January 2022 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

torproject forum hosted by 3rd party, not least of problems
by grarpamp 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

On 1/13/22, nusenu <nusenu-lists(a)riseup.net> wrote: > Since tor-talk is apparently going to be closed down soon [1], > here are a few suggestions: > > [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40057 > > let us know whether/when you will be closing tor-relays as well https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2021-October/045779.html " I was surprised to learn that the forum is _not_ self-hosted on torproject infrastructure. It is hosted by "Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc." the company behind discourse.org. That means the torproject does not have full control over the infrastructure and its security and logging practices. The forum privacy policy mentions that IPs get logged and stored over an extensive amount of time https://forum.torproject.net/privacy As Jérôme pointed out [5] the forum is also subject to discourse's privacy policy " Lol. Not to mention that hosted and "web" based means that users can, unlike distributed standalone email, now be more central exploited on attack surface from server side in browser/JS/etc by rogue, bought, mole'd staff, corp changeup, court order, etc at these companies. And who cares what the channel is when every single Tor Project communication channel has been intentionally "bricked up" and 100% fully and completely censored for *years* by the Tor Project Inc to avoid embarassement, avoid being called out, preserve their personal cashflows, keep users from learning all of tor's weaknesses and then forking or developing better, more variety, and or more resistant anon overlay projects etc. After all, Tor's monetary captured people rake in multiple millions of dollars every year, including by problematic fundraising nft drops, off a conveniently Govt funded design that's well over 20+ years old, that even the NSA was quoted well over 10+ years ago saying that the NSA could exploit tor. NSA GCHQ FVEY and myriad private and GovCorp adversaries have all since then advanced their attacks and technology light years ahead of tor's baked design. While Tor adds irrelavant non-design trappings and periphery and social-activism, decides to cancel users free concious choice to use v2 Onioncat IPv6+UDP transport for whatever they want and terminates that entire good class of usage, innovation, and app development within onionland, censors user and operator knowledge of same, ejects people who like code but refuse to apologize for Tor or/play its socio-politic, game, monoculture, and more, Tor's Government funded social marketing engine also consumes and starves out a lot of funding from and steers messaging in a space that needs a distributed nature in all things. If the world knew how the Tor Project Incorporated has become total hypocrites of the Freedom of Speech they claim to support, Tor Project would be defunded, users would leave in disgust, and the crypto overlay network space would flourish anew generation again. The fact of Tor Project's secret censorship agenda alone is enough. Add in refusing to routinely acknowledge and publicly disclose for users in exceedingly prominent places that Traffic Analysis and Sybil are in operation, actually removing warnings from their website, pasting over them with safe sounding phrases, putting users at risk that way, among many other problems... makes things even more serious. https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/categories/19-Tor " Today, the Tor Project seems to be more focused on fund raising than actual privacy, anonymity, or anti-censorship. " "Tor Stinks -- NSA"

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[twitter] snapshot of cutting edge public transformer model research
by fuzzyTew 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

I am very lucky to have one of the content feed AIs out there give me content that is not random and/or gross. This twitter feed gives me high-quality artificial intelligence research papers, tutorials, etc, new ones almost every day. I hope it keeps up. I see the AK user a lot in this feed. arXiv.org ShapeFormer: Transformer-based Shape Completion via Sparse Representation We present ShapeFormer, a transformer-based network that produces a distribution of object completions, conditioned o... Read more at Twitter <https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fi%2Ftopics%2…> ---------- AK sharedAK shared arXiv.org PONI: Potential Functions for ObjectGoal Navigation with... State-of-the-art approaches to ObjectGoal navigation rely on reinforcement learning and typically require significant... Read more at Twitter <https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fi%2Ftopics%2…> ---------- AK sharedAK shared arXiv.org SPIRAL: Self-supervised Perturbation-Invariant Representation... We introduce a new approach for speech pre-training named SPIRAL which works by learning denoising representation of ... Read more at Twitter <https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fi%2Ftopics%2…> ---------- AK sharedAK shared arXiv.org Improving the fusion of acoustic and text representations in RNN-T The recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) has recently become the mainstream end-to-end approach for streaming ... Read more at Twitter <https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fi%2Ftopics%2…> ---------- AK sharedAK shared arXiv.org Zero-Shot Long-Form Voice Cloning with Dynamic Convolution Attention With recent advancements in voice cloning, the performance of speech synthesis for a target speaker has been rendered... Read more at Twitter <https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fi%2Ftopics%2…> ---------- AK sharedAK shared arXiv.org Transformer-Based Video Front-Ends for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Audio-visual automatic speech recognition (AV-ASR) extends the speech recognition by introducing the video modality. ... Read more at Twitter <https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fi%2Ftopics%2…>

