asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-03#1651435 << them and other folx who claim to 'prioritize' tx in exchange for ... fiatola ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-03#1651432 << this fact is readily verified with almost naked eye. yet 'unhappening', naturally. ☝︎

asciilifeform: 2 has bloblocked amd and -- as if this weren't enough -- intel (yes) nic.

asciilifeform: apu1 was the nice one.

asciilifeform: so it's approx the same as any cheapo x86 nao.

asciilifeform: ty mircea_popescu . trinque : http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-03#1651420 >> http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-04#1552690 ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: and lol , mircea_popescu's lament is ~exactly asciilifeform's ~yearly 'when i stop writing trb fixes, they stop getting written'...

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ours is not an age of heroes, no.

asciilifeform: gavinphuctor will be the one discussed by 'experts' at rubber chicken confs, to arse technica, etc.

asciilifeform: plan being, 'everyone' will remember the turd, not the victim

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: strategy of the 'random' thing is ~same as usual -- make an idiocy to 'replace' an inconvenient genuine thing

asciilifeform bbl.

asciilifeform spent good chunk of yesterday at sea

asciilifeform: http://www.randomsanity.org << faux phuctor -- by, apparently, no less than gavin.

asciilifeform: ty

asciilifeform: 'buy a phreedomboot box, it lets you change the icon font'

asciilifeform: 'remember when winblows wasn't baked into mask rom?'

asciilifeform: perhaps they'll even make a show of 'here, go ahead, turn off amt'

asciilifeform: let the gnu idiots think 'we fixed', etc

asciilifeform: it is even possible that 'kaby' (latest chip) already has it. hence the burn.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally: i fully expect the ~next~ generation of intel fritz to use nic-independent trigger (e.g., magic string in memory)

asciilifeform: aha, trivially

asciilifeform: can use anything from sequence # crapola in existing packets, to timing noise

asciilifeform: Framedragger: if you think they use distinguishable magic packets, think again ☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was suggesting a simpler thing than 'incompatible with internet' -- 'incompatible with intel's built in bus diddler logic'

asciilifeform: 'Whitelist-only networking may help contain the vulnerability, provided of course that it's not implemented on Cisco equipment.' sounded like it was about lan filtration, so not same idea

asciilifeform reads

asciilifeform: Framedragger: i observed, in old thread (where? not found yet..) that one cheap counter to boobytrapped x86 would be to make an incompatible Gb nic.

asciilifeform: no ibm.

asciilifeform: for fuckssake

asciilifeform: supposedly, 'An FBI translator with a top-secret security clearance traveled to Syria in 2014 and married a key ISIS operative...'

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/ZX7Fg << in other lulz

asciilifeform: iirc was a toyota.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i will, if it turns up again

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-01#1650713 ☝︎

asciilifeform: mats: see today's logs

asciilifeform: nothing, as far as i could tell, remarkable about it

asciilifeform: btw pete_dushenski would appreciate the scene : old pickup truck on street, sign 'for sale' : 28k usd.

asciilifeform: maybe cuban-style 'lada chassis, new toyota motor'..

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-02#1650760 << new?! ☝︎

asciilifeform: tbh i have nfi why the local market is what it is. maybe racing-grade custom shitanium boatz.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is more in line with my naive picture.

asciilifeform: is this really a hard concept ??

asciilifeform: whether lizard hitler alone, or 10,001 scriptkiddie derps, have the key, is immaterial ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-01#1650713 << again it makes 0 sense to say 'turns out, amt was vulnerable'. it IS A vuln, from day1 ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-01#1650717 << dun look like any other patch is available, or planned ☝︎

asciilifeform: btw asciilifeform was just now in a dock yard. readers may be enlightened to learn that 8k usd does not even buy a rowboat. y'know, the kind with oars.

asciilifeform: Framedragger: over here in 'free' world , 'bank crisis' dun mean 'things get cheap', it means typically that you lose job/house/etc.

asciilifeform: that's approx what asciilifeform's threshhold for 'bag of usd large enough to be felt'.

asciilifeform wonders what 'new life's go for nowadays. 8mil?

asciilifeform: even if not incl. rents

asciilifeform: cheap. ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-01#1650686 << this is brain-meltingly... ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-01#1650704 << over here, all 3 grades of petrol are 10% etoh ☝︎

asciilifeform: Framedragger: would you, personally, meet with any serious difficulty loading pediwikia in tr, cn, etc ?

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: islands tend to have thin bandwidth

asciilifeform: iran.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: unless north

asciilifeform: no kr

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: already it is so hungry ??

asciilifeform: what next, mordor ?

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: nato

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do you happen to recall when we had the thread re 'saving' being a magical-thinking delusion as a concept ?

asciilifeform: Framedragger: moreover, there does not exist such a place as from which they won't steal it. whenever they feel like it.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: also recall the 'tx replacement' thread. classical btc has uncorrectable birth defects.

asciilifeform: likewise memory.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: theoretically. but tx grow in number, and ssd grows no cheaper.

asciilifeform: we had thread

asciilifeform: 'saving' dun work

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: nope

asciilifeform: ( before mircea_popescu balks -- 'trbi' ain't btc )

asciilifeform: 0 of btc, either, geometric db death.

asciilifeform: but not of daily-bread moneys.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's 'not anything' is true re 'resource-allocatory' moneys

asciilifeform: Framedragger: whatever things the folx who happily swallow intel cock might do -- 'thinking' is not a legitimate description of any of it

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: well for one thing, ~nobody runs linux, they run rathead, africa, other 'i can't believe it's not's

asciilifeform: 'fritz chip or HaveProblems'

asciilifeform: Framedragger: usg seekret decree.

asciilifeform: the britney buyers -- for ~100%.

asciilifeform: smart people count for ~0, apparently, as economic mass

asciilifeform: fat lot of good he did.

asciilifeform: 'stand up' how? like rms?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope, boobytrapped, box shuts down in iirc 30min

asciilifeform: Framedragger: if you think they'll release the privkey, i got a bridge to sellya

asciilifeform: signed blobware runs on own, separate core with access to everything (plus own sram)

asciilifeform: and on amd also very similar

asciilifeform: nah afaik basic scheme is same

asciilifeform: Framedragger: old

asciilifeform: or who knows.

asciilifeform: could be the case that dulap is 'grandfathered' physical box, but new ones are vm.

asciilifeform: or whatever unmanned thing.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it could even be the case that the 'no, we won't plug your box in' are not in fact selling physical boxes. but instead are fraudulently peddling vmtron

asciilifeform: this is a sort of chimera of 'colo' and conventional

asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu earlier asked some dc for 'i'll lease your box but plug in this 1 thing'

asciilifeform: ( or , ideally, box in your castle )

asciilifeform: Framedragger: my (possibly naive) picture is that it does very little good to put a FG ~outside~ of box, where any idiot could unplug or substitute it; it only begins to make sense inside a welded colo box

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wonder how the ssl idiots handle this ( they have, or at least at one time had, hardware accelerators for their nonsense . did they also have to pay for entire machine colo, to plug in the 1 board ?? )