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Carbon Negative?
by Ryan Carboni 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event Azolla has been deemed a "super-plant" as it can draw down as much as a tonne of nitrogen per acre per year (0.25 kg/m2/yr); this is matched by 6 tonnes per acre of carbon drawdown (1.5 kg/m2/yr). Its ability to use atmospheric nitrogen for growth means that the main limit to its growth is usually the availability of phosphorus: carbon, nitrogen and sulphur being three of the key elements of proteins, and phosphorus being required for DNA, RNA and in energy metabolism. The plant can grow at great speed in favourable conditions – modest warmth and 20 hours of sunlight, both of which were in evidence at the poles during the early Eocene – and can double its biomass over two to three days in such a climate.

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TmoNews: FCC 5G mmWave auction results show T-Mobile spent $873 million on spectrum licenses
by jim bell 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

TmoNews: FCC 5G mmWave auction results show T-Mobile spent $873 million on spectrum licenses. https://www.tmonews.com/2020/03/fcc-mmwave-5g-auction-results-t-mobile-spec…

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Cryptocurrency: Duncan Lemp aka: YungQuant - Murdered by Police While Asleep
by grarpamp 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

https://hosted.ap.org/semissourian/article/0840d3f354693625605290eecf307ac6… https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-duncan-lemp https://twitter.com/search?q="duncan%20lemp" Duncan Socrates Lemp aka: YungQuant aka: CaptainCuck42 https://github.com/YungQuant https://www.facebook.com/duncan.lemp https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncan-lemp https://duncanlemp.com/ https://twitter.com/yungquant https://twitter.com/duncanlemp https://www.instagram.com/p/B9rKeK6JZRC/ https://www.mymilitia.com/profile/5616-yungquant/ "I saw and heard my baby today. Looks like a gummy bear and has a strong heartbeat." -- gf Análisis técnico · C Programming · Cryptocurrency · Equity trading · Finance · Machine learning · Momentum (technical analysis) · Neuropharmacology · NumPy · Probabilistic risk assessment · Probability and statistics · Python · Quantitative analysis (chemistry) · Statistical analysis · Statistics · Support(technical analysis) · TensorFlow Pigs lust for killing sleepy people... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5aa_7fDvnE SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A Maryland man who was shot and killed by a police officer was asleep in his bedroom when police opened fire from outside his house, an attorney for the 21-year-old man’s family said Friday. The man’s girlfriend was also wounded. The Montgomery County Police Department said in a news release Friday that Duncan Socrates Lemp “confronted” police and was shot by one of the officers early Thursday. Rene Sandler, an attorney for Lemp’s relatives, said an eyewitness gave a “completely contrary” account of the shooting. She said police could have “absolutely no justification” for shooting Lemp based on what she has heard about the circumstances. “The facts as I understand them from eyewitnesses are incredibly concerning,” she told The Associated Press. The warrant that police obtained to search the Potomac home Lemp shared with his parents and 19-year-old brother doesn’t mention any “imminent threat” to law enforcement or the public, Lemp’s relatives said in a statement released Friday by their lawyers. Nobody in the house that morning had a criminal record, the statement adds. “Any attempt by the police to shift responsibility onto Duncan or his family, who were sleeping when the police fired shots into their home, is not supported by the facts,” the statement says. A police department spokesman didn’t immediately respond to the statements by the family or their lawyer. The department’s news release on Friday says tactical unit members were serving a “high-risk” search warrant around 4:30 a.m. when one of the unit’s officers fatally shot Lemp. Police detectives recovered three rifles and two handguns from the home. Lemp was prohibited from possessing firearms, police said. “Detectives were following up on a complaint from the public that Lemp, though prohibited, was in possession of firearms,” the release says without elaborating. Sandler said the family believes police fired gunshots, not a flashbang or other projectile, from outside the home, including through Lemp’s bedroom window, while he and his girlfriend were sleeping. Nobody in the home heard any warnings or commands before police opened fire, she said. “There is no warrant or other justification that would ever allow for that unless there is an imminent threat, which there was not,” Sandler said. The police department’s news release says the “facts and circumstances of the encounter” are still under investigation. Prosecutors from neighboring Howard County will review the evidence at the conclusion of the investigation. “An established agreement between the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office and the Howard County State’s Attorney’s Office stipulates that when an officer-involved shooting involving injury or death occurs in one county, the other county’s State’s Attorney’s Office will review the event,” police said. Lemp was Caucasian, according to Sandler. She did not know the race of the unidentified officer involved in the shooting because she said the officers were wearing masks. The officer was placed on administrative leave, a standard procedure after police shootings. Sandler said Lemp’s grief-stricken family is traumatized. Their statement says they intend to “hold each and every person responsible for his death.” “We believe that the body camera footage and other forensic evidence from this event will support what Duncan’s family already knows, that he was murdered,” the statement says. Lemp worked as a software developer and was trying to raise money for a startup company, according to friends and co-workers. “He was a talented, smart guy. Super nice. Didn’t deserve to get shot,” said Samuel Reid, whose Canadian software company employed Lemp as an independent contractor. Tsolmondorj Natsagdorj, 24, of Fairfax, Virginia, said he met Lemp in 2016 and bonded with him over their shared interest in cryptocurrency. They also talked about politics. He described Lemp as a libertarian who frequented the 4chan and Reddit message boards, sites popular with internet trolls. “Duncan was a young guy with a bright future as an entrepreneur,” Natsagdorj said. “He was working on things to change the world.” On social media accounts that friends said belonged to him, Lemp’s username was “YungQuant.” On an internet forum called “My Militia,” someone who identified himself as Duncan Lemp, of Potomac, and posted under the username “yungquant” said he was “an active III%’r and looking for local members & recruits.” That’s an apparent reference to the Three Percenters, a wing of the militia movement. The group’s logo, the Roman numeral “III,” has become popular with anti-government extremists, according to the Anti-Defamation League. On his Instagram account, Lemp recently posted a photograph that depicts two people holding up rifles and included the term “boogaloo,” slang used by militia members and other extremists to describe a future civil war in the U.S. Friends said they never heard Lemp espouse any anti-government rhetoric. Sandler said Lemp was not a part of any anti-government or militia-type group. “He was pro-America and supported wholeheartedly all the protections of the Constitution,” she said.

