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And those German short-sellers (and to a lesser extent their British counterparts) were aggressively bullied by their local government market regulators https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/germanys-long-lon...

Teens aren't doing drugs, smoking, drinking, or having sex. And the suicide rate has never been higher.

Per capita people drink drastically less alcohol than they did in the 80s, and Obesity rates have more than doubled in the period.

Also, from the same blog:

Shortwave Trading | Part I | The West Chicago Tower Mystery

https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/shortwave-tr...

SHORTWAVE TRADING | PART II | FAQ AND OTHER CHICAGO AREA SITES

https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2018/06/07/shortwave-tr...

Suicide is pretty much the only thing bucking the downward trend. As kids stop having sex, doing drugs, smoking, etc. they are killing themselves.

This is a good article, and throughly debunks the proposed tradeoff between fighting corporate vs government surveillance. It seems to me that the people who concentrate primarily on corporate surveillance primarily want government solutions (privacy regulations, for example), and eventually get it in their heads that the NSA are their friends.

The US base on Diego Garcia is an exceptionally nasty bit of history: with the British murdering all the local islanders pet dogs - literally grabbing them from the arms of screaming children and telling them they were next - as part of an intimidation campaign to force them off the island so the US could have it’s intelligence outpost.

The Wikipedia page for the “Seattle freeze” phenomenon mentions it applying to Vancouver[1], also Vancouver has long been known as “No Fun City” because of laws and cultural norms against partying[2].

1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze 2 https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/No_Fun_City

Photos of an NSA “upgrade” factory show Cisco router getting implant https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...

Freedom of speech is a general conception of human rights, not any one particular law. Governments can choose to respect (or not!) those rights, but the idea applies to everyone.

Yeah, nah, all that is better than drinking water with lead in it from uranium glass.

What year was this? Signal has been blocked by the GFW for several years now. Here’s an article from 2021: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/encrypted-messaging-a...

I was under the impression that “ozempic face” was just an inaccurate shorthand for the buccal fat removal surgery that seems to be all the rage currently among the starlets

No, they didn’t. After corporate restructuring, parent company Alphabet uses a different cute slogan, while Google retains “don’t be evil” in their code of conduct.

Is the Technology Quarterly available as a physical magazine I could buy anywhere? It’s not obvious what the best way to buy individual issues is.

Ah yes, the civilized legal system where everyone is breaking the law all the time, so the law gets selectively enforced and used as a weapon on people the police don’t like. But the police are never ever assholes so there’s no problems?

From the CFTC:

> Bitcoin is considered a commodity and is the underlying asset in bitcoin futures contracts… Bitcoin futures contracts — like other commodity futures contracts such as corn futures, market index futures, or gold futures — are regulated by the CFTC and must trade on CFTC-regulated exchanges.

https://www.cftc.gov/LearnAndProtect/AdvisoriesAndArticles/B...

Have you updated your packages with ‘pkg_add -u’?

Seems the backdoor relied on Debian and others patching their copies of openssh to support systemd notifications, and this would obviously not be the case on OpenBSD.

To be sure the current ports version of xz is 5.4.5: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/ports/a...

Although the maintainer was working on updating to 5.6.1, but this news broke before the diff was landed: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=171174441521894&w=2

> The above author seems to be primary contact for xz?

They made themselves the primary contact for xz for Google oss-fuzz about one year ago: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/commit/6403e93344476972e9...

Perhaps we’d have better written laws

So Erik Prince has an “encrypted phone” company with a proprietary messaging app, VPN, etc. First thought: “How could anyone possibly believe that this isn’t another FBI/Anom situation?” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOM But the twitter thread is full of people who seem to believe it.

>A few months ago in the chaos of Sam Altman’s ousting there were rumors that OpenAI was able to break AES-128 and AES-192. Whether or not that’s true is immaterial to the current discussion. Who knows how long it will take them to be able to break AES-256 and other schemes like it. AI is beating humans on pattern recognition tasks all the time, why assume it stops at patterns in encrypted data? If it’s not AI, quantum computers will be able to do so. A small point in Unplugged’s favor— each time a communication is established, new AES-512 keys are generated for the communication which increases the labor required to break a chain of communications compared to something like signal where key pairs are generated far less frequently.

1. lol, AI scary, buy my product

2. AES-512 is a classical encryption algorithm that is vulnerable to quantum computing

3. The people behind Signal invented the Double Ratchet Algorithm, where each message is half of a key exchange so each message is encrypted with new keys

4. Signal was one of the first major chat application to upgrade to a quantum-resistant key exchange algorithm

> Copyleaks is an AI-based text analysis company that began selling plagiarism-detection tools to businesses and schools long before ChatGPT's arrival.

This is an advertorial from yet another garbage company that just says all text is plagiarized.

As someone who worked for a trading firm that did some* crypto stuff, you absolutely could sell 2B Euros worth of BTC, in a matter of weeks (contingent on market conditions), without significantly impacting the price.

*Some being trading volumes under but approaching $1B/month, although we didn't really have directional price exposure.

No, rivalrous has a specific meaning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics)

An ETF is a type of ETP

Pros: Secure-by-default, easy to understand your whole system, pledge and unveil are developer-friendly hardening mechanisms, all the answers to your questions are in the (very good) documentation

Cons: all the answers to your questions are in the documentation, and not in stack overflow.

Do you mean something like MirageOS? https://mirage.io/

Vanta Black isn’t a paint, it’s an achievement of materials science. It very much does look like a black hole in space in the real world. These “blackest black” paints are just clout chasing by some guy attempting to profit from the situation where a materials science company doesn’t want to work with thousands of artists, because their real customers are like defence and telecom companies, and they are nothing like the real Vanta Black.

What an incredible amount of private information to publicly spill on the internet. Some “friend”.