Physics - Information Theory - Game Theory. In that order.
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I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here but due to our stupid safetism we are literally sending all of our sensitive vulnerability data to China because that is somehow going to never be exploited.
Reality of our days:
1. I am sitting on a set of vulns (4+) that allows me to remotely take over a consumer home automation device I have (3+ diff ways).
2. The vendor doesn't only serve consumers, but also critical infra (announced partnerships include pharma manufacturing plants, airport logistics, hospitals, etc) across various locations in Europe and the US (not the same product line, ofc, so maybe moot).
3. Claude and Astra refuse to help me explore even my own device, so now I'm using Chinese hosted models for investigating.
4. The vendor (with a revenue of $0.75B) does not maintain any security disclosure practice whatsoever, nor does respond to emails.
So, to recap, I need to outsource vulnerability hunting of (potentially, I don't know) critical western infrastructure to Chinese models, because the western models refuse; and the vendor doesn't give a shit. Fun timeline.
PS: The vendor is Swiss.
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Welp, I guess I won't ever buy a cybertruck. Like I get Elon's point about scarcity of talent and space but like run 3 shifts 24/7 until demand is done. I would have taken a long range for 20k less but I can't pull the trigger on the beast. I'l pay extra later I'm sure.
Tesla has just officially stopped taking orders for the Cybertruck Premium AWD trim. Additionally, Tesla has raised the starting price of the Cyberbeast trim by $7,500 or 7.3% to $109,990 (from $102,490 before).
The Cyberbeast trim is now the only trim you can order.
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We need more datacenters.
check out pr #24 i opened to convert musicxml notation into notes so ppl can do fun arrangements and performances from musicxml files
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Why are we doing the whole Atlas shrugged thing, like the parallels are stupid. We don’t have to do this.
SpaceX and Tesla have prospered in Texas, because we were not constantly operating under an oppressive and extractive state government.
And I need to be close to the factories, so that I can walk the floor in person. That’s why the first major SpaceX factory was in LA and first major Tesla factory was in SF Bay Area.
As California became increasingly difficult, due to extreme taxes and overregulation, we moved our major domestic expansions and HQ to Texas.
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I’m going back to Motorola, late dumb phone and early smartphone days they were some of my favorite phones, moto X being peak.
Motorola Signature 27 dropping with official GrapheneOS support is the wildest hardware plot twist of the year.
First non-Pixel device to actually allow custom root of trust and verified boot re-locking. Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. 7,000 mAh battery with 90W charging. Zero Google/carrier telemetry out of the box once flashed.
$1,600 is steep, matching maxed-out iPhone pricing. For a dedicated cold-signing brick, it’s massive overkill—a used Pixel still wins on cost. But as a daily driver with zero-telemetry, hardened malloc, and true hardware freedom? Finally, an uncompromising endgame beast.
Gonna wait a couple months for the stable official builds to roll out before pulling the trigger.
Gonna harden your bonk once in a while.
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The right needs to understand that it’s only fascist whenever they use power but the left it is always just and good. They have no principles only a lust for power driven by envy wrapped in. We have to have the confidence to wield power or be forever disenfranchised.
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What people don’t realize this is actually defense spending but it’s poorly spent since they could just solve it by increasing energy production and reducing its cost.
31% of the EU budget is farm subsidies.
Defense gets 1.2%.
Borders get 2%.
Farm handouts get 25x what defense gets and 15x what borders get.
Europe faces a land war on its eastern flank and years of uncontrolled migration. The response is a giant welfare machine, while actual security is ignored.
They’re not preparing for the next decade.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Misleading: defence and borders are mostly funded by member states. EU countries spent €418B on defence in 2025 (2.2% of GDP).
EU farm support is higher than in the US (19% vs 12% of farm receipts, 2019), but it is not 31% of public spending.
eda.europa.eu/news-and-event…
sgp.fas.org/crs/row/R46811…
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Zero and one are very different numbers they can’t allow us to see a control as to what a sense of national and religious identity can do vs the endless flood of multiculturalism destroying any sense of identity or cohesion.
Hope you guys know they’re doing this because Poland is the only large practicing Catholic nation left in the first world and they want to destroy it as quickly as they can
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120 years and the Irish have budged despite being flooded with foreigners. In 1909 they just straight up massacred even just 500 English. If you think remigration is hard read history.
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Just bought some pre WWII encyclopedia and first random entry I opened to was this. Gonna be adding this to my vocabulary and toolset.
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I think the biggest divide in society is the algorithm's we and platforms which give us our information space. Views by platform, X: 1 mil, Youtube: 30k, tiktok: 1 repost with 3 views, Insta: not there.
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If any Japanese company want to hire me as personality hire I’ll definitely help spread American Midwest culture for the benefit of the whole company I’m in.
My coworker spent one year in Tennessee.
He came back to Tokyo two months ago.
He is not the same man.
He says "y'all" in meetings. To our boss.
He holds the door for the entire floor. Twelve people. Every morning.
He asked the convenience store clerk how her day was going. She had to sit down.
He calls every man "bud." Including the CEO.
He refuses to describe anything under three hours away as "far."
He waves at drivers who let him cross. One driver waved back and almost hit a pole.
Last week, he told a junior employee, "I'm proud of you."
She went to the restroom and cried for ten minutes.
We thought it would wear off.
It didn't. It's spreading.
Three people in accounting now say "y'all."
The junior employee holds the door.
The convenience store clerk asks HIM how his day is going.
Tennessee, I don't know what you did to him.
Please do it to the rest of us.
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Like magic packets that insta own the silicon? Or are we talking like mega spectre and meltdown. Should I start buying FPGAs and putting risc cores on them to run critical infra?
I’ve heard several OAI people say there are unfixable bugs in hardware that are exploitable by AI models directly speaking machine code so even if we could solve software that’s not enough. We need defense to move faster than offense if that’s even possible we may just have a new normal that requires adapting to insecure software (bank transfers require going into a branch and taking a dna test 🤣😬)
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I feel like Europe will be a sacrifice that will summon something so counteractively violent that it completely remakes most of the world. History has never ended, violence is the rule and not the exception.
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I think the reason the world is so enamored by Japan is because it is Japanese. Not specifically Japanese but the fact that it is so distinctly a nation of a people and culture. I can’t think of another country which has the same sense of itself.
Compare to Tokyo. It went from 99% native Japanese to 95% in the same period. I first visited in 2006 when it was 97%. It's almost the same now.
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Electrical prices are a matter of national security. The pencil pushers that shipped our foundries, smelters, and blast furnaces overseas cut demand for electricity and cut the investment needed to lower prices. NRC needs treason charges and whoever dreamed it up.
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Wtf is the point of voting if judges can just veto everything you vote for.
US District Judge Jinsook Ohta has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate the diversity visa lottery for 2027, issuing a preliminary injunction to allow 55,000 people from around the world to apply for permanent residence in the US.
Ohta was appointed by the Joe Biden administration.
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