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2026-08-27 18:31:08 CEST

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If a company doesn't have the budget to pay a human to talk to people, you can bet they don't have the budget to hire anyone either.

2026-08-26 18:11:34 CEST

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Well, in defense of Trump voters, a lot of the stuff that he campaigned on was actually not dumb. DOGE, no wars, tariffs, rebuilding American industry... This is leaning in a direction which has worked very well in the past.
The problem is that he lied.
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2026-08-26 18:05:04 CEST

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Also: You gotta vote for /ourguy/ who is gonna do <other thing that's also retarded> so we can Own The Libs.
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2026-08-26 15:29:11 CEST

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The problem is its really hard to know what's actually going on, and everyone in the world wants you to believe something so they're gonna Paint A Narrative... And those narratives are typically not worth the electrons they're written with.
I imagine there's probably a lot of Russian oil going to China right now, but whatever is happening the Shanghai oil futures market doesn't seem to be too freaked out and we're not getting reports of actual gas lines or rationing in China, so I don't see any reason to think these Narratives are anything more than Narratives...

2026-08-26 15:12:43 CEST

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Well anything can be deceiving, but in general I'm far more inclined to trust someone making a verifiable statement like "this is what Chinese people are paying", as opposed to journo-narrative that nobody can really know for sure.

2026-08-26 01:56:01 CEST

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Imagine the Greatest thing you post in your entire influencer career, and then you just take it down.
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2026-08-25 09:24:37 CEST

Asianometry did a lecture on solid state transformers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oytqz3zuB7w
I like his lectures, they're kind of the opposite of the classical YT slop.

2026-08-23 12:55:40 CEST

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Compared to where? Certainly you're not gonna suggest the US is better...

2026-08-23 02:57:36 CEST

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s/Also//

2026-08-23 02:14:00 CEST

The EU wants to get to a point of peace with Russia because they know that America is not going to continue to bankroll this war, and they can't afford it.
Unfortunately for them, Russia has them bent over a barrel, so their demands are gonna be rich.
The US is tapped out, so no help to come from that hemisphere.
The only hope for the EU is that China will come in with some kind of a bailout program because they don't want to see Russia conquer Europe and then be able to form a Eurasian hegemony that will then proceed to roll China...
But bailout without restructuring is just extending the bad practices, and Europe needs to cut spending. Unfortunately "stop spending money you don't have" is never a vote-winner, so herein lies a challenge.
But in that regard, Europe has a really surprising opportunity because the EU and ECB are kind of autocratic, so if China will underwrite the Euro, they can be given partial control over monetary policy, so that the failures will be the bad banks rather than the entire currency.
But the problem that remains is the individual countries. The French and Italians don't understand financial markets, they understand that you vote for presidents who do or don't give you nice stuff. The reality is more like "Vote for whoever you want, but if they are not financially sound, you get flogged by the bond market".
It's like the scene in Indiana Jones: Voters decide which cup to drink from, and the bond market says whether they chose wisely, or not.
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2026-08-23 00:35:04 CEST

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2008
9/11
Kennedy
1913
The US has died so many times...

2026-08-21 22:01:56 CEST

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> Every country that has backed its money by gold collapsed or was conquered.
I think we can agree that a country which lasts 1000 years is considered a success, and one that lasts 10 years isn't.
> Germany's growth trajectory had never been seen before.
I'll grant you that the recovery was impressive, and it isn't attributable to US capital flows because those dried up in 1931.
But on the other side of things, survivability is paramount. It's very well known that any idiot can make far more money in the stock market than Warran Buffet - it's just that to do this you must take risks that WILL bankrupt you in the next once-per-decade crash.
Same thing with families - you can be a billionaire, but if you don't continue the bloodline then your family dies with you...
Anyway, long rambling way of getting back to my same point: A country which lasts 1000 years is considered a success, and one that lasts 10 years isn't.

