January 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Censorship: Archive All Video, Tweets, Controversial Channels
by professor rat 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Don't forget to encrypt all your Loony-Tune files so the strong AI can locate and corrupt them. Youse morons are all headed for GeoCities status. Good bye and good riddance. Say hi to John Galton for me.

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Stars finally align for ubiquitous cryptoanarchy
by professor rat 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

If there was a God it would be necessary to destroy it. "... Langan's support of conspiracy theories, including the 9/11 Truther movement (Langan has claimed that the George W. Bush administration staged the 9/11 attacks in order to distract the public from learning about the CTMU) and the white genocide conspiracy theory, as well as his opposition to interracial relationships, have contributed to his gaining a following among members of the alt-right and others on the far right. ..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan

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Censorship: Archive All Video, Tweets, Controversial Channels
by grarpamp 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Rampant mass censorship and deletions of video and text channels are now being done by all Social Media. Politicians have been deleting their own tweets and scrubbing their own entire social media streams clean. CryptoAnarchism libertarian voluntaryist, discussion channels, alternative living models, controversial topics, interviews, speakers, thinkers, makers, drugs, news from spaces, independent journos, arms, activists, etc... the whole spectrum of anything off narrative or less than PC mainstream. All being taken down at an increasing rate for months. Archive first, watch later, else they'll be gone by the time you launch your archive tool. Archive tools, browser plugins, help, etc... https://old.reddit.com/r/datahoarder youtube-dl, wget, aria2, etc. Scrape the twitter bots into archives... https://mobile.twitter.com/this_vid https://mobile.twitter.com/ReservaBEP https://mobile.twitter.com/BaixaEssaPorra https://mobile.twitter.com/save_video https://mobile.twitter.com/SaveVidBot https://mobile.twitter.com/DownloaderBot https://mobile.twitter.com/GetVidBot https://mobile.twitter.com/VidDownloadBot https://mobile.twitter.com/SendMeThisVideo https://mobile.twitter.com/GetVideoBot https://mobile.twitter.com/DownloadLinkBot https://mobile.twitter.com/ddl_vid https://mobile.twitter.com/GetVid_

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He's in the basement
by professor rat 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Call Hawaii Five-Eye FBI says it "is seeking information that will assist in identifying individuals, like one ' Zenaan Harkness ', who are actively instigating violence in Washington, DC." Au Terror Hotline - Freecall 1800 123 400

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Gamble on anarchy
by professor rat 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

https://dailyhodl.com/2021/01/06/billion-dollar-gambling-titan-patents-way-… "... the system allows digital currencies to be as usable as other currencies, giving players more options to engage with a gaming establishment. The company adds that the method encourages the use of mobile devices for transferring funds

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Assange Decision
by professor rat 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Good decision for building up an international law precedent for condemning the US Gulag since the only comparable one is red-fascist China's. Also good for appealing too since the most convictable looking alleged offence looks like a repeat offence. Perp has a pattern of breaking and entering NA-based computer servers. Recall they got Al Capone for tax-evasion and even if Mange is convicted of spitting on the sidewalk, the longer he's in a cage the better for the rest of us. Remember he spat on cypherpunks when he became a self-described ' journalist '. And the moron sold all his crypto.

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Assange Decision
by jim bell 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Good decision but bad reasoning: The laws he was charged with violating didn't claim "extraterritorial jurisdiction". The limitations period (statute of limitations) for whatever crime Assange was charged with should have 'run out' 5 years later. Lawyers will respond, I suppose, that Assange is a "fugitive", as he is outside the U.S. I respond: Merely his being outside the U.S. doesn't make him a fugitive. And if it is thought that he could be charged based on what he did while he was in U.K., then that assumes that Assange was still "within U.S. jurisdiction", and so Assange cannot have been a "fugitive". Jim Bell

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Re: [Cryptography] Energy Consumption: Standards Trolls (was: disaster)
by Karl 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

I'm not in a good state of mind to post to the cryptography list, but I saw these two bogus arguments and here is my reply, below, sent to the wrong list. On 1/5/21, Alex Flanagan <alex.flanagan(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Bitcoin mining consumes energy, measured by the unit we call a Watt. A >> watt is defined in the ISU as one joule per second. The unit we call >> joule is a unit of work. >> > > For the argument "bitcoin consumes too much energy", assuming emissions are > the concern, my response has typically been: > > Energy *production* causes emissions not *consumption*. > > The emissions attributable to bitcoin mined in Iceland are zero. The energy > *consumed* to mine them was *produced* by a zero-emissions source. Bitcoin operates on incentivisation. So the current system is incentivising people to produce more energy than the earth is able to. So is everything else we're doing, of course, not just cryptography. But here's the real reason all this energy is getting burned up for bitcoin: everyone involved is arguing about it, instead of improving the algorithm. This situation has been going on ever since mtgox. There are unnumerable solutions to this problem, but none are introduced into the codebase yet. The hard part is not technically solving this problem: it is engaging the bureaucratic diplomacy of getting a solution implemented, and then paying for a security team once you are targeted during the process.

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While y'all were distracted
by professor rat 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Btc ATH approaching 38K This is Satoshi's world - we just live in it. https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-sets-new-all-time-high-roaring-above-36k

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[Cryptography] Energy Consumption: Standards Trolls (was: disaster)
by professor rat 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

it is possible in our lifetimes quantum sensors (based on same technology as quantum computers) will make magnetoencephalography machines as simple as your headband..." Little-known outside of technophile circles, uploading remains the most controversial of all possible technologies wherever it is discussed. This, in spite of the fact that seemingly no speculative technology in history — not even nanotechnology, by itself — can make greater claims to granting extraordinary powers to humanity. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/john-filiss-uploading

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