Caleb James DeLisle

I didn't read it, but I'm just looking at the subtitle and I'm gonna say you don't use that little John Lennon jingle unless there's something in side of you that wants it. I would never imagine in a million years singing "Imagine there's no Irish"...

2026-07-28 15:31:13 UTC

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Can't find the Zuckerberg-trying-to-buy-favor-from-Xi meme, but it's quite relevant.
IMO Russia is a little bit more complicated - I think Putin helps Jews when they help him, but I have my doubts that anyone has the collar on him...

2026-07-28 15:24:12 UTC

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There's a narrative that "It's All Controlled"....
Like it doesn't matter if Russia wins because "they control Russia", and it doesn't matter if China wins because "they control China"...
IMO this is being spread as demotivational disinfo. The Epstein emails were pretty clear that they hated China and they wanted very badly to regime change Xi...

2026-07-28 14:59:03 UTC

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> Why are we struggling harder and getting more stupid?
IMO two questions.
1. Struggling harder -> American empire is collapsing, a big part of that collapse is in the fact that it is no longer possible to corral a MASS amount of people around a belief.
2. People getting more stupid -> Internet "stole fire from the gods" - fire being the ability to make people believe things. Effects of this (the good AND the bad) have been insanely potent.
> Right now it's controlled by NWO
I disagree. NWO is in struggle mode at this point. Ukraine is a slow-burn where NATO loses lives while Russia loses missiles - this is how Napoleon lost in Russia. Got ground down until there was nothing left...
Iran is unbeatable. It's the same story as Afghanistan. You can bomb every city to rubble and they'll still fight. And they don't need an industrial base to make weapons, they have China. And China knows that they're gonna be next if Iran ever did fall.
And whenever the US finally becomes unable to continue fighting Iran, they will lose control over the gulf, which dooms the petrodollar.
The NWO people are building bunkers.

2026-07-28 14:15:32 UTC

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Agree in that there are people now who was WAY dumber than the dumbest person possible from the 90s - but knowledge that was previously confined to a select few is now fairly widely known...

2026-07-28 14:02:53 UTC

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I don't want to enter a 6 digit number

2026-07-28 12:48:49 UTC

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Dodge hehehehehe
Doesn't stall, instead the front wheels fall off.

2026-07-28 12:39:15 UTC

Here's something to think about: We look back at the 90s like "wow those motherfuckers were stupid" (and boomers still are)...
We are a million times more connected than they were, so we know things that they couldn't know, or couldn't publicly admit to knowing even if they intuited it.
Well what's gonna happen in another 30 years? Will things be so much further advanced that we will be (legitimately) considered equally retarded?
What would that even look like?

2026-07-28 11:53:04 UTC

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I thought everybody was

2026-07-28 10:34:22 UTC

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I wave to the pilot

2026-07-27 19:27:35 UTC

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Hmm
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/724feddb9d54053cb129b9c9a939c8b483ee1d6ac71d7a2d44d8ae2bf8472a43.mp4

2026-07-27 11:16:31 UTC

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Imagine a world where everything is under surveillance AND there is shitty corpo-clop jingles playing eveywhere.
Unrealistic you say?
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/8e448293281bfc39dd9a5681fab07619379ffb3e054ee220eabe044c20136528.png

2026-07-26 19:40:34 UTC

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Oh man, an ARMS exhibition.
Glowie 9/11

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 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 18:29:23 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

2026-07-26 13:26:04 UTC

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> Investigations are only as effective as the people leading them
Motive is like 90% of the evidence ( @nprofile…nxac will probably be able to correct me if my number is off ). If you kill someone and you're the one that hates them the most - they will start by asking "where were you that day" and if you have no good alibi then they start building a case against you.
If you kill someone that everybody hates, unless you did something real dumb like bringing your cell phone with you, it's a cold case.
And they might be incompetent when it's YOU family, but when it's one of The King's Monsters, you can bet they're gonna come up with a detective that knows what he's doing.

2026-07-26 00:11:02 UTC

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Lord works in mysterious ways - maybe you'll be the only one that doesn't end up wearing the collar...

2026-07-26 00:02:06 UTC

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When the entire American imperial system is dead set on demonizing, bankrupting, destroying and eventually eliminating you and your people - it's not like you're gonna go looking over the Geneva Convention every time some part of that system takes damage.

2026-07-25 23:45:59 UTC

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> semilattice / CRDT
Not entirely sure your words, but yes, two equally privileged and mutually exclusive updates cannot exist. So no cryptomoney and permissions need to be delegated (same as Matrix)

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 23:37:41 UTC

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Looks like small world routing and content addressability. But this one you submit contracts that govern your freenet site / app / thing.
It's actually very much the original marketing of Ethereum back in 2015 or so.

