Caleb James DeLisle

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2026-08-12 19:27:40 UTC

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Attorney will file for change of venue until they get a boomer judge.
Boomers will move heaven and earth to ensure no woman ever faces the consequences of her actions. She'll get community service.

2026-08-11 22:38:33 UTC

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Agreed in that most prisons are run almost as badly as they possible can be.
It's like they made a deal with the gangs to just give them infinite recruiting and an environment where they can do whatever the fuck they want.
Japanese prisons are a lot better - but IMO could be better still: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLeM1BH1fNA

2026-08-11 22:20:32 UTC

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> Did you personally already experience it once or several times
Crime? No. I live in a place where there is ~no crime.
> that you changed your habits?
Me? No. I'm not a criminal.
> Do you think humans have the possibility to change their habits?
The data says "not really". What does happen though is people are misclassified and when you change their environment, they lock in and thrive. But that's not actually them changing, that's just someone discovering their superpower once they change environment.

2026-08-11 22:07:19 UTC

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In reality, this stuff is super complicated and I'm not aware of any country that really gets it right.
You might have an assault and battery on one hand, and a shoplifting case on the other - but the A&B guy is a normal guy who lost his temper, while the shoplifter is someone that is never going to be of any value to society whatsoever.
GENERALLY bike thieves fall in the second category, but I'm not going to try to define a rule here. The correct strategy is to risk model whether someone will ever be a valuable member of society or if they will be a useless leech forever - and then act accordingly.
And you don't even have to do some shit like Social Credit, you can just run over the past 50 years of crime data and determine the likelihood that a person with X priors and who did Y crime is ever going to be a non-criminal, and sentence accordingly.
Of course no country really does this AFAIK, either through malice or incompetence, criminal justice is typically a bad joke.

2026-08-11 21:51:40 UTC

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We'll see how you feel when you see my political opinions :P

2026-08-11 21:50:27 UTC

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I don't really care what someone has written about Broken Windows Theory.
I can tell without even getting out of my chair that Tokio has lower murder and lower scooter theft. Johannesburg has higher murder and higher scooter theft. I'd rather live in Tokio. I don't wanna lock up my scooter.
In fact, I wouldn't even mind if they'd snatch scooter thieves off the street and sell them into slavery - because I don't steal scooters, my friends don't steal scooters, my kids are strongly educated not to steal scooters. So people who steal scooters are not people.

2026-08-11 21:47:01 UTC

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Nah, that's just how I reached the conclusion myself. I reason out by first principles whenever possible because ThE LiTeRaTuRe is full of bullshit.

2026-08-11 21:14:04 UTC

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Here comes the "you're all too scared to live in a dynamic modern city" posting...
> You won't get stabbed as long as you don't ride the subway or go out after dark.
> Look over your shoulder dude, it's not that hard
> 50,000 rapes a year is just the price you have to pay for good street food
(Some people actually don't want to live like that)

2026-08-11 21:10:02 UTC

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Well I guess the job doesn't want you either because counter-flow is by far the most efficient.
When you think about it for a minute, you can see why: Imagine you had a heat exchanger a mile long with the fluids flowing as slow as molasses.
With same direction of flow, the flows A and B are hot and cold at one end - but at the other end, they're both the same temperature.
With counter-flow, A and B are hot and cold as they enter, but then they're cold and hot as they exit, because B is able to slowly be heated up by exposure to hotter and hotter A.

2026-08-11 17:18:49 UTC

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Everybody's kind of circling around the obvious conclusion, but they're uncomfortable admitting it.
1. There are people who cannot be allowed to go in certain places or else those places will be destroyed.
2. But letting those people to live and organize amongst their own is sending them "straight to hell".
Therefore, colonialism was, in fact, an act of tremendous kindness.

2026-08-10 20:08:34 UTC

Fucking str*amers are doing the public service that cops would never ever ever ever ever ever ever even so much as think about imagine possibly doing.
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2026-08-09 22:59:15 UTC

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I'm not entirely sure how American they are, The Guy who really lead the charge here is a South African Boer...

