Caleb James DeLisle

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Don't Follow Me.
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2026-07-29 15:39:20 UTC

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Am I understanding this right that Trump is investigating the Smithsonian for "fake history" - but it's because they list politeness as a White ethno-cultural value?

2026-07-26 19:38:15 UTC

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Rocket vaccine?
What have we got the Musk Pandemic now?

2026-07-26 19:36:36 UTC

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Also since I like to offer discounts for people who want me to do something I wanted to do anyway, if the mission is to sit on the patio, drink cocktails, and not read anything related to a person by the name of "Greene", I think we can work out a really advantageous deal.

2026-07-26 19:33:35 UTC

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Oh for you I'd be more than willing to work out a block of hours in which I will not look, think, or consider anything relative yo "Greene".

2026-07-26 19:30:03 UTC

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I'm not that keen on taking stuff on from people that don't come with an introduction, but seeing as we're mutuals on here I suppose I can consider it.
In any case, we usually start things off talking about budget and goals...

2026-07-26 19:04:57 UTC

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You underestimate by ability to ignore mumbo-jumbo, maybe-mumbo-jumbo, probable-mumbo-jumbo, potential-mumbo-jumbo and so on :)

2026-07-26 18:57:52 UTC

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Never heard that one...
BTW, and only marginally related: Interesting physicist is Mike McCulloch. He has a theory which explains a few things about gravity and inertia.

2026-07-26 18:54:06 UTC

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Oh also the quantum mechanics guys have a medium which they call "The Quantum Vacuum" so there is *some* kind of medium out there.

2026-07-26 18:53:05 UTC

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I'll have to check it out... Like I said, I inferred all of this myself because I find the introduction of "time" as a physical dimension to be malarkey. I think processes play out - sometimes at reliable rates - and that's that.
Furthermore, I think Lorenz, Michelson, Morley, and others were on to something by proposing there is an aether, and I think Einstein was perhaps justified initially in arguing against it because it "added complexity", but then as he expanded his theory to handle more previously unhandled phenomena, it became more complex to avoid aether.
Or more to the point: I think aether is easier to believe in than "time".

2026-07-26 18:47:58 UTC

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Now you've got time dilation, and we positively know this is real, clocks absolutely do slow down when they're "moving faster" - but this is an absolute fuckery for Einsteinian physics because Einstein says there's no preferred frame of reference - i.e. no definition of "stationary", so how can there be a definition of "faster"...
When you pose this question, the mumbo-jumbo and hand waving comes in heavy.
But lets return to the aether hypothesis again... We posit: electrons orbiting an atom are governed by C - so when you're going forward, their forward travel is much slower, their backward travel is (equally) faster, but their side/side travel is somewhat slower (which is not cancelled out by anything).
Now we suppose that everything we can use to build a clock is somehow dependent on atomic orbit speeds. After all, atomic clocks are directly measuring atomic orbits, and it's not really that much of a stretch to suggest that every other process that runs at a stable rate is likewise stable relative to atomic orbits...
Then we have our solution: When something moves faster (relative to the aether), the atomic orbits are slowed down, meaning everything slows down.
And yet we STILL can't measure our speed in space, because when we launch a clock off in one direction and another one in another direction, we have to get them back in order to check which one lost time, and getting them back means they both have to do the inverse of their original trip - and so they both end up showing slower than our clock that we kept "stationary"

2026-07-26 18:37:49 UTC

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You have to sit with the Michelson and Morley experiment for a bit to really see how it's supposed to work, because it's a little bit inobvious.
Once you see how that's working, then if you imagine an electron going around in an orbit - if (we conjecture) that electron's speed is actually a fixed number relative to C, and furthermore we imagine that Michelson and Morley were right and there IS an aether, then you can infer that the forward/back part of the electron's orbit will be faster than the right/left part (with forward defined in terms of the direction of travel of the moving body in the aether)

