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Expensive: Russian SU-35 and SU-30 pilots drill with live fire - on one another :) - [PEACE] [AND] [BAD] [ASSES]
by Zenaan Harkness 11 Oct '20

11 Oct '20

I try to resist, really truly I do, but like damn bros, some of these Russkies are TOTAL bad asses! This is not something you see every day - fighter pilots training with live fire, ON EACH OTHER. And I mean, what's a $50 million jet between buddies anyway? :D Thankfully the pilots of the SU-30 ejected and safely parachuted (presumably) to the ground, as they are reportedly in a "satisfactory" condition after being rescued, after the tail of their jet was shot down by live fire from an SU-35 during training ... presumably an accident but hey, you just never can be quite sure with our Russian brothers - they live for real, for the living of life to the full. We can fairly confidently presume the SU-30 pilots were role playing the Americanskis ;) [Presumed SU-35 pilot cockpit recording:] [SU-35 pilot:] RU0: "HA, take THAT Amercanski!" [Shoots a live round, TWO inches above tail of SU-30] [Unfortunately, live round ended up one inch INSIDE tail of SU-30] [SU-30 crashes, pilots naturally eject prior to crash] RU0: "OH! Sorry brutha, but why you pull into live fire? What's with THAT?" RU3: [RU3 is silent, he and his co-pilot already ejected.] [END-SKI] $50 million Russian Su-30 fighter jet accidentally SHOT DOWN during military drills, but pilots survive, reports say (VIDEO) https://www.rt.com/russia/501505-russian-su30-shot-down/ ... [Aftermath drone footage: RESULT of ONE Russian bullet:] https://t.co/H2bhjwD0cY ...

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1. Freedom Makes People Smarter - homeschooling
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Oct '20

08 Oct '20

Stating the obvious dept, using for those stucked in the oblivious dept. 6 Reasons to Start Homeschooling ASAP https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-31/6-reasons-start-homeschooling-asap

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Anonymity Networks and Developer Determination
by Karl 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

This email is shared from a place of forthrightness (and hope). https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37 Just to add, I suspect the reason that the state of public anonymity tools is not stronger is that the existing international powerholders, whose power could be reduced by widespread accessible anonymity, take diverse action to slow the release and hinder the effective use of the research. The way to make things change would be for people like us to agree to work together on forging one right thing in a development community, and use tools of both interpersonal mediation and software development to bring the result to happen by force of collective determination. It might help if everyone kept themselves more anonymous, collaborated in private as well as in public, and supported people who ran into personal issues so as to resist disruption and keep the work moving forward. On Fri, Sep 4, 2020, 5:49 PM David Stainton <notifications(a)github.com> wrote: > It's too late for this discussion. IPFS has failed to embrace the concept > of free Tor integration from volunteer developers. > > That having been said, anonymity is a synonym for traffic analysis > resistance; that is to say, even encrypted traffic can be analyzed for the > metadata it leaks. Tor is the very weakest of the existing designs for > anonymous communication networks however it is the most widely used whereas > the other designs from academia have not had much field testing; such as: > mix networks, dcnets, verified shuffles and other things can be used to > form anonymous communication networks such as private information > retrieval, oblivious ram, multi party computation etc. > > Tor is trivially broken by any sufficient global adversary by means of > timing correlation whereas mixnets are not. There are many other ways to > break Tor. > > Anonymity aka traffic analysis resistance is not yet a popular security > feature because these designs are in some respects ahead of their time... > just like not every software project embraces deterministic builds. Just > because your white middle class platitude doesn't allow you to understand > why people in high risk situations might need these things doesn't mean > they are not needed. In fact, in dealing with such folks I find the easiest > way to impart the importance to them is to describe military scenarios, > e.g. if you were in the military, overseas, you might actually be > interested in traffic analysis resistance. > > Think about a future brighter than Tor! Think about mixnets, hybrid > networks, dcnets and so on. Monoculture is death. Why is Tor the only > successful anonymity network? And to a lesser degree I2p? Although the I2p > observation is less valid because it's design is so similar to Tor in that > it can easily be broken by timing correlation from a sufficiently global > adversary. > > — > You are receiving this because you commented. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37#issuecomment-687407153>, or > unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AACEIIKJAJVQXDV267SEBU3SE…> > . >

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Paper on Assassination Markets
by b. water 05 Oct '20

05 Oct '20

Ever since I've read the Assassination Politics essay, my perspective of the world has changed: at last, a tool to create an anarcho-capitalist society! Alas, I've been dismayed by the lack of progress since it was first published. Little interest, very few serious publications, and still no running assassination market! Since I'm not a developer I can't really create one, but I've written a paper on assassination markets that I think could have some mainstream appeal, by reconciling the AP idea with more palatable concepts such as self defense and the NAP. I'd love to have your feedback on this paper. The draft of the paper (pdf) can be accessed here: https://docdro.id/fTYVUqf If you have any question please let me know.

