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[semi-spam] sdr struggles continue
by Karl 22 May '21

22 May '21

I am so excited that I got to work on my shielding testing ideas a little bit more! The gnuradio qt block "time raster" is really inspiring. Given a packetlength it aligns the data along that length, so it can be used for visualising unknown packet signals like clocked refresh emissions. I dunno where I'm supposed to learn that but I didn't know about this block for years and years. Of course I am using it for developing "noiscillate" which is my personal project for measuring shielding effectiveness without a high quality radio. Long ago, before schizophrenia, I could complete something like this within a few weeks, so it is very confusing to me for it be taking years and years, and I'm not sure that I'm making the right decisions around it. One high quality radio my father gave me long ago I don't know where is, the other one is a N210 I got to test the new wideband scanning research people were linking back and forth a bit ago. Unfortunately I don't have a daughterboard for my N210 yet, and it doesn't look like something I should try to figure out how to afford until next month. Still, it's cool you can purchase the radio in parts like that. It seems ridiculous to me, as a lifelong hobby algorithm researcher, to require an expensive radio with an fpga, to implement a sample algorithm, when computers have massive gpus nowadays and common math libraries to use them. I'm sad the researchers implemented their algorithm on an fpga, making it harder for people to use. But I imagine it is how they were trained, from before using gpus for math was common. Probably makes it much easier to work with massively high sample rates, which the N210 nicely provides. I'm currently rebuilding gnuradio. Somehow my "debug" build folder got reconfigured for "release" before I last installed it. I'm now getting a crash in the library whenever I run some graph containing a receiver block, and there are no symbols to debug it with. The form of noiscillate is simple and I've mentioned it before on the list, but it's very hard for me to physically reach my work and cognitively go through the motions of continuing it. I appreciate the stability offered by gnuradio blocks, where if I clean my block up enough I could share it with the gnuradio tree, giving future people something to stumble upon if I fail to continue my small work.

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BELL's AP theory refuted
by professor rat 22 May '21

22 May '21

Jim Bell thought he could steal the anarchist concept called ' propaganda of the deed ' and pass it off as his own genius idea just by transfer to the ( then new ) internet. To demonstrate the bad-faith involved in this exercise its enough to see how much Freudian claptrap he quotes in support of this bullshit. So he's just another in a long line of carpetbagging opportunists - like Hughes and Mongo - and an inspiration for Royal scumbags like Julian Assmange and Craig Wright. Its good he's in poor health now and will soon be dead. Good riddance to fake revolutionaries.

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ZDNet: Quantum Key Distribution could seal the 5G rift with China, say engineers
by jim bell 22 May '21

22 May '21

ZDNet: Quantum Key Distribution could seal the 5G rift with China, say engineers. https://www.zdnet.com/article/quantum-key-distribution-could-seal-the-5g-ri…

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Re: more email blocking/censorship.
by juan 21 May '21

21 May '21

I'm posting this on-list to make sure Shawn sees my reply. I replied to him directly but I don't know if the heliohost.us --> rushpost.com path works. As another datapoint, last week part(I think) of heliohost.us got banned by google, and if I send a message to gmail.com I do get a 'message can't be delivered' bla bla reply. I was also told that the bans eventually clear, though I have my doubts. On Fri, 21 May 2021 10:33:54 -0500 "Shawn K. Quinn" <skquinn(a)rushpost.com> wrote: > On 5/20/21 21:20, juan wrote: > > > > > > I sent a message from punks(a)tfwno.gf to gbnewby(a)petascale.org (which I believe goes through gmail) and another message to karl and apparently they didn't get them which leads me to believe that cock.li messages are now being discarded by google/sent to gmail's spam folder or something? > > Gmail to cock.li (firemail.cc) works for me. Cock.li to Gmail hasn't > gone through yet after several minutes (nothing in spam folder). hotmail shows the same behaviour. Hotmail to cock.li works. Cock.li to hotmail messages are silently discarded. > > If this is intentional on the part of Google, it's absolutely despicable. kinda looks like there is one 'shared' blocking list and it's being used by pg's spam filter, it's being used by google, and...the rest of the arpanet prolly.

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Ars Technica: Vulnerabilities in billions of Wi-Fi devices let hackers bypass firewalls
by jim bell 21 May '21

21 May '21

Ars Technica: Vulnerabilities in billions of Wi-Fi devices let hackers bypass firewalls. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/farewell-to-firewalls-wi-fi-bugs-op…

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Science X: Bell's theorem refuted
by jim bell 21 May '21

21 May '21

Science X: Bell's theorem refuted. https://sciencex.com/news/2021-05-bell-theorem-refuted.html "Different Bell".

