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???
> 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.
> 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???
The technique I use to consult the Holy Spirit is reading a microsecond-range stop-watch each button press for random numbers. Then, I pick words with <F7> or passages with <SHIFT-F7>.
@istvan@p I distinctly remember something akin to God selecting the right random numbers by making you press the button at the right moments, but I can't find the source right now
@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.
@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…