://thomas-grogan.com/drm-chair << 'smart' chair.

asciilifeform: admittedly the brick is a standard part, rather than a googlism. but still ugly.

asciilifeform: ( incidentally, the 'now you can charge from ordinary usb!' was a bait-and-switch crock of shit, plugging usb-c into ordinary usb doesn't supply even 10% of the needed current, what the thing does with its brick is to negotiate a much higher voltage, up to iirc 40v )

asciilifeform: i'd like a whole replacement machine, sure.

asciilifeform: discouraged lol. it's a pestilence.

asciilifeform: 'smart' power supplies, srsly, plague

asciilifeform: granted, the details are all in the sores.

asciilifeform: ( usb-c bricks output no voltage until elaborately asked, via somewhat gnarly serial protocol )

asciilifeform: meanwhile , in sad noose, cr50 apparently would be a 1st-class bitch to fully replace, it ( among errything else ) also does the power brick negotiation thing ☟︎

asciilifeform: aha, similar. ( in washington there is a gigantic monument , tipped with fist-sized piece of aluminum, pre-electrolysis / alcoa co. , when it was priceless ; prior to being installed on monument, thing was exhibited in new york, folx were permitted to... step over it, in a museum, 'i stepped over washington's monument!11' )

asciilifeform: lol maybe he read our mega-thread re how gpg expiration is bogus

asciilifeform: 'world's greatest magician cannot pull a rabbit out of a hat unless the rabbit is actually in the hat' or how did it go.

asciilifeform: lolyes

asciilifeform: ( you can reliably get it out! merely -ev energywise )

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-13#1824918 << eh U in the sea is ~plentiful~ in comparison ! ☝︎

asciilifeform: spyked: it is an alternative, of sorts. but quite intel-like in re blobulism, is the idea.

asciilifeform: loper_os_cr50_: hello ?

asciilifeform: !!up loper_os_cr50_

asciilifeform: allloser chipset -- suxx.

asciilifeform: ( and not, as some might think, using a dartboard, lol )

asciilifeform: spyked: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-13#1824913 << i picked rockchip for the arm64 experiments ~specifically~ for not having this. ☝︎

asciilifeform: she did even better , yea

asciilifeform: aa !

asciilifeform: hm which one

asciilifeform: ( mircea_popescu also gave asciilifeform whole coin in 2012. but bahaha asciilifeform gave it back with interest. so duncount!111 )

asciilifeform: sight unseen

asciilifeform: you gave him whole coin !

asciilifeform: e.g. kanzure

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc the track record of folx given 'easy' coin early in their life as a wotperson, is poor

asciilifeform: what's the win

asciilifeform: trinque: out of curiosity, how come deedbot even cares re the expir date thing ?

asciilifeform: ( tho iirc ave1 did get a FG at some point )

asciilifeform: varies. i dun recall e.g. spyked , or ave1 , getting coin thrown at

asciilifeform: fwiw asciilifeform doesn't throw coins at folx who aint even truly born yet. but asciilifeform worx with much smaller budget .

asciilifeform: ( trinque , what exactly is done to these ? )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if d00d never returns, he'll get gc'd at some point, neh

asciilifeform: speaking of which, i'ma bbl.

asciilifeform: but sure.

asciilifeform: d00d prolly saw 'wtf masonic ritual, why am i here, in kitchen there is vodka and it won't drink itself'

asciilifeform: possibly easily disheartened folk, we're better without, this is defensible. i've nfi.

asciilifeform: '14 year old cunt routine' to uninvested intelligent n00b is not so diff. but watever. ☟︎

asciilifeform: i'dve let this one live tho.

asciilifeform: nor do i expect trinque to massage folx on demand and for phree.

asciilifeform: i have 0 complaint re deedbot.

asciilifeform: 'in the great birdlessness, my arse is a nightingale' -- asciilifeform's grandfather .

asciilifeform: ( i daren't to even dream about finding ones with ~whole~ )

asciilifeform: might have to wait another yr to get a new n00b with half a brain.

asciilifeform: doubt we'll be seeing him again.

asciilifeform: trinque: cut the fella a bit of slack, he doesn't yet grasp that he's come to olympus, thinks he's in village pub still

asciilifeform: ( there is a historic thread on the subj, that i cannot presently find )

asciilifeform: cnomad: i recommend to switch off expiration, it never did anybody any good.

asciilifeform: aa

asciilifeform: with the nonexpired one.

asciilifeform: cnomad: you gotta re-reg that key, if you want it to work

asciilifeform: seems like nobody can figure out a satisfying set of rules.

asciilifeform: cnomad: at any rate, if you read today's log, you will know that there probably will not be any such contest.

asciilifeform: it'd be an invitation for every possible fucking parasite, not to mention 'law abiding citizens' etc

asciilifeform: i want no part of this.

asciilifeform: cnomad: on the contrary, the shitstack that passes for modern pc and its soft, is result of 'hire a team'.

asciilifeform: revisiting upstack : i categorically refuse to pay for any cr50 related work that does not produce a working and practically applicable pill. because there is no way to ensure that 'paid to advance art' rather than 'paid 10 derps' mortgages and student loans' ☟︎

asciilifeform did this at least 1ce, prior to 'fucking, i'ma dispense with the expiration nonsense'

asciilifeform: ( prolly you kept it around somewhere ? )

asciilifeform: cnomad: somehow you gave deedbot a key from before you re-signed the rsa4096/0x8D6436492F4A69AF one

asciilifeform: the paste shows what is in the key that deedbot saw.

asciilifeform: not in this key !!

asciilifeform: cnomad: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/7Gkmk/?raw=true << subj

asciilifeform: are you posting through a time-warp, cnomad ?

asciilifeform: the newest, in 2016.

asciilifeform: cnomad: all of your subkeys seem to have expired

asciilifeform: cnomad: idea of contest, i found appealing because 1) inexpensive 2) simple , relatively, to administer, and does not require 'teams' of jobsworths.

asciilifeform: cnomad: i ain't about to sponsor a team of lunch eaters.

asciilifeform: yes, and there is not actually, afaik, any possibility of a solution to such a problem.