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Google update breaks websites
by jim bell 26 Dec '21

26 Dec '21

https://nypost.com/2021/12/24/google-warns-2-billion-users-of-update-that-c… "Google has issued a warning to Chrome’s more than two billion users amid fears the browser’s forthcoming update will break a number of websites around the world. "The tech giant announced the news via its Chromium Bug tracker, the codebase for Chrome, and a solution to the issue is currently nowhere in sight. "It’s currently unclear what websites – and how many – are due to be affected by the problem. "Many of those that are will not likely know they’re affected until it’s already too late, experts say. "Users of Chrome should brace themselves for disruption or find another browser to use until the issue is resolved, a Forbes report said. “Based on Google’s current release rate, Chrome Canary users could be facing this decision as soon as next month while the billions of users running the browser’s stable version are looking at a 3-6 month countdown,” the report forecasted.

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Cryptocurrency: Freedom Enabled [was: Digital Money and Crimes]
by grarpamp 26 Dec '21

26 Dec '21

>> https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbirch/2021/04/14/new-digital-money-new-di… > If the criminals in these examples are fundamentally enabled by smartphones are these plain old crimes or smartphone crimes? Will governments ever allow such devices and services? Crime is as old as humanity, addressed well enough by humanity, nothing to see here but FUD, move along. Then there is the Crime Against Humanity of Governments trying to shutdown Human Freedom. History is rife with them, including all in existance today. Governments have always treated crypto as the conspirator party to Freedom, and thus tried to ban, jail, and kill crypto itself. Cypherpunks push and embed Freedom... strong crypto... harder, faster, farther, deeper, better, to help outpace and shutdown such would be sources of censorship. The actors and forces against freedom are substantial, and the window for freedom is not as wide or long as people think. Distributed private uncensorable permissionless unstoppable anonymous untraceable fungible digital p2p money and crosscoin DEX, etc... that real OG cryptocurrency... *IS* freedom, for you and the world, and not just in the monetary sense. That is why Gov and Corp are universally against it. GovCorp will never build the real shit, so just ignore their distractions, their hype, their job offers, leave them to their Fiat clones, ultimately there is no innovation, no change, no revolutionary Freedom there, no reason to take part in any of that. Cypherpunks job is to design, build, deploy, push, adopt, and use the real shit... now! Bitcoin-BTC was the first, but failed at privacy, thus is not freedom, and thus not crypto revolutionary. Years were wasted down that path. Godspeed real freedom.

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Compliant eunuchs missing a chance to get bastinadoed in Turkey
by professor rat 26 Dec '21

26 Dec '21

I’m a crypto person. I want to go decentralized, non-compliant. Here’s the issue: is it going to be purest pure-play cryptos that are going to make all the money in the next stage or is it going to be compliant custodial institutions that plug into Bitcoin that are going to make all the money in the next decade? https://dailyhodl.com/2021/12/26/these-crypto-entrepreneurs-will-be-the-mos…

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Doge to replace dollar - don't laugh!
by professor rat 26 Dec '21

26 Dec '21

Dogecoin Developers Publish First-Ever Roadmap for Meme Crypto DOGE, Say Utility Is Way to Adoption https://dailyhodl.com/2021/12/26/dogecoin-developers-publish-first-ever-roa…

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omicron inoculation
by coderman 26 Dec '21

26 Dec '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 i recently returned from holiday air travel. the flights out were fine; the flights back were debacles! every terminal, every plane had sick people. sneezing. coughing. young kids too small for masks, crying, screaming, coughing, etc. a gentleman across from me in Charlotte sneezed a dozen times... - --- i wore an N-95, but still got symptoms 14 hrs after first leg. my wife got her symptoms 14 hrs after picking me up. all symptoms mild, but loss of smell was pronounced! we both got moderna boosters 3 weeks ago. ( still waiting on PCR, few days yet. may never know? ) - --- characteristics of the new Omicron variant: - - mild infection, does not cause severe disease (yet?) [ https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/30/doctors-hope-omicron-causes-milder-case… ] - - evades vaccines? [ https://www.newsweek.com/us-detects-first-case-omicron-variant-that-may-eva… ] - - more transmissible than Delta? [ https://www.sciencealert.com/is-omicron-more-contagious-than-delta-here-s-w… ] if one were to design a milder COVID, intended to function as an inoculation against severe strains of COVID, it would look an awful lot like Omicron! ... :P perhaps humans just got lucky, but next pandemic a single nation may take initiative and attempt to protect the rest. ... just beware the unintended consequences! *grin* fun times, best regards, mostly recovered coderman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iNUEAREKAH0WIQRBwSuMMH1+IZiqV4FlqEfnwrk4DAUCYaffN18UgAAAAAAuAChp c3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVucGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0NDFD MTJCOEMzMDdEN0UyMTk4QUE1NzgxNjVBODQ3RTdDMkI5MzgwQwAKCRBlqEfnwrk4 DHeFAP0bc93WE348AQ/ZFlvl4bKLRPcmULpvlzyj+IFSCT+7WgD/XYJ05TD4EbZH oggcZZ9XGhbx30AVcvBJfl+R/t0nNu8= =0ENN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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New Digital Money, New Digital Crimes
by jim bell 26 Dec '21

