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I wrote it that way because the hacker ethos here makes a lot of people assume they know more than they actually do about all things tech. It's easy to learn how batteries work and how to make big packs of cells but the practical and institutional knowledge required to do it safely is not something one should just "hack" into. That's why.

Please don't fuck around with 18650s if you don't know what you are doing. And unfortunately the author doesn't. The main fuse is a necessity and the thermal fuses are a neat idea but ESPECIALLY when using repurposed cells, cell level fuses are a must and they must be calibrated to account for the higher internal resistance of reused cells. The author also only briefly mentions the necessity of matching cells and measuring internal resistance. This is not something to casually brush over. Also, for UPS usage, most 18650s are not the right kind of chemistry. They don't like to sit at high charge state for extended periods of time. Use LifePo cells for that. They are much more forgiving and significantly less likely to murder you in your sleep.

One 18650 going into thermal runaway is bad (ask me how I know...). A pack of 18650s you causally fuck with can easily burn down your home.

Wanna see some results of that? https://endless-sphere.com/sphere/threads/dogman-dans-e-bike...

TL;DR: high energy density batteries can cause high energy rapid unplanned discharges. Please don't fuck around with batteries unless you know what you are doing (you don't)

I suspect people don't do that with radios anymore either but it spreads through word of mouth

While it's of course easier to do it on the web, the innate locality of pirate stations has a certain appeal. And of course the cat and mouse game and the "illegality" of it makes them feel more special then just a random webstream

Everyone that has been convicted has been convicted to probation for some minor or major fines. People don't get the full price back but can sue* to get the car bought back at a reduced value depending on the age and kilometers driven.

* there has been some work to get something similar to a class action law suit against VW going but it's hardly the same severity or consumer protection like in the US.

There is a huge difference in how this was handled in germany vs everywhere else.

Those rules are only there to keep new car companies from becoming competition to the existing car industry. Once you are big enough, they don't really apply.

edit: Downvote me all you like but just look at what for example VW did in the emissions scandal. Not like anyone went to jail for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

Hosting the sites on Pwned Hardware and IPs seems like a reasonable precaution (though doubtful that is what is actually done these days since at least sites like 1337x.to or thepiratebay.org seem to have uptimes and speeds that would make such a setup at least unlikely to be practical for their usecases. I suspect they are using servers in non-compliant states and use cloudflare as a global CDN where possible.

Still doesn't quite make sense to me but the court being completely retarded in that regard wouldn't suprise me when it comes to german courts and internet law. Though it seems that this cologne court has at least understood the issue, especially compared to the clowshow thats the OLG Hamburg.

You can either order them preregistered from ebay or your local slightly shady phone resale store. It's also likely possible (though i havent tried) to use eSim and global providers like airalo.com to get one without enforced controlled registration (unlikely that they check, specially if you register via proxy).

And lastly, especially if you live in west german you can just take a train to the netherlands and by a sim there, no registration required.

That does not work for the pirate site operator though. In order for Cloudflare to cache and proxy any request the endpoint must be known beforehand and must be at least constant enough for any new request to be forwarded to that endpoint in some capacity. It might be true for users that they chose not to log that information but it cannot be true for any site they provide CDN/Proxy services to.

Their longterm plan is to establish DNS liability and force the market leaders to implement blocking. Then, argue in court that DNS providers that do not conform to their blocking requests are illegal and must therefore be IP Blocked. First in Germany, then in the whole EU.

When it comes to the Content Mafia: Assume the worst, then go from there.

Most interesting is the assertion by the german court (see the linked tarnkappe notice, in german though) that Cloudflare is anonymizing the users of their CDN/Proxying Service which makes prosecution harder.

I'm suprised by that because Cloudflare must know the real IPs to forward traffic to for their services to work and I have not read anything that implies that Cloudflare might not have produced that data following a court order of any kind.

I have however seen private trackers and other pirate site use cloudflares services. I am kinda suprised by that since I must assume that pirate site operates would be aware that cloudflare is not actually providing any court proof anonymization or is promising anything like a non-logging/zero knowledge/Anonymization layer like tor or ipfs.

Can anyone enlighten me on that matter?

> I don’t think you need to involve the CIA. There’s plenty of grassroots insanity here.

Just to be clear, I didn't involve them, the CIA historically has involved themselves in this subject in a most questionable manner. It seems reasonable to assume they would do it again.

Though I personally believe they don't have to. The whole debunking-Industry is able to do that alone.

Which is an insane thing if it turns out to be true. Beside the ontological and criminal Aspects. The alleged Conspiracy and mass Manipulation that alone would imply is mind boggling.

It seems odd that even legitimate science that is even tangentially related to the UAP Subject is being attack from so many sides.

Given the historical context of the CIA infiltrating and spying on UFO groups[0] and what can only be described as an active political fight around the Schumer Amendment [1] it makes me wonder if at least some of this is orchestrated by political/national security Circles

[0] https://sgp.fas.org/library/ciaufo.html [1]https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sch...

Speaking as a former Windows Phone Developer: Yeah, this is roughly what developing for Windows Phone and the UWP felt like. Half Baked Tech Demos with glaring, basic Issues that never get fixed. It feels like Microsoft internally still thinks they are such a monopoly that people WILL adopt whatever they get fed by them and when that inevitably doesn't they never fix all the Issues required to be competitive.

A modern UI Framework of any kind is a massive undertaking, especially when it is not browser based. A modern UI Framework that is not Browser based and gets any kind of traction is almost impossible at this point. The Developer Experience would have to be at least as good as Browser based development and you'd have to show significant progress in cross Plattform development for anyone to care.

I am a bit annoyed that everyone here takes this at face value. There's 0 evidence given, not even the vendors and models are named to confirm this.

On a related note I tested 4 DDR5 Ram kits from major vendors - half of them corrupt data when exposed to UV light.

And by everyone you of course mean everyone that wasn't arrested because he thought maybe bread with bread and a shared appartment is kinda shitty.

> If asked "how to make [the Bash script it's written] better", GPT-4 will produce an equivalent Python script

What an absolutely based take by GPT-4

> I solve and write a lot of puzzlehunts, and I wanted a better programming language to use to search word lists for words satisfying unusual constraints, such as, “Find all ten-letter words that contain each of the letters A, B, and C exactly once and that have the ninth letter K.”

So... Perl?

It makes no difference to the creator when you use sponsorblock to skip sponsored segements, unless you intend to buy things they are affiliated with.

Same here. A lot of Porn. Why are so many people torrenting porn? If there's one kind of Media that's ubiquitous on the free web it's porn.

This works by scanning public trackers it cannot work for private trackers.

Having so many different feeatures in one of the most basic unix tools is much more of a red flag.

This is the kind of Thread i will see later on 4chan being made fun of.

Sure, but it's something my receiver technically support

True, it's weird but this is missing major formats like auro3d

There is none. Just go on 4chan and see all kinds of bad AI already in use.

I promise you this is worth every second of watching it!

That still seems like done in good spirit.