December 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Anarchist & socialist youth resistance in western Iran.
by professor rat 09 Dec '22

09 Dec '22

The Federation of Anarchism Era Setting fire against the “Hawza Elmiyeh”, a Shia Islamic religious school for education of Mullahs in Gachsaran county on November 8, 2022. A part of the anarchist and socialist youth resistance of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province in western Iran. https://anarchistnews.org/content/iran-anarchist-socialist-action-video-clip Reposts juicy war-porn for jaded armchair eunuch generalists

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jewnazi elon moko BANS Kanye West
by punk 09 Dec '22

09 Dec '22

YES! This is what 'free speech' means in the non-minds of non-human turds like grancrap and his faggot boss moko - West was banned for "tweeting an image of a swastika " that's all it takes for non-human turd moko to show its true colors

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Bruce Schneier, Glen Greenwald and Ed Snowden go into a US flag shop
by professor rat 09 Dec '22

09 Dec '22

Cory Doctorow is an expert on mediocrity from constant practice https://www.wired.com/story/his-writing-radicalized-young-hackers-now-he-wa… Reposts not creepy informant scum like Andy Greenberg

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[oppression] GitHub: 60 hrs/mo free in-browser / in-cloud dev spaces
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 09 Dec '22

09 Dec '22

https://github.blog/2022-11-10-whats-new-with-codespaces-from-github-univer… What’s new with Codespaces from GitHub Universe 2022 We’re giving GitHub users 60 free hours each month on Codespaces. Learn what else we shipped for Codespaces at Universe this year. Nik Molnar What’s new with Codespaces from GitHub Universe 2022 Since releasing Codespaces to customers of GitHub’s Team and Enterprise plans last year, hundreds of thousands of developers have left their local development environments for the speed, agility, security, and collaboration that cloud based development has to offer. Our customers have all felt a similar pain when trying to contribute to a new inner or open source project, or when they’re learning a new language, and that’s the laborious pain of setting up and maintaining dev environments. But being able to start coding immediately without worrying about dev environment setup isn’t something that resonated only inside of organizations; it has also resonated with individual developers, maintainers of open source projects, and learners of all kinds. Codespaces has been a game changer for my open source project, from helping quickly ship higher-quality changes to being able to run end-to-end testing on just an iPad. - Raffaele Di Fazio, ExternalDNS maintainer Codespaces has been a huge help for me to get standardized development environments and saved me a lot of time in setting up environments. It also makes my environments reproducible for collaborators and even for myself. - Rishit Dagli, Kubernetes contributor With that in mind, over the course of this week, Codespaces is becoming generally available for all GitHub Free and Pro plan users. We’re also excited to provide every developer with up to 60 hours (90 hours for Pro plan users) per month of free Codespaces usage so they can start building in seconds and join us in our mission to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration. In addition to Codespaces becoming generally available, our team has been working hard to create many new and improved Codespaces experiences. Here’s details on all the updates we showed this week at Universe 2022. Choice in tooling Developers have strong preferences and widely varying opinions about their chosen tooling. As developers ourselves, we understand and strive to support a wide array of tooling options and personalizations to suit virtually all developer preferences. So, this week we announced Codespaces public beta support for JetBrains IDEs, in addition to our existing support for VS Code in the browser or on the desktop, VIM, and emacs. Now, developers can code in the cloud using the JetBrains IDEs they prefer, like IntelliJ or PyCharm. To connect to your codespace, download JetBrains Gateway and install the Codespaces plugin from the JetBrains Marketplace. Data science, AI, and machine learning Data scientists and machine learning (ML) practitioners love Jupyter notebooks. So, to provide further choice in tooling we’ve also added public beta support for JupyterLab to Codespaces. Gif demonstrating that you can open Codespaces in Visual Studio Code, JetBrains Gateway, and JupyterLab. Additionally, GPU-powered Codespaces are now available in limited beta. Having access to a GPU from within a codespace allows developers to run complex ML models