k1musab1
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4 days ago
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on: Thermal Grizzly was scammed twice on raw materials worth €40k
I saw the video, and wondered if they bypassed Alibaba after finding the vendor - Alibaba has trade assurance with significant protection for the buyer and seller, including escrow until order is received and checked.
k1musab1
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9 days ago
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on: TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe
Passport /citizen ID linked to your WOW account, etc.
k1musab1
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17 days ago
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on: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me
Aged like milk.
k1musab1
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17 days ago
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on: Detecting and Preventing Distillation Attacks
I find this extremely concerning: "Countermeasures. We are developing Product, API and model-level safeguards designed to reduce the efficacy of model outputs for illicit distillation, without degrading the experience for legitimate customers."
I often ask Claude to reason out loud, and this indicates that instead of explicitly blocking flagged requests the model output will be purposefully degraded.
k1musab1
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2 months ago
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on: 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11
Give it a few undocumented updates that change your settings in the background, and come back to give us an update. Even my Win10 extended support is getting CoPilot shoved down the pipeline silently.
k1musab1
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2 months ago
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on: Show HN: I designed my own 3D printer motherboard
"... I have a rough idea of" and "look into AI-powered ... design tools" is a sad sentence to come across. This young individual spent time to learn complex things and implemented it into an actual useful physical thing. Why give this advice in the first place? To stop them from learning?
k1musab1
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2 months ago
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on: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
Time and time again large competing forces in the market are found to have colluded instead of directly competing with each other to drive price/cost down. What is it that still makes you believe that two (or n-number) of providers won't collude to charge an astronomical amount for a life-saving treatment?
k1musab1
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3 months ago
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on: Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox
You can achieve near 100% great shots. I have a decent grinder, Robot Cafelat manual machine, and found the beans and roasting level I enjoy form a local roaster. Total under 900CAD.
Agree about not being able to enjoy any other coffee anymore.
k1musab1
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3 months ago
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on: The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source
Thank you for providing this valuable context. I am hoping to advocate for OSS transition in my workplace and these examples go a long way to help make my case.
k1musab1
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3 months ago
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on: Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox
On chronic coffee consumption: "One meta-analysis found that RR coffee 0.757, RR caffeine 0.721 (12). Another one found RR 0.76, with an optimal protective effect at ∼400 mL/day (13). In comparison to many drug treatments that have an effect size in this range, this is not a small effect size. A risk reduction of 20 to 25% is quite impressive."
As if I needed another reason to drink coffee.
k1musab1
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3 months ago
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on: Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year
This exact issue lead me to follow the grid orchestration research out of the Oak Ridge Laboratory. The building blocks already exist to enable this. An interconnected smart network of renewables can become a stabilizing force in the overall grid. Off-peak storage would still be required, but would no longer need to be "stabilizing" (turbine or other similar generator), and can be simple batteries.
k1musab1
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3 months ago
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on: Pebble Watch software is now open source
The Reform laptop project is open hardware:
https://source.mnt.re/reform/reformI encourage you to browse it, I found that while challenging, it does not seem unreachable to get to that level of proficiency in KiCad.
k1musab1
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3 months ago
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on: Over-regulation is doubling the cost
Edison Motors, a manufacturer of hybrid and electric semi and other trucks in Canada, is currently battling regulation. They have a series of videos on their Youtube channel going over what's been taking place.
k1musab1
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3 months ago
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on: A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents
Thank you for adding historic details on this issue, much appreciated.
k1musab1
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3 months ago
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on: Blender 5.0
FreeCAD is the front-runner for me.
KiCAD was also a meh ECAD FOSS alternative 7-8 years ago, now it is by far the tool of choice for regular ECAD designs. I can see FreeCad getting there by 2030.
k1musab1
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3 months ago
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on: A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents
A foundational research team in a Canadian university in Quebec, if I recall correctly. They licenced these patents to the Chinese companies royalty free when used the Chinese domestic market. The Chinese spent the time developing LFP to where it's now a bleeding edge of batteries, while practically no-one else was interested.
In a retaliatory fight over the EVs, in October 2025, the CCP issued a ban on transfer of advanced technology for LFP batteries, and battery manufacturing equipment.
k1musab1
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3 months ago
Excellent point. Google can point to this browser with sub 5% market penetration as an alternative in anti-trust hearings, so keeping it on life support is beneficial.
k1musab1
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4 months ago
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on: End of Japanese community
I can't believe I had to scroll this far to find a well-articulated example of a proper response. It isn't just a few words that needed changing, the original response by Mozilla mas missing the whole point that you bring up in your example: a 20y veteran volunteer is leaving. Within a small community, the action of a single veteran/leader leaving this way will certainly have an effect on the rest of the volunteers, even more so when you consider the cultural aspects of this specific community.
k1musab1
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10 months ago
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on: Suno v4.5
Thank you for sharing these, I will try listening on my drive to work.
k1musab1
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1 year ago
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on: StarPro64 EIC7700X RISC-V SBC: Maybe LLM on NPU on NuttX?
Always a great article, Lup.
Thank you. Having the option to run LLM on Nuttx is really interesting.
