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pranaysy··on The Many Roots of Our Suffering: Reflections on Robert Trivers (1943–2026)
>... Humans are not running elaborate plots, our brain is just minimizing free energy and avoiding prediction errors in the present moment.

It is crucial to recognize that this is still one interpretation under a theory constrained by a certain framework, and not an absolutely solved and settled mechanism as indicated by the choice of words.

pranaysy··on Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
Thanks! Will try asap
pranaysy··on Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
As other have pointed out, Tailscale and Netbird are much more than wrappers around Wireguard. ZeroTier does not use Wireguard and they have their own lightweight tunnels, which in their recent multi-threaded implementations are more performant but not as fast as Wireguard in my testing.

I don't think there's a direct way to integrate any of them into existing mesh networks, but I could be wrong.

pranaysy··on Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
tl;dr: because I can.

I already run a VPS for other things, this fits cleanly into that setup, NetBird’s been low-maintenance, and I don’t need global relays. That’s enough for me.

pranaysy··on Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
Long-time ZeroTier user here. Recently switched to NetBird (self-hosted on a Hetzner VPS) and it’s been seamless so far. DNS functionality is excellent (something ZeroTier lacked), and the access-control model is very well designed. It’s easy to understand what’s going on and to grant one-off access when needed. Only real and very minor gripe is the Android app: I wish it were on F-Droid and a bit more robust, as it sometimes drops when roaming. Nevertheless, congratulations on a fabulous piece of software! I hope it keeps improving :)
pranaysy··on Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
Hetzner!
pranaysy··on Memorizing the first 100 perfect squares (2022)
For ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_of_two_squares#Me...
pranaysy··on Memorizing the first 100 perfect squares (2022)
Neat! This is (a+b)(a-b) + b² = a²-b² + b² = a² and in your eg, a=23 and b=3

In addition to using this trick for getting to multiples of 10, I used it to compute the product of two numbers by leveraging their proximity to a number in between whose square I knew. For eg if I need to multiply 23 by 27, I instead see it as (25-2)(25+2), which is 25²-2² = 621.

(using that same trick from the article to calculate squares of numbers that end in 5)

pranaysy··on WhatsApp on multiple phones feature added
Unfortunately while Signal does support multiple devices, it does not in fact support multiple phones: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007320551-Li...

Apart from the primary phone, the remaining linked devices cannot be a phone. I eagerly wish this was possible.