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1 step forward and 2 steps back...
by CJ Parker 03 Jul '20

03 Jul '20

A US Federal Court has ruled that Julian Assange lawfully published the Hillary Clinton emails | | | | | | | | | | | A US Federal Court has ruled that Julian Assange lawfully published the ... | | | CJ Parker #05987-196 Proud To Be A Felon In AMERI A

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CNN: Hundreds arrested after police infiltrate secret criminal phone network
by jim bell 03 Jul '20

03 Jul '20

CNN: Hundreds arrested after police infiltrate secret criminal phone network. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/uk/encrochat-crime-messaging-cracked-intl-gb…

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Qwerty to _ ? - Colemak, Workman, Maltron and more ...
by Zenaan Harkness 03 Jul '20

03 Jul '20

So those who've ever (or still) experience RSI, know that a keyboard layout which reduces RSI is A Good Thing™©®. Physicaa (shape) as well as logical (char mapping) "layouts" are issues for those in need. The primary physical ergonomic layout is the concave Maltron which begat the similar Kinesis. Eventually the FLOSS ErgoDox appeared, and though a planar (flat) keyboard, it is - ortholinear - huge win - split, another huge win - custom per-hand split width and orientation - ultra customizable layouts courtesy the QMK firmware There are many ErgoDox incarnations, one of which is the ErgoDox-EZ. The Maltron logical layout, despite being one of the statistically "best" (most ergonomic, heat map, finger travel reduction etc) and around since the 70's, does not seem to exist in the ErgoDox community. Here's logic: if you're going to bother (or need to) learn a new keyboard layout, why not cut to the chase and learn the best? Why bother learning more than one beyond Qwerty? In any case, here's one hopeful Soul's journey: https://configure.ergodox-ez.com/ergodox-ez/layouts/nmR7W/latest/2 Click "Play layout tour" near the bottom left if you have JavaScript - the Oryx tour feature makes for a very nice visual experience, so recommended - use the LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to go forwards and backwards through the (relatively short) layout tour. There's also some non-JavaScript screenies over here: https://github.com/zenaan/quick-fixes-ftfw/blob/master/keyboard/README-ZenT…

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Is there a secret Covid tracker on your phone?
by jim bell 03 Jul '20

03 Jul '20

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8483037/Is-secret-Covid-tracker-ph…

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Superseding indictment of Julian Assange as of 6/24/2020
by jim bell 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

Superseding Indictment of Julian Assange 6/24/2020 [Jim Bell's comment: For nearly 20 years, I've wondered why "superseding" isn't spelled "superceding". ] https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1289641/download https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-charged-superseding-indict… "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, June 24, 2020 WikiLeaks Founder Charged in Superseding Indictment New Allegations Assert Assange Conspired With “Anonymous” Affiliated Hackers, Among Others A federal grand jury returned a second superseding indictment today charging Julian P. Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, with offenses that relate to Assange’s alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States. The new indictment does not add additional counts to the prior 18-count superseding indictment returned against Assange in May 2019. It does, however, broaden the scope of the conspiracy surrounding alleged computer intrusions with which Assange was previously charged. According to the charging document, Assange and others at WikiLeaks recruited and agreed with hackers to commit computer intrusions to benefit WikiLeaks." [end of partial quote] Jim Bell's comments follow:Somehow, I suspect that many the government attorneys handling this case hadn't even been born when the Supreme Court issued its opinion in the "Pentagon Papers" case in 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers "The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were released by Daniel Ellsberg, who had worked on the study; they were first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The New York Times in 1971.[1][2] A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress."[3] "More specifically, the papers revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scope of its actions in the Vietnam War with the bombings of nearby Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, as well as Marine Corps attacks, none of which were reported in the mainstream media.[4] For his disclosure of the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg was initially charged with conspiracy, espionage, and theft of government property, but the charges were later dismissed after prosecutors investigating the Watergate scandal discovered that the staff members in the Nixon White House had ordered the so-called White House Plumbers to engage in unlawful efforts to discredit Ellsberg.[5][6]"[end of quote from Wikipedia] Here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States the Supreme Court ruled that it would not 'enjoin' the New York Times from publishing its articles. >From later in this wikipedia article: Concurring opinions[edit] Justice Hugo Black wrote an opinion that elaborated on his view of the absolute superiority of the First Amendment: [T]he injunction against The New York Times should have been vacated without oral argument when the cases were first presented... . [E]very moment's continuance of the injunctions ... amounts to a flagrant, indefensible, and continuing violation of the First Amendment. ... The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. ... [W]e are asked to hold that ... the Executive Branch, the Congress, and the Judiciary can make laws ... abridging freedom of the press in the name of 'national security.' ... To find that the President has 'inherent power' to halt the publication of news ... would wipe out the First Amendment and destroy the fundamental liberty and security of the very people the Government hopes to make 'secure.' ... The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security... . The Framers of the First Amendment, fully aware of both the need to defend a new nation and the abuses of the English and Colonial governments, sought to give this new society strength and security by providing that freedom of speech, press, religion, and assembly should not be abridged.[13]

