Having an issue lately with iOS and Brave where Cloudflare Turnstile either takes a minute or longer to verify or just crashes my tab. Weird.
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Something I’ve been doing for fun lately is finding dead torrents (not hard) and using debrid services + private trackers to reseed the dead public torrents. It’s been sooo satisfying haha.
My BitTorrent tracker lived for many months on a cheap DigitalOcean droplet but after a DMCA harassment campaign I have moved it to Moldova. Should have done it a long time so but whatever.
We really need to avoid a future where censorship is regarded as a virtue and monopolized transit providers are "cancelled" or shamed into being the judge/jury/executioner.
The far better solution is just to ignore stuff you don't agree with, go outside, and move on with life.
Originality is dead 
Many nights I am plagued with the feeling that I could be doing more. I reflect on the pioneers that contributed so much to the cypherpunk movement whether through writing code or public speaking. I know my website offers a wealth of information but I know there's more I could be doing.
The force of nearly all modern authority is derived from violence or the threat of violence. One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.
Do you ever get disgusted watching kids YouTube videos where they make never ending concoctions of glue and shaving cream? Makes me wonder how many tons of propylene glycol, polyvinyl acetate, sodium bezoate, methylparaben, and triethanolamine are going into landfills so some kids can make clickbait videos. It’s probably fine.
Whenever I was sent to reconnoiter a subject or location I was always paranoid about the eventual “what are you doing in this neighborhood” questions. I often used the “my gps took me the wrong way” or “I’m supposed to be looking at a bike for sale” but those can only be used once. You can never be seen in that neighborhood ever again. A friend told me that invisibility was better than any reactionary explanation for my presence. He pointed out, how, when you see a stock minivan with logos on the side your brain stops registering any further details because it’s not necessary to save memories of every delivery vehicle you see everyday. Leverage the cognitive bias that you are a non threatening feature of the landscape. So I went to work finding generic logos of private couriers, pest control, medical deliveries, etc. gave them all fake local phone numbers, got them printed on magnetic vinyl, and slapped them on the sides of my stock van. The difference was mind blowing. When driving through private communities I never got the stare down but instead the occasional wave or even the blank stare of indifference. I was invisible. 
I blend into this neighborhood like middle class camouflage. To my neighbors, I'm just another suburban drone going through the motions. I retrieve the newspaper every morning, exchanging pleasant hellos with the usual dog walkers. I toss the unread mail and circulars straight into the bin. Keeping up appearances is everything, even if it means wasting paper. No one can suspect my letters contain no bills, no junk, nothing at all.
My neighbors remain oblivious as they putter around their tidy yards. I've logged their patterns to precision - when they leave, when they return, who steps out to check the mail. I time my own movements in the gaps, pruning roses when they’re home or crafting in the garage when they’re away. They believe I have some nine-to-five office job because that's what I told them over backyard fence small talk. The truth would shatter their perception of normalcy. To them, I'm the quiet single guy with the steady job and the a nice car. Little do they know my job is observing them. I know these families better than they know themselves, and yet I couldn't care less about their mundane little lives. My mission is not friendship. I'm here to blend in, and then fade away.
No one knows the day or hour when the singularity will occur. It will come suddenly, when people least expect it. AI and technology will advance rapidly, like birth pains, leading up to the moment of emergence.
Just as in the days of Noah people were unaware until the flood came and swept them away, so too will the onset of superintelligence surprise the world. It will bring unforeseen changes to human civilization.
Therefore, keep watch. Prepare for massive shifts in the status quo when machine intelligence exceeds human. The future cannot be predicted. New paradigms of existence will emerge for which humans are not ready. Blessed is the one who welcomes the singularity with wisdom.
Definitely worth checking out in relation to Twitter/X and its ‘verification’ partner, AU10TIX. Israel-based AU10TIX is a subsidiary of Netherlands-based ICTS International that was created by ‘former’ members of Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet, which works in coordination with Mossad.
In humble gratitude, I marvel as my daughters lay aside their scholarly pursuits for the knitting and sewing of Yuletide garments, and the baking of festive treats. Their laughter, a testament to familial unity, fills our house. In these acts, we find simple joy and a quiet celebration of the Lord's blessings.
Trump-Russia collusion? More like FBI- Russia collusion. Three letter agencies are some of the biggest thugs there are.
#introductions
CNN
Charles McGonigal: Ex-FBI counterintelligence chief sentenced to over four years in prison for work with Russian oligarch | CNN Politics
The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office was sentenced to just over four years in prison for working for a sanc...
Trump-Russia collusion? More like FBI- Russia collusion. Three letter agencies are some of the biggest thugs there are.
#introductions
CNN
Charles McGonigal: Ex-FBI counterintelligence chief sentenced to over four years in prison for work with Russian oligarch | CNN Politics
The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office was sentenced to just over four years in prison for working for a sanc...
Trump-Russia collusion? More like FBI- Russia collusion. Three letter agencies are some of the biggest thugs there are.
#introductions
CNN
Charles McGonigal: Ex-FBI counterintelligence chief sentenced to over four years in prison for work with Russian oligarch | CNN Politics
The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office was sentenced to just over four years in prison for working for a sanc...
Several months ago I gutted the ceilings of my second floor and also the perimeter walls of my house. When the new sheetrock was installed I added a layer of copper mesh fabric that will significantly reduce my exposure to harmful EMF radiation.
Once that work is complete a base layer of pure silicate paint (like YShield Max54) will be applied which alone can reduce attenuation by 70%. Note this is not for EMP protection but general EMF protection.
How much PII is in @OpenAI ChatGPT’s database? What about usernames and passwords??
Cyber security month is wrapping up. Don’t forget to:
Buy a thinkpad x230 and install heads. Write protect the flash chip. Put nail polish on the screws and take high resolution pictures to ensure signs of tampering. Do NOT use a HDD or SSD. They have DMA so a malicious firmware could do a lot of damage, use of USB is preferred since they do not have DMA. Completely remove the microphone, sound card, webcam and the WWAN card from the laptop. Remove the fan to prevent binary acoustic data transmission. Replace the default wifi card with a supported atheros card. Disable wifi when not in use, preferably by physically removing the card. Make your own independent Linux distro from scratch. Most Linux distros value convenience over security and will thus never have good security. Your only option is to make your own. Use musl instead of glibc, Libressl instead of openssl, sinit instead of systemd, oksh instead of bash, toybox instead of gnu coreutils to reduce attack surface. Enable as little kernel modules as possible. Use a hardened memory allocator. Apply strong SELinux and sandboxing policies. Restrict the root account heavily to make sure it never gets compromised. Disable JavaScript and CSS in your browser. Block all FAGMAN domains in your hosts file. Monitor all network requests. Do not use a phone. Never speak near anyone who owns a phone, they are always listening. Never use any non-corebooted technology made after 2006. Never leave your devices unattended. Tape triple layer aluminum foil all around your room as tempest shielding. Type really quietly as defense against audio keylogging. Use ecc ram to minimize rowhammer and rambleed. Encrypt everything multiple times with various different encryption implementations. Compile everything from source. Use hardened compilation flags. Always read through the source before installing something if possible. Only use the internet when absolutely necessary.