makes me wonder what if I just wanted to sync with nfc every once in a while. wifi seems overkill for this. maybe it could be done much cheaper with nfc sync witha phone twice a year?
Readit NewsDesiLurker commented on Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock github.com/jim11662418/ES... · Posted by u/tokyobreakfast
DesiLurker commented on Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL znah.net/graphs/... · Posted by u/znah
looks kinda like wolfarm physics project:
ref: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/11/the-concept-of-t...
DesiLurker commented on Iran is likely jamming Starlink timesofisrael.com/iran-ap... · Posted by u/ukblewis
Why are none of the people I saw posting non-stop about Palestine saying anything about Iranian freedom? Would honestly love to hear a genuine response from anyone who is against the movement in Iran. Or even conflicted about it.
I have a less charitable and more direct answer. Right now there is a notion in Left that Israeli are the oppressor. In Iran large majority of population is Persian but MINO (Muslim in name only due to dictatorship). They are struggling to get freedom from the Islamic regime and getting some help from Israel. This flips the narrative in Left's mind (if they accept it) that Muslims can be oppressors too and that is untenable for them. especially because Left in Western nations has basically aligned themselves with muslims so its easier for them to just ignore it.
BTW its not just left here, I originally hail from India and you can feel the pin-drop silence from left on Iran there too. They just hope the rebellion gets crushed by regime like other ones and they'll pretend status quo.
My TLDR takeaway: Muslims only care about when they are oppressed & Left is completely aligned with them right now.
Are you willing to take a significant salary cut to benefit people?
All the big tech companies, Google, Meta, Netflix, etc make a huge amount of money by using Ads to push things people don't need onto them, brainwashing people. This brainwashing is massively more effective with data-collection.
If tech companies didn't hoard and sell people's data, the brainwashing would be less profitable, Google would pay lower salaries, and the entire industry's salaries would go down as a result.
Salaries in the US might drop from ~$500k to $250k for an average software engineer. Would you be willing to take that sort of cut?
You could also "vote with your feet" and move to europe where the GDPR protects everyone like you want, and your salary will drop to maybe $100k USD.
thats a strawman, its not like advertisement & brainwashing people is the only way to make money in tech. I am old enough to have seen how valley was before this big-tech ad garbage showed up. In fact I'd say all this power with 7 or so big tech is hindering innovation, so, IMnsHO Fuck 'em all.
Asking 300M people to leave country and move to europe instead of fixing problems here is just stupid and at best a shoddy attempt at victim blaming.
DesiLurker commented on Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does servury.com/blog/privacy-... · Posted by u/ybceo
"The biggest thing we need is a better way to pay someone over the internet without them knowing who you are."
I've been saying that for years. Buy a prepaid card for cash at say the supermarket with xyz value on it and a unique email address included (an anonymous debit card with email). That is every new card you buy would have a different disposable email address that would expire when the card is empty.
Such a scheme could also be used to donate micro payments to opensource projects, ad-free Youtubers, etc. and do so anonymously. Moreover, it would make payments easier thus overcome the "requires effort to do" resistance when it comes to donating. Making donating super easy would I reckon greatly increase the income for all those on the receiving end.
However I can't see it happening, governments would outlaw it claiming it'd be used to transfer money for nefarious purposes, money laundering etc.
The major reason I don't donate to good/charitable causes is that I cannot do so anonymously.
Shame really.
check if they accept zcash
DesiLurker commented on Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does servury.com/blog/privacy-... · Posted by u/ybceo
I know it’s a different context, but with this catchy title, I can’t resist pointing out that anonymity also doesn’t mean anything.
You can have cryptocurrencies in your wallet, (on most chains) you are anonymous but have no privacy, your transaction history can be accessed by anyone.
It’s all fine and dandy, you can enjoy your anonymity, about as long as you make your first transaction.
You might be anonymous, but basically you hand over your full transaction history and balance anytime you pay for a coffee or tshirt.
not if you use Zcash with shielded addresses. zcash is based on zeroknowledge proofs ground up so anonymous by default not with some mixer addon.
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DesiLurker commented on OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout prospect.org/2025/11/07/o... · Posted by u/boh
I'll paste my abridged response to the 'datacenters in space' post:
... It then occurred to me that they (all major AI companies) know all of these facts (uneconomical costs) but still pushing for it so there must be another reason. Then I recalled the offhand statement from the openAI lady about govt backstop for infra, which was strongly opposed by public and AI czar. this might be be a backdoor way of injecting that backstop capital in terms of subsidies now for results in 5 years or so. and needless to say after pilot programs those will fail spectacularly.
DesiLurker commented on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? infosec.press/brunomiguel... · Posted by u/pabs3
Mozilla CEO compensations
2018: $2,458,350
2020: Over $3 million
2021: $5,591,406.
2022: $6,903,089.
2023: ~$7m
Mozilla declined to detail the CEO's salaries for 2024+
they are open source company, how can they decline to state? this is absurd, even regular companies do it.
DesiLurker commented on Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers andrewmccalip.com/space-d... · Posted by u/flinner
this does not makes sense from dollars pov to me, I ran a back of napkin session with claude & gemini on this and the short of it is you need a magical weightless radiator for cooling and even then it wont work because the launch costs need to be sub $100 before this can be feasible. this does not even factors the 5y amortization and LEO orbit drag correction.
It then occurred to me that they (all major AI companies) know all of these facts but still pushing for it so there must be another reason. Then I recalled the offhand statement from the openAI lady about govt backstop for infra, which was strongly opposed by public and AI czar. this might be be a backdoor way of injecting that backstop capital in terms of subsidies now for results in 5 years or so. and needless to say after pilot programs those will fail spectacularly.