asciilifeform: FG-II rng will prolly have 4 pins, 1 for shifter pulse, to make yoking ultra-easy at ~0 cost.
asciilifeform: ( back to yoke test -- it is somewhat tricky, you need ~very~ good cabling, and very short, for the clocks to sync properly )
asciilifeform: ^ incidentally : if you can get hall-effect switches, these will work even better ( the important thing is for whatever switch to be 'bounce-less', contact-bouncing creates predictable, in theory, temporal patterns )
asciilifeform: even after being lethally boobytrapped.
asciilifeform: because -- unsurprise, i hope -- if yer FUCKGOATS were replaced with an identical-looking ftmeadegoats en route, it would pass (perhaps even 'prettier') the dh, ent, etc tests, as the original
asciilifeform: i'm still waiting to hear of somebody other than myself, doing the yoke test
asciilifeform: iirc in '15 the 'hosters are all shit for the same reason as miners, they are -ev to operate without scammitude, so change'em like condoms' school of thought was still strong.
asciilifeform: 'where were you in june of 41' (tm)(r)
asciilifeform: ( and possibly whoever thinks 'i'll connect via heathrow'. badidea. )
asciilifeform: iirc there are l1 folx, even, still there.
asciilifeform: oday sentenced to 12 months’ conditional discharge and ordered to pay a £620 fine'
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/0TMj5 << meanwhile in brittardia >> 'As part of their enquiries, detectives seized Rabbani’s mobile phone and laptop for the purpose of examining it, but Rabbani repeatedly refused to provide passwords for the devices to officers. ... Subsequently, the officers arrested him on suspicion of wilfully obstructing or seeking to frustrate an examination or search under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 ... He was t
asciilifeform at one point put in some sweat to make a real-time sks feeding thing, but junked it when found that it requires ASSENT on peering ends to work
asciilifeform: is one step removed. That's all. That's the way the nazist state works...'
asciilifeform: ftr, 'No, they don't have ads in the subway going "fat women are an insult to society", no they don't have steel bars at the entryways to make it impossible for the overweight to get in and bother people. Instead, they derp about "manspreading". Why this and not that ? Because while they are both intentional actions of responsible agents, the decision of the man to stretch is right there, whereas the decision of the woman to overeat
asciilifeform: ( recall also mircea_popescu's article re the fat train riders . )
asciilifeform: the 'gotta prosecute for impairment, regardless of whether from drink or not sleeping, rather than litmus' was evidently too much to puritanswallow
asciilifeform: 'Roche never commercialized this drug due to ethical & liability concerns. It would be useful in emergency room settings where physicians neede to communicate with intoxicated accident victims. But there was too much concern about it getting diverted to become a 'party drug.''
asciilifeform: regardless of where you put the ports
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it dun work at rated speed
asciilifeform: the part i find interesting is that it is -- apparently -- impossible to use a current pc in the way, e.g., pdp11 was used - as box with two dozen + serial ttys hanging off
asciilifeform: appletard has problem even with 1 serialport
asciilifeform: mod6: the interesting bit is the -- afaik -- total absence of public discussion. because -- evidently -- Only A Terrorist (tm)(r) would use 8+ serial devices on pc.
asciilifeform: ( where the buffered bits go -- devil only knows )
asciilifeform: transfer rate on 8th and above, slows to a kB/s or so
asciilifeform: linux kernel ( all the varieties i've tried ) seems to have a serious ( and wholly undocumented ) problem with > 7 serial devices .
asciilifeform: at the moment, the process is only semi-automatic.
asciilifeform: one of the items i am currently working on is a fully-automatic FG tester
