September 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Information wants to run wild, naked and freely over the sundappled uplands of cryptoanarchy
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 10 Sep '23

10 Sep '23

"... Mr Assange agreed that some level of privacy was necessary for the successful operation of the military ..." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/assange-i-can-rule-from-… JULIAN " ‘[The military] protects the sovereignty of Australia. It protects the independence of Australia.' ASSANGE July, 2013 Julian Assange · LRB 6 March 2014 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ Mar 6, 2014 - I wouldn't say this publicly, but Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison..." Assange discussing Hitler's Mein Kampf: ''When people have been put in prison who might never have had time to write, the thing they write can be galvanising and amazing. I wouldn't say this publicly but Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison." Jul 20, 2015 - Julian Assange: To be honest, I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent..." JULIAN " “People with strong principles don’t survive for long ” ASSANGE quoted in " Risk" released in 2017.

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Fiends in high places
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 10 Sep '23

10 Sep '23

A few years ago, I microblogged, Cypherpunks are all about privacy for the poor and transparency for the powerful. A week or two later, Mange picked up on it. And now . . .book chapter headings! https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003220534/cypherpunk-e… Speak into the punk microphone. Say it in here and it comes out there.

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Cypto anarchy Vs crypto justice.
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 10 Sep '23

10 Sep '23

Assuming some actually existing binary here where " anarchy " is competing with " justice " and crypto anarchy is embodied in Mong while crypto justice is represented by . . . Assmange! I know. Its nonsense on stilts. But lets humor the lunatics that push this stuff. All three of them. Okay then. At this stage of this insane and inane, morality play, Mong is dead for years and Mange has been in jail for years. So I would say crypto anarchy is ahead since its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. Also - cryptoanarchism is dead - LONG LIVE CRYPTOANARCHISM!

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Cypherpunks Ethics
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 10 Sep '23

10 Sep '23

Objection. " cypherpunk platforms—including Jim Bell’s Assassination Politics & Ross Ulbricht’s Silk Road " Assumes facts found nowhere in evidence. Indeed, Bell himself has stated several times his " AP " was not from cypherpunks and he wasn't a cypherpunk when he wrote it. Then, Ross Ulbricht claims two non-cypherpunk inspirations according to Wikipedia. A novel and an Agorist. Move to strike.

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Cypherpunks Ethics
by John Young 10 Sep '23

10 Sep '23

"Cypherpunks Ethics," a book published in 2022, offers a comprehensive view of the group's formation and evolution, with focus on Tim May's "Crypto-Anarchy" and Julian Assange's "Crypto-Justice." "After presenting a genealogy of cypherpunk platforms—including Timothy May’s BlackNet, Jim Bell’s Assassination Politics, Ross Ulbricht’s Silk Road, and John Young’s Cryptome—it discusses the two central functions of Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks." Cypherpunk ethics is a moral worldview of the cypherpunks, a movement that advocates the use of strong digital cryptography to defend individual privacy and promote institutional transparency in the digital age. The movement is rooted in two competing paradigms of cypherpunk philosophy: crypto anarchy and crypto justice. The former advocates for the use of cryptography to create a stateless society, while the latter seeks to use cryptography to promote social justice and protect human rights. The movement has implications for a range of contemporary moral issues, including surveillance, privacy, whistleblowing, cryptocurrencies, journalism, democracy, censorship, intellectual property, and power. If you want to learn more about cypherpunk ethics, you can read Patrick D. Anderson’s book “Cypherpunk Ethics: Radical Ethics for the Digital Age” (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003220534/cypherpunk-e…)

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[ot][ml] Current Video Object Segmentation Models
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 10 Sep '23

