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Première série de NFT : Les cryptocats de Superponey. 8 oeuvres. 😼😼😼 #nft #nftart #cryptoart #cryptocat #opensea #collection #superponey https://opensea.io/collection/cryptocatssuperponey https://www.instagram.com/p/CUQ0fXboqSB/?utm_medium=tumblr
Решил накурить кота. А что ещё делать ?😂🤷♂️ #cryptocat (at НАША ДАЧА / Nasha Dacha)
Human, why iz you so obsessed with this strange artifact? 🐱 📷 TonyMoon . . . #cryptocat #miningrig #monero #theminest #gpumining #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #ethereum #cryptocat #cryptomining
“For nights the whole town lived in fear, and although we doubled the police-guards we had difficulty in getting the men to go on duty. But I have seen those same men rout a lion out of a bush-patch with sticks! They swore that this beast was not a lion, nor a leopard, but a Mngwa." (Captain William Hitchens) A common trait of mystery big cats, besides their general elusiveness, seems to be their general aggressivity towards humans. The “strange one”, the Mngwa of Tanzania, makes no exception. Local songs about the creature date back to the 12th century, but the first European hunters and settlers dismissed them as old wives’ tales and cock-and-bull stories until the numbers of reports grew from the 1890s to the 1920s and Cpt Hitchens, one of the local colonial authorities, described one badly mauled victim of the Mngwa clutching tufts of grey hair in his hands. Hunting parties organised to run the Mngwa to ground usually ended up like the clichés from a story by Rice Burroughs or Rider Haggard. Either the tracks found petered out in the mountains or the native bearers and even seasoned lion hunters at some point simply refused to follow up into the territory supposed to be roamed by the “strange one” and thus, the Mngwa’s existence remains a mystery to this day. Described as being as big as a donkey and as grey with brindled fur, the Nunda, as it is sometimes called, clearly stands out from the rest of the African big cats. Speculations about what it might actually be vary accordingly, but the persistence of the tales over almost a millennium more or less rule out the possibility of a occasionally occurring mutation of a lion or a leopard. A giant variant of the rare African golden cat has been assumed and certainly the most exiting explanation is the possibility of a surviving small population of the Pleistocene panthera crassidens. Panthera crassidens was something along the lines of an overgrown leopard with the jaws reminiscent of that of a tiger. However, an unknown sub-species of the tiger living hidden in Africa has been frequently brought into play as well. Outside of Africa, reports of so-called Blue or Maltese Tigers with bluish fur and dark grey stripes have been recorded from East Asia, but who knows, maybe the remote areas of Tanzania are its haunt and not China or Burma? Whatever may be the case, the “strange one” found a home in the open-air-enclosure of the #wunderkammer in the guise of a blue tiger, as a reminiscence of old tales of adventure from Africa and a reminder that these stories still exist, unexplained to the days, to be wondered and marvelled at. Accordingly, artists’s imagination of blue tigers are depicted above, found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_tiger, looking quite similar to the Mngwa’s supposed appearance. And more about the Mngwa can be found on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mngwa
“Oh, now and then you will hear grown-ups say, 'Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots?' I don't think even grown-ups would keep on saying such a silly thing if the Leopard and the Ethiopian hadn't done it once—do you? But they will never do it again, Best Beloved. They are quite contented as they are.“ (Rudyard Kipling “How the Leopard Got His Spots“) It was scene quite out of an adventure novel that took place on the Kinangop Plateau north of Nairobi in British Kenya, not far from the Wanjohi Valley and Idina Sackville’s scandalous Happy Valley Set in 1923. In the drizzling rain, at an elevation of 11,500’ on the edge of the mountain forest, a gentleman with the distinctive name of George Hamilton-Snowball, sighted two big cats, rather large and somewhat soggy leopards with tawny fur. Turning to his Kikuyu guide to get his rifle, he heard the man whisper: ”Marozi! Marozi!” While pushing off the safety catch of his gun and taking aim, the two felines melted into the forest, but by then, Hamilton-Snowball’s whole crew of bearers and guides murmured the word. Asking for an explanation, the Kikuyu answered they were not lion, “simba" in Swahili or “muruthi” in his own language. Muruthi would never venture up high into the forests of the Kinangop. But marozi lived there, larger than “ngari”, the leopard, but spotted and smaller than muruthi. A spotted lion. Marozi. Sightings of the Kenyan spotted lion have been recorded since 1903 in the region of the Aberdare Mountains, always in comparatively high altitudes and with the felines always in pairs. A local farmer, Michael Trent succeeded in 1931 where Hamilton-Snowball failed roughly ten years before. He managed to shoot a marozi duo at 10,000’ in the Aberdares, one male, one female. The skin of the male ended up in London’s Natural History Museum and described as follows: “"It is a male, measuring approximately: - head and body 5ft. 101/2 in., tail, without terminal hairs of the tuft, 2 ft. 9 in., making a total of about 8 ft. 8 in. This is of course small for adult East African lions, of which the dressed skins may surpass 10 ft. over all. From its size I guessed it to be about three years old, a year or more short of full size. There is nothing particularly noticeable in its mane, which is small and, except on the cheeks, consists of a mixture of tawny, grey and black hairs, the longest up to about 5 in. in length. ... the peculiarity of the skin lies in the distinctness of the pattern of spots, consisting of large "jaguarine" rosettes arranged in obliquely vertical lines and extending over the flanks, shoulders and thighs up to the darker spinal area where they disappear. They are irregular in size and shape, the largest measuring 85 by 45 or 65 by 65 mm in diameter. Their general hue is pale greyish-brown, with slightly darkened centres, but at the periphery they are thrown into relief by the paler tint of the spaces between them. On the pale cream-buff belly, the solid richer buff spots stand out tolerably clearly. The legs are covered with solid spots, more distinct than the rosettes of the flanks, and on the hind legs they are more scattered and a deeper, more smoky grey tint than on the fore legs.