Steve @[email protected]

Just a day after Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proposed turning the Post Officie into a bank for poorer Americans, the U.S. Postal Service reported losing $2.1 billion in just three months. Yikes.
https://reason.com/2019/05/10/post-service-lost-2-billion-in-three-months/

Interesting Internet-Draft: MASQUE – think "VPN over HTTPS", undetectable, unblockable.

Slides: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/104/materials/slides-104-secdispatch-the-masque-protocol-draft-schinazi-masque-00

Draft: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-schinazi-masque-00

#privacy #http #quic #IETF #vpn #obfuscation

/via @bortzmeyer

#Whirlpool mixes have 100% entropy, 0 deterministic links, never use a prev tx >1x in the inputs, and no "unmixed change". Free ride as long as you want to reach desired anonymity set.🏃🏻‍♂️🌀🌪️😎 Unfairly fast & unfairly inexpensive. Implementations: GUI, CLI, & #SamouraiWallet

RT @[email protected]

Excited to see the first Whirlpool transaction hitting mainnet. Every Whirlpool transaction is 100% max possible entropy, 100% max wallet efficiency, with 0 deterministic links. Every. single. time. https://oxt.me/transaction/a554db794560458c102bab0af99773883df13bc66ad287c29610ad9bac138926

Journalism is at risk not just from government but from media types who see their jobs as protecting the powerful from embarrassment.
https://bit.ly/2Pc9x6v

ICYMI: #FreeSoftware #Privacy developer Ola Bini, currently a major contributor to the OTR encrypted messaging protocol, has been detained with no or flimsy charges for 4+ days and counting in Ecuador. "Evidence" included having technical books and too many devices. They say he'll be held up to 90 days while they "develop charges" against him.

#FreeOlaBini #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #surveilancecapitalism

https://www.apnews.com/327d2dcbe0f24a2eba839502fbd783cb

URGENT: Julian Assange did not "walk out of the embassy". The Ecuadorian ambassador invited British police into the embassy and he was immediately arrested.

Source: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1116274905245470720

British police arrested Julian Assange. Prosecuting him would gravely threaten press freedom #ReasonRoundup
http://bit.ly/2uWUzId

TIL Norwegian Airlines free tier of onboard WiFi blocks "social media" like Twitter. But using Mastodon working fine.

Decentralization FTW.

@Sosthene Well lots were good. I think I particularly liked the demonstration of abcore - Udi ( @udiWertheimer , first day) demo-ed installing a full node on an Android TV device!.

Also enjoyed looking at the goTenna operating to broadcast a transaction ( Richard Myers, second day afternoon)

"Understanding Bitcoin" conference has wrapped up, I think the general idea of focusing on hands-on has been good, I think people who are into hardware would have particularly enjoyed the final part that talked about things like mesh network and satellites, there was also a lot about various ways you can run a node.
We might have pitched it too high technically for the average user though - if they do it again next year it might start off with more of a "beginners" day.

Tokyo is the future YIMBYs want
http://bit.ly/2WHwssU

AML/KYC is censorship and a digital dog collar.

Regulations are a dog leash. They can choose when they want to jerk you around.

Coinbase is sending out mail encouraging users to convert their bitcoin to shitcoins #deletecoinbase http://reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/b1sr7p/coinbase_is_sending_out_mail_encouraging_users_to/