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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jun-2022 23:18:58 UTC GeniusMusing

Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing “Geo Tracking Data” to ICE
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/29/crypto-coinbase-tracer-ice/

>ICE is now able to track transactions made through nearly a dozen different digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether.
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>Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, is selling Immigrations and Customs Enforcement a suite of features used to track and identify cryptocurrency users, according to contract documents shared with The Intercept.
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>News of the deal, potentially worth as much as $1.37 million, was first reported last September, but details of exactly what capabilities would be offered to ICE’s controversial Homeland Security Investigations division of were unclear. But a new contract document obtained by Jack Poulson, director of the watchdog group Tech Inquiry, and shared with The Intercept, shows ICE now has access to a variety of forensic features provided through Coinbase Tracer, the company’s intelligence-gathering tool (formerly known as Coinbase Analytics).
>...

I thought you could be anon in the crypto world...
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1. Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing “Geo Tracking Data” to ICE
  
  from https://www.facebook.com/sam.biddle
  
  ICE is now able to track transactions made through nearly a dozen different digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether.
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jun-2022 16:29:00 UTC GeniusMusing
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- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Saying the quiet part out loud.

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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jun-2022 23:03:44 UTC GeniusMusing

Google Asks for Permission to Flood Inboxes With Campaign Spam
https://gizmodo.com/google-gmail-permission-campaign-email-spam-republicans-1849118953

>After years of grumbling from Republicans in Congress, Google has requested that the Federal Election Commission allow a pilot program in which political campaign emails would be exempt from spam filtering.
>...

NO! JUST NO!
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1. Google Asks Feds for Permission to Flood Inboxes With Campaign Spam
  
  The GOP complained that too many conservative fundraising emails were going to spam. Now, Google wants to make political emails exempt from filtering.
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jun-2022 12:35:45 UTC GeniusMusing

June Update: Who likes RISC-V PINE64
https://www.pine64.org/2022/06/28/june-update-who-likes-risc-v/

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>We have hinted at this for some time, and many of you knew it would become a reality eventually: we’re now in the final layout phase for a powerful, yet affordable, RISC-V single board computer. I need to be a bit cagey about what I write, partly because I want you to solve the riddle at the end of this section, and in part because not all information has been set in stone and disclosed publicly by the SoC vendor. Before I get into some of the details I’ve been allowed to disclose, here’s the spiel: the board will premiere in our signature model-A form factor, feature CPU performance which falls somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Quartz64, offer plenty of IO, and sport a price-tag similar to that of the Quartz64. In a nutshell, a Quartz64 model-A type board but with a RISC-V SoC. Sounds good? Then keep on reading.
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I think I'm gonna get one, will have to see the price first.
In conversation about 6 days ago from web permalink
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1. June Update: Who likes RISC-V?
  
  from Lukasz Erecinski
  
  This month we reveal that we are working on a powerful and affordable RISC-V single board computer, discuss huge PineNote’s software improvements and provide updates on PinePhone…
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jun-2022 02:35:48 UTC GeniusMusing
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- simsa04
@simsa04
>TweetDuck requires Windows 7+ and .NET Framework 4.7.2 or newer.
I was hoping for at least Linux or browser based.

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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jun-2022 23:19:45 UTC GeniusMusing

Why dyslexia is not a ‘disorder’ but an evolutionary advantage
https://nu.federati.net/url/286817

>The experts suggested that dyslexia, which causes difficulty reading, writing and spelling, is a useful specialisation and not a “neurocognitive condition”.
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>Non-dyslexics are better at using knowledge and exploiting what is already there while dyslexic people have a particular knack for tackling the unknown with gusto.
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>And in the days before literacy, this penchant for adventure would have been invaluable in helping societies adapt and thrive.
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>About one in five people have dyslexia, and their tendency to push the envelope would have been balanced out by other members of a prehistoric society, leading to a well-rounded group with equally useful skill sets.
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>However, Dr Helen Taylor, from the University of Strathclyde, and Dr Martin Vestergaard, from the University of Cambridge, said that dyslexia was now seen as a problem because modern education systems focused on the things sufferers struggled with and neglected what they excelled at.
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>They reassessed past studies on dyslexic individuals and disagreed with the prevailing theory that it was a cognitive deficit.
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>“Striking the balance between exploring for new opportunities and exploiting the benefits of a particular choice is key to adaptation and survival and underpins many of the decisions we make in our daily lives,” said Dr Taylor.
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>“Evidence strongly indicates that individuals with developmental dyslexia do not have a disorder but instead, are specialised in explorative cognitive search,” the researchers wrote in their paper, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.
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>However, since the invention of written language, dyslexia has been seen as a problem, not a talent.
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>“Schools, academic institutes and workplaces are not designed to make the most of explorative learning,” said Dr Taylor.
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Related: Can dyslexia ever really be a superpower
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/mind/can-dyslexia-ever-really-superpower/

While I have dyslexia to a limited degree, mostly transposing joining letters and numbers, I can see how the "specialised in explorative cognitive search" works for myself, I see patterns where other don't and I also think it help with the programming I do, when I don't mistype things.
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1. Why dyslexia is not a ‘disorder’ but an evolutionary advantage
  
  Why dyslexia is not a ‘disorder’ but an evolutionary advantage
2. Can dyslexia ever really be a superpower?
  
  Princess Beatrice calls it a 'gift' – and while I've long known the pitfalls of my condition, I too have learned to embrace the positives
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 20-Jun-2022 21:02:49 UTC GeniusMusing
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- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
- GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
I think this was the set I had.
Topper Johnny Lightning – INDY 500 Race Set Video No.163 – October 28th, 2016 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2BAKkVp-wo
In conversation about 13 days ago from web permalink
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1. Topper Johnny Lightning – INDY 500 Race Set - Video No.163 – October 28th, 2016
  
  Check out this 1970 Topper Johnny Lightning INDY 500 Race Track Set. With a track this cool I don’t know how they ever went out of business. This thing ROC...
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 20-Jun-2022 20:56:46 UTC GeniusMusing
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- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@lnxw48a1
>Johnny Lightning

OMG! I had one of those, it (according to my parents) lasted around an hour before I took it apart to see how it worked. It did work after I put it back together but was less fun.

In conversation about 13 days ago from web permalink

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