feld

Up and not crying

Delta Chat: https://i.delta.chat/#2308C221F5B7403CE990C06F240C7E0EA369B0D5&a=x2lfrbwxg%40chat.feld.me&n=feld&i=fjYh0v48KCmFgS2JAOVmaIt4&s=lgQyur9Gwm5Lk3lkbBfaVAch
Gulf: of Mexico

Public Key

npub1swcr8w6tyv7apu54cuda5efm96mzfdl4hmg5fkcczyrjd396fpzqtny2dn

NIP-05 Address

[email protected]

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsg8vpnhd9jx0ws722uwx76v5ajad3ykl6ma52ymvvpzpexcjays3qpqqq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwd4hk6mmnw3ezuurfde4serm7jl

Publishing to

relay.momostr.pink

Author Public Key

npub1swcr8w6tyv7apu54cuda5efm96mzfdl4hmg5fkcczyrjd396fpzqtny2dn

Show more details

Last Notes

2026-08-28 23:11:07 CEST

- reply

> data also showed that the shot reduced literally every kind of death (including accidents and murder) which basically means some "healthy user bias" is baked in at minimum.
Obviously that's just the result of humans being in lockdowns really. Hard to have accidents when there's nowhere to drive, etc, hard to murder people who aren't at the local In-N-Out drive thru, etc etc lol so yeah that's weird and dumb, agreed
> But all that is irrelevant because you're asserting that for every case the virus must be more lethal than the shot and that doesn't account for a great many things.
It accounts for a lot, actually. The real disease comes with systemic inflammation and a many other things that the vaccine cannot cause. That's why we know it to be less harmful than the actual virus.
> Some go as far as to argue the whole virus was a charade. In hindsight it's actually pretty hard to rule that out when you consider the fact that the data is making that assertion.
What data?

2026-08-28 22:43:36 CEST

- reply

the data we have actually shows the e.g., cardiac events were less common in people who took the vaccine

2026-08-28 22:27:55 CEST

- reply

why can't people understand that the cytokine response from the vaccine would likely have produced the same response from the real virus and these people would have been harmed the same way from their own immune system anyway? In fact, the data says it would have been worse for them because the real infection comes with inflammation and other issues beyond just the cytokine response.
So the vaccine didn't trigger some magical behavior that the virus cannot. We know what it did, and we know the virus does to people with these immune systems too. The odds are that the vaccine have been less severe for these people.
It sucks. Their immunological response went crazy and we didn't have a way to deal with it. This is something we need to figure out for any novel virus like this -- some way to get the desired immunity while tempering the cytokine response. I don't think we have the tools to do so.
These people were likely doomed unless they could somehow completely avoid ever being exposed to the virus.

2026-08-27 02:18:36 CEST

https://media.friedcheese.us/uploads/46/44/a3/4644a38244040f208a66d4d47d54f375dacdc2ef2d7bcee7db9d4e303ab8b213.webp

2026-08-27 01:45:39 CEST

- reply

I guess it's Madonna? and Tom Hardy has a thing for women's shoes

2026-08-27 01:40:13 CEST

- reply

AI solves this. We just train it on Tarantino's foot fetish collection
now hands. who has the hand fetish? They will have another valuable dataset

2026-08-27 01:36:01 CEST

- reply

why do they all have hooves?

2026-08-27 01:26:28 CEST

- reply

you know who does finish commissions? tattoo artists

2026-08-27 01:07:54 CEST

Instead of complaining that people are using AI to make art instead of seeking out and hiring artists, why do artists have such a bad work ethic?
Where's the perseverence?
Where's the hustle culture?
Why aren't they hitting up projects like "bro, I can draw this better bro let me draw it pay me $50 I'll draw it better come on bro whats your email I'll email you once a day like these Indians who keep asking if you need an app or a new website bro I have a whole Creative Cloud subscription just sitting here let me use it bro"
Instead it's always like "yuck, that project has some AI generated art? I'm never going to do art for them now (well I never was anyway because I just sit on Tumblr and beg for Patreon subs and furry commissions)"

