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These paired with Janus Electric[0] conversions would make a hell of a road train.

[0] https://januselectric.com/

I always welcome, and look forward to, being proven wrong.

No one who is impressed by the current applications of LLMs should be in any way involved with making decisions which affect those not similarly cognitively impaired.

It’s no different to religions or economics.

‘AI’ is my newest litmus test for whether who I’m engaging with should be taken seriously or not.

‘AI’ doesn’t exist, and LLMs have vanishingly narrow legitimate justifiable use cases. Any output from one is intrinsically, explosively, imprecise, and can’t be trusted to be build upon without specialist treatment. I’m yet to identify any application of a LLM which can rationally be mistaken for intelligence.

Anyone who persists in referring to LLMs as ‘AI’ is either betraying they don’t understand what they’re talking about, or they’re invested too deeply in an active grift.

…or cDc[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow

The use case for Ternary logic I’m familiar with for is TCAMs in networking gear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_memory#Ter...

I use this all the time:

open -a <GUI Application> <File>

Handy for distinguishing between editing and consuming media.

I originally had only my MX hosts listed in my SPF record, and configured to accept them exclusively. Microsoft unilaterally blocked the entire /23 my VPS resides within, and refused to exclude my configured IPs from their block.

The only way I’m currently able to deliver anything to domains hosted by Microsoft is to expand my SPF record to include my ISP’s mail hosts, and route delivery through them.

Microsoft, and the other SMTP cartel thugs, are undermining the protections these protocols were designed to provide.

Guilty until proven innocent, an excellent initial position.

I’ve had to relax my SPF record to include the entire mail pool of my ISP to be able to send to anything hosted by Microsoft. I tried to liaise with them directly, and through Linode, but they refused to exclude the IP from their opaque blocklist. Their proposed solution was to change the IP of the VPS, but that’s just agreeing to play whack-a-mole with a bad faith actor.

There should be a path to greater transparency and accountability from the SMTP cartels, but I’m at a loss as to how that can manifest.

It’s randomised in a similar way to how iOS creates privacy MAC addresses for each WiFi SSID.

The merchant receives the same ‘random’ card number for transactions from the same device.

It can in the near term, as each endpoint has a unique public identifier instead of being mixed with multiple endpoints behind a NAT gateway, but less so over the long term, as privacy addresses are typically rotated at least daily.

Of course, all of this needs to be included in a broader discussion around myriad vectors of tracking and fingerprinting to arrive at a meaningful conclusion.

I watched _The Good Place_ when it originally aired, the strongest residual and most attractive concept was _The Final Door_. This has promoted it on my rewatch queue.

This is largely why I’m on disability and have not been a “functional” member of society for the better part of a decade. I have been unable to identify a role available to me which will not materially make things worse. This leaves the only viable options as living in abject poverty, or ceasing to exist, the latter frequently more attractive.

A: I already explicitly avoid products that are encrusted in this shit. B: I have not used either of these products since their respective changes, even though they’re otherwise still perfectly functional.

A notable flow on effect is both of these products had helped with the management and improvement of my health, and these changes have had a measurable negative impact since I’ve been unable to use them.

I want to see meaningful pushback on this indefensible move of forcing customers to establish and maintain a relationship with the manufacturer in order to use the products they sell.

Other examples are: Wahoo, who locked the control of their products behind an account and login requirement for devices which had been working perfectly fine for years prior.

Roche, who killed their blood glucose app at the start of 2023 and forced all their users to move to a third party app, developed by one of their subsidiaries, which requires you to accept a data exfiltration clause, if they wish to continue the automagic on-device logging.

And Comcast were the biggest proponents of building IPv6 support into the DOCSIS specs, because they exhausted 10/8 in the management network for their modem fleet.

The original Ethernet spec uses CSMA/CD[0] 802.11 uses CSMA/CA[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-sense_multiple_access_... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-sense_multiple_access_...

Hills sparsely populated with corpses are equally fascinating and comical.

This equipment would be installed outside, the difference being to position it near, or coupled to, the compression loop of the heat pump. When the pump is running, it draws from the battery, which will need to dissipate heat through its operation. Why not capture that heat and redirect it where desired.

In summer, you could decouple it and use standard separate heat dissipation mechanisms.

I’ve been wondering for a while now if it would be worth coupling a heat pump coils to the heat sinks of a battery, inverter or other building electronics to help offset the diminishing returns at the lower extremes.

The simplest example would be a heat pump with its own built in UPS style battery, but I also see it being built with coupling to a power wall style house battery.

I’m sick of every product now requiring I establish, and maintain, a personal relationship with the manufacturer.

Notable examples for myself are Wahoo Fitness[1], Water Rower[2] and Roche’s Accu-Chek[3], which all now require logins and agreements to leak health data to be hosted on external services in order to continue using the products I purchased from them.

In Roche’s case, they gave barely 5 weeks notice that their apps will cease to function at the end of the year, locking all data and functionality on January 1, and punting all responsibility to their subsidiary, mySugr[4].

[1] wahoofitness.com [2] waterrower.com [3] accu-chek.com [4] mysugr.com

Charities, as they exist today, serve as a void into which corporations and governments can abdicate their respective responsibilities. Continuing to tolerate charities, at least in their current form, is complicity.

I see billionaire individuals and organised charities as polar extremes of the same policy failure. Neither should exist, and when they do it should be as an ephemeral anomaly.

Any charity which fails to prioritise putting itself out of business is functionally a grift.

If society truly valued what charities do, their activities would be intrinsically valuable, and not require a special economic status to be conjured for them to be viable.

Contorting myself to fit a mould I find profoundly reprehensible has done wonders for perpetuating my depression and suicidality.

I don’t want to develop my sociopathy to the level required to be mistaken for acceptable in what passes for society today.

Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.

It indiscriminately pollutes the environment, and inflicts harm on non participants by incentivising unbridled data collection.

I gave Google the benefit of the doubt right up until they introduced their real name policy, haven’t had an active account since.

A broadly educated population is toxic to conservative ideologies.

I’ve configured dozens of networks over the past decade to use the same SSID for both bands, and have never observed a real world issue with myriad clients. The only tweak is sometimes the 2.4GHz Tx power needs to be dropped, but it’s rare.

Some locations I’ve had to create additional bespoke SSIDs for a specific band, but it’s only because the customer has explicitly requested it because they think it matters.

Using NAT with IPv6 betrays a lack of understanding with how it’s supposed to be used, and a stubborn continuation of IPv4 kludges.

Multiple addresses/prefixes are a required component for IPv6 to function, which I suspect is often the biggest source of misunderstanding from legacy IP competency.

If you need a stable prefix for a host, use a ULA or your own GUA. If you need to provide services from 2 or more upstream networks, configure the host with addresses from each of the delegated prefixes from those networks. If you need to do all of the above, there’s nothing preventing you from configuring them all simultaneously. You can even use the IP and routing stack to provide selective service access and trust thresholds.

Prefix mobility is something that should have been anticipated when IPv6 was being hashed out, and would have made many things much easier, but it’s far from critical, and gives IPvA an easy killer use case.

My current thesis, from a position of absolute agnostic ignorance, is economics is what filled the void in society vacated by religion after the enlightenment.

They’re functionally indistinguishable, with mythology replaced by mathematics, and God replaced with GDP. Similarly, they’re both arbitrary rules; conjured, imposed, and protected from scrutiny by the ruling class.

That’s not to say it’s not useful, but I find it baffling that an imaginary concept is unquestionably granted veto over tangible and visceral phenomena.