Here’s one: turn the microphone volume all the way up on a cheap sound card. That hiss? Brownian motion of electrons causing voltage fluctuations.
Wouldn’t trust it alone, but it’s a good addition to your randomness sources. Mix it with a real TRNG to be more confident the hardware isn’t compromised in a way that affects your numbers.
I guess… if you plugged a microphone in, you would probably get that pretty easily. More vulnerable though, as your output would get affected by eg a tone generator.
“LoseThos was also at risk from attack from even basic malware and viruses, Terry simply got around this by never writing any network functionality. Ruling out any internet or LAN features. Terry also neglected to add the ability to print anything, meaning anything created on LoseThos would never be able to be shared with anyone else. Because of this, Terry suggested running the OS with a modern OS such as Windows in a virtual machine. This just leads to more questions about why exactly LoseThos was created.”
Sounds like the digital version of a temple meant to show appreciation for and/or experience something rather than create outputs to share with other human beings. The second name was better given the intended purpose was more clear. (still reading as I write this) Then I see “successor to Solomon.” Yup.
The man was no doubt a great, dedicated programmer. Sad his mental illness destroyed his ability to really apply that potential. And his life. I was also feeling for his family as I read it. All this had to be hell for them, too.
Sounds like the digital version of a temple meant to show appreciation for and/or experience something rather than create outputs to share with other human beings.
The fact that this ethos [of hacking] needs justification is deeply disturbing to me.
What is hacking about, ultimately? Is it because we think the world needs this piece of software in it, and it is better for it? Or is it because we get a pat on the back and some worthless Internet Points to show? Everyone must answer that for themselves. But I fear the social aspects threaten to overwhelm the intrinsic qualities of hacking.
Feels a bit like the extroverts felt the need to colonize another domain with their worthless status symbols. That sounds really bitchy, but it phrases it best.
After reading this, it’s kinda sad that things really started to take a turn for the worse after various internet communities started to taunt and harass Terry. I don’t know if things would have turned out differently but that certainly didn’t help. Also a few typos: “Los Vegas” -> “Las Vegas”, and no “bait” in masturbate.
I think he would still take shit from people. The Internet can amplify it, though. Especially when people get more aggressive with no accountability for their actions. In person, they might get kicked out of the establishment or punched in the mouth. Add in echo chambers and he might get the impression everyone thinks alike about him vs broader type and number of perspectives that exist across the country. So, I think Internet made it worse.
Anyone remember how terry used to haunt Hacker News and post things like “God says… {a bunch of random words}”?
One of his last HN posts on https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS revealed the script he used to generate those:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15609972
So I set it up on https://www.laarc.io/l/templeos, at the bottom.
I wish I’d made laarc sooner. It was a shame that he was banned from pretty much every social media platform. Even Youtube nuked his channel.
“unoxidated”
No Rust rewrites…
Well /dev/urandom is letting the universe speak.
Nah, you gotta sample a TRNG raw for that. Preferrably quantum or something with minimal interference by mankind.
Here’s one: turn the microphone volume all the way up on a cheap sound card. That hiss? Brownian motion of electrons causing voltage fluctuations.
Wouldn’t trust it alone, but it’s a good addition to your randomness sources. Mix it with a real TRNG to be more confident the hardware isn’t compromised in a way that affects your numbers.
If you could turn the microphone volume way up on an implausibly nice soundcard, you’d start picking up Brownian motion of air molecules instead? :)
I guess… if you plugged a microphone in, you would probably get that pretty easily. More vulnerable though, as your output would get affected by eg a tone generator.
“LoseThos was also at risk from attack from even basic malware and viruses, Terry simply got around this by never writing any network functionality. Ruling out any internet or LAN features. Terry also neglected to add the ability to print anything, meaning anything created on LoseThos would never be able to be shared with anyone else. Because of this, Terry suggested running the OS with a modern OS such as Windows in a virtual machine. This just leads to more questions about why exactly LoseThos was created.”
Sounds like the digital version of a temple meant to show appreciation for and/or experience something rather than create outputs to share with other human beings. The second name was better given the intended purpose was more clear. (still reading as I write this) Then I see “successor to Solomon.” Yup.
The man was no doubt a great, dedicated programmer. Sad his mental illness destroyed his ability to really apply that potential. And his life. I was also feeling for his family as I read it. All this had to be hell for them, too.
The fact that this ethos [of hacking] needs justification is deeply disturbing to me.
What is hacking about, ultimately? Is it because we think the world needs this piece of software in it, and it is better for it? Or is it because we get a pat on the back and some worthless Internet Points to show? Everyone must answer that for themselves. But I fear the social aspects threaten to overwhelm the intrinsic qualities of hacking.
Feels a bit like the extroverts felt the need to colonize another domain with their worthless status symbols. That sounds really bitchy, but it phrases it best.
Option 3: The hacker made the hack for hack value, and that is sufficient.
This seems like an elaborate pun on Windows. “If you can’t see outside, just make some Windows”
After reading this, it’s kinda sad that things really started to take a turn for the worse after various internet communities started to taunt and harass Terry. I don’t know if things would have turned out differently but that certainly didn’t help. Also a few typos: “Los Vegas” -> “Las Vegas”, and no “bait” in masturbate.
I think he would still take shit from people. The Internet can amplify it, though. Especially when people get more aggressive with no accountability for their actions. In person, they might get kicked out of the establishment or punched in the mouth. Add in echo chambers and he might get the impression everyone thinks alike about him vs broader type and number of perspectives that exist across the country. So, I think Internet made it worse.
This practically duplicates the documentary on the fellow, I think even word for word.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgoxQCf5Jg
Is the store of this post using a picture of Terry Davis as his profile pick, or does he just look a lot like him?
Not much of a mention of 8chan, unusual seeing as Terry had a board there where he posted consistently for a long, long time