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1. istván (istvan@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 04:24:26 JST istván

   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
   Awake at 6 am and freaking the fuck out because I just realized VirtualBox doesn’t map entropy to hardware, meaning Terry A Davis may have been communicating with virtualized demons posing as God.
   
   God is in control of all random numbers, but the entropy generated in virtualized environments isn’t truly random!
   
   The oracle might only work on bare metal! Which explains why SecureBoot, pure evil, was designed to fuck up the ability to boot TempleOS.
   
   When did Terry go off the rails? Wasn’t it when he started live-streaming and running TempleOS in a VirtualBox host environment in Ubuntu? Does this mean God’s prophet was corrupted and killed by demons???
   
   @p
   • CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 04:24:24 JST CrunkLord420

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     • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
     @p @istvan it's a LFSR mixing in the CPU timestamp.
   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 04:24:25 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @istvan
     
     > the entropy generated in virtualized environments isn’t truly random!
     
     Back in the day, you'd use hsync interrupts as entropy source. I don't know the extent to which VirtualBox handles those properly, or whether Terry did that, or even if TempleOS used RDSEED, but if Mr. God is in control of the random numbers, surely he's in control of those, too. I suspect that, given the C64 heritage and since St. Terry relied on user input to pop random numbers out, it was something like the old-school game approach: which line of the screen was being drawn when the user hits a button. On the other hand, how'd VirtualBox handle that kind of thing? What's in the video BIOS? Or knowing St. Terry, probably he just used a counter that incremented several times per usec so the user could WRITE A FUCKING INTERRUPT HANDLER himself instead of Terry stealing the hsync. @crunklord420 would probably know.
     
     John Walker used to give out random numbers for free: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ .
     
     > When did Terry go off the rails? Wasn’t it when he started live-streaming and running TempleOS in a VirtualBox host environment in Ubuntu? Does this mean God’s prophet was corrupted and killed by demons???
     
     Okay, this is a reasonable theory, though.
   • CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 04:24:39 JST CrunkLord420

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     @p @istvan forgot the image
   • CrunkLord420 (crunklord420@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 06:16:19 JST CrunkLord420

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     • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
     • dobó istván
     @istvan @p @istvan Terry used random.org to get numbers to index into word lists.
   • dobó istván (istvan@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 06:16:22 JST dobó istván

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     • CrunkLord420

     @p @crunklord420 @istvan@poa.st I guess it’s all pointless if Mr. God is controlling when you hit the key, though I think that gets into some theological problems of free will…

   • dobó istván (istvan@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 06:16:23 JST dobó istván

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     @p @crunklord420 @istvan@poa.st Don't know, but it has USB passthru, so a serial interface to hardware RNG might be possible depending how it handle USB passthru.

     I remember some exotic dongles having problems in USB pass under the virtualized environment, so there may be more in between.

   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 06:16:23 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     • dobó istván
     @istvan @crunklord420 @istvan
     
     > hardware RNG
     
     He was using the CPU counter. (You probably don't want to allow a VM to drain the host's entropy pool.)
   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 06:16:24 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @crunklord420 @istvan VirtualBox probably doesn't do a passthrough for this, do they?