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asciilifeform: same idea though
asciilifeform: in the early days of fpga mining
asciilifeform: i actually first came across that atmel part when looking into commercial ICs having sha256
Duffer1: the20year maybe Benny might want it added to Ciphertrade? :P
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wonder why they do things like this srsly. takes anyone five minutes to figure out WHY "we've been featured on atmel blog".
mike_c: i believe you are in the atc-otc channel
the20year: is atc traded anywhere?
mircea_popescu: the difficulties of scaling. you end up overdeveloping some depts some of the time.
asciilifeform: but yes, the linked widget is just atmel's old crypto accelerator mounted on an adapter board: http://atmelcorporation.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/atmels-atsha204-helps-secure-the-bbb
mircea_popescu: jespern no, but i have currently 3 people stalking my stalkers, and they're apparently real good at it.
asciilifeform: i consider the 'host box doesn't know it has a crypto widget attached' an essential feature of cardano, but maybe that's just me.
jespern: mircea_popescu: do you stalk every new twitter follower? :)
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell vexual did you end up paying mike_c his 1 atc ?
mircea_popescu: hence the "give the kids strong crypto as an addon, let the broadcom blob eat its nails"
asciilifeform: most of the boards coreboot supports are full-size pc mobos
ThickAsThieves: <pankkake> 1MPGRCrbib3aFGtTCLF5nADZcLEAgdTu7E just got 500000.00 ATC! I guess we need a blockexplorer too
mircea_popescu: yeah, but what i'm saying is : in this particular case probably cheaper and better for the free world to subvert than to replace
punkman1: well tiny computers, open source, it's kinda connected
asciilifeform: there are other pocket-sized arm/linux affairs, they cost a little bit more.
asciilifeform: (whole core runs closed-source blob at all times)
asciilifeform: and so they went with an insultingly closed arch
asciilifeform: broadcom inc. tempted them with at-cost cpu offer
BingoBoingo: Rpi might actually be an interesting thing if maybe they would have went MIPS (or FPGA and pick a core of choice) and offered ECC Ram
mircea_popescu: yeah, but these are enthusiasts we're discussing here.
punkman1: there's a ton of raspberry pis
mircea_popescu: i suspect that thing is prolly here to stay
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that said, some raspberry pi enhancing boards may be a good idea.
asciilifeform: but there are different ways to do it, and the differences matter.
asciilifeform: people should know that the idea of cryptographic hardware is not the least bit new.
mircea_popescu: just enough cryptography, the exact equivalent of just in time industrial processes.
punkman1: just a breakout board for the atmel chip?
asciilifeform: (i actually considered, and rejected, this part for the cardano key storage)
asciilifeform: ok we have the answer: ☟︎
asciilifeform: where's the rng?
BingoBoingo: punkman1: They heard a lot of crypto words and forgot to check definitions, functions, and definite functions
punkman1: does it do HMAC or something then?
truffles: is that a play on technotronics hmm
mircea_popescu: o look asciilifeform you've been beaten to market honey.
ThickAsThieves: "SHA256 Authentication, hardware RNG, and protected key storage on an easy to mount board"
kakobrekla: prolly wrong chan to do that
kingofsports: looking to buy $400 worth of BTC
punkman1: the qz blog has a blog about itself? that's nice
truffles: legalization takes foreeeever
mircea_popescu: "what's holland, where's the netherlands and who are the dutch"
mircea_popescu: best geography question of all time, "where's holland, what's the netherlands and wo are the dutch"
mircea_popescu: so then... who are the dutch ?!
mircea_popescu: no wait that's the french who did the cheese.
mircea_popescu: no, i'm sure idaho was with the urinals
mircea_popescu: or was that wisconsin
ThickAsThieves: HeySteve needs to get out of Africa
ThickAsThieves: this manifests in all those little floating boxes "You might also like!" "Sign up!", which used to be pop-ups
mircea_popescu: were they in the business of selling pools ?
ThickAsThieves: at the top
ThickAsThieves: if they could, most businesses would have every page on their home page
mircea_popescu: pankkake because technology
pankkake: why can't we just have a page with one article in it and that's it
ThickAsThieves: murder them
ThickAsThieves: omg the site is left-aligned
ozbot: Why are obese Brazilians getting discounted tickets to the World Cup? – Quartz
mircea_popescu: basically "we have to take corporate money for political functions because a) we like money and b) politicians gotta meet with the corporate ppls somewhere".
Duffer1: i thought you were about to bust some rhymes :(
mircea_popescu: Dimsler the reason i get into pissing matches with the pro-illiterate is that i have a flow like a fire hydrand and their bosses are made of sugar.
asciilifeform: in the 19th c. u.s., this was open and explicit
asciilifeform: whole civil service is this kind of darkpool
Duffer1: so you're saying they're all congressional aides?
mircea_popescu: basically all those kids are either congressional aides, prostitutes or family.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 nah, see, this is mostly a campaign financing darkpool thing.
mircea_popescu: as you know the key people better than you know their supposed properties)
Duffer1: plans to burn through investor money in 3 years then declare bankruptcy
chipug: and clearly know how to instagram
chipug: mircea_popescu: no.... they have pot plants too
Dimsler: i don't know why you bother getting into pissing classes with the proliteriate
mircea_popescu: "Quartz, Atlantic Media’s mobile-first business site, launched on Monday afternoon following much fanfare this summer."
ozbot: Twitter / Mircea_Popescu: @mims The research you've not ...
mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/431801125583339520 << that dork led me to it.
mircea_popescu: holy shit on a stick, because hatguy and armpitbeard girl said so one day and drew some doodles on their starbucks napkins ?!
mircea_popescu: bunch of hipster doofuses who imagine they're doing "a new kind of global business news outlet".
mircea_popescu: omfg this thing is actually everything i hate. check this shit out :
the20year: I'll go crazy if i just sit here and keep watching the ticker
mircea_popescu: it's so counterintuitive this whole thing
asciilifeform: well, 'pet' slaves (vs. the feral kind)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we've just mathematically proven they're cattle << insult to cattle. who are delicious, well-manageable, and otherwise an asset.
asciilifeform: wonder if anybody's built one of those foolish 100%-premined alts, and passed out the coin via 'captcha' or somesuch.
topace: the bot calculates the direction, it doesnt come from the feed
topace: [13:03:05] <benkay> havelock doesn't report tick direction to assbot?
asciilifeform: so there could be a hope for slavecoin after all.
asciilifeform: as for it being more lucrative to keep and milk cows, this is so - and yet the world's largest distributed machine is hashing sha, not folding protein
mircea_popescu: but ironically this is to their own benefit.
mircea_popescu: not only it can't be done, or in other words we've just mathematically proven they're cattle
asciilifeform: not that this is a scenario that would actually play out. just pointing out what would happen if one were to actually devise a 'one man one hash' scheme
mircea_popescu: cheaper to use cows.
mircea_popescu: nop[e, they won't.
asciilifeform: (hanging upside-down with arse tubes in a camp)
asciilifeform: oh, they'll hash. just not the way they imagined
mircea_popescu: i call it the mp lemma of evil.
mircea_popescu: as a side-effect of this sad state of affairs, no proof of work can be devised that'd allow them to hash.
Duffer1: satoshi's renamed to comrades
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand. the problem with those people is that they are in no way distinct.
asciilifeform: i can already see the chinese world of warcraft labour camps switching.
asciilifeform: i'm still waiting for 'slavecoin.' it would be the perfect 'gift from the gods' to the 'anyone with a computer Ought to Matter!' crowd.