“ The last encounters with marozis took place a couple of years before Kenya’s independence in 1963, but speculations about the nature of the spotted lions have been made well into the 21th century. From dismissing their existence completely as Romantic tall tales from a bygone colonial era, to a rather simple genetic aberration that let lions retain their juvenile spots into adulthood and the rather plain explanation that the marozi were just adolescent lions. Another explanation might be a natural hybridisation between lions and leopards. Crossbreeding of the two felid species has been carried out since the late 19th century, resulting in hybrids called leopons, looking somewhat like the description of the marozi. And, of course, there is always the possibility that marozi, with its unique habit of hunting in pairs, its distinct living environment and size, is what the locals think it is – a yet undiscovered species. In any case, the marozi is naturally very welcome at the open-air enclosure of the #wunderkammer where it can contemplate its own existence and identity in conditions appropriate for the species at its own leisure. Depicted below is a picture of a spotted lion, probably an adolescent that has retained its juvenile spots, but looking quite like a marozi – interestingly enough, the picture was allegedly taken at Nakuru, close to the foothills of the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya. The image was found on: http://passion-des-felins.forum-actif.net/t367p15-le-lion-tachete-du-kenya-ou-marozi And more on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marozi
“That is the only way I ever heard of true research going. I asked a question, devised some method of obtaining an answer, and got — a fresh question. Was this possible or that possible? You cannot imagine what this means to an investigator, what an intellectual passion grows upon him! You cannot imagine the strange, colourless delight of these intellectual desires!“ (H.G. Wells, “The Island of Dr Moreau”) It was probably in the spirit of Pliny the Elder and his “ex africa semper aliquid novi", always something new out of Africa, that the hence unknown species of big cats exhibited in the lion house of the Zoological Gardens in London was presented as a Congolese Spotted Lion. And indeed, the beast looked vaguely like a lion, had spots and was considerably larger than an African leopard. The cat was out of the bag pretty soon though when it became clear that the large feline was certainly not an own species or subspecies but a hybrid between a lion and a leopard. Then, it was claimed, it was still a sensation, because it must have been a previously unknown occurrence of natural hybridisation, since the cat was captured in the wild in the Congo. Hybrid crosses between the four big cats and pumas had already been bred in captivity since mid-19th century, chiefly by Karl Hagenbeck at the Hamburg Thierpark, but nobody had heard of interspecies mating of big cats in the wild. Actually, the Congolese Spotted Lion came from Chicago. And there were three of them. However, the hybrid cats were a bit of a sensation. Usually, the offspring of cross-breeds is sterile but some females are fertile. The grandparents of the Congolese Spotted Lions were what is today called jaguleps, a jaguar-leopard hybrid from Lincoln Park Zoo. And one of them actually mated with a lioness, producing so-called lijaguleps, second-generation hybrids, a very rare occurrence to this day. One of them found his way to London as the Spotted Lion from the Congo and toured the UK after its display in London and made it to Glasgow where it was killed by a whole blood lion from a neighbouring cage, probably jealous of all the attention the lijagulep received. The hybrid’s skin went on sale afterwards and might have ended up on display at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle in Paris, while the lijagulep now roams the open-air enclosure of the #wunderkammer Depicted above are
An image of a Jaglion found on:
https://www.walldevil.com/18640-animals-congolese-spotted-lion-grass-lions-nature-paws.html
the photo of the jaglion “Tsunami”, a lion-jaguar hybrid, one of the very few that are still alive, from the Bear Creek Exotic Wildlife Sanctuary in Ontario, Canada – its story and that of its black sibling can be found here: http://www.bearcreeksanctuary.com/jaglions.htm while the photo itself was found on: http://naturepunk.tumblr.com/post/76381896286/animalworld-jaglion-jaguar-lion-cross
… and a stuffed jaglion from the Lionel Rothschild Natural History Museum at Tring
and more about the Congolese Spotted Lion on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congolese_Spotted_Lion
Lo que debes saber sobre el cierre de Cryptocat
Hace unos días, específicamente el 19 de febrero, en la página web del proyecto apareció la publicación sobre el cierre de la aplicación y los motivos que llevaban a su desarrollador Nadim Kobeissi a hacerlo. Desde ese momento los rumores y teorías del por qué cerrar de esa forma comenzaron a surgir.
