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asciilifeform: where CHECKSUM is 'the unsigned sum of all the characters in the packet data modulo 256. It is represented as a pair of hexadecimal digits.' ( as described http://www.embecosm.com/appnotes/ean4/embecosm-howto-rsp-server-ean4-issue-2.html , section 2.3 )
asciilifeform: SmartProbe: 3.2_3743' followed by mac addr and a 0,
asciilifeform: after you get a 'Connected.
mircea_popescu: this may be the first time alf had a HIGHER version.
asciilifeform: in a row
asciilifeform: and no you don't need a hd in there
asciilifeform: trinque: give me a similar dump but after you put "set debug remote 1" in your gdb config.
trinque: the LCD on the plugged board says "press a key"
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
mircea_popescu: this whole tex/svg/png/pdf/fuckall thing is becoming a major problem.
mircea_popescu: sigh. this is a major problem in search of a solution.
asciilifeform: who wants - go ahead, it is a 1-liner, and is in the l0gz somewhere
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform even a pdf to png transfer, with the images pasted on a html page, would be preferrable.
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.
asciilifeform: sometimes it takes some fiddling to get it into a gdb-able state.
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.
mircea_popescu: well the old blokes tend to disappear in chumpatroniums a la http://trilema.com/2014/so-the-dollar-vigilante-scam-ring-is-going-to-jail/
asciilifeform: the new tarver is instead a case of 'my sbcl-with-serial-number-filed-off-pays-my-mortgage, open sores suxx!111' ☟︎
mircea_popescu: or in yarvin's revolutionary-language clubs, or in "less wrong" to learn all about how to have a slavegirl while calling her a dragon or w/e is currently fashionable in manga world, and so on and so forth.
asciilifeform: tarver had an open source crackpot lisp system for a decade or so, then quit in disgust, then opened some commercial thing
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
a111: Logged on 2014-06-22 17:22 asciilifeform: 'You can routinely find lecturers with more than a hundred published papers and you marvel at these paradigms of human creativity. These are people, you think, who are fit to challenge Mozart who wrote a hundred pieces or more of music. And then you get puzzled that, in this modern world, there should be so many Mozarts - almost one for every department. The more prosaic truth emerges when you scan the titles
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: british dude who was once a comp sci prof and quit because barfed at academia's corrupt idiocies, http://btcbase.org/log/2014-06-22#728961 ☝︎
adlai: "We're beginning our first commercial application - a health app for yoga enthusiasts" oh, it's a http://itsthisforthat.com/
asciilifeform: one time i even had a board with bad tracks to the hdt connector.
asciilifeform: trinque: naturally the probe won't do anything useful without being connected to a powered amd mobo
trinque: asciilifeform: got the pill applied, last call to dump_forever() failed but the lines preceding looked to be a successful firmware write
asciilifeform: 'There is a certain character you see in the West; the sort of girl who paints her nails, works at KFC and dreams of being selected for X-Factor because she sang karaoke at her friend's hen night. We laugh at this because we know that for her the chances of getting mindshare and being the next Beyonce are slight. Everyone can dream; but when the girl goes on to neglect her education and development because she's stuck on this dream,
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.
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.
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2016/10/01/on-the-ultimate-justification-of-the-ethics-of-private-property-by-hans-hermann-hoppe-adnotated-part-2/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - On the Ultimate Justification of the Ethics of Private Property by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, adnotated. Part 2.
asciilifeform: of possible reverser interest, https://derevenets.com << 'Snowman is a native code to C/C++ decompiler...' >> similar, possibly, to ida's famous 'hexray'.
BingoBoingo: Litereally, the reallier looking snake plants look like they were shooped in from a home decorating magazine spread
shinohai would like to have a QNtra mascot shirt to wear to a blm protest
mircea_popescu: we should prolly have a tshirt or something.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: You're a day early. Tomorrow closes year 2
mircea_popescu: works added as a comment for eg.
phf: pure as a lisp exercise
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: also this was running on a box with iron rng?
phf: well, then you have a hitler diddled copy, ironclad's tagline always has been "entirely in common lisp"
asciilifeform: it's a fucking constant space op
phf: hmm, it's all ironclad's sha256. doing it with a dummy #(0 ...) digest drops it to 4.6mb
a111: Logged on 2016-01-23 22:21 mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1383219 <<< i wouldn't buy a thing with "SawStop (tm)" and i certainly don't want to HAVE to.
ben_vulpes: addrs have a bloody checksum; dafuq is this "human mistake amelioration" crap
shinohai: a111 is staging a October revolution perhaps
ben_vulpes: oh god the lols keep pouring out: "This bitcoind address validator is a subclass of the Django forms.CharField class" linked from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1026.0
asciilifeform: good old king vlad t didn't finish a job, or wat.
asciilifeform: it is 100% pointless to distribute a single-author proggy as 'and here is the broken ver, and here is when i fixed it, get these 100 patches'
mircea_popescu: not even a bad statement.
ben_vulpes: "your gender equality mission is a cultural hegemony attack on the embattled nerd culture, and triggers all sorts of auto immune responses costing joyent and co millions in nerd productivity by inducing them to rage fruitlessly at their keyboards"
asciilifeform: the bush-II folk had brilliant 'solution', they created 'dhs', a uniquely braindamaged conglomerate bureau which subsumed half a dozen old ones, and is so peculiarly 'dilbertian hell' that the employee turnover there is now ~6 mo.