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Hungarians walk among us
by professor rat 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

Imre Lakatos’s basic idea is that a research programme constitutes good science—the sort of science it is rational to stick with and rational to work on—if it is progressive, and bad science—the kind of science that is, at least, intellectually suspect—if it is degenerating. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/

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TechRadar: Intel might have a plan to keep up with Moore's Law
by jim bell 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

TechRadar: Intel might have a plan to keep up with Moore's Law. https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-might-have-a-plan-to-keep-up-with-moor… "However a patent unearthed by Twitter user @Underfox3 has found that the company could well be developing a plan: stacking transistors on top of each other for better performance in less space. Now, of course, this is only a patent – companies patent weird and whacky things all the time for a variety of reasons, most likely to prevent competitors from getting the jump on them. " "But there is something interesting about Intel thinking its way around the problem of how to squeeze more power into ever-smaller spaces - namely, if this design comes to fruition, Intel could be looking at sub-2 nanometer (nm) processes."

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Fwd: FOIL Request Confirmation from Open FOIL NY
by Gunnar Larson 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

This makes us seem super aggressive. Oh, well. Have you heard of Kiva.org? ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <noreply(a)its.ny.gov> Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 10:55 AM Subject: FOIL Request Confirmation from Open FOIL NY To: <g(a)xny.io> Thank you for submitting your FOIL request through Open FOIL NY. Here is your Open FOIL NY confirmation information for future reference: LARSON_NYSP_20220126105517996 LARSON_DOB_20220126105517996 LARSON_DHSES_20220126105517996 *INFORMATION SUBMITTED:* *Records Requested From* New York State Police Division of the Budget Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services *Short Title* New York City Police Department MoneyGram Relationship *Description* Dear Sir or Madam: xNY.io research: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10htpAEAcydm9NTgUQZVU4aEfJq999UwRlGvOJZs… The New York City Police Department has a relationship with MoneyGram. We would like to receive any and all information related to the NYPD's relationship with MoneyGram ticket payment options. For example, we would like to receive a copy of the Terms and Conditions the NYPD has with MoneyGram. Furthermore, how does NY-DFS manage discretion with MoneyGram and the New York State BitLicense. For example, Ripple, a New York State BitLicense awardee has a long history with MoneyGram. Are MoneyGram and the NYPD in bed together, via the New York State Department of Financial Services? Thank you, Gunnar Larson *Uploaded Files* *FOIL Response Format* Email *If fees apply, please contact me if costs will be greater than* $1000000 Your FOIL request has been forwarded to the organization(s) you selected, and the respective Records Access Officer will contact you directly for further processing of your request. Please allow up to five business days for such communication(s). For your convenience, here is additional contact information: New York State Police 1220 Washington Avenue Bldg 22 Albany, NY 12226-2252 Division of the Budget State Capitol Room 128 Albany, NY 12224 Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services 1220 Washington Ave Building 7A Albany, NY 12226 -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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A Fake Twitter Account Was Set Up in Our Name; Here’s What Happened Next
by Gunnar Larson 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

*Wall Street On Parade* has the following business model: we focus our attention on research and bringing important facts and news about Wall Street and its perpetual sugar daddy, the Fed, to our readers. If our readers feel these articles deserve a wider circulation, we encourage them to link to them on their own social media pages. This spares us the downtime of engaging on social media, thus giving us more time for research. This business model has worked well for us for a decade. On January 14 we were doing research for an upcoming article when we accidentally stumbled upon a Twitter page called @wallstonparade. It was using our full trademarked name, “Wall Street On Parade,” and displaying our copyright. It was also using our slogan: “A Citizen Guide to Wall Street” and posting sections of our daily articles. Fortunately, and through simply a stroke of luck (or divine intervention) we caught it after only a few days of operation. We were stunned that someone was brazen enough to think they could get away with the illegal use of a trademarked name. We were further stunned that Twitter didn’t have a system of due diligence to prevent this from happening. We did some quick research at Twitter and learned that they allow fan sites, as long as strict rules were followed. Those rules included stating emphatically on the Twitter page that you are not the real owner of the name or trademark. This Twitter page seemed to be going out of its way to represent itself as the actual *Wall Street On Parade*. We immediately filed a complaint form for trademark infringement with Twitter, supplying all of the requested documentation and proof of ownership. We received an automated response on the same day, January 14, giving us a ticket number for our complaint. A week later, the fake Twitter page was still happily rolling along, violating our trademark and Tweeting out our content. At one point, it even re-Tweeted content from another Twitter user, giving the impression that *Wall Street On Parade* was endorsing this user. At another point, a Twitter user replied: “Didn’t know the Martens were on here. Nice.” This indicated that, indeed, our identities had been purloined. The person or persons who had set up the Twitter page made no effort, whatsoever, to explain that they were not the actual Martens. https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/01/a-fake-twitter-account-was-set-up-in… -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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Fwd: FOIL Request Confirmation from Open FOIL NY
by Gunnar Larson 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

