Looks nice, but expensive

Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events.

The first episode has just been released. You can listen to it here:

https://thebeautifulidea.show/

Via @CrimethInc@todon.eu

Today someone asked me if Signet used Argon as the hashing algorithm. I knew it was a good algorithm when I looked, but I wasn't 100% sure. So I dug up a code reference.

Benny, if you see this, no, it uses scrypt.

https://gitlab.hax0rbana.org/signet/signet-client/-/blob/trunk/client/signetapplication.cpp#L235

For any non-crypto people, the punchline is this: "scrypt is maximally hard against brute force attacks"

Source: https://stytch.com/blog/argon2-vs-bcrypt-vs-scrypt/

I plan on re-reading those two sections, but from what I recall, it was using violence as opposed to making the offender irrellevent.

I suspect the authors would agree that both engage in illegal activity, but I don't remember that being stated explicitly. Because, yeah, the laws are written by those in power, and that's who is being resisted. So of course.

I'm reading a book written by some modern day philosophers and they mentioned these three options for dealing with problems:

Senator

Monk

Menance

The senator approach convinces a politician to solve the problem. Perhaps becoming an elected representative of needed. E.g. pass strong privacy laws.

Monk just abandons the problem. For example, don't like being tracked 24/7? Stop using tech.

And their example of going the menance route was the unibomber.

It's an interesting way to frame things. Then they dropped the fourth option: the cyberpunk option. Write software to implement privacy.

Oh, I see. They are allowed to make commercial posts, not get (as in, obtain) posts [made by other people]. Yeah, that makes sense.

Wouldn't all of the notes be available to anyone who connects to the relay? What would limit anyone (users, sponsors, bystanders, etc.) to getting only X notes per day?

Signal FOSS is a fork that takes out the closed source bits. More info here:

https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/

It still connects to Signal's centralized server and doesn't provide an option to connect to any other server. And that server requires you provide your phone number, but it's at least slightly better than thr stock version.

There are at least two other forks, but I can't remember what they are off the top of my head. None of them get away from phone numbers or centralization.

5b reporting in here. We are planning on getting a kiwi that is native (i.e. before the Europeans arrived in North America). Small, smooth skin. I can dig into our research notes if you want more info, but we aren't growing them yet, so I don't think we'll have any answers for you.

Just wanted to let you know that you are not the only one out there interested in this. And we have solinatia planned for the back patio next year and kiwi the year after (because, crop rotation).

"Trump Tells NBC He Has No Plan to Remove Powell as Fed Chair"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-08/trump-says-on-nbc-he-has-no-plans-to-replace-powell-as-fed-chair

#trump #fed #FederalReserve #US #politics

Zero Days

Does it taste like a lemon that barely has any fruit in the middle?

Buddah's hand

Ubuntu. And I have a Surface as my only portable computer (basically a laptop).

The hardware support for has been great on Debian and since Ubuntu is just Debian with a bunch of stuff bolted on, I expect it'll go well over there as well.

In the cyberpunk world, corporations have been enthrowned. Nearly everyone depends on them for their daily lives. They may or may not control government, but it's clear regulators aren't getting in their way. They know pretty much everything everyone does.

There are a few who fight against them. Using encryption to blind them. Building decentralized systems to route around the current system. Exploiting them and retreating underground.

In reality, things are much diff--- um, nevermind.

But a better worlk is possible. LFG

I can understand that perspective. It does what you want and a lot more.

I like it a lot better than GitTea, Jenkins, and the other usual suspects on account of GitLab being so low maintenence. I can do the things I want to do instead of spending my time configuring, debugging, and troubleshooting the tools that are supposed to be helping me.

GitLab has a CI that is ready for prime time.

Do you mean vision loss? If you have hearing loss, I'm not sure how much text to speech is going to help.

Linux already has a screen reader (orca), but according to three blind people that I've heard from, it is inferior to both NVDA (Windows) and the built-in one on macOS.

I have a hard time using any of the screen readers myself. It is most definately a skill!

You bitcoin people are probably going to have friends, family and/or collegues reach out to you asking about bitcoin. I encourage you to help them and not just evangelize.

Ask them what they want to know. Are they interested in getting rich quick? Maybe ask them what their timeline is. If they're going to need fiat in a year, maybe bitcoin isn't a good choice. Be honest. We've had huge bear markets that have lasted a long time. Acknowledge that it's possible they could happen again.

If they have a 10+ year mentality, and are aiming to outperform the stock market (as opposed to getting "rich"), they'll be less likely to be let down if things go poorly, and more likely to be impressed if things go well.

Of course if the people are interested in defending the environment, fighting government oppression or not getting screwed over by legacy finance as much, then don't talk about ROI, inform them of how bitcoin can help, back it up with real world evidence, specific numbers, and make it self evident that you're not cherry picking data. Be helpful. That's why they reached out to you.

Take a page out of Daniel's book: https://batcoinz.com/orange-pilling-the-early-majority

New version of #Signet client has been released (0.9.22) for #Linux, #macOS and #Windows. https://hax0rbana.org/signet/downloads.html

The only real change is that if you try to import a keypass entry that is several thousand bytes, the client will alert you that it's too big and allow you to skip it.

Yes, it's another boring update. No vulnerabilities, no show stopping bugs.

This is what you can expect from this project. It already does what it's supposed to do. #Sustainable #development