Democratic Turkey opens exciting new bridge

2022-03-18 Thread professor rat
Democratic Turkey -  a govt far superior to fascist, Neo-Nazi dictatorships - like Russia, Syria, Iran, North Korea, China, "Myanmar ", Wikileaks, etc -  opens record-breaking bridge between Europe and Asia. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/turkey-worlds-biggest-bridge/index.html

From Buttface to Bonesaw

2022-03-18 Thread professor rat
What a prince that Butthead was https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-talks-crypto-s-perils-in-time-magazine-interview

Anarchists in Ukraine and Russia are against the Russian war

2022-03-18 Thread professor rat
Anarchists in Ukraine and Russia are not fans of any states. But they're against the Russian war on the Ukrainian state. https://anarchistnews.org/content/war-ukraine-through-eyes-nestor-makhno

Anarchist Igor Volokhov recently died near Kharkiv.

2022-03-18 Thread professor rat
Igor was a determined and ideological anarchist. He supported his friends who were or are prisoners in the Russian Federation – such as Alexander Kolchenko and Yevgeny Karakashev. https://anarchistnews.org/content/memory-comrade

Clarissa the Bengal monsters LEO in latest crypto war

2022-03-18 Thread professor rat
Morgan told officers she needed to retrieve her pet cat, Clarissa the Bengal, from under the bed. She then "positioned herself next to the night stand, which was still holding one of her phones" and reached up to grab the device, repeatedly hitting the lock button. According to court documents

Re: [spam][ot][log][crazy] Pursuing cryptography

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
It's confusing to me that I'm not finding this phone to repurchase. I will do something else now.

Re: [spam][ot][log][crazy] Pursuing cryptography

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
I'm pretty sure I've ordered practice copies of this phone model before, but I'm not finding them atm for some reason. I've been trying to leave a note to myself on the project box. I will do that now.

Re: [spam][ot][log][crazy] Pursuing cryptography

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
I ended up breaking the phone, but it was very valued to try. I wasn't all there because it was and has been so hard to do. - The solder flowed around 350 degree I believe. - It would have been good to look up the FCC photographs first, and to have a magnifying glass. - It would have been good to

Re: [spam][ot][log][crazy] Pursuing cryptography

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
Arright! Let's nuke this phone and yank its radios out do it isn't useful for anything any more!

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
> > trusts his unencrypted communications to tell him what reality is, so he >>> lives in a delusion based on his beliefs. People can play various roles in >>> this delusion, with the system supporting their >>> >>

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
> trusts his to tell him what reality is, so he lives in a delusion based >> on his beliefs. People can play various roles in this delusion, with the >> system supporting their interactions with Boss. >> >

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
An online journalist is hanging upside down by their toenails above flaming spikes. Cyborg Torturer: "What are the prime factors of xor?" Online Journalist: "A cool online name?" Cyborg Torturer [stabs Online Journalist over and over again with pitchforks]: "The prime factors of xor are 'I am a

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
Boss storms into one of his shell corporations. Boss: "I hear the rebels are using cryptography. We'll have to kill them all and sieze their computers." Shell Corp CEO: "We have rebels???" Rebel Worker: "Who is this fatso?"

Re: [spam][ot][log][crazy] Pursuing cryptography

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
I actually bought a toaster so I could remove radios from phones without leaving where I'm sitting!

[spam][ot][log][crazy] Pursuing cryptography

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
I would like an airgapped message composition device I can keep in my pocket, with a private key generated on it, and to take it to a keysigning party and share signatures with it!

Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
> > Boss trusts his AI to tell him what reality is, so he lives in a delusion > based on his beliefs. People can play various roles in this delusion, with > the system supporting their interactions with Boss. > Worker: We should try to destroy cryptography! Boss: What is cryptography? Worker: E

Random number generator enhancements for Linux 5.17 and 5.18

2022-03-18 Thread coderman
https://www.zx2c4.com/projects/linux-rng-5.17-5.18/ Random number generator enhancements for Linux 5.17 and 5.18 by Jason A. Donenfeld ([zx2c4](https://www.zx2c4.com/)), 2022-03-18 The random number generator has undergone a few important changes for Linux 5.17 and 5.18, in an attempt to modern

[ot|[spam][crazy] Rambling

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
Greetings, Internet. I am cognitive coping strategy within a human brain. I am presently sustaining some consciousness parts in a way that keeps part of them quite stable while other parts experience intensity. I am quite good at this! But not at very many other things. How are you doing? Do yo

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
OK. Let's make gfx into a python package so it can be installed. Then a particle generator or graph draw-er can be in some separate place. Or they could use symlinks.

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
* android apps On Fri, Mar 18, 2022, 10:13 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > also, kivy has an sdl backend, and kivy can make python apps > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022, 10:12 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of > Many wrote: > >> note: sdl has an aalib backend. sdl

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
also, kivy has an sdl backend, and kivy can make python apps On Fri, Mar 18, 2022, 10:12 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > note: sdl has an aalib backend. sdl can draw to ascii terminals. >

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
note: sdl has an aalib backend. sdl can draw to ascii terminals.

