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Fwd: The United Nations Development Programme COVID-19 Contest Announcement
by Cecilia Tanaka 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

Hellooo again, shiny happy people! Hope all of you are feeling awesome and having fun in this annoying quarentine! :D I think this contest can be very interesting for some people here. No, not because of the prizes, but because they can help to save lives. Please, help to avoid great losses for the humanity like this one... :'( < https://planetprinceton.com/2020/04/13/covid-19-kills-princeton-mathematici… > Conway was simply amazing. Please, honor all the people who changed this world for better, with their knowledge, researching, and Science discoveries in all areas. Honor their lives and their deaths helping those who are still here, those who can still be saved... <3 Wish you all much love, inspiration, and good luck, my beloved ones! <3 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Hackster.io <help(a)hackster.io> Date: Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 21:46 Subject: The United Nations Development Programme COVID-19 Contest Announcement To: <cecilia.tanaka(a)gmail.com> The COVID-19 Detect & Protect Challenge with Hackster <https://hackster.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3fd72855783c7f1a97812d84…> <https://hackster.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3fd72855783c7f1a97812d84…> COVID-19 is an unprecedented global health and humanitarian emergency, which threatens to create devastating social, economic, and political crises. In some of the world's most vulnerable areas, the impact could be catastrophic. This extraordinary situation demands innovation and ingenuity from the best and brightest of humanity, wherever it may be found. Today, the United Nations Development Programme is announcing the *COVID-19 Detect and Protect Challenge <https://hackster.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3fd72855783c7f1a97812d84…>*, in partnership with Hackster and some of the world's leading technology companies. <https://hackster.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3fd72855783c7f1a97812d84…> We're calling on the community to support developing countries through the sharing and transfer of open source technology. This challenge has three priority actions: - Design replicable, low-cost tools and resources to aid viral detection - Flatten the curve in communities with preventive solutions - Reduce the disease's impact on the economies of these vulnerable areas The 10 best entries will receive a $1,000 Visa gift card, an NXP HoverGames drone and telemetry radio, and most importantly, a Global UNDP Innovator Award badge and certificate. <https://hackster.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3fd72855783c7f1a97812d84…> JOIN THE CHALLENGE TODAY <https://hackster.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3fd72855783c7f1a97812d84…> Copyright © 2020 Hackster.io, an Avnet Community. All rights reserved. Oh, and lots and lots of health too! Love you all, keep safe, please! <3 <3 <3 Ceci ---------- Loving. Caring. Sharing. Being Excellent To Each Other And To Our Hackerspace. <3 ---------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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Zhaoxin KaiXian x86 CPU Tested: The Rise of China's Chips
by jim bell 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

https://www.tomshardware.com/features/zhaoxin-kx-u6780a-x86-cpu-tested

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Tracing COVID-19 cases with Google Timeline?
by jim bell 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

I am surprised that when I do a Google search for 'COVID-19 "google timeline" ', I see essentially no results. We all know now what COVID-19 (nCov, Coronavirus) is. From the reports I see, this virus has the unusual characteristic of being very contageous for up to periods of weeks prior to a person's feeling symptoms. That is presumably how a large fraction of a cruise ship became infected. This is quite ominous. If epidemiologists were to ask a patient, "tell us where and when you've been each minute over the last 15 days" the vast majority of these victims wouldn't have a prayer of providing that information. And even worse, finding the other people who were "in that AM/PM at 5:07-5:21 10 days ago" would be essentially impossible. Or potentially dozens of other involved locations, over those 15 days. Before one of you accuses me of "advocating" the use of Google Timeline to track potential cases of COVID-19 by means of Google Timeline, I don't need to "advocate" it. Rather, I simply point out that there are a lot of people out there scared of this virus, and probably be looking for a way to determine if their paths have crossed with a victim, even if that victim wasn't symptomatic for 1-2 weeks after the contact. So at some point, I think there will be discussion of this possibility. The data is already being collected, in all Android phones (is there an Apple equivalent?) In principle, if a new infectee is identified, it would be technically possible to work backwards, figure out where he has been over the relevant period, and find anybody who was close to him during a multi-week period. One reason this could be important is that there may be a drug which might reduce (or, hopefully, eliminate) a person's contageousness if it taken during this pre-symptomatic period. One possibility is an old anti-malarial drug, chloroquine, which I have mentioned before. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550 But if people only begin taking chloroquine when they begin exhibiting symptoms of this new flu, that means that they will be spreading that virus for as much as two weeks, or even more. In principle, hundreds of people could be infected, directly or indirectly, merely because there is no early warning. Suppose you receive a text or email notification that you were in a small store, 5 days ago, with a person who just developed symptoms of COVID-19. You MIGHT be infected. So, you MIGHT want to take a chloroquine pill. (The half-life of chloroquine is 45-55 days). Or some other pill that could assist if taken long before symptoms were likely to appear. Not only might you not get sick, maybe you'd be able to avoid transmitting the virus to many others. (My speculation...) And maybe you'll live, when you otherwise wouldn't. We Cypherpunks are SUPPOSED to be more concerned, than average, about the privacy and freedom implications of technologies. What I have described, above, might be handled in a completely-voluntary fashion. But, we want to ensure that this doesn't turn into a permanent form of tracking. So we should debate the implications of all this, ideally before everyone else is talking about it. I would be surprised if Google isn't already considering something like this. They have much of the data to do so. They might hesitate to announce such an idea, for fear that people would think this is some sort of generalized people-tracking system. Jim Bell