2026-08-21 20:33:59 CEST

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Gold price manipulation is a real issue, but, the only way we've ever gotten a thousand year empire is by adopting it as money.
Every single time in history that anyone has endeavored to create a government controlled currency, they always eventually printed it to worthlessness and destroyed their nation in the process.
I'm a radical utilitarian, in that I believe that every policy that leads to a thousand year empire is by definition good, and every policy that leads to a 10 year flash in the pan is by definition bad. And I'm really not inclined to entertain the "we would have won but ..." stories. Every single loser in history has a story like that, just ask GWOT veterans about how they were gonna beat the Taliban (but didn't)...
Now if the entirety of history was just misery and enslavement forever, and the only one glimmer of hope was the Nazi Party, then I would grant you that it's the best we have... BUT, there are multitudinous examples of fabulous successes, Byzantium being just one of them.

2026-08-21 19:53:20 CEST

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Well, I guess my opinion on this is pretty well known by now...
1. The 3rd reich did not actually adopt hard money, so their financial system was still dependent on a pinky-swear
2. They just didn't last long enough to know if their financial/political system was sound.
So in my opinion, the Byzantine Empire is a far better example - wherein Emperor Constantin stabilized the Solidus at 4.45 grams of gold - and managed to establish a literal thousand year empire.
And Byzantine treatment of Jews was not to exterminate, nor even to expel, but rather to regulate them.

2026-08-20 22:30:12 CEST

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I always get a huge kick out of communists citing "Paradox of Tolerance", because that's a footnote in a book which spends like 80% of its time just absolutely railing on communists.
So basically if they'd read it, they'd know well enough not to cite it.

2026-08-20 20:04:50 CEST

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I used to ask kind of oddball stuff that isn't really anything anyone practices for, but if you know your stuff you know it.
e.g. What are the worst things about $language ?
Any real programmer immediately breaks into a rant without even thinking about it.

2026-08-20 19:58:42 CEST

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Anyway, what you can do is pull them in an interview and have them talk you through their solution. If it was jee pee tee, you're gonna know it.

2026-08-20 19:56:24 CEST

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That'll strip out the stupid ones, the more clever ones are gonna "hey can you help me with a problem, I need to write a function that ..... and ......." after reading it...

2026-08-20 19:52:58 CEST

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> slavik person name
> take home problem solution is amazin
Classic, Russians are fantastic at math.
That said, I hope your take home problem is GPT resistant because that's gonna be everyone's first instinct these days...

2026-08-20 19:46:22 CEST

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Unless you're in a special niche (e.g. fringe/experimental cancer treatment), the whole profession is gonna get rolled by AI because it's all very mechanical, you cross-reference symptoms to what the diagnostic books say and you proscribe the drug that is The Accepted Thing for these symptoms. You're not supposed to be smart, because being smart risks being second-guessed in a malpractice suit. Therefore you're far better off being an electrician.

2026-08-20 15:20:08 CEST

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OpenWrt and Linux now both have bots which do just that.

2026-08-20 09:29:55 CEST

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They're definitely able to have new ideas. I'm often asking questions that I'm pretty confident nobody else in the world ever asks, and they're surprisingly effective at reasoning their way to a line of thinking that serves the question well...
It wouldn't surprise me at all if they were solving real unsolved problems...

2026-08-20 02:46:01 CEST

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I'm not motivated enough to *really* care.
I know how the US legal system works, all political power grows from the barrel of a gun, and all of the legalese mumbo-jumbi is back-filled after the fact to make it look sorta kinda legitimate.
SovCits (bless their little hearts) are trying to square the reality in front of them with the words in the Constitution.
If it's ever worked, it's because judges are suffering from the same cognitive dissonance that the SovCits are...

2026-08-20 02:05:37 CEST

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> outcome will 100% depend on the judge and their mood in that moment
Is this not a re-statement of what I said?
> SovCit antics *sometimes* work, but rarely and unreliably

2026-08-18 14:51:57 CEST

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They're probably going to be *highly* effective because games and aviation both require quick thinking and coordination.
However, I'm sure at some point someone is gonna say nigger on frequency. It's just unavoidable.

2026-08-17 21:05:28 CEST

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Oh boy...
US Central Bank, immediately followed by WW1 (guess who funded that)
Then Russian communist revolution, then WW2, hundred of millions killed.
Of of "The Belle Epoque" (look it up), beginning of the 20th century misery hellscape that we still have not yet climbed out of...

2026-08-17 20:29:20 CEST

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Well, on the other hand, trillions of dollars and the smartest minds is why we can even talk about that issue. Without it, you and I would be stuck in our own little bubble choosing either to watch TV or not participate in society at all... Never forget that the world before the internet is what made the boomers.

