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World's first 200TB SSD is nearly here, but you can't use it | Digital Trends
by jim bell 10 Apr '22

10 Apr '22

The era of 200TB solid-state drives (SSD) appears to be on the horizon, with a successor to the world’s largest SSD confirmed to be in development. Nimbus Data’s 100TB ExaDrive immediately became the biggest SSD in the world when it launched more than two years ago. However, that record will soon belong to its successor, which may even launch sometime in 2022. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/worlds-first-200tb-ssd-is-nearly-he… Nimbus CEO Thomas Isakovich told … [View More]

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#FreeAssange Wikileaks reveals video showing US air crew shooting down Iraqi civilians
by zeynepaydogan 10 Apr '22

10 Apr '22

Video:https://youtu.be/UaqY12VHFv4 Wikileaks reveals video showing US air crew shooting down Iraqi civilians A secret video showing US air crew falsely claiming to have encountered a firefight in Baghdad and then laughing at the dead after launching an air strike that killed a dozen people, including two Iraqis working for Reuters news agency, was revealed by Wikileaks today. The footage of the July 2007 attack was made public in a move that will further anger the Pentagon, which has drawn … [View More]up a report identifying the whistleblower website as a threat to national security. The US defence department was embarrassed when that confidential report appeared on the Wikileaks site last month alongside a slew of military documents. Also comes shortly after the US military admitted that its special forces attempted to cover up the killings of three Afghan women in a raid in February by digging the bullets out of their bodies. The newly released video of the Baghdad attacks was recorded on one of two Apache helicopters hunting for insurgents on 12 July 2007. Among the dead were a 22-year-old Reuters photographer, Namir Noor-Eldeen, and his driver, Saeed Chmagh, 40. The Pentagon blocked an attempt by Reuters to obtain the video through a freedom of information request. Wikileaks director Julian Assange said his organisation had to break through encryption by the military to view it. In the recording, the helicopter crews can be heard discussing the scene on the street below. One American claims to have spotted six people with AK-47s and one with a rocket-propelled grenade. It is unclear if some of the men are armed but Noor-Eldeen can be seen with a camera. Chmagh is talking on his mobile phone. One of the helicopter crew is then heard saying that one of the group is shooting. But the video shows there is no shooting or even pointing of weapons. The men are standing around, apparently unperturbed. The lead helicopter, using the moniker Crazyhorse, opens fire. "Hahaha. I hit 'em," shouts one of the American crew. Another responds a little later: "Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards." One of the men on the ground, believed to be Chmagh, is seen wounded and trying to crawl to safety. One of the helicopter crew is heard wishing for the man to reach for a gun, even though there is none visible nearby, so he has the pretext for opening fire: "All you gotta do is pick up a weapon." A van draws up next to the wounded man and Iraqis climb out. They are unarmed and start to carry the victim to the vehicle in what would appear to be an attempt to get him to hospital. One of the helicopters opens fire with armour-piercing shells. "Look at that. Right through the windshield," says one of the crew. Another responds with a laugh. Sitting behind the windscreen were two children who were wounded. After ground forces arrive and the children are discovered, the American air crew blame the Iraqis. "Well it's their fault for bringing kids in to a battle," says one. "That's right," says another. Initially the[US military](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-military)said that all the dead were insurgents. Then it claimed the helicopters reacted to an active firefight. Assange said that the video demonstrated that neither claim was true. "Why would anyone be so relaxed with two Apaches if someone was carrying an RPG and that person was an enemy of the United States?" he said. "The behaviour of the pilots is like a computer game. When Saeed is crawling, clearly unable to do anything, their response is: come on buddy, we want to kill you, just pick up a weapon ... It appears to be a desire to get a higher score, or a higher number of kills." Wikileaks says it will shortly release a second secret US military video showing the deaths of civilians in an attack in Afghanistan. The Pentagon has been seeking ways to prevent classified material appearing on Wikileaks, including through "criminal sanctions". Wikileaks has made public classified US army reports on weapons, military units and battle strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Pentagon report, reflecting the depth of paranoia about where Wikileaks is obtaining its material, speculates that the CIA may be responsible. But perhaps most embarrassing leak for the US defence department was that of the 2008 report itself which appeared on the Wikileaks site last month. … we have a small favour to ask. Tens of millions have placed their trust in the Guardian’s fearless journalism since we started publishing 200 years ago, turning to us in moments of crisis, uncertainty, solidarity and hope. More than 1.5 million supporters, from 180 countries, now power us financially – keeping us open to all, and fiercely independent. Unlike many others, the Guardian has no shareholders and no billionaire owner. Just the determination and passion to deliver high-impact global reporting, always free from commercial or political influence. Reporting like this is vital for democracy, for fairness and to demand better from the powerful. And we provide all this for free, for everyone to read. We do this because we believe in information equality. Greater numbers of people can keep track of the global events shaping our world, understand their impact on people and communities, and become inspired to take meaningful action. Millions can benefit from open access to quality, truthful news, regardless of their ability to pay for it. If there were ever a time to join us, it is now. Every contribution, however big or small, powers our journalism and sustains our future. [View Less]