Lo cierto es que no es difícil de entender y de hecho puede resultar en una buena noticia, no solamente para el proyecto sino para la comunidad entera la nueva etapa en la que se encamina Cryptocat.
Imagen: crypto.cat
Los antecedentes
Cryptocat si no lo conocen es una aplicación de conversación que generaba salas de chat individuales o grupales (como aquellas que se usaban hace un par de años en los foros ) pero con el plus de que éstas comunicaciones estaban encriptadas gracias a un complemento que se instalaba en el navegador. Su uso era realmente sencillo y sin mucha complicación para quien decidiera hacer uso de la herramienta. Además, después de una serie de pruebas la aplicación salió de la web y migró también a los móviles y comenzó a tener soporte para sistemas Android y iPhone.
El comunicado
En la página web del proyecto Nadim, líder de desarrollo de Cryptocat, hacía pública la decisión de cerrar temporalmente el proyecto ya que además de enfocar tiempo a otros proyectos, también era hora de darle una nueva vida al software para un relanzamiento pronto.
Lo cierto es que Cryptocat aunque sencillo, no era un proyecto fácil para el equipo de desarrollo, ya que todo está evolucionando en cuanto a la seguridad digital y el soporte que tenía en navegadores ahora requiere de mayores esfuerzos para seguir funcionando; en móviles se logró tener una versión estable para equipos Android que fuera compatible con navegador pero en el sistema iPhone no se tuvo la misma suerte ya que la aplicación constantemente fallaba. Todo esto solamente habla de la necesidad de inversión constante, tiempo para mantenimiento y mejoras de la aplicación, lo cual no es mala idea pero igualmente requiere de compromiso con el proyecto y ahora mismo como su desarrollador dice no era posible hacerlo de la forma que él mismo quiere también, se debe entender que el proyecto más allá de algunas rondas de financiamiento obtenidas en distintos momentos de su historia, no contaba con manutención que le permitiera crecer hacia donde el equipo tenía planeado.
Los siguientes pasos
Tal vez es exagerado pensar que se pierde una herramienta de comunicaciones seguras, por el contrario, el equipo de Cryptocat ahora está replanteando soluciones creativas a nuevas necesidades que los usuarios piden de su software, hacia el futuro Nadim y quien se involucre en el proyecto prometen volver con una nueva versión de la plataforma con funcionalidad es adicionales y un nuevo modelo de navegación de cara al usuario.
Con esta nueva etapa, el equipo de desarrollo puede darse un tiempo para replantear una nueva estrategia de trabajo y pensar en nuevas funcionalidades que ofrecer a los usuarios. Desde hace algunos días después del anuncio, la cuenta de twitter de cryptocat está haciendo breves anuncios sobre cómo se replantean la nueva versión del criptogato.
New Cryptocat in native desktop client glory. Expect things to look very different by release, but barebones works. pic.twitter.com/Vf8fZngw7E
— Nadim Kobeissi (@kaepora) 22 de febrero de 2016
Por ahora, lo siguiente para los usuarios es buscar un sustituto a Cryptocat en lo que el proyecto resurge. Algunas opciones dispones son Signal que es una aplicación de teléfono para conversaciones (y llamadas VoIP) cifradas, otra opción es Chat Secure que desde hace un par de años permite a usuarios tener conversaciones seguras entre dispositivos móviles y de escritorio gracias al uso de protocolos estándar y por último, también está disponible Surespot que tiene su versión para Android y iPhone y habilita canales de cifrado para tener conversaciones privadas.
Por ahora lo más importante a saber es que nuevas herramientas se están repensando para mejorar en varias direcciones. Mejores y más sencillos productos vendrán y las y los usuarios podrán seguir eligiendo qué canal o herramienta usar sin descuidar su privacidad.
Ahora ya sabes qué hacer y cómo protegerte, además de seguir estos pasos comparte con tus amigos y familiares la información. La seguridad es una cultura.