2026-08-17 16:20:09 CEST

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> graphic interfaces were an innovation
Ehh, the Mother of All Demos was in 1968, and you could make the argument that everything was invented then and there...
But then you could also say that flying cars were invented by the writers of The Jetsons, because they envisioned them. Of course hexacopter control drivers and battery technology to make them work didn't come until about 60 years later, but that's just Boring Engineering...
At some point you have to make the difference between what is fantasizing and what is actually inventing... The idea of holding a rock to your ear and talking to someone far away is (AFAIK) pretty ancient. Screens are pre-supposed by the mythology of "crystal balls". Since the invention of the telephone, people have imagined that they could carry them everywhere - but until the GSM protocol standard was defined, this wasn't really something that could work...

2026-08-17 14:59:22 CEST

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What do you point to which you would call "true innovation" ?
Because whatever it is, I can probably find an earlier example of the same thing...
An extremist perspective is that Alan Turing invented everything. That is incorrect though.

2026-08-17 14:30:23 CEST

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> computer innovation peaked somewhere in the 2000s
What's your definition of computer innovation?
Hardware: GAAFET is just starting to land, 3D NAND emerged around 2013, EUV landed in around 2018...
Software: C++ (bad old days) -> Java (bad but memory safe) -> NodeJS (async, memory safe) -> Golang (memory safe without an external VM) -> Rust (memory safe C++ - more or less)
That's a definite progression, and at this point any new language needs to be memory safe to be taken seriously...
Algorithms: Google Pagerank -> ChatGPT, et al
Protocols: Forums -> Digg / Reddit -> Twitter -> Fediverse
I see progression all around...

2026-08-17 13:21:26 CEST

Point: Humanity has essentially stopped inventing things, except for internet stuff and AI.
Counterpoint: Anything we invent will be used against us by our enemies. Until they have been vanquished by internet and AI...
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2026-08-17 12:52:21 CEST

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This is a case where I kind of appreciate the French legal system, because the result you're going to get is almost entirely de-coupled from the amount of lawyer-money you burn.
So you can dump a quarter million dollars into a lawsuit only to have the judge say "you're absolutely right, he owes you fifty bucks"

2026-08-10 20:19:06 CEST

The perpetual hell thread
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2026-08-09 22:56:44 CEST

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Then they pulled an ALL NIGHTER to build another drone from spare parts, and when they got onto the field in their 30 minute window, their compass wasn't working and they had to re-calibrate it.
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2026-08-09 22:53:42 CEST

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MTech's story is just absolutely wild.
Yesterday they attempted a 4 to 1 lift ratio and their drone snapped a motor mount, fell out of the sky, and crashed in a massive fireball. Total destruction.
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2026-08-09 21:49:05 CEST

DARPA Lift Challenge is over.
Nobody managed to beat the 4 to 1 payload to weight ratio so the cash prize is halved.
Also nobody managed to upset the rankings today.
#1 Avidrone - drone helicopter
#2 Mtech - 6-rotor drone
#3 Xtreme Aerial - drone helicopter
Both Avidrone and Xtreme are almost identical helicopters.
Mtech's did a run today which was (I think) a world record for DISTANCE ran with over 4:1 ratio. This was after a wild drama of having the GPS unit FALL OFF of the drone and being forced to land. Running the battery packs to a charger to add whatever power they could, and cooling everything with a leaf blower before re-launching with less than 20 minutes remaining on the clock.
Definitely the most dramatic run of the entire event, and amazing that it seems to also be a world record. It's still not known why, but the drone entered a rapid uncontrolled descent at the 2.99 mile mark. They only had 1 more mile to go, one landing, and then 1 mile running empty and that would have made them the winner.
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2026-08-09 04:09:53 CEST

> Arguing on Fedi
> End up arguing with a relatively accomplished attorney
> Lose badly
💀
Never boring around here...

2026-08-08 19:58:55 CEST

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Kid's gonna make it.
Long as he doesn't listen to the same music as his dad...

2026-08-06 17:54:46 CEST

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If you've got a friend group, you can give each other good marks all of the time - and you'll be together most of the time - but then you still have to deliver results.
If your project grade is a zero, you can give each other as much approval as you want but it's all multiplied by zero.
If the loner is uniquely capable of delivering project results - the group that's not stupid is going to take him in and make a place for him, because that raises their project and raises their scores.

