asciilifeform: oh hm really ? the 'prius' etc

asciilifeform: the 'hybrid' crackpot autos, incidentally, have proper gen

asciilifeform: tru!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu often throws >3kW party ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo may have the exact recipe, this is a thing welders, cement people, etc. actually do.

asciilifeform: well yes convertible, there's a clutch

asciilifeform: ( takeoff on rear differential, iirc )

asciilifeform: prolly easier to perma-mod the truck. see what the cement mixer people do.

asciilifeform: quite massive from pov of 'i want to make my auto into dynamo'

asciilifeform: the gearbox is massive loss

asciilifeform: that's how big it'd be

asciilifeform: inquire at 'pollution test' equip vendors

asciilifeform: or rather, a modern non-orc incarnation

asciilifeform: it is probably buyable actually

asciilifeform: sorta like gigantic treadmill.

asciilifeform: test stand machine

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they do, asciilifeform's father designed one when he was my current age

asciilifeform: my alternator's good for 3-4kW

asciilifeform: ( tricky to get that 160 out as dc current tho )

asciilifeform: lol even mine

asciilifeform: ( at least in the classical 'i want my orders from moscow' type of sw )

asciilifeform: for km+.

asciilifeform: they nuke sw reception ~entirely

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they've been displaced by 'modern' crapola, e.g. led light bulbs, 'power line ethernet', etc

asciilifeform: y'know, the ones they occasionally remove, to make fast!11

asciilifeform: lol but the empty loops in microshit!1111

asciilifeform: 'testing reveals only presence of bugs, never absence' etc.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: possibly interesting, could reveal that 'obvious problem is obvious' but not beyond.

asciilifeform: has no bearing on the ones that are not.

asciilifeform: which is why cryptography is NOT an experimental science.

asciilifeform: effect too small to ever observe experimentally, can still kill you if enemy finds it.

asciilifeform: see what ?

asciilifeform: nor emit information re the input or output via timing sidechannel.

asciilifeform: nor give some segments of the input bitstring more influence over the output than others.

asciilifeform: it is more that i cannot prove to my satisfaction that it does not skew the distribution .

asciilifeform: bobbing about like shit in icehole.

asciilifeform: this is the fate of all 'we don't have an ideology' derps ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: the scihub thing isn't even sure what it wants to be , 13337 w4r3z, or 'service'

asciilifeform: i load 1-2 / week, lol

asciilifeform: i'ma have to chew on this.

asciilifeform: but i have no proof of this yet.

asciilifeform: afaik all of the bits are equally likely to 'need flipping'

asciilifeform: i.e. generator of nth prime in O(1) time. nobody's got one and i don't expect anyone will.

asciilifeform: meanwhile in world of orlols, http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-october-revolution-and-you.html

asciilifeform: 'That day, Polygon[13] and Kotaku[12] published articles calling the Kekistan flag an “alt-right” and “white nationalist” symbol' << lol

asciilifeform: i dun reddit, so cannot say, meme or organization etc

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/zt3pD << commentary.

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the pleasures of overflowsandpointerslang , https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/linux/found_bugs_usb.md

asciilifeform: they're happy to fly boeings into sea / towers / etc. remotely. nobody will even fart at ntp/bbc/etc.

asciilifeform: hm, nothing pertinent in there. odd.

asciilifeform: !#s kill switch

asciilifeform: not only is 'turn off bbc/nasdaq/ntp to Help Nail A Terrorist' an unremarkable proposition in comparison, but prolly has existing, fully-robotic infrastructure ready to roll.

asciilifeform: and other joys.

asciilifeform: we're speaking of the same empire who did live-fire biowar tests on own population, in the subways, 1950s

asciilifeform: they would.

asciilifeform: but there are still occasional folx who seem to think 'But They Wouldn't...'

asciilifeform: it's a regular thing.

asciilifeform: and prior.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-04#1678932 << ☝︎

asciilifeform: moar famously, to nasdaq

asciilifeform: see, for instance, the ancient thread where we anathemized ntp.

asciilifeform: ( i wouldn't put it past'em to 'technical glitch' and turn off bbc for a few min. to get you to up your wattage, say ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: before that it only has what crumbs enemy throws from the table.

asciilifeform: once hypothetical net has multiple stations on various continents, it will have its own idea of atmospheric conditions. but not before.

asciilifeform: q is what is the best that can be done with simply a radio.

asciilifeform: just as he will take advantage of having airplane, and satellite, and armies, etc.

asciilifeform: but these rely on existing infrastructure, like flea relies on dog. asciilifeform's q was specifically re self-contained structure.

asciilifeform: or, more elementarily, 'wardriving' ( 802.11 crypto was broken to death quite recently, note )

asciilifeform: otherwise i'd have started the thread with unsecured satellite relays ( which do currently exist )

asciilifeform: it's a thing until it isn't

asciilifeform: ( the british-style 'can i hear bbc?' nonsense, i will dismiss out of hand, no externals plox )

asciilifeform: it can only send (or not), is all it can do

asciilifeform: as for atmospheric conditions, station has no way of knowing them ☟︎

asciilifeform: for the tx process per se.

asciilifeform: sorta how i got to the positional modulator thing -- can you take advantage of the fact of having 2+ dispersed stations.

asciilifeform: also must note that if the relay is controlled via radio, you've re-created orig problem in miniature.

asciilifeform: but yes.

asciilifeform: year-round, day/night on crowded band prolly wants multi-kw.

asciilifeform: this is separate item from 'can do on demand' tho.

asciilifeform: 1w on empty band, with just-so sunspot cycle, etc. was on at least 1 occasion picked up across atlantic.

asciilifeform: with very very long mains cable, lol

asciilifeform: a budget-model pyongyang, could say. ☟︎

asciilifeform: it has up side, and down ( e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-30#1706555 ) ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: with multi-km of jungle around.

asciilifeform: whole mountain.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu iirc actually does this.

asciilifeform: ( which will last maybe 40 min. when actual war, but nobody seems to give a shit. ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: the empires solved this with satellite.

asciilifeform: orig thread is most properly concerning small radios, deep in enemy territory.

asciilifeform: e.g. ru horizon radar , eats what, half a MHz of sw, and betcha they have a massive garbage bin to put the complaints from 50 years into.

asciilifeform: q is, wat do for people who dun have a pyongyang.

asciilifeform: observe, the problem dun exist if you already have your own pyongyang and can happily put a megawatt station there and invite whoever objects, to pound sand up his arse ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: can also restate as 'how slowly'

asciilifeform: could restate problem as 'maximize # of bits that can be sent before you gotta move'

asciilifeform: personally i'd be satisfied with a 'it costs all the king's horses and all the king's men' item.

asciilifeform: ( currently there are 0. )

asciilifeform: was still speaking of the scenario with 1 station

asciilifeform: and i've proposed it here -- relays passing rsa-signed packets on.