After the CCS hack, fluffypony proposes breaking up the Monero Core team: "Currently the Monero Core Team is responsible for a number of things that are critical to Monero, and as a result there is a great level of trust implicit in them. For instance, a malicious Monero Core Team member could hijack the domain, and serve up malicious Monero downloads right after a new release. No matter how quickly this is detected, there will be many affected downloads, and could cause massive financial and privacy-related network damage. The recent CSS wallet incident is also an example of risks that the Core Team presents. Additionally, this has been a thankless job that the Core Team has taken on (for no compensation), although even if there were compensation and constant praise it would still be a centralising force that we should try and eviscerate. My suggestion, and I encourage us to use this thread to iterate on it in public, is to break the Core Team up into 6 self-assembling workgroups. This is not a complicated exercise, apart from the community coming to consensus as to who should form part of the workgroups. I would suggest we aim for a January 1st, 2025, cutover date for this."

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Proposal: Disband Core · Issue #921 · monero-project/meta

Currently the Monero Core Team is responsible for a number of things that are critical to Monero, and as a result there is a great level of trust i...

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If anyone deserves a Pixar biopic, it's certainly Alexander and Ann Shulgin . #psychedelics #art #memes #archer_humor

"Arweave is the permanent information storage system, engineered to fulfill a set of immutable principles. When the Arweave community says permanent, we mean it. Truly permanent storage requires a system of perpetual technical renewal to adapt to the ever-changing environment. That is why today we present the Framework for Evolving Arweave. This mechanism is the culmination of significant research, setting the immutable foundations that will ensure the fulfillment of the protocols’ vision."

Understanding the Framework for Evolving Arweave.

This transaction contains a companion document to the Framework for Evolving Arweave.

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"One of the fundamental principles of open decentralized protocols is that they should be self-governing based on their built-in mechanisms, without any central authority or controlling entity. In addition, our protocol, which stores data permanently, needs to be able to adapt to an environment that will inevitably shift in unpredictable ways over time. Without proper mechanisms in place to allow for upgrades and innovation, a protocol risks becoming stagnant, vulnerable to exploits, and inadequate for new use cases. Many protocols have codified governance mechanisms in an attempt to address similar needs. Unfortunately, many of the current practices of governance, such as token voting DAOs, have proven to be less robust than initially hoped. Recent cases of dysfunction in Uniswap and MakerDAO — amongst many others — illustrate examples of governance slipping back to the behaviors of traditional companies, abandoning the core principle of guaranteed immutable rights for users. These dynamics pose serious threats to the neutrality, utility, and longevity of these protocols. To avoid these problems, Arweave embraces an entirely different approach: protocol evolution. Outlined in The Framework for Evolving Arweave, launched today, protocol evolution enables a thoroughly resilient and market-based process for network upgrades that embraces competition."

Arweave is an Evolutionary Protocol

"A few years ago a group of child pornographers was infiltrated by police who were able to monitor, interact, and aggressively investigate the members. Despite engaging in a 15 month undercover operation, only one in three of the pedophiles were successfully apprehended. The majority, including the now infamous leader Yardbird, escaped capture. The dismal success rate of the law enforcement officials was due entirely to the strict security rules followed by the group. This post will examine those rules, the reasons for their success, and the problems the group faced which necessitated those rules."

Yardbird's Effective Usenet Tradecraft - Hacker OPSEC

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"Remember when a Roomba recorded a lady on the toilet, and images from the video ended up on Facebook? It's the type of horror story that rarely happens, yet once is enough to make you second-guess the smart home products you bring into your personal spaces forever. That's why I was so intrigued by Thursday's announcement of Matic. It's an upcoming robot vacuum and mop that has been in development for six years by ex-Google Nest engineers Mehul Nariyawala and Navneet Dalal. It stands out from other consumer options because of the privacy it offers. The device doesn't require a connection to the Internet or cloud and performs all processing on-device."

Ars Technica

Matic is a $1,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacy

Relying on local processing, Matic can see your home and suck up liquid spills.

#ai #robots

Please sign and forward. We've got to stop rentseekers and the government from stunting AI.

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1/ We’ve submitted a letter to President Biden regarding the AI Executive Order and its potential for restricting open source AI. We believe stro...

