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by John Newman 21 Sep '16

21 Sep '16

> Sean Lynch: > we already knew social skills > weren't [Zen's] strong suit. > Cecilia Tanaka: > Zen will say you are "bullying". > I [don't] care about his opinion. Because you two do more than cry and use lots of useless words. Stupid fuckers. Bullies XD

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what is a traitor?
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

Some good points being raised, on sl1shd()t no less: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/09/18/2023216/assange-agrees-to-us-prison… What is a traitor? When is it appropriate to label someone a traitor? When is doing so, an attempt at manipulative propaganda? This reply, amongst others, is on point: > 1. Loyalty to country / oath = precisely not ignoring illegal actions. > > 2. Doesn't really matter what her initial motivation was - she could > have done it because she was a dirty racist who didn't like the > President's color, for all I care. > > 2. Give evidence that she did it "deliberately, willfully to hurt > [her] nation" please. > > She didn't seriously injure her country or try to destabilise it > or encourage war against it. She did not cooperate with a foreign > nation. She was acquitted of "aiding the enemy". To stick the > "traitor" label on her is ridiculous. > > (Also, to stubbornly stick with "him" suggests you're not really > interested in facts and are emtionally clouded.)

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Xorcist = Coderman
by Rudy 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

> xorcist: > no one talks crypto All these read like Patrick from risky.biz, yo. Yo Yo. Did I say Yo!

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On the Church of Secrets
by grarpamp 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/19/assange-manning-and-snowden-st… how classified documents function as a tangible object that symbolizes a bond among those who are inside this secret network, in a similar way that “many religions and cults imbue their priestly class with additional scarcity value by keeping their religious texts secret from the public or the lower orders of the devoted”. Like Manning, these patriots of the Internet generation pledged allegiance to trust in the common man, reminding us of a kinship that binds us all together, regardless of religion

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SE: Appeal Court on Assange Detention
by grarpamp 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

https://cryptome.org/2016/09/se-assange-16-0916.pdf Meanwhile, Ecuador reaffirms its political asylum for Assange, which you can find to read elsewhere. People say Ecuador is nice weather and fine place to holiday.

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UK: Lauri Love Extradition to US
by grarpamp 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/usa-v-love-judgment…

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Xorcist = Coderman
by rooty 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

Empty Message

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SHA-3 and GOST-R/Stribok
by xorcist＠sigaint.org 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

Anyone know of some good reference material comparing and contrasting these hash functions? >From what I know of the mathematics, they are quite unrelated, and it should be very difficult to make inferences about inputs by looking at their comparative outputs, but I'd love to see some work in this regard, if there is any out there. I have an application where it would be best to use two hash functions, but I'd like to make sure there is some "orthogonality" there.

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[WAR] Julian Assange: 1,700 Hillary Clinton emails prove she sold weapons to ISIS in Syria
by Zenaan Harkness 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

War, war, war . . . and more war! And anyway, what's the problem with a few 10s of thousands of weapons to moderate child-head chopping wahhabi islamists anyway?!! Tell me --that--, hey?!! Bah ... sovereign nations and all that international law shite - just who do they (anyone who's not the USA) -think- they are?!!!!! Running elections just like the USA, selling oil just like the USA, maintaining multi-decade relationships with their Russian partners just like the USA ... whoops, ahh, may be not that one - perhaps there's a problem there... now you just can't go running around for decades pretending you are national friends with Russia now, can you? Surely not? That would be like, treason to the hegemony or something. Well at least the CIA are professionals at running coups, overturning governments and all that - never miss a Turkish beat I hear, hint hint, nudge nudge - but don't go telling anyone now, snigger snigger... What? "Our" coups are starting to not succeed you tell me? Like, as in, fail like? W T F ??? !> !!? ? !@# !@#??!@#?!@# !@!! ?? B????? AAAAARRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAWWWWWWSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!! Guess our last chance for world war 3 is the South China Sea then eh? (Psst, don't go telling anyone now, heh!) Julian Assange says “1,700 emails in Hillary Clinton’s collection” proves she sold weapons to ISIS in Syria http://theduran.com/julian-assange-says-1700-emails-hillary-clintons-collec…

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on communication - [zen@freedbms.net: Re: [geany/geany] fails to open Microsoft UTF-16LE file (MSO Word CUSTOM.DIC dictionary file) (#1238)]
by Zenaan Harkness 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

There are times when subtlety is useful, but at other times, you just have to be blunt. Below is a reminder to some kind folks of this simple fact. For the full conversation, see here: "fails to open Microsoft UTF-16LE file (MSO Word CUSTOM.DIC dictionary file) #1238" https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1238 ----- Forwarded message from Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> ----- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 22:00:23 +1000 From: Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> To: geany/geany <reply+0001f84495f53a7fe80377703ee092211dad5da016c7dbfe92cf0000000113f78b7692a169ce0a976e18(a)reply.github.com> Subject: Re: [geany/geany] fails to open Microsoft UTF-16LE file (MSO Word CUSTOM.DIC dictionary file) (#1238) On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 04:18:14AM -0700, elextr wrote: > > Should be easy, and should also be how the program is implemented. > > and how do you keep all this updated and in sync with changes to the > buffer as its edited? The layered model - the bottom layer is the text/ raw utf8 stream. The next layers are the indexing layers for various purposes as and when needed. An index is not just an array of "locations" of course since when the underlying text stream is inserted into or deleted from (in terms of bytes, not graphemes), then of course the corresponding index in the upper layer also needs to be updated. Now because when an index point gets updated it is that all subsequent index points also need to be updated, a tree structure for the indexes is required. And because the underlying layer can change, even it needs to be represented by a tree structure (various blocks of text are the leaves of the tree). This is basic Comp Sci - thus the "easy" bit. The text editor data structure is really the simplest useful program, and the data structures needed to handle "large" (anything other than trivial sized) text files, are well understood, well studied, and highly optimized. > > At least, that's how a superior programmer would implement it ;) > > Most of the features you describe are handled by the Scintilla editing > component which is a separate project at www.scintilla.org and I am > sure they would be delighted to hear how a "superior" programmer would > re-implement their library. :) Ah ok. An external dependency. Well :) Guess who needs to advise them their data structures are inferior then hey? :D Enjoy the ride, and to ease your communications with your upstream dependency, I suggest being exceptionally blunt with your "inferior structures" communications, and to top it off, don't stop at the code but go on to point large accusatory fingers at the personal life choices of the programmers involved. That should speed up the re-implementation. ----- End forwarded message -----

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