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"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."

- T. E. Lawrence


Anarchist. Dad. Metalhead. Numbers guy. Python dev. Self-custody fanatic. Weekends-only aspiring homesteader.

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Bernard Marks · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqucjqgz447c788tkzac8geqjtcx65yt5vkyaj4d8heqk680dgzwwste29kz Israel's spy apparatus is somewhat fused with the US, and Sayanim run most of the technology industry. Hopefully everybody realizes that at this point. But yes I think you are correct ...
Paco Hope · 1w
I bought a car. I’m trying to get Toyota to stop sending telemetry. I call support. They tell me I can just sign in with the app and make changes. I point out that installing and using the app bind...
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Contemptible of Toyota, but unsurprising. Don't overthink your solution, though.

1. Find antenna
2. Snip antenna
3. ???
4. Freedom!

If you're not using its always-online features, you lose exactly nothing. And given that the car must lose comms regularly already (road tunnels, "black spots", underground car parks) it won't have been spitefully set to brick.
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Caleb James DeLisle · 1w
Wonder if you can extract the e-sim and use it to get free internet...
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Do you have any papers on this "not hard" reprogramming?

I have a few relatives and a stack of female friends in need of it lol

Psychology would suggest its nearly-impossible to change value-systems by the time they are adults, even if they are motivated to change and have willingly cut themselves off from peers who share their old values.
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In every Western country today that I've seen numbers for, a majority of young women state that they do not want children.

Of young Western women who do want children, a plurality state they want only one.

The studies don't typically ask about race, but it is a certainty that childrearing is more popular among non-White Western women than White. Numbers would be noticably even worse it only White Western young women were asked.

Young White men, however, DO typically want kids.

So just like that, any call to avoid miscegenation is, sine qua non, a call for below-replacement birth rates for Whites.


Objection: "Reeee! But White women shouldn't be like that / were not like that in the past!"

Answer: "You go to war with the army you have."


Anyone calling for greater reproduction of White genetics - without race-mixing - is gaslighting themselves. "White-AND-" is the only way more than a tiny % of you are getting grandkids.
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Can you open a terminal and dump the file as text? On Linux the command is:

strings "Inbox"

IDK what it is in Windows, mb the same.

If you can see recognisable email text, then you're gonna be fine.

If its nothing but cyphertext gibberish, you're gonna have to get in contact with your old provider, sorry...
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Paper is real, here's the abstract:

"Beneficial Bloodsucking
Parker Crutchfield, Blake Hereth
Bioethics 39 (8), 772-781, 2025

The bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha‐gal syndrome (AGS), a condition whose only effect is the creation of a severe but nonfatal red meat allergy. Public health departments warn against lone star ticks and AGS, and scientists are working to develop an inoculation to AGS. Herein, we argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible. After explaining the symptoms of AGS and how they are transmitted via ticks, we argue that tickborne AGS is a moral bioenhancer if and when it motivates people to stop eating meat. We then defend what we call the Convergence Argument: If x‐ing prevents the world from becoming a significantly worse place, doesn't violate anyone's rights, and promotes virtuous action or character, then x‐ing is strongly pro tanto obligatory; promoting tickborne AGS satisfies each of these conditions. Therefore, promoting tickborne AGS is strongly pro tanto obligatory. It is presently feasible to genetically edit the disease‐carrying capacity of ticks. If this practice can be applied to ticks carrying AGS, then promoting the proliferation of tickborne AGS is morally obligatory."
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People think of Standard Definition TVs when they think of CRTs, but there's actually no necessary connection.

Those beautiful, crisp, sharp, white lines in Asteroids are much older than television - the very first CRTs were vector-based not raster-based, and technically-capable of amazingly fine resolution. Oscilloscopes FTW!

But there were no computers around to make use of their full potential.

Any modern computer with stereo audio output can drive a vector CRT, with resolution hundreds of times sharper than a modern OLED or LCD screen. The limitations are not resolution per se, more around the rate of change your op-amps are capable of, and leakage of storage capacitors.
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The first CRT display was made in 1899, in a small workshop. Monochrome, of course.

Required technologies: glass casting, wire forming, vacuum-pumps, sheet metal fabrication.

Required materials: glass, copper wire, a fluorescent pigment, a conductive coating, and any alkali salt with thermoionic properties.

If anything "happens" to global trade flows from China's gigafactories, artisanal-built CRTs gonna come back like the 1990s never ended.

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