asciilifeform: ( though... b. pascal might contend for the title )

asciilifeform: mod6: possibly earliest properly logical unmasking of sham rng

asciilifeform: folk tale, is all.

asciilifeform: i have nfi where i got it

asciilifeform: so as to make massive heap on the guillotine

asciilifeform: i suppose europe's equiv to this was the old story that marie & louis supposedly didn't shit for a week prior to heads-off

asciilifeform: Framedragger: it is viable only in the very restricted sense of the jp legend of the d00d who swallowed a stone ahead of his beheading so as to chip the sword

asciilifeform: *to do

asciilifeform never graduated to having this problem, and so never wasted cycles considering it, just as he does not stop to think 'game plan!111' of 'what do do when on mars'

asciilifeform: kHz bauds; protocol that fits on a napkin.

asciilifeform: quite unlike usb.

asciilifeform: they're a sweet dream to interface to/from microcontroller, also

asciilifeform: nothing happened.. i have ps/2 jacks on my systems

asciilifeform: *early

asciilifeform: ealy macs, interestingly, actually had synchronous serial.

asciilifeform: you will notice, there is no /dev/ps2 you could 'cat' from on linux box.

asciilifeform: ( there were attempts but pc arch made it very painful to do this )

asciilifeform: doesn't really work for non-keyboard, non-mouse

asciilifeform: shinohai: they're ~useless at the necessary distance, typically.

asciilifeform: to move the complexity into proggy.

asciilifeform: but rather with 'ancestral' (photodiode or two) stick.

asciilifeform: the mega-achievement would be not only to encode these, but to read WITHOUT a high end camera & special optics

asciilifeform: ( fuck 'fingerprints' with a running pole saw . )

asciilifeform: and imho one ought to have graffitiable pubkeys.

asciilifeform: pretty basic, mod6

asciilifeform: or can leave one side for human text.

asciilifeform: if storing less -- can put in correspondingly moar redundancy.

asciilifeform: say.

asciilifeform: plenty of room for a 8192bit rsa pubkey, say, and a little bit of signed material, and sig

asciilifeform: ikr?

asciilifeform: kBytes ! of theoretical capacity

asciilifeform: !~calc 8750*2 * 0.75

asciilifeform: after , say, 1/4 redundancy,

asciilifeform: and it has 2 sides, so x2

asciilifeform: in theory

asciilifeform: bytes

asciilifeform: !~calc 350*200 / 8

asciilifeform: a business card printed on a very spartan (100 'dpi' ) press , gives what, 350 x 200 b&w pixels ; ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: if you can't put it on rubber stamp -- it sux. if can't print on business card in b&w -- useless. if won't read after a week glued to a light pole -- useless. if won't read after bullet hole in it -- useless. etc

asciilifeform: 'hurr durr turn each bit into pixel' mno.

asciilifeform: *i wanted

asciilifeform: any idiot can make this.

asciilifeform: EXACTLY opposite of what it want

asciilifeform: ~0 redundancy, and insists on high res

asciilifeform: useless

asciilifeform: !!up pauloio

asciilifeform: reading simply consists of waving the wand across the page, in various directions, for as many swipes as it takes.

asciilifeform: these are scattered randomly onto the page at random angles, can even overlap.

asciilifeform: take payload, cut into J pieces, which turn into K, K > J raptorola packets ( each with simple checksum, so machine can ignore smudges ) ;

asciilifeform: if you make a ~two~-diode reader, you can make it ignore 'unstraight' (from its pov) bars. and this opens you up to a method : ☟︎

asciilifeform: continuing the optical code thing, i have a possible pill :

asciilifeform: i must admit that i dun see the appeal, Framedragger

asciilifeform: ( which is extra lulzy for folx who want me to pay'em to store my bits !! )

asciilifeform: doesn't load

asciilifeform thought that it had long ago disappeared without a trace

asciilifeform: lol, delicious?! the ancient bookmark-storage thing no one's used in ~decade ?!

asciilifeform: ^ surprisingly nonidiotic response to a popular schneierism going around at the time ☟︎

asciilifeform: in other vintage lulz, https://pthree.org/2014/08/18/whats-the-matter-with-pgp

asciilifeform: ( ideally you oughta be able to smudge most of the image and still recover payload )

asciilifeform: http://blog.liw.fi/posts/qr-backup << state of the art unsatisfying, because no raptor code

asciilifeform: will be quite handy for mass dissemination of 'illegal bits' when time comes.

asciilifeform: ROMs readable (and if you ever must : WRITABLE) with unarmed eye, and bare hands, respectively, are a long-term must, imho.

asciilifeform: ( such that it'd be READABLE 100% of the time )

asciilifeform: it'd be even more jawdroppingly spiffy if i could get 16kB cut into a rubber stamp !

asciilifeform: ( and, importantly , optically, rather than promisetronically )

asciilifeform: imho a means of reliably reading 16 or so kBytes from a business card, would be quite useful.

asciilifeform: ( put spiral down, with clock and data tracks, read with 2 photodiodes and spindle similar to record player )

asciilifeform: unrelatedly, and continuing thread http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-01#1664215 -- it'd make print-rsakey-on-cardboard simpler, also, to read off ☝︎

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: aha, see entire thread.

asciilifeform: from daily life, unfortunately.

asciilifeform: imho the correct implication, is excrement-packaged-for-human-consumption, rather than just any ol' pile-o'shit

asciilifeform: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/search?q=crapolade&sort=of << not afaik

asciilifeform: i won't take credit for crapolade ( picture marmalade from liquishit, say ) but have nfi where heard it.

asciilifeform: well, it's crapolade that comes out of a printer

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: see paste in earlier thread, re your bsd box

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: it's called printolade for a reason...

asciilifeform: trinque: mechanical expiration date of bitcoin-as-we-have-it is well earlier.

asciilifeform: ordinary, workaday plebe autos.

asciilifeform: but i have scrapped autos when parts replacement became -ev

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i can't comment on the autos of 'less poor' folx, never bought mclauren parts.

asciilifeform: ( one that doesn't drive you to consider a new auto )

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: 3-4 decades of 'at any price' availability, likely. probably no more than 1-2 at economical-price.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: 'parts plentiful' while junkyard still has'em, and then suddenly goes to 0

asciilifeform: (cuba-style)

asciilifeform: unless you want to fit a 1980s motor in there.

asciilifeform: trinque: my thought was that if you want that toyota to run in 2040 you will probably have to buy the factory that made the, e.g., oxygen sensors, ignition comp, whatever digital crud (and its analogue tendrils) that the thing demands in order to run

asciilifeform: trinque did mention toyota, not mclauren.

asciilifeform: the kind that get inspected & licensed

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: speaking here of street, rather than race, cars

asciilifeform: ( you will get new comp for them where ? new chemical sensors ? )

asciilifeform: not maintainable.

asciilifeform: but nobody collects 2000s, afaik, pieces o'shit.

asciilifeform: i know a fella who owns hundreds of 1950s-70s autos

asciilifeform: eventually you either buy it or learn to machine parts for your vintage auto.

asciilifeform: trinque: that's what 1980s folx said re fuel injection

asciilifeform: ^ these are commercial items! just ask bigphysics-pr-man hawking

asciilifeform: so you can ctrl-alt-del

asciilifeform: does it also keyboard

asciilifeform: on steering wheel ??

asciilifeform: where does mouse pad go, pete_dushenski ?