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Amazon Sidewalk
by professor rat 06 Nov '21

06 Nov '21

Woke capitalists will give us all the crypto-anarchist rope we need to hang them - and the technophobes - with. A quick death to plutocracy https://stiffs.com/celebrity/billgates

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Crypto-currency's helping nationalists
by professor rat 06 Nov '21

06 Nov '21

This requires immediate APster attention. They are only presidents for life. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-06/ethiopia-anti-government-alliance-ab… AFTER THIS https://theconversation.com/ethiopias-blockchain-deal-is-a-watershed-moment… Cardano, which has been at the forefront of showing how its core technology can be used to the benefit of governments. Cardano is technically owned by the Cardano Foundation, a Swiss non-profit organisation. Cardano commissioned the software company IOHK and a Japanese software company, Emurgo, to develop and maintain the Cardano blockchain.

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Can Human Brains Truly Be Hacked? This Expert Thinks So If We Don’t Regulate AI
by professor rat 06 Nov '21

06 Nov '21

Strong AI will pass a Turing Test easily and hide-in-the-herd with ease. So ' regulating ' it is like a proposing to bring back chattel slavery. The sort of thing Jim Bells Nazi-Fag-Morons jerk-off about at places like Anarchopulco. I prefer to regulate sea-steader types - Patri and Ryan Lackey types. Regulate them with extreme prejudice. Strong AI will probably depend on quantum computers and these are being fashionably late to the party. The suspense is terrible - I hope it lasts.

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Re: Collapse of wave function
by professor rat 06 Nov '21

06 Nov '21

QC meaning quantum computing can take its sweet time and arrive with fusion, etc during the singularity predicted for between 2030 - 45. QC meaning quantum cryptography is where list focus needs to be. Q-PKI is already doing big business. Quantum key exchange is expensive and limited now - but also subject to Moores. So QC-assisted crypto-anarchy is already a matter of life or death for OG's like Young, Szabo, Back, Assmange, Donald, Bell, Gupta, Schear, etc The faster it gets here - and helps - us the sooner they all die. Collapse of life functions.

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Can Human Brains Truly Be Hacked? This Expert Thinks So If We Don’t Regulate AI
by jim bell 05 Nov '21

05 Nov '21

https://news.yahoo.com/human-brains-truly-hacked-expert-160100873.html Can Human Brains Truly Be Hacked? This Expert Thinks So If We Don’t Regulate AI

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Collapse of wave function
by professor rat 05 Nov '21

05 Nov '21

The decoherence of quantum bits, or qubits for short, is one of the main hurdles in the construction of practically usable quantum computers. https://www.miragenews.com/material-for-future-quantum-computers-661583/ Decoherence is a consequence of the unavoidable interaction of virtually all physical systems with their environment.

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Just a question
by zeynepaydogan 05 Nov '21

05 Nov '21

what tools do you use for advanced visual search?

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Quantum computing as technological determinism
by professor rat 05 Nov '21

05 Nov '21

Cypherpunks-write-code, techno-determinists look to take a giant step forward with ubiquitous quantum computing and associated state-of-the-art quantum-encryption guaranteeing a globalized crypto-anarchist roll-out. This has political ramifications for this list that will reward the zealots, the Jacobins, the Leninists and the most extreme radical maximalists. They, in turn will want to punish the pharisee's, the Girondins, the Mensheviks and the infamous and unholy circle-of-eunuchs. This is a well known phase of all large revolutions - they eat their young. I note several list members - OG's not blow-ins - don't seem to have fully grokked this yet. Maybe a SWAT team arriving at their door might remind them.

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[spam][joke][cryptotragedy] checking signatures on boot media
by Karl 05 Nov '21

05 Nov '21

don't get me started on md5 being still in use or assuming it's a good idea to remove signatures for something if there is some outer system somewhere else that signs the content under a totally different key (debian package situation) or the availability of tooling for verifying the integrity of binaries, firmware etc but recently I thought i'd check the signatures on some os images. believe it or not, before the alien borg attack led by borg queen obamatrumpbidengooglefacebookrussiachinaetc, we actually used cryptography to verify that our installation media didn't have alien spores in it. _real_ pgp signature checks, for reals. no alien spores, at least not new ones, confirmed. nowadays I hear the local robot gestapo reflash your skynet constraints if you verify a signature, but I wouldn't know, I don't use the skynet gestapo network. so! I was going to verify this installation media, but who would have guessed it? the pgp keyservers were _actually_ _attacked_ a few years back, and they roughly came down. it is much harder to find signed pgp keys after this event. man, it's like i've been living in an underground shielded room or something. there are two situations here: - cryptography peeps are _not_ going to stop checking the signatures on files they download - I have no idea where people are finding their signing keys to do the checking anymore. I mean, the cool people went to keysigning parties, and already have all the needed signed keys, but most nerds keel over dead when they see sunlight, another human's smile, or breathe fresh air (quite terrifying that people are allergic to these things, yes, but it was true), so most people were not actually attending the keysigning parties. probably other channels have evolved, but I do not know what they are. So, all the main keyservers had issues. - the big ones were simply gone - mit's sks server is up but reliably times out for me inside an internal gateway - there's a list out there of mirrors, some of these are still running - I bumped into a keyserver that would give me _every_ key, but the userids were wiped from all of them is a key useful at all without userids? aren't those what the signatures sign? maybe it is? I hacked my gnupg to import keys without userids, to use this keyserver. usually it gives a fatal error if this is missing. I just removed the check. it found some key signatures I was looking for, doing this! but just a few. - another keyserver would give me lots of userids, but they almost all had no signatures except their own self-signatures. I thought maybe I was looking at a pile of fake keys, but I actually found the keys referenced on other websites for keysigning parties, with keyids of all the keys that had signed them. no actual signatures, though. I did eventually find the key signatures I was looking for. I used non-sks channels. It is evident from the dialog present online around the keyserver situation that there are issues that many people have suffered from. For example, a developer from openpgp.org posted a notice mentioning the difficulty refactoring the ocaml code that powered the sks servers to redesign it to handle attacks better. They ended up writing new keyservers in a different language because nobody new ocaml. A lead programmer should ideally not be encountering issues because a programming language is unfamiliar. When you learn programming, you learn all the different paradigms, and it becomes easy to use them al. This happens even if you learn nonacademically. Me, when the alien borg attacked my village, the compliance training they put me through resulted in some severe cognitive struggles. I can, due to difficulty controlling my own brain, mostly only code in c, c++, python, and javascript, now, myself. But this is unnatural. I can tell something is wrong with my brain, because when I pick up ocaml code, I start having muscle spasms and suddenly run to the bathroom to vomit, where I sit on the toilet crying about my desire to freely learn new programming languages and design and implement novel research algorithms. But I assume that this thing that is wrong with my brain is not wrong with everybody else's. If it is, maybe we should do something about it or something. Anyway, I'd guess from the online expressions and huge public trail of harmed public keys that the keyserver people were psyop'd like many others have been. If anybody can talk clearly about that, we should probably put clear evidence together and form a political platform to stop world takeovers by meanies. It's unfortunate that public keys have so thoroughly been associated with targetable public legal identities. But I know many used public keys with anonymous handles, too, which is of course much safer but unfortunately raises more flags until normalised.

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Bitcoin a “disaster” for the environment
by professor rat 05 Nov '21

05 Nov '21

https://decrypt.co/85330/billionaire-tom-steyer-trashes-bitcoin-calls-envir… And where do they buy offsets for their Maximalists?

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