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[spam] [archive] [hacking] Working on finalising a mobile python driver.
by Karl 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

It's hard for me to do stuff, so when I really do something I hunker down and ignore everything else. Somewhat described elsewhere on-list. Right now I'm running into a frustrating issue. I've encountered similar issues before, in other languages, but this is the first one I've really butted heads with in Python. My python codebase currently crashes. One of parts may relate to object lifetime between android's java garbage collector and python's garbage collector. A strange behavior is that my python object is getting multiply constructed. I use the python object in a loop. It's constructed before the start of the loop, and then repeatedly called inside the loop, inside a try handler inside which an exception is thrown. I've done a textual search on the code and believe prior to that loop to be the only place the constructor is called. However, when I put a debugging line inside the constructor, the line is output every iteration of the loop. This particular python object is not intertwined with java, but inside the loop it produces a python object that is linked to java via the jni and cpython, and adds it as a member. I have output the traceback inside the constructor, and the traceback is empty. The only line is the constructor itself, as if a thread was started with the constructor as the thread functions. [*relief] It looks like even on the first call, the traceback has only one line. Maybe this is because it uses python's async feature. But constructers never use the async feature, so this must be a bug in the traceback.

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Another volunteer for the greater circle-of-eunuchs
by professor rat 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

Twitter's Jack Dorsey admits internet companies have too much power and praises bitcoin as a model to change that. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/13/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-internet-companies-…

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TELEGRAM for Mr Mongo
by professor rat 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/telegram-nazi-ban/ Another wave of neo-Nazi and white nationalist accounts have come down. Hoo-rah!

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Don't pay the Ferryman
by professor rat 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

Till he gets you to the other side https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/rudy-giuliani-donald-trump-just-cut-o…

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Engadget: Ring starts offering end-to-end encryption to (some) of its users
by jim bell 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

Engadget: Ring starts offering end-to-end encryption to (some) of its users. https://www.engadget.com/ring-end-to-end-encryption-doorbell-security-2021-…

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The US Navy seem to like cypherpunk technologies
by professor rat 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

>From Admirable Poindexter back in 2003 to today's Navy - It's not a JOB! - It's an ADVENTURE! https://www.coindesk.com/us-navy-commissions-1-5m-blockchain-system-for-tra… I feel like Sally Fields at the Oscar's - " You LIKE ME! You really LIKE ME! " And once we win over the Marines and Top-Gun, Tailhooker's they can win over the entire pentagon. Easy money.

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Now the House has impeached him, any violence Trump inspires in the next week is McConnell's fault
by professor rat 14 Jan '21

14 Jan '21

DUMBFUCK's impeached. But he seems to have staunched the bleeding from last night when Cheney and McConnell made it look like the dam might be breaking. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/statement-which-reveals-how-scared-he… "... he’s scared. In the past week he’s lost three banks, his Twitter account, a major golf tournament, and several key allies. He’s also under criminal investigation by the DC Attorney General for inciting violence. Trump is facing bankruptcy and prison ..." If only the US was a democracy cos this would be the end of the GOP.

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Christine Lagarde needs killing ( My 20$ )
by professor rat 13 Jan '21

13 Jan '21

Christine Lagarde, president of the ECB, wants the dogs of regulation unleashed on Bitcoin. She told a press conference today that Bitcoin should be regulated to protect against money laundering. "Global cooperation" is needed, she said. https://decrypt.co/53962/bitcoin-global-regulation-european-central-bank

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The Guardian: Australian man arrested in Germany over 'world's largest' darknet marketplace
by professor rat 13 Jan '21

13 Jan '21

Why I support " Lexit " - a leftist Brexit, and have done for years. The EU failed on free-movement by building Fortress Europe. Its crappy currency is set up to fail when there are decent alternatives and its idea of democracy is to keep holding plebiscites till the ultra-nationalist result is reached. The whole idea of Europa only made sense as a Proudhonian one and reached its use-by date with Peak Shengen and the rise of Bitcoin. The smart play with an imposition like quarantine was to suspend the war-on-drugs. But in states like the EU power ratchets only one way. Every state with any self-respect should leave - especially Britain's old ally, Portugal where drugs are legal and Holland where cafes sell some illegal drugs. This story is also a reminder there is a long standing - from 2009 on - demand the US govt surrender to the internet and acknowledge that surrender by freeing all its Drug War prisoners. I encourage all cypherpunks to support this effort - it means the fascistic US republic becomes a Futarchy. One small step toward crypto-anarchy.

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The Guardian: Australian man arrested in Germany over 'world's largest' darknet marketplace
by jim bell 13 Jan '21

13 Jan '21

The Guardian: Australian man arrested in Germany over 'world's largest' darknet marketplace. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/13/australian-man-arrested-…

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