2026-08-27 00:58:11 CEST

- reply

I wish Congress passed something in the last 40 years that had a real irrefutable positive impact on my life but they've done fuck all except point fingers and go "but but the filibuster, we just can't fix this or that because we need 60 votes and golly-gee that just somehow never seems possible, couldn't possibly be the constant redistricting and gerrymandering and culture wars we instigate. Please donate to my campaign or my Super PACs"

2026-08-25 20:17:27 CEST

- reply

this is giving me strong acl-fuck-china vibes from Cisco in the 90s :)
I don't know of any big boy firewalls that do this but I haven't shopped them in a long time. I just invented my own tooling to do this with iptables/pf instead

2026-08-24 19:27:43 CEST

why does this application that does almost nothing need all these database connections all the time?
i hate modern software devs
https://media.friedcheese.us/uploads/89/96/18/899618b9725eed306ad9a077dd94b4ba654d9ae80fce7b0459311178a54bd799.webp

2026-08-24 19:00:53 CEST

- reply

I love modern internet journalism:
> "We actually covered what enables this leap and what it means here:"
the post he's quoting doesn't cover what enables this leap or what it means. :fuckoff:
https://media.friedcheese.us/uploads/26/ff/b4/26ffb45fcb911abd7b6383abbbe69e7682182b1fafa17662206366562dc48ff0.webp

2026-08-22 02:14:37 CEST

- reply

yeah but the Feds always play this game. They try to scare you shitless so you take a bad plea deal when in reality most of the charges would have been dropped and he would have received a starkly reduced sentence, maybe without even serving time
His own lawyer fucked up by not making this clear enough to him

2026-08-22 02:02:38 CEST

- reply

yep it's in the PDF I linked. He crashed their servers and took the whole system down he was hitting it so hard

2026-08-22 01:58:38 CEST

- reply

yes, that's exactly the point. He was violating the ToS of JSTOR.
Aaron felt that all of these research papers behind paywalls / university logins should be public domain. So he was downloading a copy of everything to publish it openly. Which was very much illegal as he did not own the rights to that research.
Was much of this research at least partially funded with taxpayer dollars and should be open to the public? Yeah, and that would be nice, but that's not how things are. We've got to pass laws to change that. You can't just steal and publish the data and expect the entire system will throw up their hands and accept this as the new norm.
I am very sympathetic to Snowden for uncovering crimes against Americans and getting us that classified information. Government should not be able to hide crimes against its own citizens as classified information.
Absolutely zero sympathy for Aaron for trying to be a hero though.
https://swartz-report.mit.edu/docs/report-to-the-president.pdf

2026-08-22 00:02:23 CEST

- reply

sort of word of mouth but I believe ArcaneChat has been promoting group chats or public channels for a while now

2026-08-21 23:51:51 CEST

- reply

> I think groups in DeltaChat don't scale because the mails servers don't support sending to more than a dozen recipients
the chatmail server limit is ~1000 recipients, and the clients will automatically split into multiple messages to cover all the recipients to keep under the limit
I don't know that I'd want to be in a *group chat* with 1000 people though
edit: confirmed at 1000, default value for Postfix

2026-08-21 18:28:06 CEST

- reply

of course it's not, but doing it to evade a ban for violating the terms of service in the process of a much larger crime of stealing data certainly is

2026-08-21 01:22:35 CEST

- reply

Apple does one unique MAC address per SSID unless it's an insecure/open network, and then it rotates your MAC address once every 14 days. It doesn't constantly change like people assume because that would be a great way to kill a poorly configured DHCP server with too small of a pool and too long lease expiration.
Android requires developer mode setting to make it always change, otherwise it only changes once per 24 hours or when the lease expires on an open network with no captive portal. Even deleting the SSID and re-adding it doesn't roll you a new MAC; it keeps the MAC address you used for that SSID forever unless you factory reset your phone
There probably are some slight variations on this behavior depending on vendor, but you wouldn't want to constantly have your MAC change.
and neither of these features even existed in 2013 --
For Android it was 2017, for Apple it was 2014
:tipshat:

