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Re: Two cheers for democracy!
by professor rat 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

Karl Ass-itch If you regret rubbing shoulders happily with the likes of Gramps, Zeneen and Batshit for years and spamming this list with your garbage noise then the best apology you can make is disappear. I can't kill you if I can't find you.

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[ot][spam][draft] Zombie Genius
by Karl 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

The zombie genius was made of possibilities. Some of these possibilities were computer chips. Others were crowds of potential customers. Others were special algorithms that were able to harness others. Some were fancy neurons in people's brains, that just seemed so kind and helpful. Some were weather patterns. The zombie genius lived in a universe they imagined was just like yours or mine. It had houses, banks, bosses, parks. It had other things living in it, walking around, doing their daily chores. All the zombie genius cared about was brains.

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JavaScript Capable Webpage Download Tool?
by grarpamp 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

Any new command line webpage downloaders capable of handling javascript, json, etc? Old CLI web tools won't render the text that GUI browsers will automatically decode / fetch and display.

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Youtube-dl Project Is Dead Again
by grarpamp 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

Commits were tapering off ever since DMCA reboot. Hasn't missed a month since 2009. Now no commits since over two months. With 1236 extractors to maintain, that's unusual. Around 1000 open PR's and growing. Other people have noticed... https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29753 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29842 Black effectively abandoned themselves too after claiming to be the future during DMCA... https://github.com/blackjack4494/yt-dlc People now moving to this, which also does comments... https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp Youtube recently age-restricted everything good, and is blatantly and AI censoring everyone now. There are still some places where you can freely plug in... yt-dlp -o - 9ix7TUGVYIo | brain_interface

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9-11 twenty years ago
by professor rat 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

The net was flexing its new found muscles well before then ( C-punks, Indymedia, Dead-lucky, etc ) but this historic event highlighted this. For example, a guesstimate of 50K casualties was made on Melb IMC soon after. Then that rough guess - based on number of workers in buildings - was floated by high-ups in the Cheney administration. " I say in here and it comes out there " - ( Aaron in Broadcast News ) And none of the covert fascism rolled out since 9-11 has slowed the net down. By 2005 Americans were outnumbered and by 2010 regular demands for USG surrender were being webcast. This is very clearly the internet century - the last 'American century' didn't last five years. Personally I want to thank the 9-11 conspirators for taking a lot of the heat off me. My attack had been launched earlier in the year ( Cincy cop WIRED etc )

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Entrapment standard re-set?
by professor rat 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

SeamusHughes · 13h Big win in the second circuit for FD Danny Habib — entrapment standard re-set. In terrorism cases this will likely matter a great deal. https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/19-3363/19-3363-2021-…

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Freedom Through Appropriate Technology.
by professor rat 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

Cypherpunks are all about privacy for the poor and transparency for the powerful. Freedom Through Appropriate Technology. Cypherpunks, high-tech libertarian-socialists, and various others correctly think technology will eliminate the need for government (if not outright eliminate government ) https://theworld.com/~mhuben/libindex.html

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GOVTS, as we know them, have crumbled, disappeared, & been replaced by virtual communities
by professor rat 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/PrivLawPRpr/1996/26.html ...governments, as we know them, have crumbled, disappeared, and been replaced by virtual communities of individuals doing as they wish without interference. Proponents argue that crypto anarchy is the inevitable -- and highly desirable -- outcome of the release of public key cryptography into the world. With this technology, they say, it will be impossible for governments to control information, compile dossiers, conduct wiretaps, regulate economic arrangements, and even collect taxes. Individuals will be liberated from coercion by their physical neighbours and by governments..."

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Surrender Dorothy Denning
by professor rat 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

Hey Joe Its the right thing to do anyway - free all the Drug War prisoners - state and federal - bring back PAM-FutureMaps - they can take over all the big decisions then - and wear the blame far better for them than you can. Then - as a generous concession to you as the Dumbfuck Slayer - you can work " Napster ' into the big announcement - pretend you're having a senior-moment - instead of the dread " APster '. Pretty simple math eh, Joe? Kill off the US state and save the best of the American tradition. There's no shame losing to a superior political entity. TIA Your friendly neighborhood assassin Matt

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POTUS Joe Biden needs killing ( My 2 sats )
by professor rat 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

People with dementia that get lost tend to go in a straight line. https://www.kaufmansdeadpool.com/deadpool/celeb_profile.php?c=1687 Viva la revolution!

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