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asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: for some odd reason i cannot picture lafond in my mind as anything other than the character in the pathetic film 'the wrestler'.
asciilifeform: i suspect that when mircea_popescu wakes up he will at least feel temptation to write up a 'modern school of comp sci' thing where 'you must find a paper and asciify it...' etc
phf: trinque: i added your sig to btcbase
PeterL: I grok it much more now than before task
asciilifeform: and i cannot help but wonder, did PeterL end up grokking the paper in the process of massaging it
PeterL: well, I copy/pasted out of pdf, then with bare hands had to fix just about every symbol (and for some reason it lost all the "a"s)
jurov: despite my orientation, i prefer <>
trinque: I encounter asciilifeform, phf, or gabriel_laddel tracks semi-frequently :P
adlai: doncha remember, "sl_ seriouslt this is not mircea ... i saved the emails last year from when mircea donated for my thinkpad"
adlai: mircea_popescu: cheers! now i, too, can tell #cat-v that "there's no way that's the REAL mircea because ..."
shinohai: http://archive.is/X4eIQ <<< a poor copycat of http://trilema.com/2016/my-first-bitcoin-or-how-do-i-get-some-satoshi/, 4 of the entires are the exact faucets trilema warns of dicking around with.
asciilifeform: mepian: what i want to make is a ZERO-closed-vendor-turd machine, among other things. and no existing fpga gives you this.
asciilifeform: a subject which i wasted years on.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-03 13:19 mepian: after reading about the plight of asciilifeform trying to implement a driver for gigabit NIC http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-17#1544183 I wonder if rolling your own NIC on FPGA in this fashion https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:19005/FULLTEXT01.pdf would be less insane
PeterL: ^ I converted lamport paper to ascii, took some hand cranking to clean up after the machine gave it a try.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-17 17:36 asciilifeform: i hunted for years and found what imho is the simplest GB/s-capable nic, the rt8168. here is the linux driver, https://github.com/mtorromeo/r8168/tree/master/src
mepian: after reading about the plight of asciilifeform trying to implement a driver for gigabit NIC http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-17#1544183 I wonder if rolling your own NIC on FPGA in this fashion https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:19005/FULLTEXT01.pdf would be less insane ☝︎☟︎
mepian: I was reading Trilema for a while and decided to visit you here
asciilifeform: there is also apparently a http://flibusta.is/b/298985 , recent, but i have not read it.
shinohai: I'm detecting a theme here.
phf: i kind of want to read an entire book about this Dirlewanger fella
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-02#1551417 << great find, i've not seen any mentions of lisp in my explorations of retro su technology ☝︎
mircea_popescu: originally i thought it was coke and speed that came in 1/8 oz
mircea_popescu: i thought you heard them lol
shinohai: I dunno, have no use for it
mircea_popescu: i meant the meth not the dongle
shinohai: I think it's an old gsm phone
shinohai: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=11425 "Frank and thoughtful technical expert. I have run unreviewed code by Pieter on systems with access to large amounts of Bitcoin."
shinohai: https://transfer.sh/jW9hC/2016-10-02.jpg <<< Happy Rosh Hashanah I guess
thestringpuller: dunno their kyc scam yet, (more subtle than coinbase), but i'll find it.
thestringpuller: bitpay is scam. everyone i know who works there has turned up scammer.
shinohai: Coinbase tx's are notoriously slow I think they manually process I dunno. I'm banned from there.
mircea_popescu: in other news i just produced a 65 item stack trace
shinohai: +adlai cool, i'll see if my tulpas can crowdfund this <<< alice_ might like to have a word with you
mircea_popescu: in totally uninteresting anecdote, back in the 80s i was chiefly speaking romanian, and in romanian the bad guys = us (uniunea sovietica) ; the good guys su (statele unite). thirty years later...
asciilifeform: in other olds - http://www.computer-museum.ru/histsoft/lisp_sorucom_2011.htm << lisp in su. i for one had nfi that j. mccarthy went there and taught.
adlai: i thought i had to terraform my tits on eulora for free money?
mircea_popescu: adlai post an address, i'll send you a coupla hundred so you can buy it and do something useful with yourself.
adlai: cool, i'll see if my tulpas can crowdfund this
a111: Logged on 2016-10-02 06:11 adlai: asciilifeform: how much value is there in getting the Gizmo Explorer as a first educational toy in this field, given that I currently have no idea what to do with it other than pilling and whatever else you suggest?
adlai: yeah i'm thinking of getting me a birthday present for the qlc
thestringpuller: I'm srsly tempted to pull a Danny Glover in "Good Fences" and burn their house down.
thestringpuller: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-02#1551339 << i'll take pictures of my neighbors lawn, and show you what happens when white people become trifling niggas. ☝︎
adlai: asciilifeform: how much value is there in getting the Gizmo Explorer as a first educational toy in this field, given that I currently have no idea what to do with it other than pilling and whatever else you suggest? ☟︎
shinohai: I have the privilege of having no lawn of my own to dose.
