#video on post-apocalyptic #sewing #survivalists #toread
#video on building a #Raspberry-Pi pocket computer #toread
#video on “isometric” #videogames. The author apparently doesn’t know the difference between the isometric projection and other axonometric projections, so the video is actually about axonometric projections. Lots and lots of video game footage. He also mistakenly describes the Amiga as a 16-bit machine.
#video #toread #PewDiePie “accidentally built a nuclear supercomputer” apparently after #selfhosting and #degoogling
#video #toread on #retrocomputing "PicoCalc" running BASIC on a pocket computer
#video #toread on a small computer with HDMI out built out of two #Raspberry-Pi Picos on #Pimoroni boards
people using online #gambling sites for money laundering: “the criminal exploitation of legitimate and unlicensed digital wagering operations to launder money.” But without actually gambling! “Fintrac found a common tactic was the purchase of prepaid cards or vouchers using suspected proceeds of crime. They were then used to deposit money into gambling accounts, followed by withdrawals through wire or e-transfer to a Canadian bank account under the guise of winnings.” #Canada #politics #news
#Trump’s money-laundering #history: “In 1993, the Associated Press reported that two of Trump’s Atlantic City casinos were fined by Treasury Department regulators for “willfully failing to report” transactions involving more than $10,000 — a violation of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). Five years later, the department fined Trump Taj Mahal Associates, the company managing the eponymous Atlantic City casino, for violating the same law.” #USA #politics #news (from 02017)
“Friday briefing: Fake ebooks and overpriced eBay listings are fronts for digital money laundering.” Oh, that’s why there’s all those things on there that nobody would ever buy for real. #politics #news (from 02018)
#news from 02025 about #cryptocurrency money laundering, briefly mentioning tumblers and mixing services. Mostly a lot of AI slop. #politics
“#Trump Celebrates After Killing Anti-Money-Laundering Law”: “the government will no longer require shell companies to disclose their owners and beneficiaries, allowing wealthy corporations and individuals to hide their profits from the public. The rule was part of the Corporate Transparency Act, or CTA, passed in 2021. (...) Republicans have long opposed the CTA, claiming that the requirements are too steep for small businesses and companies to fulfill. The rule on beneficial ownership was supposed to go into effect in January, but a federal court order froze enforcement of the rule.” #news #politics #USA
#Trump: “Exciting news! The Treasury Department has announced that they are suspending all enforcement of the outrageous and invasive Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting requirement for U.S. Citizens. This Biden rule has been an absolute disaster for Small Businesses Nationwide. Furthermore, Treasury is now finalizing an Emergency Regulation to formally suspend this rule for American businesses. The economic menace of BOI reporting will soon be no more.” #USA #politics #news
#ZUFS #Flash storage is some sort of vague thing that makes your Flash last longer: “Zoned UFS”
#Comcast is watching you in your home with a motion detector built into their Wi-Fi. #security #privacy
#barcodes #history: MS Tags failed in part because people didn’t know they were there
discussion of how money laundering fuels the fine art market; #Mexico saw a collapse in art prices when they took anti-money-laundering measures. #politics
#videogames money laundering, specifically skin trading and skin betting in Counter Strike: Global Offensive. Seems like mostly AI slop filler. #politics
#Valve says they’ve shut down money laundering on Counter Strike: Global Offensive. “Valve said it had updated the game so keys could no longer be traded online ... Following the latest update to the game, keys will be bound to a player’s account so they cannot be transferred.” #videogames #news #politics #news
money laundering through #gambling on the lottery, or buying winning tickets from the original winners, or buying houses from them (??), or advance-fee-scamming elderly people with imaginary lotteries. This article is astoundingly poorly written and thought out. #politics #news
money laundering via real estate, as our old neighbor offered us to do when he thought for some reason that we had money to launder: mortgage payments are small, under- or overvaluing (with undisclosed cash payments making up the difference), including buyer collusion to bid up the price, and you can buy a house and then sell it to your aunt for a higher price. #politics
lots of discussion of money laundering #politics
how well does the money laundering control system work? #paper
“Zones in #zoned-storage devices must be written sequentially. This is called the sequential write constraint. Each zone in the device address space has a write pointer that keeps track of the position of the next write. Data in a zone cannot be directly overwritten: before being overwritten, the zone must first be erased using a special command (zone reset).” #SSD #Flash #SMR
Youtube #video by Snørling introducing a #zoned-storage command set
#NVMe #zoned-storage “A zoned namespace is a namespace that is associated with the Zoned Namespace Command Set. A zoned namespace is divided into a set of equally-sized zones, which are contiguous non-overlapping ranges of logical block addresses. (...) A zone type of Sequential Write Required requires the set of logical block addresses of a zone to be written sequentially.”