2026-08-06 13:31:52 CEST

Random thought:
You're a professor.
Instead of giving tests, you give team projects.
Teams are anywhere from 2 to 5 people.
At the beginning they're picked randomly, so that everyone in the class has experience working with everyone else.
At the end of each project, you anonymously ask each team member about every one of their team mates - particularly, would you like to work with this person in the future.
After everyone has some experience with each other, team selection is based on approval. You work with the people you want to work with and who want to work with you.
Final grade is based on the grades of the projects you worked on MULTIPLIED BY your approval rating by your partners in the project.
You cannot cheat on approvals because if you approve people who actually are not helpful, you will end up working with them again (!)

2026-08-05 23:31:41 CEST

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I would suggest also the element of having a complex financial system, and in particular the central bank.
Before 1913, each bank issued its own money, and that worked as long as each bank had enough gold to back it up. If they ran out of gold then they were bankrupt and went out of business, so their printing was restrained.
After 1913, the central bank issued a common money and it was not backed by gold (caveats abound, but people in the US could not demand redemption for gold so it was essentially NOT backed).
Instead, the printing was restrained by Inflation Targets. If they printed too much money, prices would go up too much, so their printing was restrained.
But in this difference is the devil. Because once inflation targets became the goal, then the field of Economics was developed to study it, and people were hired to figure out how to reduce it.
> Convince people to stop eating butter and eat oil instead.
Maybe bad for their health, but oil is cheaper, and if people eat cheaper food then there's "less inflation", so the government can print more money.
Everybody loves printing money. When they print money, the stock market goes up, more business open and there's more jobs. People are happy and politicians get re-elected.
Then they go back to the economists again and say "how can we reduce inflation?"
> Encourage women to join the workforce. More workers will depress wages, which will make inflation less.
> But, without families the nation will slowly die!
> You asked, I answered. If you want to reduce inflation, encourage women to join the workforce.
And so it goes... The quest to reduce inflation eventually results in the destruction of every thing that is beautiful and worthwhile in this world.
> The middle class is buying too much stuff, it's driving up inflation. Make them poorer. Sell crack on the streets so that they don't have money to buy steak dinners, then the steak dinners will stay cheap because they won't be getting bought up.
> Import 100 million Indians who will work for one dollar per day because then wages will stop going up so much.
And so on until the nation eventually collapses. As did Rome, so does America.

2026-08-05 18:23:58 CEST

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There's an Australian sociology researcher (ironically, woman) who came to the opinion that women are instinctively driven to undermine society (from their instinctive drive to undermine each other).
And she posited a hypothesis that destroying society is an evolved behavior which serves to introduce new (stronger?) genes into the gene pool via the Vandals / Muslims / etc.

2026-08-05 18:06:22 CEST

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> women’s liberation may never reverse
That "may" is doing a lot of work here. Solving decreasing fertility is not optional. It's just the easy way, the hard way, or the really hard way...

2026-08-05 17:30:06 CEST

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> They don't want a bunch of EU loving faggots to be protesting
I don't think that concerns them at all. When you have 70% approval rating and you've had 26 years to eliminate any opposition in government, You Can Just Do Things.

2026-08-05 17:04:10 CEST

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The EU has a real problem on their hands. As soon as Ukraine taps out, Russia is going to charge west, most likely taking back all of the former Soviet territory.
And on the other side, Russia, Israel, and the US (Trump) all agree that breaking up the EU would be a fantastic idea because it turns a geopolitically relevant actor into a bunch of defenseless countries they can rob. So there's no doubt that they're all going to be circling the wagons around sponsoring anti-EU candidates in every country.
So the EU needs to lose its happy horseshit progressivism and adopt a "what's best for us" posture in a fucking hurry... And you're starting to see it already.

