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decimation: asciilifeform:
the concept of a closed design chip is dead forever
too
BingoBoingo: Shame
the solaris 10 with
the SMF
turd introduced was
the only "open" one and likely inspired so many systemdevaintisms
decimation: asciilifeform: also,
the 'spiritual heir' of solaris is maintained by
those 'joyent' people
decimation: although
the rumor I heard back
then was
that most of
the 'smart guys' working on solaris were spending
their working days
trying
to unravel
the gordian knot of kernel locks
decimation: "asciilifeform doesn't see
the appeal of closed source unixen" << I see
the appeal of actual people maintaining a unix, closed or open
BingoBoingo: More RAM makes Electrum server more feasile. Not
to run
the server for
the wallet mind you, but because of
the queryable database of blockchain data.
BingoBoingo: Connects on campus have yet
to send
the flag and since on every visit lab still intact I assume
they aren't slacking
BingoBoingo: That lab "engineering building Floor one at SIU Carbondale, forget which wing" still solaris lab. I like
the hardware
though for "lives forever" and other unixen run fine
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: One Uni I attended at last visit earlier
this year still has lab full of its wimpier contemporary
BingoBoingo sad
Tadpole laptops still sell for effectively $maxint
ben_vulpes: 'tis another knob
to
turn. if instead of rewriting
the bastard storage mechanism, one could leverage
the network protocol
to reduce
the number of bastards per wad sent over
the wire, it might alleviate some pain.
ben_vulpes: re: bastards, has anyone experimented with
the number of blocks requested?
Adlai: remember, my "server" is a
thinkpad ca 2002, so every cons counts
ben_vulpes: Adlai: what's
the goal of running multiple bots in
the same lisp image?
BingoBoingo: So OpenBSD 0.7.2 qt build 17 hours without an OOM kill (returned
to 512MB process limit a while back) Presently a June 15th, 2013. Seems
the space for bastards
to be introduced has shrank enough
to make bastards moar manageable.
decimation: I wonder if
there's like a little mini-clamp
that you can affix
to a pin
decimation: asciilifeform: what do you
think
the best method would be
to semi-permanently attach a lead
to an smt chip pin? I
tend
to ruin
the pad by soldering
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: connect a
ttl-to-serial voltage converter
to
the convenient debug pins, and have at it << PC9000 largely valued because drive plugs in
to IDE or SATA ports in
this ISA/(hopefully
there's a PCI version by now) card. Boot
to card. Diddle at leisure with curses interface. Most operations automated already.
decimation: I would like
to get a collection of 'chip clips'
decimation: there are many ways
to map machine code
to assembly
to pseudo-c
BingoBoingo: <decimation> asciilifeform: it's impossible
to analyze
the rom contents of a simple microcontroller << Once again PC9000. Russian product
that basically lets anyone who can understand
the interface su all over
the hdd firmware.
decimation: hell I bet some of
them have a flash chip sitting
there
decimation: asciilifeform: it's impossible
to analyze
the rom contents of a simple microcontroller
BingoBoingo: So Free world chip foundries are what, 5
to 20 years out?
decimation: in a similar way
that allowing
the user
to enter
their own cryptography via a separate front panel would be wrong
decimation: of course,
the drive manufacturers couldn't put a switch or
toggle on
the front of
the computer
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: No particular reason. Makes Data recovery stuff easier with PC9000. Also creates a market for
that kind of data recovery when firmware makes drive shit
the bed.
BingoBoingo: Reflashing firmware is one of
those
things
that should require a goat sacrifice. Fort Mead would smell better.
mircea_popescu: i still don't see
the wisdom of allowing diddling of firmware via data bus.
mircea_popescu: i actually walked by
there, in
the middle of
teh night maybe a month or
two ago ?
decimation: well, at any rate I give
the netagio people credit -
they unwound in an orderly way when
the business wasn't working out
decimation: 'maybe people outside hungary will use
this new
trade coin'
decimation: but
this very parochialism is why bitcoin ought
to be attractive
mircea_popescu: at least if you mean "most of
the people makin > 250k and living in a big city"
decimation: I
thought
that most germans and french spoke english at least
mircea_popescu: no, in
the sense
that
they simply do not know what happens if it wasn't written in hungarian
mircea_popescu: tbh,
that 67/27/2.5/0.25
thing pretty much exactly matches
the map of real gdp
decimation: 'monolinguistic' in
the sense
that
their opinion was fixed by harvard ca. 1945?
decimation: the goldmoney people (who invested in netagio) seem
to know what
they are doing
mircea_popescu: with
the added disadvantage
that
they speak obscure languages
mircea_popescu: mostly
the result of shitty regulation environment and uk people being idiots.
decimation: if
those numbers are correct, I wonder why europe is so low?
decimation: " Market share of Bitcoin
trading globally continues
to mirror Bitcoin adoption stages, with China leading
the way with 67%,
the US capturing 27% of all Bitcoin
trading,
the EU following with 2.5% and
the UK with a stagnating 0.25%, mostly as a result of a lack of regulatory guidelines and UK banks withdrawing banking support from British Bitcoin businesses."
decimation: that netagio closing is amusing. I wonder what
the real story behind it is
Adlai: last
time i
tried
this, with a financier watching over my shoulder, his bot
trod on mine, and after much wailing and gnashing of
teeth, both irrevocably crashed...
that was nearly 5 months ago. now it's working flawlessly :D
Adlai is
too busy doing
the victory dance
to look
this up... he now has
two scalpls running in
the same lisp image and
they're not stepping on eachother's
toes
BingoBoingo: Adlai: is it
that hard
to imagine
that nsa doesn't need
the manufacturers'
text source
to backdoor
their drives!? << PC9000
mike_c: It certainly would
tie in with qntra.
mike_c: If you want a bunch of people
to contribute,
the wiki is
there. If you basically want
to do it yourself,
then sure, put it wherever.