mircea_popescu: "This isn't merely a legalistic concern (though that too, certainly), but also a technical one: we believe that empathy is a core engineering value—and that an engineer that has so little empathy as to not understand why the use of gendered pronouns is a concern almost certainly makes poor technical decisions as well."
mircea_popescu: ~only by creating a new "department of office of authority of czar for things and matters"
mircea_popescu: to install them as top brass in existing offices would a) mean that women are disgusting cocksuckers ; b) mean that niggers don't have the right to vote and c) prevent any maintenance work from ever happening in all of wash dc.
mircea_popescu: "a country which entirely consists of managers"
ben_vulpes: hmfic also wants to install 'their friends' at managerial payrolls. wouldn't do at all to bring them in as toilet scrubbers in the 'white house communications agency'. 'but but i'm more important to just be a cog in an existing organization -- we need our own new best shiniest!'
mircea_popescu: gotta make a new one for each new generation of fucks, because well, as seen recently they have all the social skills of a mollusc and so can't work with anyone else but "their friends"
asciilifeform: lulzily enough, there was a 1950s version of this, still mega-budgeted, 'white house communications agency'
mircea_popescu: it is traditional in eastern tyrannies for whatever ethnic group of the new sultan to drag in a whole clan from the provinces.
mircea_popescu: yes. we don't really give so much of a shit about inept usg wanna-bes.
asciilifeform: '…what we realized was that we could potentially build a SWAT team, a world-class technology office inside of the government that was helping agencies. We’ve dubbed that the U.S. Digital Service…they are making an enormous difference… President Barack Obama, March 2016'
asciilifeform: 'The United States Digital Service is a startup at the White House that pairs the country’s top technology talent with the best public servants, to improve the usefulness and reliability of the country’s most important digital services.' << l0l!!
asciilifeform: 'In June 2011, Pope Benedict XVI apologized for the killing of De Molay and acknowledged that he was a victim of false accusations. ' << mega-lel.
mircea_popescu: now that's a cool title.
asciilifeform: trinque: 'cu' is a mega-win compared to what i had prior. ty.
ben_vulpes: get real, you lost a decade ago.
trinque: oh christ, alex gaynor is a django "dev"
ben_vulpes: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29538615 << hah! someone using a 'zedshaw' handle chimes in, even.
trinque: but the sauce looks like a quick read.
trinque: nah, I've only used it a few times fiddling with routers and things.
mircea_popescu: it's a miserable anchor for identity, this "ways we do things" ; and for that matter the sort of brain that doesn't take well to public discussion of technology is fundamentally broken in ways that should be addressed long before any technological involvement.
asciilifeform kept waiting for some mention of gavin and only half a minute or so in finally realized that it is not about prb nodes
mircea_popescu: nse and it’s hard for them to learn in this state which is why a private consultation is more effective."
mircea_popescu: offering them benefit of the doubt. Often they aren’t being malicious they just don’t understand why something should be done a certain way. Why not teach them? Put yourself in their shoes and ask, “What do I know that this person doesn’t know, which would cause me to act like them in this situation if I didn’t know it.” That’s the very definition of empathy. Public shaming elicits people’s fight/flight respo
mircea_popescu: "Here’s what I learned from my mentors: If someone makes a mistake, or does something you don’t think is right, you talk to them about it privately and give them the opportunity to correct it. This not only gets the mistake corrected, but it offers a learning moment to the person, increases their understanding, and keeps them “on board” with the overall project. As a leader you’re being empathetic to that person and
mircea_popescu: well this is rapidly becoming a tall order.
asciilifeform: it is because he probably has a vt100-like thing on the other end.
mircea_popescu: ctrl-a k will kill from terminal.
asciilifeform: mno, just proggy that puts bytes from stdio DOWN a serial line, and spits back what comes back, until SELECTABLE magical cyanide pill is given to it, at which point it lets THE FUCK GO of the tty.
mircea_popescu: so you want a tmux that has all the ease of handling of screen / a screen that has all the scripting inclination of tmux + an ascii filter.
asciilifeform: which needs to be a never.
asciilifeform: i want to 1) manually talk to a serial port for a short while 2) FULLY LET GO OF IT so various things can open() it.
asciilifeform: i use screen as a sort of 'kermit', rather than the typical use, a kind of souped-up 'nohup'.
mircea_popescu: i actually use it a lot.
asciilifeform: the most agonizing thing in this example is that i am quite unsure if the ills are even curable. they may be intrinsic to the 'in-band problem' of a terminal talker.
asciilifeform: most infuriatingly, the manual specifies various ways to kill it, which, depending on what it is plugged into, may or may not work. and may or may not emit some sort of mortal piss down the line, which could be connected to a nuke for all knows, before death.
asciilifeform: nor is it easily killed in-band, because it is a terminaltron and expects C-c etc.
asciilifeform: (thing hangs on to a pty, so will not die simply from, e.g., nuking the xterm from which you ran it)
asciilifeform: and dozens of dead 'gnu screens' typically hang around on a box where it is made use of.
asciilifeform: which, unlike a sane program, cannot be easily terminated from the outside, though it is a userland process
mircea_popescu: PeterL ./file opens a shell, runs the file, reports results ; . file runs file in current shell, reports results one up.
asciilifeform: what does a script with just exit 1 do ?
mircea_popescu: ima write a lolpiece after i fix this.
mircea_popescu: here's a lulz : all extant implementations of html have A FIXED SPAN BUFFER.
PeterL: is this going to be a html is shit rant?
mircea_popescu: no, apparently a href reference in footnote kills the footnote title somehow
mircea_popescu: well now, found a totally epic bug in fucking footnotes