2026-08-05 12:42:37 CEST

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A lot of gays are hypersexual, which biases result enough to be inappropriate for a general population inference.
But you wanna know who knows the average penis size?
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2026-08-04 21:51:54 CEST

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Actually, there IS a possible strategy that's not pants-on-head retarded.
Israel goes around to every country and tells them this: Jews are your problem, but they're our solution. If you will recognize us, trade with us, and let us buy military gear from you, we will take all of your Jews.
In Europe, that pitch would resonate. In the US, less so, but antisemitism is on the rise so in the next decade, it will probably have a chance.
It's a gamble, but most countries are lazy and do the easiest thing that's in front of them.

2026-08-04 21:43:02 CEST

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Israel was really dead-set on creating this doomsday scenario from the beginning. That's why they immediately moved to assassinate Iran's Pope and bomb the girl's school.
Burning the ships / fighting with a river at your back...
They wanted to transition Iran into a war posture so that there would be no sense in ever making a peace deal with the US, so that the US could never back out (without destroying the empire).
I think there's some kind of theory that though the US will lose, Iran will be sufficiently weakened that Israel will be able to conquer the territory for their Greater Israel Project.
To be frank, I do not understand the logic here. It looks like they're more likely to vanish off the map than they are to achieve Greater Israel - but it's possible there's no actual strategic logic and it's just eschatology...
Which, if a guy believes that at the last moment when it's the final true believers surrounded in the bunker about to be smoked out - that's when God comes down and smites their enemies... Well, there's not much you can say to argue with him...

2026-08-03 18:53:40 CEST

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Cheap, whatever. The big point is if you dump enough young workers into the system, you can push wages down almost arbitrarily.
At least until they drag you out of your house and stick your head on the end of a pike...
I would use the US H1B system as an example, 20 people living in a house (illegal but common), working for an employer that if they quit that job or want to work somewhere else, they're deported. You can fiddle around with the exact definition of slavery but it's disingenuous because they have the same impact as slaves did in ancient Rome.

2026-08-03 18:40:38 CEST

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So basically the opposite of importing infinite 3rd world slave labor.

2026-08-03 17:21:17 CEST

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> we didn't own a microwave
Every boomer on twitter says this shit. But everybody has access to the inflation charts, the median incomes, and so on.
Everybody knows how good they had it, and how thoroughly they screwed their progeny.
The younger generations are Seething With Hatred over this. And the boomers just keep on mumbling the same lines about bootstraps and a firm handshake.
This is gonna end with mass graves.
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2026-08-03 16:56:28 CEST

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You know about the Wright Brothers? They invented the airplane.
You know what their day job was?
They were bicycle mechanics.
Think about that for a minute. Bicycle mechanics had enough free time to invent heavier than air flight.
In the 1950s you could feed a family of four going door-to-door selling vacuum cleaners.
The job market isn't "bad", it's rigged. The "free market" where everybody has a fair chance, they made that illegal with regulatory and liability reform in the 70s and 80s. Then they moved out the entire productive capacity of the country to China in 2000. Then they imported millions of 3rd worlders to work slave-wages so they could keep enjoying their milk and honey even after they had chopped the country up and sold it off.
And sure you're fine, and I'm fine, we're smart motherfuckers and we figured out how to skip around this and catch the right waves.
But you know this is what happened, and you know that for the average person out there, it's Uber and 3rd jobs.
And there *were* off-ramps in the 70s and 80s, maybe even the 90s, but now that's all over. It's a one-way express and it's going to one place - an apocalyptically brutal civil war.
There's gonna be heads on pikes, there's gonna be borders, and there's gonna be pogroms. But at the end of it all, in like 2045, it will FINALLY be possible for the average person to raise a family again.
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2026-08-03 16:23:17 CEST

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Well, when the revolution comes, everything you've ever said online will be pulled up to decide if you face the wall or not - so empathy toward the young is justified.

2026-08-03 14:31:41 CEST

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In his defense, a lot of early C programmers were more used to writing assembly, and C was kind of forcing them to follow some rules... i.e. functions have arguments, they call other functions and they return something when they're done...
We can't really imagine a different world than this, but they could, and C was a bit constraining. Goto was somewhat of an escape hatch which allowed them to go back to their familiar assembly patterns but written in C.
You used to be able to even goto-jump from one function into another. You had to be extremely careful not to trash the stack doing it, but it was something you COULD do...