2026-07-25 23:26:41 UTC

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CC: @nprofile…h6ty 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 16:36:32 UTC

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Everybody always talking about someone named "we", but I've never met him.

2026-07-25 14:37:43 UTC

@nprofile…t3h7 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 14:31:07 UTC

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> Have you ever seen an electrician...
Do something that doesn't meet code and won't pass inspection?

2026-07-25 13:00:45 UTC

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Potentially because the main stream just gets gutted out (food deserts with private invite-only food coops for example)
But there's a cautionary side to this, b/c you can also end up like the Boar in South Africa and be hunted.

2026-07-25 12:06:44 UTC

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Okay, but where the encrypted chat application that's NOT a pile of shit?
DeltaChat is pretty cool, but it's more trying to be Signal. Alternatives to Matrix? XMPP? Not encrypted absolutely at all...

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 16:35:48 UTC

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heh
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/b496b4419f7f0e61b00626dae289bba268a515852c74a0233f8ceb05af608939.png

2026-07-24 13:52:25 UTC

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Making quarters that look like US quarters (but still different enough not to be called counterfeiting) and then "accidentally" letting them leak across the border is like 1/3 of Canada's GDP.

2026-07-23 14:45:44 UTC

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So that basically means "incels" are an Intolerant Minority and therefore will eventually drag mainstream culture along with them.

2026-07-21 23:10:53 UTC

> The Odussy

2026-07-20 16:58:08 UTC

In case anyone's not federated with Aral, I just wanted to pass along this absolute banger from the W Social drama unfolding over at the European Commission...
#nevent1q…mh70
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/6570ca08791d1124d8151131f2f26c9fc1c013bd08b1a66cf72ca195d5c2e7b4.png

2026-07-20 14:51:27 UTC

SLUFI is published!
https://thegoodwork.substack.com/p/slufi
A Simple, Lightweight, Unopinionated, Federation Interconnect.
The problem: While numerous network transports exist (cjdns, Yggdrasil, I2P, Tor, etc), and numerous name services exist (Namecoin, ENS, Unstoppable Domains, PKT, etc), almost all federation takes place over ICANN+IP because we currently have no way to federate across network boundaries, and ICANN+IP is the only thing that everybody has.
I claim that there is no possible solution SIMPLER than SLUFI, except with central authority or PRECIPITOUS loss of security. Furthermore, I claim there is no possible solution that is more secure than SLUFI, except with something like a blockchain and a PRECIPITOUS loss of simplicity.
So while I do not think this protocol is complete (yet), I do think SLUFI is the only realistic starting point for reaching a solution to this problem.
Tagging some people who might be interested:
@nprofile…tsag
@nprofile…t3h7
@nprofile…9683
@nprofile…smhc
@nprofile…egnj
@nprofile…nptm
I probably forgot a bunch of very important people, apologies in advance...
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/49827bb3e4a940b0847cbddf12d6642e6a59da4d2003e549eda18cd3ed71c9b8.png

2026-07-19 16:48:34 UTC

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Same on both points.
However, they gotta do something about their Little Boat Ideology, because that shit is not working and that alone is enough to collapse the entire church.

2026-07-19 16:38:58 UTC

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It's funny because was not raised religious, so for me at an instinctive level, the idea of dying and meeting Saint Peter is kind of on par with the idea of dying and meeting Vishnu or something...
That said, to the extent Christianity teaches people not to be dumb, I fully recognize its utility.
So as much as I have difficulty imagining how it is to believe there's a fundamental truth which is Jesus, I have an even HARDER time imagining what it would be like to accept the baseline assumptions of Christianity (the soul, hell, etc), but to actively rebel against the teaching.
Shitlib-Atheism is such a weird mentality to me...

2026-07-19 15:49:05 UTC

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Atheists (for the most part) are rebellious Christians.
They reveal their underlying assumptions when they say things like "40% chance you would have been born an African".
If you're not religious then there is no "you" before you're born (or technically: conceived)...

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.

2026-07-18 15:36:15 UTC

This has happened more than once.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/29d9d6f8c0c7d806fb071c5f0a24525e61f87ae3bdddbdc1a89a415a41bc5d4c.png

2026-07-18 03:32:11 UTC

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What about Neanderthals? Did they also descend from Adam?

