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"If you're not paying for it, you are the product"
11 Sep 2025
The dimensions of credible exit:
– Can I export my data?
– Can I sync it over time?
– Is it in a useful format?
– Does it live in local files?
– Can multiple apps use it?
– Is the app open source?
Each dimension adds more freedom.
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Testing clustering multiple Framework Desktop Mainboards using RoCE. 50 Gbps at sub 5us latency, which is excellent for distributed inference! Thanks @dcapitella for creating a guide around this setup.
ALT Frameworn Desktop Mainboard cluster
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I've begun to force-feed myself an essay, a short story, and a poem every night.
2-3 verifiably manmade works a day to get more human-crafted words into my diet.
Here are my favorites this week synopses (all <10 minutes so -- no excuses!):
A Hanging -- George Orwell
The awkward tragedy of taking a life.
Boys and Girls -- Alice Munro
The awkward tragedy of not wanting a life to be taken.
Happy Endings -- Margaret Atwood
Writing--it's not about plot. (Funny!)
The Journey -- Mary Oliver (the goat)
How to become yourself.
Powder -- Tobias Wolff
On fatherliness (actual tears shed).
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You'd think totalitarian countries would be the first to restrict internet access behind ID verification and face scans but no, UK is speedrunning censorship to be the first one
🚨Labour confirms ID requirement at device level - VPNs useless.🚨
By forcing Apple and Google to verify age at the device level during phone setup…
Keir Starmer’s government isn’t protecting kids — it’s building a surveillance infrastructure.
The OS itself will restrict platforms like TikTok, Instagram and X, making VPNs largely useless because the block happens before any traffic leaves your phone.
🚨Once every device carries a verified age profile, authorities gain an easy route to identify users through legal requests to tech firms.
This is digital ID by the back door, sold as child safety.
Classic Labour: expand state control first, ask questions later.
thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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Jun 16
It's not piracy to make digital copies of what you own
Don't be afraid of backing up your media, or downloading it again if lost. You paid for it, and there is no harm/damage caused by copying bits of data
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This is not legal advice
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Jun 15
I'm really stoked for this project. Initially for different reasons, but especially now with all the extra pressure of potentially incoming global legislation restricting VPNs
Jun 15
We’ve been quiet… but not idle!
GnosisVPN has been building in the background, and yes we have something new for you 👀
@SCBuergel is speaking at @dappcon in Berlin on “Why Gnosis Needs a VPN”
Tune in or miss out ⬇️
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Jun 15
We’ve been quiet… but not idle!
GnosisVPN has been building in the background, and yes we have something new for you 👀
@SCBuergel is speaking at @dappcon in Berlin on “Why Gnosis Needs a VPN”
Tune in or miss out ⬇️
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Jun 13
Literally the worst cable management I've ever seen in my life
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"Elon could solve poverty tomorrow"
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Jun 13
Fable isn't the first.
In 1999 the department of defense blocked exports of the PowerMac G4 for crossing the 1 gigaflop threshold.
Steve Jobs turned it into an ad.
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Jun 14
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ECDSA is one of the most intellectually offensive constructions in modern cryptography.
It's ugly.
It's hard to thresholdize.
Indeed, every research grant and venture capital dollar spent on it is, in a final sense, a theft from better cryptography.
x.com/secparam/status/206565…
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There are so many more microphones in your home than you realize. Alexa is the tip of the iceberg.
Be careful what you plug in and connect to the internet.
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Jun 13
Here’s the same object with less exposure. It takes a LOT of exposure time to resolve the faint outer bits.
This part is actually quite bright, and fairly easily captured in single exposures through a telescope.
Jun 12
I used my 17” telescope in dark Texas skies to capture this: A star much like ours as it dies.
You can see the core of the star left behind in the center of the expanding shell.
Any planets that were around this star have been destroyed.
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Jun 12
Small wireless IoT module based on ESP32-S3 and Semtech SX1262 LoRa transceiver.
cnx-software.com/2026/06/12/…
@seeedstudio Wio-S3 measures just 21.6 x 16.5 x 3.3 mm, includes 16MB Flash and 8MB PSRAM, and supports LoRa (EU868/US915), Wi-Fi 4 and BLE 5.0 connectivity.
It features castellated holes for I/Os such as UART, I2C, SPI, ADC, and USB, and supports -40°C to 85°C operation for remote monitoring, industrial automation, smart agriculture, and IoT data logging. It's programmable with the ESP-IDF framework or Arduino.
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Jun 10
Will it one day be more economical to feed a bundle of a script, inspiration art, etc., into a generative ai locally, rather than stream 8k?
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Jun 6
THE GREAT OPENCLAW MAC MINI SELLOFF HAS STARTED!!
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Jun 6
Building a Breadboard in a @FrameworkPuter expansion card.
Drop a small dev board in the socket, prototype in a slot of your dock. Any @seeedstudio #XIAO or compatible footprint fits. Protected 5V/3V3, breadboard pins, USB passthrough.
Post: hwlab.io/blog/building-bread…
#DockFrame
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"Privacy is power - and they don't want you to have any"
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