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[MINISTRY] word of the day⦂ “pettifoggery” - Muller scrambles to limit evidence as indicted Russians actually appear in "electshun interference" case
by Zenaan Harkness 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Ministry - pettifoggery - USA government's bullshit being called ... ... by Mueller-charged actual Russian company "Concord". (I was just -so- sure that was meant to be Concordski, but hey, what do I know?) Ironic winning has never seen such levels — seriously off the chartski: Mueller Scrambles To Limit Evidence After Indicted Russians Actually Show Up In Court https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-12/mueller-scrambles-limit-evidence-… So at least some of these wicked nasty interfering Russians decided to have a little fun with Mueller, Russkie style. ‼ dang ‼ yeah baby, bring it on :D They wants their evidence of course (this -is- an axshual case in an actual court with a looming actual trial after all) and Mueller is now scrambling to hide his sorry arse from an embarrassing "in Soviet Russia, evidence charge you, Mr Mueller" :) Read it but do NOT chuckle, for in Russia, joke laugh you, da¿ The indictment accuses the firm of producing propaganda, pretending to be U.S. activists online and posting political content on social media in order to sow discord among American voters. … Mueller also accused Concord of "knowingly and intentionally" conspiring to interfere with the election by using social media to disparage Hillary Clinton and support Donald Trump. And Concord Management decided to fight it... Mueller probably didn't see that coming [no shirt, Shirlock] And the judge: In a mad scramble to [now] put the brakes on the case, Mueller's team tried to delay the trial - saying that Concord never formally accepted the court summons related to the case… The Judge, Dabney Friedrich - a Trump appointee, didn't buy it - denying Mueller a delay in the high-profile trial. So sad... so many salty, salty red tears for Mueller.

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Re: list of people censored on lists.debian.org
by Zenaan Harkness 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 11:21:58PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been looking through debian-private and I found messages from > Alexander Wirt (formorer) about censoring various people from > lists.debian.org. Some of those messages appear to be defamatory. You > are in BCC because your name appears in debian-private. > > I've written a blog to help people work around censorship and other > dishonest practices, please tell me if this is helpful for you: > > https://danielpocock.com/freedom-and-censorship-on-mailing-lists/ > > Does anybody know any other victims of censorship in Debian or any other > free software community? > > Stay free, > > Daniel Hi Daniel, Thank you very much for the time and care you've taken to write up your above blog. It's always reassuring to see someone notice, let alone take action, in relation to one or another of our freedoms - be that the freedom to communicate, the freedom to move and travel anonymously within our communities, or the freedom to engage in a vigorous and vicious verbal stoush with a "sworn arch enemy" for a few days, and turn around afterwards and still continue communicating with them - or not - as we so freely choose. When the screaming banshee snowflakes do all in their power to drown out discussion of rights, principles and freedoms because "muh safe space" and "how dare you f*ck with my safe comfy space, I'll have you censored, hounded out of the community, and have you lose your job to boot, because you said something I don't like", unfrotunately there are some list admins who happily ban the one exercising the free speech, and not the one wanting to "shut it all down, muh safe space!" And so the bannings, kickings, or worse even the shadow bannings are imposed and dissent is met with more bannings and finally a massive swinging CoC dangled in front "the community" - a set of rules or most often just a statement or 3 about how we having to be good to one another, which CoC is thereafter used as the justification for more bannings and censorship. If there is to be any line in the sand, what ought that line be? >From a mailing list administrator's point of view, expecting them to oppose "the statute law" is too much - many would simply close up shop altogether. So in our present world, that is perhaps, perhaps, the only reasonably acceptable line for "you've crossed the line on free speech", and even then bannings or removal probably should not happen unless a court order is served on the list administrator. That's called presumption of innocence and assuming we do in fact have the right to live our rights. I appreciate your blog, and perhaps a few on the CypherPunks list may also appreciate it - CyphePunks is one of the few mailing lists that still strives to be staunch in standing for free speech - including the right of those who want to say "shut it down". Not the easiest journey apparently... Re RMS, I emailed him and encouraged him to withdraw his respective resignations (from FSF and MIT) - I don't know what the current status is. The email may be found here: reaching out -- was Re: Richard Stallman Gets SJW'd https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2019-September/076425.html And there's a whole (17 email) thread earlier, starting here: https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2019-September/076395.html Although a Google (Jewgle) search for "stallman site:lists.cpunks.org": https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=stallman+site%3Alists.cp… Brings up as at 20191009 11:15, only the following FOUR results: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks… https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks… https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks… https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks… And do NOTE, I have disabled google's "safe search" and anything similar I could find. This campaign/war against our basic rights, goes incredibly deep, right into the heart of "Silicon Valley" in bed with the NSA, CIA etc. See also: on the necessity of a @snowflake codedoc annotation https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2018-November/043880.html

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Ryacko
by rooty 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

Anyone heard from ryacko. He went dark and just wondering what happened

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Sweden Fines Google for Telling Website Owners About Censorship of Content - [MINISTRY]
by Zenaan Harkness 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