2026-07-16 18:38:43 UTC

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> its the same picture
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/80a3c6e13e1e00b59d07ffa48747a7c4921c9f95dd62de4a54186fe94cf004a6.png

2026-07-15 22:07:52 UTC

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> Got burned in the laundry room fire

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 @nprofile…6dlt for the post.

2026-07-10 14:18:37 UTC

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> You’re not voting your way out of this - because the level where these policies were decided doesn’t even officially exist.

2026-07-07 10:32:28 UTC

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I'm a millennial, but I'm kind of old enough to remember when the "don't leave anything to your kids" meme was actually being seriously discussed.
The argument was that if you leave money to your kids, it's just gonna spoil them and they'll become losers. This was definitely weaponized to make sure reasonably well-to-do boomers would never form any kind of dynastic power - but there is a kernel of truth to it.
Leaving wealth to the next generation, without turning them into loser trust-fund-babies, is HARD. It's one of, if not THE central concern of Old Money families. All of those weirdo elite private schools where they molest the kids and don't really teach them any useful skills - they're designed to instill in rich kids, if nothing else, that they MUST conserve the family fortune. And even so, it is STILL shockingly common for old money families to lose the family wealth and end up as weirdos with a weird backstory.
But just because it's hard doesn't mean it's impossible, and it doesn't mean it's not worth it.

2026-07-07 00:30:27 UTC

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This is something I think a lot of Americans don't understand about Europe.
In the US - particularly east coast - there's MONTHS of miserably hot weather, like weather that will kill you if you stay out in it too long.
In a large portion of Western Europe, there's probably about 2 or 3 heat waves spread across the summer, and the rest of the summer is quite cool, like cool enough that if you have an AC, you don't run it anyway... So people are lazy and they're like "oh I don't REALLY need that"

2026-07-06 22:10:56 UTC

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I wrote how I would do it in the blog post.
> Amazon cancels their cloud service, so Gab rebuilds with their own servers. ISPs cancel them, so they get their own ASN. And now their ASN is deregistered?
1. Don't use Amazon, and if you do, don't let anyone KNOW you're using Amazon...
2. If you're gonna move to an ISP, request that they update the whois for your server's IP address to YOUR business name - this means abuse mail goes to you rather than them - that makes a MASSIVE difference...
3. If you really want to go all-out and register your own ASN (you don't need to go that far FTR), try to not do it in a different jurisdiction than your company...

2026-07-06 16:07:28 UTC

Following the removal of Gab's ASN from RIPE whois database, I decided to write up a little blog post about free speech - something that USED to be uncontroversial (before many of you were born)...
Also how (in my opinion) websites should be protecting themselves. Kiwifarms is doing it more or less right, Gab, less so...
https://thegoodwork.substack.com/p/internet-free-speech

2026-07-05 23:58:04 UTC

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Sending Lenin into Russia with a train load of cash definitely backfired for Germany - and it might even be considered bad strategy - but it's not self-evidently stupid. Causing chaos for a geopolitical adversary is a legitimate wartime tactic, people do it with the intention of improving their own situation. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Owning property in San Francisco and letting the place go to shambles and your property values go down the toilet has no possible path to "and then we win"...

2026-07-05 23:20:22 UTC

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One is enough, I'm not asking a lot. But I need you to explain to me the part where the actual owners of businesses started to make decisions which were obviously detrimental to the future of their business. My knowledge of those events does not include anything like that.

2026-07-05 23:13:34 UTC

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I've never heard of this, but I'm open minded. Can you give me a simple example?
It should be something that's *obviously* dumb, not like where technology changed and up-ended an industry, because in that case it's very rational to think the technology is going to flop - until it doesn't. And it shouldn't be just one company manager going nuts because that has been known to happen from time to time, but what we're seeing here is an entire economy losing their collective minds...

2026-07-05 23:07:16 UTC

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It is, because the last thousand years business owners have managed to avoid doing self-evidently stupid shit, and just now they've all lost their marbles and decided to act like morons...

2026-07-05 23:02:42 UTC

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Politicians have no skin in the game and are typically selected as actors. When they sell out their future that's not surprising. When the owners of businesses do, it is.

2026-07-05 22:28:29 UTC

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There's something weird going on where the people who own everything have decided to let it be destroyed. Very unclear why they're doing this, but it's clearly a thing.
Look at Hollywood.
Look at landlords in NYC and San Francisco.
Look at every tech company that brings in an Indian CEO, gets their entire staff outsourced, and then ends up with literally nobody in the firm knowing the codebase....
These are people who are supposed to know better and it seems that they're intentionally committing economic suicide - en masse.