much more quickly, and the combination of GPUs, along with support for Jupyter notebooks and Codespaces’ standardized, repeatable environments make collaboration on data science and ML workloads much easier since developers don’t have to struggle with complicated setup and local installations, much less running on underpowered desktop workstations. Learn more in our documentation, and to request access to the GPU machine type, or any additional machine type, please complete the sign up form and we’ll respond as soon as possible. New project experiences We’ve added experiences to make starting new projects from Codespaces with the most common app frameworks easier using repository templates. This capability allows users to single-click into a development environment and get straight to coding—no configuration required. From there, users can write, test, debug, and run their application, accessing it from automatically forwarded port(s). For more advanced scenarios, configuring a development container enables the codespace to install specific dependencies, run scripts, pre-open files, run required services or processes, and render app output, resulting in an unprecedented new project experience for developers. Gif demonstrating how to start a new project from Codespaces with React. You can learn how to create repository templates and development containers to make your app framework easier for new users to try now. Learning with Codespaces Logo of LinkedIn Learning For users new to programming, or developers wanting to take their skill to the next level, you can now try LinkedIn Learning’s 50+ Codespaces-enabled courses that cover six of the most popular programming languages, as well as topics like web development, data science, AI, and ML. These courses will be unlocked on LinkedIn Learning for free through February 2023. Codespaces for organizations For Teams and Enterprises rolling out and managing codespaces at scale, we’ve added support for organization level APIs and administrative policies that enable scaling up with confidence. The organization level APIs, which are generally available, offer a wide range of management operations to enable integrating Codespaces into existing workflows and systems. Additionally, administrators can apply cost control, compliance, and security policies for organization-owned codespaces to facilitate smooth rolls outs across large teams. Over the past few years, Rover has faced a variety of challenges in creating a scalable, reliable, and repeatable development environment. We decided to explore using Codespaces and the migration was easier—and far more beneficial—than we anticipated. New development environments are now ready within three minutes instead of an hour. We’ve accelerated our code reviews by using Codespaces as testing environments, and we’re able to scale our engineering organization without simultaneously scaling our developer support team. - Ben Menesini, Rover Prebuilding Codespaces in open source projects Codespaces prebuilds have been generally available since June and enable consistently fast start times for codespaces created against large repositories and complex applications. Prebuilt codespaces is such a marked improvement in these scenarios that it was listed as one of the cornerstone capabilities that enabled GitHub.com’s own developers to bring dev environment bootstrapping time down from 45 minutes to 10 seconds. We believe that all developers should be able to contribute to open source quickly and easily, and that Codespaces, with prebuilds, is the best way to achieve that. As such, we’re inviting maintainers of open source projects in free organizations to apply for prebuild storage grants that would enable many projects to use prebuilds free of charge. Wrap-up Over the past year, we’ve celebrated in the success that organizations like Duolingo and Vanta have enabled by using Codespaces, and with the general availability and included free usage, we can’t wait to see what it can do for every GitHub user and the open source community at large. Lastly, I’d like to personally thank the Codespaces team! Our group of engineers, product managers, designers, researchers, marketers, business folks, and other partners from across the company have collectively brought to life the vision of what the future of software development will look like. Their obsession with making developers’ lives better has only been matched by their drive and hard work. Thank you, team, for effectively eliminating yak shaving for so many in our industry. Cheers! 🍻 Now, it’s your turn. Go ahead, try Codespaces today, and let us know what you think. 😀

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Fwd: IDAD is coming soon: Stand with the FSF in support of the freedom to share on December 16
by Karl Semich 09 Dec '22