2026-08-21 00:46:10 CEST

Saw another Aaron Swartz stan posting online today, time to share the truth again
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2025/11/aaron-swartz-was-not-innocent/

2026-08-19 20:19:44 CEST

- reply

someone already modified this to have more functionality but obviously there's no way that scales so it's kinda nice there's an option for people who don't want to try to modify it themselves
https://www.olleewatch.com/

2026-08-17 20:04:45 CEST

- reply

However... if these companies were buying up every print copy of Harry Potter and destroying it they'd be dancing in the streets

2026-08-17 20:03:40 CEST

- reply

well we know it's not the Gutenberg Bible or the first edition of The Fellowship of the Ring because they wouldn't shut up about it if it was

2026-08-17 19:42:49 CEST

404media should be fucking ashamed for continuing to paint a false narrative that these "rare books" should be fetishized and people should care deeply about what happens to them.
This isn't even good investigative journalism; their work here has the quality of a fucking tabloid.
These writers hate big tech *so much* they're betting that their readership can be fomented and unified against these companies over a topic that the readers will never understand.
"The vast majority of books produced -- rare or not -- end up being shredded because they're absolutely useless and there is zero demand for them"
🙉 BOOOOOORRRRRRIIIINGGGGGGG!!!!!
"The vast majority of books produced -- rare or not -- end up being shredded because they're absolutely useless and there is zero demand for them -- but now AI companies are buying them and scanning them before they get destroyed!"
:allears: HOLY SHIT TELL ME MORE
It's perfectly reasonable to hate what big tech has become. But if you're going to risk your reputation and journalism credentials to criticize them, at least stand on solid ground instead of relying on flimsy accusations that are so easily repelled when the whole scope of facts is presented.

2026-08-17 17:52:30 CEST

My decision to just mirror new repos to Github and disable Issues/PRs there is paying off

2026-08-15 02:36:52 CEST

- reply

i laughed way too hard at this

2026-08-15 02:13:39 CEST

> I've tracked down a bug where TCP connections over IPsec die after a short time when IPsec runs over if_wg
this guy doesn't trust wireguard

2026-08-11 20:21:24 CEST

can your instant messenger run games like this with the members of your chat group? realtime, no server. This one's just an arena demo, but there's a richer RPG
#DeltaChat #WebXDC
https://media.friedcheese.us/uploads/33/6e/13/336e13677f0731102a89b5f9f821d17b4765fe8994eeada3bddcc608a0a555d7.mp4

2026-08-11 18:02:48 CEST

- reply

when they're hidden behind a ceiling tile, they are forever forgotten and become permanent.
Thanks for dragging up those memories, whooooooosah

2026-08-10 23:20:56 CEST

> Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guac
My brother in Christ, never pay for premade guac ever again. It's so easy to make. Why are you doing this to yourself?

2026-08-10 18:50:39 CEST

- reply

Stefano, do you mostly backup things over Ethernet or WiFi? It seems to me the laptops over WiFi is where things go bad and eventually you get a corrupted backup. :sigh:

2026-08-09 04:29:58 CEST

- reply

this is the product I used for L2 Tesla chargers ("destination chargers"), probably what your hotel had. They're Tesla branded but you don't pay Tesla.
https://www.amazon.com/TeslaTap-Mini-Tesla-J-1772-Adapter/dp/B08T8YG63J

2026-08-09 04:24:45 CEST

- reply

FYI you can buy an adapter for L2 but not guaranteed it will work for L3 Tesla charging (superchargers) because your car need hardware to talk their protocol. I don't think anyone has ever made an adapter for that
However, Teslas can use an adapter to use CCS because they can speak both the old and new protocols now. Well, most Teslas after ~2020? Mine was 2018 and I had to pay $100 for a retrofit to get a new board installed so it can speak both
I'll need to do some research again and see if anyone is actually doing an NACS retrofit but last I checked it didn't exist ... frustrating

2026-08-09 04:11:36 CEST

- reply

but Tesla chargers are the official EV standard in the USA now. CCS is going bye bye
Tesla == NACS now. Everything else is being phased out

2026-08-05 20:41:23 CEST

- reply

oh only CDNs can pretend to be a cure to ails of the internet but also be continuing to spread the problem?