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Puri.sm Librem 5 Phone Ships, Pine64 Pinephone Coming, Linux and BSD Phones
by grarpamp 05 Oct '20

05 Oct '20

https://www.pine64.org/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/purisms-librem-5-phone-starts-shipp… https://puri.sm/posts/first-librem-5-smartphones-are-shipping/ https://pureos.net/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuT2w6BkT-k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvnt78mK-Ac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHcHi0TBFv4 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC64-PJ-yoF7aJ9pIHWEbrTQ/videos Support the Digital Rights Movement... Get this phone ! Purism announced their first Librem 5 smartphones were rolling off the assembly line and heading to customers. "Seeing the amazing effort of the Purism team, and holding the first fully functioning Librem 5, has been the most inspirational moment of Purism's five year history," said their founder and CEO Todd Weaver. On Wednesday they posted a video announcing that the phones were now shipping, and Friday they posted a short walk-through video. "The crowdsourced $700 Linux phone is actually becoming a real product," reports Ars Technica: Purism's demand that everything be open means most of the major component manufacturers were out of the question. Perhaps because of the limited hardware options, the internal construction of the Librem 5 is absolutely wild. While smartphones today are mostly a single mainboard with every component integrated into it, the Librem 5 actually has a pair of M.2 slots that house full-size, off-the-shelf LTE and Wi-Fi cards for connectivity, just like what you would find in an old laptop. The M.2 sockets look massive on top of the tiny phone motherboard, but you could probably replace or upgrade the cards if you wanted... [Y]ou're not going to get cutting-edge hardware at a great price with the Librem 5. That's not the point, though. The point is that you are buying a Linux phone, with privacy and open source at the forefront of the design. There are hardware kill switches for the camera, microphone, WiFi/Bluetooth, and baseband on the side of the phone, ensuring none of the I/O turns on unless you want it to. The OS is the Free Software Foundation-endorsed PureOS, a Linux distribution that, in this case, has been reworked with a mobile UI. Purism says it will provide updates for the "lifetime" of the device, which would be a stark contrast to the two years of updates you get with an Android phone. PureOS is a Debian-based Linux distro, and on the Librem 5, you'll get to switch between mobile versions of the Gnome and KDE environments. If you're at all interested in PureOS, Purism's YouTube page is worth picking through. Dozens of short videos show that, yes, this phone really runs full desktop-class Linux. Those same videos show the dev kit running things like the APT package manager through a terminal, a desktop version of Solitaire, Emacs, the Gnome disk utility, DOSBox, Apache Web Server, and more. If it runs on your desktop Linux computer, it will probably run on the Librem 5, albeit with a possibly not-touch-friendly UI. The Librem 5 can even be hooked up to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and you can run all these Linux apps with the normal input tools... Selling a smartphone is a cutthroat business, and we've seen dozens of companies try and fail over the years. Purism didn't just survive long enough to ship a product -- it survived in what is probably the hardest way possible, by building a non-Android phone with demands that all the hardware components use open code. Making it this far is an amazing accomplishment.

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I'm just white. I didn't choose to be supreme, Supremacy chose me. - and what's this "NPC" meme? - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Oct '20

04 Oct '20

I'm just white. I didn't choose to be supreme, Supremacy chose me. White privilege? Ahh yes, “white achievement”. #ItsOkToBeWhite Meme of the $TIME_VECTOR: NPCs exist in IRL. NPCs ("non player/playable character" for the gaming impaired) are people who look and seem to act normal, but are functionally mentally disabled - unable to think much if at all, unable to reflectively listen, unable (or really struggle) to form any original thought, often cannot answer basic questions e.g. "So you hate Trump, you want change - how are you going to achieve that?" followed by a blank stare. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/9hc9cs/whats_going_on_with_t… “Npc’s are people who lack critical thinking.” "It was shocking to a lot of people, myself included, to find out that a lot of the people you interact with on a daily basis are literally incapable of thought as we understand it. The same response kept coming up - "This explains everything". That was pretty much my thoughts too. Like this line out of 1984 really got me: Orwell's 1984: “It was not the man’s brain that was speaking it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words but it was not speech in true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness like the quacking of a duck.” “I can see why people get upset by [being labelled as a living NPC meme]. I don’t think we should make fun of people who think differently, or even at a “lower level”. If it is thinking at a lower level, then you are just making fun of the disabled.” The distance between he who can critically reason, reflectively listen, introspect and engage in con-verse-ation, and those who cannot, is a gulf of consciousness so vast that the one incapable cannot even conceive of what he is missing. Idiocracy in action. Now the fun part - being labelled an NPC is apparently https://kotaku.com/how-the-npc-meme-tries-to-dehumanize-sjws-1829552261?IR=T quite triggering to the typical "SJW NPC wacko". Just like (literally, as in, actually) CNN's Don Lemon calling Kanye West a "token negro". real thoughtful there Mr Lemon… real thoughtful. Hmm… beware memes from the "anti-progressive online communities" hey? Memes are dangerous, as are "anti-progressive online communities" you hear? Do NOT go to them! Especially don't go to the vile Daily Stormer Memetic Monday article which meme-highlights how truly pissed off "@brightabyss" got with this "NPC meme" - yes @brightabyss, your name is so unique and snowflakey we understand your pain - so embrace your inner child already and give him his blankey and a pacifier - it is so clear from your @…abyss nick that you could never be mistaken for an NPC, so don't you fret your little brow about... and leave your bedside leather lampshade on to keep the darkies away... you'll be alright now. https://dailystormer.name/memetic-monday-npc-edition/ ^B^B^B^BWhoopsososorry