BingoBoingo: I was applying a healthy dose of priviledge to my lawn today and the idea came to me.
shinohai: I rather enjoyed that piece
shinohai: what did I expect
trinque: newer gdb worked great. I'll now write up my notes, did all this from openbsd.
asciilifeform: how do i verify that $chipdoc is not only correct but ~complete~, much less the ~original~..?
asciilifeform: i recommend to - at first - use only the usb-serial hole.
asciilifeform: aaah and i almost forgot, there is another possible problem. if the box you plugged the serial cable into has pissed down the line, anything whatsoever, the ethernet interface will be confounded
asciilifeform: i have a gigantic collection of working and nonworking ones
trinque: I'll also build that particular gdb
trinque: same no matter how many times I run. GNU gdb 6.3
asciilifeform: you might have to get the same gdb i have, to properly compare.
trinque: asciilifeform: I already uncommented that
asciilifeform: i never connect any to mine.
trinque: maybe I'll just plug an empty HD
asciilifeform: trinque: did you try the resets as i described here ?
asciilifeform: nobody knows what amd generated these with. could've been msword for all i know. could've been motherfucking quark express. but in any case all they published (WHEN they published anything) is pdf.
trinque: asciilifeform: so far always receiving E64 when I load gdbinit.txt, gizmo is booted to the point where it asked me to press a key on the keypad
asciilifeform: (i personally stitched it out of the old braindamaged wiki, dumped circa july 2015)
shinohai: I have successfully stuffed asciilifeform 's Lamport functions into a single bash script. Now for cleanup.
trinque: I'll have to fiddle with it a while and figure out why I'm seeing E64, but seems like I'm close.
trinque: any particular order to boot the devices? I figured sage, then gizmo
mircea_popescu: this is i think the first positive case of logrot due to idiots being idiots (tarver, in this case)
mircea_popescu: hm, i suppose this is a different class indeed. old guy who goes to the gym and so forth. a sort of lafond pencildick version.
asciilifeform: i linked subj because he is not the only one in that kingdom, it quite resembles one of those glue traps for mice, and folks who 'disgusted with open source!111' tend to end up in it.
mircea_popescu: myeah ok, i can't see anything past "here's tmsr in blockchain form".
mircea_popescu: "This essay is a lightly edited transcript of a series of posts I made to the Shen news group in the middle of 2015. They highlighted the failure of the open source initiative in the project, analysed the reasons and suggested a successful formula for moving the project forward. The posts led to the formation of the much more dynamic closed source Shen Professional. The lessons here are widely applicable to many open sourc
jurov: gabriel_laddel on steroids, i guess.
asciilifeform: jurov: unfortunately it was tarver, not i, who 'reductio ad microsoftium' -- literally! http://shenlanguage.org/professional.html << his turd requires winblows.
asciilifeform: one time i even had a board with bad tracks to the hdt connector.
asciilifeform: on the other hand, if tarver - or anybody 'open source has failed!111' else - thinks that i am going to build anything whatsoever on top of his closed turd, he is smoking dope.
asciilifeform: (the tool i made for writing ~the probe's own~ flash, was posted earlier.)
asciilifeform: there is a mechanism whereby one can read/write the flash. i've been bolting it onto the ubiquitous 'flashrom' linux util, will be posted later.
asciilifeform: and i forget who else.
hanbot: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-27#1549438 << catching up on refs, i spy an involved amazon referral linking scheme, not a bad approach lol ☝︎
mircea_popescu: in other news, i'm penning a humongo piece, hopefully be done by tonight.
BingoBoingo: Also those are the fakest looking cabbages and plants I've ever seen https://archive.is/gcqGH
shinohai: I still have time to buy celebratory items
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo plox to include deed url in report from now on, that way i can link to qntra piece rather than to deed from trilema. << ty, will do.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo plox to include deed url in report from now on, that way i can link to qntra piece rather than to deed from trilema.
mircea_popescu: all that l I 1 bs.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i like that there's no serif glyph powered ambiguity.
BingoBoingo: And by better I mean San Pedro cactus so they trip balls and naturally make parachute instead of cocoon
shinohai: The silkworms in this area are only capable of sha1, I need better worms.
asciilifeform: hmm i think i have an example of phf's selfsame mac here !
phf: but! this was the extent of my free hacking time for this weekend. if there aren't any glaring bugs i might attempt to make it cons-free
phf: though i think /dev/random is still in the opensourced parts of os
phf: darwin's /dev/random is marginally slower than /dev/urandom, but then it's a closed source os, for all i know both feed directly from nsa headquarters
asciilifeform: i ask because on any of my boxes with linux 3.x, i get maybe 1kB/minute from /dev/random unless i have rng plugged in.
phf: we've had this thread, and i'm not going into that one again
phf: i suspect what's happening is that the convenience call in that i'm using is allocating digest support structs on each invocation
asciilifeform: wtf is even ~in~ ironclad, i thought it called out to openssl in c ffi, or similar horror
phf: i suspect that the text marshaling that shell script does (as far as overhead over "pure c") is insubstantial compared to otherwise demanding and ~~cpu level sha256
shinohai: Now I shall see parentheses in my sleep
asciilifeform: i ask because it does not appear to be substantially faster than the shell script..
ben_vulpes: i'm going to have to do it in ruby at this rate