asciilifeform: phf: i had to go through several, before one worked

asciilifeform: phf: didja run into the http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-03#1792708 lulgem ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: junkyardwars. builds character.

asciilifeform: it's good for one's health, to build desktop.

asciilifeform: aa hm.

asciilifeform: hey phf , didja ever put xorg on yours? how is performance ?

asciilifeform: we have a shipments/logistics expert in the house, don't we

asciilifeform: these -- are ready to rock

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: issue the pet a rk3328 ?

asciilifeform: but if this is all that fits in the budget, then so be it

asciilifeform: i was hoping he'd find something that can hold a crew of 2, at least on occasion

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: or will you need a sat dish, or what

asciilifeform: does this place come with a net pipe ?

asciilifeform: i think my dorm room at uni was bigger

asciilifeform: and srsly that's a japanese-sized flat

asciilifeform: aa

asciilifeform: which chix is that in the coat ?

asciilifeform: complete with oddball bathroom sink

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: with the exception of the stove, this looks ~exactly like asciilifeform's hotel room

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: got it

asciilifeform: *minsky's method

asciilifeform: collimate the beam simply by selecting with long, thin lead tube.

asciilifeform: no need to decap, strip layers with acids, etc. potentially, just take 3d tomograph.

asciilifeform: given as an ic is a relatively (vs e.g. steel beams, or cement) 'soft' material, you would not need the capsule-of-doom from http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-11#1812331 ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( where a raster-scanning mechanical 'pinhole' is used, and the distance of source/detector from sample, is varied )

asciilifeform: given as they dun refract -- would need to use something like minksy's confocal method.

asciilifeform: imho it's a promising (and afaik 100% unexplored, in re chip reversing) method, and , bonus, nondestructive (i.e. inspect and then ~use~ device)

asciilifeform: speaking, upstack, of microscopy, did we ever do the 'why not gamma inspection, like for steel beams' thread ?

asciilifeform: ( somewhat unsurprisingly, d00d in q never returned with the promised docs )

asciilifeform: the schematics whisperer d00d suggested that it also has the uart brought out on hidden pins ; i have a test adapter cable due in this wk that will test this theory ☟︎

asciilifeform: ( re 'usb-c' -- it's an interesting item, worx as both usb and power in/out, the thing charges by being connected to mains brick through either of the 2 )

asciilifeform: also the 16GB onboard ssd is rather tight, for serious work i'd mount /home on a sd card.

asciilifeform: right, i was speaking of the minimal unit.

asciilifeform: has 3 (1 normal, 2 weirdo 'usb-c')

asciilifeform: ( and yes it will take an FG on the usb jack like any other box )

asciilifeform: lesser evil is prolly the camera

asciilifeform: speaking of which, it's still an open q, what to do re rng on c101pa

asciilifeform: (it's an ssh pub)

asciilifeform: this prolly is obvious, but if one gets a hold of 1 example of the router/etc in question, you have the priv

asciilifeform: lotsa these sitting there 'green', waiting for their magic day.

asciilifeform: prolly embedded-linux rubbish

asciilifeform: nfi

asciilifeform: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/237FBBA5B9D7D62EB0FEEC485D27209610B699FC1DCD47C73EB4AB2DFFDFC19D << in unrelated lulzies

asciilifeform: weekly or so, lol

asciilifeform: she did!

asciilifeform: sorta what i do nao.

asciilifeform: this is the classic case for polarizer, want only the diffuse light, not the orthogonal reflected

asciilifeform: (on proper scope)

asciilifeform: the magic pill is polarizer

asciilifeform: ( all the au-plated junk )

asciilifeform: not the problem. glare from the contacts on pcb. same reason pcb is such a bitch to photograph -- needs good low light sensor, if you simply up the lamp, you nuke exposure

asciilifeform: problem is glare.

asciilifeform: it's what i use now

asciilifeform: for chip reversing, yes, want metallurgist's microscope.

