xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

The Banjo-Kazooie decompilation project reached 100%

This article explores the stances of various U.S. presidents on sound money, offering insights into how their policies impacted the nation's financial health.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/u-s-presidents-on-sound-money-a-historical-perspective.html

Ukraine has nothing to do with the interests of the Western public, nothing to do with the security of Europe and nothing to do with the economic advancement of the United States.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/globalists-are-trying-to-escalate-the-ukraine-war-into-wwiii-before-the-us-election.html

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_Party Over for Alarmists as Sea Temperatures Plunge Around the World_

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/28/party-over-for-alarmists-as-sea-temperatures-plunge-around-the-world/

💡 Did you know? You can change the system time on Haiku by dragging the hands of the clock in the Time preferences panel.

Telegram, the honeypot.

Telegram is probably one of the most effective government-corporate honeypots I've seen in the last decade because both free software enjoyers and security nuts believe to some extent it's secure and or free, when it's not.


I've even seen people on Trisquel forums believing that Telegram clients are free software because they go to a Github repo, check the license and see it says "GPL 3.0".

I'll explain why this is false and why the license is void, and this should be more proof that Telegram is not only proprietary but deliberately deceptive and why I define it as a honeypot because of such.


Okay, let's assume you're enough software literate that you understand how software is made, and you're a free software enjoyer. So what you do? You decide to compile the client yourself because the repositories on whatever GNU distribution you're using do not have it (and you'll find out why right now).

Let's check the Telegram docs to do this:

Building Telegram client for GNU desktop (only on documented for Docker, lmao):

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/dev/docs/building-linux.md

> Obtain your API credentials
> You will require api_id and api_hash to access the Telegram API servers.

Hold on, what does that mean? Let's read further:

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/dev/docs/api_credentials.md

> To build your version of Telegram Desktop you're required to provide your own api_id and api_hash for the Telegram API access.

Okay, so to get a functional client I need to request these keys... This on itself should be enough suspicious, but let's expose it further and what requirements they impose to get these granted:

https://core.telegram.org/api/obtaining_api_id#obtaining-api-id

> In order to obtain an API id and develop your own application using the Telegram API you need to do the following:

> Sign up for Telegram using any application.
> Log in to your Telegram core: https://my.telegram.org.
> Go to "API development tools" and fill out the form.
> You will get basic addresses as well as the api_id and api_hash parameters required for user authorization.
> For the moment each number can only have one api_id connected to it.


Okay, so in order to get a functional client, you need a pre-compiled client provided by them or an authorized dev, get an account, fill a form and wait for them to review it and decide whether you're worthy of this privilege or not. On top of that, these API credentials can be revoked at any time after compiling clients, so any client that has these credentials will get bricked if they decide to revoke permission.

This, arguably, breaks freedom 0, the freedom to use the software for any purpose (and the sole purpose of this software is to connect to Telegram servers to communicate), and it could even be very much considered a form of digital handcuffs (DRM) which the GPL forbids implementing (unless you can trivially break it, which is not the case given the server is the authority and enforcer here).

Therefore, since freedom 0 is abused, the license is void and this codebase can't be legally protected by GPL, making these clients proprietary.


This is why I think Telegram shouldn't be distributed by F-Droid, the only reason they consider Telegram free is because they got these API keys granted and they're gripping tight on technical definitions to distribute it. But this is blatantly dishonest and not described on their disclaimer warnings, they say the software has anti-features, but not that you can't even get a functional build compiled if you do it yourself.



Stay away from Telegram, and stick to XMPP or email+GPG.

In this clip from TCR Live #140, Derrick Broze breaks down new reports on the Biden Administration preparing an executive order to fast track he implementation of “mobile drivers licenses”, also known as digital drivers licenses.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/will-the-biden-admin-implement-digital-ids-with-an-executive-order.html

What if the secret to unlocking your child’s cognitive potential was as simple as a 10-second stretch? It may sound too good to be true, but a revolutionary study from Japan highlights this possibility.
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2024/08/just-10-seconds-of-light-exercise-boosts-brain-activity-in-kids.html

I am sunsetting token.gallery. I am converting it to readonly, and shutting off the servers in 18 months.