2026-07-26 18:29:23 UTC

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This one is specifically interesting because I derived my own explanation for this.
The Michelson and Morley experiment was unable to detect a medium through which light passes. The idea of the experiment was to bounce light back and forth, right and left at the same time, and if the earth is moving through the medium, and light speed in that medium is constant, you should detect a speed difference between the two axes.
They detected nothing, so Einstein argued there is no medium, light is not really a wave, it's also a particle, and it's not moving through a medium, it moves through Nothing..
But there were two other issues that needed to be resolved, and they were resolved via time dilation and Lorenz Contraction (the topic of that video)...
Lorenz Contraction doesn't really make any fucking sense, except that it happens to perfectly fix the experiment so you won't see any effect... But, if you imagine for a second that every orbiting atom is a little tiny Michelson and Morley experiment, and the spinning electrons are also limited to light speed, then you can just say "it contracts because the orbit is squeezed"...
So the explanation of why the experiment always produces a null result is because every atom in the device is also doing the same experiment, and when you add up the squeezed atomic orbits and the bouncing light and everything sums to zero - because of course it does.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/cdafe0325d184982b836e6e55b493a07f4d7ee59616ed885229fd808c9fb3825.png

2026-07-25 23:39:48 UTC

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The name is confusing, they should have at least called it Freenet 2.0, but I don't care, the tech is pretty neat

2026-07-25 23:26:41 UTC

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CC: @npub1myp…lggl you might also find this neat, albeit sadly not that scalable.

2026-07-25 21:41:59 UTC

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Okay so Freenet 2.0 The Bad Parts:
It does state synchronization in 2 roundtrips. You don't send *everything* when synchronizing, but you have to send enough that the other end knows what patches it has that you don't have.
This is clearly not ideal when you're trying to synchronize (e.g.) gigabytes of tables. The best you can do is send:
* n: int32
* hash(updates[n])
* hash(updates[n-2..n])
* hash(updates[n-4..n-2])
* hash(updates[n-8..n-4])
* hash(updates[n-16..n-8])
...
But it's messy and not what Freenet was designed to handle. And just from looking at the code, I'm pretty much 100% certain that it stores contract state in memory. So if you're looking at doing a large table, you're going to be breaking it up into multiple contracts - which ends up being extremely wonky.

2026-07-25 14:37:43 UTC

@npub134r…xq57 Have you seen the new FreeNet?
You can deploy these little rust/wasm smart contracts to manage app state.
https://docs.rs/freenet-stdlib/latest/freenet_stdlib/prelude/trait.ContractInterface.html
Their chat app: https://github.com/freenet/river/blob/main/contracts/room-contract/src/lib.rs
Room state: https://github.com/freenet/river/blob/784b2084d8ab62a341d58c76573c29326afa6106/common/src/room_state.rs#L20
Looks like it just drops old messages on the floor, but most likely it's not that hard to make it keep history.
Limitations are search (because shit's encrypted) and they have no name service (but I think you could probably implement a Namecoin validator as a contract)...
Interesting because it might be a way to build a federated app without all of the fussing around with the protocol itself...

2026-07-25 12:04:30 UTC

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Same here, but I more or less trust the water here...

2026-07-25 00:19:42 UTC

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""""shouldn't"""" haha
There's no one they can trust, b/c either they're gonna pull a Snowden or they're some 80iq that's can't figure out how to do much more than abuse it to lookup their ex.

2026-07-25 00:17:21 UTC

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Remember, whenever you fedpost, you're raising the noise floor for the AI bullshit that's trying to figure out which one of us is gonna go out there and do something...

2026-07-25 00:12:42 UTC

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IDK I don't really single out Jews, I got friends that are Jews and they're stand-up guys so I'm very much in the not-all-jews camp...
I just gotta fedpost that is apparently so scary that nobody likes to talk about it

2026-07-25 00:08:47 UTC

I love how everybody's all about fedposting... But then the second I bring up The Thing, everybody gets quiet as shit.

2026-07-24 22:05:27 UTC

China's selling the famous CIA silicone face mask...
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/262943938acf4716e5468dfd9b29b390970d58b5682ec1eeab1cc92341d0da43.png

2026-07-23 21:42:13 UTC

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*slug

2026-07-23 21:40:15 UTC

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I need to shore this stuff up, I'd like to implement some form of #2 as well, but without losing the simplicity that is the "S" in Slufi.
And then another issue with #1 is that it then depends on the node announcing itself to A and also B, so that C gets the message from both A and B - unless A and B are sharing DSRs but in an untrusted way such that they double-check each others' DSRs... Which makes the DoS story a lot more complex...
There's some thinking to do here...

