April 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

With offices in Canada, Cali and Israel, Blockstream is subject to the same regulatory regime as Moby.
by professor rat 09 Apr '23

09 Apr '23

Drilling down a little on Mobilecoin I noticed several of their top people retweeted a post mentioning ' cypherpunks'. Then Moxie Marlinspike was associated with anarchism for a while. Makes me wonder if Adam Back isn't providing ' revolutionary ' figleaf cover the way Moxie just did. Adam already supports 5-VEY compliant journalist, Julian Assmange. Presumably Blockstream has a compliance officer or three - maybe we could ask them? How many customers has Blockstream already ratted out? And when did Adam stop raping his wife?

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If crypto is free speech how protected is it?
by professor rat 09 Apr '23

09 Apr '23

By Moby? Not much. >>> David Ackerman @CryptoRegExpert · Oct 25, 2022 That question is as yet unanswered but I’d argue it probably is. The question we should be asking is, if crypto is free speech how protected is it? Does that protection outweigh the restrictions some wish to place upon it to combat financial crimes or other atrocities? <<< https://twitter.com/CryptoRegExpert/status/1584530449849896960 Reposts not rehashes of old cypherpunk lawfare experience

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[ot] Fwd: did you ban me from redbean discord?
by Karl Semich 09 Apr '23

09 Apr '23

first jart was banned from llama.cpp by ggerganov during personally targeted trolling from 4chan after implementing mmap which drops loading time from minutes to immediate then i was banned from jart's discord this easter morning while sharing notes on model pruning and compilation earlier in the channel chat, i had asked what a good hard problem to work on was, and jart's user replied that sparsification was useful, that even looking at resources and sharing notes in the channel would be helpful so i was surprised to be banned while doing this exact behavior ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Karl Semich <0xloem(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 6:04 AM Subject: did you ban me from redbean discord? To: <jtunney(a)gmail.com> sorry if the sparsification exploration spam was too much i was really excited to have a task to work on and kind of took it a little far i was in the middle of editing a message with notes on the hyperparameters for optimal bert surgeon when the server disappeared from my discord list didn't notice any warning or dm, although i was in another fullscreen window the moment it happened I'm using Inbox When Ready to protect my focus.

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Another day - another dead Assangista
by professor rat 09 Apr '23

09 Apr '23

ANYWAY . . . https://brucehaigh.com.au/assange-has-gillard-got-the-guts/ Reposts not useful-idiots and willing-dupes for a rapist, a thief, a liar and a criminal

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Xtianity is a Satanic Cult
by professor rat 09 Apr '23

09 Apr '23

Xtianity - a Satanic Religion https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1644809599055175680/photo/1 Reposts not rackets for criminal garbage called clergy

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What is " Filecoin " ?
by professor rat 09 Apr '23

09 Apr '23

What is Filecoin? Filecoin is a decentralized storage network based on the Interplanetary File Storage (IPFS) protocol. It is designed to utilized unused storage globally into an efficient storage market for users to pay for low cost storage. The objective is to ensure file storage is permanent and distributed across the web. Contrast this with centralized cloud storage solution such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Dropbox, where data are stored in servers owned by these private corporations. Filecoin (FIL or ⨎) is also the currency of the decentralized storage network. Customers wanting to access storage will have to pay for storage in Filecoin. Nodes that provide storage to the network will in turn be paid in Filecoin for their service. https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/filecoin Reposts not shameless shilling for Chinese consumerism that once had Fil priced around 80 USD

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Flogging the Most out of Liberty City
by professor rat 09 Apr '23

09 Apr '23

Where to go in Algonquin for a good horsewhipping? https://anarchistnews.org/content/mapping-immigrant-anarchists Reposts not anarchist outsiders creating chaos on Wall St

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Re: #FreeLibrary The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library
by zeynep＠keemail.me 08 Apr '23