The Ministry in force. Sweden Fines Google for Telling Website Owners About Censorship of Content https://sputniknews.com/europe/202003161078580947-sweden-fines-google-for-t… According to Sweden’s Data Protection Authority (the Datainspektionen), the fine is punishment for the search engine giant’s failure to remove search results ordered to be blocked three years ago. Sweden’s Datainspektionen has fined google 75 million Swedish kronor (equivalent to about €7 million or $7.74 million) for failure to comply with the data protection watchdog’s instructions, the government agency has said in a statement. https://www.datainspektionen.se/nyheter/the-swedish-data-protection-authori… According to the regulator, which is affiliated with Sweden’s Ministry of Justice, Google violated the terms of the ‘right-to-be-forgotten rule’, a EU-mandated regulation introduced in 2014 allowing individuals to request the removal of potentially harmful private information from popping up in internet searches and directories. Datainspektionen says an internal audit has shown that Google has failed to “properly remove” two search results which were ordered to be delisted back in 2017, making either “too narrow” an interpretation of what content needed to be removed, or failing to remove a link to content “without undue delay.” The watchdog has also slapped Google with a cease-and-desist order for its practice of notifying website owners of a delisting request, arguing that this practice defeats the purpose of link removal in the first place. “In its delisting request form Google states that the site-owner will be notified of the request in a way that might result in individuals refraining from exercising their right to request delisting, thereby undermining the effectiveness of this right,” Olle Pettersson, legal advisor to the watchdog, said in a statement. Effectively, if Google complies, website owners will no longer be informed if URLs to certain web pages are delinked upon a user’s request. Google has promised to appeal the fine, with a spokesperson for the company saying that the tech giant “disagree[s] with this decision on principle and plan[s] to appeal.” Google has three weeks to appeal. https://www.androidcentral.com/sweden-fines-google-8-million-violating-righ…

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Matt Blaze is an idiot
by Ryan Carboni 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

You act in accordance for the plans you have and prepared for. This idea that moving people to a safe and sanitary location to continue working wouldn't be viable is idiotic if that was the only option available. Clearly no one prepared for anything, all attempts at planning were just fantasizing, and I wonder how he even manages function on a day to day basis. https://nitter.net/mattblaze/status/1239599508545310722 It occurs to me that most of the cold war emergency "continuity of government" planning was focused on the logistics of getting people together at a "safe" (but probably cramped) alternate workplace, and almost none of it on facilitating people working from home in isolation.

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Crypt Tech: Upuaut and Djedi - Spying the Cheops
by grarpamp 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

http://www.cheops.org/ http://emhotep.net/2012/03/07/locations/lower-egypt/giza-plateau-lower-egyp…

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Party like its ...
by Steven Schear 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

Here a little thing I created.

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Re: list of people censored on lists.debian.org
by Zenaan Harkness 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

Conclusion to a mini thread on the LWN article: Handling attacks on a community https://lwn.net/Articles/814508/ Posted Mar 15, 2020 11:25 UTC (Sun) by zenaan (subscriber, #3778) https://lwn.net/Articles/814970/ [I wrote:] >> So is it fair to assume then that you agree with all the resignations (RMS), knee-bending (Torvalds), and turmoil (openSUSE and many others)? [Cyberax wrote:] > Absolutely. People should learn to behave like decent human beings, and not like entitled brats. [I responded:] In other words: Cyberax: "Richard Matthew Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and staunch catalyst, visionary, upholder and all around grandfather for the entire FLOSS/Libre movement for ~30 years now, behaved or spoke, in my ever so high opinion, "like an entitled brat," and so therefore (I say) it is a great thing that he was "resigned" from his FSF." So ... speaking of "entitled brats" ... ["Mummy told me I am fully entitled to be free from all confronting words by anyone forever." - You know, that's not a bad definition of "snowflake", not bad at all ... we shall be making use of that :D] Now for a definition of snowflake: Snowflake: 1. An entitled brat. 2. A wilting fragile flower. 3. A human who considers themselves entitled to be protected against all confronting words for the rest of their lives. 4. A useless human who achieves attention by whining about words they cannot resist reading, which have been written by others and which they find some way to take offence to. 5. A dangerous saboteur who typically hides for many years behind niceness and pretence, before striking a true leader when the leader appears to be under attack. WARNING to future founders: When you found any organisation or entity in this world, be clear about the inviolable rights your organisation shall protect and perhaps enshrine these in a "bro-CoC" code of conduct, such as: - the right to free speech - the right to challenge anyone at any time, on their actions and/or their words - the right to offend people with truths which they may find confronting - the right to speak your mind and your opinion (presumably "modulo is it lawful in the list administrator's jurisdiction") - the right to "be an ass" when you're having a bad day, and that this may never be held as a ground for your dismissal or expulsion or demotion or etc - the right to joust, verbally, yet vigorously, with anyone at any time It is important to enshrine your bro-CoC, because if you don't, then saboteurs pretending to be snowflakes, or pretending to protect snowflakes, shall eventually damage both you and your organisation by introducing a snow-CoC. Also consider ways to clandestinely determine the loyalty of those who proclaim to be your "friend" and/or "supporter". Good luck - and may your eyes be open!

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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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