2026-07-23 21:24:11 UTC

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Sometimes the whole argument is:
> there is no secure way to do this without PKI
And it's like: Doesn't PKI have the exact same vulnerability?
> Theoretically yes, but PKI is generally considered to be secure.

2026-07-23 21:19:26 UTC

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A lot of cryptography breakthroughs are just about ignoring the guy who is hollering "You can't do that, you're gonna get people (cia field agents) killed!!!!!!111"

2026-07-23 21:15:13 UTC

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If you scroll to "Security Analysis" a fair bit of ink is spilled on this issue. It's THE obvious one...
Now there are two mitigations that can help here:
1. Don't trust a record until you've seen it from multiple nodes, and you can setup whatever rules you want here
2. Make nodes sign messages so that if they ever emit a fictitious record, they have no deniability
That said, the slop machine is a little bit autistic here because the situation with certificate authorities is the same if not worse - there's so many of then any everybody trusts all of them for all domains...

2026-07-22 23:49:49 UTC

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Were you in the business back when it was jEverything ?

2026-07-22 19:00:29 UTC

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> It's not all feminists, Sophie's a feminist and she doesn't hate men

2026-07-20 21:44:18 UTC

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You can do as much as you can, but eventually that name is gonna have to go out in front of someone, and then you're gonna have to decide what it means when someone types @[email protected] where instance.tld might be in one name service and might be in another.
Either you face the beast early on, or you face it later, it's Zooko's Triangle.

2026-07-20 21:39:43 UTC

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In most places it actually is like that, but eventually you're gonna dump messages out into the rest of pleroma/masto/pixelfed and it's not designed to handle that, so you need to keep names globally unique...

2026-07-20 21:37:45 UTC

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You mean like mk.magicka.org.icann ?
I don't even wanna think about what kind of errors you're gonna get when you start changing node canonical names on them...

2026-07-20 21:33:09 UTC

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TLD proliferation is not great because it raises the risk of collision if ICANN decides to make the same TLD
> Therefore, we take the convention that TLDs that are known to be ICANN should be restricted to ICANN, TLDs that are known to be of alternative DNS systems should be restricted to those, and TLDs that are not known to exist anywhere should be allowed, but only from ICANN. This rule allows that the name service of a name can be determined statically.

2026-07-20 21:26:21 UTC

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On the other hand, I'm also partial to not doing anything that doesn't *need* to be done... So I'm really not convinced...

2026-07-20 21:24:32 UTC

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I'm kind of half tempted to say we take 1 TLD for SLUFI itself, and that is THE key domain, and when you use that domain the DSR is signed... Then you can put .onion or .loki, or a bare IP address in the `server` field...

2026-07-20 21:15:02 UTC

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I think 99% of people are gonna go reg a domain on .bit or some other alt-dns, and then they'll CNAME it to the loki key, just because if you have the choice of spending 5 minutes to reg a name rather than using a key for your instance, who doesn't want that?

2026-07-20 21:11:45 UTC

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Okay, so adding .loki as an official (SLUFI) TLD is one option, but if you're thinking about moving it, it might be better to not add it as a name service but only as a transport, so like people can just throw it in a CNAME on a .bit, .pkt, .eth etc domain and then Loki is the transport.

2026-07-20 21:04:32 UTC

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Is that <key>.loki or <name on some blockchain or something>.loki ?

2026-07-20 21:02:23 UTC

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Great strategy, I was actually meaning to make that available in cjdns. So yes it should absolutely be compatible, and I guess it has its own name service then?