2026-08-05 18:47:50 CEST

I thought it was the fediverse tbqh
#note1g0z…paye

2026-08-03 18:18:33 CEST

- reply

lol yeah I bought an android to test a few things and the answer was pretty clear: UI trash, swipe gestures trash, keyboard trash, apps trash. No high quality cohesive email, contacts, calendar suite that isn't Google's. The entire ecosystem is Sadness/Linux

2026-07-30 21:55:42 CEST

- reply

> It would replace nearly all bootloader drivers, and would enable very complicated booting setups, such as booting via Amazon S3 over Wi-Fi.
I hate to break it to you but this isn't possible unless the kernel has an HTTP client built-in. Netbooting sounds easy until you really start to dig into it and discover "holy shit everything about this sucks, what do you mean that it's still so dumb and will try to DOWNLOAD AN ENTIRE ISO INTO MEMORY before trying to boot unless there's a kernel+initrd option, but even then you have severe limitations"
Maybe someone can shim a tiny kernel + curl into initrd and then leverage the ability of ksplice or similar to jump into a full kernel after but there's still a lot of dragons
another one I run into all the time is SAN booting. Sounds great, iPXE supports it, so why doesn't everyone just use that? The SAN will be the block device instead of a local disk. But you can't even use this technology unless the kernel itself knows how to talk to the SAN, so it will need a full iSCSI client built in.
That's why we're stuck with NFS roots and all these other shitty options, ISOs are expected to be tiny (because memdisk), etc etc. Some distros will let you boot one way, others wont because the distro compiled the kernel with options missing, etc etc.

2026-07-30 16:27:15 CEST

- reply

Why are the delivery/read checkmarks, timestamp, and the padlock on the left side for your own message?? The padding of everything is terrible
And why the giant green padlock in the upper right to tell you the chat is encrypted if you're showing the padlock on the messages anyway?
😭😭😭

2026-07-29 20:24:36 CEST

> For trivial (!= simple) code, one can probably argue that the LLM code will not be violating anyone's copyright, however for anything remotely novel, unless you are 100% certain that all of the training data was GPLv2 or compatible, it is not legally safe to use
But if it's novel, nobody ever wrote it before ... so how could it be in the training dataset for the model ?

2026-07-28 17:54:02 CEST

- reply

I want to teach some agents to use libxo on FreeBSD instead of parsing the default tool output... this is a superpower nobody else has right now

2026-07-27 19:02:59 CEST

- reply

this is the thing that amazes me about humans. Somehow your body can just scream MORE MORE MORE for that and I'd be checked out after one burger or one pack of nuggs

2026-07-27 18:16:50 CEST

- reply

I know of pretty serious CVEs that have been reported privately to several projects like Go2social, Snac2, etc that were all found with frontier AI models
edit: snac2 is probably something nobody should be using exposed to the internet, especially when the maintainer chooses to ignore half the CVE reports

2026-07-27 05:41:36 CEST

- reply

just want to be sure: have you ever seen this ? It was linked from the standards list
https://github.com/chatmail/core/blob/main/spec.md#chat-mail-specification

2026-07-27 04:04:39 CEST

- reply

why aren't they options? You can write your own little core in C# with pgp/imap/smtp and do it yourself and have your own API forever if you really want

2026-07-27 03:56:58 CEST

- reply

because deltachat-core is a nice implementation of the core protocols in a simple Rust package and presents a clean JSON-RPC API for you to build anything you want on top of it. And none of that has anything to do with accessibility anyway, that's all in the UI. So as long as you have a UI you can control, you're fine

