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Tor history and technology
by professor rat 10 Jun '23

10 Jun '23

>>> . . . the requirement is 50GB per day, *per link*. Imagine you are a TOR entry node. If you are serving 1,000 people - which is not a whole lot - you need to serve 50 TB of dummy traffic per day. For free. Big ouch. Plus you need links to intermediate nodes - to do this properly you need a link to every possible intermediate node, which should be in the tens of thousands or more. 550 TB per day. . . . <<< Sounds like ' Everyone a Remailer " will need ubiquitous quantum computing. The quantum internet.

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Tor history and technology
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 10 Jun '23

10 Jun '23

If you want me to thread like Semich then I suggest you both go fuck yourselves.

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Neo-Nazi Chased out of Anarchist Bookstore
by professor rat 10 Jun '23

10 Jun '23

Full title: Anti-LGBTQ+ Neo-Nazi Chased out of Anarchist Bookstore in Philadelphia Has History of Exposing Himself to “Teenage Girls” https://anarchistnews.org/content/anti-lgbtq-neo-nazi-chased-out-anarchist-… Reposts not yet more bilge from Bloomberg & escape to New York

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Cryptocurrency: Cut The Chains Of Your Financial Serfdom
by grarpamp 10 Jun '23

10 Jun '23

12 Ways To Cut The Chains Of Financial Serfdom Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Just because nobody talks about financial serfdom doesn't mean it's not real. Ours is a neofeudal economy of financial serfs in servitude to a Financial Aristocracy. The Financial Nobility / Aristocracy own all the debt and the serfs owe the debt to the Aristocracy. The serfs own assets that don't generate much income, the Aristocracy owns assets that generate trillions of dollars in income. The serfs pay high tax rates if they make above-poverty wages, the Financial Nobility pay low taxes thanks to tax-avoidance scams arranged by the Aristocracy's toadies and lackeys in the Central State. The serfs create value, the Financial Nobility is parasitic. That we are powerless is one of the key social control myths constantly promoted by the Status Quo. What better way to keep the serfs passive than to reinforce a belief in their powerlessness against Financial Feudalism? But we are not powerless. Our complicity gives the Financial Aristocracy its power. Remove our complicity and the Aristocracy implodes. The pathway of liberation is to opt out of financial feudalism. Here are twelve paths any adult can legally pursue in the course of their daily lives: 1. Support the decentralized, non-market economy. The core ideology of consumerism and financialization is that non-market assets and experiences have no status or financial value. This includes social capital, meals with friends, projects done cooperatively with friends, home gardens and dozens of other decentralized activities that cannot be financialized into centralized market transactions. Identity and social status are established in the non-market economy by collaboration, sharing, reciprocity, conviviality and generosity. Decentralized means localized; farmers markets are examples of local market economies where the transactions are in cash (so banks can't skim transactions fees) and the money stays in the local economy rather than flowing to some distant concentration of capital. If you start valuing non-market assets and experiences as the most important markers of status, you are resisting both financialization and consumerism. Top-down centralized "solutions" imposed by the Central State are the problem, not the solution, as they further the concentration of wealth and power into unstable monocultures. Stop looking to overly complex fake-reforms and centralized solutions to unsustainable systems and start exploring decentralized, localized solutions that bypass both the Central State and the Financial Aristocracy. 2. Stop participating in financialization. Financialization is the insidious imperative of the Financial Aristocracy that seeks to turn every human interaction into a financial transaction that can be charged a fee, and transform all assets into financialized instruments that can be commoditized and sold for immensely profitable fees. As the finances of local governments implode under the weight of their protected fiefdoms, many are heeding the siren song of financialization as a temporary (and inevitably disastrous) "fix" to their structural insolvency. For example, the revenue stream from parking meters is financialized into an asset that is sold to a private corporation. When parking fees double, the residents of the city have no recourse via democracy or petition, as the meters in their city are now "owned" by a distant concentration of capital that can double late fees, charge outrageous transaction costs, etc., at will. This is how financialization inevitably transitions into financial tyranny. The erosion of America's middle class security has several structural causes, but chief among them was the financialization of the housing market. This has led to serial bubbles of housing valuations and the widespread extraction of equity for consumption--the classic "windfall" that financialization always produces in its first toxic blush. 