jamal-kumar (u/jamal-kumar)

jamal-kumar commented on Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated] cnn.com/2025/08/12/busine... · Posted by u/mastry

lenkite · 15 days ago

Why didn't Kodak pivot to making smartphones ? As soon as the iPhone reveal happened, any sane executive would have realized that this is what they would need to do.

jamal-kumar · 15 days ago

Not only that, they really dropped the ball on photolithography for making chips

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPR

jamal-kumar commented on Online Collection of Keygen Music keygenmusic.tk... · Posted by u/mifydev

fortydegrees · a month ago

I've been looking for that Paradox Photoshop CS2 one for years. Great nostalgic memories.

I've always been in slight awe of these kind of teams/releases. Cracking (mostly) for the raw intellectual challenge and bundling it with demoscene-ish artistic expression - usually a unique UI and obviously a great chiptune. I've always wondered why that behaviour emerged..

jamal-kumar · a month ago

I think a good part of it is the tooling and how it looks a bit like reverse engineering. Ever play with a tracker? It's like editing MIDI triggers with a hex editor. Here's aphex twin making music in one

https://vimeo.com/223378825

jamal-kumar commented on M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued earthquake.usgs.gov/earth... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers

ninetyninenine · a month ago

This doesn't make sense to me intuitively. It must be a wave.

Imagine you have a fault line. There is a left side and a right side to the fault line. If the left side lowers with a shift then that shift MUST be localized to the area around the fault. Because if it wasn't then that means there's an elevation change across the board for everything to the left of the fault. You see how that doesn't make sense? So if the entire country of japan was on the left side of the fault then the entire country of japan shifts in elevation which is unrealistic.

So that means, if what you say is semi-true then the shift in elevation is localized to the area left along the fault but the elevation further left remains the same. It's like a slight dip or bump along the fault line. It must be like this because the alternative is just unrealistic. This MUST be what happens when tectonic plates "shift". You won't see the ENTIRE plate shifting in elevation.

With naive logic, one would think that the water simply fills the localized gap but given how deep the ocean is relative to the actual shift way down in the abyss I'm betting if you were on a boat on top of the fault you wouldn't notice anything. But the movement does create a slight imperceptible "filling" that you don't notice. This is a "wave" but it's invisible.

The wave will translate leftward if the movement of the "shift" was sort of in that direction, but you don't see it. BUT as the sea floor gets nearer and nearer to the surface of the ocean the energy of the wave gets squuezed into less and less ocean water mass (i'm remembering how tsunamis work now) and THEN it becomes visible. Right? Just imagine a sideways cross section. As the tiny wave travels from big ocean with huge depth to coastline with no depth the energy of the wave gets concentrated into a thinner and thinner layer of water.

My intuition just sort of converged with my obscure memory of how tsunamis work so I'm pretty sure this is what's going on.

So it is indeed a "wave" that is acting on wave like phenomena beyond simply "filling a gap". In fact say there's an elevation lowering on the left side of the fault by 1 meter. The resulting wave on the coast line hundreds of miles away will be a wave that extends upward by MORE then 1 meter above sea level which is the opposite of water "filling up a gap." That's totally a wave.

Additionally water from tsunamis always recede. This wouldn't happen if the "wall of water" was simply equalizing. If that's the case the water would never recede.

Any expert who says otherwise, let me know.

edit: Actually why the fuck am I using my intuition to explain it? Just cite a source:

https://www.noaa.gov/explainers/science-behind-tsunamis

tsunamis are 100% waves as explained in the link. Anyone who says otherwise clearly doesn't know what they are talking about, that includes the person I'm responding to. End of story.

jamal-kumar · a month ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAFYVpX45xs

Here's a video of what it looks like from the 2011 event, from the POV of the coast guard approaching it. Waves don't typically look like a sheet has been flapped across one front of the entire horizon of what is visible on the ocean

jamal-kumar commented on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/akyuu

comrade1234 · a month ago

Out of curiosity I downloaded the larger size one - 200+GB I think (not at my computer right now) and skim through it every now and then. It's depressing - so much toxicity. Everyone seems mentally ill to me - male and female. This is a world completely alien to me and the people close to me.

jamal-kumar · a month ago

There is the AWDTSG social media groups that this app shamelessly took the idea from in an attempt to monetize it, and the thing is that these groups probably serve the exact same function just fine without egregious mistakes in the name of move fast and break things techbro profit like 'exposed s3 buckets a literal child could have found' regardless of anyone's opinion on whether they should exist or not