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john young, yet another jewnazi US turd.
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 10 Apr '22

10 Apr '22

Wow, this is so very shocking!!! "Massacre at Bucha, Ukraine by Russian Soldiers, April 3, 2022" http://web.archive.org/web/20220406214249/https://cryptome.org/2022/04/buch… So maybe this motherfucking piece of non-human, US pentagon shit, mr. young can tell us what his 'source' for his 'information' is? Could be that CIA cunt natsios perhaps?

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DALL-E
by coderman 10 Apr '22

10 Apr '22

DALL·E[1](https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/#fn1) We decided to name our model using a portmanteau of the artist Salvador Dalí and Pixar’s WALL·E. is a 12-billion parameter version of[GPT-3](https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165) trained to generate images from text descriptions, using a dataset of text–image pairs. We’ve found that it has a diverse set of capabilities, including creating anthropomorphized versions of animals and objects, combining unrelated concepts in plausible ways, rendering text,… [View More] and applying transformations to existing images. https://github.com/openai/DALL-E import io import os , sys import requests import PIL import torch import torchvision.transforms as T import torchvision.transforms.functional as TF from dall_e import map_pixels , unmap_pixels , load_model from IPython.display import display , display_markdown target_image_size = 256 def download_image ( url ): resp = requests . get ( url ) resp . raise_for_status () return PIL . Image . open ( io . BytesIO ( resp . content )) def preprocess ( img ): s = min ( img . size ) if s < target_image_size : raise ValueError ( f 'min dim for image { s } < { target_image_size } ' ) r = target_image_size / s s = ( round ( r * img . size [ 1 ]), round ( r * img . size [ 0 ])) img = TF . resize ( img , s , interpolation = PIL . Image . LANCZOS ) img = TF . center_crop ( img , output_size = 2 * [ target_image_size ]) img = torch . unsqueeze ( T . ToTensor ()( img ), 0 ) return map_pixels ( img ) # This can be changed to a GPU, e.g. 'cuda:0'. dev = torch . device ( 'cpu' ) # For faster load times, download these files locally and use the local paths instead. enc = load_model ( " https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/encoder.pkl " , dev ) dec = load_model ( " https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/decoder.pkl " , dev ) x = preprocess ( download_image ( ' https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iKIWgaiJUtss/v2/1000x-1.jpg ' )) display_markdown ( 'Original image:' ) display ( T . ToPILImage ( mode = 'RGB' )( x [ 0 ])) import torch.nn.functional as F z_logits = enc ( x ) z = torch . argmax ( z_logits , axis = 1 ) z = F . one_hot ( z , num_classes = enc . vocab_size ) . permute ( 0 , 3 , 1 , 2 ) . float () x_stats = dec ( z ) . float () x_rec = unmap_pixels ( torch . sigmoid ( x_stats [:, : 3 ])) x_rec = T . ToPILImage ( mode = 'RGB' )( x_rec [ 0 ]) display_markdown ( 'Reconstructed image:' ) display ( x_rec ) [View Less]

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Boeing went swimming
by Gunnar Larson 10 Apr '22