2026-07-20 20:51:20 UTC

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It's about the same as cheap ICANN based domains, it's cheap but not free...
`.onion` domains are a bigger concern because you can get them simply by setting up Tor nodes. If they're a problem, I expect people will fediblock *.onion

2026-07-20 19:49:42 UTC

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Okay so assuming everybody adopts everything, Mastodon included - what we end up with here is a name per-gateway...
Cynics will say "why don't you just use a boost-bot?"
My concern is more like:
Is anybody going to ACTUALLY run a node in Tor/I2P/etc if every user on that node needs to go register to get syndicated on some gateways?
Admins don't generally want to give out accounts like candy because it's a spam vector and it damages their server's reputation, so registering on a gateway is probably never going to be entirely API/seamless...
So if you need to register on gateways anyway, well, why not just make your account there... So I'm afraid that human behavior would converge on just doing what we're doing already...
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Zooko's Triangle is a bitch, no doubt about it. And to the extent we're trying to protect the global nature of a name, it's something we've got to solve.
SLUFI's answer is to make somebody else's name system do the heavy lifting, and then solve an "easier" version of Zooko's Triangle using the WoT. It's easier because at this point because the network is talking about facts, either mysite.bit exists or it doesn't, so if two nodes disagree then one is lying...

2026-07-20 18:52:13 UTC

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> The canonical identifier of @minimitra is ap://did:key....
Then I gather minimitra would have a different name depending on which gateway it reached me from (?)
Also I suppose you kind of have to register your name at each gateway because if someone wants to tunnel a name called cjd, and through my instance, that's a collision...

2026-07-20 18:10:12 UTC

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If I understand right, in your proposal everybody needs to convince one or more gateways (who have HTTPS / ICANN domains) to host for them.
I gather the identities of the gateways are transmitted when a message from the actor is transmitted. And as long as you don't change ALL of your gateways at once, the learned information remains valid for responding.
If I'm not mistaken, you cannot just tag @[email protected] and have that work, unless you've seen some message from them before which provides their gateways...
Actually on second thought, I suppose names *cannot* be @[email protected] because there's no way to verify someone isn't lying about owning instance.tld, so names need to be key-like, like names in Nostr (?)

2026-07-19 15:21:15 UTC

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That guy banned my server after I made a fool out of him by proving that "There is only one race, the human race" constitutes a denial of Darwin's theory.

2026-07-17 15:36:12 UTC

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> There is no other race than the human race.
I love this line because it actually runs contrary to Darwin's theory AT IT'S CORE.
In short, Darwin discovered that species undergo random mutations which make the more or less evolutionarily fit, and some flourish while others die out - leading to an "evolution" of the species.
Concretely this means that any given mutation "splits" a species into those which have it and those which don't. If the mutation is eugenic, then those with it compete better, if it's dysgenic then it's the other way.
If the human species is subject to mutations, then it has "splits", which means there are different "groups" (i.e. races). If it's not, then you don't believe in evolution.

2026-07-15 15:52:39 UTC

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Omnibus bill:
1. Sell the entire United States Government to Israel for $1
2. Make it illegal to stuff ballot boxes with fake votes
Now everyone who votes against it has bi-directional plausible deniability

2026-07-14 19:44:10 UTC

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The problem is everyone got confused because for like 10 years, The Customer was USAID.

2026-07-13 14:13:46 UTC

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It's not 2%, it's probably closer to 30% but you don't see them because they're spread out across different ideologies. You have to add up the wignats, libertarians, antifa left, open source developers, crypto community, etc. Internet shutdowns are a problem for ALL of them, so a lot of people would activate.
And then on regime stability, their risk is not some kind of popular uprising (those really don't exist), their risk is that someone like Elon might say "hey, you know what? I could become king" and then all of the sudden shit goes kinetic when the day before there was absolutely no sign whatsoever that anything like this might happen.
Because OF COURSE, anyone who might consider planning a coup d'etat will swear up and down that they would never never never never never even so much as daydream of such an idea - until one moment they're holding a rifle to your head...

2026-07-13 13:56:30 UTC

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They may be less risk averse than I imply, but the sheer number of fronts they would have to be willing to begin fighting on, in order to actually shut down the internet is enormous. And "shut down" is really what we're talking about, everything short of a full on nuclear option shutdown is just going to cause mass migration into the darknet.