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Phone Tech: Braxman Interviews McAfee, Linux Phones
by grarpamp 15 Mar '20

15 Mar '20

Braxman on McAfee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ABY98ERf7Y https://medium.com/@Brax_Me/john-mcafee-a-real-life-jason-bourne-7dafa081b3… Topics include disinformation, secret private networks, radio jamming, gmail, active surveillance, facial recognition. De-Googling Cheap Android 10 Phones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXLo15l2i4c Privacy Phone Choices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVJo9faE1fM Brax.me https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVU6rModlGxvJbszCclGGw/videos

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Radio: MeshTastic GPS Messenger, Open Time of Flight LIDAR, Rowhammering DDR4 with TRRespass
by grarpamp 15 Mar '20

15 Mar '20

https://www.meshtastic.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22540066 An opensource hiking, pilot, skiing, Signal-App-extending GPS mesh communicator Meshtastic is a project that lets you use inexpensive ($30 ish) GPS radios as an extensible, super long battery life mesh GPS communicator. These radios are great for hiking, skiing, paragliding - essentially any hobby where you don’t have reliable internet access. Each member of your private mesh can always see the location and distance of all other members and any text messages sent to your group chat. https://github.com/iliasam/OpenTOFLidar Open Hardware scanning laser rangefinder based on Time-of-Flight principle. No standalone laser rangefinder modules were used in this LIDAR, so its schematic and firmware are fully open. https://www.vusec.net/projects/trrespass/

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Bad News/Good News
by jim bell 15 Mar '20

15 Mar '20

The bad news is that I live in the state, Washington, that so far has had 6 COVID-19 deaths. The ONLY COVID-19 deaths in the entire US!!! The good news is that I live in Vancouver, Washington, kinda-sorta the 'ass end' of Washington, about 160 miles south of where the main COVID action is. The bad news is that a few days ago, I visited a friend temporarily in a care home very near Seattle (NOT the one that made the news over the last 2-3 days, connected to 5 of the 6 deaths.) This friend has numerous ailments, but generally dating from long before COVID existed. More bad news is that 5 days after I left, he got very ill with vomiting, and had to go to a hospital. He thinks it's conceivable he got this COVID-19, although I don't think he has been tested for that. Yet. He is also fairly close to the Chinese community in Seattle, which is about 4.5% of the population there. More bad news is that I hear that especially hard-hit are old men. In little more than 1 month, I turn 62. More bad news is that people with diabetes are hit harder. I have diabetes. So, anyone want to take bets on whether I fall ill in the next 2-3 weeks? Jim Bell

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Fwd: The FAX by email
by Rob Avina 15 Mar '20

