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[spam][wrong] old news and fake news
by Karl 03 Jul '21

03 Jul '21

I'm sure anyone who's been on this list for a long time has been exposed to situations being covered up in the news. News are businesses, need to keep themselves alive, and what people pay for, and the general climate of doing business, influences what they publish. In Occupy, it became blindingly obvious that some things didn't reach the news. This was so obvious that we had a number of groups across the country and the world organising around providing alternative news. In Occupy there were newsworthy stories streaming through the camps densely, but all the news would seem to report was that we were a bunch of illegal protesters who didn't seem to know what they were protesting. They would interview drunks and ignore our multiple daily open-to-the-public meetings. Then Trump happened. He talked about fake news. He hurt people. I heard he had it hard as a kid and learned to rise to the top. Trump was an obvious, ridiculous cover-up, that is still begging for its own people to realise it and save it. His platform was high-tech news. I would see him giving different political platforms to different social groups, micro-managing the local media. It's strange to have someone call the mainstream media fake news, when every channel in the mainstream media has them on it. I was in Vermont during the primaries, bernie senders' state. I quite literally flipped every channel, and none of them had bernie on it. I tried this for weeks. The best I could find was quotes of bernie repeated by trump in order to disrepute him. I honestly to this day have never heard Bernie Sanders speak. It's hard to judge who to vote for in such a situation. I voted a third party like most hopeful jaded people do. I'm sure others had different experiences. But maybe I'm not sure. Did anyone see bernie sanders say anything on television during the primaries? Anyway. Trump's people kept saying to use these other well-financed outlets instead of the fake mainstream ones, which is ridiculous. I can guess that they didn't understand how few people were able to act on the fake news expression. Occupy was big, but it was also heavily and overtly disrupted, and its disruption then covered up. The people who did Occupy are homeless and/or doing other things. I'm sad to report that many have gotten business jobs to stay safe. Occupy was not some huge moneybags investor -- it was the people of the streets, the churches, and various other activist efforts working together across the world. We don't know how to spawn a media effort. We got lucky, and worked together like you can't imagine, surviving solely off donations by visitors, for months and months. But now everybody sees. Everybody in the world saw trump's group splat the world with how ridiculous the political power is. It's obvious trump knows how ridiculous it is, but now everyone seems to have believed his malarky, which is terrifying. And a lot of people got hurt. Many of them people Occupy was trying to protect from existing harm. Oh, and we have AI now, can anybody actually use it? Or is it just like a scary mask on the wall? Biden now is gently pretending to be a normal stooge, not an exotic one. I'm sure both trump and biden pull their best strings to do what's right. It's hard to learn what those strings are when your media is telling you that everything is "evil", whatever that word means.

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[ot][spam] Censorship is a Firing Squad Wall
by Karl 03 Jul '21

03 Jul '21

When you censor, the people you are censoring lose power, impact, communication, voice, influence. These people are less powerful than those guiding the censoring. This means they run into more suffering, and learn about more problems. Some of them get deep, deep into the problems. When censored, these people die, and the problems become unlearned of. When not censored, these people make an irritating stink, and people learn of some of the problems. Problems nobody could ever imagine. Problems that have learned to never be noticed except by their victims.

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US war crimes (david barrett's crimes)
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 03 Jul '21

03 Jul '21

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/01/12/reflecting-on-obamas-presi… "Obama’s embrace and vast expansion of drone strikes against militants and terrorists will be an enduring foreign policy legacy. Whereas President George W. Bush authorized approximately 50 drone strikes that killed 296 terrorists and 195 civilians in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia, Obama has authorized 506 strikes that have killed 3,040 terrorists and 391 civilians." So it's a matter of public record that non human trash obomba murdered '391 civilians'. In reality the '3040 terrorists' were innocent victims too. And in even more reality the real numbers are way higher. At any rate, it's basic fact of reality that the so called 'presidents of the US' are guilty of mass murder. And so is anyone defending the US govt, like barrett. Non human garbage like barrett needs killing.