FYI ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <noreply(a)its.ny.gov> Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 9:25 AM Subject: FOIL Request Confirmation from Open FOIL NY To: <g(a)xny.io> Thank you for submitting your FOIL request through Open FOIL NY. Here is your Open FOIL NY confirmation information for future reference: LARSON_DFS_20220126092534880 LARSON_DHSES_20220126092534880 *INFORMATION SUBMITTED:* *Records Requested From* Department of Financial Services Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services *Short Title* NYCCoin NY-DFS Superintendent and New York Mayor Collusion *Description* Dear Sir or Madam: Many experts are concerned about MIA Coin and resulting NYCCoin disasters. We would like to receive any and all documents related between the NY-DFS Superintendent and the New York City Mayor's office related to NYCCoin. Thank you, Gunnar Larson *Uploaded Files* *FOIL Response Format* Email *If fees apply, please contact me if costs will be greater than* $1000000 Your FOIL request has been forwarded to the organization(s) you selected, and the respective Records Access Officer will contact you directly for further processing of your request. Please allow up to five business days for such communication(s). For your convenience, here is additional contact information: Department of Financial Services One State Street 20th Floor New York, NY 10004 Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services 1220 Washington Ave Building 7A Albany, NY 12226 -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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Fwd: FOIL Request Confirmation from Open FOIL NY
by Gunnar Larson 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

FYI ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <noreply(a)its.ny.gov> Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 8:57 AM Subject: FOIL Request Confirmation from Open FOIL NY To: <g(a)xny.io> Thank you for submitting your FOIL request through Open FOIL NY. Here is your Open FOIL NY confirmation information for future reference: LARSON_DFS_20220126085729415 LARSON_DHSES_20220126085729415 *INFORMATION SUBMITTED:* *Records Requested From* Department of Financial Services Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services *Short Title* Lending Club Board of Directors - September 11 NY-DFS September 11 Resignation *Description* Dear Sir or Madam: Please submit any and all records related to the LendingClub.com September 11 Board of Directors resignation below. The date of the resignation is in question. You may understand the sensitive nature of the date of the resignation. Gunnar Larson Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 5:06 PM to Anuj, Investor, Press Hello there: Thank you very much for the reply. Gunnar On Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 11:36 AM Anuj Nayar wrote: Hi Gunnar On September 11, 2021, in connection with her nomination to serve as superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, Adrienne Harris notified us of her resignation, effective September 12, 2021, from the Company’s Board. Details can be found in the 8k filed on 9/15/21 (below) https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001409970/bbc437e4-2920-4d5d-8e0… From: Gunnar Larson Date: Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 9:37 AM To: Investor Relations , Press Cc: Gunnar Larson Subject: [EXT] LendingClub: Current Board of Directors CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Madam or Sir: Good day to you. Surveying market research, I was wondering if you can kindly confirm, from LendingClub's July 15, 2021 press release: Is Ms. Adrienne Harris currently a member of LendingClub's board of directors? https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lendingclub-appoints-adrienne-harr… [prnewswire.com] Reviewing your website, Ms. Harris is not referenced: https://www.lendingclub.com/company/leadership Bloomberg and other sources do not reference Ms. Harris as a LendingClub board member: https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/LC:US [bloomberg.com] Sending you the very best regards. Thank you, Gunnar -- Gunnar Larson - xNY.io [xny.io] | Bank.org [bank.org] MSc [unic.ac.cy] - Digital Currency MBA [unic.ac.cy] - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001 *Uploaded Files* *FOIL Response Format* Email *If fees apply, please contact me if costs will be greater than* $1000000 Your FOIL request has been forwarded to the organization(s) you selected, and the respective Records Access Officer will contact you directly for further processing of your request. Please allow up to five business days for such communication(s). For your convenience, here is additional contact information: Department of Financial Services One State Street 20th Floor New York, NY 10004 Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services 1220 Washington Ave Building 7A Albany, NY 12226 -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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Linda Lacewell
by Gunnar Larson 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

We went from Linda Lacewell, to worse. New York better produce. We have been calling. No call back. Guess we best amp it up. -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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Exciting AP news from Europe!
by professor rat 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

In Germany, activists rise up to counter vaccine skeptics By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER today https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-berlin-reli… Batshit-crazy anti-vaxxers have all earned killing.

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