Comments on: All FIPS compliant cryptographic libraries are backdoored and in the pocket of our enemies Liberty in an unfree world Wed, 10 Nov 2021 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Neurotoxin Wed, 10 Nov 2021 23:35:42 +0000 In reply to jim.

I am working on giving my wallet a password generator that generates random grammatically correct meaningful nonsense phrases

“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”

Noam Chomsky: High-entropy password generator.

By: alf Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:19:29 +0000 In reply to Prince Charming.

I hear 8 out of 10 biggest harbors in terms of trade volume are in China. None are in the US.

By: jim Sat, 06 Nov 2021 22:43:26 +0000 In reply to Prince Charming.

The US capability to project power is falling off a cliff.

By: Prince Charming Sat, 06 Nov 2021 21:40:17 +0000 In reply to Aidan.

Starlink is ~13-30GHz, one should be able to conceal the dish under a tarp.

He is not gonna leave the US as long as the USGOV is able to project power. He knows what happened to the Iranian nuclear scientists.

By: Aidan Sat, 06 Nov 2021 13:28:01 +0000 In reply to Prince Charming.

Sorry, I meant that the dish was to communicate with the nearest cell tower, which was too far away for an ordinary phone to pick up signal or data from, not a satellite directly.

Starlink sounds great, but I worry that if Musk has to move outside the US hegemony to continue his work, it may become politically dangerous to do business with him.

By: jim Sat, 06 Nov 2021 10:38:52 +0000 In reply to Upravda.

> the main problem is simply that no one in Croatia accepts it.

Critical mass problem. No one will accept it because no one else will accept it.

In El Salvador there is a beach, which became known as bitcoin beach. It had a bunch of bitcoin rich exiles from the US hanging out. And no one would accept it. Until they did. And, then with remarkable swiftness, it came to pass that all of El Salvador accepts it.

By: Upravda Sat, 06 Nov 2021 09:17:26 +0000 In reply to Varna.

Yes, I remember commie survival tactics. Was not so intensive in former Yugoslavia, but we did perfect the art of living under softer communism and harder inflation.

I already do much of of that, my friend, I already do. For example, I already do shopping only once in a week so I could just as easily make it once in a month – although our inglorious rulers did *not* threaten us with forbidding the entry into malls. Yet.

OTOH, five main medical associations (“chambers” this and that and such) did yesterday urge the rulers to make us such pariahs. Bastards. As I said, word “outrageous” is understatement.

And I buy milk and cheese from neighbor, pork from people in the place I live, etc. Live swine, actually, we personally slaughter it, make sausages, etc. Family enterprise known as “kolinje” and performed during cold months. 😉

We still have open air markets in Croatia, locally known as “plac” (read like a deutsch “Platz”), both in the largest of cities and smallest of villages, and it was always very important way of procuring groceries, for many people the primary way.

We shall see – yesterday’s threats form the idiot of Interior minister (ugly gamma) are quite fuzzy, unions are already brewing, and many decisions could go to the Constitutional court. We developed something of a Constitutional court cult, not unlike that in USA, but those airheads sitting there sometimes can surprise us positively.

And I’m in IT (information systems development, to be precise) and already do much of work from home so I’m not so much affected such as people from public sector or state-owned companies.

Right now, my greatest concern is actually rising inflation of Euro. Not that I have any savings in that currency, but Croatian Kuna is pegged to Euro so inflation will hit us eventually. Been reading carefully Jim’s post on cryptocurrencies, but the main problem is simply that no one in Croatia accepts it. And, regarding all that milk, cheese, pork, and open markets, it is simply inconceivable that old lady groceress will ever accept anything like that. She might accept yuan, and gold, and silver, and everything that can be put into the sock, up to and including Adamant coins, but not something she can not touch.

By the way, I can become a resident of Bosnia and Herzegovina either if I own some land there, any land, or if I register a company branch-office there. land is easy to buy, there are no restrictions by nationality, I think, so even foreigners can buy it.

By: Varna Sat, 06 Nov 2021 07:53:30 +0000 In reply to Karl.

Sure, I meant the “non-brainwashed adults” who choose to not go through with the b.s. — they are the ones who can handle it way easier.

I’d shave off 10 years off the 30 years, because the 1990s were also a survival school in most parts of the EE.

The oldest millennials are the youngest who remember the period when life wasn’t all unicorns and bunnies.

Some EE countries went surprisingly all in with the hoax, especially places like the Baltics and Slovenia, known also as “we were never Eastern Europe it’s all a misunderstanding” countries. Sure proved that, no question.

The EE outside the EU all uses the trad vax as well, while inside the EU–only Hungary. Everybody else gets clotshots and mutagen serums. For some reason. Not France, not Austria, not Poland — no one could get their shit together and produce a trad vax in a month. Turkey could and Kazakhstan could, but not a single EU country. Very strange.

In EU EE, Bulgaria is the last holdout.
The govt is trying to break the population with vax passes and relentless propaganda since 2-3 weeks ago. But thus far the Bulgarians are as obstinate as the Ukrainians, the Russians, and the Belorussians. They literally have to be threatened with starvation and/or jail to take the shot, and when they do, they remember how it happened.

Even outside the EU, EE places like Serbia, Macedonia, and Montenegro are scrambling to prove how worthy they are of joining the family of civilized nations.

They are vaxxed way more than EU Bulgaria.

But, as I mentioned before, in each and every of those places there are adults among the refuseniks who can handle all the restriction crap on autopilot and without breaking a sweat.

The question is who will they breed with later on hahaha. Some sort of “untainted mating exchange” shall have to be organized. The last twenty pureblood Balts and the two remaining Portugese will have to breed with Ukrainian Tatars or Algerians or something.

By: jim Sat, 06 Nov 2021 06:38:25 +0000 In reply to Mister Grumpus.

My use of the internet cannot be fucked up by Shaniqua.

And I notice that NSA is gathering the low hanging fruit, while the high hanging fruit, though far less abundant, would likely prove far more interesting. This suggests that Shaniqua is already running their operation.

By: Karl Sat, 06 Nov 2021 06:35:10 +0000 In reply to Varna.

Socialism ended about 30 years ago. So by now there should be plenty of adults in the East who are as clueless as the majority in the West.

What are the vaccination rates in the East? If there are about the same as in the West, adults in the East are probably as clueless as in the West.