09 Dec '22

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Greg Farough, FSF" <info(a)fsf.org> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 02:04:06 -0500 Subject: IDAD is coming soon: Stand with us in support of the freedom to share on December 16 To: Karl Semich <0xloem(a)gmail.com> *Please consider adding <info(a)fsf.org> to your address book, which will ensure that our messages reach you and not your spam box.* *Read and share online: <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/idad-is-coming-soon-stand-with-us-in-su…>* Dear Karl Semich, The sixteenth [International Day Against DRM (IDAD)][1] is next week, and all of us that contribute to the [Defective by Design][2] campaign are calling on you to help us send a message to purveyors of [Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)][3] around the world, letting them know that DRM is unacceptable in any and all of its forms. **This year's Day Against DRM will be held next Friday, on December 16, 2022.** [1]: https://dayagainstdrm.org [2]: https://defectivebydesign.org [3]: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm_digital_restrictions_manageme… In this year's IDAD, we want to celebrate and call attention to an increasingly rare, almost magical ability that most forms of media *used* to have, and which all ethical digital media still does today: **the ability to be shared with a friend.** In our [year-end fundraiser][4], we've been stressing the importance of sharing. Though sharing is the basis of human culture, the most staunch defenders of [unjust copyright][5] legislation would have you believe that every creative work is dropped wholesale out of the sky, without influence from anything that came before it. In 2022, monolithic mega-corporations would have you believe that these creative works should be "temporary," something that "expires" after it's seen once or twice under a restrictive license on restricting technology. (See, for example, section 3.a.ii of the Disney Plus Subscriber Agreement.) [4]: https://fsf.org/appeal [5]: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/spring_mouse_trap_dont_fall_disney This year, let's remind everyone that things didn't use to be this way, but more importantly, that they don't *have* to be this way. Just as DRM crept into our lives one choice at a time, it can be weeded out in the same way: with one conscious decision after another and support from a community of like-minded activists. What seems like a small act of lending on your part can be the perfect springboard for a conversation on why it's important to avoid DRM, even if that means forgoing a popular Netflix series or streamed film in favor of something produced by companies that sell their works in a way that doesn't trample your freedom. As inundated by advertising as we are, we often forget just how *many* works of art are still distributed ethically. Lending one of these to a friend or family member could be a great start. On this year's IDAD, we'll be working to put focus on sharing, *taking to the streets of Boston* on the day of the event and recording videos we hope will be helpful in understanding people's thoughts and perspectives on sharing in contemporary digital life. This insight, gained through outreach, is useful because it helps us anti-DRM activists understand how we can better educate people on the problems and ethical pitfalls of DRM. You can have your own effect on the fight for our freedom to share all while staying at home by recording a brief video on why you think the #FreedomtoShare is important and posting it to social media. As with any social cause, even the smallest of actions (or refusals to participate in an unjust system) help the movement as a whole. ### What you can do There are many ways you can educate others about the freedom to share. Some ideas that we came up with, which you might find useful, are: * Share a physical or digital DRM-free work with a friend (you can use the [DRM-free Guide][6]!) and use it to start a conversation about DRM; * Let us and the world know why the freedom to share is important in a short video posted to social media. You can use the hashtags #FreedomtoShare and #DayAgainstDRM; * Challenge yourself to go a "Day without DRM," and refuse to engage with media peddled by Disney+, Amazon, Peacock, and others that don't respect your digital autonomy; * Be on the lookout for the videos that we'll be recording on this year's IDAD, and please share them. [6]: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide We hope to see you taking part in this year's IDAD as we prepare more anti-DRM actions through the Defective by Design campaign. While some aspects of the struggle have changed, the core principles remain the same: users should not be forced to surrender their digital autonomy in exchange for media. **Are you an organization or project interested in supporting or sponsoring IDAD?** We're looking for vendors of DRM-free media, organizations that support the building of a DRM-free world, and those who believe in the mission of DbD to participate in this IDAD. You can do this by offering sales, writing blog posts, organizing events, and sharing with your members about IDAD. Please contact us at <info(a)defectivebydesign.org> to let us know what you are planning, so we can amplify your actions, or if you need more information. If you're an organization interested in sponsoring IDAD, please contact us at the same address for more information. If you're hosting your own event, please let us know, and we'll do what we can to promote it. In solidarity, Greg Farough Campaigns Manager -- * Follow us on Mastodon at <https://hostux.social/@fsf>, GNU social at <https://status.fsf.org/fsf>, PeerTube at <https://framatube.org/accounts/fsf/video-channels>, and on Twitter at @fsf. * Read about why we use Twitter, but only with caveats at <https://www.fsf.org/twitter>. * Subscribe to our RSS feeds at <https://fsf.org/blogs/RSS>. * Join us as an associate member at <https://www.fsf.org/jf>. * Read our Privacy Policy at <https://www.fsf.org/about/free-software-foundation-privacy-policy>. Sent from the Free Software Foundation,

