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El Salvador a haven for Inverse-Marxists
by professor rat 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

And also Marxist-Marxists as it happens. https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/12/31/el-salvador-to-build-new-nationa…

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Garry Kasparov on freedom through crypto-anarchist technology
by professor rat 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

The chess grandmaster expects a basket of coins to replace the dollar within a decade. https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/01/03/garry-kasparov-crypto-means-free… One of the first sites I visited with my first computer back in late 2000 was K's Makes excellent chess machines!

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The Wikileaks Defense
by professor rat 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Boils down to " You can't want me here cos I'm wanted over there " - Very Assange. Letitia James got the new year off to a roaring start by subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump to testify in that same civil probe into the Trump Organization. The two Trump kids, along with Donald Trump, responded by immediately filing in court to try to block the subpoenas. Notably, in that filing, they asserted that they shouldn’t have to testify in the civil case because it could be used against them in the parallel criminal case. Wikileaks enabled the Trump Crime Family - so they became entangled to a certain extent. And now neither one can be fully measured without effecting the other. " Its quantum mechanics, Jim. But not as we know it "

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[spam][metaspam] A collection of posts
by k 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Welcome to the grand month of January, 2022. This month's cypherpunk archive was led into the year by the grand professor rat. Professor rat's first post this year was entitled "Sadly there will probably only ever be 5,200 Crypto Dickbutts". Here's the text professor rat sent. The email is dated January 1, 03:03:12 PST in the archive: Sadly therewill probably only eve be 5,200 Crypto Dickbutts > Crypto Punks are scarce because there is a finite and fixed supply; > and yes, there will probably only ever be 5,200 Crypto Dickbutts. > But the amount of things you can speculate on in crypto is ever > increasing and theoretically interminable. More specifically, the > infinity-billion dollars in risk-seeking capital are not entirely dedicated > to buying the bags of crypto OGs. > > There is ample dilution in the destinations for new dollars into crypto. > It is more prominent in a bull market — particularly towards the thrill- > stages, when long-term value theses seem to retreat from the > cognition of money managers that recently discovered themselves to > be geniuses. > > https://cobie.substack.com/p/tokens-in-the-attention-economy I don't really know what professor rat is talking about here. Sometimes professor rat quotes things in verbatim,sometimes mutates them,sometimes comments on them. I don't really know. I don't know much about financial stuff, or their memes, slanders, mockeries, and flags. Onward! The nextpost of January 2022 was by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 . Whenever I see that 2.0, I think "man I bet I hurt that guy and he had to kind of reset". Punk's message is dated January 1, 07:23:27 PST, in the archive. Here's what he said: > what the fuck are you doing here That's a new post for Punk-BatSoup-Stasi. Sometimes Punk makes the same kind of posts over and over, but he doesn't often say this sentence.

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[joke][cryptotragedy][crazy] nvidia ngc
by k 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