10 Sep '23

I spent a little time looking at machine learning work that could track all the objects in a video. (I was wondering, for fun, if I could use video of assembling something to reproduce plans for it by automatically extracting and modeling the parts. This looks doable but takes some coding etc.) # Segment Anything Model First of all, Facebook released something called Segment Anything (or SAM) in April of this year. This is a set of models and a python library that can automatically bound objects in a single still image. It will either bound what the user requests, or enumerate every object, and it's a generative model that outputs a statistical distribution with each call, so you can make it fuzzy if you want. SAM urls: - https://segment-anything.com/ - https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything - https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02643 # Video Like other model releases like this, there has been a flurry of attempts to extend SAM to larger domains, such as video. I briefly engaged three video segmenters released in the past few months, and consider them presently to be the most accessible and quick to find cutting edge attempts. They all have demo code that is either online or can be run in colab. They all use SAM to engage a single frame, and then use further modeling to extend the segmentation to adjacent frames. They do this in a forward-time manner, but the underlying code is agnostic to which direction frames are fed in. - Track-Anything or TAM at https://github.com/gaomingqi/Track-Anything . This is a small cutting edge video segmentation research codebase based on SAM. The research code does not wrap SAM's ability to label every object in a scene, so the demo only tracks what the user selects. This is trivial to add if time is spent understanding it. TAM's package tree is at Track-Anything/tracker/ but some manual path organization is needed, used in Track-Anything/track_anything.py . The API is simple. - Segment-and-Track-Everything or SAM-Track at https://github.com/z-x-yang/Segment-and-Track-Anything . This is also a small cutting edge video segmentation research codebase based on SAM. Unlike TAM, SAM-Track does wrap SAM's ability to enumerate every object. SAM-Track's main sourcefile is Segment-and-Track-Everything/SegTracker.py . Like TAM, a little manual path organization is used. - HQTrack at https://github.com/jiawen-zhu/HQTrack . This is the third small cutting edge video segmentation research codebase I considered. The developers tout this as having the second best score in an upcoming leaderboard release at a major conference. It's sketchy they are sharing this result before its release. The codebase is highly recommended, and I didn't end up trying it. It looks similar to SAM-Track . None of them are matured to installable packages in the developer codebases. I didn't look in depth, but did find one incomplete attempt to port one as a ROS (robot operating system) package when I briefly looked. The underlying function calls do not appear complex, however. # Upcoming leaderboard The upcoming leaderboard HQTrack uses for advertisement is VOTS2023 at https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2023/ . Results will be released at ICCV2023 in Paris on October 3rd, at which point people will learn which research is the one that outcompeted HQTrack. The results paper was opened to public review on June 30th but I did not immediately find it; it looks like, whether it is on the internet or not, the intent is to hide the results until October.

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For a fair and brotherly revisionist history of cypherpunks
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 10 Sep '23

10 Sep '23

Since winners write the histories this is an exciting time to be a Cpunk. And by adopting Pete's revisionist history extending our Golden Age from 2000 to 2009 ought to be a snack. Cypherpunks demigod, Bram, releases Bittorrent early noughties. Ditto our undecovers in the Navy release Tor. 2008 for Dog. Bingo! We're back, baby! Crypto Winters are for Wimps, amirite! To the victor, the spoils.

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Peter's pence
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 10 Sep '23

10 Sep '23

I gather Peter F worries that if he murders Semich he'd be lucky to get his 2k sats from someone whose misplaced over 50k USDs worth. I appreciate his concern. That's why I wrote here just before he did in favor of some successor to the Big God. A better common and convenient currency is possible! And now we have strong AI allies this will arrive sooner rather than later. I promise you.

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The anarchist Fort Zinderneuf
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 10 Sep '23

10 Sep '23

I know some self described anarchists who dabble in graverobbing. The sort who would claim the likes of Bill Haywood, Daniel Deleon and James Connolly for anarchism. If youse like I could ask them to prop Satoshi, half US Navy Intelligence and Jim Dumbell up on our ramparts. And if they're not dead yet so much the better! Render unto Cpunks what is Ceasar's, yar?

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Fair enough that Tor and APster have teething problems
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 10 Sep '23

10 Sep '23

Like Blacknet does - look where Julio is right now. Brr! But we choose to go to the moon and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard!

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