asciilifeform: plox to elaborate?

asciilifeform: the scheme described above, would work only as a loadable mod.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the current set of kernel modules, largely work in either 'module' or 'built-in' mode, depending on how compiled

asciilifeform: ( i have the rockchips currently with these )

asciilifeform: but this is incompatible with, say, a trinque-style kernel, that dun support loadable modules at all

asciilifeform: could implement module the obvious way : takes N args, each of which must at load time be a valid /dev/ttyxxxx

asciilifeform: right but where.

asciilifeform: from where does it read ?

asciilifeform: right but how does it know where is an fg.

asciilifeform: ( if i'm wrong about this, folx, plox to write in )

asciilifeform: because afaik shitkernel offers no deterministic way to fix

asciilifeform: which why?

asciilifeform: ( not including #include'd rubbish, of which there is a mountain, as is typical )

asciilifeform: and 2200+ln

asciilifeform: pointerolade, spinlock, sha1, you name it , it's got it...

asciilifeform: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/char/random.c << the 'traditional' /dev/random. ( get yer barf bag ready! )

asciilifeform: the 2nd attempt at the crate went out on the 11th

asciilifeform: ave1 didja get it ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: speaking of fg, ave1 really oughta have gotten his fg crate by nao

asciilifeform: ( for the sake of record : a non-retarded arch would do random like-so : ~as a cpu instruction~ that reads from N ~asynchronous~ ports , where N is odd, debias, and xor )

asciilifeform: https://archive.li/xhVBU << in related vintage entomology .

asciilifeform will admit, to having sat down to write a kernel mod for fg no fewer than 3 times, and barfed each time

asciilifeform: the pc arch just plain old suxxxx. every method of dealing with this, has own tradeoff.

asciilifeform: ( why not made originally ? pci adds 100x the complexity; ugly; expensive )

asciilifeform: asciilifeform often wonders if we're doomed to make a pci fg

asciilifeform: and so would be sensitive to device init order, which imho is icky

asciilifeform: would have to properly handle all types of attachment for the fg tho ( usb serial, genuine serial, etc )

asciilifeform: right

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-22#1804633 << sadly asciilifeform is not so familiar with the existing proggy, to answer this properly ☝︎

asciilifeform brb, eating

asciilifeform: diana_coman: iirc danielpbarron had a roughly working hack that did what you asked for

asciilifeform: diana_coman: fair'nuff

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-24#1617414 << iirc orig thread ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-13#1669565 << 1 thread ☝︎

asciilifeform never implemented a fgtronic /dev/random replacement , quite deliberately, and iirc the reasons are in the log

asciilifeform: diana_coman: out of curiosity, why do you want to put your fg's through linus's whitener ?

asciilifeform: i can see malingerers for pension, or for draft-dodging, but what's his then for ?

asciilifeform: if malingering, wainot fill out them forms.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so, y'think d00d is malingering ?

asciilifeform: trinque: afaik commonplace among schizo sufferers

asciilifeform: ergo ~100% of effectual effort -- spent on squid ink.

asciilifeform: and enemy -- knows this.

asciilifeform: as soon as the smarter folx in the enemy camp get the notion that there's somewhere to defect to -- game over

asciilifeform: it's the only ~effective tool in their box tho

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in uncle al terminology, 'they proclaimed it was Bad Luck and carried on'

asciilifeform: such invention!111

asciilifeform: and can live for surprisingly long time.

asciilifeform: if there's no debian-style herd of ruminants attached, to your 'brand', then ~invisible to these folx.

asciilifeform: sorta how asciilifeform is still alive. same dynamic.

asciilifeform: worx, but no 'brand'.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: a certified nutter is one of the 'safest' things to be, from this pov

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he never had anyffing at all they judged to be worth stealing.

asciilifeform: prolly not long left.

asciilifeform: d00d's on his unstoppable journey into the upper tundra.

asciilifeform: whatever other mental cockroaches he could have suffered from in youth, it is all quite thoroughly masked nao by having gone properly batshit

asciilifeform: iirc before davis went fullbore barmy, he was gainfully employed , in the old-fashioned sense, wrote embedded os thing for -- iirc -- 'ticketmaster' co

asciilifeform: this is the likely explanation for his transition to hobo stage -- prolly he finally stopped filling out the magic form etc

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they lament exactly so, and not specifically about this d00d, but erry single schizo ( incl prolly the one i saw last night )

asciilifeform: ( or did, back when he had a comp... )

asciilifeform: d00d spends his days having 2way convos with his rng. ☟︎

asciilifeform: helps to recall that the d00d is certifiably insane tho ( lived for yrs on a usg pension for insanity. as portrayed by TLP. wonder what happened to this -- they were abolished? i've nfi )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha. he's the end stage of the life cycle.

asciilifeform: i'ma defer to the experts, e.g. gabriel_laddel, re 'how to hobo'

asciilifeform: esp. if you can get to the top floor of a tower.

asciilifeform: funnily enuff, i've never done it in car. in a city, can get quite acceptable result with feet.

asciilifeform: presumably hobo can find an open router.

asciilifeform: it has a 802.11 card

asciilifeform not -- yet -- tried this beast.

asciilifeform: ^ it.

asciilifeform: !#s c101pa

asciilifeform: hm

asciilifeform: !#s c201p

asciilifeform: should, theoretically, boot that very same asciilifeform.gentoo

asciilifeform: runs, supposedly, for whole day on 1 charge, etc

asciilifeform: nono, recently there was a thread re actual lappy comp, with lcd etc , on same chipset

asciilifeform: lappy

asciilifeform: maybe d00d's good candidate for that cheapo-rockchip-lappy

asciilifeform sitting near usg.capitol, barking loon walks by , shouts at the top of his throat , '... i'ma tell the fucking! truth! about! what! they've done! my daddy was a commander! in ww2! with the goddamn cat! and the monkey! and reagan!'

asciilifeform: aa

asciilifeform: plain dos vector.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-21#1804404 << shit nodes cost wasted time. potentially infinite amts of it. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-21#1804401 << what's a euro 5 ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-21#1804410 << shitoshi unhelpfully referred to ~both~ as 'orphans' ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-21#1804351 << at some point one of us is doomed to write The Book . folx still walk in with fundamental misconceptions re how bitcoin worx, and there is no ready means of curing'em ☝︎

asciilifeform: follow their recipe, reg the nick

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: it's a fleanode chan, reg yer nick on fleanode

asciilifeform: avgjoe: https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration etc

asciilifeform: !!up avgjoe

asciilifeform: mod6: some relax but lotsa chores, gotta get dulap3 doing its thing

asciilifeform: mod6: a bit

asciilifeform: ohai mod6

asciilifeform: it's a reasonably common item

asciilifeform: supposed to have it. i dun have the chipset datashit tho, cannot say for certain.

asciilifeform: MUF-128BB/AM

asciilifeform: and backups are the customer's responsibility. always and without exception.

asciilifeform: ( if we pull the 'failed' drive, and all sectors write ok, you'll be getting that same drive again. )

asciilifeform: re drives : do recall that you get a phree yearly swap, ~if needed~ .

asciilifeform: loads for me