October 2018 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

yet another reason why tor scumbags are scum
by juan 02 Nov '18

02 Nov '18

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/OperationalSecurity "Blocking Bittorrent Activity Bittorrent is a bad thing for Tor, and dealing with abuse complaints can be a headache for the people who run exit nodes. BlockingBittorrent explains how you can block Bittorrent trackers"

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Cryptocurrency: Voluntary Japan - Talks with Bitcoin.com re Bitcoin Cash BCH, Voluntaryism
by grarpamp 01 Nov '18

01 Nov '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYukgaeS6ts Bitcoin.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCetxkZolEBHX47BqtZktbkg/videos Voluntaryist Japan https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN1H4Vhv8fqY8uiKcnqYkKQ/videos

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Ann Coulter: “In 20 years, Russia will be the only country that is recognizably European.” - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

Diversity means getting rid of the differences between races, especially eliminating the unique diverse traits of caucasian Huwaite folks, since White skin means racist and diversity of everyone a shade of brown is tolerant. Or something ... The Jewish Paranoia About Russia https://dailystormer.name/the-jewish-paranoia-about-russia/ … Matt Drudge in 2013: “Putin is the leader of the free world”

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when the state's "mafia face" exposes itself: UK: Unexplained Wealth Orders - [MINISTRY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

UK Begins Confiscating Wealth Without Criminal Charges https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-28/uk-begins-confiscating-wealth-wit… "Unexplained Wealth Orders" allow the United Kingdom to confiscate money and property, without charging the target with a crime. UWOs are similar to civil asset forfeiture in the United States... Live by the system, be "taxed" by the system with that offer you just can't refuse.

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WWF: You Fucked Yourselves
by grarpamp 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity-wiped-out-anim… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_rainforest

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Crypt Faster and Cheaper
by grarpamp 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

https://hothardware.com/reviews/amd-2nd-gen-ryzen-threadripper-2920x-and-29… https://www.anandtech.com/show/13516/the-amd-threadripper-2-cpu-review-pt2-… https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-bans-exports-to-chinese-dram-maker-citing-… https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/technology/china-micron-chips-theft.html https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

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anarchist NDAs for corporate "warm and fuzzy feeling"s of control - Linus' "gentlehacker's agreement" re sec flaws
by Zenaan Harkness 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

Another thin edge of the anarchist's wedge - fundamentally, as this LWN rightly points out, "it is evidently well understood that the power of an NDA to actually compel non-disclosure is nearly nonexistent" - point being, the only real trust is meat-space "ackshuall" trust IRL, and no piece of paper can ever truly compensate. Trust - the fundament of anarchy. What corporations desire (and none too few humans, too) is that warm fuzzy feeling of “control” <deep and sinister cackle echo, echo, echoes into the dungeon>. Nice to have the following IRL example: Toward better handling of hardware vulnerabilities https://lwn.net/Articles/764309/ Build your better world already...

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get the govt. out of your life - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

Basic steps, but perhaps an insight for the odd reader: 3 Steps to Get the Government Out of Your Life https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-26/3-steps-get-government-out-your-l…

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latest false flag attack?
by juan 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

it's been a while since the US military nazis, the wall street bankers, other amerikan humanitarians and US empire vassal states have carried their last false flag attack? A new one is overdue? Is there any betting on it? =)

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editorconfig.org - 927 configuration standards rolled into one - was Re: elastic tabstops
by Zenaan Harkness 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

There is a new standard to solve the "multitude of existing standards" standard problem :) : https://editorconfig.org/ Oblig. XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/927:_Standards Obligatory superiority sneer against all new standards aside, THIS new "editor config" standard appears to be one of the better standards, and possibly the ideal place to encourage "elastic tabs". Certainly given the dominance of Git in the DVCS world, this standard has a fine chance of becoming similarly dominant in the editor world. Enjoy, On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:05:16AM +0100, Nick Gravgaard wrote: > Hi Zenaan, > > Using a character other than tab has been suggested before (either a new > unicode code point or an existing one that's no longer widely used like > vertical tab), but I disagree for a few reasons. > > The first thing to note is that I am not actually changing the behaviour > of tab characters. A tab character tells the editor to position the text > that follows it at the next tabstop. That doesn't change under elastic > tabstops. All elastic tabstops does is set the positions of those > tabstops. If you run vi for instance, by default the tabstops are set at > every 8 (or 4 or whatever) characters. If you run a word processor, the > tabstops can be set manually at different positions on different lines. > In these cases, and in the case of elastic tabstops, the tab character > does the same thing. > > Secondly, existing keyboards have a tab key. I think using a character > which is impossible to insert using a regular keyboard would greatly > damage adoption. > > Thirdly, introducing a new whitespace character would just introduce all > sorts of pain. People already have problems telling the difference > between space and tab characters. It would be very difficult to > understand 2 kinds of tab character with 2 sets of tabstops (one static, > one elastic) in the same file. > > Thanks for thinking about the problem, but I don't think this is the > right solution. > > Nick > > > > On Fri, 19 May 2017, at 02:00, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Hi Nick, > > > > I kinda get that the future awaits and all the sins of past TUIs > > shall be forgiven: > > http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ > > > > but I think you're pushing the metaphorical heap of cow dung uphill > > to change the "standard behaviour of tab stops". > > > > However, Unicode is large and fullsome of characters, private code > > planes and future possibilities, and so a new ELASTIC_TAB character > > is perhaps the way to truly solve this existential crisis which all > > programmers and markdown authors face. > > > > This way, the new super tab shall be semantically unified within > > itself, and not compromised by existing expectations and semantics, > > which is probably critically foundational to getting wide support for > > elastic tabs. > > > > Time for someone to talk to someone from Unicode... > > > > Regards, > > Zenaan

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