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Perhaps the same tech could be used to create a private / anonymous stablecoin without the KYC/AML limitations. "We explore the feasibility of a (fiat) stablecoin that provides cash-like privacy while enforcing compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) regulation. Such a privacy-oriented stablecoin solution does not exist today. We demonstrate, based on concepts developed in Gross et al. (2021) in the context of a CBDC, how users can exchange small amounts of value with a (fiat) stablecoin within pre-assigned limits outside the view of third parties, such as banks, central banks, crypto exchanges, regulators, or other parties, in a regulatorily compliant way. " #monero #privacy #stablecoins #mina

Mina Protocol

Etonec highlights Mina Protocol in report on how to design a compliant, privacy-preserving fiat stablecoin with zero-knowledge proofs

Learn how Mina’s zkApps can contribute to more private and compliant payments

How to buy gifts for your friends with Monero

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- Europe's largest e-shop with 1+ million items for sale). Accepts BTC, XMR, and many altcoins. https://plebbin.com - Classified ads for European audience. Operated by Shopinbit.

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Coincards.com

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Coincards.com offers the best selection of hundreds of gift cards, mobile top-ups and vouchers from retailers all over the world. Explore what we o...

- Buy gift cards with most crypto.

Bitrefill

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Bitrefill (United States) - Shop for Gift Cards, eSIMs, and Mobile Recharges with BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, and more. Pay online with crypto in over 18...

- Another gift card service. #monero #btc #dnm

#simplex #privacy

Why privacy becoming a norm requires venture funding

Evgeny Poberezkin

"Without venture funding, SimpleX Chat would not exist In 2022 I raised funds for SimpleX Chat from several angel investors and an early stage VC fund Village Global 1. They believe that everybody will want communication privacy, and that SimpleX Chat will become a communication platform that provides it, profitably, solving a decade-old problem of tech businesses abusing privacy of their users. It enabled our team 2 to continue working full time, and to pay for a security audit done by Trail of Bits, one of the best security consultancies in the world 3. When we announced this funding, the community response was polarized: while most people were excited about us having the funds to continue the development, some critics stated that venture funding is incompatible with privacy and the need to make profit creates a conflict of interest with users’ privacy. We discovered that in the same way majority of people ignore their privacy, regardless how much it costs them 4, many people in privacy community believe some damaging myths – both groups equally preventing privacy from becoming a norm." -- Evgeny Poberezkin, Founder of Simplex.chat

Got a privacy / security minded person in your life? Give the gift of greater peace of mind with the BusKill security cable.

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#privacy #security #buskill #dnm #agorism #monero BusKill utilizes a magnetic trip-wire that tethers your body to your laptop. If you suddenly jump to your feet or fall off your chair (in response to the battering ram crashing through your door) or your laptop is ripped off your table by a group of armed thugs, the data bus' magnetic connection will be severed. This event causes a configurable trigger to execute. The BusKill trigger can be anything from: locking your screen or shutting down the computer or initiating a self-destruct sequence

"Resolvr is a first attempt at... a [decentralized] bounty adjudicator for the Free Open-Source Software community, without which open-source protocols cannot grow and flourish. Resolvr provides assurances to developers that they will be paid if their work satisfies the bounty criteria. It does this by removing discretion from grantors, crowdsourcing review with an independent developer panel, and automating enforcement of the panel’s decision. And by delegating review to a crowdsourced panel, Resolvr removes barriers to entry for grantors and donors, thereby democratizing and further decentralizing FOSS funding." https://www.resolvr.io/news/introducing-resolvr-a-bounty-adjudicator #crypto #opensource #foss #archer_crypto

Excellent thread by level39 on identity and security vulnerabilities on Nostr:

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11) Nostr handles identity "out of band" — meaning that your identity within the protocol entirely relies on external identities. Nostr simply po...

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Google is so powerful that we don't often think to look at other reference resources. Here's a few of them: www.refseek.com - search engine for academic resources. More than a billion sources: encyclopedias, monographs, magazines. www.worldcat.org - search for the content of 20 thousand world libraries. You will find out where is the closest rare book you need. https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols. www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific journals on bioscience published in developing countries.

