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Cryptocurrency: Crypto Goes RF with Locha Mesh Gotenna Satcom HAM GNURadio SDR and more...
by grarpamp 07 Mar '23

07 Mar '23

https://twitter.com/Locha_io https://locha.io/ Locha Mesh is open-source software & hardware to create the resilient network for private chat, censorship-resistant webs, Bitcoin and payments without internet. https://blockstream.com/satellite/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBM4bw3bhkM Locha Mesh: Monero Off the Grid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc0I8QQIOr4?t=507 https://github.com/btcven/locha https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/hm45f9/lochamesh_is_turning_people… https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1276930007072411650/pu/vid/640x360/l_1… https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/f281lt/ccs_funding_required_locha_… https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/esbznr/ccs_proposal_locha_mesh_pri… https://cointelegraph.com/news/venezuelan-team-working-on-bitcoin-mesh-netw… https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/e8to20/to_all_the_clowns_the_liar… https://www.wired.com/story/cypherpunks-bitcoin-ham-radio/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/dy5eac/bitcoin_sent_from_toronto_… https://inthemesh.com/archive/lot49-adding-payments-to-mesh-networks https://gotenna.com/blogs/newsroom/gotennas-vine-routing-protocol-provides-… https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/ https://cryptonewsmonitor.com/2018/01/22/samourai-wallet-introduces-bitcoin… https://old.reddit.com/user/rdymac/submitted/ https://blockstream.com/2019/05/11/en-gotenna-satellite-api-integration/ https://medium.com/hackernoon/completely-offline-bitcoin-transactions-4e583… https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/e95ugd/can_someone_make_bitcoin_w… https://disaster.radio/ https://mobile.twitter.com/nvk/status/1095354354289135617 https://txtenna.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information.html https://www.bitcoinvenezuela.com/

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The National Congress of American Indians Resolution #ECWS-23-005 TITLE: Offshore Wind Moratorium
by Gunnar Larson 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/r2DmaqtznhvU/v0 The National Congress of American Indians Resolution #ECWS-23-005 TITLE: Offshore Wind Moratorium WHEREAS, we, the members of the National Congress of American Indians of the United States, invoking the divine blessing of the Creator upon our efforts and purposes, in order to preserve for ourselves and our descendants the inherent sovereign rights of our Indian nations, rights secured under Indian treaties and agreements with the United States, and all other rights and benefits to which we are entitled under the laws and Constitution of the United States and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to enlighten the public toward a better understanding of the Indian people, to preserve Indian cultural values, and otherwise promote the health, safety and welfare of the Indian people, do hereby establish and submit the following resolution; and WHEREAS, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) was established in 1944 and is the oldest and largest national organization of American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments; and WHEREAS, the government has a legal obligation to consult with Tribal Nations on any activities that may affect their lands or resources; and WHEREAS, the Biden administration encourages through the January 26, 2021 Memorandum, “Tribal Consultation and Strengthening Nation-to-Nation Relationships” to improve tribal engagements; and WHEREAS, the Biden administration in the November 30, 2022 Memorandum requires “Uniform Standards for Tribal Consultation”; and WHEREAS, the Biden Administration has embraced the need to expand tribal consultation to incorporate the essential importance of tribal co-stewardship and co- managment of traditional tribal lands and waters as recently as Assistant Secretary Bryan Newland’s statement before the General Assembly of NCAI on February 22, 2023; and WHEREAS, President Biden issued a Memorandum on December 1, 2022, titled, “Implementation of Guidance for Federal Departments and Agencies on Indigenous Knowledge,” requires federal agencies to integrate Indigenous Knowledge as a line of evidence in federal decision-making; and WHEREAS, incorporating tribal Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge, through co-management of traditional lands and the associated life forms is critical to protecting tribal environment and is essential to Biden Administrations’ stated goal of respecting and including Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge in decision making; and WHEREAS, these policies must apply to energy development projects that may impact their traditional territories, cultural resources, or sacred sites; and WHEREAS, Tribal Nations must be included in the management, permitting and development of power purchase agreements and both consulted and included in determining the terms and conditions of the agreements; and WHEREAS, this includes negotiating fair compensation for the use of their lands and resources, inclusion in any revenues associated with such development of their traditional resources as well as ensuring that the development does not harm their environment or cultural heritage. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, NCAI resolves to support shared tribal jurisdictional authority over and tribal management of offshore renewable energy activities, aimed at empowering Native communities through socio-economic benefits such as job opportunities, revenue sharing, and support for tribal energy development projects; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that NCAI strongly urges the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to halt all scoping and permitting for offshore wind projects until completion of a comprehensive and transparent procedure adequately protecting tribal environmental and sovereign interests is developed and implemented; and BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that this resolution shall be the policy of NCAI until it is withdrawn or modified by subsequent resolution. CERTIFICATION The foregoing resolution was adopted by the General Assembly at the 2023 Executive Council Winter Session of the National Congress of American Indians, held February 20-23, 2023, in Washington, D.C., with a quorum present. Fawn Sharp, President ATTEST: _________________________________ Stephen Roe Lewis, Recording Secretary

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The $100 Billion Offshore Wind Industry Has a Whale Problem
by Gunnar Larson 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

The $100 Billion Offshore Wind Industry Has a Whale Problem https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-18/why-are-whales-dying-in-…

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Cryptocurrency: Blockchains As Global Code Repositories?
by grarpamp 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

Any blockchain, graph, etc based networks designed for use as global code repositories in operation yet?