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Hillary Clinton Says Epstein Assassination Was To 'Manage Anxiety'
by Zig the N.g 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

Hillary Clinton Says Epstein Assassination Was To 'Manage Anxiety' March 7th, 2020 https://babylonbee.com/news/hillary-clinton-says-epstein-assassination-was-… CHAPPAQUA, NY—In a recent interview from her wine cellar this week, Hillary Clinton revealed some of her favorite methods for dealing with stress. "Being the president is an extremely stressful job," she told reporters. "Since I am the president, I have to deal with anxiety on a regular basis. One way to calm my nerves is with a good, old-fashioned assassination. Of course, I would never do such a thing, but If I did do something like, say, killing Jeffery Epstein, it would be a great way to cope with the demands of my very important job. Ok, I killed Epstein. I needed to do it to manage my anxieties. I feel bad about it. HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Hillary bemoaned the fact that since she isn't allowed in the White House or situation room for some reason, she no longer has access to handy tools like drones or Treadstone super-soldiers. "Sometimes," she said, "I have to settle for watching that prison assassination scene from Breaking Bad over a bottle of wine! Can you imagine? HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Let it be known that The Babylon Bee proudly supports everything Hillary Clinton does and we are glad she is our president. She is a wonderful leader and we would never do anything to ever upset her in any way. We are also not suicidal. In Historic Compromise, Border Wall To Be Built Around Hollywood https://babylonbee.com/news/historic-compromise-border-wall-built-around-ho… Biden To Defy CDC Warning To Stop Touching Other People's Faces https://babylonbee.com/news/despite-cdc-warning-biden-cant-stop-touching-ot… [facey gropey Biden pics not attached] U.S.—As Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is constantly in crowds, health officials are greatly concerned that he will catch the coronavirus -- which would be especially bad for him as he’s very, very old. Despite these concerns, Biden just can’t follow one of the CDC’s main recommendations to avoid catching the disease: Stop putting your hands all over other people’s faces. “It’s just so hard,” Biden told the press. “I keep thinking to myself, ‘Don’t touch people’s faces. Don’t touch people’s faces.’ But the next thing I know, there are my hands rubbing all over some person I just walked into.” Staffers have tried a number of methods to help train Biden to stop the behavior, such as spraying him in the face with water whenever he starts touching someone. Nothing has worked so far, but his staffers are hopeful. “It’s just a habit he has to unlearn,” said Biden staffer Melanie Chapman. “We’ll just keep working until--” At that point, Chapman was interrupted by Biden putting his hands all over her face. “You’re doing it again!” Chapman informed him. “Oh no,” Biden said. “Well, is it okay if I just rub people’s shoulders?” “No, that is never okay,” Chapman told him. Opinion: If Americans Aren't Sexist, Then How Come They Refuse To Elect The Most Unlikable Women On The Planet? https://babylonbee.com/news/op-ed-if-people-wont-elect-the-most-unlikable-w… ... Yes, people often say they’re willing to vote for a woman. But if they won’t cast a vote for some of the most unlikable women on the entire planet, will they really vote for any women ever? ... In 2016, people had Hillary Clinton, someone so politically maladroit she barely seemed human, one of the most blatantly dishonest people anyone had ever seen, and someone people only ever heard of because of who her husband is. But she was a woman. And that just wasn’t good enough. And now we had Elizabeth Warren, an off-putting, nakedly political hack who lied about her heritage and has a bunch of unworkable plans with price tags beyond human comprehension. Though she may only be 1/1024th Native American, she is 99.9% woman. Still, people said they wanted more. Like, anything more. No. Instead, we must continue to elevate the most terrible women in this country until people finally elect one and prove they don’t hate women. This country can never, ever give in to sexism and put forward a female candidate people might actually like. Then the misogynists will win. Ode to Belzebub Biden tops local spelling bee with "gropeophile", whilst lauding The Bee's "Biden Shampoo" range https://babylonbee.com/news/garnier-fructis-introduces-the-biden-collection Warren drops out of her 1/2020th campaign https://babylonbee.com/news/other-candidates-beg-warren-not-to-endorse-them Paid mourners weep as Bloomberg exits primary https://babylonbee.com/news/paid-mourners-weep-as-bloomberg-exits-primary Corona beer fails to come up with catchy meme adverts to stem sales cliff drop https://mobile.twitter.com/B1GTRAIN/status/1233541966652231682/photo/1 Warren Returns To Tribe In Shame After Failing To Take Land Back From The Pale Faces https://babylonbee.com/news/warren-returns-to-tribe-in-shame-after-failing-…