2026-07-05 15:49:37 UTC

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> Fuck Walmart
I'm actually okay with this.

2026-07-04 22:51:11 UTC

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I bet the cheapest attack against those things is one of those large-but-still-handheld lasers that burns things.
If they start getting burned out, you can bet the yoo kay cops are gonna start pulling transaction records on anyone buying big lasers - so you need anonymous ordering capability - but once you have one, you can most likely disable pretty much every camera in the city in a night...

2026-07-04 22:32:08 UTC

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Except Israel because America belongs to Israel.

2026-07-01 19:22:27 UTC

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"Central Europe" is a meme made up by people who are from Eastern Europe but don't want to admit it.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/ba051bfb6cccaf112c7fcb0a4879408cf71a2e9db18a928d6269ab254a5583b1.png

2026-06-28 20:41:40 UTC

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Oh boy, to add insult to injury they just firewalled cjdns on the mobile connection - taking out pkteerium and my mail server, again.
And this mobile is also the same company that had the 3 day long fiber outage 🤦‍♂️ (they're usually good)
Anyway, I found their trick, they're blocking any UDP source port which makes too much traffic. Fix: unique source port for every cjdns connection. Yeah, I'm probably gonna make the effort and actually do that...

2026-06-28 11:08:18 UTC

Well, when the question is: How long does an internet outage have to last before I rejigger my home network to run off my phone - the answer is apparently: 2.5 days.
We're back (kinda)

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)_/¯

2026-06-26 13:42:51 UTC

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This is kinda dumb.
There's a really good way to make random numbers:
You make a pool of entropy, you take entropy from your environment (e.g. timing how long things take), and you hash it into the pool.
Then you use a hash function to read values out of that pool.
None of this is complex, it's not slow either, and it's how things have been done for decades.
Everyone pushing for mOrE SeCuRe random sources is to be considered with the greatest of suspicion.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/04f046997f2b9f438602e82363fb2cba39cfc7308fd1f31fda46f8f341de8677.png

2026-06-24 14:29:31 UTC

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People will see this shit and still tell you demons aren't real.

2026-06-08 21:41:24 UTC

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That's also called paprika in English, if it's ground up and dried. And it's not spicy, it's really just dried version of red bell pepper.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/cfd16896549560c04e67e3b3ddb5aabfbad5e9de237c2cb53e3eec68ab0d84f8.png

2026-06-08 08:07:01 UTC

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I'LL TAKE IT
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/0d71b1a1a9397e02ee9843c545c9fa759b73d5abe0d52c5cdb4691bf51a9c9f6.png

2026-06-08 08:02:16 UTC

Fresh meme template
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2026-06-04 20:34:11 UTC

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Okay so these are lithium-air batteries, they pull oxygen from the air so they don't need to carry as much weight. Presumably they're heavier when discharged because they're carrying a bunch of oxygen with them.
The problem is impurities in the air poison the chemistry. So the challenge is getting the air perfect.
Currently there has been a lab demonstration of a 1.2kwh/kg battery with 1000 cycles of lifespan.
12kwh/kg is really just a theoretical maximum for the chemistry.
CATL is saying "this is the future", and since they're the biggest battery maker in ... the world (?) ... that probably means there's going to be a whole lot of R&D pushed at this.
So 12kwh/kg has not actually been shown by anyone, but the way battery density competition has been going so far, we should expect that batteries will cross over the 1kw/kg line in the decade. And given they're about 0.3 now, that's a big improvement already. Enough for short haul aviation.
By about 3 or 4 kw/kg, they're going to be competitive with jet fuel given the losses of a jet engine. At this point there will really be no reason not to electrify aircraft since fuel is dominant in the cost of flight.

2026-06-04 20:10:35 UTC

Whoa, 12kwh/kg is the energy density of diesel fuel.
Chemical energy, no engine losses considered...
If that's real, then aviation is about going to get electrified...
CC: @nprofile…dvru
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2026-05-29 20:07:18 UTC

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Well, this company is claiming that their target is 75kwh per gallon of gasoline, and 1 gallon per day. If they can hit that then IMO they've proven that air-scavenging is not entirely ridiculous.
It's certainly not going to be as effective as shoveling wood, coal, heavy fuel oil, or literally any other form of carbon into a gasifier - but ... all of that stuff costs something. What it costs depends a lot on where you are. If the cost of burnable stuff exceeds the cost of the electricity needed to scalp that 1/4 of 1% of CO2 out of the air, guess which process wins...