3. Redefine self-interest to exclude debt-servitude and dependence on consumerism and the Central State. Unless you are long retired and have no other option, minimize reliance on the State. Reliance on the State weakens the correlation between sustained effort and gain, so the work ethic and entrepreneurism both atrophy as they no longer offer competitive advantages in a system where bread and circuses are guaranteed by the State. 4. Act on your awareness that the nature of prosperity and financial security is changing. Dependence on centralized concentrations of power (Wall Street and the Central State) is now an extremely risky wager that what is demonstrably unsustainable will magically become sustainable via pixie dust or more Federal Reserve trickery. Security flows from resilience, self-reliance, decentralized, diversified sources of income and abundant social capital, not speculation fueled by Fed policies and Wall Street. 5. Stop supporting distant concentrations of capital that subvert democracy by using their gargantuan profits to buy the machinery of State governance and regulation. For example, stop watching broadcast programming owned by the six global media corporations that control the vast majority of the media/marketing complex. Stop eroding your health and sending your money to corporate headquarters by no longer frequenting fast-food restaurants and by no longer buying unhealthy packaged foods from corporate agribusiness. Close your accounts with Wall Street investment firms and the "too big to fail" banks that dominate the mortgage, credit and debt markets in the U.S. If you need such an account to transact your business, maintain low balances so the banks cannot sweep your capital for their own use every day. 6. Stop supporting the debt-and-leverage based Financial Aristocracy. Liquidate all debt as soon as possible, take on no new debt except for short periods of time, explore localized or crowd-sourced private-capital loans that exclude the banks and limit the number of financial transactions that enrich the banks and Wall Street. 7. Transfer your assets out of Wall Street and into local enterprises or assets that do not enrich and empower Wall Street. Buy assets you control 100%, without the mediation of Wall Street. 8. Refuse to participate in consumerist status identifiers and the social defeat they create. Stop admiring and respecting those displaying status signifiers (supercars, $300 million yachts, etc.); start thinking of them as pathetic prisoners of a pathological mindset. Stop judging people based on their lack of status signifiers. Free your own mind from the toxic sociopathology of consumerism and social defeat. Stop watching commercial television and streaming corporate distractions and minimize your exposure to marketing and consumerist propaganda. 9. Vote in every election with an eye on rewarding honesty and truth and punishing empty promises. Unless the incumbent has renounced corporate contributions, unsustainable debt, financial tyranny and Central State encroachment of civil liberties, then vote against the incumbent, for they are just another lackey of the State-Plutocracy partnership. Avoid voting for either the Demopublican or Republicrat branches of the plutocracy; vote for an independent or third party candidate. Remember that resistance isn't just about refusing to participate in pathological neofeudalism; it’s about establishing a sustainable alternative to the unsustainable State-Aristocracy partnership. When people say that voting for a third-party candidate is "wasting your vote," reply that voting for either of the plutocrat parties is the real waste of a vote because their "leadership" is dooming the nation to destabilization and insolvency. As independents pick up more and more "wasted" votes, they shift from being "marginalized" to becoming powerful voices of integrity and transparency. 10. Stop supporting inflationary policies such as money creation - QE by the Federal Reserve and Federal deficit spending. Act on your knowledge that inflation is theft and that the Federal Reserve is a private consortium of banks that is the enabler and protector of the parasitic Financial Aristocracy. 11. Become healthy, active and fit. Refuse to consume unhealthy junk food and packaged food, refuse to squander much of your time in sedentary "consumption" of corporate "entertainment" and digital distraction, and devote your energy and time to mastery, new skills, developing social capital and friendships, projects you own and enterprises that benefit your true self-interest. Refuse to follow the marketing/media siren song into chronic ill-health, social-media addiction and social defeat. 12. Embrace self-directed plans and construct a resilient, community-based, localized life of identity and meaning. Build a social ecology of positive, productive, collaborative, non-pathological people of like minds and spirits. Be powerful via Self-Reliance, not powerless via apathy, passivity and complicity.