There's also the fact that the big story in the USA right now is how some app got hacked exposing everyones IDs and the big story in the UK right now is that they want everyone to enforce ID verification for literally everything and they want people to think this is somehow safe and not just a time bomb waiting to blow

jamal-kumar commented on Recovering from AI addiction internetaddictsanonymous.... · Posted by u/pera

n4r9 · 2 months ago

Gabor Maté - a physician who worked with people with serious substance abuse disorders for many years - talks about how addiction is usually a symptom of some other underlying suffering; often trauma. The addictive behaviours act as a way to avoid confronting that pain.

jamal-kumar · 2 months ago

I distinctly remember english speakers being less annoying before this guy filled everyone full of relating absolutely everything to trauma. It just seems like a massively reductionist point of view in a world of people more complex than that

jamal-kumar commented on Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface patternproject.substack.c... · Posted by u/cainxinth

throwforfeds · 2 months ago

The thing that bothers me the most are the companies out here trying to get psychedelics to a state where they own the tech and can try to make as much money as possible off of it. Not so much the part where it becomes more available with consistent quality for more users.

I was getting ads for MindMed's clinical trials of their LSD analogue a few months back and was considering signing up for it, as I'm totally down with more scientific research on these compounds. However, the idea that a corporation with a patent on an analogue that is lobbying to make it so their version is the one that is approved is kinda the worst. We already have LSD, it's cheap and it's amazing, yet here we are marching down the road of some patented version being the one that's approved for use. I get that these companies want to fund research, but this isn't the way.

jamal-kumar · 2 months ago

Welcome to the USA. Psychedelics are just the tip of an iceberg here. There's shit like highly effective cough medicines or antidepressants available in other countries which show promise in saving lives but nope mired in patent stuff and corrupt regulation...

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/european-cough-medicine-...

jamal-kumar commented on Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff psychiatrymargins.com/p/s... · Posted by u/Anon84

crtified · 2 months ago

I wonder if alcohol is one of the seemingly harmless drugs whose abuse catalyzes such conditions in susceptible people.

Because, if so, then alcohol's ubiquity in society would imply that it is probably responsible (in the sense that substances are responsible) for most such conversions.

jamal-kumar · 2 months ago

It's kind of worse with alcohol because the psychosis associated with that as an exacerbating factor is more related to alcoholic encephalopathy, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome etc... much of which can be brought on with self medicating with alcohol. Definitely a component but more like psychosis and mania drive you to drink because these experiences are awful more than a causative factor that's been proven

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459134/

jamal-kumar commented on Writing A Job Runner (In Elixir) (Again) (10 years later) github.com/notactuallytre... · Posted by u/rhgraysonii

jamal-kumar · 3 months ago

The absolute facility with which you can do distributed applications in Elixir is the big thing that sold me in the first place. Nice to see this tutorial!

jamal-kumar commented on The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet sebs.website/blog/the%20g... · Posted by u/Incerto

frereubu · 4 months ago

This is definitely thought-provoking, and a correct use in many of the examples, but the Wikipedia example doesn't feel right because I don't think it's deliberate there. I suppose you could argue that we've been conditioned into accepting the Gruen Transfer and take that behaviour over into Wikipedia. But I remember back in the days of physical encyclopedias that I could spend a long time just flipping through them in a similar way to the way I browse Wikipedia. (My favourite description of the Wikipedia hole was a tweet from around 10 years ago about "snapping out of a Wikipedia trance at 2am while reading the early educational history of Meatloaf's guitarist").

jamal-kumar · 4 months ago

I definitely felt this guy was a little bit hyperbolic because the more social media gets the way he describes the more I see people disconnect from it

I don't know anyone other than people over 50 who still check their facebook feeds and the kids are out enjoying the sun today

jamal-kumar commented on Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers github.com/lwthiker/curl-... · Posted by u/mmh0000

jamal-kumar · 5 months ago

This tool is pretty sweet in little bash scripts combo'd up with gnu parallel on red team engagements for mapping https endpoints within whatever scoped address ranges that will only respond to either proper browsers due to whatever, or with the SNI stuff in order. Been finding it super sweet for that. Can do all the normal curl switches like -H for header spoofing