2026-08-09 20:56:44 UTC

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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 20:53:42 UTC

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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.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/80f0e7635c469f44fdc64f306c9cff7e12b57293d69a87b5fc353d40ae293fcd.mp4

2026-08-09 19:49:05 UTC

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 00:59:13 UTC

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> that's probably the answer they're looking for
Read the question. It says "more efficient".

2026-08-08 17:38:07 UTC

> SpaceX interview question?
For what? The janitor?
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2026-08-03 17:50:28 UTC

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For what?
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/bb670f715382473914505c46930a7701a098d5214df6cdc042d5fa61c07c18a1.png

2026-07-30 18:59:33 UTC

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Time is a flat circle
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2026-07-30 17:19:49 UTC

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I was sad to see Tiny Tapeout shut down. Thank you guys for continuing this!
There isn't a lot that makes me really irrationally "nerd out", but being able to make your own ICs definitely qualifies :)

2026-07-28 15:42:04 UTC

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Kulak made a fairly decent point re Putin: Anyone who was "above" him in 2000 was probably old enough then to be dead by now, so it's more than likely that he is actually the single most powerful person in Russia right now.

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 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 11:40:05 UTC

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Trump is gonna fake his assassination and then it'll be Vance - who is gonna run again and win, and this will swing it to the Silicon Valley, VC, Thiel power center.

2026-07-26 11:31:09 UTC

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They all have homes, and families, and lives, and if anything happens to him - the first thing the police are gonna do is check where each one of them was at that time - so if they do it, they WILL get caught.
And the best that it can come out for them is they deep6 an animal. There's like 50 million more where he came from. It actually solves nothing.

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...

2026-07-25 11:23:22 UTC

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Just as centralized systems are becoming unreliable, it's a good thing whole house reverse osmosis is now fairly affordable.

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 13:41:13 UTC

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My perspective is nuanced here because I have friends that are Jews, and they are very respectful and never try to convince me of some transparently stupid shit...
But then I see a lot of these insanely bad takes online and I'm like ... is this person even real?

2026-07-24 10:41:15 UTC

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You can cringe about it, especially if you're a client with Too Much Money... But if you remove it from a browser, the person using that browser is gonna have a bad time...

2026-07-24 09:01:54 UTC

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That must have either been a long time ago, or they must not be using those systems for browsing the web, because LetsEncrypt is like 99% of the "I don't care I just want my website to work" certificates. Including everything I run...

2026-07-23 21:42:13 UTC

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*slug

2026-07-23 21:40:15 UTC

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

2026-07-23 21:24:11 UTC

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

2026-07-23 21:19:26 UTC

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

2026-07-23 21:15:13 UTC

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

2026-07-23 12:26:51 UTC

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They can't take recover a state snapshot? 👀

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...
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2026-07-19 15:21:15 UTC

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

2026-07-17 17:44:30 UTC

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> Why would meta need 10 billion dollars worth of AI ?????
(Facebook is mostly just bots talking to bots)

2026-07-17 15:36:12 UTC

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

2026-07-17 14:08:54 UTC

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Related...
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/a3ea84c6098c1f940998d26f9e7faca171f42c263627934ef1840597755b85df.mp4

2026-07-09 14:49:01 UTC

Guess it passed.
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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 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 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...

2026-06-30 22:16:04 UTC

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I see what's going on, they have a RIPE based ASN even though they're a US based entity.
So, if this has an actual impact, the impact will be worldwide. But at this point they're still generally considered to be the owners of the ASN and IP address block and AFAIK routers are gonna still route unless someone screws with them.
That said, you don't really need your own ASN to host a website, just use normal hosting at a hosting company.
Second thing: If you're gonna spread your operation across jurisdictions, do it the smart way - redundant. Don't do it the insanely dumb way, where you have single points of failure in multiple places....