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Adam Backs dementia problem
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 09 Jun '23

09 Jun '23

On the senile cypherpunks planet piss is lemonade and shit is chocolate. Also wise Guys never took out contracts on anybody and online assassination markets were never even dreamed of. " . . Cypherpunks like Wei Dai, Tim May, myself were interested in smart contracts, anonymous or pseudonymous commerce using reputations, good behavior bonds etc without the possibility for physical enforcement and smart contracts rather than court/arbitration process. A decade of alt Adam Back @adam3us altcoin premines, ICOs, definitely, nft rug-pull exit scams shows empirically that was maybe optimistic. Self regulation, smart contracts, in theory preferable, in practice can it work in isolation? I think cypherpunks underestimated the casino use case with rug-pull incentive. . . . " Reposts not revisionist crap from a circle of lapdog eunuch poodles.

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Secure communication with deniability for Nostr
by ROOT＠HardenedVault 09 Jun '23

09 Jun '23

The current spec of NIP-04 messaging protocol are signed by the sender/publisher, the protocol itself is undeniable. In order to implement deniable instant messaging based on Nostr, users can generate a new ephemeral key pair as a "temporary identity" specifically for instant messaging, even each time. The key pair used for posting content is the "permanent identity". However, which permanent identity a temporary identity belongs to should only be known by the communicating parties, and it can be deniable if the other party is treacherous. This requires the communicating parties to authenticate the temporary identities they are about to use with each other's permanent identities, but they cannot provide proof to third parties. We proposed to a secure communication with deniability by extending NIP-04: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/591 One may ask why don't we just use the encryption scheme of Signal instead? Well, double ratcheting does not provide deniability, if its handshaking protocol does not. It does not even provide forward secrecy as it claims if the implementation save the context to the disk as how Signal app does. On the other hand, Vault1317 adopts the very same double ratcheting as signal protocol, and concentrates on developing new handshaking protocols providing stronger deniability. https://github.com/hardenedvault/vault1317 https://www.cypherpunks.ca/%7Eiang/pubs/dakez-popets18.pdf regards R@HardenedVault

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Blockchains proffer huge energy savings
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 09 Jun '23

09 Jun '23

Blockchains proffer huge energy savings already - and now . . Quantum miners would yield ‘massive’ energy savings for blockchains! https://cointelegraph.com/news/quantum-miners-would-yield-massive-energy-sa… Reposts not list cluttering cacophony from conformist dipshits

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What Nassim Taleb said
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 09 Jun '23

09 Jun '23

Btc is useless and dangerous he reportedly said recently. I suspect he meant it's useless in the Serbian kingdom and dangerous in El Slavador. Yr mileage etc

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[ot][spam][personal] nothing is impossible
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 09 Jun '23

09 Jun '23

the set of what is possible and what is impossible is a little hard for me i generally hold the value that everything is possible[???? not sure why question here

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[ot][spam][crazy][personal] pursuing rationality
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 09 Jun '23

09 Jun '23

- it’s helpful, pleasant, and grounding to relate with rational people and conversations - it’s quite hard, and there is a great urge to pressure them to be irrational - when irrational, this seems to worsen as the pressure continues - if there is something in one that reduces rationality, and it has reason, this seems analogous to dissociation or trauma. conflict with basic reason implies an unhandleable truth. one can then infer that there is likely a set of rational “bounds” that would most effectively help one increase rationality while minimally stimulating the fear of engaging whatever the unhandleable truth is. for example, if i feel least thretened when supporting an imaginary mcboss, maybe i could try to work financial paperwork for a corporation or something — not sure. i usually try to get skilled at something safe and then kind of branch out carefully once established.

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