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Framedragger: asciilifeform: re turing-complete blobs in hardware, i recall http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/SamsungGalaxyBackdoor oh the wonder - you can have your "like android but moar open source omg" OS all you like, your mobile operator can still fuck you any time of day any day
asciilifeform: and even very humble iotrons are undocumented. last year i did an experiment, tried to find a NIC that is 1) still in production 2) has NO MAGIC BLOBS ANYWHERE. result: 0
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: chip without i/o is ~useless.
asciilifeform: 2) NO EXTANT ARM has anything like documented i/o
mircea_popescu: i don't dispute his conclusion - result will likely be pile of shit. nevertheless, the process is important.
Framedragger: asciilifeform: ...sooo, you're certain it'd be pointless to attempt a small sane kernel for *existing* intel and/or arm madness? (i assume the answer is "yes", but just to be certain..)
a111: Logged on 2016-07-17 21:19 Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-17#1504260 << this i can relate to 100%. the fact that there is any lag between me clicking on button and the button responding is an unending, continuous insult to my face. 3bn cycles down the drain
Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-17#1504260 << this i can relate to 100%. the fact that there is any lag between me clicking on button and the button responding is an unending, continuous insult to my face. 3bn cycles down the drain ☝︎☟︎
Framedragger: hey i'm young and new!
Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-17#1504244 << ah, i didn't yet, and ha, i see the connection.. ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'Mr Vancel said the men were shooting at each other before the officers arrived. "This was not a 'come at police' situation they weren't targeting the police at first - I don't assume so - because these were men out here shooting at each other in an empty parking lot until the police showed up and it turned into a gun battle," he added.' << lel ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Stanley Quayle, a computer emulation consultant, has seen contractors desperate to find the parts they need. "I have a prospective customer supporting a U.S. missile defense system that is buying parts on eBay," says Quayle. "Any parts they do find are as old or older than their system," meaning they’re sometimes no more reliable than the pieces they replace.'
a111: Logged on 2016-07-17 16:48 asciilifeform: srsly, 'whatsapp' ?! i will give half a fuck about 'whatsapp' right after i go to shanghai and learn the best ways of cooking gutter oil.
asciilifeform: somehow i suspect that we will never run out of material for the 'idiot engineers and their tunnel vision' eternal thread...
asciilifeform: 'i will sell machine that makes banned rifle part X' but no contemplation of 'so they'll ban part Y which my machine cannot make', or 'why not design a Z which can be made by hand' etc.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-17 16:59 Framedragger: asciilifeform: i guess you have little patience for spotting potentially hopeful people, and bringing them up to speed on $ideology / teaching them / etc. which is absolutely understandable, afaiic.
jurov: I think it was just because IBM thought it's good idea
Framedragger: asciilifeform: sure, i've read some of it, and will read more. i recall the general source of frustration, 'the whole stack is shit' etc
asciilifeform: this is a broad subject and i will not attempt to further summarize here, i have an entire www devoted to it.
Framedragger: (well to be true, 'throw away openssl' has been seriously contemplated by any a folk recently, i would wager a guess. but perhaps much less so with the latter, sure.) ☟︎
Framedragger: asciilifeform: i guess you have little patience for spotting potentially hopeful people, and bringing them up to speed on $ideology / teaching them / etc. which is absolutely understandable, afaiic. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: it is an ancient idea, and not useless, but does absolutely nothing vs protocol-level holes, which are pestilential in 'existing IM clients', as is i think known to ~everyone
Framedragger: asciilifeform: yes i saw it: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-17#1504181 ☝︎
asciilifeform: i will point with finger then: '...messaging system that operates on top of existing IM clients. The free and open source software is used in conjunction with free hardware...'
Framedragger: asciilifeform: i see your point. but to me "just trust in pfs for both {rsa-4096, aes-256}" still sounds pretty crazy
Framedragger: i suppose so.
