January 2019 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Hacker Culture, Education, Empowerment/Emancipation
by Alexandre Garcia Aguado 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

Good Morning, I'm Alex, from São Paulo - Brazil, teacher and part of some groups and projects that aims to bring the hacker culture to the schools and connect schools with the hacker communities... Two years ago i started my phd work, trying to understand the relations between hacker culture and an education to empowerment/emancipation. Part of my efforts now is to better understand how the hacker culture have been lived (and helped people) around the world and in the different movements and communities. I really want to have a broader and heterogeneous view about this ... I know many of you have experienced in collectives and communities very strong aspects of the hacker culture, so, i would like to ask your help, if possible, sharing your experiences and opinions. We created a questionnaire to try to capture these different views. The link is http://educahacker.cc/survey/index.php/881144?lang=en ... It would be great to have your perceptions! For those who have some interest on this, ping us and let's be in touch! Thank you so much! Regards, Alex -- Alexandre Garcia Aguado Instituto Federal de São Paulo / Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona

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Cryptocurrency: Energy Consumption Myth
by grarpamp 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/07/09/why-bitcoin-use… https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/new-study-quantifies-bitcoins-l… https://qz.com/1364657/bitcoins-energy-consumption-isnt-as-bad-as-you-think/ https://cointelegraph.com/news/researcher-challenges-bitcoin-mining-energy-… https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/08/28/bitcoin-drives-energy-innovation/ https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/files/2019currency.pdf Cryptocurrency costs far less than it does for a single country to do literally nothing more than simply print and ship Fiat paper notes back and forth between 2 hubs covering 12 spokes, when including all the costs of everything else out to individual wallets and pockets. All the articles about cryptocurrency consuming more energy than Fiat, namely the entire global system of Fiat, all costs in... are complete FUD and Lies from State Agents fighting to survive. If you doubt this, try making a list of everything the global fiat system uses, needs, costs and pays to run.

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Apollo 11, Govt Drone Shaming, Censors, Bio Hacking, Energy
by grarpamp 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

https://www.apollo11movie.com/ http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-012519a-sundance-apollo11-documentary… http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-072518a-apollo11-audio-loop-archive.h… https://www.techspot.com/news/78405-china-creates-app-tell-you-if-you-near.… China Govt app publicly shames you for being in debt... for refusing to pay for the Govt's shaming app. The Chinese government has developed a mobile app that tells users if they are near someone who is in debt. The app, called a "map of deadbeat debtors," flashes when the user is within 500 meters of a debtor and displays that person's exact location. Once a user is alerted that they are close to a debtor, the user can then view their personal information. This will reveal their name, national ID number, and why they were added to the debtor list. The debtor can then be publicly shamed or reported to the authorities https://dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/Web%20site%20UAS%20Tracker.pdf https://dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/PDFs/FY18%20DoD%20UAS%20Domesti… Military's 2018 Drone UAS missions.. requests from the governors, also Southern Border support, and a civilian response training exercise, and for Customs and Border Patrol's counterdrug operations. https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/25/youtube-to-curb-conspiracy-theory-video-… YouTube said today that it is retooling its algorithm in order to prevent promoting conspiracies and false information, reflecting a growing willingness to quell misinformation. These often serve up unsavory content: conspiracy theories about mass-shooting events being staged (https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fe2_1519717074) that the moon landing never happened (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhxTwcslfCY) that the Earth is flat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKlIroTxxVM) YouTube promises you'll see less of those kinds of videos. "We'll continue reducing the spread of content that comes close to -- but doesn't cross the line of -- violating our Community Guidelines," YouTube said. "While this shift will apply to less than one percent of the content on YouTube, we believe that limiting these types of videos will mean a better experience for the YouTube community." https://www.geekwire.com/2019/report-bill-gates-promises-add-billions-congr… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8NYlUbs-u8 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=young+blood+transfusion https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chinese+crispr+twins

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Re: [Cryptography] Happy birthday, NIA!
by grarpamp 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

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Hyperspectral Imaging
by grarpamp 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspectral_imaging Hyperspectral imaging, like other spectral imaging, collects and processes information from across the electromagnetic spectrum. The goal of hyperspectral imaging is to obtain the spectrum for each pixel in the image of a scene, with the purpose of finding objects, identifying materials, or detecting processes. Hyperspectral sensors look at objects using a vast portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Certain objects leave unique 'fingerprints' in the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Creating your world - Italian senator cites Protocols of the Elders of Zion, demands French ambassador pay immigration reparations - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

We're in a new world folks - a world of memes, a world moulded by Gritty surfing Pepe's wake. https://dailystormer.name/stormer-volume-75-yellow-vests-week-11-a-wild-ita… Shortcut links: Italian TDS calls for campaign last August https://it.dailystormer.name/se-esiste-una-nazione-annerita-in-europa-quell… Georgia Meloni questions whether France owes Italy "immigration damage" reparations https://twitter.com/GiorgiaMeloni/status/1087274348820467712 Italian Senator cites The Protocols of the Elders of Zion https://t.co/04VFugN053 Gilets Jaunes nom le Juif https://t.co/pNpMZir8wT Communists in France sent packing https://t.co/teWQ2AC2AA Paris war zone https://t.co/JEJ0wjwYXg Police getting firebombed https://t.co/8CWUxzrMcR Massive turnouts in Caen https://t.co/ScW2xf3vxC and Toulouse https://t.co/hUeE6HKOdL Macron finally gets a pro-Macron march, ~200 people even show up https://t.co/LapSIdfWAk