2026-08-03 10:13:02 CEST

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Asians: It's not that small
Greeks: It's not that big
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2026-08-01 17:40:25 CEST

I think the bum-rush of Ceuta will be seen as a turning point in immigration theory.
Up until now, the general ASSUMPTION was that every immigrant is an individual who has hopes, and dreams, and goals, and is probably fleeing from some horrible shit - so they should at least be given fair hearing before being summarily deported.
But Ceuta is a small but strategically important Spanish enclave at the tip of Africa, something that could easily be taken by military force if not defended militarily.
And it is blatantly obvious that Moracco has coordinated this event, and it's likewise fairly evident that the goal is to force Spain to cede possession of Ceuta and therefore the Straight of Gibraltar.
And the use of unarmed, non-uniformed "refugees" was simply a strategic decision because it was known that Spain would categorize it as "illegal immigration" and would not trigger a military response.
But the thing is, this only has to work once before every self-respecting country goes "oh, okay, I get it" and begins classifying illegal immigrants as enemy combatants - at least if they are party to an obvious bum-rush attack.

2026-08-01 14:29:32 CEST

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Obviously insulting the senator. Nothing's gonna happen because the US is an occupied territory, but in any real country this little bastard would be LUCKY to spend his life in prison.
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2026-07-30 20:08:44 CEST

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It's not gonna be some prime minister election level shit. If you ever watched Yes Minister, you know how this all works. The stuff they want to do is what gets on the ballot - and if they don't want to do it, it doesn't.
Look at brexit: The thing people were voting against was Polish people using freedom of movement to go to the UK. That was the real prime mover. Soon as they did it, UK turns around and imports Africans.
I'm sure that you're probably against brexit - and to be honest I don't have an opinion because I can't know if in a hypothetical scenario where it didn't happen, it would have been better.
BUT, if you step out of YOUR political viewpoint for a second here, and look at what the people voted for and what they got, it's very clear that the UK government just said "fuck you, we do what we want".
You can only actually have a representative government in a relatively high trust environment. As an obvious example: If the government doesn't want to be changed, they can just ask the Mafia to kill all of their potential rivals and then in exchange, they block any legal action against them.
Once the government is actually malicious, there is NO meaningful political participation except that to create pain, and to create fear.
That's it. Pain and Fear.
Pain is what happens when you sink a cargo ship. It costs a lot of people a lot of money.
Fear is what happens when you shoot down a private jet. It makes a lot of oligarchs start thinking a lot about how exposed they are every time they take off and land...
Those are your options, create pain, create fear, flee the country, or put up and shut up.

2026-07-30 19:45:04 CEST

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That's a picture of a room in the Romanov's house in 1918.
What needs to happen to England is somebody needs to pull the sword out of the stone and become king. It's really that simple.

2026-07-30 19:38:38 CEST

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Everybody knows what the answer is.
Nobody wants to admit it.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/39d993e25586ca00888041b39ca862ed6bd024ee7352b2a3213e5dfd35a0abd8.png

2026-07-29 17:39:20 CEST

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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?

2026-07-28 16:35:18 CEST

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what the hell happened to "other renewables" ? 👀

2026-07-27 23:57:43 CEST

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Loss in Iran will lead to loss of control over the middle east. Then that will lead to loss of ability to continue supporting Ukraine, which will lead to the collapse (or at least dramatic reform) of the EU...
That will lead to the end of the American Empire and the dollar as world reserve currency, which will lead to the 2nd American Civil War.
All that said, there's light at the end of the tunnel for most Americans because the main street economy will be much better off without the empire milking it for everything it's got in order to pay off everyone that needs to be paid off to keep the shitty system afloat.

2026-07-27 23:47:50 CEST

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> unfair criteria
Napoleon conquered Moscow, but he didn't conquer Russia...
There's a lot of things which are like this. Afghanistan the classic case since it fucked both the USSR and the US. Iran will be the same story, the terrain and population practically guarantee it.

2026-07-27 23:30:06 CEST

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I'm very jaded toward anything that sounds like "we won, but..." because it's the line that every sore loser says something like that.
I don't care about what happened, or woulda happened, or any of that. The only question is whose flag is flying right now...

2026-07-27 12:59:01 CEST

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Iran is "winning" the way Afghanistan "won"... It's not really a "win" to have your cities destroyed, your people killed, your infrastructure blown up, and basically be bombed back into the stone age...
But, it's also not a "loss" to bleed out the empire until they cut bait and run.
But the stakes here are MUCH higher, because when America does eventually cut bait, they will be losing control over the entire gulf region.