[silly talk] ngc is a ridiculous tool that nvidia has it's for people who have been mind controlled by the corporate ai to work on data science. it's downloadable from their website at https://ngc.nvidia.com/setup/installers/cli although you might need to give them your social security number or something to download it. [/silly talk] On their website: > Check the binary's md5 hash to ensure the file wasn't corrupted during download: > > md5sum -c ngc.md5 Yay, verifying download integrity using md5. Hum, there's no hash on the website. In the terminal: [user@localhost ngc]$ wget -O ngccli_linux.zip https://ngc.nvidia.com/downloads/ngccli_linux.zip && unzip -o ngccli_linux.zip && chmod u+x ngc --2022-01-04 13:22:42-- https://ngc.nvidia.com/downloads/ngccli_linux.zip Resolving ngc.nvidia.com (ngc.nvidia.com) 13.249.184.51, 13.249.184.53, 13.249.184.59, ... Connecting to ngc.nvidia.com (ngc.nvidia.com)|13.249.184.51|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 25122952 (24M) [application/zip] Saving to: ‘ngccli_linux.zip’ 100%[==============================================================================================>] 25,122,952 67.0KB/s in 2m 0s 2022-01-04 13:24:44 (205 KB/s) - ‘ngccli_linux.zip’ saved [25122952/25122952] Archive: ngccli_linux.zip inflating: ngc extracting: ngc.md5 [user@localhost ngc]$ md5sum ngc c41a2bf4772f2abcac1620d2f924377e ngc [user@localhost ngc]$ cat ngc.md5 c41a2bf4772f2abcac1620d2f924377e ngc [user@localhost ngc]$ My md5 verified! Yay! _The md5 to verify against is bundled in the same download._ Did you know that TCP has protection against non-malicious corruption too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol#Checksum_comput… As does the zip format; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_%28file_format%29#Local_file_header The point of manually verifying a digest is for _cryptographic integrity_. It doesn't work if the digest is bundled with the data. It doesn't work if the digest is md5. The only reason to _pretend_ you are doing that is to help mitm attackers modify files in transit. One sees this pattern a lot of places. WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO MAKE OF IT? Story: "I got my new prosthetic brain in the mail! Hum, the postman was that guy in the wanted poster." "Yay! Make sure to verify it's the right one before replacing your old one with it." "How do I do that?" "Ask the postman!" "Okay. Um, guy from the wanted poster, is this the right brain? I can throw out my old one?" "Yes! I only deliver the right brains!" "YAY!" The recipient of the brain proceeds to go on a bankrobbery, and gives the funds to the postman. Here's another story: "Yay! Let's go on a drive!" "Make sure you don't get hurt if there's a car crash!" "A car crash what's that?" "That's what we have seatbelts for!" "Seatbelts? What are those?" "Aren't you worried you might hit somebody?" "No! My government protects me from car crashes!"

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Turning points
by professor rat 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

latimes.com Kelly Ernby, former Orange County GOP state Assembly candidate and deputy D.A., dies of COVID-19 The local Republican Party activist, 46, was considering another Assembly run. DataDrivenMD ·7h Former California GOP state Assembly candidate & "ardent and vocal opponent of COVID-19 vaccination mandates" dies of COVID-19 at the age of 46. On Dec 4, she spoke against vaccination mandates at a Turning Point USA rally. She subsequently became ill.

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Elon Musk asked to stop 'economic support for genocide'
by professor rat 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Tesla slammed for opening showroom in Xinjiang, Elon Musk asked to stop 'economic support for genocide' https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-04/tesla-elon-musk-criticised-after-ope…

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How the US census led to the first data processing company 125 years ago
by zeynepaydogan 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

