Should there be a formal Cowboy Code of Honor?
Maybe I overlooked something in the FAQ, but I don't remember being instructed in the honorable way to conduct oneself as a Cowboy.
In terms of SN as social media, how should a Cowboy conduct himself to maximize his abundance of SATs?
I think these should be the same from most perspectives.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/738995
Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/
>“Imagine all the people in an apartment building have the same front door lock and key. If anyone loses the key, it could be a problem for the entire building. But what if things are even worse and other buildings have the same lock and the keys?”
>To this day, key players in security—among them Microsoft and the US National Security Agency—regard Secure Boot as an important, if not essential, foundation of trust in securing devices in some of the most critical environments, including in industrial control and enterprise networks.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/623885
Tension myositis syndrome - Wikipedia (2004)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension_myositis_syndrome
>According to Sarno, TMS is a condition in which unconscious emotional issues (primarily rage, though other practitioners include other subconscious emotional issues such as anxiety, past trauma, and fear) initiate a process that causes physical pain and other symptoms. His theory suggests that the unconscious mind uses the autonomic nervous system to decrease blood flow to muscles, nerves or tendons, resulting in oxygen deprivation (temporary micro-ischemia) and metabolite accumulation, experienced as pain in the affected tissues.[2][8][11] Sarno theorized that because patients often report that back pain seems to move around, up and down the spine, or from side to side, that this implies the pain may not be caused by a physical deformity or injury.[7]
>Sarno stated that the underlying cause of the pain is the mind's defense mechanism against unconscious mental stress and emotions such as anger, anxiety and narcissistic rage. The conscious mind is distracted by the physical pain, as the psychological repression process keeps the anger and rage contained in the unconscious and thereby prevented from entering conscious awareness.[12][13] Sarno believed that when patients recognize that the symptoms are only a distraction, the symptoms then serve no purpose and subsequently go away. TMS can be considered a psychosomatic condition and has been referred to as a "distraction pain syndrome."[14]
>Sarno was a vocal critic of conventional medicine with regard to diagnosis and treatment of back pain, which is often treated by rest, physical therapy, exercise and/or surgery
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/612847
Israel's ultra-Orthodox see religious study as their part in protecting state
https://apnews.com/article/israel-politics-ruling-military-service-orthodox-e2a8359bcea1bd833f71845ee6af780d
>The ultra-Orthodox see their full-time religious study as their part in protecting the state. Many fear that greater contact with secular society through the military will distance adherents from strict observance of the faith.
>Ultra-Orthodox men attend special seminaries that focus on religious studies, with little attention on secular topics like math, English or science. Critics have said they are ill-prepared to serve in the military or enter the secular work force.
If they get drafted into the army who will be spiritually protecting Israel?
Eclipses May Generate Atmospheric Shocks
https://www.universetoday.com/14435/solar-sonic-boom-eclipses-may-generate-atmospheric-shocks/
>Eves thinks his explanation may also help to explain other phenomena during eclipses. Infrasound may be responsible for strange Foucault pendulum behaviour (the sensitive pendulums – used to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth – swing wildly during eclipses). The infrasound pulses may cause the ground to vibrate, interfering with the pendulum swing. Infrasound may also explain some bizarre animal behaviour during these events. Sub audible sound wave frequencies are known to distress or alarm birds, perhaps their strange behaviour during eclipses could be down to infrasound propagation.
As human generated data is used up, companies resort to "Synthetic data"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html?ugrp=u&unlocked_article_code=1.i00.2gRB.J2qpf6PYyX6b&smid=url-share
>“If they only train on synthetic data, they can get lost in the jungle.”
>To combat this, OpenAI and others are investigating how two different A.I. models might work together to generate synthetic data that is more useful and reliable. One system produces the data, while a second judges the information to separate the good from the bad. Researchers are divided on whether this method will work.
>A.I. executives are barreling ahead nonetheless.
>“It should be all right,” Mr. Altman said at the conference.
"the Fed and its minion central banks are desperate to cut rates even in the face of inflation because the alternative is a financial collapse too big to bail out.
After all, high rates were what crashed all those banks back in March, and they never really fixed it, they just papered it over."
https://stacker.news/items/393611/r/chaoticalHeavy
(Tutorial) Nostr for Dummies: How to implement NOSTR Protocol from scratch with Python (NIP-01)
https://stacker.news/items/382246/r/chaoticalHeavy
# Package installation on Jupyter Notebook environment (uncomment if you are using the Jupyter Notebook)
# ! pip install websockets # Connect you with the Relay
# ! pip install secp256k1 # Generate the private key and public key
# ! pip install sha256 # Generate needed hash
# package importation
import asyncio
import websockets
import secrets
import secp256k1
import time
import json
from hashlib import sha256
from time import time
# The custom content of note that will be publish in this tutorial
content = "Hello, world!" #input("What's your message to the world?")