2026-06-30 21:45:11 UTC

GAB [dot] AI shutting down?
Either they're really fucking bad at networking, or they're doing this intentionally.
You wanna host a website? Host it anywhere you want, it's not like the hosting company is gonna know what's running on it...
Frontend: Cloudflare
Backend, email sender, etc: Use a goddamn VPN.
You don't know the IP address of Pkteerium (hint: It's not OVH) and this is a dumb personal project.
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2026-06-30 14:20:07 UTC

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Oh also it's highly dangerous and you MUST wear long pants and leather shoes at the very least. So if it's hot, you're gonna sweat and that's that.

2026-06-30 13:50:58 UTC

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

2026-06-26 14:14:47 UTC

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

2026-06-26 14:03:08 UTC

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

2026-06-26 13:52:54 UTC

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

2026-06-26 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.
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2026-06-09 21:36:20 UTC

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Lets see what they do.
Rioting is a good start because it's a public ritual acknowledgment that violence is going to be necessary.
But it's not going to force any change, what will force change is making the middle managerial class deeply fearful for their safety.
The top is easy to protect. If you can get them, that's a massive flex, but its an unnecessary flex because the middle is far too numerous to protect.
Secondarily, the entire regime is dripping with cowardice and risk aversion, so the moment they think there's a threat Out There and that they too are at risk - they will lean HEAVILY on their bosses to cut a deal.
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2026-06-08 09:58:44 UTC

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You never hear about a military junta that kills 1/3 of the population, or steals everything.
Whenever there's a dictator, it's always the same story: They kill like 1000 people who were the absolute fucking wart on the asshole of the country, and then everyone else lives happily ever after.
Except the communists who spend the next 50 years writing butthurt about how their comrades were pitched out of helicopters.
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2026-06-08 08:36:15 UTC

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“The Society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”
― Thucydides
(Junta Supremacy)

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.
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2026-05-28 10:46:08 UTC

An Iron Dome for blasting Bill Gates's Flying Monkeys.
I am definitely buying one of these when they start shipping...
https://photonmatrixlab.com/
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2026-05-26 23:09:27 UTC

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That got rewritten in rust back in like 2021

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 00:12:01 UTC

This is basically how I introduce myself at an event.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/a51850ff8c462327502d48a91fdc56fe2f74c8ffec15b1dc31d5d097d9633977.mp4

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 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 19:32:06 UTC

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Thought it was some competitor to snap...
Anyway, I'm not challenging your experience. Linux desktop distros all suck. I've never found a single one that wasn't utter dog shit to use, with "was he drunk" level bugs everywhere you look...

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 19:26:43 UTC

linux sucks, use linux or linux instead (linux things) (it actually sucks)
#nevent1q…2v90

2026-05-22 08:36:48 UTC

> Good news
> The tests came back negative
> The doctor said:
#nevent1q…zqzg

2026-05-22 05:31:17 UTC

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

2026-05-21 06:09:52 UTC

With the evolution of batteries, it looks as though internal combustion engines will be relegated to some pretty narrow niches - if not supplanted entirely.
But there's something about them that EVs can never really replace, and it doesn't seem to even have a name. Internal Combustion Engines are "alive" in a way that electric motors can never be.
> That's just how you perceive it, human
Don't care. It's our world, technology should exist on our terms.
Even if electric motors and batteries win every race, (video) is something they can never really do (unless through a pathetic bunch of fake technological theater).
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/3564d2f1f444bd158252e3e6e866287434230ae805289a435d50bd290261b586.webm

2026-05-19 11:20:13 UTC

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What an amazing idea, I'm sure it's completely impossible that anything could ever go wrong.
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2026-05-19 08:22:50 UTC

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

2026-05-19 06:01:20 UTC

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

2026-05-19 04:27:03 UTC

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

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

2026-05-18 13:47:11 UTC

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

2026-05-18 13:30:42 UTC

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

2026-05-18 13:22:26 UTC

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

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