2026-05-29 19:16:04 UTC

Someone is doing the methanol process. They are scavenging the air for CO2 - I had written this off as too inefficient, but it actually makes sense because then you don't need to fuck around with supplying it with carbon.
If you're somewhere like in the arctic with airplane and snowmobile access only, being able to manufacture fuel is kind of a big deal.
The downside of all of this is there's a lot of chemistry going on here - multiple stages of catalysts that can end up getting ruined if impurities get deposited on them.
I can't see something like this working for more than a few months before it needs some kind of cleaning, changing of catalysts, maintenance / service / etc.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/5955b628077e2e1e4aba39b8d24e2ad7d83d1c94d55300d4c81142d7acbd3df7.png

2026-05-29 10:39:55 UTC

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Sending out my second EcoNet package today.
4 modems + 1 USB serial adapter for Tristan!
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2026-05-26 22:35:12 UTC

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That may be so, but every country where those people become majority / government becomes a copy-paste of Zimbabwe.
And in Zimbabwe, the boss man would never have been able to start his company. We all know that, there are no great international companies from Zimbabwe.
But boss man doesn't mind turning the country into Zimbabwe in order to make a buck off of cheap labor - just like he doesn't mind dumping chemicals in the river to save a buck on making products...

2026-05-26 22:26:37 UTC

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I need to work on cjdns OpenWrt, I'm not sure it's currently building. The objective was not to do cjdns and PKT, thought the idea for this device came from when I was looking for cheap/capable devices for PKT.
At this point it's basically just a big endian MIPS OpenWrt computer - but it's cheap.

2026-05-26 22:17:12 UTC

I wonder if the real value-multiplier of AI is that engineering teams are quietly using it to hone in on promising chemistry solutions - and that's why suddenly the battery space has gone from boring to insane over the past couple of years...
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2026-05-26 22:15:37 UTC

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I'll sell you one, or ten, no problem. I'm a bit terrified to check what shipping is to ZA though :S

2026-05-26 13:09:13 UTC

Mailed out the first GS3101 today. Is this something anyone would be interested in buying?
256M ram
256M flash
1x 2.4Ghz wifi
1x usb 2.0
1x gigabit ethernet
3x 100mb ethernet
Fiber port and phone port but no drivers for those yet.
Standard 12v barrel power supply
I can do 7$ for the unit alone, USB serial adapter and power supply -> more.
Shipping is brutal though...
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2026-05-25 21:54:56 UTC

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It's a peaceful life...

2026-05-24 16:49:07 UTC

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2026-05-22 21:48:15 UTC

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I wasn't shitting on steam, I'm sure they've got it figured out - and if flatpack is like docker - which it seems that it is, it would be embarrassing if that didn't work.
I was just saying installing nix, last I tried it like a decade and a half ago, it was hell.

2026-05-22 21:45:21 UTC

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I guess theoretically nix could be easy because users are never supposed to be screwing with package definition files...
But IDK, I remember it was super annoying for some other reason.
Homebrew installs w/ a one-liner

2026-05-22 21:42:05 UTC

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> nixOS
> The package definition language is easy
> Just ask George over there
> What do you mean there's no George over there
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2026-05-22 21:30:26 UTC

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I don't even know what Mac is really doing, except that creating a disk image just to hold an app is goofy AF

2026-05-22 19:53:21 UTC

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Same. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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2026-05-22 19:52:21 UTC

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Yeah, I'm just gonna sit around and be a bitter old man and say it's a tragedy that the chroot idea from nix is not universal.

2026-05-22 19:50:11 UTC

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Yeah so each app carries an entire system with it.
It's based on the assumption that the underlying system is totally fucked - which sadly is the only safe assumption you can make.
But it only makes a blast shield to protect one desktop app from a fucked system, it doesn't do anything to unfuck the system itself.

2026-05-22 19:47:21 UTC

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Okay, but can you flatpak like libc and the kernel, and then eliminate apt entirely ?

2026-05-22 19:44:35 UTC

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Right but then the question is why can't you flatpak the entire distro?

2026-05-22 19:42:29 UTC

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IDK it's just frustrating software advances at the speed of a snail.

2026-05-22 19:36:09 UTC

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:sigh:
Oh well...
My favorite linux is still OpenWrt.

2026-05-22 19:34:29 UTC

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Is it a package manager for chrooted packages like nix? Because someone trying to do that for real would be pretty neat.

2026-05-22 19:30:23 UTC

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The two things I like the least about it are apt (but we knew that was gonna happen), and flatpak.

2026-05-22 16:43:46 UTC

More how it actually happened...
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