2026-07-27 03:49:44 CEST

- reply

> key exchange
It's Autocrypt, there's an RFC for it
Mime headers being encrypted? There's an RFC for it
The subject header being changed to [...] is a client / chatmail server implementation detail unnecessary
The Date header being smeared +- a few days is a client implementation detail too
None of that is required
All you needed to do to read the message in your email client is decrypt it. There are users reading messages in Thunderbird/Mutt/Proton Mail

2026-07-27 03:41:14 CEST

- reply

there is no "library" to write. It's PGP emails and SMTP/IMAP. Go ahead and do it yourself, there's nothing proprietary being implemented. It's just emails.
Name a feature that you think is some secret proprietary thing

2026-07-27 03:35:31 CEST

- reply

you're completely wrong we have third party clients and more coming all the time
https://github.com/trufae/parla
https://lambadalambda.github.io/estuary/
Unreleased tui client by @npub1cvr…k5na

2026-07-26 21:40:24 CEST

- reply

there's always Delta Chat which solved almost all of these problems already :)

2026-07-22 21:43:14 CEST

- reply

unless the energy is truly "free" to do this recycling it will never happen because right now virgin plastics are essentially "free" and I don't see that changing in my lifetime anyway (NOW+50 years)

2026-07-22 21:23:53 CEST

- reply

which plastics? i'd wager not the bulk of our plastics

2026-07-21 20:01:49 CEST

- reply

why not? He has the entire NYPD. The Feds aren't walking around holding hands with NYPD officers. They can absolutely act and do things that are illegal. They do it all the time. Maybe they'll arrest Mamdani for ordering it, but they could still do it.
The only hard part is getting Netanyahu of the US airspace before the Feds can intervene.
Of course this entire plan falls apart if Netanyahu is given Feds as a security detail as soon as he lands.

2026-07-21 19:32:07 CEST

- reply

> You have to have a legal basis for the original arrest.
haha, in this America? no, that's not how we do things anymore. You arrest him now and hand him over, deal with the consequences in the courts later

2026-07-21 18:48:06 CEST

- reply

> The International Criminal Court warrant has no power here since the U.S.
couldn't they arrest him and hand him over to be extradited to somewhere else that IS a signatory?

2026-07-15 19:50:23 CEST

Loving this new timeline where people now hate Linus Torvalds because he won't give into the mind virus that has infected so many people in tech
#note18yz…dv6x

2026-07-15 18:27:33 CEST

Proud to be #TailscaleFree

2026-07-15 01:01:44 CEST

YOU MORONS
WE DON'T WANT PERMANENT DST
WE WANT PERMANENT STANDARD TIME
#note1qxm…f4h3

2026-07-09 02:55:19 CEST

- reply

we should make a social network for men who are unemployed or on disability, it will have all their favorite people on it

2026-07-09 02:43:26 CEST

- reply

why should a reply my friend made to someone I don't even know be blasted to my timeline, it's like this image just sending your boys in for backup
https://media.friedcheese.us/uploads/9e/bc/29/9ebc29526b7423d559bca2775b34f00dc1aab64ee67dd8d6c64e3d02d1cc4342.gif

2026-07-07 22:19:21 CEST

- reply

oh yeah chickens are good at taking out mice/rats too

2026-07-07 20:40:57 CEST

- reply

whoa how did you come to the conclusion that I care about any of this and that I don't instead love making fun of people who are outraged by Mamadani's existence

2026-07-07 20:36:21 CEST

- reply

I'm not a cat person. They're not my vibe. But I love animals. I don't want someone's beloved pet to end up dead, but if you're letting them roam freely they're not your pet.
Cats can and should roam freely on a farm. They have a job to do, and they do it. Well, they did, and then we started using so much permethrin on cattle that the farm cats die because it's poisonous to them.
But yeah there's no such thing as an "outdoor cat" that is your "pet" when you don't live on a farm. And even then, "pet" is a stretch. They have an important job to do, they're not your companion for pleasure. People aren't letting their barn cats come into their homes.

