Signs of #reset in #Japan - January 2025: A Mitsubishi UFJ employee is exposed for looting an estimated 1 billion yen in cash and gold from customer safe deposit boxes. - July 6 & August 10, 2026: A private safe deposit facility ("Safety Box") in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, suffers consecutive destructive break-ins and collapses. - October 23, 2026: Trunk room operator Quraz issues an emergency notice restricting facility access and warning customers to remove all cash and precious metals. - November 6, 2026: A sudden system failure entirely freezes 128 Shinkin regional banks across Japan, disabling ATMs and online banking. - November 9, 2026: A government cybersecurity official tells the Nikkei that banks must "dare to stop," explicitly warning of a potential 1-month total banking shutdown. - Ongoing (Late 2026): Decentralized Tokuryu crime syndicates increasingly use leaked KYC lists from hacked financial institutions to execute violent home invasions targeting physical cash and gold.

Mute Chess is a chess website that uses Nostr keypairs for identity. It is a fork of Lichess, and in addition to Nostr: - Has 10,000 Maia3-79M human-like AI bots waiting in the pool - Has Maia analysis closely integrated alongside Stockfish - Has brilliant moves and multiple premoves try it here

mutechess.org

Mute Chess — Stay human. Play bots.

Free, open-source chess with human-like Maia opponents.

#chess

Announcing the launch of my project Mute Chess https://stacker.news/items/1611749

I reviewed the book Neuromancer for Stacker News https://stacker.news/items/1611728

X (formerly Twitter)

日本経済新聞 電子版（日経電子版） (@nikkei) on X

金融サービスあえて止める選択も　サイバー防御で1カ月停止「あり得る」 https://t.co/uBbuYy6H7p

The Nikkei newspaper is the mouthpiece of the establishment in Japan and is signaling that it is going to use the "cyber pandemic" as pretext for closing down the banks to facilitate monetary reset. I've known this moment was coming for a while, and judging by the comments under this tweet, so do many others. But the funny thing is, what is one supposed to do about it? Bitcoin has terrible liquidity here. Afaik so does gold. You can withdraw your banknotes to keep in your house I suppose but then you are a target for the (rapidly increasing) home burglaries out here. Like with major earthquakes and other such events no amount of prepping really seems enough or adequate when the main event arrives.

Reverse engineering chesscom's brilly classification algo is the new Turing Test #chess

Using AI to reverse engineer chesscom's brilly classification algorithm. #chess

Have to say, though, elo 100% ruins online chess. I never go on tilt playing in the anonymous pool. When you lose to an anonymous player you can tell yourself it was probably a GM trying out a new opening and be OK getting crushed. When you see the elo though you either kick yourself for not getting the scalp of the "higher" player or else you feel like a loser for losing to a "lower" player. Taps into the human need for status and class in a really poisonous way. Not sure what to do about that. The opponent being a bot doesn't seem to matter. #chess

Testing my Lichess fork populated entirely by Maia bots and managed to go full on tilt and lose 400 elo in a session (rating not yet established). I think I'm onto something here.... #chess

Rereading Neuromancer. Coming to terms with what Japan has become. Imo it has never been more cyberpunk, for better or worse. Of the noir kind. The Gibson kind. I really think a sort of gritty cyberpunk became reality and now we are all living it whether we want to or not. It might have started as a LARP but like many LARPs ends up becoming a strange and awkward reality that traps and binds you.

I don't know what happened to @Maple. It used to be I used it constantly every day and never ran out of quota. Now I ask a few questions and I run out within the first 10 days of the month. Just me?

Are LunaNode or BuyVM good for VPS?

What are the best options for VPS providers who accept sats?

I am creating a Lichess fork where the login will use Nostr keys, and the playing pool will consist entirely of rating calibrated Maia bots. I think there is a desire for people to play human-like bots because they are sick of cheating and bad behavior from humans. I will also be adding multiple stacked premoves, and Maia analysis alongside Stockfish. #chess By the way I love Lichess and this project is if anything an homage to it. The idea is that people will use it when they want to practice on bots and then return to Lichess to play humans. #chess #lichess #maia (yes you can play bots on Lichess but they're not in the pool. With my project you'll be getting paired with random bots within your rating range and fighting for elo)

AI fixes this

If you post about a tree falling on Nostr, does it make a sound?

I don't know what is worse, the downvotes on Reddit or the crickets on Nostr

Mobile Maia is now available as a Progressive Web App:

Mobile Maia — Try the app

Try Mobile Maia in your browser, using the app

So iOS users can use it or Android users who don't have Obtanium/F-droid. It uses the 5M model and is obviously not as snappy or stable as the Android app. But the UI is pretty much the same so it allows someone to try Mobile Maia and see if they like it before deciding to ditch Apple and upgrade to Android, or whatever. Entire website is FOSS:

GitHub

GitHub - Dash1971/mobilemaia.org: The Mobile Maia website — free, human-like chess on Android. Static site for GitHub Pages.

The Mobile Maia website — free, human-like chess on Android. Static site for GitHub Pages. - Dash1971/mobilemaia.org

#chess #mobilemaia

No one is bullish enough on AI

Is it normal for releases not to be updated in the Zapstore for over 24 hours?