15 Mar '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rob Avina <tehrob(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 12:02 PM Subject: Fwd: The FAX by email To: <alxbert2(a)gmail.com> --------------Forwarded Message------------- Facts are important. There is an idea that they are becoming bifurcated and will soon be obsolete. I think this is a false idea. A truth is only as true as the ideas surrounding it. Following are 5 links. In order of creation and a short description of each. They are hosted on Google servers, so they should be safe and work. Take the time and precautions you see fit. I have. Disney Disabled Services Letter.pdf A letter to Disneyland's disabled services: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qc2h_Z5ZYKefjRgJ_Ahfp0uU8r2O5-JV-R_SvbD… 1fTx0DDN.txt & dontdoanythingaboutthisplease.txt are the same document, a letter to CIA Director Haspel: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DlaL5oONIH0mB_vUamNbcMLrmwsPbhttfzTVILg… jiminiproject.pdf https://drive.google.com/file/d/15t_fHDgwa06bB4w0tWKoZZR8kjrJYxeB/view?usp=… Business letter.pdf a letter to Chelsea Manning sent to her jail cell in Virginia by mail, with a copy sent to her lawyer via twitter messenger: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CsvbTWchuMlaJLIb06iqKfRImG1tC3p6uZVZU0w… A list of Fax numbers I have sent these documents to. Sorting by Date or phone will give you a good idea of where I was trying to communicate to. The "Done - Good" tab at the bottom is only successful faxes with page count confirmations as copied from my account: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bexjO2Q_Zyd3Y15DpuC6xWuD6ViztzWWn0S… There are other facts, but these are some of mine. Please look into this. Thank you.& Aloha -Rob

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Re: list of people censored on lists.debian.org
by Zenaan Harkness 15 Mar '20

15 Mar '20

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 11:26:27AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 14/03/2020 14:17, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > your ongoing battle appears to be staunch, humorous, challenging, depressing, and uplifting all at the same time. We feel for ya. > > Thanks for your feedback > > I'm not an LWN subscriber so I can neither see nor comment on the thread > you mentioned. I emailed you a copy. > But from the title, I derived this: > https://danielpocock.com/handling-attacks-on-volunteers-and-their-families/ Damn bro, thank you so much for sharing your story! These lines: .. "People tried to give me orders about what I can and can't tell the community who elected me to represent them." .. "If you have any doubts about this, you can check the DM keyring log, why would they move me to the DM keyring if I had done anything that would remotely justify an expulsion? Anybody on the DM keyring can still upload all of their packages. In what kind of organization do you expel or fire somebody and still keep asking them to do stuff for you like that?" .. [from a linked email] "Ian, How can you consider post hoc evidence gathering and justification to be ethical?" just absolutely nails it for me! Again, thank you for sharing, and thank you for your living of your principles! It is clear to many that not only Debian, but many other places in FLOSS land have been overrun by petty Nazis, and fragile snowflake like ones in particular. > > I'm wondering if you ever subscribed to the cypherpunks mailing list last year? It's a small community, but passionate, and at least so far as the law allows, uncensored. > > > > If it floats yer boat, perhaps join the rest of us outcast n.ggers at the cypherpunks corral ;) > > It sounds interesting but the biggest challenge for me is always to > serve the users. That's what being a real Debian Developer is about, it > is written in the Debian Social Contract, point #4. > > With users in mind, I'm working on some tools to neutralize harassment > and abuse, for example, a Mozilla Thunderbird MailExtensions plugin for > adding the BCC and List-* headers to each message. Then, if somebody > feels they have been harassed by a list admin, they can continue > participating in a conversation with minimum inconvenience. > > > > At the moment no easy answers have presented themselves, > > but there are some good answers that require a little bit of work. That > is what I'm working on, that is why it is taking some time. Sounds like a useful tool. > > In any case, I've no doubt many are very proud of you, and of the posts you have no doubt "inspired", hint hint, nudge nudge, and a few of which have been leaked to the public (and to my very grateful eyes just now) by LWN: > > > > Handling attacks on a community > > https://lwn.net/Articles/814508/ > > > > .. It is not hard to find examples of the kinds of messages that are being targeted (e.g. here, here, here, and here for fairly recent examples). > > > > [Snowflake trigger warning, the next 4 messages may well trigger you if you are a CoC-wielding, wilting snowflake.] > > > > delegation for the Anti-Anti-Harassment team > > https://lwn.net/ml/debian-project/D8yjhiI1gZEt8XLHtzQI8NuwVViFQYh3UNoa7FtSy… > > > > > > access an independent, uncensored version of Planet Debian > > https://lwn.net/ml/debian-project/959afc2e-a0ae-bbdc-14bc-3d0b93de8903@debi… > > > That particular link is not trolling, debian.community is simply an > independent news site. Being independent, it is only natural that it > will cover the issues that official newsletters will sidestep. It is > 100% transparent, as explained on the About page. No doubt this "100% transparency" is one of the reasons -some- folks don't like it :) > > Outreachy favouritism and wasted Debian money > > https://lwn.net/ml/debian-project/H3wJbOsvVY23EsMR7o0Y20StUbTWCkBFYV5KKlhez… > > > > are Debian mentors nuts? the DebConf scandal > > https://lwn.net/ml/debian-project/ea-mime-5e072373-6227-653ea4a2@www-2.mail… > > > > It is also clear that many participants on the mailing list have concluded who is behind at least some of the anonymous/pseudonymous attacks: Daniel Pocock. In fact, Pocock was the subject of a different message from Hartman on debian-project; while he did not directly connect the dots between the messages and his action expelling Pocock from the Debian project entirely, it is hard not to come to the conclusion that the two are related. > > ... > > > Concluded? How do they reach that conclusion? I don't know. > What you describe is > witch hunting, the stuff people did in the stone age before humans > discovered science[1]. Daniel, I agree - those words are a quote from the LWN.net article - apologies for any confusion. > There is no attempt to hide the source of the https://debian.community > site, it is neither trolling nor anonymous. > > Sending emails from a team address (like team(a)debian.community) is a > pattern that many groups use now in the Free Software world to make > themselves look bigger. debian.community is a parody of those patterns > but it is not trolling. One message from debian.community to the > debian-project list is not spam, it was clearly related to Debian. One > on-topic message like that doesn't imply any connection whatsoever to > thousands of unrelated troll messages in FSF, FSFE, Debian, etc. FWIW, I do, naturally, agree with you. > > Bravo muffaluggerah, bravo! :D Rip-roaringly bloody good posts, whether wink winked by yourself, or inspired via others.. > > > > FWIW Daniel, some of us wholeheartedly approve of your anti-PC crusade :) -- the "politically correct" bullshit being elevated in the world today is a form of insanity. Opposing such insanity is one of our sacred duties. But such insanity is being funded far and wide, so it can get a bit depressing at times :( > > > > Anyway, hat tip to you, Daniel. > > Notice I'm not being anti-PC. I'm pro-user, pro-volunteer. Its in the > Debian Social Contract, point #4. That's why I feel confident as a > Debian Developer, its about the principle of it. > > The PC stuff is tangential: the problem is people who use PC as a > convenient excuse for their personal advancement and do no other work. "One of" the problems. Perhaps community segregation would help - segrate the snowflakes into one list/forum/etc, and those who don't want mommy's mollycoddling thank you very much, e.g.: men(a)functional.community snowCoCs(a)functional.community .. just a thought. Best regards, Zenaan > Regards, > Daniel > 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method > -- > Debian Developer > https://danielpocock.com