Framedragger: difficult to organize coups without the 'I'. the (shitty shitty) turkey coup used whatsapp incidentally ☟︎
asciilifeform: Framedragger: pgp. drop the 'I'. ☟︎
Framedragger: (i do realize i'm invoking a tu quoque of sorts)
asciilifeform: srsly, 'whatsapp' ?! i will give half a fuck about 'whatsapp' right after i go to shanghai and learn the best ways of cooking gutter oil. ☟︎
Framedragger: that i agree with
Framedragger: hm honestly, maybe i didn't :)
Framedragger: well, let me recall if perhaps i had the same first impression when encountering your blog ca. 2010
Framedragger: incidentally prolly just grokked the main point of gossipd, i.e. http://btcbase.org/log/2016-02-07#1399507 + http://btcbase.org/log/2016-02-07#1399508 ☝︎☝︎
gribble: I have not seen maqp.
mircea_popescu: i wonder why the fuck they've not yet come up with the concept of "well, young kids can only have sex in difficult positions". natural limitation!
phf: friend was talking about 4 of july, how the freedom loving rednecks were launching fireworks, despite all kinds of restrictions on distribution. and i was like the fuck you talking about, fireworks are easily available in any quantity and size over the counter everywhere else
asciilifeform: when i tell usian folk about my elder brother's chemistry youth, they 'bluescreen', it 'dun compute'
mircea_popescu: (every time i mention this in english - people either assume or else inquire if i huffed it. no i didn't fucking huff it wtf.)
mircea_popescu: i had a quart bottle.
mircea_popescu: hey, i made nitrocellulose in my kiddy lab, the "unstable as all fuck" thing was a bonus
mircea_popescu: re the "we found traces of tatp" i wonder how big the market in "misdirecting chemicals" is by now. "use this additive, will make police think you used Y agent".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i neither agree nor disagree, i did not know for a fact whether the fella on the bus was 'math bum' or not. simply that the thought came to me, 'erdos'
thestringpuller: I'm going to write it up 4 lulz.
asciilifeform: who knows where he worked. perhaps same place i did.
asciilifeform: i immediately thought 'erdos, motherfuckers'
asciilifeform: once i saw police pulling one kicking, screaming, off a bus, he had hungarian accent
asciilifeform: interestingly, i used to encounter regularly bums in (threadbare) nice suits
asciilifeform: various poor black folk, did, i saw alive.
asciilifeform: hey, when i worked at the godforsaken shithole with the homomorphic crud, nearby there was a furniture shop where you could buy a $30 lamp on layaway.
mircea_popescu: took him more to go through that than it took me to pick the store pick the pants decide i'm buying and how many. he was there when i came in, he would have been there for an hour had i not rudely interrupted his soberania & derechos humanos.
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry, like 18.
mircea_popescu: i go watch women dance their ass off, i'm sitting at tables talking with friends and having drinks.
mircea_popescu: i'm not going to entertain these inept values.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yesterday i stormed out of a PACKED VENUE ("teatro cubo") where a "urban shock" dance troupe was going to perform.
mircea_popescu: not to say that there's anything wrong with ukulele or whatever else - but i perceive the snatch act is something the argentards wouldn't readily manage to digest. by which term we mean, of course, "reinterpret through the lens of their imbecility and thus render meaningless"
phf: i'll ask her next time if she does that stuff in default world, i never thought to ask
phf: it's a loose knit group of european burners, but i'm not sure something like that can be taken outside burning man easily. we just provide the venue (i.e. build it out of home depot scaffolding and random junk) and people are welcome to come perform. but it's been going on for a while and the venue vibe is consistent from year to year, that some decent performers find it every year. the girl with the vagina, couple of operatic singers, guys with u
mircea_popescu: who's we, and what do i have to do to get you to host it in ba ?