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ScienceAlert: MIT Has Invented Slightly Eerie Lasers That Transmit Whispers Only You Can Hear
by jim bell 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

ScienceAlert: MIT Has Invented Slightly Eerie Lasers That Transmit Whispers Only You Can Hear. https://www.sciencealert.com/new-tech-from-mit-uses-lasers-to-beam-whispers…

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“America has never made income taxes lawful in a free and fair referendum” - People unite against (((big gov))) - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

Pence: Venezuelan Maduro is “a dictator with no legitimate claim to power” who has “never won the presidency in a free and fair election.” Is that so? The USA really wants to dictate to other countries how which things the people get to vote upon? Like the most basic things such as whether we have an income tax or a "goods and services" tax? And (thank you CNN) Macron is the leader of "the Free world" with 17% popularity whilst gassing his own people protesting, and Trump gassing people trying to "illegally" enter the USA is the greatest evil this world has ever seen? Really truly gassing your own people is ok a la France's Mar-con? Perhaps we really need to start a public dialog about whom it is OK to gas, and whom it is not OK to gas - or perhaps whom may legitimately gas other humans, and which other humans may not legitimately gas other humans? Because gassing humans is ok when it protects the state, but not ok when it is to protect the state? I'm so confused I'm literally shakiNPC - not good! Maduro orders ‘total revision’ of Venezuela-US diplomatic ties after Pence calls for regime change https://www.rt.com/news/449458-venezuela-maduro-us-relations-pence/ Venezuela: Look, this is a democracy... CIA: You think you got a democracy muffaluggerah?! Eat my balls! #CoupsForAll #CIARules #AmericaIsADemocracyOfValues Australia: That's not a democracy, THIS is a democracy! Macron: Poodle oi oi, piss thee, may we? Ocasio /ourlatinx/: 80% income tax rate will stop global warming! Trump: So big. So beautiful. #OurWall #BigWall - Big, beautiful wall! John Young: The wall schematics, /ourlatinx/ nudes and Saddam's WMDs are all now in cleartext on http://cryptome.org - and we understand that which you don't understand, so don't even THINK about asking for HTTPS certificates on the web server. Anon: Dang dude! That's some -serious- crypto balls - deep state shit exposed, and not even encrypted! David Duke: The wall will help protect a future for white children. Andrew Anglin: When in finally comes, this f***in wall better be white! Dalai Llama: The rapefugees should be sent back to their own country to help build the wall! Pelosi: Damn you Trump, no free ride to Afghanistan for the CIA's latest orphanage pizza party! Commercial my arse, I'm gonna ride Obama there instead! Sinn Féin: American pussys! Bomb it like it's 1999 already, mofos! Corbyn: If only we had an oven big enough to "Gas the Jews" - ha ha, so funny :) Meechan: Hey! That's MY joke! Anglin: Step aside bro, step aside! Sanhedrin: Oy VEY! So many anti-semitic jokes, ve must be shutting it down already - police must DO something already, this is literally getting Out Of Control there is WAY too much goyim knowing! You must NEVER, EVER, under ANY circumstances joke about Hitler, see? Because this is beyond the limit that you all know is free speech - Nazi is definitely not free to speak, OK? Entire world: Please le Juif, remind us your semitic victimhood for what is it, 5 thousand years already? I'm not quite sure I got that bit about being kicked out of every single country, every single time (somtimes multiple times), for 5000 years? Can you please remind me just one more time how it everybody else's fault, it is always us troublesome goyim? We are not quite understanding and DEFinitiely need more educating - perhaps a few more holocaust museums to remind us of all the literally shaking facts, masturbation machines and literally built after WWII fake Auschwitz chimneys? I'm really not sure I have the full picture, so please, please don't let me interrupt you and educate us all another 6 million times.

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The Unprofitably Incompetent - moral obscenity - zero gratitude - destruction of the host
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