2026-07-26 21:38:15 CEST

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

2026-07-26 21:36:36 CEST

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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 21:30:03 CEST

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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 21:04:57 CEST

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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 20:57:52 CEST

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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 20:54:06 CEST

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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 20:53:05 CEST

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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 20:47:58 CEST

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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 20:29:23 CEST

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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

2026-07-26 15:57:32 CEST

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If I could wish for one thing, it'd be that countries would actually care about their citizens instead of acting like big giant slave plantations. But you gotta fuck with the dick you have...

2026-07-26 15:42:29 CEST

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> our fault
If you want to take responsibility for the American Globohomo Imperial Regime - I guess go ahead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> you've got no problem
But I sure as hell ain't the EU
> yea it's definitely our fault.
Well the way I see it, you've got a whole bunch of countries all basically punching themselves in the head. And then you've got a handful of countries that seem to be more-or-less looking after their own interests - and For Some Reason those are the exact countries that the goons in DC are all real excited about LiBeRaTiNg. So you'll forgive me for suggesting that PERHAPS all of these insane, dumb, self-defeating policies are actually being demanded by Washington.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/5bc4dd8213021cff9b4ec6660f3250544dce972348ef4e5c2a055536e19a46bc.png

2026-07-26 01:39:48 CEST

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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 16:37:43 CEST

@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 14:04:30 CEST

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

2026-07-25 13:53:28 CEST

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I just popped into the river chat on /try, I'm looking at this like: You could strip away ALL of the other stuff and just release River as a chat application like Matrix.

2026-07-25 13:42:03 CEST

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Apparently there's a NEW Freenet which took the "Freenet" name. The old one still exists, but the new one has a lot more features.
You can write a dynamic webapp as a sort of smart contract (without the money part). Then you publish that and the frontend for interfacing with it.
It's still limited because you can't just throw pleroma on it or whatever, but it's not literally impossible to make a forum, so there's that...

2026-07-25 13:32:47 CEST

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Yeah, copper is kind of magic for killing bacteria.

2026-07-25 13:13:04 CEST

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I'm glad they're still doing things. Freenet is an incredibly smart technical architecture. The last I remember hearing from it was that it has (tragically) become infested with pedophiles.
One down-side of it is that you can't run normal "servers" on it, it really only hosts static pages so you have to specifically design websites to work with it (same as ZeroNet).

2026-07-25 02:19:42 CEST

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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 02:17:21 CEST

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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 02:12:42 CEST

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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 00:31:21 CEST

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I just lost it with video games after about GTA San Andreas. Never got along with multi-player shit.
I would rather do anything that builds a reusable skill rather than games...

2026-07-25 00:08:16 CEST

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I think a 6 foot 2 inch girl with 8 inch hands would draw enough attention to defeat the purpose...

2026-07-23 23:42:13 CEST

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*slug

2026-07-23 23:40:15 CEST

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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 23:19:26 CEST

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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 23:15:13 CEST

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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...

2026-07-23 21:11:56 CEST

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> Who will revolt
Someone who wants it for himself, someone who wants to be emperor.
Maybe Elon for instance.
But right now it's like "don't interrupt your enemy while he's making a mistake", every passing day the US regime becomes weaker, so why not wait?

2026-07-23 15:51:28 CEST

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Pleroma.Web.Auth.DickPicAuthenticator

2026-07-23 01:56:51 CEST

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In the 90s (which I was not there for) there was a lot of really bad C++, and then the Java Applet vs. Javascript battle played out.
Early 00s they were still thinking Applets would be a web standard. About the time I started working (08-ish, lucky me) applets were kind of an a game of pretend - nobody wanted to admit they had lost. They were doubling down on the server side.
That was probably peak jEverything.
But before Rust there was Go (which is still not a terrible language). Go and Nodejs double-teamed Java Servlets and put them in the ground...
Meanwhile PHP was just quietly successful throughout this whole entire time.

2026-07-23 01:49:49 CEST

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Were you in the business back when it was jEverything ?

2026-07-20 23:44:18 CEST

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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 23:37:45 CEST

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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 23:26:21 CEST

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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...