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Vexual: might not float tho
Vexual: like how do these unnamed organisations do what theyre doing
Vexual: tell the editor you want the article on one page, otherwise it editorial
Vexual: and page 16 is trolli
Vexual: nope i think someone stole the tech pages
Vexual: let me find the name
Vexual: there an article in the afr about fast algos on treasury bonds, and its wanting
Vexual: why can't i trade sundried tomatoe futures? its supposed to be the fooking future
mircea_popescu: most of them unemployed
Vexual: who gives a shit about the aussie dollar now anyway
mircea_popescu: <decimation> heh there are such folks << yeah, ever since surgery moved to computers.
Vexual: and.. the market was wrong
Vexual: well the rba is going to say in less than aminute whether or not they change the interest rate
decimation: well, with that I must retire, good evening
asciilifeform: i'll let herr woodcollector decide if this counts as 'by hand'.
asciilifeform almost bought this item once
decimation: asciilifeform: they probably use something like http://www.ddmnovastar.com/pick-and-place/manual-systems/mpp-21-pick-and-place-system
asciilifeform: surgeons once did (still do?) have the habit of tying knots in fishing line inside a matchbox, every day
decimation: so there's probably a quantity of skilled labor
decimation: heh there are such folks
asciilifeform: if so - someone has excellent hands and ought to be earning a living horseshoeing fleas for a flea circus or the like.
decimation: they go down to 0402 on the p&p
decimation: no, he said those would go on p&p
asciilifeform: because, elementarily, there is no reason to, if you have the machine.
asciilifeform: i have trouble believing they put 0805 resistors on by hand, ever
decimation: they found all of their machines used at auction
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu and thx for the tech support :)
asciilifeform: decimation: trays are typically for items above soic16 or so in size
decimation: he said they use trays with mixed chips
asciilifeform: so long as they - do..
asciilifeform: at any rate, this is not 'woodcollector' and i don't much give a hoot -how- the parts get on the board
asciilifeform: or simply the fact of the p&p machine being loaded by hand from clips instead of magazine ?
asciilifeform: who, one might wonder, do they use? chinese gurlz flown in for the occasion ?
decimation: they are 'angel funded' but I think he said they can turn a profit at current prices
decimation: I suspect they pay good rates for competent techs
asciilifeform: decimation: their 'hand-placed' probably involves a mechanically-cranked apparatus. or someone with much better hands than i
decimation: but they are looking into in-house pcb for 24-hour turnaround assembly!
decimation: they do all the assembly in houston, but currently contract pcb out
decimation: of interest in the 'macrofab' podcast: apparently they load the pick n' place with house parts only, and all the other 'unique' chips for each design are hand-placed
mircea_popescu: so w/e you got there.
mircea_popescu: i think the structure's copied after wp-config or /we the file is called where wp keeps its password in plaintext.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu btw should "table_prefix" be set to "wp_comments" or similar ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu i did indeed, though you're right that i should fiddle with those values because there's a reasonable chance i got them wrong!
asciilifeform: you can convert the thing into a disk that perverts blocks in a particular way, or emulates a keyboard and types in obscenities, etc, etc.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski didja set up your db pw etc in there ?
asciilifeform: joecool: phison is a maker of cheap usb keychain drives that contain general-purpose micros. an ad hoc sdk was published recently. i had something quite like it, unpublished, in 2012; and hell knows how many other folks also did
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu http://contravex.com/fix_trackbacks.php << my understanding is that this should yield errors if it doesn't work, but it's blank as a freshly painted wall.
joecool: phison, now that's a name i haven't heard in awhile
Vexual: here i remember when that kid rode in on a tricycle
decimation: but as we already established, the kernel is in the usb key
decimation: in the airOs mtd2 is labeled 'kernel'
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah, it does appear to contain something specific to their hardware
asciilifeform: (or soon to be.)
asciilifeform: don't throw it out!