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Programming a Quantum Computer - Towards Data Science
by jim bell 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

https://towardsdatascience.com/programming-a-quantum-computer-21baf506bdc4

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Project Azorian, Hughes Glomar Explorer, Mining Barge, Sea Shadow, Summa Corporation, DOMP
by grarpamp 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

Project Azorian, Hughes Glomar Explorer, Mining Barge, Sea Shadow, Summa Corporation, DOMP T-AG-193 HMB-1 IX-529 K-129 https://maritime.org/doc/glomarexplorer/ https://maritime.org/tour/seashadow/ http://w3.the-kgb.com/dante/military/explorer.html http://w3.the-kgb.com/dante/military/hmb1.html http://w3.the-kgb.com/dante/military/mission.html http://w3.the-kgb.com/dante/military/explpics.html http://w3.the-kgb.com/dante/military/explpic2.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Mining_Barge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shadow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-129_(1960) https://fas.org/irp/program/collect/jennifer.htm https://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb305/index.htm https://files.asme.org/asmeorg/Communities/History/Landmarks/12708.pdf https://www.amazon.com/Matter-Risk-Roy-Varner/dp/0345286391/ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Burial_At_Sea_of_Soviet… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJAJUJ41PBI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU3zVz3i_r4 Scrapped: Explorer and Sea Shadow The Glomar Explorer, Deep Ocean Working Vessel, Technical Description and Specification, 1975, describes the Glomar Explorer in the context of her cover story. Search on Glomar Explorer and Project Azorian to learn about her CIA sponsored mission to recover a Soviet submarine. Also see photos inside HMB-1 during 2011. At the bottom of HMB-1 tour there are additional documents describing Project Azorian and Glomar Explorer that readers of this document will want to explore. This brochure is intended to provide an introductory technical description of the GLOMAR EXPLORER, a unique deep ocean working vessel. This unusual ship incorporates many innovative engineering features which are significant advances beyond the present state of the art.

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Julian Assange fathered two children with lawyer Stella Morris during embassy stay, alleged partner claims - The Washington Post
by jim bell 12 Apr '20

12 Apr '20

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/11/assange-secret-children-ste…

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Louis C.K. - snowflake shoah - expanding the comedy overton window
by Zig the N.g 11 Apr '20

11 Apr '20

A comedian who actually does appear to be actually racist, mysogynistic and the reset of the barrage of epithets thrown his way... this is lidderally anuddah shoah :) Probably a bit rough around the edges for some, so note the B.gga Tr.gga Warning as "Sincerely Louis C.K." gets the Official N.gger Seal Of Approval. ‘Racist,’ ‘misogynistic,' sh*thead': Wokesters fume as Louis C.K. brilliantly sidesteps cancel culture with new special https://www.rt.com/op-ed/485429-louis-ck-special-metoo/ Louis C.K.’s independently released comedy special is a ding in the armor of cancel culture, a perfect takedown of woke mobs that proves humor is the voice of the people. After losing gigs at FX, Netflix, HBO, and having his film ‘I Love You Daddy’ scrapped at the last minute in 2017, it was easy to presume the edgy humor of Louis C.K. would go dark forever. After all, who could remain funny after being accused of sexual misconduct in the midst of the #MeToo craze? After taking a few months away, the comedian hit the road again and took the scandals surrounding him head-on. Now, he’s taken things a step further and released a new comedy special titled ‘Sincerely Louis C.K.’ Without a major outlet willing to touch the seeming pariah, Louis C.K. side-stepped cancel culture’s consequences and released the special independently through his website for the low cost of $7.99. To say the world’s woke warriors have been outraged would be an understatement. “Louis CK whips out a new comedy special nobody wants to see,” the Mary Sue wrote. “Louis CK releases special no one asked for,” the Daily Beast added. Variety’s Jordan Moreau calls the new special “racist” and “misogynistic.” Other left-wing outlets have been producing similar coverage giving special attention to C.K.’s humor about his own misconduct. Some even contemplated the “challenge” of watching the comedian perform standup in the wake of his scandals — he was accused by several women of pleasuring himself in front of them, and though he claims he got consent each time, he admits he “wielded [his] power irresponsibly.” ... 33 minutes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fandn_783IY Full show ~1hr ($8): https://louisck.com/