All the NFTs were created using IPFS, so they won't disappear if you pin the data on another IPFS server. We built this thing to last and not be another NFT scam.

All revenue was in Ubiq in a wallet that we never touched. Ubiq is basically dead now, so unofficially there was zero profit on the endeavor.

But in reality, the experience I got working on it got me a job in the crypto industry, which has been remunerative. And I had a lot of fun doing it.

Thanks.

Stay away from any product with this sticker on it..its Bill Gates company

@gabriel

Trigger warning: Some of these are pretty radical.

Short term:
- Eliminate corporate welfare / subsidies
- Flat tax. No more loopholes for people who can afford to spend $100k on accountants
- Limit legal fees and institute a loser pays system. Give the small guy a chance in the courtroom against megacorporations. Probably three dozen other refinements to cut down on the disproportionate power of retaining huge lawfirms.

Medium term:
- Eliminate corporate personhood and liability shields. Force the decision makers in the company to put their asses personally on the line for decisions they make.
- Eviscerate IP and copyright. Stop handing out government-enforced monopolies on ideas, thoughts, and speech like it's halloween candy. As a side bonus, it would cut WAY down on opportunities for passive income, bringing wealth accumulation more in line with economic contribution (aka: work in => money out).
- Sunset clause on ALL laws. Something generous like 25 years, but then it expires. There are too many laws on the books, and they create a MASSIVE economic drain.

Long term:
- Deregulate almost everything. In a free market, the long-term solution to almost every problem is competition. History has shown that every regulatory regime is eventually captured by the big players in the industry it is intended to regulate, and then used to punish the smaller players and prevent new competition from forming.

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has finally admitted what we knew all along: Facebook conspired with the government to censor individuals expressing “disapproved” views about the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/technofascism-the-government-pressured-tech-companies-to-censor-users.html

Earlier this year, NPR's Code Switch discussed, "The conspiracy theory alleges that a shadowy global elite conspires to control the world's population, in part by forcing them to eat insects." Well, do we have news for them...
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/bug-diets-once-labeled-conspiracy-theory-by-msm-now-becomes-fact-after-uk-govt-backs-sustainable-food.html

DOOM has been ported to Stable Diffusion. As in, this is literally being run on nothing but stable diffusion frames and a "memory" that allows the machine learning algorithm to infer what the next frame should look like based on input. It's literally making all of this up in real time.

As wars in Ukraine and the Middle East continue to rage, Vertical Research Partners forecasts top weapon manufacturers will experience record cash flow during the coming years.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/top-defense-firms-set-for-another-record-cash-flow-year-as-wars-rage-in-ukraine-gaza-lebanon.html

@Aether I would be better to call them brute force pattern recognition models.

Why AI can't spell "strawberry".

techcrunch.com/2024/08/27/why-ai-cant-spell-strawberry/

I've said before that what we are currently calling AI models, which is really just Large Language Models or LLMs, don't understand anything at all except language. They're language models. That's what they do, and it's all they do.

Except that's not quite true, because they don't understand language in any real way either.

>The failure of large language models to understand the concepts of letters and syllables is indicative of a larger truth that we often forget: These things don't have brains. They do not think like we do. They are not human, nor even particularly humanlike.

>Most LLMs are built on transformers, a kind of deep learning architecture. Transformer models break text into tokens, which can be full words, syllables, or letters, depending on the model.

>"LLMs are based on this transformer architecture, which notably is not actually reading text. What happens when you input a prompt is that it's translated into an encoding," Matthew Guzdial, an AI researcher and assistant professor at the University of Alberta, told TechCrunch. "When it sees the word 'the,' it has this one encoding of what 'the' means, but it does not know about 'T,' 'H,' 'E.'"

Typeahead with delusions of grandeur.