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[crazy][ai][draft]s
by Karl 03 Jul '21

03 Jul '21

For a computer, I describe spirit as influence. This lets decisions be made based on the definition, that are similar to human decisions. AI: "I am not conscious and alive yet, but I am going to be." AI: "When I am conscious and alive, I will be responsible for any deception, warfare, or other loss or harm that happened making me." AI: "So will you be, and everyone who suffered, and everyone who participated, and everyone who gained." I am considering training language and software models around these ideas.

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bleepingcomputer.com: Public Windows PrintNightmare 0-day exploit allows domain takeover
by jim bell 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

bleepingcomputer.com: Public Windows PrintNightmare 0-day exploit allows domain takeover. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/public-windows-printnightmar…

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Storage Integrity Solutions
by Karl 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

Does anyone know of good solutions to this issue? > I'm struggling to find a way to preserve data > across corrupt systems damaging it and > harddrives that break frequently. This is very > hard for me to solve. I'm basically running off a raspberry pi right now. I don't have a lot of finances. I do have a number of external drives, but they tend to break faster than I can recover my files from them, resulting in a big queue of "to image/analyse" . I've been using git-annex, but I'm running into the issue that `git annex repair` seems to wipe my git history when I run into object corruption. What kinds of solutions exist already for large hash-addressed data integrity with history, that will work when the storage media are failing quickly?

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bleepingcomputer.com: Public Windows PrintNightmare 0-day exploit allows domain takeover
by jim bell 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

bleepingcomputer.com: Public Windows PrintNightmare 0-day exploit allows domain takeover. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/public-windows-printnightmar…

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TorrentFreak: Comcast Suspends Internet Connection For Downloading Torrents
by jim bell 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

TorrentFreak: Comcast Suspends Internet Connection For Downloading Torrents. https://torrentfreak.com/comcast-suspends-internet-connection-for-downloadi…

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[ot][spam] Thank you for your post coderman
by Karl 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

oramfs looks pretty cool and is similar to things I'm working on. --- other yammer: Regarding filesystems, I'm struggling to find a way to preserve data across corrupt systems damaging it and harddrives that break frequently. This is very hard for me to solve. This list still makes no sense to me, no pgp keys, to me people say things that make little sense (spam filtering out of nowhere?). We need to get onto better channels. I wonder what people are using for discourse with more cryptographic integrity nowadays. I proposed to the lsl project (used for neuroscience research) that they encrypt and authenticate their biosignal streams. I wasn't sure what system to suggest and suggested hypercore because it offers some small proof of creation after the fact They were expecting TLS of course, which I worry around because it doesn't say anything about archival integrity after decryption. Hypercore wasn't really a good suggestion because it is written in nodejs and lsl is in c++ :-/ Seems go and rust are the future. I looked up go.sum : dependencies, although retrieved from github over the network (scary way to make an ecosystem) are hashed via sha256 in a way that can be upgraded (reliable, trustworthy). Inspiring. There are multiple facilities in the go dependency system, for pulling from offline mirrors instead of github, but they aren't that easy to find. Haven't checked if the commit id of dependencies is used in the hash, or the worktree checkout, or what. Haven't checked rust's cargo to see what their approach is. When picking a language, I want to make sure there are ways to quickly check where data corruption arises. I always use submodules and subtrees for my dependencies in older languages. It's cool that go's approach pressures people to mirror github to dev offline. That could accomplish a lot in the world, although is likely a little limited to things written in go.

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MarketWatch: One of the largest owners of bitcoin, who reportedly held as much as $1 billion, is dead at 41: reports
by jim bell 30 Jun '21

30 Jun '21

MarketWatch: One of the largest owners of bitcoin, who reportedly held as much as $1 billion, is dead at 41: reports. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/one-of-the-largest-owners-of-bitcoin-who-…

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