26 Dec '21

New Digital Money, New Digital Crimes | | | | | | | | | | | New Digital Money, New Digital Crimes David G.W. Birch Unconditionally anonymous electronic money is a really, really bad idea. Prove me wrong. | | | The crypto opportunities for the gangsters are as big as the crypto opportunities for the GAFAs I wrote last week that governments will never allow anonymous digital currencies and my comments attracted a certain amount of controversy. And I understand why. But to those who say that uncensorable, untraceable digital cash would be a shield against dictators, a force for the oppressed and a boon to free men everywhere… well, I think it’s more complicated than that. The issue of anonymity in payments is complex and crucial and it deserves informed, calm, strategic thinking because the transition to digital currency touches so many aspects of society. One obvious and important aspect is crime. Would digital currency change crime? If I hire thugs to lure a cryptobaron to a hotel room and then beat him up to get $1m in bitcoins from him (as actually happened in Japan), is that a crypto-crime or just boring old extortion? If I use Craigslist to lure a HODLer to a street corner and then pull a gun on him and force him to transfer his bitcoins to me (as actually happened in New York), is that a crypto-crime or just boring old mugging? If I get hold of someone’s login details and transfer their bitcoins to myself (as has just happened in Springfield), is that a crypto-crime or just boring old fraud? If I kidnap the CEO of a cryptocurrency exchange and then release him after the payment of a $1 million bitcoin ransom is that, as the Ukrainian interior minister said at the time, "bitcoin kidnapping” or just boring old extortion?

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Leaks: James Webb Space Telescope Finally Launched!
by grarpamp 26 Dec '21

26 Dec '21

Seems a bit unusual that apparently no one has published or leaked the control plane docs for any [spy]sat, ever. Same for the NSA's crypto jewels. NASA's $10 Billion Webb Telescope Begins Million Mile Journey Update (1040ET): The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched into space at 0720 ET without a hitch from the Guiana Space Center near Kourou, French Guiana. We have LIFTOFF of the @NASAWebb Space Telescope! At 7:20am ET (12:20 UTC), the beginning of a new, exciting decade of science climbed to the sky. Webb’s mission to #UnfoldTheUniverse will change our understanding of space as we know it. pic.twitter.com/Al8Wi5c0K6 — NASA (@NASA) December 25, 2021 About 15 minutes into the flight, the JWST separated from the main stage of the Ariane 5 rocket, where it was preparing for its million-mile journey to the Earth-sun Lagrange Point 2 (L2). Here it is: humanity’s final look at @NASAWebb as it heads into deep space to answer our biggest questions. Alone in the vastness of space, Webb will soon begin an approximately two-week process to deploy its antennas, mirrors, and sunshield. #UnfoldTheUniverse pic.twitter.com/DErMXJhNQd — NASA (@NASA) December 25, 2021 Shortly after arriving into orbit, JWST deployed its solar array to begin its 29-day journey to L2. #NASAWebb is safely in space with its solar array drawing power from the Sun! Its reaction wheels will keep the spacecraft pointed in the right direction so that its sunshield can protect the telescope from radiation and heat: https://t.co/NZJ7sSJ8fX#UnfoldTheUniverse pic.twitter.com/s4nfqvKJZD — NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) December 25, 2021 Webb is the successor to Hubble Space Telescope, which will use its high-tech sensors to look more than 13 billion years into the past. Once JWST arrives at L2, the scientific community may never look at the universe the same. * * * Astronomers are getting the best Christmas gift in a very long time – the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is headed to the launchpad on Christmas morning, set to be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. "With JWST and its rocket securely on the pad, the team will run electrical diagnostics to ensure all lights are green for launch," according to NASA. "Teams will power on the observatory while at the launch pad to run one final aliveness test to ensure all systems have power and are working before liftoff." Santa and his reindeer will be headed to the North Pole when the Ariane 5 rocket launches the JWST between 0720 ET to 0750 ET from the Guiana Space Center near Kourou, French Guiana. JWST will be catapulted to a gravitationally stable spot of about 930,000 miles from Earth, known as the Earth-sun Lagrange Point 2 (L2). From there, the complex space observatory will look deep into the universe for signs of life. It will take 30 days to reach L2, and the first images of deep space won't be collected until next year. Astronomers have been waiting years for JWST's launch -- this could be the best Christmas present ever for the scientific community if all goes well during launch. Watch the launch live right here on the NASA live stream:

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MORE on Alex Jones
by professor rat 26 Dec '21

26 Dec '21

https://www.palmerreport.com/politics/the-reason-alex-jones-just-became-suc… You don't have to subscribe to the rotten politics of this site to enjoy some of its running commentary.

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He will eat your ass
by professor rat 26 Dec '21

26 Dec '21

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/alex-jones-goes-for-donald-trumps-leg…

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When cannibals attack
by professor rat 26 Dec '21

26 Dec '21

RonFilipkowski · 13h Alex Jones: “This is an emergency Christmas Day warning to Pres Trump. You are either completely ignorant .. or you are one of the most evil men who ever lived .. What you told Candace Owens is nothing but a raft of dirty lies.” Show this thread

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