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1984: Starlink First Partner: Local Cops and State Military
by grarpamp 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/washington-emergency-responders-use-spacex-… News prediction: Starlink Feeds Robot Dogs, Spy Drones, Cameras Microphones Pop-Control Sensors Everywhere Giving 100:1 odds to any buyer.

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Re: Paper on Assassination Markets
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:22:26 +0000 "b. water" <benwater(a)protonmail.ch> wrote: > This website does not require Javascript to download the pdf yes it does.

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Leaks: Microsoft XP Source Code, also Server 2003
by grarpamp 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-xp-leak-confirmed-after-user-compiles… https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/09/looks-like-the-windows-xp-source-code-ju… https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/21/21265995/xbox-source-code-leak-original-… https://twitter.com/NTDEV_ The torrent is easily findable. The current chips from Intel / AMD would be a much more interesting leak into the open sunshine debugger. The first CPU company to go fully open and publicly prove they have far less or even approaching zero bugs and backdoors, would instantly 10x their stock price and be swamped with hardware buyers. The first to have their piles of bugs and backdoors leaked will plummet out of business. Attn HW makers... leaks will happen... choose your future. #OpenFabs, #OpenHW, #OpenAudit

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Onions: Bittorrent Clouds and ThePirateBay Still Flying High within OnionLand
by grarpamp 01 Oct '20

01 Oct '20

http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/ Irrelevant to recent news of various clearnet domains lost, The Pirate Bay, and many other clearnet torrent services that have adopted onions and other overlay networks, are still running free, fine, and uncensored within OnionLand for many years now. You can join, and create new, large torrent clouds operating entirely within v2 OnionLand (no exit ever) by using OnionCat, OpenTracker, Transmission-BT, and the firewall of your OS. https://www.onioncat.org/ https://github.com/rahra/onioncat https://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/ https://erdgeist.org/gitweb/opentracker/ https://transmissionbt.com/ https://github.com/transmission/transmission OnionCat also gives you IPv6 and UDP transport inside OnionLand, a layer 3 VPN switch of sorts, so you can use any IPv6 enabled application, including advanced distributed P2P mesh messaging, voice telephony, filestorage, cryptocurrency, etc... some apps that might otherwise not work at all over onions. "ping" also works :) Your use of Tor's onion network, regardless of application, even web browsing, consumes node bandwidth and other resources from tor totalling roughly equal to 7x your own bandwidth use of it. So for a net zero impact, you would like to run a non-exit relay to offer, give, and restore that much back to onionland, whether on average / idle / realtime. Use the rate limits of your OS, tor and BT clients together to set that up so that up to 7/8ths of the pipe setup is dynamically allotted priority to such externally driven tor throughput (other users of tor network) through your non-exit relay. Once up and running, you can fetch and seed your favorite datas with your peers entirely within OnionLand with no more risk of annoying ISP shutdowns, anti-freespeech GovCorp courts, fines, etc... than the overlay network itself being shutdown. Though with Tor and all of todays overlays, keep in mind the full quote context from '"Tor Stinks" -- NSA'. http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/search.php?q=privacy http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/search.php?q=censorship http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/search.php?q=human+rights http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/search.php?q=bitcoin+documentary http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/search.php?q=tor Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2933200 https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-oldest-torrent-still-alive-after-15-years-1… https://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-popular-torrent-sites-of-2020-200105/ https://torrentfreak.com/?s=onion https://avoidcensorship.org/ https://thepiratebay.org/static/dump/csv/ https://github.com/techtacoriginal/offlinebay https://gitlab.com/throwaway111111/offlinebay-bash "As a digital Librarian who is interested in preserving humanity's achievements and art, my job would be impossible without bittorrent tech." -- Megaohmz -- This message moderated and censored by Tor Project's "emergency" for your "protection".

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