asciilifeform: can't really solder under those.

asciilifeform: https://spectraservices.com/SP-S6D-BS.html << the type used in electronics work.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bottom-light, and no boom , useless for electronics

asciilifeform: proper unit is serious $.

asciilifeform: the chinese ones are junk, however.

asciilifeform: what i really oughta get, is a proper trinocular microscope. camera is great but can't really solder under camera.

asciilifeform: possibly. my rx100 is ~useless at palm's length distance.

asciilifeform: it's a good pic

asciilifeform: and ^ this is after scaling down from the ridiculous (4000x3000 or something close) orig res

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/c101pa/button_0_big.jpg << ipnojecam

asciilifeform: pnojeism killed the soapbox

asciilifeform: i'd quite like to buy a standalone cam with equiv perfomance. but ( aside from kg brick of 'slr' ) they dun make them.

asciilifeform: granted it all goes straight to crapple.

asciilifeform: ( which happily snarfs in, e.g., whole page of a4 text, legibly. ye olde minox nervously smokes in the corner )

asciilifeform: speaking here of the 6th ipnoje.

asciilifeform: combination of the sensor and the stabilizer .

asciilifeform: despite the latter's fingernail lens

asciilifeform: sadly enuff it loses to 3+ y.o. pnoje , somehow

asciilifeform has that very same 'soapbox'

asciilifeform: ohai mod6

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-06#1820853 << incidentally, the c101pa has a camera of some kind. ☝︎

asciilifeform: su did not have this problem.

asciilifeform: african, not soviet.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: verily

asciilifeform: douchebag: you have maybe a day or 2, before you end up with a decade+'s worth of ugh

asciilifeform: douchebag: are you on a mission in the taiga and there is no doctor or wat

asciilifeform: douchebag: bitten by tick just nao ?

asciilifeform: interestingly, mb doesn't take up all of the space inside the case, there is room for maybe half a playing card's worth of iron (sadly not FG's worth..) inside

asciilifeform: for mass production, will still need to open up the boxen to do the write-unprotect magic (lift battery plug, boot on mains current, reflash, put back) but that's it.

asciilifeform: the soldering, ditto. strictly to make 'unbrickable' test unit for the bootloader attempts.

asciilifeform: and yes.

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/c101pa_dbg.jpg << it's in there.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-06#1820855 << briefly returning upstack, once i find the uart pins and solder (under microscope, it will be a 1st class bitch) i can try starting with stock rk3399 loader, and welding on the c101pa peripherals init (which i've dug out of google's shitpile) ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/patches/mp-wp_genesis/hunk/blog/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php << 30+kloc reimplementation of pkzip

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/patches/mp-wp_genesis/hunk/blog/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ssh2.php << check ~this~ out. attempt to reimplement... ssh

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/patches/mp-wp_genesis/hunk/blog/wp-admin/includes/class-ftp-sockets.php#L23372 << lessee somebody prove this to have no false pos matches

asciilifeform: lol, with regexps

asciilifeform: it's outrageous

asciilifeform: because we host on winblowz box with no ftp??

asciilifeform: why it needs ~own~ ftp server?!

asciilifeform: or, say, http://btcbase.org/patches/mp-wp_genesis/hunk/blog/wp-admin/includes/class-ftp-sockets.php

asciilifeform: 'The Ultimate Tag Warrior Importer'

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-06-06#1820837 << good % is simply rubbish, e.g. http://btcbase.org/patches/mp-wp_genesis/hunk/blog/wp-admin/import/utw.php ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: c101pa? currently stuck on 'how the fuck to build even google's orig bootloader , out of the fragmentarily pseudo-opensrc pieces', before can even consider backporting their init to coreboot ☟︎

asciilifeform: on turdroid they have proper multi, and so typical plebe's pnoje resembles win98 box, with 9000 selfinstalled bg shitwares