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Anyone know what these alleged code-of-conduct violations by Isis Lovecruft's former boyfriend, and current Zcash employee, Henry de Valence actually were?
Valence is one of the people who knows first hand that Lovecruft fabricated assault allegations against me...
@jb55 I've literally never built a crud interface in my entire life. The closest would be the OpenTimestamps REST API.
OTOH, I only play a programmer on TV.
@sebx2a Probably the biggest challenge to the idea of private intelligence subscriptions is you are competing against actual professionals in the space with blogs/twitter accounts. We've both gamified showing off your expertise, and made it very easy for average people to publish.
The equivalent of writing a blog just didn't exist pre-internet. The closest I can think of is newsletters, and they require postage. Also, articles can't go viral w/ postage costs.
@eiaine You make a good point.
Counter-argument: if journalism *in general* had more money, NYT's incentives would change as other journalists would have the resources to both criticize them, and present alternative stories.
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@pete @monsieuricon has been doing some interesting[1] work[2] wrt. emailed patch attestations.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/20200916181147.yt2dieagakfdkagj@chatter.i7.local/T/#u
[2] https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/introducing-b4-and-patch-attestation
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale-and-censorship
Great writeup on how fraudulent modern journalism has become.
tl;dr: there's not enough money to pay for real reporting, so we get fabricated SJW grievances and cancel culture. It's cheaper to falsely claim someone used the word "retard" to get them cancelled than take on the NSA (actual example in the article!).
IMO simplest way to fix this is via defamation laws. But that won't fix the funding problem: either way there's going to be a lot less mainstream journalism.
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TIL computers have become so complex that NVME interface SSDs now have drive-level namespaces: https://nvmexpress.org/resources/nvm-express-technology-features/nvme-namespaces/
brb, putting some data in a namespace in a namespace in a namespace in a namespace in a namespace...
@Majes @georgevaccaro @rusty haha, I meant bitcoin.conf :)
@jb55 More tools should use email frankly.
Git itself actually has machinery for handling patches via mailing list. It's a bit antiquated unfortunately; would be nice to update it for more modern workflows, and to support PGP.
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I like how sourcehut converts email replies into inline review comments
@lukedashjr @georgevaccaro @rusty Sorry, but I'm really not sure what you mean by "the choice was already made"
@lukedashjr @georgevaccaro @rusty To be clear, by required option, I mean requiring users to make a choice.
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Holy Sheet! AOC and the left has gone into total meltdown mode over the fact that AOC was not in the Capitol building at the time of the riots last month.
Absolutely amazing that people are getting posts deleted for the hashtag #AlexandriaOcasioSmollet.
The truth hurts, but banning that truth makes it burn hotter and brighter than if they let the embers burn out.
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@giacomozucco that’s about legalizing a total-surveillance state.
That would mean Americans might have to use Tor to access services hosted in Russia or North Korea to have basic freedoms online.
Of course the next step is making it illegal to use Tor or access non-whitelisted websites.
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RT @OlUkolova
What the actual fuck? 🤨
>A new Senate bill would create for internet platforms the communications equivalent of the suspicious activity reports that financial institutions must file today.
Yes, HTTPS is authenticated. _You_ can verify that you are communicating with Blockstream. But the math that does that authentication doesn't allow you to prove what Blockstream's server sent you to a _third party_. Thus, in a targeted attack, you can't easily prove it happened.
PSA: unblinding *should* happen client side. But it's implemented with JavaScript that Blockstream sends you.
In practice, if they backdoor that JavaScript for specific targets (eg via IP address) the chance of getting caught is low. Also, proving it is hard: HTTPS is unsigned.
"BREAKING: Judge rules that Emmy award-winning Governor Cuomo violated the law by lying about nursing home deaths caused by his failed policies." @amuse
Emmy award winning! 😂
"[Cuomo broke the law] by only releasing the numbers of those who died in nursing homes, not those who later died in hospitals."
https://nypost.com/2021/02/03/cuomos-doh-illegally-withheld-covid-nursing-home-death-toll-judge/
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