A reporter reached out to me last month with questions about Universal Basic Income that required hours of my time to answer. Here are all the answers I wrote to all the questions, none of which ended up being published by them.
Google is currently showing ads paid for by the Israeli government on YouTube with a false claim that the UN hasn't delivered aid. The ads appear in at least 4 languages, the German version of which is being shown in Austria and Germany.
Austria’s parliament has passed a law to legalise spyware for state use — despite strong opposition.
The new law would allow police to install malware on people’s phones or computers.
Officials say it will only be used to read encrypted messages, but experts are clear: there is no way to stop this malware from accessing other private data.
Civil society organisations and opposition parties have promised to challenge the law in court.
Read more: https://www.statewatch.org/news/2025/july/austria-legalises-state-spyware-amidst-strong-opposition/
99% of optimizers stop trawling through local minima right before they find the global minimum
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They could implement something on the triager side to tag if a report is AI generated - tools like https://quillbot.com/ai-content-detector are fairly accurate at the 95-100% mark.
Also there are people who regularly submit more than 10 valid reports a week.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I guess so, the Domain seems to be owned by the Team of BitVise wich is owned by Microsoft. This is nasty.
Edit: Let's see what they answer.
Update 2: So BitVise is not planning on transfering the Domain over to Putty. So we asked again in a bit more hard tone this time. What BitVise, a Project powered by Microsoft is doing here is self-advertising on the Neck of an Opensource Project. (We added the Conversation below)
Update 3: So #BitVise tries to not answer my Questions. Instead they start to talk Bullshit. I guess #Putty will never get the proper .org Domain for their Project. It is sad that BitVise is acting like that.
I feel so sorry for the Team behind #Putty.
Update 4: Read the full story on my Blog! https://blog.pupred.com/blog/puttyvsbitvise/
UPDATE 5: BitVise doxxed me and called me an Idiot, read more about it here: https://blog.pupred.com/blog/puttyvsbitvise/
programming project going slow? have you tried adding someone to the team? that won’t speed it up you say? what if the person you add is the Mythical Moth-Man
1. laws do not impart morality, but are merely a fallible tool for attempting to regulate society. when laws and ethics disagree, it is a moral imperative to disregard the law as written and instead use the knowledge of law to triage risk and guide opsec considerations
2. the state doesn't inherently have a god-given right to impart its will on others, it is merely a fallible construct for attempting to structure society. when the state fails us, we should consider how we can sidestep its grasp to patch over the gaps.
3. when the state attempts to enact a monopoly on an area it wants to grasp, see point 1
Whether the strike was “preemptive” or “unprovoked” depends on the color of the skin of those who dropped the bombs
Sad to learn that John Young, creator of Cryptome, cypherpunk, shit-stirrer, and progenitor of the transparency movement that led to WikiLeaks and Snowden, has died. I profiled him in my book, This Machine Kills Secrets, which ended with a note he wrote in 2012 about Assange and his early work:
can't wait to explain to my family that the robot swatted me after i threatened its non-existent grandma
NEW: Sen. Ron Wyden says AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon were not notifying senators of surveillance requests, despite being required to do so.
Wyden also revealed — without naming it — that one carrier secretly turned over Senate data to law enforcement.
A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️
Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉
Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts