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Please don' throw me in dat CBDC briar-patch, massa FOX
by professor rat 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

OH LORDY, LORD, NO! NOT ANOTHER WAR ON XMAS! https://cointelegraph.com/news/dmi-finds-cbdcs-not-targeting-cross-border-p… “The variety of payments systems will grow, creating competition and diversity in the marketplace.” Reposts lie all the time - but they can't catch up with Grarpamps yet

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Re: [ot][spam][crazy][fiction] morning spam 3: hybrid mcboss
by Karl Semich 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

On 11/22/22, Karl Semich <0xloem(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Mind Controlled Cyborg Torturer > > Concepts: > - manliness, power, aggression, devaluing of others > - fear, terror > - coverup? silence. connection. secret pacts. having a shared > understanding. > - frustrating recursive-like bit where the intense fear tries to block > discussion or thought around the nature of the intense fear, backed by > some idea of unspoken silence agreement > - deeper into unspoken silence agreement, being harmed when talking, > with a sense of some kind of expected understanding, as if something > unspoken is being treated as obvious > > Experimentee: "He hurt you when you tried to be you!" > Cyborg Torturer: "I guess you could put it that way." > Experimentee: "He hurt you when you tried to be you so much, that you > started telling yourself it was good to not be you." > Cyborg Torturer: "I think he said that directly, could be wrong." >

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Fwd: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs
by Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org> Because this victim was so entrenched in passive aggression, they didn't really understand it. They said it all the time, but didn't know what it was. It just seemed how to speak. Meanwhile, the animals and plants had their own words. The victim lashed out at a stick, believing it to be mocking them, and a squirrel began chattering. The squirrel saw how fast the victim of passive aggression was moving, and was talking with other animals in the woods about what kinds of things to expect to happen in the area, and how it made them feel. The victim of passive aggression knew the squirrel was chattering at them. The squirrel didn't know, though. A few other squirrels made noises around, in the trees. Birdsong changed. I'm using Inbox When Ready to protect my focus.

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Passport to Dystopia
by professor rat 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

CBDC airdrop chance favors the prepared mind https://cointelegraph.com/news/fintech-company-zelf-launches-anonymous-visa… Reposts not Gramps garbage