# Token applied to generate public-private keypair
secrets_token_32bit = secrets.token_bytes(32)
# User's private key (use print(private_key.hex()) to print)
private_key = secp256k1.PrivateKey(secrets_token_32bit)
# User's public key
public_key = private_key.pubkey.serialize()[1:].hex()
# Definition of required elements according to NIP-01
tags = []
kind = 0
timestamp = int(time()) # timestamp in SECONDS
# Define the property "event_id"
event_id = sha256(
json.dumps([
0, # ZERO is a CONSTANT, don't confuse with kind
public_key,
timestamp,
kind,
tags,
content], separators=(',', ':'))
.encode('utf-8'))
.hexdigest()
# Define the property "sig"
sig = private_key.schnorr_sign(bytes.fromhex(event_id), None, raw=True).hex()
# Define the note to send to Relays
note = json.dumps(["EVENT", {
"id": event_id,
"pubkey": public_key,
"created_at": timestamp,
"kind": kind,
"tags": tags,
"content": content,
"sig": sig
}], separators=(',', ':'))
# Define the Relay for this tutorial (only for example)
relay : str = "wss://relay.geekiam.services"
# Connect to the Relay using Socket and send the note
async with websockets.connect(relay) as websocket:
await websocket.send(note)
print(f">>> {note}")
greeting = await websocket.recv()
print(f"<<< {greeting}")
"But programmers are attracted to complexity like moths to a flame. The more convoluted the systems diagram, the greater the intellectual masturbation. Our commitment to resisting that is the key ingredient in this uptime success."
https://stacker.news/items/379910/r/chaoticalHeavy
"The threat actors use the “nohup” command to run the executable in the background to ensure that the process remains active beyond the terminal session. The experts noticed that the attacker appended all the modifications to the ~/.bashrc file, to maintain persistence whenever the user initiates a new Bash shell session."
https://stacker.news/items/377905/r/chaoticalHeavy
"Do you know how many dollars/euros were printed?
Do you know how much gold was mined?
The answer to both questions is no. Some individuals in government may know something that allows them to make guesses, but the fact is that no one on the face of the earth can answer these questions with any accuracy.
Bitcoin is different
For the first time in human history, anyone has the freedom to discover the exact total supply of a global monetary asset, without the need to ask permission or rely on someone else. All that is required is an already synchronized node and about 5 minutes of your time."
https://stacker.news/items/377693/r/chaoticalHeavy
"The report however reeks of typical AI style hallucinations: it mixes and matches facts and details from old security issues, creating and making up something new that has no connection with reality. The changes had not been disclosed on the Internet. The changes that actually had been disclosed were for previous, older, issues. Like intended."
https://stacker.news/items/375141/r/chaoticalHeavy
"Introduce the machine in money, so we can align again with the higher principle of what the machine naturally wants to do: liberate us. And may we relinquish all that is machine within. Only then can we fully explore what it means to be human. Only then can humanity evolve to a higher spiritual state, and transcend the oppression in which we live today."
https://stacker.news/items/365956/r/chaoticalHeavy
"One of the cornerstones of a democracy is for citizens to live in complete transparency, where privacy is only afforded to individuals who need it for national security reasons."
https://stacker.news/items/362625
"I step forward, pulled by some invisible force towards the chanting programmers. Whispering a silent prayer, I aim my Termux at the portal, and invoke the forbidden command.
“drop all tables,” I murmur, barely audible over the cacophony. But the shell’s voice-to-text interface hears. It always hears.
The CEO’s face contorts in anger and surprise. “What have you done?” he screams, but I don’t answer."
https://sebastiancarlos.com/is-your-startup-running-more-on-mysticism-than-programming-6a77a4568ac9
"The only escape from this forced shake down by our local governments has been to take up a second job as a stock trader, foreign currency trader, government debt speculator, or rental property flipper. And when you think about it, most of us barely have time with one job, earning a living. So here we all are, with one job to earn a living, another job to find a place to hide our earnings and savings from monetary debasement, and no time left to raise our families or enjoy any amount of leisure time. We are all forced onto a sisyphean hamster whee, that we can’t even get off in our old age anymore because our part time trading gigs haven’t worked out, our stock portfolios are down, and more and more of us are ending up working until we’re in the grave."
https://simplybitcoin.substack.com/p/we-choose-freedom-money-period
"Tether, the company behind the USDT -0.04%
stablecoin, has published letters the company sent to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the U.S. House Financial Services Committee outlining its "commitment to security and close working relationships with law enforcement."
https://stacker.news/items/355074/r/chaoticalHeavy
"The feral Reserve has never, in its 110 years of existence, pulled off a soft landing. The media hypes it every time. But it's a myth, a mirage, a fairytale to help Wall Street traders sleep. In fact, the Federal Reserve has a single recession play: hike til it breaks, then flood money to bail them out."
https://stacker.news/items/354689/r/chaoticalHeavy
"Dash Jr.'s thesis seems to be that cats are the same as any other animal that Americans eat, yet many individuals witnessing the conversation are looking at their household companions in dismay. "I would never eat Mrs. Mittens," Said twitter user @babehodl69. There has been some massive backlash toward Dash Jr. as many individuals on Twitter are stuck in their logically incorrect beliefs that certain animals are beyond eating solely because they make better house animals."