10 Apr '22

On Sat, Apr 9, 2022, 8:11 PM <cypherpunks-request(a)lists.cpunks.org> wrote: > Send cypherpunks mailing list submissions to > cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.cpunks.org/mailman/listinfo/cypherpunks > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > cypherpunks-request(a)lists.cpunks.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > … [View More]cypherpunks-owner(a)lists.cpunks.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of cypherpunks digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Wikileaks to Iraq - Drop Dead (professor rat) > 2. Manning to anarchists - Drop Dead (professor rat) > 3. Mark Sucks Dig Dick (Gunnar Larson) > 4. Meningococcal disease warning for gay, bi men (professor rat) > 5. Don't hate Facebook / Meta fascism (professor rat) > 6. Anarchist Igor Volokhov has died near Kharkiv. (professor rat) > 7. john young, yet another jewnazi US turd. (Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0) > 8. Re: john young, yet another jewnazi US turd. (zeynepaydogan) > 9. Re: DALL-E (coderman) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2022 22:04:40 +0000 (UTC) > From: professor rat <pro2rat(a)yahoo.com.au> > To: CypherPunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org> > Subject: Wikileaks to Iraq - Drop Dead > Message-ID: <253397244.209342.1649541880886(a)mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > "... Mr Assange agreed that some level of privacy was necessary for the > successful operation of the military ..." > > > http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/assange-i-can-rule-from-… > > JULIAN " ‘[The military] protects the sovereignty of Australia. It > protects the independence of Australia.' ASSANGE July, 2013 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2022 22:08:32 +0000 (UTC) > From: professor rat <pro2rat(a)yahoo.com.au> > To: CypherPunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org> > Subject: Manning to anarchists - Drop Dead > Message-ID: <1916171347.201374.1649542112765(a)mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > It was a gala in celebration of the one-year anniversary of President > Trump’s inauguration. The event, A Night for Freedom, showcased a > caravan of internet-famous far-right personalities. Mike Cernovich, a men’s > rights activist turned political gadfly who helped propagate the blatantly > false Pizzagate conspiracy theory, was the host, and other attendees > included right-wing gotcha “journalist” James O’Keefe and Gavin McInnes, > the Vice co-founder and who started the far-right men’s group the Proud > Boys. > > > https://slate.com/technology/2018/01/why-did-chelsea-manning-go-to-an-alt-r… > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2022 18:39:20 -0400 > From: Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> > To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org> > Subject: Mark Sucks Dig Dick > Message-ID: > < > CAPc8xwPCPFwgryFYHfifK1+b3ZeA2+FVJdLMG9OdaDRxcsaPeA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On this day in television, Mr. MARK ZUCK ... sucked a big one. Just now > they are trying to see if he made it. YES, some want him dead. > [View Less]

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Anarchist Igor Volokhov has died near Kharkiv.
by professor rat 09 Apr '22

09 Apr '22

March 15, 2022 Sad news: anarchist Igor Volokhov has died near Kharkiv. More details in Ressentiment channel (https://t.me/ressentiment_channel/19152) I hope he will be the first and last anarchist to die in this war. Eternal commemoration to the comrade! https://anarchistnews.org/content/war-diary-belarusian-anarchist-fighting-u…

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Don't hate Facebook / Meta fascism
by professor rat 09 Apr '22

09 Apr '22

KILL Facebook / Meta fascism! For every thousand whiny little bitches hacking at the root there is one doing crown-reduction-pruning. ANTE UP! ( My 20 sats ) https://stiffs.com/celebrity/markzuckerberg Any prediction market on a person is also an assassination market on that person.

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Meningococcal disease warning for gay, bi men
by professor rat 09 Apr '22

09 Apr '22

CDC warns of meningococcal disease outbreak in Argentina, sorry, Florida primarily affecting gay, bi men https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Duesberg Followers of the Duesberg Hypothesis may ignore this warning

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Mark Sucks Dig Dick
by Gunnar Larson 09 Apr '22

09 Apr '22

On this day in television, Mr. MARK ZUCK ... sucked a big one. Just now they are trying to see if he made it. YES, some want him dead.

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Manning to anarchists - Drop Dead
by professor rat 09 Apr '22

09 Apr '22

It was a gala in celebration of the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration. The event, A Night for Freedom, showcased a caravan of internet-famous far-right personalities. Mike Cernovich, a men’s rights activist turned political gadfly who helped propagate the blatantly false Pizzagate conspiracy theory, was the host, and other attendees included right-wing gotcha “journalist” James O’Keefe and Gavin McInnes, the Vice co-founder and who started the far-right men’… [View More]

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