https://theconversation.com/how-the-us-census-led-to-the-first-data-process… The US Constitution requires that a population count be conducted at the beginning of every decade. This census has always been charged with political significance, and continues to be. That’s clear from [the controversies in the run-up to the 2020 census](https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/census-challenges/index.htm…. But it’s less widely known how important the census has been in developing the US computer industry, a story that I tell in my book, [Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History](https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/republic-numbers). That history includes the founding of the first automated data processing company, the [Tabulating Machine Company](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/herman-holl…, 125 years ago on December 3, 1896. Population growth The only use of the census clearly specified in the Constitution is to allocate seats in the House of Representatives. More populous states get more seats. A minimalist interpretation of the census mission would require reporting only the overall population of each state. But the census has never confined itself to this. A complicating factor emerged right at the beginning, with the Constitution’s distinction between “free persons” and “[three-fifths of all other persons](http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=16… This was the Founding Fathers’ infamous mealy-mouthed compromise between those states with a large number of enslaved persons and those states where relatively few lived. [The first census](https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/index_of_que…, in 1790, also made nonconstitutionally mandated distinctions by age and sex. In subsequent decades, many other personal attributes were probed as well: occupational status, marital status, educational status, place of birth, and so on.As the country grew, each census required greater effort than the last, not merely to collect the data but also to compile it into usable form. [The processing of the 1880 census](https://www.jstor.org/stable/24987147?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents)… not completed until 1888. It had become a mind-numbingly boring, error-prone, clerical exercise of a magnitude rarely seen. Since the population was evidently continuing to grow at a rapid pace, those with sufficient imagination could foresee that processing the 1890 census would be gruesome indeed without some change in procedure. A new invention John Shaw Billings, a physician assigned to assist the Census Office with compiling health statistics, had closely observed the immense tabulation efforts required to deal with the raw data of 1880. He expressed his concerns to a young mechanical engineer assisting with the census, Herman Hollerith, a recent graduate of the Columbia School of Mines. On Sept. 23, 1884, the US Patent Office recorded a submission from the 24-year-old Hollerith, titled “[Art of Compiling Statistics](https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=00395782&IDKey=73… https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1902_Hollerith_elect… / The Hollerith electric tabulating machine in use in 1902. US Census BureauBy progressively improving the ideas of this initial submission, Hollerith would decisively win an 1889 competition to improve the processing of the 1890 census. The [technological solutions](https://www.census.gov/history/www/innovations/technology/the_ho… devised by Hollerith involved a suite of mechanical and electrical devices. The first crucial innovation was to translate data on handwritten census tally sheets to patterns of holes punched in cards. As Hollerith phrased it, in the 1889 revision of his patent application, “A hole is thus punched corresponding to person, then a hole according as person is a male or female, another recording whether native or foreign born, another either white or colored, &c.” This process required developing special machinery to ensure that holes could be punched with accuracy and efficiency. Hollerith then devised a machine to “read” the card, by probing the card with pins, so that only where there was a hole would the pin pass through the card to make an electrical connection, resulting in advance of the appropriate counter. For example, if a card for a white male farmer passed through the machine, a counter for each of these categories would be increased by one. The card was made sturdy enough to allow passage through the card reading machine multiple times, for counting different categories or checking results. The count proceeded so rapidly that the [state-by-state numbers needed for congressional apportionment](https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=MGZqAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.… were certified before the end of November 1890. https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/punch-card-sorter.jp… / This "mechanical punch card sorter" was used for the 1950 census. US Census Bureau Rise of the punched card After his census success, [Hollerith went into business selling this technology](https://www.worldcat.org/title/computer-a-history-of-the-inform…. The company he founded, the Tabulating Machine Company, would, after he retired, become International Business Machines—IBM. IBM led the way in perfecting card technology for recording and tabulating large sets of data for a variety of purposes. By the 1930s, many businesses were using cards for record-keeping procedures, such as payroll and inventory. Some data-intensive scientists, especially astronomers, were also finding the cards convenient. IBM had by then standardized an 80-column card and had developed keypunch machines that would change little for decades. Card processing became one leg of the mighty computer industry that blossomed after World War II, and IBM for a time would be the third-largest corporation in the world. Card processing served as a scaffolding for vastly more rapid and space-efficient purely electronic computers that now dominate, with little evidence remaining of the old regime. Those who have grown up knowing computers only as easily portable devices, to be communicated with by the touch of a finger or even by voice, may be unfamiliar with the room-size computers of the 1950s and ’60s, where the primary means of loading data and instructions was by creating a deck of cards at a keypunch machine, and then feeding that deck into a card reader. This persisted as the default procedure for many computers well into the 1980s. [As computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper recalled](https://www.worldcat.org/title/grace-hopper-navy-admiral-and-comp… her early career, “Back in those days, everybody was using punched cards, and they thought they’d use punched cards forever.” Hopper had been an important member of the team that created the first commercially viable general-purpose computer, the Universal Automatic Computer, or UNIVAC, one of the card-reading behemoths. Appropriately enough, the first UNIVAC delivered, in 1951, was to the US Census Bureau, still hungry to improve its data processing capabilities. No, computer users would not use punched cards forever, but they used them through the Apollo Moon-landing program and the height of the Cold War. Hollerith would likely have recognized the direct descendants of his 1890s census machinery almost 100 years later. This is an updated version of an article originally published on October 15, 2019.

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Israel Hayom: Just how fast is 'quantum'? Israeli-German team finds out
by jim bell 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Israel Hayom: Just how fast is 'quantum'? Israeli-German team finds out. https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/12/29/just-how-fast-is-quantum-israeli-ger… Just how fast is 'quantum'? Israeli-German team finds out Physicists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Bonn investigate the Mandelstam-Tamm limit for the first time with an experiment on a complex quantum system. By ILH Staff Published on 12-29-2021 15:30 Last modified:

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yahoo.com: Mexico president says he sought Assange pardon from Trump, renews asylum offer
by jim bell 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

yahoo.com: Mexico president says he sought Assange pardon from Trump, renews asylum offer. https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-president-says-sought-assange-164121615.html

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