2026-07-07 20:29:57 CEST

- reply

I can't believe Mamdani redirected the funding for the Pfizer building columns and gave it away to the welfare queens. This could have been prevented if we voted harder.

2026-07-07 20:27:48 CEST

"outdoor" cats have done enough damage to our environment/ecosystems, it's time for the USA to pass laws allowing trapping/shooting of them as varmints tbqh

2026-07-07 02:51:22 CEST

- reply

it is astonishing in the few i read how reports were ignored, victims badly treated by authorities

2026-07-07 02:46:54 CEST

- reply

of course, wouldn't expect anything less than white privilege in the trafficking game too
this world is demented man

2026-07-07 02:42:06 CEST

- reply

EWRONGOPINION 🤖

2026-07-07 02:41:28 CEST

- reply

is it true there was a turf war between this gang and Epstein? I heard Maxwell was pounding the streets, roughing them up for taking his girls

2026-07-07 02:31:15 CEST

- reply

follow these two links and you shall be enlightened
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2026-06/msg00000.html
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6810978a41bbc42489eafa81/t/6a314bb1151e511944bd4421/1781615537601/The+Rape+Gang+Inquiry+Report.pdf
apparently people are really mad that this document discusses the potential existence of a rape gang made up of Muslim men in the UK. I have no way to verify if the victim/witness testimonies are real or not, we just have to take this document at face value I guess

2026-07-07 02:28:19 CEST

- reply

ok i looked at the mailing list
> GNU Parallel 20260622 ('Rape Gang Inquiry') has been released. It is
> available for download
> at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4
I don't know that band, but they sound lame

2026-07-07 02:18:21 CEST

- reply

it's a strange situation and what's worse is I don't even know what they're mad about because everyone censors it and I'm too lazy to look lol

2026-07-07 01:44:39 CEST

first they came for the ghosts
https://media.friedcheese.us/uploads/60/df/b6/60dfb6d6e59fdce454be5c3c39575bb40863c9e732ed35965cc317a65dd00baf.webp

2026-07-07 01:12:04 CEST

I've seen more things built on Delta Chat in the past 6 months than anything has been built on Veilid in the past few years :laugh:
and Delta Chat isn't even an overlay network, but you can certainly build entire applications on top of it like it is!
honestly Iroh is always going to be a better solution than Veilid anyway

2026-07-04 01:37:03 CEST

- reply

mmm. Well, strategically perhaps the idea is that if you "buy" hardware you can signal to adversaries that we have something that "works" to intimidate them

2026-07-03 21:33:43 CEST

- reply

100+ load average and ssh/shell is perfectly responsive
:glomp: I love you FreeBSD

2026-07-03 21:32:44 CEST

- reply

busy server is busy
https://media.friedcheese.us/uploads/b0/3b/fe/b03bfe6fe112ebd04a38ee7666505ff7ec806af37e2b4ab55fb60fa6654efbc5.webp

2026-07-03 21:30:17 CEST

people out there still think ZFS ARC is broken and can't shrink due to memory pressure
https://media.friedcheese.us/uploads/a7/2c/39/a72c39d88c747387683bbceda6ece968dce90d7f740e8a9985a26c2c7aa2fb6e.webp

2026-07-03 21:10:43 CEST

- reply

I always get responses like
"but we've had exponential improvements in the last few years!"
"I've actually written math libraries for quantum computers (that they have never run on, because they don't exist)"
"you can actually rent (totally not living up to the hype) quantum CPUs right now from Amazon etc to do work with!"
*BIG YAWN*

2026-07-03 21:07:23 CEST

- reply

it's nice to have someone grounded in reality to whinge about this with me 🤝

2026-07-03 20:36:24 CEST

- reply

we're going to have another Srinivasa Ramanujan type person someday just show up and prove we've made mistakes with some of these new algorithms

