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  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.netOh shid
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    2 months ago

    It’s not a real tweet obviously. If I had to guess it was probably made by a Hillary lib or a parody of that. In 2016 when Chapo first became popular they supported Bernie and the DNC ran propaganda that anyone who was pro-Bernie is a misogynist for not supporting Hillary or Warren. Democrats called Chapo misogynistic for supporting Bernie, both in 2016 and 2020.




  • I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

    “Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”

    “What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”

    “Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”

    The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”

    “Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”

    “Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”

    He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”

    “Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”

    I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.

    “Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.

    “Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.

    “Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”

    It didn’t seem like they did.

    “Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”

    Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.

    I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.

    “Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.

    Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.

    “Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.

    I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”

    He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.

    “All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”

    “Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.

    “Because I was afraid.”

    “Afraid?”

    “Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”

    I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.

    “Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”

    He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.






  • There is no way to definitively say that Ubuntu is “backdoored”. Your post is written like bait but I will explore the concept.

    Operating systems like Windows and OSX are one big proprietary mess. These systems you have no idea what they are doing. They do things without even telling you.

    Ubuntu is a system built on Free (as in freedom) open source software (FOSS). It is made up of over 1000 software packages. Some of the packages are FOSS, a few of the packages are proprietary. The packages are precompiled binaries based on FOSS code. You do not have to install the proprietary packages.

    The proprietary packages which are included in Ubuntu by default are wifi drivers, graphics drivers, cpu firmware. Is it possible that a backdoor is hidden in the wifi driver? Maybe but you don’t have to install those drivers. You could use a FOSS wifi device or simply not use wifi.

    So if we have the Ubuntu system and we don’t install the proprietary blobs/drivers. How do we know that the compiled software packages matches the FOSS source code? Well for one, it is illegal under most circumstances to share binaries compiled from FOSS source code without providing the full source code used to compile the software binaries. The GNU project and Free Software Foundation are willing to do litigation against software which violates FOSS licenses.

    Let’s assume that the Linux Distro is disregarding the law. There is a software project called Reproducible Builds, which means that if you compile source code on 2 different machines, you will get the same binary files. While distros like Arch and Debian (and not Ubuntu) are members of the Reproducible Builds project, the project is still incomplete and many packages are not compliant.

    So let’s say that you don’t trust the Distro developer to compile binaries for you. You can choose to use a GNU/Linux distros such as Gentoo where all of the FOSS packages are in the form of source code and you have to compile them for yourself.

    What about non-hidden “backdoors”? Over 10 years ago, Ubuntu introduced a feature which searched Amazon for “products you might be interested in” when you typed into the Unity search bar to search your computer. This feature was removed after community backlash.

    What about unintentional vulnerabilities or exploits hidden within the source code? Obfuscated code is not accepted but even then some things have slipped by. In February 2024, a backdoor was added to the XZ Utils, which potentially added a secret key for the attacker to access some systems remotely through OpenSSH. The exploit was discovered and removed in March 2024. The exploit was luckily discovered before it reached most people. I believe most Ubuntu users were not affected by this exploit unless they were using a “testing” version of Ubuntu. Rolling release distros such as Arch Linux were the most affected. For this reason, it is better to use a stable release distro like Debian, which only adds new software features every 2 years.

    In 2021, two researchers at the University of Minnesota submitted intentionally buggy code to the Linux Kernel project as part of an experiment to introduce vulnerabilities into Open Source software. 15 days later, the Linux Kernel project banned the entire University of Minnesota from contributing to the Linux Kernel development.

    Is it possible that Ubuntu has a backdoor? Maybe, but it is very less likely to have a backdoor than Window or OSX.





  • Frogan, Vio, Denims, and Capri are all friends of Hasanabi. I think they’re all Leftist. Frogan is a muslim woman and said she hopes that American soldiers get PTSD for helping Israel (based). Vio is comedy twitch stream, but I think with Leftist sympathy. Vio also lives with / is dating Central_Committee (Mike_From_PA on twitter), which is the second largest self-proclaimed socialist news channel on twitch. Denims is a woman on twitch who talks about some Leftism stuff. Capri aka CapriSunnPapi is Palestinian/Lebanese man. Frogan and Capri both have family who live in Lebanon. I think these are actually cool people, not vaushite people.

    here’s a video where Frogan and Capri talk about their family in Lebanon. They talk about their families being bombed by Israel.
    https://youtu.be/zrnc6j6zNy4?t=1501

    The bans were probably lead by Ethan Klein and Destiny’s community.