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Affirmative
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

Affirmative. We bind ourselves to our conscience, or perhaps we are bound :) Affirmative pursuit, actions pursuant to conscience. Individual right to speak, right to "follow", right to converse, engage, block, all pursuant to personal will alone, no middle man. Without the right to survive, or even so simple as -exist-, as Razer so simply put it, we have no life. Without the right to communicate exercised, then thought, and existence, has no end, no purpose, and we have no relationships, no community. Without community, and relationship inherent within any real community, we are dead to one another, to the whole world, and without meaningful life, without the opportunity to discover one another - our cries, our loves, hopes and dreams for each other. Fundamntal rights are fundamental for a reason - they are fundamental to life, to our rights to survive, to thrive, and to merely exist. We cannot survive without existing. We cannot thrive without surviving. So we each individually, and collectively, are with all fundamental rights to exist and to survive. Every opposition to you/ an individual exercising one or more of these basic rights, is despotism, the evidence of sociopaths in action, and ought be called out publicly as such. As hackanarchopunks, we can facilitate the exercise by the individual, be he with 9 or 90 million followers, to converse digitally amongst his "follower" group. Gatekeepers belie the sociopath. Sociopaths conduct entire false campaigns, even "damaging their share price" to the tune of literally billions of dollars and with the credible deniability of actual "withdrawing advertisers", in the pursuit of control, and censorship, and for the mere opportunity to inflict an almighty damaging blow to those he sees as his opposition. Till the morrow,

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Re: Personal Black Box? Even a bit of video can entirely change the story around.
by jim bell 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

https://reason.com/2020/06/30/11-redacted-seconds-of-video-of-fatal-2014-dr… [partial quote follows] 11 Redacted Seconds of Video of Fatal 2014 Drug Bust Undermine Florida Cops' Official Story Previously unreleased video shows Jerry Brown didn't have much time to react before Pasco County deputies shot and killed him. ZURI DAVIS | 6.30.2020 12:00 PM (Screenshot via Pasco Sheriff's Office) In 2014, Florida deputies shot and killed Jerry Dwight Brown during a small-scale drug bust. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said the deputies fired after Brown refused several orders to comply. The State Attorney's Office cleared the deputies of any wrongdoing due to Brown's alleged noncompliance. But last week, the Tampa Bay Times released a video of the shooting that challenges the department's official story. Brown was shot and killed on July 1, 2014. The 41-year-old inadvertently sold illegal prescription pills to an undercover deputy with Pasco County Sheriff's Office (PCSO). The sting was part of a monthslong investigation into Brown. After the undercover deputy motioned for fellow deputies to move in and arrest Brown, the department claimed that they repeatedly ordered Brown to show his hands and shot him after he made a sudden movement. Brown died at a hospital following the shooting. The department found that he was unarmed during the interaction. The day after the shooting, Nocco told 10 Tampa Bay, "When we are ordering commands to show me your hands, when we are telling somebody they need to comply and they make motions that are not, and make our detectives feel their lives are being threatened you have a millisecond to make a decision." The sheriff's office provided Reason with a redacted version of the video from the drug bust. In the video, an undercover deputy interacts with Brown outside of Big Ben's Tires in Zephyrhills. He urges Brown to enter the vehicle to make the sale. A reluctant Brown does so, takes the pills out, and begins to count at the undercover deputy's request. Armed deputies then approach the car and the video skips 11 seconds. When the video picks up again, the deputies are pointing guns and surrounding the vehicle. On Friday, almost exactly six years after the shooting, the Tampa Bay Times released the redacted portion of the video. [end of partial quote]

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ZFS encrypted HOME, krypt vols, combine /boot with / root, + rando snippets
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

For those yet to leap into the cool clear waters of ZFS and Luks encrypted sparse ZFS files, or who need to combine /boot with / root if /boot has filled up or is insufficient for needs, the beginnings of some hints: https://github.com/zenaan/quick-fixes-ftfw Create your world,

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Amen, Brother
by CJ Parker 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

"Now, as Assange’s U.S. extradition battle intensifies, the internet is calling for the rise of cypherpunks ‚ Assange’s fellow “capable generous men,” who exercise their power for social good to unite once again and take up their moral duty. The future of the internet believes in Bitcoin, the potential of this “crypto with values” to become the currency of resistance to defend its freedom." https://www.facebook.com/JoeStrange709/posts/3114211461998722 CJ Parker #05987-196 Proud To Be A Felon In AMERI A

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