08 Apr '23

https://sfstandard.com/community/san-franciscos-internet-archive-sounds-ala… COMMUNITY <https://sfstandard.com/category/community/> Here’s What Could Happen to Your Digital Books If the Internet Archive Loses Its Lawsuit Written by Ida Mojadad <https://sfstandard.com/author/ida-mojadad/>Published Apr. 06, 2023 • 5:00am Share The San Francisco Public Library staff categorize and organize books at the main branch on Aug. 26, 2022. | Camille Cohen/The Standard The Internet Archive, a digital library operating out of a former church in San Francisco <https://sfstandard.com/video/internet-archive-headquarters-san-francisco/>’s Richmond District, has found itself at the center of a fight over the digital ownership <https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1135639385/libraries-publishers-ebooks-e-boo…> of library materials. In 2020, a group of publishers sued the nonprofit—perhaps best known for its Wayback Machine, which resurrects dead tweets and captures defunct websites—over the right to scan books and loan them out digitally, known as "controlled digital lending." The case brought into question the rights of libraries to digitize books as a means of lending them out. While services may lend out publisher-licensed books, library advocates raise the alarm over books that won’t be accessed through those services nor through controlled digital lending. Last month, a judge sided with the publishers. The Internet Archive’s founder, Brewster Kahle, called it “a blow for libraries <https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/>, readers and authors” while publishers cheered the ruling. “In celebrating the opinion, we also thank the thousands of public libraries across the country that serve their communities everyday through lawful e-book licenses,” said Maria Pallante, president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers in a statement <https://publishers.org/news/publishers-prevail-in-summary-judgement-against…>. “We hope the opinion will prove educational to the defendant and anyone else who finds public laws inconvenient to their own interests.” Though an appeal is weeks away, the nonprofit is rallying librarians and supporters <https://actionnetwork.org/events/dont-delete-our-books-rally-in-san-francis…> for the “digital future of libraries” on Saturday, in collaboration with internet freedom advocacy group Fight for the Future. “There’s an important inflection point when it comes to how people consume books,” Lia Holland, a spokesperson for Fight for the Future, told The Standard. “Libraries in this situation are understandably uncomfortable with the complete rollback of their rights to own or preserve [materials]. Publishers have sued to stop them from doing this practice, which is the last option for digital ownership, period.” The San Francisco Public Library said the ruling will not impact its patrons, as its existing digital collections are accessed through systems like Hoopla, Axis 360, Overdrive and Enki. Its partnership with the Internet Archive is mostly about historic San Francisco documents that are not subject to this legal challenge, spokesperson Kate Patterson said. But Chris Freeland, director of open libraries at the Internet Archive, counters that SFPL is very much affected by the court case. Books not included in the commercial e-book services that libraries use could be lost to history if libraries don’t have rights to own them through other digital means. One example the Internet Archive highlights <https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/13/shedding-new-light-on-forgotten-authors…> is the discovery of a copy of Makeshift, a 1940 novel about a Jewish woman’s escape from Nazi Germany. There are only 19 copies in existence, and the author’s son can only access the text on the nonprofit’s database. As with the occasionally arbitrary availability of a given film on streaming platforms, readers may not be able to count on e-book titles remaining in a particular digital library service—especially as book bans rage across the country <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/03/judy-blume-book-banning-now-m…>. “All libraries are affected by this decision, because there are millions of books published in the 20th century that are accessible through controlled digital lending that will never have a commercially available e-book,” Freeland told The Standard. "This fight is much bigger than the future of the Internet Archive. We don’t want libraries to be hollowed out

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#FreeLibrary The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library
by zeynep＠keemail.me 08 Apr '23

08 Apr '23

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23655804/internet-archive-hatchette-publ… The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in a lawsuit brought by four book publisher A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library. Judge John G. Koeltl decided that the Internet Archive had done nothing more than create “derivative works,” and so would have needed authorization from the books’ copyright holders — the publishers — before lending them out through its National Emergency Library program. The Internet Archive says it will appeal. “Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve,” Chris Freeland, the director of Open Libraries at the Internet Archive, writes in a blog post. “This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online. It hurts authors by saying that unfair licensing models are the only way their books can be read online. And it holds back access to information in the digital age, harming all readers, everywhere.” The two sides went to court on Monday, with HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House joining Hachette as plaintiffs. In his ruling, Judge Koetl considered whether the Internet Archive was operating under the principle of Fair Use, which previously protected a digital book preservation project by Google Books and HathiTrust in 2014, among other users. Fair Use considers whether using a copyrighted work is good for the public, how much it’ll impact the copyright holder, how much of the work has been copied, and whether the use has “transformed” a copyrighted thing into something new, among other things. The judge dismissed all of the IA’s Fair Use arguments But Koetl wrote that any “alleged benefits” from the Internet Archive’s library “cannot outweigh the market harm to the publishers,” declares that “there is nothing transformative about [Internet Archive’s] copying and unauthorized lending,” and that copying these books doesn’t provide “criticism, commentary, or information about them.” He notes that the Google Books use was found “transformative” because it created a searchable database instead of simply publishing copies of books on the internet. Koetl also dismissed arguments that the Internet Archive might theoretically have helped publishers sell more copies of their books, saying there was no direct evidence, and that it was “irrelevant” that the Internet Archive had purchased its own copies of the books before making copies for its online audience. According to data obtained during the trial, the Internet Archive currently hosts around 70,000 e-book “borrows” a day. The lawsuit came from the Internet Archive’s decision to launch the “National Emergency Library” early in the covid pandemic, which let people read from 1.4 million digitized books with no waitlist. Typically, the Internet Archive’s Open Library program operates under a “controlled digital lending” (CDL) system where it can loan out digitized copies of a book on a one-to-one basis, but it removed those waitlists to offer easier access to those books when stay-at-home orders arrived during the pandemic. (CDL systems operate differently than services like OverDrive, which can lend you publisher-licensed ebooks.) Some weren’t happy about the Internet Archive’s choice, and the group of publishers sued the organization in June 2020. Later that month, the Archive shut down that program. The Internet Archive says it will continue acting as a library in other ways, despite the decision. “This case does not challenge many of the services we provide with digitized books including interlibrary loan, citation linking, access for the print-disabled, text and data mining, purchasing ebooks, and ongoing donation and preservation of books,” writes Freeland. “The publishing community is grateful to the Court for its unequivocal affirmation of the Copyright Act and respect for established precedent,” Maria A. Pallante, president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers, said in a statement. “In rejecting arguments that would have pushed fair use to illogical markers, the Court has underscored the importance of authors, publishers, and creative markets in a global society. In celebrating the opinion, we also thank the thousands of public libraries across the country that serve their communities everyday through lawful eBook licenses. We hope the opinion will prove educational to the defendant and anyone else who finds public laws inconvenient to their own interests.”

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MOBY lies - the 5-VEY spies
by professor rat 08 Apr '23

08 Apr '23

" Moby uses zero-knowledge encryption to ensure your data is accessible only to you. " https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobilecoin.moby&hl=en_AU&… Reposts not goodbye's to Joshua

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