2026-07-13 12:54:15 UTC

IT'S OUT, maybe my biggest blog post to date.
Ever since the recording industry capitulated ending the P2P War, internet freedom has been SO GOOD that research into decentralized networking has practically stalled. Throughout the Western World, you can just stand up a website and post almost anything.
And because of that, nobody has been particularly motivated to move off of centralized ICANN DNS, IPv4, and x509 Certificate Authorities.
Now, governments are thinking about changing that. And while the apocalyptic amount of force it would take to actually end the open internet is almost certainly beyond them, the force it would take to end the era of bad centralized protocols could almost be applied by accident.
https://thegoodwork.substack.com/p/the-next-internet-war
Thanks @npub14rc…0965 for the post.

2026-07-10 21:50:12 UTC

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This is awesome, may I use it in a blog post I'm working on?

2026-07-09 14:49:01 UTC

Guess it passed.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/1e37a299d998df798756c05c7725dec5452b1a7844c2887e3cd8e927266a4941.png

2026-07-05 15:49:37 UTC

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> Fuck Walmart
I'm actually okay with this.

2026-06-30 14:19:30 UTC

Chainsawing is officially my least favorite gardening activity.
The chainsaw's heavy - and if you wanna get anything done you have to swing it around like it's a butcher's knife.
But also, it's loud as fuck and you really can't stand there and ponder, catch your breath, take your time - because it's sitting there growling like "okay what next"

2026-06-30 13:50:58 UTC

Every time I see a cybertruck all I can think now is "those e-axles would fit real good in a Ford OBS...

2026-06-26 14:14:47 UTC

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As you should.
The internet was *created* as a surveillance mechanism, it's highly dystopian in it's conception.
Our only hope as little people is to break it free of those who initially conceived it and push for it to become its own sovereign entity.
Decentralized social media IS a form of neural network, so shitposting IS a form of participation in a global consensus-building machine.

2026-06-26 14:03:08 UTC

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Beyond just abandoning computers, if you're trying to keep secrets you can improve your odds by putting most of your computing behind a firewall and blocking anything that isn't explicitly what that stuff is supposed to be doing.
The narrower the definition of what information is allowed, the better.
If you can completely airgap your main systems (cut them off from internet), that's even better. But even airgapping is not perfect, Stuxnet spread as a virus in order to get onto USB sticks that were plugged into Iranian (airgapped) computers and then hack them.
But if you're not as high profile as a nuclear program, airgapping works pretty well...
At the end of the day, computers really don't keep secrets all that well. But there's a way to leverage that - instead of being the one trying to keep secrets, it's better to be the one who is trying to expose the other guy's secrets. Computers love to leak, so if you like leaks then you're on the right side of technological history...

2026-06-26 13:52:54 UTC

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Unfortunately, CPU backdoors and shit are way way harder to work around. And yes, that's all completely real. People who really need to keep stuff private use pen and paper ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

2026-06-08 08:07:01 UTC

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I'LL TAKE IT
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2026-06-08 08:02:16 UTC

Fresh meme template
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2026-06-03 11:14:14 UTC

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I once used an air pump at a gas station, and it had BAR, and my tires specified max pressure in PSI and MPA.
CONGRATULATIONS AT SOMEHOW BEING WORSE THAN THE AMERICAN SYSTEM

2026-06-03 11:11:05 UTC

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> per square meter
Also impossible to reason about because nobody uses hydraulic or pneumatic pistons that are >1 square meter of area.
KG per cm2 is human scale, but of course they loathe to use anything human scale.
The French revolutionaries who defined the metric system clearly never built anything.

2026-06-03 08:14:17 UTC

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KW per cm2 would be fine. I know intuitively what is an inch, a pound, a KG and a cm, but I do not know what is normal atmospheric pressure (except I know as a trivia question that it's 15ish PSI). It's like a fish doesn't know what it is to be wet.
Pressure matters when it pushes on something, so you want to know what will be the force based on the size of the something...

2026-06-03 08:12:23 UTC

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If KG-force existed I'd use it, but newtons? Wtf is a newton? I know what a kilo is because it's a bag of flour, but IDK WTF is a newton.

2026-06-02 23:02:12 UTC

I'm not against the metric system, but there's limits.
I'm not futzing around with megapascals and newton-meters.
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2026-05-26 21:12:13 UTC

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Cattle farming is pretty good for the land...