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Re: [Privacy] Snowden Warns Governments Are Using Coronavirus to Build 'the Architecture of Oppression'
by Cecilia Tanaka 11 Apr '20

11 Apr '20

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 01:46 Digitalfolklore <digitalfolklore(a)protonmail.ch> wrote: Snowden is safe...funny how people who are at no risk pontificate to the > masses > > 2. no one cares. > > VH > Oh, baby, you do care. You do care a lot about it, enough for always provoking me or trying to hurt me in private. For Darwin's sake, expose yourself a little in public, shy guy. And learn that people like me don't care about your opinion and all the other opinions. I was simply sharing an idea because we are having serious problems about privacy in my country, specially in my city. The government of my State is doing something very bad, very wrong, with the support of all the Telecom companies. The inspiration was for myself and maybe for some people who wants to help. If it doesn't touch any heart, no problem, life goes on. Life _always_ goes on, without you, without me, without a lot of people... Life is Life. It doesn't need you, me, Snowden, or anyone for existing. And that's its beauty... <3 c.

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Re: [hackerspaces] Google to release your location data to help fight coronavirus pandemic
by Cecilia Tanaka 11 Apr '20

11 Apr '20

Hellooo! Hope everybody is feeling amazingly happy! I do! :D Sorry for being late, but it was a religious holiday in Brazil and I took the whole day for family, friends, and woke almost now, in the couch of a couple of friends, with one little dog, two fat cats, and an unknown baby over me. I would really appreciate some pics, hihi... <3 Sorry, I am still very sleepy. Being sincere, I only woke up because the baby pooped a lot and my dreams are becoming nightmares about having diarrhea when talking in public. :(( Still talking about nightmares, in the last years, I collected a lot of creepy stories about ""anonymized data"" (lots of air quotes here!), so I think I am becoming a bit neurotic, paranoid, <insert other similar adjectives>, about the real honesty of some sites and companies. But I am just a stupid sleepy lawyer, not an InfoSec SuperMaster, so I will go home to take a warm shower and sleep again, zzz... <3 Much love and warm snugglehugs, my dear friends... Good night and sweet dreams! <3 Ceci (-_-)*zzzleepy ---------- Loving. Caring. Sharing. Being Excellent To Each Other And To Our Hackerspace. <3 ---------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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Re: Libertarian Economic Logic (chart attached)
by Zenaan Harkness 11 Apr '20

11 Apr '20

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 05:54:02PM +1000, jamesd(a)echeque.com wrote: > > > > And in case you missed it, there's 100s of sites these days such > > > > as http://opensourcemachinetools.org/wordpress/ > > > > Which don't tell you how to make a pencil. > > On 2019-09-23 09:33, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > How many years was the interval between when RMS started his version > > of "the free software movement/ community" and now (now being a > > relevant point in time where we see an incredibly abundant cornucopia > > of all manner of computer software, in free forms available to all) ? > > Since that software was produced by handful of very smart people, that > irrelevant to question of whether you can make a pencil without a boss telling > you how to do it. > > You can make some gun parts with a threedee printer and software downloaded > from the internet, but some gun parts you cannot. And for a very long time, > no one could make those parts except existing large scale gun makers. > > And watching Ivan the Troll make those gun parts, it was absolutely obvious to > me that come civil war II, it is not going to be a large number of people > making full auto weapons in their home workshop. We are going to have to > conscript Ivan the Troll, and conscript a thousand people to do what he damn > well tells them to do. There's a principle there I do agree with. The benevolent dictator, the individual with capacity - call it creative intuitive or inherent or something. I am well aware that those of capacity ("any relevant level of capacity" perhaps?) cannot be duplicated in general. And yes, come civil war, very few will have the ability and capacity to create anything particularly useful, in a relevant time frame, to the defence of their family. I think calling "inherent intuitive ability in one or more areas" "a boss" leads to unfortunate descent of the conversation. One of the great problems of today is the Marxist indoctrination of many, when they go to college, and combined with the relative technological abundance and access to Wikipedia we have, a lot of "spoilt brats" think not only can they do anything, but that the world owes them everything and they ought not have to lift a finger to receive everthing, and this approach has gottem them a fair way in the "cotton wool parents" world we now live in. And come civil war, a few inherent but long buried facts will, usefully if painfully, expose themselves rather rudely to those who've been living such delusions. Anyway, there are those who are intent on building up the publicly accessible knowledge base on how to make things. Some will join them. Perhaps even someone who already knows how to make pencils, and perhaps few people will even be able to follow the instructions - perhaps none (though I doubt that - such a view smacks of ego hubris); timeframes though... I can't stop wondering about the Werner von Braun and NASA USA rocket building history though ... I usually prefer to have the discussion on the list by the way. Regards, Zenaan

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