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JOHN " Cryptome " Young suspect in guns and dildo's case
by professor rat 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

>>> emptywheel · 9h As a reminder, one Alex Jones employee is awaiting sentencing. Another -- Owen Shroyer -- decided to postpone pleading long enough that this trial could make that plea more costly. Jones, meanwhile, is keeping their guns "safe." <<< Reposts not anonymous tip-offs to LEO's about dangerous anti-social criminals that need to be executed

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[oss][sass] Chatbot Replica of Amjad Massad
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

not a replica yet note that this could be done just as easily without openai on a local machine, by feeding the data into any example finetuning script . you could even use a larger model with peft. [preferably on a storage chain] https://ai.repl.page/ # Amjad GPT A chatbot trained to act like [Amjad Masad](https://twitter.com/amasad), built with [LangChain](https://twitter.com/langchainai) and Next.js. This is only the frontend part of this project; The OpenAI model with Langchain is hosted in another Repl. The OpenAI model being used is `text-davinci-003`, trained with: - Major parts of the [Replit docs](https://docs.replit.com) - The [Replit blog](https://blog.replit.com) - The Replit [landing page](https://replit.com) - The Replit Employee Organization Chart - Amjad's [personal blog](https://amasad.me) - Amjad's [AmA Repl](https://replit.com/@amasad/AmA?v=1) - Amjad's Podcasts - Some of [Amjad's Tweets](https://twitter.com/amasad) - Replit's [Terms of Service](https://replit.com/site/terms) and [Community guidelines](https://welcome.moderation.repl.co) - Some random facts the AI should be aware of All of this data was compiled into a `.index` file. [Zahid Khawaja](https://twitter.com/chillzaza_) has an [Awesome Tutorial](https://replit.com/@zahidkhawaja/Replit-Assistant?v=1) on how to do this if you want to make your own. Speaking of which, Thanks a lot Zahid, I couldn't have done this without you 🙏 - [Model Source Code](https://github.com/Conner1115/Amjad-GPT-Langchain) - [Frontend Source Code](https://github.com/Conner1115/Amjad-GPT) # Quota & Limits By default, all users get a total of 10 responses. After you've used up the ten responses, you must add your own OpenAI API key (Open the settings tab) or [tip this Repl](https://ai.repl.page/__repl) to increase your quota. One response is one question asked followed by one answer from the chatbot. Your quota will not be measured in tokens or response length. - **100 Cycles tip 🍬** - Quota increased by 20 responses - **500 Cycles tip 🍕** - Quota increased by 100 responses - **1000 Cycles tip 🌯** - Quota increased by 200 responses --- Made with 🧠 & 🔥 by [@IroncladDev](https://twitter.com/IroncladDev)

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[ot][personal] coreboot progress
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

i’m (somewhat sadly) no longer presently working on my coreboot port (although observing coding is getting easier and easier in some places) but yesterday i finally got spi flashing going which is great. i was discouraged months ago when i failed to acquire and troubleshoot working flash chips this morning i’ve flashed a chip last night and am looking forward to trying to POST the old board for the first time, which will mean wiring it up with my dc power supply https://matrix.to/#/!orFwLtOAmHWlvoSoQn%3Athe-apothecary.club/%24dKehdGijzB… i’ve been trying for a year or two to get a server board running coreboot as my first foray into coreboot [photo of half-disassembled flashing parts on a breadboard] this is the last flasher i was using. i stalled when it turned out i was using toasted spi chips (spi not pictured, socket is lpc), lots of troubleshooting, contacted the manufacturer etc [photo of arduino next to prototype shield with small wiring of components on one end] this is my finally today working arduino spi flasher. after the last frustration with unsteady hands i bought a general purpose arduino shield to wire it on. it’s finally flashing the pictured flash adapter reliably, big celebration the lpc isn’t wired yet obv i make so many mistakes i actually patched the flasher firmware to add commands to perform voltage tests for each wire, to verify it is correctly wired, which really helps me troubleshoot. my patch is at https://github.com/urjaman/frser-m328lpcspi/pull/2 […] dissociative disorder and fervent self sabotage

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Americans Are Saving $500 Million Monthly on Internet Fees
by Gunnar Larson 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

Americans Are Saving $500 Million Monthly on Internet Fees https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-27/americans-save-500-milli…

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Goldman Turns to ‘Make-or-Break’ Unit as Solomon Put to Test
by Gunnar Larson 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

Goldman Turns to ‘Make-or-Break’ Unit as Solomon Put to Test https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-26/goldman-turns-to-make-or… Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS)’s leaders take the stage this week hoping to turn the page on a forgettable 2022, lay out new reasons for investors to rally around the stock and quell dissatisfaction within the firm’s ranks.

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Goldman Sachs Kicks Off Investor Day With Report Card on CEO Solomon
by Gunnar Larson 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

Goldman Sachs Kicks Off Investor Day With Report Card on CEO Solomon https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-28/goldman-kicks-off-invest…

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