2026-05-26 21:06:59 UTC

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A thing about farmland is you don't need it until you do, and if you do need it and don't have it, you starve. So programs like the ethanol fuel regulation create artificial demand for farmland Just In Case of catastrophe later on...

2026-05-26 20:46:10 UTC

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The efficiency difference is insane as well.
1 acre of corn = 500 gallons per year give or take
1 acre of solar = 300,000 kwh/acre/year.
Even just the chemical energy of ethanol is 22kwh/gallon so that's 11,000 kwh - i.e. 1/30th the energy.
But when you consider the poor efficiency of internal combustion, it's even worse. An average car might get 30mpg, but an average electric has 300 miles of range on a 100kwh battery - so 3 miles per kwh.
Welp, now 1 acre of corn = 15,000 miles
1 acre of panels = 900,000 miles...
However, I still think solar should prefer dual-use property (commercial, parking lots, etc), and then after that, marginal land, and only after that, farmland.

2026-05-26 17:54:24 UTC

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Parking lots are an insanely obvious application for solar. Putting them in fields rather than commercial property roofs and parking lots is just laziness.
ESPECIALLY in places where snow is rare-to-nonexistent.

2026-05-26 17:13:57 UTC

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So what you're saying is that Reddit is all bots
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/c4bace11a5fde256e8477dcd06df03a045713bc7ae558ce36064d66f0cb06056.png

2026-05-25 20:29:36 UTC

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As long as people keep falling for it, it'll keep coming...
I thought it was just good for a laugh, but checking back 6 hours later and replies are still rolling in, it's like...
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/ebab4f5330b3c1b41bb9b3b34b06af0122f683288977a0403e38867a54cedb1c.mp4

2026-05-25 20:26:24 UTC

Can't believe the "100% of males" post is still drawing in replies.
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2026-05-23 21:59:41 UTC

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People add a second x when they add the 'ed' suffix. I'm not the academie français for English so I'm not gonna weigh in on whether it's right or wrong, but it is something people tend to do...

2026-05-23 21:31:27 UTC

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Someone I used to know once said: When I die, I want people to look over my grave and say "that guy owed me a lot of money"

2026-05-22 07:36:32 UTC

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If you say so...
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2026-05-22 05:31:17 UTC

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> Hydrogen ICE
H2 tanks cost 7$/kWh
Batteries cost 50$/kWh
Sodium batteries are predicted to hit 20$/kWh
New higher density sodium batteries might be expected to hit 14$/kWh
So it's very unlikely that batteries will remain more expensive than tanks for another decade - and that's why nobody is investing seriously in H2 technology.
It's pretty much either battery, or diesel (and wait for battery to improve)
> except for atomic batteries
Power output on those is trash so they're really only useful for niche stuff like pacemakers.

2026-05-21 09:25:46 UTC

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The push for EVs (at least in Europe and Asia) is that governments are sick of oil being used as geopolitical leverage by the US.
As you said, you'd get a horse... There are people who will do that, but it's pretty marginal. Most people care about cost and convenience, and that's it.

2026-05-21 07:16:36 UTC

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> Needless romantization of flawed, outdated technology we've grown past
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/d14fbdd1386de8e6d039b9a74d0e172c0876340f3d4324ac267fbb630b8253f5.apple_vs_samsung

2026-05-21 06:09:52 UTC

With the evolution of batteries, it looks as though internal combustion engines will be relegated to some pretty narrow niches - if not supplanted entirely.
But there's something about them that EVs can never really replace, and it doesn't seem to even have a name. Internal Combustion Engines are "alive" in a way that electric motors can never be.
> That's just how you perceive it, human
Don't care. It's our world, technology should exist on our terms.
Even if electric motors and batteries win every race, (video) is something they can never really do (unless through a pathetic bunch of fake technological theater).
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2026-05-19 16:07:16 UTC

Made some Ethernet cables today to clean up my embedded lab. One white jumper because the blue finally ran out.
Bottom shelf is modems that are for automated testing:
* Zyxel PMG5617GA (EN7526G chip) Fiber
* SmartFiber XP8421-B (EN7526G chip) Fiber
* Zyxel EX3301-T0 (EN7516 chip) Router only
* Nokia G-240G-E (EN7526G chip) Fiber
* ChinaMobile GS3101 (EN7526F chip) Fiber
* TpLink Archer VR1200V (v2) (EN7513G chip) DSL
And off to the side, another ChinaMobile GS3101 which I'll be sending to someone after I install OpenWrt on it.
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2026-05-19 10:48:15 UTC

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Impressive that he was able to find a worse use of resources than maintaining a car.