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Senate Banking Chair Threatens a Subpoena If Sam Bankman-Fried Doesn’t Show for Next Wednesday’s Hearing; Says SBF “Orchestrated a Coverup”
by Gunnar Larson 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/12/senate-banking-chair-threatens-a-sub… Senate Banking Chair Threatens a Subpoena If Sam Bankman-Fried Doesn’t Show for Next Wednesday’s Hearing; Says SBF “Orchestrated a Coverup” By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: December 8, 2022 ~ Senator Sherrod Brown Senator Sherrod Brown The past 48 hours has brought major developments in the battle lines being drawn in the crypto wars. Let’s start with the unusual letter that Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) sent yesterday to Sam Bankman-Fried, the ousted CEO of the collapsed and scandalized crypto exchange, FTX, via his new lawyer, Mark S. Cohen. Typically, if you want a witness to testify at a Senate Banking Committee hearing, one doesn’t tell his attorney in writing that you know the witness is guilty of law-breaking activities. (But then, again, most people credibly alleged to have done what Sam Bankman-Fried has done would by now be warming a cot in a cold prison cell.) Brown advises in the letter that “There are still significant unanswered questions about how client funds were misappropriated, how clients were blocked from withdrawing their own money, and how you orchestrated a cover up.” Senator Sherrod Brown goes on in the letter to order Bankman-Fried to appear before the Senate Banking Committee next Wednesday, December 14, at 10 a.m. Brown wants a confirmation of that appearance by 5:00 p.m. today. If Brown doesn’t get that confirmation, he advises that he is “prepared, along with Ranking Member Pat Toomey, to issue a subpoena to compel your testimony.” The Senate Banking hearing is titled “Crypto Crash: Why the FTX Bubble Burst and the Harm to Consumers.” It presently has just two witnesses officially scheduled: actor Ben McKenzie, a long-term critic of crypto and the celebrities who push it on a gullible public; and Law Professor Hilary Allen of the American University Washington College of Law. McKenzie is co-writing a book with journalist Jacob Silverman, Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud, set for release in July of next year. Professor Allen is the author of The Superficial Allure of Crypto published in the September edition of the IMF’s Finance and Development. Bankman-Fried has also been invited to testify the previous day (December 13) before the House Financial Services Committee, which is chaired by Congresswoman Maxine Waters. There has been a bit of waffling as to whether Waters will issue a subpoena if Bankman-Fried fails to show. More crypto fireworks went off in another unusual letter sent on Tuesday to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) by Congressman Ritchie Torres, a Democrat from New York. Torres (from the same political party as SEC Chair Gary Gensler) asks the GAO to investigate the SEC’s failure to “uncover the largest crypto Ponzi scheme in US history” and blames Gensler for “being singularly responsible for the regulatory failures surrounding the collapse of FTX and its affiliate FTX US.” Torres, it should be noted, is a big crypto fan. Bankman-Fried’s well-funded Political Action Committee (PAC), Protect Our Future, endorsed Torres in his 2022 campaign for Congress. In May, CNBC’s Brian Schwartz reported that Torres had written an OpEd in the New York Daily News in March, calling on New Yorkers to get behind the cryptocurrency market, but failed to mention that Torres was getting fundraising support from crypto backers. Schwartz reported that “Crypto investors Ben Horowitz, Anthony Albanese and Chris Dixon — leaders at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz — hosted the ‘Ritchie Torres Ethereum Fundraiser’ at the swanky private nightclub Zero Bond in New York City on April 13” and “Fred Wilson, a partner at venture capital firm Union Square Ventures, which is also heavily invested in cryptocurrencies, co-hosted another fundraising event for Torres in April, the lawmaker’s aide confirmed.” In the Daily News OpEd, Torres used the same old trope that was used to avoid regulating derivatives and which led to the largest financial collapse in 2008 since the Great Depression. Torres wrote: “The state’s regulatory regime [toward crypto] has the cost of inhibiting job creation and innovation without the actual benefit of protecting a single consumer or investor. It’s a classic case of bureaucracy trumping efficacy. “With a multi-billion dollar market capitalization, crypto is here to stay. It’s not going anywhere. New York City should and must embrace crypto if it is to remain the financial capital of the world. We no longer live in a world where our central place in finance can be taken for granted.” There are plenty of respected and highly knowledgeable individuals who believe crypto could topple the U.S. as the financial capital of the world. Investment icon Warren Buffet has called the largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, ‘rat poison squared’; global economist, Nouriel Roubini, told the Senate Banking Committee in 2018 that ‘Crypto is the Mother of All Scams and (Now Busted) Bubbles While Blockchain Is The Most Over-Hyped Technology Ever, No Better than a Spreadsheet/Database.’ More recently, Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, one of the most valuable tech companies in the world, stated that cryptocurrencies are ‘100% based on greater fool theory.’ And just this past June 1, more than 1,600 scientists and software engineers wrote to Committee chairs in Congress to warn that both crypto and blockchain are shams.” Should you believe those august voices or a guy taking money from the crypto industry?

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