April 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Moxie Marlinspike; dead-man-sailing
by professor rat 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

It’s entirely, entirely possible, even likely? Some unpleasant characters in sunglasses and balaclavas bumped into Moxie one rainy San Francisco night, and advised his future was more interesting than he had planned. That is my theory. About one year ago… https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/gfzzc0/signal_forcing_a_pin_to_be_… It’s entirely, entirely possible, even likely? Some unpleasant characters in sunglasses and balaclavas bumped into Moxie one rainy San Francisco night, and advised his future was more interesting than he had planned. Moxie, you can have the sealed envelope containing the plans for side channels, gradually rolled out over 24-36 months. This envelope is attached to a briefcase stuffed full of unmarked bills Or, his loved ones could be introduced to a $5 encryption breaker His choice.

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BRUCE " blockchain is just plain stupid " ALMIGHTY
by professor rat 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

Bruce Schneier and Tom Rowley still need killing https://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks@minder.net/msg31515.html Hits and memories - contracts renewed in sats - 2k each

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Bruce don't like
by professor rat 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

Fuck the Schneier - fuck the Schneier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobileCoin Reposts not potentially viral cryptoanarchist infrastructure

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Signal president opposed to intelligence
by professor rat 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

Google is much more existentially important than Signal. For me. Wake me when Signal has a decent e-cash plug-in and optional C3-PO - a proper APster-licious Assassinphone app. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/31/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-learned… Reposts not Android dev, sex-ring scandals in the Daily Male

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[ml] langchain runs local model officially
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/modules/models/llms/integrations/gpt… note: - llamacpp is cpu only. the huggingface backend can run the same model on gpu. it is not always faster - llamacpp is experiencing political targeting and a little upheaval in optimization code - there are newer and more powerful models that can be loaded just like gpt4all, such as vicuna langchain is a powerful and noncomplex language model frontend library supporting openai that provides for coding autonomous agents that use tools and access datastores. see also llama-index .

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Empirical studies of anarchist economics assume greater importance as we approach globalized cryptoanarchism.
by professor rat 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

Austrian School economists, following Mises, use praxeology and deduction, rather than empirical studies, to determine economic principles - its methodology is innumerate! https://theworld.com/~mhuben/austrian.html Empirical studies of anarchist economics assume greater importance as we approach globalized cryptoanarchism. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gaston-leval-collectives-in-the-spa… After the emigration of Mises to the US his pupil Murray Rothbard defended the praxeological approach. Now Professor, Murray Rothbard claims there is nothing un-libertarian about “organization, hierarchy, wage-work, granting of funds by libertarian millionaires, and a libertarian party.” In other words, “wanting to abolish authority in large-scale industry is tantamount to wanting to abolish industry itself.” Rothbard? No, Frederick Engels! Marx agreed: “Go and run one of the Barcelona factories without direction, that is to say, without authority!” (Which is just what the Catalan workers did in 1936.

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The time is ripe to go full ballistic on the spammers' asses
by professor rat 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

Not Qanon Karl Semich and Magat Grarpamps? Damn . . . >>> oomahq · Apr 4 The time is ripe for #ordisrespector nodes to go full ballistic on the spammers' asses. In the last 24h I've been teasing at a second kind of spam mitigation: today I want to talk to you about #ordislow. Our attention is now directed at the miners rather than spammers... Show this thread <<< Talking e-Krugerrand blues

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EFC from SwissCows asks " The question is... will Trump win the election and end the US support for Ukraine? "
by professor rat 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

EFC from SwissCows just asked us here recently " The question is... will Trump win the election and end the US support for Ukraine? " And its said ' there are no stupid questions ". Could be an exception that proves this rule. https://stiffs.com/celebrity/donaldtrump Reposts not morons engaging in chit-chat with list enemies like Spammer Karl Semich and Magat Garbage scow Gramps.

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A Signal Failure
by professor rat 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

EFC is also gasbagging about " getting people on safe and secure services ". Like one of Julio's bitch punks. Or Lord Snowball. Jake Applebum. EFC; to think of yourself as being a safety and security activist means to think of yourself as being somehow enlightened, privileged or more advanced than others in your appreciation of the need for security and safety change, in the knowledge of how to achieve it and as leading or being in the forefront of the practical struggle to create this change. Give it up faggot. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrew-x-give-up-activism Reposts not advertisements for funeral-home-services like Whispering Glades

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A Signal Failure
by professor rat 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

>> I think binary thinking is detrimental to getting people on safe and secure services.<<< EFC opposition to binary opposites, like literal/metaphorical, serious/playful, deep/superficial, nature/culture, ad infinitum. EFC sees these as basic conceptual hierarchies, mainly smuggled in by language itself, which provide the illusion of definition or orientation. He further claims that the deconstructive work of overturning these pairings, which valorize one of the two over the other, leads to a political and social overturning of actual, non-conceptual hierarchies. But to automatically refuse all binary oppositions is itself a metaphysical proposition; it in fact bypasses politics and history out of a failure to see in opposites, however imprecise they may be, anything but a linguistic reality. In the dismantling of every binarism, EFC's construction aims at “conceiving difference without opposition.” What in a smaller dosage would seem a salutary approach, a skepticism about neat, either/or characterizations, proceeds to the very questionable prescription of refusing all unambiguity. To say that there can be no yes or no position is tantamount to a paralysis of relativism, in which ‘impotence’ becomes the valorized partner to ‘opposition’.

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