2026-05-19 08:22:50 UTC

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When you build a community off-grid, one of the biggest cost drivers is energy.
Energy is non-negotiable, it is THE core element of any country/city/group of people. If the settlement is in a normal populated location, then you can use solar panels with supplementary wood-gas based electric generation in winter.
If the settlement is in the arctic, the sun is absent for nearly half the year and if there are forests, they are slow growing. So realistically you have three options: Locate on top of a gas well, locate on top of volcanic geothermal, or develop nuclear energy.
Energy is something you can never have enough of.
If you're powering with solar and wood-gas, you want to dig a pool (with insulated liner and lid) for storing thermal energy. In the summer when your solar panels are over-producing, you'll be running air source heat pumps to push heat from the (warm) outside air into the pool water. The pool insulation will trap the heat until winter, when power is scarce. You then heat buildings and hot water using "ground source" heat pumps which, rather than cycling liquid through the ground, instead draw from the pool - therefore they are extremely efficient.
An olympic size swimming pool holds 2.5 million liters of water, water energy storage is 1.16 watt-hours per degree C, so ranging between 0C and 40C (104F) you can store 116,000 kWh of energy - the same as 11,000 liters (3,000 gallons) of heating oil.
You definitely don't want any gas stoves or appliances. You need electricity, so solve electricity 100% and then use only that.

2026-05-19 06:01:20 UTC

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A big open question when you talk about building an intentional community in an already populated area, is how involved do you want to be in your local government?
If you have no involvement at all, then you risk regulatory attack. Deep involvement allows you to most likely take control - but that introduces a different problem because now you are likely to draw the hatred of the outside community - who may eventually manage to wrestle control away from you, and will end up banning you entirely.
Libertarians in New Hampshire and Jews in the US are a bit in this tiger-by-the-tail scenario where they actually have pretty much seized control, but the rest of the population is irate enough that if they ever lose it they're probably going to be expelled en masse.
I think the right answer is to aim for control - but also to *extend* the advanced political decision making system to members of the outside community, roughly by going around like Jehovahs' Witnesses and knocking on doors - but with the mission of learning their needs, wants and feelings, to help that person feel understood, and integrate their needs into the master plan. In the ideal case, you gain another voter who is not part of the commune.

2026-05-19 04:27:03 UTC

Off Grid Settlement Thread #3
Previous threads on the topic:
1. https://pkteerium.xyz/@cjd/posts/B5quLquZV0WLkroUYC
2. https://pkteerium.xyz/@cjd/posts/B5rqILIyLigUCaG1oW
There are two general lines of thinking:
One is to go far far out (e.g. into the arctic) and use distance to separate from broken culture (and have a lot of legal/regulatory autonomy because the nearest cop is 1000 miles away).
The other is to just create a community anywhere but simply isolate the culture. Amish and Hasidic Jews have shown that this does work.
Going far out creates urgency to solve certain problems which staying close to "civilization" does not. But staying close is generally a lot easier.
One could fairly ask "why re-invent the Amish?" and the Amish have really figured this out. But what the Amish have not figured out (and don't seem interested in) is how to on-board anyone else. So they're all set but the rest of us are still screwed.
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One interesting question is how a settlement should interface with the government. If most of the people living there are not making any formal income, there's no reason not to sign everyone in the settlement up for SNAP and Section8. The income to the settlement organization would be immense.
I think one thing the Amish got very right is that car ownership creates more problems than it solves. It's hard to tell everybody that they need to sell their car on day 1, but building a walkable community in a place with river access only will help move people away from using their car. Also, river access only puts a limit on people coming in to snoop around and potentially make trouble.
Personal electronics (phones, computers, TVs) PROBABLY need to simply be forbidden on the location. Designated office areas may be appropriate for computer usage, but phones are just a short road to slop-scrolling...
In place of TV and such, there should be a LOT of communal rituals and activities which take place.
A communal currency is practically obligatory, and I think that (to the extent possible) there should be no clear exchange rate. If there's a store on site selling food for SNAP EBT, that food would obviously need to be priced in dollars, but things like ferry boat transport, hot meals, and a haircut at the community barber would better be offered exclusively in the community currency.
Something to avoid is people bringing drugs and goyslop from outside of the community and selling it to community members. Making the community currency something that cannot easily be exchanged, is a feature.
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IDEALLY, one would encourage a different language inside of the community. Being bilingual is a super-power because you are able to switch between the Big Toxic Culture language, and the Family / Community Language which creates a clear distinction between talking to Safe People and talking to strangers (probably having toxic culture).
There's a possibility that China would be willing to co-sponsor such a community project if the language chosen for the community was actually Chinese.
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That's all I've got for now...
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2026-05-18 13:53:15 UTC