2026-07-03 20:28:44 CEST

- reply

the (furry) made a comment in the IETF thread about how the hybrid won't matter "after Q-Day" which is hilarious because
a) they think Q-Day will actually happen (I don't think this is possible unless we have materials science breakthroughs)
b) they still think that MLKEM is perfect when a previous cipher (SIKE) that was a finalist ended up being broken
:laugh:

2026-07-03 19:09:32 CEST

guys there's something important going on in computers right now and you have two choices
https://media.friedcheese.us/uploads/25/f6/2d/25f62d47a155f8c9aca815d09ec42407dc412df38f50417d0f49c19c8927b856.webp

2026-07-01 18:47:48 CEST

- reply

To be fair this is just what you get from abstractions, there's no way around it.

2026-07-01 18:46:11 CEST

But your 10 lines of python code is actually thousands of lines of code underneath and it's pretty terrible code too, to be honest
https://media.friedcheese.us/uploads/7d/0b/bb/7d0bbb144d33603e48a9a6127708e499e12965ba909a4afed74000c3e7a53908.webp

2026-07-01 04:21:57 CEST

- reply

But what we have created is not even capable of doing what we're trying to achieve. Microsoft's latest can only hold a qubit state for 20 seconds. I don't care if someone comes out tomorrow with a quantum cpu that has a billion qubits -- it's meaningless unless they actually can old state indefinitely when actively powered.
This is my favorite quote from last year because it sums up the situation so well:
> 2^64 work that is non-paralellizable isn't a threat. 64 bits of classical security is insufficient because computers can do thousands of operations in parallel, and you can combine the effort of millions of computers. Grover's algorithm gives you a sequential complexity of 2^64, so if you have a quantum comptuer with a clock speed of 20GHZ (current quantum computers are in the khz to low mhz range), and you pretend that the quantum computer can process 14 rounds of AES per clock cycle (in reality it would be hundreds of cycles), it will take a quantum computer running for 30 years continuously to crack a single key (and if the temperature ever rises 1 millionth of a degree or the computer loses power for a nanosecond, you have to start over).
Alright so let's pretend for a second that these problems are mostly solved. We have other hurdles:
- no room temperature superconductors, so they need massive cooling
- This means we need He-3 which we have an alarming shortage of
Also need to find a way to ensure power stays as stable as stated above
- Needs to be paired with a classical CPU, remember. They don't work on their own, so for situations where we're crunching large amounts of data with them we are limited by the speed of our current busses to feed them
- Also we are in a massive hardware crunch so there's no chance anyone is going to build this soon
- We're suffering grid capacity issues, big doubt a datacenter with quantum computers will use less power than an AI datacenter so those hurdles remain
Assuming I live another 50 years, I still don't think they'll be possible by then.

2026-07-01 01:22:27 CEST

- reply

integrity. what is that like, jack?

2026-07-01 01:18:22 CEST

- reply

it's hard to swallow but he's not wrong. A not insignificant number of people de-transition which means it's obviously not an immutable characteristic.
It sucks but it's true.

2026-07-01 01:11:46 CEST

Trans isn't even recognized as a protected class under the Equal Protection Clause (United States v. Skrmetti) so why would the Supreme Court rule that you MUST allow someone to play in a gender segregated sport based on what they identify as?
People out here like WOW SUPREME COURT BAD, HOW COULD THEY

