Backports

A couple kids from Berkeley and a dream. That’s where it started."

Her utterance there, well that might be the understatement of the year.

"By porting it to the X86 processor, a proprietary academic testbed system only accessible to institutions and government became, in a moment, the means for any talented programmer to implement their ideas and expand their horizons."

~Lynne Jolitz, 14 July 2025

And there you are reading this, sitting there on your Android, or laptop running BSD or Linux, and what a feat that is. How wonderful it is to take all of that for granted, yet 33 years ago it was merely a vision of what could be, until Bill and Lynne smashed all doubt and a wonderful revolution exploded, unfolding into everyone's home, and indeed, even their hip pockets!

She offers some perspective on that HERE.

#tallship #FOSS #UNIX #Jolix #CSRC #80386

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Xi przeprowadzi czystkę wśród regulatorów rynków finansowych?

Jeżeli teraz wyciągnięto Yi Huiman jakąś sprawę korupcyjną, to może oznaczać dwie rzeczy: (1) Xi Jinping uznał go faktycznie winnego perturbacji na giełdach i teraz przyszła prawdziwa kara; (2) potrzebny jest jako świadek do przygotowania dalszych spraw.

https://wp.me/p3fv0T-hGC #Chiny #ChRL #giełdy #finanse #banki #YiHuimian #易会满 #zatrzymanie #śledztwo #korupcja #CSRC

#SiliconCurtain

Russia Wants to Steal your Data - and Can

In this episode, we're joined by Keir Giles to discuss Russia's ever-evolving cyber warfare tactics aimed at hacking the data of its enemies ...
Finally, we touch on the concept of Russia's sub-threshold warfare and anticipate possible future escalations in the ongoing conflict.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSXSRyLtvhA

#KeirGiles #CSRC

#ruSSia #putin #kleptofascist #billionaire #looter #terror #maffia

#Ukraine #UkraineWar #StandWithUkraine

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Quasiperiodic quadrupole insulators

Raul Liquito, Miguel Gonçalves, Eduardo V. Castro
SciPost Phys. 18, 208 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.6.208

#UPorto #Princeton #CSRC

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Spectral and steady-state properties of fermionic random quadratic Liouvillians

João Costa, Pedro Ribeiro, Andrea De Luca, Tomaž Prosen, Lucas Sá
SciPost Phys. 15, 145 (2023)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.15.4.145

#UniversityofLisbon
#CSRC
#LPTM
#UniversityofLjubljana
#ANR
@ERC
#FCT
#Horizon2020 #EC
#ARRS

CSRC Bulletin #1

"The goal behind the Counter-Surveillance Resource Center’s newly released Threat Library is simple: looking at the state's array of repressive techniques and in order to better outmaneuver them.[1] The Library documents two dozen different policing techniques, splitting them into three tactics (deterrence, incrimination, and arrest), and offering potential mitigations, meaning ways of reducing damage, for each one. It also connects techniques to specific repressive operations carried out by the state against anarchists in the past couple of decades.

The Threat Library is meant to help you threat model, a process through which you try to understand what kinds of measures the state is likely to be taking against you so that you can prepare for them. This exercise is best done collaboratively with the comrades you are working with on a specific project. Good threat modeling can transform fear or paranoia into courage, by giving us a specific idea of what we are up against so we can take precautions. In other words, it helps us decide on appropriate Operational Security (OpSec)."

https://lib.edist.ro/library/csrc-bulletin-1

#OpSec #CSRC #ACAB