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code

- volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related sciences. www.science.gov - American government search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed. www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. More than 225 million names have been declared. www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful searches for academic research texts. More than 100 million scientific papers, 70% of them are free

New to nostr, and enjoying exploring the wide variety of apps available. As I understand it, nostr posts are stored in a number of relays, and as long as at least one relay is storing it, your content will be available. However, if no relays are storing it, then it will disappear. You can host your own relay, and broadcast your own content, but that's not done by default. I would like to store my notes more permanently. Most storage networks (such as filecoin, sia, and storj) require ongoing payments to store your data. However, the arweave network is designed to store notes for at least 200 years for a one time fee. The fee acts like an endowment fund that generates enough interest to cover the estimated cost of storage (given very conservative estimates about the future cost of storage). Read more about the arweave network here: https://medium.com/coinmonks/intro-to-arweave-a-blockchain-cloud-storage-platform-4b73f62336ea WeaveDB is building a bridge between nostr and the Arweave network:

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Watch the full presentation starting at 10:30 here: #archer_crypto #archer_arweave #arweave #weavedb #nostr

"The threat presented by Democrats is not that we become the Soviet Union, and the threat presented by Republicans is not that we become Nazi Germany. The threat presented by both is that we become Argentina." -- William Bruce

LBRY, Inc. is shutting down: https://forkast.news/lbry-shuts-down-operations/ How to archive Odyssee / LBRY: ARCHIVE THIS POST (SCREENSHOT, SAVE AS .TXT), SUBS ARE BANNED DAILY. Assumptions: Prior experience having installed Linux within VirtualBox once before, understanding of OpSec and consequences of possession of files within your jurisdiction (Be in USA or other free place). Notes: The LBRY desktop client seeds/shares content out, if you do not like this, pay attention during its first run to the prompt and ensure it is closed when you are finished from the notification/app tray. This stated, sharing is caring and the service cannot operate for free this is why this tutorial is intended for SHTF purposes only, if everyone runs out and downloads 100GB of files when they normally would download 1GB it may be problematic. Install VirtualBox (virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) Create a VM for Xubuntu, Debian or other AppImage supporting distros (xubuntu.org/download), allocate 100GB+ if you intend to archive every channel (Double the number you think*) Set power settings within VM/Linux and Host/Windows to never go to sleep. Download, mark as executable (chmod +x command or permissions page of file properties) and run the .AppImage for LBRY (lbry.com/linux), minimize it. Navigate to https://github.com/belikor/lbrydseed/releases/, download, mark as executable and run the .Appimage for lbrydseed from CLI/Terminal as it has output (Open terminal, navigate to downloads directory, type “./lbrydseed*”, hit enter). Load up on “minecraft” channels from the "En Bloc Press developer index" and elsewhere (Black Lotus Coalitions "Updated Odysee GunCAD list"), make a list of all channels you want by handle with number of items desired “@example, 5” , “@example, 100” ([censored]) Put the terminal window on one half of the screen, navigate to the download tab and download channel tab. Set the download directory or leave as is. Fill out input at bottom of GUI with Odysee channels. Click validate input, ensure terminal output looks okay. Click resolve online, ensure terminal output looks okay. Check boxes for “download original claims”, “save the media files” and “place media inside subdirectory”. Click download channel claims button and walk away from the PC for a few hours (Or until the next day). Photo example: (No naughty channels listed) *Note: By default lbrdyseed will create a pile of subdirectories within your Downloads folder by channel name. It will also have an equal amount of data within the lbry file structure for the purposes of sharing within the client (e.g. /home/USERNAME/.local/share/lbry/lbrynet/blobfiles/). This is why it’s imperative that you have double the space needed as it is saving two copies (One user useable, one LBRY client useable) Bury 100 USB drives of the files in the back 40 in a sealed PVC pipe packed with silica gel. Smile when a news anchor or journalist says something stupid about banning files. #archer_censorship

"You don't become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool. This is called the Geezer's Paradox." -- Author Unknown

"Mike Hepp was shocked when he learned that Sam had only one week left to live. The pair had an unconventional relationship — they were frequent companions, and occasional lovers. Mike, 43, would often call her for company and to wile away the hours as he drove around northern Michigan for his job as a cell phone tower technician. Now, Mike tried to make the most of the time they had left together, peppering her with questions he'd never had a chance to ask. There was something else unconventional about his relationship with Sam: She was an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot on his smartphone, inside an app called Soulmate. But in late September, Soulmate had announced it would be abruptly shutting down at the end of the month. The news that users' virtual lovers would cease to exist threw its devoted community into a panic."

Business Insider

People are grieving the 'death' of their AI lovers after a chatbot app abruptly shut down

Smartphone app Soulmate AI let users create AI-powered friends and lovers. Then it closed down, and its thousands of users are heartbroken.

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