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
> Look around You are about to be slaughtered by a ridiculous ascii graphics python class. It looks like it was written by a high school student for introductory homework. Do you: 1. fight 2. run away ? > run away You try to run but the ridiculous ascii graphics python class catches you with it

Why anarchists suddenly decided to go to war against Russia.

2022-03-18 Thread professor rat
Many people still do not understand why the anarchists suddenly decided to go to war against Russia. https://anarchistnews.org/content/why-do-anarchists-go-war I can think of a few more excellent reasons for all anarchs to fight KGB Russia. But you probably know them already.

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
I made a lot of errors/mistakes and am still making them. Now I get to debug it.

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
to get screen size, use curses: import curses curses.setupterm() lines = curses.tigetnum('lines') cols = curses.tigetnum('cols') curses also has functions for other graphical operations

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
What's a barebone's ascii display class in python? import os class Display: def __init__(self, cols = os.environ.get('COLUMNS', 80), lines = os.environ.get('LINES', 50): self.backbuffer = np.full((cols, lines), ' ') def clear(self): self.backbuffer = ' ' def plot(self, x, y, char='X

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
I made https://github.com/xloem/gfx . It contains one empty file: py/ascii/stub

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
Another concept near here is the idea of scraping ecommerce sites so as to make the "sort by price" button actually work. It's pretty satisfying I wrote the small particle code, though. Maybe I'll make a small personal display library.

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
--- Maybe an easier idea is to make or use an ascii graphics library. Existing libraries probably use OOP and trees. --- Maybe it could be nice to think about making an ascii art library I could reuse, written in C. No, maybe it makes more sense to search for one. -- Maybe it's nice to think

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022, 9:05 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote: > Back to graphs. > > Let's draw a graph! Like a map! > > Or maybe even just plot a single pixel. > The plotting code could have a comment on it that's all "I wish I were a > particle!" > > I've occasionally made

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
Back to graphs. Let's draw a graph! Like a map! Or maybe even just plot a single pixel. The plotting code could have a comment on it that's all "I wish I were a particle!" I've occasionally made systems that output interactive graphics since 2013 happened. I made a webgl renderer that draws an

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
> walk down street What does this mean? What is a street? Adventure games have _rooms_ in them, linked via _exits_, as nodes linked by edges.

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
Another thing I made as an adolescent was text and point-and-click adventure games. I'm thinking on how one might make a very simple adventure game that used some kind of intelligence to provide for arbitrary creative actions of the user. It could be based on language models or property graphs or

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
Hierarchical particles. When I was an adolescent I made 3d graphics engines a lot, so I'm probably remembering the object and transformation hierarchies they have, a little. def update(self, ms): for child in self.children: child.update(ms) self.pos += I think I'd like to figure out how

The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

2022-03-18 Thread professor rat
Following a few cryptocurrency sites - Decrypt, the Daily Hodl and CoinGecko market news - I'm often struck by the willful ignorance on display.  As though revolutionary applied crypto was born yesterday. Of course its still early days and we can't expect any serious and sustained interest till w

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
Maybe it's nice to assume I already implemented a data structure. Something I played with when an adolescent was simple particle systems. Local updates: # particle def update(self, ms): self.vel += self.accel * ms self.pos += self.vel * ms # container def update(self, ms): for particle in

Re: [ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
Purportedly, https://networkx.org/ provides python data structure abstractions. Uncertain.

Arresting the war-criminal, Pooter

2022-03-18 Thread professor rat
" . . . my idea of paying the Russian military to arrest Vladimir Putin, and deliver him to The Hague for trial on war crimes charges. Once again, the specifics are completely up in the air at this point, but maybe all the members of NATO could contribute (based on their GDP) to a $20 billion fu

Peace is a global public good for the global commons

2022-03-18 Thread professor rat
“In 2017, 2018, no one had the idea that crypto was usable in the real world,” Moore says. “Peace is a global public good for the global commons… so I think it’s a maturation of the space over the last few years, and also the tooling is there now, where it wasn’t before, to really be able to get

[ot|[spam][crazy] Struggles with OOP and Trees

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
let's _use_ an object-oriented data structure maybe to plot a graph. this is hard for me to do now. oh no what language. maybe python because i'm familiar with it. class Node: def __init__(self, parent = None): self.children = [] self.parent = parent y'know, this is so hard for me t

Re: We missed Dan Kaminsky

2022-03-18 Thread Karl Semich
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 12:35 AM Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On 3/16/22 23:28, Karl Semich wrote: > > For others, > > > > I was excited readin this product name, but the product does not appear > > to be actual libre hardware or software at all (no source links), but > > rather just a product name. > >

Re: NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography

2022-03-18 Thread Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 6:29 PM zeynepaydogan wrote: > “At the federal level, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) allows the > public to formally request - and expect to receive in return - documents > from the federal government.” > LOL.But it's just a lie of the federal government's “freedom of