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Crypto AG: US Spies Kept Quiet on Assassinations
by John Young 15 Mar '20

15 Mar '20

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2020/0315.html#cg15 More on Crypto AG <https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/03/more_on_crypto_.html>[2020.03.06] One follow-on to the story of <https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/02/crypto_ag_was_o.html>Crypto AG being owned by the CIA: <https://www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812499752/uncovering-the-cias-audacious-oper…>this interview with a Washington Post reporter. The whole thing is worth reading or listening to, but I was struck by these two quotes at the end: ...in South America, for instance, many of the governments that were using Crypto machines were engaged in assassination campaigns. Thousands of people were being disappeared, killed. And I mean, they're using Crypto machines, which suggests that the United States intelligence had a lot of insight into what was happening. And it's hard to look back at that history now and see a lot of evidence of the United States going to any real effort to stop it or at least or even expose it. [...] To me, the history of the Crypto operation helps to explain how U.S. spy agencies became accustomed to, if not addicted to, global surveillance. This program went on for more than 50 years, monitoring the communications of more than 100 countries. I mean, the United States came to expect that kind of penetration, that kind of global surveillance capability. And as Crypto became less able to deliver it, the United States turned to other ways to replace that. And the Snowden documents tell us a lot about how they did that.

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This doesn't sound legal
by Ryan Carboni 15 Mar '20

15 Mar '20

This doesn't sound legal. https://web.archive.org/web/20120321123520/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/fr… Ultimately, we ended up talking to bin Laden's first trainer, Ali Mohammed, Ali Abdul Saud Mohammed, who is currently in jail. He taught bin Laden. In one of the first training classes that Ali Mohammed conducted was Sheikh bin Laden; Ayman al-Zawahiri; Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who's chief of military operations at the time; Saif al-Adel, who's still one of the 22 most wanted fugitives, and others. ... What he tells us and what he did would make the hair on the back of your head stand up. This is the type of stuff, again, that we dealt with in the usual setting that the bureau found themselves in, in ... a regular interview, because each one of these defendants, if you will, had legal representation. And those lawyers played a very vital role in gaining their subjects' cooperation with the United States government. Each one of them was seduced by our legal system that many people poke fun at, thinks cumbersome. If you could listen to these guys, and they'll tell you -- I'm referring to Al Qaeda members -- "You mean to tell me that the United States government will give me the legal representation?" "Correct." "You mean to tell me that if I cooperate with you, that you will at least possibly protect me against retaliation?" "Yes." "You mean that you could unite me with my family?" "Yes."

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