indieterminacy at libre.brussels indieterminacy at libre.brussels
Fri Jun 25 00:30:04 BST 2021
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Noice!
As an aside, since 1994, the UK is covered by legislation prohibiting:```"sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats."```=
https://www.vice.com/en/article/78ab5d/warp-25-autechre-anti-ep
In response, the Manchester b-boys, Autechre, released an EP, Anti,which bore the following on its sleevenotes, to circumvent the anti-rave legislation:```Warning. Lost and Djarum contain repetitive beats. We advise you not to play these tracks if the Criminal Justice Bill becomes law. Flutter has been programmed in such a way that no bars contain identical beats and can therefore be played under the proposed new law. However, we advice DJs to have a lawyer and a musicologist present at all times to confirm the non-repetitive nature of the music in the event of police harassment.```
Additionally, I recently successfully fought a local Belgian council, concerning their bureaucratic practices - which stipulated risks of imprisonment for 6 months and fines of 200 Belgian Francs (even though the Euro killed that currency ~ 20 years ago).
The reason for this? This was their procedure for a 30 EUR expense form in Lieu of me reading Green Eggs and Ham at THEIR childrens literary festival. They even relented concerning the need to provide my adress, date of birth, banking details AND written signature unencrypted via classic email (FFS) - if only I could have sent them a tshirt instead!
Kind regards,
Jonathan
June 25, 2021 12:05 AM, "Chris McGowan" <cmcgowan9990 at gmail.com> wrote:
With a GPG public key barcode on the label one could additionally implement Tshirt Layer Security
(Ill get my coat....).
Reminds me of the the Munition T-Shirt that protested the (frankly stupid) encryption export laws
in the US. (By the way, those are partially still in place...)
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http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/shirt/uk-shirt.html The munition T-shirt
tl;dr the shirt had a 3 line implementation of the RSA algorithm on it as a Perl one-liner and a
machine readable barcode representing that same program. Technically, under the law at the time
(circa 1996), that made the shirt a "munition". No, I'm not kidding and yes it was stupid. If you
tried to sell that shirt outside of the US or even simply showed it to a 'foreign national', you
could be jailed for up to 10 years and/or fined up to $1,000,000.
It would be neat to have some sort of shirt that had a machine-readable minimal gemini server (or
client) printed on it, but I think the TLS requirement would make that nearly impossible (max bytes
for a QR code is ~4k).