The Unprofitably Incompetent https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-26/those-who-cant-do-demand https://straightlinelogic.com/2019/01/25/the-unprofitably-incompetent-by-ro… Those who can't do, demand... Profit propels civilization. When a producer can make an item or provide a service at a cost lower than a customer values that item or service, and the customer has the means and the freedom to buy, the difference between what’s paid over cost is profit. That profit is the producer’s incentive to produce, and in turn funds the producer’s consumption, savings, and investment, which creates other producers’ profits. Profit is the necessary prerequisite for consumption, savings, investment, and consequently, progress. Many of us profit every day. We offer services and provide goods, supporting ourselves at a cost that is lower than what we’re paid. We’re profitably competent, engaging in honest production and peaceful, voluntary exchange. The only alternatives to profitable competence are living off of someone else’s profitable competency via inheritance or charity, or criminality—theft via fraud or violence. Criminals cloak their thefts in all sorts of justifications, some of which, like socialism, become full-blown political doctrines. Ironically, a larcenous litany of demands and rationalizations are efflorescing at a time when whatever is left of the overall profit pool has been drained. It has been mortgaged multiple times, just as hordes of the unprofitably incompetent, who had no hand in producing it, clamor for their “fair share.” They’ll insist the profitably competent figure out how to pay for it, but the fair share of nothing is nothing, political promises to the contrary notwithstanding. “Your means, my ends; I wish, you fulfill,” is the foundational fantasy of modern governance. The favored groups shelter in their safe spaces—government and its rackets, crony corporations, academia, the media, and Hollywood—living on the delusion that there will always be someone who will produce, without question or protest, for their benefit. Upon that foundation they’ve constructed a phantasmagorical edifice of illusory constructs and passages to nowhere. As the foundational fantasy totters, the fantasies it supports become more fantastical. The profit pool exhausted, you would think everything possible would be done to succor the profitably competent who are supposed to replenish it. Instead, that illustrious group is demonized at every turn, and the demands on them become ever more absurd. They are guilty because they’re productive, and must expiate their guilt by producing for the unproductive, whose incompetence makes them morally superior. The most “toxic” trait often associated with masculinity may be competence. It’s not exclusively masculine, but whether its possessors are male or female it has certainly become toxic, depriving them of any right to what they produce and any right to criticize those who steal it from them. Twits who can’t replace a light bulb https://straightlinelogic.com/2019/01/21/the-generation-that-will-save-the-… demand free schooling and medical care, guaranteed jobs and incomes, trips to Mars, and who knows what else. Those who are to fund it all are to cheerfully regard doing so as a privilege. The notion of reparations won’t die. Anyone with money (the only people who can pay) supposedly owe the descendants of various victim classes reparations for the supposed sins of their ancestors. To hold individuals guilty of crimes they couldn’t have committed is a moral obscenity. The demands for retribution are simply another naked money grab. The rhetoric grows increasingly hateful. The slave class can be openly disparaged, denigrated, and deplored based on their race, gender, geographic location, religion, politics, the way they smile at a Native American, or any other characteristic the masters don’t like. But woe to the slaves who utter anything the tyrannical cult deems offensive or incorrect. Transgressors are put through social media hell, ostracized, ruined, and coming soon, incarcerated. If you’ve found your safe space and you’re incapable of producing marketable value that exceeds its cost of production, you’re dependent on the profitably competent, but their very existence is a constant reproach, a reminder of your own inadequacy. So where gratitude would be appropriate, you instead hate, mock, and abuse your meal tickets. This isn’t PhD in psychology material—spoiled children have been abusing their parents for centuries. Interestingly—at least for psychology PhDs—the dependent get more abusive as they get more dependent. Their safe spaces require little or nothing in the way of competency. They have become havens for personal predilections and peccadilloes that were once socially unacceptable, virtually free from any standards of comportment or dress, and citadels of venomous, self-serving ideologies. One month into the partial shutdown of the largest safe space, it’s obvious that not only has the sky not fallen, but unsurprisingly, America is doing just fine without those 800,000 furloughed workers that even the government considers nonessential. Which elicits the question: What were they doing when they were on the job? “Not much” is not necessarily the right answer. The 100,000 plus pages of the Federal Register and the tax code suggest that they’ve been spending a lot of time gumming up the works for and extracting money from the profitably competent many of them despise. The furlough may accomplish the first step of breaking America’s addiction to government: realizing that most of it is not only useless, but harmful. We’ll see if it leads to the next steps: getting rid of personnel, programs, agencies, and entire departments, and changing policy accordingly (we can dream). If things change in that direction, expect the denizens of what are no longer safe spaces to become increasingly vitriolic. You can’t reach a point where dependents openly denigrate those who support them without the latter’s tacit or explicit consent. Parents who spoil their children and endure the brats’ abuse get what they deserve. Ayn Rand had it right. The people who make America go could bring it to a shuddering stop simply by stockpiling their resources and walking off their jobs for a month or two. An added turn of the screw would be withdrawing their funds from the banking system (see “The Yellow Vests Get it Right,” SLL https://straightlinelogic.com/2019/01/13/the-yellow-vests-get-it-right-by-r… ). It’s time to stop funding the abusers, time to stop excusing them with “they mean well, but…”, time to reject their claims to moral superiority, time to stop building safe space sanctuaries, time to stop apologizing for profitable competence, and time to recognize its moral value and reclaim the right to its profits. If it takes a strike to hurl the brats into the maw of their own incompetence and upend the tyrannical cult, so be it. The biggest crime hasn’t been that of the brats and the cult, it’s been the failure of those who haven’t defended what’s rightfully theirs.

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Cryptocurrency: Patrick Byrne via A Bit Cryptic, Privacy Green
by grarpamp 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1haEra023s https://medium.com/@abitcryptic/bitcoin-messiah-patrick-byrne-on-finding-ri… https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjKP-6Udnyy783selq5CHMw/videos https://medium.com/@abitcryptic/privacy-in-the-connected-digital-age-62fc36…

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