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01:35 verisimilitude I've decided to purchase a BAT keyboard soon, and to simply see how I like its default layout, even though `e'' requires three fingers.
01:39 verisimilitude Even then, it will probably still be an improvement over a keyboard, and I could always learn a new layout later.
01:43 verisimilitude I've read the layout was supposedly researched well, but haven't read the actual evidence for this.
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12:09 asciilifeform $ticker btc usd
12:09 btcinfobot Current BTC price in USD: $52691.18
12:09 asciilifeform !w poll
12:09 watchglass Polling 15 nodes...
12:09 watchglass 185.85.38.54:8333 : Could not connect!
12:09 watchglass 185.163.46.29:8333 : Could not connect!
12:09 watchglass 108.31.170.100:8333 : (pool-108-31-170-100.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.045s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=671727 (Operator: asciilifeform)
12:09 watchglass 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.114s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=671727
12:09 watchglass 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.144s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=671727
12:09 watchglass 205.134.172.26:8333 : Alive: (0.116s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=671727
12:09 watchglass 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.082s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=670480
12:09 watchglass 205.134.172.28:8333 : Alive: (0.083s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=671706 (Operator: whaack)
12:09 watchglass 192.151.158.26:8333 : Alive: (0.144s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=671727
12:09 watchglass 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.161s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=671727
12:09 watchglass 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.253s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=671727
12:10 watchglass 176.9.59.199:8333 : Violated BTC Protocol: Bad header length! (Operator: jurov)
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12:28 asciilifeform http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-02-22#1032222 << post photo/commentary !
12:28 snsabot Logged on 2021-02-22 01:35:47 verisimilitude: I've decided to purchase a BAT keyboard soon, and to simply see how I like its default layout, even though `e'' requires three fingers.
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14:18 verisimilitude Of course.
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15:48 asciilifeform in re: yest. thrd: recent interesting gplism wank in fr.
15:50 asciilifeform in related lulz, http://gpl-violations.org : 'Please note that this homepage is not maintained very well. We're so busy in both technically and legally resolving GPL violations that there's hardly any time left to keep this page up-to-date.'
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16:40 verisimilitude I'm reminded of when that TPP was the hot topic, and how it included a segment specifically attacking copyleft in all but name; that was a good example of how the rules simply change when they lose.
16:40 verisimilitude The appearance of law must be maintained, although that rioting shows it needn't be maintained when inconvenient.
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17:09 asciilifeform verisimilitude: are you familiar with how vegas worx?
17:09 asciilifeform i.e. how casino maintains the illusion that 'winning' is a thing
17:09 asciilifeform courts etc. work similarly.
17:10 asciilifeform occasionally a plebe (moar often, 'class action') will be shown to 'win' against a corp
17:17 asciilifeform all of this discussion is applicable not merely to opensores licensism, but to whole concept of contractual agreements between unequal parties, and the nonsensical (yet very popular, and well-pushed) notion that the weaker can somehow ding the stronger via 'rule of law' in the workings of a supposed neutral judiciary
17:21 asciilifeform in actuality, a plebe's supposed power to sue and win against an oligarch or corporation is a rattle :
17:21 asciilifeform the elite eagerly hand out faux-power to the plebes, like parents give rattles to children, to entertain and divert from 'breaking things'.
17:22 asciilifeform most famous rattle is of course the ballot.
17:25 asciilifeform spoiler : it does not matter how much you shake the rattle. or how big is your particular rattle. or even if you can get 1e9 fellow rattlers to shake theirs with you.
17:25 asciilifeform net effect is 0.
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17:57 verisimilitude Yes.
17:59 verisimilitude Reading how Gameboy and related boot firmware have been dumped is so fascinating.
18:00 verisimilitude The software appears to work perfectly, having a mechanism to hide itself forever, but the clock can be manipulated to cause the instruction which does this to fail.
18:01 verisimilitude It goes to show how even if drm were proven in software, the hardware approach would just be chosen.
18:05 verisimilitude That reminds me of inducing memory errors in Multics for privilege escalation; I wonder if it's practically impossible to have a secure multi-user system.
18:05 verisimilitude s/it's/it be/
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19:23 asciilifeform verisimilitude: see also 'rowhammer'.
19:36 asciilifeform verisimilitude: in modern times, often enuff one knows exactly, instruction by instruction, what the boobytrap chip does, but still cannot defuse it
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20:07 asciilifeform verisimilitude: re: 'secure multiuser section' -- traditionally this kind of item is called 'pissing-section in swimming pool'
20:07 asciilifeform *'secure multiuser system'
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21:10 verisimilitude In principle, it's possible, but at this point it's much easier to simply give everyone separate machines, which is basically an existence proof of the security.
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