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iszomeron US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU

Wasn't an implementation of Bancor attempted on Ethereum?

iszomeron Val Kilmer has passed away

Val played his role in the 2008 film Felon very well. RIP.

iszomeron Everything is Ghibli

Nope.

But I do feel bad for partaking in part for Louis CK's Twitter-Jesus rant.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSSDeesUUsU

iszomeron Everything is Ghibli

Yeah but humans aren't exactly fast at replicating any particular art style.

iszomeron Firefox Is Finally (Re)Adding Support for Web Apps

Well, there was FirefoxOS then a fork of it called KaiOS..

iszomeron U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat

I meant it from the common assumption for mass media propagation: get it out there as fast as possible and correct later if needed. On a related note, how often do consumers of news go back to read on retractions, if any?

iszomeron U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat

My guess is as a honeypot: see who would publish this alleged "leak" and give the administration justification to "open an investigation" on them.

iszomeron Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers

This reminded me of an article I printed (yes, with paper) at my college more than 20 years ago, titled Parasitic Computing. I don't remember where it was originally published but I do think I might have stumbled upon it via kuro5hin (maybe); a quick search resulted the publication from Nature (though paywalled).

- https://www.nature.com/articles/35091039

iszomeron ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations

You just made me think of the relationship between prions and mad cow disease as an analogy to the process of distillation...

iszomeron Crew-9 Returns to Earth

Not political? Read back on the American hysteria and subsequent response to the launch of Sputnik 1.

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1

iszomeron What It Would Take for the U.S. Dollar to Collapse

The relatively "bigger picture" would be countries that carry and trade US debt in the form of Treasury bonds (which does not equate to cash reserves) and other debt-related instruments.

If you need examples of how this plays out in the grand narrative(s) of finances, look at the top holders by country of US debt, the memes/arguments of the Fed's "money printer goes brrrrr", as well as possible geopolitical risks.

iszomeron Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem

Wow, TIL.

DNA samples galore!

iszomeron I-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox

Besides making flashing esp32 devices easy there is also another niche use-case for webusb and that is Web MiniDisc; keeping those recorders alive long past manufacturing EOL.

- https://web.minidisc.wiki/

iszomeron Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck

I imagine Tesla has to follow the rules and regulations in accordance with German law, the same as Tesla's division in China.

iszomeron Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google

For me, webgl/shadertoy stuff as well as webusb and webserial while tinkering with esp32-based boards.

iszomeron Former Facebook execs are running Firefox adtech

I transitioned to Waterfox. It has a couple issues such as being unable to login to my banking services and getting Youtube to sign into Google's SSO but I hope to resolve at a later time. Be prepared to reconfigure all your extensions again though..

iszomeron America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1

I would like to see a robot hand try and plug in a MCIO or OcuLink connector to its MB port because even my fat fingers have trouble seating them in correctly.

iszomeron Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges

And there would be no way for an average consumer to test the security updates themselves and if there are, no way to confirm the validity of its assessment (SnoopSnitch).

iszomeron uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

Realistically, how often is this functionality used en' mass? I remember using it once or twice throughout my lifetime of using this extension.

iszomeron Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

How would it be? Please constructively clarify.

iszomeron GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)

COVID? I felt it was horror subgenre of the backrooms. which popularized the idea of liminal spaces, that sealed it's fate.

iszomeron Intel delays $28B Ohio chip fabs to 2030

Sidenote as my edit timed out: here was Morris Chang giving his opinion on why Intel "sucks".

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh6O9WJrCtE

iszomeron Intel delays $28B Ohio chip fabs to 2030

Except China isn't democratic and builds with such ferocity that completely overlooks quality and standards that us "westerners" expect or regulate -- hence, projects that appear more like potemkin villages than anything else.

iszomeron Intel delays $28B Ohio chip fabs to 2030

It' really interesting to see how interconnected supply chains work.

Query: who are ASML's subsidiaries?

1. Cymer (Acquired in 2013)

    A U.S.-based company specializing in EUV and DUV light sources. Cymer provides the laser-produced plasma (LPP) EUV sources used in ASML's EUV scanners.

2. Berliner Glas (Acquired in 2020)

    A German company specializing in high-precision optical components. Helps ASML develop optical lenses and mirrors for lithography machines.

3. HMI (Hermes Microvision, Acquired in 2016)

    A Taiwanese company focusing on e-beam inspection and metrology. Enables ASML to enhance defect detection in semiconductor manufacturing.

4. Carl Zeiss SMT (Strategic Partner, Not Owned)

    ASML has a strategic partnership with Carl Zeiss SMT, which supplies high-precision optics and mirrors used in EUV systems. While ASML doesn’t own Carl Zeiss, it invested heavily in their R&D for EUV optics.

iszomeron AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data

My search patterns has changed as well but not without some pushback, whether it be ChatGPT's inability to:

- cite sources within a certain timeframe which can be trivially done on Google Search

- exclude sources when explicitly asked (and vice versa)

And makes it challenging to determine whether it's output has any reasonable depth or not. Even my simple request on a refresher on the usage of mutexes in C++ gave me a code snippet that exacerbated the very issue I was hoping to get a better handle on. /shrug

iszomeron GrapheneOS blocked exploitation of 3 Android zero-days used by Cellebrite

Is everyone forgetting that GrapheneOS only runs on one specific brand, namely Google's Pixel line exclusively?

- https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices

iszomeron Intel delays $28B Ohio chip fabs to 2030

I thought it was contingent on Apple being one of their first TSMC-Arizona customers.

- https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/12/01/apple-will-take-o...

- https://www.extremetech.com/computing/340975-tsmc-reportedly...

iszomeron Intel delays $28B Ohio chip fabs to 2030

TSMC is based out of Taiwan; China is West Taiwan. /joke

The narrative on "people who refuse to wear facemasks.." needs to be diffused if not wearing them for other reasons, eg: lessening the impact of particulate air pollution while commuting on a moped or, manufacturing not adequately maintaining their HEPA air filters during the "burn-in" test flow of server racks with fans pegged at 100%, 24/7.

Speaking of diffusion, what's with some of boxed retail processors with laser engravings on the heat spreader as being "Diffused in China"? Oh right -- TSMC and other foundries are not responsible for the entire chip manufacturing cycle.

iszomeron Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

Would it have mattered anyway? I don't know all the specific nuances and context that led to it nor understand what it may lead to.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG2dTDIGjaM

iszomeron Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

Or his cameo in the Home Alone 2 film, in the Plaza hotel which he owned.