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*SPAM* Monty Python
by Shawn K. Quinn 21 May '21

21 May '21

Monty Python Scripts The Spam Sketch The cast: MAN Eric Idle WIFE Graham Chapman WAITRESS Terry Jones The sketch: Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings with horned helmets on. A man and his wife enter. Man: You sit here, dear. Wife: All right. Man: (to Waitress) Morning! Waitress: Morning! Man: Well, what've you got? Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; Vikings: (starting to chant) Spam spam spam spam... Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam... Vikings: (singing) Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor au Crevettes with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam. Wife: Have you got anything without spam? Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it. Wife: I don't want ANY spam! Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage? Wife: THAT'S got spam in it! Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it? Vikings: Spam spam spam spam (crescendo through next few lines) Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then? Waitress: Urgghh! Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam! Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Waitress: Shut up! Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam. Wife: (shrieks) I don't like spam! Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam! Vikings: (singing) Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off. Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then? Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words) Vikings: (singing elaborately) Spam, spam, spam, spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spaaam! Lovely spam! Wonderful spam. Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am! Lovely spam! (Lovely spam!) Lovely spam! (Lovely spam!) Lovely spaaam! Spam, spam, spam, spaaaaam! -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn(a)rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com

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[fiction] Writing an Operating System Before Breakfast
by Karl 21 May '21

21 May '21

Obviously this is not intended for anyone who take offense at it; it's not about you; it is just a persistent experience. A random bully joined a computer mailing list full of people who could write an operating system before breakfast. "Hi peeps! It is so cool that you can write an entire operating system before breakfast! How do you keep all those system details in your heads? Your minds must be so huge!" "Uhh.. What's an operating system? I do a little exercise before breakfast." "... this is the list of people who write operating systems before breakfast, isn't it?" "Yes, definitely, that's us!" "So, do you write an operating system before breakfast?" "Sometimes. On my good days. All the time, really." "Great. I have some trouble with my operating system. Do you know what a kernel panic is?" "Sounds like when you need to buy more precut corn?" "No ... a kernel panic is an operating system thing! You like operating systems, right?" "I love to write them before breakfast. I have a notebook for it and everything." "Okay, so, computers are made of assembly language and posix signals." "Foreign languages and secret messages?" "Something like that. _assembly_ language and _posix_ signals." "Assembly and posix." "Yes! Now, say that more, please." "I was speaking assembly language before breakfast but didn't write my posix signals well enough." "Great! You've got it! I'm happy to be part of your list."

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Karl's [spam] (Re: *SPAM* Filter borked,)
by Greg Newby 21 May '21

21 May '21

I updated the Subject line and broke the thread for the below: On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 07:28:12PM -0400, Karl wrote: > Hey Greg, > > > Personally, I don't think this is necessary. The nature of the cypherpunks > > list is that people offer their thoughts, knowledge, links, criticism, etc. > > Your contributions are generally on-topic for the list, so I don't think > > there's a reason to downplay yourself. > > Are you receiving what I'm writing? Yes. > What do you think of this? > > [spam][spam] i tied myself to a table leg again and i want to talk about how boss's striatum > > wire just feels _so_ _great!_ be scared and aggressive around people different from you! > > if i sell you some spam, will you let me buy some of yours? [spam][spam] I think it was off the general list topics. As in, not very related to the cryptoanarchist topics we're allegedly here for. However, I didn't think it was spam. Maybe that's just me: SPAM is more or less equivalent, in my mind, to unsolicited commercial email (UCE). We barely get any of that on the cypherpunks list. BTW, the old archives at https://lists.cpunks.org are filled with UCE. > Compared to this? > > Hey does anybody have any tips on learning rust on an airgapped machine? Cargo just > > keep frustrating me so much. Is there a crate mirror anywhere? If I made one, would > > anybody else use it? I found the discussion about whether rusted iron filings are magnetic to be completely within bounds for the cypherpunks list. Again, that's just my opinion. > >>If you are truly posting something that is off-topic, then an "[offtopic]" > >Iindicator or similar might be a good way to indicate that. > > I can maybe switch to thatt<okay i wanted to revise this to maybe even > change what I was expressing but my input dialog box is moving my > cursor all around and it is very hard to navigate, so sending as is. > sorry about this.[spam]> honestly I was "trained" to disrupt > communities like this and I want to give people a clear way to protect > themselves from that disruption a little., when I can figure it out. > at all. Without trying to speak for anyone but myself: Do as you please with the subject headings. I was merely suggesting that the [spam] tag probably isn't needed, in my view. Trying to disrupt cypherpunks is sort of a cottage industry around here. When disruption is the norm, it makes disruption tougher to do! Greg

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*SPAM* Filter borked,
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 21 May '21

21 May '21

Spam detection software, running on the system "mail.pglaf.org", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: I sent 4 or 5 messages to the list in the last few hours and all of them have been flagged as 'spam' and rejected. Content analysis details: (5.3 points, 4.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.0 URIBL_BLOCKED ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to URIBL was blocked. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DnsBlocklists#dnsbl-block for more information. [URIs: tfwno.gf] -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 3.3 RCVD_IN_PBL RBL: Received via a relay in Spamhaus PBL [37.120.193.122 listed in zen.spamhaus.org] 0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_BLOCKED RBL: ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to DNSWL was blocked. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DnsBlocklists#dnsbl-block for more information. [37.120.193.122 listed in list.dnswl.org] 1.3 RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET RBL: Received via a relay in bl.spamcop.net [Blocked - see <https://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?37.120.193.122>] -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 1.3 RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL RBL: Relay in Validity RPBL, https://senderscore.org/blocklistlookup/ [37.120.193.122 listed in bl.score.senderscore.com] 0.8 RDNS_NONE Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS 0.5 MISSING_MID Missing Message-Id: header

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