June 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

John McAfee: Crypto Libertarian Privacy and Love Evangelist, Dead at 75
by professor rat 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

>From each according to their gullibility - to each according to their greed https://twitter.com/vmyths/status/1540510441310494723?cxt=HHwWhoC9sbOF_-AqA… The McAfee uninstall problem

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xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

Quality finance is a human right. For all, everywhere.

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Engadget: Google warns internet service providers helped distribute Hermit spyware
by jim bell 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

Engadget: Google warns internet service providers helped distribute Hermit spyware. https://www.engadget.com/google-hermit-spyware-204549595.html?src=rss Google is warning of a sophisticated new spyware campaign that has seen malicious actors steal sensitive data from Android and iOS users in Italy and Kazakhstan. On Thursday, the company’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared its findings on RCS Labs, a commercial spyware vendor based out of Italy. On June 16th, security researchers … [View More]

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TechCrunch: Google is notifying Android users targeted by Hermit government-grade spyware
by jim bell 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

TechCrunch: Google is notifying Android users targeted by Hermit government-grade spyware. https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/23/hermit-zero-day-android-spyware/ Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch Security researchers at Lookout recently tied a previously unattributed Android mobile spyware, dubbed Hermit, to Italian software house RCS Lab. Now, Google threat researchers have confirmed much of Lookout’s findings and are notifying Android users whose devices were compromised by the … [View More]

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News anarchist books
by professor rat 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

War and Peace (ISBN 978-1849354684, 625pp, £21.61, AK) is one of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s best books but perhaps the least well known in the English-speaking world. This translation aims to open up both our understanding of Proudhon’s mature works as well as a window on mid-nineteenth century international relations and the history of international thought. The Modern Crisis (ISBN 978-1849354462, 196pp, £12.20, AK) by Murray Bookchin reissues four key essays by the influential and … [View More]

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Towards a comprehensive approach to counter hate speech
by Gunnar Larson 26 Jun '22

26 Jun '22

Gay. https://unric.org/en/towards-a-comprehensive-approach-to-counter-hate-speec…

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Cryptocurrency: Schneier Bleats, Kasparov Correctly Slams Democracy Threat To Freedom
by grarpamp 26 Jun '22

26 Jun '22

Schneier the unrepentant statist bleats for regulation, bashes entire cryptocurrency space, doesn't even HODL... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/06/on-the-dangers-of-cryptocurr… Kasparov brings truth... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3V4neeDVtI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWAwK2fHArc CryptoLiberty's Win Knows No Regulators

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Goldman Sachs, Harvard team up with Al Gore’s investment firm | Business and Economy News | Al Jazeera
by Gunnar Larson 26 Jun '22

26 Jun '22

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/10/27/goldman-sachs-and-others-team-…

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[ot][spam][crazy] notes/daydreams can maddness do convolution
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 25 Jun '22

25 Jun '22

i was reading looking at this wonky algorithm i found online and pursued a little in discord it's biggest bottleneck is a call to conv1d(). the author cuda-accelerated it by hand; they are new to cuda. thinking about conv1d via this mithral/maddness stuff, dunno. in a matrix, one combines columns of A with rows of B or something like that. so, the algorithm organizes a bunch of columns and rows, and I think it just precalculates their dotproducts, and then does something equivalent to … [View More]

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[ot][crazy][spam] Notes: Matmul Acceleration
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 25 Jun '22

25 Jun '22

Goal: Take implementation-oriented notes on https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.10860.pdf . My understanding of the approach is that it lossily compresses the data into a smaller representation that contains most of the big ends of the information, combines in a way that involves no add-multiplies, then decompresses it and produces a batch matmul result. The goal is to understand the derivation and implementation enough to daydream about implementing a convolution operation rather than matrix … [View More]

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