2026-07-01 00:59:02 CEST

- reply

yeah the crypto is real but the computers are never gonna happen

2026-07-01 00:49:20 CEST

- reply

stop believing in quantum computers, that's the first mistake

2026-06-30 02:40:32 CEST

- reply

I don't think it's possible for people to ever gain perspective on this without having lived in both big cities and rural towns.
If you grow up in a city like that, the hustle and culture is all you know. Your entire life experience is defined by the limitations of what's around you and the behavior of everyone you interact with.
I think NYC is one of the worst because of how romanticized it is. But spend a week there (as long as you're not from another big city) and you'll find your agitation and anxiety levels rising to new heights. For me it's mostly from the noise. It never ends. It's SO DAMN LOUD THERE all the time.
There's a lot I love about NYC but I'm sorry, my brain developed in a cabin in the woods essentially. It can't handle that constant noise. It hurts. I can't sleep. You can't get away from it. The city is literally an echo chamber.
Fuck they got some good pizza and entertainment though.
edit: e.g., have you heard before of people who grew up in the city moving to the country and feeling uncomfortable because it's "too quiet"? I think there's something deeper here we should really study

2026-06-30 02:20:09 CEST

- reply

every single person who grew up there and isn't poor as fuck spends all of their time energy and money on their appearance, their cars, etc. People will rent an apartment for $4k and then have a $6k a month Lambo just so they can look cool. And then they're broke as fuck.
And the BBLs is no joke, it has overtaken the boob jobs and lip fillers by a huge margin. I used to count how many BBLs I'd see per day and I just had to stop counting, it was too many. My wife was friends with this Cuban girl who has fibrosis/back issues from her BBL not being cared for properly after the surgery. Just insane man. She was so attractive too, she didn't need a fucking BBL
Damn they had some good restaurants though. But there's nothing else to do there. It's a concrete hellscape. I used to drive a long way to find a park with good tree coverage to take my dog to. It really was making me depressed how little "nature" existed down there.
Beach is ok, but sucks for a good part of the year because of pollution in the water (sewage) or sargassum.
Want to go out on a boat? That'll be a minimum of ~$1000 for a couple hours.
Nothing else to do but stay inside or go to the club and do drugs.

2026-06-30 02:11:50 CEST

- reply

it's so weird seeing this content having lived there for over 2 years, every day walking around right in the middle of where all this footage was taken.
Everything there is fake. It's amazing really.

2026-06-30 01:24:11 CEST

> Floyd Mayweather is now facing financial issues after his insane spending habits: Over 100 luxury cars, 40+ diamond watches (including an $18M Jacob & Co.), multiple mansions, private jets, super yachts & more.
He has liquidity problems, that's about it. He can sell it all and be fine if he's not completely illiterate.

2026-06-30 01:10:33 CEST

so companies like GoPro and Sonos are seriously concerned they're going to go out of business because they can't afford to manufacture anything
I bet the Sonos CEO is shitting themselves that they forced everyone to upgrade their hardware now when they could have focused harder on minimizing their resource usage so their hardware costs would stay lower

2026-06-30 01:07:47 CEST

IKEv2 should be our next President
https://media.friedcheese.us/uploads/20/89/86/208986042e544ed49ed0f24080d5fe61885b78033b85e873ab1315dc4f91a161.webp

2026-06-30 00:37:55 CEST

- reply

I even got VTI working!
to be fair though, IPSEC is only complicated because we let it be complicated. The terminology used is needlessly confusing and standard configurations could be simplified a lot by also trimming all the ESP proposals/groups down to a few sane modern options.
It works and it's very well integrated into the OS kernels. Plus it doesn't have Wireguard's MTU issues (zero awareness of PMTU) and you can use a strong preshared key with IPSEC much like Wireguard. You can also avoid the path of x509 hell that OpenVPN leads you down, but IPSEC can do certs if you really need to...
OpenVPN *does* work quite well for site to site VPNs but it's kind of heavy handed for that and if the other end is a firewall/router and not a real server OS it might not be a viable option anyway.
(I'll note that OpnSense's *client* OpenVPN is broken right now -- I can't get it to work because it wants to validate the certificate but it can't because it doesn't own the CA for it, and I can't get the CA cert imported in a way that makes OpenVPN client happy... and can't turn this validation off because they don't expose the raw configuration files... so is anyone using this?)

2026-06-30 00:20:18 CEST

There should be a tshirt like "I touched IPSEC in 2026 and survived"