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu so i finally mod'd your fix_trackbacks.php, uploaded it, and... it doesn't even show up. now i'm supposed to call customer support or some shit
Vexual: here, jewintro, rub the front and the back of your hands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVP_w1rQweE
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: in that it demands to be viewed on genuine winblows crapobat
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform how can you tell that cryptome pdf is laced ?
asciilifeform: iirc it is not permissible in usa to insure against criminal prosecution
mircea_popescu: any liability that may attach to one from his being a director or officer.
mircea_popescu: in yet another shade of lulz : berkshire does not offer its many directors dso. because buffett believes you know, officers should face the music like any other shareholder. except it does offer it to buffett. because...
asciilifeform: and why did it have to be so obvious.
asciilifeform: i do not know the payload yet.
asciilifeform: they believe that it can be 'undone' as SAR was
asciilifeform: incidentally, usg doctrine is that 'fresh' nuke powers don't really 'count' - much as usa did not count in 1947 because, elementarily, not enough of the specific industrial base to secure a steady supply of nukes
decimation: yeah but usg ensures that they have a press op where they say the opposite
mircea_popescu: they agree to everything the op demands, and pay for the paper memorializing it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the racket in question here is where usg plays hand-muppets and runs faux 'we're l337, we sell to 1r4n' at the same time as 'proletariat united against ir nukes' on the other muppet hand
mircea_popescu: decimation from what i've seen, the deal with iran is exactly like the deal with cuba and every other deal conquered US has entered into :
decimation: no he said that they would have to wait awhile and fill out usg forms
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: su was also nuclear power, didn't keep the buggers from shipping diddled tech there by the gigatonne
decimation: ^ to be clear, I have edgerouter, not 'airmax'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because this could be just the necessary lethal stab to the 'nuclear iran' shillfest.
asciilifeform: first, look to see if copy-1 does anything -other- and load & jump to copy-2.
decimation: possibly. it would probably require considerably detailed examination to watch the thing boot
asciilifeform: decimation: i bet there is obfuscation. so dynamic analysis might be appropriate
decimation: asciilifeform: do you think that jtag will show something that these mtd turds don't
asciilifeform: is it a plot to waste -our- time ?
asciilifeform: why did it have to be so obvious.
asciilifeform: could the idiots not be bothered to ship -separate- turds to ir ?
asciilifeform: i still don't get this:
asciilifeform: i have one, yes. but not the time.
asciilifeform: won't someone buy one of these things and hook up to jtag bugger driven with gdb, and post instruction stream ?
mircea_popescu: i thought for a moment they had three copies.
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 03:14:49; asciilifeform: 'There are actually two copies of the bootloader in the NOR flash: the first one is failsafe, and doing bootloaderupdate will replace the second image. Basically after the CPU comes out of reset, it boots the failsafe bootloader image (the first one) in the NOR flash. The failsafe finds and boots the actual bootloader image (the second one) in the NOR flash. This bootloader then loads the kernel from
asciilifeform: decimation: probably licensing turd for their proprietary kmod
mircea_popescu: that do what, test for identity ?
mircea_popescu: decimation so they have TWO hidden ones ?
decimation: mtd2 appears to be a configuation area, it starts with a hex string that equals my h/w serial number
asciilifeform: decimation: see earlier link re: this
decimation: I think you can download the 'open source' turds from ubquiti
asciilifeform: decimation: then this'd be it
asciilifeform: though i can't fathom they'd have the gall to try censoring uboot as 'warez'
asciilifeform: drop it somewhere it won't be tampered with, & sign it (ok if you wanna gpg it to wot folks instead of publicly)
asciilifeform went & got some of the spiders out of his mircea_popescu's-conference-travel-trunk. now back
decimation: asciilifeform: would you be interested in a dump of that?
mircea_popescu: he didn't paste the whole thing did he
asciilifeform: decimation: if it's in the nor, can be replaced, only question is how
mircea_popescu: not necessarily proof that you weren't beheaded.
asciilifeform: would have to behead lengthwise