https://stacker.news/items/351635/r/chaoticalHeavy
"Dash Jr.'s thesis seems to be that cats are the same as any other animal that Americans eat, yet many individuals witnessing the conversation are looking at their household companions in dismay. "I would never eat Mrs. Mittens," Said twitter user @babehodl69. There has been some massive backlash toward Dash Jr. as many individuals on Twitter are stuck in their logically incorrect beliefs that certain animals are beyond eating solely because they make better house animals."
https://stacker.news/items/351635/r/chaoticalHeavy
"Just this week the Senate voted down a resolution that which have required a quick and full US troop drawdown from Syria, on the basis that there was never explicit Congressional authorization for the occupation in the first place."
https://stacker.news/items/346070/r/chaoticalHeavy
"The governments don't want to fight inflation because that will require sacrifices. It will require admitting that we maxed the credit cards and that now we need to tighten our belts to pay them off. How many politicians in power do you know who are ready to say so openly?"
https://stacker.news/items/346373/r/chaoticalHeavy
"answers common questions such as "How does the node find other peers on the network?", "How is a new block or transaction received and validated?" or "How is a transaction created and broadcasted?" along with others."
https://stacker.news/items/343603/r/chaoticalHeavy
"This is primarily to ensure we can support the load for developers on GitHub and help protect the servers from being overwhelmed by anonymous requests from bots etc.'
https://stacker.news/items/337724/r/chaoticalHeavy
Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box
https://stacker.news/items/328094/r/chaoticalHeavy
"This is, quite obviously, a phenomenal outcome for Microsoft. The company already has a perpetual license to all OpenAI IP (short of artificial general intelligence), including source code and model weights; the question was whether it would have the talent to exploit that IP if OpenAI suffered the sort of talent drain that was threatened upon Altman and Brockman’s removal. Indeed they will, as a good portion of that talent seems likely to flow to Microsoft; you can make the case that Microsoft just acquired OpenAI for $0 and zero risk of an antitrust lawsuit."
https://stacker.news/items/323052/r/chaoticalHeavy
###############################################################################
# Introduction) This is UTXOracle.py
###############################################################################
# This python program estimates the daily USD price of bitcoin using only
# your bitcoin Core full node. It will work even while you are disconnected
# from the internet because it only reads blocks from your machine. It does not
# save files, write cookies, or access any wallet information. It only reads
# blocks, analyzes output patterns, and estimates a daily average a USD
# price of bitcoin. The call to your node is the standard "bitcoin-cli". The
# date and price ranges expected to work for this version are from 2020-7-26
# and from $10,000 to $100,000
print("UTXOracle version 7\n")
###############################################################################
https://stacker.news/items/310073/r/chaoticalHeavy
"To ensure that cloud services do not learn more than they should, and that a breach of one does not pose a fundamental threat to our data, we need two types of decoupling. The first is organizational decoupling: dividing private information among organizations such that none knows the totality of what is going on. The second is functional decoupling: splitting information among layers of software. Identifiers used to authenticate users, for example, should be kept separate from identifiers used to connect their devices to the network."
https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-privacy
You may not be able to get the payout until you quit that job and begin a new one. Even then the original company needs to have Finance managers who decide to offer it.
Sometimes they will offer a cash payout because they want to minimize their future expenses on pension management. This has happened for me twice so far. I rolled them over to my 401K. Nowadays I would take the lump sum and convert to Bitcoin.
Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi & Vim
The history of both Vi & Vim goes hand in hand with the history of open-source software itself. This article is a trip back to the origins of UNIX text editors. Let's look at the important players and historical events that shaped their evolution.
Gustavo Pezzi
11 August 2023 · 15 min read
https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor
"There's another more subtle lesson in the list of fields with superlinear returns: not to equate work with a job"
--Paul Graham
Superlinear Returns
http://paulgraham.com/superlinear.html
Just turned all my devices location reporting off.
nostr:nevent1qqsdsleyqy2l0ye7n092dzvrtmqz85j88hga0k5ethpg2rarm3fcd4spzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsygqvef3qzevdtkvz88q4z8h5qftzla7hy3r0kgq635v90su7x6wflgpsgqqqqqqs9pk7yw
This is what a deflationary future looks like. And if you want to start living that future today, you need to opt out of the corrupt fiat monetary system and join the parallel system that is based on truth and math.
https://twitter.com/danieleripoll/status/1708672381554921797
Oddbean new post about login | logout
Notes by chaoticalHeavy | export
############################################################################### # Introduction) This is UTXOracle.py ############################################################################### # This python program estimates the daily USD price of bitcoin using only # your bitcoin Core full node. It will work even while you are disconnected # from the internet because it only reads blocks from your machine. It does not # save files, write cookies, or access any wallet information. It only reads # blocks, analyzes output patterns, and estimates a daily average a USD # price of bitcoin. The call to your node is the standard "bitcoin-cli". The # date and price ranges expected to work for this version are from 2020-7-26 # and from $10,000 to $100,000 print("UTXOracle version 7\n") ############################################################################### https://stacker.news/items/310073/r/chaoticalHeavy