asciilifeform: and at same time 'but the RAM region used by ME is not accessible from the OS' goes away.
asciilifeform: gotta luvv, incidentally, the 'huffman compression' thing. 'we can't decompress because nobody has the table'. except if you had instrumented sticks of ram, that can be read out of band ( i.e. without cooperation of the mobo and its contents , through a second hole ) you could quite easily restore the entire image ( which sections get read , in what order ? concatenate'em. )
asciilifeform: ( 'remote control' in the physical sense, greater than your own, he can read 'unused' pages of ram from last warm boot, rewrite arbitrary sectors on hdd, etc )
asciilifeform: vlad56324: if nic is plugged in, enemy has remote control over whole box at all times. ( if not plugged in -- collects, e.g., keystrokes, and disgorges on demand later. )
asciilifeform: don't buy intel. or amd made in 2011 and after.
asciilifeform: the fault, to borrow from shakespeare, 'is not in our packets but in ourselves'
asciilifeform: consider that in the age of 1990s microshit, it was not necessary for a box to have modem at all, to be infected ( just as today )
asciilifeform: i.e. the question has an answer, but the phrasing of the question makes the answer inevitably misleading .
asciilifeform: vlad56324: asking today for 'which distro most secure' is rather like asking re which apartment block in chernobyl zone is most habitable
asciilifeform: vlad56324: nostalgia. 10yrs ago or so it was still appealing ( smaller, simpler, less rotten . )
asciilifeform: it will still be possible to be surprised at 'why is this thing, that i put there, doing $x' . but this is a substantial step above the pig farm where you have a bowl of unattributable slop.
asciilifeform: at the end of the day you should have a box where the question 'why is this on my machine' should never have to be asked
asciilifeform: and throw out the kde's, gnomes, similar garbage.
asciilifeform: massive piles of loose-hanging theoretical 'sub noise floor max possible bit rate' etc
asciilifeform: yesterday i learned that there exists a similar subculture in academia as pertains to 'covert radio' ( see 'olivia' thread )
asciilifeform: gotta luvv the 'i have a tall pile of mathemasturbatory squigglies ergo I Fix Bitcoin' school of derpery
asciilifeform: gotta wonder, how come none of the audience have the half cup of oil in their braincase to answer the 'here is some lolcatcoin, gimme btc in exchange' with 'if it's so great, why dontcha keep it, and why would you trade it for boring old btc'☟︎
asciilifeform: but somehow became 'normal' behaviour in the rat pit, unremarkable nao.
asciilifeform: i still even recall the days when shitcoin artists tried to mask their premining or at least distract from it somehow
asciilifeform: and naturally, 'Chia Network is a San Francisco-based company' 'Chia will be sold to the public next year'.
asciilifeform: 'Bram Cohen, famously invented BitTorrent' 'proofs of space and time' [many squigglies] 'decentralized, and more secure' 'Install and setup Keybase' etc.☟︎
asciilifeform: ( for n00bz : 1980s micros, esp in orcistans, tended to have kbd resembling that of cheap chinese air conditioner remote today )
asciilifeform: wouldja believe at one time it was thought to be the worst physically possible kbd. but never underestimate crapple, pinoneer of drawing-only keyboard.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what did they come with , bk0010-style 'chiclet' ?
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform for instance had a 486 in 1990s that couldn't speak 115200 )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was thinking in case someone wants to literally connect to pdp8 or other item that capped out under 115200
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have nfi over what, iirc there were a few hundy btc in limbo
asciilifeform: well pre-fall-of-ceaușescu at any rate
asciilifeform: dacia prolly lasts longer, and moar repairable : i saw more than one example from clearly pre-ceaușescu times
asciilifeform: and its owner -- eats better, sleeps moar sweetly, fucks thrustier.
asciilifeform: the dark seekrit is that the old rusty dacia in empty street of timis, goes faster than mazerati on washington 'beltway'.☟︎
asciilifeform: even tho dollarstore crystal keeps better time
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: dunno, you seem pretty satisfied with that mechanical clock
asciilifeform: tried 6 diff pata ssd in it, 0 recognized
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i lusted and was finally cured when found one at scrap dealer
asciilifeform: ( spoiler : cans of sprats. but no one confiscated them, or even opened suitcase, but the ritual of putting'em through larger xray magicbox was carried out and the voodoo gods -- satisfied )☟︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: wouldja believe, i got stopped at the border for extra helping of inspector fidgeting. guess why.
asciilifeform: just change the value of the divider constant .
asciilifeform: btw if anyone REALLY needs a 9200 baud ( or other ) baud rate, i ( or for that matter anyone ) can build a replacement cpld firmware image that makes this happen☟︎
asciilifeform: ( i.e. you won't burn it unless really try )