phf: it could be, girl's a blond, and the act is well rehearsed and improves from year to year, so i wouldn't be surprised if she does it elsewhere too
mircea_popescu: phf there's this blondy that has an epic stripping/magic act, same principle. i wonder if it's the same one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what experiment is necessary ? https://aos.iacpublishinglabs.com/question/aq/700px-394px/long-baby-rabbits-stay-mother_c2bade73e49e674b.jpg vs https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71vHuqY2cpL._SX522_.jpg
phf: we host a vaudeville at burning man, we have a girl stop by every year, who does a striptease and then extracts objects of various complexity out of her snatch. mostly ribbons and eggs. i think there was one of those plastic chickens one time..
mircea_popescu: the notio nthat "my palm" or "top of my hand" is touching "warm" is obtainable i'd say.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was hoping, but.. nope. SCAM
mircea_popescu: i'm pretty sure i never read it before ; seriously, "neolythic speech patterns" ?
asciilifeform: i suspect that ~everybody though of this item at one point.
ben_vulpes: i still have nfi why you'd design in any way but parametrically.
asciilifeform: i work in 2d on mm scale and move, rotate
ben_vulpes: i never ever used anything but geometric constraints when designing parts.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-17#1503930 << spaceball is not a precision instrument, i have one,it is only good for camera angle movement ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 17:31 asciilifeform: admittedly i want this for cad, rather than sierra gamez.
mod6: i added a link to the tickets dir on the foundation website.
shinohai: I'm just sitting here licking my dick, how 'bout you?
jurov: ^ i read it such at first
mats: i need to verify my mental model
mats: i read that with a thick slavic accent
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-16#1503882 << i've been waiting for this idiocy for ages ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: e.g., http://i.stack.imgur.com/kY2st.jpg
shinohai: I am glad to own an actual "estufa" made of cast iron, which cheerfully warms the house with a log or three.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the item is made locally principally because i suspect it'd be illegal to ship internationally.
shinohai: "COLOCAR MAS DE UN METRO DE OBJETOS COMBUSTIBLE" <<< i kinda consider most plastic combustible
oama: I wouldn't laugh! my english isn't the best out there so...
mod6: by 'you', i mean me.
shinohai: ;;later tell felipelalli I will write something up, but will require a donation of 0.05 BTC to my "get off my ass on a weekend" fund.
felipelalli: I'd love to see something about this on Qntra.net, WOT:nonperson hahah :D
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i got some.
mircea_popescu: people were laughing on the street. i still recall the day.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2011/indescriptibila-academie-catafailencu/#comment-53513 << ran "O sarma sa taiem ; foame-i lu bitu' Ion" ie, let's cut a sarmali (trad ro dish for various events), uncle Ion [iliescu, the ducks from trucks president] is hungry. it is entirely homophonous with "aux armes citoyens, formez vos bataillons". the thing was for 14th of july.
phf: only thing that comes to mind is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eXile, i still have a couple of print editions on shelves somewhere
mircea_popescu: heh. this was an epic newspaper. perhaps the only actually good newspaper i ever personally witnessed. live, functional, the genuine article.
phf: i feel like that's more of a su thing, 90s in russia were handheld camera times, so it was more likely someone will start own tv station or try and get a spot on a fringe one like 2x2
phf: in a sense that it's a catch phrase from media that everyone is familiar with, yes, but i'm blanking on print media, i was not sufficiently someone back then
mircea_popescu: anyway. romania will probably swing. ~nobody that i heard from likes the westerners anymoar.
phf: i particularly dig ibm's butterfly keyboard
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 23:51 mircea_popescu: not that i'd ever or have ever typed on anything but a proper fucking desktop keyboard. even the laptop is annoying to me because off spacing.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 23:26 mircea_popescu: i can't imagine why the fuck anyone would use the toy shits. if your affairs CAN be organized by the machine, you don't have affairs complex enough to require outside help. stop wasting your time with the thing and work teh noggin.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503652 << i use, for the most part, my head. but my schedule is not very complicated. ☝︎
asciilifeform: i still have nfi which, precisely, parrot, these are.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503681 << i went with ben_vulpes and chetty and fed these parrots. ☝︎