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> The rise of rapid cultural shift coincides with the rise of high-school
> Most cultural shifts are driven by youth movements
> Before high-school, youth would mingle with older people and assimilate culture from the older generation

2026-05-18 13:47:11 UTC

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> The thing that most people think is the most precious thing they have,
> which is their sense of morality that they inherited from their culture
> is exactly the thing that you can't trust.
> And that's a really big ask for most people.

2026-05-18 13:30:42 UTC

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The problem as defined is that culture is drifting off a cliff - evidenced by the falling birth rate, but also many other things. There's one big mono-culture and it's failing.
> One idea would be to break global communication
> Just have each county have their own religion and so on, and they can trade but they cannot talk with the rest of the world
> That would be a plausible route, but nobody likes this.

2026-05-18 13:22:26 UTC

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> The word "multiculturalism" is often said with positive affect but the culture they're talking about is clothes, food, holidays etc.
> shallow culture
> But if you talk about ideas toward democracy, gender equality, war, medical experiments ... people HATE variety of culture.
This is a little bit out of date already - it's a professor saying it - but it's still a valid point, all the people who "want multiculturalism" don't actually want it...
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2026-05-18 13:01:54 UTC

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vKpPrAgLekKE

2026-05-17 20:34:32 UTC

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Put a couple of these on top of the tires, car burns down. Europeans been doing this for decades.
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2026-05-16 12:53:35 UTC

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Never needed python for anything...
> Wanna write a script? Bash
> Need it to go faster? Nodejs
> Need it to go really fast? C
> Wanna feel cute and girly? Rust
Where does python fit in? When you want something abysmally slow that breaks system packages?

2026-05-16 12:42:37 UTC

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All my shit's old enough the exploit doesn't work because it doesn't have python3
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2026-05-16 12:40:59 UTC

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Think of all the time you could have been shit-posting if your security strategy was Pray Noone Ever Gets Shell.

2026-05-15 12:50:17 UTC

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Nothing like a push-to-prod Friday to kick off the no-phone weekend.

2026-05-12 22:18:38 UTC

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Very cool!
That said, big mistake there, bed must be separate from the body so you can swap it out for 3rd party pic related
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2026-05-12 22:15:17 UTC

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No, link?

2026-05-12 22:11:13 UTC

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I'm so ready for this future, I want like a Jeep CJ-5 with no screens and nothing that's going to wear out for a million miles.
I can't wait for everything that anyone wants to be showing up on Aliexpress...

2026-05-12 21:57:35 UTC

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Yeah it makes sense, and it's REALLY GOOD NEWS for us, because there's no other part in a car that's particularly hard to make.
So car making is about to become very easy, which means customers will have a lot of choice, and car companies who aren't fanatical about what their customers soon won't have any.

2026-05-12 21:53:24 UTC

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Unless they think they can catch lightning in a bottle on the battery side and use it to establish an auto monopoly, but the battery business is a brutal mistress, so I don't think they're going to be nearly as successful as they might imagine.
Tesla is now doing deals with CATL...

2026-05-12 21:44:02 UTC

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Yeah but de-coupling and cut-throat competition will give us very good prices and very fast evolution...